Don't confuse moral blackmail with owning the moral high ground. Eliminating suffering is a perfectly good argument to try and convince someone to go vegan.
Just like we would reduce suffering by no longer choosing to have children for our selfish reasons of personal happiness, content at accepting all the possible suffering one's kid might go through.
Both arguments seem to get the recipient especially irate.
There's no need to move off it (hopefully) - based on this 2 month article there will be a follow up (aptly named the N950) running meego http://www.newsden.net/meego-powered-nokia-n9-will-be-replaced-by-n950-6982/
There's hope!
Personally, I'm about to purchase the n900 to encourage development of any Meego platform.
Plenty of examples out there of course but here's one involving/.'s old friend, the United Fruit Company. The UFC lobbied the US government to support the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
After the expropriations began in 1953 the UFC began lobbying the U.S. government in an attempt to draw them into their confrontation with Arbenz. The U.S. State Department responded by, amongst other things, successfully seeking approved cuts in economic aid and cuts in trade, with devastating effect to Guatemala, since "85% of Guatemala's exports are sold in the country and 85% of their imports come from the U.S." Internal U.S. State Department documents stated that the cutoff would have to be done "quietly" because this was "a violation of the Non-intervention agreement, to which we are party... If it became obvious that we were in violation of this agreement, other Latin American governments would rally to the support of Guatemala
The best easter egg I've ever come across was in the flight simulator B17 The Mighty Eighth II (anyone remember that?)
If you were to play the CD as you were to play a music CD, you would find that the 8th track is a Morse Code signal. This signal, once translated, spells, "L-Y-M-E-R-E-G-I-S" There is a town on the south England coast named "Lyme Regis." Start a recon flight to the area of that town (you may want to find it on a map of England first) and fly low along the beach keeping a sharp look out. Keep looking and you will eventually find a flying saucer landed on the beach and two aliens sitting in lounge chairs!! You should also be able to faintly hear some strange 50's music coming from their radio! Too funny, and a brilliant idea for an egg!
Following your link I found they've posted pictures of their headquarters on their website http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/thames-house-image-gallery.html . You'd think any civilian taking pictures of the building would subsequently be subjected to a little chat with the law but there's no problem when they show it on their site in all it's glory from various angles...
It's pretty interesting the way developers are almost falling over themselves (if you believe the summary) to start developing for the iPhone. Build an attractive product and not only will the customers appear but also the Developers! Developers! Developers!. As a developer you'll need to buy an Apple computer for the privilege, and probably start learning Objective C, not an easy language to pick up when you're used to Java/C#. It's almost contrary to the idea usually associated with MS of making it easy for developers and the platform will succeed. I'd imagine Apple is shifting quite a few new machines to iPhone developers who would otherwise still be developing on Windows/Java ME.
The register published an informative article on this not too long ago. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/13/retro_piracy_brouhaha_discussed/ Basically, why would the UK suddenly care about ships being captured it failed to care about the high numbers of ships with foreign crews sinking?
I would suggest/. to add to their next update checking the use of asterisks... I spent 5 minutes trying to find where you thought your footnote applied.
The point is there is plenty for everyone to learn from Turkish society. In particular they way their intellectuals take their responsibilities serious and dissent.
The second part describes how they put their dissent in action; by publishing texts banned by the state and then demanding to be prosecuted for their 'crimes' so to attract attention to the freedoms that oppressed in Turkey.
Perhaps both parties could strive to look beyond their superficial impressions of each other.
So take, say, Turkey, half third world; I mean in Turkey, the intellectuals, the leading intellectuals, now best known writers, academics, journalists, artists I mean they not only protest atrocities about the Kurdish massacre, they protest it constantly, but they were also constant in carrying out civil disobedience against them. I also participated with them sometimes. And they go publish banned writings which reported presented them to the Prosecutor's Office, demand they were prosecuted. It's not a joke, you know, facing... sometimes they are sent to prison, that's no joke. There's nothing like that in the West. Inconceivable.
When I am in Western Europe I hear them telling me Turkey is not civilized enough to enter the European Union. I burst out laughing! It's the other way round.
On 15 March 2006 the European Union formally adopted Directive 2006/24/EC, on "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC"
The Directive requires Member States to ensure that communications providers must retain, for a period of between 6 months and 2 years, necessary data as specified in the Directive
* to trace and identify the source of a communication;
* to trace and identify the destination of a communication;
* to identify the date, time and duration of a communication;
* to identify the type of communication;
* to identify the communication device;
* to identify the location of mobile communication equipment.
UK:
SMS, EMS and MMS Data - retention period 6 months. Calling number, IMEI - Called number, IMEI - Date and time of sending - Delivery receipt - if available - Location data when messages sent and received, in form of lat/long reference.
Email Data - retention period 6 months. Log-on (authentication user name, date and time of log-in/log-off, IP address logged-in from) - sent email (authentication user name, from/to/cc email addresses, date and time sent) - received email (authentication user name, from/to email addresses, date and time received).
ISP Data - retention period 6 months. Log-on (authentication user name, date and time of log-in/log-off, IP address assigned, Dial-up: CLI and number dialed, Always-on: ADSL end point/MAC address (If available).
Web Activity Logs - retention period 4 days. Proxy server logs (date/time, IP address used, URL's visited, services. The data types here will be restricted solely to Communications Data and exclude content of communication. Web browsing information is retained to the extent that only the host machine or domain name (web site name) is disclosed. For example, within a communication, data identifying www.homeoffice.gov.uk would be traffic data, whereas data identifying www.homeoffice.gov.uk/kbsearch?qt=ripa+traffic=data would be content and not subject to retention.
Other Services - retention period relative to service provided. Instant Message Type Services (log-on/off time) if available.
Collateral Data - retention period relative to data to which it is related. Data needed to interpret other communications data, for example the mapping between cell mast identifiers and their location, and the translation of dialing (as supported by IN networks.
Does the proposal apply only to emails send from eu/uk based ((web)email)providers? Or any emails travelling through their networks?
It is now being revived again as some new research indicates that people's faces can indicate such traits as trustworthiness, social dominance and aggression. The latter trait seems to be determined by the level of the hormone testosterone during puberty which affects the ratio between the height and width of the face - aggressive individuals are found to have wider faces.
If in want of an aggressive partner, you know just what to look for.
Engel/Paul "Securing Our Borders and Our Data Act"
Washington, DC - Congressman Ron Paul is an original cosponsor of legislation introduced July 31st that would ensure that a traveler entering the United States would be subject to searches of their data and digital equipment only if a border agent has a reasonable suspicion to believe the traveler is or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.
In an August 1, 2008 front page story, the Washington Post exposed the ease with which the government can search and/or seize a traveler's laptop, blackberry, or other electronic device. A border agent can require any individual to provide access to private or other sensitive data with no cause. They can require the owner to surrender their password for encrypted data as well.
"The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution acknowledges the right of the people to be secure in their persons and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures. It is unfortunate that it takes legislation to remind border agents of this Constitutionally protected right, but it is apparent to me that HR 6702 is absolutely necessary," stated Congressman Paul.
It still has new and extremely broad provisions for seizing property like computers and servers. Such powers are notoriously abused to go on fishing expeditions, and since servers are often shared, people who are not even the targets of investigation will be hurt in the process.
Well, it has 6 more months of development to it at least, so where graphical enhancements are concerned, 3D Realms' have plenty of time. I dare say Duke Forever will be successful regardless, and I'm not prematurely stating my dislike for it - in truth, I'll probably find it as fun and entertaining as I did the original Duke3D. I mean, how can you not love the guy?
COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert and often illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception; however the formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971.[2] The FBI motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order." Targets included groups suspected of being subversive, such as communist and socialist organizations; people suspected of building a "coalition of militant black nationalist groups" ranging from the Black Panther Party and Republic of New Afrika, to "those in the non-violent civil rights movement," such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), and other civil rights groups; "White Hate Groups" including the Ku Klux Klan and National States' Rights Party; a broad range of organizations lumped together under the title "New Left" groups, including Students for a Democratic Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the Weathermen, almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, and even individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; and nationalist groups such as those "Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico."[3] The directives governing COINTELPRO were issued by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who ordered FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.[4][5]
I tried getting my vista tax returned from Lenovo when buying a new 3000 n200 notebook. I phoned them up and this was the response I got by email:
Lenovo beliefs during all communications with the customer it has been clear and straightforward about the preinstalled software...It is not possible for customers to returns single items included with the purchase..if the customer does not agree with the Microsoft EULA the entire purchase may be returned and a full refund will be made minus any administration costs incurred..
Well, China finally did something. It signaled to the United States that they noticed that we were trying to use space for military purposes, so China shot down one of their satellites. Everyone understands why -- the mili- tarization and weaponization of space depends on satellites. While missiles are very difficult or maybe impossible to stop, satellites are very easy to shoot down. You know where they are. So China is saying, "Okay, we understand you are militarizing space. We're going to counter it not by militarizing space, we can't compete with you that way, but by shooting down your satellites." That is what was behind the satellite shooting. Every military analyst certainly understood it and every lay person can understand it. But take a look at the debate. The discussion was about, "Is China trying it conquer the world by shooting down one of its own satellites?"
It is well-understood that BMD, even is technically feasible, must rely on satellite communication, and destroying satellites is far easier than shooting down missiles. That is one reason why the US must seek "full spectrum dominance," such overwhelming control of space that even the poor man's weapons will not be available to an adversary. And that requires offensive space-based capacities, including enormously destructive weapons that can be launched with instant computer-controlled reaction, greatly increasing the risk of vas slaughter and devastation if only because of what are called in the trade "normal accidents" - the unpredictable accidents to which all complex systems are subject.
Guess your web development does not include running VS 08 and MS SQL Management express.
I bought my first _new_ machine in 2001 pre-installed with 98SE. In those days it was pretty uncommon for machines to come with 512Mb o' Ram. Since then I have had to replace the heatsink (it had been running at 90 Deg. C. for ages with only a single fan on the dual fan heatsink working), the powersupply (stank the whole place up with a smell of burning despite the machine itself being off), and recently its original 40gb drive died a not-so-peaceful death and has been replaced with a 500GB one. It started off with the single 40gb and two optical drives. Not sure what happened to the optical ones only that The cd writer has been swapped for one of my mate's. First a 80Gb drive was added while running it in Southern Europe (which is where it has its first taste of linux - RH). Later on when it was back in the UK I added a 200gb drive and replaced xp with FC4. Quite a fight it was too - it did not like running it from the 200gb drive. Now, in continental europe it's running Ubuntu (for a couple of iterations by now) and is pretty much serving as a file server and media machine and offers me the chance to play with mono(develop) once in a while. I've done pretty much all of my gaming on it (geForce 2 mx 400 , 64mb) and plenty of that on linux. First Americas Army on FC4 and after that a lot of CoD and BF42 using cedega. In short, I know what you mean when mentioning emotional attachment to a machine.
My first machine was actually a second hand PII 350 (64Mb o' Ram) I bought of a teacher. Had some games of Mech Warrior 3 on there and others. I sold it to a friend not long after buying it. It got some more RAM and ran xp for years on it while still having the original 6Gb HD in it. I had the pleasant task of putting by the roadside, ready for it to be collected.
Right now I'm working on a basic Asus notebook 1.8Ghz Celeron (originally came with 512, upgraded to 1gb o' Ram), painfully slow 40gb hd and integrated graphics. Instead of upgrading it I've chosen to replace it with a Lenovo 3000 N200 (GeForce Go 7300 256 mb, 2gb o' Ram, 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, 160Gb sAta) purely because VS 08 is a beast but right now I'm having my doubts about the purchase...
You'd think this is pretty obvious but the system is succeeding to such an extent that the middle classes are least aware of public policy.
Chomsky has been saying it for years:
By now, even such enthusiasts for Reagan's party for the rich as the Wall Street Journal are concerned by the consequences of the policies they advocated, such as the deterioration of the state college systems that supplied the needs of the corporate sector. "Public higher education -- one the few areas where America still ranks supreme -- is being pounded by state spending cuts," the Journal worriedly reports, echoing the concerns of businesses that "rely heavily on a steady stream of graduates" for skilled personnel and on applied research that they can exploit. This is one of the long-predicted consequences of the cutback of federal services for all but the wealthy and powerful, which devastated states and local communities. Class war is not easy to fine tune.
Another result of the study is that more educated sectors are more ignorant -- not surprising, since they are the main targets of indoctrination. Bush supporters, who are the best educated scored lowest overall.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199302--.htm
Also, see the interview of Chomsky by Andrew Marr, where he has said more or less the same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuaGIKTaEA (part two and three are perhaps more relevant to the current topic)
I too would like for google to store old versions of sites a little longer and keep sites that have dissapeared. Ah well, guess that isn't their purpose.
Well, if I may ever so carefully hint at a topic - you mentioned you would elaborate on the various roles (management, coders, customers) within the software development process in a past post, the games the respective roles engage in (halo,poker,...) and how each party views the other (in your average development environment).
Makes me wonder though why it is that these kind of things only seem to occur in the software industry? Ever heard of a shipping yard abandoning the building of ship? (Guess I should expect any anecdotes coming this way now).
Is it the fact almost every major s/w project is pretty unique? Or the industry is willing to put fresh out of college engineers straight onto the project?
Perhaps when it comes down to it a ship or anything physical is more like the bicycle shed in that sense and software still has an air of magic surrounding it to some people..
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Don't confuse moral blackmail with owning the moral high ground. Eliminating suffering is a perfectly good argument to try and convince someone to go vegan. Just like we would reduce suffering by no longer choosing to have children for our selfish reasons of personal happiness, content at accepting all the possible suffering one's kid might go through. Both arguments seem to get the recipient especially irate.
There's no need to move off it (hopefully) - based on this 2 month article there will be a follow up (aptly named the N950) running meego http://www.newsden.net/meego-powered-nokia-n9-will-be-replaced-by-n950-6982/ There's hope! Personally, I'm about to purchase the n900 to encourage development of any Meego platform.
Google introduces 'charlie' status for online services. More at 11.
Source
source: http://www.eeggs.com/items/20664.html
Following your link I found they've posted pictures of their headquarters on their website http://www.mi5.gov.uk/output/thames-house-image-gallery.html . You'd think any civilian taking pictures of the building would subsequently be subjected to a little chat with the law but there's no problem when they show it on their site in all it's glory from various angles...
It's pretty interesting the way developers are almost falling over themselves (if you believe the summary) to start developing for the iPhone. Build an attractive product and not only will the customers appear but also the Developers! Developers! Developers!. As a developer you'll need to buy an Apple computer for the privilege, and probably start learning Objective C, not an easy language to pick up when you're used to Java/C#. It's almost contrary to the idea usually associated with MS of making it easy for developers and the platform will succeed.
I'd imagine Apple is shifting quite a few new machines to iPhone developers who would otherwise still be developing on Windows/Java ME.
The register published an informative article on this not too long ago. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/13/retro_piracy_brouhaha_discussed/ Basically, why would the UK suddenly care about ships being captured it failed to care about the high numbers of ships with foreign crews sinking?
The soviets didn't exactly shy away from exact copies either.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
I would suggest /. to add to their next update checking the use of asterisks... I spent 5 minutes trying to find where you thought your footnote applied.
[I loved RA2, still do]
The point is there is plenty for everyone to learn from Turkish society. In particular they way their intellectuals take their responsibilities serious and dissent.
The second part describes how they put their dissent in action; by publishing texts banned by the state and then demanding to be prosecuted for their 'crimes' so to attract attention to the freedoms that oppressed in Turkey.
My mistake for not mentioning the source. I forgot, sorry. The speaker is Noam Chomsky. http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20060425.htm
UK:
Does the proposal apply only to emails send from eu/uk based ((web)email)providers? Or any emails travelling through their networks?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiognomy
If in want of an aggressive partner, you know just what to look for.
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/stop-revised-riaa-ip-enforcement-bill-s3325
Duke Nukem Forever to appear shortly
http://web.archive.org/web/20010609195453/www.gamesdomain.com/gdreview/e398/dukef.html
(Translated from dutch)
So I gave up...
http://www.chomsky.info/talks/20011103.htm
Guess your web development does not include running VS 08 and MS SQL Management express.
I bought my first _new_ machine in 2001 pre-installed with 98SE. In those days it was pretty uncommon for machines to come with 512Mb o' Ram. Since then I have had to replace the heatsink (it had been running at 90 Deg. C. for ages with only a single fan on the dual fan heatsink working), the powersupply (stank the whole place up with a smell of burning despite the machine itself being off), and recently its original 40gb drive died a not-so-peaceful death and has been replaced with a 500GB one.
It started off with the single 40gb and two optical drives. Not sure what happened to the optical ones only that The cd writer has been swapped for one of my mate's. First a 80Gb drive was added while running it in Southern Europe (which is where it has its first taste of linux - RH). Later on when it was back in the UK I added a 200gb drive and replaced xp with FC4. Quite a fight it was too - it did not like running it from the 200gb drive.
Now, in continental europe it's running Ubuntu (for a couple of iterations by now) and is pretty much serving as a file server and media machine and offers me the chance to play with mono(develop) once in a while.
I've done pretty much all of my gaming on it (geForce 2 mx 400 , 64mb) and plenty of that on linux. First Americas Army on FC4 and after that a lot of CoD and BF42 using cedega.
In short, I know what you mean when mentioning emotional attachment to a machine.
My first machine was actually a second hand PII 350 (64Mb o' Ram) I bought of a teacher. Had some games of Mech Warrior 3 on there and others. I sold it to a friend not long after buying it. It got some more RAM and ran xp for years on it while still having the original 6Gb HD in it. I had the pleasant task of putting by the roadside, ready for it to be collected.
Right now I'm working on a basic Asus notebook 1.8Ghz Celeron (originally came with 512, upgraded to 1gb o' Ram), painfully slow 40gb hd and integrated graphics. Instead of upgrading it I've chosen to replace it with a Lenovo 3000 N200 (GeForce Go 7300 256 mb, 2gb o' Ram, 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, 160Gb sAta) purely because VS 08 is a beast but right now I'm having my doubts about the purchase...
You'd think this is pretty obvious but the system is succeeding to such an extent that the middle classes are least aware of public policy.
Chomsky has been saying it for years:
By now, even such enthusiasts for Reagan's party for the rich as the Wall Street Journal are concerned by the consequences of the policies they advocated, such as the deterioration of the state college systems that supplied the needs of the corporate sector. "Public higher education -- one the few areas where America still ranks supreme -- is being pounded by state spending cuts," the Journal worriedly reports, echoing the concerns of businesses that "rely heavily on a steady stream of graduates" for skilled personnel and on applied research that they can exploit. This is one of the long-predicted consequences of the cutback of federal services for all but the wealthy and powerful, which devastated states and local communities. Class war is not easy to fine tune.
Another result of the study is that more educated sectors are more ignorant -- not surprising, since they are the main targets of indoctrination. Bush supporters, who are the best educated scored lowest overall.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199302--.htm
Also, see the interview of Chomsky by Andrew Marr, where he has said more or less the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSuaGIKTaEA (part two and three are perhaps more relevant to the current topic)
You mean they recalled recall ? ...
I too would like for google to store old versions of sites a little longer and keep sites that have dissapeared.
Ah well, guess that isn't their purpose.
Well, if I may ever so carefully hint at a topic - you mentioned you would elaborate on the various roles (management, coders, customers) within the software development process in a past post, the games the respective roles engage in (halo,poker,...) and how each party views the other (in your average development environment).
Makes me wonder though why it is that these kind of things only seem to occur in the software industry? Ever heard of a shipping yard abandoning the building of ship? (Guess I should expect any anecdotes coming this way now).
Is it the fact almost every major s/w project is pretty unique? Or the industry is willing to put fresh out of college engineers straight onto the project?
Perhaps when it comes down to it a ship or anything physical is more like the bicycle shed in that sense and software still has an air of magic surrounding it to some people..