Most of those were public secrets at best. Remember, this was all information accessible with a very low level of security clearance.
Release massive dumps of private data publicly with the hope that a small portion of that data is in the public interest is all sorts of immoral and goes against the principle of responsible disclosure.
You could use the justification for the diplomatic cables leak to justify hacking into every Slashdot user's email accounts. There'll probably be a few users who've been doing illegal activities, that justifies the release of data from the other 99% percent of users who weren't doing anything wrong (although who may have been doing something embarassing).
If you go the "it's not a problem if existing laws/rules are followed" route, then it invalidates to reasoning to making private emails be subject to FOIA requests in the first place.
The problem with enforcing the monitoring of emails is that it removes all traceability of data. If I was being paid by the press as a Gmail employee to sift through a private email account, I would show up on their logs as having viewed it and probably be sacked and/or arrested (this frequently happens when stupid CRB approved people get given access to large databases) . However if I have permission to view that email and leak the contents, they've no way of really tracing it back to me, especially if I'm part of a team. It's how Brown's kid's medical record was able to be leaked. Once printed out, and talked about by doctors, anyone could've got that info and they'd have no way of knowing who.
The Sunday Telegraph thing happened because (at the time) they were too scared to go after the press, despite it clearly being illegal and not in the public's interest. They probably wouldn't get away with that now without charges as ministers and police are no longer scared to go after the press.
It means a third party will still have to read their private emails.
Given how leaky the UK government is (both from civil servants being bribed by the press and from ministers using leaks to further their agenda), It's probably going to result in genuine private emails being leaked, especially if they contain 'juicy' info about medical conditions or their thoughts on colleagues.
Gordon Brown had to deal with press splashing front pages with the news that his son had cystic fibrosis, just hours after he'd learnt of it and before he'd even told anyone else.
2 months? Aircraft can go for YEARS still using parts known to be a risk. Grounding aircraft is extremely expensive, it only happens in extremely serious cases (usually where an issue has been identified as causing a crash). Otherwise the fixes can wait until the next piece of scheduled maintenance on the aircraft or even it's next major refit. Sometimes they decide not to bother.
The Concorde crash springs to mind. They'd been warned for a long time that the fuel tanks lacked shielding and were at risk yet didn't address it on the plane that crashed.
You are buying a windows tablet why should they be made to let you put Android or whatever on it?
Apple are not made to allow Android, neither are Nintendo with their consoles. Sony will probably never include other operating systems on their games consoles again (and they will be used as a prime example for generations to come about the minimal benefits and massive risks of opening up a closed platform).
Both the 3DS and the 3DS XL only have left analogue pads by default. Kid Icarus requires use of the pad and accurate use of the stylus at the same time which is near impossible for lefties. Thankfully they saw common sense and allowed lefties to use the add on pad on the right but that's only for the 3DS, the XL model doesn't have the slide pad add on.
I agree, words can only ever have one very narrow definition. I'd see a doctor about that orange in your hand though, Carotenosis can be a sign of a bad diet or of a more serious condition.
Now if you excuse me, I've got to go write to publishers about all these romance novels with people "stealing glances", Unless they're ripping their eyes out, all these literary greats are clearly wrong.
I'll also head down to Oxford and tell them that the eymology of steal involving something non-tangible that they say dates back hundreds of years is wrong!
I've never had a problem with windows 7 search, it's always worked fine. Have you turned off aggressive indexing and not added any folders to the index?
One feature I can think of off the top of my head is the search functionality of Vita and 7. This is a massive timesaver, especially compared to the painfully slow, limited one in XP. Finding a file/program/email in 20 seconds rather than 10 minutes is a big productivity boost.
We like jargon because we understand it. I'll use a cricket example to highlight what this is like to other people:
There's three slips and a gully, he bowled googlies this over before in the hope of a wicket but he ended up with them getting a boundry for 4 and a leg bye. 10 overs left this innings, powerplay taken, no reviews, 10 through extras, a bit of rain on the horizon so it may go to Duckworth Lewis, chasing 254 for 7.
Personally, I'd rather the computer be used to not unlock the doors to anyone using the term 'fast lane'.
If someone's overtaking, they have the right to be there. People treating the passing lane as a fast lane, doing 30mph over the limit and making it hard for people to safely pull out to overtake cause far more tailbacks thank people 'only' doing 5mph faster overtaking. Don't get me started on the twats who instantly tailgate anyone who has the audacity to be infront of them.
The event happened in August 2010, the police issued a European arrest warrant in November that year. He fled the country and has done everything in his power to delay extradition procedures which is why it's still ongoing. Don't make things up.
"Uhhh...one of them went out and bought him breakfast while his ass slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed. Sorry for my being crude folks but think about that JUST for a second, will ya? Your RAPIST is sleeping soundly in YOUR BED and you....buy him breakfast?"
Wow, that's right up there with "you can't be raped by your husband". There are probably thousands (tens of thousands?) of abuse victims who made breakfast for their abuser this very morning.
People don't like to admit they're victims of such serious crimes, people get scared of their abusers, people don't want to be seen as being rape victims. Victims don't always behave rationally. Heck, there are victims who show up to trials to desperately plead with the judge not to send their partner to jail for putting them in hospital.
The number of times I read rants against (maths) teachers for holding back students and then halfway through it they drop "just because I don't show my working!" bombshell.
Teachers are doing this for your benefit, not theirs. If you can hand in your homework with just the answers and get them all correct, great, but if you hand in the homework and get some wrong, the teacher won't have any idea where you went wrong, whether you used the wrong method when solving it or if you just made a simple error with the arithmetic. 99.9% of kids, even the ones who think they don't need to show their working because they know to do it, will at some pointstruggle with something and need help.
The UK exam system drills this into you pretty early, only 1 mark out of 3 or 4 being awarded for the correct answer, the rest being awarded for the method used. By the time you get to A-level (High school) maths, you're even given the answer beforehand and asked to "show that x = 5".
Ultimately the working out is usually more important in maths than the answer. You won't win a Fields medal for "Fermat's late theorem : it was correct. The end"
To be honest, I think they could've got the information quite easily, in fact they likely have it in the data they received. As I said before Dispatches are incredibly sensationalist, they will always try to aim for the biggest shock they can rather than having a more detailed look.
The problem I have with these figures is that they give no details of the nature of the offences.
Were these all "I want to find embarrassing data on my ex or a celebrity!"? Were some of them just "staff member legitimately needed to access an account and should've waited for his boss to authorise first".
How many of them were procedural mistakes and how many were genuine cases of snooping? A high number of the former would paint a very different picture and asks different questions to a higher number of the latter. But then Dispatches is a horribly sensationalist program so I doubt they care.
Read the article, the only thing outright wrong the article mentions is the armed guards. It admits the poisoning happened (albeit at a different Foxconn factory), other elements happened but were 'blown out of proportion' (because journalists never do that usually!).
Daisey said his production "is theatre"... Maybe because it is quite literally is a show he's doing in a theatre?
I'm getting increasingly suspicious of the articles 'refuting' negative stories about Apple.
That documentary on Foxconn's factory was considered entirely worthless and the person who did it had his reputation dragged through the mud because he basically got one thing wrong, the underage labour (or at least he couldn't prove it) and the guy with the workplace injury (Apple claim it was at the place he went to after Foxconn, he claims it was at Foxconn). The vast majority of the report was correct yet there was such venom aimed at him over it.
Likewise here there's another attempt to destroy the NYT writer's reputation by at best using a misleading methodology and at worst just outright lying.
The message is being made clear: it doesn't matter who you write for, if you highlight unethical practices at Apple, you will have people try to destroy your career.
Was on the BBC documentary on Bletchley Park called "code breakers" which went into huge detail on what the codes were, how they worked and the process for breaking them. Had a big focus on the the rest of the people in Turing's team who aren't as much a household name but did work that was arguably just as key as his.
Really interesting program, worth tracking down and watching.
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Most of those were public secrets at best. Remember, this was all information accessible with a very low level of security clearance.
Release massive dumps of private data publicly with the hope that a small portion of that data is in the public interest is all sorts of immoral and goes against the principle of responsible disclosure.
You could use the justification for the diplomatic cables leak to justify hacking into every Slashdot user's email accounts. There'll probably be a few users who've been doing illegal activities, that justifies the release of data from the other 99% percent of users who weren't doing anything wrong (although who may have been doing something embarassing).
Just be glad you're not telling them to use GIMP
If you go the "it's not a problem if existing laws/rules are followed" route, then it invalidates to reasoning to making private emails be subject to FOIA requests in the first place.
The problem with enforcing the monitoring of emails is that it removes all traceability of data. If I was being paid by the press as a Gmail employee to sift through a private email account, I would show up on their logs as having viewed it and probably be sacked and/or arrested (this frequently happens when stupid CRB approved people get given access to large databases) . However if I have permission to view that email and leak the contents, they've no way of really tracing it back to me, especially if I'm part of a team. It's how Brown's kid's medical record was able to be leaked. Once printed out, and talked about by doctors, anyone could've got that info and they'd have no way of knowing who.
The Sunday Telegraph thing happened because (at the time) they were too scared to go after the press, despite it clearly being illegal and not in the public's interest. They probably wouldn't get away with that now without charges as ministers and police are no longer scared to go after the press.
It means a third party will still have to read their private emails.
Given how leaky the UK government is (both from civil servants being bribed by the press and from ministers using leaks to further their agenda), It's probably going to result in genuine private emails being leaked, especially if they contain 'juicy' info about medical conditions or their thoughts on colleagues.
Gordon Brown had to deal with press splashing front pages with the news that his son had cystic fibrosis, just hours after he'd learnt of it and before he'd even told anyone else.
2 months? Aircraft can go for YEARS still using parts known to be a risk. Grounding aircraft is extremely expensive, it only happens in extremely serious cases (usually where an issue has been identified as causing a crash). Otherwise the fixes can wait until the next piece of scheduled maintenance on the aircraft or even it's next major refit. Sometimes they decide not to bother.
The Concorde crash springs to mind. They'd been warned for a long time that the fuel tanks lacked shielding and were at risk yet didn't address it on the plane that crashed.
You are buying a windows tablet why should they be made to let you put Android or whatever on it?
Apple are not made to allow Android, neither are Nintendo with their consoles. Sony will probably never include other operating systems on their games consoles again (and they will be used as a prime example for generations to come about the minimal benefits and massive risks of opening up a closed platform).
The 3DS XL is the worst offender.
Both the 3DS and the 3DS XL only have left analogue pads by default. Kid Icarus requires use of the pad and accurate use of the stylus at the same time which is near impossible for lefties. Thankfully they saw common sense and allowed lefties to use the add on pad on the right but that's only for the 3DS, the XL model doesn't have the slide pad add on.
Whole sale copying of an entire piece work is absolutely not fair usage. Back ups are for personal use for your own property.
I agree, words can only ever have one very narrow definition. I'd see a doctor about that orange in your hand though, Carotenosis can be a sign of a bad diet or of a more serious condition.
Now if you excuse me, I've got to go write to publishers about all these romance novels with people "stealing glances", Unless they're ripping their eyes out, all these literary greats are clearly wrong.
I'll also head down to Oxford and tell them that the eymology of steal involving something non-tangible that they say dates back hundreds of years is wrong!
Those would be the prerequisites for it to stop working...
I've never had a problem with windows 7 search, it's always worked fine. Have you turned off aggressive indexing and not added any folders to the index?
One feature I can think of off the top of my head is the search functionality of Vita and 7. This is a massive timesaver, especially compared to the painfully slow, limited one in XP. Finding a file/program/email in 20 seconds rather than 10 minutes is a big productivity boost.
If you understand it.
We like jargon because we understand it. I'll use a cricket example to highlight what this is like to other people:
There's three slips and a gully, he bowled googlies this over before in the hope of a wicket but he ended up with them getting a boundry for 4 and a leg bye. 10 overs left this innings, powerplay taken, no reviews, 10 through extras, a bit of rain on the horizon so it may go to Duckworth Lewis, chasing 254 for 7.
Simple right?
Personally, I'd rather the computer be used to not unlock the doors to anyone using the term 'fast lane'.
If someone's overtaking, they have the right to be there. People treating the passing lane as a fast lane, doing 30mph over the limit and making it hard for people to safely pull out to overtake cause far more tailbacks thank people 'only' doing 5mph faster overtaking. Don't get me started on the twats who instantly tailgate anyone who has the audacity to be infront of them.
The event happened in August 2010, the police issued a European arrest warrant in November that year. He fled the country and has done everything in his power to delay extradition procedures which is why it's still ongoing. Don't make things up.
"Uhhh...one of them went out and bought him breakfast while his ass slept the sleep of the well fucked in her bed. Sorry for my being crude folks but think about that JUST for a second, will ya? Your RAPIST is sleeping soundly in YOUR BED and you....buy him breakfast?"
Wow, that's right up there with "you can't be raped by your husband". There are probably thousands (tens of thousands?) of abuse victims who made breakfast for their abuser this very morning.
People don't like to admit they're victims of such serious crimes, people get scared of their abusers, people don't want to be seen as being rape victims. Victims don't always behave rationally. Heck, there are victims who show up to trials to desperately plead with the judge not to send their partner to jail for putting them in hospital.
Having sex with someone whilst they sleep without consent in advance (which by all accounts, wasn't given) seems to be textbook rape to me...
The trouble is, you can do that for some of the big questions in science too.
There was no time before the big bang. How did the big bang actually start if there was no time?
The number of times I read rants against (maths) teachers for holding back students and then halfway through it they drop "just because I don't show my working!" bombshell.
Teachers are doing this for your benefit, not theirs. If you can hand in your homework with just the answers and get them all correct, great, but if you hand in the homework and get some wrong, the teacher won't have any idea where you went wrong, whether you used the wrong method when solving it or if you just made a simple error with the arithmetic. 99.9% of kids, even the ones who think they don't need to show their working because they know to do it, will at some pointstruggle with something and need help.
The UK exam system drills this into you pretty early, only 1 mark out of 3 or 4 being awarded for the correct answer, the rest being awarded for the method used. By the time you get to A-level (High school) maths, you're even given the answer beforehand and asked to "show that x = 5".
Ultimately the working out is usually more important in maths than the answer. You won't win a Fields medal for "Fermat's late theorem : it was correct. The end"
To be honest, I think they could've got the information quite easily, in fact they likely have it in the data they received. As I said before Dispatches are incredibly sensationalist, they will always try to aim for the biggest shock they can rather than having a more detailed look.
You mean like staff being disciplined?
The problem I have with these figures is that they give no details of the nature of the offences.
Were these all "I want to find embarrassing data on my ex or a celebrity!"? Were some of them just "staff member legitimately needed to access an account and should've waited for his boss to authorise first".
How many of them were procedural mistakes and how many were genuine cases of snooping? A high number of the former would paint a very different picture and asks different questions to a higher number of the latter. But then Dispatches is a horribly sensationalist program so I doubt they care.
Read the article, the only thing outright wrong the article mentions is the armed guards. It admits the poisoning happened (albeit at a different Foxconn factory), other elements happened but were 'blown out of proportion' (because journalists never do that usually!).
Daisey said his production "is theatre"... Maybe because it is quite literally is a show he's doing in a theatre?
I'm getting increasingly suspicious of the articles 'refuting' negative stories about Apple.
That documentary on Foxconn's factory was considered entirely worthless and the person who did it had his reputation dragged through the mud because he basically got one thing wrong, the underage labour (or at least he couldn't prove it) and the guy with the workplace injury (Apple claim it was at the place he went to after Foxconn, he claims it was at Foxconn). The vast majority of the report was correct yet there was such venom aimed at him over it.
Likewise here there's another attempt to destroy the NYT writer's reputation by at best using a misleading methodology and at worst just outright lying.
The message is being made clear: it doesn't matter who you write for, if you highlight unethical practices at Apple, you will have people try to destroy your career.
Was on the BBC documentary on Bletchley Park called "code breakers" which went into huge detail on what the codes were, how they worked and the process for breaking them. Had a big focus on the the rest of the people in Turing's team who aren't as much a household name but did work that was arguably just as key as his.
Really interesting program, worth tracking down and watching.