"I think their terrrorist-to-civilian kill rate was lower than the military-to-civilian kill rate of their enemies. Sorry for the lack of citations on this part, but it's hard to track down these numbers."
You are 100% correct and the numbers are not even close.
According to the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs the ration for Israelis killed is 43 civilians / 119 military
For Lebanon , Hizballah claims it lost 74 combatant and Israel claims the number is closer to 500. I will use the numbbers ussued by Israel.
The total number of Lebanese killed was untill a few days ago between 1,300 and 1,600 (the number keeps going up as more bodies are pulled from the ruble).
So working by Israel's claims their kill ratio is around 1000 civilian / 500 military.
Of course at this point some people start claiming it is the intentions that matter and not the number of civilians killed...
"They had pulled out of Lebanon in 2000 after the UN adopted a resolution stating that a UN force would disarm Hezbollah and enforce a peace. The UN and Lebanon both failed to do so over the course of six years."
Care to point to any reference of what you are saying? Or do you get your information on the middle east from fox news:-)
Seriously though you are confusing the events , dates and fact, but that's OK the world got used to your way of thinking.
Here are the dates: March 1978 (five days after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon): UN resolution 425 asking Israel to eave Lebanon.
May 2000 (22 years after the UN resolution): Israel leaves Lebanon.
September 2004: Un resolution 1559 asking for Syria to leave Lebanon, Hizbollah be disarmed, Palestinians in Lebanon be disarmed
Between September 2004 and July 2006 : a dozen bombings lead to the killing of the Lebanese prime minister, a member of the parliament a prominent journalist another journalist member of the parliament , the leader of a political party and the wounding of 2 ministers and another journalist...
Economically the tourism season was destroyed and a blockade by Syria halted Lebanese import/export industry.
In that same time, One part of the resolution 1559 was achieved (Syrians left Lebanon in mid 2005), the Lebanese government was in negotiation with the Palestinians about their weapons and all the Lebanese leaders were negotiating with hizballah for its weapons.
So you see, even if you had gotten the dates right, there is a bit more to the story than Israel was waiting for the Lebanese who were doing nothing about the resolution.
I am not as knowledgeable about the rest of your assertions but I am guessing they are full the same kind of inaccuracies. This part however I happened to know for sure was completely wrong.
Was copilot.com worth $10K ? i donnow, but at least there is a reason.
Joel explained it somewhere that they needed a website name that you can easilly read on the phone to the person you want to help without having to spell it for them or risk that they'll get the address wrong.
Nice analysis, however morse code is in fact faster since it is very easy to provide a -natural- way for inputing morse code on the phone almost as fast as the morse equipment! In fact you provide a way in your own comment!
> the reason morse is as fast as it is is because you hardly have to move your finger at all.
You use the keypad on the phone to type the dit and dah (left, right) and click to seperate letters/words. Try it if you have access to a symbian phone!
Even if you don't know morse code by heart. Write a message to send by sms, look up the morse equivalent and write it down too. Try to input the words as sms, now try the dots and dashes (follow what you have on the paper without thinking, left for dot, right for dash, click to separate letters, another click to separate words)... So if you know morse code it is actually faster than sms! Now learning it is a whole other issue http://www.learnmorsecode.com/.
After watching the Jay Leno episode I was about to start writing a program to do that on my 6600, luckily I did some research before starting and found this with the source included!
You write the sms in morse and it converts and sends it as a regular sms.
You can use the joystick on the phone (left for dot and right for dash) so you have your finger on one button all the time!
I think they just launched it yesterday, check this for more info!
However, as a previous poster mentionned it it seems javascript is still required.
I guess the new interface removes the need for XMLHttpRequest Object support in the browser...
Google recently finished their simple HTML interface for Gmail so logging in with older browsers is now possible.
I guess as long as Google support all browsers (even other non standard compliant older browsers) then great for them!
And the Firefox people can't really "sell out" since anyone can provide modified versions without any google stuff if the official version gets sponsored I suppose we can't complain.
I recently abandoned this flash-click-to-view extension in favor of adblock 5 (http://adblock.mozdev.org/) What adblock does is add a little (semi transparent) tab next to the flash animation. When you click on this tab you get a chance to block flash from that site/folder/file for good. With time all the flash ads never show up anymore but other flash content is normally displayed.
The code for the bookmarks has been rewritten so you can see major updates there including icons in the sidebar (still waiting for icons in the personal toolbar) but that's a good start.
Also the dynamic image resizing in Composer is way too cool:-) Worth launching Composer just to see it in action.
And finally for those of you using the pie-menu extentions you should download the latest version compatible with 1.4 alpha.
When my phone is lying around somewhere in the house or in my pocket while I am driving and it rings, ringtones (used with caller groups) allow me to know if it is some friend calling and I can find the phone and check out who later when I am free or some urgent call from work so I know I should interrupt whatever I am doing/pull over and answer or call back asap.
However this means I use the same meaningful easy to remember ringtones for the last few years.
Other technologies about which we should exercise caution include VOIP, Bluetooth,
open source, automated patching, RFIDs and biometrics.
I always thought it was the other way around! As in we should exercise more caution about closed source systems no matter which one we are advocating !! Oh well!... He is the security expert so I guess who am I to argue!
A couple of tips for the first timers. - Get away from the city lights (and pullotion) as much as possible. - Have a good field of view because they will be all over the sky not just in the vicinity of Leo - Do NOT concentrate at the spot where they will come from (Leo) rather about 40 degrees away, as odd as this may seem, the shooting stars around Leo won't leave a long trail (they will be coming towards you ) and you won't be seing much.
Normally I wouldn't reply to minor mistakes but that's modded up probably cause people don't really know how GSM works.
> your cell phone has to announce it's availability to local cells That's not technically correct.
You cell phone does not announce it's availability to local cells unless you are being paged (someone is trying to call you / sending you sms...)
The cellphone has to announce it's availabily to the new Local Area (UpdateLocation messages) when it enters a new Area but not to the cells when it is travelling between cells.
LAs cover usually several cities and can conver tens/hundreds of Kms square and you cannot be triangulated using that information.
However it is still possible for "them" to page you and drop the signal before your phones starts ringing so that your phone announces it's location to the cell and that way you can be traked...
Why not have a virtual keyboard on one of the touch screen when you need to use it:-) Imagine the cool factor:-)
You could type what ever you need on it and use the other screen as a display. Could be pretty nifty... Then flip it upside down and have your screen converted to keyboard and keyboard to screen... yea whatever...
even though it much be a real pain to do any decent amount of typing on it!
for those who do not know
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Robot Mine Smasher
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· Score: 2, Informative
One of the most time consuming ( difficult ?) tasks is preparing the terrain for the robot or the well traind human to work on. Especially when mines stay for tens of years... you can imagine the bushes/rock/trees/ground drifts!... I live in Lebanon and I have seen such mountains filled with mines (planted by Israel when it was occupying the south part). The UN here estimates they need 50 years to remove them all, they seriously doubt any robot will be able to handle the job well.
I don't know the range of this thing:)
But correct me if I am wrong... Isn't it illegal to broadcast on AM frequencies without a licence in most parts of the world?
Slashdot Mirror
Thanks to your link I literally fried my graphics card :-(
I downloaded a program from one of the sites linked there, I think it was this but I am not willing to run it again on my replacement card to confirm
>I need to read and audit the source and then compile that source to be completely sure!
;-)
Even if you read the source, and compile it yourself, you would not be 100% sure it is safe.
Reflections on Trusting Trust
"I think their terrrorist-to-civilian kill rate was lower than the military-to-civilian kill rate of their enemies. Sorry for the lack of citations on this part, but it's hard to track down these numbers."
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You are 100% correct and the numbers are not even close.
According to the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs the ration for Israelis killed is 43 civilians / 119 military
For Lebanon , Hizballah claims it lost 74 combatant and Israel claims the number is closer to 500.
I will use the numbbers ussued by Israel.
The total number of Lebanese killed was untill a few days ago between 1,300 and 1,600 (the number keeps going up as more bodies are pulled from the ruble).
So working by Israel's claims their kill ratio is around 1000 civilian / 500 military.
Of course at this point some people start claiming it is the intentions that matter and not the number of civilians killed
"They had pulled out of Lebanon in 2000 after the UN adopted a resolution stating that a UN force would disarm Hezbollah and enforce a peace. The UN and Lebanon both failed to do so over the course of six years."
:-)
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Care to point to any reference of what you are saying?
Or do you get your information on the middle east from fox news
Seriously though you are confusing the events , dates and fact, but that's OK the world got used to your way of thinking.
Here are the dates:
March 1978 (five days after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon): UN resolution 425 asking Israel to eave Lebanon.
May 2000 (22 years after the UN resolution): Israel leaves Lebanon.
September 2004: Un resolution 1559 asking for Syria to leave Lebanon, Hizbollah be disarmed, Palestinians in Lebanon be disarmed
Between September 2004 and July 2006 : a dozen bombings lead to the killing of the Lebanese prime minister, a member of the parliament a prominent journalist another journalist member of the parliament , the leader of a political party and the wounding of 2 ministers and another journalist
Economically the tourism season was destroyed and a blockade by Syria halted Lebanese import/export industry.
In that same time, One part of the resolution 1559 was achieved (Syrians left Lebanon in mid 2005), the Lebanese government was in negotiation with the Palestinians about their weapons and all the Lebanese leaders were negotiating with hizballah for its weapons.
So you see, even if you had gotten the dates right, there is a bit more to the story than Israel was waiting for the Lebanese who were doing nothing about the resolution.
I am not as knowledgeable about the rest of your assertions but I am guessing they are full the same kind of inaccuracies. This part however I happened to know for sure was completely wrong.
> what's wrong with "copilot.fogcreek.com?
Was copilot.com worth $10K ? i donnow, but at least there is a reason.
Joel explained it somewhere that they needed a website name that you can easilly read on the phone to the person you want to help without having to spell it for them or risk that they'll get the address wrong.
Nice analysis, however morse code is in fact faster since it is very easy to provide a -natural- way for inputing morse code on the phone almost as fast as the morse equipment!
t exter.html
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In fact you provide a way in your own comment!
> the reason morse is as fast as it is is because you hardly have to move your finger at all.
That's why typing SMS using this program for morse code IS ACTUALLY FASTER.
http://laivakoira.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/morse_
You use the keypad on the phone to type the dit and dah (left, right) and click to seperate letters/words. Try it if you have access to a symbian phone!
Even if you don't know morse code by heart.
Write a message to send by sms, look up the morse equivalent and write it down too.
Try to input the words as sms, now try the dots and dashes (follow what you have on the paper without thinking, left for dot, right for dash, click to separate letters, another click to separate words)
So if you know morse code it is actually faster than sms! Now learning it is a whole other issue http://www.learnmorsecode.com/.
After watching the Jay Leno episode I was about to start writing a program to do that on my 6600, luckily I did some research before starting and found this with the source included!
You write the sms in morse and it converts and sends it as a regular sms.
You can use the joystick on the phone (left for dot and right for dash) so you have your finger on one button all the time!
Also I found this page for learning morse code ...
I think they just launched it yesterday, check this for more info! However, as a previous poster mentionned it it seems javascript is still required. I guess the new interface removes the need for XMLHttpRequest Object support in the browser ...
Google recently finished their simple HTML interface for Gmail so logging in with older browsers is now possible.
I guess as long as Google support all browsers (even other non standard compliant older browsers) then great for them!
And the Firefox people can't really "sell out" since anyone can provide modified versions without any google stuff if the official version gets sponsored I suppose we can't complain.
I recently abandoned this flash-click-to-view extension in favor of adblock 5 (http://adblock.mozdev.org/)
What adblock does is add a little (semi transparent) tab next to the flash animation.
When you click on this tab you get a chance to block flash from that site/folder/file for good.
With time all the flash ads never show up anymore but other flash content is normally displayed.
The code for the bookmarks has been rewritten so you can see major updates there including icons in the sidebar (still waiting for icons in the personal toolbar) but that's a good start.
:-)
Also the dynamic image resizing in Composer is way too cool
Worth launching Composer just to see it in action.
And finally for those of you using the pie-menu extentions you should download the latest version compatible with 1.4 alpha.
> What do frickin' ringtones offer?
When my phone is lying around somewhere in the house or in my pocket while I am driving and it rings, ringtones (used with caller groups) allow me to know if it is some friend calling and I can find the phone and check out who later when I am free or some urgent call from work so I know I should interrupt whatever I am doing/pull over and answer or call back asap.
However this means I use the same meaningful easy to remember ringtones for the last few years.
Actually the Arabic word is Zarafa not Zirafa but I guess it does not matter nor does it relate to giga in any way :-)
I always thought it was the other way around!
As in we should exercise more caution about closed source systems no matter which one we are advocating !!
Oh well!
A couple of tips for the first timers.
- Get away from the city lights (and pullotion) as much as possible.
- Have a good field of view because they will be all over the sky not just in the vicinity of Leo
- Do NOT concentrate at the spot where they will come from (Leo) rather about 40 degrees away, as odd as this may seem, the shooting stars around Leo won't leave a long trail (they will be coming towards you ) and you won't be seing much.
Suits Generate Bogons! so beware!
Normally I wouldn't reply to minor mistakes but that's modded up probably cause people don't really know how GSM works.
...)
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> your cell phone has to announce it's availability to local cells
That's not technically correct.
You cell phone does not announce it's availability to local cells unless you are being paged (someone is trying to call you / sending you sms
The cellphone has to announce it's availabily to the new Local Area (UpdateLocation messages) when it enters a new Area but not to the cells when it is travelling between cells.
LAs cover usually several cities and can conver tens/hundreds of Kms square and you cannot be triangulated using that information.
However it is still possible for "them" to page you and drop the signal before your phones starts ringing so that your phone announces it's location to the cell and that way you can be traked...
Just so that things are clear
Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo
Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo Moo
I hate Haiku
I guess what you need is Top 100 Grossing Movies of All Time Adjusted for Inflation.
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And it is not BenHur, it is Gone with the wind
Why not have a virtual keyboard on one of the touch screen when you need to use it :-) :-)
... Then flip it upside down and have your screen converted to keyboard and keyboard to screen ... yea whatever ...
Imagine the cool factor
You could type what ever you need on it and use the other screen as a display. Could be pretty nifty
even though it much be a real pain to do any decent amount of typing on it!
One of the most time consuming ( difficult ?) tasks is preparing the terrain for the robot or the well traind human to work on. Especially when mines stay for tens of years ... you can imagine the bushes/rock/trees/ground drifts! ... I live in Lebanon and I have seen such mountains filled with mines (planted by Israel when it was occupying the south part). The UN here estimates they need 50 years to remove them all, they seriously doubt any robot will be able to handle the job well.
An interesting read is content is *not* king
Bottom line the way to make profit is to encourage people to communicate!
What the hell I feel like losing some karma today. Here is an Offtopic and a Troll for you fellow moderators... I just think it is worth turning some people's attention to the interesting links in the "From Americas section"
... I could have posted anonymously.
* Just retribution or an abuse of human rights? A big question, with only one answer in the US
and
* American action is unlawful, say legal experts
And I know
I think you would droll over the new Nokia 7560 won't ya?
I don't know the range of this thing :)
... Isn't it illegal to broadcast on AM frequencies without a licence in most parts of the world?
But correct me if I am wrong