Doesn't Ms Glick-Weil know that demanding that law enforcement agencies obtain warrants (even retrospectively) makes the country unsafe, and helps terrorists? I know this, because no less an authority than The President said while talking about NSA wiretaps in last nights State of The Union address.
I don't know what's causing the melting of Martian ice-caps. I do know that Mars's albedo and atmospheric composition are not very much like the Earth's so whatever it is, it's pretty unlikely to be the same thing that's causing the Earth's icecaps to melt. The planets simply do not react to solar forcing in the same way.
I also know what happens to climate models when solar input is varied, and I know what happens to ensemble climate models when atmospheric CO2 is varied. I don't trust climate 100%, but I trust them more than I trust you.
The most fascinating report on the Challenger disaster remains Richard Feynman's dissent on the official line of the Rogers Report (on whose committee he served). Read it here.
"If a reasonable launch schedule is to be maintained, engineering often cannot be done fast enough to keep up with the expectations of originally conservative certification criteria designed to guarantee a very safe vehicle. In these situations, subtly, and often with apparently logical arguments, the criteria are altered so that flights may still be certified in time. They therefore fly in a relatively unsafe condition, with a chance of failure of the order of a percent (it is difficult to be more accurate).
Official management, on the other hand, claims to believe the probability of failure is a thousand times less. One reason for this may be an attempt to assure the government of NASA perfection and success in order to ensure the supply of funds. The other may be that they sincerely believed it to be true, demonstrating an almost incredible lack of communication between themselves and their working engineers."
Whether you consider that "political interference" is a different matter.
... Sony have also announced they will be phasing out Kibo, an experimental artificial intelligence program that has been fooling the sophomoric inhabitants of alt.religion.kibology for over 20 years.
If you develop something under the GPLv3, be prepared to give up your private keys.
But only if they're required to "understand, adapt, modify, compile, link, install, and run the work". The FSF has been quite clear on that point. It does not require you to hand over anything that is not needed for normal running of the code.
Again, nice and confusing, especially when you consider that these statistics don't add up to 100%
Why should they? No-one is forced to opt for exactly one out of evolution, ID and creationism to appear on the syllabus. You can believe in one, without wishing to prevent the teaching of the others.
By demanding that kernel hackers don't work on alternative source control systems? By systematically raping the free version of BK? By refusing to export change data in an open format? By continually changing his license to prevent interoperability?
If that's co-operation, I'll take MS's FUD, thanks.
You miss my point (I think). I consider Google caving to pressure from the Chinese Govt to be "doing nothing", and as such, they're doing evil by ommision.
The correct word is cracking not hacking. Hacking was originally a word representing something good and useful, but has been taken over by the news media to bean somethine vile and disguisting.
Well, before that, hacking meant riding your horse over open countryside, or striking repeatedly at something with an edged implement. So, I suggest that if you want the right to uniquely define what your neologism means, you should start with a word that doesn't already have a load of different meanings.
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Doesn't Ms Glick-Weil know that demanding that law enforcement agencies obtain warrants (even retrospectively) makes the country unsafe, and helps terrorists? I know this, because no less an authority than The President said while talking about NSA wiretaps in last nights State of The Union address.
You forgot "Invite the CIA to covertly overthrow you government"
I was similarly disappointed
I don't know what's causing the melting of Martian ice-caps. I do know that Mars's albedo and atmospheric composition are not very much like the Earth's so whatever it is, it's pretty unlikely to be the same thing that's causing the Earth's icecaps to melt. The planets simply do not react to solar forcing in the same way.
I also know what happens to climate models when solar input is varied, and I know what happens to ensemble climate models when atmospheric CO2 is varied. I don't trust climate 100%, but I trust them more than I trust you.
Well done. You've successfully shot down a great many assertions that I never made. I believed such a tactic is known as "a straw man" argument.
You say "tricked", we say "entrapped". It's just semantics.
Another billions dollars in revenue is not a basic human need.
There's an excellent article or two discussing Google past, present and future in today's Guardian, as well. The second one is the better.
Not on the back, no. They were carried in half a hollowed-out coconut, strung between two swallows.
... Sony have also announced they will be phasing out Kibo, an experimental artificial intelligence program that has been fooling the sophomoric inhabitants of alt.religion.kibology for over 20 years.
Hey, it works with Cocaine.
Poor = Jail cell.
Rich = Youthful indiscretion.
If that's co-operation, I'll take MS's FUD, thanks.
inheritance + abstraction = crazy delicious
You miss my point (I think). I consider Google caving to pressure from the Chinese Govt to be "doing nothing", and as such, they're doing evil by ommision.
"Don't be evil" -- Google
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke, English statesman and political philosopher (1729-1797
That makes it fine, then.
Next week, we'll explain how to Terrorism is fine, just as long as you write "We apologise for the inconvenience" on each bomb.
Me too! It's a pretty accurate tab that. Gotta strip the capo off, or I can't hit the high notes in the chorus.