There are other reliability issues too: 1. Every network system I'm aware of relies on being able to duplicate packets at virtually no cost. Obviously, a physical packet can't be duplicated like that. 2. Dropped packets in an electronic system aren't a problem. In a physical system, it leaves a pile of crap.
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Wikileaks has stated that their next big release is going to be about some dirty corporations.
It also turns out that the stuff released this time isn't just "well duh". They're a bit more dry than, say, footage of reporters and civilians getting shot to pieces by US helicopter gunners, but one of the more interesting is that the various Arab states are pushing for a US attack on Iran. I'd think the the US public would be far more supportive of a strike on Iran at the behest of, say, the UN Security Council than they would of a similar strike at the behest of the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Here's the problem in a nutshell: It's not just 1 dipshit. If it were just 1 dipshit attempting to illegally censor this material, he'd be arrested, tried, impeached, etc. The attacks on Wikileaks have the strong support of both major parties in the United States as well as numerous corporations and news organizations, because nobody with power likes it when people without power start acquiring knowledge about what those with power are up to.
They also make damn sure nobody can take power away from those 2 major parties and corporations. For instance, the major political parties both arrange to exclude candidates from political debates because they are representing political parties other than Democratic or Republican. News anchors routinely exclude guests that don't match their own views.
It used to be that spam kingpins like Alan Ralsky were based right here in the good old USA. Now it seems we're contracting out even our criminal behavior!
Joe Lieberman's basic mindset appears to be that the public should know only what the US government wants us to know. He's hardly alone in this - people who want to control access to information want to control thought. However, this gives him and people like him about as much credibility as the Iraqi Information Minister.
And of course, it's an anathema to democracy, but that never stopped Joe before. I should also mention that given who his financial backers are, you might as well call him the senator for Israel, not the senator for Connecticut (To be clear, I treat corporate-sponsored senators much the same way, for instance "Bob Dole (R-ADM)").
I don't care about the bragging. I do think, though, that the more leaking the better.
Most of the really foul stuff that the public has ever discovered about their government has been via leaks. There used to be investigative journalists that would try to make those leaks happen. But eventually most news organizations realized that they depended on easy access to insider sources, and the way to keep that access was to cover things the way those insider sources wanted them covered, so as a result instead of meeting Deep Throat in a parking garage we have reporters lining up to deep throat Scooter Libbey in exchange for the latest scoop on Joe Wilson's wife (for example). So now we need citizen efforts to make those leaks happen, and I view Wikileaks as a proof of concept as well as a source of specific leaks.
Although I should mention that the bragging probably is one of the things that keeps Wikileaks' personnel alive right now. If Assange is killed, then Wikileaks can respond by releasing the key to the Insurance file, or by releasing any of the numerous things it's sitting on.
Before today, it was possible to speculate that one solution to Drake's Equation was simply that spontaneous generation of life was so rare that it only happened once, ever.
There are also a lot of people who think that spontaneous generation of life was so rare that it never actually happened, and that life on Earth was created by some sort of Flying Spaghetti Monster. Of course, those guys will think that this evidence is a fabrication by the evil atheist communists.
Another distinct possibility is that the FBI or some other federal agency told them to, but in some sort of secret national security letter rather than in an official court order. Even a good-guy corporation isn't going to risk being booted out of the country on behalf of 1 client.
The stated reason the US invaded Afghanistan was for their refusal to extradite Bin Laden, not for any Taliban-led attack.
FTFY. There's significant evidence that the real reason for the invasion had nothing to do with that, and everything to do with an oil pipeline for Unocal.
If he'd merely wanted to pick a good female running mate among the Republicans, he had much much better options than Palin. For instance, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, or Christine Todd Whitman. He didn't, and the only reason I can think of is that he wanted to appease the stupid wing of his party.
Yes. The most critical one is that when you screw up politics, real live people get killed. Compare the consequences of killing a million people versus producing Waterworld.
I once thought some guy from Texas born with a silver foot in his mouth, who had basically relied on daddy's friends and connections his entire adult life, would have been equally unelectable. I was disastrously wrong.
You've been seriously misinformed about what "net neutrality" actually means.
Net neutrality basically means that ISPs can't throttle traffic for any reason other than maxing out a connection at the advertised download/upload rate. It says nothing about the content. It gives no extra power to the FCC or any other government agency. What it takes away is the ISPs ability to censor content, or say something like "that's a nice website, real shame if it were unable to be viewed by any of our customers."
And this sort of thing is why I'm a Groucho Marxist:
I don’t know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway -- Whatever it is, I’m against it! No matter what it is or who commenced it, I’m against it.
Your proposition may be good But let’s have one thing understood -- Whatever it is, I’m against it! And even when you’ve changed it or condensed it, I’m against it.
the other is or was part of the Swedish Wikileaks support organization (and is definitely not a plant)
[citation needed]
Think about it: If you were a spying organization intent on taking down a particular civilian, would you not at least consider getting an agent of the appropriate gender close to the target, then having that agent have sex with the target, then claim rape?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there. Colonel Bat Guano: That's private property. Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit! Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you? Mandrake: What? Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
Although it's not all that surprising, given that Goldman Sachs is a larger economic entity than the majority of national governments.
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No single tool can guarantee the logic of any code is correct. Your only options in that department are mathematical proof, unit tests, integration tests, and field tests.
In other words, scm, like all other incredibly useful tools, do not constitute a silver bullet in software development.
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Well, this one is supposed to be available within 5 years, so that means we have a decent chance of getting it by 2030.
There are other reliability issues too:
1. Every network system I'm aware of relies on being able to duplicate packets at virtually no cost. Obviously, a physical packet can't be duplicated like that.
2. Dropped packets in an electronic system aren't a problem. In a physical system, it leaves a pile of crap.
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Wikileaks has stated that their next big release is going to be about some dirty corporations.
It also turns out that the stuff released this time isn't just "well duh". They're a bit more dry than, say, footage of reporters and civilians getting shot to pieces by US helicopter gunners, but one of the more interesting is that the various Arab states are pushing for a US attack on Iran. I'd think the the US public would be far more supportive of a strike on Iran at the behest of, say, the UN Security Council than they would of a similar strike at the behest of the kings of Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Here's the problem in a nutshell: It's not just 1 dipshit. If it were just 1 dipshit attempting to illegally censor this material, he'd be arrested, tried, impeached, etc. The attacks on Wikileaks have the strong support of both major parties in the United States as well as numerous corporations and news organizations, because nobody with power likes it when people without power start acquiring knowledge about what those with power are up to.
They also make damn sure nobody can take power away from those 2 major parties and corporations. For instance, the major political parties both arrange to exclude candidates from political debates because they are representing political parties other than Democratic or Republican. News anchors routinely exclude guests that don't match their own views.
It used to be that spam kingpins like Alan Ralsky were based right here in the good old USA. Now it seems we're contracting out even our criminal behavior!
Joe Lieberman's basic mindset appears to be that the public should know only what the US government wants us to know. He's hardly alone in this - people who want to control access to information want to control thought. However, this gives him and people like him about as much credibility as the Iraqi Information Minister.
And of course, it's an anathema to democracy, but that never stopped Joe before. I should also mention that given who his financial backers are, you might as well call him the senator for Israel, not the senator for Connecticut (To be clear, I treat corporate-sponsored senators much the same way, for instance "Bob Dole (R-ADM)").
If that's our standard, then I should point out that the Boston PD already topped this in the overreaction department back in 2007.
I don't care about the bragging. I do think, though, that the more leaking the better.
Most of the really foul stuff that the public has ever discovered about their government has been via leaks. There used to be investigative journalists that would try to make those leaks happen. But eventually most news organizations realized that they depended on easy access to insider sources, and the way to keep that access was to cover things the way those insider sources wanted them covered, so as a result instead of meeting Deep Throat in a parking garage we have reporters lining up to deep throat Scooter Libbey in exchange for the latest scoop on Joe Wilson's wife (for example). So now we need citizen efforts to make those leaks happen, and I view Wikileaks as a proof of concept as well as a source of specific leaks.
Although I should mention that the bragging probably is one of the things that keeps Wikileaks' personnel alive right now. If Assange is killed, then Wikileaks can respond by releasing the key to the Insurance file, or by releasing any of the numerous things it's sitting on.
Before today, it was possible to speculate that one solution to Drake's Equation was simply that spontaneous generation of life was so rare that it only happened once, ever.
There are also a lot of people who think that spontaneous generation of life was so rare that it never actually happened, and that life on Earth was created by some sort of Flying Spaghetti Monster. Of course, those guys will think that this evidence is a fabrication by the evil atheist communists.
Ohm y, another pun thread. And just when I was starting to get amped up about this idea too.
Another distinct possibility is that the FBI or some other federal agency told them to, but in some sort of secret national security letter rather than in an official court order. Even a good-guy corporation isn't going to risk being booted out of the country on behalf of 1 client.
I thought you were a Hessian, not a Scotsman!
Credit for that one properly belongs to Ann Richards, George W Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas. And yes, she was talking about George W.
The stated reason the US invaded Afghanistan was for their refusal to extradite Bin Laden, not for any Taliban-led attack.
FTFY. There's significant evidence that the real reason for the invasion had nothing to do with that, and everything to do with an oil pipeline for Unocal.
If he'd merely wanted to pick a good female running mate among the Republicans, he had much much better options than Palin. For instance, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, or Christine Todd Whitman. He didn't, and the only reason I can think of is that he wanted to appease the stupid wing of his party.
Yes. The most critical one is that when you screw up politics, real live people get killed. Compare the consequences of killing a million people versus producing Waterworld.
I once thought some guy from Texas born with a silver foot in his mouth, who had basically relied on daddy's friends and connections his entire adult life, would have been equally unelectable. I was disastrously wrong.
You've been seriously misinformed about what "net neutrality" actually means.
Net neutrality basically means that ISPs can't throttle traffic for any reason other than maxing out a connection at the advertised download/upload rate. It says nothing about the content. It gives no extra power to the FCC or any other government agency. What it takes away is the ISPs ability to censor content, or say something like "that's a nice website, real shame if it were unable to be viewed by any of our customers."
And this sort of thing is why I'm a Groucho Marxist:
I don’t know what they have to say,
It makes no difference anyway --
Whatever it is, I’m against it!
No matter what it is or who commenced it,
I’m against it.
Your proposition may be good
But let’s have one thing understood --
Whatever it is, I’m against it!
And even when you’ve changed it or condensed it,
I’m against it.
(watch Groucho sing it)
the other is or was part of the Swedish Wikileaks support organization (and is definitely not a plant)
[citation needed]
Think about it: If you were a spying organization intent on taking down a particular civilian, would you not at least consider getting an agent of the appropriate gender close to the target, then having that agent have sex with the target, then claim rape?
Do you also publish them via a highly sophisticated Internet distribution system?
The relevant quote:
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Coca-Cola machine. I want you to shoot the lock off it. There may be some change in there.
Colonel Bat Guano: That's private property.
Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a telephone call to the President of the United States? Can you imagine? Shoot it off! Shoot! With a gun! That's what the bullets are for, you twit!
Guano: Okay. I'm gonna get your money for ya. But if you don't get the President of the United States on that phone, you know what's gonna happen to you?
Mandrake: What?
Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Coca-Cola company.
Although it's not all that surprising, given that Goldman Sachs is a larger economic entity than the majority of national governments.
As stated clearly in Internet Posting Control Commission policy 57Q paragraph 14 subsection xli, in order to claim 'Inbefore' status, you must fill out forms 27B-6, ID10-T, and P3B-C4K in triplicate, and get approvals from the Comment Working Group 2 weeks before you make the comment. Any questions or concerns about this policy should be directed to the Complaints Reporting SubCommittee of the IPCC on the third Thursday of the month.
No single tool can guarantee the logic of any code is correct. Your only options in that department are mathematical proof, unit tests, integration tests, and field tests.
In other words, scm, like all other incredibly useful tools, do not constitute a silver bullet in software development.