There is probably a real military use to a smartphone. But to a real military smartphone. One that has default encryption on, that has a "total emission silence" mode, that has a standard battery slot that can be used on many equipments, that resist shocks, power surges, that work well in area with bad coverage, that boots really quickly, that has shortcuts for urgence situation, that has a LOUD mode that can be heard inside an armored transport.
I am curious why the army didn't develop their own smartphone. Probably hardened and weighting three time an iPhone, and probably with a funky acronym as a name.
First, there are such things as quantum-computer resistant encryption algorithms. They are not in current usage but it is possible to do.
Second, there are more and more people who suspect that quantum computers may be a pipe dream : http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/magic-quantum-wand-does-not-vanish-hard-maths.ars
It has been a good way to make people invest in fundamental research though;-)
Somehow failed but still with a probable nuclear reaction. And they have equipped with nuclear enrichment facilities that would make Iran jealous.
But I also am of the opinion that NK is not ready to make nuclear war. They could kill millions in Seoul and Osaka with a few nukes but they would lose and be destroyed very quickly in retaliation. Their nukes stocks is not enough to have a credible M.A.D doctrine.
By the way, these are only saber rattling because of the power changing hands. It will probably calm down.
However, the recent south Korea exercice to protect civilians from artillery shelling in Seoul indicate that the South may be considering taking serious steps.
I wonder if the fact that more and more possibilities are included in Android for "native" code (written in C) is not part of this convergence. Now it becomes easy to take some C parts of Chrome and include them in Android. Hopefully we will soon see a decent shell !
Maybe they shouldn't put a picture. Is that an American way of doing things ? When you have a message to give, write it, don't read it in a youtube video. Want to write an edito ? I don't care to see your brushed face with a fake smile on top of the page. If I want to give, I'll give to wikipedia, not to this badly shaved man.
Also, I would like to be able to give to the American wikipedia. Being French I am automatically directed to the French foundation that manages the French wikipedia which, quite honestly, sucks hard.
Remember that according to the "common sense" and the "obvious facts of human nature" a collaborative encyclopedia opened to anyone could simply not work.
As someone who works with epidemiologists, I can assure you that if you have a social network and represent individuals as actors that interact with each other, you are better than most of the models, which see cities as "pools" with simple rules to change the number of infectious, susceptible, recovered, at each iteration.
And if your individuals' behavior incorporate a real model of movement with a sense of distance to other people, you have indeed a very interesting model. (Yes, it is that bad. If you are a developer and want to help save the world, adopt a biologist and do their developments). Right now, various techniques are used to try and build a social network that can help understand how a disease spreads in various age group. "How many people come at less than 3 meters of a given person in a normal schools day ? in an airport ? in a regular office ? in a retirement house ? in subways ?" having an indication even with a 1 to 10 estimation, it would bring interesting results. So if we know you are in range to infect 50 to 500 people in a normal day, we know that the models that say it is 10 and the models that say it is 1000 are useless.
He pretends he received this warning last year by a US official : "You play outside the rules, we will take care of you outside the rules". But assassination ? I think they missed their window of opportunity. The medias made Assange unworthy of killing. It would make him a martyr. They have to do character assassination first. It would have been easier to have the "fleeing rapist" killed but I think he was smart by surrendering. Shady businesses are harder in these conditions.
While I completely agree with you last sentence, it is worthy of note that wikileaks is filtereted by The Great Firewall of China. Autocrats in America are no better than autocrats in China, but hopefully they use censor a bit less frequently.
Hehe, oops, I indeed misread the first line.
If the definition of obesity is simply "more than 30 of BMI", USA really wins the contest in the males category.
If you consider the definition to be 25 or more (what the table calls "overweight"), the gap is closer but neither Germany nor Greece mentioned in the article manages to top the 72% of overweight of USA. The only way for them to do so is to compare the 25-29.5 category while dismissing the 30+, which is a kind of silly way to measure don't you think ? Albania is a small country with a small population. If we broke down US to units of the same size it would not be difficult to find a comparably catastrophic situation.
By the way, I must point out that I was responding to a sarcastic trollish comment in order to amusingly feed a troll, not on a very serious tone. Suggesting that the obesity rate is a valid measure of a country's value is a bit ridiculous. There are obviously more objective was to do so. Like the number of cheese varieties produced....
I think it is a really likely choice for 2011. However, the Nobel committee could also estimate that Assange's popularity and presence in the medias protect him enough and will prefer to give it to a human right activist that really risks death penalty.
Yeah... http://www.iaso.org/site_media/uploads/Global_Prevalence_of_Adult_ObesityMay__2010_revised_with_headings.pdf
(from the association quoted by the Guardian article)
The only stat that is lower than average in US by EU standards is, surprisingly, the one of males less than 30. The one that is suprisingly high is the number of obese women of more than 30 years. I guess that is why there are so "yo mama" jokes on the other side of the Atlantic... As the article pointed, you can find some categories in some states that have higher rates than the US taken as a whole. But overall, the picture stays pretty clear...
The world is big. From what I have seen, Yahoo is as used as Google in Japan and Korea. I suspect that as irrelevant as it may appear in US, it might still be strong in some places.
They didn't, but they wanted too. Secret foreign relations were a thing that they thought characterised European autocracies. Later, the president Wilson in his 14 points for peace pointed secret diplomacy as a practice dangerous for peace.
What are the arguments proving it is a urban legend ? The existence of a second key is acknowledged and the only proof of the contrary I saw was a MS declaration. I do not want to sound like a conspiracist but when there is something fishy at the exact place where it makes sense to put a backdoor, it is acceptable to be suspicious.
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There is probably a real military use to a smartphone. But to a real military smartphone. One that has default encryption on, that has a "total emission silence" mode, that has a standard battery slot that can be used on many equipments, that resist shocks, power surges, that work well in area with bad coverage, that boots really quickly, that has shortcuts for urgence situation, that has a LOUD mode that can be heard inside an armored transport.
I am curious why the army didn't develop their own smartphone. Probably hardened and weighting three time an iPhone, and probably with a funky acronym as a name.
Or maybe like in any war, partisans are very likely to shoot down friendly targets. More likely if you ask me...
First, there are such things as quantum-computer resistant encryption algorithms. They are not in current usage but it is possible to do. ;-)
Second, there are more and more people who suspect that quantum computers may be a pipe dream : http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/06/magic-quantum-wand-does-not-vanish-hard-maths.ars
It has been a good way to make people invest in fundamental research though
Somehow failed but still with a probable nuclear reaction. And they have equipped with nuclear enrichment facilities that would make Iran jealous.
But I also am of the opinion that NK is not ready to make nuclear war. They could kill millions in Seoul and Osaka with a few nukes but they would lose and be destroyed very quickly in retaliation. Their nukes stocks is not enough to have a credible M.A.D doctrine.
By the way, these are only saber rattling because of the power changing hands. It will probably calm down.
However, the recent south Korea exercice to protect civilians from artillery shelling in Seoul indicate that the South may be considering taking serious steps.
And if a detective is sufficiently motivated and the victims were smart, there were probably some fingerprints on the laptop.
I wonder if the fact that more and more possibilities are included in Android for "native" code (written in C) is not part of this convergence. Now it becomes easy to take some C parts of Chrome and include them in Android. Hopefully we will soon see a decent shell !
I must say that the fact that users do not really understand anymore what a file is, and where their data is located, scares me a lot.
Maybe they shouldn't put a picture. Is that an American way of doing things ? When you have a message to give, write it, don't read it in a youtube video. Want to write an edito ? I don't care to see your brushed face with a fake smile on top of the page. If I want to give, I'll give to wikipedia, not to this badly shaved man.
Also, I would like to be able to give to the American wikipedia. Being French I am automatically directed to the French foundation that manages the French wikipedia which, quite honestly, sucks hard.
Remember that according to the "common sense" and the "obvious facts of human nature" a collaborative encyclopedia opened to anyone could simply not work.
China is pretty bad but is moving in the good direction.
France is still pretty good but every step it takes, it goes closer to authoritarianism.
Might be.
Or free OSes may have stayed an academics dream...
We will never know...
As someone who works with epidemiologists, I can assure you that if you have a social network and represent individuals as actors that interact with each other, you are better than most of the models, which see cities as "pools" with simple rules to change the number of infectious, susceptible, recovered, at each iteration.
And if your individuals' behavior incorporate a real model of movement with a sense of distance to other people, you have indeed a very interesting model. (Yes, it is that bad. If you are a developer and want to help save the world, adopt a biologist and do their developments). Right now, various techniques are used to try and build a social network that can help understand how a disease spreads in various age group. "How many people come at less than 3 meters of a given person in a normal schools day ? in an airport ? in a regular office ? in a retirement house ? in subways ?" having an indication even with a 1 to 10 estimation, it would bring interesting results. So if we know you are in range to infect 50 to 500 people in a normal day, we know that the models that say it is 10 and the models that say it is 1000 are useless.
He pretends he received this warning last year by a US official : "You play outside the rules, we will take care of you outside the rules". But assassination ? I think they missed their window of opportunity. The medias made Assange unworthy of killing. It would make him a martyr. They have to do character assassination first. It would have been easier to have the "fleeing rapist" killed but I think he was smart by surrendering. Shady businesses are harder in these conditions.
While I completely agree with you last sentence, it is worthy of note that wikileaks is filtereted by The Great Firewall of China. Autocrats in America are no better than autocrats in China, but hopefully they use censor a bit less frequently.
Don't forget to mention Assange has been nominated for Nobel Prize.
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/3EB18677E7D6A80BC22577FA0021EA18?OpenDocument
It is not a very hard thing to do and hundreds are probably nominated every year, but it nonetheless is the first mandatory step.
We are talking about Assange here, not GW Bush...
Hehe, oops, I indeed misread the first line.
If the definition of obesity is simply "more than 30 of BMI", USA really wins the contest in the males category.
If you consider the definition to be 25 or more (what the table calls "overweight"), the gap is closer but neither Germany nor Greece mentioned in the article manages to top the 72% of overweight of USA. The only way for them to do so is to compare the 25-29.5 category while dismissing the 30+, which is a kind of silly way to measure don't you think ?
Albania is a small country with a small population. If we broke down US to units of the same size it would not be difficult to find a comparably catastrophic situation.
By the way, I must point out that I was responding to a sarcastic trollish comment in order to amusingly feed a troll, not on a very serious tone. Suggesting that the obesity rate is a valid measure of a country's value is a bit ridiculous. There are obviously more objective was to do so. Like the number of cheese varieties produced....
For information, Assange has been at least nominated for Nobel Prize (a step that is easy to go through, even GW Bush did) : http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/0/3EB18677E7D6A80BC22577FA0021EA18?OpenDocument
I think it is a really likely choice for 2011. However, the Nobel committee could also estimate that Assange's popularity and presence in the medias protect him enough and will prefer to give it to a human right activist that really risks death penalty.
Yeah...
http://www.iaso.org/site_media/uploads/Global_Prevalence_of_Adult_ObesityMay__2010_revised_with_headings.pdf
(from the association quoted by the Guardian article)
The only stat that is lower than average in US by EU standards is, surprisingly, the one of males less than 30. The one that is suprisingly high is the number of obese women of more than 30 years. I guess that is why there are so "yo mama" jokes on the other side of the Atlantic... As the article pointed, you can find some categories in some states that have higher rates than the US taken as a whole. But overall, the picture stays pretty clear...
The world is big. From what I have seen, Yahoo is as used as Google in Japan and Korea. I suspect that as irrelevant as it may appear in US, it might still be strong in some places.
Yeah, you are totally right, it is not a cliché, it is a fact : http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
They didn't, but they wanted too. Secret foreign relations were a thing that they thought characterised European autocracies. Later, the president Wilson in his 14 points for peace pointed secret diplomacy as a practice dangerous for peace.
Well, that is one reason why this claim is very suspicious...
What are the arguments proving it is a urban legend ? The existence of a second key is acknowledged and the only proof of the contrary I saw was a MS declaration. I do not want to sound like a conspiracist but when there is something fishy at the exact place where it makes sense to put a backdoor, it is acceptable to be suspicious.
Or pretend you have dangerous humanitarian activities. You'll have sex with two different girls in three days and with a CIA agent if you are lucky !