The "threat" from openleaks.org is not that they will attract attention away from wikileaks. In fact, its the opposite of what they want to do. According to Domscheit-Berg, they plan to only be a "leak collector" and move the information through existing journalism organizations for review/release.
No, the threat of openleaks is that they will take away the "good scoops" from wikileaks.
The point is not having your decision BIASED by public hearsay. Its accepted you come into court loaded with imperfect understanding of facts and concepts. But permitting people to look things up on the internet DURING a trial is pretty much the same as allowing the juror's decision to be coerced by Fox News or a mere website.
No, the Wikipedia DVD would still be considered an unacceptable source for information for court, because the content is not vetted.
I am dumbfounded as to why a court would ban content from an Encyclopedia Britannica. Its information is vetted, it is considered a reference source, and its information is not subject to current public whims or notions.
Here's a wild-assed idea. You and your pal study and get a ham radio license, and then purchase the requisite equipment. You're not going to have to worry about your access expiring after 30 days, and the costs will be all equipment based. My guess is that reception will be pretty much the same.
More important, there are known sources of water on the Moon. If there's enough to be collected, there's no reason why a 1-way Moon survival test couldn't be tried before Mars. Hell, waste the money to bring the guy back...
Its heartwarming to see there are people with sufficient IQ that are willing to shorten their lifespan to 10 years or (much) less, help setup habitation for future strangers, live a desperate, spartan existence in utter isolation and intellectual privation for the rest of their short life, only to die quickly and in agony from either radiation sickness or cancer, if they succeed to generate their own oxygen and water.
And to think the only thing stopping them is that they don't have the exorbitant wealth needed to design and build a delivery system and a survival infrastructure for Mars. I wonder if it could be accomplished with a charitable organization.
And then there are other (non-IAU?) considerations, like: Its not on the same ecliptic plane as the planets. Pluto is not the central mass of its orbital plane. Charon does not directly orbit around Pluto; they both circle around the same point in space (along the orbit around the Sun). Pluto has less mass than many planetary satellites (ex. Moon, Ganymede, Titan, Triton). Pluto has no traits which differentiates it from the asteroids or KBOs.
I'd also add BASIC statistics, so people can grasp the relevance (or irrelevance) and impact of a basic statistical analysis. There are few things more annoying (to me) than taking a perfectly good (statistic) factoid, and distorting its relevance to support idiocy, whether its sports stadium funding or creationism.
But in most countries, its considered torture, and thus not permitted to use with YOUR children. (12 year old kid of some arab, different story...) Furthermore, improper administration of waterboarding can cause death (stroke, heart attack, strangulation on vomit).
As for NY, I can attest to that first-hand, literally.
Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh! Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount. Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
Harry Tuttle: Listen, kid, we're all in it together.
A person on a "dead or alive" list is NOT someone who has been tried in absentia. Its a person the President/DOJ has deemed acceptable to kill. That is not a power that is constitutionally provided to the executive branch.
Contrary to YOUR imagination, the DOJ is not authorized to fly predator drone to kill people on the "most wanted" list, and law enforcement is obliged to try to bring the accused in before shooting him/her dead. Being a fugitive does not give the executive branch the right to kill an American. Which is why I would require an "in absentia" trial for this specific instance, which is generally not done in the US.
What makes the US gov't system great IS NOT that you CAN bitch about stuff, and the gov't proceeds to ignore you.
What makes this country great is that ALL citizens and gov't follows the RULE OF LAW.
The POTUS does NOT have the right to EXECUTE an American citizen without DUE PROCESS of law.
(On the other hand, if they tried this guy in absentia first for fomenting terrorism, the court found him guilty, and THEN the gov't decided to kill him, I certainly wouldn't bitch. But that's me.)
Assange is a guy who thinks if the US gov't slaughters hundreds of thousands civilians by the Afghan occupation, then its okay if Assange kills a few thousand Afghan civilians by releasing their names in a 190K document drop. I have ZERO doubts about his narcissism.
So Gosling does not have confidence in Oracle's stewardship of java, and they part ways. So now the Java crowd feels unease.
Where the HELL was Gosling when Java was under Sun's stewardship!??!?!?!? I sure as heck did NOT see a glowing future for Java a year ago!
Oracle has owned Sun for barely a few months, and NOW they're supposed to have a magical future planned out for Java?!?!?!? HOW MUCH MONEY does Java produce for Oracle RIGHT NOW?
The ONLY people who should be scrambling and thinking WTF? are people who have commercial Java product offerings. So, if you're IBM, or some Java tools vendor, you have a world of worry on your plate.
But everyone else? I don't know. If you are INCAPABLE of learning another programming language besides Java, then I'd say you're screwed. But for the rest of the programmer industry (all 95% of it), it just means they will be implementing solutions in java for as long as it makes sense, THEN EVERYONE will move onto "THE NEXT NEW THING". Which, btw, has been the history of the programming industry. From assembler to FORTRAN to COBOL to C to DBASE to SQL to HTML to XML to ruby, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Either Oracle gets it right or it doesn't. No one with a brain should give a damn. If you do, then you're some kind of retard who thinks java is the Alpha and Omega of programming languages. Its not. And even if it was, its extremely unlikely to be relevant in twenty years.
Yes, they are doing it "for free". (At least in the sense that our Afghanistan venture is a snipe hunt for high level Al-Queda organizers.) Even if there were trillions of dollars "in them thar hills", Afghanistan does not have the infrastructure required to move that mineral wealth outside of the mountains. It will also take more than a generation to "civilize" the population to the point where they can conduct operations without getting shot or blown up. The China development scenario just can't work in this instance. (At least, not without a 20 year preparatory effort.)
Well, I COULD have said UNIQUE tools made specifically for the handling of nuclear materials and calibration of nuclear power related machinery. But nuclear tools conveys all that detail in two words, and most people were able to pick that up. Sorry, I choose not to laboriously structure my posts to ensure every cretin will understand them.
Everyone is assuming that all that weaponized anthrax came from the lab by its genetic makeup. Its possible only a sample was taken, and "mass produced" elsewhere. Yeah, it takes "special equipment", but its not like you need nuclear tools or there's only 7 machines in the world like it. Like the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11, we're never going to get the complete truth out of this.
Doesn't matter anyway. I thought the querent was a system administrator. There's no way they could implement anything I'm suggesting without previous sysadmin experience.
They have to use a firewall regulating network traffic in order to manage what their kids do online. There's no other way. Kids will get around any client machine kludges. And whatever firewall implementation they use, they're going to have to go geek to be able to interpret/manage the network traffic.
I still think its possible for them to implement a windows server and make the clients boot off an OS image, but the administrator will have to go through geek hell to manage his users.
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The "threat" from openleaks.org is not that they will attract attention away from wikileaks. In fact, its the opposite of what they want to do. According to Domscheit-Berg, they plan to only be a "leak collector" and move the information through existing journalism organizations for review/release.
No, the threat of openleaks is that they will take away the "good scoops" from wikileaks.
The point is not having your decision BIASED by public hearsay. Its accepted you come into court loaded with imperfect understanding of facts and concepts. But permitting people to look things up on the internet DURING a trial is pretty much the same as allowing the juror's decision to be coerced by Fox News or a mere website.
No, the Wikipedia DVD would still be considered an unacceptable source for information for court, because the content is not vetted.
I am dumbfounded as to why a court would ban content from an Encyclopedia Britannica. Its information is vetted, it is considered a reference source, and its information is not subject to current public whims or notions.
Here's a wild-assed idea. You and your pal study and get a ham radio license, and then purchase the requisite equipment. You're not going to have to worry about your access expiring after 30 days, and the costs will be all equipment based. My guess is that reception will be pretty much the same.
More important, there are known sources of water on the Moon. If there's enough to be collected, there's no reason why a 1-way Moon survival test couldn't be tried before Mars. Hell, waste the money to bring the guy back...
The red shirt is required for the mission (e.g. - The Abyss). Unless you're Vulcan.
Its heartwarming to see there are people with sufficient IQ that are willing to shorten their lifespan to 10 years or (much) less, help setup habitation for future strangers, live a desperate, spartan existence in utter isolation and intellectual privation for the rest of their short life, only to die quickly and in agony from either radiation sickness or cancer, if they succeed to generate their own oxygen and water.
And to think the only thing stopping them is that they don't have the exorbitant wealth needed to design and build a delivery system and a survival infrastructure for Mars. I wonder if it could be accomplished with a charitable organization.
And then there are other (non-IAU?) considerations, like:
Its not on the same ecliptic plane as the planets.
Pluto is not the central mass of its orbital plane. Charon does not directly orbit around Pluto; they both circle around the same point in space (along the orbit around the Sun).
Pluto has less mass than many planetary satellites (ex. Moon, Ganymede, Titan, Triton).
Pluto has no traits which differentiates it from the asteroids or KBOs.
I'd also add BASIC statistics, so people can grasp the relevance (or irrelevance) and impact of a basic statistical analysis. There are few things more annoying (to me) than taking a perfectly good (statistic) factoid, and distorting its relevance to support idiocy, whether its sports stadium funding or creationism.
Normally, I'd say go for a jury trial, but jurors nowadays can be so unbelievably stupid, its still a crap-shoot.
But in most countries, its considered torture, and thus not permitted to use with YOUR children. (12 year old kid of some arab, different story...) Furthermore, improper administration of waterboarding can cause death (stroke, heart attack, strangulation on vomit).
As for NY, I can attest to that first-hand, literally.
Until the Federal Supreme Court says otherwise. Or changes its mind.
Java is open source!
Harry Tuttle: Bloody paperwork. Huh!
Sam Lowry: I suppose one has to expect a certain amount.
Harry Tuttle: Why? I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
Harry Tuttle: Listen, kid, we're all in it together.
What are you accusing me of lying or misleading?
A person on a "dead or alive" list is NOT someone who has been tried in absentia. Its a person the President/DOJ has deemed acceptable to kill. That is not a power that is constitutionally provided to the executive branch.
Contrary to YOUR imagination, the DOJ is not authorized to fly predator drone to kill people on the "most wanted" list, and law enforcement is obliged to try to bring the accused in before shooting him/her dead. Being a fugitive does not give the executive branch the right to kill an American. Which is why I would require an "in absentia" trial for this specific instance, which is generally not done in the US.
What makes the US gov't system great IS NOT that you CAN bitch about stuff, and the gov't proceeds to ignore you.
What makes this country great is that ALL citizens and gov't follows the RULE OF LAW.
The POTUS does NOT have the right to EXECUTE an American citizen without DUE PROCESS of law.
(On the other hand, if they tried this guy in absentia first for fomenting terrorism, the court found him guilty, and THEN the gov't decided to kill him, I certainly wouldn't bitch. But that's me.)
Assange is a guy who thinks if the US gov't slaughters hundreds of thousands civilians by the Afghan occupation, then its okay if Assange kills a few thousand Afghan civilians by releasing their names in a 190K document drop. I have ZERO doubts about his narcissism.
So Gosling does not have confidence in Oracle's stewardship of java, and they part ways. So now the Java crowd feels unease.
Where the HELL was Gosling when Java was under Sun's stewardship!??!?!?!? I sure as heck did NOT see a glowing future for Java a year ago!
Oracle has owned Sun for barely a few months, and NOW they're supposed to have a magical future planned out for Java?!?!?!? HOW MUCH MONEY does Java produce for Oracle RIGHT NOW?
The ONLY people who should be scrambling and thinking WTF? are people who have commercial Java product offerings. So, if you're IBM, or some Java tools vendor, you have a world of worry on your plate.
But everyone else? I don't know. If you are INCAPABLE of learning another programming language besides Java, then I'd say you're screwed. But for the rest of the programmer industry (all 95% of it), it just means they will be implementing solutions in java for as long as it makes sense, THEN EVERYONE will move onto "THE NEXT NEW THING". Which, btw, has been the history of the programming industry. From assembler to FORTRAN to COBOL to C to DBASE to SQL to HTML to XML to ruby, etc. etc. etc. etc.
Either Oracle gets it right or it doesn't. No one with a brain should give a damn. If you do, then you're some kind of retard who thinks java is the Alpha and Omega of programming languages. Its not. And even if it was, its extremely unlikely to be relevant in twenty years.
You are utterly clueless. Afghanistan is a nation of burrowed lurkers.
Yes, they are doing it "for free". (At least in the sense that our Afghanistan venture is a snipe hunt for high level Al-Queda organizers.) Even if there were trillions of dollars "in them thar hills", Afghanistan does not have the infrastructure required to move that mineral wealth outside of the mountains. It will also take more than a generation to "civilize" the population to the point where they can conduct operations without getting shot or blown up. The China development scenario just can't work in this instance. (At least, not without a 20 year preparatory effort.)
And some people insist there are 9 planets, not 8. No matter what the IOAA, a peer organization of astronomers, say is the case.
Well, I COULD have said UNIQUE tools made specifically for the handling of nuclear materials and calibration of nuclear power related machinery. But nuclear tools conveys all that detail in two words, and most people were able to pick that up. Sorry, I choose not to laboriously structure my posts to ensure every cretin will understand them.
Everyone is assuming that all that weaponized anthrax came from the lab by its genetic makeup. Its possible only a sample was taken, and "mass produced" elsewhere. Yeah, it takes "special equipment", but its not like you need nuclear tools or there's only 7 machines in the world like it. Like the Kennedy assassination, and 9/11, we're never going to get the complete truth out of this.
*Whew*! I didn't have the heart to shoot my new computer...
Doesn't matter anyway. I thought the querent was a system administrator. There's no way they could implement anything I'm suggesting without previous sysadmin experience.
They have to use a firewall regulating network traffic in order to manage what their kids do online. There's no other way. Kids will get around any client machine kludges. And whatever firewall implementation they use, they're going to have to go geek to be able to interpret/manage the network traffic.
I still think its possible for them to implement a windows server and make the clients boot off an OS image, but the administrator will have to go through geek hell to manage his users.