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| Quasimodo | Aug 7 2010, 08:17 AM Post #16 |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki "WikiWikiWeb was the first wiki. Ward Cunningham started developing WikiWikiWeb in 1994, and installed it on the Internet domain c2.com on March 25, 1995. It was named by Cunningham, who remembered a Honolulu International Airport counter employee telling him to take the "Wiki" shuttle bus that runs between the airport's terminals. According to Cunningham, "I chose wiki-wiki as an alliterative substitute for 'quick' and thereby avoided naming this stuff quick-web." |
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| abb | Aug 7 2010, 08:53 AM Post #17 |
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I think how the name "wikipedia" came about is fascinating! The human mind at its creative best! Many conservatives have shied away from wikipedia because they claim it is slanted. Maybe so, but it is up to us conservatives to learn how to use the technology and engage the debate wherever it may be and make sure our point of view is counted. Just like we have done here and on our personal blogs. I use wikipedia all the time as a starting place for research on everything. |
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| Rusty Dog | Aug 7 2010, 09:25 AM Post #18 |
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Thanks so much! I really appreciate it. |
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| Baldo | Aug 7 2010, 09:37 AM Post #19 |
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It is a big pain in the rear to large bureaucracies. Let's face it they get lazy and post too many documents and give too many clearances. The game really changed when files went digital. It's been a long progression from copiers to fax to digital and it all moves towards sunlight. Some things shouldn't be posted, but in general they do more good than harm |
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| kbp | Aug 7 2010, 10:44 AM Post #20 |
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I like to remind the liberal friends and relatives that they 'know it all' ...when they come to the 'know nothing' to borrow money. The debates seem to be a waste of time. |
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| Quasimodo | Aug 10 2010, 12:42 PM Post #21 |
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-10/a-western-crackdown-on-wikileaks/?om_rid=Nh0$L4&om_mid=_BMYUegB8R02P$R& U.S. Urges Allies to Crack Down on WikiLeaks The Obama administration is pressing Britain, Germany, Australia, and other allied Western governments to consider opening criminal investigations of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and to severely limit his nomadic travels across international borders, American officials say. Officials tell The Daily Beast that the U.S. effort reflects a growing belief that WikiLeaks and organizations like it threaten grave damage to American national security, as well as a growing suspicion in Washington that Assange has damaged his own standing with foreign governments and organizations that might otherwise be sympathetic to his anti-censorship cause. American officials confirmed last month that the Justice Department was weighing a range of criminal charges against Assange and others as a result of the massive leaking of classified U.S. military reports from the war in Afghanistan, including potential violations of the Espionage Act by Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst in Iraq accused of providing the documents to WikiLeaks. Now, the officials say, they want other foreign governments to consider the same sorts of criminal charges. “It’s not just our troops that are put in jeopardy by this leaking,” said an American diplomatic official who is involved in responding to the aftermath of the release of more than 70,000 Afghanistan war logs—and WikiLeaks’ threat to reveal 15,000 more of the classified reports. “It’s U.K. troops, it’s German troops, it’s Australian troops—all of the NATO troops and foreign forces working together in Afghanistan,” he said. Their governments, he said, should follow the lead of the Justice Department and “review whether the actions of WikiLeaks could constitute crimes under their own national-security laws.” Last month, a prominent pro-military group in Australia suggested that Assange may have violated Australian law through the release of the Afghan war logs, given the threat the leak may have posed to the lives of Australian troops serving in the NATO-led force. The Obama administration was heartened by the call this week by Amnesty International and four other human-rights groups for WikiLeaks to be far more careful in editing classified material from the war in Afghanistan to be sure that its public release does not endanger innocent Afghans who may be identified in the documents. “It’s amazing how Assange has overplayed his hand,” a Defense Department official marveled. “Now, he’s alienating the sort of people who you’d normally think would be his biggest supporters.” (snip) The Australian-born Assange travels constantly and is said to have no real home, living instead in the homes of friends and supporters around the world. He was reported as recently as last week to be in the U.K., although he has spent significant time this year in Australia, Iceland, and the U.S. He has said he is postponing future travel to the U.S. because of fear that he faces legal sanctions here. Through diplomatic and military channels, the Obama administration is hoping to convince Britain, Germany, and Australia, among other allied governments that Assange should not be welcome on their shores, either, given the danger that his group poses to their troops stationed in Afghanistan, American officials say. They say severe limitations on Assange’s travels might serve as a useful warning to his followers that their own freedom is now at risk. A prominent American volunteer for WikiLeaks reported last month that he was subjected to hours of questioning and had his laptop and cellphones seized by American border agents on returning to the U.S. from Europe late last month. An American military official tells The Daily Beast that Washington may also want to closely review its relations with Iceland in the wake of the release of the Afghan war logs. (snip) |
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| Quasimodo | Aug 10 2010, 12:48 PM Post #22 |
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One might want to recall that in 2006 the New York Times broke the story of SWIFT, an operation in which the US monitored financial transactions worldwide to uncover terrorist transactions.
Of course, no one prosecuted the Times. |
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| kbp | Aug 10 2010, 01:18 PM Post #23 |
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When it first came out about “by Amnesty International and four other human-rights groups” not being happy about the leaks, Assange stated he welcomed help to redact documents. Too late for most and who knows who he could trust to do the redacting (that they wouldn’t share the names…). Assange might have done better to set up the encrypted file and then leaked a handful of documents in intervals that would allow names to be redacted. Judging from the hints made to other nations by Obama, the best he could hope for is that any damage Wikileaks creates, IF there is an arrest and more sensitive documents are leaked, is that blame is assigned the country that arrests somebody from Wikileaks. |
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| LTC8K6 | Aug 10 2010, 01:41 PM Post #24 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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I got it from Hawaii 5-0. "Wiki Wiki!"
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