Now this is very true, and it's also an interesting point.
I can't think of any past incident which has simultaneously threatened so many governments. There's been loads of instances where leaks have seriously damaged - and even collapsed - a single government. But here we're looking at things which could damage governments the world over.
Paradoxically, the best chance Julian Assange has to survive is probably if he's thrown in prison. Lots of countries are run by governments with a rather lower tolerance for people who embarrass them - governments that don't mouth off to the press, they just quietly send someone with a phial of poison over to meet whoever's upsetting them. Sooner or later (if they haven't already) Wikileaks is going to release something that affects such a government.
While I'm not sure killing Assange would make one whit of difference to what's going on now, it'd send a powerful message to anyone else who wants to run such a site: "Embarrass us and you too can die horribly!".
The US has been prosecuting people who never actually set foot on US soil to commit their crimes for years.
If his autobiography is to be believed, Howard Marks is an obvious case in point - he shipped vast quantities of marijuana around the world, some destined for the US. While he himself didn't go to the US, the drugs were traced back to him and US agents had him extradited to the States where he spent several years in prison - and that was in the late 1980's.
Threatening to do that if arrested strikes me as downright dangerous - there's only one insurance file AFAIK, once the key is released the power it has as a form of insurance is gone. Frankly, I think it'd make infinitely more sense to only release it if killed or disappeared.
There's already some evidence to suggest that what a woman is looking for in the man who brings up her kids and what a woman looks for in the man who's their biological father are two different things.
Julian Assange has access to the funds - great. Did he set anyone else up as a signatory or were they just planning on using internet/telephone banking?
Because if the bank won't hand the money back unless and until Assange himself shows up to claim it, it may as well be gone. Let's face it, he ain't flying anywhere now.
There doesn't need to be. The fact of the matter is that the cables came from US sources - hence even if every one of their staff was as pure as the driven snow, you've still got thousands of documents, some of which will doubtless contain details that other countries had no idea the US knew.
The Russians kill people openly to send a very clear message: "Don't make us angry. You wouldn't like us when we're angry."
Western countries (at least officially...) don't kill people at all. Well, not in the political assassination sense.
Though it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are a number of people specifically instructed to listen carefully when someone says "Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest?". I'd be more surprised if there weren't.
See, I don't think that's entirely impossible. Google for Domains already provides Docs, and while that's no competitor to Microsoft Office yet, the key word here is "yet". For basic tasks, it's a perfectly competent office suite, it works perfectly well over a plain ADSL connection today and it's included automatically with Google for Domains. Which costs rather less per user than Exchange.
There is a reason Microsoft are terrified of Google, a reason why Steve Ballmer throws chairs. It has nothing to do with Search.
While we all love to rag on marketing people, but there's a whole lot to it we don't understand.
I've been looking at setting up my own business and.... oh goodness me. What a lot you need to know just to get off the ground! Now sure, there's a lot of people in marketing who seem to spout bullshit for a living, but that's the same in any profession.
Those marketing people are going to tell you whether or not anyone actually wants to buy your product, and once they've established that work to get it into peoples' hands. If there are potential customers but the product needs tweaking (which it frequently does), they'll work with you to find out how to tweak it. Get that wrong, and you won't have any customers. There is a reason why any successful business of any size has separate departments that specialise in a few things, there is a reason why one of those departments (whether it's inhouse or outsourced) is sales and marketing.
Back when I was in college, I was wondering how on earth I'd store application-wide preferences at runtime without using global variables (having been taught that global variables were the Root of All that is Evil).
So I looked at a well-known OSS project to see how they did it. (Apache, IIRC). Guess what? Global variables.
It was around then I realised that there was no such thing as a concrete rule, simply a sensible rule of thumb. Oh yes, and that certain lecturers lived on a totally different planet and only occasionally visited Earth. Fortunately, the people marking my project were permanent Earth dwellers.
The thing is, those other people have to make any of their own improvements available. Compare and contrast that with the BSDs, where there is no obligation to re-release improvements. Lots of expensive, specialist kit is based around a BSD Unix (eg. F5, Juniper). But BSD doesn't have anything like the mindshare in the generic server market.
Christianity (indeed most religions) make absolutely perfect sense.
Straight up, they do.
If you happened to find yourself in a reasonably powerful position in a hierarchical society of people who lived in a desert in the arsehole of nowhere, where law and order as we know it in the 21st century did not exist, where you couldn't necessarily keep a decent standing army to keep order simply because you couldn't feed them - wouldn't you want something you could invoke to get everyone to toe the line?
What better than an invisible superpower that sees all and will have his revenge if you transgress?
Now, I don't think someone sat down one day and said "How am I going to bring peace to my people? I know, I'll invent religion!". I think it's more likely that religion developed alongside civilisation, and back then the one could not exist without the other.
My employer uses F/OSS extensively - and as the sysadmin, I've started to notice a pattern.
F/OSS products which scratch an individual or a small group of peoples' itch generally get developed to a certain point and then stagnate. If you're lucky, that point is acceptable to you.
The products that do really well - the "best of F/OSS", if you like - are almost invariably the sort which scratches a very common itch. They're usually bankrolled by a number of companies (the Linux kernel falls under this category) or become self-funding when the project leader sets up a company to sell a commercial version with support and possibly extra features.
The US probably doesn't much like the idea of foreign governments collapsing left and right any more than their own. Better the devil you know and all that.
That'd probably the most effective, but it'll also be the most controversial. I don't know about the US, but in much of Europe there's a points system. Each infraction gets you a certain number of points on your license, and when you exceed a certain number it's automatically revoked.
Some things more-or-less automatically get you a ban. In the UK, drink driving is likely to be a minimum 12-18 months for the first offence - and if you live in the arse end of nowhere with no other means of transport - tough. You should have thought about that before you got behind the wheel.
Null argument. The official name of East Germany was (after translation) The German Democratic Republic. Does that mean that there's a problem with democracy? Or republics? Or just that names chosen for propaganda reasons are bunk and what matters is what happens on the ground? Hmm...
The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
AFAICT, any country which uses the word "democratic" in its name usually isn't.
Yes, and 3G doesn't require anything like the bandwidth of 4G. Which means there's a good chance Verizon don't have the backhaul capacity in your area for any significant number of 4G customers anyway.
I'm speculating wildly here, but If they have no DSL presence in your area, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if their IP network in your area is pretty poor. And I don't care about the connection from your phone to the cell tower being wireless, after that it's wires all the way.
4G runs everything over IP. No decent wired IP network, no decent 4G service. That's before you even consider the (not inconsiderable) cost of upgrading the network. They probably can't service that many 4G customers in your area in the first place.
Virtually any respectable backup application will only ship changes up once the initial backup is complete. It'll saturate your pipe for a few days, but once it's one it's done. After that, it's really not too bad.
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Now this is very true, and it's also an interesting point.
I can't think of any past incident which has simultaneously threatened so many governments. There's been loads of instances where leaks have seriously damaged - and even collapsed - a single government. But here we're looking at things which could damage governments the world over.
Paradoxically, the best chance Julian Assange has to survive is probably if he's thrown in prison. Lots of countries are run by governments with a rather lower tolerance for people who embarrass them - governments that don't mouth off to the press, they just quietly send someone with a phial of poison over to meet whoever's upsetting them. Sooner or later (if they haven't already) Wikileaks is going to release something that affects such a government.
While I'm not sure killing Assange would make one whit of difference to what's going on now, it'd send a powerful message to anyone else who wants to run such a site: "Embarrass us and you too can die horribly!".
The US has been prosecuting people who never actually set foot on US soil to commit their crimes for years.
If his autobiography is to be believed, Howard Marks is an obvious case in point - he shipped vast quantities of marijuana around the world, some destined for the US. While he himself didn't go to the US, the drugs were traced back to him and US agents had him extradited to the States where he spent several years in prison - and that was in the late 1980's.
It is, but he's not blaming open source for it. If anything, he's blaming himself.
He isn't, if you RTFA.
He's saying that Sun saw the writing on the wall for closed systems, and jumped on the bandwagon of opensourcing all they could.
Unfortunately, it would seem they did so without any cohesive plan as to how they'd turn that into a decent source of revenue.
Threatening to do that if arrested strikes me as downright dangerous - there's only one insurance file AFAIK, once the key is released the power it has as a form of insurance is gone. Frankly, I think it'd make infinitely more sense to only release it if killed or disappeared.
There's already some evidence to suggest that what a woman is looking for in the man who brings up her kids and what a woman looks for in the man who's their biological father are two different things.
Julian Assange has access to the funds - great. Did he set anyone else up as a signatory or were they just planning on using internet/telephone banking?
Because if the bank won't hand the money back unless and until Assange himself shows up to claim it, it may as well be gone. Let's face it, he ain't flying anywhere now.
There doesn't need to be. The fact of the matter is that the cables came from US sources - hence even if every one of their staff was as pure as the driven snow, you've still got thousands of documents, some of which will doubtless contain details that other countries had no idea the US knew.
The Russians kill people openly to send a very clear message: "Don't make us angry. You wouldn't like us when we're angry."
Western countries (at least officially...) don't kill people at all. Well, not in the political assassination sense.
Though it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are a number of people specifically instructed to listen carefully when someone says "Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest?". I'd be more surprised if there weren't.
Wish I had been posting on /. when I was in uni now!
See, I don't think that's entirely impossible. Google for Domains already provides Docs, and while that's no competitor to Microsoft Office yet, the key word here is "yet". For basic tasks, it's a perfectly competent office suite, it works perfectly well over a plain ADSL connection today and it's included automatically with Google for Domains. Which costs rather less per user than Exchange.
There is a reason Microsoft are terrified of Google, a reason why Steve Ballmer throws chairs. It has nothing to do with Search.
While we all love to rag on marketing people, but there's a whole lot to it we don't understand.
I've been looking at setting up my own business and.... oh goodness me. What a lot you need to know just to get off the ground! Now sure, there's a lot of people in marketing who seem to spout bullshit for a living, but that's the same in any profession.
Those marketing people are going to tell you whether or not anyone actually wants to buy your product, and once they've established that work to get it into peoples' hands. If there are potential customers but the product needs tweaking (which it frequently does), they'll work with you to find out how to tweak it. Get that wrong, and you won't have any customers. There is a reason why any successful business of any size has separate departments that specialise in a few things, there is a reason why one of those departments (whether it's inhouse or outsourced) is sales and marketing.
Well indeed.
Back when I was in college, I was wondering how on earth I'd store application-wide preferences at runtime without using global variables (having been taught that global variables were the Root of All that is Evil).
So I looked at a well-known OSS project to see how they did it. (Apache, IIRC). Guess what? Global variables.
It was around then I realised that there was no such thing as a concrete rule, simply a sensible rule of thumb. Oh yes, and that certain lecturers lived on a totally different planet and only occasionally visited Earth. Fortunately, the people marking my project were permanent Earth dwellers.
Gimp isn't getting much funding at all. The glacial pace of development demonstrates that pretty well, IMV.
The thing is, those other people have to make any of their own improvements available. Compare and contrast that with the BSDs, where there is no obligation to re-release improvements. Lots of expensive, specialist kit is based around a BSD Unix (eg. F5, Juniper). But BSD doesn't have anything like the mindshare in the generic server market.
Christianity (indeed most religions) make absolutely perfect sense.
Straight up, they do.
If you happened to find yourself in a reasonably powerful position in a hierarchical society of people who lived in a desert in the arsehole of nowhere, where law and order as we know it in the 21st century did not exist, where you couldn't necessarily keep a decent standing army to keep order simply because you couldn't feed them - wouldn't you want something you could invoke to get everyone to toe the line?
What better than an invisible superpower that sees all and will have his revenge if you transgress?
Now, I don't think someone sat down one day and said "How am I going to bring peace to my people? I know, I'll invent religion!". I think it's more likely that religion developed alongside civilisation, and back then the one could not exist without the other.
My employer uses F/OSS extensively - and as the sysadmin, I've started to notice a pattern.
F/OSS products which scratch an individual or a small group of peoples' itch generally get developed to a certain point and then stagnate. If you're lucky, that point is acceptable to you.
The products that do really well - the "best of F/OSS", if you like - are almost invariably the sort which scratches a very common itch. They're usually bankrolled by a number of companies (the Linux kernel falls under this category) or become self-funding when the project leader sets up a company to sell a commercial version with support and possibly extra features.
The US probably doesn't much like the idea of foreign governments collapsing left and right any more than their own. Better the devil you know and all that.
taking away licenses more aggressively,
That'd probably the most effective, but it'll also be the most controversial. I don't know about the US, but in much of Europe there's a points system. Each infraction gets you a certain number of points on your license, and when you exceed a certain number it's automatically revoked.
Some things more-or-less automatically get you a ban. In the UK, drink driving is likely to be a minimum 12-18 months for the first offence - and if you live in the arse end of nowhere with no other means of transport - tough. You should have thought about that before you got behind the wheel.
Null argument. The official name of East Germany was (after translation) The German Democratic Republic. Does that mean that there's a problem with democracy? Or republics? Or just that names chosen for propaganda reasons are bunk and what matters is what happens on the ground? Hmm...
The official name of North Korea is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
AFAICT, any country which uses the word "democratic" in its name usually isn't.
Yes, and 3G doesn't require anything like the bandwidth of 4G. Which means there's a good chance Verizon don't have the backhaul capacity in your area for any significant number of 4G customers anyway.
Or you could use the Norton Removal Tool:
http://us.norton.com/support/kb/web_view.jsp?wv_type=public_web&docurl=20080710133834EN&ln=en_US
But you carry on your way if you must ;)
I've used it, it works quite well and is in fact Symantec's recommended way to remove Norton if you actually want rid of it properly.
Apparently it never occurred to them to, I don't know, write a proper uninstaller in the first place.
I'm speculating wildly here, but If they have no DSL presence in your area, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if their IP network in your area is pretty poor. And I don't care about the connection from your phone to the cell tower being wireless, after that it's wires all the way.
4G runs everything over IP. No decent wired IP network, no decent 4G service. That's before you even consider the (not inconsiderable) cost of upgrading the network. They probably can't service that many 4G customers in your area in the first place.
Virtually any respectable backup application will only ship changes up once the initial backup is complete. It'll saturate your pipe for a few days, but once it's one it's done. After that, it's really not too bad.