No, he was a Bush-hater with direct knowledge of an activity that was criminal and unconstitutional, for whom there was no reliable way to get law enforcement involved in ending it.
I saw it, in defense related work. When I pointed out that over half of the troops in Afghanistan were mercenaries bound by neither US nor Afghan law and were immune from prosecution in either country under the contracts they signed, and thus making sure they paid their personal bills was awkward, I was shut up very quickly.
Nonsense yourself. every person with power can, and does, have a responsibility to choose when to use that power. That applies to secrets, handguns, and and war crimes. To ignore that power and tell people 'just follow your orders' is to ignore centuries of law, especially war crimes law of the last century.
It _is_ chilling. The man revealed a major set of constitutional violations, by the NSA, in collaboration with AT&T. There are various basic laws that _required_ him to report such felonies. And it is exactly such abuses that the freedom of the press was designed to encourage the revelation of.
Alright, it was just a thought. I knew that Everest weather was often nasty, but didn't realize the extent. Do you have a pointer to a good breakdown of overall weather there?
OK, that makes sense. But that still doesn't make clear whether shareholders lost money by Telstra screwing up the possibility of participating in this effort.
Governments have protected critical industries, and the industries owned by friends of those in power, since civilization began. If you read Macchiavelli, you get wonderful examples of manipulating power and industry to your advantage from the Renaissance: the interplay of government and industry during the Medici era is wonderfully fascinating material.
The shareholders didn't necessarily lose. Simply increasing the size of a business by taking on a new venture is not necessarily good for a business, and it's not clear this whole national network is going to make money for the providers. It could be a lead-in for more profitable services, but it could also be a huge money pit for the telco serving it if they have the wrong technologies, wrong management, or wrong policies to handle it.
In fact, from what I'm seeing about Telstra, it would probably break them to try and manage such a different service.
Thank you for correcting my spelling. I meant really to get them _before_ they're dead: it's clear from the Everest articles that it's very difficult to rescue people in trouble on the downslope.
The oxygen bottles have clearly been safely over-engineered: they're being exposed to extremes of low pressure, the abuse of extreme cold and the banging around of heavy use, and kept light for these mountaineers to use in extreme conditions where ounces matter. The designers have apparently erred on the side of caution: I find this reassuring. And also, what tends to fail is the valves, not the sides. It takes work to split an airtank in a way that causes it explode or even to thrust hard enough to hurt anything, from experience with compressed air in the lab, they tend to simply leak slowly.
Sounds like a job for Zepellin, customized to work near Everest. It would have to be big, and the weather probably would have to be ideal, but the maximum height for balloons is considerably higher.
It's spelled 'NNTP'. Look at how Usenet newsgroups, especially for binaries, have worked for decades for a robust distribution model. The commands to assemble the messages can be scripted as well.
Similarly, the bottorrent files you describe can also be pushed or pulled from a centralized target list and activated via SSH as needed.
Oh? I'd say that Hawking's work on black hole evaporation was both brillient, and significant. Moreover, it was the work of one talented genius in particular.
They come with no RAM because it's already been stripped for recycling internally. Getting old data from RAM? That's like reading somebody's writing from examing the pencil: not likely.
That's only one of its hooks. It's designed, as well, to manage media such as DVD players and streaming applications to be able to unlock the data with the pre-signed, TPM enabled application. This is fine for media which the owner wishes to protect, but is nothing but pain for material which the *producer* wants to protect, and the user does not (such as videos and audios and games). This is like SecuROM, elected to be governor of California. And the keys are designed so that Microsoft will handle the core repository of the *secret* keys for recover and 'law enforcement' reasons.
In other words, for protecting your documents from the feds even without a warrant (because there is no legal structure in place to protect your keys and no indication that a warrant would be needed), or from Microsoft at whim, they are worse than useless because they give a very false sense of security. As near as I can taell, from the presentation by Brian LaMacchia, it's designed not to let you have your own, private, not-available-to-Microsoft private keys.
Palladium is a _lot_ more than signature enforcement. Read up on it, it's potentially extremely nasty. It's designed to operate at so deep a level that the BIOS, boot loader, and media burners can be locked to signed-only operating systems and run only signed binaries to access attached storage media. Imagine who'd benefit the most from that, especially because the signatures are expensive? And who's going to hold the secret keys for all those signatures?
The same company that's already been convicted several times of anti-trust and monopoly practices.
Well, they haven't completely implemented Palladium, renamed 'Trusted Computing'. But if you work with CygWin and other open source tools, the poor interactions with their anti-viral and software management materials can get pretty painful. Getting OpenSSH, VNC, and Apache going under Vista were not fun for me.
This is particularly played out in the Windows Media Player: as near s I can tell, they implemented a lot of additional DRM in the Vista version, and have been backporting it to XP to keep people from using free and DRM-free players like VLC. Yes, I'm wearing a bit of a tinfoil hat about this, but they really need to keep people locked to the DRM managed MediaPlayer to force broadcasters and media suppliers from using or supporting other operating systems.
You have more confidence in Windows 7 than I do. Do you have some reason for such confidendce? Vista was similarly advertised as a wonderful upgrade, but its promised features (such as WinFS) somehow managed to fail, miserably, when actually tried and many of them were pulled from the final product. The new user interface is pretty silly, its intrusive DRM and security features are painful for users and encourage similar stupidities of always hitting 'yes', and the policy games played with releasing 'Vista-only' drivers and products are awful.
There seems no reason to think that the policies that led to Vista have changed, even if its preliminary tests are promising. Preliminary tests of Vista were also misleading in their performance tests.
The time spent rewriting and managing the queries for it would be far better spent with an open source, universally applicable set of tools such as Nagios, MRTG, CFengine, etc. I've had difficulty explaining to managers impressed by OpenView demos that the work of configuring it for a site is similar to that of integrating open source tools for the HP machines, and the open source tools are more flexible to make a better map of the network and its services.
Give out OLPC's, they could distribute easily twice as many machines. And the distributed networking support is far superior to the average Windows or even Linux setup.
Or rather, do not engage in the 'layers of abstraction' model of LISP where each layer is entirely cordoned off from the others, and only information about official, authorized practices is allowed to be shared among different levels, and the different layers are forbidden from seeing the other layers. It's one of the worst programming practices I've ever been shown, and it's death to managing competent people. Your people will perform better if they're aware of other groups as part of their company, part of their group, with whom they share goals and resources.
Far too many managers are taught to segment their group away from others, to protect their turf and 'husband their resources'. The resulting isolation is devastating technologically, and socially, to a programming group creating products or an IT group providing services.
Just like the idea of suing McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in your own lap, it sounds silly until you look at the pattern.
* The directions for the Wiimote encourage robust swinging of the control for various games, such as tennis, basketball, and exercise programs. * Kids, whose coordination is not that good and whose hands are not that strong, are encouraged to play with these things. This makes such accidents far more likely. * Nintendo had already received a number of complaints about the straps, but continued to sell the flimsy versions. * Nintendo hid the complaints in the previous lawsuit, which is a violation of the relevant 'discovery' procedures that their own lawyers should have prevented. * The new strap apparently also fails.
That's more than enough for a reasonable lawsuit holding Nintendo liable for destructions that they knew were not rare, and which they apparently lied about the existence of. It's not like throwing a brick: it's like a hammer with such a slick handle, it's likely to slip from your hands.
Drones are taught by their layers of 'advisors'. Someone gave this teacher a very, very bad grounding in what software licensing includes.
Mind you, if the 'Linux' in question was a commercial RHEL or SuSE or other packaged software, the kid should be suspended for piracy, and pointed to Fedora and Gentoo and the other 'free as in beer' operating systems.
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Similar immunities also existed for Afghanistan, and some years back for Bosnia. Check out http://www.workers.org/2007/world/lavender-red-115/: it's an alarmingly common practice.
No, he was a Bush-hater with direct knowledge of an activity that was criminal and unconstitutional, for whom there was no reliable way to get law enforcement involved in ending it.
I saw it, in defense related work. When I pointed out that over half of the troops in Afghanistan were mercenaries bound by neither US nor Afghan law and were immune from prosecution in either country under the contracts they signed, and thus making sure they paid their personal bills was awkward, I was shut up very quickly.
Then investigate AT&T and the NSA for their far more serious alleged crimes.
Oh, wait, they're getting immunity from Congress.
Nonsense yourself. every person with power can, and does, have a responsibility to choose when to use that power. That applies to secrets, handguns, and and war crimes. To ignore that power and tell people 'just follow your orders' is to ignore centuries of law, especially war crimes law of the last century.
It _is_ chilling. The man revealed a major set of constitutional violations, by the NSA, in collaboration with AT&T. There are various basic laws that _required_ him to report such felonies. And it is exactly such abuses that the freedom of the press was designed to encourage the revelation of.
The man deserves a Medal of Honor.
Alright, it was just a thought. I knew that Everest weather was often nasty, but didn't realize the extent. Do you have a pointer to a good breakdown of overall weather there?
OK, that makes sense. But that still doesn't make clear whether shareholders lost money by Telstra screwing up the possibility of participating in this effort.
Governments have protected critical industries, and the industries owned by friends of those in power, since civilization began. If you read Macchiavelli, you get wonderful examples of manipulating power and industry to your advantage from the Renaissance: the interplay of government and industry during the Medici era is wonderfully fascinating material.
The shareholders didn't necessarily lose. Simply increasing the size of a business by taking on a new venture is not necessarily good for a business, and it's not clear this whole national network is going to make money for the providers. It could be a lead-in for more profitable services, but it could also be a huge money pit for the telco serving it if they have the wrong technologies, wrong management, or wrong policies to handle it.
In fact, from what I'm seeing about Telstra, it would probably break them to try and manage such a different service.
Thank you for correcting my spelling. I meant really to get them _before_ they're dead: it's clear from the Everest articles that it's very difficult to rescue people in trouble on the downslope.
The oxygen bottles have clearly been safely over-engineered: they're being exposed to extremes of low pressure, the abuse of extreme cold and the banging around of heavy use, and kept light for these mountaineers to use in extreme conditions where ounces matter. The designers have apparently erred on the side of caution: I find this reassuring. And also, what tends to fail is the valves, not the sides. It takes work to split an airtank in a way that causes it explode or even to thrust hard enough to hurt anything, from experience with compressed air in the lab, they tend to simply leak slowly.
Sounds like a job for Zepellin, customized to work near Everest. It would have to be big, and the weather probably would have to be ideal, but the maximum height for balloons is considerably higher.
It's spelled 'NNTP'. Look at how Usenet newsgroups, especially for binaries, have worked for decades for a robust distribution model. The commands to assemble the messages can be scripted as well.
Similarly, the bottorrent files you describe can also be pushed or pulled from a centralized target list and activated via SSH as needed.
Oh? I'd say that Hawking's work on black hole evaporation was both brillient, and significant. Moreover, it was the work of one talented genius in particular.
They come with no RAM because it's already been stripped for recycling internally. Getting old data from RAM? That's like reading somebody's writing from examing the pencil: not likely.
That's only one of its hooks. It's designed, as well, to manage media such as DVD players and streaming applications to be able to unlock the data with the pre-signed, TPM enabled application. This is fine for media which the owner wishes to protect, but is nothing but pain for material which the *producer* wants to protect, and the user does not (such as videos and audios and games). This is like SecuROM, elected to be governor of California. And the keys are designed so that Microsoft will handle the core repository of the *secret* keys for recover and 'law enforcement' reasons.
In other words, for protecting your documents from the feds even without a warrant (because there is no legal structure in place to protect your keys and no indication that a warrant would be needed), or from Microsoft at whim, they are worse than useless because they give a very false sense of security. As near as I can taell, from the presentation by Brian LaMacchia, it's designed not to let you have your own, private, not-available-to-Microsoft private keys.
Palladium is a _lot_ more than signature enforcement. Read up on it, it's potentially extremely nasty. It's designed to operate at so deep a level that the BIOS, boot loader, and media burners can be locked to signed-only operating systems and run only signed binaries to access attached storage media. Imagine who'd benefit the most from that, especially because the signatures are expensive? And who's going to hold the secret keys for all those signatures? The same company that's already been convicted several times of anti-trust and monopoly practices.
Well, they haven't completely implemented Palladium, renamed 'Trusted Computing'. But if you work with CygWin and other open source tools, the poor interactions with their anti-viral and software management materials can get pretty painful. Getting OpenSSH, VNC, and Apache going under Vista were not fun for me.
This is particularly played out in the Windows Media Player: as near s I can tell, they implemented a lot of additional DRM in the Vista version, and have been backporting it to XP to keep people from using free and DRM-free players like VLC. Yes, I'm wearing a bit of a tinfoil hat about this, but they really need to keep people locked to the DRM managed MediaPlayer to force broadcasters and media suppliers from using or supporting other operating systems.
You have more confidence in Windows 7 than I do. Do you have some reason for such confidendce? Vista was similarly advertised as a wonderful upgrade, but its promised features (such as WinFS) somehow managed to fail, miserably, when actually tried and many of them were pulled from the final product. The new user interface is pretty silly, its intrusive DRM and security features are painful for users and encourage similar stupidities of always hitting 'yes', and the policy games played with releasing 'Vista-only' drivers and products are awful.
There seems no reason to think that the policies that led to Vista have changed, even if its preliminary tests are promising. Preliminary tests of Vista were also misleading in their performance tests.
Why would you want it?
The time spent rewriting and managing the queries for it would be far better spent with an open source, universally applicable set of tools such as Nagios, MRTG, CFengine, etc. I've had difficulty explaining to managers impressed by OpenView demos that the work of configuring it for a site is similar to that of integrating open source tools for the HP machines, and the open source tools are more flexible to make a better map of the network and its services.
Give out OLPC's, they could distribute easily twice as many machines. And the distributed networking support is far superior to the average Windows or even Linux setup.
An uber programmer who refuses to document isn't an uber programmer, no matter how often they win the obfuscated C ontest with their projects.
Or rather, do not engage in the 'layers of abstraction' model of LISP where each layer is entirely cordoned off from the others, and only information about official, authorized practices is allowed to be shared among different levels, and the different layers are forbidden from seeing the other layers. It's one of the worst programming practices I've ever been shown, and it's death to managing competent people. Your people will perform better if they're aware of other groups as part of their company, part of their group, with whom they share goals and resources.
Far too many managers are taught to segment their group away from others, to protect their turf and 'husband their resources'. The resulting isolation is devastating technologically, and socially, to a programming group creating products or an IT group providing services.
Just like the idea of suing McDonald's for spilling hot coffee in your own lap, it sounds silly until you look at the pattern.
* The directions for the Wiimote encourage robust swinging of the control for various games, such as tennis, basketball, and exercise programs.
* Kids, whose coordination is not that good and whose hands are not that strong, are encouraged to play with these things. This makes such accidents far more likely.
* Nintendo had already received a number of complaints about the straps, but continued to sell the flimsy versions.
* Nintendo hid the complaints in the previous lawsuit, which is a violation of the relevant 'discovery' procedures that their own lawyers should have prevented.
* The new strap apparently also fails.
That's more than enough for a reasonable lawsuit holding Nintendo liable for destructions that they knew were not rare, and which they apparently lied about the existence of. It's not like throwing a brick: it's like a hammer with such a slick handle, it's likely to slip from your hands.
Drones are taught by their layers of 'advisors'. Someone gave this teacher a very, very bad grounding in what software licensing includes.
Mind you, if the 'Linux' in question was a commercial RHEL or SuSE or other packaged software, the kid should be suspended for piracy, and pointed to Fedora and Gentoo and the other 'free as in beer' operating systems.