The PRC is not quite to the stage where the concept 'rule of law' has supplanted 'rule of men', and PATRIOT Act-related BS that the likes of AT&T get into in the US is par for the course. Sina is listed on NASDAQ, but home plate and most of their action is back in Shanghai, as are the major shareholders. http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/insider/InsiderRoster.jsp?tkr=SINA
When I really wanna go back in time, I play with the Freshman Masterpiece, a battery powered, three voltage, 5 tube TRF radio I've got sitting on my desk at work. ca. 1925.
When I want a momentary break from the workstation, I grab the HP-11c sitting under the monitor, rather than fire up Calculator.app.
Given the existing weak links in the electronic retail financial chain, and the added weak link of a cell phone, I suspect wallets will make a big come back after a goodly fraction of the mobile payment system users get their checking account cleaned out and/or their debit account treated as someone else's personal piggybank.
I keep hearing people talk about all this power politicians are trying to amass to themselves. If this were so, the US would be in lockstep with the Kyoto participants. Yet, somehow, they don't have any more power than in '01.... save what they gave the US Administration to deal with a security scare.
Follow the money. Once you get past the Medicare, Social Security, or DoD budgets, you're looking at jack squat in Federal funding. The real money is with the top 1%, and politicians who cater to their wants... such as no cap gains or estate taxes, minimal income taxes, and no obstructions to their ability to externalize the costs to their business. And any fossil fuel company is externalizing a boat load of costs, and you, me, we get to keep paying for it. Brilliant.
Context, my dear fellow, context is key. If you're gonna list politicians, list some that are contemporaries of the industrialists in their native land. Climate change is an issue now, not then. Otherwise, I might as well compare David Koch against the mayor of Bumfuck, Wherever.
A more pertinent example would be to pit Putin against his oligarchs, or the Central Committee of the CCP against the (mostly state-controlled) Chinese industrial elite.
Of the prizes Hansen was awarded, only the Sophie Prize could even come close to originating from a "pressure group".
I suspect a number of these were awarded not just for his research, but also for setting the example of sticking by it while the Bush Administration was busy quashing the results. A classic of the Bush "climate doctrine" was a quote from NASA Administrator Griffin to NPR, to the effect that we shouldn't dick with climate change, because our past and current climate may not be the best one for humans.
Why, it was brilliant. A civilization adapted to thousands of years of gradual climate changes? Why not run a little experiment to see if it's even better adapted to an utterly different climate?
I don't think I've ever wanted to use my radio to reach through time and space as badly as that day. It's enough to make me wonder if he actually defended a dissertation to earn that PhD.
The motivation of a politician aiming to gain power, money and prestige by implementing climate policy runs a poor second to the motivation of someone aiming to maintain or increase the flow of billions of dollars into their corporate and personal coffers. The likes of (former) Senator Evan Bayh demonstrate that while legislating may be good for the ego, the big money is in private industry.
Researchers who are subsidized by public concerns are paid to provide results that may be useful to the public. The grant process is transparent.
Researchers who are subsidized by private concerns are paid to provide results that are useful to the owners. The grant process is opaque.
The perceived interests of active shareholders and executives often do not coincide with the perceived interests of the public at large, ergo private concerns often attempt to hide their role in certain kinds of "research", because the degree of self interest in controlling the results is all too apparent.
Hosting any foreign-sourced mission-critical data/logic or trade secrets within this hub would be a bad idea until the PRC gets better acquainted to the rule of law concept.
While members of the OECD have and will periodically invoke "novel" interpretations of their laws and legal precedents, law w/in China is still utterly secondary to the opinions of the whim of local officials and the CCP as a whole. So, for example, hosting a node of the Wikipedia or buying cycles to design the next Boeing or Airbus at a site w/in the zone would be asking for trouble.
I get what you're saying. I believe the reason Palin's latest verbal gaffe is getting ground on so is because 1) it's emblematic of her speaking style, and 2) because she has cranked up her marketing campaign, and thus is getting more exposure than usual.
Some people are competent extemporaneous speakers, while others are not. Palin isn't, but that seems to work for her fan base.
The Revere entry in Conservapedia was similarly reworked, and the current edit is exhibiting signs of split personality. I gotta laugh when someone claims an edit is based on "authoritative" sources by quoting a quote from a major newspaper... while skipping over the context of the newspaper's reporting, that the person quoted made a verbal boo-boo.
Much as it pains me to defend Drudge, he doesn't have any more control over the 3rd party ad servers than the NYT does. I have NoScript turning back suspected XSS attempts across the board.
Whenever my wife entertains herself by gripping about the hassles, the bugs, the constant need to update software, I tell her that she (and most users) aren't really the intended users of personal computers. In radio terms, we're still in the early 1920's, when you had to know something about the technology to get more use than frustration out of the device.
Thus, why most people continue to click through the warnings and admin authentications, and wonder why the work of a moment takes so much effort to undo. Most aren't yet equipped to deal with it any other way.
As a primarily MacOS user, it's been nice that the OS X platform wasn't worth designing malware for, while occasionally watching those Javascript, WinXP-themed "virus scanners" attempt to upload a *.exe to my system. But, it looks like the first party crasher is here, and now we wait to see how many friends he brought with him.
If Air France's A330-300 are set up the same as SAS' (430KB PDF), there should have been a cluster of mechanical backups just to the right of the pilot's primary glass displays, including an artificial horizon. Even if the backup sink rate, airspeed indicator, and altimeter were returning bogus values, the gyroscope and compass wouldn't, and ergo there would have been at least enough information to know which way the bird was pointing.
proven that they have taken the necessary measures to secure their network
IIRC, one rather glaring issue was the use of a bone-stock Apache install that evidently hadn't kept up with any security updates. I wonder what sort of Powerpointology Sony will be needed to prove worthiness, and whether there's enough folks at the Media and Content Industry department to knowledgeably gage the degree to which Sony got its act together?
He probably would be... and would also see the larger point that a technology so easily deployed against what you or I wouldn't read is just as easily deployed against what we would.
The core concept of the Geneva Conventions is the humane treatment of protected classes of people, those who are not or are no longer taking part in hostilities. Combatants can be killed at will. It isn't required to give quarter, inquire if enemy combatants are seeking it, or determine their combat capabilities. One isn't even strictly required to honor a white flag.
Thus, per UN Resolution 1373, and the US Congress' Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (Pub.L. 107-40, 115Stat.224, enacted September18, 2001), American commandos enjoyed the latitude to capture or kill OBL. As it worked out, they killed him, although you may not approve of the act or the international protocols that authorized it.
The copyright issue was besides the point... which was the ease with which Amazon nuked the digital volumes. As a consumer of printed works, I want the sale to remain final, regardless of whether the distributor later has a change of heart given their perception of business, legal, moral, or national security issues.
For years I've hoped for someone to remake Fahrenheit 451 with a script that was reasonably close to the book. I was more than a little disappointed when Gibson dropped the project on the theory that (per Wikipedia) "with the advent of computers, the concept of book-burning in a futuristic period may no longer work."
Ah, but that was before the Kindle, and the 451 test run in the form of the 1984 and Animal Farm erasures. From my POV, in the 451 universe, when books were outlawed by (presumably) an Act of Congress (excepting technical manuals and comic books, IIRC), the first thing to go would be Kindle and iBooks. It would be almost too easy. The hard part would be tracking down the contraband bound volumes, which brings us back to page 1 of our story, and Guy smelling of kerosene.
I think the gp poster may have been interested in *running* the code, ergo Ubuntu in itself ain't gonna help. However, a sandbox to play in running *within* Ubuntu, that would give me a warm fuzzy... unless Zeus is known to try to climb out of VMs.
There are several different ways to have Google Translate do the heavy lifting for you. I'll bet that the machine translation will be good enough for you to get the gist of the message.
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The PRC is not quite to the stage where the concept 'rule of law' has supplanted 'rule of men', and PATRIOT Act-related BS that the likes of AT&T get into in the US is par for the course. Sina is listed on NASDAQ, but home plate and most of their action is back in Shanghai, as are the major shareholders. http://finapps.forbes.com/finapps/jsp/finance/compinfo/insider/InsiderRoster.jsp?tkr=SINA
Sustworks IPNRX (IP Network Router X) will also do this on a Mac, even over multiple USB NICs on a Mini: http://www.sustworks.com/site/prod_ipnrx_help/html/AlternateRouteHelp.html
I'll guess that MS will be pushing the various ATM and auto checkout POS vendors into ditching XP as well. Good luck with that.
When I really wanna go back in time, I play with the Freshman Masterpiece, a battery powered, three voltage, 5 tube TRF radio I've got sitting on my desk at work. ca. 1925.
When I want a momentary break from the workstation, I grab the HP-11c sitting under the monitor, rather than fire up Calculator.app.
Given the existing weak links in the electronic retail financial chain, and the added weak link of a cell phone, I suspect wallets will make a big come back after a goodly fraction of the mobile payment system users get their checking account cleaned out and/or their debit account treated as someone else's personal piggybank.
I'm afraid I find that position terribly naive. It's not the '70's anymore, and the "non-aligned bloc" has disappeared from the UN.
I keep hearing people talk about all this power politicians are trying to amass to themselves. If this were so, the US would be in lockstep with the Kyoto participants. Yet, somehow, they don't have any more power than in '01.... save what they gave the US Administration to deal with a security scare.
Follow the money. Once you get past the Medicare, Social Security, or DoD budgets, you're looking at jack squat in Federal funding. The real money is with the top 1%, and politicians who cater to their wants... such as no cap gains or estate taxes, minimal income taxes, and no obstructions to their ability to externalize the costs to their business. And any fossil fuel company is externalizing a boat load of costs, and you, me, we get to keep paying for it. Brilliant.
Context, my dear fellow, context is key. If you're gonna list politicians, list some that are contemporaries of the industrialists in their native land. Climate change is an issue now, not then. Otherwise, I might as well compare David Koch against the mayor of Bumfuck, Wherever.
A more pertinent example would be to pit Putin against his oligarchs, or the Central Committee of the CCP against the (mostly state-controlled) Chinese industrial elite.
Of the prizes Hansen was awarded, only the Sophie Prize could even come close to originating from a "pressure group".
I suspect a number of these were awarded not just for his research, but also for setting the example of sticking by it while the Bush Administration was busy quashing the results. A classic of the Bush "climate doctrine" was a quote from NASA Administrator Griffin to NPR, to the effect that we shouldn't dick with climate change, because our past and current climate may not be the best one for humans.
Why, it was brilliant. A civilization adapted to thousands of years of gradual climate changes? Why not run a little experiment to see if it's even better adapted to an utterly different climate?
I don't think I've ever wanted to use my radio to reach through time and space as badly as that day. It's enough to make me wonder if he actually defended a dissertation to earn that PhD.
The motivation of a politician aiming to gain power, money and prestige by implementing climate policy runs a poor second to the motivation of someone aiming to maintain or increase the flow of billions of dollars into their corporate and personal coffers. The likes of (former) Senator Evan Bayh demonstrate that while legislating may be good for the ego, the big money is in private industry.
Researchers who are subsidized by public concerns are paid to provide results that may be useful to the public. The grant process is transparent.
Researchers who are subsidized by private concerns are paid to provide results that are useful to the owners. The grant process is opaque.
The perceived interests of active shareholders and executives often do not coincide with the perceived interests of the public at large, ergo private concerns often attempt to hide their role in certain kinds of "research", because the degree of self interest in controlling the results is all too apparent.
Hosting any foreign-sourced mission-critical data/logic or trade secrets within this hub would be a bad idea until the PRC gets better acquainted to the rule of law concept.
While members of the OECD have and will periodically invoke "novel" interpretations of their laws and legal precedents, law w/in China is still utterly secondary to the opinions of the whim of local officials and the CCP as a whole. So, for example, hosting a node of the Wikipedia or buying cycles to design the next Boeing or Airbus at a site w/in the zone would be asking for trouble.
I get what you're saying. I believe the reason Palin's latest verbal gaffe is getting ground on so is because 1) it's emblematic of her speaking style, and 2) because she has cranked up her marketing campaign, and thus is getting more exposure than usual.
Some people are competent extemporaneous speakers, while others are not. Palin isn't, but that seems to work for her fan base.
The Revere entry in Conservapedia was similarly reworked, and the current edit is exhibiting signs of split personality. I gotta laugh when someone claims an edit is based on "authoritative" sources by quoting a quote from a major newspaper... while skipping over the context of the newspaper's reporting, that the person quoted made a verbal boo-boo.
Much as it pains me to defend Drudge, he doesn't have any more control over the 3rd party ad servers than the NYT does. I have NoScript turning back suspected XSS attempts across the board.
Whenever my wife entertains herself by gripping about the hassles, the bugs, the constant need to update software, I tell her that she (and most users) aren't really the intended users of personal computers. In radio terms, we're still in the early 1920's, when you had to know something about the technology to get more use than frustration out of the device.
Thus, why most people continue to click through the warnings and admin authentications, and wonder why the work of a moment takes so much effort to undo. Most aren't yet equipped to deal with it any other way.
As a primarily MacOS user, it's been nice that the OS X platform wasn't worth designing malware for, while occasionally watching those Javascript, WinXP-themed "virus scanners" attempt to upload a *.exe to my system. But, it looks like the first party crasher is here, and now we wait to see how many friends he brought with him.
If Air France's A330-300 are set up the same as SAS' (430KB PDF), there should have been a cluster of mechanical backups just to the right of the pilot's primary glass displays, including an artificial horizon. Even if the backup sink rate, airspeed indicator, and altimeter were returning bogus values, the gyroscope and compass wouldn't, and ergo there would have been at least enough information to know which way the bird was pointing.
So, the "unpatched" theory was based on nothing by Spaf's gut. It would seem Dr.Spafford is resting on his laurels. Great.
proven that they have taken the necessary measures to secure their network
IIRC, one rather glaring issue was the use of a bone-stock Apache install that evidently hadn't kept up with any security updates. I wonder what sort of Powerpointology Sony will be needed to prove worthiness, and whether there's enough folks at the Media and Content Industry department to knowledgeably gage the degree to which Sony got its act together?
He probably would be... and would also see the larger point that a technology so easily deployed against what you or I wouldn't read is just as easily deployed against what we would.
The core concept of the Geneva Conventions is the humane treatment of protected classes of people, those who are not or are no longer taking part in hostilities. Combatants can be killed at will. It isn't required to give quarter, inquire if enemy combatants are seeking it, or determine their combat capabilities. One isn't even strictly required to honor a white flag.
Thus, per UN Resolution 1373, and the US Congress' Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (Pub.L. 107-40, 115Stat.224, enacted September18, 2001), American commandos enjoyed the latitude to capture or kill OBL. As it worked out, they killed him, although you may not approve of the act or the international protocols that authorized it.
The copyright issue was besides the point... which was the ease with which Amazon nuked the digital volumes. As a consumer of printed works, I want the sale to remain final, regardless of whether the distributor later has a change of heart given their perception of business, legal, moral, or national security issues.
For years I've hoped for someone to remake Fahrenheit 451 with a script that was reasonably close to the book. I was more than a little disappointed when Gibson dropped the project on the theory that (per Wikipedia) "with the advent of computers, the concept of book-burning in a futuristic period may no longer work."
Ah, but that was before the Kindle, and the 451 test run in the form of the 1984 and Animal Farm erasures. From my POV, in the 451 universe, when books were outlawed by (presumably) an Act of Congress (excepting technical manuals and comic books, IIRC), the first thing to go would be Kindle and iBooks. It would be almost too easy. The hard part would be tracking down the contraband bound volumes, which brings us back to page 1 of our story, and Guy smelling of kerosene.
I think the gp poster may have been interested in *running* the code, ergo Ubuntu in itself ain't gonna help. However, a sandbox to play in running *within* Ubuntu, that would give me a warm fuzzy... unless Zeus is known to try to climb out of VMs.
There are several different ways to have Google Translate do the heavy lifting for you. I'll bet that the machine translation will be good enough for you to get the gist of the message.