Everyone is free to say what they wish without risk of government censorship. But on the flip side of the coin, everyone must also bear the consequences of their speech.
These are mutually exclusive propositions; "censorship" takes many forms, including punishing the speaker after the speech is made.
"Three information security consultancies with links to US spy agencies"
That's a dishonest rhetorical device; any "links" to US spy agencies are irrelevant here, the article clearly states that these were independent companies offering their services to another independent company.
Since the plan was hatched, disgruntled volunteers mentioned in the PDF broke away from Wikileaks, financial institutions withdrew services, Apelbaum was harassed by the US Government and Amazon denied service to Wikileaks' website."
Wow, also dishonest. The summary, and the article, are implying a causal relationship with a lot of handwaving, but with no evidence that X caused Y. How about this: "Since the plan was hatched, the frequency of shark attacks have risen, the Packers won the Superbowl, and the Northeastern United States suffered one of the worst snowstorms in decades."
Many, many schools require humanities and social sciences majors to take science and math requirements. While I do agree everyone should be required to take at least one college math course, Real Calculus would be overkill; considering how many technical majors fail calculus the first time they take it would it make sense to force English majors to go through the same thing?
Someone else pointed out how you misunderstood the article, but I have a separate point: I am sure you agree at one point the United States had ownership rights to the internet. My question is at what point, and on what rationale, did they lose those ownership rights? When the first country accepted the US's offer to be let onto the network? After a certain saturation?
In other words, us techie majors had to write extensive reports on matters that we just didn't give a fuck about, for classes that added absolutely nothing to the skill set we would need for our careers.
That's just sad; all college was to you was vocational training?
Judging by his picture, this "Ron Miller" guy should not be posting about tech news, he should be driving his Chevy Nova around 1970's San Francisco solving crimes.
Greaaaat. Has anyone seen the kind of candidates the Libertarians have fielded lately? Barr spent his political career fighting against Libertarian positions until he suddenly switched after he left power, and Badnarik basically promised to institute an authoritarian dictatorship.
Common misconception held particularly by Europeans, which is reinforced by the fact people keep repeating this meme without examining it critically; honestly, anyone who thinks the Conservative party in Britain, for example, would not be considered a right-wing party in the US is extremely mistaken. Similarly, fringe fascist/right-wing parties in the UK get far more votes, and exposure, than their equivalents in the US, which usually don't even have enough support to field candidates. See, for example, the British National Party, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in Germany, and Front National in France.
Besides the portability factor, I also like the fact that if I buy something on the kindle, I can access it from multiple devices, and if I lose the kindle I can just re-download everything.
Yeah, I had the first impulse too, "why did you call a lawyer?", and I AM one. The problem with guys like this is they are not always the greatest respecters of civil court restraining orders.
Eh, in most places certification isn't THAT onerous, you can do it in a year of part-time study. And I think the rationale works in theory; someone with a bachelors in teaching is going to be, IN THEORY, trained in the best ways to get the knowledge imparted. The knowledge to impart itself is sufficiently simple that having a PhD in the subject won't give another advantage. As an example, if you're teaching middle schoolers the pythagorean theorem, having a PhD in math is not going to let you teach it any better. However, having a background in pedagogical theory might make the education major better at getting the kids to remember it.
Now in PRACTICE, teaching as a social science is severely deficient in academic rigor, so those education majors aren't really learning what they should be.
This isn't about publicly available information, it's about information you can't see unless you're on a person's friend list, or even private messages between two people. The defense attorneys are getting courts to compel the plaintiff to sign a form allowing them access, then attaching them to subpoenas. Still don't see what the big deal is, though, this is information that in online form you'd just get through a subpoena anyway.
Only the "character assassination" the poster was decrying was a short reference to how Assange appeared physically. From this minor aside slashdotters rush into action to defend the man, the way they defend every single thing he does. That's mindless hero worship.
A while ago I had a case before the trial judge here. Knowing his personality, and age, it amuses me to no end to imagine the efforts the prisoners must have gone through to explain to him what Dungeons and Dragons is.
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Only 100k? That doesn't seem like that many.
Not Obama's job to collect state taxes.
And all those nefarious geologists are part of the conspiracy?
These are mutually exclusive propositions; "censorship" takes many forms, including punishing the speaker after the speech is made.
Were you a science or engineering major?
That's a dishonest rhetorical device; any "links" to US spy agencies are irrelevant here, the article clearly states that these were independent companies offering their services to another independent company.
Wow, also dishonest. The summary, and the article, are implying a causal relationship with a lot of handwaving, but with no evidence that X caused Y. How about this: "Since the plan was hatched, the frequency of shark attacks have risen, the Packers won the Superbowl, and the Northeastern United States suffered one of the worst snowstorms in decades."
Many, many schools require humanities and social sciences majors to take science and math requirements. While I do agree everyone should be required to take at least one college math course, Real Calculus would be overkill; considering how many technical majors fail calculus the first time they take it would it make sense to force English majors to go through the same thing?
Someone else pointed out how you misunderstood the article, but I have a separate point: I am sure you agree at one point the United States had ownership rights to the internet. My question is at what point, and on what rationale, did they lose those ownership rights? When the first country accepted the US's offer to be let onto the network? After a certain saturation?
We're the capital of the world, don't be a hater. We deserve our own TLD.
In other words, us techie majors had to write extensive reports on matters that we just didn't give a fuck about, for classes that added absolutely nothing to the skill set we would need for our careers.
That's just sad; all college was to you was vocational training?
Judging by his picture, this "Ron Miller" guy should not be posting about tech news, he should be driving his Chevy Nova around 1970's San Francisco solving crimes.
(especially the Libertarians!).
Greaaaat. Has anyone seen the kind of candidates the Libertarians have fielded lately? Barr spent his political career fighting against Libertarian positions until he suddenly switched after he left power, and Badnarik basically promised to institute an authoritarian dictatorship.
That's why I said PARTICULARLY. Particularly does not mean "ALWAYS." Never has.
Common misconception held particularly by Europeans, which is reinforced by the fact people keep repeating this meme without examining it critically; honestly, anyone who thinks the Conservative party in Britain, for example, would not be considered a right-wing party in the US is extremely mistaken. Similarly, fringe fascist/right-wing parties in the UK get far more votes, and exposure, than their equivalents in the US, which usually don't even have enough support to field candidates. See, for example, the British National Party, the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands in Germany, and Front National in France.
Besides the portability factor, I also like the fact that if I buy something on the kindle, I can access it from multiple devices, and if I lose the kindle I can just re-download everything.
I will buy books when I want to read them.
The judge would have stopped you after the first sentence and said he didn't want to hear all that.
Yeah, I had the first impulse too, "why did you call a lawyer?", and I AM one. The problem with guys like this is they are not always the greatest respecters of civil court restraining orders.
Are there even 1 million people working in the White House who will drive them?
Eh, in most places certification isn't THAT onerous, you can do it in a year of part-time study. And I think the rationale works in theory; someone with a bachelors in teaching is going to be, IN THEORY, trained in the best ways to get the knowledge imparted. The knowledge to impart itself is sufficiently simple that having a PhD in the subject won't give another advantage. As an example, if you're teaching middle schoolers the pythagorean theorem, having a PhD in math is not going to let you teach it any better. However, having a background in pedagogical theory might make the education major better at getting the kids to remember it.
Now in PRACTICE, teaching as a social science is severely deficient in academic rigor, so those education majors aren't really learning what they should be.
This isn't about publicly available information, it's about information you can't see unless you're on a person's friend list, or even private messages between two people. The defense attorneys are getting courts to compel the plaintiff to sign a form allowing them access, then attaching them to subpoenas. Still don't see what the big deal is, though, this is information that in online form you'd just get through a subpoena anyway.
Go over there and demonstrate with them?
Only the "character assassination" the poster was decrying was a short reference to how Assange appeared physically. From this minor aside slashdotters rush into action to defend the man, the way they defend every single thing he does. That's mindless hero worship.
Believe it or not, prisoners aren't allowed to be coaches, bosses, or chiefs of police either.
A while ago I had a case before the trial judge here. Knowing his personality, and age, it amuses me to no end to imagine the efforts the prisoners must have gone through to explain to him what Dungeons and Dragons is.