When you enter a country, or are granted a license to conduct business there, you agree to abide and uphold that country's laws and regulations. When you enter the US, you are agreeing to follow all the laws the US has for foreigners. Among others, they include:
- Getting fingerprinted at the point of entry. - Carrying identification papers with you all the time. - Notifying the proper authorities of any address changes during your stay in the country.
While in US, a foreigner is also: - Not allowed to be in possession of a firearm. - Can be detained for about a month without any reason given. - Does not get a lawyer if they can't afford one.
If you don't like this, well, then don't enter the country. If you are a foreigner, and you DO enter the country, then you agree to abide by the above rules. If you violate them, then you will be persecuted and/or deported.
So, getting back to China. If you are a foreign company working in China, and the authorities come to you and demand that you disclose information about a Chinese citizen, you are hard-pressed to refuse, since, well, you'd be in violation of the laws of the country. Since all corporations are interested in only one thing -- turning profit, -- it is not in their interest to go against direct orders issued by the local authorities, since otherwise they will be persecuted and/or their business license will be withdrawn.
It seems Yahoo did a logical thing. Don't like how the US witholds certain "unalienable rights" from non-citizens? Don't come to the US. Don't like how China witholds certain "unalienable rights" from both citizens and non-citizens? Don't do business with China.
Ho-hum. There are much better ways to back up your data for $25 a year.
This is a general "this can be used by terrists!" freak-out. Well, you know, this is an awfully stupid and ineffective way to pass information -- something Bruce Schneier likes to call "movie plot" vulnerabilities. Why bother with steganography when there are much better means to pass encrypted data between two people? Like, I don't know, DCC'ing a file over IRC, or just plain sending an email? If you own both the sending and receiving servers, or use one of the infected army of the drones, there is a miniscule chance of your message even being observed in the ocean of the information that is the internet. Much less stupid than using a complex routine to hide data in an image, and then upload it to a central service like Flickr for all to see (it shows up immediately in the "recently uploaded" pool).
This is a fine idea for a movie plot, but utterly dumb for someone to actually try this. Thus, I assign the article a -1 Troll.
Siberian citizens: Ya, I am sinkink dat I like za balmy weather.
No, are you crazy? Hot weather in Siberia is *AWFUL*. With half the land being swamps, the area is literally crawling with mosquitoes, black flies, and horse flies. I'm not exaggerating! Your clothes look gray because of all the blood-feeding insects crawling over them. It's tolerable if the weather is cool, since several layers of clothing is the only sure way to avoid bites (deet gets quickly rubbed off by bugs hitting your body). When it's hot, not only are you crawling with bugs, you're also sweating and developing a heat stroke.
Believe me, late fall or early spring is the best time in Siberia, not summer, and everyone hates "za balmy weather."
Something that's not mentioned -- this is the first release of Fedora Core with the "Extras" repository enabled by default. Fedora Extras is a volunteer packaging project of various software not in Core, and is currently providing additional 1,000 packages ready to install just by running "yum install foo."
If you don't see your favorite package in Extras, you can always become a contributor yourself.
"reveiled:" is that like the opposite of "unveiled?" So, are you saying that they have tried to cover up the news? And if so, then how are we finding out? Or is it from the French "reveil:" the awakening. Did they wake up to the news? Is that why they tried to cover it up?
If they said they were leaning towards continuing it, I would have started a help kill Enterprise campaign, and I'm sure I would have easily raised billions.
Government official: "Russia has the ${SUPERLATIVE} ${SKILL}ers in the world! Now, please to be watchink while we're going to collectively ignore this wonderful asset, and instead of introducing initiatives to aide the growth in this area, we're going to stuff our pockets with free money while bickering with our opponents."
It's not "whitespace significance," it's "syntactic indentation." The difference is--whitespace is only significant as a logical level marker at the beginning of the line. After that it doesn't matter how much whitespace or where you put it.
I think the best possible situation would be if Linux is used on office machines, since it's so much easier to lockdown and centrally administrate than other mainstream OSes. At home, people would use Mac OS X, because it's much better at providing peripheral support and simple means for end-user administration. Either that, or Windows.
Unfortunately, our constitution is still being reviewed by the east-Cypriot Committee on Constituational Approvals, so technically the constitution of which you speak is not yet in effect. We just use a set of rules we jotted down on a napkin while we were out for a croissant snack one day.
Conference of Presidents, Council, Commission, Parliament.... For the poor confused Americans among us, could somebody draw us the European equivalent of the "how a bill becomes law" flow chart? I'm completely lost.
Dear sir:
Thank you for your interest in the political structure of the European Union! To better accommodate your request, we have set up a comission who will meet and discuss the best possible way to handle your inquiry. The committee will hold its first meeting whenever the participating local councils meet to select the representatives needed for the first meeting of the committee.
Well, as the official sponsor of the Big Bang, I claim all copyright on that whole electrons and protons forming into a 1-1 molecule and will hereby sue the ass of any plant who dars to reverse engineer my process to produce Hydrogen
Damn. I guess if you are immortal, "lifetime of the author plus 70 years" guarantees that your copyrights never expire.
I think its more important for you to ask why is it you are NOT a citizen yet?
Because I don't want to? I like my Russian citizenship. Are Russian citizens less worthy than American citizens? If not, then why do we have fewer rights? If so, then how does becoming an American citizen raise my worthiness? After all, becoming a citizen is not hard for a working H1-B who isn't downright ugly and slovenly.
Slashdot Mirror
Eh. I have a much better shot of the CN tower here.
When you enter a country, or are granted a license to conduct business there, you agree to abide and uphold that country's laws and regulations. When you enter the US, you are agreeing to follow all the laws the US has for foreigners. Among others, they include:
- Getting fingerprinted at the point of entry.
- Carrying identification papers with you all the time.
- Notifying the proper authorities of any address changes during your stay in the country.
While in US, a foreigner is also:
- Not allowed to be in possession of a firearm.
- Can be detained for about a month without any reason given.
- Does not get a lawyer if they can't afford one.
If you don't like this, well, then don't enter the country. If you are a foreigner, and you DO enter the country, then you agree to abide by the above rules. If you violate them, then you will be persecuted and/or deported.
So, getting back to China. If you are a foreign company working in China, and the authorities come to you and demand that you disclose information about a Chinese citizen, you are hard-pressed to refuse, since, well, you'd be in violation of the laws of the country. Since all corporations are interested in only one thing -- turning profit, -- it is not in their interest to go against direct orders issued by the local authorities, since otherwise they will be persecuted and/or their business license will be withdrawn.
It seems Yahoo did a logical thing. Don't like how the US witholds certain "unalienable rights" from non-citizens? Don't come to the US. Don't like how China witholds certain "unalienable rights" from both citizens and non-citizens? Don't do business with China.
Ho-hum. There are much better ways to back up your data for $25 a year.
This is a general "this can be used by terrists!" freak-out. Well, you know, this is an awfully stupid and ineffective way to pass information -- something Bruce Schneier likes to call "movie plot" vulnerabilities. Why bother with steganography when there are much better means to pass encrypted data between two people? Like, I don't know, DCC'ing a file over IRC, or just plain sending an email? If you own both the sending and receiving servers, or use one of the infected army of the drones, there is a miniscule chance of your message even being observed in the ocean of the information that is the internet. Much less stupid than using a complex routine to hide data in an image, and then upload it to a central service like Flickr for all to see (it shows up immediately in the "recently uploaded" pool).
This is a fine idea for a movie plot, but utterly dumb for someone to actually try this. Thus, I assign the article a -1 Troll.
Siberian citizens: Ya, I am sinkink dat I like za balmy weather.
No, are you crazy? Hot weather in Siberia is *AWFUL*. With half the land being swamps, the area is literally crawling with mosquitoes, black flies, and horse flies. I'm not exaggerating! Your clothes look gray because of all the blood-feeding insects crawling over them. It's tolerable if the weather is cool, since several layers of clothing is the only sure way to avoid bites (deet gets quickly rubbed off by bugs hitting your body). When it's hot, not only are you crawling with bugs, you're also sweating and developing a heat stroke.
Believe me, late fall or early spring is the best time in Siberia, not summer, and everyone hates "za balmy weather."
(Yes, I've lived there).
Harry Potter fires the father of the Order Of the Phoenix? Wha?
...
OH.
It's "Rowling," people. Not "Rawlings." Come on, it's not a hard last name, but I've seen it misspelled TWICE on this page already. Hrmph.
That would explain why I've been feeling so horny lately...
Booble?
You want cool and cheap? Move your datacenter to the North of Siberia.
"Anyone who would *not* lie to protect their business from an attacking competitor is suspect in my mind" ~ Jack Campbell (of DVForge)
(taken from http://www.jackwhispers.com/catchIV.html)
Since it's slashdotted, here's a brief description: it looks like a handful of distorted blue jellyfish with a few PC components dropped on them.
(Yes, I'm being very snide, but that's because the author tagged the entry as "Genius.")
/me pours some liquid nitrogen on the torrent tracker server.
:)
It's a good thing we're housed in Physics.
Something that's not mentioned -- this is the first release of Fedora Core with the "Extras" repository enabled by default. Fedora Extras is a volunteer packaging project of various software not in Core, and is currently providing additional 1,000 packages ready to install just by running "yum install foo."
If you don't see your favorite package in Extras, you can always become a contributor yourself.
Shit. I guess we'll have to give you your money back.
:(
Sorry to lose you as our customer.
"reveiled:" is that like the opposite of "unveiled?" So, are you saying that they have tried to cover up the news? And if so, then how are we finding out? Or is it from the French "reveil:" the awakening. Did they wake up to the news? Is that why they tried to cover it up?
So confused.
If they said they were leaning towards continuing it, I would have started a help kill Enterprise campaign, and I'm sure I would have easily raised billions.
Government official: "Russia has the ${SUPERLATIVE} ${SKILL}ers in the world! Now, please to be watchink while we're going to collectively ignore this wonderful asset, and instead of introducing initiatives to aide the growth in this area, we're going to stuff our pockets with free money while bickering with our opponents."
It's not "whitespace significance," it's "syntactic indentation." The difference is--whitespace is only significant as a logical level marker at the beginning of the line. After that it doesn't matter how much whitespace or where you put it.
I think the best possible situation would be if Linux is used on office machines, since it's so much easier to lockdown and centrally administrate than other mainstream OSes. At home, people would use Mac OS X, because it's much better at providing peripheral support and simple means for end-user administration. Either that, or Windows.
:)
That's a world I could happily live in.
Unfortunately, our constitution is still being reviewed by the east-Cypriot Committee on Constituational Approvals, so technically the constitution of which you speak is not yet in effect. We just use a set of rules we jotted down on a napkin while we were out for a croissant snack one day.
Dear sir:
Thank you for your interest in the political structure of the European Union! To better accommodate your request, we have set up a comission who will meet and discuss the best possible way to handle your inquiry. The committee will hold its first meeting whenever the participating local councils meet to select the representatives needed for the first meeting of the committee.
With kindest regards,
The helpdesk committee
My imaginary wife uses AMD you insensitive clod.
Well, at least she didn't StrongARM you into marrying her.
Damn. I guess if you are immortal, "lifetime of the author plus 70 years" guarantees that your copyrights never expire.
DAMN YOU SONNY BONO!
How I learned French in one year using the Internet, an mp3 player, and a Netflix account.
Written by a fellow geek. :)
Because I don't want to? I like my Russian citizenship. Are Russian citizens less worthy than American citizens? If not, then why do we have fewer rights? If so, then how does becoming an American citizen raise my worthiness? After all, becoming a citizen is not hard for a working H1-B who isn't downright ugly and slovenly.