In hindsight, failing to prevent 9/11, invading Iraq under false pretenses, and ending with the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, do you think you did a good job as President of the United States?
WikiLeaks provided ample opportunity for the US to state which documents are "putting lives at risk". They instead responded with threats. If there really are lives at stake here, this is incredible irresponsible of the US, especially since it was very likely that WikiLeaks would release the information no matter what.
I don't think an official document telling the US diplomats to "obtain not just information from the people they meet, but personal details, such as frequent flyer numbers, credit card details and even DNA material" counts as a drunken conversation at a frat party.
Turns out there are more countries than Sweden in Scandinavia. You might want to look at the economy of Norway, which WAS invaded by the germans in WWII (not that that is in any way relevant to their economy today).
This is what happens when you're a small country against big companies. For all the Anti-EU talk that has been going on the past couple of weeks, this just shows why it's necessary to unify even further. Big companies will be using this strategy again and again, and who can blame them? They have nothing to lose from threatening to leave. They could just stay anyway if it didn't go their way.
Imagine if corporate tax was coordinated on an EU scale. Then Microsoft, Intel, Google and all the others could either pay up, or not sell in the EU. I think I know what their choice would be.
It has the trademark Microsoft style: design by committee
You can almost tell the key topics the committee came up with: * Copy Apple's design, but not too much * Put in a Windows logo, 'cause Windows is a cool brand * We need to buttons big, so everyone can hit them
So, you're publishing anonymously information that you think people need to know about a public entity. Guess you're glad/. has an anonymous coward option. I wonder what that would translate to in the real world...
The whole Wikileaks "controversy" is a huge case of killing the messenger. People should revisit New York Times Co. v. United States if they've forgotten. Any possible wrongdoing, regardless of their motives, lies at the people who leaked the information, not Wikileaks.
That being said, the people who leaked the information to Wikileaks is risking everything by leaking it. And they have nothing to gain from it, in fact Wikileaks has to take extraordinary measures to keep their anonymity. Why would they do this if they didn't sincerely believe that the information is something people need to know?
This reminds me of something that has puzzled me for a while:
* The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency. * Photons are redshifted due to the expansion of space.
So the energy of the photons, e.g. from CMB, is lower. Where did the energy go? It must be connected to expansion somehow, but how? And on a second note, Einsteins famous equation tells us that energy is proportional to mass, so does this influence mass somehow?
This is probably obvious for you physicists out there, so I thought I'd ask.
Look, I use Linux and I like it as much as the next guy, and I hate to break it to you, but Windows hasn't sucked since XP came out. It's actually a very decent and stable platform nowadays, and has been for a very long time.
That's why Vista was such a massive success, right?
...The level of backward-compatibility almost every release of Windows since 3.11 has managed to achieve is nothing short of amazing....
This may be a design choice by MS, but IMHO I think it's a mistake on their part. Keeping such levels of backwards compatibility let's programs, and by extension libraries, get stuck in a mid 90s architecture. Every once in a while they should've made a clean cut and made emulators for older versions of the OS.
Just like South America benefited from US prosperity, right?
I agree that it is a good thing that the people of China are being lifted from poverty. But the rest of the world also needs to be vigilant that Chinese foreign policy doesn't follow the book that the US wrote in South America. An economically prosperous country that controls its media is a very dangerous entity; not as much for its people, but for other nations around the world. And China has a very large presence in Africa at the moment.
This is actually a rather urgent issue. It's hard for people to be really angry at their government if they are delivering double digit growth. And foreign nations are in an increasingly weaker position to press China on the issues of censorship and human rights.
with the US singled out for special opprobrium because it's basically the only country unwilling to accept the consensus of (most) scientists that global warming is happening.
The above leads to one of the two following conclusions:
* There's a massive conspiracy of scientists and the US is the only one to see through it. * Or the US (or powerful people therein) has a vested interest in not believing in global warming.
I have yet to hear a plausible reason for option number one's massive conspiracy. I've heard explanations like grants and conference trips to Hawaii, but I still don't see these (or any) scientists taking their Ferraris from their private jets to their yachts. I have, one the other hand, heard of oil company executives doing that.
It is a 'nice to know' but really has zero impact on anything of any significance.
And how exactly do you know this? Number theory and lasers are classical examples of discoveries that didn't have direct applications, but which are now fundamental for modern society. Number theory is the basis of asymmetric cryptography, and lasers have countless applications.
We would be stuck in the stone age if we adopted such a dismissive approach to basic science.
Mine too, when I was in the states a few years back. Reminds me that it was actually an advantage to be roaming, because the phone could switch between T-Mobile and AT&T according to who had the better coverage. Overall this was a much better experience than the exclusive phones I tried with either company (no coverage some places even in NYC).
About $1.3 billion per launch, counting total program cost divided by number of launches. Good news is an extra flight will lower the costs per flight to a bargain $1.288 billion.
...And likewise, Europeans want nothing to do with those horrible Americans *eye rolls*. The fact that they're inward-looking and quite a bit xenophobic (disguised as nationalistic pride) has nothing to do with it.
Now, should I just respond in kind by making up my own random "fact" about you personally or Australians in general? Or should I ask for a citation on the above?
This is not a question of computers or security so much as it is a question of the freedom of information, communication, expression and speech. Perhaps the propaganda machine has convinced the American public otherwise.
Yes, and the propaganda machine is cheating! It's using common sense override codes such as "terrorist" and "are you not a patriot?". By the way "are you a communist?" still works.
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Then why hide it?
In hindsight, failing to prevent 9/11, invading Iraq under false pretenses, and ending with the biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression, do you think you did a good job as President of the United States?
How is having diplomats collecting "internet and intranet ‘handles’, internet e-mail addresses, web site identification-URLs; credit card account numbers; frequent-flier account numbers; work schedules, and other relevant biographical information.” from officials in allied countries "least disruptive and most beneficial"? Allied countries which have no motive nor means to threaten the US.
http://documents.nytimes.com/letters-between-wikileaks-and-gov
WikiLeaks provided ample opportunity for the US to state which documents are "putting lives at risk". They instead responded with threats. If there really are lives at stake here, this is incredible irresponsible of the US, especially since it was very likely that WikiLeaks would release the information no matter what.
I don't think an official document telling the US diplomats to "obtain not just information from the people they meet, but personal details, such as frequent flyer numbers, credit card details and even DNA material" counts as a drunken conversation at a frat party.
Turns out there are more countries than Sweden in Scandinavia. You might want to look at the economy of Norway, which WAS invaded by the germans in WWII (not that that is in any way relevant to their economy today).
This is what happens when you're a small country against big companies. For all the Anti-EU talk that has been going on the past couple of weeks, this just shows why it's necessary to unify even further. Big companies will be using this strategy again and again, and who can blame them? They have nothing to lose from threatening to leave. They could just stay anyway if it didn't go their way.
Imagine if corporate tax was coordinated on an EU scale. Then Microsoft, Intel, Google and all the others could either pay up, or not sell in the EU. I think I know what their choice would be.
It has the trademark Microsoft style: design by committee
You can almost tell the key topics the committee came up with:
* Copy Apple's design, but not too much
* Put in a Windows logo, 'cause Windows is a cool brand
* We need to buttons big, so everyone can hit them
So, you're publishing anonymously information that you think people need to know about a public entity. Guess you're glad /. has an anonymous coward option. I wonder what that would translate to in the real world...
The whole Wikileaks "controversy" is a huge case of killing the messenger. People should revisit New York Times Co. v. United States if they've forgotten. Any possible wrongdoing, regardless of their motives, lies at the people who leaked the information, not Wikileaks.
That being said, the people who leaked the information to Wikileaks is risking everything by leaking it. And they have nothing to gain from it, in fact Wikileaks has to take extraordinary measures to keep their anonymity. Why would they do this if they didn't sincerely believe that the information is something people need to know?
This reminds me of something that has puzzled me for a while:
* The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency.
* Photons are redshifted due to the expansion of space.
So the energy of the photons, e.g. from CMB, is lower. Where did the energy go? It must be connected to expansion somehow, but how? And on a second note, Einsteins famous equation tells us that energy is proportional to mass, so does this influence mass somehow?
This is probably obvious for you physicists out there, so I thought I'd ask.
I'd like to see Microsoft designing a font like this. Of course they wouldn't be able to, since they suck and all.
Argh! No mod points. +5 Epic fun
Look, I use Linux and I like it as much as the next guy, and I hate to break it to you, but Windows hasn't sucked since XP came out. It's actually a very decent and stable platform nowadays, and has been for a very long time.
That's why Vista was such a massive success, right?
...The level of backward-compatibility almost every release of Windows since 3.11 has managed to achieve is nothing short of amazing. ...
This may be a design choice by MS, but IMHO I think it's a mistake on their part. Keeping such levels of backwards compatibility let's programs, and by extension libraries, get stuck in a mid 90s architecture. Every once in a while they should've made a clean cut and made emulators for older versions of the OS.
Just like South America benefited from US prosperity, right?
I agree that it is a good thing that the people of China are being lifted from poverty. But the rest of the world also needs to be vigilant that Chinese foreign policy doesn't follow the book that the US wrote in South America. An economically prosperous country that controls its media is a very dangerous entity; not as much for its people, but for other nations around the world. And China has a very large presence in Africa at the moment.
This is actually a rather urgent issue. It's hard for people to be really angry at their government if they are delivering double digit growth. And foreign nations are in an increasingly weaker position to press China on the issues of censorship and human rights.
with the US singled out for special opprobrium because it's basically the only country unwilling to accept the consensus of (most) scientists that global warming is happening.
The above leads to one of the two following conclusions:
* There's a massive conspiracy of scientists and the US is the only one to see through it.
* Or the US (or powerful people therein) has a vested interest in not believing in global warming.
I have yet to hear a plausible reason for option number one's massive conspiracy. I've heard explanations like grants and conference trips to Hawaii, but I still don't see these (or any) scientists taking their Ferraris from their private jets to their yachts. I have, one the other hand, heard of oil company executives doing that.
It is a 'nice to know' but really has zero impact on anything of any significance.
And how exactly do you know this? Number theory and lasers are classical examples of discoveries that didn't have direct applications, but which are now fundamental for modern society. Number theory is the basis of asymmetric cryptography, and lasers have countless applications.
We would be stuck in the stone age if we adopted such a dismissive approach to basic science.
Why do you want to get rid of Exchange for GMail?
You're right. Please hand me my free Exchange Server.
Mine too, when I was in the states a few years back. Reminds me that it was actually an advantage to be roaming, because the phone could switch between T-Mobile and AT&T according to who had the better coverage. Overall this was a much better experience than the exclusive phones I tried with either company (no coverage some places even in NYC).
How's it like in the /. server room?
About $1.3 billion per launch, counting total program cost divided by number of launches. Good news is an extra flight will lower the costs per flight to a bargain $1.288 billion.
what. the. fuck. does. that. mean...?
Full force science looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oc-70Fby4
...And likewise, Europeans want nothing to do with those horrible Americans *eye rolls*. The fact that they're inward-looking and quite a bit xenophobic (disguised as nationalistic pride) has nothing to do with it.
Now, should I just respond in kind by making up my own random "fact" about you personally or Australians in general? Or should I ask for a citation on the above?
You choose, mate.
This is not a question of computers or security so much as it is a question of the freedom of information, communication, expression and speech. Perhaps the propaganda machine has convinced the American public otherwise.
Yes, and the propaganda machine is cheating! It's using common sense override codes such as "terrorist" and "are you not a patriot?". By the way "are you a communist?" still works.
It's not voter apathy. It's voter impotence.
So what do you do instead? Complain? IMO the only valid reason for not voting in a democratic country is if you ran for office yourself.