He expected freedom of speech. He volunteered to be a spokesperson for a movement. The same thing would have happened to anyone else. Assange was chosen wisely to be spokesperson for his talent of being loud. Everyone seems to forget that Wikileaks was an unsanctioned press organization.
Six million a year to watch him? Are you kidding me. You don't spend that kind of money to help extradite a date rapist where his alleged crime occurred in another country. He is clearly being persecuted. Interested parties are clearly sending a message.
I think it's highly likely that the US will seek extradition and the Swedish will give him to them if the British don't do it first once they happily remove the death penalty. There is no way the US would have sought the death penalty anyway. They will try him as an enemy of the state and convict him for espionage. They had secrets and he did revel some of them on purpose and others by accident. Never mind that he isn't a US citizen and the that it's didn't happen on US soil. He will likely wind up sitting in federal prison trying his case for ten years and appealing it for another twenty before they simply let him go.
P.S. The person that did do the espionage has been convicted but he in my option should be pardoned for mental illness. Those they keep him in service with access to top secret intelligent against his will when he was so clearly unstable should be the ones serving time in a military prison. I might not have let him out of service buy I would have defiantly transferred him into another MOS. Latrine duty anyone?
So there is at least one person that understands. Dysfunctional one way multifunctional other ways. I use to prefer pacing myself until I discovered alcohol. For some mysterious reason it's more socially acceptable.
The whole point of the bill of rights is that was designed to allow people to overthrow the government but also to prevent the government from shooting it's own feet off by not listening to it's own people. Government by it's very nature is very corruptible and will decay.
Every country starts out from "terrorism". How do you balance keeping a nation strong and unified and still allow discussion of a replacement/reformed government.
Tweeting is speech pure and simple. You going to put me in jail for high-fiving a descendent of the Boston tea party. You can just as easily show that I am encouraging terrorism with my symbolic speech.
What happens when the company goes out of business or decides to stop supporting the product? I can also see the government compelling them not to reveal certain chemical signatures. Software should not be dictated from the "cloud". It needs to be users that are in control. Specifically I don't see a reason why we can't have the software and install it on our own servers if we wish to. So long as we have the option of our own servers I can then concede to using non personal cloud servers for processing speed.
But there is only so much information one can get on a label. Genetic modification is a complex subject. And poisonous genes are easily obtained in the time honored genetic manipulation called cross breading. So foods need deep chemical analysis for all the compounds they contain. Foods even considered safe have marginal toxins that most people can tolerate in small enough quantities. Poison is a relative term.
So I suggest a single domain worldwide as a clearinghouse for information. Companies pay a nominal yearly fee to list info on new products, something like $50. Once listed it's never deleted or edited but annotations with dates are allowed. Something like a country register but worldwide. The information is also available in multiple languages or have separate info per country per their own regulations. Call it online labeling and it's cross referenced to UPC and other product code systems. (I don't think UPC changes if a food company changes their ingredients list.) Maybe a QR code.
I think the managing organization should be a non profit managed by representative from all countries that want to participate. And it should be nominally supported by the countries that join.
The submitted documents become public, can be copied by anyone, and for all intents and purposes are public domain. This allows the organization to fail and then be replaced. The important thing is that the information is available forever so that it is "too important to fail."
If you can brace one structure and the other structure vibrates then one would have continuous power. I can also see this on wheels for continuous current.
Whatever happened to that miracle device years back that also featured carbon nanotubes... it was suppose to harvest heat. Problem was they needed to figure out how to build micro rectifiers for the nanotubes.
Since SSD's have been known to have catastrophic failures why not market drives that for all intents and purposes can't fail or can easily be repaired by changing fuses or other simple components? If it's the controller that is failing why not have a second low performance backup controller that only works in read only mode? It just doesn't make sense to me that they can't make these things 100% read only reliable or that bad parts other than the flash can't be relapsed.
I'm starting to think that we need a public database for comments from civil service (both elected and appointed) and in the case of appointed positions to correlate it to their elected bosses. We can also collect information about their education and past training.
Whomever this civil servant was at the state department is was lying his a** off. This is a clear first amendment issue and if that wasn't all that was needed there is the 2nd amendment. A child with only a sixth grade education could tell you that.
For elected officials are they no longer requiring an oath to protect and defend the constitution? Are they not responsible for what those under them do or say? This civil servant should clearly be fired. People have used social media to get people justly and unjustly fired from jobs. Why can't we do this with officials from the "state department"? Note I'm not talking about the perfectly reasonable action of trying to change the constitution but rather those that ignore it.
Manning was an idiot. Yet a greater idiot gave him access to files when he wanted to leave service.
Snowden was a patriot. He tried to appeal to his chain of command.
If I were in the position I doubt I would have the balls to do what either Snowden or Manning did. I would take my oath more seriously.
And that is the irony. I have would have more integrity yet what do you do when your bosses that took the same oath as you to protect and defend the constitution shit all over it...
P.S. For how long did the NSA know what was in the Snowden files and what info he had access to? Are you really going to leave your agents in the field like that?
Actually there is an unfair practical reason. Marriage in most countries allows transferring property/money without taxation. What would a heterosexual man do to save a few million in taxes? There are already people that get married for immigration purposes.
I'm sure this already happens in a man-woman, woman-man marriage with divorce judges paid off but it takes longer and is a bit riskier, enough so that it isn't rampant.
Marriage is a legal institution not a religious, mortal, or romantic one.
In the United States you have some tax deductions and you can share job related benefits. Should it become legal here how long before it just becomes practical for best friends to "marry" just for financial convenience.
The second theory for the question as a whole is invalid since the question implies a single spot rather than a ring of spots but I doubt he would deduct points for it.
What should happen is Google should get behind something new to replace android. Something with a license that forces more "open" hardware or drivers and then gets behind multiple "distribution groups".
There is simply not a single path. There are design philosophies. Some like SD card and removable storage others don't for example.
Let people buy their phones from whomever. Just make it trivial to support the phone hardware and change whatever "distribution" you choose to use. Make it impossible for the hardware manufacturers to lock down devices. Then support the 10 most popular/original with 2 million a year grants in exchange for feature development and store rights.
Police and cities might not like it (I'll get back to that in a second) but I think car tracking should be mandatory for everyone. Cars should track their position and speed and report to local antennas located along the road and at intersections where there are signals and infrastructure in place. This achieves a few things...
Traffic tickets are automated. And not just speeding tickets. So everyone will become better drivers since it's no longer a game of catching someone doing something stupid and giving them a big ticket. People WILL change their driving habits. Furthermore since you have half the equipment in your car anyway; electronics systems/software can be installed that will warn/prevent you from doing things that will give you a ticket.
Traffic cops will no longer be necessary. So less police will need to be employed. And since cities save on salaries they can afford to shift some of those people to real crime and violence. Cities will miss out on ticket revenue and will have to make up for it some other way but they will save with fewer police.
Every car is tracked. It will become 100 fold harder to commit a crime. You can't rob a bank, the police will know the location of the getaway car and any cars one could switch to. You can't steal a car. You can't turn off your transmitter or impersonate another car since traffic systems will notice you. You can't get away from the scene of a crime except on foot. They have cameras on buses already. Security cameras on the street are common enough. The more likely are you to being caught the less likely you will commit an offense or in cases of violent passion to flee.
For those of you fearing a tracking state there is just no way to avoid it. Cameras will be installed on traffic lights anyways and with computer software will be able to read every license plate as it goes by. You are and will be tracked according to your car. What I suggest actually gives more benefits to society since they are tracked anyway.
There still can be legislative and judicial rules on using stored tracking data. First rule is every query of the data is tracked and must be reviewed during or after the fact. Further there should be hard penalties for abusing the system. Specifically fines and jail time for cops or exposing them to a personal civil suit. Second there should be security audits by civil panels. In case of ANY critical security flaw the system will be taken offline until fixed.
And quite frankly I think we missed the ball in putting up a "space station" that is used for research rather than a "space garage/machine shop". The garage could build science stations and other garages.
Please explain to me why it needs to be replaced? It's took a lot of money to get all that weight up there in the first place. As an engineer I want to reuse and expand and not throw anything away.
NASA can't build tin cans that can survive in space for a hundred years? There are planes from WW2 that are still flying and those rattle. And yes I can understand that they can turn into swiss cheese but that's what patching and welding is for.
Hopefully at some point Elon Musk will be able to back away from the day to day operation of SpaceX and start recycling and manufacturing facilities in space. Things get at least a hundred times cheaper when they don't have to survive the stresses of liftoff. I can see a day when everything is covered with shielding panels and as they get corrupted are replaced, melted down and recast.
It's all about cheaper salaries. The truth is that the vast majority of US techies are far superior. But for big box companies with all their managers trying to justify their jobs they actually just want the equivalent of code monkeys and lots of bureaucracy. Americans are truly lazy; we actually want the systems to work and work well so that we can relax and think up new ways to make the system actually easier or more flexible. Code monkeys know the managers only care about numbers so they actually want to make buggy code with lots of simple fixes so as to create the illusion of doing something called work. Fix one error and create two more for next time; this makes your manager happy. These people can be just as smart/lazy/efficient as their American equivalents; they just understand their job is to make their managers look good.
What is happening is that the majority of H1B workers are being hired through labor agencies. They are indeed making a better living than they would back at home. The labor agency is rotating the workers though. There are working more than a 40 hours a week and they know better than to complain because the culture is such that whomever breaks the unwritten rules of silence can expect consequences from their fellow workers/friends at a later time. Your friends and family are punished as well. Think back to the early union days but the union thugs are there to make sure no one complains which would ruin it for the group as a whole.
I have no problem with having unlimited H1B workers so long as they are being paid slightly more than what comparable US workers would cost and are actually getting the benefits they earned according to our labor laws here. So theoretically the number of $100,000 H1B's should be unlimited.
And 90% of the problem would go away if you simply get rid of the agencies and made the tech companies hire directly. They know they are cheating the system and would fear class action suits. They use agencies to buffer their legal exposure.
For the people on the bottom that physically work and produce nothing really changes. All that people really need is food and shelter and in the western world we can afford to eat a lot less. The people at the bottom already live paycheck to paycheck and they know how to do physical work and how to fix things themselves. The people that will be hurt are the infirm that our modern society supports which includes the elderly, chronically sick and cripples. Most of us will someday at some point join the infirm.
This is the scenario after a "worldwide bankruptcy" All the land with all the houses and apartments will still exist. All the farmland that produces all the food that overfeeds our country and the rest for the world will still exist. All the fertilizers, chemicals, and natural resources will still exist. At least two thirds of the people, working to produce and distribute the above, will continue doing what they already do. Many of the poorest people of today live in luxury compared to a hundred and two hundred years ago. What will change is the "rich" will be out on the street sort to speak with their bank accounts decimated. There will be a memorable backlash against lawyers, investment bankers, and politicians that support their rackets and games.
Medical patents will be vacated and health care will go back to being affordable. Doctors will be better protected legally and not need insurance like the do now but will be subject to more public records, reviews and audits. Medicine will go back to being affordable comparable to the 1960. There will be no million dollar procedures unless you have a million dollars. People will die at 85 instead of 90. Doctors pay checks will no longer be quite so big but they will no longer need to support the insurance industry and lawyers. They will become more respectable and esteemed members of society back when children wanted to grow up to be a doctor not because of the paycheck but rather to be a hero of society.
Higher education will become affordable again but no longer be government subsidized.
Manning is a confused nut. He obviously had and has issues. I could theoretically admired him and condemned him before I found out he was a nut case. (He's not a nut for wanting to be a women; that confusion is just part of his problems.) I have to put blame of those under whom he worked. You don't let a nut job (confused and troubled individual) handle and process classified information. You supervise your employees. I believe his commanders should be the ones in jail.
He was working with classified info. The moment he said he didn't want to be in the army his security clearance should have been revoked and he should have been moved to non secure work. It's really that simple.
P.S. I remember my short stint in the military a long time ago. They kicked me out because I couldn't do enough pushups. My MOS was 74D. I would like had the same access as manning or probably even better since all he did was have access at a terminal. I wanted to serve, had skills far beyond my MOS training and I knew my place and yet they kicked me out because my body didn't respond to traditional physical training.
Being a contractor I can earn more money if I'm motivated. Work semi regularly at half a dozen businesses and be exposed to new businesses and people all the time. In good times I can choose between projects that I'm interested in doing.
I really don't see the point. What needs to happen is for the politicizations that knew and supported/allowed it to be publicly exposed and punished/shammed in some way that will follow them forever.
I think they will change their minds later but I do agreed that stereovision is a joke. With the Oculus Rift in beta things are just getting started. Anything recorded now in stereovision can later more readily be converted to to whatever VR format evolves. The future is the Oculus Rift and then augmented reality displays that overlay 3d on top of what you already see. Then a shift hopefully of contact lens display.
And finally bionic direct optical nerve interface which could leap frog the contact lens display in my opinion. A similar nerve interface for the ear but not so much for sound but for virtualizing balance and momentum. And finally either a spinal tap or direct brain implant for tapping into the rest of the nerves of the body to simulate touch. There is zero chance of this not happening outside of the human race destroying itself in the next 50 years. The more sci-fi-esque future will be when your injected with nanites at birth and the implants automatically grow in the body.
Back on the subject of 3D. VR/AR displays make real hologram displays academic. If they ever become reality they will be pointless to implement commercially.
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They could easily expunge the embassy legally. Maybe move it to another property. Assange couldn't follow and they could legally then go in after him.
He expected freedom of speech. He volunteered to be a spokesperson for a movement. The same thing would have happened to anyone else. Assange was chosen wisely to be spokesperson for his talent of being loud. Everyone seems to forget that Wikileaks was an unsanctioned press organization.
Six million a year to watch him? Are you kidding me. You don't spend that kind of money to help extradite a date rapist where his alleged crime occurred in another country. He is clearly being persecuted. Interested parties are clearly sending a message.
I think it's highly likely that the US will seek extradition and the Swedish will give him to them if the British don't do it first once they happily remove the death penalty. There is no way the US would have sought the death penalty anyway. They will try him as an enemy of the state and convict him for espionage. They had secrets and he did revel some of them on purpose and others by accident. Never mind that he isn't a US citizen and the that it's didn't happen on US soil. He will likely wind up sitting in federal prison trying his case for ten years and appealing it for another twenty before they simply let him go.
P.S. The person that did do the espionage has been convicted but he in my option should be pardoned for mental illness. Those they keep him in service with access to top secret intelligent against his will when he was so clearly unstable should be the ones serving time in a military prison. I might not have let him out of service buy I would have defiantly transferred him into another MOS. Latrine duty anyone?
So there is at least one person that understands. Dysfunctional one way multifunctional other ways. I use to prefer pacing myself until I discovered alcohol. For some mysterious reason it's more socially acceptable.
The whole point of the bill of rights is that was designed to allow people to overthrow the government but also to prevent the government from shooting it's own feet off by not listening to it's own people. Government by it's very nature is very corruptible and will decay.
Every country starts out from "terrorism". How do you balance keeping a nation strong and unified and still allow discussion of a replacement/reformed government.
Tweeting is speech pure and simple. You going to put me in jail for high-fiving a descendent of the Boston tea party. You can just as easily show that I am encouraging terrorism with my symbolic speech.
What happens when the company goes out of business or decides to stop supporting the product? I can also see the government compelling them not to reveal certain chemical signatures. Software should not be dictated from the "cloud". It needs to be users that are in control. Specifically I don't see a reason why we can't have the software and install it on our own servers if we wish to. So long as we have the option of our own servers I can then concede to using non personal cloud servers for processing speed.
But there is only so much information one can get on a label. Genetic modification is a complex subject. And poisonous genes are easily obtained in the time honored genetic manipulation called cross breading. So foods need deep chemical analysis for all the compounds they contain. Foods even considered safe have marginal toxins that most people can tolerate in small enough quantities. Poison is a relative term.
So I suggest a single domain worldwide as a clearinghouse for information. Companies pay a nominal yearly fee to list info on new products, something like $50. Once listed it's never deleted or edited but annotations with dates are allowed. Something like a country register but worldwide. The information is also available in multiple languages or have separate info per country per their own regulations. Call it online labeling and it's cross referenced to UPC and other product code systems. (I don't think UPC changes if a food company changes their ingredients list.) Maybe a QR code.
I think the managing organization should be a non profit managed by representative from all countries that want to participate. And it should be nominally supported by the countries that join.
The submitted documents become public, can be copied by anyone, and for all intents and purposes are public domain. This allows the organization to fail and then be replaced. The important thing is that the information is available forever so that it is "too important to fail."
If you can brace one structure and the other structure vibrates then one would have continuous power. I can also see this on wheels for continuous current.
Whatever happened to that miracle device years back that also featured carbon nanotubes... it was suppose to harvest heat. Problem was they needed to figure out how to build micro rectifiers for the nanotubes.
Since SSD's have been known to have catastrophic failures why not market drives that for all intents and purposes can't fail or can easily be repaired by changing fuses or other simple components? If it's the controller that is failing why not have a second low performance backup controller that only works in read only mode? It just doesn't make sense to me that they can't make these things 100% read only reliable or that bad parts other than the flash can't be relapsed.
I'm starting to think that we need a public database for comments from civil service (both elected and appointed) and in the case of appointed positions to correlate it to their elected bosses. We can also collect information about their education and past training.
Whomever this civil servant was at the state department is was lying his a** off. This is a clear first amendment issue and if that wasn't all that was needed there is the 2nd amendment. A child with only a sixth grade education could tell you that.
For elected officials are they no longer requiring an oath to protect and defend the constitution? Are they not responsible for what those under them do or say? This civil servant should clearly be fired. People have used social media to get people justly and unjustly fired from jobs. Why can't we do this with officials from the "state department"? Note I'm not talking about the perfectly reasonable action of trying to change the constitution but rather those that ignore it.
They block the very thing that would likely keep the area underdeveloped. I think it likely they actually want more development and more money.
Manning was an idiot. Yet a greater idiot gave him access to files when he wanted to leave service.
Snowden was a patriot. He tried to appeal to his chain of command.
If I were in the position I doubt I would have the balls to do what either Snowden or Manning did. I would take my oath more seriously.
And that is the irony. I have would have more integrity yet what do you do when your bosses that took the same oath as you to protect and defend the constitution shit all over it...
P.S. For how long did the NSA know what was in the Snowden files and what info he had access to? Are you really going to leave your agents in the field like that?
Actually there is an unfair practical reason. Marriage in most countries allows transferring property/money without taxation. What would a heterosexual man do to save a few million in taxes? There are already people that get married for immigration purposes.
I'm sure this already happens in a man-woman, woman-man marriage with divorce judges paid off but it takes longer and is a bit riskier, enough so that it isn't rampant.
Marriage is a legal institution not a religious, mortal, or romantic one.
In the United States you have some tax deductions and you can share job related benefits. Should it become legal here how long before it just becomes practical for best friends to "marry" just for financial convenience.
The second theory for the question as a whole is invalid since the question implies a single spot rather than a ring of spots but I doubt he would deduct points for it.
What should happen is Google should get behind something new to replace android. Something with a license that forces more "open" hardware or drivers and then gets behind multiple "distribution groups".
There is simply not a single path. There are design philosophies. Some like SD card and removable storage others don't for example.
Let people buy their phones from whomever. Just make it trivial to support the phone hardware and change whatever "distribution" you choose to use. Make it impossible for the hardware manufacturers to lock down devices. Then support the 10 most popular/original with 2 million a year grants in exchange for feature development and store rights.
Police and cities might not like it (I'll get back to that in a second) but I think car tracking should be mandatory for everyone. Cars should track their position and speed and report to local antennas located along the road and at intersections where there are signals and infrastructure in place. This achieves a few things...
Traffic tickets are automated. And not just speeding tickets. So everyone will become better drivers since it's no longer a game of catching someone doing something stupid and giving them a big ticket. People WILL change their driving habits. Furthermore since you have half the equipment in your car anyway; electronics systems/software can be installed that will warn/prevent you from doing things that will give you a ticket.
Traffic cops will no longer be necessary. So less police will need to be employed. And since cities save on salaries they can afford to shift some of those people to real crime and violence. Cities will miss out on ticket revenue and will have to make up for it some other way but they will save with fewer police.
Every car is tracked. It will become 100 fold harder to commit a crime. You can't rob a bank, the police will know the location of the getaway car and any cars one could switch to. You can't steal a car. You can't turn off your transmitter or impersonate another car since traffic systems will notice you. You can't get away from the scene of a crime except on foot. They have cameras on buses already. Security cameras on the street are common enough. The more likely are you to being caught the less likely you will commit an offense or in cases of violent passion to flee.
For those of you fearing a tracking state there is just no way to avoid it. Cameras will be installed on traffic lights anyways and with computer software will be able to read every license plate as it goes by. You are and will be tracked according to your car. What I suggest actually gives more benefits to society since they are tracked anyway.
There still can be legislative and judicial rules on using stored tracking data. First rule is every query of the data is tracked and must be reviewed during or after the fact. Further there should be hard penalties for abusing the system. Specifically fines and jail time for cops or exposing them to a personal civil suit. Second there should be security audits by civil panels. In case of ANY critical security flaw the system will be taken offline until fixed.
Since money is no object why not a series of pop up fences. These fences are normally hidden and underground until triggered.
And quite frankly I think we missed the ball in putting up a "space station" that is used for research rather than a "space garage/machine shop". The garage could build science stations and other garages.
Please explain to me why it needs to be replaced? It's took a lot of money to get all that weight up there in the first place. As an engineer I want to reuse and expand and not throw anything away.
NASA can't build tin cans that can survive in space for a hundred years? There are planes from WW2 that are still flying and those rattle. And yes I can understand that they can turn into swiss cheese but that's what patching and welding is for.
Hopefully at some point Elon Musk will be able to back away from the day to day operation of SpaceX and start recycling and manufacturing facilities in space. Things get at least a hundred times cheaper when they don't have to survive the stresses of liftoff. I can see a day when everything is covered with shielding panels and as they get corrupted are replaced, melted down and recast.
It's all about cheaper salaries. The truth is that the vast majority of US techies are far superior. But for big box companies with all their managers trying to justify their jobs they actually just want the equivalent of code monkeys and lots of bureaucracy. Americans are truly lazy; we actually want the systems to work and work well so that we can relax and think up new ways to make the system actually easier or more flexible. Code monkeys know the managers only care about numbers so they actually want to make buggy code with lots of simple fixes so as to create the illusion of doing something called work. Fix one error and create two more for next time; this makes your manager happy. These people can be just as smart/lazy/efficient as their American equivalents; they just understand their job is to make their managers look good.
What is happening is that the majority of H1B workers are being hired through labor agencies. They are indeed making a better living than they would back at home. The labor agency is rotating the workers though. There are working more than a 40 hours a week and they know better than to complain because the culture is such that whomever breaks the unwritten rules of silence can expect consequences from their fellow workers/friends at a later time. Your friends and family are punished as well. Think back to the early union days but the union thugs are there to make sure no one complains which would ruin it for the group as a whole.
I have no problem with having unlimited H1B workers so long as they are being paid slightly more than what comparable US workers would cost and are actually getting the benefits they earned according to our labor laws here. So theoretically the number of $100,000 H1B's should be unlimited.
And 90% of the problem would go away if you simply get rid of the agencies and made the tech companies hire directly. They know they are cheating the system and would fear class action suits. They use agencies to buffer their legal exposure.
For the people on the bottom that physically work and produce nothing really changes. All that people really need is food and shelter and in the western world we can afford to eat a lot less. The people at the bottom already live paycheck to paycheck and they know how to do physical work and how to fix things themselves. The people that will be hurt are the infirm that our modern society supports which includes the elderly, chronically sick and cripples. Most of us will someday at some point join the infirm.
This is the scenario after a "worldwide bankruptcy" All the land with all the houses and apartments will still exist. All the farmland that produces all the food that overfeeds our country and the rest for the world will still exist. All the fertilizers, chemicals, and natural resources will still exist. At least two thirds of the people, working to produce and distribute the above, will continue doing what they already do. Many of the poorest people of today live in luxury compared to a hundred and two hundred years ago. What will change is the "rich" will be out on the street sort to speak with their bank accounts decimated. There will be a memorable backlash against lawyers, investment bankers, and politicians that support their rackets and games.
Medical patents will be vacated and health care will go back to being affordable. Doctors will be better protected legally and not need insurance like the do now but will be subject to more public records, reviews and audits. Medicine will go back to being affordable comparable to the 1960. There will be no million dollar procedures unless you have a million dollars. People will die at 85 instead of 90. Doctors pay checks will no longer be quite so big but they will no longer need to support the insurance industry and lawyers. They will become more respectable and esteemed members of society back when children wanted to grow up to be a doctor not because of the paycheck but rather to be a hero of society.
Higher education will become affordable again but no longer be government subsidized.
Manning is a confused nut. He obviously had and has issues. I could theoretically admired him and condemned him before I found out he was a nut case. (He's not a nut for wanting to be a women; that confusion is just part of his problems.) I have to put blame of those under whom he worked. You don't let a nut job (confused and troubled individual) handle and process classified information. You supervise your employees. I believe his commanders should be the ones in jail.
He was working with classified info. The moment he said he didn't want to be in the army his security clearance should have been revoked and he should have been moved to non secure work. It's really that simple.
P.S. I remember my short stint in the military a long time ago. They kicked me out because I couldn't do enough pushups. My MOS was 74D. I would like had the same access as manning or probably even better since all he did was have access at a terminal. I wanted to serve, had skills far beyond my MOS training and I knew my place and yet they kicked me out because my body didn't respond to traditional physical training.
Being a contractor I can earn more money if I'm motivated. Work semi regularly at half a dozen businesses and be exposed to new businesses and people all the time. In good times I can choose between projects that I'm interested in doing.
I really don't see the point. What needs to happen is for the politicizations that knew and supported/allowed it to be publicly exposed and punished/shammed in some way that will follow them forever.
I think they will change their minds later but I do agreed that stereovision is a joke. With the Oculus Rift in beta things are just getting started. Anything recorded now in stereovision can later more readily be converted to to whatever VR format evolves. The future is the Oculus Rift and then augmented reality displays that overlay 3d on top of what you already see. Then a shift hopefully of contact lens display.
And finally bionic direct optical nerve interface which could leap frog the contact lens display in my opinion. A similar nerve interface for the ear but not so much for sound but for virtualizing balance and momentum. And finally either a spinal tap or direct brain implant for tapping into the rest of the nerves of the body to simulate touch. There is zero chance of this not happening outside of the human race destroying itself in the next 50 years. The more sci-fi-esque future will be when your injected with nanites at birth and the implants automatically grow in the body.
Back on the subject of 3D. VR/AR displays make real hologram displays academic. If they ever become reality they will be pointless to implement commercially.
PS4 will use FreeBSD for it's OS code base. Where is there proof that it will still use DirectX?
I would think Microsoft would have a problem with a DirectX clone/port/emulation.