Also, Wikileaks might actually keep people honest - if it eventually sinks in that every despicable, degrading act of this war will eventually be made public, and there will be scope for informed revenge rather than the mor conventional ill-informed terrorism as a result
I try to be fair by pointing out that israel has had decent leadership and it wasn't always this way (but they shot him). Their star may yet fall. God, I hope it does..
Absolutely. I'd say that the ethics of the Sauds and those of certain influential fringe movements in Israel represent the twin serious threats to stability in that neighbourhood.
It actually shows some credit to RIM that they are willing to lose customers rather than submit to the 'national security concerns' of a nation that in many ways has a long way to go, developmentally.
I'd have thought, however risky we are to meet, any civilisation that's aware of us and monitoring would probably start with a generic 'hey guys, want to chat? Check where this signal is coming from if you want to know who we are'
it might not only be human society that thinks turning up unannounced is poor form.
I think that travel between star systems is technically plausible, if at a cost of unbelievable commitment in turning over the efforts of a planetary civilisation to building and testing suitable spacecraft.
Providing the sort of transport capacity to move a viable population over that sort of distance is a step further - think of all the trades required to support our lives and manufacturing (raw materials, energy, transport, food supply, health). i think any society that wants extra-solar colonies needs to get molecular fabrication sorted first, and do it ultra-reliably in case they'll be operating 10 light years from tech.support.
All the good Christians are the ones who dump the violent, prejudiced, intolerant bullshit that infests any religion and concentrate on DOING GOOD. And yes, I'm an atheist, I don't need the threat of punishment to do good.
They could recode (at least to an extent, I remember Google recently commented on the difficulty of going all-the-way with Youtube because of certain advanced features they would have to drop.
Also, although Google analytics probably has a generous dev. budget, Yahoo is in a perilous financial position and maybe can't afford the designers and testing costs of a makeover into new technology (for Hulu i cannot comment, I know nothing of their finances)
So relatively few people have them that the cost to society of abandoning DAB and finding something that works properly is negligible. Do it. Do it now. Don't let people buy into a failed experiment.
A series of trials in Germany in 1945 established incontrovertibly that soldiers are responsible for their actions carried out under command from a superior officer, and that an order which defies the commonly understood laws of humane conduct is not a valid order and no defence
Moving beyond generalities - of course war is unfair and the one certainty is that the prime movers in any conflict escape with their lives - for example British former PM Tony Blair has probably killed more people he's never met than any PM since WW2 but will we ever see him in a dock?
In war, as with Wikileaks - only terrorism can bring truth down on the shoulders of the truly guilty. The formal system of armies and battles, like the formal system of reporters and censors, is set up to protect the people whose business it is to make war. The professional murderers.
Democratic accountability might go both ways. If American lives are put at risk because of reports of the actions of the American government, that seems.... balanced? not fair, war's never fair, but reciprocal, perhaps.. In the end you WILL reap what you sow.
Who said I was encouraging gun nuts? If you read my post you'll see no suggestion of any action nor any suggestion of the tools of choice. The 'something' that might happen in revenge could be as innocuous as a custard pie in the face
(I'm British - custard pies are more respected as the weapon of choice than guns over here). However I will take issue with your assertion that governments are best at force-escalation.
If the war that Bradley Manning has lost his liberty to truly expose has shown us anything it is that even when governments try to escalate they will always be outmanouevred by the irregular forces. Insurgents, freedom fighters, terrorists - call them what you will, they can plumb depths of savagery governments can't even peer into.
Against a motivated force of irregulars government will eventually always lose because weapons can't kill an idea.
I would hazard a guess that Google's spin will be that you login with your google login and password, and it finds your machines IP address and connects you, or offers a list of machines to which you have a right to connect...
Well you could have one powerhouse of a server running flat-out and many lightweight clients (ARM chips are very power efficient) connected to it as clients. Might draw a lot less power than the traditional 'many moderately powered machines running local apps' setup
If they make it go through their authentication systems instead of publishing an external IP address that could be a lot safer - ie, as long as the computer's properly protected and access is limited to the appropriate IP range it shouldnt pose any greater risk than running a legacy app on a computer you're sitting at
You suggest that the slow car in a convoy is a worthwhile target..
Consider though, a lot of people drive at 50-60mph now not through an innate desire to crawl but because most cars become progressively less efficient as speed rises above 55mph. A lot of them would drive faster if they could afford the extra fuel (and didnt care for the climate concerns)
Technology can improve car efficiency to an extent but with so many legacy vehicles working out their design lifespan on the secondhand market, pollution control and energy independence are well-served by cars not going above 60mph
I believe the road should be designed for the speed limit. Lane markers, traffic islands, bollards and margins all delineate an area in which the driver in a car feels they have complete right of movement, and given a clearly marked lane ahead will accelerate to the speed they feel most comfortable with.
if you make the way ahead less obviously marked and force drivers to approach each corner or junction with an eye to where it is safe to drive you force a slowing-down through common-sense that is hard to enforce by law
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A fisherman always casts his line to the fish he can see first, then scouts further afield later....
Also, Wikileaks might actually keep people honest - if it eventually sinks in that every despicable, degrading act of this war will eventually be made public, and there will be scope for informed revenge rather than the mor conventional ill-informed terrorism as a result
he had (has?) a home country. Its just that as with nearly everyone in his organisation, it was neither of the 2 countries that got attacked
I try to be fair by pointing out that israel has had decent leadership and it wasn't always this way (but they shot him). Their star may yet fall. God, I hope it does..
Absolutely. I'd say that the ethics of the Sauds and those of certain influential fringe movements in Israel represent the twin serious threats to stability in that neighbourhood.
It actually shows some credit to RIM that they are willing to lose customers rather than submit to the 'national security concerns' of a nation that in many ways has a long way to go, developmentally.
I'd have thought, however risky we are to meet, any civilisation that's aware of us and monitoring would probably start with a generic 'hey guys, want to chat? Check where this signal is coming from if you want to know who we are'
it might not only be human society that thinks turning up unannounced is poor form.
I think that travel between star systems is technically plausible, if at a cost of unbelievable commitment in turning over the efforts of a planetary civilisation to building and testing suitable spacecraft.
Providing the sort of transport capacity to move a viable population over that sort of distance is a step further - think of all the trades required to support our lives and manufacturing (raw materials, energy, transport, food supply, health). i think any society that wants extra-solar colonies needs to get molecular fabrication sorted first, and do it ultra-reliably in case they'll be operating 10 light years from tech.support.
lol - busy redefining my priorities
So kill them, and do it without witnesses
All the good Christians are the ones who dump the violent, prejudiced, intolerant bullshit that infests any religion and concentrate on DOING GOOD. And yes, I'm an atheist, I don't need the threat of punishment to do good.
They could recode (at least to an extent, I remember Google recently commented on the difficulty of going all-the-way with Youtube because of certain advanced features they would have to drop.
Also, although Google analytics probably has a generous dev. budget, Yahoo is in a perilous financial position and maybe can't afford the designers and testing costs of a makeover into new technology (for Hulu i cannot comment, I know nothing of their finances)
So relatively few people have them that the cost to society of abandoning DAB and finding something that works properly is negligible. Do it. Do it now. Don't let people buy into a failed experiment.
A lot of OSS projects are so tightly controlled by a primary sponsor that the same applies. OpenOffice.Org for instance
You know what they say - Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets. If you're a mech.eng and you need a job....
A series of trials in Germany in 1945 established incontrovertibly that soldiers are responsible for their actions carried out under command from a superior officer, and that an order which defies the commonly understood laws of humane conduct is not a valid order and no defence
Moving beyond generalities - of course war is unfair and the one certainty is that the prime movers in any conflict escape with their lives - for example British former PM Tony Blair has probably killed more people he's never met than any PM since WW2 but will we ever see him in a dock?
In war, as with Wikileaks - only terrorism can bring truth down on the shoulders of the truly guilty. The formal system of armies and battles, like the formal system of reporters and censors, is set up to protect the people whose business it is to make war. The professional murderers.
and if American lives really are at stake here
Democratic accountability might go both ways. If American lives are put at risk because of reports of the actions of the American government, that seems.... balanced? not fair, war's never fair, but reciprocal, perhaps.. In the end you WILL reap what you sow.
Who said I was encouraging gun nuts? If you read my post you'll see no suggestion of any action nor any suggestion of the tools of choice. The 'something' that might happen in revenge could be as innocuous as a custard pie in the face
(I'm British - custard pies are more respected as the weapon of choice than guns over here). However I will take issue with your assertion that governments are best at force-escalation.
If the war that Bradley Manning has lost his liberty to truly expose has shown us anything it is that even when governments try to escalate they will always be outmanouevred by the irregular forces. Insurgents, freedom fighters, terrorists - call them what you will, they can plumb depths of savagery governments can't even peer into.
Against a motivated force of irregulars government will eventually always lose because weapons can't kill an idea.
So we can suppose this is an operation to make people doubt the safety of going to Wikileaks?
Suppose something happened to Lamo in revenge, out there in the offline world - maybe such operations would be discouraged in future.
I would hazard a guess that Google's spin will be that you login with your google login and password, and it finds your machines IP address and connects you, or offers a list of machines to which you have a right to connect...
Well you could have one powerhouse of a server running flat-out and many lightweight clients (ARM chips are very power efficient) connected to it as clients. Might draw a lot less power than the traditional 'many moderately powered machines running local apps' setup
I suspect this is another outing for Google's NeatX FreeNX Server
If they make it go through their authentication systems instead of publishing an external IP address that could be a lot safer - ie, as long as the computer's properly protected and access is limited to the appropriate IP range it shouldnt pose any greater risk than running a legacy app on a computer you're sitting at
the movie was called Starman
You suggest that the slow car in a convoy is a worthwhile target..
Consider though, a lot of people drive at 50-60mph now not through an innate desire to crawl but because most cars become progressively less efficient as speed rises above 55mph. A lot of them would drive faster if they could afford the extra fuel (and didnt care for the climate concerns)
Technology can improve car efficiency to an extent but with so many legacy vehicles working out their design lifespan on the secondhand market, pollution control and energy independence are well-served by cars not going above 60mph
I believe the road should be designed for the speed limit. Lane markers, traffic islands, bollards and margins all delineate an area in which the driver in a car feels they have complete right of movement, and given a clearly marked lane ahead will accelerate to the speed they feel most comfortable with.
if you make the way ahead less obviously marked and force drivers to approach each corner or junction with an eye to where it is safe to drive you force a slowing-down through common-sense that is hard to enforce by law