So.... what you are saying is that the US was right to kill those Reuters journalists and refuse to release the video? And that Assange is the bad guy here. Cos, he... errrr.... ummm... Sorry, I don't get it. Explain it again to me?
Assange has said, quite openly, that he has no problem paying leakers. He sees no reason why this should not happen, after all, they are the ones taking the risk.
Why should the people who are not taking any of the risks (newspapers) profit from them exclusively?
Wikileaks, Assange and all the staffers has costs like anyone else, as do the leakers themselves. The money has to come from somewhere, why shouldn't the newspapers pay?
[Assange] can act like a paranoid prick, yes, but there's a hell of a lot more Stallman in him than Zuckerberg.
Very good point.
I see a lot of similarities between Assange and Stallman. Both have a clear view of what freedom and liberty are, and what needs to be protected to preserve them, and are prepared to work hard at at, produce the tools required, and be the stubborn sons of bitches that they need to be to make sure it happens.
Assange and Stallman create software. Very good, very clever, very directed software, and use it to change the world.
but we have no proof the leak wouldn't have happened without Assange.
And we have no proof that the Invisible Pink Unicorn doesn't exist either.
But, I digress.
Assange is many things, but mostly a genius.
He/they created a system (go and check out the Wikileaks mailing list that John Young leaked on Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm) that allowed people to anonymously upload secret information.
Anonymously.
That is, no-one at Wikileaks has any first hand knowledge of who provided the leak.
So, the evidence is that no-one leaked information on this scale prior to Wikileaks.
And no-one has leaked information on this scale to anyone else since Wikileaks.
The only reasonable inference is that the information was leaked because of Wikileaks, and very unlikely that it would have been leaked without it.
Assange has what many of you don't -- a spine. No, he's not perfect. But he's done more in a few years than most of us will do in our entire lifetimes. Lighten the hell up, grab a bag of popcorn, and enjoy the fireworks.
Hear Hear! Best comment on this whole saga so far.
Mostly correct. Describing "compression" as "amplification" is arguably correct, but doesn't tell the full story, even tho you correctly point out the soft sounds.
Compression basically makes the soft sounds louder, and/or the loud sounds softer so there is less dynamic range in the music - that is, the difference between the soft and loud noises is made smaller, or even much smaller.
The result is that the music sounds "louder", but you can lose a lot of the "feel" of a track.
It also uses more energy, and drives your amp and then your speakers much harder, and hotter.
But hey, that is a ton more words than you used, and someone will pick holes in this version too.
Yours is pretty darn good, for a paraphrase to non sound geeks.
The simple, well understood, and often implemented solution, especially in reverse auction software, is to extend the time of the auction for every bid that happens in the (say) last 5 minutes, by 5 minutes. Sniping over. Auction goes on a little bit longer... so you start with a smaller time.
It's a weak argument, and it is not going to get you anywhere. There is right and wrong, and the "it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it" is also wrong.
You are not entitled to opinions on things you know nothing about (such as moral relativism, the position you are espousing).
"fascist" is a good term, easily understood by most people, to describe Conroy's actions. He is a nasty piece of work.
"Keep in mind that there is no "right" or "wrong", merely different points of view, all equally valid."
Bollocks!
Complete nonsense. If your point of view is that it is fine to have non-consensual violent sex with children under the age of 6, then you are clearly wrong, and your point of view is not valid at all.
[INSERT A BILLION OTHER EQUALLY RIDICULOUS EXAMPLES]
Conroy's desire to control and censor the population easily satisfies the modern, post war, definition of fascism, as it is popularly used.
One suspects that there is gaining heat in the market about using oo.o as leverage to get a better deal from m$.
Oo.o is pretty good tech. It looks like a word processor, and a spreadsheet, and a powerpoint... just might fool someone in upper management during some presentation put together by the lads in IT. Coupled with a business case, might just be enough to put 'downwards pressure' on the ol' monopolists pricing model...
I hadn't used it since 2.0 days, but recently switched to ubuntu for my home lappy. Has dealt with everything I have thrown at it so far, which is good - long doc's and large financial spreadsheets (nothing with macro's tho), and a LOT of powerpoint.
"In economics, the Jevons Paradox (sometimes called the Jevons effect) is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource."
... is the domain of "any bloody thing that I ever want to play it on, any damn time I want to play it, with absofuckinglutely no hassles whatsofuckingever"
It all depends on how long you need the stuff secret.
If all public key crypto except for nTru's is bust in possibly 25 years, and your stuff needs to be secret for 50, then you better be using quantum-resistant (did I just invent that term?) crypto Right Now(tm).
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Caldera or the real Santa Cruz?
SCO Group is not SCO, it is Caldera.
BRING BACK SIGNAL11
So, you resort to weak hypotheticals.
Just answer the question.
The US was right to kill the reuters journalists, and refuse to release the video?
And this makes Assange a bad guy?
So.... what you are saying is that the US was right to kill those Reuters journalists and refuse to release the video? And that Assange is the bad guy here. Cos, he ... errrr.... ummm... Sorry, I don't get it. Explain it again to me?
Assange has said, quite openly, that he has no problem paying leakers. He sees no reason why this should not happen, after all, they are the ones taking the risk.
Why should the people who are not taking any of the risks (newspapers) profit from them exclusively?
Wikileaks, Assange and all the staffers has costs like anyone else, as do the leakers themselves. The money has to come from somewhere, why shouldn't the newspapers pay?
[Assange] can act like a paranoid prick, yes, but there's a hell of a lot more Stallman in him than Zuckerberg.
Very good point.
I see a lot of similarities between Assange and Stallman. Both have a clear view of what freedom and liberty are, and what needs to be protected to preserve them, and are prepared to work hard at at, produce the tools required, and be the stubborn sons of bitches that they need to be to make sure it happens.
Assange and Stallman create software. Very good, very clever, very directed software, and use it to change the world.
but we have no proof the leak wouldn't have happened without Assange.
And we have no proof that the Invisible Pink Unicorn doesn't exist either.
But, I digress.
Assange is many things, but mostly a genius.
He/they created a system (go and check out the Wikileaks mailing list that John Young leaked on Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm) that allowed people to anonymously upload secret information.
Anonymously.
That is, no-one at Wikileaks has any first hand knowledge of who provided the leak.
So, the evidence is that no-one leaked information on this scale prior to Wikileaks.
And no-one has leaked information on this scale to anyone else since Wikileaks.
The only reasonable inference is that the information was leaked because of Wikileaks, and very unlikely that it would have been leaked without it.
Assange has what many of you don't -- a spine. No, he's not perfect. But he's done more in a few years than most of us will do in our entire lifetimes. Lighten the hell up, grab a bag of popcorn, and enjoy the fireworks.
Hear Hear! Best comment on this whole saga so far.
Wikileaks will be buried a year from now.
Foo tucking funny. And citizendium will totally kill wikipedia. And netscape will smash microsoft.
When you can beat bastard mode tetris, get back to me...
... nothing to see here.
Fucking non-story.
Mostly correct. Describing "compression" as "amplification" is arguably correct, but doesn't tell the full story, even tho you correctly point out the soft sounds.
Compression basically makes the soft sounds louder, and/or the loud sounds softer so there is less dynamic range in the music - that is, the difference between the soft and loud noises is made smaller, or even much smaller.
The result is that the music sounds "louder", but you can lose a lot of the "feel" of a track.
It also uses more energy, and drives your amp and then your speakers much harder, and hotter.
But hey, that is a ton more words than you used, and someone will pick holes in this version too.
Yours is pretty darn good, for a paraphrase to non sound geeks.
Pretty sure the golden screwdriver got replaced with a modem decades ago.
Conroy is a twat, all agreed.
I have already voted - did it today - sex party 1 in the senate...
Certainly didn't put Labor last tho - there are seriously derange lunatics to preference well after Labor.
Put labour last in the senate, Aug 21
Why?
You think I should preference the Sceptics Party first? Or the Citizens Electoral Council?
The simple, well understood, and often implemented solution, especially in reverse auction software, is to extend the time of the auction for every bid that happens in the (say) last 5 minutes, by 5 minutes. Sniping over. Auction goes on a little bit longer... so you start with a smaller time.
It's a weak argument, and it is not going to get you anywhere. There is right and wrong, and the "it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it" is also wrong.
You are not entitled to opinions on things you know nothing about (such as moral relativism, the position you are espousing).
"fascist" is a good term, easily understood by most people, to describe Conroy's actions. He is a nasty piece of work.
"Keep in mind that there is no "right" or "wrong", merely different points of view, all equally valid."
Bollocks!
Complete nonsense. If your point of view is that it is fine to have non-consensual violent sex with children under the age of 6, then you are clearly wrong, and your point of view is not valid at all.
[INSERT A BILLION OTHER EQUALLY RIDICULOUS EXAMPLES]
Conroy's desire to control and censor the population easily satisfies the modern, post war, definition of fascism, as it is popularly used.
...will be about keeping prices up.
One suspects that there is gaining heat in the market about using oo.o as leverage to get a better deal from m$.
Oo.o is pretty good tech. It looks like a word processor, and a spreadsheet, and a powerpoint... just might fool someone in upper management during some presentation put together by the lads in IT. Coupled with a business case, might just be enough to put 'downwards pressure' on the ol' monopolists pricing model...
I hadn't used it since 2.0 days, but recently switched to ubuntu for my home lappy. Has dealt with everything I have thrown at it so far, which is good - long doc's and large financial spreadsheets (nothing with macro's tho), and a LOT of powerpoint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
"In economics, the Jevons Paradox (sometimes called the Jevons effect) is the proposition that technological progress that increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, tends to increase (rather than decrease) the rate of consumption of that resource."
In serious need of editing. Christ, that is shithouse.
Personal hate - "experts exchange" - it fails me to understand why these are included in the search results - they are fucking ads.
Dood - it doesn't get any more random after a while...
There are other problems with your idea as well, but I can't be bothered...
... is the domain of "any bloody thing that I ever want to play it on, any damn time I want to play it, with absofuckinglutely no hassles whatsofuckingever"
[of which I know nothing]
It all depends on how long you need the stuff secret.
If all public key crypto except for nTru's is bust in possibly 25 years, and your stuff needs to be secret for 50, then you better be using quantum-resistant (did I just invent that term?) crypto Right Now(tm).