Fortunately, for the time being, I don't need that much sophistication to stay away from coffee shitted by a mamal: the price tag seems to be a good enough indicator.
The data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn internet project still being assembled by GCHQ. It is part of the surveillance and monitoring system, code-named “Tempora”, whose wider aim is the global interception of digital communications, such as emails and text messages.
As a British citizen, I'm so used to assuming that the government is intercepting every piece of electronic communication,
As one that lived more than half of his life in one of those European countries in the communist block, I am afraid that you are properly fucked already. If this persist for longer (say 15-20 years... it only takes one generation of used to, everybody will be teaching it to their children!), the society you'll be living would show the same weird behaviour of its people as during the secret police in communist countries: use of paraphrases when speaking, carefully planning/doing your everyday actions so that they don't appear to have any element of verboten, every neighbour... heck even members of you family... may be turning you to the authorities. Walk only a little in the past and you'll find Gestapo as another example.
My point is: stop being just so used to... and do something if you don't want there
I think people have a similar visceral reaction to autonomous vehicles, but once they experience not having to deal with the stress of everyday driving, will change their opinion.
Without proper testing, automation may cause you to change to such an amount that you won't have any opinion after (if a major manufacturer can't get their gearbox and engine control right, what would you expect from a driving AI?).
...Is that the weather here in the UK has been particularly mental this year. The coldest first half I can ever remember, followed by a month or 2 of tropical weather including afternoon downpours like a lake is dropping on your head.
Experiment: put some hot water in a clear glass, let the (sun) light pass through and project on an even surface. For a more "realistic modeling" of the dynamic condition on the Earth, stir the water until it gently rotates in the glass. Put in an ice cube: you should be able to see the ice letting go "threads" of cold water which takes a little while to mix with the surrounding hot one (differences in the refraction index of water at different temperatures will cause slight shadows to be cast by the light passing through the glass and projected on the screen). Now, imagine that some space inside the glass represents UK and you should be able to get an analogy for how come "UK" is swept by cold and warm water/air in a "mental" way.
Something aint right, that's for sure.
What's not right is the the two "ice cubes" (Arctic ice and Greenland glaciers) melting just above the UK spot in the warming Earth "glass". Be patient, will take a while until they are fully melted, so that the weather will record "flatter" patterns (instead of swinging wildly between extremes).
Also in Melbourne, AU. 3.5kw array on the roof. I don't really care about the time to ROI; we had a bit of money for a while and spent a chunk of it reducing our power bill expenses now and into the future. Non-solar energy prices will only go up; ours will, but more slowly
A 4.5 kW installation fully covers my needs, including woodworking power tools I'm starting now and then for that hobby of mine.
We time the big appliances to run mostly during the day.
Why?!? I'm charged on a differential tarrif: peak/shoulder/off-peak - cheaper to run the heavy duty washing at night time or weekend (the ironing and hobby are weekend only). Letting aside some savings in my bill, it makes sense to let the industry consume what the PVes are producing at daytime, when it needs it.
For someone whose job is based on the premise that people will not always obey the law, that police chief seems a bit too trusting that laws will prevent abuse.
On the contrary my friend... he knows only too well the more law breaking, the better for his career.
It'll be a while, it currently take more energy to make a solar panel than it can generate in it's lifespan and costs more than coal or nuclear without the subsidies.
The real long-term solution for organ replacement is direct fabrication of the desired organ. And we aren't all that far off from that.
Ummm... define your expectation for "far"... my back-of-napkin optimistic calculations: 10 years to maturity+5-6 years FDA or other approvals + 20 years for the patents to expire and competition in the market to kick in.
The problem, of course, is that once a government has this power, the government is the one able to decide who qualifies as a "serious criminal".
A non-violent revolutionary is much more dangerous (to the state) than a murderer.
Ummmm... somehow I don't think it'll come to a balancing act between criminal/revolutionary... for the simple reason the emergency degree is given by the compatibility with the comrade(s) on the transplant waiting list.
Careful with that axe, Eugene. (hint: when dealing with psychopaths, any other kind of hacking will fail. Can't reason with them, their empathy buttons are jammed, they only hear what's justifying them in their own eyes... but will listen to fear).
Just like in the recent Obama said in his speech about NSA operations, the government is really concerned about public opinion and very much wants to know the best way to make you comfortable getting screwed. After all, people being uncomfortable with getting screwed is the biggest impediment in a democracy for advancing to the next level of screwing them over. So your feedback is important to them.
Nothing new. Nothing to indicate the results will be different either.
Gosh, I can get my mind to "allegedly confirms" or "confirms allegations", but this is a new low: "we allege that the Comcast document confirms the allegations John Steele uploaded honeypots".
Agreed with "In now way China is relevant to this" and " the first step is to stop dragging in China et al at every opportunity". Other than that, a whiff of pendantry is required: otherwise the whiff of spin may persist.
It is just spin, just crap to try and hate on the US and allies for no particular reason.
hate on the US... for no particular reason? I don't exactly get it how I should take it.
1. should I take you were trying to say "its' spin. there's no reason to hate US, every and all particular ones mentioned are BS"?
2. should I take you meant "it's spin meant to cause hate of US indiscriminately, any particular reason being as good as any"?
If 1., we're in disagreement, and I would suspect some spinning intentions from your side. If 2., that's a piece of opinion that I can respect (or even resonate with).
So the GP had a good point: China does some pretty bad shit, things that even the imperfect countries that are the UK and US might have an issue with.
I still fail to see how one can benefit from an irrelevant pissing contest when topic of pissing (and how to stop it) should be the main one.
If you want to start playing the "compare and contrast" game, well then don't be surprised when others come back in kind.
No, I don't want. This is why I see dragging China in the "Amazing" opening post as irrelevant (while the rest of the opinion that ANZUS+UK+Canada should stop pissing around being still relevant). But even more irrelevant: the reply of "Yeah, but China pisses harder".
And this is relevant to the current topic... exactly how?
(unless the topic is somehow the world's hypocritical pissing championship and I failed to see it as such).
The point was crystal clear: the friend of my enemy will get no end of crap thrown at them. The Grauniad can expect more such visits in the future, as well as any other news organization who dares publish That Which Must Not Be Published.
This. Comming from the epic saga of "Your tax money at work".
sell those silly things for $100 and people will be able to put a real OS on them to be useful
Before I buy one even for $100 I'd need proof that this could be done.
I'm not gonna waste $100 for a practical demo, so I offer the following theoretical proof for certain values of "usefulness": * one can always use an RT tablet as a physical underlay for a proper machine running Linux. * thus the real OS will be put (and run perfectly) on top of the RT tablet. Q.E.D
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Fortunately, for the time being, I don't need that much sophistication to stay away from coffee shitted by a mamal: the price tag seems to be a good enough indicator.
The data-gathering operation is part of a £1bn internet project still being assembled by GCHQ. It is part of the surveillance and monitoring system, code-named “Tempora”, whose wider aim is the global interception of digital communications, such as emails and text messages.
Heck, UK's economy must be booming.
As a British citizen, I'm so used to assuming that the government is intercepting every piece of electronic communication,
As one that lived more than half of his life in one of those European countries in the communist block, I am afraid that you are properly fucked already.
If this persist for longer (say 15-20 years... it only takes one generation of used to, everybody will be teaching it to their children!), the society you'll be living would show the same weird behaviour of its people as during the secret police in communist countries: use of paraphrases when speaking, carefully planning/doing your everyday actions so that they don't appear to have any element of verboten, every neighbour... heck even members of you family... may be turning you to the authorities.
Walk only a little in the past and you'll find Gestapo as another example.
My point is: stop being just so used to... and do something if you don't want there
I think people have a similar visceral reaction to autonomous vehicles, but once they experience not having to deal with the stress of everyday driving, will change their opinion.
Without proper testing, automation may cause you to change to such an amount that you won't have any opinion after (if a major manufacturer can't get their gearbox and engine control right, what would you expect from a driving AI?).
Many people I know don't do social networking because it can have some pretty serious consequences and be used against you. They do vote though.
Enjoy while it last. The time when voting can have pretty serious consequences and be used against you may be near.
Whenever these stories come out, I am uncomfortably reminded of conservative constitution-worship. "As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions."
Sure... throw the constitution over board to gain "fiscal stability". Somehow reminds me Hitler's ascension to power.
The Black sheep ones
...Is that the weather here in the UK has been particularly mental this year. The coldest first half I can ever remember, followed by a month or 2 of tropical weather including afternoon downpours like a lake is dropping on your head.
Experiment: put some hot water in a clear glass, let the (sun) light pass through and project on an even surface. For a more "realistic modeling" of the dynamic condition on the Earth, stir the water until it gently rotates in the glass.
Put in an ice cube: you should be able to see the ice letting go "threads" of cold water which takes a little while to mix with the surrounding hot one (differences in the refraction index of water at different temperatures will cause slight shadows to be cast by the light passing through the glass and projected on the screen).
Now, imagine that some space inside the glass represents UK and you should be able to get an analogy for how come "UK" is swept by cold and warm water/air in a "mental" way.
Something aint right, that's for sure.
What's not right is the the two "ice cubes" (Arctic ice and Greenland glaciers) melting just above the UK spot in the warming Earth "glass".
Be patient, will take a while until they are fully melted, so that the weather will record "flatter" patterns (instead of swinging wildly between extremes).
Also in Melbourne, AU. 3.5kw array on the roof. I don't really care about the time to ROI; we had a bit of money for a while and spent a chunk of it reducing our power bill expenses now and into the future. Non-solar energy prices will only go up; ours will, but more slowly
A 4.5 kW installation fully covers my needs, including woodworking power tools I'm starting now and then for that hobby of mine.
We time the big appliances to run mostly during the day.
Why?!? I'm charged on a differential tarrif: peak/shoulder/off-peak - cheaper to run the heavy duty washing at night time or weekend (the ironing and hobby are weekend only). Letting aside some savings in my bill, it makes sense to let the industry consume what the PVes are producing at daytime, when it needs it.
For someone whose job is based on the premise that people will not always obey the law, that police chief seems a bit too trusting that laws will prevent abuse.
On the contrary my friend... he knows only too well the more law breaking, the better for his career.
And how long does it take to pay for them?
In Melbourne AU (shitty weather, better than Germany though): 5-6 year. And this only by the cuts in the power bills.
It'll be a while, it currently take more energy to make a solar panel than it can generate in it's lifespan and costs more than coal or nuclear without the subsidies.
No longer true since 2012
SF's fire chief needs a swift kick in the groin.
Would you change your mind if you'd be to learn that the SF fire chief is a she (Joanne Hayes-White)?
The real long-term solution for organ replacement is direct fabrication of the desired organ. And we aren't all that far off from that.
Ummm... define your expectation for "far"... my back-of-napkin optimistic calculations: 10 years to maturity+5-6 years FDA or other approvals + 20 years for the patents to expire and competition in the market to kick in.
The problem, of course, is that once a government has this power, the government is the one able to decide who qualifies as a "serious criminal".
A non-violent revolutionary is much more dangerous (to the state) than a murderer.
Ummmm... somehow I don't think it'll come to a balancing act between criminal/revolutionary... for the simple reason the emergency degree is given by the compatibility with the comrade(s) on the transplant waiting list.
I mean, a game with such a name...
Email doesn't work, try something else, perhaps TOR.
tor won/t help when there's a data logger installed by nsa at the destination. And I don't think much else will help either.
We need to start hacking the political system.
Careful with that axe, Eugene.
(hint: when dealing with psychopaths, any other kind of hacking will fail. Can't reason with them, their empathy buttons are jammed, they only hear what's justifying them in their own eyes... but will listen to fear).
The government has outsourced copyright law policy making to Hollywood.
Clueless as usual; this instead of keeping jobs in US and outsource law making to China and India.
Just like in the recent Obama said in his speech about NSA operations, the government is really concerned about public opinion and very much wants to know the best way to make you comfortable getting screwed. After all, people being uncomfortable with getting screwed is the biggest impediment in a democracy for advancing to the next level of screwing them over. So your feedback is important to them.
Nothing new. Nothing to indicate the results will be different either.
Slow news day?
It is just spin, just crap to try and hate on the US and allies for no particular reason.
hate on the US ... for no particular reason? I don't exactly get it how I should take it.
1. should I take you were trying to say "its' spin. there's no reason to hate US, every and all particular ones mentioned are BS"?
2. should I take you meant "it's spin meant to cause hate of US indiscriminately, any particular reason being as good as any"?
If 1., we're in disagreement, and I would suspect some spinning intentions from your side.
If 2., that's a piece of opinion that I can respect (or even resonate with).
So the GP had a good point: China does some pretty bad shit, things that even the imperfect countries that are the UK and US might have an issue with.
I still fail to see how one can benefit from an irrelevant pissing contest when topic of pissing (and how to stop it) should be the main one.
If you want to start playing the "compare and contrast" game, well then don't be surprised when others come back in kind.
No, I don't want. This is why I see dragging China in the "Amazing" opening post as irrelevant (while the rest of the opinion that ANZUS+UK+Canada should stop pissing around being still relevant). But even more irrelevant: the reply of "Yeah, but China pisses harder".
The world is a big place with a lot happening.
China Admits Selling Prisoners’ Organs
And this is relevant to the current topic... exactly how?
(unless the topic is somehow the world's hypocritical pissing championship and I failed to see it as such).
The point was crystal clear: the friend of my enemy will get no end of crap thrown at them. The Grauniad can expect more such visits in the future, as well as any other news organization who dares publish That Which Must Not Be Published.
This.
Comming from the epic saga of "Your tax money at work".
sell those silly things for $100 and people will be able to put a real OS on them to be useful
Before I buy one even for $100 I'd need proof that this could be done.
I'm not gonna waste $100 for a practical demo, so I offer the following theoretical proof for certain values of "usefulness":
* one can always use an RT tablet as a physical underlay for a proper machine running Linux.
* thus the real OS will be put (and run perfectly) on top of the RT tablet.
Q.E.D