>a genocide in Gaza would be clearly within Israel's rights under the Geneva conventions
Fourth Geneva Convention, Part III, Section 1, Article 33 forbids collective punishments.
>there isn't a single warring faction in the world today, except the United States (and Israel, Turkey and "maybe" China (insofar you call Tibet a war, besides I doubt you will find China respecting Geneva in Africa)), that even pretend to respect the Geneva conventions.
How about Somali gunmen? When Michael Durant was captured, after first violating the Geneva Convention by shooting propaganda video of him, they eventually agreed to Geneva Convention treatment and a Red Cross visit.
The Moody memos offer daily direction to the news staff about how they're to report stories. An example is a memo telling them, in reference to the President, "His political courage and tactical cunning ar[e] [wo]rth noting in our reporting through the day". Collection of Fox News memos. A classic Moody memo.
The author of the Willie Horton ad is now the president of Fox News.
"Orion" isn't the first term you'd use to describe a financial services company, though, and as soon as you use a non-descriptive word to identify your business you're in the realm of trademark law. Trademark law looks for risk of confusion, which is imaginable in this case. They shouldn't have been able to sue a business called "Orion candy", for example.
Nolo Press has a good book about trademarks, and one of the examples they give of a common word turning into a protectable trademark is "Diesel: a bookstore". "Diesel" is a pretty common word but uncommon when applies to bookstores.
A groundburst is the most fallout-inducing thing you can do with a nuclear weapon. There are dozens of sites involved, all with people living downwind.
Vernor Vinge spoke at my company once and talked about ways the Singularity might not happen. For example, what if we never figure out how to create massive software that actually works?
The most interesting scenario he pointed out is one in which exponential technological progress is a temporary phase, like a 13-year-old's growth spurt, and the curve of development goes S-shaped and reaches a high but stationary plateau.
Vinge pointed out a book called "The Coming of the Golden Age -- a View of the End of Progress" which suggested that after the leveling off we'd be living in a pretty comfortable world, close to some visions of Utopia. If the natural limits of technology fall short of self-replicating interstellar probes, then the answer to "Where are they?" is "They're enjoying themselves on their garden planet".
The book is even more provocative in arguing that this is already happening. It's kind of plausible at first glance: how much development is simply more of the same only cheaper and faster, how much is outright pointless, and how much progress has really happened on groundbreakers like true AI?
The punch line is that the book was written in 1968.
Sound point, but his argument is a little more subtle. Not all that brainpower will be put to constructive use, at least not in the next generation or two. But his order-of-magnitude calculations illustrate that rerouting just a tiny fraction of that brainpower makes for large social changes.
The late mathematician Paul Erds used to say, perhaps metaphorically, that the most elegant proof of every mathematical theorem was written in a great book in God's library. When he came up with a beautiful proof, he would say it was one from the book.
Feynman also felt like coming up with a proof was more discovery than invention. He said that the proof felt like it was already there all along, raising the question of where "there" is.
The most intelligent land animal almost went extinct, the second most intelligent land animal is an endangered species now, and a lot of the great apes are in trouble. Dolphins are doing OK, whales would be fine except for us, but neither is likely to develop technology.
Are we going to find life on other planets but discover that high intelligence is rare?
That works better for software than for hardware. After you've checked the VHDL for back doors, how do you tell that the actual device matches it? You either have your own fab or you look at millions of transistors under a microscope. And the recent Usenix paper showed that it takes very few gates to put a remote root backdoor into a CPU.
Would any lawyers care to opine about whether United States vs. Miller applies here?
In that case (425 U.S. 435, 442 (1976)) the Supreme Court ruled that phone records weren't private because they were information the customer voluntarily disclosed to the phone company that the phone company employees had routine access to.
As a historical note, that's the way the Founders meant things to work.
The Federalist Papers tried to reassure people that the proposed new Federal government couldn't succeed as a tyranny because the states would defend the rights of state citizens.
This has been largely forgotten since the national government had to step in and override state-level oppression of African-Americans.
One crippling problem with gathering hard numerical data about security is that so many incidents go unreported. A few make it into books, a few make it into the press, but most are solved internally.
If you have a fire, the fire department will write it down and it will go into national statistics that fire insurance companies can bet money on. If you have a security breach, would you even try involving law enforcement?
Another hassle is that so many of the costs are hard to quantify. Loss of revenue after a fire is something you can pin down. Loss of reputation or consumer confidence after a breach? The numbers will be uselessly fuzzy.
>Unless there are strong prison sentences for any employee convicted of disseminating this information, I am not impressed with their statements of security, confidentiality, or purported privacy.
There would also need to be internal audits and tracking to make sure that misuse could be pinned down beyond a reasonable doubt. Imagine, if you can, a culture so strong that it would stop the guards from sharing passwords.
It's working now, but the first time I visited it I couldn't even get the comic without Flash (which I'd uninstalled again after the latest security news).
Dan Kaminsky suggested at a talk last year that once it really catches on for ISPs to edit the ads of web pages on the fly, then everyone with an ad-supported web page will have an incentive to do everything over SSL.
He also suggested a different way to discuss net neutrality: he uses the phrase "provider hostility" to describe the opposite of net neutrality.
Switching power supplies will handle substantial voltage excursions by simply changing their sampling rate. I was in my lawyer's office one time when the electrician was explaining that a fault had raised the plug voltage to 190 V and that she didn't understand why the computers had continued to operate.
There are several lines of evidence that point to a large black hole being at the core. The speed of things orbiting it points to so much mass being in so small a space that it would be a black hole.
I don't know what astrophysical thinking would be, but one of the reasons to doubt the possibility of a supernova chain reaction is that it takes thousands of years for energy to travel between the core of a star and its surface. The core of a star might never know that a supernova had happened outside it.
There's only a tiny fraction of c relative velocity between us and the center of the galaxy. For practical purposes we're in the same reference frame, and in any one reference frame you can do a clock synchronization algorithm that gets everybody to agree.
The weird effects that relativity is famous for come into play when you're comparing clocks between two reference frames that are moving relative to each other at relativistic speeds.
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>a genocide in Gaza would be clearly within Israel's rights under the Geneva conventions
Fourth Geneva Convention, Part III, Section 1, Article 33 forbids collective punishments.
>there isn't a single warring faction in the world today, except the United States (and Israel, Turkey and "maybe" China (insofar you call Tibet a war, besides I doubt you will find China respecting Geneva in Africa)), that even pretend to respect the Geneva conventions.
How about Somali gunmen? When Michael Durant was captured, after first violating the Geneva Convention by shooting propaganda video of him, they eventually agreed to Geneva Convention treatment and a Red Cross visit.
Incitement, or political debate? You decide. Macleans has an excerpt from Mark Steyn's book.
The Moody memos offer daily direction to the news staff about how they're to report stories. An example is a memo telling them, in reference to the President, "His political courage and tactical cunning ar[e] [wo]rth noting in our reporting through the day". Collection of Fox News memos. A classic Moody memo.
The author of the Willie Horton ad is now the president of Fox News.
"Orion" isn't the first term you'd use to describe a financial services company, though, and as soon as you use a non-descriptive word to identify your business you're in the realm of trademark law. Trademark law looks for risk of confusion, which is imaginable in this case. They shouldn't have been able to sue a business called "Orion candy", for example.
Nolo Press has a good book about trademarks, and one of the examples they give of a common word turning into a protectable trademark is "Diesel: a bookstore". "Diesel" is a pretty common word but uncommon when applies to bookstores.
Some of the sites are buried and hardened to the point that trying to destroy them with conventional weapons might not work. Planners have been drawing up plans to use B61-11s, nuclear bunker busters. Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh had a source tell him "...whenever anybody tries to get it [the use of nuclear weapons] out they're shouted down.".
A groundburst is the most fallout-inducing thing you can do with a nuclear weapon. There are dozens of sites involved, all with people living downwind.
Vernor Vinge spoke at my company once and talked about ways the Singularity might not happen. For example, what if we never figure out how to create massive software that actually works?
The most interesting scenario he pointed out is one in which exponential technological progress is a temporary phase, like a 13-year-old's growth spurt, and the curve of development goes S-shaped and reaches a high but stationary plateau.
Vinge pointed out a book called "The Coming of the Golden Age -- a View of the End of Progress" which suggested that after the leveling off we'd be living in a pretty comfortable world, close to some visions of Utopia. If the natural limits of technology fall short of self-replicating interstellar probes, then the answer to "Where are they?" is "They're enjoying themselves on their garden planet".
The book is even more provocative in arguing that this is already happening. It's kind of plausible at first glance: how much development is simply more of the same only cheaper and faster, how much is outright pointless, and how much progress has really happened on groundbreakers like true AI?
The punch line is that the book was written in 1968.
By a molecular biologist.
The cognitive surplus may be low-grade ore, but a gold mine is economical even if there's only one ounce of gold per ton.
Wait until they discover that, as the proverb says, "a change of work is the best rest".
Sound point, but his argument is a little more subtle. Not all that brainpower will be put to constructive use, at least not in the next generation or two. But his order-of-magnitude calculations illustrate that rerouting just a tiny fraction of that brainpower makes for large social changes.
Let's see if this spelling gets through Slashcode: Erdös
The late mathematician Paul Erds used to say, perhaps metaphorically, that the most elegant proof of every mathematical theorem was written in a great book in God's library. When he came up with a beautiful proof, he would say it was one from the book.
Feynman also felt like coming up with a proof was more discovery than invention. He said that the proof felt like it was already there all along, raising the question of where "there" is.
http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1210
Michael Hayden told the Senate that the Fourth Amendment doesn't require probable cause.
The most intelligent land animal almost went extinct, the second most intelligent land animal is an endangered species now, and a lot of the great apes are in trouble. Dolphins are doing OK, whales would be fine except for us, but neither is likely to develop technology.
Are we going to find life on other planets but discover that high intelligence is rare?
That works better for software than for hardware. After you've checked the VHDL for back doors, how do you tell that the actual device matches it? You either have your own fab or you look at millions of transistors under a microscope. And the recent Usenix paper showed that it takes very few gates to put a remote root backdoor into a CPU.
Would any lawyers care to opine about whether United States vs. Miller applies here?
In that case (425 U.S. 435, 442 (1976)) the Supreme Court ruled that phone records weren't private because they were information the customer voluntarily disclosed to the phone company that the phone company employees had routine access to.
Don't flame me, I didn't say it was _right_.
As a historical note, that's the way the Founders meant things to work.
The Federalist Papers tried to reassure people that the proposed new Federal government couldn't succeed as a tyranny because the states would defend the rights of state citizens.
This has been largely forgotten since the national government had to step in and override state-level oppression of African-Americans.
One crippling problem with gathering hard numerical data about security is that so many incidents go unreported. A few make it into books, a few make it into the press, but most are solved internally.
If you have a fire, the fire department will write it down and it will go into national statistics that fire insurance companies can bet money on. If you have a security breach, would you even try involving law enforcement?
Another hassle is that so many of the costs are hard to quantify. Loss of revenue after a fire is something you can pin down. Loss of reputation or consumer confidence after a breach? The numbers will be uselessly fuzzy.
>Unless there are strong prison sentences for any employee convicted of disseminating this information, I am not impressed with their statements of security, confidentiality, or purported privacy.
There would also need to be internal audits and tracking to make sure that misuse could be pinned down beyond a reasonable doubt. Imagine, if you can, a culture so strong that it would stop the guards from sharing passwords.
It's working now, but the first time I visited it I couldn't even get the comic without Flash (which I'd uninstalled again after the latest security news).
Gahh, screwed up the second link, sorry. https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=483 (PDF).
Google encrypted email:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/security/message.html#utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-content&utm_medium=ha
searchability without resorting to completely plaintext, though admittedly that doesn't have the privacy properties a whistleblower needs.
Wonder why Wikileaks doesn't get a Hushmail acount.
>Open-source, peer-reviewed encryption, under my own control, is the only technique I would trust to keep digital secrets transmitted across a wire.
Your reasoning is sound.
Dan Kaminsky suggested at a talk last year that once it really catches on for ISPs to edit the ads of web pages on the fly, then everyone with an ad-supported web page will have an incentive to do everything over SSL.
He also suggested a different way to discuss net neutrality: he uses the phrase "provider hostility" to describe the opposite of net neutrality.
Switching power supplies will handle substantial voltage excursions by simply changing their sampling rate. I was in my lawyer's office one time when the electrician was explaining that a fault had raised the plug voltage to 190 V and that she didn't understand why the computers had continued to operate.
There are several lines of evidence that point to a large black hole being at the core. The speed of things orbiting it points to so much mass being in so small a space that it would be a black hole.
I don't know what astrophysical thinking would be, but one of the reasons to doubt the possibility of a supernova chain reaction is that it takes thousands of years for energy to travel between the core of a star and its surface. The core of a star might never know that a supernova had happened outside it.
There's only a tiny fraction of c relative velocity between us and the center of the galaxy. For practical purposes we're in the same reference frame, and in any one reference frame you can do a clock synchronization algorithm that gets everybody to agree.
The weird effects that relativity is famous for come into play when you're comparing clocks between two reference frames that are moving relative to each other at relativistic speeds.
(Physics degree speaking here).