Some things are legitimately kept secret for a reason. Others, not so much. Wikileaks doesn't concern itself with the difference.
Which is why Wikileaks offered to negotiate with the US government over redactions? To which the US government responded that they shouldn't have to negotiate that they wanted all of it to remain secret.
Keep in mind that it takes at least two to negotiate, and if one party flat out refuses you've got limited options. You can give in, release everything or do your best to handle it responsibly. The third case seems most closely related to what they've done.
rediff. There are probably better sources, but this is what I've seen elsewhere. Note the passage starting at the fourth paragraph.
"You have chosen to respond in a manner which leads me to conclude that the supposed risks are entirely fanciful and you are instead concerned to suppress evidence of human rights abuse and other criminal behaviour," Assange said.
We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained US government classified materials, Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, State Department said in a letter to Jennifer Robinson, Attorney for Julian Assange, WikiLeaks.
This was in response to the communication from WikiLeaks a day earlier in which the whistle blower website informed the US about its intentions to publish classified US government documents.
Indeed. I'm curious as to what sort of liability this is going to open for them in the future. Previously they only refused transactions that the government required them to or in cases where they suspected fraud.
If they're now blocking transactions which the government doesn't require them to and that they have good reason to believe the cardholder consented to, that's got to open up all sorts of liability over their connection with cybercriminals.
That's true, however now that Mastercard is doing so without being compelled by law to do it, they're opening up a whole can of worms for times when their cards are being used in illegal ways or to organizations that are viewed to be morally dodgy. Now they're going to have to start monitoring things much more closely or leave themselves open to law suit, seeing as they're now refusing to send money that the card holder consented to or the government telling them they have to do it.
Depends upon the particular model. The DEC Multia was particularly problematic as it tended to suffer rather quickly from heat related problems and god help you if you were foolish enough to let it sit there flat while in operation.
Depending upon your definition of power user, that's almost always been the case. I remember there was that brief period when AMD beat Intel to the 1ghz mark, but apart from that the high end stuff from Intel has typically been faster.
But it's also pretty much always been crazy expensive as well. Most people make their decisions either on marketing or the price/performance ratio. I suppose some people now consider energy efficiency as well.
As the other poster suggested, you can buy an entire AMD based system for what one of Intel's high end processors costs. There are people who want that level of performance and are willing to pay, but the chip does cost a lot.
There's a principle in UI design that with a mouse you can reliably find 4 points without looking. The four corners plus the spot right under the mouse. And with a keyboard, you can reliably find somewhere around 50 or so excluding modifiers with just the keys on the main portion of the keyboard.
Dedicated systems are usually significantly less complex, but even my xBox 360 controller has 10 buttons 2 mini sticks and 1 D-pad. Which is a significant leap over what a touchscreen only phone has available.
If I get a dedicated portable system, the 3Ds is almost certainly going to be it. But I'm going to wait to see how it ends up working and a price on it. But it does look promising. Hopefully they come up with something more compelling than just some gimmicks to justify playing.
Although SMB in 3D might be kind of interesting, with the various of scenery being on their own layer.
Digital joystick? Have those really gotten to the point where they're more accurate than say an analog joystick?
What you're describing as downside for the analog joystick is precisely why they're so much better than digital joysticks. While I'm sure that digital joysticks are better than they used to be, there are many times I can remember gaming where those blind spots in movement would be fatal to my character. And I'm willing to bet that for top tier gamers that the little bit of extra time on the digital stick is meaningful.
The real issue isn't the GPU or the CPU, the real issue is controls. Touch screens are great for certain types of games, but for the most part they tend not to work very well for more complicated games which require more complicated controls.
Just look at what consoles have done to the FPS genre. The controls got dumbed down and I don't personally think that there was anything much added by doing it.
Going from a small number of buttons to basically none isn't likely to be good for gameplay on games that are more involved than casual games.
So, Ms. Palins book might really have been intended as "Going rouge"? Which would probably be a more apt title considering how she came to be the Republican VP candidate.
No, that's a bad track record, those mistakes are typically referred to as "never events" for a reason. Nothing should ever be left in a body following surgery, ever. The only reason why it happens is that the surgical team failed to do a complete inventory of the equipment before and after the procedure.
Leaving an object in a person can quite easily lead to death or permanent disability.
Indeed, and that goes for most other degrees as well. There isn't time in even the 10 years or so it takes to get a PhD to really cover everything you need to know for a bachelors, so they try to fix you up with the need to know stuff along with the information on how to fill in the gaps.
That part sounded to me like he was worried about fragmentation, and what it would mean to have some other company port your software in order to offload the burden of dealing with the fragmentation. But his idea of fragmentation (different base graphics hardware) is different than what some people have complained about (different manufacturer-added UI augmentation) because games use more native code. He definitely mentions that the Android Market not allowing large app downloads is an issue, but it seems like he was more worried about supporting all the different hardware configurations.
Where exactly did you get that idea from? The two things that he specifically calls out is that 2-bit compression which iOS has versus the 4-bit compression that Android allows adds an additional half gigabyte or so of data to the program. And that even if it did support 2-bit compression he couldn't serve the files via the market as it would be approximately 1.6gb over sized so he'd have to set up his own servers.
That's not a fragmentation issue like you're suggesting it is, people suggest that there's some sort of fragmentation problem, but Google has that figured out and the only people that are harmed by it are people who bought early Android phones and ones with custom UI. Pretty much all the newer ones should be easily handled by somebody with the technical skills that John has.
And yet Apple seems to have figured it out to his satisfaction. I dislike the Appstore, but there's something fundamentally different about the Appstore to the Android Market in that the file size for the market is capped at about 30mb.
His main complaint and one that I can't argue with is that he can't serve the file through the market place and as a result he'd have to set up his own server and override the wisdom people have of not getting Android apps from unknown sources.
What Google needs to do if they want to support larger file sizes is change the mechanism completely. Probably make it a bit more like Jigdo, or a torrent without the p2p features or some other method of downloading and verifying in a piecewise fashion.
I've got a Nexus One and often times due to crappy reception the updates I'm trying to download will freeze out and have to be restarted. I would assume that Apple has a more bandwidth efficient way of doing it if they're allowing such large files to be downloaded. Even requiring certain ones to be downloaded via the computer or WiFi would likely go a long way.
Citation necessary. There's no evidence that he's done anything which the US could charge him with, otherwise our government would already be making headlines demanding that the UK hand him over to us.
Additionally, while not conclusive, I haven't heard of any of the Abu Ghraib techniques ever being used since the scandal broke. Granted the prosecutions stemming from it were half assed at best, but nobody has alleged that it's gone on since then.
As for the black sites, I don't think anybody really knows to what extent that's still going on, but it wouldn't have happened had the US government not asked for it, sent people over and found places that were willing to turn a blind eye to it. The US is hardly alone in terms of culpability for that one.
Precisely, if he's found to be not guilty after trial then the system worked largely as intended. And presumably he could then go after the officials involved and get some sort of settlement for the gross negligence and abuse of power.
Guilty or not, you have to admit that the officials haven't been particularly competent or honest in the process.
He can pick up some of the money yes, but Paypal is still holding somewhat north of $31k in donations that people made to wikileaks. As per Paypal SOP they'll hold the money as long as they can and refuse to either pass it on to the intended recipient or refund any of it to the donors in question.
I really hope that his next leak involves Paypal's dubious practices.
Well, for one thing they've frozen all his assets and the Swedish authorities require him to return on his dime.
And for a second thing it's pretty clear that justice has nothing to do with the charges. There's just been so much irregularity to the business that nobody with any sense could view it as anything other than a miscarriage of justice.
If he's really guilty or they've got real evidence they should've taken his passport when he was still in Sweden and gone through the process of interrogating him. The fact that they didn't even need to interrogate him initially to dismiss the charges is awfully telling about how much actual evidence they've got.
That's bullshit and whoever it was that modded you up is an idiot.
He did deal with the charges when he was still in Sweden. He offered on multiple occasions to come in for interrogation and asked if he was free to leave the country before he left.
Shy of confessing to questionable accusations, I'm not really sure how much more he could've done.
Except that the charges were filed by two different women and only after they found out that he was having sex with both of them.
Additionally, if that were the case that would be rape, however that does make it a bit questionable as to why the charges were completely dropped only to be resurrected by a superior as molestation charges.
Except that games are often times cracked and released before the game goes on sale legitimately. Seems to me that perhaps the justification isn't particularly accurate. Or they're deluding themselves which is of course always possible.
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Some things are legitimately kept secret for a reason. Others, not so much. Wikileaks doesn't concern itself with the difference.
Which is why Wikileaks offered to negotiate with the US government over redactions? To which the US government responded that they shouldn't have to negotiate that they wanted all of it to remain secret.
Keep in mind that it takes at least two to negotiate, and if one party flat out refuses you've got limited options. You can give in, release everything or do your best to handle it responsibly. The third case seems most closely related to what they've done.
rediff. There are probably better sources, but this is what I've seen elsewhere. Note the passage starting at the fourth paragraph.
"You have chosen to respond in a manner which leads me to conclude that the supposed risks are entirely fanciful and you are instead concerned to suppress evidence of human rights abuse and other criminal behaviour," Assange said.
We will not engage in a negotiation regarding the further release or dissemination of illegally obtained US government classified materials, Harold Hongju Koh, Legal Adviser, State Department said in a letter to Jennifer Robinson, Attorney for Julian Assange, WikiLeaks.
This was in response to the communication from WikiLeaks a day earlier in which the whistle blower website informed the US about its intentions to publish classified US government documents.
Indeed. I'm curious as to what sort of liability this is going to open for them in the future. Previously they only refused transactions that the government required them to or in cases where they suspected fraud.
If they're now blocking transactions which the government doesn't require them to and that they have good reason to believe the cardholder consented to, that's got to open up all sorts of liability over their connection with cybercriminals.
That's true, however now that Mastercard is doing so without being compelled by law to do it, they're opening up a whole can of worms for times when their cards are being used in illegal ways or to organizations that are viewed to be morally dodgy. Now they're going to have to start monitoring things much more closely or leave themselves open to law suit, seeing as they're now refusing to send money that the card holder consented to or the government telling them they have to do it.
Depends upon the particular model. The DEC Multia was particularly problematic as it tended to suffer rather quickly from heat related problems and god help you if you were foolish enough to let it sit there flat while in operation.
Depending upon your definition of power user, that's almost always been the case. I remember there was that brief period when AMD beat Intel to the 1ghz mark, but apart from that the high end stuff from Intel has typically been faster.
But it's also pretty much always been crazy expensive as well. Most people make their decisions either on marketing or the price/performance ratio. I suppose some people now consider energy efficiency as well.
Yes, it's 10D better.
As the other poster suggested, you can buy an entire AMD based system for what one of Intel's high end processors costs. There are people who want that level of performance and are willing to pay, but the chip does cost a lot.
There's a principle in UI design that with a mouse you can reliably find 4 points without looking. The four corners plus the spot right under the mouse. And with a keyboard, you can reliably find somewhere around 50 or so excluding modifiers with just the keys on the main portion of the keyboard.
Dedicated systems are usually significantly less complex, but even my xBox 360 controller has 10 buttons 2 mini sticks and 1 D-pad. Which is a significant leap over what a touchscreen only phone has available.
If I get a dedicated portable system, the 3Ds is almost certainly going to be it. But I'm going to wait to see how it ends up working and a price on it. But it does look promising. Hopefully they come up with something more compelling than just some gimmicks to justify playing.
Although SMB in 3D might be kind of interesting, with the various of scenery being on their own layer.
Digital joystick? Have those really gotten to the point where they're more accurate than say an analog joystick?
What you're describing as downside for the analog joystick is precisely why they're so much better than digital joysticks. While I'm sure that digital joysticks are better than they used to be, there are many times I can remember gaming where those blind spots in movement would be fatal to my character. And I'm willing to bet that for top tier gamers that the little bit of extra time on the digital stick is meaningful.
The real issue isn't the GPU or the CPU, the real issue is controls. Touch screens are great for certain types of games, but for the most part they tend not to work very well for more complicated games which require more complicated controls.
Just look at what consoles have done to the FPS genre. The controls got dumbed down and I don't personally think that there was anything much added by doing it.
Going from a small number of buttons to basically none isn't likely to be good for gameplay on games that are more involved than casual games.
So, Ms. Palins book might really have been intended as "Going rouge"? Which would probably be a more apt title considering how she came to be the Republican VP candidate.
The Nexus One came from HTC and Google, duh.
No, that's a bad track record, those mistakes are typically referred to as "never events" for a reason. Nothing should ever be left in a body following surgery, ever. The only reason why it happens is that the surgical team failed to do a complete inventory of the equipment before and after the procedure.
Leaving an object in a person can quite easily lead to death or permanent disability.
Indeed, and that goes for most other degrees as well. There isn't time in even the 10 years or so it takes to get a PhD to really cover everything you need to know for a bachelors, so they try to fix you up with the need to know stuff along with the information on how to fill in the gaps.
That part sounded to me like he was worried about fragmentation, and what it would mean to have some other company port your software in order to offload the burden of dealing with the fragmentation. But his idea of fragmentation (different base graphics hardware) is different than what some people have complained about (different manufacturer-added UI augmentation) because games use more native code. He definitely mentions that the Android Market not allowing large app downloads is an issue, but it seems like he was more worried about supporting all the different hardware configurations.
Where exactly did you get that idea from? The two things that he specifically calls out is that 2-bit compression which iOS has versus the 4-bit compression that Android allows adds an additional half gigabyte or so of data to the program. And that even if it did support 2-bit compression he couldn't serve the files via the market as it would be approximately 1.6gb over sized so he'd have to set up his own servers.
That's not a fragmentation issue like you're suggesting it is, people suggest that there's some sort of fragmentation problem, but Google has that figured out and the only people that are harmed by it are people who bought early Android phones and ones with custom UI. Pretty much all the newer ones should be easily handled by somebody with the technical skills that John has.
And yet Apple seems to have figured it out to his satisfaction. I dislike the Appstore, but there's something fundamentally different about the Appstore to the Android Market in that the file size for the market is capped at about 30mb.
His main complaint and one that I can't argue with is that he can't serve the file through the market place and as a result he'd have to set up his own server and override the wisdom people have of not getting Android apps from unknown sources.
What Google needs to do if they want to support larger file sizes is change the mechanism completely. Probably make it a bit more like Jigdo, or a torrent without the p2p features or some other method of downloading and verifying in a piecewise fashion.
I've got a Nexus One and often times due to crappy reception the updates I'm trying to download will freeze out and have to be restarted. I would assume that Apple has a more bandwidth efficient way of doing it if they're allowing such large files to be downloaded. Even requiring certain ones to be downloaded via the computer or WiFi would likely go a long way.
Citation necessary. There's no evidence that he's done anything which the US could charge him with, otherwise our government would already be making headlines demanding that the UK hand him over to us.
Additionally, while not conclusive, I haven't heard of any of the Abu Ghraib techniques ever being used since the scandal broke. Granted the prosecutions stemming from it were half assed at best, but nobody has alleged that it's gone on since then.
As for the black sites, I don't think anybody really knows to what extent that's still going on, but it wouldn't have happened had the US government not asked for it, sent people over and found places that were willing to turn a blind eye to it. The US is hardly alone in terms of culpability for that one.
Precisely, if he's found to be not guilty after trial then the system worked largely as intended. And presumably he could then go after the officials involved and get some sort of settlement for the gross negligence and abuse of power.
Guilty or not, you have to admit that the officials haven't been particularly competent or honest in the process.
He can pick up some of the money yes, but Paypal is still holding somewhat north of $31k in donations that people made to wikileaks. As per Paypal SOP they'll hold the money as long as they can and refuse to either pass it on to the intended recipient or refund any of it to the donors in question.
I really hope that his next leak involves Paypal's dubious practices.
Well, for one thing they've frozen all his assets and the Swedish authorities require him to return on his dime.
And for a second thing it's pretty clear that justice has nothing to do with the charges. There's just been so much irregularity to the business that nobody with any sense could view it as anything other than a miscarriage of justice.
If he's really guilty or they've got real evidence they should've taken his passport when he was still in Sweden and gone through the process of interrogating him. The fact that they didn't even need to interrogate him initially to dismiss the charges is awfully telling about how much actual evidence they've got.
That's bullshit and whoever it was that modded you up is an idiot.
He did deal with the charges when he was still in Sweden. He offered on multiple occasions to come in for interrogation and asked if he was free to leave the country before he left.
Shy of confessing to questionable accusations, I'm not really sure how much more he could've done.
Except that the charges were filed by two different women and only after they found out that he was having sex with both of them.
Additionally, if that were the case that would be rape, however that does make it a bit questionable as to why the charges were completely dropped only to be resurrected by a superior as molestation charges.
Except that games are often times cracked and released before the game goes on sale legitimately. Seems to me that perhaps the justification isn't particularly accurate. Or they're deluding themselves which is of course always possible.