A lash out at the fact you were lied to 9 or 10 years ago? Great, I'm annoyed at that too.
I'm not trying to punish the government because they were/are dishonest (they are politicians, it's a given). If I can't trust that the government to provide accurate properly weighted evidence on something as important as invasion, then how can I support the decision which is based on that evidence?
if the reason is just - that Iran does indeed a pose a viable nuclear threat then there's no need to lie to you again.
How do we, as ordinary citizens, tell the difference between a legitimate threat and a government on whom we have to rely to provide us with information but who now have a proven track record of lying to get the outcome they want?
Are books returnable if I don't like them?
No. All sales are final. This is why most authors allow you to sample much of their book for free so you can try before you buy.
Thats a perfect example of why the US don't want to extradite from the UK. In that case Gary McKinnon has openly admitted accessing remotely NASA and other US computers systems, although you can't call it hacking.
That shows a crime directly against US property which the Assange case doesn't seem to do and despite the US having requested extradition in 2005 he still isn't close to US territory.
That treaty is hugely unpopular with UK public and is widely considered unfavorable to us, to the point where MPs have been calling for review of the Treaty. There is a general feeling of the US riding roughshod over other countries sovereignty, admittedly with our own governments approval, but that feeling does exist and extends the idea that our government is not representing us. The last thing our government needs is a lightning rod issue like that bring up questions about what we get out of the 'special' relationship.
UK has a requirement not to extradite in cases where a death penalty is a possibility and also where the crime is considered to be political in nature, since you have had US senators calling for the death penalty, even if they are just sounding off for the cameras, both of those restrictions may have been met. However, the political restriction may not apply because the definition of a political crime is criticism of their own government.
An attempt to extradite from the UK may not be as easy either legally or politically as it seems on paper.
Siri doesn't understand British english? I can understand if it doesn't support german, french and other non-english languages, but doesn't understand different dialects of english seems bad.
If you think about it, it makes sense.
A different language is a different language and as a result rules must be explicitly programmed for those languages and everyone understands that.
English sounds English to a human ear, the syntax is based on the same rules but the usage of the language varies a lot around the world. Meaning is coloured by local culture.
For example, in India, it considered rude to ever say No to a request, so the first response to a request is normally Yes, followed by a qualification. In the UK, that cultural bias to saying No doesn't exist, so when we say Yes, we really mean Yes. The same language, using the same syntax but the important part of the sentence comes in different places because of the local culture.
The problem is that humans are really good at deciphering meaning from what is effectively errors in the communication protocol and so everyone tends to think English is just English with strange pronunciation and so tend to over look the need for specific rules for each region.
How is the size of your bank account going to affect your behavior if you don't know you can get caught cheating?
Because they do it so often in real life that it's just second nature to them?
such as being prepared to bullshit their way through a meeting because they don't have the answers but don't want to admit that in front of everyone, I've seen that one more times than I can remember.
Actually that seems very apt since it's basically the exact same dynamic being shown in the experiment, small lies to increase the chance of a favorable outcome.
Ah, that wasn't the case when I last looked into it.
When I dumped the TV, I figured the few shows that I might miss I could watch on the various catch up services but in fact, once I stopped watching on TV I lost interest in those shows and haven't missed any of the shows.
My understanding is that iPlayer doesn't stream live content for precisely this reason. If they did, anyone who watched it would require a TV License which they have no reliable way of enforcing.
Personally I think the License Fees days are number, maybe not the next review, prehaps the one after that, because the number of ways of accessing the data is expanding so much that it becomes impossible to police.
I was really surprised how easy it was when I canceled my license so I guess licenseless homes are becoming more common. Although I did cancel when the Analogue signal in my area was turned off so maybe they were just expecting a lot of cancellations at that time.
You are assuming the device has enough horsepower locally to be useful, as opposed to doing the vast majority of the work on servers and just displaying the results.
You could certainly do some stuff locally, maybe have heading and speed information, how much is left in your google wallet etc, but the vast majority of the work will have to be done on the server if only because of storage space.
For example, asking for directions to the nearest ATM, there is no way to store a list of Points of Interest for the entire world, I doubt you could even store all the points of interest for a large city.
Thats not to say it couldn't cache results when you go to a new city so you don't need a constant net connection to use it, but at some point it will have to connect back to a server to get more information and at that point stats can be uploaded as well.
Rooting it would allow you to use some server other than Googles' (maybe) but who else runs a server capable of that sort of detailed information and who wouldn't also be interested in collecting the same sort of information as Google.
So figure you'll spend anywhere from $4.11 to $6.17 to get to the beach. This doesn't include parking, etc.
"Rapid 10" Blue Bus from downtown to Santa Monica for, I'm guessing, $2.00 each way (I thought Google gave fare info, but I guess not). So figure that's $4.00 round-trip.
The calculations holds true so long as you are going to the beach by yourself, but take 1 extra person with you the public transport costs double but the car costs will remain essentially the same.
Based on that between 1 and 2 extra people would make the car cheaper and fill a car with 4 people and the car will always come out cheaper.... which I think is a great shame, I always said that if they want to encourage public transport they need to find a way to make it cheap for groups.
Missiles don't have to explode, just have a solid pointy thing up front instead of a warhead and ram the target at high relative speed to the target. There would be a bit of debris from the damage done by impact (similar to a gun projectile) but not the ship breaking into millions of little bits like a star wars movie.
Missiles would prevent you having to deal with recoil you'd get from a gun and heat dissipation within your ship you'd get with a energy system.
Besides which, last I checked even the domain-specific js snoop didn't work anymore in FF or Chrome.
Which to a clueless investigator who know that method once worked would look like everyone running the js script had deleted their histories because he wouldn't be getting any browser history hits.
My guess would be the former... They just don't understand the technology.
Don't get me wrong, they probably do have staff who do understand, it's just that those staff aren't the ones communicating with people outside SOCA. For that matter, I don't think those people even understand criminal investigation either. Look at that industry sponsored message they had on the domain seizure notice.
The venture's successor, the again-active Sony Music Entertainment, is 100% owned by the Sony Corporation of America.
a very different company in this case being the direct successor to the entity which did put rootkits on CDs with Sony Music being formed by Sony buying out the 50% share from Bertelsmann AG.
It like the difference between night and... well, slightly later that same night.
thermostat might have just been shorthand for a more complete environment monitoring system measuring temperature, humidity, lighting etc
Although I still can't quite work out why they don't just control the system with dedicated hardware/firmware.
Just guessing but maybe a system which ties into the SNMP reporting system might want to use a generic OS to make rule processing easily upgradeable.
You could also use a more generic OS based system to be able to be a lot more predictive of environmental needs. for example, looking at a calendar of Public Holidays and reducing temperatures to weekend levels for a Monday when there wouldn't be any staff in
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Since I'm British, Blair; but nice attempt at bring a Democrat/Republican taint to the discussion.
I'm not trying to punish the government because they were/are dishonest (they are politicians, it's a given). If I can't trust that the government to provide accurate properly weighted evidence on something as important as invasion, then how can I support the decision which is based on that evidence?
How do we, as ordinary citizens, tell the difference between a legitimate threat and a government on whom we have to rely to provide us with information but who now have a proven track record of lying to get the outcome they want?
It's a boy who cried Wolf situation.
It's not a case of being right or wrong, it a case of being flat out lied to by people who want to go to war.
Isn't that the exact same argument used to justify the Iraq Invasion?
Are books returnable if I don't like them?
No. All sales are final. This is why most authors allow you to sample much of their book for free so you can try before you buy.
Do you mean Gary McKinnon?
Thats a perfect example of why the US don't want to extradite from the UK. In that case Gary McKinnon has openly admitted accessing remotely NASA and other US computers systems, although you can't call it hacking.
That shows a crime directly against US property which the Assange case doesn't seem to do and despite the US having requested extradition in 2005 he still isn't close to US territory.
That treaty is hugely unpopular with UK public and is widely considered unfavorable to us, to the point where MPs have been calling for review of the Treaty. There is a general feeling of the US riding roughshod over other countries sovereignty, admittedly with our own governments approval, but that feeling does exist and extends the idea that our government is not representing us. The last thing our government needs is a lightning rod issue like that bring up questions about what we get out of the 'special' relationship.
UK has a requirement not to extradite in cases where a death penalty is a possibility and also where the crime is considered to be political in nature, since you have had US senators calling for the death penalty, even if they are just sounding off for the cameras, both of those restrictions may have been met. However, the political restriction may not apply because the definition of a political crime is criticism of their own government.
An attempt to extradite from the UK may not be as easy either legally or politically as it seems on paper.
If you think about it, it makes sense.
A different language is a different language and as a result rules must be explicitly programmed for those languages and everyone understands that.
English sounds English to a human ear, the syntax is based on the same rules but the usage of the language varies a lot around the world. Meaning is coloured by local culture.
For example, in India, it considered rude to ever say No to a request, so the first response to a request is normally Yes, followed by a qualification. In the UK, that cultural bias to saying No doesn't exist, so when we say Yes, we really mean Yes. The same language, using the same syntax but the important part of the sentence comes in different places because of the local culture.
The problem is that humans are really good at deciphering meaning from what is effectively errors in the communication protocol and so everyone tends to think English is just English with strange pronunciation and so tend to over look the need for specific rules for each region.
Because they do it so often in real life that it's just second nature to them?
such as being prepared to bullshit their way through a meeting because they don't have the answers but don't want to admit that in front of everyone, I've seen that one more times than I can remember.
Actually that seems very apt since it's basically the exact same dynamic being shown in the experiment, small lies to increase the chance of a favorable outcome.
you're confusing criminality with morality.
Ah, that wasn't the case when I last looked into it.
When I dumped the TV, I figured the few shows that I might miss I could watch on the various catch up services but in fact, once I stopped watching on TV I lost interest in those shows and haven't missed any of the shows.
My understanding is that iPlayer doesn't stream live content for precisely this reason. If they did, anyone who watched it would require a TV License which they have no reliable way of enforcing.
Personally I think the License Fees days are number, maybe not the next review, prehaps the one after that, because the number of ways of accessing the data is expanding so much that it becomes impossible to police.
I was really surprised how easy it was when I canceled my license so I guess licenseless homes are becoming more common. Although I did cancel when the Analogue signal in my area was turned off so maybe they were just expecting a lot of cancellations at that time.
You are assuming the device has enough horsepower locally to be useful, as opposed to doing the vast majority of the work on servers and just displaying the results.
You could certainly do some stuff locally, maybe have heading and speed information, how much is left in your google wallet etc, but the vast majority of the work will have to be done on the server if only because of storage space.
For example, asking for directions to the nearest ATM, there is no way to store a list of Points of Interest for the entire world, I doubt you could even store all the points of interest for a large city.
Thats not to say it couldn't cache results when you go to a new city so you don't need a constant net connection to use it, but at some point it will have to connect back to a server to get more information and at that point stats can be uploaded as well.
Rooting it would allow you to use some server other than Googles' (maybe) but who else runs a server capable of that sort of detailed information and who wouldn't also be interested in collecting the same sort of information as Google.
The calculations holds true so long as you are going to the beach by yourself, but take 1 extra person with you the public transport costs double but the car costs will remain essentially the same.
Based on that between 1 and 2 extra people would make the car cheaper and fill a car with 4 people and the car will always come out cheaper.... which I think is a great shame, I always said that if they want to encourage public transport they need to find a way to make it cheap for groups.
self defense? against a micro-light or even a hand-glider. Christ you yanks are paranoid.
were they impeding the hunt? sounds like they were monitoring the hunt to me.
Missiles don't have to explode, just have a solid pointy thing up front instead of a warhead and ram the target at high relative speed to the target. There would be a bit of debris from the damage done by impact (similar to a gun projectile) but not the ship breaking into millions of little bits like a star wars movie.
Missiles would prevent you having to deal with recoil you'd get from a gun and heat dissipation within your ship you'd get with a energy system.
or else, we may never see Dare Devil in real life.
I think it's necessary...
Which to a clueless investigator who know that method once worked would look like everyone running the js script had deleted their histories because he wouldn't be getting any browser history hits.
My guess would be the former... They just don't understand the technology.
Don't get me wrong, they probably do have staff who do understand, it's just that those staff aren't the ones communicating with people outside SOCA. For that matter, I don't think those people even understand criminal investigation either. Look at that industry sponsored message they had on the domain seizure notice.
a very different company in this case being the direct successor to the entity which did put rootkits on CDs with Sony Music being formed by Sony buying out the 50% share from Bertelsmann AG.
It like the difference between night and... well, slightly later that same night.
He couldn't use the same name on both sites or he wouldn't be anonymous *rolls eyes*
I think the point was that, it was never the interface quality which was putting off Wikipedia contributors, it was the background politics.
thermostat might have just been shorthand for a more complete environment monitoring system measuring temperature, humidity, lighting etc
Although I still can't quite work out why they don't just control the system with dedicated hardware/firmware.
Just guessing but maybe a system which ties into the SNMP reporting system might want to use a generic OS to make rule processing easily upgradeable.
You could also use a more generic OS based system to be able to be a lot more predictive of environmental needs. for example, looking at a calendar of Public Holidays and reducing temperatures to weekend levels for a Monday when there wouldn't be any staff in