Here in Denmark, the newspaper Politiken recently got access to all the documents. They found that which the (right-wing) government had publicly said that they would firm ask the US whether the US used Danish airspace for extraordinary rendition, the government privately told the US that they did not really want any answers.
A good example of how WikiLeaks can expose governments acting against their citizens interest. It might not be in the US's interest to expose this, but it is certainly in my interest as a citizen.
Well, the email log at my email provider is also owned by my email provider, not me. But I certainly consider the contents as private information.
And why do you think the AOL search scandal a scandal? The data was owned by AOL, but they still need to handle it confidentially.
Same with credit card transactions. I am pretty sure that they are private here in Denmark. I remember asking my bank about a transaction, and being told that the employees could only see the amount of the transactions, not the accompanying text.
> Huh? How is providing healtcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?
It is obviously wealth redistribution. Just because they couldn't afford it without redistribution, doesn't mean it isn't redistribution.
And on tax break to the wealthy: they are merely going down to paying the same percentage as the rest of US citizens. You may disagree with it, but enacting the tax breaks is a step reducing wealth distribution.
I am not a US citizen. But if I were I would be pro-healthcare and anti-taxbreak. But I am also pro-truth, which is something your post is lacking.
Well, there is a lot of books and PDF files which are nothing but black and white text, for which the current ebook readers are fine. So it is not a surprise to me that ebooks have taken off.
And note that what is driving people away is the immorality of the church. Which is ironic, given that the church probably defines itself as the high bastion of morality.
A random quote: "And of course, there was John Glenn, monitored inside and out, blood tested, urine sampled, entire organism analyzed for signs of accelerated aging. Close observation of the Senator suggested that there might not be any medical obstacles to launching the entire legislative branch into space, possibly the most encouraging scientific result of the mission."
That is a silly comparison. Communism has failed in practice, but there are well-functioning social democracies in for example the Nordic Countries, which regularly beat the US by almost any metric except GDP (life expectancy, happiness, low corruption, etc).
> I'm not sure what's sadder, that someone I work with has done this, or that the other side doesn't even understand how bad it is...
Perhaps if the fact taken from Wikipedia was unambiguously true? Just because you are in a court case doesn't mean you have to disagree on everything you can.
Based on what we are paying for Internet traffic, 2TB of traffic would very roughly cost about $50.
So since this is their one biggest user, and even he is probably paying more than $50 for his internet connection, I don't see the problem with bandwidth hogs.
-And they wouldn't complain if you used it 100% 24/7? -And you are guarantied to always have 100Mbit available? -And you are allowed to use the line for whatever you want, including reselling?
We share the line between 238 apartments. Which works out to less $10, for what is effectively almost always 100/100Mbit (I bet your line is also oversubscribed at your internet provider). So actually, our cost is 1/4 of yours:).
But once you laid the last mile, bought DSLAMs, and managed accounts, the cost difference between a 5/1 connection and a 50/50 connection is close to zero, from the internet providers view.
We buy a raw 100Mbit/100Mbit Internet connection with guarantied bandwidth for 1300 US$/month. We haven't renegotiated that price in a while, but I hear that bandwidth prices have been falling very fast since then. A big ISP would probably get bandwidth cheaper still.
Our current price works out to 25GB/$ if we use it 100% 24/7. So if you are paying more than 15/25=60cents for our Internet connection limited to 15GB/month, then you are being cheated.
I really don't get why Internet connection limits are so often so low. The fraction of the price you pay which actually goes to cover Internet bandwidth costs in a normal Internet connection is miniscule.
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Here in Denmark, the newspaper Politiken recently got access to all the documents. They found that which the (right-wing) government had publicly said that they would firm ask the US whether the US used Danish airspace for extraordinary rendition, the government privately told the US that they did not really want any answers.
A good example of how WikiLeaks can expose governments acting against their citizens interest. It might not be in the US's interest to expose this, but it is certainly in my interest as a citizen.
3TB drives have become available over the last 1.5 years. That is a nice improvement over the previous max of 2TB.
But why wouldn't an equivalent spending on, say, healthcare and education for the poor prop up the economy in the same way?
I agree that the name itself is a trademark violation.
Erm, no. Gameplay isn't copyrightable, so what in that description makes you think it is a copyright violation? http://www.wisegeek.com/how-do-i-copyright-a-game.htm
Google had lots of Wikipedia copies at one point, I remember that well. But they have purged the Wikipedia copies from the search results since then.
I assume it is just a signed checksum of the main image, stored in the image metadata. If my guess is correct, the technology is well known.
And if so, it is not a surprise that the private keys were extracted. Because you are giving the end-user the key inside the camera.
Well, the email log at my email provider is also owned by my email provider, not me. But I certainly consider the contents as private information.
And why do you think the AOL search scandal a scandal? The data was owned by AOL, but they still need to handle it confidentially.
Same with credit card transactions. I am pretty sure that they are private here in Denmark. I remember asking my bank about a transaction, and being told that the employees could only see the amount of the transactions, not the accompanying text.
> Huh? How is providing healtcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?
It is obviously wealth redistribution. Just because they couldn't afford it without redistribution, doesn't mean it isn't redistribution.
And on tax break to the wealthy: they are merely going down to paying the same percentage as the rest of US citizens. You may disagree with it, but enacting the tax breaks is a step reducing wealth distribution.
I am not a US citizen. But if I were I would be pro-healthcare and anti-taxbreak. But I am also pro-truth, which is something your post is lacking.
Well, there is a lot of books and PDF files which are nothing but black and white text, for which the current ebook readers are fine. So it is not a surprise to me that ebooks have taken off.
And note that what is driving people away is the immorality of the church. Which is ironic, given that the church probably defines itself as the high bastion of morality.
Then what was its purpose?
The shuttle program was a huge waste of money, for almost no science benefit. See http://www.idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm
A random quote: "And of course, there was John Glenn, monitored inside and out, blood tested, urine sampled, entire organism analyzed for signs of accelerated aging. Close observation of the Senator suggested that there might not be any medical obstacles to launching the entire legislative branch into space, possibly the most encouraging scientific result of the mission."
That is a silly comparison. Communism has failed in practice, but there are well-functioning social democracies in for example the Nordic Countries, which regularly beat the US by almost any metric except GDP (life expectancy, happiness, low corruption, etc).
I know one! He writes documents and listens to mp3 files, and is not very good at computers.
I have him happily running Ubuntu 10.04
TCO is implicitly included in such things as usability, which the article does include.
But that refers to human feces. Human urine is sterile.
But what if you want to memory-map your 2TB Hard disk as virtual memory?
> I'm not sure what's sadder, that someone I work with has done this, or that the other side doesn't even understand how bad it is...
Perhaps if the fact taken from Wikipedia was unambiguously true? Just because you are in a court case doesn't mean you have to disagree on everything you can.
Stupid people said that. Intelligent people knew it wasn't so, and did it.
Reaching other star systems in a reasonable amount of time is actually impossible, given current and foreseeable tech.
Based on what we are paying for Internet traffic, 2TB of traffic would very roughly cost about $50.
So since this is their one biggest user, and even he is probably paying more than $50 for his internet connection, I don't see the problem with bandwidth hogs.
Debian has a similar usage tracking package: http://popcon.debian.org/ .
As long as such a package is only installed with the users consent, I don't see the problem.
-And they wouldn't complain if you used it 100% 24/7?
-And you are guarantied to always have 100Mbit available?
-And you are allowed to use the line for whatever you want, including reselling?
We share the line between 238 apartments. Which works out to less $10, for what is effectively almost always 100/100Mbit (I bet your line is also oversubscribed at your internet provider). So actually, our cost is 1/4 of yours :).
But once you laid the last mile, bought DSLAMs, and managed accounts, the cost difference between a 5/1 connection and a 50/50 connection is close to zero, from the internet providers view.
So why are connections so slow?
We buy a raw 100Mbit/100Mbit Internet connection with guarantied bandwidth for 1300 US$/month. We haven't renegotiated that price in a while, but I hear that bandwidth prices have been falling very fast since then. A big ISP would probably get bandwidth cheaper still.
Our current price works out to 25GB/$ if we use it 100% 24/7. So if you are paying more than 15/25=60cents for our Internet connection limited to 15GB/month, then you are being cheated.
I really don't get why Internet connection limits are so often so low. The fraction of the price you pay which actually goes to cover Internet bandwidth costs in a normal Internet connection is miniscule.