If Manning is going to be held accountable for information Al-Queda obtained, then the Pentagon and CIA should be held accountable in the same fashion when an unencrypted laptop with sensitive dat is lost,...
Oh yeah sure, because intent has nothing to do with culpability in your fantasy world. Meanwhile, back in the real world, it does.
First off, I haven't worked régularly in the US for 30 years so my local taxes are not what you thought.
Secondly, my muslim collegues go without food & water all day for a month every year so in real terms neither is neccesary in 99% of all jobs.
Lastly, while i do not contest that employers in the US must be constrained to make toilets available, to my knowledge, there is no constraint on this being free, so I see no substantive difference between a free lunch & unmetered acces to water for sanitary purposes.
Our major difference of opinion seems to be that you think that free lunches are an exception that it is normal to eliminate as hidden benefits according to current tax laws in the US, whereas I see it as the sign of future micromanagement by pin headed tax assessors that should be fought against.
Say the professor prefers tea & fills his teapot from his university's tap. Does he have an individual meter so that his usage is not coming out of the pocket of the rest of the faculty or the students? If a corporate lunch is an untaxed benefit shouldn't he have one for his tea? Shouldn't he also have one for the toilets he uses? How is his use of these common resources any different from free lunches -- or is it just a matter of time until this becomes the norm as well??
Oh sure, lets just display a serious lack of judgement & Godwin the thread, shall we? Yes, Nixon greatly dis served the US population through Watergate but JFK, that shining knight of US politics & his running mate LBJ, clearly got thousands times more people killed through Viet-Nam & their other adventures than can be laid at tricky Dick's feet.
Foreign policy wise, Nixon was pretty good. Normalizing relations with China while not abandoning Taiwan is an example of something that could have become a festering wound that he avoided.
India did not say that "Novartis had its run of the full duration of patent protection", India stated that the invention of Gleevec was too old to qualify for protection under India's new IP laws.
Until relatively recently, India did not give patent protection to drugs. When it did so, only new drugs were given protection. The decision handed down rests on the fact that Gleevec was invented before the change in Indian laws, not on any fundamental difference in treatment of Drug Patents. As such, Gleevec is accorded NO patent protection.
Any drugs Invented more than a year or two after Gleevec will qualify for protection under Indian law so your implied difference in treatment of Drug related patents between the USA/Europe & India is false.
Go suck an egg, junior (or is that cultural reference too obscure for you). Ignorance is easily curable through education. Willful stupidity like needing a cite for what is an extremely common occurrence or insulting the president of a country that I do not live in (as can be quickly determined by referring to my/. profile) is harder.
Call me unsurprised to discover that your claimed multi-lingual status & thus comprehension of the french press is not as comprehensive as claimed. Unable to use Google translate either huh? Once again, my references were to what is an extremely common event in France. Learn french & read the french press & you'll discover just how common that is or stay as you are & hope to be spoon fed references.
What no Swahili? No Xosa? No high Elfish or other claims like Tagolog or Kingon? Come on, you cannot seriously claim to have knowledge of even the languages you claim yet be ignorant of how common it is for people in the eu to lump the eu together when it serves us & then split it into individual states when it doesn't.
Tu montres encore ton ignorance quand tu crois pouvoir me faire des lessons sur quoi que ce soit. Mon signature date des années quatre vingts quand l' Europe laissait Milosevic massacrer des civiles et non sur des faits récents alors tu peux fourrer tes propos la ou je penses.
I've heard & read the comment "USA biggest polluter on the planet" countless times in the French press (though it has calmed down slightly now that china has bypassed the USA & due to Europe's economic crises pushing the environment almost off the table). Learn a language other than English & start reading the press.
It's funny how when it serves EU pride, like "We have the largest economy in the world", Europeans sum up the GDP, yet when it doesn't, like total amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere, that never happens...
The European telecom market is much too fragmented to be called a single market, it's merely an assembly of national markets. Conditions in one national market have very little to do with those in other markets as the actors are generally very different from country to country.
Now as for your contention that all that needs to happen is for one important actor in one country to renounce their contract with Apple & for the rest of the operators to domino after, it's bull. Here in France, Freemobile.fr entered the market a little over a year ago with no Apple contract (& indeed no subsidized phones at all). One year later they have already taken over 6.4% of the french market.
The other 3 French operators have already tried to form anti-competitive cartels a few years ago. They were caught & fined & ever since they have been under serious scrutiny. Were they to attempt doing so again, the consequences would be severe.
But with intelligent people you think yourself capable of actually making a reasonable point? I find that hard to believe given how you refuse to answer which distasteful group between loony feminists & radical Islamists censure you find censorship acceptable from.
The minitel was built on everyone calling specially taxed numbers that bridged into connections over Transpac, France Telecom's x25 network. Using these 36XX Numbers meant that FT would bill users for per minute fees based on which number was used & then pass some of the money onto the service providers. There were a number of numbers, some where users paid no more than FTs normal per minute connection rate, others where users were billed at a rate which just paid the service providers back for the traffic & other numbers where the uses paid higher & higher rates.
Service providers could see which 36XX number was used for each connection in order to accept/refuse service.
In many ways all this reminds me of what has become known as the AppStore model with FT in the place of Apple/google/...
As Henry Spencer said long ago, Skylon & every other hyperspace plane suffer from the problem where they accelerate slowly & are incapable of performing the last steps in attaining orbit without a rocket motor.
A lot depends on whether you can land downrange or have to turn around and return to the launch site. The former takes very little fuel as you just have to survive aerobraking and land, the latter takes quite a bit more as you have to cancel all velocity, launch yourself back toward the place you came from, then land.
You are forgetting that the first stage no longer has to decelerate the upper stages nor the filled mass of the first stage itself, just the residual weight of the first stage & whatever fuel+oxidants needed to land. Even if this & whatever weight added for landing gear adds 10% to the first stage's mass, SpaceX has shown that they have plans for performance improvements that should make Return to Launch Site feasible.
The problem is, and I got out of the NYT report was saying, is that when charging takes a relatively long tim, and when station are not everywhere, it is easy to get stuck. Not because the car is bad, but because no one is going to drive under ideal conditions, and the temptation to go when the estimates say you can will be great. More work needs to go into energy management.
You are describing precisely the journalist's misrepresentations & why Musk reacted so violently against the article. Undercharging the vehicle, lying about it & then claiming that it is an inherent weakness as the reporter did makes people like you believe that EVs are not reliable. When used according to the indications the vehicle gives & recharging as the Tesla techs indicated, others have performed similar journeys without any issues.
I'n an internal combustion vehicle, heating is essentially free but in an EV every watt comes from the batteries, whether it is for heating or for cooling. I see no reason for heating to be less energy intensive than cooling.
When France Télécom decided to kill off the Cyclades network, maintained artificially high prices on modems & point-to-point links, foisted Transpac (their X25 Network) & the Minitel as the solution to all problems it was because they wanted to impose an economic model completely opposed to the Internet. FT was a monopoly back then and wanted a centralized network with FT at the center so that they could tax & control all exchanges between members.
The Internet, based on decentralized control, peering & no centralized entity to tax every exchange already existed & the Minitel was set up in a completely different manner. Thus the Minitel was setup to compete with the Internet & for years the IP networks I set up were "temporary until we can migrate the applications to an OSI model". France Telecom's belated conversion to IP came almost a decade after people like me had seen the light & moved to the Internet.
Part of the reason modems used to cost so much in France is because FT didn't want them on the market. I shared a building with the founders of what was for 5 years the biggest company in sales of modems in France. FT's directives on keeping dialup slow & expensive was very profitable for them.
Above & beyond the sex chat sites that made the most money on the Minitel, much of the French government (including education, taxes, trash removal, reimbursement for doctors & dentists, etc) was only available over a minitel connection. When the only way to find out whether you passed an exam or to get an old couch taken away is by using a minitel, you kept using it, all the while hoping they would at last get beyond the tiny 24x40 or 24x80 window the minitel imposed.
And libertarians and child pornographers are in agreement that an unrestricted internet will make the world better.
See how stupid it is to associate people based on one particular thing they agree on?
So your only criticism is on how I drew a parallel between the loony feminsts & extremist islamists who both want to repress human expression.Clearly for you it is not the repression itself but with people noticing that both groups are performing the same acts of repression that is "stupid".
So, which group are you defending? The loopy feminists who want to blanket ban whatever they wish to label pornography? Or the radical islamists who feel that the only place for a woman is in the home & behind a veil?
No-one disputes that the iPad mini is popular, but it is premature to conclude (as the apple hater who submitted the story is attempting to do) that Steve Jobs was mistaken about what size iPad will end up selling the most.
He only talked android because he mistakenly/ignorantly believes that android is better than an iPod in this & he still needs to justify his choice. Had he been an informed android owner he wouldn't have claimed that keeping your data non a server/in a cloud is something that only android does.
Narrowly looking at sales figures just after the mini was available & attempting to draw long term conclusions is extremely premature. The 7 inch iPad is selling better at present because of the people who wanted a smaller iPad but couldn't buy one.
Some people who had a 10 in iPad are now migrating to the 7s but the great majority are happier with the larger screen. Once the pent up demand is satisfied I expect the larger iPads will again be the better sellers.
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If Manning is going to be held accountable for information Al-Queda obtained, then the Pentagon and CIA should be held accountable in the same fashion when an unencrypted laptop with sensitive dat is lost, ...
Oh yeah sure, because intent has nothing to do with culpability in your fantasy world. Meanwhile, back in the real world, it does.
First off, I haven't worked régularly in the US for 30 years so my local taxes are not what you thought.
Secondly, my muslim collegues go without food & water all day for a month every year so in real terms neither is neccesary in 99% of all jobs.
Lastly, while i do not contest that employers in the US must be constrained to make toilets available, to my knowledge, there is no constraint on this being free, so I see no substantive difference between a free lunch & unmetered acces to water for sanitary purposes.
Our major difference of opinion seems to be that you think that free lunches are an exception that it is normal to eliminate as hidden benefits according to current tax laws in the US, whereas I see it as the sign of future micromanagement by pin headed tax assessors that should be fought against.
Say the professor prefers tea & fills his teapot from his university's tap. Does he have an individual meter so that his usage is not coming out of the pocket of the rest of the faculty or the students? If a corporate lunch is an untaxed benefit shouldn't he have one for his tea? Shouldn't he also have one for the toilets he uses? How is his use of these common resources any different from free lunches -- or is it just a matter of time until this becomes the norm as well??
Oh sure, lets just display a serious lack of judgement & Godwin the thread, shall we? Yes, Nixon greatly dis served the US population through Watergate but JFK, that shining knight of US politics & his running mate LBJ, clearly got thousands times more people killed through Viet-Nam & their other adventures than can be laid at tricky Dick's feet.
Foreign policy wise, Nixon was pretty good. Normalizing relations with China while not abandoning Taiwan is an example of something that could have become a festering wound that he avoided.
A major part of your argument is wrong.
India did not say that "Novartis had its run of the full duration of patent protection", India stated that the invention of Gleevec was too old to qualify for protection under India's new IP laws.
Until relatively recently, India did not give patent protection to drugs. When it did so, only new drugs were given protection. The decision handed down rests on the fact that Gleevec was invented before the change in Indian laws, not on any fundamental difference in treatment of Drug Patents. As such, Gleevec is accorded NO patent protection.
Any drugs Invented more than a year or two after Gleevec will qualify for protection under Indian law so your implied difference in treatment of Drug related patents between the USA/Europe & India is false.
Go suck an egg, junior (or is that cultural reference too obscure for you). Ignorance is easily curable through education. Willful stupidity like needing a cite for what is an extremely common occurrence or insulting the president of a country that I do not live in (as can be quickly determined by referring to my /. profile) is harder.
Call me unsurprised to discover that your claimed multi-lingual status & thus comprehension of the french press is not as comprehensive as claimed. Unable to use Google translate either huh? Once again, my references were to what is an extremely common event in France. Learn french & read the french press & you'll discover just how common that is or stay as you are & hope to be spoon fed references.
What no Swahili? No Xosa? No high Elfish or other claims like Tagolog or Kingon? Come on, you cannot seriously claim to have knowledge of even the languages you claim yet be ignorant of how common it is for people in the eu to lump the eu together when it serves us & then split it into individual states when it doesn't.
Tu montres encore ton ignorance quand tu crois pouvoir me faire des lessons sur quoi que ce soit. Mon signature date des années quatre vingts quand l' Europe laissait Milosevic massacrer des civiles et non sur des faits récents alors tu peux fourrer tes propos la ou je penses.
Quel con ignorant tu es...
[learn to use your brain]
I've heard & read the comment "USA biggest polluter on the planet" countless times in the French press (though it has calmed down slightly now that china has bypassed the USA & due to Europe's economic crises pushing the environment almost off the table). Learn a language other than English & start reading the press.
It's funny how when it serves EU pride, like "We have the largest economy in the world", Europeans sum up the GDP, yet when it doesn't, like total amount of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere, that never happens...
The European telecom market is much too fragmented to be called a single market, it's merely an assembly of national markets. Conditions in one national market have very little to do with those in other markets as the actors are generally very different from country to country.
Now as for your contention that all that needs to happen is for one important actor in one country to renounce their contract with Apple & for the rest of the operators to domino after, it's bull. Here in France, Freemobile.fr entered the market a little over a year ago with no Apple contract (& indeed no subsidized phones at all). One year later they have already taken over 6.4% of the french market.
The other 3 French operators have already tried to form anti-competitive cartels a few years ago. They were caught & fined & ever since they have been under serious scrutiny. Were they to attempt doing so again, the consequences would be severe.
In what respect is it hard to use? I've never had a problem with it.
But with intelligent people you think yourself capable of actually making a reasonable point? I find that hard to believe given how you refuse to answer which distasteful group between loony feminists & radical Islamists censure you find censorship acceptable from.
The minitel was built on everyone calling specially taxed numbers that bridged into connections over Transpac, France Telecom's x25 network. Using these 36XX Numbers meant that FT would bill users for per minute fees based on which number was used & then pass some of the money onto the service providers. There were a number of numbers, some where users paid no more than FTs normal per minute connection rate, others where users were billed at a rate which just paid the service providers back for the traffic & other numbers where the uses paid higher & higher rates.
Service providers could see which 36XX number was used for each connection in order to accept/refuse service.
In many ways all this reminds me of what has become known as the AppStore model with FT in the place of Apple/google/...
As Henry Spencer said long ago, Skylon & every other hyperspace plane suffer from the problem where they accelerate slowly & are incapable of performing the last steps in attaining orbit without a rocket motor.
I haven't been able to find Henry's post but here's another one:
http://yarchive.net/space/launchers/space_plane.html
A lot depends on whether you can land downrange or have to turn around and return to the launch site. The former takes very little fuel as you just have to survive aerobraking and land, the latter takes quite a bit more as you have to cancel all velocity, launch yourself back toward the place you came from, then land.
You are forgetting that the first stage no longer has to decelerate the upper stages nor the filled mass of the first stage itself, just the residual weight of the first stage & whatever fuel+oxidants needed to land. Even if this & whatever weight added for landing gear adds 10% to the first stage's mass, SpaceX has shown that they have plans for performance improvements that should make Return to Launch Site feasible.
The problem is, and I got out of the NYT report was saying, is that when charging takes a relatively long tim, and when station are not everywhere, it is easy to get stuck. Not because the car is bad, but because no one is going to drive under ideal conditions, and the temptation to go when the estimates say you can will be great. More work needs to go into energy management.
You are describing precisely the journalist's misrepresentations & why Musk reacted so violently against the article. Undercharging the vehicle, lying about it & then claiming that it is an inherent weakness as the reporter did makes people like you believe that EVs are not reliable. When used according to the indications the vehicle gives & recharging as the Tesla techs indicated, others have performed similar journeys without any issues.
cooling is more energy-intensive than heating.
I'n an internal combustion vehicle, heating is essentially free but in an EV every watt comes from the batteries, whether it is for heating or for cooling. I see no reason for heating to be less energy intensive than cooling.
When France Télécom decided to kill off the Cyclades network, maintained artificially high prices on modems & point-to-point links, foisted Transpac (their X25 Network) & the Minitel as the solution to all problems it was because they wanted to impose an economic model completely opposed to the Internet. FT was a monopoly back then and wanted a centralized network with FT at the center so that they could tax & control all exchanges between members.
The Internet, based on decentralized control, peering & no centralized entity to tax every exchange already existed & the Minitel was set up in a completely different manner. Thus the Minitel was setup to compete with the Internet & for years the IP networks I set up were "temporary until we can migrate the applications to an OSI model". France Telecom's belated conversion to IP came almost a decade after people like me had seen the light & moved to the Internet.
Part of the reason modems used to cost so much in France is because FT didn't want them on the market. I shared a building with the founders of what was for 5 years the biggest company in sales of modems in France. FT's directives on keeping dialup slow & expensive was very profitable for them.
Above & beyond the sex chat sites that made the most money on the Minitel, much of the French government (including education, taxes, trash removal, reimbursement for doctors & dentists, etc) was only available over a minitel connection. When the only way to find out whether you passed an exam or to get an old couch taken away is by using a minitel, you kept using it, all the while hoping they would at last get beyond the tiny 24x40 or 24x80 window the minitel imposed.
And libertarians and child pornographers are in agreement that an unrestricted internet will make the world better.
See how stupid it is to associate people based on one particular thing they agree on?
So your only criticism is on how I drew a parallel between the loony feminsts & extremist islamists who both want to repress human expression.Clearly for you it is not the repression itself but with people noticing that both groups are performing the same acts of repression that is "stupid".
So, which group are you defending? The loopy feminists who want to blanket ban whatever they wish to label pornography? Or the radical islamists who feel that the only place for a woman is in the home & behind a veil?
I wasn't aware that the Islamic republic of Europe had come so far...
Seriously, Iran & the loopy feminists are in agreement that repression of all sexy images of women will make the world better...
No-one disputes that the iPad mini is popular, but it is premature to conclude (as the apple hater who submitted the story is attempting to do) that Steve Jobs was mistaken about what size iPad will end up selling the most.
why did you specify with an Android device?
He only talked android because he mistakenly/ignorantly believes that android is better than an iPod in this & he still needs to justify his choice. Had he been an informed android owner he wouldn't have claimed that keeping your data non a server/in a cloud is something that only android does.
Narrowly looking at sales figures just after the mini was available & attempting to draw long term conclusions is extremely premature. The 7 inch iPad is selling better at present because of the people who wanted a smaller iPad but couldn't buy one.
Some people who had a 10 in iPad are now migrating to the 7s but the great majority are happier with the larger screen. Once the pent up demand is satisfied I expect the larger iPads will again be the better sellers.