"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton in 1887)
I have no idea how to carry that out in reality, but for a long time now I feel that we were way better off if we somehow could make sure that people who really want to be in power never came into powerful positions.
that the US doesn't deserve to be a superpower. Maybe we never did.
Absolutely no country that ever existed until today does. Not that I feel guilty for what my Nazi-asshole grandpa did, but I know a little of what happens when your gov't believes your country or race to be superior to everyone else. IMO, deserving to be a superpower requires a great level of wisdom, and I doubt that any country will reach that level alone, because it includes the insight that the very concept of separated countries is just stupid.
That depends. Is your entire world view in black in white?
No. But in my world view there is more danger coming from gov'ts being able to hide everything they want to than any group of terrorists could ever bring to us.
Do you know who said "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."? If not, take a look at a $100 note and be ashamed.
Yes but my point was how dangerous any piece of information could be.
And that's why we need to allow gov't to hide every information they'd like to, without any kind of control?/me shudders at this imagination!
Knowing that Valerie Plame is an operative risks more than her life. For example knowing that the US is wishes to increase their efforts in Yemen with more personnel could mean danger for any additional personnel they send to Yemen. It also endangers anyone that Yemen terrorists thinks is an American operative whether they are or not.
A European- or US-American-looking person is always in great danger in Yemen. I doubt that it would be significantly increased by the revelation of such information, especially when it is old information.
See, I don't mean that absolutely everything should be made public. But until we have found a way to make sure that a gov't will always act in the best interest of the people, and not in their and their money-givers interest, like it is now, I very much prefer the risks that may come from having leaked a little too much information in favor of what happens when a gov't like yours under Bush II. can brush literally anything they do under the carpet of national security.
I hope they'll have a judge that is at least a little sane in the revision.
While my heart says that they should be honored, not sentenced for what they did, I would not object if they were sentenced to spend the same amount of time that cleaning up the blood took (20 h) in community service. But anything more is just insane retaliation of war-loving assholes.
And you know that how? Some of the information involved terrorism and counter terrorism information overseas. Any terrorist organization could use it to determine how much the US knew about them and what the US was going to do and where and when. Of course the US may have changed plans after the leak but you don't know if an operative got caught as the existence of the operative and his/her capture would have been secret.
AFAIK that was all outdated information, not suited to give any actual advantage to terrorists. Do you really endorse that all those lies and crimes of your government are being kept top-secret under the disguise of national security?
Remember the whole hubub about Valerie Plame. Her exposure wasn't just about her. Her "company" was a cover company. As soon as she was exposed, anyone who worked for her company was also outed as a CIA operative as well.
LOL, wasn't that leaked by your very own government as a revenge to her husband because he didn't want to lie for Bush and his vain attempts to justify this illegal invasion in Iraq?
WikiLeaks only publishes information that already has been leaked. They don't send out spies to gather such information like those three letter agencies do.
And none of the information published by WikiLeaks caused any real harm to or even endangered a person, nor was it suited to do so. The interest the US have here is about the same of a criminal not wanting to have his crimes and other stuff he is ashamed for published.
btw, recently I stumbled over this fine sentence: "WikiLeaks is the intelligence agency of the people".:)
And that is the ridiculous part. Why would you build a droid understanding commands in human language, but make him unable to answer in the same language?
I really like that series (the Gibbs character is so cool!), but yes, I always cringe when they hack a top-secret CIA database in a matter of minutes. Even worse is when they remotely read a car's position from it's GPS, as if every car with a navigation system would also somehow be connected to the net.
Are all the docter cringing when they see Dr House ? (probably)
In opposite, many wish they could get away behaving like House.:) Seriously, AFAIK all those illnesses really exist and are pictured more or less accurately, although they are often very rare ones. I also heard about a prof using excerpts from House in his lectures (by a friend whose brother made his medical degree in Yale IIRC).
Independence Day is far up on the list, but there are far too many to chose from.
Latest example: Yesterday I saw the second episode of the new Hawaii 5-0, where some guy invents a piece of software that can crack every existing encryption. That's next to impossible, but even when we take that as a given, how the hell should such a program enable you to break into every system in no time?
And what I don't understand till today: why they so often (in non-SciFi) stupidly make up a ridiculous GUI instead of using an existing one. Like when some protagonist copies files to his USB stick, why doesn't he use Windows Explorer/Nautilus/Dolphin/Finder/Midnight Commander/whatever?
That's a strange definition of scam you are using. I didn't check very thorough, but I don't see any claims made by SRWare that Iron doesn't fulfill.
OK, a good part of the stuff they did can be configured by the user, but some things, like wiping the client ID, require a little more than simply turning it off in the options. And I see no point where SRWare included something that is not in the user's interest, like Google is doing with Chrome (e. g. the Client ID, which is only serving Google's interest). So, Iron is a good choice for privacy concerned people who would like to have a browser that works out of the box without telling some company this and that about what you do.
Besides, when I last checked, Chrome (Win) installed itself unasked(!) in the User's AppData folder, which is a place for applications' data, not the applications itself. And the didn't provide a real installer, only some starter program which downloaded the rest then. Oh, and removing the updater service was a good idea, too, although they should have included a "check for and install updates" button somewhere.
What provider is that, and how can they get away with charging for something that is usually a built-in feature of every phone service? And how come that such provider has more than 0 customers?
I mean who else is to blame than the moron who signed a contract (or uses a prepaid card), where he has to pay for receiving(!) an SMS or a call? (Excluding international roaming fees, which are not allowed for SMS in the EU, because you can't choose to receive one or not like you can do with a call)
Obviously such a function needs to be de-/selectable in the options. At least they could implement a "check for updates" button or menu option, eliminating the steps needed to manually download and install a new version, which is a PITA when you look at the speed in which new versions pop out.
And, except for corporate environments with stupid IT management forbidding timely updates and/or lazy admins, why do you think outdated FFs are that common? Let's face the truth, the common home user still works under an admin account, and still clicks "yes" on about every dialog he sees. FF informs of newer versions, so if the user regularly starts FF, it will be up to date in most cases. When I see an outdated FF on a personal machine, it is in almost every case because the user hasn't started it since it had been installed (mostly by someone else like me).
Ooops, I missed that.:) And you're right, that they send you to that other place for extensions is not good, the second thing I dislike in Iron so far (the first is that there is no autoupdate function, but as Google chose to do that with their stupid updater service, and not inside the browser like FF, that would require a more extensive coding).
I switched when the beta 10 was released. Most of my extensions worked right away, especially the vital ones (Adblock Plus, NoScript). For some, like Firebug or FEBE, I had to switch to the dev/beta version. The only thing I really missed was Extended Statusbar, but it just took some time. And I found a better cookie extension (Cookie Monster), because I didn't want to wait for an update for my old one (Cookie Culler).
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"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely" (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton in 1887)
I have no idea how to carry that out in reality, but for a long time now I feel that we were way better off if we somehow could make sure that people who really want to be in power never came into powerful positions.
that the US doesn't deserve to be a superpower. Maybe we never did.
Absolutely no country that ever existed until today does. Not that I feel guilty for what my Nazi-asshole grandpa did, but I know a little of what happens when your gov't believes your country or race to be superior to everyone else.
IMO, deserving to be a superpower requires a great level of wisdom, and I doubt that any country will reach that level alone, because it includes the insight that the very concept of separated countries is just stupid.
That depends. Is your entire world view in black in white?
No. But in my world view there is more danger coming from gov'ts being able to hide everything they want to than any group of terrorists could ever bring to us.
Do you know who said "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."? If not, take a look at a $100 note and be ashamed.
Yes but my point was how dangerous any piece of information could be.
And that's why we need to allow gov't to hide every information they'd like to, without any kind of control? /me shudders at this imagination!
Knowing that Valerie Plame is an operative risks more than her life. For example knowing that the US is wishes to increase their efforts in Yemen with more personnel could mean danger for any additional personnel they send to Yemen. It also endangers anyone that Yemen terrorists thinks is an American operative whether they are or not.
A European- or US-American-looking person is always in great danger in Yemen. I doubt that it would be significantly increased by the revelation of such information, especially when it is old information.
See, I don't mean that absolutely everything should be made public. But until we have found a way to make sure that a gov't will always act in the best interest of the people, and not in their and their money-givers interest, like it is now, I very much prefer the risks that may come from having leaked a little too much information in favor of what happens when a gov't like yours under Bush II. can brush literally anything they do under the carpet of national security.
I hope they'll have a judge that is at least a little sane in the revision.
While my heart says that they should be honored, not sentenced for what they did, I would not object if they were sentenced to spend the same amount of time that cleaning up the blood took (20 h) in community service. But anything more is just insane retaliation of war-loving assholes.
And you know that how? Some of the information involved terrorism and counter terrorism information overseas. Any terrorist organization could use it to determine how much the US knew about them and what the US was going to do and where and when. Of course the US may have changed plans after the leak but you don't know if an operative got caught as the existence of the operative and his/her capture would have been secret.
AFAIK that was all outdated information, not suited to give any actual advantage to terrorists. Do you really endorse that all those lies and crimes of your government are being kept top-secret under the disguise of national security?
Remember the whole hubub about Valerie Plame. Her exposure wasn't just about her. Her "company" was a cover company. As soon as she was exposed, anyone who worked for her company was also outed as a CIA operative as well.
LOL, wasn't that leaked by your very own government as a revenge to her husband because he didn't want to lie for Bush and his vain attempts to justify this illegal invasion in Iraq?
LOL, but, no. R2D2 followed his orders, and I don't recall him wasting Luke's money for shoes and jewellery.
WikiLeaks only publishes information that already has been leaked. They don't send out spies to gather such information like those three letter agencies do.
And none of the information published by WikiLeaks caused any real harm to or even endangered a person, nor was it suited to do so. The interest the US have here is about the same of a criminal not wanting to have his crimes and other stuff he is ashamed for published.
btw, recently I stumbled over this fine sentence: "WikiLeaks is the intelligence agency of the people". :)
What is the "terrorist organization" here, that judge's court or your feds in general?
Wasn't that an episode of the latest version of Human Target?
Their systems vendor sold them an "unhackable" system, and they fell for it.
You are right, as the whole plot is a big hole. But thanks for that deleted scene info.
Ever heard of the word "backdoor"?
R2D2 spoke (only) Astromech Droid.
And that is the ridiculous part. Why would you build a droid understanding commands in human language, but make him unable to answer in the same language?
I really like that series (the Gibbs character is so cool!), but yes, I always cringe when they hack a top-secret CIA database in a matter of minutes. Even worse is when they remotely read a car's position from it's GPS, as if every car with a navigation system would also somehow be connected to the net.
Are all the docter cringing when they see Dr House ? (probably)
In opposite, many wish they could get away behaving like House. :) Seriously, AFAIK all those illnesses really exist and are pictured more or less accurately, although they are often very rare ones. I also heard about a prof using excerpts from House in his lectures (by a friend whose brother made his medical degree in Yale IIRC).
Independence Day is far up on the list, but there are far too many to chose from.
Latest example: Yesterday I saw the second episode of the new Hawaii 5-0, where some guy invents a piece of software that can crack every existing encryption. That's next to impossible, but even when we take that as a given, how the hell should such a program enable you to break into every system in no time?
And what I don't understand till today: why they so often (in non-SciFi) stupidly make up a ridiculous GUI instead of using an existing one. Like when some protagonist copies files to his USB stick, why doesn't he use Windows Explorer/Nautilus/Dolphin/Finder/Midnight Commander/whatever?
Flynn's machine in his Arcade's basement? Wasn't that SunOS?
That's a strange definition of scam you are using. I didn't check very thorough, but I don't see any claims made by SRWare that Iron doesn't fulfill.
OK, a good part of the stuff they did can be configured by the user, but some things, like wiping the client ID, require a little more than simply turning it off in the options. And I see no point where SRWare included something that is not in the user's interest, like Google is doing with Chrome (e. g. the Client ID, which is only serving Google's interest). So, Iron is a good choice for privacy concerned people who would like to have a browser that works out of the box without telling some company this and that about what you do.
Besides, when I last checked, Chrome (Win) installed itself unasked(!) in the User's AppData folder, which is a place for applications' data, not the applications itself. And the didn't provide a real installer, only some starter program which downloaded the rest then. Oh, and removing the updater service was a good idea, too, although they should have included a "check for and install updates" button somewhere.
What provider is that, and how can they get away with charging for something that is usually a built-in feature of every phone service? And how come that such provider has more than 0 customers?
LMAO, my parent got modded "Troll"! WTF?
I mean who else is to blame than the moron who signed a contract (or uses a prepaid card), where he has to pay for receiving(!) an SMS or a call? (Excluding international roaming fees, which are not allowed for SMS in the EU, because you can't choose to receive one or not like you can do with a call)
Obviously such a function needs to be de-/selectable in the options. At least they could implement a "check for updates" button or menu option, eliminating the steps needed to manually download and install a new version, which is a PITA when you look at the speed in which new versions pop out.
And, except for corporate environments with stupid IT management forbidding timely updates and/or lazy admins, why do you think outdated FFs are that common? Let's face the truth, the common home user still works under an admin account, and still clicks "yes" on about every dialog he sees. FF informs of newer versions, so if the user regularly starts FF, it will be up to date in most cases. When I see an outdated FF on a personal machine, it is in almost every case because the user hasn't started it since it had been installed (mostly by someone else like me).
Not a privacy policy, but probably he is talking about this: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php
Ooops, I missed that. :) And you're right, that they send you to that other place for extensions is not good, the second thing I dislike in Iron so far (the first is that there is no autoupdate function, but as Google chose to do that with their stupid updater service, and not inside the browser like FF, that would require a more extensive coding).
I switched when the beta 10 was released. Most of my extensions worked right away, especially the vital ones (Adblock Plus, NoScript). For some, like Firebug or FEBE, I had to switch to the dev/beta version. The only thing I really missed was Extended Statusbar, but it just took some time. And I found a better cookie extension (Cookie Monster), because I didn't want to wait for an update for my old one (Cookie Culler).
If you want all the features of Chrome without the nasty stuff Google put in, try SRWare Iron.
I don't want to pay for $20/month unlimited SMS service, wish I could block the damned things rather than being charged $0.05 for each one I receive.
And how exactly did they force you to sign such a contract?