First: Stop having encounters with snowbanks.
Second: Buy a Haynes manual, then go visit a junkyard and see if they have your parts.
You will never make a part for less than it cost the automotive industry to make that part. It's a matter of finding someone who will sell it without too much markup.
I basically agree with almost all of what you've written there. However, I think that blog postings and one line quotes to journalists amount to a lot of opinion. That's fine, but it feels like holding a megaphone up to the side conversations at a conference. We can have "real time analysis" without doing it at the top of our lungs on the front lawn. This is how a conversation at a cocktail party turns into an announcement of life on Mars.
At any rate, this is all premature. According to Zimmer:
Critics say that a few straightforward tests on the bacteria would show whether they really do have arsenic-based DNA once and for all. And the NASA scientists say they're ready to hand out GFAJ-1 to researchers who want to study it.
So, in a few months we'll either have some very interesting findings from experiments performed to everyone's liking...or a editorial in Science about how the original paper got through.
This will play out in the journals, not the pages of Slate. Either the method is sound, or it isn't. Either the findings can be duplicated, or they can't. It may take (gasp) at least a few months to see which it is.
Scientists can be such whiny, arrogant assholes...whatever happened to science being done for science, rather than recognition?
Scientists are not saints. Science involves a lot of non-science: finding funding, managing teams, etc. and some people are into outmaneuvering others. As in any other profession, some percentage of scientists are the kind of whiny, arrogant assholes that would attempt to embarrass their colleagues in a mass-market publication rather than put the critique where it belongs: The letters section of Science.
So in other words, he could be trying to hold the US by the balls and say I'm going to break the law and if you try to arrest me for it, I'm going to release more info that will damage you even more.
This is where he messed up. The US cannot allow itself to be blackmailed in public. It's along the lines of "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you certainly don't want anyone to think that terrorism (or in this case, and "insurance" file) is a good way to get you to negotiate.
Do you think any of the diplomats involved were surprised by any of the revelations in the cables?
Of course not. It's their trade. But the diplomats take their orders from politicians, who may now feel the need to put on a show for their populace. People react differently in front of an audience.
The US government has overthrown democratic governments, it's FBI has assassinated American civilians, the CIA is currently torturing someone to death in a secret prison somewhere in the world, and right now it has the right to extra-judiciously assassinate any person, even US citizens, that it believes to be involved in terrorism.
With these facts, I hardly think an orchestrated DDoS attack seems unlikely.
Given that list, an orchestrated DDoS attack seems incredibly restrained.
Add "mini-games vital to the plot" to your list. You'll play a pretty good game for hours, only to have further progress depend on completing a totally different type of game with half-baked controls.
There was a cartoon that someone taped to the wall where I worked at GSFC "back in the day" that showed a mouse in a lab coat poking a mouse trap. The caption was "One test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
If you can deploy three or four fewer people to an airstrip someplace, and unload a bunch of emergency medical supplies in a fraction of the time, you're reducing costs, not adding to them.
Color me skeptical. If you really are deploying fewer people, great. But I suspect that something like this has a serious logistics tail. If it takes three people to operate and support the thing, that's no good. If you have to wait two days to get it working again when it breaks down, you're back to square one - without the number of people you need to accomplish the task at hand.
There's nothing stopping you from driving around town collecting all of your neighbors' discarded bank statements on garbage day - they really should be shredding them, after all. Still, it might raise a few eyebrows.
While you may not get to sit out the result, you do get to claim that they do not represent you.
You can claim whatever you want, but you don't get a personal representative. Whoever gets elected is your representative, no matter how hard you pout. If your representative was elected by a landslide majority they may claim to have a "mandate", and act accordingly.
No matter what party wins, by the act of voting itself you agree that you accept that System as a whole.
The system is like tooth decay. It doesn't care if you accept it. You might feel really empowered by not accepting it, and it still doesn't care. You can tell everyone you meet that you don't accept it, and it still doesn't care.
Then your gums bleed and it hurts to eat ice cream.
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Actually, the best method would be to use a Black Fax [wikipedia.org] rather than something like stick figures or Goatse.
Maybe, but HR won't need to organize counseling sessions just because on of the admins saw a black fax.
Pen-knife?
Thick fingernail.
Hence from mine lawn.
First: Stop having encounters with snowbanks.
Second: Buy a Haynes manual, then go visit a junkyard and see if they have your parts.
You will never make a part for less than it cost the automotive industry to make that part. It's a matter of finding someone who will sell it without too much markup.
At any rate, this is all premature. According to Zimmer:
Critics say that a few straightforward tests on the bacteria would show whether they really do have arsenic-based DNA once and for all. And the NASA scientists say they're ready to hand out GFAJ-1 to researchers who want to study it.
So, in a few months we'll either have some very interesting findings from experiments performed to everyone's liking...or a editorial in Science about how the original paper got through.
Scientists can be such whiny, arrogant assholes...whatever happened to science being done for science, rather than recognition?
Scientists are not saints. Science involves a lot of non-science: finding funding, managing teams, etc. and some people are into outmaneuvering others. As in any other profession, some percentage of scientists are the kind of whiny, arrogant assholes that would attempt to embarrass their colleagues in a mass-market publication rather than put the critique where it belongs: The letters section of Science.
So in other words, he could be trying to hold the US by the balls and say I'm going to break the law and if you try to arrest me for it, I'm going to release more info that will damage you even more.
This is where he messed up. The US cannot allow itself to be blackmailed in public. It's along the lines of "We don't negotiate with terrorists." Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you certainly don't want anyone to think that terrorism (or in this case, and "insurance" file) is a good way to get you to negotiate.
Do you think any of the diplomats involved were surprised by any of the revelations in the cables?
Of course not. It's their trade. But the diplomats take their orders from politicians, who may now feel the need to put on a show for their populace. People react differently in front of an audience.
Yep, nothing spreads peace like discrediting diplomacy.
The US government has overthrown democratic governments, it's FBI has assassinated American civilians, the CIA is currently torturing someone to death in a secret prison somewhere in the world, and right now it has the right to extra-judiciously assassinate any person, even US citizens, that it believes to be involved in terrorism. With these facts, I hardly think an orchestrated DDoS attack seems unlikely.
Given that list, an orchestrated DDoS attack seems incredibly restrained.
So in summary, meh results from unimpressive tech. However: video, MIT, open-source, open-hardware, Arduino, instructable. You just won MakerBingo.
Add "mini-games vital to the plot" to your list. You'll play a pretty good game for hours, only to have further progress depend on completing a totally different type of game with half-baked controls.
Bill Nye the Science guy was the only educational show that was actually cool to watch.
Mr. Wizard.
"widespread cultural, social, and economic change that would define" which he says is one of his stock phrases.
Sounds like Tom Friedman to me.
There was a cartoon that someone taped to the wall where I worked at GSFC "back in the day" that showed a mouse in a lab coat poking a mouse trap. The caption was "One test is worth a thousand expert opinions."
I'm sure Safety loved that one.
just because someone is a big figure in politics doesn't mean they should get special treatment.
I guess the Secret Service should stick to chasing counterfeiters?
If you can deploy three or four fewer people to an airstrip someplace, and unload a bunch of emergency medical supplies in a fraction of the time, you're reducing costs, not adding to them.
Color me skeptical. If you really are deploying fewer people, great. But I suspect that something like this has a serious logistics tail. If it takes three people to operate and support the thing, that's no good. If you have to wait two days to get it working again when it breaks down, you're back to square one - without the number of people you need to accomplish the task at hand.
It is applicable as an example of a general statement of displeasure being taken as a request for action. A rather well-known one. In England.
How you went from Henry II and Thomas Becket to the yammering weirdness above is beyond my ken.
There's nothing stopping you from driving around town collecting all of your neighbors' discarded bank statements on garbage day - they really should be shredding them, after all. Still, it might raise a few eyebrows.
Yep. For those that need a refresher.
The bottom line is, the data in my contacts in mine. The data on my Facebook site is mine.
shattered illusions in 3...2...
like watching retarded monkeys fling feces at each other, but miss (because they're retarded) so nothing actually interesting ever happens.
Nothing interesting? People would line up around the block to see a show like that!
While you may not get to sit out the result, you do get to claim that they do not represent you.
You can claim whatever you want, but you don't get a personal representative. Whoever gets elected is your representative, no matter how hard you pout. If your representative was elected by a landslide majority they may claim to have a "mandate", and act accordingly.
No matter what party wins, by the act of voting itself you agree that you accept that System as a whole.
The system is like tooth decay. It doesn't care if you accept it. You might feel really empowered by not accepting it, and it still doesn't care. You can tell everyone you meet that you don't accept it, and it still doesn't care.
Then your gums bleed and it hurts to eat ice cream.
Cynical statements like that will get you ostracized.
You don't get to sit out the result, so you might as well toss a vote to whoever you find less abhorrent.
You couldn't get white onions...