There's probably a significant amount of internal operational knowledge that Snowden has which isn't in the documents he has released, as well as knowledge of other employees, seniors etc which would be interesting to foreign intelligence agencies for various reasons.
Think of it as the operational equivalent of traffic analysis - you can gain some insights into the NSA while not having any access to information about projects etc.
Actually, yes to a degree - after the tulip crash, the Dutch government passed legislation changing all Futures contracts created during the height of the tulip mania to Options contracts, basically eliminating the vast majority of the contract holders exposure.
I do find the whole fire hydrant thing in the US a bit odd - we have hydrant points here in the UK, but they are below ground with a small manhole cover over it, and are also positioned so they cannot be trivially blocked (either in the road, or on the pavement). We don't seem to have any major issues with inaccessibility, so why the US?
Bullshit - your point is like saying you cannot reproduce and sell Heinz goods as your own, so the free market is broken. Nothing about the free market concept allows you to take someone else's goods, reproduce them and sell them on, so its your point that is broken and not the concept of the free market.
The publishers can take their products elsewhere if they so wish, so the free market is fine.
The problem is not that people are angry, its that they want legal recourse to be had - they want NSA chiefs and ex-chiefs et al to be prosecuted, which is pure fantasy land demands imho, very much like the recent "charging" of Chinese military personnel with hacking US institutions.
I have no issue with people being angry, or there being very real political ramifications between "allies", but for privacy groups to demand prosecutions just shows how far out of touch with reality they actually are.
Whats the issue here? While indeed "allies", Germany is still an international rival to the USA and thus the NSA targeting the German political leadership is perfectly acceptable as that is, surprisingly enough, their job - espionage and intelligence gathering! Gathering information which gives the USA an advantage in talks or negotiations (trade agreements et al) is what is supposed to be going on.
What the Germans should be asking close questions about is why their counter-espionage agencies are not protecting them - where is the failure?
I'm afraid your assertion is quite false - about 90% of all landings done daily by large civil aircraft (737 upward) is done by the autoland system, with the only requirement for a manual landing being to retain certification for the pilot.
Actually, direct law isn't all that bad - it just means you are directly in control of the flight control surfaces, rather than having any computer decisions made based on your inputs.
From about 2008 onward, the sole aircraft providing theatre wide close air support in Afghanistan was the B-1B, as it has tremendous loiter time and can get on target very very quickly indeed - the coalition still used smaller aircraft to provide regional CAS, but there was always a B-1B in the air on patrol in-case it was needed.
Actually, that's an urban myth - in Normal Law the pilot cannot exceed certain thresholds as you say, but its a simple button press to put the aircraft in Alternate Law where they can. Boeing aircraft from the 777 onward are essentially the same.
And out of that 70%, the writer now has to supply their own editors, artwork, proof readers and layout specialists. And yes, it does indeed show when many of those professions have been involved and when they haven't (I read several major published authors such as Neal Asher, Peter F Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds et al, but also read a heck of a lot of the free or cheap stuff from the Kindle store - there can be a huge difference in quality even when you aren't talking about overall story lines etc).
To discover the metal fatigue issue, they had to submerge an entire Comet fuselage in a water tank, and then conduct several thousand pressurisation cycles to cause it to rupture - and then they had a perfect example to work from to resolve the issue.
Turns out that isn't as much of an issue as you think - the Comet airframe became the base airframe for the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, which flew in regular service from the 1960s right up to 2011, without a single airframe loss due to engine placement.
Distribution counts for a lot in copyright law. And that fantasy example was never distributed in the sense covered by copyright law, it existed as the original modified copy only.
I gather that would go down just as well as nationalising the healthcare system in the US would - people would scream "socialism", lawsuits would spring up faster than a teenage boy band taking viagra gets erections, and the whole thing would be bogged down for decades.
And arguably, good healthcare is far more important than internet access...
Well, it looks like either you are well put of date, or those sailors are flouting the rules...
"At this time only submarines will receive devices," explained Nellie Moffitt, manager of the Navy General Library Program.
"[There will be] five per submarine, with a total of 355 for the submarine force. Eventually, we will send NeRDs to all vessels in the active fleet - it will take time as each collection will be tailored for specific audiences," Ms Moffitt told the BBC.
Traditional e-readers are not permitted on many Navy vessels as their GPS, wi-fi and roaming data features can give away their position to the enemy.
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There's probably a significant amount of internal operational knowledge that Snowden has which isn't in the documents he has released, as well as knowledge of other employees, seniors etc which would be interesting to foreign intelligence agencies for various reasons.
Think of it as the operational equivalent of traffic analysis - you can gain some insights into the NSA while not having any access to information about projects etc.
Actually, yes to a degree - after the tulip crash, the Dutch government passed legislation changing all Futures contracts created during the height of the tulip mania to Options contracts, basically eliminating the vast majority of the contract holders exposure.
How big of a court case would you like to have on your hands?
Polarized for which orientation?
I do find the whole fire hydrant thing in the US a bit odd - we have hydrant points here in the UK, but they are below ground with a small manhole cover over it, and are also positioned so they cannot be trivially blocked (either in the road, or on the pavement). We don't seem to have any major issues with inaccessibility, so why the US?
Microsoft would help themselves if they released free VM images of the latest Windows that's limited to running their browsers.
They do.
http://modern.ie/en-gb/virtual...
Bullshit - your point is like saying you cannot reproduce and sell Heinz goods as your own, so the free market is broken. Nothing about the free market concept allows you to take someone else's goods, reproduce them and sell them on, so its your point that is broken and not the concept of the free market.
The publishers can take their products elsewhere if they so wish, so the free market is fine.
The problem is not that people are angry, its that they want legal recourse to be had - they want NSA chiefs and ex-chiefs et al to be prosecuted, which is pure fantasy land demands imho, very much like the recent "charging" of Chinese military personnel with hacking US institutions.
I have no issue with people being angry, or there being very real political ramifications between "allies", but for privacy groups to demand prosecutions just shows how far out of touch with reality they actually are.
Whats the issue here? While indeed "allies", Germany is still an international rival to the USA and thus the NSA targeting the German political leadership is perfectly acceptable as that is, surprisingly enough, their job - espionage and intelligence gathering! Gathering information which gives the USA an advantage in talks or negotiations (trade agreements et al) is what is supposed to be going on.
What the Germans should be asking close questions about is why their counter-espionage agencies are not protecting them - where is the failure?
What a load of bollocks, seriously.
I'm afraid your assertion is quite false - about 90% of all landings done daily by large civil aircraft (737 upward) is done by the autoland system, with the only requirement for a manual landing being to retain certification for the pilot.
Actually, direct law isn't all that bad - it just means you are directly in control of the flight control surfaces, rather than having any computer decisions made based on your inputs.
From about 2008 onward, the sole aircraft providing theatre wide close air support in Afghanistan was the B-1B, as it has tremendous loiter time and can get on target very very quickly indeed - the coalition still used smaller aircraft to provide regional CAS, but there was always a B-1B in the air on patrol in-case it was needed.
They can only disable access if two things are aligned:
1. The publisher has enabled DRM
2. The reader is reading the book on a Kindle device or Kindle app
Personally, I read all non-DRMed books using a third party reader, so they can't disable access for myself.
Actually, that's an urban myth - in Normal Law the pilot cannot exceed certain thresholds as you say, but its a simple button press to put the aircraft in Alternate Law where they can. Boeing aircraft from the 777 onward are essentially the same.
And out of that 70%, the writer now has to supply their own editors, artwork, proof readers and layout specialists. And yes, it does indeed show when many of those professions have been involved and when they haven't (I read several major published authors such as Neal Asher, Peter F Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds et al, but also read a heck of a lot of the free or cheap stuff from the Kindle store - there can be a huge difference in quality even when you aren't talking about overall story lines etc).
To discover the metal fatigue issue, they had to submerge an entire Comet fuselage in a water tank, and then conduct several thousand pressurisation cycles to cause it to rupture - and then they had a perfect example to work from to resolve the issue.
A reactor with no containment building, really? Nothing like that ever got built outside the Soviet bloc.
Really? Most UK reactors don't have containment buildings... Infact, every UK reactor hall I've visited has had huge windows.
Turns out that isn't as much of an issue as you think - the Comet airframe became the base airframe for the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, which flew in regular service from the 1960s right up to 2011, without a single airframe loss due to engine placement.
Distribution counts for a lot in copyright law. And that fantasy example was never distributed in the sense covered by copyright law, it existed as the original modified copy only.
I gather that would go down just as well as nationalising the healthcare system in the US would - people would scream "socialism", lawsuits would spring up faster than a teenage boy band taking viagra gets erections, and the whole thing would be bogged down for decades.
And arguably, good healthcare is far more important than internet access...
Yeah, like they don't have a vested interest to slant the story in one direction or another...
A country can claim jurisdiction anywhere on the planet, but the trick is to be able to enforce that claim of jurisdiction...
All you are doing there is pushing babysitting duties on to the OS project maintainers, and that's not their job.
Well, it looks like either you are well put of date, or those sailors are flouting the rules...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...