It would be a good idea for us to write to our "direct reports" - our congress-critters, Obama, and perhaps Biden - in direct support of Wikileaks. I plan to. I'm also struck that the government intelligence agencies keeps increasing their surveillance along with the statement, "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."
I would suggest that the same applies to governments and other large organizations, and Wikileaks.
It's kind of similar to a kid saying, "I'm sorry," when what he really means is "I'm sorry I got caught," not "I'm sorry it did something bad." As far as I could tell, our government has felt no remorse whatsoever about having done the stuff released, only that now everyone knows. In some cases, such as the diplomatic issues, I don't think they're done anything wrong, and if there's an issue it's with those whose public and private statements are so different. (As about Iran's nuclear ambitions.) With some of the Iraq information, it seems to me that the US was clearly in the wrong.
Fun little aside I heard last night. Apparently someone in the US government wants to use Interpol to get at Assange. At the same time, the Nigerian government has gone through Interpol channels to issue the same kind of extradition request for Dick Cheney - I believe for the crime of fraud, when he was running Halliburton. It'll be interesting to see us refuse to honor one request while insisting that others honor ours.
I don't think Obama has been particularly bad. His policies haven't fixed the economy, but at least the fall has been arrested. We've been building the current mess we're in for many years, and NONE of the fundamentals have been fixed, nor do the current economic movers and shakers in the private sector want to do what it will take to fix it. To even dream of some sort of fix, let alone a return to prosperity in only 2 years is silly.
I suspect that his worst move is daring to tell the American people that times are going to be challenging/difficult. The American people would much rather hear something like, "Cut taxes and everyone will prosper," even if it doesn't really make any sense, and if it's likely to make the problems worse.
Medieval kings, though near-absolute monarchs in other respects, recognized and respected the office of the Court Jester - the only person who could openly mock the King.
Jon Stewart is today's Court Jester, and filling the office admirably.
I've spent enough time inside corporations that I no longer believe in "our corporate masters". Once upon a time I thought corporations were memetic, with motivations somewhat beyond and independent of their composite parts - also loosely known as "people". Experience has shown me that if corporations are memetic, they're incredibly stupid and we'd have nothing to fear other than the ordinary "sleeping next to an elephant" issues.
I've grown to believe that corporations are more like incredibly large vehicles with very poorly designed and implemented control systems that frequently break down - but there are people in the drivers' seats. It's those people we have to worry about.
As far as I can figure they're not really Evil, they're just very greedy, full of themselves, live in their own echo chambers, and simply can't stand to hear the word "No" if it's being applied to them. Of course give people like that sufficient power, and the effective difference between that an Evil becomes very hard, if not impossible to figure out. I could also throw in "authoritarianism" here, because I've just described those at the top, and authoritarians generally fall into line, whatever position in the chain of power they feel (or have been told) they belong in. Which is part of why there is such widespread support for our corporate masters, because they're at the top of the authority chain.
> So 50 years is the minimum; US law goes above and beyond that to 70 years to "protect > the poor families" of the deceased artist
I suspect "protect the poor families" was meant as sarcasm, but since it hasn't been stated elsewhere on this thread, and since there wasn't a way for some to mod you "+1 sarcasm", I guess I'll have to state that the "poor families" being most specifically targeted word for the Disney Corporation and the targeted copyrighted work is "Steamboat Willie". No doubt in another 10-15 years (I forget) the next extension will be run through Congress.
I remember being really annoyed to find that the vicinity of Jupiter, including Ganymede, was subject to sufficient radiation to guarantee that there never would be a "Farmer in the Sky", at least not there.
That was kind of my point, but I'll bet at the time it was heralded as a "market-oriented bipartisan solution." At the time, it rather slipped under my radar screen - I didn't hear about the mess until about 6 months ago.
Better yet, if it really works at room temperature, this method will still be workable once we've squandered the world's supply of helium. (Thanks for a "free market" solution, Congress.)
How much other basic science is going to shortly become impossible - basically prohibitively expensive when we hit the end of "Cheap Helium"? Makes you wonder what fraction of helium is in the parade floats, and if they attempt to scavenge any of it.
The stunning thing about this is that it's permitted, in spite of no participation by ATK. I guess they're making sure that they don't cross or enter Utah airspace along the way. (Seems necessary to tie this into the other recent space story.)
I don't think that's what they were saying, I think they were applying the "hacker mindset", not the coding perspective.
The scientist says, "What is here? How can I describe it? How does it work?" The hacker says, "How can I bend the rules to get more out of it?"
Two interesting "hacking reality" books were written by Greg Bear - "Anvil of Stars" and "Moving Mars", the latter building on his short story, "Heads". Bear is enough of a physicist to not do the laws-of-physics impossible, just the no-theoretical-way-to-do-it impossible, like changing matter into antimatter. (conserves mass, charge, energy, etc)
> Russia as a state - a player on the international state - is a giant > monolithic thing. Same as any other country with no ongoing civil war.
Again. like the US? The cracks in the US are readily visible externally. There was a time in the past few years where there was official State Department policy, and there was a small cadre of congress-critters publicly pursuing their own foreign policy, in a nearly diametrically opposite direction. (I can't remember the specifics, and I believe they got shut down, but they were very public about it.)
1 - Sell nuclear technology to Iran, make money. 2 - Fear Iran's use of nuclear technolgy, develop Stuxnet to stop them. 3 - Sell more nuclear technology to Iran, to make up for any losses (time or equipment) to Stuxnet.
I'd like to see someone take the no-fly list to court on a due process basis, since it lacks any due process whatsoever. Am I willing to do it myself?
Not particularly. Am I going to curtail my flying even more than I have been?
Most likely. Personally I think the people to write to about this stuff are deep-pocket destinations, like Disney, Universal Studios, cruise lines, chambers of commerce of tourist destinations, etc. If tourism flight drops 5% because of this, that's 5% out of their revenue stream.
It's equally likely neither Russia nor China would be very happy to see a nuclear Iran, but not want to be visibly seen discouraging them on the international stage. Stuxnet, lets either of them slow Iran's nuclear program, test a new concept of warfare, and leave the US and Israel holding the bad as "most likely." For them it's a win-win-win. Beyond that, intelligence orgainizations in the West now have a small taste of what someone else can do. It's going to keep the West in knots for a few years, hardening against "the last threat," while they've got the next threat now, and are working on the one beyond that.
Why do they have i386 and x86_64? Is anyone using i386 any more? I can see that some Via processors might not quite make i686 because of CMOV, but shouldn't i586 be the bottom end, these days? For that matter, newer Via processors do have CMOV, and make the grade for i686.
Anything below i586 is single issue, and I can't believe it isn't giving up a fair amount of performance by optimizing for i386 or i486.
You have to step really far outside of our normal culture to even start to understand this. There was a recent move, "Why We Fight", not the WWII one, that starts to jog an explanation.
I seem to remember hearing this practice cited back when mad cow disease was all the rage. Oh, plus applying the same treatment to roadkill they found along the way.
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> The easiest way to protect yourself from Wikileaks is to ensure your
> organization doesn't do anything worth leaking. Simple as that.
Are you trying to say, "If your organization has done nothing wrong, you've nothing to fear from Wikileaks."??
Seems to me that my government has been saying that kind of thing to me, as they extend their surveillance powers.
Brushing reality aside... ...it was about as good a documentary as today's news is news. (Not very, I think Jon Stewart has a valid point.)
Bruce Willis. Unbreakable. Need I say more?
It would be a good idea for us to write to our "direct reports" - our congress-critters, Obama, and perhaps Biden - in direct support of Wikileaks. I plan to. I'm also struck that the government intelligence agencies keeps increasing their surveillance along with the statement, "If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear."
I would suggest that the same applies to governments and other large organizations, and Wikileaks.
It's kind of similar to a kid saying, "I'm sorry," when what he really means is "I'm sorry I got caught," not "I'm sorry it did something bad." As far as I could tell, our government has felt no remorse whatsoever about having done the stuff released, only that now everyone knows. In some cases, such as the diplomatic issues, I don't think they're done anything wrong, and if there's an issue it's with those whose public and private statements are so different. (As about Iran's nuclear ambitions.) With some of the Iraq information, it seems to me that the US was clearly in the wrong.
Fun little aside I heard last night. Apparently someone in the US government wants to use Interpol to get at Assange. At the same time, the Nigerian government has gone through Interpol channels to issue the same kind of extradition request for Dick Cheney - I believe for the crime of fraud, when he was running Halliburton. It'll be interesting to see us refuse to honor one request while insisting that others honor ours.
I don't think Obama has been particularly bad. His policies haven't fixed the economy, but at least the fall has been arrested. We've been building the current mess we're in for many years, and NONE of the fundamentals have been fixed, nor do the current economic movers and shakers in the private sector want to do what it will take to fix it. To even dream of some sort of fix, let alone a return to prosperity in only 2 years is silly.
I suspect that his worst move is daring to tell the American people that times are going to be challenging/difficult. The American people would much rather hear something like, "Cut taxes and everyone will prosper," even if it doesn't really make any sense, and if it's likely to make the problems worse.
Medieval kings, though near-absolute monarchs in other respects, recognized and respected the office of the Court Jester - the only person who could openly mock the King.
Jon Stewart is today's Court Jester, and filling the office admirably.
I've spent enough time inside corporations that I no longer believe in "our corporate masters". Once upon a time I thought corporations were memetic, with motivations somewhat beyond and independent of their composite parts - also loosely known as "people". Experience has shown me that if corporations are memetic, they're incredibly stupid and we'd have nothing to fear other than the ordinary "sleeping next to an elephant" issues.
I've grown to believe that corporations are more like incredibly large vehicles with very poorly designed and implemented control systems that frequently break down - but there are people in the drivers' seats. It's those people we have to worry about.
As far as I can figure they're not really Evil, they're just very greedy, full of themselves, live in their own echo chambers, and simply can't stand to hear the word "No" if it's being applied to them. Of course give people like that sufficient power, and the effective difference between that an Evil becomes very hard, if not impossible to figure out. I could also throw in "authoritarianism" here, because I've just described those at the top, and authoritarians generally fall into line, whatever position in the chain of power they feel (or have been told) they belong in. Which is part of why there is such widespread support for our corporate masters, because they're at the top of the authority chain.
> So 50 years is the minimum; US law goes above and beyond that to 70 years to "protect
> the poor families" of the deceased artist
I suspect "protect the poor families" was meant as sarcasm, but since it hasn't been stated elsewhere on this thread, and since there wasn't a way for some to mod you "+1 sarcasm", I guess I'll have to state that the "poor families" being most specifically targeted word for the Disney Corporation and the targeted copyrighted work is "Steamboat Willie". No doubt in another 10-15 years (I forget) the next extension will be run through Congress.
I remember being really annoyed to find that the vicinity of Jupiter, including Ganymede, was subject to sufficient radiation to guarantee that there never would be a "Farmer in the Sky", at least not there.
The flash is the last thing you'll see, so you'd better be able to find the desk or fridge by feel.
It would be much better to see the flash lighting up the wall - over there.
No, not Sim Ant, Ant City - a stupid flash game. (But fun anyway, for a few minutes.)
Naaaah, not Sim City... Ant City!
That was kind of my point, but I'll bet at the time it was heralded as a "market-oriented bipartisan solution." At the time, it rather slipped under my radar screen - I didn't hear about the mess until about 6 months ago.
Better yet, if it really works at room temperature, this method will still be workable once we've squandered the world's supply of helium. (Thanks for a "free market" solution, Congress.)
How much other basic science is going to shortly become impossible - basically prohibitively expensive when we hit the end of "Cheap Helium"?
Makes you wonder what fraction of helium is in the parade floats, and if they attempt to scavenge any of it.
The stunning thing about this is that it's permitted, in spite of no participation by ATK. I guess they're making sure that they don't cross or enter Utah airspace along the way. (Seems necessary to tie this into the other recent space story.)
commint? .uk email address?
That's a total Enigma to me.
I don't think that's what they were saying, I think they were applying the "hacker mindset", not the coding perspective.
The scientist says, "What is here? How can I describe it? How does it work?"
The hacker says, "How can I bend the rules to get more out of it?"
Two interesting "hacking reality" books were written by Greg Bear - "Anvil of Stars" and "Moving Mars", the latter building on his short story, "Heads". Bear is enough of a physicist to not do the laws-of-physics impossible, just the no-theoretical-way-to-do-it impossible, like changing matter into antimatter. (conserves mass, charge, energy, etc)
> Russia as a state - a player on the international state - is a giant
> monolithic thing. Same as any other country with no ongoing civil war.
Again. like the US? The cracks in the US are readily visible externally. There was a time in the past few years where there was official State Department policy, and there was a small cadre of congress-critters publicly pursuing their own foreign policy, in a nearly diametrically opposite direction. (I can't remember the specifics, and I believe they got shut down, but they were very public about it.)
1 - Sell nuclear technology to Iran, make money.
2 - Fear Iran's use of nuclear technolgy, develop Stuxnet to stop them.
3 - Sell more nuclear technology to Iran, to make up for any losses (time or equipment) to Stuxnet.
4 - PROFIT $$$
(lather, rinse, repeat)
I'd like to see someone take the no-fly list to court on a due process basis, since it lacks any due process whatsoever.
Am I willing to do it myself?
Not particularly.
Am I going to curtail my flying even more than I have been?
Most likely.
Personally I think the people to write to about this stuff are deep-pocket destinations, like Disney, Universal Studios, cruise lines, chambers of commerce of tourist destinations, etc. If tourism flight drops 5% because of this, that's 5% out of their revenue stream.
And of course "Russia" is a giant monolithic thing, with a single motivation and mindset. Just like the US, IBM, or Microsoft.
It's equally likely neither Russia nor China would be very happy to see a nuclear Iran, but not want to be visibly seen discouraging them on the international stage. Stuxnet, lets either of them slow Iran's nuclear program, test a new concept of warfare, and leave the US and Israel holding the bad as "most likely." For them it's a win-win-win. Beyond that, intelligence orgainizations in the West now have a small taste of what someone else can do. It's going to keep the West in knots for a few years, hardening against "the last threat," while they've got the next threat now, and are working on the one beyond that.
Why do they have i386 and x86_64? Is anyone using i386 any more? I can see that some Via processors might not quite make i686 because of CMOV, but shouldn't i586 be the bottom end, these days? For that matter, newer Via processors do have CMOV, and make the grade for i686.
Anything below i586 is single issue, and I can't believe it isn't giving up a fair amount of performance by optimizing for i386 or i486.
You have to step really far outside of our normal culture to even start to understand this. There was a recent move, "Why We Fight", not the WWII one, that starts to jog an explanation.
I seem to remember hearing this practice cited back when mad cow disease was all the rage. Oh, plus applying the same treatment to roadkill they found along the way.