Off-topic, but why does the zdnet article use this picture of the Vietnam Memorial (well actually, a picture of a US silver dollar depicting the memorial)? Just because it has a list of names, and the article is about names? Couldn't they have found something a little more appropriate? And it's not like they found the image without knowing what it was, the title on the flickr page clearly states what it is.
Why do people call incandescent light bulbs "energy wasters", when then can (in the cooler months) defray the work needed to be done by a household heating unit?
Because the power source for a lightbulb is electricity. That means heat from a light bulb can never be more efficient than that from an electric heater. And electric heaters are much more costly than something like natural gas.
It's probably more cost efficient to get CFLs and let your gas furnace produce that little extra heat that your incandescent bulbs had been providing previously. Also, the heat from the incandescent bulbs would only be welcomed in the winter, for the rest of the year it's either completely wasteful, or in the middle of summer (or depending on where you live) downright counter-productive to your cooling costs.
I don't mean to harp on that particular point, and I appreciated the rest of your post. I just don't get the backlash some people have against CFLs and LEDs replacing incandescent bulbs.
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You did a 3 letter search across a search engine that indexes... pretty much the entire internet... and you're mad that it didn't know exactly what you mean?
No, not at all. I don't expect google to know exactly or even vaguely what I mean. I expect google to return results from its index which match 'nfs'. Google trying to figure out what I mean is exactly what I don't want. I don't want them to add results for 'need for speed' or 'nuclear fuel services' or 'no fear shakespeare', I want exactly 'nfs'. What's worse was that my original search was for something related to NFS speed and latency. So the vast majority of results were 'need for speed' related, not NFS related.
Now if the vast majority of webpages used NFS in their text to mean 'need for speed', then I would understand. But that's not what's happening. Google is taking it upon itself to translate 'nfs' = 'need for speed'.
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It's particularly problematic for technical searches which often have acronyms which are close to real words and Google 'corrects' them for me.
Yes! Yes! Yes! A million times 'Yes!' to this. I just recently searched google for nfs and it automatically added [need for speed] as keywords. ARGH! What? It didn't even offer me one of those "is this what you meant?" messages with a link to search again for exactly what I typed in. Google has been returning brain dead results as of late by trying to be smarter than the user.
Don't think I've ever seen such blatant hypocrisy. If even a single job in the has reason for a labor union, then they all do. There is nothing special about certain jobs that make them more in need of collective bargaining.
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Guys, actually read the grand-parent post... The parent is funny, not interesting.
Three people accused of being behind cyberattacks on the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain.
Really? Three people, along with the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain? What was the Egyptian government doing in Spain? Was is on a vacation? That must have made quite the arrest.
Hint, this would have been much clearer:
Three people have been arrested in Spain for cyberattacks targeting the Sony PlayStation store, the Egyptian government, and others.
I've used them and I like them. It's nice to just bring your own bags to the store, and just scan and bag all your items while you shop. Then when you get to the check out counter (either the self checkout or regular lane). You don't have to unload all your stuff just to scan and then bag it again.
My only issue is that Stop and Shop is more expensive than other stores in the area.
So it's a rip off of many of Randal's maps. Except his are usually clever and funny and in many ways actually representative of what he's mapping. There's just no reason for this map to exist. I'm not saying someone couldn't make a good Linux distro map, this is just not that.
From one comment to this story: "shut up and laugh, and get the stick out of your ass". I would love too laugh... except it's not funny. Why must I be uptight with a stick up my ass just because I don't find this submission to be funny? And why is Ubuntu labeled as "Communist"? I get the whole GPL==communist thing, but other than Red Hat, Ubuntu is about as commercial as it gets. It would make way more sense if a geological feature relating to the GPL, GNU, or even Debian had the "Communist" moniker. Also, I see there's a "Mount chroot"... Why is chroot a mountain? It would have been funny if chroot were a small enclave with fewer and smaller features than its surrounding nation. If anything, sudo should have been a mountain, instead of a cape.
That is why the iPod was so successful. Other MP3 players were just music players so people really didn't give a shit more than they had before. However the iPod was a fashion accessory that you had to have.
This is such a load of crap. My first MP3 player was one of the original Archos Jukebox's. It was a piece of shit. From wikipedia:
The Jukebox is historically notable for shipping with a user interface and operating system so unfriendly and bug-ridden as to inspire Björn Stenberg and other programmers to begin to develop a superior, free and open-source replacement operating system. This project became Rockbox."
This was the state of most MP3 players at the time. The iPod interface and ease of use was way ahead of other MP3 players of the time. There are still many current MP3 players still can't stack up. For some reason the music playing/managing ability of my Nexus One sucks in comparison to my very first iPod.
Why is there even a problem in Iran in the Superman universe? Why is a world in which super-beings exist so like the real world? Shouldn't things be radically different if super heroes have been inhabiting the earth for decades (centuries?) now? Why should I be so interested in a fantasy world if it's just going to turn out like the real one anyway?
I'm not saying that there can't be unrest in Iran in a parallel universe. Or that Superman would have somehow solved that issue already. I'm just saying that in a radically different world, shouldn't the specific issue being dealt with be radically different too? I could see protesters in Iran coming to a head with the government much sooner in a world with Superman. Or even much later if there was a preemptive backlash against superheroes in Iran that lead to a more restrictive situation where protesters weren't allowed at all.
Apparently, Dropbox is asking nicely, but when they flagged the file it triggered an accidental DMCA notice, for which they seem to be apologizing.
Alright, but why was the file even flagged for take down at all. It didn't violate any copyright, or any other law. It's just because Dropbox didn't like it. They shouldn't be removing or flagging files and users for things they just don't like (DMCA take down notice or not).
From the description in the bug report, it sounds like certain services (dhcp client I should think) are halted or disabled. It seems to restart when web browsing activity is initiated. This seems to indicate that it was halted when the machine was initially locked -- my guess would be to save battery. After all, DHCPing all the time would burn battery.
I wonder what the best solution would be? When locking to release the DHCP lease before suspending the DHCP client? I wonder if my Vibrant has the same issue?
Actually, the report specifically states that this bug should not be classified as a problem with DHCP when sleeping. The Princeton guy did extensive testing and found that even with active use, the device fails to renew the lease and continues using the IP after the lease has expired.
I just ran across a book the other day that cost more on amazon.ca than on amazon.com. Not sure how that works. There is no duty. The difference in shipping costs of the printed book should be moot especially where I am, within fifty miles of Niagara Falls. And to top it off, the Canadian dollar has been worth more than the U.S. dollar for the past few months. Amazon had no good reason to charge almost ten dollars more to Canadians for the same book. Not very reputable if you ask me. But since they bought bookpool.com a few years ago, they're the only real game in town.
I think your issue might be more with book prices in general than with Amazon specifically. It's long been a North American book publisher tradition to print USD and CAD prices on books with seemingly little regard to the current exchange rate. According to Exchange Rates Revisited: U.S. Dollar and the Cost of Books, in 2009 the CAD prices printed on newly published books were as much as 27% higher than the USD prices. This was at a time when the US and Canadian dollars were at parity. I would guess the price that Amazon pays to the publishers for the books is similarly skewed.
Although, I suppose Amazon could just order a whole bunch of books in USD, and then sell those to Canadians. But, then I'd also suppose there's some draconian clause the the agreement between the publishers and Amazon not to do that. Maybe Canadians are just used to seeing a higher numerical price for their books so the publishers figure they can still get away with it. Or maybe Amazon does pay the same price to the publisher whether a book ends up going to a Canadian or an American, it's just Amazon and not the publisher figuring they can keep screwing Canadians.
The guy is obviously an asshole and a moron. And from reading the article it doesn't sound like he would have actually gone through with it, but I don't think the headline is that misleading. From the article:
At the preliminary hearing, West Chester Police Det. Stan Billie testified that he went to Adams’ home and that Adams agreed to meet with him at the police station. Less than 10 minutes later, Adams posted a second Facebook message that said he “needed this girl knocked off right now” Billie testified.
So you post a bone-headed, douche-baggy status saying you want to get rid of this girl. Okay, you're an idiot. But then when things get serious and you're contacted by the police, you immediately delete the message right... right? What's that? No? You immediately post another message saying that you really, really want this girl dead? What the hell is wrong with you?
It wasn't just one, off-the-cuff message that he immediately regretted and tried to take back. He reinforced his hitman soliciting appearance ten-fold, and it was right after talking with a detective.
You can't be prevented from counting people at a crosswalk, nor for submitting your data to the DOT, but if they don't send a PE out to repeat your efforts they can't use your data to design the crosswalk. That isn't to say they couldn't use it to justify a crosswalk, but they may take the view that they can't use it, period, since they can't trust data of unknown reliability when making decisions about public safety. But there's no way they can justify intimidating you for doing it. Instead of wasting their time, money, and political capital doing that, they should send a PE out to validate your findings.
Totally agree. I just don't think the guy should be reprimanded for having done the investigation and brought it to their attention. Certainly have your own guys with PE licences go back out, but with the issues that this guys raised in mind when they re-evaluate the street. Just don't try and brand this Cox guy as a bad guy.
And the award for best face palm inducing quote goes to:
If Cox is found to have practiced engineering without a license, Ritter said, the likely action would be a letter telling him not to do it again.
I'm a software developer, if I use wireshark to discover that my ISP is up to something fishy, will I be sued for practicing network engineering without a license? If I start counting the number of pedestrians crossing a busy street in order to advocate for a crosswalk, will I be sued for for practicing civil engineering without a license?
(where "cool" means relatively unconcerned about what other people think about them)
Certainly some geeks could give a rat's ass about how they appear to others, so they come off as anti-social, but that's often by choice
I like how in the same post you say cool people don't care about what other people think about them. And you also say that not caring about what other people think is anti-social
I'm sure it exists, but I've never been able to find it
Have you never looked at all the crazy different dog breeds in the wold? These are both dogs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bernard_(dog). They came from the same parent species. We know this. Our un-natural selection in the breeding of dogs resulted in rapid evolution. All you need for evolution is random changes + selection criteria. In the wild with natural selection (survival of the fittest), you get what we consider regular evolution. It just turns out for dogs, that the "fittest" are those most like what we want, they're the ones that survive and are allowed to breed. Just read up on the history of the Domesticated silver fox. There are verifiable genetic differences in these dogs from wild foxes after something like only 50 generations of selective breeding. After only a few generations there were significant physiological changes. If that doesn't convince you of micro-evolution, I don't know what will. Maybe the fact that you need a new flu shot every year because influenza keeps changing due to the selective pressure being put on it via us killing-off the current version of it that we know about.
Even good contributions and spelling corrections are apt to be "reverted" by a legion of people who are using semi-automated tools to up their "edit count"
That sounds like bullshit to me. I have around 140 edits which are mostly spelling corrections, vandalism reverts, grammar corrections, wiki markup corrections, and some light restructuring. I have not once been reverted. I've found that the vast majority of wikipedia contributors are good people.
When my cards expire my bank mails me a new card, with a phone number to call in order to activate it. The process involves telling the machine what card is being activated.
I believe I just activated a credit card recently and I think they only ask for a portion of the credit card digits, last four digits or something. And then also maybe the last four digits of my social security number. The credit card company only has so many cards out for activation at any one time, so they don't need all the digits to know which card it is.
There's a 1 in a 100million chance that someone has the same last four digits on their credit card as I do AND the same last four digits of their social as I do. What are the chances that they're also waiting on a replacement credit card as I? If there is a collision in their database, they could just send the first one of us to call to an operator who would ask a few more identifying questions verify which person they're talking to.
[Parent]: I read the Salon article. Nowhere in the article does Mr. Greenwald discuss his sources. Well almost nowhere, he mentions David House's visits and observations of Manning's deteriorating conditions, but thats it.
From the first paragraph of the Salon article:
[Greenwald]: Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.
[Parent]: Shouldn't he spend more time quoting his sources for Manning's living conditions than he does quoting sources about how harmful solitary confinement is to a person?
[Greenwald]: Manning is barred from communicating with any reporters, even indirectly, so nothing he has said can be quoted here.
[Parent]: Did Mr. Greenwald observe these conditions first hand?
Obviously, and admittedly, no. The information was gained from interviews.
[Parent]: Where these conditions reported by PFC Manning's lawyer?
Possibly, but not specifically mentioned in Greenwald's column. Greenwald probably can't directly say so even if he had.
[Parent]: Are these conditions based on what PFC Manning has told visitors?
No, they're the direct observations of visitors and those directly familiar with his detention. Including at least David House and Lt. Villiard.
[Parent]: The article is also completely inconsistent. It says he has been in 23hour-per-day solitary confinement "since the beginning of his detention" but also says that David House befriended Manning after his detention.
Nothing inconsistent at all, David House helped set up the Bradley Manning Support Network and has visited Manning in jail. If you'll notice, there are 24 hours in a day, so his "23hour-per-day solitary confinement" leaves 1 hour that Manning isn't alone in his cell.
[Greenwald]: [David House] is one of the few people to have visited Manning several times at Quantico.
[Parent]: Mr. Greenwald's article reads more like a high school essay about the inhumanity of solitary confinement than a legitimate news piece.
Maybe that's because many in our government and military weren't paying attention in high school and never learned that lesson.
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Off-topic, but why does the zdnet article use this picture of the Vietnam Memorial (well actually, a picture of a US silver dollar depicting the memorial)? Just because it has a list of names, and the article is about names? Couldn't they have found something a little more appropriate? And it's not like they found the image without knowing what it was, the title on the flickr page clearly states what it is.
Because the power source for a lightbulb is electricity. That means heat from a light bulb can never be more efficient than that from an electric heater. And electric heaters are much more costly than something like natural gas.
It's probably more cost efficient to get CFLs and let your gas furnace produce that little extra heat that your incandescent bulbs had been providing previously. Also, the heat from the incandescent bulbs would only be welcomed in the winter, for the rest of the year it's either completely wasteful, or in the middle of summer (or depending on where you live) downright counter-productive to your cooling costs.
I don't mean to harp on that particular point, and I appreciated the rest of your post. I just don't get the backlash some people have against CFLs and LEDs replacing incandescent bulbs.
No, not at all. I don't expect google to know exactly or even vaguely what I mean. I expect google to return results from its index which match 'nfs'. Google trying to figure out what I mean is exactly what I don't want. I don't want them to add results for 'need for speed' or 'nuclear fuel services' or 'no fear shakespeare', I want exactly 'nfs'. What's worse was that my original search was for something related to NFS speed and latency. So the vast majority of results were 'need for speed' related, not NFS related.
Now if the vast majority of webpages used NFS in their text to mean 'need for speed', then I would understand. But that's not what's happening. Google is taking it upon itself to translate 'nfs' = 'need for speed'.
Yes! Yes! Yes! A million times 'Yes!' to this. I just recently searched google for nfs and it automatically added [need for speed] as keywords. ARGH! What? It didn't even offer me one of those "is this what you meant?" messages with a link to search again for exactly what I typed in. Google has been returning brain dead results as of late by trying to be smarter than the user.
Guys, actually read the grand-parent post... The parent is funny, not interesting.
Really? Three people, along with the Egyptian government and other targets have been arrested in Spain? What was the Egyptian government doing in Spain? Was is on a vacation? That must have made quite the arrest.
Hint, this would have been much clearer:
I've used them and I like them. It's nice to just bring your own bags to the store, and just scan and bag all your items while you shop. Then when you get to the check out counter (either the self checkout or regular lane). You don't have to unload all your stuff just to scan and then bag it again.
My only issue is that Stop and Shop is more expensive than other stores in the area.
Then I don't get the pun. Wouldn't "Mount /dev/sda1" make sense and actually be funny?
So it's a rip off of many of Randal's maps. Except his are usually clever and funny and in many ways actually representative of what he's mapping. There's just no reason for this map to exist. I'm not saying someone couldn't make a good Linux distro map, this is just not that.
From one comment to this story: "shut up and laugh, and get the stick out of your ass". I would love too laugh... except it's not funny. Why must I be uptight with a stick up my ass just because I don't find this submission to be funny? And why is Ubuntu labeled as "Communist"? I get the whole GPL==communist thing, but other than Red Hat, Ubuntu is about as commercial as it gets. It would make way more sense if a geological feature relating to the GPL, GNU, or even Debian had the "Communist" moniker. Also, I see there's a "Mount chroot"... Why is chroot a mountain? It would have been funny if chroot were a small enclave with fewer and smaller features than its surrounding nation. If anything, sudo should have been a mountain, instead of a cape.
This is such a load of crap. My first MP3 player was one of the original Archos Jukebox's. It was a piece of shit. From wikipedia:
This was the state of most MP3 players at the time. The iPod interface and ease of use was way ahead of other MP3 players of the time. There are still many current MP3 players still can't stack up. For some reason the music playing/managing ability of my Nexus One sucks in comparison to my very first iPod.
Why is there even a problem in Iran in the Superman universe? Why is a world in which super-beings exist so like the real world? Shouldn't things be radically different if super heroes have been inhabiting the earth for decades (centuries?) now? Why should I be so interested in a fantasy world if it's just going to turn out like the real one anyway?
I'm not saying that there can't be unrest in Iran in a parallel universe. Or that Superman would have somehow solved that issue already. I'm just saying that in a radically different world, shouldn't the specific issue being dealt with be radically different too? I could see protesters in Iran coming to a head with the government much sooner in a world with Superman. Or even much later if there was a preemptive backlash against superheroes in Iran that lead to a more restrictive situation where protesters weren't allowed at all.
Alright, but why was the file even flagged for take down at all. It didn't violate any copyright, or any other law. It's just because Dropbox didn't like it. They shouldn't be removing or flagging files and users for things they just don't like (DMCA take down notice or not).
From the description in the bug report, it sounds like certain services (dhcp client I should think) are halted or disabled. It seems to restart when web browsing activity is initiated. This seems to indicate that it was halted when the machine was initially locked -- my guess would be to save battery. After all, DHCPing all the time would burn battery.
I wonder what the best solution would be? When locking to release the DHCP lease before suspending the DHCP client? I wonder if my Vibrant has the same issue?
Actually, the report specifically states that this bug should not be classified as a problem with DHCP when sleeping. The Princeton guy did extensive testing and found that even with active use, the device fails to renew the lease and continues using the IP after the lease has expired.
Yes, but for digitally re-un-non-illossless compression I would go with the Foobar Audio Framework.
I just ran across a book the other day that cost more on amazon.ca than on amazon.com. Not sure how that works. There is no duty. The difference in shipping costs of the printed book should be moot especially where I am, within fifty miles of Niagara Falls. And to top it off, the Canadian dollar has been worth more than the U.S. dollar for the past few months. Amazon had no good reason to charge almost ten dollars more to Canadians for the same book. Not very reputable if you ask me. But since they bought bookpool.com a few years ago, they're the only real game in town.
I think your issue might be more with book prices in general than with Amazon specifically. It's long been a North American book publisher tradition to print USD and CAD prices on books with seemingly little regard to the current exchange rate. According to Exchange Rates Revisited: U.S. Dollar and the Cost of Books, in 2009 the CAD prices printed on newly published books were as much as 27% higher than the USD prices. This was at a time when the US and Canadian dollars were at parity. I would guess the price that Amazon pays to the publishers for the books is similarly skewed.
Although, I suppose Amazon could just order a whole bunch of books in USD, and then sell those to Canadians. But, then I'd also suppose there's some draconian clause the the agreement between the publishers and Amazon not to do that. Maybe Canadians are just used to seeing a higher numerical price for their books so the publishers figure they can still get away with it. Or maybe Amazon does pay the same price to the publisher whether a book ends up going to a Canadian or an American, it's just Amazon and not the publisher figuring they can keep screwing Canadians.
They have three conversion stations with a combined capacity of just 1GW, so power from one side can't power the other.
Well, all they need is 21% more power and they could go back to 1885 to rectify this problem.
The guy is obviously an asshole and a moron. And from reading the article it doesn't sound like he would have actually gone through with it, but I don't think the headline is that misleading. From the article:
So you post a bone-headed, douche-baggy status saying you want to get rid of this girl. Okay, you're an idiot. But then when things get serious and you're contacted by the police, you immediately delete the message right... right? What's that? No? You immediately post another message saying that you really, really want this girl dead? What the hell is wrong with you?
It wasn't just one, off-the-cuff message that he immediately regretted and tried to take back. He reinforced his hitman soliciting appearance ten-fold, and it was right after talking with a detective.
Totally agree. I just don't think the guy should be reprimanded for having done the investigation and brought it to their attention. Certainly have your own guys with PE licences go back out, but with the issues that this guys raised in mind when they re-evaluate the street. Just don't try and brand this Cox guy as a bad guy.
And the award for best face palm inducing quote goes to:
I'm a software developer, if I use wireshark to discover that my ISP is up to something fishy, will I be sued for practicing network engineering without a license? If I start counting the number of pedestrians crossing a busy street in order to advocate for a crosswalk, will I be sued for for practicing civil engineering without a license?
(where "cool" means relatively unconcerned about what other people think about them)
Certainly some geeks could give a rat's ass about how they appear to others, so they come off as anti-social, but that's often by choice
I like how in the same post you say cool people don't care about what other people think about them. And you also say that not caring about what other people think is anti-social
I'm sure it exists, but I've never been able to find it
Have you never looked at all the crazy different dog breeds in the wold? These are both dogs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bernard_(dog). They came from the same parent species. We know this. Our un-natural selection in the breeding of dogs resulted in rapid evolution. All you need for evolution is random changes + selection criteria. In the wild with natural selection (survival of the fittest), you get what we consider regular evolution. It just turns out for dogs, that the "fittest" are those most like what we want, they're the ones that survive and are allowed to breed. Just read up on the history of the Domesticated silver fox. There are verifiable genetic differences in these dogs from wild foxes after something like only 50 generations of selective breeding. After only a few generations there were significant physiological changes. If that doesn't convince you of micro-evolution, I don't know what will. Maybe the fact that you need a new flu shot every year because influenza keeps changing due to the selective pressure being put on it via us killing-off the current version of it that we know about.
That sounds like bullshit to me. I have around 140 edits which are mostly spelling corrections, vandalism reverts, grammar corrections, wiki markup corrections, and some light restructuring. I have not once been reverted. I've found that the vast majority of wikipedia contributors are good people.
When my cards expire my bank mails me a new card, with a phone number to call in order to activate it. The process involves telling the machine what card is being activated.
I believe I just activated a credit card recently and I think they only ask for a portion of the credit card digits, last four digits or something. And then also maybe the last four digits of my social security number. The credit card company only has so many cards out for activation at any one time, so they don't need all the digits to know which card it is.
There's a 1 in a 100million chance that someone has the same last four digits on their credit card as I do AND the same last four digits of their social as I do. What are the chances that they're also waiting on a replacement credit card as I? If there is a collision in their database, they could just send the first one of us to call to an operator who would ask a few more identifying questions verify which person they're talking to.
[Parent]: I read the Salon article. Nowhere in the article does Mr. Greenwald discuss his sources. Well almost nowhere, he mentions David House's visits and observations of Manning's deteriorating conditions, but thats it.
From the first paragraph of the Salon article:
[Greenwald]: Interviews with several people directly familiar with the conditions of Manning's detention, ultimately including a Quantico brig official (Lt. Brian Villiard) who confirmed much of what they conveyed, establishes that the accused leaker is subjected to detention conditions likely to create long-term psychological injuries.
[Parent]: Shouldn't he spend more time quoting his sources for Manning's living conditions than he does quoting sources about how harmful solitary confinement is to a person?
[Greenwald]: Manning is barred from communicating with any reporters, even indirectly, so nothing he has said can be quoted here.
[Parent]: Did Mr. Greenwald observe these conditions first hand?
Obviously, and admittedly, no. The information was gained from interviews.
[Parent]: Where these conditions reported by PFC Manning's lawyer?
Possibly, but not specifically mentioned in Greenwald's column. Greenwald probably can't directly say so even if he had.
[Parent]: Are these conditions based on what PFC Manning has told visitors?
No, they're the direct observations of visitors and those directly familiar with his detention. Including at least David House and Lt. Villiard.
[Parent]: The article is also completely inconsistent. It says he has been in 23hour-per-day solitary confinement "since the beginning of his detention" but also says that David House befriended Manning after his detention.
Nothing inconsistent at all, David House helped set up the Bradley Manning Support Network and has visited Manning in jail. If you'll notice, there are 24 hours in a day, so his "23hour-per-day solitary confinement" leaves 1 hour that Manning isn't alone in his cell.
[Greenwald]: [David House] is one of the few people to have visited Manning several times at Quantico.
[Parent]: Mr. Greenwald's article reads more like a high school essay about the inhumanity of solitary confinement than a legitimate news piece.
Maybe that's because many in our government and military weren't paying attention in high school and never learned that lesson.
"Sir, are there three green lights on the modem?"
Everyone knows the answer is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_eSwq1ewsU#t=3m17s