I think you've misunderstood the sense of the "cave" - it was the US government that was pushing for the more draconian measures (the RIAA/MPAA line), not for sanity and consumers' rights in the first place. The "cave" is in fact an acceptance that the rest of the world thinks that the DMCA-like measures etc are dangerous/stupid.
In other words, this looks like a (partial) victory for the people.
The implication that the EU is spending billions of euros on a program to study 3-legged dogs is completely misleading. The fund in question appears to be FP7 (Wikipedia article), which funds a huge variety of researchers on many differnet topics.
If you look at what I think is the relevant EU site, the
project received EUR 2.7 million from the 'Embodied intelligence' Initiative within the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Thematic area of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Which wouldn't make much of a story I guess - "multi-billion" sounds waaay more impressive.
It probably wasn't a "customer survey", it was a sales call to sell the phone package. They wrap it up with the survey stuff to make customers feel warm and fuzzy and listened-to.
In a sense, it does make Staph less problematic, in that, for serious infections, antibiotics can still be used effectively - unlike against resistant strains. In order to avoid resistance evolving, antibiotics should be used with maximum effect (killing the infection before any resistance occurs), or not at all.
Newfoundland is one possible site - there are a number of proposed locations in that area, down to Massachusetts. In addition, Newfoundland island is only 17 miles off the coast of Labrador, so it's not really relevant - if they'd explored Newfoundland, or sailed round it, they would clearly have been aware of the much larger land mass.
Anyway, even though the map is not to a fixed scale, the 'island' couldn't really be Newfoundland - it's the size of most of western europe!
Vinland is recognised by most historians as being a short-lived Norse ('Viking') colony in the Newfoundland area, probably on mainland North America (though the exact location and extent is very unsure). See the Wikipedia article.
The map shows it as an island presumably (assuming it is genuine) because the area was explored to a very limted extent and the explorers were unaware that it was part of a much greater land mass.
There is clearly enough gravitational pull from the galactic centre to keep the milky way together, despite its spin - so presumably this would have a considerable effect on other smaller galaxies passing through it, especially if their relative velocities were low in relation to their size.
The Milky Way swallows a galaxy, and the swallowed galaxy's stars get added to the milky way, orbiting the galactic centre in the usual way. Presumably the same happens to the black hole - there's no reason why it should be sucked into the middle. Black holes will happily orbit around each other, as long as they're outside each other's event horizons.
These people were almost certainly biologically completely modern humans - 4,600 years ago is pretty much the same time as the great pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt; people had already been farming for something like 5000 years, and city-building for about 3000.
In the middle east this time wouldn't have been stone-age, it would have been early Bronze age. Technology and culture may have moved on a lot, but it's only 150 generations or so...
I understood his post to be referring to the 80-85% loss in value of the currency that was a *result* of Germany's defeat, rather than making a claim that it was the cause of defeat.
The point being that John Kerry could not have been discharged in 1978. By law, he was discharged about 1975. But where is that discharge paper, and why get a new discharge in 1978 from the wrong agency. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry's_military_service#Honorable_Discharge
Because he was transferred to the reserve in order to become a candidate for Congress, effective January 3, 1970? And was then transferred in 1972 to the standby Reserve? That would seem to make the U.S. Naval Reserve the correct agency...
Would you care to cite any sources for your claims?
On May 20, 2005 John Kerry signed a 'Standard Form 180', releasing pretty much every possible relevant document, including all his military service, reserve and discharge records, as well as his medical records, to the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.
I guess you're at least partially jesting, but just in case anyone's interested:
Large predators (usually apex predators) play an important role in regulating ecosystems, by controlling the number of herbivores and/or smaller predators. As well as weeding out sick/weak individuals (whether this is a good thing or not depends on point of view), they act as feedback control. For example, an increase in (e.g.) gazelles results in an increase in (e.g.) lions, which in turn stops the increase in gazelles. This reduces damage from over-grazing etc. due to population explosions.
... or to someone from most of the rest of the world. Not that that really matters, as the citizens of the US have every right to whatever they believe. But it's interesting that the US political centre-ground would be seen as rather to the right in europe, which is itself probably slightly to the right of the world average (take India, where the communist party is a major power, or China).
If you read the article, or even just the summary, you would see that you've got it completely ass-backwards. Ebay is stopping Sellers leaving feedback, but not buyers - in other words, this is exactly what you want...
While I agree with the general point you were trying to make (that the victim shouldn't be blamed), I don't see any indications that the GP was in fact do so. He appears giving a purely factual statement about the software that is vulnerable to the attack, which I would have said is fairly basic information in a security/malware story. Arguably it's more surprising that the article summary didn't mention what was targeted...
The southernmost point of Africa is nearer to the equator than northern Africa (Algiers or Tunis for example).
Incidentally, a quick google image search for Khoi San (the 'original' native peoples of S. Africa) suggests that at least some of them are actually pretty light-skinned anyway - not much darker than a european who spends much of the days outdoors in sunshine would.
So, what makes someone a Journalist, and therefore protected from potential abuses of authority in order to provide the people with the infomation they need for democracy to be something more than a stage-managed farce?
Who decides?
There are 3 options: A) A journalist is someone 'licenced' as such by a government body. I'm sure everyone can see the danger in that... B) A journalist is someone 'licenced' as such by a media coporation, such as Fox News, CNN,... C) A journalist is someone who *journals* - who records events for posterity and/or to inform the people.
I personally feel that C is the most sensible, and by far the safest for society. In any rate, FTA: "Wolf, a freelancer, sold some footage to San Francisco television stations and posted it on his Web site, but refused to turn over unpublished material." So both B and C would classify him as a Journalist.
There're a number of comments saying things along the lines of:
..the system itself is not flawed, but the way the users choose to operate on it
Enhanced security measures thwarted by stupid users. More at 11!
The SiteKey isn't flawed, the people are. It's a common error to ascribe problems with usability to 'idiot users'. The real problem is software that's designed for the wrong target group (experts, where it should be everyman) or just badly designed, confusing or poorly explained interfaces. The fact is, this system *has* to be designed to cope with clueless users. If it's only safe for use by people with an IQ over 100, then half the population will be at risk!
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They're wrong, of course; it's obviously the boogie...
I think you've misunderstood the sense of the "cave" - it was the US government that was pushing for the more draconian measures (the RIAA/MPAA line), not for sanity and consumers' rights in the first place. The "cave" is in fact an acceptance that the rest of the world thinks that the DMCA-like measures etc are dangerous/stupid.
In other words, this looks like a (partial) victory for the people.
The implication that the EU is spending billions of euros on a program to study 3-legged dogs is completely misleading. The fund in question appears to be FP7 (Wikipedia article), which funds a huge variety of researchers on many differnet topics.
If you look at what I think is the relevant EU site, the project received EUR 2.7 million from the 'Embodied intelligence' Initiative within the 'Information and communication technologies' (ICT) Thematic area of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
Which wouldn't make much of a story I guess - "multi-billion" sounds waaay more impressive.
-Chris
It probably wasn't a "customer survey", it was a sales call to sell the phone package. They wrap it up with the survey stuff to make customers feel warm and fuzzy and listened-to.
In a sense, it does make Staph less problematic, in that, for serious infections, antibiotics can still be used effectively - unlike against resistant strains. In order to avoid resistance evolving, antibiotics should be used with maximum effect (killing the infection before any resistance occurs), or not at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass#Behavior_of_antique_glass
Newfoundland is one possible site - there are a number of proposed locations in that area, down to Massachusetts. In addition, Newfoundland island is only 17 miles off the coast of Labrador, so it's not really relevant - if they'd explored Newfoundland, or sailed round it, they would clearly have been aware of the much larger land mass.
Anyway, even though the map is not to a fixed scale, the 'island' couldn't really be Newfoundland - it's the size of most of western europe!
Vinland is recognised by most historians as being a short-lived Norse ('Viking') colony in the Newfoundland area, probably on mainland North America (though the exact location and extent is very unsure). See the Wikipedia article.
The map shows it as an island presumably (assuming it is genuine) because the area was explored to a very limted extent and the explorers were unaware that it was part of a much greater land mass.
There is clearly enough gravitational pull from the galactic centre to keep the milky way together, despite its spin - so presumably this would have a considerable effect on other smaller galaxies passing through it, especially if their relative velocities were low in relation to their size.
The Milky Way swallows a galaxy, and the swallowed galaxy's stars get added to the milky way, orbiting the galactic centre in the usual way. Presumably the same happens to the black hole - there's no reason why it should be sucked into the middle. Black holes will happily orbit around each other, as long as they're outside each other's event horizons.
These people were almost certainly biologically completely modern humans - 4,600 years ago is pretty much the same time as the great pyramids were being built in ancient Egypt; people had already been farming for something like 5000 years, and city-building for about 3000. In the middle east this time wouldn't have been stone-age, it would have been early Bronze age. Technology and culture may have moved on a lot, but it's only 150 generations or so...
I understood his post to be referring to the 80-85% loss in value of the currency that was a *result* of Germany's defeat, rather than making a claim that it was the cause of defeat.
And then he never sent the form in, and NO records were released.
That does not appear to be the case.
The point being that John Kerry could not have been discharged in 1978. By law, he was discharged about 1975. But where is that discharge paper, and why get a new discharge in 1978 from the wrong agency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry's_military_service#Honorable_Discharge
Because he was transferred to the reserve in order to become a candidate for Congress, effective January 3, 1970? And was then transferred in 1972 to the standby Reserve? That would seem to make the U.S. Naval Reserve the correct agency...
Would you care to cite any sources for your claims?
-Chris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry_Military_Service_Controversy#Document_release
On May 20, 2005 John Kerry signed a 'Standard Form 180', releasing pretty much every possible relevant document, including all his military service, reserve and discharge records, as well as his medical records, to the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, and the Los Angeles Times.
-Chris
I guess you're at least partially jesting, but just in case anyone's interested:
Large predators (usually apex predators) play an important role in regulating ecosystems, by controlling the number of herbivores and/or smaller predators. As well as weeding out sick/weak individuals (whether this is a good thing or not depends on point of view), they act as feedback control. For example, an increase in (e.g.) gazelles results in an increase in (e.g.) lions, which in turn stops the increase in gazelles. This reduces damage from over-grazing etc. due to population explosions.
... or to someone from most of the rest of the world. Not that that really matters, as the citizens of the US have every right to whatever they believe. But it's interesting that the US political centre-ground would be seen as rather to the right in europe, which is itself probably slightly to the right of the world average (take India, where the communist party is a major power, or China).
Ironically, the parent post seems to have been ripped from the diary of "Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr" on Kuro5hin, from more than 4 years ago.
See original on Kuro5hin
If you read the article, or even just the summary, you would see that you've got it completely ass-backwards. Ebay is stopping Sellers leaving feedback, but not buyers - in other words, this is exactly what you want...
While I agree with the general point you were trying to make (that the victim shouldn't be blamed), I don't see any indications that the GP was in fact do so. He appears giving a purely factual statement about the software that is vulnerable to the attack, which I would have said is fairly basic information in a security/malware story. Arguably it's more surprising that the article summary didn't mention what was targeted...
-Chris
Last time I was there, Greece was in southern Europe, not the Middle East - maybe it went south for a holiday?
-C
The southernmost point of Africa is nearer to the equator than northern Africa (Algiers or Tunis for example).
Incidentally, a quick google image search for Khoi San (the 'original' native peoples of S. Africa) suggests that at least some of them are actually pretty light-skinned anyway - not much darker than a european who spends much of the days outdoors in sunshine would.
-Chris
So, what makes someone a Journalist, and therefore protected from potential abuses of authority in order to provide the people with the infomation they need for democracy to be something more than a stage-managed farce?
...
Who decides?
There are 3 options:
A) A journalist is someone 'licenced' as such by a government body. I'm sure everyone can see the danger in that...
B) A journalist is someone 'licenced' as such by a media coporation, such as Fox News, CNN,
C) A journalist is someone who *journals* - who records events for posterity and/or to inform the people.
I personally feel that C is the most sensible, and by far the safest for society. In any rate, FTA: "Wolf, a freelancer, sold some footage to San Francisco television stations and posted it on his Web site, but refused to turn over unpublished material." So both B and C would classify him as a Journalist.
-Chris
..the system itself is not flawed, but the way the users choose to operate on it Enhanced security measures thwarted by stupid users. More at 11! The SiteKey isn't flawed, the people are. It's a common error to ascribe problems with usability to 'idiot users'. The real problem is software that's designed for the wrong target group (experts, where it should be everyman) or just badly designed, confusing or poorly explained interfaces. The fact is, this system *has* to be designed to cope with clueless users. If it's only safe for use by people with an IQ over 100, then half the population will be at risk!..is a bit snappier.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!