Even with a confirmation of the data, the kinds of blatant bias exhibited shake confidence in those scientists selection of what data is significant and for any conclusions the scientists involved may reach.
"...simple matter for an attacker to decrypt the traffic passing through the device" Wrong. This will only give the attacker the ability to decrypt encrypted sessions to/with the device. Encrypted traffic going through the device to another nonidentical host will use a different private key.
That's your opinion, but it's someone else's rights you are talking about..
Excuse me, but where in the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" or the U.S. Bill of Rights is this mentioned? The concept of intellectual property is a definite late comer to the party. Copyright law was passed, not to extend rights, but simply to encourage creative contribution to the common intellectual heritage of Western culture. To address it as some sort of basic right is a misnomer.
Special interest groups have had their way in the expansion of the copyright laws over the past half century and more. It is about time writers, other artists and their heirs realized that they create only because they stand on the shoulders of all those before them who built the culture, language and experience that they draw from to exercise their craft.
I am overly fussy about writers who use uncommon abbreviations without noting what they abbreviate. G.M is Genetically Modified. DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. How lazy must one be to skip this step?
This sounds very much like the argument used to bypass building a space station before going to the Moon in the 1960's. We got to the moon in a decade, but we did this by over-reaching ourselves -- all the infrastructure was stuck on Earth. We have spend much of the succeeding decades back-filling what we should have built as a part of going to the Moon.
Going to Mars without first establishing a permanent presence on the Moon means that all the resources for the spacecraft to send a manned expedition to Mars will come from Earth and have to be pushed up a daunting gravitational well. This is like spitting into a desert sand storm to fill a cup.
What we need is a considered bootstrapping effort -- something we have never done when it comes to space exploration. As part of this effort, we should establish a Lunar presence, develop an industrial base of mining and manufacturing. There is nearly a planet full resources already in Earth orbit.
Besides providing, at least partially, for the construction of interplanetary spacecraft, a Lunar industrial base will give us resources for things like solar power satellites, a geosych anchoring mass for a space elevator et al.
What asteroids, or rather cometary objects could give us that the Moon may have difficulty providing is volatiles. And I am all for this. But as long as one has to pay the price to get everything needed from Earth to orbit first, space exploration is a game overly restricted by those costs.
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Or Adam Selene.
Now that robots have beat us in "Jeopardy," how soon will it be before they win the Indianapolis 500 or a NASCAR event?
Even with a confirmation of the data, the kinds of blatant bias exhibited shake confidence in those scientists selection of what data is significant and for any conclusions the scientists involved may reach.
And North Korea is the most green country in the world today.
Charging copyright fees for teaching children to sing is the epitome of greed.
"...simple matter for an attacker to decrypt the traffic passing through the device" Wrong. This will only give the attacker the ability to decrypt encrypted sessions to/with the device. Encrypted traffic going through the device to another nonidentical host will use a different private key.
That's your opinion, but it's someone else's rights you are talking about. .
Excuse me, but where in the "Declaration of the Rights of Man" or the U.S. Bill of Rights is this mentioned? The concept of intellectual property is a definite late comer to the party. Copyright law was passed, not to extend rights, but simply to encourage creative contribution to the common intellectual heritage of Western culture. To address it as some sort of basic right is a misnomer.
Special interest groups have had their way in the expansion of the copyright laws over the past half century and more. It is about time writers, other artists and their heirs realized that they create only because they stand on the shoulders of all those before them who built the culture, language and experience that they draw from to exercise their craft.
I am overly fussy about writers who use uncommon abbreviations without noting what they abbreviate. G.M is Genetically Modified. DSM is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. How lazy must one be to skip this step?
This sounds very much like the argument used to bypass building a space station before going to the Moon in the 1960's. We got to the moon in a decade, but we did this by over-reaching ourselves -- all the infrastructure was stuck on Earth. We have spend much of the succeeding decades back-filling what we should have built as a part of going to the Moon. Going to Mars without first establishing a permanent presence on the Moon means that all the resources for the spacecraft to send a manned expedition to Mars will come from Earth and have to be pushed up a daunting gravitational well. This is like spitting into a desert sand storm to fill a cup. What we need is a considered bootstrapping effort -- something we have never done when it comes to space exploration. As part of this effort, we should establish a Lunar presence, develop an industrial base of mining and manufacturing. There is nearly a planet full resources already in Earth orbit. Besides providing, at least partially, for the construction of interplanetary spacecraft, a Lunar industrial base will give us resources for things like solar power satellites, a geosych anchoring mass for a space elevator et al. What asteroids, or rather cometary objects could give us that the Moon may have difficulty providing is volatiles. And I am all for this. But as long as one has to pay the price to get everything needed from Earth to orbit first, space exploration is a game overly restricted by those costs.