MacArthur wasn't even consulted on the use of the nuclear bomb. After the fact he argued that the demand of unconditional surrender, vs allowing Japan to keep their imperial structure was what forced them to keep fighting AND cause the US to drop the bomb on Japan.
"Forced"? I doubt that anyone was ever forced at gunpoint to come to that decision.
"May have seemd a good option"? Yes. "Seemd like the best option"? Yes. "The only sensible and rational option"? Even that.
But please don't use "force" to try to offload responsibility to some mysterious external forces. (hence the name) You may be forced by blackmail, extortion, threat of physical violence (lawfull or not), economic or peer pressure.
The "forced" you're talking of is the "he forced be to beat him up because otherwise he wouldn't give me his lunch money" of a school bully.
I'm not blaming anyone for any decisions made during wartimes. But I'm blaming those who are not learning from the past.
Though the FBI might want to use the new tool to help solve outstanding criminal cases, doing so would also make the process subject to discovery during criminal trials and place the information in the public domain
Yes, if such a tool exists, details on this process eventually will become public.
And exactly that's what I'm missing in this article? Why on earth have they decided on that gauge? It's usually save to assume that this decision was not made by idiots.It's usually just made to sound like that by not even giving the original reasons behind those decisions. Yes, they may have been based on wrong predictions, but these seem to be not THAT uncommon, else everyone would have already won a lottery.
Have a look at John Oliver's "infrastructure" bit. When engineers save lives, it is usually not considered as such, as that means there will be NO blazing fires or collapising buildings.
In some ways I think of this push by Google to encrypt mail as being like that thing they do in the Israeli prisons, where they have a dummy microphone in the cell that's easily discoverable and avoidable and then they hide the real mics where people go to avoid the dummy one - and pick up all the juicy intel, undetected.
Aren't microphones cheap enough that it would be rather stupid to make the obvious microphone a dummy instead of a working one also?
This form of encryption provides the illusion of security; it's like: 'go back to sleep, everything's fine, your government can't snoop on you with it's giant, multi-tentacled panopticon'. All the while, the NSA and GCHQ are rather happy and completely undeterred.
I can't decide who Google is trying to help with this.
They never said that anything would be ok, but they are pointing out some easily avoidable mistakes.
I wouldn't want to swap with those poor engineers working overtime to find out what's wrong here. as one myself, I know how desperate this can feel.
On the other hand, there is no better feeling than finally finding the root cause. The better the more unconnected it seems to be at first sights. That's what you got your degree for.
Well, I can't put it in Haiku form, but always was and always will be is: You edit word, your reader gets pdf, reader requests word to edit, reader re-requests word in some ancient format (or recent format depending on your companies IT), you give up on pdf.
Distance from Germany is measured rather in meter than kilometer. With prevailing winds from the west.
About the pollution: Currently none that is made public by French authorities. What became public, however, is that a bit ago, they kept under all blankets that the reactor was out of control (control rod control and sensors were down due to water entering the elctronics) and a manual emergency shutdown with borate flooding had to be performed.
It's debatable if it was technically "out of control" as long as they were able to do an emergency shutdown, but it's gross negliance and irresponsible if an emergency shutdown is NOT reported as an incident.
Add this to the bad overall situation after 40 years of operation, microscopic fractures in the reactor vessel and the plant having more "incidents" than 3 year old after a soda spree....
The user CAN NOT decide if the probably unwanted stuff is slipped to him secretly.
It would be different if the user was warned during plugin installation "Hey, we're going to mess with your browser security setting and will install stuff that would trigger your virus alert, but - just to avoid that confusion - we will disable your antivirus while we're at it. OK?"
hmm... considering that the average US citizen hasn't any ties with the Chinese government, the answer is obvious.
Of course it's a different answer for US citizens with international political or business contacts or any kind of contact to China
I know the answer is slightly surprising, but having to ask that question alone should ring everyone's alarms, as one of these examples is known to be a anti-democratic regime violaiting human rights and suppressing their citizens.
As average person in a democratic, you should not even have to consider if your own government is spying on you!
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The internet would be a much safer place if people simply would see it as "outdoor". As with the real outdoor, most of it is safe and harmless, a good portion even friendly and welcoming and everyone (mor or less) accepts liquor stores and strip clubs and at least acknowledges the existence of drug dealers, fraudsters and other crime. And everyone is glad, there is a sewer somewhere outside, though they never would visit it (or its internet pendant 4chan)
But at home in your desk chair, everyone feels safe and lets all guard down. "A talking moose wants my credit card number? Sounds legit!"
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MacArthur wasn't even consulted on the use of the nuclear bomb. After the fact he argued that the demand of unconditional surrender, vs allowing Japan to keep their imperial structure was what forced them to keep fighting AND cause the US to drop the bomb on Japan.
"Forced"? I doubt that anyone was ever forced at gunpoint to come to that decision.
"May have seemd a good option"? Yes.
"Seemd like the best option"? Yes.
"The only sensible and rational option"? Even that.
But please don't use "force" to try to offload responsibility to some mysterious external forces. (hence the name) You may be forced by blackmail, extortion, threat of physical violence (lawfull or not), economic or peer pressure.
The "forced" you're talking of is the "he forced be to beat him up because otherwise he wouldn't give me his lunch money" of a school bully.
I'm not blaming anyone for any decisions made during wartimes. But I'm blaming those who are not learning from the past.
So if that's the results of a nuclear bomb, I can't see why the US are so afraid of having nukes dropped on their cities.
You beat me to that comment. And I think robot porn is on the internet for quite a while already...
Though the FBI might want to use the new tool to help solve outstanding criminal cases, doing so would also make the process subject to discovery during criminal trials and place the information in the public domain
Yes, if such a tool exists, details on this process eventually will become public.
Which exactly was Apple's point.
All. The. Time.
But the article didn't even give the faintest hint if it was a business or engineering idea.
The other design decisions at least had that "well, that's how they do it in aerospace engineering" reasoning.
And exactly that's what I'm missing in this article? Why on earth have they decided on that gauge? It's usually save to assume that this decision was not made by idiots.It's usually just made to sound like that by not even giving the original reasons behind those decisions. Yes, they may have been based on wrong predictions, but these seem to be not THAT uncommon, else everyone would have already won a lottery.
Have a look at John Oliver's "infrastructure" bit. When engineers save lives, it is usually not considered as such, as that means there will be NO blazing fires or collapising buildings.
In some ways I think of this push by Google to encrypt mail as being like that thing they do in the Israeli prisons, where they have a dummy microphone in the cell that's easily discoverable and avoidable and then they hide the real mics where people go to avoid the dummy one - and pick up all the juicy intel, undetected.
Aren't microphones cheap enough that it would be rather stupid to make the obvious microphone a dummy instead of a working one also?
This form of encryption provides the illusion of security; it's like: 'go back to sleep, everything's fine, your government can't snoop on you with it's giant, multi-tentacled panopticon'. All the while, the NSA and GCHQ are rather happy and completely undeterred.
I can't decide who Google is trying to help with this.
They never said that anything would be ok, but they are pointing out some easily avoidable mistakes.
I wouldn't want to swap with those poor engineers working overtime to find out what's wrong here. as one myself, I know how desperate this can feel.
On the other hand, there is no better feeling than finally finding the root cause. The better the more unconnected it seems to be at first sights. That's what you got your degree for.
We've been there before. (17 seconds clip and it's NOT Rick Astley)
And what cracks me up is sellers advertising these things as if no teacher in the known universe uses Amazon...
They don't care.
They are already going for the market of students so stupid they need someone to give them the idea to cheat with a smartwatch!
Well, I can't put it in Haiku form, but always was and always will be is: You edit word, your reader gets pdf, reader requests word to edit, reader re-requests word in some ancient format (or recent format depending on your companies IT), you give up on pdf.
What about that nuclear power plant upstream of New York that's currently leaking tons of contaminated water? Isn't that privately run?
https://www.google.de/maps/@47.9078423,7.5711826,14.75z
Distance from Germany is measured rather in meter than kilometer. With prevailing winds from the west.
About the pollution: Currently none that is made public by French authorities. What became public, however, is that a bit ago, they kept under all blankets that the reactor was out of control (control rod control and sensors were down due to water entering the elctronics) and a manual emergency shutdown with borate flooding had to be performed.
It's debatable if it was technically "out of control" as long as they were able to do an emergency shutdown, but it's gross negliance and irresponsible if an emergency shutdown is NOT reported as an incident.
Add this to the bad overall situation after 40 years of operation, microscopic fractures in the reactor vessel and the plant having more "incidents" than 3 year old after a soda spree....
This is a dirty bomb waiting to happen.
The user CAN NOT decide if the probably unwanted stuff is slipped to him secretly.
It would be different if the user was warned during plugin installation "Hey, we're going to mess with your browser security setting and will install stuff that would trigger your virus alert, but - just to avoid that confusion - we will disable your antivirus while we're at it. OK?"
THAT would be "let the user decide".
Probably none.
But then, why are they doing it anyway?
hmm... considering that the average US citizen hasn't any ties with the Chinese government, the answer is obvious.
Of course it's a different answer for US citizens with international political or business contacts or any kind of contact to China
I know the answer is slightly surprising, but having to ask that question alone should ring everyone's alarms, as one of these examples is known to be a anti-democratic regime violaiting human rights and suppressing their citizens.
As average person in a democratic, you should not even have to consider if your own government is spying on you!
You know for sure he wasn't the victim of so-called "LOVEINT"?
NSA does have to watch at least someone, or else it would just be money blown out. What makes you so sure it's not HIM?
As dangerous as a science-fiction-social worker can be.....
190€? On what kind of shopping spree have you been?
Sorry bout that. But I'm old enough to know it as Quench
Now THAT sounds completly sensible.
However, leveraging the power of production synergy or whatever along those lines the summary said, sounds like complete PR BS
fully native mobile app experiences to all major devices, including iOS, Android, and Windows. Xamarin's approach enables developers to take advantage of the productivity and power of .NET to build mobile apps
Wow.
Someone ha d a second glass of the cool aid.
But are they ultra-pure?
A porn site is not his home.
The internet would be a much safer place if people simply would see it as "outdoor". As with the real outdoor, most of it is safe and harmless, a good portion even friendly and welcoming and everyone (mor or less) accepts liquor stores and strip clubs and at least acknowledges the existence of drug dealers, fraudsters and other crime. And everyone is glad, there is a sewer somewhere outside, though they never would visit it (or its internet pendant 4chan)
But at home in your desk chair, everyone feels safe and lets all guard down. "A talking moose wants my credit card number? Sounds legit!"
Because with the million-doller-cluster, the victim never will know what hit him.
Never underestimate the element of seagull.