Wow, thats the best gratuitous link I have seen all day. I'm going to hang out on a social network and try and corrupt youth by getting them to read it.
On the topic in question I'm very glad to see some research that indicates that the internet is not necessarily more dangerous for youngsters than hanging out in the local public library. Both places require the youngster to understand the dangers and parents are expected to educate their children how to stay safe in them. The PC safety brigade need to take a cold bath and find a more socially useful outlet for their obsessive fears.
I second that, though my router is at the foot of the bed. I found their campaign website and emailed them to tell them the good news that I have done the best I can to destroy my health with wicked Wi-Fi but have singularly failed to damage my chakras or anything else that I can think of. I am sure that they would welcome further testimonials to support one side of the story or the other to janesiran@yahoo.co.uk
Oh and I hope you addressed your post to everybody, not just the seriously weird folks.
The UK is being cited as the cause of the delay in eradicating Measles from Earth because a medical quack decided that he would fake evidence that the triple MMR vaccination caused autism. The gutter press got hold of it and screamed "save the children" thereby convincing concerned parents everywhere to not vaccinate their children. I'm hoping a few of them will die of measles in order to help sharpen up peoples discrimination between nutjobs and science. I'm perfectly happy for the people of Glastonbury to do without the 21st century but I strongly object to their invocation of psudo science and trickery to condemn the rest of us to their unenlightened state. These people are wrong and should be told so in VERY large letters.
"Facebook has a black and white policy for censorship, when censorship is a gray area.
No bare breasts. What's gray about that?
I agree that it's not the smartest policy move, but facebook has that right."
Actually no, you and Facebook reflect the continued need to invent stupid rules by churches to restrict the breeding activities of the ignorant population who are so clearly too stupid to behave rationally. We have had a reformation that allows us to think about the world but it seems we are still too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves about ourselves.
I seem to recall that Western Christians find it objectionable that Muslims make Women wear black bags in order to protect them from rape by uncontrollable males. (It seems curious that the supposedly enlightened mores of Muslim society actually lead to continuous uncontrolled harassment of women whether or not they are wearing a black bag)
I shall be looking with interest over the rest of my life for some sign that America contains a civilisation capable of withstanding the sight of a bare breast. Meanwhile I watch the soldiers of the United States of America butcher thousands of people across the world in the name of freedom. Ironic really. Take a good long look at yourselves, you appear to be ignorant savages led by evil leaders from the outside.
I see that the "page not found" blocking still seems to be in effect, at least for my connection.
This is a welcome move announcing that it was a mistake to block this particular instance. It is the height of foolishness to block an encyclopedia, particularly for content that has been in the public domain for thirty years or so.
Thought crime should not be something that the free world invokes as a weapon against criminality. We have fought wars with states that created the idea of thought crime and it would be a great pity if we find ourselves fighting our own states through the stupidity of do-gooders. No matter how compelling their mission. Fight the crime not the side effects.
So great news and I hope that the offending item becomes available again after a discrete interval. It is of course all over Google image search and no doubt unpleasantly popular as a result of the ban.
A debatable question. Maybe the Europeans should take samples of visiting Americans DNA and see if they match any crime scene samples in Europe. After all we know that DNA matches are 100% proof of guilt. Well apart from the 1 in 200,000 random match rate of course. How many Americans are there? 200 Million did you say. Excellent, our crime clear up rates will be significantly improved once we start banging up foreign nationals! The human right of privacy is all we have left against bad science in the field of information technology based criminology. Lets match your IP address against my corrupt file of kiddy porn sites shall we and put your children in state care. Or better still lets put you in gitmo because some war driving suicide bomber had the tools to crack your pathetic wpa encryption. good luck you trusting soul.
Its also notable that we are not looking to apply 40 year sentences to people responsible for putting more than two million people out of work in the US alone for unethical or careless activity in the financial sector. It appears that moral guidance on setting law from 2000 year old books is failing modern society in significant ways.
It has to be said that you can only go so far with metaphor. Looking at a plot of oscillating light curves is great for those of us who understand what they mean. There is something visceral that hits you in the gut when you can see the things with your own eyes in a photograph that could have been taken in your back garden.
Its why we do stupid things like send people into space instead of machines - it gets the thing into the brains of mainstream mortgage defaulters and their tax dollars are diverted into more of the same instead of mediating religious wars in oil filled deserts or building creationist edutainment museums.
I for one welcome our new methane breathing overlords even if they are 25 or 129 lightyears away.
As a European who uses text more than calling this is an endemic problem with cell phones - they are universally crap for texting because of small buttons. Maybe now that the super hype of money for nothing style over substance shallow consumerism has landed each and every one of us with a tax bill of a couple of hundred thousand dollars of future taxation to pay off fucking barking mad asset inflation - we can get back to consumer goods that do what we need them to do rather than some marketing droids dream of what might look cool in a Disney movie.
So lets get back to a user interface that works and a phone with a decent battery life instead of useless bits of fantastic technology dedicated to looking great and being totally useless in practice. I am sure that Motorola engineers, like engineers in every company that has been sucked into the vacuous dream world we have been living in will come up with the goods. Android is an excellent platform to move forward with IMHO.
If it was anonymous then the cabal associated with the heist is dead, you dont fuck with the government unless you want to go to prison - just look at that moron Gary McKinnon who has been extradited from the UK to the US so they can put on a show trial - and this is about a decade after he surfed around a few NASA sites looking for pictures of UFOs. McKinnon is obviously going to be treated as if he were a kiddy fiddler to put people off doing what he did. So if it was anonymous then they are finished - which is rather a shame as they were doing a great job of taking down $cientology. On the other hand it could be a frame up which would be very very very very funny, especially if the bumbling Feds swallow it. As for Palin who cares if she is found out to be bending the rules, all politicians do it and this transgression is so boring and un-newsworthy I cannot even be bothered to read the emails. Whoever did the hack needs to get off the baby milk formula and grow up or drink an awful lot more of the melamine enhanced version and stop bothering the rest of us.
Never mind his acting ability or lack thereof, he is a member of a pseudo criminal pyramid selling cult and legitimizes its existence by his membership.
Now if he switched to supporting the Freezone I might have more time for him but he is a figurehead for a vile cult and should be called out as a nasty piece of work.
Makes you wonder about the sanity of the followers of this god character doesn't it.
Its time to reveal the truth (ok lets say we don't quite understand yet, so this is a theory about the truth) Religion is a meme, an idea that is self replicating and has a slight evolutionary advantage (lets burn everyone who doesn't accept the idea shall we). Now the contents of this meme don't have to contain anything useful or true so long as the ideas do not impede the breeding and ability to grow crops and pay taxes to the slave owners.
Bingo, we have an explanation for Religion and why it is so full of rubbish DNA (or ideas) - the rubbish bits do not impede the important stuff about killing people who do not accept the religion or impede the construction of hierarchical societies that are good at feeding people in times of famine and good at promoting the church leaders to positions of supreme legal authority.
Now we get into intense discussions about the validity of one of their more barking mad bits of crap idea - the one about how the world was created by a fearsome old bloke with a white beard in a week and that we are all descended from a breeding pair of humans called Adam and Eve that he knocked up in his lab by the power of fiat.
Frankly I've lost interest in debating the argument and am just busting to let my science meme load up a mini-gun and take out these religious types that are attacking my meme. Hell lets go one step further and see if we can push the superpowers over the edge so they toss off their nuclear weapons at each other and with any luck the nuclear winter will off the entire human race and cleanse the planet of this offensive religion stuff. As a bonus side effect its a sure cure for global warming.
Maybe not, guess I will just have to carry on arguing the toss with mad people.
I wouldn't mind the migration to video games if there was anything worth playing but the only thing that seems to be available are fighting games.
Well I love shooting people and watching their flesh being torn off as my mini gun cuts them in half as much as the next normal sane person who loves children and flowers, but after playing one the rest all seem the same so why bother.
If there was anything out there as evocative and interesting as the old infocom games I would buy it, but there isn't, is there.
Hey who said anything about right wrong or fair. I've had it up to here with these medieval religious types, not only do they think that they have a god given right to overpopulate the planet and kill everything on it through global warming and pollution of one sort or another - but they also want to wind the clock back past the enlightenment and subject us all to their superstitious crap. So no way am I going to sit back and let these loonies destroy my culture with their backwards rubbish. In case you hadn't noticed we are living in a time when so called religious fundamentalists of one sort or another are trying to kill us all for kicks because they don't believe we are human. Well game theory says your chances are better if your response matches your opponent. So no I'm not going to sit back and whistle whilst these creepy mentally ill people change science into a cultural pursuit like sociology.
This is war, the killing is only just around the corner, just wait and see.
Isn't it about time that crap dinosaur companies like IBM were bought up by dynamic young companies going places like Leveno? I am sick and tired of hearing about random US mega corporations attempting to patent 'breathing' yet again so that they can sue the asses off of other big companies and ensure that the Chinese have to pay taxes to manufacture our goods for us. We used to think communism was evil because it gave people a poor life. Well I'm beginning to think the same thing about large businesses, they want us to serve them rather than them serving us and that is evil too.
It appears that the recording industry that produces all that exciting rebellious teenager product is actually a total con. Funny that isn't it, probably why the protest song has disappeared - after all it would look so hypocritical to be singing about saving starving people or something whilst working for an organization solely dedicated to paying its top executives and herds of parasitical underlings as much as possible.
The funny thing is that I now actually believe in politicians more than music industry professionals. Politicians mostly get into their profession because they think that they can make the world substantially better, Music industry professionals get into it because they know that they can screw the public over for a lot of money, and mostly not even bother asking what the public want to hear, as the music business is quite capable of telling people what to buy. At the end of the day its a no brainer, just get some black guy who might have killed someone when he was a teenager in a gang to shout about the size of his reproductive organ and the size of his car and how many of his younger relatives he has had sex with and bingo ! a massive world wide hit for all disaffected teenagers whos lives are apparently uncannily similar to our putative rap rockstar. No wonder the youth of the UK would rather stick a knife in you than speak to you, given that all their waking thoughts are filled with the hideous trash that the music business insists they listen to.
Not all busineses are as sickeningly manipulative and antisocial as the Music Business. Drug dealing for example comes to mind where a product is genuinely in demand and the bulk of the downsides to the product are actually for the supply chain who face years in prison if they get caught and are forced to work alongside businesses which they might find morally repugnant.
So there you have it, most of the population given a straight choice would prefer to keep the illegal drugs industry over the Music Business as we can clearly see which one is worse for our health.
Its certainly not time for the West to take sides but rather to make soothing platitudes about stopping the killing whilst waiting for the Russians to wipe out the Georgians military capability. Do these Georgians honestly believe that the West is stupid enough to back them against the Russians (who have lots of oil and gas). Gee I just cant understand it, who gives a toss about the Georgians, I hope the Russians bomb them into the stone age militarily so they cant do anything stupid again. As for the breakaway provinces, good luck to them under the Russians rather than the Georgians.
Actually he should get a medal and a pension for forcing weak IT departments to check and close the backdoors they left open. Better him bumbling in than serious Chinese hackers littering your government networks with much harder to find Trojans and assorted toys. This is just a publicity stunt to cover up the appalling lack of reasonable care that should have been taken on the networks he wandered about in. The individual concerned has been neutralized and harassed for years in the courts so I don't think anyone with half a braincell is going to attempt to repeat the deed in future. It's a waste of tax payers money that should be spent on installing good security rather than a vacuous TV generation celebrity show trial. Most of the people reading this forum could have done what he did at the time given a manual and too much spare time, the modern script kiddy would have done a much more damaging job. He deserves a good telling off but escalating the thing just discredits the legal process once you start digging into what he actually did. Having said all that its a pretty trivial story, he got in the way and they are going to make an example out of him, bad luck, dont mess with government property, leave it to Russian and Chinese cyber war departments. Lets hope that they are doing a better job at keeping them out.
The US is going to wake up one day and find that the rest of the world would rather be friends with China. Very soon its going to make more economic sense in any case.
it is a completely brain dead moronic puerile and insulting policy because it assumes that the company you work for is stealing things, deceiving people, cheating customers and rivals and generally is a good advertisement for just how bankrupt western society is. No wonder Muslims call us the great Satan.
My email is my business application, it is my engineering notebook and product engineering database. I have to back up several Gb of data on my personal USB hard disk as the email server is limited to 100Mb.
What is wrong with you people? why are you just rolling over and asking bad business practice to ram you up the Khyber? Deleting email because it might incriminate you in future is wrong.
A tad unfair methinks, seeing as the folks at Best Buy paid for the show with their taxes. I hope that they see the search for life on Mars as interesting as any geek would.
The tension and drama of that landing was certainly about as mainstream as anything in science gets. 16,000 mph to landing in 7 minutes deploying heatshields, parachutes, radar and rockets in an autonomous vehicle driven by a computer not very different to a smartphone. Not to mention discarding the cruise stage, flipping over to batteries, dumping the heatshield then finally dropping free from the parachute to a powered landing.
NASA TV did a great job explaining it all and showing it happen. In a couple of hours with any luck we should be seeing the first pictures of the arctic on Mars - a planet that is just a tiny circle of orange in a powerful back yard telescope even at opposition a few months ago.
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Wow, thats the best gratuitous link I have seen all day. I'm going to hang out on a social network and try and corrupt youth by getting them to read it.
On the topic in question I'm very glad to see some research that indicates that the internet is not necessarily more dangerous for youngsters than hanging out in the local public library. Both places require the youngster to understand the dangers and parents are expected to educate their children how to stay safe in them. The PC safety brigade need to take a cold bath and find a more socially useful outlet for their obsessive fears.
I second that, though my router is at the foot of the bed. I found their campaign website and emailed them to tell them the good news that I have done the best I can to destroy my health with wicked Wi-Fi but have singularly failed to damage my chakras or anything else that I can think of. I am sure that they would welcome further testimonials to support one side of the story or the other to janesiran@yahoo.co.uk
Oh and I hope you addressed your post to everybody, not just the seriously weird folks.
The UK is being cited as the cause of the delay in eradicating Measles from Earth because a medical quack decided that he would fake evidence that the triple MMR vaccination caused autism. The gutter press got hold of it and screamed "save the children" thereby convincing concerned parents everywhere to not vaccinate their children. I'm hoping a few of them will die of measles in order to help sharpen up peoples discrimination between nutjobs and science. I'm perfectly happy for the people of Glastonbury to do without the 21st century but I strongly object to their invocation of psudo science and trickery to condemn the rest of us to their unenlightened state. These people are wrong and should be told so in VERY large letters.
"Facebook has a black and white policy for censorship, when censorship is a gray area.
No bare breasts. What's gray about that?
I agree that it's not the smartest policy move, but facebook has that right."
Actually no, you and Facebook reflect the continued need to invent stupid rules by churches to restrict the breeding activities of the ignorant population who are so clearly too stupid to behave rationally. We have had a reformation that allows us to think about the world but it seems we are still too stupid to be allowed to think for ourselves about ourselves.
I seem to recall that Western Christians find it objectionable that Muslims make Women wear black bags in order to protect them from rape by uncontrollable males. (It seems curious that the supposedly enlightened mores of Muslim society actually lead to continuous uncontrolled harassment of women whether or not they are wearing a black bag)
I shall be looking with interest over the rest of my life for some sign that America contains a civilisation capable of withstanding the sight of a bare breast. Meanwhile I watch the soldiers of the United States of America butcher thousands of people across the world in the name of freedom. Ironic really. Take a good long look at yourselves, you appear to be ignorant savages led by evil leaders from the outside.
I see that the "page not found" blocking still seems to be in effect, at least for my connection.
This is a welcome move announcing that it was a mistake to block this particular instance. It is the height of foolishness to block an encyclopedia, particularly for content that has been in the public domain for thirty years or so.
Thought crime should not be something that the free world invokes as a weapon against criminality. We have fought wars with states that created the idea of thought crime and it would be a great pity if we find ourselves fighting our own states through the stupidity of do-gooders. No matter how compelling their mission. Fight the crime not the side effects.
So great news and I hope that the offending item becomes available again after a discrete interval. It is of course all over Google image search and no doubt unpleasantly popular as a result of the ban.
A debatable question. Maybe the Europeans should take samples of visiting Americans DNA and see if they match any crime scene samples in Europe. After all we know that DNA matches are 100% proof of guilt. Well apart from the 1 in 200,000 random match rate of course. How many Americans are there? 200 Million did you say. Excellent, our crime clear up rates will be significantly improved once we start banging up foreign nationals! The human right of privacy is all we have left against bad science in the field of information technology based criminology. Lets match your IP address against my corrupt file of kiddy porn sites shall we and put your children in state care. Or better still lets put you in gitmo because some war driving suicide bomber had the tools to crack your pathetic wpa encryption. good luck you trusting soul.
Its also notable that we are not looking to apply 40 year sentences to people responsible for putting more than two million people out of work in the US alone for unethical or careless activity in the financial sector. It appears that moral guidance on setting law from 2000 year old books is failing modern society in significant ways.
The Japanese have a man who can bend a leg right back over his head with every step
If only they could discover how to make the perfect first post.
It has to be said that you can only go so far with metaphor. Looking at a plot of oscillating light curves is great for those of us who understand what they mean. There is something visceral that hits you in the gut when you can see the things with your own eyes in a photograph that could have been taken in your back garden.
Its why we do stupid things like send people into space instead of machines - it gets the thing into the brains of mainstream mortgage defaulters and their tax dollars are diverted into more of the same instead of mediating religious wars in oil filled deserts or building creationist edutainment museums.
I for one welcome our new methane breathing overlords even if they are 25 or 129 lightyears away.
As a European who uses text more than calling this is an endemic problem with cell phones - they are universally crap for texting because of small buttons. Maybe now that the super hype of money for nothing style over substance shallow consumerism has landed each and every one of us with a tax bill of a couple of hundred thousand dollars of future taxation to pay off fucking barking mad asset inflation - we can get back to consumer goods that do what we need them to do rather than some marketing droids dream of what might look cool in a Disney movie.
So lets get back to a user interface that works and a phone with a decent battery life instead of useless bits of fantastic technology dedicated to looking great and being totally useless in practice. I am sure that Motorola engineers, like engineers in every company that has been sucked into the vacuous dream world we have been living in will come up with the goods. Android is an excellent platform to move forward with IMHO.
The story is cobblers of course, I'd rather drink a cup of sick than read the originating article.
If it was anonymous then the cabal associated with the heist is dead, you dont fuck with the government unless you want to go to prison - just look at that moron Gary McKinnon who has been extradited from the UK to the US so they can put on a show trial - and this is about a decade after he surfed around a few NASA sites looking for pictures of UFOs. McKinnon is obviously going to be treated as if he were a kiddy fiddler to put people off doing what he did. So if it was anonymous then they are finished - which is rather a shame as they were doing a great job of taking down $cientology. On the other hand it could be a frame up which would be very very very very funny, especially if the bumbling Feds swallow it. As for Palin who cares if she is found out to be bending the rules, all politicians do it and this transgression is so boring and un-newsworthy I cannot even be bothered to read the emails. Whoever did the hack needs to get off the baby milk formula and grow up or drink an awful lot more of the melamine enhanced version and stop bothering the rest of us.
Never mind his acting ability or lack thereof, he is a member of a pseudo criminal pyramid selling cult and legitimizes its existence by his membership.
Now if he switched to supporting the Freezone I might have more time for him but he is a figurehead for a vile cult and should be called out as a nasty piece of work.
Makes you wonder about the sanity of the followers of this god character doesn't it.
Its time to reveal the truth (ok lets say we don't quite understand yet, so this is a theory about the truth) Religion is a meme, an idea that is self replicating and has a slight evolutionary advantage (lets burn everyone who doesn't accept the idea shall we). Now the contents of this meme don't have to contain anything useful or true so long as the ideas do not impede the breeding and ability to grow crops and pay taxes to the slave owners.
Bingo, we have an explanation for Religion and why it is so full of rubbish DNA (or ideas) - the rubbish bits do not impede the important stuff about killing people who do not accept the religion or impede the construction of hierarchical societies that are good at feeding people in times of famine and good at promoting the church leaders to positions of supreme legal authority.
Now we get into intense discussions about the validity of one of their more barking mad bits of crap idea - the one about how the world was created by a fearsome old bloke with a white beard in a week and that we are all descended from a breeding pair of humans called Adam and Eve that he knocked up in his lab by the power of fiat.
Frankly I've lost interest in debating the argument and am just busting to let my science meme load up a mini-gun and take out these religious types that are attacking my meme. Hell lets go one step further and see if we can push the superpowers over the edge so they toss off their nuclear weapons at each other and with any luck the nuclear winter will off the entire human race and cleanse the planet of this offensive religion stuff. As a bonus side effect its a sure cure for global warming.
Maybe not, guess I will just have to carry on arguing the toss with mad people.
I wouldn't mind the migration to video games if there was anything worth playing but the only thing that seems to be available are fighting games.
Well I love shooting people and watching their flesh being torn off as my mini gun cuts them in half as much as the next normal sane person who loves children and flowers, but after playing one the rest all seem the same so why bother.
If there was anything out there as evocative and interesting as the old infocom games I would buy it, but there isn't, is there.
Hey who said anything about right wrong or fair. I've had it up to here with these medieval religious types, not only do they think that they have a god given right to overpopulate the planet and kill everything on it through global warming and pollution of one sort or another - but they also want to wind the clock back past the enlightenment and subject us all to their superstitious crap. So no way am I going to sit back and let these loonies destroy my culture with their backwards rubbish. In case you hadn't noticed we are living in a time when so called religious fundamentalists of one sort or another are trying to kill us all for kicks because they don't believe we are human. Well game theory says your chances are better if your response matches your opponent. So no I'm not going to sit back and whistle whilst these creepy mentally ill people change science into a cultural pursuit like sociology.
This is war, the killing is only just around the corner, just wait and see.
My thoughts exactly.
Isn't it about time that crap dinosaur companies like IBM were bought up by dynamic young companies going places like Leveno? I am sick and tired of hearing about random US mega corporations attempting to patent 'breathing' yet again so that they can sue the asses off of other big companies and ensure that the Chinese have to pay taxes to manufacture our goods for us. We used to think communism was evil because it gave people a poor life. Well I'm beginning to think the same thing about large businesses, they want us to serve them rather than them serving us and that is evil too.
It appears that the recording industry that produces all that exciting rebellious teenager product is actually a total con. Funny that isn't it, probably why the protest song has disappeared - after all it would look so hypocritical to be singing about saving starving people or something whilst working for an organization solely dedicated to paying its top executives and herds of parasitical underlings as much as possible.
The funny thing is that I now actually believe in politicians more than music industry professionals. Politicians mostly get into their profession because they think that they can make the world substantially better, Music industry professionals get into it because they know that they can screw the public over for a lot of money, and mostly not even bother asking what the public want to hear, as the music business is quite capable of telling people what to buy. At the end of the day its a no brainer, just get some black guy who might have killed someone when he was a teenager in a gang to shout about the size of his reproductive organ and the size of his car and how many of his younger relatives he has had sex with and bingo ! a massive world wide hit for all disaffected teenagers whos lives are apparently uncannily similar to our putative rap rockstar. No wonder the youth of the UK would rather stick a knife in you than speak to you, given that all their waking thoughts are filled with the hideous trash that the music business insists they listen to.
Not all busineses are as sickeningly manipulative and antisocial as the Music Business. Drug dealing for example comes to mind where a product is genuinely in demand and the bulk of the downsides to the product are actually for the supply chain who face years in prison if they get caught and are forced to work alongside businesses which they might find morally repugnant.
So there you have it, most of the population given a straight choice would prefer to keep the illegal drugs industry over the Music Business as we can clearly see which one is worse for our health.
Its certainly not time for the West to take sides but rather to make soothing platitudes about stopping the killing whilst waiting for the Russians to wipe out the Georgians military capability. Do these Georgians honestly believe that the West is stupid enough to back them against the Russians (who have lots of oil and gas). Gee I just cant understand it, who gives a toss about the Georgians, I hope the Russians bomb them into the stone age militarily so they cant do anything stupid again. As for the breakaway provinces, good luck to them under the Russians rather than the Georgians.
Actually he should get a medal and a pension for forcing weak IT departments to check and close the backdoors they left open. Better him bumbling in than serious Chinese hackers littering your government networks with much harder to find Trojans and assorted toys. This is just a publicity stunt to cover up the appalling lack of reasonable care that should have been taken on the networks he wandered about in. The individual concerned has been neutralized and harassed for years in the courts so I don't think anyone with half a braincell is going to attempt to repeat the deed in future. It's a waste of tax payers money that should be spent on installing good security rather than a vacuous TV generation celebrity show trial. Most of the people reading this forum could have done what he did at the time given a manual and too much spare time, the modern script kiddy would have done a much more damaging job. He deserves a good telling off but escalating the thing just discredits the legal process once you start digging into what he actually did. Having said all that its a pretty trivial story, he got in the way and they are going to make an example out of him, bad luck, dont mess with government property, leave it to Russian and Chinese cyber war departments. Lets hope that they are doing a better job at keeping them out.
My small hand held camera has an astronomical telescope attached to the front of it and could probably image your street from space.
The US is going to wake up one day and find that the rest of the world would rather be friends with China. Very soon its going to make more economic sense in any case.
it is a completely brain dead moronic puerile and insulting policy because it assumes that the company you work for is stealing things, deceiving people, cheating customers and rivals and generally is a good advertisement for just how bankrupt western society is. No wonder Muslims call us the great Satan.
My email is my business application, it is my engineering notebook and product engineering database. I have to back up several Gb of data on my personal USB hard disk as the email server is limited to 100Mb.
What is wrong with you people? why are you just rolling over and asking bad business practice to ram you up the Khyber? Deleting email because it might incriminate you in future is wrong.
A tad unfair methinks, seeing as the folks at Best Buy paid for the show with their taxes. I hope that they see the search for life on Mars as interesting as any geek would.
The tension and drama of that landing was certainly about as mainstream as anything in science gets. 16,000 mph to landing in 7 minutes deploying heatshields, parachutes, radar and rockets in an autonomous vehicle driven by a computer not very different to a smartphone. Not to mention discarding the cruise stage, flipping over to batteries, dumping the heatshield then finally dropping free from the parachute to a powered landing.
NASA TV did a great job explaining it all and showing it happen. In a couple of hours with any luck we should be seeing the first pictures of the arctic on Mars - a planet that is just a tiny circle of orange in a powerful back yard telescope even at opposition a few months ago.