It won't. There are already Australian politicians facing court on criminal charges at the moment, and Assange certainly will not be granted any kind of immunity, given the record of both major parties when it comes to licking the ass of the US government.
I really don't understand why Julian Assange is running for Senate in the coming election. Even if (somehow) he were to score sufficient votes/preferences to get in, there is no way he can ever take his seat. In order to do that, he has to be sworn-in in person.
If (as is likely) he does poorly in the election, that will amount to a slap in the face for both himself and Wikileaks. His dignity and personal standing are already in question, so I fail to see the purpose in a hollow election campaign.
While I agree, it should be possible to get the same net result with Chrome by blocking Google's ad and analytics servers in your hosts file, and by not accepting their cookies. That doesn't stop Google from logging your IP with every search and referral, but if you care about that, you will have to wear the overhead of using Tor, a VPN or other proxy.
The reason why I uninstalled chrome/chromium was because I finally got sick of the way it insisted on nagging me: specifically, and most importantly the "this file may harm your computer" message in the big box at the bottom of the screen that appears whenever you download a PDF file to read in an alternative client. I have to do read PDFs frequently, and I prefer to take my own steps to minimise risks, so I don't want to be nagged about it.
Since Google obviously has no intention of changing the behaviour, and I couldn't find a useful workaround, I gave up and went back to Firefox. It's a shame, because Chrome *is* much faster at loading webpages, but there are enough things in my life that piss me off without my choice of browser being one of them.
PJ stands for Pamela Jones. AFAIK, she is not a trans-gender individual.
The whole point of Groklaw is (or was) to present [para-]legal opinion and information in the open. It isn't a subversive organisation. Except, of course, in the sense that if you think for yourself, you're committing a subversive act.
anyone that thinks that Obama is "left wing" is an idiot.
Both of your major parties (as is common in many Western so-called "democracies") are pretty extremely right-wing. The PR nonsense generated to imply a difference between the two is so ham-fisted, one could be forgiven for suspecting a conspiracy of some kind involving both camps.
Obama, in his pre-election spiel was presented as a relief from the heavy-handed, hawkish nature of his predecessor. Whereas we can now see that he has taken the worst excesses of his predecessor and compounded them.
Not that we need be surprised: Obama was a very wealthy lawyer prior to his entry into politics, so duplicity was his major area of expertise.
It won't. Not until there is a war. And nobody wants a war.
You must either be very young, or be living in a barrel.
It has been mentioned by observers outside the US, often enough to become a truism, that America is incapable of functioning without a war, whether declared or not. And history certainly shows that your illustrious leaders like nothing better than to start a nice shiny new war when the cracks in their domestic policy need papering over.
Given that PJ has been running Groklaw with almost no intermissions for just over 10 years, it's probably not fair to describe her as a gutless coward. If you can come up with a form of email encryption that you can guarantee won't be cracked within the next 5 years, then good luck with changing her mind about this decision.
If she were me, I would just be plain tired. There's only so much a committee of one can do.
I don't think I would even notice a Google outage on a scale of one minute. Ignoring the fact that I don't use gmail, my first assumption would be a connection fault. My internet connection is so flaky (no alternative to Telstra fixed wireless here, and that sucks big-time), I would probably spend nearly the same amount of time pinging the boxes in between and testing the DNSs.
A murrain on both their houses. Maybe I'm an antisocial old fart, but I (for one) could not care less if Google and Facebook waste their shareholders' dollars trying to capture the same market.
Well.. A easy way to solve this would be to have a small battery-bank, or really big capacitor-bank in front of the generator... If you plan it so you can draw say 20kW for 10 seconds you should be safe, and it would be a fairly low price.
Sure, this might be "easy", but it certainly isn't cheap. Remember, your battery bank supplies DC current, so if your appliances demand AC, you're going to need an inverter. And a charger. Plus you need ancillaries like a transfer switch, battery fuse and cabling, in addition to the services of (at least here in.au) a properly certified electrician.
Those components of my setup (with a 2400Ah battery and 3kW inverter) came to around $10K.
It will never get off the ground if there are no wires for the power companies to meter it.
I expect there will be businesses who would take it up. There is an increasing industry in off-grid power supply. I happen to have a certain amount of first-hand knowledge about this, since I live far enough away from power lines to completely rule out grid power as an option. I have to generate all my electrical energy or do without. Since my setup is still a work in progress, I am stuck (for the moment) with having to run a generator rather more than I would like.
If a fuel cell were to be made available at an affordable (or at least economically viable) price, I would probably jump at it rather than use a noisy and inefficient infernal combustion engine as my backup.
They aren't arresting people for just teaching the methods. The instructor they arrested had trained two undercover agents posing as criminals that wanted to lie on the exam. One was a drug trafficker and the other a correctional officer that smuggled drugs into prison......The summary makes it sound as if they're wantonly arresting people.
Those cases are what they're citing as justification (for what they're worth, which isn't much), but you're missing the main point, which was made earlier in the article that you appear to have actually read(!)
I'll remind you:
By attempting to prosecute the instructors, federal officials are adopting a controversial legal stance that sharing such information should be treated as a crime and isn’t protected under the First Amendment in some circumstances.
It occurs to me that a tablet, with a stylus, and a good indexed note taking application *full screen* would be superior to pen-and-paper.
I agree, except that I don't see any machine with sufficiently low latency (yet) to cope with a real lecture situation involving diagrammatic input. I would have loved to have been able to do away with those massive screeds of note-paper (just as as I would have liked to have my massively cumbersome textbooks on a usable ebook format, but that's another story), but it wasn't possible then, and it's still not really possible now.
Taking Notes on a Facebook Machine lowers your grades.
Probably true. Having passed through tertiary education several times over the course of my supposed "adulthood" (ha!), most recently graduating (again) in 2010, I have noticed that my fellow-students with the highest failure rates at university were those with the most dominant tendency to fritter time away on Facebook. I may not have been the most outstandingly brilliant of students, but at least I didn't have that handicap. Maybe because I'm just antisocial and unsociable (sigh)...:-}
As for note-taking, in my discipline (biochemistry and molecular biology) it is probably impossible to take useful notes on a computer (except very slowly, unless you happen to be such a genius that you don't need notes at all), so the old-school pen-and-paper approach is still by far the best.
To a modern audience Shakespeare is boing[sic] as hell.
I don't know how this pans out in the US, but here in Australia, good Shakespeare productions still fill theatres. That sort of implies that his work sort of has some relevance to modern audiences.
No-one reads Shakespeare for his plot-lines (many of his comedies in particular have a similar plot), but for the richness, power and depth of his expression, which goes beyond notions of what constitutes literacy - as is borne out by the fact that his original audiences were not universally literate.
I do sort of wonder what Shakespeare might have made of vampires and zombie apocalypses, though...;-)
On a different note, how about those of us who actually had to do technical drawings by hand? I also fit in that category:(
So do I, since I was a mechanical engineer in another century.
I had a whole toolbox full of pens, pencils, gadgets and gizmos. I never even considered carrying all that stuff around on my person. Back then, if I wasn't actually drawing anything, I could go around with nothing more than a 1B pencil and a slide-rule.
Wearing a holster for phones etc. just makes those cool accountants at work steal your lunchmoney
I'll settle for just looking silly. But seriously, it seems to me that the answer is obvious: just get a nice manbag [assuming the OP is male] that suits your aesthetic tastes. If you have money to spend, you could try something like this, or if you're into grunge, just about anything will do.
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The more they rough up the journalists, treat them like enemies...
In this case, the guy wasn't even a journalist.
It won't. There are already Australian politicians facing court on criminal charges at the moment, and Assange certainly will not be granted any kind of immunity, given the record of both major parties when it comes to licking the ass of the US government.
I really don't understand why Julian Assange is running for Senate in the coming election. Even if (somehow) he were to score sufficient votes/preferences to get in, there is no way he can ever take his seat. In order to do that, he has to be sworn-in in person.
If (as is likely) he does poorly in the election, that will amount to a slap in the face for both himself and Wikileaks. His dignity and personal standing are already in question, so I fail to see the purpose in a hollow election campaign.
Of course numbers are childish. Chrome XXIX is much more grown-up.
Use Chromium if you care about this.
While I agree, it should be possible to get the same net result with Chrome by blocking Google's ad and analytics servers in your hosts file, and by not accepting their cookies. That doesn't stop Google from logging your IP with every search and referral, but if you care about that, you will have to wear the overhead of using Tor, a VPN or other proxy.
The reason why I uninstalled chrome/chromium was because I finally got sick of the way it insisted on nagging me: specifically, and most importantly the "this file may harm your computer" message in the big box at the bottom of the screen that appears whenever you download a PDF file to read in an alternative client. I have to do read PDFs frequently, and I prefer to take my own steps to minimise risks, so I don't want to be nagged about it.
Since Google obviously has no intention of changing the behaviour, and I couldn't find a useful workaround, I gave up and went back to Firefox. It's a shame, because Chrome *is* much faster at loading webpages, but there are enough things in my life that piss me off without my choice of browser being one of them.
PJ stands for Pamela Jones. AFAIK, she is not a trans-gender individual.
The whole point of Groklaw is (or was) to present [para-]legal opinion and information in the open. It isn't a subversive organisation. Except, of course, in the sense that if you think for yourself, you're committing a subversive act.
anyone that thinks that Obama is "left wing" is an idiot.
Both of your major parties (as is common in many Western so-called "democracies") are pretty extremely right-wing. The PR nonsense generated to imply a difference between the two is so ham-fisted, one could be forgiven for suspecting a conspiracy of some kind involving both camps.
Obama, in his pre-election spiel was presented as a relief from the heavy-handed, hawkish nature of his predecessor. Whereas we can now see that he has taken the worst excesses of his predecessor and compounded them.
Not that we need be surprised: Obama was a very wealthy lawyer prior to his entry into politics, so duplicity was his major area of expertise.
It won't. Not until there is a war. And nobody wants a war.
You must either be very young, or be living in a barrel.
It has been mentioned by observers outside the US, often enough to become a truism, that America is incapable of functioning without a war, whether declared or not. And history certainly shows that your illustrious leaders like nothing better than to start a nice shiny new war when the cracks in their domestic policy need papering over.
Pj, you gutless coward! Come back!
Given that PJ has been running Groklaw with almost no intermissions for just over 10 years, it's probably not fair to describe her as a gutless coward. If you can come up with a form of email encryption that you can guarantee won't be cracked within the next 5 years, then good luck with changing her mind about this decision.
If she were me, I would just be plain tired. There's only so much a committee of one can do.
I don't think I would even notice a Google outage on a scale of one minute. Ignoring the fact that I don't use gmail, my first assumption would be a connection fault. My internet connection is so flaky (no alternative to Telstra fixed wireless here, and that sucks big-time), I would probably spend nearly the same amount of time pinging the boxes in between and testing the DNSs.
A murrain on both their houses. Maybe I'm an antisocial old fart, but I (for one) could not care less if Google and Facebook waste their shareholders' dollars trying to capture the same market.
Wait, it's a Drive-In, not a Drive-Through?
Yeah, when I read "drive-in" I thought the OP was talking about bottle-shops. They're doing just fine with my custom... :-}
Well.. A easy way to solve this would be to have a small battery-bank, or really big capacitor-bank in front of the generator... If you plan it so you can draw say 20kW for 10 seconds you should be safe, and it would be a fairly low price.
Sure, this might be "easy", but it certainly isn't cheap. Remember, your battery bank supplies DC current, so if your appliances demand AC, you're going to need an inverter. And a charger. Plus you need ancillaries like a transfer switch, battery fuse and cabling, in addition to the services of (at least here in .au) a properly certified electrician.
Those components of my setup (with a 2400Ah battery and 3kW inverter) came to around $10K.
It will never get off the ground if there are no wires for the power companies to meter it.
I expect there will be businesses who would take it up. There is an increasing industry in off-grid power supply. I happen to have a certain amount of first-hand knowledge about this, since I live far enough away from power lines to completely rule out grid power as an option. I have to generate all my electrical energy or do without. Since my setup is still a work in progress, I am stuck (for the moment) with having to run a generator rather more than I would like.
If a fuel cell were to be made available at an affordable (or at least economically viable) price, I would probably jump at it rather than use a noisy and inefficient infernal combustion engine as my backup.
They aren't arresting people for just teaching the methods. The instructor they arrested had trained two undercover agents posing as criminals that wanted to lie on the exam. One was a drug trafficker and the other a correctional officer that smuggled drugs into prison... ...The summary makes it sound as if they're wantonly arresting people.
Those cases are what they're citing as justification (for what they're worth, which isn't much), but you're missing the main point, which was made earlier in the article that you appear to have actually read(!)
I'll remind you:
By attempting to prosecute the instructors, federal officials are adopting a controversial legal stance that sharing such information should be treated as a crime and isn’t protected under the First Amendment in some circumstances.
Well, kicking the door in is just an advanced form of knocking.
It occurs to me that a tablet, with a stylus, and a good indexed note taking application *full screen* would be superior to pen-and-paper.
I agree, except that I don't see any machine with sufficiently low latency (yet) to cope with a real lecture situation involving diagrammatic input. I would have loved to have been able to do away with those massive screeds of note-paper (just as as I would have liked to have my massively cumbersome textbooks on a usable ebook format, but that's another story), but it wasn't possible then, and it's still not really possible now.
Taking Notes on a Facebook Machine lowers your grades.
Probably true. Having passed through tertiary education several times over the course of my supposed "adulthood" (ha!), most recently graduating (again) in 2010, I have noticed that my fellow-students with the highest failure rates at university were those with the most dominant tendency to fritter time away on Facebook. I may not have been the most outstandingly brilliant of students, but at least I didn't have that handicap. Maybe because I'm just antisocial and unsociable (sigh)... :-}
As for note-taking, in my discipline (biochemistry and molecular biology) it is probably impossible to take useful notes on a computer (except very slowly, unless you happen to be such a genius that you don't need notes at all), so the old-school pen-and-paper approach is still by far the best.
To a modern audience Shakespeare is boing[sic] as hell.
I don't know how this pans out in the US, but here in Australia, good Shakespeare productions still fill theatres. That sort of implies that his work sort of has some relevance to modern audiences.
;-)
No-one reads Shakespeare for his plot-lines (many of his comedies in particular have a similar plot), but for the richness, power and depth of his expression, which goes beyond notions of what constitutes literacy - as is borne out by the fact that his original audiences were not universally literate.
I do sort of wonder what Shakespeare might have made of vampires and zombie apocalypses, though...
Shakespeare is mono-cultural, reason enough for it to be discarded upon the ashcan of history
Right. Which is why Shakespeare's work has been successfully performed in Hindi, Mandarin and Arabic.
You are perfectly entitled to not appreciate Shakespeare, but you are not entitled to take his work away from those who do.
I'm sure the 'reduced shakespeare company' might have something to say about making the bard more interesting.
Shakespeare is never boring. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs either an English comprehension course or medication for attention deficit disorder.
device holsters are the crocs of technical accessories.
Hey! I resemble that remark! What's so wrong with crocs?
On a different note, how about those of us who actually had to do technical drawings by hand? I also fit in that category :(
So do I, since I was a mechanical engineer in another century.
I had a whole toolbox full of pens, pencils, gadgets and gizmos. I never even considered carrying all that stuff around on my person. Back then, if I wasn't actually drawing anything, I could go around with nothing more than a 1B pencil and a slide-rule.
Wearing a holster for phones etc. just makes those cool accountants at work steal your lunchmoney
I'll settle for just looking silly. But seriously, it seems to me that the answer is obvious: just get a nice manbag [assuming the OP is male] that suits your aesthetic tastes. If you have money to spend, you could try something like this, or if you're into grunge, just about anything will do.