The cables contain a lot of confidential information about Russia. Today's release in particular.
go to the http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables
The prominent ledes right now on the page are:
"Russia armed Georgian separatists"
"Moscow mayor: 'pyramid of corruption'"
"Cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'"
"Russian government 'using mafia for its dirty work' "
"Cables link Russian mafia boss to EU gas supplies"
"Litvinenko death 'likely had Putin's OK'"
I do not think they say anything that comes as a shock, but they are informative and in some cases entertaining. (there is one about a alcohol filled wedding where drunk soldiers pull out guns)
Maybe we can finally get a party that is center-right
The US already has a center-right party. Recently, they have been quite pro big business, against government provided healthcare, and have emphasizes tax cuts as a part of any stimulus, which is willing to violate international law to uphold the war on terror and is right now fighting the courts to keep those darn activist judges from undermining DADT.
Come to think of it, I guess they drifted out to the far right too...
Sure, if the US govt's actions were not important more private information would have come out, but right now the US, is by far the most dominant world power, and it is fairly assertive in using its power, so documents revealing its workings carry a corresponding importance. So it seems that Assange has his priorities right.
Also, one thing that I have noticed is that Wikileaks does seem to be listening to criticism, and every release seems to incorporate lessons learned from the previous ones. Wikileaks is certainly worth supporting.
Simple... grad students in the sciences provide a source of cheap labour that pays off any taxpayer funding several times over in ultimate research benefits. Universities cannot afford to run out of talented, hardworking grad students. It does not matter which countries the grad students come from.
Except this is not about
"Give an opinion that I don't like and I shall call for your death."
As numerous other posters above have noted, Yasmin basically said that its wrong for the practice of stoning people to death to be criticized. The response the tweet basically replied how would she like it it it was done to her.
If only, ... opera had embraced a free model earlier ... had the backing of a massive corporation to have it pre-installed ... or had inherited a large core of users and developers ... or had the appeal of being open source
I have been an opera user / fan for a while, and wish more people use it. But blaming the low adoption on extensions is insane.
Opera 10 has been very disappointing in terms of quality control and I wish the team focused more on making it crash -proof and fixed all the non-working features (such as voice) instead of adding more and more functionality.
The fallacy here is to assume that governments are the only entities that have power. Everyone has some power, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. As long as money has value (which it has to have, by definition), money will be able to buy power. And power will be able to attract money. So without an already powerful body to provide checks and balances, money and power will tend to get concentrated -- and morality or social worth does not enter the picture one way or the other.
Libertarian fantasy wank is apt for the GP
Jets --> Frank whittle developed the jet engine before the German, (the jets powering the meteor were superior to those powering the ME 262). The US jet program was kicked off in ww2 based after they saw British jets. they were even given a Gloster Meteor to study and to help things along.
LCDs -- George William Gray pioneered the field and laid the foundations for LCDs
I guessing this is how the poll went--
Q: Do you play Halo on the xbox?
Yes.
Q: Have you been fragged repeatedly, pwned and called a ^^&(&T *, ()(*!@#$ , etc noob by a whiny preteen son of a &^TH?
(Growl) Yes.
Q:Would you support ritualistic disembowelment of minors who buy and play video games?
(Nods enthusiastically) YES! YES! YES!
Q: Whoops sorry, that might be illegal, would you instead support a ban on sale of violent games to minors?
(Aww, shrug) I guess... are you sure ritualistic disembowelment is not an option?
I doubt the there are very few tech people who want to manage. Sure most of us think that the Dilbert stereotypes on management have more than a grain of truth, but the reality is that tech has a culture of moving up or moving out. Experienced programmers are typically asked to lead teams, then manage projects, relationships with vendors, etc.
The problem tech people face is different -- getting management positions outside the tech department. When it comes to becoming a CEO, it is much better to be in Sales or in Accounting. Being in Tech seems to be a real drawback. Its not that tech folks do not want the upper management places, it is just that the doors to advancement beyond the tech domain are often shut to them.
Mod Parent down. India has way more red tape and labour is more expensive than China. Any comparative article e.g. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948401.htm talks of India's red tape and labour (union) protection making things difficult for manufacturers (just google economy India China red tape).
Dell could be moving because of any of a thousand reasons from threat of losing information espionage to just not wanting to keep all eggs in one basket, but the parent's reasons are just ludicrous.
The grandparent had it correct -- it was India. There was a documentary about a village in TN which showed cobras living with people. Yes, cobras are killed usually, but living with cobras, feeding and worshiping them has always been a part of life in several places across India.
Can't say anything about Mexican's , but H-1s tend to put a bit into the local economy. Why? They are as frugal as anyone, but tend to move from place to place frequently - and so land up spending more on what would otherwise be one time purchases or infrequent purchases. Plus social security & medicare taxes are taken out from the paycheck. And the visa is structured in a way that under normal circumstances the payers will never accumulate enough credits to get any benefits. (If the US was more honest it could just call this a tax imposed for the privilege of working in the US)
The indirect benefits are also good. In India the economy has traditionally rlied more on imports, than on exports, and despite the media coverage, IT services are just a tiny part of the economy. But the artificiaaly lower rupee means that India buys hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury bonds -- a preverse interest free loan from a country facing a constant shortage of money for infrastructure, security and other needs to the richest country in the world.
They were listed in US and have to follow SOX. And stop rubbishing the Indian laws already. The executives are already in prison. On the other hand isn't Bernie Madoff still in his penthouse.
Spoke to someone in does IT compliance for her company and the one thing she did not understand was how an audit of Cash Balances could go so wrong. After all a lot of things can be faked, but the cash on hand can always be verfied (by calling up banks, etc). PWC's actions were either criminally negligent or just criminal. I hope they bite the dust.
This is about as dangerous as Shinsheki's push for the lighter more mobile Army which was torn to shreds by IED's in Iraq and Afganistan.
If too much focus is put towards UAV's we'll end up with a manned Air Force that begins to put A2A combat second to UAV combat. What happens when we end up fighting a real war?
Capitalistic principles have no room in our military, if we cut corners we will someday pay for it.
Shenseki wanted the footsoldiers in trucks to be replaced by a group around the better armoured Strykers. Strykers have been a success in Iraq. Shenseki is best known for advocating far more troops than what Rumsfeld said was needed. He turned out to be right.
It makes no sense to blame the Shenseki's doctrines for what went wrong.
Lots of engineers at some point in their career get a business degree/move to management. Also one of the top careers Math Majors are go into after graduation is Financial Analysis.
If she likes it she could really excel in Business / Finance. A scientific temprament and good math / statistical skills are essential for analysis. A plus is that she will not be required to learn some of the more arcane math subjects that can turn off even people who thought they liked math. Also, her college program is less likey to consume all her free time in a way engineering programs tend to do.
Givn her scores, most business programs would probably love to take her (her gender will also help her in the admission process)
In a litigious society, wouldn't it be best to save all of your email,
Not really. Over the course of time, the social / political atmosphere changes. Emails that one person thinks are CYA on its own may prove incriminating in a bigger picture/ different context.
For example, your company might have provided fireproofing, free of charge in the 60s to orphanages. An employee might think that it might be good to keep a record of it to prove that the money was not embezzeled. In the future an asbestos litigant might use this record as the key evidence in a multi-million dollar suit that banrupts the company.
So how long is an email / record to be retained? Depends on what laws apply to it (the securities SOX laws, the health HIPAA laws all have specifications), how the emails are used, etc. And these retention periods are not necessarily fixed.
For example an email could be retined for say 180 days (fixed), or as long as say, the subject of the email works for the company (event driven) or some combination of the two. Ultimately a bunch of lawyers, business users sit down and make a policy for all records for the company. (in the posters case it was 180 days for emails)
Ultimately a bunch of lawyers, business users sit down and make a records management policy for all records for the company. They usually go by the US gov's guidelines (NARA)
The 180 days the poster has for his for emails is the NARA guideline for emails (http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/presentations/raco06-baron.pdf)
Of course as another comment pointed, out deleting emails after 180 days might get a company screwed. But usually adecent records management policy also allows/mandates putting a record 'hold' (or not allowing its destruction) in case of lawsuits, etc to take this into consideration.
What you want to do is refuse to help for several years even though your supposed friends are getting killed in the millions
If you feel that way, then probably, when America entered WW1 and WW2, it should have done on the side of the Germans, after all "German Americans form the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of the U.S. population".
There was nothing hypocritical about the US entering the war late, esp in WW1. .. join the war and pretend that it couldn't have been won without you..
And the reason for this immense confidence of victory without americans is... the british sucess in Gallipoli?, or the russian success at Tannenberg? or in the defense of impregnable burma in WW2?.
The tide of the war turned only after US intervention, in both wars. Face it, wihout Amercan assistance (in supplies, if not in men), the allies would have lost. As far as moral superiority goes, given that Stailn was in charge of Russia (in WW2) the european allies were commiting genocide themselves (in their colonies), America at the time stood for something truly good, at least compared to the rest of the other participants. America became a superpower because it was able to put its house in order, unify, and gave its citizens a stable peaceful, large platform to grow from.
USAs 60 years of being a superpower were earned by good policies and far sighted leadership.
(Of course today, USA has leaders like Bush and Europe and China are forging ahead, so USAs days as a superpower might be coming to an end)
Mitchell Habib is NOT of Indian origin / Indian -- the parent is either tolling , or is just ignorant. It should be modded down.(Just because a name is non-american does not make it Indian-- the parent could have easily googled the name to find out that it is Arab/ Lebanese in origin)
$75/Hr full time comes to $150,000/yr. This is 60 % more than the median salary of a programmer with 20+ years of experience(payscale.com). Heck, at this salary level, the php programmer will be making more in a year more than 94% of the families in America.
It used to be much much bigger. They closed 126 stores earlier this year and at least dozens in 2006. As one of many who got screwed by its mail-in rebates scam, I am certain that it will not be missed.
Slashdot Mirror
Nice.. I wish I had mod points...
The cables contain a lot of confidential information about Russia. Today's release in particular. go to the http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables
The prominent ledes right now on the page are:
"Russia armed Georgian separatists"
"Moscow mayor: 'pyramid of corruption'"
"Cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'"
"Russian government 'using mafia for its dirty work' "
"Cables link Russian mafia boss to EU gas supplies"
"Litvinenko death 'likely had Putin's OK'"
I do not think they say anything that comes as a shock, but they are informative and in some cases entertaining. (there is one about a alcohol filled wedding where drunk soldiers pull out guns)
Maybe we can finally get a party that is center-right
The US already has a center-right party. Recently, they have been quite pro big business, against government provided healthcare, and have emphasizes tax cuts as a part of any stimulus, which is willing to violate international law to uphold the war on terror and is right now fighting the courts to keep those darn activist judges from undermining DADT.
Come to think of it, I guess they drifted out to the far right too...
I was going to mod you down, but I am giving you the benefit that you are misinformed, rather than a troll.
So here, this should make you happy
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334432/WikiLeaks-boss-Julian-Assange-goes-US-bank-explosive-new-dossier.html
Agree or disagree with his process, but Assange makes some very reasonable points in the full interview. Judge for yourself here:
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2010/11/29/an-interview-with-wikileaks-julian-assange/
Sure, if the US govt's actions were not important more private information would have come out, but right now the US, is by far the most dominant world power, and it is fairly assertive in using its power, so documents revealing its workings carry a corresponding importance. So it seems that Assange has his priorities right.
Also, one thing that I have noticed is that Wikileaks does seem to be listening to criticism, and every release seems to incorporate lessons learned from the previous ones. Wikileaks is certainly worth supporting.
Simple ... grad students in the sciences provide a source of cheap labour that pays off any taxpayer funding several times over in ultimate research benefits. Universities cannot afford to run out of talented, hardworking grad students. It does not matter which countries the grad students come from.
Except this is not about "Give an opinion that I don't like and I shall call for your death." As numerous other posters above have noted, Yasmin basically said that its wrong for the practice of stoning people to death to be criticized. The response the tweet basically replied how would she like it it it was done to her.
If only,
... opera had embraced a free model earlier
... had the backing of a massive corporation to have it pre-installed
... or had inherited a large core of users and developers
... or had the appeal of being open source
I have been an opera user / fan for a while, and wish more people use it. But blaming the low adoption on extensions is insane.
Opera 10 has been very disappointing in terms of quality control and I wish the team focused more on making it crash -proof and fixed all the non-working features (such as voice) instead of adding more and more functionality.
The fallacy here is to assume that governments are the only entities that have power. Everyone has some power, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. As long as money has value (which it has to have, by definition), money will be able to buy power. And power will be able to attract money. So without an already powerful body to provide checks and balances, money and power will tend to get concentrated -- and morality or social worth does not enter the picture one way or the other.
Libertarian fantasy wank is apt for the GP
The grandparent is by and large accurate...
:-)
For example:
Jets --> Frank whittle developed the jet engine before the German, (the jets powering the meteor were superior to those powering the ME 262). The US jet program was kicked off in ww2 based after they saw British jets. they were even given a Gloster Meteor to study and to help things along.
LCDs -- George William Gray pioneered the field and laid the foundations for LCDs
As for the internet, everyone knows that the internet is kept in the tower of London
I guessing this is how the poll went-- Q: Do you play Halo on the xbox? Yes. Q: Have you been fragged repeatedly, pwned and called a ^^&(&T *, ()(*!@#$ , etc noob by a whiny preteen son of a &^TH? (Growl) Yes. Q:Would you support ritualistic disembowelment of minors who buy and play video games? (Nods enthusiastically) YES! YES! YES! Q: Whoops sorry, that might be illegal, would you instead support a ban on sale of violent games to minors? (Aww, shrug) I guess... are you sure ritualistic disembowelment is not an option?
I doubt the there are very few tech people who want to manage. Sure most of us think that the Dilbert stereotypes on management have more than a grain of truth, but the reality is that tech has a culture of moving up or moving out. Experienced programmers are typically asked to lead teams, then manage projects, relationships with vendors, etc. The problem tech people face is different -- getting management positions outside the tech department. When it comes to becoming a CEO, it is much better to be in Sales or in Accounting. Being in Tech seems to be a real drawback. Its not that tech folks do not want the upper management places, it is just that the doors to advancement beyond the tech domain are often shut to them.
Mod Parent down. India has way more red tape and labour is more expensive than China. Any comparative article e.g. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_34/b3948401.htm talks of India's red tape and labour (union) protection making things difficult for manufacturers (just google economy India China red tape). Dell could be moving because of any of a thousand reasons from threat of losing information espionage to just not wanting to keep all eggs in one basket, but the parent's reasons are just ludicrous.
In my experience online scanners do a pretty reasonable job. I like Trendmicro's housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
The grandparent had it correct -- it was India. There was a documentary about a village in TN which showed cobras living with people. Yes, cobras are killed usually, but living with cobras, feeding and worshiping them has always been a part of life in several places across India.
Can't say anything about Mexican's , but H-1s tend to put a bit into the local economy. Why? They are as frugal as anyone, but tend to move from place to place frequently - and so land up spending more on what would otherwise be one time purchases or infrequent purchases. Plus social security & medicare taxes are taken out from the paycheck. And the visa is structured in a way that under normal circumstances the payers will never accumulate enough credits to get any benefits. (If the US was more honest it could just call this a tax imposed for the privilege of working in the US) The indirect benefits are also good. In India the economy has traditionally rlied more on imports, than on exports, and despite the media coverage, IT services are just a tiny part of the economy. But the artificiaaly lower rupee means that India buys hundreds of billions of dollars of Treasury bonds -- a preverse interest free loan from a country facing a constant shortage of money for infrastructure, security and other needs to the richest country in the world.
They were listed in US and have to follow SOX. And stop rubbishing the Indian laws already. The executives are already in prison. On the other hand isn't Bernie Madoff still in his penthouse.
Spoke to someone in does IT compliance for her company and the one thing she did not understand was how an audit of Cash Balances could go so wrong. After all a lot of things can be faked, but the cash on hand can always be verfied (by calling up banks, etc). PWC's actions were either criminally negligent or just criminal. I hope they bite the dust.
This is about as dangerous as Shinsheki's push for the lighter more mobile Army which was torn to shreds by IED's in Iraq and Afganistan.
If too much focus is put towards UAV's we'll end up with a manned Air Force that begins to put A2A combat second to UAV combat. What happens when we end up fighting a real war?
Capitalistic principles have no room in our military, if we cut corners we will someday pay for it.
Shenseki wanted the footsoldiers in trucks to be replaced by a group around the better armoured Strykers. Strykers have been a success in Iraq. Shenseki is best known for advocating far more troops than what Rumsfeld said was needed. He turned out to be right. It makes no sense to blame the Shenseki's doctrines for what went wrong.
Lots of engineers at some point in their career get a business degree /move to management. Also one of the top careers Math Majors are go into after graduation is Financial Analysis.
If she likes it she could really excel in Business / Finance. A scientific temprament and good math / statistical skills are essential for analysis. A plus is that she will not be required to learn some of the more arcane math subjects that can turn off even people who thought they liked math. Also, her college program is less likey to consume all her free time in a way engineering programs tend to do.
Givn her scores, most business programs would probably love to take her (her gender will also help her in the admission process)
Diablo III Designer Defends New Look and Feel http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/04/1858250 Personally, after spending way too much time on Diablo 2, I must say I now prefer darkness --accompanied with sleeping
Not really. Over the course of time, the social / political atmosphere changes. Emails that one person thinks are CYA on its own may prove incriminating in a bigger picture/ different context. For example, your company might have provided fireproofing, free of charge in the 60s to orphanages. An employee might think that it might be good to keep a record of it to prove that the money was not embezzeled. In the future an asbestos litigant might use this record as the key evidence in a multi-million dollar suit that banrupts the company. So how long is an email / record to be retained? Depends on what laws apply to it (the securities SOX laws, the health HIPAA laws all have specifications), how the emails are used, etc. And these retention periods are not necessarily fixed. For example an email could be retined for say 180 days (fixed), or as long as say, the subject of the email works for the company (event driven) or some combination of the two. Ultimately a bunch of lawyers, business users sit down and make a policy for all records for the company. (in the posters case it was 180 days for emails) Ultimately a bunch of lawyers, business users sit down and make a records management policy for all records for the company. They usually go by the US gov's guidelines (NARA) The 180 days the poster has for his for emails is the NARA guideline for emails (http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/presentations/raco06-baron.pdf) Of course as another comment pointed, out deleting emails after 180 days might get a company screwed. But usually adecent records management policy also allows/mandates putting a record 'hold' (or not allowing its destruction) in case of lawsuits, etc to take this into consideration.
What you want to do is refuse to help for several years even though your supposed friends are getting killed in the millions If you feel that way, then probably, when America entered WW1 and WW2, it should have done on the side of the Germans, after all "German Americans form the largest self-reported ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of the U.S. population".
.. join the war and pretend that it couldn't have been won without you ..
And the reason for this immense confidence of victory without americans is ... the british sucess in Gallipoli?, or the russian success at Tannenberg? or in the defense of impregnable burma in WW2?.
There was nothing hypocritical about the US entering the war late, esp in WW1.
The tide of the war turned only after US intervention, in both wars. Face it, wihout Amercan assistance (in supplies, if not in men), the allies would have lost. As far as moral superiority goes, given that Stailn was in charge of Russia (in WW2) the european allies were commiting genocide themselves (in their colonies), America at the time stood for something truly good, at least compared to the rest of the other participants. America became a superpower because it was able to put its house in order, unify, and gave its citizens a stable peaceful, large platform to grow from. USAs 60 years of being a superpower were earned by good policies and far sighted leadership. (Of course today, USA has leaders like Bush and Europe and China are forging ahead, so USAs days as a superpower might be coming to an end)
Mitchell Habib is NOT of Indian origin / Indian -- the parent is either tolling , or is just ignorant. It should be modded down.(Just because a name is non-american does not make it Indian-- the parent could have easily googled the name to find out that it is Arab/ Lebanese in origin)
$75/Hr full time comes to $150,000/yr. This is 60 % more than the median salary of a programmer with 20+ years of experience(payscale.com). Heck, at this salary level, the php programmer will be making more in a year more than 94% of the families in America.
It used to be much much bigger. They closed 126 stores earlier this year and at least dozens in 2006. As one of many who got screwed by its mail-in rebates scam, I am certain that it will not be missed.