Comment Re:Their loss (Score 1) 410
You don't see how a condition that is often caused by too much gas applies to Slashdot? Are you new here?
Journal Journal: Manna From San Francisco 1
Back in 2003 Marshall Brain, founder of How Stuff Works, wrote a short novel titled Manna . It is an exploration at what increasingly looks to be the logical conclusion of the Industrial Revolution. If you haven't had the opportunity to read it before, I highly recommend it. It isn't long or difficult, but it raises some very interesting notions.
Submission + - Can Crowdsourcing Solve Korean War POW/MIA Mysteries 60 Years Later?
An anonymous reader writes: July 27th marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War truce, but questions remain over the fates of almost 8,000 American POW/MIAs from the conflict. Those still alive at war's end were supposed to be repatriated in the weeks after the truce, but US officials feared many were not. A new Web site hopes to answer questions on many of these cases– some of which have stumped government researchers for years — by internet crowdsourcing.
"We are running out of time to solve these mysteries. Online sleuths may be able to find what the Pentagon and CIA cannot," said John Zimmerlee, POW expert, author and son of a missing aviator from the war.
For example, declassified CIA reports list the names of unreturned US POWs in their Chinese transliterations — how the English-language names sounded to Chinese-speaking sources. Someone on the Internet probably has the linguistic skills to match those names to the official POW/MIA list and determine if they are real. A captured North Korea film includes the faces of many US and South Korean POWs. Most families of the missing and Korean War veterans have never seen the film and could probably identify the men. Other reports include substantial background details on alleged Americans in enemy hands, included a Marine officer and Naval Academy graduate said to be alive in the Soviet Union decades after the war. Someone might recognize the details or help determine the report is a hoax. Chinese and Soviet military officials mentioned in previously secret documents would have critical information, but have never been contacted. Online sleuths might be able to find them. The declassified documents and film are available at http://www.cynicalattitude.com/
The mysteries were uncovered during research for a new Kindle ebook, American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington's "Cynical Attitude," by Zimmerlee and investigative historian Mark Sauter. The expose includes many photos and declassified documents, plus a foreword by Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Price-winning reporter and inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields." Two leading POW/MIA family groups provided research assistance.
"We are running out of time to solve these mysteries. Online sleuths may be able to find what the Pentagon and CIA cannot," said John Zimmerlee, POW expert, author and son of a missing aviator from the war.
For example, declassified CIA reports list the names of unreturned US POWs in their Chinese transliterations — how the English-language names sounded to Chinese-speaking sources. Someone on the Internet probably has the linguistic skills to match those names to the official POW/MIA list and determine if they are real. A captured North Korea film includes the faces of many US and South Korean POWs. Most families of the missing and Korean War veterans have never seen the film and could probably identify the men. Other reports include substantial background details on alleged Americans in enemy hands, included a Marine officer and Naval Academy graduate said to be alive in the Soviet Union decades after the war. Someone might recognize the details or help determine the report is a hoax. Chinese and Soviet military officials mentioned in previously secret documents would have critical information, but have never been contacted. Online sleuths might be able to find them. The declassified documents and film are available at http://www.cynicalattitude.com/
The mysteries were uncovered during research for a new Kindle ebook, American Trophies: How US POWs Were Surrendered to North Korea, China, and Russia by Washington's "Cynical Attitude," by Zimmerlee and investigative historian Mark Sauter. The expose includes many photos and declassified documents, plus a foreword by Sydney Schanberg, Pulitzer Price-winning reporter and inspiration for the Academy Award-winning film "The Killing Fields." Two leading POW/MIA family groups provided research assistance.
Comment We used to accuse the Soviets... (Score 5, Insightful) 616
of oppressing their citizens in just this way. Now, a whistleblower, who can't be proven to have revealed even one explicit state secret (beyond the rather unshocking fact that they were being surveilled) to a foreign power is asking for asylum in Russia.
Times change, don't they.
Comment Re:That depends on your definition of torture (Score 2) 616
Actually, they're flip-flopped on that one just a couple of days ago. Check out this headline from July 9, 2013:
FBI Nominee Agrees: Waterboarding Is 'Torture' And 'Illegal'
Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 214
With the recent success of Parallella, that might actually be feasible. Hmmm....
Comment But how did they react to Uranus? (Score 2) 143
Was their analysis open and shut? Did they decide to probe further?
Comment Protect our children and their innocence... (Score 1) 148
...from anyone who might criticize the government, its officials or its policies.
FTFY
Comment Re:Thanks for the memories! (Score 2) 102
Screw him! Where's the three-breasted mutant prostitute?
Comment Re:With the right training, huh? (Score 1) 347
More like, with the right training, we can help them become much better....criminals.
Comment Great! (Score 1) 103
Now add that to the navigation software in my GPS and I know what neighborhoods to avoid and where to troll for prostitutes or drug dealers!
Add that into the GPS in rental cars and you get a major news item -- from a few years ago when this caused outrage in Chicago. I can't find the specific story, but it was big for a few days.
Comment Re:Foreshadowing (Score 1) 376
It just needs to support non-maximised windows, and that is on the way for tablets anyway. I can imagine Android being used now for a server appliance. One which needs a simple control panel.
Comment Re: How do they plan to do that if I own the kerne (Score 1) 244
You're describing an extreme corner case. Detailed modifications to a kernel that intercepts specific reads is not exactly what they are worried about.
If they are then the next iteration of devices will be like the Chromebooks, with TPM chips and signed boot loaders and kernels.
Comment Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel (Score 1) 244
My guess would be a shim program that performs cryptographic checksums of the running kernel, or a key component. The shim is downloaded as part of whatever application wants to implement restricted DRM, such as Netflix.
What the kernel replies is of no consequence, since it is never queried.
Comment Re:How do they plan to do that if I own the kernel (Score 1) 244
Maybe through the integration of SELinux and MAC, which was buried in the announcement.
