And let's not just have an opinion puff piece from Salon, which jumped the shark a long fucking time ago.
I wouldn't call the piece from Salon a puff piece. He did an interview with Lamo. He emailed the Wired journalist and posted the full exchange. He tried to get a hold of Assange. In the end, there doesn't seem to be much there except for anger, but he does raise a few good points:
Lamo quite possibly breached his trust as both a self-claimed "journalist" and "minister".
Lamo is known as a publicity hound. His proclaimed interest in national security may not have been his motivation for exposing the hacker.
There are conflicts accounts on how Manning first got into contact with Lamo.
Wired has the full chat logs, and why some parts were not published doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
The Wired journalist was uncritical of Lamo in these respects. The edited chat logs could be the result of trying to protect Lamo.
I'd say all this at least qualifies as "fishy", but I think this is just basically a Wired journalist with a cozy relationship with Lamo, and people who are pissed at Lamo are extending that to Wired.
And how many packages are available, and how frequently are they updated, compared to testing? I just did a search for my video card driver and it wasn't in there.
None, but back when I ran Debian stable it was way too out of date to be useful. With Windows, most software comes with packaged installers and works with the stable version. With Debian, the choice was to either run old software, build it myself, or run testing.
The equivalent of X, networking, and email are built-in to Windows and security updates are provided automatically. Drivers are provided by 3rd parties, but Windows offers me options to get updates for those too.
FDR created internment camps even though he knew the Japanese living in this country were loyal citizens.
There was a lot of fear going around at that time. Are you saying 100% of the Japanese were loyal? Are you saying that FDR had no concerns about security, but was merely acting out of racism? Do you have proof of this?
After 9/11, an acquaintance at work was wondering if all Arab Muslims shouldn't be deported. I was shocked, and brought up the Japanese internment, which is now regarded as a national shame. His response was that it "worked". I know this guy, he's not a racist, but when the chips were down, he was just thinking about the threat.
Over the years running Debian testing, I've had X break, I've had email break, I've had DNS taking 5 seconds on every call, and I've had Java networking break. I've never had this kind of experience running Windows XP over the same period of time.
Thanks for the info. Where I'm at (near Boston) there's too many trees, hills, houses, and too much light pollution around for anything. I do envy your Big Sky view:)
You can try explicitly putting <p> tags where you want a paragraph break. If the option "HTML Formatted" is set, this would cause that. You can change the option to Plain Old Text if that's the case, which despite the confusing name, will format paragraphs as HTML and allow you to use HTML codes when you want.
every post 9/11 attack on an airline has been negated by the efforts of the passengers.
That's bullshit. I don't support these body scanners, but I don't support lies either. By the time the passengers intervened, they were too late if the devices had worked properly:
Richard Reid: "The explosive apparently did not detonate due to the one-day delay in the take-off of Reid's flight. He had worn his shoes for more than one day, and Reid's accumulated foot perspiration caused the fuse to be too damp to ignite."
Christmas Day bomber: "While there was an explosion and fire, the device failed to detonate properly."
I don't think reporters were forced to be embedded. Embedding was actually fairly well received, even if there was some concerns. The coffin thing is obvious censorship, but then you wouldn't be seeing the true horrors of war on television during WWII, and there were lots of bullshit propaganda movies coming out of Hollywood.
Simple fact is that he never had a right to set himself up as the single point of failure...the often used example where I work is "What if you get hit by a car?"
The industry term is "bus factor", in this case a bus factor of 1.
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Why do people always talk about whether the earth will survive, or whether it has survived something like this before?
Why do you bring up straw men? The parent said nothing about "the earth surviving".
When Steve Jobs pisses on your head and tells you that it's raining, it's not really raining.
And let's not just have an opinion puff piece from Salon, which jumped the shark a long fucking time ago.
I wouldn't call the piece from Salon a puff piece. He did an interview with Lamo. He emailed the Wired journalist and posted the full exchange. He tried to get a hold of Assange. In the end, there doesn't seem to be much there except for anger, but he does raise a few good points:
I'd say all this at least qualifies as "fishy", but I think this is just basically a Wired journalist with a cozy relationship with Lamo, and people who are pissed at Lamo are extending that to Wired.
Well ok, for the sake of others following along I found an article on Salon airing out these suspicions: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/18/wikileaks
Most of this just seems to be anger directed at Lamo and Wired via proxy.
Without getting into the details there is something fishy about the relationship between Lamo and the reporter at wired that wrote (broke?) the story.
Why not get into details? What's fishy about it?
And how many packages are available, and how frequently are they updated, compared to testing? I just did a search for my video card driver and it wasn't in there.
And you're too stupid to read the rest of the thread. Good thing you posted as Anonymous Coward.
None, but back when I ran Debian stable it was way too out of date to be useful. With Windows, most software comes with packaged installers and works with the stable version. With Debian, the choice was to either run old software, build it myself, or run testing.
The equivalent of X, networking, and email are built-in to Windows and security updates are provided automatically. Drivers are provided by 3rd parties, but Windows offers me options to get updates for those too.
FDR created internment camps even though he knew the Japanese living in this country were loyal citizens.
There was a lot of fear going around at that time. Are you saying 100% of the Japanese were loyal? Are you saying that FDR had no concerns about security, but was merely acting out of racism? Do you have proof of this?
After 9/11, an acquaintance at work was wondering if all Arab Muslims shouldn't be deported. I was shocked, and brought up the Japanese internment, which is now regarded as a national shame. His response was that it "worked". I know this guy, he's not a racist, but when the chips were down, he was just thinking about the threat.
Where the F are Sergey and Larry now?
Counting their money.
You only say these things because of your repressive mother.
Over the years running Debian testing, I've had X break, I've had email break, I've had DNS taking 5 seconds on every call, and I've had Java networking break. I've never had this kind of experience running Windows XP over the same period of time.
Assuming you could "upload" your mind, what makes you think "you" would no longer have emotions?
Right at the end of the book her program finds a pattern (A circle drawn in 1s and 0s in an 11 by 11 matrix).
Wait, so the message from God is a circle? I find this one a little more convincing:
http://dresdencodak.com/2009/07/12/fabulous-prizes/
If encryption approached "Facebook levels of popularity", governments who want to monitor your traffic will simply make encryption illegal.
At one point, encryption used to be illegal in France: http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_encryption/
Glad you got it figured out and glad to help.
Thanks for the info. Where I'm at (near Boston) there's too many trees, hills, houses, and too much light pollution around for anything. I do envy your Big Sky view :)
You can try explicitly putting <p> tags where you want a paragraph break. If the option "HTML Formatted" is set, this would cause that. You can change the option to Plain Old Text if that's the case, which despite the confusing name, will format paragraphs as HTML and allow you to use HTML codes when you want.
every post 9/11 attack on an airline has been negated by the efforts of the passengers.
That's bullshit. I don't support these body scanners, but I don't support lies either. By the time the passengers intervened, they were too late if the devices had worked properly:
Richard Reid: "The explosive apparently did not detonate due to the one-day delay in the take-off of Reid's flight. He had worn his shoes for more than one day, and Reid's accumulated foot perspiration caused the fuse to be too damp to ignite."
Christmas Day bomber: "While there was an explosion and fire, the device failed to detonate properly."
That's pretty intense. How close is it to what you you'd see with unaided eyes?
I'm not the AC, but it would help immensely if you would use paragraphs.
You're incredibly naive to think this is out of concern for family members instead of concern for the public seeing the consequences of war.
I don't think reporters were forced to be embedded. Embedding was actually fairly well received, even if there was some concerns. The coffin thing is obvious censorship, but then you wouldn't be seeing the true horrors of war on television during WWII, and there were lots of bullshit propaganda movies coming out of Hollywood.
Simple fact is that he never had a right to set himself up as the single point of failure...the often used example where I work is "What if you get hit by a car?"
The industry term is "bus factor", in this case a bus factor of 1.