They now redact before posting, and they now go through the NY Times and other bona-fide journalistic outlets to get published.
They only do that because, after their first round of leaks of US Government secrets including information that should not have been released, someone who actually knows the fucking law explained to them why the NY Times can get away with it by doing it properly so as not to reveal the names of people whose lives would be put unnecessarily at risk.
Assange and Wikileaks are a bunch of script-kiddies, not journalists. And they can be replaced by anyone with an ssh client and a laptop.
Let's see - a country with the world's 2nd largest population and 11th largest economy. Gee, events there couldn't possibly have any effect on the rest of the world, now could they?
If the 2nd-largest population only has the 11th-largest economy, it's a fair bet they've had very little effect on the rest of the world.
Er, what crimes?
See other posts. The U.S. Government is still preparing charges for when they can get him into custody.
Wikileaks is not a journalistic organization. The NY Times knows the difference between properly and improperly classified information, and knows how to handle classified information so as not to put people in danger unnecessarily. If the NY Times were to do it the way Wikileaks did it, the NY Times would not be able to keep from being tried and convicted for it.
I'm talking about the well-known fact that Wikileaks unnecessarily released secrets that put innocent people's lives in danger.
There's a difference between properly classified information and improperly classified information. The law and everyone tasked with following it knows that, and what to do about it. There are procedures for declassifying improperly classified information and punishing those who engage in improperly classifying information. Those procedures ensure that people who should be protected are not put in danger.
Wikileaks does not know that difference. It just dumped data without redacting it. We will probably never be told who they got killed as a result, but the act of putting those people in danger is criminal, and there's no amount of patting the dog and pretending to have reformed themselves that will change that.
Did your ears work better than these did? Canyons are probably where these would be most needed, if they could discriminate on amplitude. Just tell me where the loudest one is, because he's likely the closest. Of course, parabolic ruts in the canyon walls could be trouble there...
TFA reads like an edited version of a sales brochure.
"About the size of a deck of cards"
Except for that ridiculous cord and the massive battery pack stupidly strapped to the poor fuck's shoulder...
"It's very light, only 2 pounds"
2 pounds othat will help me in those situations where I can't hear or see where the fire is coming from, and will otherwise just add dead weight to the other 50 lbs of shit I have to lug into the field every day.
And I bet you could do this with an Android phone for about 1/10th the weight and 1/10th the price per unit.
If he has the knowledge to write a technical book at an expert level, and considers $800/week good pay, then he's never been paid anything near the value of expert technical work.
Which in this shitty economy where the corporate executives hold all the cards and have their foot on the necks of the workers, is not improbable.
Depending where you are on the surface, a single solar day might have more than one sunrise.
Errrrr....how's that supposed to work?
It's rotating about its axis every 55 days. It's rotating about the sun every 88 days. Which means the sun is always going the same direction in the Mercurial sky. Backwards.
The sun rises on Mercury once every two mercury years or 3.5 mercury sidereal days or 176 earth days or 176.5 earth sidereal days. But only once, except maybe in very tiny spots owing to that very tiny axial tilt, so is that what you meant?
Because the USA understands competition, and gets involved in other nations' big space projects if it can, wherupon they generally become the USA's big space projects.
It has a finite surface area, therefore it feels the solar wind.
Accounting for that force when predicting its trajectory, maybe even aligning the spacecraft to make it additive to thrust rather than subtractive wherever possible, doesn't make it "how they maneuvered".
Yeah, but when we cover the whole thing in solar panels and beam the power back to Earth, we will have an amazing source of clean and free energy.
For about 2 months out of every 3.
To get the power when it's on the other side of the sun you'll need to put up relay satellites. And you might as well just put the big solar array on them. You'll only have to put them on one side, then.
the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days.
It's okay, you can say "Mercury's day is 176 Earth days long." I mean, unless you want to replace "Earth day" with the same long-winded macro you used for "Mercury day"....
In fact, one of the first things they'll establish (and probably have it stipulated rather than made evident in court) is that he did get the key right.
There's a paper trail. Bitcoin has to know you have the money and they have to know that your money became GeoHot's money, otherwise they have no way to know that you had that much to give to GeoHot.
The only way to make it such that it couldn't be labeled with you as sender and him as receiver is if it has a unique identifier for each unit of the smallest units it could be divided into.
But then the identifier can be tracked. See "Where's George" for an example.
But BitCoin doesn't work without the banking system. Their bank account exists, and the virtual scrip they create consists of user deposits.
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They now redact before posting, and they now go through the NY Times and other bona-fide journalistic outlets to get published.
They only do that because, after their first round of leaks of US Government secrets including information that should not have been released, someone who actually knows the fucking law explained to them why the NY Times can get away with it by doing it properly so as not to reveal the names of people whose lives would be put unnecessarily at risk.
Assange and Wikileaks are a bunch of script-kiddies, not journalists. And they can be replaced by anyone with an ssh client and a laptop.
Let's see - a country with the world's 2nd largest population and 11th largest economy. Gee, events there couldn't possibly have any effect on the rest of the world, now could they?
If the 2nd-largest population only has the 11th-largest economy, it's a fair bet they've had very little effect on the rest of the world.
Er, what crimes?
See other posts. The U.S. Government is still preparing charges for when they can get him into custody.
No, I am sure that Wikileaks is concerned for nobody's safety.
They have proved that many times over.
Wikileaks is not a journalistic organization. The NY Times knows the difference between properly and improperly classified information, and knows how to handle classified information so as not to put people in danger unnecessarily. If the NY Times were to do it the way Wikileaks did it, the NY Times would not be able to keep from being tried and convicted for it.
Illegal release of classified information.
Some of what they released had been improperly classified, some of it was properly classified and deserved to remain secret.
Doing good does not excuse doing bad.
I'm talking about the well-known fact that Wikileaks unnecessarily released secrets that put innocent people's lives in danger.
There's a difference between properly classified information and improperly classified information. The law and everyone tasked with following it knows that, and what to do about it. There are procedures for declassifying improperly classified information and punishing those who engage in improperly classifying information. Those procedures ensure that people who should be protected are not put in danger.
Wikileaks does not know that difference. It just dumped data without redacting it. We will probably never be told who they got killed as a result, but the act of putting those people in danger is criminal, and there's no amount of patting the dog and pretending to have reformed themselves that will change that.
Did your ears work better than these did? Canyons are probably where these would be most needed, if they could discriminate on amplitude. Just tell me where the loudest one is, because he's likely the closest. Of course, parabolic ruts in the canyon walls could be trouble there...
Heidi-heidi-heidi-hee,
My recruiter lied to me.
Bullseye.
TFA reads like an edited version of a sales brochure.
"About the size of a deck of cards"
Except for that ridiculous cord and the massive battery pack stupidly strapped to the poor fuck's shoulder...
"It's very light, only 2 pounds"
2 pounds othat will help me in those situations where I can't hear or see where the fire is coming from, and will otherwise just add dead weight to the other 50 lbs of shit I have to lug into the field every day.
And I bet you could do this with an Android phone for about 1/10th the weight and 1/10th the price per unit.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but unless you're a constituent of the government in question, what the fuck do you care?
This story is important in India. In the rest of the world, it's merely sensationalist, and Wikileaks may be using it to distract from its crimes.
A function like Wikileaks' is necessary.
Wikileaks itself is entirely fungible in the performance of that function.
And Wikileaks is crippled by the way it's gone about performing that function.
Deservedly so, IMO.
Wikileaks should deal with its legal troubles and pass off the business of keeping governments honest to someone who is still trustworthy.
My fave is the one for Perl.
http://www.cpan.org/
If he has the knowledge to write a technical book at an expert level, and considers $800/week good pay, then he's never been paid anything near the value of expert technical work.
Which in this shitty economy where the corporate executives hold all the cards and have their foot on the necks of the workers, is not improbable.
Depending where you are on the surface, a single solar day might have more than one sunrise.
Errrrr....how's that supposed to work?
It's rotating about its axis every 55 days. It's rotating about the sun every 88 days. Which means the sun is always going the same direction in the Mercurial sky. Backwards.
The sun rises on Mercury once every two mercury years or 3.5 mercury sidereal days or 176 earth days or 176.5 earth sidereal days. But only once, except maybe in very tiny spots owing to that very tiny axial tilt, so is that what you meant?
So it's more like the ersatz "radar" display they have in almost every modern FPS.
Because the USA understands competition, and gets involved in other nations' big space projects if it can, wherupon they generally become the USA's big space projects.
It has a finite surface area, therefore it feels the solar wind.
Accounting for that force when predicting its trajectory, maybe even aligning the spacecraft to make it additive to thrust rather than subtractive wherever possible, doesn't make it "how they maneuvered".
Much, and possibly most, of the vehicle's maneuvering was done by gravity assist during several flybys of Earth and Venus and Mercury. I just wish the website showed a graphic of the whole thing.
So the people in the spaceship that re-discovered V'ger didn't have anything to do with it...
Yeah, but when we cover the whole thing in solar panels and beam the power back to Earth, we will have an amazing source of clean and free energy.
For about 2 months out of every 3.
To get the power when it's on the other side of the sun you'll need to put up relay satellites. And you might as well just put the big solar array on them. You'll only have to put them on one side, then.
the period of time from which the position of the Sun in the sky at a given, fixed Mercury longitude returns to that same position is 176 Earth days.
It's okay, you can say "Mercury's day is 176 Earth days long." I mean, unless you want to replace "Earth day" with the same long-winded macro you used for "Mercury day"....
But you can use it as a soldering iron.
In fact, one of the first things they'll establish (and probably have it stipulated rather than made evident in court) is that he did get the key right.
There's a paper trail. Bitcoin has to know you have the money and they have to know that your money became GeoHot's money, otherwise they have no way to know that you had that much to give to GeoHot.
The only way to make it such that it couldn't be labeled with you as sender and him as receiver is if it has a unique identifier for each unit of the smallest units it could be divided into.
But then the identifier can be tracked. See "Where's George" for an example.
But BitCoin doesn't work without the banking system. Their bank account exists, and the virtual scrip they create consists of user deposits.
Taking possession of a copy of their code is agreement enough.
Strange codocils in shrink-wrap licensing are likely not enforceable (the court will deal with them as they come).
But the general principle that you're not allowed to break reasonable terms of a license, even if you don't read it, will be upheld.