It has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person.
Not quite. He is still a citizen of the United States and can contact the US Embassy for assistance to leave the country, though it would mean his surrender to the United States. If he publicly made that intent known, officials from the US Embassy in Russia could travel to the airport, use diplomatic powers to pass into where Snowden rests, issue him temporary travel documents to escort him out of the airport and to the embassy, and arrange for travel home.
He's not stateless, but I'm sure he likes to think of himself that way.
The point of him seeking asylum is that he does not want to surrender to the US authorities, that was the whole point in him fleeing in the first place, but I'm sure you're aware of that. What he should have said to avoid needless pedantry is 'The US government have taken away the one advantage of US citizenship that is of any use to me right now, the ability to travel to somewhere that I won' t be incarcerated and demonised for the rest of my life'.
Really don't know know why you haven't been modded up, the article is technically correct, but the parts that would be walled off would be the ones that are full of capitalist bastards. Say no to drm and reject the parts of the Web that none of us would visit anyway, happy days.
Don't think I said two wrongs make a right anywhere. The law does not automatically make a right either, sometimes you have to use your own moral compass. Sounds like you would support any Government action as long as it is a technically legal one, and you would obey any law regardless of the moral implications.
Hope this treasonous coward gets extradited and spends the rest of his miserable life in jail. I'm not a fan of the NSA doing all of this, but anyone who didn't know it's been going on is a moron.
So let's get this straight, it's ok for Government organisations to break the law in the national interest but not for individuals, not only that but you knew about this all along but kept it quiet because you thought that everybody except morons knew already.
In all seriousness do you really think that he deserves to be treated the same way as Bradley Manning for revealing the extent to which your own government spies on you?
I'm curious, what would it take for you to acknowledge that Snowden might have betrayed his country? A parade through Red Square? Pictures of him wearing a FRS (nee' KGB) colonel's uniform like Philby?
It's fairly simple actually, double agents don't advertise themselves in the media. You may not agree that his Whistleblowing was in the national interest, but to compare him to Kim Philby, probably the worlds most famous/notorious double agent is disingenuous at best, and government propaganda at worst.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Every time you go blabbing good ideas around, others will negate them! So shut the hell up, you idiot!
Thanks for bringing my attention to the parent, I nearly missed it but thanks to you I didn't. I think I'll try this one out straight away. Actually I'll tell my friends and family to try it as well, while I'm at it I'll put some posts up on Twitter and Facebook . Thanks again AC.
Why are you so sure? The claim is so vague as to be meaningless, they've stopped an undisclosed number of undisclosed plots in 20 different undisclosed countries, and the unverified 300 numbers they claim are the only ones they have extracted the details from are reviewed by a secret court.
If they had stopped a 9/11 scale attack then surely that would be something worth disclosing to the public, and the reason they haven't is because they haven't. What did they stop? Whistleblowers probably, or political scandals, certainly not terrorists or the government would have claimed it as a victory in the media. There have been precious little of those lately.
About a 2.4X improvement actually (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+860+%40+2.80GHz) at the same clock newer i7s are much faster. That said I think the thing is most people are disk I/O limited they feel the lag between clicking open to when the app pops up the rest of things (other than say transcoding and other niche users like developers) the delay in their thought/typing is more of the slow down than the speed of response of the app. The problem is SSDs are expensive so most people don't want to buy them. They'll turn you $500 walmart special into a $2000 beast by the time you get 1.5TB or so of SSD into it. Sadly most users are used to fairly powerful desktop computers costing the price of a decent tablet so getting them to cough up 4X in order to fix the IO issue and have the storage they are used to (and probably have filled already on their old box) is a hard sell.
Fair point about the IO but the link compares to the 860, not to sandy bridge chips. Now I'm not saying Haswell isn't faster than SB but just that apart from some specialist situations, no compelling reason.
Exactly, tablets are replacing casual users devices and in some cases portable devices for professionals. As for desktops, even enthusiasts have no compelling reason to upgrade from sandy/ivy bridge or their AMD platform of choice(I'm not so up on the latest AMD stuff, Phenom x4 was my last one.) PCs in what ever firm they take are not dying. Some PC companies with outdated business models maybe, PCs themselves, no.
Seems that you like to conform to Daily Mail/Fox news stereotypes. I've just come back from the Lake District with a group of my friends who have a wide variety of professions, It professionals, business owners, accountants, tree surgeons etc.. who enjoy mountaineering, canoeing, swimming need I go on? No anti social fat basement dwellers there. The only thing that we all had in common apart from knowing each other before hand, is a over of computer games since childhood.
Haha they'll just use all the money they've saved from charging people for Xbox live all these years, you know that 'service' that PC gamers get for the bargain basement price of whatever they pay their ISP already, oh and the PS3 users and Nintendo as well. Turns out they were just saving up to make the new XBox the best evar:)
Thanks for that, I consider myself re-educated on the subject of pod machines. If I ever get bought one as a present I won't have to smile through gritted teeth as I say thankyou!
I was about to post somthing like "Nice pod coffee machine you have there, shame if something happened to it." But really the reason that they are something I'd never buy, is that its totally dependant on the coffee pods being made by the manufacturer. I have a simple cafetiere and I can have whatever coffee I want, low maintainance, and I know I'll always be able to use it. Future proofing by going low tech..
Yep, mod parent up please. Not that it'll do any good, I think it's probably too late to take back the definition of 'hacker' in the public mind. I think the only thing to do is use it in the original sense as much as possible to at least give it a dual meaning.
I get funny looks when I bemoan the lack of a hackerspace in my local area, but it does give me an opportunity to educate.
I remember trying to research into prehistoric music at college and I couldn't get on any sites that had the word homo in, ie Homo-sapiens, homo-erectus etc. Truly sad. Also in response to the person who suggested it would be helpful to stop children accidentally watching porn, it doesn't really happen, sure it probably happens on rare occasions, but not enough to be worthy of a sensational headline in the Daily Mail, let alone legislation.
Either translate it yourself from the source code, it's not a huge language, or just accept the fact that she will have to learn English along the way. She will be learning a new language anyway, so what does it matter what language she uses to label new concepts. Loop, string etc...can't be a huge problem for her as she is bilingual anyway.
We're already in a mass extinction event. We're wiping out species at a pace that, in a geological-time sense, is indistinguishable from a big asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruption.
And yes, humans are moronic. The kind of investment in humanity's immortality probably won't be made until someone has conquered the entire planet and subjugated the people to such an extent that he doesn't need a huge military budget--and then the effort will be made only if that is the world leader's whim, instead of, say, constructing monuments to himself.
--PM
Or perhaps the more palatable alternative, a situation where the economic model actually reflects the actual resources of the planet and allow us to plan accordingly, as opposed to the 'fairy money' situation that we all accept as the norm at the moment.
I found that a strange response from Slashdotters, considering the extra effort it took. It was far more interesting in my mind than a simple q + a. I think it was more to do with attention seekers wanting their question answered directly in the article giving them a namecheck than any legitimate criticism.
Bad form to reply to myself, but I have just RTFA and it mentions the waggle dance theory. So just before people start to reply telling me this, I know.
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Quote of the day.
It has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person.
Not quite. He is still a citizen of the United States and can contact the US Embassy for assistance to leave the country, though it would mean his surrender to the United States. If he publicly made that intent known, officials from the US Embassy in Russia could travel to the airport, use diplomatic powers to pass into where Snowden rests, issue him temporary travel documents to escort him out of the airport and to the embassy, and arrange for travel home.
He's not stateless, but I'm sure he likes to think of himself that way.
The point of him seeking asylum is that he does not want to surrender to the US authorities, that was the whole point in him fleeing in the first place, but I'm sure you're aware of that. What he should have said to avoid needless pedantry is 'The US government have taken away the one advantage of US citizenship that is of any use to me right now, the ability to travel to somewhere that I won' t be incarcerated and demonised for the rest of my life'.
Mod up please, very well considered post.
Really don't know know why you haven't been modded up, the article is technically correct, but the parts that would be walled off would be the ones that are full of capitalist bastards. Say no to drm and reject the parts of the Web that none of us would visit anyway, happy days.
Don't think I said two wrongs make a right anywhere. The law does not automatically make a right either, sometimes you have to use your own moral compass. Sounds like you would support any Government action as long as it is a technically legal one, and you would obey any law regardless of the moral implications.
Hope this treasonous coward gets extradited and spends the rest of his miserable life in jail. I'm not a fan of the NSA doing all of this, but anyone who didn't know it's been going on is a moron.
So let's get this straight, it's ok for Government organisations to break the law in the national interest but not for individuals, not only that but you knew about this all along but kept it quiet because you thought that everybody except morons knew already.
In all seriousness do you really think that he deserves to be treated the same way as Bradley Manning for revealing the extent to which your own government spies on you?
I'm curious, what would it take for you to acknowledge that Snowden might have betrayed his country? A parade through Red Square? Pictures of him wearing a FRS (nee' KGB) colonel's uniform like Philby?
Kim Philby hailed as 'great spy' in Russia
It's fairly simple actually, double agents don't advertise themselves in the media. You may not agree that his Whistleblowing was in the national interest, but to compare him to Kim Philby, probably the worlds most famous/notorious double agent is disingenuous at best, and government propaganda at worst.
Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Every time you go blabbing good ideas around, others will negate them! So shut the hell up, you idiot!
Thanks for bringing my attention to the parent, I nearly missed it but thanks to you I didn't. I think I'll try this one out straight away. Actually I'll tell my friends and family to try it as well, while I'm at it I'll put some posts up on Twitter and Facebook . Thanks again AC.
Why are you so sure? The claim is so vague as to be meaningless, they've stopped an undisclosed number of undisclosed plots in 20 different undisclosed countries, and the unverified 300 numbers they claim are the only ones they have extracted the details from are reviewed by a secret court. If they had stopped a 9/11 scale attack then surely that would be something worth disclosing to the public, and the reason they haven't is because they haven't. What did they stop? Whistleblowers probably, or political scandals, certainly not terrorists or the government would have claimed it as a victory in the media. There have been precious little of those lately.
About a 2.4X improvement actually (http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+860+%40+2.80GHz) at the same clock newer i7s are much faster. That said I think the thing is most people are disk I/O limited they feel the lag between clicking open to when the app pops up the rest of things (other than say transcoding and other niche users like developers) the delay in their thought/typing is more of the slow down than the speed of response of the app. The problem is SSDs are expensive so most people don't want to buy them. They'll turn you $500 walmart special into a $2000 beast by the time you get 1.5TB or so of SSD into it. Sadly most users are used to fairly powerful desktop computers costing the price of a decent tablet so getting them to cough up 4X in order to fix the IO issue and have the storage they are used to (and probably have filled already on their old box) is a hard sell.
Fair point about the IO but the link compares to the 860, not to sandy bridge chips. Now I'm not saying Haswell isn't faster than SB but just that apart from some specialist situations, no compelling reason.
Exactly, tablets are replacing casual users devices and in some cases portable devices for professionals. As for desktops, even enthusiasts have no compelling reason to upgrade from sandy/ivy bridge or their AMD platform of choice(I'm not so up on the latest AMD stuff, Phenom x4 was my last one.) PCs in what ever firm they take are not dying. Some PC companies with outdated business models maybe, PCs themselves, no.
Seems that you like to conform to Daily Mail/Fox news stereotypes. I've just come back from the Lake District with a group of my friends who have a wide variety of professions, It professionals, business owners, accountants, tree surgeons etc.. who enjoy mountaineering, canoeing, swimming need I go on? No anti social fat basement dwellers there. The only thing that we all had in common apart from knowing each other before hand, is a over of computer games since childhood.
Thank you for giving me a universe that will live in my mind long after your death. You have uploaded your mindstate to me and many others.
Haha they'll just use all the money they've saved from charging people for Xbox live all these years, you know that 'service' that PC gamers get for the bargain basement price of whatever they pay their ISP already, oh and the PS3 users and Nintendo as well. Turns out they were just saving up to make the new XBox the best evar :)
Thanks for that, I consider myself re-educated on the subject of pod machines. If I ever get bought one as a present I won't have to smile through gritted teeth as I say thankyou!
I was about to post somthing like "Nice pod coffee machine you have there, shame if something happened to it." But really the reason that they are something I'd never buy, is that its totally dependant on the coffee pods being made by the manufacturer. I have a simple cafetiere and I can have whatever coffee I want, low maintainance, and I know I'll always be able to use it. Future proofing by going low tech..
Yep, mod parent up please. Not that it'll do any good, I think it's probably too late to take back the definition of 'hacker' in the public mind. I think the only thing to do is use it in the original sense as much as possible to at least give it a dual meaning.
I get funny looks when I bemoan the lack of a hackerspace in my local area, but it does give me an opportunity to educate.
You'll be pleased to hear I didn't have any trouble researching Cro-Magnon sites.
I remember trying to research into prehistoric music at college and I couldn't get on any sites that had the word homo in, ie Homo-sapiens, homo-erectus etc. Truly sad. Also in response to the person who suggested it would be helpful to stop children accidentally watching porn, it doesn't really happen, sure it probably happens on rare occasions, but not enough to be worthy of a sensational headline in the Daily Mail, let alone legislation.
Either translate it yourself from the source code, it's not a huge language, or just accept the fact that she will have to learn English along the way. She will be learning a new language anyway, so what does it matter what language she uses to label new concepts. Loop, string etc...can't be a huge problem for her as she is bilingual anyway.
If they can do it in Napalm Orange then I'm in.
We're already in a mass extinction event. We're wiping out species at a pace that, in a geological-time sense, is indistinguishable from a big asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruption.
And yes, humans are moronic. The kind of investment in humanity's immortality probably won't be made until someone has conquered the entire planet and subjugated the people to such an extent that he doesn't need a huge military budget--and then the effort will be made only if that is the world leader's whim, instead of, say, constructing monuments to himself.
--PM
Or perhaps the more palatable alternative, a situation where the economic model actually reflects the actual resources of the planet and allow us to plan accordingly, as opposed to the 'fairy money' situation that we all accept as the norm at the moment.
Fair enough, I wasn't around for the question thread, so I'm probably speaking out of turn. Apologies to anyone I've unfairly maligned.
I found that a strange response from Slashdotters, considering the extra effort it took. It was far more interesting in my mind than a simple q + a. I think it was more to do with attention seekers wanting their question answered directly in the article giving them a namecheck than any legitimate criticism.
Bad form to reply to myself, but I have just RTFA and it mentions the waggle dance theory. So just before people start to reply telling me this, I know.