I think a response that would be less destructive would be to take reverse-course on the approach they're taking now. Best description I've seen from Julian Assange himself:
However, there are countries, Western countries, even countries in NATO, that are strongly supportive of what we do politically. And, for example, the UK has announced--UK Parliament has announced two inquiries into Afghanistan, one on the civilian casualties and the other on what is the exit strategy and how to get out of it. The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan. And other governments around the world involved in the ISAF coalition have, in bigger and small ways, announced that they are trying to do something about the revelations in this material.
And all of them are taking note of what the United States' attitude is, which is, instead of immediately saying these relevations are a serious concern, we never wanted to harm Afghan civilians or to bribe the media, as an example of one of the revelations in there, and we intend to launch an immediate investigation to understand this and compensate those people accordingly and change our procedures--that's what the rest of the world wants to hear. That's what Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan want to hear. But instead they heard a personal attack on me and on our organization and an announcement that they would be going after the whistleblower or whistleblowers involved in this. And now we see them living up to those words and stalking around Boston, spying and harassing MIT graduates, and trunking around the United Kingdom, where they raided Manning, the alleged whistleblower, for a video release called "Collateral Murder," in her home in Wales.
Strangely, I never heard a word out of any of these people when Bush was running up huge deficits... their voices only became so massively amplified when a Democrat walked in to the Oval Office.
I wonder why that is?
That's easy to explain. Much like how the grass is always greener on the other side, criticism is louder when it's against your side.
How appropriate considering the topic at hand of Tribalism.
I would love to see these Tea Party guys share in some of the power to see if they live up to their claims. And Libertarians. And Greens. If the stranglehold of the two corrupt powerhouses were to be shaken with some decent 3rd party action without the populace mourning "wasting" votes within my lifetime, I can die a happy man that that the country I love will be on it's way to rediscovering her path.
And then you look at the so-called big-revenue teams--football and basketball. Those are the powerhouses where there's a lot of recruiting, a lot of it underhanded. Yet if you look at all those powerhouse programs across the country, only seven or eight actually rake in money. All the rest of them lose money.
If the school isn't tops, I'd say just bow out and reroute that money being spent on sports into what's important: academics.
Interesting the next story up on my/. from page view is an post on Tribalism.
While most of the new commercial stuff is crap, take a look around the indie game circuit. There's a lot of really imaginative games and interesting game mechanics out there. For example, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, VVVVVV, Warning Forever, and more.
At a sufficiently high resolution, the raster construction of a vector image is indistinguishable. I don't think a display with such high dpi currently exists, but, given enough time, it will.
There is a distinct difference between practicing a skill driven by intellectual curiosity and practicing a sexual behavior driven by preference. Not saying excluding based on either is right, but it's most certainly not at all related.
That said, in reference to your parent, if you think someone like Kevin Mitnick or some other high profile hackers HAVEN'T at least been approached by at least some covert government agencies and interested parties, then, you might be just a little naive.
It's true. My parents got Dish network installed and asked me for help the other day. Turns out, to save costs, they handed them only two boxes for all four TVs. Over the phone I was arguing that each TV had to have a box, but, when I got there......Turns out they put two boxes in place wired to TVs and attached two "slave" TVs in other rooms via the same cable network in the house wiring. It was actually pretty clever. The remote in the slave rooms operated via RF instead of IR, and the master one would receive commands and change what it was putting out on the 2nd output.
If I were to guess, I'd say this was a money saving move since adding another tuner to a sufficiently powerful cable box is probably not as expensive as another box. If this indicates the box is too powerful, well, maybe it's because the lower speed parts are being deprecated from the manufacturer? Also, less electricity, fewer needed phone connections, the potential for DVR sharing between rooms. And, heh, the company still gets to charge for all four TVs: they can probably remotely enable/disable outputs.
Or maybe the resistance to releasing the names is that most of them are fake anyway, so this "overwhelming" number of concerned citizens is really just a red herring anyway.
Anyone care to describe why they couldn't just use airtime minutes and an acoustically coupled modem? Looking it up on Wiki, in general they were able to transfer 300 bps instead of 160.
Intel PCI-free chipsets expected to be unveiled are H67, P67 e H61, they will implement the new LGA1155 CPU socket (which would be a pin less than the current LGA1156), will support 8 independent PCIe 2.0 lanes, Serial ATA connections at 6 Gigabits and 14 USB 2.0 ports. Just to be clear, these chipset are targeted at the consumer market while the new chipsets designed for the enterprise market (Q67, Q65 e B65) will continue to support the PCI bus.
So, Intel says farewell, except that it didn't.
Even if they were, if there's money to be had, I'm pretty sure someone will carve some silicon that motherboard manufacturers can use to bridge PCIe with PCI further downstream from the chipset.
Expiring the Patriot Act would have had severe political results (aka political suicide).
And yet, being a leak coordinator like Julian Assange puts his own life and livelihood at risk far worse than political suicide.
It's clear that in a group of people consisting of the last 10 U.S. presidents, including Obama, plus Mr. Assange, only one of them is a true leader in character versus a leader just because of some election.
If you fail to play political politics correctly, it becomes a nasty war, where there is no forward progress, but there are lots of long winded speeches before Congress about why your way is right.
When the overwhelming majority of acts of congress revolve around taking rights away from people, I say GREAT: fewer chance for those stupid bills to actually become law.
Actually, it is fixing the issue. Practically overnight an industry of BPA-free containers sprang up to service those people who wished to avoid exposure to the chemical. Media and research exists in a free market, so, it's not like we wouldn't have known any link.
Those that don't care (as in, not caring about their health, not caring since they're using the container to store stuff they don't intend to drink, etc) could still buy it and the prices the market will bare.
There's a lot of stuff the Free Market can't fix. This isn't one of them.
You people act like I just raped somebody if I want to go 55 in a 50 mile an hour zone.
Well, unless by driving recklessly you cause an accident and actually kill someone.
So, is "reckless driving" related for driving too fast for reaction/stop times or is it related to tailgating, aggressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic which is what happens when artificially low speed limits are applied on perfectly safe roads?
I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps.
Every white collar organization has some level of waste. Guess what? They hire *people*. People aren't perfect. When you purchase a product, part of the cost of the product was the cost of smoke breaks. Or the cost of their marketing department surfing for porn (or Slashdot for that matter).
Well, sure, there is built in waste and inefficiency. But this wasn't taking a break from crafting legislation in his office, or seeing prostitutes in his spare time, or anything like that. This was taking a break during the most important part of his job, where the rubber meets the legislative road, where inattentiveness and just-phone-it-in mentality actually affects people's lives. This was an abortion bill, after all, not some honorary naming of a road. If you don't want to give your best effort when people trusted in you to do the right thing in their name, then go get a job doing something less important.
Poor judgment and poor leadership, in my opinion. I hope he does get replaced and that the replacement at least pays attention when it counts.
What I find most interesting is that Florida State Senator Mike Bennett represents District 21. That district, encompassing zip code 342xx, still has laws that ban pornography.
Its stupid. People need to learn 'private' doesnt mean 'good'.
'Public' doesn't mean 'good', either. Government is ripe with abuses and do-what-I-say-not-what-I-do.
But I agree that it is a stupid argument anyway. Having more information flying about between government agencies isn't going to make anything better (except maybe becoming more efficient at the aforementioned abuses).
I was going to say, that's the best marketing the Android could have hoped for. "It does everything ours does *AND* can do porn." The adult industries have been a driving force for centuries, and Apple making a pseudo-clean environment isn't going to change that at all.
Perhaps. But Jobs was definitely trying to inspire some FUD (in this case, fear) against the Android when he said "You can download porn, your kids can download porn..."
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I think a response that would be less destructive would be to take reverse-course on the approach they're taking now. Best description I've seen from Julian Assange himself:
However, there are countries, Western countries, even countries in NATO, that are strongly supportive of what we do politically. And, for example, the UK has announced--UK Parliament has announced two inquiries into Afghanistan, one on the civilian casualties and the other on what is the exit strategy and how to get out of it. The Dutch government just formally announced its exit from Afghanistan. And other governments around the world involved in the ISAF coalition have, in bigger and small ways, announced that they are trying to do something about the revelations in this material.
And all of them are taking note of what the United States' attitude is, which is, instead of immediately saying these relevations are a serious concern, we never wanted to harm Afghan civilians or to bribe the media, as an example of one of the revelations in there, and we intend to launch an immediate investigation to understand this and compensate those people accordingly and change our procedures--that's what the rest of the world wants to hear. That's what Afghanistan, the people of Afghanistan want to hear. But instead they heard a personal attack on me and on our organization and an announcement that they would be going after the whistleblower or whistleblowers involved in this. And now we see them living up to those words and stalking around Boston, spying and harassing MIT graduates, and trunking around the United Kingdom, where they raided Manning, the alleged whistleblower, for a video release called "Collateral Murder," in her home in Wales.
Strangely, I never heard a word out of any of these people when Bush was running up huge deficits... their voices only became so massively amplified when a Democrat walked in to the Oval Office.
I wonder why that is?
That's easy to explain. Much like how the grass is always greener on the other side, criticism is louder when it's against your side.
How appropriate considering the topic at hand of Tribalism.
I would love to see these Tea Party guys share in some of the power to see if they live up to their claims. And Libertarians. And Greens. If the stranglehold of the two corrupt powerhouses were to be shaken with some decent 3rd party action without the populace mourning "wasting" votes within my lifetime, I can die a happy man that that the country I love will be on it's way to rediscovering her path.
TFA:
And then you look at the so-called big-revenue teams--football and basketball. Those are the powerhouses where there's a lot of recruiting, a lot of it underhanded. Yet if you look at all those powerhouse programs across the country, only seven or eight actually rake in money. All the rest of them lose money.
If the school isn't tops, I'd say just bow out and reroute that money being spent on sports into what's important: academics.
Interesting the next story up on my /. from page view is an post on Tribalism.
While most of the new commercial stuff is crap, take a look around the indie game circuit. There's a lot of really imaginative games and interesting game mechanics out there. For example, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, VVVVVV, Warning Forever, and more.
At a sufficiently high resolution, the raster construction of a vector image is indistinguishable. I don't think a display with such high dpi currently exists, but, given enough time, it will.
There is a distinct difference between practicing a skill driven by intellectual curiosity and practicing a sexual behavior driven by preference. Not saying excluding based on either is right, but it's most certainly not at all related.
That said, in reference to your parent, if you think someone like Kevin Mitnick or some other high profile hackers HAVEN'T at least been approached by at least some covert government agencies and interested parties, then, you might be just a little naive.
What he did could be considered an act in contempt of court, which could easily be another charge to tack time to his sentence.
I'd wager it's the piles of money and many extra-marital affairs that keep lawyers from taking their own lives in disgust.
And? It's a blog, not a dissertation. I can write technical manuals with proper grammar and still speak in idioms and slang in casual conversation.
When it comes to my parents, every action of mine eventually requires an apology. :D
It's true. My parents got Dish network installed and asked me for help the other day. Turns out, to save costs, they handed them only two boxes for all four TVs. Over the phone I was arguing that each TV had to have a box, but, when I got there... ...Turns out they put two boxes in place wired to TVs and attached two "slave" TVs in other rooms via the same cable network in the house wiring. It was actually pretty clever. The remote in the slave rooms operated via RF instead of IR, and the master one would receive commands and change what it was putting out on the 2nd output.
If I were to guess, I'd say this was a money saving move since adding another tuner to a sufficiently powerful cable box is probably not as expensive as another box. If this indicates the box is too powerful, well, maybe it's because the lower speed parts are being deprecated from the manufacturer? Also, less electricity, fewer needed phone connections, the potential for DVR sharing between rooms. And, heh, the company still gets to charge for all four TVs: they can probably remotely enable/disable outputs.
Or maybe the resistance to releasing the names is that most of them are fake anyway, so this "overwhelming" number of concerned citizens is really just a red herring anyway.
Anyone care to describe why they couldn't just use airtime minutes and an acoustically coupled modem? Looking it up on Wiki, in general they were able to transfer 300 bps instead of 160.
From TFA:
Intel PCI-free chipsets expected to be unveiled are H67, P67 e H61, they will implement the new LGA1155 CPU socket (which would be a pin less than the current LGA1156), will support 8 independent PCIe 2.0 lanes, Serial ATA connections at 6 Gigabits and 14 USB 2.0 ports. Just to be clear, these chipset are targeted at the consumer market while the new chipsets designed for the enterprise market (Q67, Q65 e B65) will continue to support the PCI bus.
So, Intel says farewell, except that it didn't.
Even if they were, if there's money to be had, I'm pretty sure someone will carve some silicon that motherboard manufacturers can use to bridge PCIe with PCI further downstream from the chipset.
Expiring the Patriot Act would have had severe political results (aka political suicide).
And yet, being a leak coordinator like Julian Assange puts his own life and livelihood at risk far worse than political suicide.
It's clear that in a group of people consisting of the last 10 U.S. presidents, including Obama, plus Mr. Assange, only one of them is a true leader in character versus a leader just because of some election.
If you fail to play political politics correctly, it becomes a nasty war, where there is no forward progress, but there are lots of long winded speeches before Congress about why your way is right.
When the overwhelming majority of acts of congress revolve around taking rights away from people, I say GREAT: fewer chance for those stupid bills to actually become law.
Actually, it is fixing the issue. Practically overnight an industry of BPA-free containers sprang up to service those people who wished to avoid exposure to the chemical. Media and research exists in a free market, so, it's not like we wouldn't have known any link.
Those that don't care (as in, not caring about their health, not caring since they're using the container to store stuff they don't intend to drink, etc) could still buy it and the prices the market will bare.
There's a lot of stuff the Free Market can't fix. This isn't one of them.
You people act like I just raped somebody if I want to go 55 in a 50 mile an hour zone.
Well, unless by driving recklessly you cause an accident and actually kill someone.
So, is "reckless driving" related for driving too fast for reaction/stop times or is it related to tailgating, aggressive driving, and weaving in and out of traffic which is what happens when artificially low speed limits are applied on perfectly safe roads?
I hypothesize that more accidents are caused by said aggressive, distracted, impaired, or unskilled driving outnumber accidents genuinely caused by speed way more by several orders of magnitude. But such a study will never be conducted on the fear that police will lose justification for bullshit speed traps.
Ok. This new "law" would simply create a new black market for thieves. Increasing their profit streams.
Of course. Then the laws can become even MORE encroaching and overreaching in the name of stamping out whatever newly made illicit activity is.
It seems to me that maybe Apple should look at how they are formulating these dumb policies and see if they can get it right the first time.
Why bother when you can get great PR out of doing what any other company does?
Every white collar organization has some level of waste. Guess what? They hire *people*. People aren't perfect. When you purchase a product, part of the cost of the product was the cost of smoke breaks. Or the cost of their marketing department surfing for porn (or Slashdot for that matter).
Well, sure, there is built in waste and inefficiency. But this wasn't taking a break from crafting legislation in his office, or seeing prostitutes in his spare time, or anything like that. This was taking a break during the most important part of his job, where the rubber meets the legislative road, where inattentiveness and just-phone-it-in mentality actually affects people's lives. This was an abortion bill, after all, not some honorary naming of a road. If you don't want to give your best effort when people trusted in you to do the right thing in their name, then go get a job doing something less important.
Poor judgment and poor leadership, in my opinion. I hope he does get replaced and that the replacement at least pays attention when it counts.
What I find most interesting is that Florida State Senator Mike Bennett represents District 21. That district, encompassing zip code 342xx, still has laws that ban pornography.
Its stupid. People need to learn 'private' doesnt mean 'good'.
'Public' doesn't mean 'good', either. Government is ripe with abuses and do-what-I-say-not-what-I-do.
But I agree that it is a stupid argument anyway. Having more information flying about between government agencies isn't going to make anything better (except maybe becoming more efficient at the aforementioned abuses).
The Golden Poo award is a vote-off between 32 nominees, akin to March Madness.
Bank of America, Citibank, Chase, Capital One, AIG, were all part, and voted out of the winning.
I was going to say, that's the best marketing the Android could have hoped for. "It does everything ours does *AND* can do porn." The adult industries have been a driving force for centuries, and Apple making a pseudo-clean environment isn't going to change that at all.
Perhaps. But Jobs was definitely trying to inspire some FUD (in this case, fear) against the Android when he said "You can download porn, your kids can download porn..."
I'm guessing that niche is "parents who can be convinced by advertising that they're buying what their kids want".
It worked for Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge...