In the video about helicopter shooting the most unpleasant aspect to me was the attitude of soldiers. Mistakes happen and they could be forgivable, if they were honest mistakes, not some malicious activity.
This video made the Wikileaks the phenomena which it is now. It was the talking and laughing, not an error in itself, what created Wikileaks exhausts.
As for memory thumbs they were invented for a reason. They are the important tool. Like an ax to an ancient humans. Making soldiers and officers not to use them will just make an army weaker.
You see, the words in itself are part of a reality. It is not possible to to something good while speaking or writing in a mean way. The reality is not only physical objects and actions, the wording is also part of a reality. At least it influences it strongly.
Why have secrets in the first place? Why not to train soldiers not to laugh and joke when they shoot at people from a helicopter? Maybe follow some sort of an engagement procedure?
Why not train diplomats not to call insulting names and make cynical remarks? But use instead the whole register of great English language to express a thought.
And USB memory sticks could be used then. Why not? A USB memory stick is a great tool nowadays for information and communication worker. It is like forbidding a carpenter to use a hammer, because someone used it to hit people on a head. Not possible to produce a chair without a hammer.
Besides, how to forbid? OK, not USB memory stick. Sorry, but my digital photo-camera have 32 GB internal memory. 32 GB! It is 5 HD movies. Can I use a photo-camera? Mobile phone? MP3 player?
If soldiers cannot use such devices, which are part of the modern global culture, they will become even more savage.
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This is the demonstration in support of Julian Assange:
The 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during 26 January - 10 February 1934. During this congress things were said which were very damaging to Josef Stalin.
More than thousand delegates participated in this Congress. Almost all, all were later tracked, arrested and shot. In addition the smaller local congresses, which selected the delegates to this one, were arrested and shot.
Wikileaks cannot be stopped? Downloading insurance.aes256? Feeling pretty smart? Hmm... Think again. More strange things known to happen.
The spread of corruption in the former USSR is so wide, that it is practically impossible to work with local e-payments solutions providers. One has to conclude the contract with a company, and then still arrange kickbacks to a programmer, to make him willing to implement it on your website.
I tend to not trust such set-ups, as a little chmo can halt you website any moment, extorting a kickback.
I would prefer that such payment solutions as PayPal, MasterCard, etc. were present there directly, without local intermediaries. I am myself Russian, but I had to admit sadly that the corruption really hurts, e-business opportunities in the former USSR.
Come to think about it, I remember how Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Andrei Sakharov were hated in the USSR by authorities. Still they could not kill them. They could do it with others, but for some reason not with these two. It always puzzled me.
39-year-old Australian supplied the Metropolitan Police with contact details upon arriving in the UK in October. Police sources confirmed that they have a telephone number for Mr Assange and are fully aware of where he is staying.
I do not understand how he can leak information if the authorities know where he sits? Cannot they use the Echelon or NSA to block or modify his traffic?
You do not understand. Julian Assange wants to show the real situation with the freedom of press. He, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, decided "to live not by lies". He is not like you and me, he is taking a stand, fighting for the truth. Even if this truth is extremely unpleasant and even destructive.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn motto was: [Zhit ne po lzhi.] "Live not by lies.". He also broke some laws of that time, he had to go through horrors of GULAG, but such people, Like Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Julian Assange, cannot be frightened. They are the pillars of humanity.
When there are 1 TB flash drives, WiFi webcams, microphones smaller than a coin, communication lines of 1 GB/s, the secrets are just not possible anymore. It is the global village where everybody knows everything.
Why not to write cables in a respective tone in the first place? The great English language allows to express any thought without being insulting or rude. Why not let diplomats be diplomats, follow the Geneva convention, etc. It is not that difficult.
Solving the problem of cleaning plates and putting them into a dish-washing machine would have an effect measured in billions, if not in trillions. There are some experimental robots, but they are not robust so far.
The same about assembling orders in a warehouse. Say, taking a bottle from the shelf and putting it into a paper bag.
It would free armies of workers from monotonous hard labor, millions of people.
Samizdat (Russian: ; Russian pronunciation: [smzdat]) was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s. This grassroots practice to evade officially-imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: "I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and get imprisoned for it."
This is the point. The existing "statu quo" multi-billion soft is so mismanaged that sometimes all it takes is a couple of students to make a functional system which overtakes the whole market.
It was the story with the PHP. Two smart students made a better system than an army of Ph.Ds and MBAs.
Even though the PHP is not perfect, but it's de facto the Internet OS by now. It is high time that a new "from scratch" computer OS appears too; sort of the PHP of PCs.
Remember an appearance of PHP from nowhere, for a blue sky? Perl, C and CGI were then in full swing too. All it took - a Canadian university teacher, Swiss and 2 Israeli students.
Sometimes a stupidity of an existing software is begging for starting from scratch.
When I try to find a computer on a network in W7 via a set of bizarre icons, or try to find a way to open a file in Media Player, or set a property in Explorer's options I cannot help thinking: "What an imbecile could think of such an interface!"
Besides, in some parts there is still a conviction that using 16th century's Imperial measurements system for modern science and technology is a good idea.
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In the video about helicopter shooting the most unpleasant aspect to me was the attitude of soldiers. Mistakes happen and they could be forgivable, if they were honest mistakes, not some malicious activity.
This video made the Wikileaks the phenomena which it is now. It was the talking and laughing, not an error in itself, what created Wikileaks exhausts.
As for memory thumbs they were invented for a reason. They are the important tool. Like an ax to an ancient humans. Making soldiers and officers not to use them will just make an army weaker.
You see, the words in itself are part of a reality. It is not possible to to something good while speaking or writing in a mean way. The reality is not only physical objects and actions, the wording is also part of a reality. At least it influences it strongly.
It is sort of a complex dynamic system.
Why have secrets in the first place? Why not to train soldiers not to laugh and joke when they shoot at people from a helicopter? Maybe follow some sort of an engagement procedure?
Why not train diplomats not to call insulting names and make cynical remarks? But use instead the whole register of great English language to express a thought.
And USB memory sticks could be used then. Why not? A USB memory stick is a great tool nowadays for information and communication worker. It is like forbidding a carpenter to use a hammer, because someone used it to hit people on a head. Not possible to produce a chair without a hammer.
Besides, how to forbid? OK, not USB memory stick. Sorry, but my digital photo-camera have 32 GB internal memory. 32 GB! It is 5 HD movies. Can I use a photo-camera? Mobile phone? MP3 player?
If soldiers cannot use such devices, which are part of the modern global culture, they will become even more savage.
This is the demonstration in support of Julian Assange:
http://gallery.korrespondent.net/kyiv/2719-svobodu-dzhulianu-assanzhu-posolstvo-ssha-v-kieve-piketirovali-poklonniki-wikileaks
here they are, the "hackers from Eastern Europe".
The 17th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during 26 January - 10 February 1934. During this congress things were said which were very damaging to Josef Stalin.
More than thousand delegates participated in this Congress. Almost all, all were later tracked, arrested and shot. In addition the smaller local congresses, which selected the delegates to this one, were arrested and shot.
Wikileaks cannot be stopped? Downloading insurance.aes256? Feeling pretty smart? Hmm... Think again. More strange things known to happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_Congress_of_the_All-Union_Communist_Party_(b)
The spread of corruption in the former USSR is so wide, that it is practically impossible to work with local e-payments solutions providers. One has to conclude the contract with a company, and then still arrange kickbacks to a programmer, to make him willing to implement it on your website.
I tend to not trust such set-ups, as a little chmo can halt you website any moment, extorting a kickback.
I would prefer that such payment solutions as PayPal, MasterCard, etc. were present there directly, without local intermediaries. I am myself Russian, but I had to admit sadly that the corruption really hurts, e-business opportunities in the former USSR.
Gosh, it just repeats itself 1:1. Josef Stalin was the first ethnic minority leader.
Come to think about it, I remember how Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Andrei Sakharov were hated in the USSR by authorities. Still they could not kill them. They could do it with others, but for some reason not with these two. It always puzzled me.
Maybe it is like to kill a mockingbird?
39-year-old Australian supplied the Metropolitan Police with contact details upon arriving in the UK in October. Police sources confirmed that they have a telephone number for Mr Assange and are fully aware of where he is staying.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/wikileaks-chief-what-will-he-do-next-2148813.html
I do not understand how he can leak information if the authorities know where he sits? Cannot they use the Echelon or NSA to block or modify his traffic?
You do not understand. Julian Assange wants to show the real situation with the freedom of press. He, like Alexander Solzhenitsyn, decided "to live not by lies". He is not like you and me, he is taking a stand, fighting for the truth. Even if this truth is extremely unpleasant and even destructive.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn motto was: [Zhit ne po lzhi.] "Live not by lies.". He also broke some laws of that time, he had to go through horrors of GULAG, but such people, Like Alexander Solzhenitsyn or Julian Assange, cannot be frightened. They are the pillars of humanity.
So you thought Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn , Andrei Sakharov http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov and other Samizdat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat authors were a joke. Gave them Nobel prizes. Now, when you have got your first real samizdat author, you know how it feels.
God bless Switzerland, the birth place of the Red Cross and Geneva convention!
People of Switzerland are kind and fair. Because these people themselves had to run away from persecutions during Reformation period.
Julian Assange better come here himself to stay in one piece. The Swiss police is well trained after all and could provide a realistic protection.
When there are 1 TB flash drives, WiFi webcams, microphones smaller than a coin, communication lines of 1 GB/s, the secrets are just not possible anymore. It is the global village where everybody knows everything.
Why not to write cables in a respective tone in the first place? The great English language allows to express any thought without being insulting or rude. Why not let diplomats be diplomats, follow the Geneva convention, etc. It is not that difficult.
Create a web-application with Flash or SilverLight? With Acrobat?
I would rather say Apache, PHP, MySQL (PostgreSQL), JavaScript, GIMP, Notepad++, Firefox.
But how to do it with Flash, Silverlight, Acrobat, Apple-whatever? Will it work at all? Will someone use it?
The current Gmail administration seems to be OK, but what if it changes and what if they do by this time the same business?
It would be difficult to compete with guys who host your e-mail accounts and documents.
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
It is not an aircraft. It is too fast for an aircraft and too slow for a regular missile.
Actually, Rovio is surprisingly fast.
Teach cops what an IP address is and some foreign languages at police academies.
Actually it is very interesting.
Solving the problem of cleaning plates and putting them into a dish-washing machine would have an effect measured in billions, if not in trillions. There are some experimental robots, but they are not robust so far.
The same about assembling orders in a warehouse. Say, taking a bottle from the shelf and putting it into a paper bag.
It would free armies of workers from monotonous hard labor, millions of people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat
Samizdat (Russian: ; Russian pronunciation: [smzdat]) was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader, thus building a foundation for the successful resistance of the 1980s. This grassroots practice to evade officially-imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: "I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and get imprisoned for it."
Most web-applications run on Linux. Web-applications are sort of an OS now. I would even say that the Internet is the OS by now.
At it runs of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) mostly.
As for me I use for work the GIMP www.gimp.org . It is originally the Linux application, but I use it on Windows. Sort of, - the best of two worlds.
The brand PCs come with pre-installed c*rpware, which is rather difficult to remove.
I would say, even if you keep buying DELL's PCs, learn to build PCs on your own anyway. Learn it on small number first.
You may have, say, 990 DELL's PCs, and 10 of those, which you built yourself. And then compare. I am not sure that your PC would be worse.
This is the point. The existing "statu quo" multi-billion soft is so mismanaged that sometimes all it takes is a couple of students to make a functional system which overtakes the whole market.
It was the story with the PHP. Two smart students made a better system than an army of Ph.Ds and MBAs.
Even though the PHP is not perfect, but it's de facto the Internet OS by now. It is high time that a new "from scratch" computer OS appears too; sort of the PHP of PCs.
Remember an appearance of PHP from nowhere, for a blue sky? Perl, C and CGI were then in full swing too. All it took - a Canadian university teacher, Swiss and 2 Israeli students.
Sometimes a stupidity of an existing software is begging for starting from scratch.
When I try to find a computer on a network in W7 via a set of bizarre icons, or try to find a way to open a file in Media Player, or set a property in Explorer's options I cannot help thinking: "What an imbecile could think of such an interface!"
Besides, in some parts there is still a conviction that using 16th century's Imperial measurements system for modern science and technology is a good idea.