There are no "tactics of the enemy". There is only ethical behavior and unethical behavior.
Acquiring secret information and passing it on is espionage, whether in the service of a government or the public good. There is nothing inherently dishonorable or unethical about espionage - unlike, for example, acts of violence against civilians - particularly when the information may help to save lives or end corruption. It is more honorable to do good while hiding in the shadows than to get caught and killed (or the bloodless equivalent thereof that Manning suffers). We need heroes, not martyrs.
That'd be kind of cool. The solar system really is very disorderly when you think about it - particularly Pluto with its lopsided orbit. They should fix that. And maybe sort them by size while they're at it.
In the first place, an astronaut's life could well be worth a billion once you factor in how difficult it is to find one who passes the requirements, and how expensive the training is. Then factor in benefits to their dependents, etc., etc. However, you're dealing with consequences beyond just an astronaut or a team having to be replaced. Every fatality reflects on the entire field of space research in the public eye, and they're the ones paying for it. The backlash from an incident like Columbia will cause politicians to shun space exploration or even exploit it negatively for at least an election cycle. The lost funding could easily be in the tens of billions.
Even better, the "Niagra" is a consistent misspelling by the submitter. It is actually called Niagara, as the submitter could have discovered by RTFA he linked to. (And Tridium's corporate website also calls it Niagara.)
The length of the copyright term isn't even the primary battleground - except for Disney, what company is still profiting from exclusive use of stuff created more than ninety years ago? The bulk of profit is made from content that was created in the last 10-20 years (maybe longer for books). The current trench warfare lies in the control of computers and the internet. The aim of the lobbyists pushing these bills is not primarily a perpetual copyright (though that's certainly part of it) but an environment where all technology that could potentially store, convey or reproduce copyrighted content is tightly controlled.
ACTA->CETA-> SOPA->IPAA-> They'll keep renaming it until people stop paying attention long enough for it to pass. They've still got almost 17576 four-letter acronyms ending on -A that they haven't used yet.
(All this keeping in mind that they already pushed the DMCA through.)
Why would things ever stop being archived and kept track of? Seriously. Are we going to have a nuclear war or something?
Or something. Over the next million years, a severe meteor strike or several are highly likely, and several supervolcano eruptions a virtual certainty, as are a hell of a lot of global wars. We got from the origin of language (inferred) to the internet in 50,000 years. A million years is enough for that twenty times over. Since even a global nuclear war would likely set us back a few centuries at the outside, we could have dozens of them between now and then.
(Of course, the argument could be made that if we melt our civilization to radioactive slag, the question of where we have buried a few tons of nuclear waste becomes somewhat redundant.)
And they'd argue about whether we were aliens, and if we knew magic. Pretty cool.
Also, as long as the information was written in a sufficient number of languages, with diagrams, our descendants should be able to figure it out. We probably would, if there were a million-year-old written record.
The moral bankruptcy of all religions does not eclipse the evil of Scientology, which is the current topic. Your statement is not false, but irrelevant to the discussion and a fairly transparent attempt to deflect it, similar to the legions blurting "But Islam" to all criticisms of Christianity, or "But Christianity" to all criticisms of Islam.
Grind up a nation's education system and divert the science budget into tax cuts, and see what you end up with. The United States will have trouble competing with North Korea soon.
But at least schoolchildren won't be offended by hearing about evolution, and college students will just have to become indentured servants to pay off their debt. Who needs a functioning public education system anyway?
100 years? Even the Earth is going to stay habitable for several hundred million years. We're looking at billions or trillions of years of sentient life in the universe, maybe much more. The copyright is going to stay around for at least an order of magnitude beyond that.
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There are no "tactics of the enemy". There is only ethical behavior and unethical behavior.
Acquiring secret information and passing it on is espionage, whether in the service of a government or the public good. There is nothing inherently dishonorable or unethical about espionage - unlike, for example, acts of violence against civilians - particularly when the information may help to save lives or end corruption. It is more honorable to do good while hiding in the shadows than to get caught and killed (or the bloodless equivalent thereof that Manning suffers). We need heroes, not martyrs.
That'd be kind of cool. The solar system really is very disorderly when you think about it - particularly Pluto with its lopsided orbit. They should fix that. And maybe sort them by size while they're at it.
Just around the corner.
In the first place, an astronaut's life could well be worth a billion once you factor in how difficult it is to find one who passes the requirements, and how expensive the training is. Then factor in benefits to their dependents, etc., etc.
However, you're dealing with consequences beyond just an astronaut or a team having to be replaced. Every fatality reflects on the entire field of space research in the public eye, and they're the ones paying for it. The backlash from an incident like Columbia will cause politicians to shun space exploration or even exploit it negatively for at least an election cycle. The lost funding could easily be in the tens of billions.
The bit where the outage in the UK cell network caused electronic ankle monitors to fail really gives you some thought...
The "making calls" stuff is really only an extra feature, and the only reason it's included is in order to listen in.
Even better, the "Niagra" is a consistent misspelling by the submitter. It is actually called Niagara, as the submitter could have discovered by RTFA he linked to. (And Tridium's corporate website also calls it Niagara.)
<?
set_magic_quotes_runtime();
sign_of_kish();
$im = clay_tablet_create();
inscribe_clay_tablet($im);
summon_cthulhu("Iä! Iä!");
?>
(The scariest line of this is probably the first.)
Two terms of fourteen years each was enough.
The length of the copyright term isn't even the primary battleground - except for Disney, what company is still profiting from exclusive use of stuff created more than ninety years ago? The bulk of profit is made from content that was created in the last 10-20 years (maybe longer for books). The current trench warfare lies in the control of computers and the internet. The aim of the lobbyists pushing these bills is not primarily a perpetual copyright (though that's certainly part of it) but an environment where all technology that could potentially store, convey or reproduce copyrighted content is tightly controlled.
ACTA->CETA->
SOPA->IPAA->
They'll keep renaming it until people stop paying attention long enough for it to pass. They've still got almost 17576 four-letter acronyms ending on -A that they haven't used yet.
(All this keeping in mind that they already pushed the DMCA through.)
Or something. Over the next million years, a severe meteor strike or several are highly likely, and several supervolcano eruptions a virtual certainty, as are a hell of a lot of global wars. We got from the origin of language (inferred) to the internet in 50,000 years. A million years is enough for that twenty times over. Since even a global nuclear war would likely set us back a few centuries at the outside, we could have dozens of them between now and then.
(Of course, the argument could be made that if we melt our civilization to radioactive slag, the question of where we have buried a few tons of nuclear waste becomes somewhat redundant.)
And they'd argue about whether we were aliens, and if we knew magic. Pretty cool.
Also, as long as the information was written in a sufficient number of languages, with diagrams, our descendants should be able to figure it out. We probably would, if there were a million-year-old written record.
Has already been lost.
Even better: All the people you ask don't live in a particular city/state/country.
I wonder what consensus we can get among the people who've never been to the moon.
Who cares about climate change. Excessive ecological regulation just harms Legitimate Business Interests, right?
(In other news, the forecast this week is schadenfreude with localized told-you-so.)
Case closed.
Teaching people to believe a web page when it tells them their computer is infected with a virus? Please, no.
The moral bankruptcy of all religions does not eclipse the evil of Scientology, which is the current topic. Your statement is not false, but irrelevant to the discussion and a fairly transparent attempt to deflect it, similar to the legions blurting "But Islam" to all criticisms of Christianity, or "But Christianity" to all criticisms of Islam.
Interesting. I'm a user and have just now decided to stop using Ubuntu. It's nice that Shuttleworth doesn't trust the FSF; I don't trust him.
If the aliens get one glance at our copyright laws, our planet becomes collateral damage. "It's the only way to be sure."
But... but... socialism!
A triangular rubber coin over 10,000 kilometers on the side is going to weigh slightly more than 40kg. :P
Grind up a nation's education system and divert the science budget into tax cuts, and see what you end up with. The United States will have trouble competing with North Korea soon.
But at least schoolchildren won't be offended by hearing about evolution, and college students will just have to become indentured servants to pay off their debt. Who needs a functioning public education system anyway?
100 years? Even the Earth is going to stay habitable for several hundred million years. We're looking at billions or trillions of years of sentient life in the universe, maybe much more. The copyright is going to stay around for at least an order of magnitude beyond that.
If you find yourself disliking him based on the OP, then no amount of rethinking will do the trick.
Don't say it too loud, or George Lucas will re-release SW with a s/midichlorians/Higgs bosons/g edit.