What a childish argument. So in other words anything that has had public finance needs to be open?
Right, well in that case I guess your medical records should be made public then. You want to start the ball rolling and publish them yourself or shall we just get Jesus, sorry , Julian to do it for you?
"You are expecting the US to leak information about themselves? Information which I'm pretty sure islamic extremists would just love to get their hands on"
Can you spot the hypocrisy of your argument yet?
I think you're the ass mate - Assange self righteously bangs on about how the public have a right to know yet apparently they don't have a right to know about his own organisation or where he's been hiding for the last few days
I'm sorry , which customer base would this be then? I use them often but I've got not time for Assange and his crusade against the US and I'm glad Amazon showed his travelling circus the door.
Just because its been cooked out of one mineral doesn't mean it won't react at high temp with another. 3500 miles of magma is a lot of rock to cross and not react. Sounds unlikely to me TBH.
When a species is this near the edge something drastic needs to be done. If they were hunting the rhino for food I'd have some sympathy , but just to make money selling the horn to halfwit chinese for their idiotic herbal "remedies" or aphrodisiacs is inexcusable. And don't anyone respond with some western moral imperialism argument - we're beyond that niave political nonsense now. If poaching isn't stopped the rhino will soon be gone.
... with a language that does run time binding? It sounds like the ideal enviroment for all sorts of trojans , viruses and obscure faults and failures.
Yes , I agree about the syntax. Instead of creating a nice consistent extension to the C language as Bjarn did with C++ (albeit with some kludges) , Obj-C really looks like someone tossed a completely different language into C because it was easier than making an effort to actually extend C nicely, and then didn't even bother to stir the resulting dogs dinner.
... it was rather dumbed down with lots of silly graphics and other dicking about from the guy in the editing suite, shots of people walking backwards and forwards and a narrator asking loads of questions that the program didn't really give the interviewees enough time to answer properly. And when they did it was obvious they'd been told to keep it simple. Which was a shame , it had great potential but there seems to be a line of thought in British TV at the moment , not just the BBC, that people just can't handle difficult science in more than 30 second dollops before the viewing needs a break. Thank heavens for TED.
"And now that you've got a network connection, wouldn't it be..."... a real bitch of someone hacked your fancy networked oven and your roast went up in flames along with your house.
"more self-diagnostic information to facilitate repairs. Which version better adheres to the KISS principal?"
You ever tried repairing a modern car yourself?
And all the diagnostics has led to is a breed of idiot at the local repairer who couldn't tell a spark plug from an injector pump without help from his computer and if the computer claim's there nothing wrong - even if the engine is belching black smoke - then he has no idea what to do.
"Horseless carriages are more complicated, more expensive, and for the kinds of transport people were already doing with horses, typically not any better."
Horses need to be fed and watered often, tire relatively quickly, tend to shit everywhere, arn't particularly comfortable to sit on and generally can only take a max of 2 people. Not problems you usually get with cars.
Other than that, no , horseless carraiges are no better.
If horses could already do 70mph , run for hours without a stop and be refilled in minutes they wouldn't have done. If you've already got something that works fine why replace it with something that is more complicated, probably more expensive and doesn't do a better job?
Nice try with the analogy. Didn't work though. Ice boxes failed when the ice melted so it was an imperfect solution. A fridge however carries out its design task perfectly.
"it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to have it run a webserver and service requests from DLNA devices around the house."
Oh please. This is sounding like one of those ridiculous Kitchen-Of-The-Future scenarios dreamt up by Honeywell or whoever in the 70s where we'd all be eating food cooked for us by a house robot, just updated for the 21st century. Networked hi-tech white goods may appeal to a small subsection of technology fans in their 20s but most people just want a toaster to be a toaster, an oven to be an oven and a fridge to be a fridge.
.... really , this is just crazy technology for its own sake. All I want from a fridge is to keep stuff cool. Thats it. I don't need a multitasking operating system to do that or any operating system at all in fact and nor do I need a fridge to tell me when I'm running out of milk - I can usually see that for myself thanks - or re-order stuff for me since I might not want the same things again the following week thanks.
A fridge IMO is one of the white goods in which the KISS principal definately should apply.
"Humans are not very good at driving cars, as is evidenced by our ability to destroy 1.3 million souls on our roads each year"
Apart from the fact that you don't just measure driving skill by the number of fatalities, thats just BS anyway. Considering how few accidents there are per mile driven we're EXCEPTIONALLY good at driving. If say 1 billion people in the world drive and they each drive 10000 miles a year on average then thats 10 TRILLION miles a year, so in other words thats 1 death for roughly every 1 million miles driven.
I don't know about you but I'd call that good driving.
And use ssh or equivalent for everything else. The criminals/terrorist will already be doing this , its only ordinary Joe Public who the authorities will be snooping on. As usual.
I don't think taking pictures of students is going to give rise to ground breaking scientific advancements. They might give rise to various lawsuits though , especially the ones taken in the toilets.
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What a childish argument. So in other words anything that has had public finance needs to be open?
Right, well in that case I guess your medical records should be made public then. You want to
start the ball rolling and publish them yourself or shall we just get Jesus, sorry , Julian to
do it for you?
"You are expecting the US to leak information about themselves? Information which I'm pretty sure islamic extremists would just love to get their hands on"
Can you spot the hypocrisy of your argument yet?
I think you're the ass mate - Assange self righteously bangs on about how the public have a right to know yet apparently they don't have a right to know about his own organisation or where he's been hiding for the last few days
Right , because a free tabloid really is the definitive authority on the matter.
"I don't give a fuck about what happens outside US territory. "
No surprise there since people like you can barely even find "outside the US" on a map.
"What I want is a government that is weak w/ most of the power belonging to the people ("
Yeah , right on brother! Hows it going down in your bunker in Montana these days? Or should I say your bedroom in your parents house?
"It should be out in the open, not hidden, otherwise representative government Can Not work."
So touchingly naive. Never mind , you'll grow up one day.
"What you are supporting is basically a return to the European Dark Ages, where the leaders operated in the dark without the people's knowledge,"
Whatever. I think I heard your mum calling you for dinner...
"instead of appealing to their customer base."
I'm sorry , which customer base would this be then? I use them often but I've got not time for Assange and his crusade against the US and I'm glad Amazon showed his travelling circus the door.
Just because its been cooked out of one mineral doesn't mean it won't react at high temp with another. 3500 miles of magma is a lot of rock to cross and not react. Sounds unlikely to me TBH.
When a species is this near the edge something drastic needs to be done. If they were hunting the rhino for food I'd have some sympathy , but just to make money selling the horn to halfwit chinese for their idiotic herbal "remedies" or aphrodisiacs is inexcusable. And don't anyone respond with some western moral imperialism argument - we're beyond that niave political nonsense now. If poaching isn't stopped the rhino will soon be gone.
... with a language that does run time binding? It sounds like the ideal enviroment for all sorts of trojans , viruses and obscure faults and failures.
Yes , I agree about the syntax. Instead of creating a nice consistent extension to the C language as Bjarn did with C++ (albeit with some kludges) , Obj-C really looks like someone tossed a completely different language into C because it was easier than making an effort to actually extend C nicely, and then didn't even bother to stir the resulting dogs dinner.
... it was rather dumbed down with lots of silly graphics and other dicking about from the guy in the editing suite, shots of people walking backwards and forwards and a narrator asking loads of questions that the program didn't really give the interviewees enough time to answer properly. And when they did it was obvious they'd been told to keep it simple. Which was a shame , it had great potential but there seems to be a line of thought in British TV at the moment , not just the BBC, that people just can't handle difficult science in more than 30 second dollops before the viewing needs a break. Thank heavens for TED.
... surely even better would be to insert the barcode as a section of DNA directly into the genome?
Perhaps we're not far from that either.
"Cars need to be refuelled and maintained often."
Try finding a horse that can run for 3 hours without stopping.
"overheat, pollute"
I haven't had a car overheat on me in 20 years.
"You know, there's a reason that cars were called "horseless carriages", Einstein. The name implies the existence of a carriage WITH a horse."
And your point being? Most people who travelled by horse rode ON the horse because carraiges were fucking expensive for your average peasent.
"And now that you've got a network connection, wouldn't it be..." ... a real bitch of someone hacked your fancy networked oven and your roast went up in flames along with your house.
"more self-diagnostic information to facilitate repairs. Which version better adheres to the KISS principal?"
You ever tried repairing a modern car yourself?
And all the diagnostics has led to is a breed of idiot at the local repairer who couldn't tell a spark plug from an injector pump without help from his computer and if the computer claim's there nothing wrong - even if the engine is belching black smoke - then he has no idea what to do.
"Horseless carriages are more complicated, more expensive, and for the kinds of transport people were already doing with horses, typically not any better."
Horses need to be fed and watered often, tire relatively quickly, tend to shit everywhere, arn't particularly comfortable to sit on and generally can only take a max of 2 people. Not problems you usually get with cars.
Other than that, no , horseless carraiges are no better.
If horses could already do 70mph , run for hours without a stop and be refilled in minutes they wouldn't have done. If you've already got something that works fine why replace it with something that is more complicated, probably more expensive and doesn't do a better job?
"The software is tested (or formally proven) "
Believe me , *no one* is going to spend HUGE amounts of money formally proving software for a fridge that sells for $400.
Anyway , just reduce the chances of software failure to zero - don't use any. Which is the situation we have at the moment.
Nice try with the analogy. Didn't work though. Ice boxes failed when the ice melted so it was an imperfect solution. A fridge however carries out its design task perfectly.
"it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility to have it run a webserver and service requests from DLNA devices around the house."
Oh please. This is sounding like one of those ridiculous Kitchen-Of-The-Future scenarios dreamt up by Honeywell or whoever in the 70s where we'd all be eating food cooked for us by a house robot, just updated for the 21st century. Networked hi-tech white goods may appeal to a small subsection of technology fans in their 20s but most people just want a toaster to be a toaster, an oven to be an oven and a fridge to be a fridge.
.... really , this is just crazy technology for its own sake. All I want from a fridge is to keep stuff cool. Thats it. I don't need a multitasking operating system to do that or any operating system at all in fact and nor do I need a fridge to tell me when I'm running out of milk - I can usually see that for myself thanks - or re-order stuff for me since I might not want the same things again the following week thanks.
A fridge IMO is one of the white goods in which the KISS principal definately should apply.
FTA:
"Humans are not very good at driving cars, as is evidenced by our ability to destroy 1.3 million souls on our roads each year"
Apart from the fact that you don't just measure driving skill by the number of fatalities, thats just BS anyway. Considering how few accidents there are per mile driven we're EXCEPTIONALLY good at driving. If say 1 billion people in the world drive and they each drive 10000 miles a year
on average then thats 10 TRILLION miles a year, so in other words thats 1 death for roughly every
1 million miles driven.
I don't know about you but I'd call that good driving.
Am I missing something or is it just more journalistic hyperbole? Hiding an event just means it can't be seen. I think we knew this much already.
I imagine any organic chemical that contains carbon and can be easily broken down chemically or by heat could be used. This is hardly news.
And use ssh or equivalent for everything else. The criminals/terrorist will already be doing this , its only ordinary Joe Public who the authorities will be snooping on. As usual.
I don't think taking pictures of students is going to give rise to ground breaking scientific advancements. They might give rise to various lawsuits though , especially the ones taken in the toilets.
Just another silly attention seeking stunt. What exactly is he trying to prove other than what a fool he is?