Unrelated to the material, this is a bit silly because you can just brute force the quiz then write down the answers after and refresh the page to get all the right answers. :)
IMO, I don't think it's especially silly if the goal isn't to win a coffee cup but rather to keep folks thinking about your topic for more than 30 seconds.
It worked on me, though I just guessed on all the questions.
They exist in a legal grey area between POWs and war criminals.
POWs don't get a trial. They are held indefinitely until the end of hostilities. Given that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are still operating against the US and its allies, hostilities are clearly not over. The trouble is that with such a 'war' against a decentralized enemy that has already lasted 15 years, and could quite conceivably last decades more, it's clear that 'indefinite detention' can effectively become 'life imprisonment' and that we're venturing into territory not accounted for by the pre-existing legal framework.
It's not a simple situation. Obama, who ran on a policy of closing Gitmo, was forced to accept
This whole WoT was an eye openner. Silly naive younger me, for example, was shocked to find out Geneva Conventions only apply to soldiers in uniforms. (I had assumed earlier it was because of human rights.) Turns out it is a gentlemen's agreement in context of playing war with their cannon fodder.
>They exist in a legal grey area between POWs and war criminals.
Yeah, it is pretty normal for a repressive regime to come up with a legal theory for why it is perfectly OK to hold people indefinitely without trial. Normally such theories are only accepted by that particular regime...
I think Obama felt exactly the same way going into office, but quickly realized the people being sent to Gauntanamo Bay are as dangerous, ambitious and as hardened extremists as they had been saying. Releasing them would greatly increase the chances of a terrorist act on western countries. I'm not saying they shouldn't get some kind of trial, but the notion that they are very likely all at the very least future suicide bombers is often overlooked. Bush's administration had been saying it and I think Obama came to believe it first hand once he got into office.
We'd know what they were like, if they were allowed a trial and could defend themselves? As it is, we take the word of military police etc. Who have never made a mistake?
If the NSA's information gathering operation weren't simultaneously voraciously accruing unto itself powers to operate within the boundaries of the US contrary to its original mandate then the existence of Guantanamo bay as a facility to indefinitely suspend the rights of enemy combatants exclusively outside the boundaries of the US would be far more palatable.
Funny, the page asks for your name, and if you have ' like Irish names, it marks the name in Red (invalid) and doesn't let you move forward with finding out the books.
Badly written SQL generation often prompts single quotes being forbidden in input. "Having single quotes there breaks my queries," one sometimes hears said. "I don't know why."
This is a great opportunity to mentor one's juniors. An injection attack is trivial to demonstrate in the local dev environment, and the result strongly motivates anyone worth working with to learn how not to do that again.
Syntax varies among database interfaces but this ensures that any odd strings are properly stored by the driver and the application does not need to worry about them. There is also no risk of someone rewriting the SQL statement.
No, getting names right is incredibly simple. It's a single unicode `name` field, stored however your language/db stores unicode. E.g.:
name: [person's name]
No minimum lengths (other than != 0) and a reasonably large maximum length for your db (only to protect against DoS attacks). Accept all input (into properly prepared SQL statements).
Why the downvotes? Sorry for calling it out, but it is indeed a #DeveloperFail. We (developers) have egos bigger than doctors and lawyerys, is that why everyone is downvoting a legitimate assertion with proof? (and more proof in comments to my original comment )
What if the prisoners draw inspiration from Sirius Black or Edmond Dantes and attempt an escape? Banning these books ensures that such thoughts never occur to the inmates. Clearly the wardens have learned the correct lessons from the Shawshank Redemption [1]
> Arabic copies of Harry Potter (which features a hellish Island prison of its very own) are very popular amongst detainees. Ironically, Harry Potter novels often top US Library’s “Most Banned Books” list.
I doubt there's a gift shop in the prison proper, but the prison is situated on a US naval base which I would assume to have one, as many such bases do.
I live right next to Auschwitz and can confirm that indeed, it has a gift shop. It only sells books and dvds about the camp though, so it's not your traditional gift shop selling all sorts of tat.
So the rule of law is specifically banned in Guantanamo. If I wrote a novel containing this, my editor would tell me to cut back on the heavy-handed symbolism; its far too unbelievable.
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 120 ms ] threadIt worked on me, though I just guessed on all the questions.
POWs don't get a trial. They are held indefinitely until the end of hostilities. Given that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are still operating against the US and its allies, hostilities are clearly not over. The trouble is that with such a 'war' against a decentralized enemy that has already lasted 15 years, and could quite conceivably last decades more, it's clear that 'indefinite detention' can effectively become 'life imprisonment' and that we're venturing into territory not accounted for by the pre-existing legal framework.
It's not a simple situation. Obama, who ran on a policy of closing Gitmo, was forced to accept
Yeah, it is pretty normal for a repressive regime to come up with a legal theory for why it is perfectly OK to hold people indefinitely without trial. Normally such theories are only accepted by that particular regime...
Funny, the page asks for your name, and if you have ' like Irish names, it marks the name in Red (invalid) and doesn't let you move forward with finding out the books.
I tested it with the following names.
James O'Keefe
Mullah O'Mar
This is a great opportunity to mentor one's juniors. An injection attack is trivial to demonstrate in the local dev environment, and the result strongly motivates anyone worth working with to learn how not to do that again.
I'd love to know why they chose to ban a Shakespeare play...
[1] - https://youtu.be/_359l_9Wyhg?t=48s
> Arabic copies of Harry Potter (which features a hellish Island prison of its very own) are very popular amongst detainees. Ironically, Harry Potter novels often top US Library’s “Most Banned Books” list.
After watching it I can definitely see why they would view these ideas as 'dangerous.'
A prison camp giftshop sounds absurd. However, most articles that come up on google says that it is the army base that has a gift shop.
The Guardian do however claim the giftshop is associated with the prison: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/gallery/2016/feb/15/guan...