CIA interrogators continued the harsh treatment even after it appeared that Baluchi was cooperating.
If the reward for cooperating is torture and more torture, why cooperate? At least keeping silent (or lying in ways not easily checked) can be a form of revenge.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was passed in 1994. Just how much equipment with mandated-by-US-law security holes WAS sold to foreign countries.
Authors' estates are notoriously greedy and short-sighted. I've seen several efforts come to grief on the fact that the heirs frequently have highly-inflated ideas of what the books are worth (Hey, they're classics!), and by God they want their "cut." Project Gutenberg had to fend off efforts by one "estate manager" to claim that materials which were clearly in public domain weren't (sort of a dwarf Warner Music). Another effort to publish "the complete Murray Leinster" foundered the same way.
Update: I entered [less than] 4 cups and the [left angle-bracket] character was deleted from the post. We've made single-cup morning coffee for a LONG time.
My wife and I have a Krups dual-carafe coffee maker with a setting switch for 4 cups. Set the switch, take some beans out of the sealed container for the pre-ground beans, place them in a small filter cone. Place cone in plastic holder, pour in water and wait briefly while the coffee brews. Add seasonings to taste and drink.
It's a simple enough process that even a Green Mountain Coffee Roasters executive could do it unassisted.
Has anybody noticed that the stupidest ideas are almost always built by very bright people? And usually, the brighter the individual who builds it, the stupider it is.
Because good security, like anything else worth buying, costs $$$. So it looks like a loss on the books. Remember, "the books" don't show the loss Target's taking in lost trade until the trade is lost by incidents like this. And even then, I'll be they don't do very much other than put some cosmetics on their system.
For the same $tupid reason: "The $tockholder$ won't like it."
Five gets you one hundred that, assuming this agreement actually exists, there are exceptions in it for cars being used by high officials and the well-enough-connected-to-pay-sufficient-bribes.
RIM ended up known as "lawsuits in motion" for their dependence on the government-granted monopolies we call intellectual "property." They depended on these things instead of innovating and improving their products and staying ahead of the pack. Meanwhile, iPhones and Androids kept showing up with new features, better processors, improved OSes, etc. etc.
The moral is simple, run like hell, don't look back because something might be gaining on you, and above all, don't stop to hire mercenaries to fight for you and then relax while a bunch of hired guns save your village with Elmer Bernstein's music in the background.
The problem is NOT the plots. There are only a very few plots. (e.g. "boy meets girl", "the man who learned better," etc. etc.)
The problem is storytelling. Hollywood invests millions in stars, explosions and what-not, and pretty much forgets that the basic goal of what they have to do is tell a story. Neither "Citizen Kane" nor "Casablanca" have special effects, but they're on pretty much everybody's "best of all time" lists. If you're not telling a captivating story, you're wasting the audience's time and money.
One other note on the topic. When Fictionwise was at the top of its game, I bought about two thousand dollars worth of ebooks from them in one year. Since then, my buying has dropped to less than two hundred.
There are very few ways to screw up worse than losing 90% of a loyal customer's business.
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If the reward for cooperating is torture and more torture, why cooperate? At least keeping silent (or lying in ways not easily checked) can be a form of revenge.
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was passed in 1994. Just how much equipment with mandated-by-US-law security holes WAS sold to foreign countries.
Authors' estates are notoriously greedy and short-sighted. I've seen several efforts come to grief on the fact that the heirs frequently have highly-inflated ideas of what the books are worth (Hey, they're classics!), and by God they want their "cut." Project Gutenberg had to fend off efforts by one "estate manager" to claim that materials which were clearly in public domain weren't (sort of a dwarf Warner Music). Another effort to publish "the complete Murray Leinster" foundered the same way.
Update: I entered [less than] 4 cups and the [left angle-bracket] character was deleted from the post. We've made single-cup morning coffee for a LONG time.
My wife and I have a Krups dual-carafe coffee maker with a setting switch for 4 cups. Set the switch, take some beans out of the sealed container for the pre-ground beans, place them in a small filter cone. Place cone in plastic holder, pour in water and wait briefly while the coffee brews. Add seasonings to taste and drink.
It's a simple enough process that even a Green Mountain Coffee Roasters executive could do it unassisted.
Seriously overpriced.
Has anybody noticed that the stupidest ideas are almost always built by very bright people? And usually, the brighter the individual who builds it, the stupider it is.
Slashdot beta was built by geniuses. :)
What I fear is artificial stupidity.
Don't let it become a politician.
I've been a cord-cutter since 1992 and don't miss it, so why am I supposed to be upset that NBC is being as criminally stupid as usual?
Because good security, like anything else worth buying, costs $$$. So it looks like a loss on the books. Remember, "the books" don't show the loss Target's taking in lost trade until the trade is lost by incidents like this. And even then, I'll be they don't do very much other than put some cosmetics on their system.
For the same $tupid reason: "The $tockholder$ won't like it."
Five gets you one hundred that, assuming this agreement actually exists, there are exceptions in it for cars being used by high officials and the well-enough-connected-to-pay-sufficient-bribes.
"They've got me aimed at a computer center. Why don't I just fly a little farther and hit a maternity ward?"
These days, just bringing the STL file to school might get you expelled.
I'm sure it will prove equally so for three-letter-agencies and other government entities.
In Harvard Med my name is cursed! When he finds I published first!
NASA has a saying, "If you're running on the backups, you're already in trouble." This was the backup to the backup to the backup to the backup.
OTOH, now we have evidence as to why you do NOT choose the lowest bidder for systems that are absolutely MUST NOT FAIL!
As in "...(almost) all the software required to run the platform is open."
That's like saying "We can stop almost all of the incoming nuclear warheads."
RIM ended up known as "lawsuits in motion" for their dependence on the government-granted monopolies we call intellectual "property." They depended on these things instead of innovating and improving their products and staying ahead of the pack. Meanwhile, iPhones and Androids kept showing up with new features, better processors, improved OSes, etc. etc.
The moral is simple, run like hell, don't look back because something might be gaining on you, and above all, don't stop to hire mercenaries to fight for you and then relax while a bunch of hired guns save your village with Elmer Bernstein's music in the background.
They've already done that. They call the boxes cubicles.
The problem is NOT the plots. There are only a very few plots. (e.g. "boy meets girl", "the man who learned better," etc. etc.)
The problem is storytelling. Hollywood invests millions in stars, explosions and what-not, and pretty much forgets that the basic goal of what they have to do is tell a story . Neither "Citizen Kane" nor "Casablanca" have special effects, but they're on pretty much everybody's "best of all time" lists. If you're not telling a captivating story, you're wasting the audience's time and money.
One other note on the topic. When Fictionwise was at the top of its game, I bought about two thousand dollars worth of ebooks from them in one year. Since then, my buying has dropped to less than two hundred .
There are very few ways to screw up worse than losing 90% of a loyal customer's business.
Dammit, Jim, I'm a programmer, not a bankruptcy attorney!
Thank you. I looked it up and yes, Chapter 7 is more appropriate for a Corporate Darwin.
Are there Darwin awards for corporations?
Yes. They're called Chapter 11.
Thank you. This is the first time I've heard about that.