You are simply wrong. The Geneva conventions explicitly exclude certain categories of persons from their protections, such as mercenaries and spies.
Reviewing the text of the Convention, I couldn't find any instance of the words 'spy' 'spies' 'mercenary' 'mercenaries' or 'combatants'. Now, certainly Article 4 enumerates those persons to whom the Convention applies -- however no party is explicitly excluded; indeed, Article 5 states, as a catch-all:
Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
It is only until very recently that the American government has been holding any kind of trial or tribunal for those prisioners held in Cuba, and there are a number of concerns raised as regards their competence and fairness.
Please do trouble yourself enough to actually read them.
You're right, I hadn't read the text of the convention. Like many today, my understanding of law is often garnered from conversations with friends and colleages and from the media -- although I do try to familiarise myself with the literal texts of various fundamental pieces when the opportunity arises.
I'm sorry, I didn't know those freedoms granted by the U.S. constitution carried over to foriegn combatants...
Some of the people held in Guantanamo Bay are American. Although there have been attempts by the US government to render the constitution unenforceable because Guantanamo base is located in Cuba, an inital ruling in favour of the government was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
The legal concept of a "foriegn(sic) combatant" is largely fiction. Prisioners taken on a battlefield are classified as "Prisioners of War" and have rights under the Geneva Convention -- which the US, despite being signatories of the Convention, are not respecting.
Prisioners taken in a foreign country *outside* of a state of war outside of normal extradition channels are called "hostages".
Besides, where is your censorship of the press? They can (and do) say anything they want about it.
Strawman argument. I never said they were being censored, merely given very limited (read: zero) access to the base and its occupants.
Show me one case where any freedom of speech, press, or religion was denied in the U.S.
Well, American and foreign prisioners are being held at Guantanamo bay without charge or trial. The press are being granted only very limited access to the goings-on there. And one of the persuasion methods being employed there is to prevent detainees from practicing their normal religious duties.
Our department uses Extreme hardware throughout in a fairly large network deployment.
We have two Linux clusters -- Viking, a 512 processor P4 cluster, and Mars, a 400 processor Opteron cluster (being commissioned). We also host a number of large Sun machines, including SunSite Northern Europe.
The department also hosts a 250+ node teaching lab and several floors of staff and research desktops, each with 100Mbit+ to the desk and a 1Gbit uplink from each switch. At the middle of our network are two Black Diamonds, one of which is the new 10ks which we helped Extreme beta-test (now in production). A third BD is being set up at a second site with 10Gbit fibre links.
The rest of the network ('the edge') is also made up of Extreme switches, ranging from Summit 1s, 24s, 48s to some of their newer 400-series 1u switches on Mars and elsewhere. (The 400-series can run 10Gbit fibre uplinks, and each copper port runs at up to 1Gbit, which is ideal for a cluster environment.)
Plus, they're are all coloured a nice shade of purple.
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[...] self-selected samples are entirely invalid, period [...]
Aren't all elections self-selected samples? By definition?
It provides a module which can be loaded into an X server to allow efficient export of the local X display.
There is also a slower tool in the new version which is less intrusive. It operates by polling the local X display periodically and exports the changes.
(It also has a number of other improvements compared with the 3.x series, on Linux and Windows both.)
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
The LCG resources have several different things that most home machines do not:
1) A Linux install with the requisite libraries for the already-written experiment analysis programs to run on. 2) Fast network interconnects, both to other LCG cluster nodes at the same site (using Myrinet, Infiniband, etc.) and large network connections to other participating sites (ie 100Mbit+). 3) Large amounts of reliable local storage, ie 1TB+.
SETI@Home-like distributed computing problems only work well for problems which do not require large amounts of communication between nodes before, during, and after an individual run. Many problems do not fall into this category.
That writeup looks a lot like the one at The Register -- which came out a good two days early, the same day the results were actually announced at the AHM conference.
SAM
In 1787, there was a sizable block of delegates who were initially opposed to the Bill of Rights. One member of the Georgia delegation had to stay by way of opposition: "If we list the set of rights, some fools in the future are going to claim that people are entitled only to those rights enumerated and no longer. The framers knew..."
HARRISON Were you just calling me a fool, Mr. Seaborn?
SAM I wasn't calling you a fool, sir, the brand new state of Georgia was.
(Taken from http://www.westwingdatabase.com/wwscripts/1-09.php )
(Fair Warning: This is a link to an unabashedly progressive website, and therefore may not be suitable for work.)
Is progressive the new euphemism for 'liberal' now? And, pardon the bold, but why the fuck would that make this site less suitable for work than, say, slashdot?
Another solution: cheat. There exists a Jabber server backend for Sametime; simply install your own jabber server, install the backend then use that as a bridge.
However, things appeared to have moved on -- a quick google search picked up this:
http://www.jabber.org/jsf/sametime-demo.php
Nice, although it'll require support from the ST server admins.
This is a general purpose service *discovery* protocol. It doesn't define how different devices talk to each other, merely provides a way for them to discover each other's existance.
Knowing another service exists is different from being granted the rights to use that service.
but I don't see how it would be possible to emulate a P3 700 class CPU on a 1.xGHz processor of a completely different archecture.
Perhaps by using code derived from Connectix's VirtualPC, which they acquireda little while ago?
My understanding is Sony did exactly the same thing with Virtual GameStation to provide PS1 support on the PS2. In Sony's case, they probably gained access to the technology as part of the settlement to their previous court battle.
Yes. Indeed, systems like Kerberos do exactly this. You can also do interesting things using X.509 keys and proxy certificates.
But to be honest, the real danger of any such system is that it makes the 'trusted central service' necessary for many of these large-scale authentication systems a massively large target.
Imagine: a ubiquitous authentication framework, used everywhere. Wonderful idea -- no more remembering all these damn passwords, everything is Just Secure.
Except that every black hat out there will be trying to crack that central server -- and much hilarity will ensue if they are successful in DDoSing it, or worse, obtain access to the keys within.
Which is one of the reasons why PGP, a decentralised public-key cryptosystem, is still quite popular - no central point of failure.
Obfuscators make compiled code difficult to recompile into a sensible form.
One possible argument being made by the ADTI is that Linus intentionally reverse-engineered the source code to some other Unix, tidied it up, and published it as his own Linux... possibly re-obfuscating it himself afterwards to make the deed difficult to discover.
It's a fun idea but bears zero relation to reality.
Slashdot Mirror
Said ultimate FAQ already exists:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_subcultur
Feel free to add to it.
I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade, let alone create one..!
Reviewing the text of the Convention, I couldn't find any instance of the words 'spy' 'spies' 'mercenary' 'mercenaries' or 'combatants'. Now, certainly Article 4 enumerates those persons to whom the Convention applies -- however no party is explicitly excluded; indeed, Article 5 states, as a catch-all:
Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
It is only until very recently that the American government has been holding any kind of trial or tribunal for those prisioners held in Cuba, and there are a number of concerns raised as regards their competence and fairness.
You're right, I hadn't read the text of the convention. Like many today, my understanding of law is often garnered from conversations with friends and colleages and from the media -- although I do try to familiarise myself with the literal texts of various fundamental pieces when the opportunity arises.
Thanks for the link.
Some of the people held in Guantanamo Bay are American. Although there have been attempts by the US government to render the constitution unenforceable because Guantanamo base is located in Cuba, an inital ruling in favour of the government was overturned by the US Supreme Court.
The legal concept of a "foriegn(sic) combatant" is largely fiction. Prisioners taken on a battlefield are classified as "Prisioners of War" and have rights under the Geneva Convention -- which the US, despite being signatories of the Convention, are not respecting.
Prisioners taken in a foreign country *outside* of a state of war outside of normal extradition channels are called "hostages".
Strawman argument. I never said they were being censored, merely given very limited (read: zero) access to the base and its occupants.
Show me one case where any freedom of speech, press, or religion was denied in the U.S.
Well, American and foreign prisioners are being held at Guantanamo bay without charge or trial. The press are being granted only very limited access to the goings-on there. And one of the persuasion methods being employed there is to prevent detainees from practicing their normal religious duties.
Our department uses Extreme hardware throughout in a fairly large network deployment.
We have two Linux clusters -- Viking, a 512 processor P4 cluster, and Mars, a 400 processor Opteron cluster (being commissioned). We also host a number of large Sun machines, including SunSite Northern Europe.
The department also hosts a 250+ node teaching lab and several floors of staff and research desktops, each with 100Mbit+ to the desk and a 1Gbit uplink from each switch. At the middle of our network are two Black Diamonds, one of which is the new 10ks which we helped Extreme beta-test (now in production). A third BD is being set up at a second site with 10Gbit fibre links.
The rest of the network ('the edge') is also made up of Extreme switches, ranging from Summit 1s, 24s, 48s to some of their newer 400-series 1u switches on Mars and elsewhere. (The 400-series can run 10Gbit fibre uplinks, and each copper port runs at up to 1Gbit, which is ideal for a cluster environment.)
Plus, they're are all coloured a nice shade of purple.
[...] self-selected samples are entirely invalid, period [...]
Aren't all elections self-selected samples? By definition?
VNC version 4 has been released at realvnc.com.
It provides a module which can be loaded into an X server to allow efficient export of the local X display.
There is also a slower tool in the new version which is less intrusive. It operates by polling the local X display periodically and exports the changes.
(It also has a number of other improvements compared with the 3.x series, on Linux and Windows both.)
http://www.archive.org/
"The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."
The LCG resources have several different things that most home machines do not:
1) A Linux install with the requisite libraries for the already-written experiment analysis programs to run on.
2) Fast network interconnects, both to other LCG cluster nodes at the same site (using Myrinet, Infiniband, etc.) and large network connections to other participating sites (ie 100Mbit+).
3) Large amounts of reliable local storage, ie 1TB+.
SETI@Home-like distributed computing problems only work well for problems which do not require large amounts of communication between nodes before, during, and after an individual run. Many problems do not fall into this category.
That writeup looks a lot like the one at The Register -- which came out a good two days early, the same day the results were actually announced at the AHM conference.
You missed one:
0. Insert foot in mouth?
(Taken from http://www.westwingdatabase.com/wwscripts/1-09.ph
Proof that banner adverts pretending to be system messages can work!
(Fair Warning: This is a link to an unabashedly progressive website, and therefore may not be suitable for work.)
Is progressive the new euphemism for 'liberal' now? And, pardon the bold, but why the fuck would that make this site less suitable for work than, say, slashdot?
Another solution: cheat. There exists a Jabber server backend for Sametime; simply install your own jabber server, install the backend then use that as a bridge.
However, things appeared to have moved on -- a quick google search picked up this:
http://www.jabber.org/jsf/sametime-demo.php
Nice, although it'll require support from the ST server admins.
Money is not enough. You have to have knowledge and intelligence. These do not mix well with religious fundamentalism.
I'm confused -- are you referring to Al Queda or to Congress?
This is a general purpose service *discovery* protocol. It doesn't define how different devices talk to each other, merely provides a way for them to discover each other's existance.
Knowing another service exists is different from being granted the rights to use that service.
Hey, I do a lot of work stuff at home -- and my employers benefit greatly from that.
The least my employers can do is allow me to be more productive and deal with some home stuff at work.
but I don't see how it would be possible to emulate a P3 700 class CPU on a 1.xGHz processor of a completely different archecture.
Perhaps by using code derived from Connectix's VirtualPC, which they acquireda little while ago?
My understanding is Sony did exactly the same thing with Virtual GameStation to provide PS1 support on the PS2. In Sony's case, they probably gained access to the technology as part of the settlement to their previous court battle.
Yes. Indeed, systems like Kerberos do exactly this. You can also do interesting things using X.509 keys and proxy certificates.
But to be honest, the real danger of any such system is that it makes the 'trusted central service' necessary for many of these large-scale authentication systems a massively large target.
Imagine: a ubiquitous authentication framework, used everywhere. Wonderful idea -- no more remembering all these damn passwords, everything is Just Secure.
Except that every black hat out there will be trying to crack that central server -- and much hilarity will ensue if they are successful in DDoSing it, or worse, obtain access to the keys within.
Which is one of the reasons why PGP, a decentralised public-key cryptosystem, is still quite popular - no central point of failure.
Kernel panic: attempt to kill init!
Obfuscators make compiled code difficult to recompile into a sensible form.
One possible argument being made by the ADTI is that Linus intentionally reverse-engineered the source code to some other Unix, tidied it up, and published it as his own Linux... possibly re-obfuscating it himself afterwards to make the deed difficult to discover.
It's a fun idea but bears zero relation to reality.
It's a joke!
Typical. First Darl at SCO, and now this.