I'm guessing that Mitochondrial Eve must really bake your noodle then. No matter how you try to spin it, the mitochondrial DNA of modern humans trace back to "ONE" female.
As of yet, I have not found where Anonymous has posted ALL their private and public communications.
Maybe they've posted it on WikiLeaks and that's the reason they're trying so hard to restore availability.
I mean, if Anonymous is requiring complete transparency of the U.S. government, they've lead by example by becoming completely transparent themselves...right?
Anonymous is not interested in being open themselves which is why they call themselves "Anonymous".
Torture is ultimately self-defeating and so are Denial of Service attacks, sit-ins and strikes.
You end up pissing off the general public and other third parties rather than "winning" them over to your cause.
What does work are:
1. Peaceful protests which do not disrupt the lives of innocent bystanders in a significant way.
2. Disseminating your point of view in a coherent and intelligent manner without resorting to personal attacks and profanity.
3. Organizing a boycott. The sugar boycott in England is what eventually brought an end to the slave trade in the British empire.
4. Writing letters to your leaders with your grievances and what you would like to see changed.
I don't support the way Wikileaks has gone about this matter. I would rather have seen them filter out and only publish information that was directly related to "corruption". The purpose of the "fifth estate" is the hold the government accountable and to expose corrupt. That is what the whistle blower laws are there for. They are there to protect people who leak information to uncover corruption, not for the fun of it or for profit.
Yes, they are being denied their right to freedom of association. They can't choose not to associate with the US governemnt.
Yet, people are mad at them because they are helping the US government...
Everyone in a civil society is associated with their government. The people elected them in the first place.
Some people are ready to scream about the constitution, a document created by representatives or the people and yet those same people are not willing to live by the same rules of law which were also created by elected representatives of the people. A civil society needs to have rules that everyone abides by and every power, even our rights have to have limits or you run the risk of tyranny be it the tyranny of the majority, a small group of people or even an individual holding society hostage.
Freedom of speech is neither absolute or a defense to violate the rights of other. You cannot, for example, yell "fire" in a crowed" theater as a "joke" nor can you yell "hi jack" or "bomb" in an airport.
This is not the same thing at all. By blocking Amazon, they are not just interfering with the business of Amazon but third party resellers who sell through amazon.
Amazon is not preventing Wikileaks from using another service.
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press.
The press is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. The failure of the press in the last decade to act as anything except a mouthpiece for the US government and the special interests that control it has caused far more damage to this country and the world than anything Assange could dream of. It's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.
He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain
If your financial future is at risk, it's not Assange who did it. It's the criminals who run the banking institutions. They need to be exposed to protect your financial future.
Why are you assuming that this information is criminal and not just simply insider information which can be potentially damaging? What if Assange started to leak credit card numbers and bank account numbers? Would you be his staunch supporter? What if it was your account information?
If this ANONYMOUS are the same guys who were fighting the Church of Scientology, they have just pissed away all of the good will they generated by fighting the COS. They are now acting just like the COS does when they go after so-called "suppressive persons".
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. He is acting like a terrorist. He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain. He does not give a damn about anyone but himself.
ANONYMOUS should take a long look at themselves and realize that they have become what they claim to hate.
With all due respect, I think things have changed quite a bit over the years so that the lines have blurred a bit between your definition of embedded systems and computers.
Consoles, PDA's and Smartphones are not in the same category as PCs. While PCs have user upgradable operating systems as well as memory, devices like smartphones, PDA's and consoles usually have firmware updates to patch not only the bootstrap rom code but also the operating system of the device. They also cannot have their memory upgraded.
While you can install new software on these devices, they still have hardware constraints for memory and and CPU usage which must be taken into consideration when developing for them. You don't have to worry about these things with PCs because you have access to so much more memory and even virtual memory.
Just because these devices now have more power and resources than PCs from the 80's and 90's, it does not mean that they are not embedded devices with fixed hardware constraints.
>how are they gonna charge you if you don't give them your CC?
iTunes gift card?
That is another payment methods but I prefer to pay for the exact amount rather than having a prepaid card that I cannot even use fully since I will likely be left with a balance that is too small to make another 99 cent purchase once the taxes are added on.
I hate the Xbox "points" and the PSN store charging me in 5 dollar increments instead of just charging me for the actual purchase price.
I will not sacrifice technology "feature set", and capability just for looks. I certainly will not allow some business or CEO dictate to me how my device should be used.
So what you are telling us is that you prefer "feature" phones rather than a smart phone. Smart phones usually do not come with every feature under the sun. Rather, features can be added with optional free or paid third party software. As long as the vendor supplied an API to access the various base hardware features of the phone, third party devs can find all sorts of innovative uses for that hardware.
Everyone is talking about how the government should be held accountable but what is forgotten is that even the media has to be accountable to someone.
The fifth estate (media) has journalists who are accountable to their editors, their readership and other journalists but who is this wikileaks accountable to? Who watches the watchers?
Accountability is what keeps the media from becoming a vigilante without a moral/ethical compass.
Assange is a dangerous vigilante who is not interested in keeping people honest but rather to make a quick buck and hurt whoever he needs to in order to further his own personal agenda.
I think this is fair... as long as we can build a dinosaur park next door, including skeletons, full sized animated replicas, and a museum that explaines, at length, the evolutionary timeline from Triassic to the modern chicken.
Why do you need another one? A lot of tax payer money is already spent on exhibits such as what you describe.
Does not mean what some of you think it means. All it does is prevent the state from establishing a state church like the Church of England and interfering with (disrupting) church activities and the free exercise of your freedom "of religion". There is no freedom from religion. Your rights do not extend into the lives of others. If you choose to be an atheist, that is you personal choice but you cannot impose that choice upon the rest of society, other individuals or restrict the free exercise of religion by anyone even if they are public officials. They still retain all of their personal rights and freedoms.
I'm not sure how I feel about this park and the use of tax payers funds but then again, I'm not sure if it is fair for the tyranny of the minority to always win over the majority. If the majority of tax payers are in favor of this, I don't see the problem. There is plenty of tax money spent on other things that are not necessarily for the benefit of all tax payers.
There is a big difference between "whistleblowing" to uncover domestic corruption and leaking state secrets of multiple nations.
Do we have a right to know this stuff? No. It is nothing more than titillating information like what you would find in tabloids concerning celebrities. It is not our right to know private information about either celebrities or diplomats. What is said behind closed doors off the record is supposed to stay private.
I would like to keep a sense of privacy myself as an individual so I think that even the 5th estate of our society needs to be held to a certain level of accountability. That is why I do not consider most bloggers "journalists" because they are not held accountable to anyone. Wikileaks is even a blogger but just some asswipe who is looking for money and attention and does not give a damn if the information he stole damages lives, reputations or brings us closer to a war.
Good question. Assuming you are asking something along the lines of "How does this finding effect the ratio of dark to regular matter?" My guess is, not much, because I don't think the ratio ever really depended on observations of stars, per se.
What was the need for there to be dark matter in the first place? Wasn't it invented as a concept to explain why the universe is the way it is assuming it has a specific amount of stars in it? Has anyone proven that dark matter exists or is it just a convenient kludge to make a model of the universe fit observations?
If they discovered that there are 3 times as many stars as previously believed then what purpose does the concept of dark matter serve?
1. If your friend already knows your first and last name, you probably know him enough to be able to talk to him about it on another communication channel ("Hey, I'm adding you to my apple game list") 2. If you don't know your friend personally, because you met him in another game, or another community - then you probably don't want him knowing details like that. I play a lot with the same community. In this case they will know me enough to recognise my nickname, but giving them my name and surname will not help them identify me any more than I would want them to.
Uh. Someone think of the children. It is important to for some parents to know who their child is communicating with and playing with. This makes it a lot harder for some pervs to "friend" children on game center.
If you don't know them personally, then they are not your friend. If you don't have any actual friends, then maybe you should get out more in the real world and make some.
How the hell is anyone supposed to know that their friend "Fred Johnson" is UberGamer34? If you are sending out a friend invite, that person should already know your name right? In real life, I assume that you give your friends your real name.
As for people that you say are your friends "online". Listen, if you cannot trust them with your real name then they are not really your friends. Stop calling strangers that you talk with online "friends".
Oh my god. You are wrong on so many levels that I just don't know where to begin.
How is this insightful? There was not a single salient point of insight. Please begin somewhere other than with hyperbole. Just pick a random point and refute what they said that is assuming you actually can.
I hope you or one of your family members ends up renditioned. You are a sick person and a pathetic American.
This is an unwarranted personal attack and a distasteful wish for harm for their relatives. How can you live with yourself? Do you attack people in this way in real life or is it only when you are behind a veil of anonymity?
You cannot fight a ground war against insurgents who would sooner use their own grandma as a human shield than give up. These people are not moral men. They cannot be reasoned with.
You cannot run everything like a open source project with full transparency.
The GP is not attacking any specific person posting here directly but rather stating their own point of view. If you think that what he says is wrong, post a reply and provide links to backup your assertions. Do not abuse your mod points.
You say that the model is per publication and yet Zino exists, various comic book reader/store apps exist, Kobo and Kindle apps exist let alone the iBook store.
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I'm guessing that Mitochondrial Eve must really bake your noodle then. No matter how you try to spin it, the mitochondrial DNA of modern humans trace back to "ONE" female.
As of yet, I have not found where Anonymous has posted ALL their private and public communications.
Maybe they've posted it on WikiLeaks and that's the reason they're trying so hard to restore availability.
I mean, if Anonymous is requiring complete transparency of the U.S. government, they've lead by example by becoming completely transparent themselves...right?
Anonymous is not interested in being open themselves which is why they call themselves "Anonymous".
Torture is ultimately self-defeating and so are Denial of Service attacks, sit-ins and strikes.
You end up pissing off the general public and other third parties rather than "winning" them over to your cause.
What does work are:
1. Peaceful protests which do not disrupt the lives of innocent bystanders in a significant way.
2. Disseminating your point of view in a coherent and intelligent manner without resorting to personal attacks and profanity.
3. Organizing a boycott. The sugar boycott in England is what eventually brought an end to the slave trade in the British empire.
4. Writing letters to your leaders with your grievances and what you would like to see changed.
I don't support the way Wikileaks has gone about this matter. I would rather have seen them filter out and only publish information that was directly related to "corruption". The purpose of the "fifth estate" is the hold the government accountable and to expose corrupt. That is what the whistle blower laws are there for. They are there to protect people who leak information to uncover corruption, not for the fun of it or for profit.
Yes, they are being denied their right to freedom of association. They can't choose not to associate with the US governemnt.
Yet, people are mad at them because they are helping the US government...
Everyone in a civil society is associated with their government. The people elected them in the first place.
Some people are ready to scream about the constitution, a document created by representatives or the people and yet those same people are not willing to live by the same rules of law which were also created by elected representatives of the people. A civil society needs to have rules that everyone abides by and every power, even our rights have to have limits or you run the risk of tyranny be it the tyranny of the majority, a small group of people or even an individual holding society hostage.
Freedom of speech is neither absolute or a defense to violate the rights of other. You cannot, for example, yell "fire" in a crowed" theater as a "joke" nor can you yell "hi jack" or "bomb" in an airport.
This is not the same thing at all. By blocking Amazon, they are not just interfering with the business of Amazon but third party resellers who sell through amazon.
Amazon is not preventing Wikileaks from using another service.
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press.
The press is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. The failure of the press in the last decade to act as anything except a mouthpiece for the US government and the special interests that control it has caused far more damage to this country and the world than anything Assange could dream of. It's time for the pendulum to swing the other way.
He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain
If your financial future is at risk, it's not Assange who did it. It's the criminals who run the banking institutions. They need to be exposed to protect your financial future.
Why are you assuming that this information is criminal and not just simply insider information which can be potentially damaging? What if Assange started to leak credit card numbers and bank account numbers? Would you be his staunch supporter? What if it was your account information?
So, telling the world about the bad actions of the banks is unethical because it might hurt those banks?
You are assuming that these are bad actions and not just inside information. Isn't that a big assumption to make?
If this ANONYMOUS are the same guys who were fighting the Church of Scientology, they have just pissed away all of the good will they generated by fighting the COS. They are now acting just like the COS does when they go after so-called "suppressive persons".
Assange is not behaving like an ethical member of the press. He is acting like a terrorist. He has threatened to leak even more information about financial institutions. Folks, he is potentially threatening to hurt your own financial futures for his personal gain. He does not give a damn about anyone but himself.
ANONYMOUS should take a long look at themselves and realize that they have become what they claim to hate.
With all due respect, I think things have changed quite a bit over the years so that the lines have blurred a bit between your definition of embedded systems and computers.
Consoles, PDA's and Smartphones are not in the same category as PCs. While PCs have user upgradable operating systems as well as memory, devices like smartphones, PDA's and consoles usually have firmware updates to patch not only the bootstrap rom code but also the operating system of the device. They also cannot have their memory upgraded.
While you can install new software on these devices, they still have hardware constraints for memory and and CPU usage which must be taken into consideration when developing for them. You don't have to worry about these things with PCs because you have access to so much more memory and even virtual memory.
Just because these devices now have more power and resources than PCs from the 80's and 90's, it does not mean that they are not embedded devices with fixed hardware constraints.
>how are they gonna charge you if you don't give them your CC?
iTunes gift card?
That is another payment methods but I prefer to pay for the exact amount rather than having a prepaid card that I cannot even use fully since I will likely be left with a balance that is too small to make another 99 cent purchase once the taxes are added on.
I hate the Xbox "points" and the PSN store charging me in 5 dollar increments instead of just charging me for the actual purchase price.
I will not sacrifice technology "feature set", and capability just for looks. I certainly will not allow some business or CEO dictate to me how my device should be used.
So what you are telling us is that you prefer "feature" phones rather than a smart phone. Smart phones usually do not come with every feature under the sun. Rather, features can be added with optional free or paid third party software. As long as the vendor supplied an API to access the various base hardware features of the phone, third party devs can find all sorts of innovative uses for that hardware.
I see your Internet education has turned you into a skilled debater.
I would think that internet more likely turned the GP into a master-de-bater.
I'm a cunning linguist.
Everyone is talking about how the government should be held accountable but what is forgotten is that even the media has to be accountable to someone.
The fifth estate (media) has journalists who are accountable to their editors, their readership and other journalists but who is this wikileaks accountable to? Who watches the watchers?
Accountability is what keeps the media from becoming a vigilante without a moral/ethical compass.
Assange is a dangerous vigilante who is not interested in keeping people honest but rather to make a quick buck and hurt whoever he needs to in order to further his own personal agenda.
"Independants/3rd party candidates are all but un-electable."
If you really believe that then you get exactly what you deserve. Democracy dies when people stop believing in it and just do what they are told.
Imagine if everyone started voting by their conscience instead of blindly voting for a party or strategically.
You can get a multi-party system by just voting for a party and encouraging everyone to vote for the party that actually represents their desires.
I think this is fair... as long as we can build a dinosaur park next door, including skeletons, full sized animated replicas, and a museum that explaines, at length, the evolutionary timeline from Triassic to the modern chicken.
Why do you need another one? A lot of tax payer money is already spent on exhibits such as what you describe.
Does not mean what some of you think it means. All it does is prevent the state from establishing a state church like the Church of England and interfering with (disrupting) church activities and the free exercise of your freedom "of religion". There is no freedom from religion. Your rights do not extend into the lives of others. If you choose to be an atheist, that is you personal choice but you cannot impose that choice upon the rest of society, other individuals or restrict the free exercise of religion by anyone even if they are public officials. They still retain all of their personal rights and freedoms.
I'm not sure how I feel about this park and the use of tax payers funds but then again, I'm not sure if it is fair for the tyranny of the minority to always win over the majority. If the majority of tax payers are in favor of this, I don't see the problem. There is plenty of tax money spent on other things that are not necessarily for the benefit of all tax payers.
There is a big difference between "whistleblowing" to uncover domestic corruption and leaking state secrets of multiple nations.
Do we have a right to know this stuff? No. It is nothing more than titillating information like what you would find in tabloids concerning celebrities. It is not our right to know private information about either celebrities or diplomats. What is said behind closed doors off the record is supposed to stay private.
I would like to keep a sense of privacy myself as an individual so I think that even the 5th estate of our society needs to be held to a certain level of accountability. That is why I do not consider most bloggers "journalists" because they are not held accountable to anyone. Wikileaks is even a blogger but just some asswipe who is looking for money and attention and does not give a damn if the information he stole damages lives, reputations or brings us closer to a war.
Good question. Assuming you are asking something along the lines of "How does this finding effect the ratio of dark to regular matter?" My guess is, not much, because I don't think the ratio ever really depended on observations of stars, per se.
What was the need for there to be dark matter in the first place? Wasn't it invented as a concept to explain why the universe is the way it is assuming it has a specific amount of stars in it? Has anyone proven that dark matter exists or is it just a convenient kludge to make a model of the universe fit observations?
If they discovered that there are 3 times as many stars as previously believed then what purpose does the concept of dark matter serve?
The thing is that-
1. If your friend already knows your first and last name, you probably know him enough to be able to talk to him about it on another communication channel ("Hey, I'm adding you to my apple game list")
2. If you don't know your friend personally, because you met him in another game, or another community - then you probably don't want him knowing details like that. I play a lot with the same community. In this case they will know me enough to recognise my nickname, but giving them my name and surname will not help them identify me any more than I would want them to.
Uh. Someone think of the children. It is important to for some parents to know who their child is communicating with and playing with. This makes it a lot harder for some pervs to "friend" children on game center.
If you don't know them personally, then they are not your friend. If you don't have any actual friends, then maybe you should get out more in the real world and make some.
How the hell is anyone supposed to know that their friend "Fred Johnson" is UberGamer34? If you are sending out a friend invite, that person should already know your name right? In real life, I assume that you give your friends your real name.
As for people that you say are your friends "online". Listen, if you cannot trust them with your real name then they are not really your friends. Stop calling strangers that you talk with online "friends".
Oh my god. You are wrong on so many levels that I just don't know where to begin.
How is this insightful? There was not a single salient point of insight. Please begin somewhere other than with hyperbole. Just pick a random point and refute what they said that is assuming you actually can.
I hope you or one of your family members ends up renditioned. You are a sick person and a pathetic American.
This is an unwarranted personal attack and a distasteful wish for harm for their relatives. How can you live with yourself? Do you attack people in this way in real life or is it only when you are behind a veil of anonymity?
Sorry but that the GP said is absolutely correct.
You cannot fight a ground war against insurgents who would sooner use their own grandma as a human shield than give up. These people are not moral men. They cannot be reasoned with.
You cannot run everything like a open source project with full transparency.
The GP is not attacking any specific person posting here directly but rather stating their own point of view. If you think that what he says is wrong, post a reply and provide links to backup your assertions. Do not abuse your mod points.
You say that the model is per publication and yet Zino exists, various comic book reader/store apps exist, Kobo and Kindle apps exist let alone the iBook store.
1. create virus
2. infect own computers and blame other countries for it
3. ??
4. profit
If you honestly think the Yanks pulled this off, you're an Idiot.
People in glass houses should not throw rocks. Israel already took credit for the virus.