Well the problem is that we aren't "climbing out of this mess" if anything, things are getting worse. The problem is that people naively thought that electin Obama would improve things. The truth is that the government does what the people allow it to do. Bush was a warning sign that the checks and balances that were supposed to restrain the federal governments' power are essentially destroyed. The conditions that allowed Bush to frak up this country as bad as he did still exist. Now is it any wonder why the "change we can believe in" didn't happen as people believed it would?
It's no longer in the billions. If you count Iraq and Afghanistan, the tab is over a trillion dollars. THe human cost is well over 5,000 dead soldiers, tens of thousands wounded, countless thousands of dead Iraqis and on top of that, they've managed to have the US ruin its own international reputation permanently. The US has become self-terrorizing ever since 9/11 making future terror attacks completely unnecessary.
Even if Apophis has no chance of hitting Earth, attempting to divert the asteroid farther from Earth may have value as a test of our ability to do so. I would however, prefer that they did such a test on an asteroid that is not due to pass so close to Earth any time soon.
If there's nothing wrong with your equipment or procedures and your experiment fails to find X then it's indicative that your hypothesis is wrong and any group that repeats your experiment is going to know about it immediately.
If your equipment is malfunctioning, you may end up with data that is fairly random where there should be some pattern or your measurements on your controls don't remotely match the values they should be. As an example, a standardized solution tests for a markedly different concentration than it should; a good sign that something is wrong. Things go wrong occasionally. That is why it is imperative that experiments be repeatable and have good experimental design.
There are still no plans to support alternative platforms outside of Windows and Mac which is actually a bit disappointing. Onlive could have knocked out one of the major reasons why many people stay with Windows.
Plus, with a MS Office contract, you have a software vendor to fall back to when things go wrong. You don't get this to the same extent with OSS, which is why business is often slow to adopt it.
That sounds very odd to me considering that to my knowledge, a large majority of the income for OSS projects come from support contracts. Is it that businesses at large don't know about them or is this one more case of using MS Office because everyone else is?
What are your thoughts? Do you think that we can actually make air travel (and any other kind of travel, for that matter) truly secure?"
No. There will never be a time when anything is "truly secure" only more secure. We can make air travel safer and indeed most people have already taken a few of the steps necessary by instinct. 9/11 changed peoples' mindset about hijackings in general and now it is far more dangerous for people who hijack a plane. If the passengers have even a suspicion that anything like what happened on 9/11 is taking place, they will act accordingly.
What happens to all the folks (us?) who have been gloating over the security of our Macs, Linux, smartphones etc. when these apps get broken? Time to eat crow?
I would imagine that if Flash etc. became poor enough in terms of security we'd see more attention on projects like Gnash.
Society has no obligation to break windows so that the window maker has a job. The recording industry is by any reasonable standard, a failure without government intervention on their behalf. They no doubt employ thousands of people but they no longer feel the need to produce anything so their reason for being no longer exists. The resources squandered on providing jobs for doing worthless tasks are better allocated elsewhere.
Meanwhile they have refused to move with the times, and change their business models.
On the contrary. They found that their old business model wasn't profitable enough so they switched to the far more lucrative business model of convincing the government to subsidize them. With the old model people could vote with their dollars (including piracy) but this new model removes all of those pesky market forces entirely.
Indeed. If you take a look at the site in question, there doesn't seem to be anything about it that jumps out as being novel. It looks like the author created a mediocre search/link site and expected to be in the top results. The telling bit about the whole affair is that the author claims that the site was virtually off the net in terems of searches for three years yet that would largely require the top two or three search engines to do essentially the same thing which probably more than anything leads one to suspect that there's something about the site its self rather than multiple search engines that is the problem.
The problem with Kelo was that private property was taken for the benefit of developers. The decision flew in the face of the takings clause of the 5th amendment.
Technically the error occured at the step that calculates the solar output. The Sun puts out 1400W/m^2 electromagnetic radiation at Earth's orbital distance of ~150 million km. The total output is equal to the surface area of the orbit (4*pi*r^2) which is 4*(3.14)*(1.5*10^11)^2 = 4*10^26 W for which 1 kcal/sec = 4180 W which means ~10^23 kcal/sec energy is released. Doin the math leads to 10^35 being the correct answer leaving the remainder of the math quite correct.
Assuming that we are working with the standard burning library of congress as the measuring unit, we can define the energy release in those terms: 1 Burning Library of Conress (BLOC) 4kcal/g 20TB data 1MB/novel 1 novel = 200g 4,000 metric tons 16 billion kcal
Solar output ~~ 10^22 kcal/second 250,000 years = 8*10^12 seconds
energy of event: 8*10^35 kcal energy of event/BLOC ~~ 5*10^25 burning libraries of congress 1 billion BLOC/second for 1.7 billion years
PETN is pentaerythritol tetranitrate which is most decidedly not found in varnish. It's a nitrate ester of pentaerythritol and is actually quite a powerful explosive.
How about the lives of all the innocent people caught in the crossfire in Iraq and Afghanistan? Over 100,000 people dead. Are those 3,000 that died on 9/11 worthless? Of course not. However, the cost of the ensuing wars were clearly not worth it. If we tackled any other causes of death in a similar fashion, we'd have a very very large bloodbath on our hands. Decisions need to be made in a calm, rational manner. This is extremely difficult if not impossible to do if emotions are allowed to take over. Which is why people need to step back from the situation away from the stron emotions involved in order to make the right decision.
Comparatively speaking, it is. Anyone that has any remote understanding of the statistics of the causes of death in this country knows that terrorism, at least what we have seen, is largely irrelevant. Car accidents alone have claimed over 400,000 lives since 9/11. Getting Cancer I worry about from tiem to time, same goes for car accidents; but terrorism? That ranks pretty low on my list of things to worry about.
Indeed. It's the streisand effect of terrorism... 9/11 could have been at most a minor annoyance but instead it became the rallying cry for numerous restrictions on freedom with questionable results at best.
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Name one thing that Obama has done that has improved the situation.
They qent after the bloggers in order to find out where the leak was coming from in order to plug the leak.
Well the problem is that we aren't "climbing out of this mess" if anything, things are getting worse. The problem is that people naively thought that electin Obama would improve things. The truth is that the government does what the people allow it to do. Bush was a warning sign that the checks and balances that were supposed to restrain the federal governments' power are essentially destroyed. The conditions that allowed Bush to frak up this country as bad as he did still exist. Now is it any wonder why the "change we can believe in" didn't happen as people believed it would?
It's no longer in the billions. If you count Iraq and Afghanistan, the tab is over a trillion dollars. THe human cost is well over 5,000 dead soldiers, tens of thousands wounded, countless thousands of dead Iraqis and on top of that, they've managed to have the US ruin its own international reputation permanently. The US has become self-terrorizing ever since 9/11 making future terror attacks completely unnecessary.
That was the excuse they used for going after the bloggers; the intent was to discourage anyone else from leaking anything like this again.
Even if Apophis has no chance of hitting Earth, attempting to divert the asteroid farther from Earth may have value as a test of our ability to do so. I would however, prefer that they did such a test on an asteroid that is not due to pass so close to Earth any time soon.
If there's nothing wrong with your equipment or procedures and your experiment fails to find X then it's indicative that your hypothesis is wrong and any group that repeats your experiment is going to know about it immediately.
If your equipment is malfunctioning, you may end up with data that is fairly random where there should be some pattern or your measurements on your controls don't remotely match the values they should be. As an example, a standardized solution tests for a markedly different concentration than it should; a good sign that something is wrong. Things go wrong occasionally. That is why it is imperative that experiments be repeatable and have good experimental design.
There are still no plans to support alternative platforms outside of Windows and Mac which is actually a bit disappointing. Onlive could have knocked out one of the major reasons why many people stay with Windows.
That sounds very odd to me considering that to my knowledge, a large majority of the income for OSS projects come from support contracts. Is it that businesses at large don't know about them or is this one more case of using MS Office because everyone else is?
DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS!
No. There will never be a time when anything is "truly secure" only more secure. We can make air travel safer and indeed most people have already taken a few of the steps necessary by instinct. 9/11 changed peoples' mindset about hijackings in general and now it is far more dangerous for people who hijack a plane. If the passengers have even a suspicion that anything like what happened on 9/11 is taking place, they will act accordingly.
I would imagine that if Flash etc. became poor enough in terms of security we'd see more attention on projects like Gnash.
Society has no obligation to break windows so that the window maker has a job. The recording industry is by any reasonable standard, a failure without government intervention on their behalf. They no doubt employ thousands of people but they no longer feel the need to produce anything so their reason for being no longer exists. The resources squandered on providing jobs for doing worthless tasks are better allocated elsewhere.
On the contrary. They found that their old business model wasn't profitable enough so they switched to the far more lucrative business model of convincing the government to subsidize them. With the old model people could vote with their dollars (including piracy) but this new model removes all of those pesky market forces entirely.
If you interpret the clause in that manner, there's essentially no reason for it to even be there...
Indeed. If you take a look at the site in question, there doesn't seem to be anything about it that jumps out as being novel. It looks like the author created a mediocre search/link site and expected to be in the top results. The telling bit about the whole affair is that the author claims that the site was virtually off the net in terems of searches for three years yet that would largely require the top two or three search engines to do essentially the same thing which probably more than anything leads one to suspect that there's something about the site its self rather than multiple search engines that is the problem.
The problem with Kelo was that private property was taken for the benefit of developers. The decision flew in the face of the takings clause of the 5th amendment.
Technically the error occured at the step that calculates the solar output. The Sun puts out 1400W/m^2 electromagnetic radiation at Earth's orbital distance of ~150 million km. The total output is equal to the surface area of the orbit (4*pi*r^2) which is 4*(3.14)*(1.5*10^11)^2 = 4*10^26 W for which 1 kcal/sec = 4180 W which means ~10^23 kcal/sec energy is released. Doin the math leads to 10^35 being the correct answer leaving the remainder of the math quite correct.
Assuming that we are working with the standard burning library of congress as the measuring unit, we can define the energy release in those terms:
1 Burning Library of Conress (BLOC)
4kcal/g
20TB data
1MB/novel
1 novel = 200g
4,000 metric tons
16 billion kcal
Solar output ~~ 10^22 kcal/second
250,000 years = 8*10^12 seconds
energy of event: 8*10^35 kcal
energy of event/BLOC ~~ 5*10^25 burning libraries of congress
1 billion BLOC/second for 1.7 billion years
Once...
PETN is pentaerythritol tetranitrate which is most decidedly not found in varnish. It's a nitrate ester of pentaerythritol and is actually quite a powerful explosive.
How about the lives of all the innocent people caught in the crossfire in Iraq and Afghanistan? Over 100,000 people dead. Are those 3,000 that died on 9/11 worthless? Of course not. However, the cost of the ensuing wars were clearly not worth it. If we tackled any other causes of death in a similar fashion, we'd have a very very large bloodbath on our hands. Decisions need to be made in a calm, rational manner. This is extremely difficult if not impossible to do if emotions are allowed to take over. Which is why people need to step back from the situation away from the stron emotions involved in order to make the right decision.
Comparatively speaking, it is. Anyone that has any remote understanding of the statistics of the causes of death in this country knows that terrorism, at least what we have seen, is largely irrelevant. Car accidents alone have claimed over 400,000 lives since 9/11. Getting Cancer I worry about from tiem to time, same goes for car accidents; but terrorism? That ranks pretty low on my list of things to worry about.
Indeed. It's the streisand effect of terrorism... 9/11 could have been at most a minor annoyance but instead it became the rallying cry for numerous restrictions on freedom with questionable results at best.