I suspect it is not the information on explosives that they are after. Rather, the viewpoint from which the book is written. If there is ever an excuse for the state to go after someone that threatens their power, it is terrorism. And the anarchist cookbook, however misguided it might be, is an affront to state power. It is certainly in the best interest of the political class to contain the anarchist view as much as possible. You are judging the book by its cover aren't you? The Anarchist's Cookbook is not full of any "viewpoint" - no diatribes, no essays, just semi-bogus instructions for a bunch of james-bond stuff.
Forget waterboarding and all those other physically traumatic methods of torture. They ought to be all over this stuff looking for ways to convince their secret prisoners that their god is speaking to them directly, ordering them to give up their secrets to the interrogators.
While this is interesting, it likely is not as sinister as you might think. Go ahead and make a (preferably non-graffiti) change to the article yourself - in the edit history, your IP will be recorded as 1.0.22.53. I don't know why - it is what it is. Probably a bug. Might be nice to get it fixed.
What's the point? All it can do is surf the internet and make phone calls. Surf the internet from a read-only OS. No worries about trojans or key-loggers. Seems like it would be an ideal way to do online-banking and other sensitive types of activities without worry that your system was compromised.
So, the idea is that if the something is desirable, others will go out of their way to find alternative ways to arrive at something. Some of these might be better than the original. That doesn't make sense. If an alternate method really is better, then that fact alone is enough incentive. If the new method's benefits are not enough of an incentive, then adding patents to the mix only creates artificial incentive which is economically inefficient.
Or new somethings may be encountered along the way (inventions tend to happen by accident, yada yada). That would be a very poor justification for two reasons -
discoveries sometimes happen by "accident" in pure science, but inventions are applied science and happy accidents are much more rare there
a policy of encouraging random accidents would be hugely inefficient. Nobody wants to bet their livelihoods on the luck of the draw
Look, if I buy a CD and then share my music with a friend, and she rips it, then that is fair use. IOW, that person and myself have the RIGHT to do that. No, that pretty clearly is not fair use. You are fine lending the CD to anyone you please, but their ripping it is not really defensible as fair use because it violates most of the tests for fair use set out in title 17.
OTH, if I rip a CD and then offer it you, then I am selling something (for nothing, but still selling since I do not know you). Uh, no. That's not "selling" it is unauthorized distribution and whether or not you "know" the person you are distributing to has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
doesn't the wavelength of the lidar depend on the laser that's used? I should have qualified that as "traffic lidar" which is always 904nm in the USA and all other traffic-lidar-using countries that I know of. I don't know why different systems all use the same wavelength, but they do.
Except it's my understanding, though I may be entirely wrong, that the encryption makes this impossible -- that errors would involve in the HDMI signal being reset. You are right, encrypted video over hdmi fails spectacularly with even a minor error rate. However, video in the clear over hdmi fails much more gracefully. It takes a rather high error rate before the average human eye is able to detect the single-pixel errors and when they do become visible they often manifest as "sparklies" where the pixels randomly flash to full-white.
through glass (which is almost totally reflective for the long wave ir cameras that i've used). i wonder if there's something special about the glass they use in vehicles... LIDAR is 904nm which is easily detected through most kinds of automotive glass. It just usually isn't detected in time for the driver to do anything about being illuminated.
My impression was that most glass is opaque to UV but not IR, which is why your dashboard gets hot in the sun.
I wasn't talking about China. Only an idiot would try to argue that China doesn't actively censor news and information. Gee, do you always deliberately misinterpret the point when you have nothing to stand on anymore? The point is that china practices censorship that obviously meets your definition -- state-enforced and wide-spread -- and yet even then, the information is only partially suppressed. Thus any argument claiming that as long as the information is only partially suppressed and that there are other ways for the information to eventually get out means there is no censorship is absolutely groundless.
Sibel Edmonds could be the poster child for how little censorship there is in the USA. Where you smirking when you wrote that? Because you obviously didn't have a clue about her before I told you to go look her up. Just like the vast majority of the population still doesn't know who she is or what was done to her.
Censorship is not black and white, all or nothing, stop tilting at that windmill.
Don't spin the story. He went on a screechy rant. The mic was open for pointed questions, not long political diatribes. He could have asked his questions without doing that, but he wanted to make a scene, as evidenced by his history and his intention to make sure it was taped. I'm not spinning, I'm untangling the knots the popular news spun into it. Is 90 seconds a "long political diatribe?" Just what history of his are you talking about? Please, name an event in that history, don't just parrot the party-line. And if you were asking an important question of a major politician, are you saying you would prefer that your question and the answer not be recorded? Should the presidential debates not be recorded this year either? Perhaps set the broadcast flag on the program so no one can record it?
And big fucking deal, he got tazed. For somebody resisting arrest that's mild. The fact that he was arrested in the first place for making a "long political diatribe" of 90 seconds is the issue. The tazing just puts a sharp edge on it. Unfortunately the ignorant prefer to focus on the tazing and ignore the question as to just when the fuck did we start arresting people for speaking an extra minute beyond their turn in this country? Are they going to arrest every speaker during the presidential debates this year, because you know those aren't for long political diatribes either - the candidates are supposed to answer the questions succinctly, but inevitably they will all go over their time limits and with a diatribe or two.
I'd point out that the kid apparently has a history of conducting public pranks, and that before he stood up to ask his question, he gave the girl sitting next to him his camera and said "make sure you get all this." As a result, I feel my initial assessment is accurate--the kid was goofing around, and the cops moved it to put a stop to it. Can you name even one of those "public pranks?" Party-line all the way man.
As for the camera bit, more party line straight out of a police department press-release. Don't you think that anyone asking a question that they thought was important would want the asking and the answering recorded? You are suffering from the false belief that he intended the results, as if anyone could know that he would be hauled off and "quieted down" for speaking beyond 30 seconds. And if he DID intend to get those results, then Fucking-A more power to him. If its so prevalent that he can be assured of that kind of reaction, then the cover-up has gone too far already.
But even if we disagree on that point, you seem to be suggesting that a couple of boneheaded cops (over)reacting to this kid's rant is some kind of evil portent, as though this was some kind of government facism writ large. I, on the other hand, regard this as merely another example of cops being dicks. Cops aren't dicks in a vacuum. This case is just one event among many. Free-speech zones, the NYPD's national program of infiltration of protest groups pre the republican convention, etc. Too many people want to think of censorship as black and white, all or nothing. That's not censorship and never has been. Censorship is intimidation and marginalization of speakers.
The absolute worst part about what happened to the tasered-guy is not that it happened, but that so many people like yourself think he deserved it. You've already been convinced that even minor stepping out of line is deserving of arrest. The censorship has worked.
Actually I did hear his questions and his statements, as did millions of others. That's the new censorship, for ya, millions of people getting to hear what you say. ANd not a single one of them listened. You obviously don't know what he said would have to go watch the video again to figure it out. Sure you can do that because some guy on slashdot challenged you to, but the rest of those millions won't.
Sibel Edmonds? You mean the Sibel Edmonds with her own Wiki page? The one that is now getting awards and speaking engagements? Is that the one you are talking about? The new censorship, at work again. Indeed, and how long did it take? Long enough to suck a ton of money out of Iraq and our pocketbooks, that's for sure.
You are an utter fool if you really believe that censorship is black and white. Maybe its the terminology that has you confused, call it information control, does that help? It's well known that China censors information about the Tianamen Square uprising, but that does prevent some people in China from being aware of their history, just the fat, dumb and happy majority. The point is simple - control enough of the methods of distribution and public focus and you have effective censorship.
I've gotta cry foul here. The taser boy had a chance to stand up and say his piece. Now, maybe we disagree on this, but from every video I've seen, he basically seems to be reciting a line, and although he does ask two questions, at no point does he pause to wait for any answers. After about two minutes of this, somebody signals the police to take the mic from him, he starts fighting, and from there it escalates. Try again. The guy asked two rhetorical questions in order to lay the basis for his third question, which he did ask before they turned his mic off. Kerry even said something to the effect that he would answer the questions which (a) we've never heard and (b) should have been a signal to the "campus cops" (who are fully deputized police officers BTW) to back off.
Furthermore, it was a political rally - since when is asking a long-winded question cause to be hauled off and "quieted down?" The guy was not insulting to Kerry nor was he threatening - "rowdy" is hardly the right term. If you really believe that kind of reaction is appropriate in that context then you've already slid too far down the slope.
Has there been US government sponsored censorship in the past? Certainly, but no worse than any other country that has ever existed. And that is the standard we should hold our country to? No worse than anyone else? The leader of the free world is no worse than anyone else?
Is there censorship going on now in the US? I don't see how it could be, with a 24 hour news cycle and the web. Are you serious? Here's a clue for you - if censorship is working then the average guy, aka YOU, isn't hearing about it. That doesn't mean the information isn't out there, its just repressed enough to keep the majority from learning about it, enough to marginalize those who actually do learn about it and thus step away from the herd. Just one out of thousands of variations on the theme, do you know who Sibel Edmonds is?
Even that kid that got tazed for being an idiot had a video up in a few hours. First he was told to ask a question, then he was told to put the mike down, then he resisted arrest and then he was tazed. Sorry, that is not censorship. If anything, he was preventing others from asking questions, which is censorship. That would be funny if it weren't sad. You demonstrate with your own words the censorship that occurred there. You don't have a clue as to the question he was asking. All you know is what you've been told to think -- that some dumbshit disobeyed authority and rightfully got his ass tasered.
I wasn't aware we'd completely solved problems of responsiveness vs throughput, or of normal vs soft realtime vs hard realtime. And I don't think we ever will. I think Linus's point that scheduler performance can be measured is the strongest reason to go with pluggable schedulers. I want the scheduler that performs best for the way that I use my system. I don't think anyone gives a ratsass about how well the scheduler works for someone else. I want it to work best for me and my workloads.
It's legal to unlock a phone. But once you've modified the phone to do that, it becomes your problem. Don't install the new firmware. I'm pretty much in agreement. Except for one unanswered question - is the bricking intentional or really and truly a side-effect? If it is intentional, then I'd says Apple is due a class action lawsuit. However, proving it may be very difficult.
No price jump if you buy the whole album. whoohoo! Why am I buying an entire lossy album when the CD costs just about as much?
And reportedly Amazon's terms of service don't allow re-downloading of transfer of ownership. And this is different from Itunes?
You so need adblock and noscript. To me, it looks like any other web page - no flashing, no movement, no ads, no weirdo-underlined words. There is a little extra white-space near the top, probably for a banner-ad that didn't collapse completely.
I can even click the thumbnail of the chart to get the full-size image without any problem - which is usually what fails, if anything is going to fail, when running with noscript.
I don't think robo-cars are really all that interesting now. With stuff like Battlestar Galactica, and Heroes and Dr. Who on the air, and with the whole Star Trek franchise come and gone since Knight Rider, people have a somewhat higher expectation of quality from their sci-fi adventure. Well, 3 of 4 shows you mentioned are essentially remakes that have been updated for modern sensibilities. Don't you think the Knight Rider could also be a remade and updated in a similar fashion?
In Burma we don't have pro-democracy protesters like in your country, I don't know who told you that. I haven't seen many pro-democracy protesters in the USA either.
So you're in the US? I go there 5 times a year man. Drop me an email, we'll arrange a meet. Let me know when you get to Denver, no reason to do it in email. Of course you would be an idiot to show. You have no idea how many local gangbangers and thugs want to give you a beat-down for your lame unix skillz. They fuckin' hate people who can't use the sticky bit right.
You're a big man when you've got your anonymity to hide behind. "QuantumG?" Give me a break. You are more anonymous than I am -- Elijah Wren Ryel, that's my given name. You're the big man hiding behind the whole freaking pacific ocean. But you are sooo damn easy to bait.
If you're so fuckin' tough, how about we meet up and discuss this personally? Chicken shit. Stop it man! Lol, you are killing me! Posting from australia like a roid rager! Hillfuckinglrious parody dood!!
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Why aren't the NSA and the CIA all over this?
Forget waterboarding and all those other physically traumatic methods of torture. They ought to be all over this stuff looking for ways to convince their secret prisoners that their god is speaking to them directly, ordering them to give up their secrets to the interrogators.
My impression was that most glass is opaque to UV but not IR, which is why your dashboard gets hot in the sun.
Censorship is not black and white, all or nothing, stop tilting at that windmill.
As for the camera bit, more party line straight out of a police department press-release. Don't you think that anyone asking a question that they thought was important would want the asking and the answering recorded? You are suffering from the false belief that he intended the results, as if anyone could know that he would be hauled off and "quieted down" for speaking beyond 30 seconds. And if he DID intend to get those results, then Fucking-A more power to him. If its so prevalent that he can be assured of that kind of reaction, then the cover-up has gone too far already. But even if we disagree on that point, you seem to be suggesting that a couple of boneheaded cops (over)reacting to this kid's rant is some kind of evil portent, as though this was some kind of government facism writ large. I, on the other hand, regard this as merely another example of cops being dicks. Cops aren't dicks in a vacuum. This case is just one event among many. Free-speech zones, the NYPD's national program of infiltration of protest groups pre the republican convention, etc. Too many people want to think of censorship as black and white, all or nothing. That's not censorship and never has been. Censorship is intimidation and marginalization of speakers.
The absolute worst part about what happened to the tasered-guy is not that it happened, but that so many people like yourself think he deserved it. You've already been convinced that even minor stepping out of line is deserving of arrest. The censorship has worked.
You are an utter fool if you really believe that censorship is black and white. Maybe its the terminology that has you confused, call it information control, does that help? It's well known that China censors information about the Tianamen Square uprising, but that does prevent some people in China from being aware of their history, just the fat, dumb and happy majority. The point is simple - control enough of the methods of distribution and public focus and you have effective censorship.
Furthermore, it was a political rally - since when is asking a long-winded question cause to be hauled off and "quieted down?" The guy was not insulting to Kerry nor was he threatening - "rowdy" is hardly the right term. If you really believe that kind of reaction is appropriate in that context then you've already slid too far down the slope.
You so need adblock and noscript. To me, it looks like any other web page - no flashing, no movement, no ads, no weirdo-underlined words. There is a little extra white-space near the top, probably for a banner-ad that didn't collapse completely.
I can even click the thumbnail of the chart to get the full-size image without any problem - which is usually what fails, if anything is going to fail, when running with noscript.
Drop me an email, we'll arrange a meet. Let me know when you get to Denver, no reason to do it in email.
Of course you would be an idiot to show.
You have no idea how many local gangbangers and thugs want to give you a beat-down for your lame unix skillz.
They fuckin' hate people who can't use the sticky bit right.
Yeah...
I'm wondering if you fully understand the meaning of less than or equal to?
Hillfuckinglrious parody dood!!