This is unacceptable! The FCC needs to do their patriotic jobs and redefine broadband by putting an upper limit on it, so that the US reclaims it's rightful place at number one. We're number one! We're number one!
I am totally saving this to cut and paste into every Slashdot story. Just replace "some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous materials from across the country and at least eight national laboratories..." with the relevant cited expertise and you have the perfect Score 5: Insightful comment for every single story.
He isn't saying that if you read the cables you can't get a job at the State Department, but if you read the cables you won't *want* a job there anymore.
Read TFA. As others have pointed out, the State Department didn't issue the warning, but someone who happens to work there, and by all appearances not in an official capacity. His motive is most likely not information suppression (even if that is the result.)
Ruining? It seems to me that he's doing a pretty good job with it. You may find the editorializing distasteful, but Wikileaks seems to be getting more and more effective regardless.
That isn't responsible hiring, that's paranoid hiring. You can't logically infer that I can't keep secrets entrusted to me because I talk about information that I was never obligated to keep secret.
Creating a fear of the thought police may not have been their intention, but that is still the end result. Which is why it is important to disseminate this information as widely as possible, and get everyone talking about it. Because that immunizes everyone from the thought police effect.
To the contrary, if you had a cache of damning documents that you felt the world needed to know about and you had never heard of Wikileaks, do you think you could do any better in getting that information publicized?
By promoting themselves, they ensure that their leaks get attention, and that people who have leaked information know what to do with it.
Whether Julian Assange is likeable or not, as well as whether their behavior is for good or ill, is completely beside the point. Promoting themselves serves the cause of exposing leaks.
We went from (1) to 360 in a single generation, so we can assume any number of progressions. Maybe they just wanted skip a bunch of numbers to make their numbering look higher. The next version will be Xbox 361. Yes, I think I like that label for the next Xbox console best.
Let me check the date. Yep, still 2010, four years after the Wii came out. Wikipedia says the Playstation came out in 1994, PS2 in 2000, and PS3 in 2006, so we shouldn't expect a PS4 until 2012. Doesn't the summary contradict itself?
But wait, the Xbox came out in 2001 and Xbox 360 in 2005. Where is my Xbox 720???
How does a company's trade secret get such a special status as to warrant FBI involvement? I don't understand this, which makes it appear to me that the FBI is working for Ford.
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This is unacceptable! The FCC needs to do their patriotic jobs and redefine broadband by putting an upper limit on it, so that the US reclaims it's rightful place at number one. We're number one! We're number one!
Sounds similar to another country I'm familiar with.
And he would escape from the cops and national guard, who would inexplicably forget that they were after him and go home.
...which, for some reason, is always tagged "Story".
I am totally saving this to cut and paste into every Slashdot story. Just replace "some 40 experts on bombs and hazardous materials from across the country and at least eight national laboratories..." with the relevant cited expertise and you have the perfect Score 5: Insightful comment for every single story.
He isn't saying that if you read the cables you can't get a job at the State Department, but if you read the cables you won't *want* a job there anymore.
Read TFA. As others have pointed out, the State Department didn't issue the warning, but someone who happens to work there, and by all appearances not in an official capacity. His motive is most likely not information suppression (even if that is the result.)
Ruining? It seems to me that he's doing a pretty good job with it. You may find the editorializing distasteful, but Wikileaks seems to be getting more and more effective regardless.
Long term unemployment benefits?
Tax cuts?
No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#United_States
That isn't responsible hiring, that's paranoid hiring. You can't logically infer that I can't keep secrets entrusted to me because I talk about information that I was never obligated to keep secret.
Creating a fear of the thought police may not have been their intention, but that is still the end result. Which is why it is important to disseminate this information as widely as possible, and get everyone talking about it. Because that immunizes everyone from the thought police effect.
Here is Wikileaks' own torrent of the cables. http://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/cablegate/cablegate-201012031001.7z.torrent
Spread them far and wide. Fight the bastards.
Now I want all of these cables specifically because I read the summary. Where can I find them? Are they on The Pirate Bay yet?
Either they bought all those PS3s over 9 months ago or they are jailbroken.
But then again it wouldn't be the worst illegal thing the government has done.
To the contrary, if you had a cache of damning documents that you felt the world needed to know about and you had never heard of Wikileaks, do you think you could do any better in getting that information publicized?
By promoting themselves, they ensure that their leaks get attention, and that people who have leaked information know what to do with it.
Whether Julian Assange is likeable or not, as well as whether their behavior is for good or ill, is completely beside the point. Promoting themselves serves the cause of exposing leaks.
Just because you may think subjectively and start with your conclusions and then find evidence that supports them doesn't mean everyone else does.
...and the small print taketh away.
We went from (1) to 360 in a single generation, so we can assume any number of progressions. Maybe they just wanted skip a bunch of numbers to make their numbering look higher. The next version will be Xbox 361. Yes, I think I like that label for the next Xbox console best.
If it wasn't DDoSed before, it's surely Slashdotted now. Good job, guys!
I think degrees are the imperial, non-metric unit. The metric equivalent of 360 degrees is 2(pi).
Let me check the date. Yep, still 2010, four years after the Wii came out. Wikipedia says the Playstation came out in 1994, PS2 in 2000, and PS3 in 2006, so we shouldn't expect a PS4 until 2012. Doesn't the summary contradict itself?
But wait, the Xbox came out in 2001 and Xbox 360 in 2005. Where is my Xbox 720???
And a marching band will play at his funeral.
I saw something similar that was like "5 years of Vista experience" when Vista had just come out maybe a year earlier.
Oops. I found the answer in other branches of this thread. The Economic Espionage Act of 1996. Got it.
I really need to incorporate myself. It seems that you get more rights that way.
How does a company's trade secret get such a special status as to warrant FBI involvement? I don't understand this, which makes it appear to me that the FBI is working for Ford.