> The US soldiers where poorly trained for the mission,
Where did you get that from? Did you read the detailed account near the end? It's clear they acted *exactly* as trained and operated the point exactly as specified.
From the fact that it is stated in the report that the soldiers weren't trained to build roadblocks and in some of the procedures used when setting up a checkpoint. Most importantly about how it should look
From scanning through the report I can only conclude that it was an accident. The US soldiers where poorly trained for the mission, and the driver of the car wasn't paying enough attention to his surroundings.
Tragic yes, but nothing more (assuming the italians agree with the description of the events of course, people can always lie)
I find it strange that sweden is called "sweden" in english. Where does the name come from? Anyone know? The real name (i.e. what the swedes call their country) is "sverige", pronounced abit like "sve-rje". Sure both words start with "sw" but they're pronounced very differently... how did it become "sweden"? It cant be because they ate lots of swedes, can it?
But in some jurisdictions in the U.S., similar behavior by the police/corporation and a moderately sophisticated defense lawyer would get the judge to dismiss the case, and stare down the prosecutor while say, "Are you Nuts???!!"
Not in sweden. Any evidence is evidence. Evidence found while using a warrant to search for other evidence is still valid as evidence. Even evidence found ilegally (illegaly? ilegaly? illegally? meh...?) is valid in a court. Even if a policeman breaks into a house without a warrant, kills all the occupants and burns down the house, any evidence he might find of any crime is still valid in a court of law. Of course, the policeman would be tried, convicted and thrown in jail afterwards but still...
So: If the evidence has been found in an unlawful way, the people responsible (policemen and their superiors) will suffer and problably be fired, but the case will not be thrown out.
How do you do the quoting of a posting in Slashdot?
You have to do it by hand, use <blockquote>blah</blockquote>
Yes, I was responding to your post, and in more general to the common sentiment that you are expressing that I hear all of the time.
Maybe I sounded very "america hating", it wasn't my intention, I was just trying to keep my comment short. What I meant was that the general view a non-american (at least a european) gets of the united states citizens through TV, media and politics, is that they are narrow-minded, uneducated, frightened, religious fanatics.
Now, I know this is not the case, of course lots of americans are clever and educated, but we never see them unless we actually meet some americans.
Note that this is not saying that non-americans are better, they are generaly not. But as I said, the US is the most powerful country now and therefore I despair when I see what your politicans do, and considering that more than 50% of your voters voted for Bush, they pretty much agree with him. Of course this means 45% or so dont want Bush but we never see them. (This doesn't really matter, it's better if they work to get rid of Bush than worry about foreigners view of them).
That is why I said I get very happy when I hear/read something from a clever american.
I'm not gonna address all your points (no time). I admit that you do have a point about voting/making a change.
No, but if everyone would be evil in the same way in the same situation, is it really evil?
Absolutely. It's true that good and evil are not absolute, but most people will agree that murdering people for money (iraq) and destroying the environment for money (Kyoto), are bad things to do. If my government tried the same thing, you can bet I'd be a pretty pissed of voter who would make damn sure to make my voice heard through demonstrations and voting. I might even be pissed enough to become a "terrorist" (while I would never ever kill innocent people, I might accept sabotaging government equipment and so on).
What's the point of criticizing someone if you'd do the same thing in their place?
No point. However I would never do these things and I would never vote for a person doing the aformented bad things, so I have a right to criticize the american people if I want since a majority of them voted for Bush. But I would never dream of criticizing an american who didn't vote for Bush.
I'm not sure you're replying to me, since i didnt say much but if you are:
I don't know what country you are from, but I *guarantee* you that if your government did something similar, under the same sorts of circumstances, the citizenry of your country would act in pretty much the same way as those in the U.S. do.
I never said they wouldn't, the problem is that the US is currently the most powerful nation on the planet. When your government does something it's likely to affect other countries. Hell 20 years ago your government more or less routinely staged military facist coupes in third world countries. My government dont have the power to do that.
Do you think that people in your country care more about political issues than the people of the USA? If so, can you point out exactly what it is that your citizens do that demonstrates this?
Yes I honestly think the average citizen in my country cares more about politics than in yours. I think the fact that where I live, about 80% of the people vote in the elections, while where you live I think it is around 50%, speaks for itself.
Do you think that only U.S. citizens have any way of controlling what the U.S. government does?
And here i thought you where from the US! I'm sorry, my mistake, you're obviously from another planet. Ok, sorry for the sarcasm, but please... More or less entire europe and asia protested against the war on iraq, did it help? I realise iraq could be called a special case, but what about the Kyoto protocol? Something like 100+ countries have signed it and they all beg the US to sign, does it help? Most of the world wants the US to stop using the death penalty, does it help?
Do you think that your average Joe in the USA is more likely to feel empowered to change what the U.S. government does than you do?
If the average Joe doesn't then he's stupid. He can vote in your election, I cant.
Finally, do you think that your government, if it were as powerful as the U.S. government, wouldn't do something similar in the same situation?
I have no idea. Do you mean that just because someone else might be as evil as yourself it's ok for you to be evil?
even more silly, a support call to Telia (other swedish ISP) a few years ago sounded like this:
Caller: Why can't you do X? Bahnhof does X.
support tech: Well, Bahnhof is a German ISP and they use a completely different system than us, X simply cant be done with swedens' telephone systems.
Caller: meh....
I know i'm late in commenting, but as a non-USian I must say that I whish more US citizens had your clearness of mind.
Sometimes I despair when I see the current face of the once great nation you live in, but then I stumble over Americans with your intelligence and hope is restored (i know a few). Good luck (I'm not sarcastic, I mean it).
Good grief, is anyone able to provide or provide a link to such a 3-minutes explanation, please?
Well... not really. I might have been a bit worked up when i wrote that...:-) In my experience explaining to people that software patents are basically patents on abstract ideas and not physical devices, and (important) providing a few horror-examples usually works.
please note that Prodi is no more the Commission President
I stand corrected. Mr. Barroso is the new reciever of my wrath:-). Side note: I really think Prodi did a decent job as commisioner, and I really hope Berlusconi is removed from power as soon as possible in Italy... so vote Prodi! (or something...)
Probably. But at least he's been elected by the public. The people in parliament are not as likely to be bought since they have much less power than the commission.
I'we calmed down since my parent post and came to the conclusion that the simple truth is that many politicians really are as stupid as they seem. Not evil, just really really retarded. Figures.
I live in the EU, and I'm getting more and more pissed at this. I mean for fuck sakes, nobody outside MS and some other big companies want this. Anybody, even a simple minded politician, is able to understand the idiocy of software patents given a 3 minute explanation. The only possible explanation is that they are all bought (surprise surprise). What makes me *really* furious is the thought that the commision (not publicly elected) will simply ignore the decision made by the parliament (publicly elected). Some people better realise that their decisions might have unfortunate personal consequences for them...
Ignore me, I have nothing constructive to say, I just want to punch someone in the face (preferably Mr. Prodi)
No it doesn't necessarily make you a prick. You've made it clear that you're running a business and you dont work for free for your friends, and they (i assume) respect that.
However I also assume they wont do you favours for free in their line of work (say fix your car or whatever). In the end it comes down to how serious you want to get. The original poster sounded like he didn't do his techsupport as a serious business which is abit different. It's abit like someone *really* into cars and tinkering with engines but demands money to help a friend change sparkplugs. He has every right to do so but his friends are still gonna think he's a greedy bastard.
You should certainly charge your friends friends, just like say, a doctor, would do. But dont charge your really close friends and family. Say 'Sorry i just dont have the time, a job like that will take an entire day' or something if it's a big job. If you start charging money from your friends they'll think you're an ass, no matter how justified you are.
Is it? In What whay? Let me guess, you're british, swedish or danish? To those (maybe I should say us, but it's not my fault where I live) every EU decision is a step backwards for "national sovereignty".
Do you actually need to be told why this is a victory for democracy? Ok: because the majority of people (at least the people affected by it, the rest don't even know what it is) are against software patents. The only people who want software patents are rich organisations that can afford to use them to choke their competition. QED.
Or perhaps you hink democracy means "people with money rule"?
And a unified European government is not a bad thing (I want one), but software patents are.
It will burst, it will scale back, and some of it will survive. But I think the over-emphasis on Graphics Cards will be a trend of times past in the next few years.
I think you're absolutely wrong. If anything, the emphasis on GPU performace will increase. Look at the CPUs lately. Little to zero single-thread performance increase in the last 1.5 years. The "moore's law wall" people where talking about has already been hit. CPU performance will keep increasing but much more slowly. The easiest way is to slap more cores/cpus on but that doesn't help single threaded apps. Most games are hard to multithread efficiently, but graphics are easy to parallellize.
So while you wont get much game performance from adding more pipelines/cores/cpus, you will get it by adding more rendering pipelines to your GPU. Using dieshrinking to improve graphics performance is easy, while it's not easy to use it to increase clockspeeds which CPUs need.
Police would never arrest someone just because of the browser he was using.
BWAAAHAAAAAHHAAAAA!!! No wait, this is not even funny.
1) The police arrested him because they thought he was hacking stuff, not because he was using Lynx.
2) The police arrest people for insane reasons all the time in 99% of all countries. While I firmly believe there was no evil intent from enyones side in this particular case, you really need to wake up: The police are only human and most of them do whatever the people who pay their bills tell them to (that means the government, not the taxpayer).
3)The fact that the guy was released in a few days shows us that the system is limping along OK. The "sysadmin" making the hacking claim OTOH, should now be arrested for criminal negligence/incompetence or something
Yeah, that's more or less what I meant: the attitudes of society in general and many teachers in particular is the problem.
As for your teacher:
Unfortunately her attitude is so common it's not even funny. This varies from country to country off course, but in general it's true.
Many studies have repeatedly shown that women are just as good at math as men are when they are very young. The problem lies in the fact that women aren't encouraged to study math as much as men are. From a young age they routinely get less teacher attention in school than the boys, especially in 'hard science' subjects.
This naturaly makes women less inclined to study math (and other sciences) as they grow up, resulting in women have a worse 'base knowledge' than the men thus making them worse at math when grown up.
So in other words: yes, there is a difference, but it has nothing to do with biology.
People are working on exactly what you're asking for. The field is often called
"Augmented Reality". There are numerous problems though, and the prototypes that works decently are expensive 20-kg packpacks.
GPS is not the end-all solution unfortunately, since:
1) It works really crappy indoors
2) You need some way of knowing exactly which direction the user is facing. Compases are easily confused so you need gyros. Good gyros are expensive and big.
wish? but you aren't...
doesn't that make you think?
Not really. I have thought alot about religion and philosphy, even studied it somewhat at university before selecting CS as my major. I came to the conclusion that it is only wishful thinking. We all want the comfort of believing in a good higher power that will take care of us in the end no matter what happens. But no matter how much i want this to be true, there just isn't anything that points to this being the case. Sadly.
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From scanning through the report I can only conclude that it was an accident. The US soldiers where poorly trained for the mission, and the driver of the car wasn't paying enough attention to his surroundings.
Tragic yes, but nothing more (assuming the italians agree with the description of the events of course, people can always lie)
Allright, totally off topic I know, but...
I find it strange that sweden is called "sweden" in english. Where does the name come from? Anyone know? The real name (i.e. what the swedes call their country) is "sverige", pronounced abit like "sve-rje". Sure both words start with "sw" but they're pronounced very differently... how did it become "sweden"? It cant be because they ate lots of swedes, can it?
Not in sweden. Any evidence is evidence. Evidence found while using a warrant to search for other evidence is still valid as evidence. Even evidence found ilegally (illegaly? ilegaly? illegally? meh...?) is valid in a court. Even if a policeman breaks into a house without a warrant, kills all the occupants and burns down the house, any evidence he might find of any crime is still valid in a court of law. Of course, the policeman would be tried, convicted and thrown in jail afterwards but still...
So: If the evidence has been found in an unlawful way, the people responsible (policemen and their superiors) will suffer and problably be fired, but the case will not be thrown out.
Now, I know this is not the case, of course lots of americans are clever and educated, but we never see them unless we actually meet some americans.
Note that this is not saying that non-americans are better, they are generaly not. But as I said, the US is the most powerful country now and therefore I despair when I see what your politicans do, and considering that more than 50% of your voters voted for Bush, they pretty much agree with him. Of course this means 45% or so dont want Bush but we never see them. (This doesn't really matter, it's better if they work to get rid of Bush than worry about foreigners view of them).
That is why I said I get very happy when I hear/read something from a clever american.
I'm not gonna address all your points (no time). I admit that you do have a point about voting/making a change. Absolutely. It's true that good and evil are not absolute, but most people will agree that murdering people for money (iraq) and destroying the environment for money (Kyoto), are bad things to do. If my government tried the same thing, you can bet I'd be a pretty pissed of voter who would make damn sure to make my voice heard through demonstrations and voting. I might even be pissed enough to become a "terrorist" (while I would never ever kill innocent people, I might accept sabotaging government equipment and so on). No point. However I would never do these things and I would never vote for a person doing the aformented bad things, so I have a right to criticize the american people if I want since a majority of them voted for Bush. But I would never dream of criticizing an american who didn't vote for Bush.
even more silly, a support call to Telia (other swedish ISP) a few years ago sounded like this:
Caller: Why can't you do X? Bahnhof does X.
support tech: Well, Bahnhof is a German ISP and they use a completely different system than us, X simply cant be done with swedens' telephone systems.
Caller: meh....
I know i'm late in commenting, but as a non-USian I must say that I whish more US citizens had your clearness of mind.
Sometimes I despair when I see the current face of the once great nation you live in, but then I stumble over Americans with your intelligence and hope is restored (i know a few). Good luck (I'm not sarcastic, I mean it).
Probably. But at least he's been elected by the public. The people in parliament are not as likely to be bought since they have much less power than the commission.
I'we calmed down since my parent post and came to the conclusion that the simple truth is that many politicians really are as stupid as they seem. Not evil, just really really retarded. Figures.
I live in the EU, and I'm getting more and more pissed at this. I mean for fuck sakes, nobody outside MS and some other big companies want this. Anybody, even a simple minded politician, is able to understand the idiocy of software patents given a 3 minute explanation. The only possible explanation is that they are all bought (surprise surprise). What makes me *really* furious is the thought that the commision (not publicly elected) will simply ignore the decision made by the parliament (publicly elected). Some people better realise that their decisions might have unfortunate personal consequences for them...
Ignore me, I have nothing constructive to say, I just want to punch someone in the face (preferably Mr. Prodi)
No it doesn't necessarily make you a prick. You've made it clear that you're running a business and you dont work for free for your friends, and they (i assume) respect that.
However I also assume they wont do you favours for free in their line of work (say fix your car or whatever). In the end it comes down to how serious you want to get. The original poster sounded like he didn't do his techsupport as a serious business which is abit different. It's abit like someone *really* into cars and tinkering with engines but demands money to help a friend change sparkplugs. He has every right to do so but his friends are still gonna think he's a greedy bastard.
You should certainly charge your friends friends, just like say, a doctor, would do. But dont charge your really close friends and family. Say 'Sorry i just dont have the time, a job like that will take an entire day' or something if it's a big job. If you start charging money from your friends they'll think you're an ass, no matter how justified you are.
Do you actually need to be told why this is a victory for democracy? Ok: because the majority of people (at least the people affected by it, the rest don't even know what it is) are against software patents. The only people who want software patents are rich organisations that can afford to use them to choke their competition. QED.
Or perhaps you hink democracy means "people with money rule"?
And a unified European government is not a bad thing (I want one), but software patents are.
I think you're absolutely wrong. If anything, the emphasis on GPU performace will increase. Look at the CPUs lately. Little to zero single-thread performance increase in the last 1.5 years. The "moore's law wall" people where talking about has already been hit. CPU performance will keep increasing but much more slowly. The easiest way is to slap more cores/cpus on but that doesn't help single threaded apps. Most games are hard to multithread efficiently, but graphics are easy to parallellize.
So while you wont get much game performance from adding more pipelines/cores/cpus, you will get it by adding more rendering pipelines to your GPU.
Using dieshrinking to improve graphics performance is easy, while it's not easy to use it to increase clockspeeds which CPUs need.
RISC does not mean "faster than CISC". RISC basically means "less work per clock but hopefully much more clocks".
Your point is valid though since the Eden is a crappy perfomer and the G4 is decent
BWAAAHAAAAAHHAAAAA!!! No wait, this is not even funny.
1) The police arrested him because they thought he was hacking stuff, not because he was using Lynx.
2) The police arrest people for insane reasons all the time in 99% of all countries. While I firmly believe there was no evil intent from enyones side in this particular case, you really need to wake up: The police are only human and most of them do whatever the people who pay their bills tell them to (that means the government, not the taxpayer).
3)The fact that the guy was released in a few days shows us that the system is limping along OK. The "sysadmin" making the hacking claim OTOH, should now be arrested for criminal negligence/incompetence or something
Yeah, that's more or less what I meant: the attitudes of society in general and many teachers in particular is the problem.
As for your teacher:
Unfortunately her attitude is so common it's not even funny. This varies from country to country off course, but in general it's true.
Many studies have repeatedly shown that women are just as good at math as men are when they are very young. The problem lies in the fact that women aren't encouraged to study math as much as men are. From a young age they routinely get less teacher attention in school than the boys, especially in 'hard science' subjects.
This naturaly makes women less inclined to study math (and other sciences) as they grow up, resulting in women have a worse 'base knowledge' than the men thus making them worse at math when grown up.
So in other words: yes, there is a difference, but it has nothing to do with biology.
People are working on exactly what you're asking for. The field is often called "Augmented Reality". There are numerous problems though, and the prototypes that works decently are expensive 20-kg packpacks.
... but it is a really cool field of research.
GPS is not the end-all solution unfortunately, since:
1) It works really crappy indoors
2) You need some way of knowing exactly which direction the user is facing. Compases are easily confused so you need gyros. Good gyros are expensive and big.
1) open mouth
2) insert foot
piratebay is swedish... dont know about loki...
Isn't anyone reading their "legal threats" section?
1) Loki is based in Sweden.
2) By swedish law, Loki is not doing anything illegal (the law might change, but right now it isn't)
3) Therefore: There is *nothing* the RIAA/MPAA can do about it.
You may or may not like this, and there is certainly gnashing of teeth at MPAA, but the fact remains: this is not illegal.
as opposed to to a couple of kids shooting you through the head with a 30-06 which they could just as easily do?