>Do you think they didn't know that we had imposed sanctions on their country which meant many of them starved?

No country has a right to do business with the US or whomever. The reason they fought the US's troops after Saddam was caught was because WE INVADED THEIR COUNTRY AND KILLED A COUPLE THOUSAND CIVILIANS FOR THE FUN OF IT AND NO ONE WANTS TO BECOME A SERF IN A CLIENT STATE. See also Vietnam.

I'm so sick of George Bush getting a free pass for invading Iraq because "sanctions are bad mmm'kay." I wont even go into the millions of sanctions success stories. Sanctions do help keep foreign economies down, keep them with shitty old Soviet age weaponry, keep them uncompetitive, keep them from legitizing their rule with shiny western products etc.

Sorry, but if you want to know why Iraqis hate use, maybe it has more to do with the endless shower of munitions sent by GWB and the rest of the pro-war chickenhawks.

I think its a little late for that. Reddit is the defacto geek hangout and its technology and programming subreddits are a zillion more times interesting than the stuff that gets posted here, and the stuff here is usually 3-12 hours behind anyway. Hacker News is where I got for smart discussions anyway.

Slashdot is just nostalgia at this point. I visit but its back burner stuff at best.

Err, what are you guys basing the scale on? The photo is arbitrarily cropped with no other item in view to help you gauge scale.

Also, the moon landing is a pet peeve of mine. Its moon landings. There were several manned and unmanned as well.

For fun, the moon is 238k miles away. The circumference of the earth on the equator is 25k. So if you were to fly around around the earth on the equator you'd have to do this about 9 times to get to the moon. Far, yes, but not ridiculously far.

>If you have to buy customers perhaps it's time to change ones business strategy.

That's a problem only for organizations too poor to buy congressman and senators.

>That's not really what Google does, they're an advertising company whose primary inputs are words and human behaviours.

Really? Then explain google maps or google street view. Or the big google book scanning going on. Or android and all its sensors. Or how I can see local traffic (more sensors) on my google maps.

Google is a lot of things and I think the idea of using new sensors and new information to paint a new picture of reality is pretty high on their list. I imagine Gosling's big issue is the massive amounts of money needed to do this, the massive privacy issues, and defining what kind of sensors to put where. Hell, every Apsie nerd completely lost his shit over google's wifi sniffing. "ZOMG they are collecting our SSIDs!!!!!!!!!!!" Usually, its the geeks who are the biggest luddites.

Great explanation, thanks, but I disagree this is essentially about trust. Sure, my CA is trustworthy today, but if there's some exploit on our network and tomorrow the internet is flooded with fake certs.

You can't trust entities, you can only trust components. I think CA's in general are just security through obscurity and don't provide any real security. A determined attacker just finds a way to generate a SSL from a compromised CA or uses laws like the PATRIOT ACT to generate one from a CA.

Heh, good catch. .cn is what my 30-something brain meant.

Can someone explain why a .nl organization has the power to produce .com certs? I mean, isn't this an obvious flaw in the domain/ssl/registrar/CA/whatever hodgepodge we take for granted everyday? Is it even possible to limit these guys or is it "Hi, you're a CA now, you can do anything!"

I remember the same thing happening with a different foreign CA not too long ago and a lot of hand wringing over state owned telecoms in China/Iran/Syria and other autocratic nations. The domain name system works like this. China can make all the .ch domains it wants, but a Chinese CA can make all the .com SSL certs it wants? That's fucked up.

> Get Android working on the TouchPad

You mean 2.3 which is open sourced and available? The 2.x branch is incredibly shitty for tablets and wont give you access to the market or any of the google apps.

If anyone does this, they have to use Honeycomb, its light years ahead of 2.x in regards to tablets. People want a proper tablet not a giant phone.

Im so sick of half-assed 2.x tablets hurting Android's reputation. Thankfully, only tinkerers will enjoy the suckitude of 2.x tablets.

The same pattern keeps appearing. iPhone vs Android a few years ago and then an oddball player called the Pre came along which never drew in a lot of developers and never had the level of apps Android and iPhone enjoy. Pre failed. WebOS was later put on what was priced as essentially a feature phone, the Pixi.

Now, we're playing this game again. iPad vs Honeycomb Tablets and then WebOS appears again. Not a lot of interest, still no developers, still no apps, and HP just decided to call it quits when their forecasts said this thing was going to be another Pre.

In operating systems there tends to be a natural monopoly and natural duopolies because of the scales involved and because people really don't crave that much choice. This is yet another example of this reality.

Most likely, someone will released some half-assed 2.3 ROM for this tablet and it'll suck. Shame google isn't releasing 3.2 for this thing via a side-channel. Honeycomb really is on par with ipad and makes for incredible experience.

Not to mention externalities like cost of maintaining & developing that massive flight app, tech support for these devices, maintenance and repair, charging schedules, theft costs, etc.

Oh course, the people who managed the print edition can do some of this work, but imagine most of them will be let go and replaced with an ipad helpdesk and app development department as well as QA and all the management involved in making it all happen.

I'm certainly not against progress, but there's a lot more here than just "we're saving weight/paper."

Just a thought, but 38lbs isn't a lot. I'm surprised these companies don't incentivize people to stay thin and healthy. A crew is like 6 people. If they all lost 5lbs then that's 30lbs right there and all this gas savings. Heck, why not weigh me and charge me my cost by weight and the weight of my luggage.

Yes, socialized medicine leads to a better negotiation position thus Canadians and Europeans can command lower prices for US drugs. Here in the US where we're 37th in the world in healthcare, we actually pay more.

The idea of selling Canadian or European drugs back to Americans scares the pharmaceutical industry so much that they've set the federal government after google. Ah, American healthcare. Shitty and expensive and defended by every Republican around.

>After reading that they've hired a reality TV "psychic" as their director of security

Right, because its so much more reasonable to believe in a 2,000 year old carpenter who came back to life, a viscious Arab warlord who spoke to god, or a Jew who split the sea.

Turns out most humans are incredibly irrational when it comes to their basic beliefs about life, history, and death.

Its bullshit because most of these toolbars cause browser instability (lets ignore the massive privacy issues). So what these developers are proposing is that I can have their application, but at the cost of my browser running like shit going forward. I don't consider damaging an unrelated piece of software on my machine a reasonable exchange.

Not to mention, they can sell ads to make money. Ads on the webpage that hosts the installer as well as in app ads. Its not toolbars or being broke. Lets stop pretending that toolbars are the only way to monetize free software or that its remotely acceptable way of doing business.

That's true, but if you want to avoid the "toolbar" bullshit there's no safe haven. Heck, when I'm not using SF and something is hosted independently there's no shortage of ads with "download" buttons designed to fool the end user.

Its just dirty. This is one of the last nails in the non-controlled/non-app store coffin. Oh well, I think if done right, this is a change that'll help people.