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I've been of two minds about this post. On one hand, it does seem important. But Wikileaks presents it with a lot of propaganda mixed in. They are going far beyond their original role of merely leaking information. So if anyone knows of (or wants to make) a version that's just the original footage, please supply a url and I'll switch the link to that.

Edit: Switched link. Thanks. Please note that many of the comments on this thread refer to the original page.
Not the only one. It's a little hard for many of us in the modern world to imagine being that dedicated for something other than self-defense, but conquest also has history of summoning total war. However, self-defense is definitely the most reliable for bringing public opinion to bear. Probably a lot easier to find a war dissenter in Germany in 1944 than in Britain.

(This is not me saying conquest is moral or justifiable, merely pointing out that people have been willing (your word) to wage total war for the sake of conquest)
Some unarmed unmarked men.

You must assume Y. You can't just start shooting on the balance of probabilities. It might be forgivable if there was some imminent danger to... somebody. But I'm not seeing that.
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I learned a few years ago that that was the best way to ask any doctor any question.
It's not a pure weakness.

It's a design choice. I've done embedded devices that run on limited power situations for years. Multi-tasking sucks battery life out because the processor is constantly waking up to do work.

If you've used the G1, you will see quickly what multitasking does to batteries. You as a technical person understand this is a tradeoff. Grandma, or Apple Fanboi #5, doesn't understand this, so they destroy their battery life when playing pandora while doing everything else.

I wouldn't be upset if it was a setting in the device, such as notifications are currently, but if it's something apps can turn on without choice from the user, true concurrency can tank the battery use time whether people want to use it or not.
Nothing is wrong with wanting beautiful things. Nothing is wrong with wanting world peace.

However, you can make an argument that beautiful things without an open system is like world peace without freedom. Both give you what you want. Neither work well. Heck, the iPad and Apple even support this line of thinking. The iPad works on so many open systems, that without those same systems, the iPad simply couldn't exist the way it does today.
I am a bit of an Android fanboi, but one thing that would prevent me from buying something like this is the hardware makers' consistent inability to keep the current version of Android running on their devices. I want root and full specs so I can do this, or I want daily builds from git. Otherwise, I'm not wasting my money on something that's outdated before I open the box.

(I've been promised Android 2.0 on my Archos 5 IT since December, and I've been promised Android 2.1 on my myTouch3G since last fall. Neither have materialized. So fuck you, hardware makers, I'm not wasting any more of my money until you start leaning how to write software in addition to making cool-looking hardware.

For Android especially, there's no excuse. The amount of dev time you save by using the open-source solution should give you plenty of time to run "make" and upload the result to the Internets once in a while.)
Not only that, but journalists are often more exposed than soldiers. They tend to shack up out in the city, drive around in unarmored vehicles with local translators, and aren't tapped into the information network about where bad things are happening right now.
Yeah, you're right. Streams are tricky- music and network too. I think Android solves it using services; would be interesting if Apple comes up with something different (I don't like daemons on my phone personally; but maybe it doesn't matter to most people.)
This is a very short piece. I have read it a dozen times now. I still cannot follow the argument at all.

"Experts can do some things better than you can." This assumes I am not an expert, but okay.

"People want beautiful things that work well" Sure, those are among the things people want.

"Not many nonexperts can accomplish that" This is pretty vague, I guess it sounds reasonable.

"Therefore open source has nothing to teach literature" What!? That doesn't follow at all from the preceding assumptions, but I guess it doesn't matter because as far as I can tell this point is just a decoy.

"Therefore one's inability to hack an iPad means nothing" Again, this doesn't really follow from the preceding assumptions, which is probably why a different justification is immediately given: "you can enjoy using an iPad without programming it."

True enough, but I haven't seen anyone claiming that an iPad's lack of openness is bad because people won't enjoy it. I think iPad's detractors are concerned that people will enjoy using the iPad and that those who purchase it will be fenced in by Apple, with their options for enjoying their iPad restricted to those that make money for Apple.

There is a concern that this model will spread to other devices, and that eventually consumers will choose to give up freedom without ever really thinking about it.

I personally believe "cheap and barely works" triumphs over "beautiful and works well" often enough that things will turn out okay.
The amount of "hey look at that! isn't that bad?" in the video makes it very hard to look at it as a piece of "leaked" forensic evidence.

--edit-- I see an unedited copy has been released as well.
I wonder: will iPad owners have to pay for OS updates?

For the iPhone, their price has been considered-included, as an accounting matter, in the ongoing revenue Apple shares from the mobile operators. But, for the iPod Touch, upgrade fees have applied to get new features -- with the stated rationale being accounting requirements.

The iPad(Wifi only) is clearly more like an iPod Touch. But even the iPad(Wifi+3G), with no long-term contracts and buy-as-you-need-it service, may not have any ongoing Apple revenue share.

All iPad owners may be on the hook for a fee when iPhoneOS4.0 arrives.
I guess I'm kind of in the middle on this one. I love the concept of the ipad, but hate the closed nature of the platform and am wary of Apple pushing yet another device that pimps the appstore.

However, I felt the same about the AppleTV and the iphone, but still ended up buying both once I knew they were hackable.
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I agree with you.

In the video I didn't see a medium white Canon lens as illustrated there. I'm not sure guessing at what a man in a hostile zone is brandishing from behind a corner is going to help:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51uImrxH1yL.jpg

Whatever it is, don't duck in and out behind corners pointing your black tube at military gunships or approaching convoys. Don't bet your life on whether the guy behind the turret paid to keep the zone clear can sort that out while you pop in and out of view.
If it wasn't a war, US troops wouldn't have been killed long after the Iraqi army was dissolved and they would have left by now. If anything the worst part of the war was the part where the US was fighting non-Iraqis who came to fight them in Iraq. Then the Iraqi people were losing from both sides. Nobody can really believe the US wants to CONQUER Iraq in the sense that they want to stay there indefinitely for control. If the insurgents hadn't fought the US would have left a hell of a long time ago.
That is not the reason stem cell research is allowed again.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/09/politics/100days/d...
"Too many cooks spoil the broth."
Mental illness? I'm surprised, but I suppose an idealist would think that. I'm pretty sure the fight or flight syndrome has been well documented as being in every human, not just soldiers. So, are we all mentally ill?
Aviators are commissioned officers, who are usually 22 at the youngest (quickest way to a commission is a college degree). Most commissioned officers are older than that, of course.

You have to be under 33 to get into flight school, usually: http://usmilitary.about.com/od/armytrng/ss/rotarypilot_2.htm

Once you've graduated flight school you'll continue serving as an aviator for some number of years. Unlike enlisted, officers are given a perpetual commission which may have a service obligation attached (if you're an ROTC or Academy graduate, for instance) or not. Also, I gather that a lot of Apache pilots are warrant officers. Warrant officers are generally previous enlisted with a LOT of experience--these guys are generally in their 30's or so.
That is (again) really interesting/informative. Thanks - this is one of those conversations that really restores my faith in communicating over the web :-).
Have at it with my blessing! While I wrote it, I had no idea it was a significant thing to say. I'd read your thoughts on the matter with avid interest.
Even more significant to me (and some large competing industries): can you receive a VOIP call while using another app?

Skype on the iPhone/iPad is great, except for the need to pre-arrange simultaneous launch.
If you notice, at no time does anybody look at the helicopter. That's how far away they were from the action, the people on the ground weren't even aware of the presence of the aircraft.
What does that have to do with my ability to program my iPad? Or even multitask?
The video is important, but the way it's been released is exactly the opposite of a 'worthy cause', they could have done that a lot better.

Wikileaks is starting down the 'greenpeace' road, great initial intentions eventually becoming a self-perpetuating PR machine.

They should cut down on the hyperbole and the editing, simply release that information that they consider to be legitimate once verified.
I just released an app that uses a timer for a main feature of the application. The first (and so far only) user e-mail I received was this:

"Is there a way to shut off the iPod Touch while the countdown timer is working and the iPod Touch will wake up when the alarm goes off"
Agreed. Add in what YouTube does to video and a lot of people are drawing conclusions off a 3rd hand source right now.

The original torrent which I have not yet downloaded but may be better http://collateralmurder.com/file/CollateralMurder.mp4.torren...
I agree with you there. They have an annoying habit of contacting ideal candidates with years or even decades of real world experience, and asking them idiotic administrivia questions that I could find the answer to in 30 seconds with access to a search engine, yet probably don't have memorized unless you happen to have a photographic memory and memorized every RFC.
He's talking like a gamer in that video.
If I walk down the road right now, I will not see billboards encouraging me to join the Red Cross.
My wife and I used WeddingLens for our wedding last year, and we got ~1000 photos within about a week (our wedding had about 60 guests). Well worth the price.
Given that iPad app pricing has been substantially higher than it is for the iPhone, I can't imagine too many iPad buyers balking at a reasonable OS upgrade fee. Here I define "reasonable" loosely as "cheaper than a desktop OS upgrade", which would put the price cap somewhere in the $20-25 range.
Well, at least we seem to agree that war is bad. ;)

From the pilots eyes, he just got the drop on a bunch of bomb laying insurgents trying to help their friends. Of course if it worked out that way, we wouldn't be having this discussion and it would have been perfectly fine.

>War is an active engagement between military forces

If only that were true beyond some ideal. You realize that the alies dropped incendiary bombs on German cities in WWII that killed women and children at a pace of thousands per bombing run. Not to mention what we did to Japan, or what Japan did to China or Korea, or what the North did to the South (slash and burn) in the war of northern aggression.
Cheers to Paul Cantrell for figuring all this out and documenting it in such a fun way. Here's a link to a helpful thread on the same topic:

http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/153876
Especially the really slow lead in. 2 minutes of time before you get to the video? A lot of people are just going to click out before they see that, especially with the editorializing. You will turn off a lot of people predisposed to support the US military over all other considerations. If you start right with the video and let the document speak for itself you might reach a wider audience. You also bias the viewers perception by showing the pictures beforehand that clearly tell you they are journalists which is something the pilots did know until after the fact.
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> My iPhone has a 32GB SSD hard drive

Embedded engineer here: Solid State Drives do lots of things GREAT. However "being a drive which swap is used on" is not one of them. That's because swap memory is written very often compared to any other portion of the drive. This quickly wears out the drive in that location (and all flash has a limited number of writes, and SSD is a flash technology).

There are specific drivers for doing swap on flash devices. But it isn't easy to do well without compromising usable life of the device.

IF you're interested in doing virtual memory in an app: http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2009/05/14/tip-iphone-virtual... is a way to do it, there is a hacked iphone app that also enables it too (don't have a URL offhand).

I dis-recommend doing so.
Obviously there are dissenters, I'm speaking of the nation on the whole. We elected our President(s) and as such he (they) should be considered to speak for us on the whole. If he doesn't, that's our fault- on the whole. And, like it or not even the dissenters benefit from the operations over there. Certainly not what we like to talk about, but they are maintaining the American sphere of power which keeps America on top of the heap and keeps your gas cheap (for starters). Right or wrong, want it or not, you are benefiting from it, and it feels horrid in my mind to rabidly attack people who are helping me through their own sweat and blood- even if I don't want their help.

So yes- they do it for all of us, even you. They are sent there for you along with everyone else in this nation. We, the nation (not you the individual) sent them, and you are a part of the nation. Stand behind them, whether you support the cause or not.

I don't think the war is just or sensible. I don't feel the soldiers are doing a great good, but I do feel it's ridiculous to tear them down. They are on our side, they are our men and our citizens. You can hate the war, but don't blame our soldiers; they are still our brothers and sisters.
I think iPad's detractors are concerned that people will enjoy using the iPad and that those who purchase it will be fenced in by Apple, with their options for enjoying their iPad restricted to those that make money for Apple.
In addition to this, I think the blogger missed that while those who make their own software often enjoy the process of making it, they tend to make what they want to use (i.e. they enjoy their product, not just its production).
The sad things was that in July of 2007 all of Baghdad was an active combat zone.
I'm not defending anyone here... Hell, I haven't watched the video. And based upon comments from others above regarding the included commentary, I won't.

But the definition of "reasonable" can be different things to different people, especially under these circumstances. What is reasonable to presume from behind our monitors means nothing. When you're in the middle of a firefight, your definition of reasonable can be a little more flexible.

One problem that we have here is a lack of context. Perhaps these solders were just in a fight the day before with a very similar van. Perhaps instead of presumed medical personnel it was more enemy fighters. If they didn't have clear markings, then it could be very hard to make quick decisions. This is the type of stuff that you just aren't going to be able to tell from a single video.
Those kids shouldn't have been in control of those weapons anyway, they should have been half the world away going out that evening. The US is in Iraq for all the wrong reasons and the amount of collateral damage (and the amount of cover ups) is simply disgraceful.

Once you create a situation like this you own the pieces that you break.

Covering this up shows how high up this goes.

The US should be grateful to whoever leaked this, hopefully they'll tread more careful now. As long as the mental value of a civilian is deemed smaller than that of an American soldier this will continue.

Not that long ago there was a statistic posted here with how the number of US combat deaths was dropping steadily, but nobody thought of mentioning the number of civilians that get killed by soldiers in situations like these.
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Here’s the uncut footage on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik

There is only a reference to the website and to Wikileaks at the beginning, no other editorial content (there are subtitles). Might be a bit too little context, would work great in combination with the old New York Times article, though.
This is the unedited video on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik

However it still has the title "collateral murder".

(and I wholly agree; Wikileaks have crossed the line with their presentation here for me. In my opinion it actually harms the impact of the video and is not in keeping with their purported vision as whistle-blowers :()
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Yeah, this is often true. My iPhone app sells better at 2.99 than 1.99, and I may bump the price again. Hard to A/B test on the App Store though.
The accounting rules were changed after lobbying by Apple and other corps. See http://www.9to5mac.com/FASB-accounting-change-iPhone-AppleTV. More info at Ars: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/09/accounting-rules-c...

Hopefully this should mean free updates.
Every year there are countless hunting accidents where hunters will swear they've seen a deer only to find out they've shot a dog or a fellow hunter.

Similar mechanism at work.
I wonder if some sort of hybrid of the current push notifications and GCD might prove a workable stopgap? I.e., apps can register asynchronous event listeners while running, and push notifications can trigger those to give the appearance of multitasking.

If the background listeners/workers are heavily resource-constrained and subjected to limited API access, you might be able to maintain most of the battery life and performance advantages of the current single-task model, while still allowing apps to perform some amount of background processing. Any "heavy lifting" involving a full app UI, the GPU, or outbound network access could still require user confirmation and a task swtich.
There was an article about that somewhere (can't find it right now) where they say that according to the EULA the 4.x upgrades are included in the iPad price.
I believe this is the full, unedited helicopter camera footage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik

In case the link is changed, this is what was previously there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0
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The iPad software EULA actually mentions this. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/30/apple-to-charge-for-future-ip...

From that, it sounds like they will be charging for updates every two major versions, so not as often as the iPod touch.
Awesome article with great detail and explanation. I've always been curious about how load averages are calculated and what exactly they mean.
There are seemingly two conversations happening at once, I took the "negative" as referring to location not shooting. Read it as Guy 1 saying "we had a guy shoot, now he's behind the building" and Guy 2 saying "negative, he is not behind the building he was in front of the bradley and I haven't seen him since" rather than Guy 1 saying "We had a guy shoot" and Guy 2 saying "Negative" and you get a completely different picture.

02:15	No hold on. Lets come around. Behind buildings right now from our point of view. ... Okay, we're gonna come around.

02:19	Hotel Two-Six; have eyes on individual with RPG. Getting ready to fire. We won't...

02:23	Yeah, we had a guy shoot---and now he's behind the building.

02:26	God damn it.

02:28	Uh, negative, he was, uh, right in front of the Brad Uh, 'bout, there, one o'clock.

02:34	Haven't seen anything since then.
Before I read the summary, I thought a cord bank was a co-op where you could share all those electronics cables and cords you rarely need with others. I have so many cords the manufacturer included that I can't get rid of. Yes, yes I would use that. You should start a company on that model.

I'm not planning on having kids any time soon, if you couldn't tell. ;-)
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In addition to providing the original footage, WikiLeaks appears eager to directly combat the misinformation sown by the U.S. government since the incident took place. My guess is that they wanted to refute the official reports step-by-step to maximize the impact of their leak, and so that there would be little chance of it being swept under the rug by yet another official denial.

Yes, it may come off as propaganda, but why would WikiLeaks want to do all of the hard work acquiring the video, decrypting it, and bearing legal repercussions from releasing it only to have the other major news organizations do the analysis and reap the rewards? WikiLeaks is in need of cash, so there's an incentive for them to provide the full report; and additionally, they do seem to be motivated by a sense of justice, so why entrust the same old news media who might not give it the attention it deserves?
Also, this video of related material for news services just appeared on the channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BflAj2txMVQ
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Keep in mind that by assuming that the gunner is a sadist you are making the same mistake that the gunner did. The gunner assumed that the wounded man was a terrorist based on what he saw, or rather, thought he saw. You are assuming that the gunner was a sadist based on what you saw in the video. I don't think either assumption is a good one.

What I hear in that movie is not the sound of someone having fun. I hear false bravado in response to the sickening situation. You can interpret the soldier's comments in different ways, but there isn't enough detail to say the soldier is a sadist, just as there wasn't enough detail to say the camera was an AK-47.
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/30/apple-to-charge-for-future-ip...

>The common interpretation is that the next major OS update (iPad 4.0) will be available to iPad owners for free, but that Apple reserves the right to charge for iPad 5.0 and beyond.
no one can create native applications for ChromeOS

So it's deliberately even more crippled than iPhone/iPad ;)

(which is what people would say if Apple released a web-apps-only system, which is kinda my point)
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