The government of GW Bush did not do normal. We knew that as soon as Jon Bolton put together a fake protest group to "storm" the vote-counting room.
Commanders in the field are making errors in battlefield situations. War happens. Additionally, they're classifying everything in sight. because they don't have time to redact it all, now that every soldier's activities are logged in real-time, and we're trying to win a war with half the people we should have out there. 99.9% of it is irrelevant. A few things could be referred for prosecution. Releasing the names of informants in a global dump of all information is fucking stupid. The commanders are doing less wrong than Assange is.
The State Department classifies everything out of hand. That's always happened, since diplomacy, like poker, is enhanced by keeping your adversary in the dark as to your true feelings. Not just because it might tip your intent, but also because it might spook them irrationally. You want the situation controlled, and you do it by giving only the information you want given, and nothing for them to read between the lines. 99.9% of it is irrelevant. A few things were embarassing or illegal.
Keeping things secret to prevent embarassment or prosecution is illegal under the most recent Executive Order (in fact under all such EOs since the Ellsberg case blew up the old policy) but if the stuff never gets leaked who knows.
Obama's government is getting this shit right. It will prosecute Assange and it will prosecute those identified by the leaks as doing things wrong. It will protect those identified by the leaks as our informants in the field, and, if it can't, it will prosecute Assange again on additional counts for getting them killed.
You have no idea how old I am, and you assume too much about what I do and don't know about what's going on. The biggest mistake you can make is to eliminate our security and gut our effectiveness around the world by trying to remove the ability of the government to keep a secret that needs to be kept. You'd be far more useful picketing Fox News.
No, if you walk up to a bar and see a C-note sitting there, you leave it there. It's not yours, it's the bar's, or it's the property of the person who will be coming back from the bathroom./. seems to be full of people who would get their asses beat if they ever went out in public anywhere other than the comic-book store or McDonald's. And probably there, too.
Oh, and the CIA operates outside America, just not inside it. That's why you always think FBI and not CIA when these things happen. Because they can't come after you.
Also, the only "game" that is obvious about Assange and the rape charge is that Assange is lying like a trapped child that someone's persecuting him.
It is perfectly legal for anyone to tell classified information to anyone else as long as they have not sign documents stating they will not do that.
No, it isn't. They can't nail you for violating your agreement, but they can still nail you for creating a potential for damage. It's not the classified-ness that gets you, it's the reason it was classified.
Assange released a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been classified. But along with it he released a lot of stuff that should have been kept secret. He'll be punished for the latter.
So you understand why we have cops: because the "hue and cry" was inefficient in catching actual criminals and unreasonable* in applying justice to anyone they caught.
Honestly, it's no longer limited to the year-end roundup.
Probably 40% of online "journalism" is now listographies, frequently slide-show based, in order to suck up maximal clicks and spew scripted hoo-ha, delivering almost 100 bytes of actual info per 20 seconds waiting for the fucking page to turn.
It will be that way until advertisers stop falling for the dollars-for-page-views pricing model.
Reminds me of the Garmin Edge reboot and USB connectivity problems. They didn't use a flex to connect the rear case electronics to the front case electronics, they used a riser with flexible fingers. Fair enough, but they integrated this riser with the mini-USB port jack, and because of that surrounded the case opening with a thick gasket of stiff rubber. See what's coming? When the case is closed, the gasket puts a high spring force between the two circuit boards right where the fingers are mounted, reducing the spring force the fingers can apply to their mating contacts. When using the unit in a vibrating situation (you know, like on a bike, especially an MTB in typical MTB terrain), intermittent loss of contact results in power-bus glitches, which results in inadvertent power-cycling. And these things boot slower than a netbook running Windows Vista, so not only is it wearing on your data-gathering sensibilities, it's fracking boring waiting for the thing to come back to usable state so you can sweat while you wonder if it'll blow itself out again.
Also, repeated insertion and removal of the USB connector leads to loose USB connectivity, and reboots while plugged into the computer.
It took Garmin nearly a year to "figure it out", while everyone online who knew what the insides looked like knew within seconds what was going on. And Garmin's solution was to introduce the next model (at 3X the price). People owning the buggy model were offered a chance to mail in the device for a fix, but most were out of warranty, and the fix was not reputed to be a sure one.
Moral: Never -- ever -- trust a corporation when the potential for money flow is negative to them.
No, it's about how many transistors you can (reliably and profitably) put in a packaged device.
If it was about transistor density, it would talk only about transistors per square mm (or square mil), but it only uses that as a part of the calculation.
Moore's fiddled the meaning a bit to handle incorrect assumptions, but not by much.
Doubling the size of the die and slapping another core on there count as a doubling in his book. Getting there takes a minor design change but a major improvement in process reliability, since a defect in one core scraps the chip, taking a perfectly good core with it, doubling the cost of defects up front. You have to get that cost back down. That is the result of the human and financial and scientific effort that Moore's law measures.
Moore's law isn't about clock speed, it's about transistor counts. And while individual cores don't get much bigger or faster, but they come in bundles now, with lots of cache. The result is that transistor counts and performance keep going up, seemingly regardless of demand by anyone other than the sliver of the market known as early adopters.
Moore's law is chugging along just fine, as is the estimate of date of its demise.
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The government of GW Bush did not do normal. We knew that as soon as Jon Bolton put together a fake protest group to "storm" the vote-counting room.
Commanders in the field are making errors in battlefield situations. War happens. Additionally, they're classifying everything in sight. because they don't have time to redact it all, now that every soldier's activities are logged in real-time, and we're trying to win a war with half the people we should have out there. 99.9% of it is irrelevant. A few things could be referred for prosecution. Releasing the names of informants in a global dump of all information is fucking stupid. The commanders are doing less wrong than Assange is.
The State Department classifies everything out of hand. That's always happened, since diplomacy, like poker, is enhanced by keeping your adversary in the dark as to your true feelings. Not just because it might tip your intent, but also because it might spook them irrationally. You want the situation controlled, and you do it by giving only the information you want given, and nothing for them to read between the lines. 99.9% of it is irrelevant. A few things were embarassing or illegal.
Keeping things secret to prevent embarassment or prosecution is illegal under the most recent Executive Order (in fact under all such EOs since the Ellsberg case blew up the old policy) but if the stuff never gets leaked who knows.
Obama's government is getting this shit right. It will prosecute Assange and it will prosecute those identified by the leaks as doing things wrong. It will protect those identified by the leaks as our informants in the field, and, if it can't, it will prosecute Assange again on additional counts for getting them killed.
You have no idea how old I am, and you assume too much about what I do and don't know about what's going on. The biggest mistake you can make is to eliminate our security and gut our effectiveness around the world by trying to remove the ability of the government to keep a secret that needs to be kept. You'd be far more useful picketing Fox News.
Here, you earned this: http://celebritybikinigossip.com/category/celebrities/
If that's too complex, try this: http://static.zenimax.com/bethblog/oldcontent/bright_shiny.jpg
and did what anyone would have
No, if you walk up to a bar and see a C-note sitting there, you leave it there. It's not yours, it's the bar's, or it's the property of the person who will be coming back from the bathroom. /. seems to be full of people who would get their asses beat if they ever went out in public anywhere other than the comic-book store or McDonald's. And probably there, too.
Oh, and the CIA operates outside America, just not inside it. That's why you always think FBI and not CIA when these things happen. Because they can't come after you.
Also, the only "game" that is obvious about Assange and the rape charge is that Assange is lying like a trapped child that someone's persecuting him.
It is perfectly legal for anyone to tell classified information to anyone else as long as they have not sign documents stating they will not do that.
No, it isn't. They can't nail you for violating your agreement, but they can still nail you for creating a potential for damage. It's not the classified-ness that gets you, it's the reason it was classified.
Assange released a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been classified. But along with it he released a lot of stuff that should have been kept secret. He'll be punished for the latter.
The only thing out of control is your interpretation of these things as significant when they are hyped to attract clicks.
Go back to looking at celebrities in bikinis. You'll be less misinformed.
Except now it won't be an arrest warrant, it will be an order to call Health Care Reform, "Government takeover of healthcare".
How the hell am I supposed to wrap a fish in that?
Right.
Because nobody could ever hack the phone system.
Close. Journalists are the weakest link.
Most of the stuff that's password-protected isn't worth anything.
A Gawker account? How much does having that hacked that cost me?
A lot less than the time it takes to tell a journalist that it didn't cost me anything.
Apparently, your smartphone can do everything they can do, and of course a whole lot more.
Except cadence.
Unless you're willing to wear it like a tart's derringer.
So you understand why we have cops: because the "hue and cry" was inefficient in catching actual criminals and unreasonable* in applying justice to anyone they caught.
* - even more unreasonable than the cops.
I'm not sure you're ever sure of anything realistic.
It was an example. Try inductive reasoning from there.
That happens because, as I mentioned, the perp generally deserved it.
And if you don't like how it's being done, you can try to get on a CRB yourself just by filling out a form.
Sure, there's politics involved. When isn't there? You're doing it now, by posting opinions about how the process is rotten.
Yes, that rarely happens, but apparently the current DoJ is changing the rules to increase the rate.
It will take conscientious effort by a large part of the population to peacefully reverse this disturbing trend.
But that is the rule of law. It only wouldn't be if you couldn't do that under the law.
The rule of law also includes your right to question the actions of the police before a judge.
And many jurisdictions have official boards of citizens who listen to complaints about the police and can cause much grief to the police hierarchy if the rank-and-file are abusing their badges.
But that doesn't stop perps who get their necks stepped on from shouting "police brutality!" even though they deserve it.
...record things going (*whooosh!*) wherever it occurs...
This, is an ex-Google app.
Honestly, it's no longer limited to the year-end roundup.
Probably 40% of online "journalism" is now listographies, frequently slide-show based, in order to suck up maximal clicks and spew scripted hoo-ha, delivering almost 100 bytes of actual info per 20 seconds waiting for the fucking page to turn.
It will be that way until advertisers stop falling for the dollars-for-page-views pricing model.
Want to spend a winter in Antarctica as the BOFH for a scientific supercomputer watching for neutrinos in a 2-km^3 ice cube?
Recruitment for the 2011-2012 season will begin in early 2011
Reminds me of the Garmin Edge reboot and USB connectivity problems. They didn't use a flex to connect the rear case electronics to the front case electronics, they used a riser with flexible fingers. Fair enough, but they integrated this riser with the mini-USB port jack, and because of that surrounded the case opening with a thick gasket of stiff rubber. See what's coming? When the case is closed, the gasket puts a high spring force between the two circuit boards right where the fingers are mounted, reducing the spring force the fingers can apply to their mating contacts. When using the unit in a vibrating situation (you know, like on a bike, especially an MTB in typical MTB terrain), intermittent loss of contact results in power-bus glitches, which results in inadvertent power-cycling. And these things boot slower than a netbook running Windows Vista, so not only is it wearing on your data-gathering sensibilities, it's fracking boring waiting for the thing to come back to usable state so you can sweat while you wonder if it'll blow itself out again.
Also, repeated insertion and removal of the USB connector leads to loose USB connectivity, and reboots while plugged into the computer.
It took Garmin nearly a year to "figure it out", while everyone online who knew what the insides looked like knew within seconds what was going on. And Garmin's solution was to introduce the next model (at 3X the price). People owning the buggy model were offered a chance to mail in the device for a fix, but most were out of warranty, and the fix was not reputed to be a sure one.
Moral: Never -- ever -- trust a corporation when the potential for money flow is negative to them.
Your response is consistent with your attitude.
No, it's about how many transistors you can (reliably and profitably) put in a packaged device.
If it was about transistor density, it would talk only about transistors per square mm (or square mil), but it only uses that as a part of the calculation.
Moore's fiddled the meaning a bit to handle incorrect assumptions, but not by much.
Doubling the size of the die and slapping another core on there count as a doubling in his book. Getting there takes a minor design change but a major improvement in process reliability, since a defect in one core scraps the chip, taking a perfectly good core with it, doubling the cost of defects up front. You have to get that cost back down. That is the result of the human and financial and scientific effort that Moore's law measures.
Moore's law isn't about clock speed, it's about transistor counts. And while individual cores don't get much bigger or faster, but they come in bundles now, with lots of cache. The result is that transistor counts and performance keep going up, seemingly regardless of demand by anyone other than the sliver of the market known as early adopters.
Moore's law is chugging along just fine, as is the estimate of date of its demise.
Just tell me that the DDoS site is slashdotted.