If by "defend itself" you mean go along with pretty much whatever the Axis powers wanted on all important issues under constant threat of invasion, then yes. Neutrality gives you the wonderful choice of supplying arms to the countries invading Russia and murdering Jews, or being invaded and occupied for however long the enemy feels like.
The world and the nature of military technology has changed a lot since then. In the Founder's days, all you need is to have all of the regular citizens own guns and have some level of training. Get them all together in one place and give 'em some uniforms, and you have an army that's comparable to any other at the time. Nowadays, the big three have changed the game: Aircraft, Armor, and Artillery. If you don't have them, then your army is a half-assed guerrilla force compared to a real army, and will be crushed in the blink of an eye. They're all incredibly expensive, have to be operated and maintained by highly trained crews, and have to be operated in close coordination with each other. There's no way to have them be distributed among a bunch of regular joes; you have to have a standing army.
True, but incomplete. The full truth is that there is no such thing as just educating people. If you are educating somebody, you are imposing your culture on them, destroying theirs in the process. The people whose kids you are trying to "educate" know full well that you are destroying their culture, and will often react violently to it. Thus it is impossible to educate a foreign people without a military occupation, and in the process, some of the occupiers and lots of the occupied will die, and piles of money will be spent.
Also true on starving people. If those people are there in the first place, then they must have some normal way of getting food that's worked well enough for their whole lives. If it suddenly stops, absent some sort of drought or environmental disaster, then it's because some local military force wants them to starve. Sending in more food doesn't address the root of the problem, which was never food. The only way it could be solved from the outside is to send in a superior military force to take over the region from the one that was denying the people food. And it isn't much of a long-term solution because the situation will go back to what it was as soon as that foreign force leaves. You can paint the force that was starving people as the bad guys, but usually every other potential force in the area, and the starving people themselves, all want to do exactly the same thing, only to some other group of people. For a long-term solution, you'd have to occupy and "educate" them them long enough to completely destroy their old culture and replace it with a new one, which takes decades.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they can beat public transportation easily, as it really isn't all that efficient overall. A bus with 50 people on it is very efficient, but in order to get those 50 people to actually ride the bus, you have to have a full schedule of back and forth, and most of those trips will be empty or with only a few passengers. Factor in all of the trips, and most public transit is only comparable to a good car.
Where you really save on efficiency is if taxis become drastically cheaper and more reliable. Now, taxis are usually expensive and unreliable, and owning more than one car per person is very expensive, so most people have to get a car that will handle almost anything they'll ever want to do as far as road trips, taking multiple passengers, moving cargo, etc. If you could buy a teeny electric car that'll get you to work and back and handle basic shopping, and call up a taxi cheaply for anything that requires more space or longer range, then you get some real power savings.
So in other words, it's an impenetrable, elitist old-boys club with no accountability to anybody, but we can totally trust them to do the right thing because they're all just so smart and awesome?
All right, that and my original post are a little tongue-in-cheek. But I inherently distrust this kind of elitist argument that some particular group of people are so much smarter and more wise than the general population that they should be given unchecked power over them with no accountability. First because pretty much any time anybody takes a close look at any group of people claiming to be the elite, you tend to find that they're just as stupid and corrupt as any other group of people. Second because even if you manage to find some group of people who are legitimately smart and awesome and put them in charge of everything, sooner or later, some of them will go bad, some will fail to keep up with evolving attitudes (for better or worse...), some will die or retire and be replaced by new people, etc, and you end up with the usual bunch of clowns, except now you don't have any checks against their power because you set the system up thinking that they were all perfect and nobody else was smart enough to second-guess them.
That's why democracy has done pretty well overall - the general population may not be perfect or even pretty good, but nobody among us is enough better to be given unchecked power over them.
Would you rather depend on "the whims and emotional instability of 12 idiots", or the lust for power, desire to impose an insane ideology on others, and desire for sensationalist news stories to boost political careers of one idiot?
My PS3 experience has me pretty soured on buying more Playstation stuff. I don't really care about the whole OtherOS thing - why would I bother buying a video game console to run Linux? What bugs me is the constant "system updates" that take forever right when you started up the machine to do something, and can't be skipped or delayed. And the network going down, losing my personal information and making other things, like Netflix instant view (god only knows why that needs PSN to work, but that's another beef...) stop working for weeks at a time.
The only hot war we'd have with China anytime soon is a nuclear war, and hundreds of millions on both sides would be dead long before any of the types that really cringe at mass casualties could object... if any of them were left at all.
Exactly what I experienced in almost every college class I took (mostly Engineering). Most of the other students seemed to want to write down what the professor is saying almost word-for-word. Normally, I focus mostly on listening and trying to understand, taking very few notes. That left me coming out of the class with a pretty solid understanding of what the lecture was about, and I could usually jump right into solving problems with it. The few times I tried taking really detailed notes, I found that I spent so much time and attention on it that I didn't really understand what the professor said, and the notes were still bad enough to not be much help. So I have no understanding and lousy notes instead of a good understanding and no notes.
For me, the only options are either pen and paper, or plain text files on some sort of computer. Don't try to edit or organize it in any way until after the presentation. The theme for me is that you should be spending most of your attention on the speaker and what they're saying - if the presentation isn't worth that, then why are you there? Avoid at all costs spending lots of time and attention on fiddling with computer settings, program options, formatting, and other such things. Even typing on smartphone-type devices is usually too attention-consuming to bother with.
Exactly which one is better depends on the situation. Text files are nice because you can search them, save them, and send them around easily, plus you'll probably want to type up whatever notes you have eventually anyways, so why not start them out in an electronic medium? On the other hand, computers are bulky to carry around, the batteries may not last long enough, and can be slow to get started up and shut down. And if you have to write down diagrams or equations, it's usually impossible to do it on a computer in a fast and efficient way that keeps your attention on the presentation.
I'm surprised there's no discussion of some of the most interesting points. Namely, if automatic cars are commercial and commonplace, then who's really in charge of them? Considering the potential danger of any errors in any changes to the control software, I'd have to expect it would be protected from any changes every way you could imagine (TMP, signed bootloaders/OS, all of that). Or else some inept hacker/terrorist/total nutcase will screw it up and cause some huge wreck.
So Google or Ford or whoever will probably be the ones in control of the software, and therefore the ones really in control of what the car does. And large companies tend to do whatever the Government asks them to, because they have a lot to lose. So, how long until it's set up so that if the police want you for any reason, good or bad, any car you get in will take you directly to them, refusing to do anything else? Probably all of the cars will also keep records of everywhere they go, and maybe everyone who rides in them too. And all those records will be in the hands of Google or whoever, available to any police agency with, or maybe without, a court order. Maybe available in bulk, for whatever bulk analysis anybody can dream up. Want a list of everyone who drove by that street where they sell drugs? Everyone who drove by a crime scene, just to see if there are any witnesses or accomplices? Here you go. What else can you dream up that someone might do with all of that data?
I do see the tremendous number of lives that could be saved and injuries prevented when human error is taken out of driving. I also think it's worth considering what else we might be giving up by doing it.
I care about "stealing the web" about as much as the people in charge of these ad companies care about not getting my computer hacked, not burying a simple site in megabytes of ads, flash animations, pop-ups, pop-overs, pop-unders, and like buttons for various sites that take 10 minutes to load, not leaking my personal data all over the web, etc. As far as I can tell, their level of caring is somewhere between zero, and thinking that I actually like it when they do that. I'll just go ahead and assume that they actually like it when I block their ads and scripts.
So much for my supposed phone security... I was just experimenting with it, and I discovered that I can easily get the phone to reboot into recovery without using any passwords or codes, and that I have an ADB root shell as long as it's in recovery (the phone's rooted and running CM7).
I suppose it would also be more secure if I didn't leave Titanium and Nandroid backups on the SD card that you can remove without even turning on the phone. Or if Clockwork recovery didn't let you do new Nandroid backups whenever you felt like it. Guess I better rethink a thing or two.
I'm curious how they managed to crack the Android phones. All of the rooting methods that I know of involve manually enabling Debug mode on the phone and then rooting around on the command line. If you have a screenlock enabled and have not left debug mode enabled, then I don't see any simple way to get access to the phone to even start to mess with exploits.
Then there's the question of how this relates to the FBI publicly having to go beg Google for help to get into some low-level criminal's Android phone that had the pattern lock enabled, which some have previously complained wasn't really all that secure. Are these guys blowing smoke about how easy it is to crack Android? Were the FBI guys working on this particular case just not on the ball? Has the Government decided not to break out their coolest tricks to solve a relatively minor crime? Did this guy have some particular model that's much harder to crack?
Exactly. It's becoming a mirror of the 80s/90s OS wars. It's not really about the OS anymore, it's about the apps. iOS has them. Android has them. WP7 doesn't and never will, and neither will any of these even smaller niche platforms. Anyone trying to make a new phone OS at this point is just throwing their money away. Get Android and do what you can with it, and you have a shot.
I know it's just a TV show, but doesn't anyone else find the elitism a little annoying?
We're the Feds. We can make all of the ridiculous laws we want, and bankrupt you or throw you in prison if you dare to break them. But as soon as one of our lives is briefly interrupted by our own ridiculous laws, we can make quips about how ridiculous they are and ignore them with no consequences.
We have a lot of complaining here about the nostalgia of flipping through the encyclopedia, but consider just how amazing the information revolution we are a part of is. Before, the quality of printed encyclopedias on most subjects was pretty high, but they were very expensive, and only published in limited languages. If you were lucky enough to grow up in a family able and willing to spend $1400 on books, or be near a library with one and have time to go there, then you have a great information source. Everyone else is just kind of boned.
Now, anyone with access to some sort of computer with an internet connection can access an incredible and unprecedented amount of knowledge and information, all more up to date and in more languages than any set of books. What will the next generation do with all of this knowledge at it's fingertips? Stick around, and we'll find out. The golden age is right now.
I will agree that if Windows 8 comes out looking anything like the previews we have seen, then I don't think much of anybody is going to adopt it. When I want a tablet, I'll buy a tablet, and run a tablet OS on it. I want my computer to be a computer, not a glorified tablet.
On the other hand, I think the installed base of Windows software - mainstream commercial, vertical market, and internal to companies - is so immensely large and difficult to replace or port to anything else that for Microsoft to fail is going to take much longer than one or two bad releases in a row. It took decades for the current installed base of software to be developed, and it will take decades for it to be re-developed for any other platform, assuming there was one present right now, which there isn't. Mac OS is too locked-down to a limited set of hardware, and Linux is too fragmented into a bazillion sub-groups and components, many of which only sorta-kinda work, to replace it.
Perhaps it's part of the plan... somebody already posted about that, saying that they don't really care about any of the issues, they just want to play their video games, but they can't because PSN is down. So they move to another system, and Sony loses money and influence, which is what the hackers really want. A bit Machiavellian, I suppose.
The constitution says that congress must approve military operations. It does not say that they must use the words "Declare War". Whether or not the bill passed uses the words "Declare War" is irrelevant. If you want to see what an actual illegal war looks like, try Libya, where Obama ordered combat operations lasting over the limits set in the War Powers Act without any congressional approval. Congress, of course, decided to do nothing about this, thus proving once again that the Republicans are worth about as little as the Democrats when it comes to respecting the Constitution.
Cyanogenmod lets you do exactly that. I'm running it on my HTC Thunderbolt, and as soon as I read this, I went in, saw that the Facebook app does indeed request full SMS permissions (read, write, send, and receive), and turned them all off. The app hasn't complained so far. Still, it would be nice if it was an OS default option instead of requiring that you install a third-party ROM, which isn't possible on a lot of phones and will break other things on many of them.
Bottom line is that most corporations, especially large, established ones, are not in favor of free-market capitalism. What they want is crony capitalism - they keep doing exactly the same thing, and the Government makes sure no pesky upstarts who actually do things better or other market changes get in the way. That way, they don't ever have to do anything hard or risky like actually work to continuously improve or anticipate market changes and try to get out in front of them. Relying on Government cheese is much easier (at least until the Government changes...)
Only small businesses actually want free markets, because it means they have a shot at getting to the top if they come up with the right good idea at the right time. And individuals, because it means we keep getting better stuff.
What's important here is that "The Feds" don't tell anybody anything. Specific people with specific jobs tell people things. The correct person to tell websites that they must shut down or domain registrars that they must redirect names is a judge, who is obligated to go through the right legal procedures, etc etc. It looks like this happened because some investigator asked GoDaddy to do it, and they did it, even though the investigator has no legal right to make such a request and GoDaddy has no legal obligation to comply.
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If by "defend itself" you mean go along with pretty much whatever the Axis powers wanted on all important issues under constant threat of invasion, then yes. Neutrality gives you the wonderful choice of supplying arms to the countries invading Russia and murdering Jews, or being invaded and occupied for however long the enemy feels like.
The world and the nature of military technology has changed a lot since then. In the Founder's days, all you need is to have all of the regular citizens own guns and have some level of training. Get them all together in one place and give 'em some uniforms, and you have an army that's comparable to any other at the time. Nowadays, the big three have changed the game: Aircraft, Armor, and Artillery. If you don't have them, then your army is a half-assed guerrilla force compared to a real army, and will be crushed in the blink of an eye. They're all incredibly expensive, have to be operated and maintained by highly trained crews, and have to be operated in close coordination with each other. There's no way to have them be distributed among a bunch of regular joes; you have to have a standing army.
Not to mention the need to have a Navy...
True, but incomplete. The full truth is that there is no such thing as just educating people. If you are educating somebody, you are imposing your culture on them, destroying theirs in the process. The people whose kids you are trying to "educate" know full well that you are destroying their culture, and will often react violently to it. Thus it is impossible to educate a foreign people without a military occupation, and in the process, some of the occupiers and lots of the occupied will die, and piles of money will be spent.
Also true on starving people. If those people are there in the first place, then they must have some normal way of getting food that's worked well enough for their whole lives. If it suddenly stops, absent some sort of drought or environmental disaster, then it's because some local military force wants them to starve. Sending in more food doesn't address the root of the problem, which was never food. The only way it could be solved from the outside is to send in a superior military force to take over the region from the one that was denying the people food. And it isn't much of a long-term solution because the situation will go back to what it was as soon as that foreign force leaves. You can paint the force that was starving people as the bad guys, but usually every other potential force in the area, and the starving people themselves, all want to do exactly the same thing, only to some other group of people. For a long-term solution, you'd have to occupy and "educate" them them long enough to completely destroy their old culture and replace it with a new one, which takes decades.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if they can beat public transportation easily, as it really isn't all that efficient overall. A bus with 50 people on it is very efficient, but in order to get those 50 people to actually ride the bus, you have to have a full schedule of back and forth, and most of those trips will be empty or with only a few passengers. Factor in all of the trips, and most public transit is only comparable to a good car.
Where you really save on efficiency is if taxis become drastically cheaper and more reliable. Now, taxis are usually expensive and unreliable, and owning more than one car per person is very expensive, so most people have to get a car that will handle almost anything they'll ever want to do as far as road trips, taking multiple passengers, moving cargo, etc. If you could buy a teeny electric car that'll get you to work and back and handle basic shopping, and call up a taxi cheaply for anything that requires more space or longer range, then you get some real power savings.
See http://www.templetons.com/brad/transit-myth.html
So in other words, it's an impenetrable, elitist old-boys club with no accountability to anybody, but we can totally trust them to do the right thing because they're all just so smart and awesome?
All right, that and my original post are a little tongue-in-cheek. But I inherently distrust this kind of elitist argument that some particular group of people are so much smarter and more wise than the general population that they should be given unchecked power over them with no accountability. First because pretty much any time anybody takes a close look at any group of people claiming to be the elite, you tend to find that they're just as stupid and corrupt as any other group of people. Second because even if you manage to find some group of people who are legitimately smart and awesome and put them in charge of everything, sooner or later, some of them will go bad, some will fail to keep up with evolving attitudes (for better or worse...), some will die or retire and be replaced by new people, etc, and you end up with the usual bunch of clowns, except now you don't have any checks against their power because you set the system up thinking that they were all perfect and nobody else was smart enough to second-guess them.
That's why democracy has done pretty well overall - the general population may not be perfect or even pretty good, but nobody among us is enough better to be given unchecked power over them.
Would you rather depend on "the whims and emotional instability of 12 idiots", or the lust for power, desire to impose an insane ideology on others, and desire for sensationalist news stories to boost political careers of one idiot?
I bet being a software engineer is a much better long-term career than being a Bloomberg reporter, or any kind of reporter for that matter.
My PS3 experience has me pretty soured on buying more Playstation stuff. I don't really care about the whole OtherOS thing - why would I bother buying a video game console to run Linux? What bugs me is the constant "system updates" that take forever right when you started up the machine to do something, and can't be skipped or delayed. And the network going down, losing my personal information and making other things, like Netflix instant view (god only knows why that needs PSN to work, but that's another beef...) stop working for weeks at a time.
The only hot war we'd have with China anytime soon is a nuclear war, and hundreds of millions on both sides would be dead long before any of the types that really cringe at mass casualties could object... if any of them were left at all.
Exactly what I experienced in almost every college class I took (mostly Engineering). Most of the other students seemed to want to write down what the professor is saying almost word-for-word. Normally, I focus mostly on listening and trying to understand, taking very few notes. That left me coming out of the class with a pretty solid understanding of what the lecture was about, and I could usually jump right into solving problems with it. The few times I tried taking really detailed notes, I found that I spent so much time and attention on it that I didn't really understand what the professor said, and the notes were still bad enough to not be much help. So I have no understanding and lousy notes instead of a good understanding and no notes.
For me, the only options are either pen and paper, or plain text files on some sort of computer. Don't try to edit or organize it in any way until after the presentation. The theme for me is that you should be spending most of your attention on the speaker and what they're saying - if the presentation isn't worth that, then why are you there? Avoid at all costs spending lots of time and attention on fiddling with computer settings, program options, formatting, and other such things. Even typing on smartphone-type devices is usually too attention-consuming to bother with.
Exactly which one is better depends on the situation. Text files are nice because you can search them, save them, and send them around easily, plus you'll probably want to type up whatever notes you have eventually anyways, so why not start them out in an electronic medium? On the other hand, computers are bulky to carry around, the batteries may not last long enough, and can be slow to get started up and shut down. And if you have to write down diagrams or equations, it's usually impossible to do it on a computer in a fast and efficient way that keeps your attention on the presentation.
I'm surprised there's no discussion of some of the most interesting points. Namely, if automatic cars are commercial and commonplace, then who's really in charge of them? Considering the potential danger of any errors in any changes to the control software, I'd have to expect it would be protected from any changes every way you could imagine (TMP, signed bootloaders/OS, all of that). Or else some inept hacker/terrorist/total nutcase will screw it up and cause some huge wreck.
So Google or Ford or whoever will probably be the ones in control of the software, and therefore the ones really in control of what the car does. And large companies tend to do whatever the Government asks them to, because they have a lot to lose. So, how long until it's set up so that if the police want you for any reason, good or bad, any car you get in will take you directly to them, refusing to do anything else? Probably all of the cars will also keep records of everywhere they go, and maybe everyone who rides in them too. And all those records will be in the hands of Google or whoever, available to any police agency with, or maybe without, a court order. Maybe available in bulk, for whatever bulk analysis anybody can dream up. Want a list of everyone who drove by that street where they sell drugs? Everyone who drove by a crime scene, just to see if there are any witnesses or accomplices? Here you go. What else can you dream up that someone might do with all of that data?
I do see the tremendous number of lives that could be saved and injuries prevented when human error is taken out of driving. I also think it's worth considering what else we might be giving up by doing it.
I care about "stealing the web" about as much as the people in charge of these ad companies care about not getting my computer hacked, not burying a simple site in megabytes of ads, flash animations, pop-ups, pop-overs, pop-unders, and like buttons for various sites that take 10 minutes to load, not leaking my personal data all over the web, etc. As far as I can tell, their level of caring is somewhere between zero, and thinking that I actually like it when they do that. I'll just go ahead and assume that they actually like it when I block their ads and scripts.
So much for my supposed phone security... I was just experimenting with it, and I discovered that I can easily get the phone to reboot into recovery without using any passwords or codes, and that I have an ADB root shell as long as it's in recovery (the phone's rooted and running CM7).
I suppose it would also be more secure if I didn't leave Titanium and Nandroid backups on the SD card that you can remove without even turning on the phone. Or if Clockwork recovery didn't let you do new Nandroid backups whenever you felt like it. Guess I better rethink a thing or two.
I'm curious how they managed to crack the Android phones. All of the rooting methods that I know of involve manually enabling Debug mode on the phone and then rooting around on the command line. If you have a screenlock enabled and have not left debug mode enabled, then I don't see any simple way to get access to the phone to even start to mess with exploits.
Then there's the question of how this relates to the FBI publicly having to go beg Google for help to get into some low-level criminal's Android phone that had the pattern lock enabled, which some have previously complained wasn't really all that secure. Are these guys blowing smoke about how easy it is to crack Android? Were the FBI guys working on this particular case just not on the ball? Has the Government decided not to break out their coolest tricks to solve a relatively minor crime? Did this guy have some particular model that's much harder to crack?
Exactly. It's becoming a mirror of the 80s/90s OS wars. It's not really about the OS anymore, it's about the apps. iOS has them. Android has them. WP7 doesn't and never will, and neither will any of these even smaller niche platforms. Anyone trying to make a new phone OS at this point is just throwing their money away. Get Android and do what you can with it, and you have a shot.
I know it's just a TV show, but doesn't anyone else find the elitism a little annoying?
We're the Feds. We can make all of the ridiculous laws we want, and bankrupt you or throw you in prison if you dare to break them. But as soon as one of our lives is briefly interrupted by our own ridiculous laws, we can make quips about how ridiculous they are and ignore them with no consequences.
We have a lot of complaining here about the nostalgia of flipping through the encyclopedia, but consider just how amazing the information revolution we are a part of is. Before, the quality of printed encyclopedias on most subjects was pretty high, but they were very expensive, and only published in limited languages. If you were lucky enough to grow up in a family able and willing to spend $1400 on books, or be near a library with one and have time to go there, then you have a great information source. Everyone else is just kind of boned.
Now, anyone with access to some sort of computer with an internet connection can access an incredible and unprecedented amount of knowledge and information, all more up to date and in more languages than any set of books. What will the next generation do with all of this knowledge at it's fingertips? Stick around, and we'll find out. The golden age is right now.
I will agree that if Windows 8 comes out looking anything like the previews we have seen, then I don't think much of anybody is going to adopt it. When I want a tablet, I'll buy a tablet, and run a tablet OS on it. I want my computer to be a computer, not a glorified tablet.
On the other hand, I think the installed base of Windows software - mainstream commercial, vertical market, and internal to companies - is so immensely large and difficult to replace or port to anything else that for Microsoft to fail is going to take much longer than one or two bad releases in a row. It took decades for the current installed base of software to be developed, and it will take decades for it to be re-developed for any other platform, assuming there was one present right now, which there isn't. Mac OS is too locked-down to a limited set of hardware, and Linux is too fragmented into a bazillion sub-groups and components, many of which only sorta-kinda work, to replace it.
Perhaps it's part of the plan... somebody already posted about that, saying that they don't really care about any of the issues, they just want to play their video games, but they can't because PSN is down. So they move to another system, and Sony loses money and influence, which is what the hackers really want. A bit Machiavellian, I suppose.
I've always thought it's funny how there's always somebody that claims that any city/state/country you could name has the worst drivers in the world.
The constitution says that congress must approve military operations. It does not say that they must use the words "Declare War". Whether or not the bill passed uses the words "Declare War" is irrelevant. If you want to see what an actual illegal war looks like, try Libya, where Obama ordered combat operations lasting over the limits set in the War Powers Act without any congressional approval. Congress, of course, decided to do nothing about this, thus proving once again that the Republicans are worth about as little as the Democrats when it comes to respecting the Constitution.
Cyanogenmod lets you do exactly that. I'm running it on my HTC Thunderbolt, and as soon as I read this, I went in, saw that the Facebook app does indeed request full SMS permissions (read, write, send, and receive), and turned them all off. The app hasn't complained so far. Still, it would be nice if it was an OS default option instead of requiring that you install a third-party ROM, which isn't possible on a lot of phones and will break other things on many of them.
Bottom line is that most corporations, especially large, established ones, are not in favor of free-market capitalism. What they want is crony capitalism - they keep doing exactly the same thing, and the Government makes sure no pesky upstarts who actually do things better or other market changes get in the way. That way, they don't ever have to do anything hard or risky like actually work to continuously improve or anticipate market changes and try to get out in front of them. Relying on Government cheese is much easier (at least until the Government changes...)
Only small businesses actually want free markets, because it means they have a shot at getting to the top if they come up with the right good idea at the right time. And individuals, because it means we keep getting better stuff.
What's important here is that "The Feds" don't tell anybody anything. Specific people with specific jobs tell people things. The correct person to tell websites that they must shut down or domain registrars that they must redirect names is a judge, who is obligated to go through the right legal procedures, etc etc. It looks like this happened because some investigator asked GoDaddy to do it, and they did it, even though the investigator has no legal right to make such a request and GoDaddy has no legal obligation to comply.