Doesn't matter. What matters is that the deniers will now publish this as "scientific fact" on every possible news/media channel and the USA will get a tiny bit stupider as a result.
The ridiculousness here is that anyone believes that NSA actually has a "dossier" on all Americans — or even cares about Americans at all, given that its sole purpose for existence is foreign signals intelligence as exponentially increasing amounts of foreign traffic travel through networks, systems, and infrastructure on US soil.
Do the pink unicorns poop rainbows in your world...?
If you define fitness as "endurance" then I dunno who'd win. Those acrobat guys are unbelievably strong compared to normal people and they all have heart rates in the 40's, etc.
Let's see. Easy to fake. Impossible to revoke. Ripe for abuse. No duress password. How is this going to protect anybody or anything? At some point, convenience trumping everything else is going to lead to a lot of INconvenient situations.
You forgot one: We leave copies of them behind us wherever we go (DNA, fingerprints...).
I believe the UK wants to send him to Sweden so they can blame the Swedes for the extradition when it happens - "Well, it wasn't us!", thus saving face and showing the world they're not 100% the USA's lackey.
I think they thought it was going to be lot easier than this to send him there.
a) Extraditing Julian Assange from the UK is not necessarily easier than from Sweden. Sweden definitely has special agreements with the USA for 'temporary' transfer, with little paperwork or judicial process involved. b) Julian Assange offered to go to Sweden if they would garantee he wouldn't be transferred to the USA. They said they wouldn't garantee that.
To me, point (b) pretty much means they will send him to the USA.
There's also the matter of Hillary Clinton's visit to Sweden a few days before Julian Assange was due to be extradited. a) The first visit to Sweden by a US secretary of state in 30-something years b) By somebody who's taking the whole Wikileaks/Julian Assange thing very personally
What's that all about...?
(Yeah, I know that's conspiracy-nut territory but, come on...that's one hell of a coincidence)
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Crichton was trying to make a point with his Jurassic Park novels. It was a cautionary tale about "the law of unintended consequences".
So...this is just one of those unintended consequences.
Yep.
(sorry, no mod points...)
I wonder if one of those fine, granular controls is "none at all"?
Does the USA realize that all this "we're running the world" stuff just makes foreign extremists angry? Even more determined to have it?
Imagine it was the other way around with some other country telling the USA what to do...
Doesn't matter. What matters is that the deniers will now publish this as "scientific fact" on every possible news/media channel and the USA will get a tiny bit stupider as a result.
Dear Anon: I've got history on my side. Thanks for playing.
The ridiculousness here is that anyone believes that NSA actually has a "dossier" on all Americans — or even cares about Americans at all, given that its sole purpose for existence is foreign signals intelligence as exponentially increasing amounts of foreign traffic travel through networks, systems, and infrastructure on US soil.
Do the pink unicorns poop rainbows in your world...?
Google isn't run by the Government...
Pachelbel's Canon has eight notes...
That's because he never heard Pachelbel's Canon in D
A lot of pop music is just the words "nigger" and "mother fucker" repeated in various combinations.
Yo!
I could ask him what use political science is. To me it sounds like a "goofing off" subject.
If you define fitness as "endurance" then I dunno who'd win. Those acrobat guys are unbelievably strong compared to normal people and they all have heart rates in the 40's, etc.
the pinnacle of human fitness, try something like the US Navy SEALs. [ Any other better examples /. ? ]
Nah. If you want fitness try somebody from Cirque du Soleil .. or a Ballet dancer. They'll run rings around one of those Navy grunts.
Head crashes are usually caused by dust on the platter. Anything in a 'cartridge' can have a head crash - they're not sealed units.
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Metal expands and contracts with temperature...
Reformatting DOES NOT get rid of files.
Quick formatting doesn't. A full format certainly does.
I reformatted my NTFS XP hard drive to FAT32...
Did the format take hours to complete?
Who says there's an "IT department"? It might be three guys in a basement.
(As per usual, Ask Slashdot has posted an incomplete question...)
Disk imaging only needs to overwrite as man sectors as are needed for the new files.
If the disk had been imaged when you started using it, those sectors aren't going to be the ones with your personal stuff in them.
Let's see. Easy to fake. Impossible to revoke. Ripe for abuse. No duress password. How is this going to protect anybody or anything? At some point, convenience trumping everything else is going to lead to a lot of INconvenient situations.
You forgot one: We leave copies of them behind us wherever we go (DNA, fingerprints...).
Not totally. If the biometric fingerprint is verified under controlled conditions (i.e. a competent person supervising it).
Snork. I just blew coffee out of my nose (luckily I use a Model M and it survived...)
PS: What about people who don't have fingerprints? Pretty much anybody who does manual work will have very little fingerprint on their fingers.
I believe the UK wants to send him to Sweden so they can blame the Swedes for the extradition when it happens - "Well, it wasn't us!", thus saving face and showing the world they're not 100% the USA's lackey.
I think they thought it was going to be lot easier than this to send him there.
Whatever, time will show who's right.
He should stand trial.
He offered to go there and stand trial if the Swedish government would garantee they wouldn't send him to the USA. The Swedish government refused.
To me it seems the whole 'rape' thing is a setup. What would you do in the same circumstances?
The hard facts are:
a) Extraditing Julian Assange from the UK is not necessarily easier than from Sweden. Sweden definitely has special agreements with the USA for 'temporary' transfer, with little paperwork or judicial process involved.
b) Julian Assange offered to go to Sweden if they would garantee he wouldn't be transferred to the USA. They said they wouldn't garantee that.
To me, point (b) pretty much means they will send him to the USA.
There's also the matter of Hillary Clinton's visit to Sweden a few days before Julian Assange was due to be extradited.
a) The first visit to Sweden by a US secretary of state in 30-something years
b) By somebody who's taking the whole Wikileaks/Julian Assange thing very personally
What's that all about...?
(Yeah, I know that's conspiracy-nut territory but, come on...that's one hell of a coincidence)
I'm pretty sure they'll be running them in x64 mode, not x86.
I'm sure modern Intel CPUs with multiple instruction dispatch and SSE for math instead of x87 will give the i860 a run for its money.
But yeah ... some of those old chips were cool (even if they didn't have a proper divide or sqrt instruction :-)