So, if Greenwald, e.g., screws up and discloses the 5000 documents accidentally, then Snowden will be in the same category as Manning?
Pretty much, yeah. But also, it's conceivable that Snowden at least read 5000 documents (especially given his downtime at the airport!). It is not possible that Manning read the hundreds of thousands of documents in his possession.
but the principle doesn't hinge on third party blunders
Sure it does. If you are going to undertake an activity like removing classified documents from their secure location, it is on you to make sure those documents stay secure. If you, say, leave them unencrypted on an SD card, you deserve whatever misfortune befalls you. If it were me, I'd have everything encrypted and I'd only release the documents to my partner as needed.
There is a big difference between Snowden and Manning. Snowden gives documents to the press that he knows implicate the government in what he thinks is wrongdoing... this is textbook whistleblowing. Manning handed the press a huge pile of documents, thinking that they probably contained evidence of wrongdoing - but he couldn't really be sure because he hadn't gone through them. That's as much a fishing expedition as it is whistleblowing. Had he restricted himself to things he KNEW were going on, well, he'd be Snowden.
The primary one would be the Geneva Convention, under which is is obligated to report war crimes and is entitled to protections for doing so.
While some of the documents seem to reveal war crimes, he didn't know of those documents when he released them. He effectively got lucky.
I understand it is human nature. I'm trying to argue that one should look past the emotional aspects and actually judge the nuclear catastrophe by the same criteria as the rest of the Japanese coast. Naturally radiation is way scarier than a big-ass wave, because at least you can see and understand the wave. But at the end of the day, the score is radiation:0, big wave: 18,000. The risks to the plant were known, but so were the risks to the people. Economics won out in both decisions.
What I simply don't understand is why US universities are so expensive.
They are fiercely competitive, so they spend gobs of money trying to outdo one another. And they get away with it because there are government-backed loans for domestic students and they draw from rich foreign student populations. When I visit my alma mater, or my wife's, the tuition has doubled over 20 years and so has the campus - there are literally twice as many buildings for roughly the same student population. I don't think the instruction has improved much - particularly at my wife's institution which has always been very prestigious - but the perks are amazing... the cafeteria looks like a fancy mall food court now. The gym is like a YMCA from heaven. There are cafés in the library. Ubiquitous WiFi. The newer dorms are not the bare painted cinderblock walls that we had. Landscaping and student areas are all immaculate. And of course, every bullet point in the US News and World Report rankings checklist has been addressed.
You may have noticed that we've been working on that lately...
Also, it sounds like maybe the guy was kind of being a dipshit. Medicaid probably would have covered his operation, but I don't know the details. The problem with Medicaid is you have to be destitute, so many people go bankrupt over their major medical problems.
The Category system only measures wind speed, not storm surge, track, or the velocity of the storm system, or even how much rain it will dump. A Category 1 coming ashore during a full-moon high tide can do a lot more damage than a hurricane with higher winds.Arguably, Sandy was not even a hurricane when it came ashore. And a year before there was Irene that deluged inland areas of New York and North Jersey with amazing amounts of rainfall. It came ashore with winds similar to Sandy in almost the same part of NJ, but did very little damage to that area.
My car (bog standard Toyota Sienna from 2008) already takes away some of my control when things get dicey in the form of traction control and ABS. Some cars take it to the next level: Mercedes has things like Pre-Safe which roll up your windows, straighten your seatbacks, tighten your seatbelts, and even apply brakes if you don't react to a coming collision. The newest version even detects when you are impaired and adjusts your steering inputs. I expect this trend to continue: small, iterative steps of our cars overriding us until we only have the illusion of control. At that point, it will be only a small leap to let the car drive when we aren't already in an emergency situation.
I'll freely admit that I've made major mistakes behind the wheel, and I'm just lucky not to have encountered another car. I've missed red lights and stop signs. I've been fixated on a dangerous swerving driver only to ignore my blind spot. I've been so busy looking left that I missed a pedestrian crossing from the left. Shit happens. I'm human. I have no doubt that computers will someday drive more safely.
No kidding. People are acting as if you aren't just behaving like computer when you drive now - the route is limited to prescribed turns and lanes, there are signs instructing you on speed, when to stop, when to go, etc. All the human is doing is memorizing the rules of the road and following them until they reach their destination. Humans are not as good as computers at following directions and can't react as fast. We're better at pattern recognition and responding to unexpected scenarios, but those advantages are melting away steadily. This has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with technology slowly getting better. Did the invention of cruise control cost us some freedom? How about autopilots or collision detection for airplanes? Goodness, you can still go wherever you want whenever you want, you just don't need to steer anymore.
It's not a human right, but gender reassignment is the only treatment for gender identity problems. The rational thing to do is treat the prisoner appropriately, not hold back for some ideological reason.
comments with over 700 net positive upvotes over there say he should also serve 35 years as a prisoner within what he perceives to be a wrong body as an additional punishment.
Most people are not aware that there is no effective treatment for people with gender identity problems. There is some mixed data regarding the effectiveness of reassignment surgery, but the general consensus seems to be that changing one's gender seems to be the only thing that helps keep these people from killing themselves. Once you have this conversation with people, they typically agree that it is the way to go, so don't get too upset with the CNN crowd - they aren't doctors and they aren't all caught up on gender disorders. All they see is an untreated crazy person.
Humor is subjective. I have a very dark sense of humor, so I can empathize with people laughing about horrible things. I laughed the whole way through "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret". Some of us cope with bad news through humor, it's our way of getting through a sometimes-terrible world without falling into depression.
Probably because MS Office doesn't update every year, so you don't need to buy a license for every computer every year. Or, they are on a Microsoft contract.
I agree with you, to an extent. I like the ribbon as a toolbar - I hate it as a menu. Every function should reside in a fixed place, in a addition to having a context-sensitive toolbar. Why? Sometimes the computer guesses wrong. The ribbon also re-arranges itself depending on screen size and shape, which means an adjustment period when switching between laptop and desktop - or even when working in full screen vs. windowed mode. The Mac version of Office has both ribbon and menus, and it works just fine.
The fact that you supposedly visited one of the most remarkable colleges in the United States and you have never head of the neighbor that it is wholly housed in speaks more about what kind of person you are than what kind of neighborhood Oakland is.
Direct your moron comments towards Ms. Manning. She kept everything in unencrypted form and trusted people with the unredacted documents. From Wikipedia:
The court heard from two army investigators, Special Agent David Shaver, head of the digital forensics and research branch of the army's Computer Crime Investigative Unit (CCIU), and Mark Johnson, a digital forensics contractor from ManTech International, who works for the CCIU. They testified that they had found 100,000 State Department cables on a computer Manning had used between November 2009 and May 2010; 400,000 U.S. military reports from Iraq and 91,000 from Afghanistan on the SD card in his aunt's home; and 10,000 cables on his personal MacBook Pro and storage devices that they said had not been passed to WikiLeaks because a file was corrupted.
So she swiped hundreds of thousands of documents from work, kept them in unencrypted format on various computers and SD cards, and uploaded anything that would upload to Wikileaks on blind trust. And I'm the moron.
How is it a different topic? It's the same disaster! Are you trying to separate out what happened at the nuke plant from the tsunami and earthquake? This wasn't Chernobyl.
Like you, I'm an engineer in an unrelated field. No one cares if one of my robots gets flooded, and no one cares if your conventional plant gets flooded. The tsunami/earthquake damaged at least 4 conventional power plants, and you barely heard a peep. It set fire to a pair of oil refineries that were extinguished after a couple of weeks, and the only news about those was regarding their role in oil shortages. The only engineers being flogged on this board are the nuke engineers, which is silly. NOTHING on the coast of Japan seems to have been protected against such an event - why single out the nuke plant?
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So, if Greenwald, e.g., screws up and discloses the 5000 documents accidentally, then Snowden will be in the same category as Manning?
Pretty much, yeah. But also, it's conceivable that Snowden at least read 5000 documents (especially given his downtime at the airport!). It is not possible that Manning read the hundreds of thousands of documents in his possession.
but the principle doesn't hinge on third party blunders
Sure it does. If you are going to undertake an activity like removing classified documents from their secure location, it is on you to make sure those documents stay secure. If you, say, leave them unencrypted on an SD card, you deserve whatever misfortune befalls you. If it were me, I'd have everything encrypted and I'd only release the documents to my partner as needed.
There is a big difference between Snowden and Manning. Snowden gives documents to the press that he knows implicate the government in what he thinks is wrongdoing... this is textbook whistleblowing. Manning handed the press a huge pile of documents, thinking that they probably contained evidence of wrongdoing - but he couldn't really be sure because he hadn't gone through them. That's as much a fishing expedition as it is whistleblowing. Had he restricted himself to things he KNEW were going on, well, he'd be Snowden.
The primary one would be the Geneva Convention, under which is is obligated to report war crimes and is entitled to protections for doing so.
While some of the documents seem to reveal war crimes, he didn't know of those documents when he released them. He effectively got lucky.
College costs have doubled, even after adjusting for inflation.
I meant inflation-adjusted cost.
I understand it is human nature. I'm trying to argue that one should look past the emotional aspects and actually judge the nuclear catastrophe by the same criteria as the rest of the Japanese coast. Naturally radiation is way scarier than a big-ass wave, because at least you can see and understand the wave. But at the end of the day, the score is radiation:0, big wave: 18,000. The risks to the plant were known, but so were the risks to the people. Economics won out in both decisions.
What I simply don't understand is why US universities are so expensive.
They are fiercely competitive, so they spend gobs of money trying to outdo one another. And they get away with it because there are government-backed loans for domestic students and they draw from rich foreign student populations. When I visit my alma mater, or my wife's, the tuition has doubled over 20 years and so has the campus - there are literally twice as many buildings for roughly the same student population. I don't think the instruction has improved much - particularly at my wife's institution which has always been very prestigious - but the perks are amazing... the cafeteria looks like a fancy mall food court now. The gym is like a YMCA from heaven. There are cafés in the library. Ubiquitous WiFi. The newer dorms are not the bare painted cinderblock walls that we had. Landscaping and student areas are all immaculate. And of course, every bullet point in the US News and World Report rankings checklist has been addressed.
You may have noticed that we've been working on that lately...
Also, it sounds like maybe the guy was kind of being a dipshit. Medicaid probably would have covered his operation, but I don't know the details. The problem with Medicaid is you have to be destitute, so many people go bankrupt over their major medical problems.
The Category system only measures wind speed, not storm surge, track, or the velocity of the storm system, or even how much rain it will dump. A Category 1 coming ashore during a full-moon high tide can do a lot more damage than a hurricane with higher winds.Arguably, Sandy was not even a hurricane when it came ashore. And a year before there was Irene that deluged inland areas of New York and North Jersey with amazing amounts of rainfall. It came ashore with winds similar to Sandy in almost the same part of NJ, but did very little damage to that area.
imagine cutting off a self-driving car and how it might respond
There's an app for that!
Car video screen: "A near-collision has occurred with license 867-5309 . Would you like to send video to the police? Yes/No"
My car (bog standard Toyota Sienna from 2008) already takes away some of my control when things get dicey in the form of traction control and ABS. Some cars take it to the next level: Mercedes has things like Pre-Safe which roll up your windows, straighten your seatbacks, tighten your seatbelts, and even apply brakes if you don't react to a coming collision. The newest version even detects when you are impaired and adjusts your steering inputs. I expect this trend to continue: small, iterative steps of our cars overriding us until we only have the illusion of control. At that point, it will be only a small leap to let the car drive when we aren't already in an emergency situation.
Of course they also cost a fortune and look like a moon buggy :)
I'll freely admit that I've made major mistakes behind the wheel, and I'm just lucky not to have encountered another car. I've missed red lights and stop signs. I've been fixated on a dangerous swerving driver only to ignore my blind spot. I've been so busy looking left that I missed a pedestrian crossing from the left. Shit happens. I'm human. I have no doubt that computers will someday drive more safely.
No kidding. People are acting as if you aren't just behaving like computer when you drive now - the route is limited to prescribed turns and lanes, there are signs instructing you on speed, when to stop, when to go, etc. All the human is doing is memorizing the rules of the road and following them until they reach their destination. Humans are not as good as computers at following directions and can't react as fast. We're better at pattern recognition and responding to unexpected scenarios, but those advantages are melting away steadily. This has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with technology slowly getting better. Did the invention of cruise control cost us some freedom? How about autopilots or collision detection for airplanes? Goodness, you can still go wherever you want whenever you want, you just don't need to steer anymore.
And what if it does? What is the alternative? Coal? That kills thousands of people every year.
It's an Imgur list made by some random person, not any kind of official list.
I cant exist at all points in the universe simultaneously and it bothers me, can we find a treatment for that too?
Does it bother you to the extent that you will fall into depression and likely commit suicide? If so, then yes, you should probably see a doctor.
Because it's the woman formerly known as Bradley Manning, who is a person of great interest to the Slashdot crowd.
It's not a human right, but gender reassignment is the only treatment for gender identity problems. The rational thing to do is treat the prisoner appropriately, not hold back for some ideological reason.
It happens.
comments with over 700 net positive upvotes over there say he should also serve 35 years as a prisoner within what he perceives to be a wrong body as an additional punishment.
Most people are not aware that there is no effective treatment for people with gender identity problems. There is some mixed data regarding the effectiveness of reassignment surgery, but the general consensus seems to be that changing one's gender seems to be the only thing that helps keep these people from killing themselves. Once you have this conversation with people, they typically agree that it is the way to go, so don't get too upset with the CNN crowd - they aren't doctors and they aren't all caught up on gender disorders. All they see is an untreated crazy person.
Humor is subjective. I have a very dark sense of humor, so I can empathize with people laughing about horrible things. I laughed the whole way through "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret". Some of us cope with bad news through humor, it's our way of getting through a sometimes-terrible world without falling into depression.
Probably because MS Office doesn't update every year, so you don't need to buy a license for every computer every year. Or, they are on a Microsoft contract.
I found Satan's Slashdot alias! :)
I agree with you, to an extent. I like the ribbon as a toolbar - I hate it as a menu. Every function should reside in a fixed place, in a addition to having a context-sensitive toolbar. Why? Sometimes the computer guesses wrong. The ribbon also re-arranges itself depending on screen size and shape, which means an adjustment period when switching between laptop and desktop - or even when working in full screen vs. windowed mode. The Mac version of Office has both ribbon and menus, and it works just fine.
The fact that you supposedly visited one of the most remarkable colleges in the United States and you have never head of the neighbor that it is wholly housed in speaks more about what kind of person you are than what kind of neighborhood Oakland is.
Carnegie Mellon is in Squirrel Hill North.
Direct your moron comments towards Ms. Manning. She kept everything in unencrypted form and trusted people with the unredacted documents. From Wikipedia:
So she swiped hundreds of thousands of documents from work, kept them in unencrypted format on various computers and SD cards, and uploaded anything that would upload to Wikileaks on blind trust. And I'm the moron.
How is it a different topic? It's the same disaster! Are you trying to separate out what happened at the nuke plant from the tsunami and earthquake? This wasn't Chernobyl.
Like you, I'm an engineer in an unrelated field. No one cares if one of my robots gets flooded, and no one cares if your conventional plant gets flooded. The tsunami/earthquake damaged at least 4 conventional power plants, and you barely heard a peep. It set fire to a pair of oil refineries that were extinguished after a couple of weeks, and the only news about those was regarding their role in oil shortages. The only engineers being flogged on this board are the nuke engineers, which is silly. NOTHING on the coast of Japan seems to have been protected against such an event - why single out the nuke plant?