Depending on what he leaked he may be considered a hero by civil libertarians if some of the allegations and rumors swirling about these cables are true. I know I consider him one, this is far less a grave offense against the law and liberty than Cheney's death squads or Bush's/Obama's/Congress's support of the Patriot Act. You seem almost gleeful he has less rights during a court martial, any reason for that?
Seriously though, it is not taking off in the United States either. Skype was installed, setup and demonstrated on at least a dozen of my family's laptops this Christmas and the only person that uses it is my Sister. The reasons I have been given is that they don't want to be seen as fat, unshaven or unclean or that they would rather talk on the phone because they don't want to sound weird. Older people seem to think it is a gimmick and young people would rather text you and 5 other people than give you your full attention on a video link.
Iceland needs money but not that bad, they are a small country that is fiercely protective of their way of life. You could invade and take over their country in an afternoon though. Iceland has no standing army, LA county has more police than them and any town in West Virginia over 100 people has more guns. I think the point is that killing someone in Iceland would have grave diplomatic and strategic consequences, we rely pretty heavily on Iceland for their position between Europe and the the US for shipping and flying.
Daniel Ellsburg, who released the Pentagon Papers while working for the Rand Corporation during the 1960's and 70's was on MSNBC today and implied that they may attempt to assassinate him with the same sort of shadowy CIA manhunting squad used against him by Nixon. In his words they were sent by Nixon to " permanently incapacitate him" in Washington DC during some political rally.
This has nothing to do about any of those things. This has to do with Foreign Policy documents from the US State Department. If the US is engaging in illegal acts to further its FP missions than they should be immediately stopped. The military is a blunt instrument and the CIA death squads are not surgeons as evident by the 1000 or so dead civilians so far from US CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen and should never be relied upon to bring forth results in FP. The vast majority of our attempts to shape policy in countries by use of lethal force, no matter how targeted have failed. One could note the vast amount of war crimes perpetuated by US backed insurgent groups in South America, Middle East and Southeast Asia for examples.
They are defending themselves with not reveling the exact nominal figure of the documents they have. They may not have 260,000 documents but they might have 200,000 or 20,000, really any are sufficient so far as they show the arrogance going on behind closed doors at the US State Department. The way the US runs roughshod over any foreign policy decision if it conflicts with our own, well except Israel.
He also signed an order for an extra-judicial killing of an American citizen, ignored when an American citizen was killed and is making the greatest changes to arresting, prosecuting and punishing government whistleblowers since the cold war. Obama has also kept the manhunting squads (warning PDF) created by Vice Pres Cheney running at full steam. These are the same sort of people who pulled off that assassination in Dubai, but will likely be far more competent.
He reportedly will seek asylum in Kenya or Iceland if he is worried he might need protection. Iceland currently has some of the most liberal laws regarding whistleblowers and offers significant protection to them like many of the other Scandinavian countries. You know how we always portray the Minnesotans as honest nice folk, well this is where they get it from.
This is amazing that this has taken Slashdot all day to report on the #1 story on most Tech sites and the #2-3 story on most non-tech sites. Is there a reason political stories are never posted by Soulskill on Slashdot? I'm looking over what he has posted and I can't find any. You would of had at least 1000 comments by now, but you are now posting this at 10 pm PST which means that not a lot of people are going to see this. If you want more info look at my signature, that was my 3rd attempt at getting this posted on Slashdot today. It includes 4-5 links unlike the lead.
WTF, are you taking about? The first cyclotrons in the late 1930's that were worked on produced research that went directly into making the first transistors and microchips. You would not be typing on a computer without Big Science projects like the LHC.
They put out a surprisingly high number of top-notch astronomers and astrophysicists for a country of their size. Must be something about the ability to drive 50 miles outside any town and have crystal-clear desert skies free of moisture and pollution. It is a real shame that the US has been on a decline for R&D for at least a decade for the "Big Science" projects. That is not to say the US is not producing some interesting research nowadays but it a large amount of that is increasingly being done under DARPA directives which in whole or part makes any paper or discovery subject to review by an intelligence agency for release to the public.
This is like asking why stores that only sell Organic food aren't billion dollar companies. The important part is there is Organic food and that billion dollar retail stores along with everyone else is willing to sell it to consumers and therefore purchase it from farmers, isn't it? Linux would be a far less robust and some would say elegant project if the likes of IBM and Intel were not so heavily involved.
There are almost too many to count when it comes to billion dollar companies involved in open source. They are the main motivator in new Linux kernel development and amongst 100's of other projects including Apache, Perl, MySQL etc you will find @email's from dozens of billion dollar companies in the dev-lists. O'Reilly himself squashed some of these rumors about open source himself over 11 years ago now, so why discuss this? It is just going to turn into a flame war about licenses and corporate responsibility.
North Korea has the most brilliant people in the world and can help its neighbor accomplish anything. North Korea has punched the sky in the face and broke through to the stars where his magnanimous, magnificent even magniloquent Leader, the holiest Kim Jong Il is orbiting the planet right now making sure the imperialist porcine satellites do not beam deadly radiation again unto the North Korean people's glorious fields of cabbage, rice and giant bunnies.
Who wants to bet Kissinger will die laughing as he is pulled into the earth by thousands of filthy sore-ridden hands on December 31st in a whirling cloud of shrieking flaming gnats, bilious yellow smoke and obese demon farts?
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Depending on what he leaked he may be considered a hero by civil libertarians if some of the allegations and rumors swirling about these cables are true. I know I consider him one, this is far less a grave offense against the law and liberty than Cheney's death squads or Bush's/Obama's/Congress's support of the Patriot Act. You seem almost gleeful he has less rights during a court martial, any reason for that?
Seriously though, it is not taking off in the United States either. Skype was installed, setup and demonstrated on at least a dozen of my family's laptops this Christmas and the only person that uses it is my Sister. The reasons I have been given is that they don't want to be seen as fat, unshaven or unclean or that they would rather talk on the phone because they don't want to sound weird. Older people seem to think it is a gimmick and young people would rather text you and 5 other people than give you your full attention on a video link.
Iceland needs money but not that bad, they are a small country that is fiercely protective of their way of life. You could invade and take over their country in an afternoon though. Iceland has no standing army, LA county has more police than them and any town in West Virginia over 100 people has more guns. I think the point is that killing someone in Iceland would have grave diplomatic and strategic consequences, we rely pretty heavily on Iceland for their position between Europe and the the US for shipping and flying.
I'm talking about population you idiot. They have less people than Texas.
Daniel Ellsburg, who released the Pentagon Papers while working for the Rand Corporation during the 1960's and 70's was on MSNBC today and implied that they may attempt to assassinate him with the same sort of shadowy CIA manhunting squad used against him by Nixon. In his words they were sent by Nixon to " permanently incapacitate him" in Washington DC during some political rally.
This has nothing to do about any of those things. This has to do with Foreign Policy documents from the US State Department. If the US is engaging in illegal acts to further its FP missions than they should be immediately stopped. The military is a blunt instrument and the CIA death squads are not surgeons as evident by the 1000 or so dead civilians so far from US CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen and should never be relied upon to bring forth results in FP. The vast majority of our attempts to shape policy in countries by use of lethal force, no matter how targeted have failed. One could note the vast amount of war crimes perpetuated by US backed insurgent groups in South America, Middle East and Southeast Asia for examples.
They are defending themselves with not reveling the exact nominal figure of the documents they have. They may not have 260,000 documents but they might have 200,000 or 20,000, really any are sufficient so far as they show the arrogance going on behind closed doors at the US State Department. The way the US runs roughshod over any foreign policy decision if it conflicts with our own, well except Israel.
He also signed an order for an extra-judicial killing of an American citizen, ignored when an American citizen was killed and is making the greatest changes to arresting, prosecuting and punishing government whistleblowers since the cold war. Obama has also kept the manhunting squads (warning PDF) created by Vice Pres Cheney running at full steam. These are the same sort of people who pulled off that assassination in Dubai, but will likely be far more competent.
Yeah its not good for optical astronomy installations but for radio it is ideal.
He reportedly will seek asylum in Kenya or Iceland if he is worried he might need protection. Iceland currently has some of the most liberal laws regarding whistleblowers and offers significant protection to them like many of the other Scandinavian countries. You know how we always portray the Minnesotans as honest nice folk, well this is where they get it from.
This is amazing that this has taken Slashdot all day to report on the #1 story on most Tech sites and the #2-3 story on most non-tech sites. Is there a reason political stories are never posted by Soulskill on Slashdot? I'm looking over what he has posted and I can't find any. You would of had at least 1000 comments by now, but you are now posting this at 10 pm PST which means that not a lot of people are going to see this. If you want more info look at my signature, that was my 3rd attempt at getting this posted on Slashdot today. It includes 4-5 links unlike the lead.
It is most useful for finding the latest updates on world events, everything else is really just vanity or advertisinng media.
WTF, are you taking about? The first cyclotrons in the late 1930's that were worked on produced research that went directly into making the first transistors and microchips. You would not be typing on a computer without Big Science projects like the LHC.
Greenpeace is a fringe group at best, the Green Party in Germany has nearly 200x the claimed membership of Germany's Greenpeace chapter.
They put out a surprisingly high number of top-notch astronomers and astrophysicists for a country of their size. Must be something about the ability to drive 50 miles outside any town and have crystal-clear desert skies free of moisture and pollution. It is a real shame that the US has been on a decline for R&D for at least a decade for the "Big Science" projects. That is not to say the US is not producing some interesting research nowadays but it a large amount of that is increasingly being done under DARPA directives which in whole or part makes any paper or discovery subject to review by an intelligence agency for release to the public.
Great Example, Whole Foods does not sell exclusively Organic food.
What would an open source company do, sell 1 billion dollars in software services, custom programming and support ? That is not going to happen.
This is like asking why stores that only sell Organic food aren't billion dollar companies. The important part is there is Organic food and that billion dollar retail stores along with everyone else is willing to sell it to consumers and therefore purchase it from farmers, isn't it? Linux would be a far less robust and some would say elegant project if the likes of IBM and Intel were not so heavily involved.
There are almost too many to count when it comes to billion dollar companies involved in open source. They are the main motivator in new Linux kernel development and amongst 100's of other projects including Apache, Perl, MySQL etc you will find @email's from dozens of billion dollar companies in the dev-lists. O'Reilly himself squashed some of these rumors about open source himself over 11 years ago now, so why discuss this? It is just going to turn into a flame war about licenses and corporate responsibility.
I would wager they are better than the 2 cups of rice (uncooked) a week the country is surviving on right now.
Do we need the people who don't graduate from High School, can't we sterilize them and sell them as slaves?
North Korea has the most brilliant people in the world and can help its neighbor accomplish anything. North Korea has punched the sky in the face and broke through to the stars where his magnanimous, magnificent even magniloquent Leader, the holiest Kim Jong Il is orbiting the planet right now making sure the imperialist porcine satellites do not beam deadly radiation again unto the North Korean people's glorious fields of cabbage, rice and giant bunnies.
At least throw up a link or two (live).
Who wants to bet Kissinger will die laughing as he is pulled into the earth by thousands of filthy sore-ridden hands on December 31st in a whirling cloud of shrieking flaming gnats, bilious yellow smoke and obese demon farts?
Or any one before that since FDR. Seriously, that is how old some of these documents are.