Finding a cure to an illness is a hard and long work that could benefit from a budget extension but the most obvious thing I see is that we have cure to many illness that still kill MILLIONS in the world. The only illness the world has ever been able to eradicate is smallpox, thanks to an unprecedented USSR-USA partnership. Now the WHO, after half a dozen failed attempt at eradicating other illness, considers it doesn't have the budget to succeed in a new illness eradication campaign.
I tell you, if you have too many billions to spend, a "war on malaria" or a "war on leprosy" funded with 20% of the Operation Iraqi Freedom budget could restore the US image in the world, decrease poverty, increase education and suppress some causes of terrorism.
I haven't made web development for many years, but my understanding is that you have to make two test cases for today's browser market : one for IE, on for standard compliant browser. From what I know, if it works on Konqueror, it works on Firefox. No ?
While I agree with you wholeheartedly, I wouldn't throw the stone too hard in the sysadmins direction.
Every other profession where trust and discretion is required (doctors, lawyers for instance)get payment for this and peer scrutiny and possible sanctions from ethical misbehaviors.
I can only point out that nobody sees yet the use to transform IT into this sort of things. I think time will come but it will take a few disasters before.
To draw an analogy, it isn't just leaving your front door unlocked, it's leaving it unlocked and putting up a sign that says "Please come in!". That is even worse, that is acting as an ISP without accepting the many liabilities that are associated (in the weird world of US laws) and possibly with the intent of eavesdropping on your "client" traffic. To go further in your analogy, it would be like offering free lodging in unhealthy hazardous building and with the right to steal other peoples wallet.
Nuclear is the transitional power source of choice. It should be happening now. I expect that by 2030 we would be switching to something else. And by "we" I mean "the world". Europe (Germany more specifically) has a grand project of installing many solar power plants in friendly countries that have a part of Sahara and power Africa and Europe through that.
I agree with you. The education system is neither made for the top 10% of students, nor for the lower 10%. Its most important mission is to provide the 80% with decent education. That's why I am skeptical over the "No Child Left Behind". Just leave the 20 remaining percent on their own. Some bright kids will manage to improve by themselves and hopefully, some kids who are performing badly in the educational system will find other ways to acquire knowledge. Some will be left behind.
It is better have 5% of hardcore christian extremists than 50% of soft creationists.
Einstein fled nazi Germany. Many German scientists preferred to surrender to US than to Russia. Intelligent people sometime work for armies, less often for weapon manufacturers and very rarely without interesting themselves in politics.
Why did scientists chose a science career ? A lot of them genuinely want to improve the world. In order to make them work for an army, you'll have to convince them that they will fight the good fight. The Bush administration did not try that very hard.
"We've been advised by our attorney not to talk to you."
When lawyers seems a safer medium for understanding between people than regular speech, there has to be a problem somewhere.
Yes, I have read that months ago just when there were talks about updating it to take 'asymmetrical warfare' into account. Warrantless searches concerns are a bit out of the point here. Hiding evidences of human rights abuses, however, is contrary to many official statements. Nobody really expects that anything else happens in the operation theater but in an ideal world where US army officials could be attacked in trial, this document could be used in a charge against war crimes. I would be cautious about my movements in Europe and Belgium if I were the author of this book. (See Rumsfeld's hasty departure from France when he came back there without immunity for instance)
It isn't hard to find this book today, but it is good to have it on wikileaks as a backup.
1 PM EST time means 17:00 GMT.
Come on, Slashdot, this is supposed to be an international event ! The biggest slashdoting ever, you could try harder to synchronize !
It is not the satellite that is important. It is the launcher. A 1000 £ orbital launcher of 20 grams satellites is assured to bring some innovation to the art of spatial launch.
"What could possibly go wrong" is the core of at least half of the anticipation (yeah, I consider anticipation a subgenre of SF so sue me) novels I have ever read. So here is my advice:
Stop considering it to be a minor literature genre. Talk about cyberpunk (which prevented some grim future) in school, talk about Foundation, about Blade Runner, about 1984 (to be fair this one gets more recognition). Add a few books that talk about genetics, biology, mind control, overpopulation and AIs. Give SF the place it deserves in literature : a major one. It is a bridge between literature, politics, science, philosophy and ethics.
It always amazes me that TrueCrypt volumes are considered to be a safe way of hiding data. An encrypted partition is sure to look like completely random data and unused parts of a regular disk are sure to look like something else than completely random data. Sure, you can deny it, but it still remains very suspicious.
What is their job again ? To check that goods entering are legit and that people entering are legit. Information that you have to CARRY are not trade goods but private data that you can't easily prevent carrying. They may revel some past criminal activity from their owner but determining this is the role of a court, not a custom authority. A custom only has to stop known criminals.
And if you want, I can elaborate on why separating judgment and enforcement of a judgment are activities that must be carried by different organizations.
It is assuming that an information can be of danger to the state. That and the fact that they won't disclose to you what they are searching for. Maybe this guy don't want the police to know that he has two naked pictures on his laptop, maybe (who knows ?) one of this women is one of the agent's daughter. Maybe the other agent is an ultra-catholic who will just use his (PATRIOT-act given) powers to harass this guy because of pictures he finds immoral ?
In a perfect world, search wouldn't be a problem. Privacy rights exist because police agents, custom agents, administrative officials are all fallible humans that are allowed to have weird opinions, small IQ, various beliefs and can usually be bribed.
now have many folks calling for him to be removed from the case. There is no indication that any of the images on Kozinski's site would be considered obscene or illegal. But certainly, one has to believe that most would consider this at the very least to represent a serious conflict of interest given the nature of the trial. "Conflict of interest ?" It is not as if the case was about the right to store privately obscene images and share them with friends. Or is it ?
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Finding a cure to an illness is a hard and long work that could benefit from a budget extension but the most obvious thing I see is that we have cure to many illness that still kill MILLIONS in the world. The only illness the world has ever been able to eradicate is smallpox, thanks to an unprecedented USSR-USA partnership. Now the WHO, after half a dozen failed attempt at eradicating other illness, considers it doesn't have the budget to succeed in a new illness eradication campaign.
I tell you, if you have too many billions to spend, a "war on malaria" or a "war on leprosy" funded with 20% of the Operation Iraqi Freedom budget could restore the US image in the world, decrease poverty, increase education and suppress some causes of terrorism.
and that 35 billions "disappeared" in the Operation Iraq Freedom...
I haven't made web development for many years, but my understanding is that you have to make two test cases for today's browser market : one for IE, on for standard compliant browser. From what I know, if it works on Konqueror, it works on Firefox. No ?
AMD ! Just open the specs to the latests chipsets and the latest drivers. Before the end of the year, you will have the best driver on the market.
While I agree with you wholeheartedly, I wouldn't throw the stone too hard in the sysadmins direction.
Every other profession where trust and discretion is required (doctors, lawyers for instance)get payment for this and peer scrutiny and possible sanctions from ethical misbehaviors.
I can only point out that nobody sees yet the use to transform IT into this sort of things. I think time will come but it will take a few disasters before.
Nuclear is the transitional power source of choice. It should be happening now. I expect that by 2030 we would be switching to something else. And by "we" I mean "the world". Europe (Germany more specifically) has a grand project of installing many solar power plants in friendly countries that have a part of Sahara and power Africa and Europe through that.
I agree with you. The education system is neither made for the top 10% of students, nor for the lower 10%. Its most important mission is to provide the 80% with decent education. That's why I am skeptical over the "No Child Left Behind". Just leave the 20 remaining percent on their own. Some bright kids will manage to improve by themselves and hopefully, some kids who are performing badly in the educational system will find other ways to acquire knowledge. Some will be left behind.
It is better have 5% of hardcore christian extremists than 50% of soft creationists.
Einstein fled nazi Germany. Many German scientists preferred to surrender to US than to Russia. Intelligent people sometime work for armies, less often for weapon manufacturers and very rarely without interesting themselves in politics.
Why did scientists chose a science career ? A lot of them genuinely want to improve the world. In order to make them work for an army, you'll have to convince them that they will fight the good fight. The Bush administration did not try that very hard.
"We've been advised by our attorney not to talk to you."
When lawyers seems a safer medium for understanding between people than regular speech, there has to be a problem somewhere.
Insult to injury to parody, which is flattery. Or isn't ?
Not only want people to pay to downgrade, but they will pay to get a DELL installation. Sad state of the world...
Yes, I have read that months ago just when there were talks about updating it to take 'asymmetrical warfare' into account. Warrantless searches concerns are a bit out of the point here. Hiding evidences of human rights abuses, however, is contrary to many official statements. Nobody really expects that anything else happens in the operation theater but in an ideal world where US army officials could be attacked in trial, this document could be used in a charge against war crimes. I would be cautious about my movements in Europe and Belgium if I were the author of this book. (See Rumsfeld's hasty departure from France when he came back there without immunity for instance)
It isn't hard to find this book today, but it is good to have it on wikileaks as a backup.
1 PM EST time means 17:00 GMT.
Come on, Slashdot, this is supposed to be an international event ! The biggest slashdoting ever, you could try harder to synchronize !
It is not the satellite that is important. It is the launcher. A 1000 £ orbital launcher of 20 grams satellites is assured to bring some innovation to the art of spatial launch.
This could be modded "insightful" as well...
"What could possibly go wrong" is the core of at least half of the anticipation (yeah, I consider anticipation a subgenre of SF so sue me) novels I have ever read. So here is my advice:
Stop considering it to be a minor literature genre. Talk about cyberpunk (which prevented some grim future) in school, talk about Foundation, about Blade Runner, about 1984 (to be fair this one gets more recognition). Add a few books that talk about genetics, biology, mind control, overpopulation and AIs. Give SF the place it deserves in literature : a major one. It is a bridge between literature, politics, science, philosophy and ethics.
Shhh, let them reclassify them as POW, and only then ask their status to be linked to a war that is not on an abstract concept.
They are rare and hard to enforce because they are reserved to cases such as this one.
It always amazes me that TrueCrypt volumes are considered to be a safe way of hiding data. An encrypted partition is sure to look like completely random data and unused parts of a regular disk are sure to look like something else than completely random data. Sure, you can deny it, but it still remains very suspicious.
What is their job again ? To check that goods entering are legit and that people entering are legit. Information that you have to CARRY are not trade goods but private data that you can't easily prevent carrying. They may revel some past criminal activity from their owner but determining this is the role of a court, not a custom authority. A custom only has to stop known criminals.
And if you want, I can elaborate on why separating judgment and enforcement of a judgment are activities that must be carried by different organizations.
This guy obviously never heard of cabriolets...
It is assuming that an information can be of danger to the state. That and the fact that they won't disclose to you what they are searching for. Maybe this guy don't want the police to know that he has two naked pictures on his laptop, maybe (who knows ?) one of this women is one of the agent's daughter. Maybe the other agent is an ultra-catholic who will just use his (PATRIOT-act given) powers to harass this guy because of pictures he finds immoral ?
In a perfect world, search wouldn't be a problem. Privacy rights exist because police agents, custom agents, administrative officials are all fallible humans that are allowed to have weird opinions, small IQ, various beliefs and can usually be bribed.
Don't worry, thanks to this patent, these devices will only be Microsoft devices which few people buy anyway...