Sorry for posting this off-topic but there is no other place to post this, so... The mobile site: - lousy view and navigation - confusing display of mod points - no way to view normal site... mobile site is mandatory - doesn't remember my login - moderation doesn't work - can't change view by mod points (outstanding, etc. categories are broken) Breaking news! Now, just added!!! "popover" ads that won't go away!!! I had an obnoxious ad for a survey overlay the site. Won't close. In desperation, I even clicked on it to take the survey (and entered bogus information to screw up their responses) but still the ad won't go away! (I'm using Chrome browser on Nexus7... if that makes any difference).
Sorry for posting this off-topic but there is no other place to post this, so... The mobile site: - lousy view and navigation - confusing display of mod points - no way to view normal site... mobile site is mandatory - doesn't remember my login - moderation doesn't work - can't change view by mod points (outstanding, etc. categories are broken) Breaking news! Now, just added!!! "popover" ads that won't go away!!! I had an obnoxious ad for a survey overlay the site. Won't close. In desperation, I even clicked on it to take the survey (and entered bogus information to screw up their responses) but still the ad won't go away! (I'm using Chrome browser on Nexus7... if that makes any difference).
"I am unsure if a ne'er-do-well would risk kill somebody in the hope that information that person possessed would then become public." Not sure who qualifies as a "ne'er-do-well"... Does a country which might benefit from the release of information detrimental to a rival qualify? Princess Bride??... lost me there.
I think you are confused on this point. He has made it clear numerous times that he does not have control of any of the documents. He has also explicitly stated that he is not holding back anything for "insurance" since that would be an invitation to others to kill him to reveal these documents. Hard to prove one way or another here so you just have to take his word on this (or not).
Thoreau speaks to this point: "[8] All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution of '75.(10) If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.(11)
[9] Paley, a common authority with many on moral questions, in his chapter on the "Duty of Submission to Civil Government," resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say that "so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniency, it is the will of God that the established government be obeyed, and no longer" — "This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other."(12) Of this, he says, every man shall judge for himself. But Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases to which the rule of expediency does not apply, in which a people, as well as an individual, must do justice, cost what it may. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.This, according to Paley, would be inconvenient. But he that would save his life, in such a case, shall lose it.(13) This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people. "
Consider civil disobedience. Thoreau, Gandhi, ML King, etc. all broke the law. However, most people think what they did was "right" and that they should not be punished. Snowden did us all a great favor by proving what many has suspected... the government is routinely violating the first and fourth amendments to our constitution (among other serious crimes). This essay on Civil Disobedience by Thoreau may provide some enlightenment: http://thoreau.eserver.org/civ...
Snowden has repeatedly stated that he gave everything he has to the journalists and he no longer has the material. The journalists (Greenwald, Guardian, etc.) are in control of the material and they decide what to release and when. So... I don't think he has any leverage to release or not release any information.
With BSD, you get the freedom to do what you want including locking everyone else out from "your" system. Freedom for you... not so much for everyone else.
This allows students to access the official Yale website and retrieve data that they officially have access to using their browser. I see nothing that could be called copyright infringement of any sort. It does mangle up the presentation of the data into a more useful format but that is all done by the user on their browser. Is there something that says that I don't have the right to view websites the way I want? What about AdBlock, NoScript and Ghostery? They alter web pages under my control on my browser? I get to view copyrighted web pages they way I want.
Yale was censoring coursetable in the name of copyright since it used Yale's copyrighted text. They did this because they didn't like the way coursetable presented the data. Sean Haufler made a clever hack which is a Chrome extension which displays data from the Yale websites in the same useful format as coursetable but does not require setting up a web site. It just mashes up text and data from Yale servers and presents it nicely in Chrome. It also seems to use some local storage which should decrease bandwidth demands.
Uncensorable since it's not a web site, runs entirely on the users browser and only accesses official Yale data (which students are allowed to access). Nice hack.
GPS can take a while to get a fix if it has been some time or distance since last turned on. Having an accurate location from a known WiFi spot can help the GPS get its bearings faster.
I think one purpose of this is to help refine GPS position. If you know the locations of SSIDs then you can get a better location. No need to access the WiFi.
I've been doing this for a few months. I can see the trip I took over New Years week down the California coast and then across to Death Valley and up to Lake Tahoe. I don't care that people can see my track (I spent some time in Los Osos and Morrow Bay and you can clearly see my routes in that area). I assume that the NSA also has my route from tracking my cell phone.
Did you read my message? The government is a tool of business. Corporations buy politicians to get the laws they want. FTFY: Bankruptcy is defined by the government... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Corporate liability firewalls are defined by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Taxpayer cleanup is established by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Competition in regulation was destroyed when a monopoly on regulation was declared by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
The existing regulation was establisehd by that government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
I see one common element throughout all of the details you dislike. Can you spot it?
You'll get better regulation from this than from anything that could possibly be concocted by government bureaucrats.
Note: This requires the real threat of economic loss, so an organization that can demand payment regardless of its performance—i.e., the government—cannot implement something similar.
Freedom Industries just announced that it was declaring bankruptcy after contaminating drinking water for 300,000 people with it's unregulated toxic chemical storage leak.... so much for accountability... taxpayers will be left paying for the cleanup as well as suffering the toxic effects... (I'll bet the bosses of this company got their money out early.)
Most government regulations these days are written by industry in order to reduce competition and make their life easier and more profitable. They pay good money to bribe politicians to get these laws and regulations established. No surprise then that the regulations end up being against the interests of most people.
Feinstein has been one of the most rabid supporters of surveillance and has repeatedly defended the NSA. That's why it's stunning to see this hypocrisy when suddenly she is the victim of surveillance. Add in the fact that her husband makes millions from the military industrial complex and you see her true nature. Interesting biography: http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Richard_C._Blum_and_Dianne_Feinstein:_The_Power_Couple_of_California "On January 20, 1980, in San Francisco, California, finance capitalist Richard C. Blum (born in 1936) and the ambitious Democratic Party politician Dianne Feinstein (born 1933) were married in a wedding ceremony at San Francisco City Hall. This marriage created a family economic and political alliance that in a little over a decade would allow them to become the top power couple in the state of California with a place on the national and world stages. They remain at the pinnacle of power today, he as a billionaire financier, speculator, real estate executive and deal maker; she as the senior Senator (California’s highest federal official), from the largest and most powerful state in the United States. They exemplify power as it is now wielded in the higher circles of the class system of the U.S. today, and illustrate well the dismal results of this system. This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class. "
I just replaced my heating system with one from Carrier. It includes an "Infinity" thermostat which uses WiFi to connect to the Internet. I can control it over the Internet from my PC or phone as well as get notifications of status and service alerts. It has a nice display which shows the weather, also. Gives me historical energy use. It's not as "smart" as the Nest (it's not watching me and my activity) which I think is a good thing. Google wants the data and wants to be an intermediary with the energy companies.
This is a very rough design but it appears to use a semipermeable membrane which allows the O2 which is dissolved in water to pass through but not the H2O molecules. It does not appear to separate hydrogen from oxygen in water. One other problem not addressed in the very thin "concept" is how it deals with CO2. Most rebreathers scrub the CO2 from exhaled air and then add O2. You do need to get rid of the CO2. From this page: http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-solubility-water-d_639.html Oxygen dissolved in the Water at atmospheric pressure can be calculated as:
co = (1 atm) 0.21 / (756.7 atm/(mol/litre)) (31.9988 g/mol)
= 0.0089 g/litre
~ 0.0089 g/kg It looks like humans need about 100 gm/hour of O2 so there may be a fundamental problem here is getting enough O2 out of the water. (100gm/0.0089=11,236 liters of water per hour) I wouldn't get too excited about seeing this soon (or ever).
I'm not an expert on Windows malware (and I have no need or intention to become one) but from some recent reports, it looks like most Windows malware is of the "drive-by" or "autorun" variety which requires no active user role. The next most popular category is something called "keygen" malware which seems to be some software which generates user activation keys (I don't know since this type of thing is not used in the Mac/Linux world) and this would seem to dupe the user into installing malware in return for allowing him access to his software. Here's a good rundown I found: http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2013/01/07/operating-system-infection-rates-the-most-common-malware-families-on-each-platform.aspx Glad I don't live in the Windows ecosystem... looks ugly.
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Sorry for posting this off-topic but there is no other place to post this, so...
The mobile site:
- lousy view and navigation - confusing display of mod points
- no way to view normal site... mobile site is mandatory
- doesn't remember my login
- moderation doesn't work
- can't change view by mod points (outstanding, etc. categories are broken)
Breaking news! Now, just added!!! "popover" ads that won't go away!!!
I had an obnoxious ad for a survey overlay the site. Won't close.
In desperation, I even clicked on it to take the survey (and entered bogus information to screw up their responses) but still the ad won't go away!
(I'm using Chrome browser on Nexus7... if that makes any difference).
Sorry for posting this off-topic but there is no other place to post this, so...
The mobile site:
- lousy view and navigation - confusing display of mod points
- no way to view normal site... mobile site is mandatory
- doesn't remember my login
- moderation doesn't work
- can't change view by mod points (outstanding, etc. categories are broken)
Breaking news! Now, just added!!! "popover" ads that won't go away!!!
I had an obnoxious ad for a survey overlay the site. Won't close.
In desperation, I even clicked on it to take the survey (and entered bogus information to screw up their responses) but still the ad won't go away!
(I'm using Chrome browser on Nexus7... if that makes any difference).
Have you read the Christian bible or anything about their beliefs?
BBC also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
The BBC story also includes a link to the actual EU document (pdf) stating the work program.
"I am unsure if a ne'er-do-well would risk kill somebody in the hope that information that person possessed would then become public."
Not sure who qualifies as a "ne'er-do-well"... Does a country which might benefit from the release of information detrimental to a rival qualify?
Princess Bride??... lost me there.
However, you must take into account that some "interests" may want the information revealed. Not all "interests" want to keep the information secret.
I think you are confused on this point. He has made it clear numerous times that he does not have control of any of the documents. He has also explicitly stated that he is not holding back anything for "insurance" since that would be an invitation to others to kill him to reveal these documents.
Hard to prove one way or another here so you just have to take his word on this (or not).
Thoreau speaks to this point:
"[8] All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution of '75.(10) If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.(11)
[9] Paley, a common authority with many on moral questions, in his chapter on the "Duty of Submission to Civil Government," resolves all civil obligation into expediency; and he proceeds to say that "so long as the interest of the whole society requires it, that is, so long as the established government cannot be resisted or changed without public inconveniency, it is the will of God that the established government be obeyed, and no longer" — "This principle being admitted, the justice of every particular case of resistance is reduced to a computation of the quantity of the danger and grievance on the one side, and of the probability and expense of redressing it on the other."(12) Of this, he says, every man shall judge for himself. But Paley appears never to have contemplated those cases to which the rule of expediency does not apply, in which a people, as well as an individual, must do justice, cost what it may. If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.This, according to Paley, would be inconvenient. But he that would save his life, in such a case, shall lose it.(13) This people must cease to hold slaves, and to make war on Mexico, though it cost them their existence as a people. "
Consider civil disobedience.
Thoreau, Gandhi, ML King, etc. all broke the law.
However, most people think what they did was "right" and that they should not be punished.
Snowden did us all a great favor by proving what many has suspected... the government is routinely violating the first and fourth amendments to our constitution (among other serious crimes).
This essay on Civil Disobedience by Thoreau may provide some enlightenment:
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civ...
Snowden has repeatedly stated that he gave everything he has to the journalists and he no longer has the material.
The journalists (Greenwald, Guardian, etc.) are in control of the material and they decide what to release and when.
So... I don't think he has any leverage to release or not release any information.
With BSD, you get the freedom to do what you want including locking everyone else out from "your" system.
Freedom for you... not so much for everyone else.
Do they get the 30% bonus for approving lots of patents regardless of quality?
Looks like a screwup, not intentional.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/blog...
This allows students to access the official Yale website and retrieve data that they officially have access to using their browser. I see nothing that could be called copyright infringement of any sort.
It does mangle up the presentation of the data into a more useful format but that is all done by the user on their browser.
Is there something that says that I don't have the right to view websites the way I want?
What about AdBlock, NoScript and Ghostery? They alter web pages under my control on my browser?
I get to view copyrighted web pages they way I want.
Yale was censoring coursetable in the name of copyright since it used Yale's copyrighted text. They did this because they didn't like the way coursetable presented the data.
Sean Haufler made a clever hack which is a Chrome extension which displays data from the Yale websites in the same useful format as coursetable but does not require setting up a web site. It just mashes up text and data from Yale servers and presents it nicely in Chrome. It also seems to use some local storage which should decrease bandwidth demands.
Uncensorable since it's not a web site, runs entirely on the users browser and only accesses official Yale data (which students are allowed to access).
Nice hack.
GPS can take a while to get a fix if it has been some time or distance since last turned on.
Having an accurate location from a known WiFi spot can help the GPS get its bearings faster.
I think one purpose of this is to help refine GPS position. If you know the locations of SSIDs then you can get a better location. No need to access the WiFi.
I've been doing this for a few months. I can see the trip I took over New Years week down the California coast and then across to Death Valley and up to Lake Tahoe. I don't care that people can see my track (I spent some time in Los Osos and Morrow Bay and you can clearly see my routes in that area).
I assume that the NSA also has my route from tracking my cell phone.
Did you read my message?
The government is a tool of business. Corporations buy politicians to get the laws they want.
FTFY:
Bankruptcy is defined by the government... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Corporate liability firewalls are defined by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Taxpayer cleanup is established by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
Competition in regulation was destroyed when a monopoly on regulation was declared by the government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
The existing regulation was establisehd by that government.... in response to corporate requests and bribes.
I see one common element throughout all of the details you dislike. Can you spot it?
You'll get better regulation from this than from anything that could possibly be concocted by government bureaucrats.
Note: This requires the real threat of economic loss, so an organization that can demand payment regardless of its performance—i.e., the government—cannot implement something similar.
Freedom Industries just announced that it was declaring bankruptcy after contaminating drinking water for 300,000 people with it's unregulated toxic chemical storage leak. ... so much for accountability... taxpayers will be left paying for the cleanup as well as suffering the toxic effects...
(I'll bet the bosses of this company got their money out early.)
Most government regulations these days are written by industry in order to reduce competition and make their life easier and more profitable. They pay good money to bribe politicians to get these laws and regulations established. No surprise then that the regulations end up being against the interests of most people.
Feinstein has been one of the most rabid supporters of surveillance and has repeatedly defended the NSA.
That's why it's stunning to see this hypocrisy when suddenly she is the victim of surveillance.
Add in the fact that her husband makes millions from the military industrial complex and you see her true nature.
Interesting biography: http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Richard_C._Blum_and_Dianne_Feinstein:_The_Power_Couple_of_California
"On January 20, 1980, in San Francisco, California, finance capitalist Richard C. Blum (born in 1936) and the ambitious Democratic Party politician Dianne Feinstein (born 1933) were married in a wedding ceremony at San Francisco City Hall. This marriage created a family economic and political alliance that in a little over a decade would allow them to become the top power couple in the state of California with a place on the national and world stages. They remain at the pinnacle of power today, he as a billionaire financier, speculator, real estate executive and deal maker; she as the senior Senator (California’s highest federal official), from the largest and most powerful state in the United States. They exemplify power as it is now wielded in the higher circles of the class system of the U.S. today, and illustrate well the dismal results of this system. This system is best characterized as a plutocratic kleptocracy, completely lacking in authentic democracy, operated by and for corporate racketeers, in short, a dictatorship of big capital, the top 1% of wealth holders, which makes up a ruling class. "
I just replaced my heating system with one from Carrier. It includes an "Infinity" thermostat which uses WiFi to connect to the Internet. I can control it over the Internet from my PC or phone as well as get notifications of status and service alerts. It has a nice display which shows the weather, also. Gives me historical energy use.
It's not as "smart" as the Nest (it's not watching me and my activity) which I think is a good thing.
Google wants the data and wants to be an intermediary with the energy companies.
This is a very rough design but it appears to use a semipermeable membrane which allows the O2 which is dissolved in water to pass through but not the H2O molecules. It does not appear to separate hydrogen from oxygen in water.
One other problem not addressed in the very thin "concept" is how it deals with CO2. Most rebreathers scrub the CO2 from exhaled air and then add O2. You do need to get rid of the CO2.
From this page:
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/air-solubility-water-d_639.html
Oxygen dissolved in the Water at atmospheric pressure can be calculated as:
co = (1 atm) 0.21 / (756.7 atm/(mol/litre)) (31.9988 g/mol)
= 0.0089 g/litre
~ 0.0089 g/kg
It looks like humans need about 100 gm/hour of O2 so there may be a fundamental problem here is getting enough O2 out of the water. (100gm/0.0089=11,236 liters of water per hour)
I wouldn't get too excited about seeing this soon (or ever).
I'm not an expert on Windows malware (and I have no need or intention to become one) but from some recent reports, it looks like most Windows malware is of the "drive-by" or "autorun" variety which requires no active user role. The next most popular category is something called "keygen" malware which seems to be some software which generates user activation keys (I don't know since this type of thing is not used in the Mac/Linux world) and this would seem to dupe the user into installing malware in return for allowing him access to his software.
Here's a good rundown I found:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/security/archive/2013/01/07/operating-system-infection-rates-the-most-common-malware-families-on-each-platform.aspx
Glad I don't live in the Windows ecosystem... looks ugly.