They didn't say Assange was a terrorist. They said he was an 'enemy of the state'
The didn;t call him an 'enemy of the state' either. That's entirely a creation of an overly imaginative journalist aided and abetted by a heavily biased submitter.
Article 104 is NOT restricted to the military, the army can arrest anyone under Article 104:
No, they can't. The UCMJ *by law* applies only uniformed service members. Nor does the Army have arrest powers over civilians who are not physically present on a military facility.
The article claims (and that's TFA not the summary), that technically any military personnel communicating with Wikileaks/Assange may be charged with a crime that goes all the way to death as penalty.
Yes, the article claims that. The article is completely wrong on that point. Thank you for asking, rather than treating the article as if it were gospel truth.
Oh, wait. You didn't ask. You just went ahead and assumed (even though anyone with half a brain knows that journalists are rarely right) the article was right.
We have a "legal" category called "enemy of the state"?
No, we don't. That's a term made up by the author of the article in order to sell papers and generate clicks. In true Slashdot fashion, the inflammatory summary is being treated as if were unbiased reporting of the facts. In equal adherence to tradition and customs, they're not reading the article (or at least not past the opening paragraphs) and noting how it fails to support it's claim.
It's a chance for a Two Minute Hate on the US Government, and that's enough for Slashdot. When an article conforms to the groupthink bias, there's no need for actual facts.
Stories like this are really starting to worry me.
Stories like this don't bother me at - what bothers me is ignorant people who believe thing like the badly biased summary here on Slashdot or the the inflammatory opening paragraphs of the article... and who will thus fail to notice that the "United States" did no such thing as "designate Julian Assange an Enemy of State". What happened was an Air Force analyst was investigated to determine if a) he had leaked information, and b) whether such a leak constituted the offense of "Communicating with the Enemy" under the UCMJ - and the investigation was closed without charges being brought.
That's not particularly accurate at all - for me, that encompasses parts of seven counties and parts of two major cities (neither of which I live in). In of the metropolitan area of one of the major cities (Seattle), there's probably two or three dozen towns of notably size...
This is hydro power - not a stack of coal or a pipe full of natural gas behind a valve, and this complicates things. Those fuels sit still until you need them, but water keeps coming regardless.
If Microsoft didn't use all the power, then the company didn't use all the water - which can mean they have too *much* water behind the dams when the spring run off starts next year... and they can't simply dump it because that has consequences downstream. (It's the same as if a customer ordered enough widgets from you to fill half your loading dock, and then not only refused to pay them - they refuse to pick them up either.) Most folks don't realize that hydro utilities must budget their water flow - some for irrigation, some for power generation, some for the fish ladder, some for downstream flow... it's a complicated business.
Here's a free clue for you, since you seem so badly in need of one: If the majority of the entrants are from a particular region, then the odds increase the winner will come from that region whether justified or not. (Duh.)
I would actually go so far as to say that the American beer is now the best in the world as evidenced by the international competitions where the US beers dominate.
Since, from a brief skim, it looks like 7-8 out of 10 competitors are American, that's hardly surprising. It's called the World Beer Cup - but in reality, it's the American Beer Cup.
Not that having high quality matters for great photography, other than to fools who believe that lots of dollars are a substitute to basic skills and an experienced eye. No amount of megapixels will substitute for the lack of those.
the Aegis software was deployed on WindowNT which of course had lots of stability problems. Also the system software itself wasn't that great. For example, when someone accidentally entered some bad data, it caused a divide-by-zero error which caused the software to crash and the ship had to be towed back into port.
Not only does the AEGIS system not run on PC hardware, it doesn't control the ship either.
Curiosity launched on November 26, 2011. If Opportunity has been using AEGIS since 2009, why couldn't it have been included in Curiosity from the start instead of this 12 month download over a slow connection?
Off the top of my head, I can think of two reasons. First, until it landed Curiosity's computer served as the flight control computer and didn't even have it's full surface/science package installed. That's what the big software upgrade right after landing was all about - to clear out the flight control package and replace it with the surface/science routines. Second, I suspect they want some operational experience (on Opportunity) with the new system and some experience (on Curiosity) with the basic surface/science software package and some idea of how the hardware performs before committing to a new system. Odds are that Curiosity's baseline was frozen in 2010, long before sufficient information existed to write (let alone trust) the new software.
Such a slow rollout is pretty common outside of commercial (consumer) software - because the costs of getting it wrong are so high. Especially in the case of something like Curiosity, which is a huge o' dollars of irreplaceable hardware with a limited lifespan and one shot at getting the science data. This isn't Ice Jelly Gummy Doughnut Candy with the fanboi's whining and pissing and moaning because their perfectly good hardware doesn't have the latest bling and threatening to move to another computer/phone/toy. FWIW, the software for the system I worked on in the Navy typically spent six months to a year installed on a trainer, followed by another six months installed on one or two hulls before committing it to the entire Fleet.
Also, the article notes that it will be installed in, not over, the next nine to twelve months. Given that they replaced nearly the entire software package right after landing, the bandwidth available is more than sufficient to the task. Even so, they'll likely make use of most of that bandwidth on the important tasks of getting the science down rather than the secondary task of installing non essential software upgrades.
It's bad enough that video game companies push stuff out the door and then rely on release-day patches but I expect better from NASA.
Everything is easy to those that don't have to do the work and aren't accountable for the results.
Unless and until you set up the falsehood you did in your original post - that the Chinese "have the only piles" and the only option is to "force them to export". Then, you shift from reality into myth.
China has no more domestic rare earths than anyone else. The only reason they have piles available is because almost everyone else has quit mining them - because almost everyone else has environmental regulations.
Since we aren't talking about IC production, I fail to see your point. Doubly so IC's constitute only a very small portion of the hardware volume or cost or assembly time...
And doesn't it occur to you to wonder *why* it's cheaper to assemble there? You think a couple of hundred bucks a year (there) versus several hundred bucks a week (here) doesn't make any difference?
Wow. The issue is not labor costs - but that we don;t have manufacturing facilities? Did it never occur to you to wonder why we don't have those facilities any more?
How does disconnected-from-reality drivel like this get modded up?
This should come as no surprise, but salaries vary with location based largely on the cost-of-living. Silicon Valley and the Bay Area are some of the most expensive places to live in the US.
Race car tires are filled with Nitrogen instead of compressed air because compressed is rife with water vapor, which expands when it heats up.
If your compressed air is full of water vapor - then you just add air dryers to your cycle. The USN Submarine Service has been doing this for decades to prevent a repeat of the USS Thresher accident.
They use dry nitrogen because it's cheap and routinely available since it's used for a large variety of industrial processes.
"To win a majority vote shows that our members are not just a marginal phenomenon; but are in the midst of society.'"
Without knowing the politics of the town, that's a bit of a premature boast. Dark horse and odd ball candidates routinely win against major candidates in local elections when the major candidates have pissed off the electorate or run a seriously lackluster campaigns. The real test of entering the mainstream is either the candidate or party getting re-elected or gaining additional offices or municipalities.
After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Another key question, what is the demographics of the town? If they skew young and lower income (not poor, but cube monkeys) or have a major geek influence (like say, Silicon Valley), that's another potential indicator that the boast is hollow and premature.
We don't get those increased capabilities we'd need by not flying.
Given that the technologies required are likely decades to a century or more off... A few years not flying matters very little one way or the other. Given how many of the technologies require advances in parallel fields (like computing), the balance of your post is just wishful thinking.
Yes, certainly there was a novelty factor at play of a Space Shuttle flying around on top of a frickin 747, but regardless it was capturing their attention and imagination.
Sure, it captured their attention and imagination - for the brief span of the flyover it was the "flavor of the moment", all but forgotten by Monday.
Looking at these people around me, it really struck me that there's a giant disconnect in how they view NASA in comparison to how Congress and the President(s) view it.
No, the disconnect lies elsewhere - in the Slashdotter/space geek who see all those people temporarily entranced by the flyby and thinks "I'm watching this and think it's way cool and NASA should get more money and do more cool things, they're watching this too and therefore must not only think like I do but also be equally passionate". By the time you read this, they'll be just as passionate about the Dodgers game, and tomorrow about the Angels, and on Monday about the latest reality show premier.
When was the last time pictures from Curiosity made the local paper or it's website? (If they even showed up at all.) Public attention is a fickle and short lived thing.
The Curiosity Twitter account has been inundated by questions from the public on why Curiosity doesn't include a microphone in order to listen to the sounds of Mars; the stock answer is that a microphone doesn't fulfill a science need. Well half of the Apollo missions included activities by their astronauts that had no science goal. The goal was capturing the spirit of wonder.
No, the goal of the occasional (and very brief ) PR presentation was to keep the bucks flowing... (By the time of Apollo 11, NASA's budget has already been dramatically slashed and the landing program was running on inertia and fumes.) And they were massive failures at that goal - few of them were carried live. Most of them got thirty seconds or a minute on the 6.30* news, and then vanished into the archives to gather dust.
* Back then, you got a half hour of local news at 6PM, then a half hour of national at 6.30PM.
You can't trust the American electorate and their political representatives to do what's important for the future of the species.
If space travel was at a stage where it was relevant to the "future of the species" - you'd have a point. But it isn't. It isn't even close.
Anything we could do today in space is the equivalent of hauling a bedsheet out into the backyard and wrapping yourself up in it... it's cool, and fun, but you're still utterly dependent on the house for everything and much less protected from the elements.
Or, to look at it another way... your coatings were thought to be safe, but were replaced by another coating that was thought to be safe. Now that the replacement coating has been found (decades later) to be unsafe, you're implying your coatings are safe even though they haven't actually been subject to modern scrutiny.
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The didn;t call him an 'enemy of the state' either. That's entirely a creation of an overly imaginative journalist aided and abetted by a heavily biased submitter.
No, they can't. The UCMJ *by law* applies only uniformed service members. Nor does the Army have arrest powers over civilians who are not physically present on a military facility.
Yes, the article claims that. The article is completely wrong on that point. Thank you for asking, rather than treating the article as if it were gospel truth.
Oh, wait. You didn't ask. You just went ahead and assumed (even though anyone with half a brain knows that journalists are rarely right) the article was right.
No, we don't. That's a term made up by the author of the article in order to sell papers and generate clicks. In true Slashdot fashion, the inflammatory summary is being treated as if were unbiased reporting of the facts. In equal adherence to tradition and customs, they're not reading the article (or at least not past the opening paragraphs) and noting how it fails to support it's claim.
It's a chance for a Two Minute Hate on the US Government, and that's enough for Slashdot. When an article conforms to the groupthink bias, there's no need for actual facts.
Stories like this don't bother me at - what bothers me is ignorant people who believe thing like the badly biased summary here on Slashdot or the the inflammatory opening paragraphs of the article... and who will thus fail to notice that the "United States" did no such thing as "designate Julian Assange an Enemy of State". What happened was an Air Force analyst was investigated to determine if a) he had leaked information, and b) whether such a leak constituted the offense of "Communicating with the Enemy" under the UCMJ - and the investigation was closed without charges being brought.
"With an accuracy of 50km"
That's not particularly accurate at all - for me, that encompasses parts of seven counties and parts of two major cities (neither of which I live in). In of the metropolitan area of one of the major cities (Seattle), there's probably two or three dozen towns of notably size...
This is hydro power - not a stack of coal or a pipe full of natural gas behind a valve, and this complicates things. Those fuels sit still until you need them, but water keeps coming regardless.
If Microsoft didn't use all the power, then the company didn't use all the water - which can mean they have too *much* water behind the dams when the spring run off starts next year... and they can't simply dump it because that has consequences downstream. (It's the same as if a customer ordered enough widgets from you to fill half your loading dock, and then not only refused to pay them - they refuse to pick them up either.) Most folks don't realize that hydro utilities must budget their water flow - some for irrigation, some for power generation, some for the fish ladder, some for downstream flow... it's a complicated business.
Here's a free clue for you, since you seem so badly in need of one: If the majority of the entrants are from a particular region, then the odds increase the winner will come from that region whether justified or not. (Duh.)
Since, from a brief skim, it looks like 7-8 out of 10 competitors are American, that's hardly surprising. It's called the World Beer Cup - but in reality, it's the American Beer Cup.
It's not the availability that matters - it's the per capita consumption. (Down considerably nowadays from days past I suspect.)
Not that having high quality matters for great photography, other than to fools who believe that lots of dollars are a substitute to basic skills and an experienced eye. No amount of megapixels will substitute for the lack of those.
Not only does the AEGIS system not run on PC hardware, it doesn't control the ship either.
Off the top of my head, I can think of two reasons. First, until it landed Curiosity's computer served as the flight control computer and didn't even have it's full surface/science package installed. That's what the big software upgrade right after landing was all about - to clear out the flight control package and replace it with the surface/science routines. Second, I suspect they want some operational experience (on Opportunity) with the new system and some experience (on Curiosity) with the basic surface/science software package and some idea of how the hardware performs before committing to a new system. Odds are that Curiosity's baseline was frozen in 2010, long before sufficient information existed to write (let alone trust) the new software.
Such a slow rollout is pretty common outside of commercial (consumer) software - because the costs of getting it wrong are so high. Especially in the case of something like Curiosity, which is a huge o' dollars of irreplaceable hardware with a limited lifespan and one shot at getting the science data. This isn't Ice Jelly Gummy Doughnut Candy with the fanboi's whining and pissing and moaning because their perfectly good hardware doesn't have the latest bling and threatening to move to another computer/phone/toy. FWIW, the software for the system I worked on in the Navy typically spent six months to a year installed on a trainer, followed by another six months installed on one or two hulls before committing it to the entire Fleet.
Also, the article notes that it will be installed in, not over, the next nine to twelve months. Given that they replaced nearly the entire software package right after landing, the bandwidth available is more than sufficient to the task. Even so, they'll likely make use of most of that bandwidth on the important tasks of getting the science down rather than the secondary task of installing non essential software upgrades.
Everything is easy to those that don't have to do the work and aren't accountable for the results.
Unless and until you set up the falsehood you did in your original post - that the Chinese "have the only piles" and the only option is to "force them to export". Then, you shift from reality into myth.
Oh lord, not this myth again.
China has no more domestic rare earths than anyone else. The only reason they have piles available is because almost everyone else has quit mining them - because almost everyone else has environmental regulations.
Since we aren't talking about IC production, I fail to see your point. Doubly so IC's constitute only a very small portion of the hardware volume or cost or assembly time...
And doesn't it occur to you to wonder *why* it's cheaper to assemble there? You think a couple of hundred bucks a year (there) versus several hundred bucks a week (here) doesn't make any difference?
Wow. The issue is not labor costs - but that we don;t have manufacturing facilities? Did it never occur to you to wonder why we don't have those facilities any more?
How does disconnected-from-reality drivel like this get modded up?
This should come as no surprise, but salaries vary with location based largely on the cost-of-living. Silicon Valley and the Bay Area are some of the most expensive places to live in the US.
If your compressed air is full of water vapor - then you just add air dryers to your cycle. The USN Submarine Service has been doing this for decades to prevent a repeat of the USS Thresher accident.
They use dry nitrogen because it's cheap and routinely available since it's used for a large variety of industrial processes.
"To win a majority vote shows that our members are not just a marginal phenomenon; but are in the midst of society.'"
Without knowing the politics of the town, that's a bit of a premature boast. Dark horse and odd ball candidates routinely win against major candidates in local elections when the major candidates have pissed off the electorate or run a seriously lackluster campaigns. The real test of entering the mainstream is either the candidate or party getting re-elected or gaining additional offices or municipalities.
After all, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Another key question, what is the demographics of the town? If they skew young and lower income (not poor, but cube monkeys) or have a major geek influence (like say, Silicon Valley), that's another potential indicator that the boast is hollow and premature.
Given that the technologies required are likely decades to a century or more off... A few years not flying matters very little one way or the other. Given how many of the technologies require advances in parallel fields (like computing), the balance of your post is just wishful thinking.
Sure, it captured their attention and imagination - for the brief span of the flyover it was the "flavor of the moment", all but forgotten by Monday.
No, the disconnect lies elsewhere - in the Slashdotter/space geek who see all those people temporarily entranced by the flyby and thinks "I'm watching this and think it's way cool and NASA should get more money and do more cool things, they're watching this too and therefore must not only think like I do but also be equally passionate". By the time you read this, they'll be just as passionate about the Dodgers game, and tomorrow about the Angels, and on Monday about the latest reality show premier.
When was the last time pictures from Curiosity made the local paper or it's website? (If they even showed up at all.) Public attention is a fickle and short lived thing.
No, the goal of the occasional (and very brief ) PR presentation was to keep the bucks flowing... (By the time of Apollo 11, NASA's budget has already been dramatically slashed and the landing program was running on inertia and fumes.) And they were massive failures at that goal - few of them were carried live. Most of them got thirty seconds or a minute on the 6.30* news, and then vanished into the archives to gather dust.
* Back then, you got a half hour of local news at 6PM, then a half hour of national at 6.30PM.
If space travel was at a stage where it was relevant to the "future of the species" - you'd have a point. But it isn't. It isn't even close.
Anything we could do today in space is the equivalent of hauling a bedsheet out into the backyard and wrapping yourself up in it... it's cool, and fun, but you're still utterly dependent on the house for everything and much less protected from the elements.
Or, to look at it another way... your coatings were thought to be safe, but were replaced by another coating that was thought to be safe. Now that the replacement coating has been found (decades later) to be unsafe, you're implying your coatings are safe even though they haven't actually been subject to modern scrutiny.
There, fixed that for you.
Seriously, when you propose a laundry list of non existent technologies to make things cheaper... you're talking nonsense, not science or engineering.