Okay, this isn't the BIG missing disk story of the Clinton era, this is a set of missing disks from last year. Kerry was trying to make political hay out of this for the election year so the Bush Administration did what it usually does. Shoot first, ask questions later so Kerry couldn't accuse the Bush camp of being lax on security.
So now the article screams false alarm and everyone appears to be lamenting the loss of money to UC and the loss of careers.
Valid points to be sure but... What's the bigger mystery? That top secret disks disappear from a research facility? Or that non-existent top secret disks get reported as disappearing from a research facility?
(Or in other words, did Karl Rove falsely report missing disks to make the Bush team look tough on security? Or did UC students falsely report missing disks to make the Bush team look weak on security?)
Open Source is keeping software source code "open" so that technological innovations and solutions aren't buried and turned into technological dynasties.
What Kos did is grass roots "activism" made possible in part by Open Source code but read mostly by people who use MICROSOFT WINDOWS and Internet Explorer.
They're not the same concept and they shouldn't be.
1400 people were sent surveys. 30% responded which means about 420 people responded. These people responded in spite of "...memos from Fish and Wildlife officials that instructed employees not to respond to the survey, even if they did so on their own time. Snow said that agency employees could not use work time to respond to outside surveys."
However, 69% [~300 of the 420 people who responded] said they had never been given such a directive[to alter results]. And, although more than half of the respondents said they had been ordered to alter findings to lessen protection of species, nearly 40% said they had never been required to do so.
So of the 1400 people sent surveys, 420 responded IN SPITE OF ORDERS NOT TO DO SO and of those 420, only 42 said they had been forced to alter results.
That's not to say that science and politics shouldn't be mixed this way. It's bad. But it happens on BOTH SIDES of the political line.
Look at one of the last quotes: "Sally Stefferud, a biologist who retired in 2002 after 20 years with the agency, said Wednesday she was not surprised by the survey results, saying she had been ordered to change a finding on a biological opinion.
"Political pressures influence the outcome of almost all the cases," she said. "As a scientist, I would probably say you really can't trust the science coming out of the agency.""
That's 12 years under Republican Administrations and 8 years under a Democratic one.
You guys want to stop this? Good. But first realize this is not just a Bush/Republican problem... This is a SYSTEM WIDE problem.
I dunno... I think the latter is still a "lesser" punishment as the judge will probably still put the fine at about $100,000 depending upon the # of downloads.
I've been wondering about this for awhile. Microsoft's overall strategy has always been to be the mediator between your computer/data and you. At the beginning this was DOS, then it became Windows on top of DOS. Then Office to get to your business data, etc; Netscape was a major threat because they could usurp that position and allow you to get to your data through the web browser on a PC without needing a MS product..NET is the ultimate implementation of this strategy. If they can really make it run anywhere: PCs running Windows, OSX or Linux on various hardware flavors AND on palms, consumer electronics devices, etc; Then they'll have succeeded in making a standardized "glue" layer between you and the hardware.
Next port Office to.NET and you have practically the same scenario as you have today except now Windows(.NET) runs anywhere.
Linux? OSX? Windows? Bah, who cares, so long as you're running a.NET license...
The EU is going to great pains to show that they're separate, distinct, nee even better than the US. You think they're going to kowtow on something like this?
That's not only an insult to the US, it's an insult to the EU!
"And then the whole fetus issue, which is pretty much mute in a world without souls."
Ergo, fetuses don't have souls so killing them for medical experimentation isn't a problem.
Yeah, that's a real "humanistic" attitude right there.
It's not a "God doesn't like it argument" Your statement right there is a perfect example as to why people have ethical problems about the whole issue.
Soylent Green anyone? I mean, c'mon it's only dead human flesh... It's not like you're eating someone's soul!
"Success" is defined subjectively. Is it the nation with the most land? Resources? Quality of life? All of the above?
Hitler turned Germany from a destitute war-torn nation into an world economic power house in ~10 years. That's "success" in a lot of people's eyes. And why what happened afterwards is even more of an abomination.
That somehow these embryos are grown beyond their cellular stage into an actual fetus or beyond... and then cut up for testing. (Hey, it's just a clone, it doesn't feel nuthin...) But I don't see this happening here.
Second that this research ends up developing some sort of "clone virus". (IE We engineer enhanced immune systems for cancer. The antibodies are so good that they go airborne and start attacking other humans who can't defend the attack unless they too have the enhanced systems... I think this was a Star Trek: Next Gen episode too). That's possible, but not very probable.
Yeah, there's always the chance that we'll unleash bio-armageddon upon our species. But the military has had that power for decades now and we haven't blown ourselves up... yet...
Speaking as a US citizen *we* want success but some of *us* will shout down and protest any and all attempts to research and/or build Nuclear Reactors.
Europe wants success too. But they measure success as everybody gets a comfortable living, everyone is cared for and no person goes hungry.
Remember, one of the most successful countries of all time was Nazi Germany.
It sounds like a great idea, but how are these things going to be powered in developing countries? Electric generation is at a premium, when it's up, and a laptop is just going to suck that much more down.
Books can be read by candlelight or anywhere away from a power source and for more than 3 hours!
(Never mind the fact that, when you need to, they become a nice heating source! What do you do with a dead laptop?)
XBox 360 - It's a box.. so it's square... but it's 360, so its a sphere!
It's square AND it's round!
It's mindboggling kewl that it can do two things at once!
(I'm willing to bet somebody in Microsoft suggested XBox '05 but got shot down because that would confuse people who thought it was the 5th XBox version...)
That's like saying using Graffiti on my Palm Pilot allows me to interact with it on an emotional level...
I'm not trying to flame down the idea. It's a novel approach and a much more "oragnic" interface than a keyboard ("I love you.", "I LOVE YOU!", "I LOVE YOU:)") But it seems to me that the player still has to "think" the emotion to paint to get the desired response.
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Okay, this isn't the BIG missing disk story of the Clinton era, this is a set of missing disks from last year. Kerry was trying to make political hay out of this for the election year so the Bush Administration did what it usually does. Shoot first, ask questions later so Kerry couldn't accuse the Bush camp of being lax on security.
So now the article screams false alarm and everyone appears to be lamenting the loss of money to UC and the loss of careers.
Valid points to be sure but... What's the bigger mystery? That top secret disks disappear from a research facility? Or that non-existent top secret disks get reported as disappearing from a research facility?
(Or in other words, did Karl Rove falsely report missing disks to make the Bush team look tough on security? Or did UC students falsely report missing disks to make the Bush team look weak on security?)
Open Source is keeping software source code "open" so that technological innovations and solutions aren't buried and turned into technological dynasties.
What Kos did is grass roots "activism" made possible in part by Open Source code but read mostly by people who use MICROSOFT WINDOWS and Internet Explorer.
They're not the same concept and they shouldn't be.
That story has nothing to do with technology.
This story is about "Open Source". Y'see...
(And this is a story about MEDIA... not POLITICS)
'Coz it's Kew...
But they didn't own Ion Storm.
1400 people were sent surveys. 30% responded which means about 420 people responded. These people responded in spite of "...memos from Fish and Wildlife officials that instructed employees not to respond to the survey, even if they did so on their own time. Snow said that agency employees could not use work time to respond to outside surveys."
However, 69% [~300 of the 420 people who responded] said they had never been given such a directive[to alter results]. And, although more than half of the respondents said they had been ordered to alter findings to lessen protection of species, nearly 40% said they had never been required to do so.
So of the 1400 people sent surveys, 420 responded IN SPITE OF ORDERS NOT TO DO SO and of those 420, only 42 said they had been forced to alter results.
That's not to say that science and politics shouldn't be mixed this way. It's bad. But it happens on BOTH SIDES of the political line.
Look at one of the last quotes:
"Sally Stefferud, a biologist who retired in 2002 after 20 years with the agency, said Wednesday she was not surprised by the survey results, saying she had been ordered to change a finding on a biological opinion.
"Political pressures influence the outcome of almost all the cases," she said. "As a scientist, I would probably say you really can't trust the science coming out of the agency.""
That's 12 years under Republican Administrations and 8 years under a Democratic one.
You guys want to stop this? Good. But first realize this is not just a Bush/Republican problem... This is a SYSTEM WIDE problem.
The editors misquote the article?
1 year in jail and up to a $100,000 fine.
or no jail time and up to a $3 million fine.
I dunno... I think the latter is still a "lesser" punishment as the judge will probably still put the fine at about $100,000 depending upon the # of downloads.
I've been wondering about this for awhile. Microsoft's overall strategy has always been to be the mediator between your computer/data and you. At the beginning this was DOS, then it became Windows on top of DOS. Then Office to get to your business data, etc; Netscape was a major threat because they could usurp that position and allow you to get to your data through the web browser on a PC without needing a MS product. .NET is the ultimate implementation of this strategy. If they can really make it run anywhere: PCs running Windows, OSX or Linux on various hardware flavors AND on palms, consumer electronics devices, etc; Then they'll have succeeded in making a standardized "glue" layer between you and the hardware.
.NET and you have practically the same scenario as you have today except now Windows(.NET) runs anywhere.
.NET license...
Next port Office to
Linux? OSX? Windows? Bah, who cares, so long as you're running a
(and the others) as an example of the EU not kowtowing to the US' demands of buying from Boeing.
that the US is known to throw its weight around. But what about stuff like genetic food crops?
Steel tariffs?
The new Airbus!
Yeah that US really has things locked down!
The EU is going to great pains to show that they're separate, distinct, nee even better than the US. You think they're going to kowtow on something like this?
That's not only an insult to the US, it's an insult to the EU!
Don't collect the million dollar bonus...
And so it begins...
"And then the whole fetus issue, which is pretty much mute in a world without souls."
Ergo, fetuses don't have souls so killing them for medical experimentation isn't a problem.
Yeah, that's a real "humanistic" attitude right there.
It's not a "God doesn't like it argument" Your statement right there is a perfect example as to why people have ethical problems about the whole issue.
Soylent Green anyone? I mean, c'mon it's only dead human flesh... It's not like you're eating someone's soul!
It is a difficult concept. It is not logical.
"Success" is defined subjectively. Is it the nation with the most land? Resources? Quality of life? All of the above?
Hitler turned Germany from a destitute war-torn nation into an world economic power house in ~10 years. That's "success" in a lot of people's eyes. And why what happened afterwards is even more of an abomination.
I dunno what that was, but it made Philip Glass' music sound like full blown orchestral scores with complex melodies...
That somehow these embryos are grown beyond their cellular stage into an actual fetus or beyond... and then cut up for testing. (Hey, it's just a clone, it doesn't feel nuthin...) But I don't see this happening here.
Second that this research ends up developing some sort of "clone virus". (IE We engineer enhanced immune systems for cancer. The antibodies are so good that they go airborne and start attacking other humans who can't defend the attack unless they too have the enhanced systems... I think this was a Star Trek: Next Gen episode too). That's possible, but not very probable.
Yeah, there's always the chance that we'll unleash bio-armageddon upon our species. But the military has had that power for decades now and we haven't blown ourselves up... yet...
Speaking as a US citizen *we* want success but some of *us* will shout down and protest any and all attempts to research and/or build Nuclear Reactors.
Europe wants success too. But they measure success as everybody gets a comfortable living, everyone is cared for and no person goes hungry.
Remember, one of the most successful countries of all time was Nazi Germany.
What, so if Longhorn has a super cool browser the browser wars are "over" and MS won?
This is a "war" that isn't going away. Ever. (Well... until something supercedes browsers)
It sounds like a great idea, but how are these things going to be powered in developing countries? Electric generation is at a premium, when it's up, and a laptop is just going to suck that much more down.
Books can be read by candlelight or anywhere away from a power source and for more than 3 hours!
(Never mind the fact that, when you need to, they become a nice heating source! What do you do with a dead laptop?)
XBox 360 - It's a box.. so it's square... but it's 360, so its a sphere!
It's square AND it's round!
It's mindboggling kewl that it can do two things at once!
(I'm willing to bet somebody in Microsoft suggested XBox '05 but got shot down because that would confuse people who thought it was the 5th XBox version...)
translate to "interacting with emotions?"
:)") But it seems to me that the player still has to "think" the emotion to paint to get the desired response.
That's like saying using Graffiti on my Palm Pilot allows me to interact with it on an emotional level...
I'm not trying to flame down the idea. It's a novel approach and a much more "oragnic" interface than a keyboard ("I love you.", "I LOVE YOU!", "I LOVE YOU
Bill Maher posts on Slashdot? Kewl!
How can we verify it was REALLY from them if it didn't come from their usual IP Address!?
:)
Maybe *this* is the hack!
That'd be:
Family Guy: Dance Dance Revolution!