I believe what you are trying to do is move science into the same uncertainty as faith is, as you can't do it the other way around.
Anyway, sciences work completely differently...
Faith takes an assumption, and even without proof and even under objective contradiction, sticks with the assumption, arguing away contradiction (which doesn't go away by that)
Science takes an assumption and researches whether the assumption is correct. If there are valid contradiction, the assumption is either dropped or corrected, then repeats from the beginning, until proof is found that the assumption is correct. But even then, new findings may raise new contradictions, at which real scientist will not hesitate to start the whole cycle again.
I reckon the latter is a whole lot more sensible...
... for one, the question should also include whether religions are even suited for modern life and scientific advances. Religions mostly still operate on century and millennia old superstition and mysticism, and most (albeit shrinking number of) people will still gladly accept everything thanks to childhood teaching when everything is unquestionably accepted from parents and authority figures.
Anyway, religious leaders (which may or may not "coincide" with political leadership as well) will find a way to lie around contradictions between scientific facts and religious texts. Anything to continue their hold on people's minds, souls and money... even if 100% exact proof against religious beliefs were presented, people will still cling to their faith and will try to argue why the proof is wrong. Look e.g. at evolution of species... e.g. the Bible doesn't say species evolve, still people believe in creation by God. It's a choose and pick situation, where some passages of scriptures will be taken literally, while others are chosen not to be...
Of course, supposedly no hard evidence or witnesses.
The general attorney is part of the ministry of justice... Merkel and other leading politicians have made it clear they do not see any reason to prosecute the U.S. for the privacy invasion the NSA has committed... now, the general attorney decides there's not enough evidence. Go figure.
All lying bastards... too bad the general public does not understand (or care) what most politicians are doing...
Unless some A**hole posts private pictures after a break-up (or even during a relationship - most likely causing a break-up) - how is anybody going to prove somebody still has any pictures, or from the other side, prove that they deleted compromising pictures?
How long will it be until legislators, courts, etc. arrive in the 21st century? Or the late 20th, for that matter... that would already be an improvement...
... if Adobe had started following the suite of App-Developers in the mobile arena... requiring in-app purchases to use features...;)
Ultimately, customers are at fault - they shouldn't have renewed any services with Adobe that require the online connection... but companies will keep on abusing customers as long as they keep buying their products...
After the alteration of the writing rules several years ago (adapting spelling and punctuation rules to the stupidity of the people), I reckon this is just the inevitable next step... going back several centuries to pre-Duden-times, the results should be clear - uncertainty when reading a text as to what the writer actually meant in some cases, and the helpless anger of people that still follow the rules and figuratively hurt when reading wrong spellings (like they're/their/there in English)... Why is it so hard to either teach children correctly, or fail them if they don't learn? Of course, with the trends like "no kid left behind" or contra-productive financing decisions (reducing financing for schools that have too few kid finish successfully) seem to favor this... Of course, kid failing in school have multiple reasons... while sometimes teachers may be at least part of the problem, a most likely larger problem is the home of the kids... parents that don't care about their children, and/or because they themselves are schooled below average.
... look like it's time to put a Prime Directive into effect... only observe them, protected by a cloaking shield... do not make contact until they have developed warp drive...
When providing scientific proof of God, the show should be over quickly... Sure, you can prove that certain events have happened in one way or another (e.g. great flood, Sodom & Gomorrah,...), saying those are acts of God is more to the point of man of the day being unable to distinguish natural phenomena from said acts... just as nowadays' technical advances would be seen by a 19th century person... Also, seeing what havoc religion creates on the grand scale (not talking about the personal level - rather what is caused by the conflicts between people of different faith), earth might be better off without it... As for the personal level - speaking of the relation between the individual and the church and/or state - at least some religions seem to be focused in keeping people at bay... succumbing to authority, letting them do with you more less how they desire, and not doing much about it... plus, states more or less enforces that image... even in countries that say they've separated church and state, the ties are still there... Don't get me wrong - there's a lot of good things being done by religious people. But that's just that: the PEOPLE are the ones doing the good things!
... maybe he should have called his company "Edison"... maybe that way, he'd be facing less problems... (check out the history of Edison and Tesla... Edison was in part responsible for Tesla's failure in the end, even though Tesla had far more impressive inventions... though many falsely aren't attributed to him...)
Some time ago, there were suggestions by German Telekom of building a German infrastructure to ensure mails sent between German users would not be routed via the USA. Apart from ensuring German authorities would have it easier looking into traffic, I will hazard a guess that Telekom is lobbying to push this through, possibly forcing German providers to connect themselves to some newly designed infrastructure, which would most likely benefit German Telekom (either if they were operating those IXes, or by the lines put in to connect the providers). I do not have numbers as to the percentage, but most large to medium (and many smaller) German providers already are interconnected through DECIX, allowing for a short, cost-effective path between them. Oh, most, except for one - German Telekom (actually, they are connected, but do not have an open peering policy). Coincidence?
Why is it that so many governments seem so clueless with technology?
That's why every red-blooded American was granted the right to bear arms by the founding fathers... to shoot those mother-f@cking @ssholes that text during a movie (preview or main doesn't matter).
I wonder how many thousands of deaths it will take before America finally wakes up and reduces that 2nd amendment right to the arms that were current at the time of that amendment...
... wondering, how many of the posters here do not understand that specific MAC addresses are not relevant as far as TCP/IP is concerned? So as long as no duplicate MACs are used in a L2 broadcast domain, it doesn't matter what MAC you use...
Snowden embarrassed too many people to get off the hook that easy...
Of course, if the tables were turned, e.g. somebody had published the same sort of information about any other's country intelligence agencies, the U.S. most likely would be the first to thank them for blowing the whistle on unlawful acts... two standards... 'nough said.
But please, only the ones that were around when the second amendment was written. At a shot rate of maybe 1 per minute, and its accuracy, everybody wins.
Those letters, "Abmahnung", are different as they have been used for many years, especially ever since computers got popular... some of the most famous cases initially came to light when one lawyer from Munich, Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, sent those letters to hundreds or thousands of (mostly) school children for them swapping home computer games... what made it bad was that it turned out to be some sort of entrapment in many cases... i.e., the infamous "Tanja" or other cover identities were used to trick children into sending him pirated software, then used that to threaten the kids with suing, which could be avoided by paying the sums listed in the "Abmahnung". While at that time there were quite a few cases, it was nowhere close to what is going on nowadays... those letters have become an easy income for some German lawyers, with little work and nice 4-digit income per letter... often, they are also less attackable than in this case, where multiple factual and technical mistakes were made..
The interesting part also is that all the requests were sent to the same court, which in turn had multiple internal offices handle the requests... so, as usual, interpreting the law once again differs between the people...
That's another point of criticism - while P2P or download is a deliberate action, leading to local storage of files, streaming videos from a free site that is not by definition a pirate site makes it near impossible for users to know they are breaking copyright laws... Which is why the letters to the court left out the word "streaming" - for streaming, no court order would have been issued (most likely, anyway). Which, in turn, should get the lawyer knowingly misleading the court disbarred or at least fined...
Not only is the NSA breaking the law, they also consist of idiots who ought to know better about social engineering and the likes... Does anybody need more proof that the NSA should be shut down?
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I believe what you are trying to do is move science into the same uncertainty as faith is, as you can't do it the other way around.
Anyway, sciences work completely differently ...
Faith takes an assumption, and even without proof and even under objective contradiction, sticks with the assumption, arguing away contradiction (which doesn't go away by that)
Science takes an assumption and researches whether the assumption is correct. If there are valid contradiction, the assumption is either dropped or corrected, then repeats from the beginning, until proof is found that the assumption is correct. But even then, new findings may raise new contradictions, at which real scientist will not hesitate to start the whole cycle again.
I reckon the latter is a whole lot more sensible ...
... for one, the question should also include whether religions are even suited for modern life and scientific advances. Religions mostly still operate on century and millennia old superstition and mysticism, and most (albeit shrinking number of) people will still gladly accept everything thanks to childhood teaching when everything is unquestionably accepted from parents and authority figures.
Anyway, religious leaders (which may or may not "coincide" with political leadership as well) will find a way to lie around contradictions between scientific facts and religious texts. Anything to continue their hold on people's minds, souls and money ... even if 100% exact proof against religious beliefs were presented, people will still cling to their faith and will try to argue why the proof is wrong. Look e.g. at evolution of species ... e.g. the Bible doesn't say species evolve, still people believe in creation by God. It's a choose and pick situation, where some passages of scriptures will be taken literally, while others are chosen not to be ...
After all, Windows is so old school ...
What, wasn't their faith in god strong enough? It works wonders for children without vaccinations...
In some cases, even religious people will trust science ... (though not enough if other persons are affected)
Of course, supposedly no hard evidence or witnesses.
The general attorney is part of the ministry of justice ... Merkel and other leading politicians have made it clear they do not see any reason to prosecute the U.S. for the privacy invasion the NSA has committed ... now, the general attorney decides there's not enough evidence. Go figure.
All lying bastards ... too bad the general public does not understand (or care) what most politicians are doing ...
Unless some A**hole posts private pictures after a break-up (or even during a relationship - most likely causing a break-up) - how is anybody going to prove somebody still has any pictures, or from the other side, prove that they deleted compromising pictures?
How long will it be until legislators, courts, etc. arrive in the 21st century? Or the late 20th, for that matter ... that would already be an improvement ...
... Put Death Sentence Under New Scrutiny
There, I fixed it.
It is appalling that a supposedly progressive, modern society needs a revenge-based law.
... if Adobe had started following the suite of App-Developers in the mobile arena ... requiring in-app purchases to use features ... ;)
Ultimately, customers are at fault - they shouldn't have renewed any services with Adobe that require the online connection ... but companies will keep on abusing customers as long as they keep buying their products ...
Hm ... I don't think is about handwriting, but SPELLING and punctuation ... which is still needed on the computer, too ...
After the alteration of the writing rules several years ago (adapting spelling and punctuation rules to the stupidity of the people), I reckon this is just the inevitable next step ... going back several centuries to pre-Duden-times, the results should be clear - uncertainty when reading a text as to what the writer actually meant in some cases, and the helpless anger of people that still follow the rules and figuratively hurt when reading wrong spellings (like they're/their/there in English) ... ... ... while sometimes teachers may be at least part of the problem, a most likely larger problem is the home of the kids ... parents that don't care about their children, and/or because they themselves are schooled below average.
Why is it so hard to either teach children correctly, or fail them if they don't learn? Of course, with the trends like "no kid left behind" or contra-productive financing decisions (reducing financing for schools that have too few kid finish successfully) seem to favor this
Of course, kid failing in school have multiple reasons
... look like it's time to put a Prime Directive into effect ... only observe them, protected by a cloaking shield ... do not make contact until they have developed warp drive ...
When providing scientific proof of God, the show should be over quickly ... ...), saying those are acts of God is more to the point of man of the day being unable to distinguish natural phenomena from said acts ... just as nowadays' technical advances would be seen by a 19th century person ... ... ... succumbing to authority, letting them do with you more less how they desire, and not doing much about it ... plus, states more or less enforces that image ... even in countries that say they've separated church and state, the ties are still there ...
Sure, you can prove that certain events have happened in one way or another (e.g. great flood, Sodom & Gomorrah,
Also, seeing what havoc religion creates on the grand scale (not talking about the personal level - rather what is caused by the conflicts between people of different faith), earth might be better off without it
As for the personal level - speaking of the relation between the individual and the church and/or state - at least some religions seem to be focused in keeping people at bay
Don't get me wrong - there's a lot of good things being done by religious people. But that's just that: the PEOPLE are the ones doing the good things!
... maybe he should have called his company "Edison" ... maybe that way, he'd be facing less problems ... ... Edison was in part responsible for Tesla's failure in the end, even though Tesla had far more impressive inventions ... though many falsely aren't attributed to him ...)
(check out the history of Edison and Tesla
Some time ago, there were suggestions by German Telekom of building a German infrastructure to ensure mails sent between German users would not be routed via the USA. Apart from ensuring German authorities would have it easier looking into traffic, I will hazard a guess that Telekom is lobbying to push this through, possibly forcing German providers to connect themselves to some newly designed infrastructure, which would most likely benefit German Telekom (either if they were operating those IXes, or by the lines put in to connect the providers). I do not have numbers as to the percentage, but most large to medium (and many smaller) German providers already are interconnected through DECIX, allowing for a short, cost-effective path between them. Oh, most, except for one - German Telekom (actually, they are connected, but do not have an open peering policy). Coincidence?
Why is it that so many governments seem so clueless with technology?
... and not as the negative it is most often used nowadays ...
That's why every red-blooded American was granted the right to bear arms by the founding fathers ... to shoot those mother-f@cking @ssholes that text during a movie (preview or main doesn't matter).
I wonder how many thousands of deaths it will take before America finally wakes up and reduces that 2nd amendment right to the arms that were current at the time of that amendment ...
Sure, you have to protect big companies from those pesky garage developers threatening their income by developing innovative, affordable new stuff ...
... wondering, how many of the posters here do not understand that specific MAC addresses are not relevant as far as TCP/IP is concerned? So as long as no duplicate MACs are used in a L2 broadcast domain, it doesn't matter what MAC you use ...
Snowden embarrassed too many people to get off the hook that easy ...
Of course, if the tables were turned, e.g. somebody had published the same sort of information about any other's country intelligence agencies, the U.S. most likely would be the first to thank them for blowing the whistle on unlawful acts ... two standards ... 'nough said.
Finally, the curse of Verizon is coming to GSM!
True. Keep your second amendment weapons.
But please, only the ones that were around when the second amendment was written. At a shot rate of maybe 1 per minute, and its accuracy, everybody wins.
Those letters, "Abmahnung", are different as they have been used for many years, especially ever since computers got popular ... some of the most famous cases initially came to light when one lawyer from Munich, Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, sent those letters to hundreds or thousands of (mostly) school children for them swapping home computer games ... what made it bad was that it turned out to be some sort of entrapment in many cases ... i.e., the infamous "Tanja" or other cover identities were used to trick children into sending him pirated software, then used that to threaten the kids with suing, which could be avoided by paying the sums listed in the "Abmahnung". While at that time there were quite a few cases, it was nowhere close to what is going on nowadays ... those letters have become an easy income for some German lawyers, with little work and nice 4-digit income per letter ... often, they are also less attackable than in this case, where multiple factual and technical mistakes were made ..
The interesting part also is that all the requests were sent to the same court, which in turn had multiple internal offices handle the requests ... so, as usual, interpreting the law once again differs between the people ...
That's another point of criticism - while P2P or download is a deliberate action, leading to local storage of files, streaming videos from a free site that is not by definition a pirate site makes it near impossible for users to know they are breaking copyright laws ... ...
Which is why the letters to the court left out the word "streaming" - for streaming, no court order would have been issued (most likely, anyway). Which, in turn, should get the lawyer knowingly misleading the court disbarred or at least fined
Not only is the NSA breaking the law, they also consist of idiots who ought to know better about social engineering and the likes ... Does anybody need more proof that the NSA should be shut down?