First, this is a bad example, the pictures were taken at least three months ago. Second, they were first published by the NYT.
"At least" is a good qualifer for something from Oct-Dec 2003, more like six months. And 60 Minutes II and the Washington Post have been the first two with pics, not the NYT. You're quite correct that the digital nature of the photograph really has no bearing; the pictures would look the same in the grain of film.
While I'm posting, anyone check out the original Army report? The Smoking Gun has a PDF.
Allow me to finish my post by quoting my favorite section from the fifty-three page report (n.b. Too long for Rumsfield to read):
6. (S) I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:
a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;
b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;
d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;
e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear;
f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;
g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;
h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;
i. (S) Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;
j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;
k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;
l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;
m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees. (ANNEXES 25 and 26)
8. (U) In addition, several detainees also described the following acts of abuse, which under the circumstances, I find credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses (ANNEX 26):
a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;
b. (U) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;
c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees;
d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;
e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape;
f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell;
g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.
h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
You could just pay my company $240 annually for email with your own domain and one hundred accounts. That's a better purchase in the two-hundred-dollar range, imho.
And to be on topic, I guess the article only demonstrates that some impatient people also have money they don't need to spend wisely.
DRM doesn't preserve any of your rights as a fan, it restricts your available actions as a consumer in a misguided attempt to protect the distributor's revenue stream.
Right, right. I was answering my own question (bad) with another question. I'll fix that in the next draft of the post... oh wait.
And AAC-to-AudioCD-to-MP3 is the lossy part there, the DRM circumvention.
You can set iTunes on a single machine to share its music, including purchased, with any Macs on the same network.
Have you ever tried? Why is that when I attempt to remotely play Rendezvous-announced iTMS audio files I am instructed and required to authorize my computer?
Only iPods are unlimited. If I have fifty iPods, every single one can play my FairPlay m4ps. But only three computers can play the music I've bought on my PowerBook.
I still think it's hilarious that one of the parents could suggest circumventing FairPlay DRM is wrong, then go on to explicitly detail how to circumvent the DRM, albeit in a slightly lossy fashion.
Is DRM good or bad? Does any DRM preserve my rights as an individual music fan?
Outpost.com has the Special Edition for $35, but you have to pay shipping. In my case two copies overnighted is (slightly) cheaper than two copies at the local store and has a high convenience factor.
dd is great for quick-and-dirty imaging, but I'd be wary writing that image to a disk of a different size, etc... unless you hacked the partition table to make the new disk "think" it's smaller than the image, if the new disk is indeed bigger.
In that situation (source disk is 5G, destination is 10G for example) I copy the raw 5G partition and then afterwards on the new machine use the NT command "diskpart" to extend the volume to occupy the entire disk; no hacks, no wasted space.
RTFA. Quote: " The service is similar to one Anonymizer provided to Chinese citizens under a previous government contract that ran-out ended earlier this year."
I like tcsh and its tab completion too, especially when it doesn't involve a file. From a.tcshrc:
# here we add tab completion to standard ftp and make complete ftp 'p/1/(ftp.freebsd.org ftp.netbsd.org ftp.openbsd.org)/' complete make 'p/1/(install clean)/' # # this uses a varible for the list of hosts for multiple commands complete ssh 'p/1/$vtyhostnames/' complete telnet 'p/1/$vtyhostnames/' set vtyhostnames = ( telnet.tmpw.net nyx.nyx.net nox.nyx.net \ unzipped.packetexport.com route-server.ip.att.net ) # # if using mutt, tell it to treat "=" as ~/mail/ (you might need Mail) complete mutt c@=@F:$HOME/mail/@
Mercury Energy's network planners made judgements based on the information provided by the cable asset managers. If the network planners had been aware of the actual loading capability of the underground cables the network planning and contingency planning approaches may have been different. This may have avoided the loss of supply to the CBD. This is considered to be one of the central issues to the failure in supply.
So apparently a primary cause is design flaw. How is privatization responsible for an incorrect installation?
I agree weeks without downtown power is a disaster, but this looks like a problem years in the making.
I do remember Challenger, but I think NASA was and still is largely a government bureaucracy devoid of a mandate or reasonable mission. You can't blame privatization when the government still holds the monopoly seventeen years later.
What with the general assaults on personal freedoms, Abraham Lincoln and the other Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.
What? Are you talking about the same Lincoln who suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus for a half decade? It might technically be consitutional, but it nonetheless is a strong attack on justice in an open society.
I'm more likely to consider those who served as President four score and some change prior to Lincoln as Founding Fathers.
Yeah I have a good pointer, Windows Update. According to Q312496: "This problem was first corrected in Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1."
If the problem is with an MS dll and MS patches it, don't expect mod_gzip to work around it when your clients are the ones with the malfunctioning software.
Offtopic, but you reminded me of Veeck vs SBCCI. Want to stay within the letter of the law? Make sure the law isn't copyrighted by a corporation first.
At Aplus.net here in San Diego the basic rate is $50/U + $20 for every U after that. There are various bandwidth options; basically it's $5/G and gets cheaper as you consume more. Last time I checked their upstreams included Sprint and UUnet via full ds3s. I'm pleased with their service; for a box I'm connected to constantly when I'm awake I've only noticed their AS drop off the map once for about an hour. They have all the standard data center equipment but at the most reasonable price I've found for small scale (less than a third of a rack) colocation.
If you're in the midwest OneCall has nice facilities.
When I first got my iBook 600 in October of 2001 I had to wait about a week before my quarter-gig upgrade arrived.
During that week, it was awful. Immediately after login with nothing but the OS, it had already swapped a few megs out. Everything hit swap.
Once my RAM arrived, it was like the iBook had just gained a few extra CPUs. It was supersonic in comparison.
Like the parent said.... more ram is the solution. If you check out a Mac and it's just slow, jump over to the Terminal, run top, and check out the pageins/pageouts to make sure you're hitting a hardware problem, not software.
Why bother worrying? Run your system using UTC entirely and just set the TZ variable in your shell. It's not really that hard to add or subtract an oftentime single digit number to find the time relative to you. (and when you're lazy, gdate -u is a quick doublecheck)
Other benefits of UTC? A central logserver taking logs from hosts across the continent. "Was that at 2 Central or Eastern? Wait, what time is it in Indiana right now?" Additionally, when you have users across the world it provides a common time. I've meet many people who thought that the common Eastern timezone was still EST in the summer and never used EDT. Once again, Indiana: in the summer, it's the same as CDT, but it's still EST (unless you're near a major city on a border, in which case the appropriate [CD]DT is used). Don't add this confusion to your system accounting.
Using UTC as a common reference time for computing devices simplifies the maintenance of them and eliminates any potential problems originating from the use of local daylight time.
heheh because I'm on Pacific time, all the cron mail sent out at midnight shows up early in the evening. A side benefit.
(And NTP! Please! Accurate time is key to accurate forensics in the event of an intrusion crossing multiple boxes. Even the MacOS and XP have built-in support.)
They cost in the low thousands... but if you get the cheap module you can keep adding your own ram to it. Do a search for platypus at CDW.com and you'll see them.
One problem I ran into is they're too tall to fit in a 1U case, at least a 2U chassis is needed if you get the internal storage device.
Platypus Technology does make something similar. They have both internal PCI and external enclosures to just hold sticks of ram; some models have stadard hard drives for times of power loss. Unfortunately under linux it requires a kernel module (and at the time I was using them, if I upgraded the kernel the company had to compile a new module to match). They fly though, they're sooo fast. Really nice for my mail queues.
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Okay. NYT is close to New Yorker. But still a different world.
So for your example of superior international coverage you link to domestic footage from WGBH in Boston? I'm confused.
"At least" is a good qualifer for something from Oct-Dec 2003, more like six months. And 60 Minutes II and the Washington Post have been the first two with pics, not the NYT. You're quite correct that the digital nature of the photograph really has no bearing; the pictures would look the same in the grain of film.
While I'm posting, anyone check out the original Army report? The Smoking Gun has a PDF.
Allow me to finish my post by quoting my favorite section from the fifty-three page report (n.b. Too long for Rumsfield to read):
6. (S) I find that the intentional abuse of detainees by military police personnel included the following acts:
a. (S) Punching, slapping, and kicking detainees; jumping on their naked feet;
b. (S) Videotaping and photographing naked male and female detainees;
c. (S) Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually explicit positions for photographing;
d. (S) Forcing detainees to remove their clothing and keeping them naked for several days at a time;
e. (S) Forcing naked male detainees to wear women's underwear;
f. (S) Forcing groups of male detainees to masturbate themselves while being photographed and videotaped;
g. (S) Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then jumping on them;
h. (S) Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his fingers, toes, and penis to simulate electric torture;
i. (S) Writing "I am a Rapest" (sic) on the leg of a detainee alleged to have forcibly raped a 15-year old fellow detainee, and then photographing him naked;
j. (S) Placing a dog chain or strap around a naked detainee's neck and having a female Soldier pose for a picture;
k. (S) A male MP guard having sex with a female detainee;
l. (S) Using military working dogs (without muzzles) to intimidate and frighten detainees, and in at least one case biting and severely injuring a detainee;
m. (S) Taking photographs of dead Iraqi detainees. (ANNEXES 25 and 26)
8. (U) In addition, several detainees also described the following acts of abuse, which under the circumstances, I find credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses (ANNEX 26):
a. (U) Breaking chemical lights and pouring the phosphoric liquid on detainees;
b. (U) Threatening detainees with a charged 9mm pistol;
c. (U) Pouring cold water on naked detainees;
d. (U) Beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair;
e. (U) Threatening male detainees with rape;
f. (U) Allowing a military police guard to stitch the wound of a detainee who was injured after being slammed against the wall in his cell;
g. (U) Sodomizing a detainee with a chemical light and perhaps a broom stick.
h. (U) Using military working dogs to frighten and intimidate detainees with threats of attack, and in one instance actually biting a detainee.
Nah, that's just the XBox2 specs
And to be on topic, I guess the article only demonstrates that some impatient people also have money they don't need to spend wisely.
clicky-clicky.
I can't believe I actually wasted my time reading the entire article hoping it might get better.
Only iPods are unlimited. If I have fifty iPods, every single one can play my FairPlay m4ps. But only three computers can play the music I've bought on my PowerBook.
I still think it's hilarious that one of the parents could suggest circumventing FairPlay DRM is wrong, then go on to explicitly detail how to circumvent the DRM, albeit in a slightly lossy fashion.
Is DRM good or bad? Does any DRM preserve my rights as an individual music fan?
Outpost.com has the Special Edition for $35, but you have to pay shipping. In my case two copies overnighted is (slightly) cheaper than two copies at the local store and has a high convenience factor.
Absolutely. Escient is the way to go.
Patriot's provocative plan
RTFA. Quote: " The service is similar to one Anonymizer provided to Chinese citizens under a previous government contract that ran-out ended earlier this year."
I like tcsh and its tab completion too, especially when it doesn't involve a file. From a .tcshrc:
# here we add tab completion to standard ftp and make
complete ftp 'p/1/(ftp.freebsd.org ftp.netbsd.org ftp.openbsd.org)/'
complete make 'p/1/(install clean)/'
#
# this uses a varible for the list of hosts for multiple commands
complete ssh 'p/1/$vtyhostnames/'
complete telnet 'p/1/$vtyhostnames/'
set vtyhostnames = ( telnet.tmpw.net nyx.nyx.net nox.nyx.net \
unzipped.packetexport.com route-server.ip.att.net )
#
# if using mutt, tell it to treat "=" as ~/mail/ (you might need Mail)
complete mutt c@=@F:$HOME/mail/@
I do remember Challenger, but I think NASA was and still is largely a government bureaucracy devoid of a mandate or reasonable mission. You can't blame privatization when the government still holds the monopoly seventeen years later.
What? Are you talking about the same Lincoln who suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus for a half decade? It might technically be consitutional, but it nonetheless is a strong attack on justice in an open society.
I'm more likely to consider those who served as President four score and some change prior to Lincoln as Founding Fathers.
No.
If the problem is with an MS dll and MS patches it, don't expect mod_gzip to work around it when your clients are the ones with the malfunctioning software.
Offtopic, but you reminded me of Veeck vs SBCCI. Want to stay within the letter of the law? Make sure the law isn't copyrighted by a corporation first.
Home Page and prices
At Aplus.net here in San Diego the basic rate is $50/U + $20 for every U after that. There are various bandwidth options; basically it's $5/G and gets cheaper as you consume more. Last time I checked their upstreams included Sprint and UUnet via full ds3s. I'm pleased with their service; for a box I'm connected to constantly when I'm awake I've only noticed their AS drop off the map once for about an hour. They have all the standard data center equipment but at the most reasonable price I've found for small scale (less than a third of a rack) colocation.
If you're in the midwest OneCall has nice facilities.
Just an aplus customer...
During that week, it was awful. Immediately after login with nothing but the OS, it had already swapped a few megs out. Everything hit swap.
Once my RAM arrived, it was like the iBook had just gained a few extra CPUs. It was supersonic in comparison.
Like the parent said.... more ram is the solution. If you check out a Mac and it's just slow, jump over to the Terminal, run top, and check out the pageins/pageouts to make sure you're hitting a hardware problem, not software.
Other benefits of UTC? A central logserver taking logs from hosts across the continent. "Was that at 2 Central or Eastern? Wait, what time is it in Indiana right now?" Additionally, when you have users across the world it provides a common time. I've meet many people who thought that the common Eastern timezone was still EST in the summer and never used EDT. Once again, Indiana: in the summer, it's the same as CDT, but it's still EST (unless you're near a major city on a border, in which case the appropriate [CD]DT is used). Don't add this confusion to your system accounting.
Using UTC as a common reference time for computing devices simplifies the maintenance of them and eliminates any potential problems originating from the use of local daylight time.
heheh because I'm on Pacific time, all the cron mail sent out at midnight shows up early in the evening. A side benefit.
(And NTP! Please! Accurate time is key to accurate forensics in the event of an intrusion crossing multiple boxes. Even the MacOS and XP have built-in support.)
One problem I ran into is they're too tall to fit in a 1U case, at least a 2U chassis is needed if you get the internal storage device.
Platypus Technology does make something similar. They have both internal PCI and external enclosures to just hold sticks of ram; some models have stadard hard drives for times of power loss. Unfortunately under linux it requires a kernel module (and at the time I was using them, if I upgraded the kernel the company had to compile a new module to match). They fly though, they're sooo fast. Really nice for my mail queues.