A "competent tribuneral"? Well, the UK managed to get all their gitmo prisoners released... the conservative Australian government was less interested, but after political pressure they at least got their prisoner (David Hicks) to an Australian prison. I remember the "burn him!" sentiment in my home city media contrasting with the seeming universal support he got in Adelaide (his home city) - down there he was "Adelaides David Hicks". Each and every one of those prisoners may be evil and guilty as hell... I certainly don't know... but a modern and just socienty doesn't do things the gitmo way.
Yes... every increase in complexity causes problems, and security is a feature that at best is imperceptible to the end user, and often changes the user experience for the worse. Also you're never sure if it's good enough - at best you discover a compromise when your bank account gets drained, and at worst... well... today whole societies can be subtly subverted for the worse while remaining completely ignorant. Still, suddenly everyone is aware it's important.
This is in Townsville, a northern city ~2000km from the markets in our state capital. Can't remember other prices, but a Danish girl I knew said there was a bewildering array of brands here compared with anywhere else in the world she had been, which seemed quite strange given the size of my city.
I've been told that the price of generic computer hardware and electronics isn't bad here either, although the US companies seem to want to charge a premium, even for software sold directly over the internet (this was recently a story on Slashdot)... why is anyones guess.
Muppets on all sides of this one... smash and grab from Best Buy, and by extension the economy on one side, and destroying the environment and the middle class on the other. Extremism, tribalism and simplistic catchphrases are the enemy here.
Siding with the rich works better? Sometimes, sometimes not. The Indian Moghuls were rich and secure... and for decades the foreigners were the lesser party, until they weren't. I don't think the 1% realise how their short-sighted policies are hastening their own fading, though they'll keep saying it's everyone elses fault even as the ship sinks. Sure, join them switching off bilge pumps to power the 1st class suite.
Perhaps a major part, or a major branch (experimental revisited?) needs to be handed over to the control of young blood. It'd be difficult for the old guard... young guys take risks and make more mistakes, but they bring energy and ideas. In any case an area under the control of a new generation MUST happen for a young Linux subculture to further develop, and considering the importance of community as a motivation this is overdue. The size, momentum and commercial interest in Linux will could make this less than straightforward.
Power attracts psychopaths. Policing/spying/enforcement done "by the book" is frustrating and difficult - psychopaths get frustrated and either overstep and get caught, or leave for greener pastures. Making enforcement easier corrupts the very agencies we want to empower. Imagine if we elected leaders with dictatorial powers - sure, they'd be more empowered to act in our interest... but...
There are most certainly decent people in the NSA and I'm sure the work is exciting, but this multi-nation surveilance state is a terrible weapon turned against the public. It's interesting looking back at the Manhattan project - because the work was so exciting Richard Feynmann, a decent guy, only realised what he'd done after it had happened.
Other surveilance states have collapsed from within in recent times non-violently... probably not so much because of the moral bankrupcy of it, but because of decades of experiencing the terrible practical repercussions. I REALLY hope it doesn't take us that long because the technology is getting too good.
All of those references could be perfectly true and be used to completely spin their conclusions - the best lies are mostly true. They are a conservative think tank so by definition they have a political agenda. Also, I notice they reference their own papers and figures quite a bit which is quite suspicious. I've also heard frustrated topic experts talk about how the Heritage Foundation spins things, and go into the detail of why - even in one case a co-author of a paper they referenced. That's not to say they couldn't be spot-on about a number of things, and I'm sure they make a valuable contribution to political discussion. However I've had American acquaintence exclaim how clean my city is, and how homeless people are practically non-existent, but also say how small our houses were especially since we had so much land - I'm Australian, and our houses aren't particularly small by world standards, and we have homeless people. We two fleas on two large dogs talked for some time about these issues, and I'm not sure the US has reached the right balance.
I see a bombing and the response and see people desperately trying to catch a mass murderer. You see a bombing and see a trial run at martial law.
It's both of course... you just have one eye closed.
The level of paranoia and fear mongering is amazing. I think the Federal government is intentionally doing this because I think the more afraid you make people
I think Germany is doing things exactly right. They are a manufacturing nation, and there is definitely money to be made creating better small scale battery storage. This is government funded IP generation, and even if it's not a long term solution it will give them time to build the larger scale infrastructure, and boost their domestic industry in this particular niche (if not this exact application).
There is also Leo Szilard who actually came up with the concept of a nuclear chain reaction, and has been practically obliterated from popular history because he tried to stop development of the atom bomb after Germany was defeated.
Isn't there an armoured plate under the Tesla battery pack? Hitting a piece of metal at highway speeds might be dangerous in more immediately hazardous ways in another vehicle.
Spice has already been mentioned, but X2Go is pretty awesome... it's a cousin of NoMachines NX except it's open source, and very easy to set up (at least in the Debian-packed versions I've used). It can also proxy RDP (which might be of benefit to someone).
If they ACTUALLY wanted to help kids they'd apply some actual knowledge gathered from study in this area and develop strategies to minimise occurrence, but it's SUCH a successful rhetorical boogieman/distraction...
Yes, it's good to hear someone say this. I also think we must also believe there are people deeply concerned about this in government, in the NSA and other three letter agencies and in governments and security organisations worldwide. Cynicism is defeatism. We must apply pressure to embolden those fighting this from within.
You often find what you look for in other people - every child knows this. The old man who shouts angrily at "those hoodlum kids" may find his sentiment confirmed, but if he thinks they're wonderful creatures deserving of a smile they may rise to his expectation. In the 80's America looked for heroes in Afghanistan and found them, and today amongst the same people it looks for terrorists. Now we find America regards the whole world including it's own citizens as potential terrorists, and this is very dangerous. As citizens of the world we must believe there are good people in the US government, and governments everywhere who need outside pressure to counteract this. Why? Because you often find what you look for in other people.
Put an aspie into a legal and ethical minefield, add a chair-throwing pointy hair and see what comes out. I'm pretty sure fear retards their thinking ability, possibly even more than the rest of us.
I'm surprised so few other posts here remember the actual details. Yes, there were security issues at stake which the aspie geek gave too much importance to, especially considering an angry pointy-haired boss was involved. Someone more socially aware would have made sure there were CYA emails between all the right people before sending the password in the clear as requested, and backing away slowly - it was obvious there was a high chair-throwing probability. The geek was a "play it by the book" aspie, and the boss was a "comply NOW!" type with a poor grasp of technical details... that combination doesn't work.
I've just read another comment about how this story shows up Slashdots bias, and cites Reiser as another example of how the Slashdot community fails. I remember that too - the media was harping about the weird geek with the murdered hot ex-wife who's obviously guilty as hell. Yes, there were a few here who shouted "no, he's innocent!" at their monitors, but the majority here were angry at the abandonment of "innocent until proven guilty". The facts were interesting enough without the media deciding conclusions for their audience.
Persue things internally like Binney or Drake to get hammered and threatened before they were forced to go public? Worked for them didn't it. How about the Plames? It's sad that the only proven endangerment of operatives in any of the past years of leaks was Cheney taking political revenge against the wife of a dissenter. I'd imagine if anyone raises a concern these days anywhere in government there would be more efficient mechanisms to discredit and dispose of them... seems to be an Obama specialty. I personally know a whistleblower who tried internal mechanisms - the well oiled process saw a psychologist label her mentally defective before she was efficiently terminated. This was not the US government but a local council.
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A "competent tribuneral"? Well, the UK managed to get all their gitmo prisoners released... the conservative Australian government was less interested, but after political pressure they at least got their prisoner (David Hicks) to an Australian prison. I remember the "burn him!" sentiment in my home city media contrasting with the seeming universal support he got in Adelaide (his home city) - down there he was "Adelaides David Hicks". Each and every one of those prisoners may be evil and guilty as hell... I certainly don't know... but a modern and just socienty doesn't do things the gitmo way.
Yes... every increase in complexity causes problems, and security is a feature that at best is imperceptible to the end user, and often changes the user experience for the worse. Also you're never sure if it's good enough - at best you discover a compromise when your bank account gets drained, and at worst... well... today whole societies can be subtly subverted for the worse while remaining completely ignorant. Still, suddenly everyone is aware it's important.
AU$1.85 for a loaf of bread
AU$0.99 for a litre of milk
This is in Townsville, a northern city ~2000km from the markets in our state capital. Can't remember other prices, but a Danish girl I knew said there was a bewildering array of brands here compared with anywhere else in the world she had been, which seemed quite strange given the size of my city.
I've been told that the price of generic computer hardware and electronics isn't bad here either, although the US companies seem to want to charge a premium, even for software sold directly over the internet (this was recently a story on Slashdot)... why is anyones guess.
Muppets on all sides of this one... smash and grab from Best Buy, and by extension the economy on one side, and destroying the environment and the middle class on the other. Extremism, tribalism and simplistic catchphrases are the enemy here.
Siding with the rich works better? Sometimes, sometimes not. The Indian Moghuls were rich and secure... and for decades the foreigners were the lesser party, until they weren't. I don't think the 1% realise how their short-sighted policies are hastening their own fading, though they'll keep saying it's everyone elses fault even as the ship sinks. Sure, join them switching off bilge pumps to power the 1st class suite.
Perhaps a major part, or a major branch (experimental revisited?) needs to be handed over to the control of young blood. It'd be difficult for the old guard... young guys take risks and make more mistakes, but they bring energy and ideas. In any case an area under the control of a new generation MUST happen for a young Linux subculture to further develop, and considering the importance of community as a motivation this is overdue. The size, momentum and commercial interest in Linux will could make this less than straightforward.
Not really... the Linux APIs are fluid, but Windows are much less so (at least not the core ones). That's not to say you don't get new ones.
The NT4 kernel is the base for 2000/XP/Vista/Win7/Win8/Win8.1
Power attracts psychopaths. Policing/spying/enforcement done "by the book" is frustrating and difficult - psychopaths get frustrated and either overstep and get caught, or leave for greener pastures. Making enforcement easier corrupts the very agencies we want to empower. Imagine if we elected leaders with dictatorial powers - sure, they'd be more empowered to act in our interest... but...
There are most certainly decent people in the NSA and I'm sure the work is exciting, but this multi-nation surveilance state is a terrible weapon turned against the public. It's interesting looking back at the Manhattan project - because the work was so exciting Richard Feynmann, a decent guy, only realised what he'd done after it had happened.
Other surveilance states have collapsed from within in recent times non-violently... probably not so much because of the moral bankrupcy of it, but because of decades of experiencing the terrible practical repercussions. I REALLY hope it doesn't take us that long because the technology is getting too good.
Read it again... he was saying the opposite.
All of those references could be perfectly true and be used to completely spin their conclusions - the best lies are mostly true. They are a conservative think tank so by definition they have a political agenda. Also, I notice they reference their own papers and figures quite a bit which is quite suspicious. I've also heard frustrated topic experts talk about how the Heritage Foundation spins things, and go into the detail of why - even in one case a co-author of a paper they referenced. That's not to say they couldn't be spot-on about a number of things, and I'm sure they make a valuable contribution to political discussion. However I've had American acquaintence exclaim how clean my city is, and how homeless people are practically non-existent, but also say how small our houses were especially since we had so much land - I'm Australian, and our houses aren't particularly small by world standards, and we have homeless people. We two fleas on two large dogs talked for some time about these issues, and I'm not sure the US has reached the right balance.
I see a bombing and the response and see people desperately trying to catch a mass murderer. You see a bombing and see a trial run at martial law.
It's both of course... you just have one eye closed.
The level of paranoia and fear mongering is amazing. I think the Federal government is intentionally doing this because I think the more afraid you make people
The irony is palpable.
Yes, but he's not the one who's missing it.
I think Germany is doing things exactly right. They are a manufacturing nation, and there is definitely money to be made creating better small scale battery storage. This is government funded IP generation, and even if it's not a long term solution it will give them time to build the larger scale infrastructure, and boost their domestic industry in this particular niche (if not this exact application).
There is also Leo Szilard who actually came up with the concept of a nuclear chain reaction, and has been practically obliterated from popular history because he tried to stop development of the atom bomb after Germany was defeated.
Isn't there an armoured plate under the Tesla battery pack? Hitting a piece of metal at highway speeds might be dangerous in more immediately hazardous ways in another vehicle.
Spice has already been mentioned, but X2Go is pretty awesome... it's a cousin of NoMachines NX except it's open source, and very easy to set up (at least in the Debian-packed versions I've used). It can also proxy RDP (which might be of benefit to someone).
If they ACTUALLY wanted to help kids they'd apply some actual knowledge gathered from study in this area and develop strategies to minimise occurrence, but it's SUCH a successful rhetorical boogieman/distraction...
Yes, it's good to hear someone say this. I also think we must also believe there are people deeply concerned about this in government, in the NSA and other three letter agencies and in governments and security organisations worldwide. Cynicism is defeatism. We must apply pressure to embolden those fighting this from within.
Any belief is a lie... but believing it makes it true. Make one man believe he is a hero and another a mercinary and see how each act.
...and perhaps the American revolutionaries were Frances mercinaries against Britain. It's true enough, should you choose to see things that way.
You often find what you look for in other people - every child knows this. The old man who shouts angrily at "those hoodlum kids" may find his sentiment confirmed, but if he thinks they're wonderful creatures deserving of a smile they may rise to his expectation. In the 80's America looked for heroes in Afghanistan and found them, and today amongst the same people it looks for terrorists. Now we find America regards the whole world including it's own citizens as potential terrorists, and this is very dangerous. As citizens of the world we must believe there are good people in the US government, and governments everywhere who need outside pressure to counteract this. Why? Because you often find what you look for in other people.
Put an aspie into a legal and ethical minefield, add a chair-throwing pointy hair and see what comes out. I'm pretty sure fear retards their thinking ability, possibly even more than the rest of us.
I'm surprised so few other posts here remember the actual details. Yes, there were security issues at stake which the aspie geek gave too much importance to, especially considering an angry pointy-haired boss was involved. Someone more socially aware would have made sure there were CYA emails between all the right people before sending the password in the clear as requested, and backing away slowly - it was obvious there was a high chair-throwing probability. The geek was a "play it by the book" aspie, and the boss was a "comply NOW!" type with a poor grasp of technical details... that combination doesn't work.
I've just read another comment about how this story shows up Slashdots bias, and cites Reiser as another example of how the Slashdot community fails. I remember that too - the media was harping about the weird geek with the murdered hot ex-wife who's obviously guilty as hell. Yes, there were a few here who shouted "no, he's innocent!" at their monitors, but the majority here were angry at the abandonment of "innocent until proven guilty". The facts were interesting enough without the media deciding conclusions for their audience.
Persue things internally like Binney or Drake to get hammered and threatened before they were forced to go public? Worked for them didn't it. How about the Plames? It's sad that the only proven endangerment of operatives in any of the past years of leaks was Cheney taking political revenge against the wife of a dissenter. I'd imagine if anyone raises a concern these days anywhere in government there would be more efficient mechanisms to discredit and dispose of them... seems to be an Obama specialty. I personally know a whistleblower who tried internal mechanisms - the well oiled process saw a psychologist label her mentally defective before she was efficiently terminated. This was not the US government but a local council.