The same way bits of information an little tips from anonymous callers help to narrow an impossible murder case down to just a few suspects.
The amount of time they had between the discovery of the leak and the actual publishing of the data should be sufficient to put people out of harms way. The ones they actually care about anyway. I think wikileaks actually showed a lot of restraint. They could have dumped the whole lot online, unredacted, when they received it and the magic of crowdsourcing would have unearthed the salient bits much sooner. Leaving the US without the option of doing damage control beforehand.
There are "HUMINT requirements" and other unreleasable information so far on the UK Guardian page. These allow our operations and our agents to be targeted by adversarial counterintelligence..
From the Guardian:"WikiLeaks says that, contrary to the state department's fears, it also initially intends to post only limited cable extracts, and to redact identities." So how would the documents allow others to target the agents ?
And I'll remind you again of the Franco-Prussian War. Leaked dispatches can spell disaster.
You know what's even better than trying to keep those dispatches from leaking ? Not doing the back room deals that could cause public outrage if they become public in the first place. Yeah, yeah, I know. Expecting people to act decently is just to idealistic.
It never ceases to amaze me but there is a group of microsofties that are big fans of everything the company does. It's not as big as Apple's hardcore base (I think), but still sizeable. They can sell to these people who'll evangelize and provide the feedback necessary to do incremental improvement. The WP7 is not the right choice right now for businesses, but in 2 or 3 (software) releases it might be. In the mean time each sale is one less for iPhone and Android and they'll hopefully get the devices in the hands of some devs. This is the right strategy in my eyes. Although I could care less if MS does well, being an iPhone man myself.
Sure you can. What you can't do is release something that will immediately catch up with competitors that have a couple of years head start (it'd be rushed and hackish.) So you get the hardware out there and then release incremental software improvements as you develop them, slowly but surely catching up to the cutting edge. It's not going to be a huge hit right away but all you need is a dedicated user base that can you can grow. Microsoft is doing the right thing here, they've got the money to play a long game.
Indeed the paper talks about a "potential effect on gene flow" ("Our findings reveal potential effects of an indigenous cultural practice on three distinct processes: (i) dynamics within affected populations, (ii) gene flow among populations, and (iii) adaptive trait divergence between affected and unaffected populations.") Scientists are nothing if not careful.
Still the fact that this is an annual event with a high dose poisening instead of gradual long term exposure makes mithridization unlikely (IMHO, not a biologist.) The paper says : "barbasco is deposited inside the cave about 100 m from the cave entrance, from where it is distributed downstream and outside of the cave." so the poison would be washed out.
I see the guy has some of these fish in his tanks so hopefully he'll do a follow-up with specimens from the different populations bred in captivity under controlled conditions.
Have you heard of, for instance, mithridization -- the ability of plants and animals to acquire partial immunity from acute poisoning if a low dosage is administered for a long time beforehand?
It is an acquired trait (not passed genetically) that can quite nicely explain this phenomenon and dispense with the need for evolution.
I didn't see anything in the article that would discount this possibility.
Apparently you didn't read until the third paragraph : "[...] has discovered that some of these fish have managed not only to develop a resistance to the plant’s powerful toxin, but also to pass on their tolerant genes to their offspring, enabling them to survive in the face of otherwise certain death for their non-evolved brethren." and then further on: "[...] Mollies able to tolerate the poisonous conditions survived and passed those traits to their offspring."
My guess is that Apple will eventually abandon MacOS completely -- while interesting as an operating system, it is increasingly irrelevant, as is its more popular Windows cousin.
Apple pretty much dismissed that idea in their last "Back to the mac" event where they reiterated several times that the mac is a >$20 billion business and they have no intention of giving it up. What they do seem to be doing is putting most R&D into iOS, based on the same MacOS core (Darwin), and plowing the improvements back into the MacOS. Presumably they would reunify the lines somewhere in the future when the mobile vs desktop line is sufficiently blurred. Apple's competitive edge is based on being in complete control of both hard- and software, the MacOS isn't going anywhere.
A fine tradition dating back all the way to the pharaohs and probably before even them. Still goes on too, albeit in a more restricted form. Eg. Texas removing Thomas Jefferson from textbooks. History is malleable and, more often than not, written by the powerful.
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Yes, let's change the world so programmers don't have to deal with codifying a moderately complex real world situation. I mean come on, this should be a library you write once and can test pretty extensively and easily. No excuse for sloppy programming.
99% of directors don't have that kind of clout, though; if the studio says jump on 3D, those guys/gals will be forced to say "How high?" with no room for challenging the judgment of the studio.
I look forward to all the bullshit justifications they are going to give for making their films 3D, like they do now for having to include Bombshell DuJour in them. "I had my reservations at first but them miss DuJour came in and did a screentest and I just couldn't see anybody else in the role." Uh, sure guy.
You mean we would be able to sue the government for providing access to copyrighted content? Sounds like a "plus" to me:-) I hope these 3-strike laws get stricken down soon, nobody really wants them except some industry fat cats.
I was referring to this as an example of US political correctness. The US have always been the champions of political correctness with asinine phrases like "I'm not $ETHNICITY, I'm an $ETHNICITY-american" and "I'm $ABILITY challenged."
Except, you've got all sorts of new lunatic fringe types who are preaching new kinds of kill-the-other-culture religious toxicity, and that is being protected in the name of diversity. So it's not that Europeans are consistently interested in preventing people from saying "filthy" things. Just some people.
Well there are anti-discrimination laws on the books in many EU countries which also forbid hate speech but you have to tread carefully. Forbidding naziism is an easy decision considering its history for other groups you might want to err on the side of caution. There's a large grey area, which is also the argument for allowing unrestricted freedom of speech, but I think we strike a reasonable balance most of the time.
Did I say that the PC Police in the US aren't also wrong-headed cowards? Of course they are. I'm responding to a post that sugggested, specifically, that the EU would be a good body for serving up a guide to information. My point is that the EU prefers to filter history, out of a deep sense of embarassment.
It's not filtered: you won't find a schoolchild that isn't taught about the holocaust, there a several musea dedicated to it, etc. Tell me, is the Trail of Tears a required part of the curriculum in the US ?
Right. I'm responding to the notion that it should do that (be in the internet information search business).
I was referring to your accusation the EU aggressively controls speech. It doesn't so I don't see the need to move to China thank you very much:-) That said the thought of having the EU in control of a search engine doesn't scare me more than Google having control of all that information.
You know what else is right up the EU's alley? Banning references to certain bits of history,
I take it your referring to nazi paraphernalia and propaganda, banned in some EU countries ? Yeah some people are a bit sensitive about allowing a lunitic fringe that (litterally) ruined the entire continent and caused untold suffering for so many to spread their filth in public again. Imagine that; when we say "Nie wieder", "Never again", we mean it.
getting tangled up in astounding fits of political correctness, etc.
Yeah, is the shitstorm about saying "retarded" over yet in the US ? Pot meet kettle.
Do you really want a government that aggressively controls the speech of its citizens to be running a search engine? If you want that, you can go to China.
No I don't want that. Luckily for me, it really doesn't do that.
... controlled by the US government (who else would have the means and would volunteer?), the same which will soon have an Internet kill switch and is almost completely submerged by lobbyists? Is it really that much better?
Sounds like something that's right up the EU's alley: creating a public alternative to a foreign-owned monopoly in a critical growth sector.
Looks like the iPhone is indeed supported reasonably well through libimobiledevice which ships with Ubuntu. Check the video on the libimobiledevice site. You can't go wrong with iPhone really: a lot of people have one which will ensure developer interest, it's on a relatively slow release cycle so the OSS people aren't continually outdated and is generally pretty good about keeping compatibility between versions.
You hit right on the nose there. What's even worse is that Linux evangelists are badly in denial about all of these problems, preventing them from being solved.
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The same way bits of information an little tips from anonymous callers help to narrow an impossible murder case down to just a few suspects.
The amount of time they had between the discovery of the leak and the actual publishing of the data should be sufficient to put people out of harms way. The ones they actually care about anyway. I think wikileaks actually showed a lot of restraint. They could have dumped the whole lot online, unredacted, when they received it and the magic of crowdsourcing would have unearthed the salient bits much sooner. Leaving the US without the option of doing damage control beforehand.
Long live the status quo. Give me convenience or give me death !
There are "HUMINT requirements" and other unreleasable information so far on the UK Guardian page. These allow our operations and our agents to be targeted by adversarial counterintelligence..
From the Guardian :"WikiLeaks says that, contrary to the state department's fears, it also initially intends to post only limited cable extracts, and to redact identities." So how would the documents allow others to target the agents ?
And I'll remind you again of the Franco-Prussian War. Leaked dispatches can spell disaster.
You know what's even better than trying to keep those dispatches from leaking ? Not doing the back room deals that could cause public outrage if they become public in the first place. Yeah, yeah, I know. Expecting people to act decently is just to idealistic.
I'm sure he's used to that kind of thing, having gone to federal 'pound me in the ass' prison and all.
It never ceases to amaze me but there is a group of microsofties that are big fans of everything the company does. It's not as big as Apple's hardcore base (I think), but still sizeable. They can sell to these people who'll evangelize and provide the feedback necessary to do incremental improvement. The WP7 is not the right choice right now for businesses, but in 2 or 3 (software) releases it might be. In the mean time each sale is one less for iPhone and Android and they'll hopefully get the devices in the hands of some devs. This is the right strategy in my eyes. Although I could care less if MS does well, being an iPhone man myself.
Sure you can. What you can't do is release something that will immediately catch up with competitors that have a couple of years head start (it'd be rushed and hackish.) So you get the hardware out there and then release incremental software improvements as you develop them, slowly but surely catching up to the cutting edge. It's not going to be a huge hit right away but all you need is a dedicated user base that can you can grow. Microsoft is doing the right thing here, they've got the money to play a long game.
Indeed the paper talks about a "potential effect on gene flow" ("Our findings reveal potential effects of an indigenous cultural practice on three distinct processes: (i) dynamics within affected populations, (ii) gene flow among populations, and (iii) adaptive trait divergence between affected and unaffected populations.") Scientists are nothing if not careful.
Still the fact that this is an annual event with a high dose poisening instead of gradual long term exposure makes mithridization unlikely (IMHO, not a biologist.) The paper says : "barbasco is deposited inside the cave about 100 m from the cave entrance, from where it is distributed downstream and outside of the cave." so the poison would be washed out.
I see the guy has some of these fish in his tanks so hopefully he'll do a follow-up with specimens from the different populations bred in captivity under controlled conditions.
Have you heard of, for instance, mithridization -- the ability of plants and animals to acquire partial immunity from acute poisoning if a low dosage is administered for a long time beforehand?
It is an acquired trait (not passed genetically) that can quite nicely explain this phenomenon and dispense with the need for evolution.
I didn't see anything in the article that would discount this possibility.
Apparently you didn't read until the third paragraph : "[...] has discovered that some of these fish have managed not only to develop a resistance to the plant’s powerful toxin, but also to pass on their tolerant genes to their offspring, enabling them to survive in the face of otherwise certain death for their non-evolved brethren." and then further on: "[...] Mollies able to tolerate the poisonous conditions survived and passed those traits to their offspring."
A two party system is stupid!
But ... but that's twice as good as Soviet Russia or China !
There are also rack mounting systems that take 2 mac mini's in a 1U space.
My guess is that Apple will eventually abandon MacOS completely -- while interesting as an operating system, it is increasingly irrelevant, as is its more popular Windows cousin.
Apple pretty much dismissed that idea in their last "Back to the mac" event where they reiterated several times that the mac is a >$20 billion business and they have no intention of giving it up. What they do seem to be doing is putting most R&D into iOS, based on the same MacOS core (Darwin), and plowing the improvements back into the MacOS. Presumably they would reunify the lines somewhere in the future when the mobile vs desktop line is sufficiently blurred. Apple's competitive edge is based on being in complete control of both hard- and software, the MacOS isn't going anywhere.
Now we just need to convince them to start using decon-gel. Think of the ratings NASA.
A fine tradition dating back all the way to the pharaohs and probably before even them. Still goes on too, albeit in a more restricted form. Eg. Texas removing Thomas Jefferson from textbooks. History is malleable and, more often than not, written by the powerful.
Not one comment yet about the real culprit here: daylight savings time. If we didn't have it anywhere in the world, then programmers wouldn't have to worry about when DST happens in different timezones (or which places have DST and which don't), or worry about what to do with log files or anything else when time jumps an hour.
Yes, let's change the world so programmers don't have to deal with codifying a moderately complex real world situation. I mean come on, this should be a library you write once and can test pretty extensively and easily. No excuse for sloppy programming.
99% of directors don't have that kind of clout, though; if the studio says jump on 3D, those guys/gals will be forced to say "How high?" with no room for challenging the judgment of the studio.
I look forward to all the bullshit justifications they are going to give for making their films 3D, like they do now for having to include Bombshell DuJour in them. "I had my reservations at first but them miss DuJour came in and did a screentest and I just couldn't see anybody else in the role." Uh, sure guy.
Why, again, are they pushing 3d?
No more "telesyncs" ? It's got to be harder to record bootleg copies of these 3D flicks in theaters, right ?
You mean we would be able to sue the government for providing access to copyrighted content? Sounds like a "plus" to me :-)
I hope these 3-strike laws get stricken down soon, nobody really wants them except some industry fat cats.
I was referring to this as an example of US political correctness. The US have always been the champions of political correctness with asinine phrases like "I'm not $ETHNICITY, I'm an $ETHNICITY-american" and "I'm $ABILITY challenged."
Except, you've got all sorts of new lunatic fringe types who are preaching new kinds of kill-the-other-culture religious toxicity, and that is being protected in the name of diversity. So it's not that Europeans are consistently interested in preventing people from saying "filthy" things. Just some people.
Well there are anti-discrimination laws on the books in many EU countries which also forbid hate speech but you have to tread carefully. Forbidding naziism is an easy decision considering its history for other groups you might want to err on the side of caution. There's a large grey area, which is also the argument for allowing unrestricted freedom of speech, but I think we strike a reasonable balance most of the time.
Did I say that the PC Police in the US aren't also wrong-headed cowards? Of course they are. I'm responding to a post that sugggested, specifically, that the EU would be a good body for serving up a guide to information. My point is that the EU prefers to filter history, out of a deep sense of embarassment.
It's not filtered: you won't find a schoolchild that isn't taught about the holocaust, there a several musea dedicated to it, etc. Tell me, is the Trail of Tears a required part of the curriculum in the US ?
Right. I'm responding to the notion that it should do that (be in the internet information search business).
I was referring to your accusation the EU aggressively controls speech. It doesn't so I don't see the need to move to China thank you very much :-) That said the thought of having the EU in control of a search engine doesn't scare me more than Google having control of all that information.
You know what else is right up the EU's alley? Banning references to certain bits of history,
I take it your referring to nazi paraphernalia and propaganda, banned in some EU countries ? Yeah some people are a bit sensitive about allowing a lunitic fringe that (litterally) ruined the entire continent and caused untold suffering for so many to spread their filth in public again. Imagine that; when we say "Nie wieder", "Never again", we mean it.
getting tangled up in astounding fits of political correctness, etc.
Yeah, is the shitstorm about saying "retarded" over yet in the US ? Pot meet kettle.
Do you really want a government that aggressively controls the speech of its citizens to be running a search engine? If you want that, you can go to China.
No I don't want that. Luckily for me, it really doesn't do that.
... controlled by the US government (who else would have the means and would volunteer?), the same which will soon have an Internet kill switch and is almost completely submerged by lobbyists? Is it really that much better?
Sounds like something that's right up the EU's alley: creating a public alternative to a foreign-owned monopoly in a critical growth sector.
That sounds unhealthy. You can't use the stuff on babies, I'd be surprised if its use is not at least discouraged when pregnant.
Looks like the iPhone is indeed supported reasonably well through libimobiledevice which ships with Ubuntu. Check the video on the libimobiledevice site. You can't go wrong with iPhone really: a lot of people have one which will ensure developer interest, it's on a relatively slow release cycle so the OSS people aren't continually outdated and is generally pretty good about keeping compatibility between versions.
You hit right on the nose there. What's even worse is that Linux evangelists are badly in denial about all of these problems, preventing them from being solved.