Sorry, I did not know Raytheon and was mistaken, believing that Raytheon was only working on microwave weapons. Now to answer your question, I know quite a few people who work for (French) weapons manufacturers. I must say that 1. is the most prevalent line of thought. If you tell them that they indirectly kill people, they will answer with one of several rationalization :
"I don't really care about politics"
"I work on this specific part of weapons system that has many civilian applications"
"They would kill each other with other weapons anyway"
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
And more rarely : "Better us to have that than the enemy"
Actually I could agree with the last one, and would have few problems working for the army of the country I'm living in, but working for a weapons manufacturer that sells indiscriminately weapons to both sides of a conflict is something that sounds awfully wrong.
The group founded the Pirate Bay who is alive and well and had good ties with the pirate party which, with 9% of ballots in Sweden, is alive and well. The original group was slowly becoming obsolete in the best way possible. The death of the founding member just made that more evident. Closing the group is more a way to show respect and to not cling on the past than a failure.
A few years ago in Europe, we had a NG fuel crisis because Russian companies refused to provide the gas. Being dependent on Russia for energy generation seems like a very bad move for Europe. I'll take more expensive nuclear/solar over that.
I wish this was not perceived as nitpicking but:
A remotely operated vehicle is not a robot. It is human control, has almost no autonomy. Call it a drone, or a ROV but a robot is something else that has an autonomous behavior !
Yeah, we were having a slow month at the pirate party. Thanks for bringing new amunitions. Thanks for making clear that copyright is not the defense of all culture but the defense of an old model of culture financement.
Continue building your fantasy world, Pakestan, we will build Internet without you and your culture. That is too bad, you would enrich us so much, but you'll be welcomed to come when you'll be ready.
As long as market does or can be modded to do proper warning before deleting an app, I'm fine with it. The tone of the article suggested that they somehow logged into phones and deleted files. I understand (with relief) that this was not really the case.
So 'Market is a completely optional application for installing applications and can be removed, or replaced by alternatives, without the installed applications stopping working ? Thanks that's the kind of information I was looking for.
Can someone please explain to me, who never owned an Android phone, how the hell this kind of thing is possible ? I can understand that App Store is like a debian repository where packages need to be approved to be available and that malicious packages that get erroneously accepted can be removed.
What I don't understand is how it can remotely removed. By default Android has a backdoor for Google ? Is that true of any version of Android ? Can we remove it from the code (since, unless I am mistaken, Android is OSS) ?
I'm fine with repositories and security updates, but nuking an applications without asking first is what Steve Jobs does and that Google is not supposed to do. I agree that in the present case, this was for a greater good, but this is not the point. If I buy an Android phone, do I own the damn phone and do I control it or not ?
In Civ4 going from (0,0) to (1,1) was possible through a diagonal move. In your conversion, this becomes impossible. This can have real importance in the game. A diagonal waterway in Civ4 will appear as non practicable in Civ5.
Going from a 8 neighborhood to a 6 neighborhood bears implications that are interesting but make conversion non ideal in most cases. If what you want is a nice map of Italy that looks about the same in Civ5, this is fine. But in the random map you loved so much in Civ4, some straits will disappear, some part of the sea will become lakes and just don't count on roads to be correctly converted.
Semantic web will take off when AI agents will be elaborate enough to fill in all the metadata thet humans don't care about (because they are still better than computer at rebuilding the context of an information). Right now user-entered information has this form : "#GoReds : Arrived at the stadium at 10AM woohoo!" and semantic web expects them to do something like
"<user id=1983744 nick="#GoReds"/> : Arrived at the<location><reference>ElisParkStadiumSouthAfrica</reference><tag>stadium</tag></location> at <datetime><timezone>SouthAfrica</timezone><time>10:00:00</time></datetime> woohoo"
The core assumption that users cared about filling correct metadata was wrong outside the research community (and even outside the IT research community). It will take off but you need software to fill in what was assumed users would do.
"Change" was just meaning going back from the Bushian middle-age back to the 20th century. There is still the need for a president that will bring US to the 21st...
You always have to pay for the cost. If you produce more than the demand, it just means that the price at which you'll be able to sell is less than what it costs to produce and you can't make a margin.
Solar power plants don't need fuel but they still need maintenance, there is a cost to it.
You also want a better pay because of that "experience" you acquired when an integer multiplication was worth decomposing into bitshifts and you are less willing to learn new techs. I have seen people in their 40s refusing to admit that as the field changes they must leave behind practices they learned in their 20s (you know, there are proper network protocols to call remote functions now, we don't need to maintain our own).
Thing is, would engineers in their 40s accept to work for the same pay as a 25 years old engineer ? Out of my now 8 years experience, I think that only the 2 or 3 first years of experience are worth anything. The rest is accumulation of dilberesque stories and just abandoning old practices to learn new techniques.
The sword is already on top of his head. If he wants to be really famous, he should quickly post these 250,000 cables and the videos he has. Then, there will be a very good case to see where US army stands, respective to the first amendment. US troops are supposed to bring freedom, including freedom of speech. Lead by the example.
Any cell phone provider has the power to do exactly this. This is despicable, that Apple or anyone else does, but this is the kind of thing we have to expect from the current carriers and the current, almost inexistent, framework of laws protecting privacy.
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Sorry, I did not know Raytheon and was mistaken, believing that Raytheon was only working on microwave weapons. Now to answer your question, I know quite a few people who work for (French) weapons manufacturers. I must say that 1. is the most prevalent line of thought. If you tell them that they indirectly kill people, they will answer with one of several rationalization :
"I don't really care about politics"
"I work on this specific part of weapons system that has many civilian applications"
"They would kill each other with other weapons anyway"
"Guns don't kill people, people kill people"
And more rarely : "Better us to have that than the enemy"
Actually I could agree with the last one, and would have few problems working for the army of the country I'm living in, but working for a weapons manufacturer that sells indiscriminately weapons to both sides of a conflict is something that sounds awfully wrong.
The group founded the Pirate Bay who is alive and well and had good ties with the pirate party which, with 9% of ballots in Sweden, is alive and well. The original group was slowly becoming obsolete in the best way possible. The death of the founding member just made that more evident. Closing the group is more a way to show respect and to not cling on the past than a failure.
A few years ago in Europe, we had a NG fuel crisis because Russian companies refused to provide the gas. Being dependent on Russia for energy generation seems like a very bad move for Europe. I'll take more expensive nuclear/solar over that.
What sequence of moral thoughts goes through their heads?
"Non-lethal weapon are better than lethal weapons".
"Let's give violent resolution of conflicts a non-lethal possibility".
If law has still any value in USA, they should buy it, not seize it.
Better one thousand criminals unpunished than a single innocent wrongly imprisoned.
I wish this was not perceived as nitpicking but :
A remotely operated vehicle is not a robot. It is human control, has almost no autonomy. Call it a drone, or a ROV but a robot is something else that has an autonomous behavior !
This can also be simply an excuse to bury net neutrality very deep.
Yeah, we were having a slow month at the pirate party. Thanks for bringing new amunitions. Thanks for making clear that copyright is not the defense of all culture but the defense of an old model of culture financement.
Continue building your fantasy world, Pakestan, we will build Internet without you and your culture. That is too bad, you would enrich us so much, but you'll be welcomed to come when you'll be ready.
As long as market does or can be modded to do proper warning before deleting an app, I'm fine with it. The tone of the article suggested that they somehow logged into phones and deleted files. I understand (with relief) that this was not really the case.
So 'Market is a completely optional application for installing applications and can be removed, or replaced by alternatives, without the installed applications stopping working ? Thanks that's the kind of information I was looking for.
Sheeze, just because it's not perfect, doesn't mean it's worthless. If you really want to play the old maps, stick to Civ IV.
Sheeze, if you don't want to see people notpicking on algorithmic and graph theory questions, don't read slashdot ;-)
Can someone please explain to me, who never owned an Android phone, how the hell this kind of thing is possible ? I can understand that App Store is like a debian repository where packages need to be approved to be available and that malicious packages that get erroneously accepted can be removed.
What I don't understand is how it can remotely removed. By default Android has a backdoor for Google ? Is that true of any version of Android ? Can we remove it from the code (since, unless I am mistaken, Android is OSS) ?
I'm fine with repositories and security updates, but nuking an applications without asking first is what Steve Jobs does and that Google is not supposed to do. I agree that in the present case, this was for a greater good, but this is not the point. If I buy an Android phone, do I own the damn phone and do I control it or not ?
In Civ4 going from (0,0) to (1,1) was possible through a diagonal move. In your conversion, this becomes impossible. This can have real importance in the game. A diagonal waterway in Civ4 will appear as non practicable in Civ5.
Going from a 8 neighborhood to a 6 neighborhood bears implications that are interesting but make conversion non ideal in most cases. If what you want is a nice map of Italy that looks about the same in Civ5, this is fine. But in the random map you loved so much in Civ4, some straits will disappear, some part of the sea will become lakes and just don't count on roads to be correctly converted.
...that it is damn ugly (and small).
Translation : WPA2 is a bit harder to crack than expected but don't worry, we are giving our NSA kids all the tools they need !
I get that idle sometimes has just funny tech news, but where is the tech here ?
The core assumption that users cared about filling correct metadata was wrong outside the research community (and even outside the IT research community). It will take off but you need software to fill in what was assumed users would do.
"Change" was just meaning going back from the Bushian middle-age back to the 20th century. There is still the need for a president that will bring US to the 21st...
You always have to pay for the cost. If you produce more than the demand, it just means that the price at which you'll be able to sell is less than what it costs to produce and you can't make a margin.
Solar power plants don't need fuel but they still need maintenance, there is a cost to it.
You also want a better pay because of that "experience" you acquired when an integer multiplication was worth decomposing into bitshifts and you are less willing to learn new techs.
I have seen people in their 40s refusing to admit that as the field changes they must leave behind practices they learned in their 20s (you know, there are proper network protocols to call remote functions now, we don't need to maintain our own).
Thing is, would engineers in their 40s accept to work for the same pay as a 25 years old engineer ? Out of my now 8 years experience, I think that only the 2 or 3 first years of experience are worth anything. The rest is accumulation of dilberesque stories and just abandoning old practices to learn new techniques.
The sword is already on top of his head. If he wants to be really famous, he should quickly post these 250,000 cables and the videos he has. Then, there will be a very good case to see where US army stands, respective to the first amendment. US troops are supposed to bring freedom, including freedom of speech. Lead by the example.
How do you know they are not already doing this ?
Any cell phone provider has the power to do exactly this. This is despicable, that Apple or anyone else does, but this is the kind of thing we have to expect from the current carriers and the current, almost inexistent, framework of laws protecting privacy.