He doesn't want to take a boat...... too easy for the boat to be boarded in international water....
With a plane, you can attempt to force it to land with threats of shooting it down, but there is less chance that the US would actually shot down a plan killing him than of them boarding a vessel in international waters to take him.
Maybe Russia ought to send him to the International Space Station. That would really poke at the USA and there's nothing the USA can do about it since we've failed to maintain our space program so it's not like they can send the CIA after him, and the 3 Russian crewmembers can keep him safe during his stay. Then after he leaves the ISS, they can just have the Soyuz touch down in Venezuela.
It would actually be kind of amusing to see the USA's reaction to Snowden sitting aboard the ISS, releasing a new classified document each day.
I blame the Girlfriend Pillow. With parents to supply food, an internet connection, and one (or more) of those pillows, what reason is there to go out?
Of course, the flip side is that the union can add inefficiencies to the business and prevent them from meeting changing market conditions. It becomes much harder (or nearly impossible) to remove underperforming employees, and leads to siloed skillsets "I can't change that lightbulb, you need an electrician for that job" or "I can't unload that truck, it's not in my job description, but once someone brings the box into the building, then they can't take it to the store room, I have to do that". And I imagine that developers would get like that too "Well, it would be trivial to take care of that with a bash script, it would take me 2 minutes to do it. But since I'm a classified as a J2EE developer, I would have to architect a 3 tier enterprise architecture to do it, the team and I could have it ready to go 6 weeks after the business analyst finishes the requirements analysis. Unless, of course, you want to post a job for a Bash developer (and leave it posted for internal-only applications for 16 weeks)" I'm only half way joking after some of the BS I've run into at union shops.
Which may be why my train can be 10 minutes late or even 10 minutes early yet BART still says "all trains are on time".
But the difference is that while those emissions are higher from coal plants while they are operating, when they go horribly wrong hundreds of thousands of people don't have to be evacuated, causing human misery and huge economic costs, and sometimes poisoning the surrounding area for many years.
So it's better to kill and inconvenience people over a broad area than in a concentrated area next to the plant?
Ever have a flashlight in a car? not only do the batteries wear out but in the winter they don't work either! This thing will work well in the cold and for short periods at other times... and not at all in the summer.
I think even your "dead" batteries are going to put out more light than this 5mw light. I keep a 2 AA LED light in the car with lithium batteries (and an extra set of batteries) -- lithium's last much longer than alkalines, have a 10 year shelf life and work fine even in termperatures well below zero. That's in addition to the 3D cell Maglite in the trunk, which has never failed me even though I only rotate the batteries out every year or two.
She "invented" it by finding an circuit online, copying it, and buying some Peltier tiles off of eBay? WTF?
Yeah, and if you think that's bad, you should see how Intel does pretty much the same thing and they are making billions of dollars off of it! All they did was look up a transistor design from 50 years ago, hook up billions of them in an integrated circuit, stamp their name on it and sell it for hundreds (or even thousands!) of dollars to unsuspecting users that could have built it themselves if they wanted to.
Losers! (sorry for the correct spelling, stupid autocorrect didn't let me type Loosers!")
She said she's getting about 5mw of power from it, which sounds pretty decent from just a 5 degC temperature differential *and* using circuitry to increase the voltage. Should be quite visible in the dark, even enough to read from if held close to a book. At least until the aluminum heats up from her hand and the hole in the middle turns out to be inadequate to sink enough heat to maintain the temperature differential under most conditions (though she's in Canada, so maybe that's not such a problem there:-) ).
In comparison typical 2000mAh alkaline AA cell can support 5mw for about 600 hours, but if you can't afford alkaline batteries (or are someplace where you don't have easy access to them), then this flashlight may be better than nothing. Though a crank-up generator flashlight might be brighter and more usable.
It may not save the world, but it's a great science fair project.
The wattage is by itself meaningless. How much power is produced varies wildly based on the duration and intensity of the sunlight, which varies by geographic location and local weather patterns.
Measuring it in watt hours, on the other hand, is a practical measurement, since it's both how power is actually paid for, and gives you an idea of the real output of the system.
For example, TFA indicates this is an 18 megawatt installation, but the 43.5 "million kilo" watt hours (or 43.5 gigawatt hours if you don't use bullshit units) indicates an average of a bit under 5 megawatts.
43.5M KWh by itself is meaningless, unless, as the parent posted wrote, they are planning to tear down the plant after it hits that level.
You're assuming 43.5M KWh per year which wasn't stated in the summary and only implied in the article.
What happens after the plant generates 43.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity? Does it self destruct?
Assuming that they meant 43.5 million KWh per year, that's still only about 5MW of power on average, which is likely less than half what the datacenter will consume. And when the sun is not at its peak, it'll be drawing power from NV Energy's conventional fossil fuel plants.
This is fearmongering. Encryption standards that have been adopted are open source and mathematicians comb over them with a fine tooth comb before giving them their blessing. Yes, there is a worry among mathematicians about the NSA developing an algorithm that would permit a pre-computed set of numbers to decrypt all communication. Which is why they make sure it DOESN'T HAPPEN.
And there's the fact that AES-192 and AES-256 are NSA approved for protecting Top Secret classified documents.
It seems unlikely that they would approve the use of an algorithm with a known vulnerability to protect classified information -- knowing that a vulnerability would likely eventually be discovered (or stolen) by an adversary, leaving classified documents at risk. It would be awfully embarassing if, for example, someone stole secret documents and handed them over to a newspaper reporter and revealed some of the inner workings of the NSA.
The $100K/year programmer may be in the top 1% so no great harm if that job moves overseas (except for well except for the programmer, but that job is in the 1% and we don't care about the 1%).
Since when does the average programmer make $100K/yr?!?! Most I know are in the 30-60K range.
Believe it or not, I didn't pick the round numbers $100K and $20K after a detailed salary survey of software developers in the USA and India. Feel free to do the research and correct my math. Make sure you include the benefit load of the employee on both sides. In the USA, that's around 30 - 40% of salary. Not sure about India.
But when the job moves overseas so do all of the secondary effects.
Raising the standard of living of the 99% of the rest of the world, in this case, India's 99%.
At the cost of America's 99%
You should see what real poverty looks like - where people do not get 1 full bowl of boiled rice a day, forget meals with meat and unhealthy fats or govt rations.
I think it's overall a good thing - considering that your 99% do nothing to change the policies of your Govt and the rest of the world suffers tremendously because of your Govt being controlled by Petroleum and Banking cartels artificially raising the cost of living everywhere in the world.
It's high time you guys revolted - in some sane way - and took back control of your country and stopped messing around with the economies and internal affairs of other countries - Pakistan for example, was a monster created by the British and sustained by NATO, and USA primarily because Kashmir is a strategic location to keep the Soviet and Chinese threat under control, among many other things.
USA is a democracy, remember, as you so proudly claim while shoving it down the throats of other nations and so the blame goes directly to you, the people of America.
Don't blame Indians for the exchange rate being 1 USD = 58 INR, it's your doing, and now it's your undoing.
I see, so the fact that we have a high standard of living (and high cost of living) is our own fault, but India's poverty is also our own fault so we should ship our jobs and our money to India? Is there anything that's not our fault? And if we don't revolt against our high cost of living then we are also at fault for all of the problems of the world?
And when that 100k/year programmer gets laid off and moves to another country she takes her talent with her, and improves the economy of someone who can appreciate her skills.
If people were insects with no ties to their surroundings, then that might be a viable solution, just pick them up and drop them off where they are needed and they can integrate seamlessly into the next location with no loss of productivity or cost to society.
The real world doesn't work that way - there's a lot of friction keeping people from moving to another country - relocation costs are high, work visas can be difficult or impossible to get, there's often a language and/or cultural barrier. This is on top of the normal costs of relocating within the same country (or even the same state) like the cost and timeline to sell a house, uprooting spouses and/or children, moving away from family, etc.
When that $100K/year job is outsourced to an outsourcing company for $20K/year, then none of the money stays in the USA.
Yes, but that's $80,000 in tax dollars that does stay in the USA without needing to pass through the programmer.
Well, except that the $100K worker would have been taxed around 30% on average, so that's just a $50K "savings" to the government.
That money was saved just in time since the government will need it to pay unemployment benefits to the programmer that lost his job to India, and eventually to all of the other workers that are also out of jobs because the high paid developer jobs are moving to india, so there is less demand here for goods and services from well paid "locals".
But at least the government had a short-term $50K cost savings to help pay for it.
While I don't think the government should be funding CCC style "make work" projects, I don't think they should be funding offshore workers with our tax dollars.
Because some teachers want to have additional tools to proactively help struggling students that maybe tok shy or embarrased to ask for help. How terrible of an idea that is. Clearly the point of being a teacher is not helping their students, right?
When you graduate and get a job, your boss isn't going to be using those same tools to check in on you to see when you're struggling and need help. Asking for help when you need it is part of the educational process. Giving students a crutch because they are "too shy" to ask for help doesn't really help them in the long run. If they are too shy to ask their instructor for help (the person they are paying to teach them), then how will they ever be able to say to their boss "Hey, I don't think I know how to get starting on this project, can you point me in the right direction".
Besides, teachers already have tools to see when you're struggling and don't know the material - those tools are tests and homework.
Everyone working in tech in America is in the 1% - of the world. There's no moral harm when a job moves overseas to someone who objectively needs the money more. Arguing that the rich have too much is a poor strategy when you're part of the richest 1%.
And the race to the bottom ends with everywhere in the world having a real middle class - hardly a dystopia. Everything people say today about work going to China or India was said when I was young about work going to Japan, and later about South Korea. Emerging nations do eventually emerge, and everyone benefits as a result.
But when the job moves overseas so do all of the secondary effects.
The $100K/year programmer may be in the top 1% so no great harm if that job moves overseas (except for well except for the programmer, but that job is in the 1% and we don't care about the 1%).
The problem is that that $100K/year programmer owns a house, and the property taxes help pay for services that the 99% use.
That $100K/year programmer goes to restaurants, where the 99% work.
That $100K/year programmer gets her blouses dry cleaned, and the dry cleaner's employees are in the 99%.
That $100K/year programmer pays federal state & local taxes (including sales tax), gets hair cuts, oil changes, buys groceries, remodels his house, and a multitude of other tasks that give money to the 99%.
When that $100K/year job is outsourced to an outsourcing company for $20K/year, then none of the money stays in the USA.
Seriously? What ever happend to the idea of a student being responsible for asking for help when they need it?
Yeah, I don't understand why this is needed - if the student needs help, he can ask for help. If he chooses to go it alone without seeking help even when he is frustrated and doesn't know what he's doing, that doesn't bode well for his success in the "real world", so he probably deserves to fail out of the class.
I certainly don't want my computer's camera watching me in case it detects that I need help. If I want help I can ask for it and I don't want the professor interrupting me with "help" when the system detects the stress in my face when the cause of the stress is because my dog died... or I'm tired... or I really need to go to the bathroom.
Would you say that the documents were released by the NSA?
Well no, since the NSA didn't release the docs, I wouldn't say that they were released by the NSA. Why would you even ask? Has there been some confusion over that point? For the record, I wouldn't say that my mom released the docs either because she didn't.
But I would say that that were released by Snowden. Or perhaps by Greenwald.
Do they really want their own personnel to be less informed than the general public?
People with a clearance can read a story describing the classified documents. They can even discuss the issues that are raised by the story.
They can't read the actual documents on an unclassified system.
You mean on a home computer, phone, tablet, etc or one of the other many ways that a normal person might normally read the news?
If you say "Well no, personal devices don't count", then does that mean it's ok to read classified information on a personal device?
Basically, you can't leave it up to any random person whether or not some information has been "published enough" to consider it no longer classified. So everything is treated as still classified until a formal review is completed.
I think that a normal person can be trusted to know that if it's on the front page of a national news organization's website, then it's "published enough".
Oops! So the math SHOULD be 15e15*2e3/1e9 = 30e9. GB, not Gb, incidentally. That's actually kind of a lot. ---
Thanks for the critique of the typos in my hastily typed out formula, but it would have meant more if you were correct.
I spent 10 minutes trying to type out a real formula that would pass Slashdot's "junk" filter, but it kept telling me I had too many junk characters, so here's the closest I could get to a real formula that shows you how the units cancel out (and I had to switch over to "code" format, since neither the <code> nor <pre> tags preserved the spaces). And note that the article said 15PB aggregated across all 2000 devices, not 15PB for each)
15 petabytes 1 x 10^15 Bytes GigaByte 7500 GigaBytes oooooooooooo X oooooooooooooooooooo X ooooooooooooooo = ooooooooooooo 2000 devices 1 PetaByte 1 x 10^9 Bytes device
Here's the math: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15+%2F+2000+*+10%5E15+%2F+10%5E9
Define adult. Define occasional "adult". Any rule about adult content tends to be vague since that's the nature of the subject.
I'd like to see the definition too... TFA says it's not defined: "while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content." Is Victoria's Secret an "adult" site because they sell lingerie and other merchandise that's oriented towards adults? How about a ship-in-a-bottle websites because that's an interest generally held by adults? How about Good Vibrations because they sell sex toys and videos? How about a nudist oriented site because it shows people in the nude? How about a "Hot girls in bikinis!" site because it shows hot girls in bikinis? How about a school swim team site because it shows girls in bikinis?
I'd really like to see how Google draws the line between adult and non-adult.
No, "Leaked" and "released" is not a matter of semantics. Released documents go through a formal process to have them declassified prior to being available to the public. Leaked documents are documents that bypass the formal process or aren't previously declassified before being available to the public. That's not a difference in semantics.
Semantics: the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings
Interpreting a word in a way that fits your political views is the very definition of "semantics" -- I says Snowden "released" the documents, you say he "leaked" them. Both are right. It comes down to semantics. Whether he followed the formal process or not, he "released" (to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude) the documents. He also leaked them,
Note that they are not preventing soldiers from reading the Guardian on their own computers at home. They're just saying "don't put classified data on our unclassified network, because it's a pain to fix that."
Then explain this quote:
He wrote that an employee who downloads classified information could face disciplinary action if found to have knowingly downloaded the material on an unclassified computer
I didn't see where he said "this only applies to us government owned computers" and it wouldn't even make sense to have a rule that said "If you download classified information *our* unclassified comptuers, that's bad, but if you download the same material to any other unclassified computer, that's fine".
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He doesn't want to take a boat...... too easy for the boat to be boarded in international water....
With a plane, you can attempt to force it to land with threats of shooting it down, but there is less chance that the US would actually shot down a plan killing him than of them boarding a vessel in international waters to take him.
Maybe Russia ought to send him to the International Space Station. That would really poke at the USA and there's nothing the USA can do about it since we've failed to maintain our space program so it's not like they can send the CIA after him, and the 3 Russian crewmembers can keep him safe during his stay. Then after he leaves the ISS, they can just have the Soyuz touch down in Venezuela.
It would actually be kind of amusing to see the USA's reaction to Snowden sitting aboard the ISS, releasing a new classified document each day.
I blame the Girlfriend Pillow. With parents to supply food, an internet connection, and one (or more) of those pillows, what reason is there to go out?
Of course, the flip side is that the union can add inefficiencies to the business and prevent them from meeting changing market conditions. It becomes much harder (or nearly impossible) to remove underperforming employees, and leads to siloed skillsets "I can't change that lightbulb, you need an electrician for that job" or "I can't unload that truck, it's not in my job description, but once someone brings the box into the building, then they can't take it to the store room, I have to do that". And I imagine that developers would get like that too "Well, it would be trivial to take care of that with a bash script, it would take me 2 minutes to do it. But since I'm a classified as a J2EE developer, I would have to architect a 3 tier enterprise architecture to do it, the team and I could have it ready to go 6 weeks after the business analyst finishes the requirements analysis. Unless, of course, you want to post a job for a Bash developer (and leave it posted for internal-only applications for 16 weeks)" I'm only half way joking after some of the BS I've run into at union shops.
Which may be why my train can be 10 minutes late or even 10 minutes early yet BART still says "all trains are on time".
But the difference is that while those emissions are higher from coal plants while they are operating, when they go horribly wrong hundreds of thousands of people don't have to be evacuated, causing human misery and huge economic costs, and sometimes poisoning the surrounding area for many years.
So it's better to kill and inconvenience people over a broad area than in a concentrated area next to the plant?
Ever have a flashlight in a car? not only do the batteries wear out but in the winter they don't work either! This thing will work well in the cold and for short periods at other times... and not at all in the summer.
I think even your "dead" batteries are going to put out more light than this 5mw light. I keep a 2 AA LED light in the car with lithium batteries (and an extra set of batteries) -- lithium's last much longer than alkalines, have a 10 year shelf life and work fine even in termperatures well below zero. That's in addition to the 3D cell Maglite in the trunk, which has never failed me even though I only rotate the batteries out every year or two.
She "invented" it by finding an circuit online, copying it, and buying some Peltier tiles off of eBay? WTF?
Yeah, and if you think that's bad, you should see how Intel does pretty much the same thing and they are making billions of dollars off of it! All they did was look up a transistor design from 50 years ago, hook up billions of them in an integrated circuit, stamp their name on it and sell it for hundreds (or even thousands!) of dollars to unsuspecting users that could have built it themselves if they wanted to.
Losers! (sorry for the correct spelling, stupid autocorrect didn't let me type Loosers!")
She said she's getting about 5mw of power from it, which sounds pretty decent from just a 5 degC temperature differential *and* using circuitry to increase the voltage. Should be quite visible in the dark, even enough to read from if held close to a book. At least until the aluminum heats up from her hand and the hole in the middle turns out to be inadequate to sink enough heat to maintain the temperature differential under most conditions (though she's in Canada, so maybe that's not such a problem there :-) ).
In comparison typical 2000mAh alkaline AA cell can support 5mw for about 600 hours, but if you can't afford alkaline batteries (or are someplace where you don't have easy access to them), then this flashlight may be better than nothing. Though a crank-up generator flashlight might be brighter and more usable.
It may not save the world, but it's a great science fair project.
The wattage is by itself meaningless. How much power is produced varies wildly based on the duration and intensity of the sunlight, which varies by geographic location and local weather patterns.
Measuring it in watt hours, on the other hand, is a practical measurement, since it's both how power is actually paid for, and gives you an idea of the real output of the system.
For example, TFA indicates this is an 18 megawatt installation, but the 43.5 "million kilo" watt hours (or 43.5 gigawatt hours if you don't use bullshit units) indicates an average of a bit under 5 megawatts.
43.5M KWh by itself is meaningless, unless, as the parent posted wrote, they are planning to tear down the plant after it hits that level.
You're assuming 43.5M KWh per year which wasn't stated in the summary and only implied in the article.
That's less than a half-mile square (which is 160 acres).
They should go for at least a 1 mile square (640 acres) now that would be worth talking about!
The other (and more clear) way to say "half-mile square" (i.e. a square with each side being one half mile long) is "one quarter square mile".
What happens after the plant generates 43.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity? Does it self destruct?
Assuming that they meant 43.5 million KWh per year, that's still only about 5MW of power on average, which is likely less than half what the datacenter will consume. And when the sun is not at its peak, it'll be drawing power from NV Energy's conventional fossil fuel plants.
This is fearmongering. Encryption standards that have been adopted are open source and mathematicians comb over them with a fine tooth comb before giving them their blessing. Yes, there is a worry among mathematicians about the NSA developing an algorithm that would permit a pre-computed set of numbers to decrypt all communication. Which is why they make sure it DOESN'T HAPPEN.
See https://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html
And there's the fact that AES-192 and AES-256 are NSA approved for protecting Top Secret classified documents.
It seems unlikely that they would approve the use of an algorithm with a known vulnerability to protect classified information -- knowing that a vulnerability would likely eventually be discovered (or stolen) by an adversary, leaving classified documents at risk. It would be awfully embarassing if, for example, someone stole secret documents and handed them over to a newspaper reporter and revealed some of the inner workings of the NSA.
The $100K/year programmer may be in the top 1% so no great harm if that job moves overseas (except for well except for the programmer, but that job is in the 1% and we don't care about the 1%).
Since when does the average programmer make $100K/yr?!?! Most I know are in the 30-60K range.
Believe it or not, I didn't pick the round numbers $100K and $20K after a detailed salary survey of software developers in the USA and India. Feel free to do the research and correct my math. Make sure you include the benefit load of the employee on both sides. In the USA, that's around 30 - 40% of salary. Not sure about India.
But when the job moves overseas so do all of the secondary effects.
Raising the standard of living of the 99% of the rest of the world, in this case, India's 99%.
At the cost of America's 99%
You should see what real poverty looks like - where people do not get 1 full bowl of boiled rice a day, forget meals with meat and unhealthy fats or govt rations.
I think it's overall a good thing - considering that your 99% do nothing to change the policies of your Govt and the rest of the world suffers tremendously because of your Govt being controlled by Petroleum and Banking cartels artificially raising the cost of living everywhere in the world.
It's high time you guys revolted - in some sane way - and took back control of your country and stopped messing around with the economies and internal affairs of other countries - Pakistan for example, was a monster created by the British and sustained by NATO, and USA primarily because Kashmir is a strategic location to keep the Soviet and Chinese threat under control, among many other things.
USA is a democracy, remember, as you so proudly claim while shoving it down the throats of other nations and so the blame goes directly to you, the people of America.
Don't blame Indians for the exchange rate being 1 USD = 58 INR, it's your doing, and now it's your undoing.
I see, so the fact that we have a high standard of living (and high cost of living) is our own fault, but India's poverty is also our own fault so we should ship our jobs and our money to India? Is there anything that's not our fault? And if we don't revolt against our high cost of living then we are also at fault for all of the problems of the world?
And when that 100k/year programmer gets laid off and moves to another country she takes her talent with her, and improves the economy of someone who can appreciate her skills.
If people were insects with no ties to their surroundings, then that might be a viable solution, just pick them up and drop them off where they are needed and they can integrate seamlessly into the next location with no loss of productivity or cost to society.
The real world doesn't work that way - there's a lot of friction keeping people from moving to another country - relocation costs are high, work visas can be difficult or impossible to get, there's often a language and/or cultural barrier. This is on top of the normal costs of relocating within the same country (or even the same state) like the cost and timeline to sell a house, uprooting spouses and/or children, moving away from family, etc.
People are not as portable as you suggest.
When that $100K/year job is outsourced to an outsourcing company for $20K/year, then none of the money stays in the USA.
Yes, but that's $80,000 in tax dollars that does stay in the USA without needing to pass through the programmer.
Well, except that the $100K worker would have been taxed around 30% on average, so that's just a $50K "savings" to the government.
That money was saved just in time since the government will need it to pay unemployment benefits to the programmer that lost his job to India, and eventually to all of the other workers that are also out of jobs because the high paid developer jobs are moving to india, so there is less demand here for goods and services from well paid "locals".
But at least the government had a short-term $50K cost savings to help pay for it.
While I don't think the government should be funding CCC style "make work" projects, I don't think they should be funding offshore workers with our tax dollars.
Because some teachers want to have additional tools to proactively help struggling students that maybe tok shy or embarrased to ask for help. How terrible of an idea that is. Clearly the point of being a teacher is not helping their students, right?
When you graduate and get a job, your boss isn't going to be using those same tools to check in on you to see when you're struggling and need help. Asking for help when you need it is part of the educational process. Giving students a crutch because they are "too shy" to ask for help doesn't really help them in the long run. If they are too shy to ask their instructor for help (the person they are paying to teach them), then how will they ever be able to say to their boss "Hey, I don't think I know how to get starting on this project, can you point me in the right direction".
Besides, teachers already have tools to see when you're struggling and don't know the material - those tools are tests and homework.
Everyone working in tech in America is in the 1% - of the world. There's no moral harm when a job moves overseas to someone who objectively needs the money more. Arguing that the rich have too much is a poor strategy when you're part of the richest 1%.
And the race to the bottom ends with everywhere in the world having a real middle class - hardly a dystopia. Everything people say today about work going to China or India was said when I was young about work going to Japan, and later about South Korea. Emerging nations do eventually emerge, and everyone benefits as a result.
But when the job moves overseas so do all of the secondary effects.
The $100K/year programmer may be in the top 1% so no great harm if that job moves overseas (except for well except for the programmer, but that job is in the 1% and we don't care about the 1%).
The problem is that that $100K/year programmer owns a house, and the property taxes help pay for services that the 99% use.
That $100K/year programmer goes to restaurants, where the 99% work.
That $100K/year programmer gets her blouses dry cleaned, and the dry cleaner's employees are in the 99%.
That $100K/year programmer pays federal state & local taxes (including sales tax), gets hair cuts, oil changes, buys groceries, remodels his house, and a multitude of other tasks that give money to the 99%.
When that $100K/year job is outsourced to an outsourcing company for $20K/year, then none of the money stays in the USA.
Seriously? What ever happend to the idea of a student being responsible for asking for help when they need it?
Yeah, I don't understand why this is needed - if the student needs help, he can ask for help. If he chooses to go it alone without seeking help even when he is frustrated and doesn't know what he's doing, that doesn't bode well for his success in the "real world", so he probably deserves to fail out of the class.
I certainly don't want my computer's camera watching me in case it detects that I need help. If I want help I can ask for it and I don't want the professor interrupting me with "help" when the system detects the stress in my face when the cause of the stress is because my dog died... or I'm tired... or I really need to go to the bathroom.
WTF does Australia do with its Air Force anyway? They're hopefully not teaching algebra.
Apparently they don't have to teach algebra since they seem to be looking for candidates that already know Algebra and Calculus.
Would you say that the documents were released by the NSA?
Well no, since the NSA didn't release the docs, I wouldn't say that they were released by the NSA. Why would you even ask? Has there been some confusion over that point? For the record, I wouldn't say that my mom released the docs either because she didn't.
But I would say that that were released by Snowden. Or perhaps by Greenwald.
People with a clearance can read a story describing the classified documents. They can even discuss the issues that are raised by the story.
They can't read the actual documents on an unclassified system.
You mean on a home computer, phone, tablet, etc or one of the other many ways that a normal person might normally read the news?
If you say "Well no, personal devices don't count", then does that mean it's ok to read classified information on a personal device?
Basically, you can't leave it up to any random person whether or not some information has been "published enough" to consider it no longer classified. So everything is treated as still classified until a formal review is completed.
I think that a normal person can be trusted to know that if it's on the front page of a national news organization's website, then it's "published enough".
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Let's look at your units.
bytes / device / devices / (bytes/gb) = gb/devices^2
Oops! So the math SHOULD be 15e15*2e3/1e9 = 30e9. GB, not Gb, incidentally. That's actually kind of a lot.
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Thanks for the critique of the typos in my hastily typed out formula, but it would have meant more if you were correct.
I spent 10 minutes trying to type out a real formula that would pass Slashdot's "junk" filter, but it kept telling me I had too many junk characters, so here's the closest I could get to a real formula that shows you how the units cancel out (and I had to switch over to "code" format, since neither the <code> nor <pre> tags preserved the spaces). And note that the article said 15PB aggregated across all 2000 devices, not 15PB for each)
15 petabytes 1 x 10^15 Bytes GigaByte 7500 GigaBytes
oooooooooooo X oooooooooooooooooooo X ooooooooooooooo = ooooooooooooo
2000 devices 1 PetaByte 1 x 10^9 Bytes device
Here's the math: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=15+%2F+2000+*+10%5E15+%2F+10%5E9
the new rule is not that "vague" at all
Define adult. Define occasional "adult". Any rule about adult content tends to be vague since that's the nature of the subject.
I'd like to see the definition too... TFA says it's not defined: "while the current Content Policy does not define what constitutes "adult" content." Is Victoria's Secret an "adult" site because they sell lingerie and other merchandise that's oriented towards adults? How about a ship-in-a-bottle websites because that's an interest generally held by adults? How about Good Vibrations because they sell sex toys and videos? How about a nudist oriented site because it shows people in the nude? How about a "Hot girls in bikinis!" site because it shows hot girls in bikinis? How about a school swim team site because it shows girls in bikinis?
I'd really like to see how Google draws the line between adult and non-adult.
No, "Leaked" and "released" is not a matter of semantics. Released documents go through a formal process to have them declassified prior to being available to the public. Leaked documents are documents that bypass the formal process or aren't previously declassified before being available to the public. That's not a difference in semantics.
Semantics: the language used (as in advertising or political propaganda) to achieve a desired effect on an audience especially through the use of words with novel or dual meanings
Interpreting a word in a way that fits your political views is the very definition of "semantics" -- I says Snowden "released" the documents, you say he "leaked" them. Both are right. It comes down to semantics. Whether he followed the formal process or not, he "released" (to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude) the documents. He also leaked them,
Note that they are not preventing soldiers from reading the Guardian on their own computers at home. They're just saying "don't put classified data on our unclassified network, because it's a pain to fix that."
Then explain this quote:
He wrote that an employee who downloads classified information could face disciplinary action if found to have knowingly downloaded the material on an unclassified computer
I didn't see where he said "this only applies to us government owned computers" and it wouldn't even make sense to have a rule that said "If you download classified information *our* unclassified comptuers, that's bad, but if you download the same material to any other unclassified computer, that's fine".