"The 'One China' policy is not a card on the bargaining table," said Paul Haenle, a former China director at the U.S. National Security Council. "It is the table itself."
Why does anyone feel the need to take on a new name just because you change your religion? I never understood that. I have had epiphanies that dramatically changed my world-view, but I never thought "Now I must take a new name". I'm not criticizing those who do this, since people change their names all the time anyway, but I'm genuinely curious why this phenomenon is so common when people change their religion?
This is what I understand - in the Hindu tradition (perhaps it's similar in Buddhist and Catholic traditions) you are supposed to enter a new life when you become a Sannyasi (monk). One of the initial rituals in many schools is to perform funeral rites for your former self. Through this process, you renounce your family, relations, and what you think of as your "identity". Then the guru gives a new name to the monk. Afterwards, monks are prohibited from talking about their purvashrama (previous life).
People who spy on their own countrymen should be regarded as traitors, in my opinion. And they should be prosecuted as traitors, and punished as traitors. However, the theory of the "Deep State" and its influences makes it difficult to accomplish this. How can we fix this?
There is a very specific constitutional definition of treason. Another class of crime should likely be used.
Section 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
Create a culture that is opposed to it. Films, TV, Advertising, Sports, Billboards.. when neighbors are expected to spy on each other then the fabric of society breaks down.
Culture is opposed to it. Hollywood movies and TV shows generally portray mass surveillance as a tool of oppression or as a last resort (The Dark Knight).
I see the opposite: all the cop and terrorist shows have them stopping lots of big threats through their databases and/or ignoring the law (eg illegal searches). That's most of them my friends and family watch. You don't see a lot of them where they're constantly talking about how some terrorist is an incompetent idiot, the bosses want terrorist arrests in the paper, they need to motivate them to confess on video for an arrest, maybe supply them some weapons/training, and some guy gets paid $100,000 to do that. And then they do that a bunch more times hyping up the threat. Or just police work respecting Constitutional rights catching bad folks since most are sloppy with fictional Congress, cops and courts shooting down things like Patriot Act.
Nah, it's stuff that reinforces what the government is doing or shows problems that wouldn't lead to rebellion. Pretty consistently. Especially the one or two episodes of Person of Interest I saw.
You can't fix this because of your government not only applying your own countrymen to spy on each other; it also applies foreign powers to do the same.
Example: Some weeks ago the United States decided to sell out the fingerprints of 210 Million American citizens with the Netherlands, a tiny nation with aprox 20mil inhabitants and a insanely bad track record when it comes to infosec.
This dot on the map is now enabled to unlock millions of phones, empty bank accounts, create compromat and so much more.. .
> What you shouldn't do is try to self-study by reading a book.
I say do try self-study first and see if it works. You have absolutely nothing to lose by trying. It doesn't work for everyone, but you will quickly figure out if it works for you. Some people can absorb knowledge from books much more easily than from oral instruction, and for others it's the other way around.
I distinctly remember when I became aware of NNTP, the new protocol that allowed Usenet to be distributed almost in real-time, using TCP/IP instead of UUCP. Electronic mail, file transfers, and remote terminals already existed using various other protocols, but seeing Usenet over the Internet made me realize that something new and exciting was about to happen (and a few years later that turned out to be Tim Berners-Lee).
> The key idea of imaginary numbers is to consider multiplication -1 to be a rotation by half a turn rather than a reflection. That is a lot easier to do half of! As soon as you have multiplication by -1 as a rotation by half a turn, it is obvious to identify i as rotation by a quarter turn.
It gets even more interesting when you add additional degrees of freedom so that such rotations can happen via more than one path. For example, quaternions add two extra degrees of freedom, and this lets you have an infinite number of square roots of -1. Any imaginary unit quaternion (i.e. ip+jq+kr where p^2+q^2+r^2=1) is a square root of -1.
> Also can't think of any portugese scientist, or portugese based lab renowned for anything in biology or computer science.
Fernando Pereira comes to mind: he made significant contributions to the early development of logic programming (e.g. C-Prolog) and natural language processing, as well as other AI research.
A classic example is daemonizing a process. While still attached to the terminal you first parse command-line options, read config files, and do some sanity checks. Any errors caught at this point cause an error message and exit(1). Otherwise fork+setsid to detach from the session, then fork again to lose the new session leader.
Apart from that, the only thing I have used fork for (apart from fork+exec) is doing concurrent blocking I/O while prototyping, before rewriting the code to use non-blocking I/O with no forking.
Also, Sweden was the first European country that was connected to the U.S. Internet, or more specifically to NSFNET [1][2]. This was because the adoption of TCP/IP protocols for wide area networks came earlier in Sweden than in other parts of Europe, for various serendipitous reasons. A funny anecdote is that Switzerland could have beat Sweden to be connected first, but they were delayed because they had to renumber all their networks at CERN that were already using TCP/IP.
Initially it was just non-commercial Internet for academic institutions, but lots of students were exposed to the technology and the infrastructure early on.
Negative in what way? In my experience they were excellent machines that had much better overall performance than the original "toaster" models. Their main problem was that they had non-square pixels, but people put up with that for many use-cases.
