Europa has liquid water geysers, and fissures that routinely open up and then re-freeze. Think of the top layer of ice as our earths crust and the (possible) liquid ocean beneath like our liquid rock core. The surface ice shifts constantly and allows briney water to escape to the surface before it re-freezes.
Now, what are the chances that a microbe laden rock would land in one of these crevasses? Pretty low, but keep in mind it's frozen, and could remain frozen on the surface for a very long time waiting for a crack to open beneath it. The odds are still pretty low I admit, but then keep in mind that these large collisions, microbe laden asteroids and Europa's ice flows have been going on for billions of years. Even if the odds per event are almost nil, the cumulative effect is staggering.
When I think of space, I find it hard to believe anything is "impossible" given the vastness and near timelessness of it all. Granted there are some universal physical laws (speed of light) that make some things impossible. But anything that is simply "very very unlikely" has probably already happened.
OR... the NSA has their phones tapped (Actually that's a given fact at this point) and has all sorts of dirt on them.
The problem is, this activity is so heinous, so contemptible, it threatens the very foundations that this country was built on. The fact that every branch of government isn't jumping all over this is highly suspicious to me. The NSA could be in the midst of a silent Coup d'état at the moment and none of us would know. That's how much power they wield. They could blackmail every member of government, every military leader, we'd have no idea. We cannot allow this to stand. It must stop immediately. It's sad that the supreme court values procedure over the constitution. It's like their house is on fire and they refuse to use the fire-extinguisher because the proper paperwork hadn't been filed.
Which makes the entire argument even more idiotic. By the time we got into a shooting war with Russia and they were launching conventional weapons inside US territory, do you really think ANY of our GPS satellites, Russian or otherwise, would still be in orbit? To work at all the damned things have to continuously broadcast their position to the world. They're about the easiest thing to shoot down you could conceive of.
Can't we all agree that when certain political figures speak (Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin, Nancy Palosi, Charlie Rangle, Michele Bachmann, etc) that we should just all collectively plug our ears and say "Nanananananana" as the thing they are about to say is likely an appeal to the citizens of our country with IQ's bellow 90, to reduce our freedoms, increase government power and generally bring ruin to the country in the name of some un-realized threat that sounds scary but could never really cause us much harm?
Chuck Schumer is either: a. an idiot and does not realize he can not stop home made weapons, they've existed since the country was founded, there's just a slightly new method. b. fully aware that this legislation is pointless and is just pandering to make headline with whatever made up fear 20/20 came up with for this week.
I've heard up to 15x brighter than the moon. But it's all speculation. They do not know how much, if any of the comet will survive its encounter with the sun. It's possible it could be anywhere from barely visible or extremely spectacular. We're just going to have to wait and see. I really hope it's a dazzler though. My sons 5yrs old and I can't even put into words how fantastic an event that would be for him. It's the kind of thing that would spawn a whole generation of scientists.
But they did more than this. The backdoors are not the worst part. They manipulated the standards bodies into making the security tools hard to use, hard to manipulate and hard to maintain. There-by discouraging the adoption of encryption itself. You don't need a backdoor if the traffic isn't encrypted. They weekended the ENTIRE internet, and likely even private networks by doing this. The entire world is less secure because of their actions. Of all the things they've done, this is probably the most damaging to the modern world.
And again, it's none of your fucking business. I can chose not to use an application written by an entity that have absolutely no trust in. What I have to hide is everything. They have no right to know anything about me that they do not explicitly need to know. By asking me "What are you afraid of?" you're indicating that I couldn't possibly be afraid of this innocuous app and you're asking me to defend my abstinence with an explanation of how the app could be used against me or to incriminate me. The point of fact is, it's none of your business why I chose not to use the app. I do not have to explain myself. My choices and my reasons for them are my own and not subject to peer review. This fact is what needs to change about modern society. You have no right to know why I chose not to trust my government.
She needs to talk to her credit card company. She has all the power here. If VISA finds out about this they'll pull the sites contract in a heartbeat and they'll be out of business in a week.
I think you're just failing to understand the scope of what they've done. The NSA planted people in standards bodies to deliberately weaken those standards. Not only do we have eye whiteness's from those standards committees that have complained about this for years, but we've got leaked documents from the NSA bragging about doing it. One of their primary goals seems to have been to dissuade broadening the use of encryption in general. By making the standards complicated, hard to understand, a lot of people just gave up and didn't implement them. In other cases they tried to block standards from using encryption by default. All of this leads to a less secure network. Without a doubt those actions of made crime and identity theft much easier. Can we find some guy and say that his identity was stolen because of the NSA? No... but what we can say is that without the NSA's interference, there would be more, and better encryption... and more and better encryption would have definitely reduced the numbers of identity thefts in the world.
You're right. The entire problem with the, what I'll call "leftist" approach to the environment, is that it's almost entirely based on people giving a shit. Something they clearly don't. What makes it worse is that the people screaming in their ear about it are opposed to them politically and often morally. They do not trust them. So they want to pass laws that force the issue. Well that's never going to happen, everyone can vote...
The solution is to stop trying to force people to stop using fossil fuels. Instead, give them a better alternative. Either figure out a way to make bio-fuels cheap, or stop with all the nonsensical doomsday crap in regards to nuclear power. The majority of the Safety concerns that revolve around modern reactor design and use are actually CAUSED by the environmental movement. Why can't we upgrade old reactors? Why can't we store the waste properly? Why can't we transport waste easily? Because the environmental movement protest every move you make. Nuclear power is the least environmentally impactfull method of power generation we have. Solar requires vast amounts of silver... silver mining is horrible for the environment. Wind requires rare earth alloys. Geothermal is only viable in certain areas. For the love of god if you want to stop or even reverse Global warming we need to build hundreds of reactors, and we need to do it soon.
Yea, but we aren't even remotely there yet. The fact that we have a lot of computers that can process even more than the human brain can, yet we can't come closer to the consciousness of a cockroach that a very complicated SQL statement should tell us something. There is something fundamental about the mind that we do not grasp yet.
It might be. You can take a look for yourself. You can never be 100% sure. You might miss something but at least you can look. With closed source it's like getting into a car with a random person driving. The windows are blacked out, and the door is locked. Sure, you can get in the car and see that the persons driving you here or there... it apparently works. But who says they're sober? Who says they're not a thief that's going to drive you out in the countryside and rob you? The comparison to open source would be, you can choose the driver. The windows are not blacked out. You can pick a close friend or just use a cab, if you feel cab drivers are relatively safe. You can smell their breath if you feel the need. NONE of that can happen with closed source software. All you have protecting you from your vendors secret motives, lackings, incompetencies and maliciousness is a contract. Even then they can refuse to renew the contract, they can simply stop driving the fucking car and leave you in the desert. It happens all the time. If it's open source YOU can maintain it if you have to.
Are you telling people buy cars as status symbols? I can't believe it! The only thing more shocking about your statement is that you think it's limited to 1 social group and 1 type of music. Next time I drive by a Prius blaring Mumford and Sons I'll tell them to go get a pickup like God intended!
Sears has been dead to me for at least 15 years, and it's not due to their irrelevancy. They have destroyed the public's trust in them with very long series of scams and deceptions. Remember the craftsman lifetime unlimited warranty on tools? Try getting them to fulfill that now... they just tell you they don't make that part anymore and offer you a coupon for a new wrench. Fuck sears, they should have died in the 80s.
I'm tired of this ridiculous argument. It sounds stupid when you say it but you think you're technically correct. Well you're not. They actually have 2 sets of customers. They get something non-monetary from one set, which they trade to the other set for cash. If they lose either customer they are going out of business.
What's really funny is how they completely failed to understand who their customers were. It'd be like Whole Foods spritzing free Pesticides on your produce as you checked out.
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Europa has liquid water geysers, and fissures that routinely open up and then re-freeze. Think of the top layer of ice as our earths crust and the (possible) liquid ocean beneath like our liquid rock core. The surface ice shifts constantly and allows briney water to escape to the surface before it re-freezes.
Now, what are the chances that a microbe laden rock would land in one of these crevasses? Pretty low, but keep in mind it's frozen, and could remain frozen on the surface for a very long time waiting for a crack to open beneath it. The odds are still pretty low I admit, but then keep in mind that these large collisions, microbe laden asteroids and Europa's ice flows have been going on for billions of years. Even if the odds per event are almost nil, the cumulative effect is staggering.
When I think of space, I find it hard to believe anything is "impossible" given the vastness and near timelessness of it all. Granted there are some universal physical laws (speed of light) that make some things impossible. But anything that is simply "very very unlikely" has probably already happened.
OR... the NSA has their phones tapped (Actually that's a given fact at this point) and has all sorts of dirt on them.
The problem is, this activity is so heinous, so contemptible, it threatens the very foundations that this country was built on. The fact that every branch of government isn't jumping all over this is highly suspicious to me. The NSA could be in the midst of a silent Coup d'état at the moment and none of us would know. That's how much power they wield. They could blackmail every member of government, every military leader, we'd have no idea. We cannot allow this to stand. It must stop immediately. It's sad that the supreme court values procedure over the constitution. It's like their house is on fire and they refuse to use the fire-extinguisher because the proper paperwork hadn't been filed.
Exactly... by the time these boats get hit my a modern weapon, it's over. It's kind of like how Cannons made castle walls pointless.
Which makes the entire argument even more idiotic. By the time we got into a shooting war with Russia and they were launching conventional weapons inside US territory, do you really think ANY of our GPS satellites, Russian or otherwise, would still be in orbit? To work at all the damned things have to continuously broadcast their position to the world. They're about the easiest thing to shoot down you could conceive of.
Can't we all agree that when certain political figures speak (Chuck Schumer, Sarah Palin, Nancy Palosi, Charlie Rangle, Michele Bachmann, etc) that we should just all collectively plug our ears and say "Nanananananana" as the thing they are about to say is likely an appeal to the citizens of our country with IQ's bellow 90, to reduce our freedoms, increase government power and generally bring ruin to the country in the name of some un-realized threat that sounds scary but could never really cause us much harm?
Chuck Schumer is either:
a. an idiot and does not realize he can not stop home made weapons, they've existed since the country was founded, there's just a slightly new method.
b. fully aware that this legislation is pointless and is just pandering to make headline with whatever made up fear 20/20 came up with for this week.
If they can do this, why not block anti-American speech while we're at it? I mean, those people are terrorists right?
Maybe they just sent a special agent in?
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I've heard up to 15x brighter than the moon. But it's all speculation. They do not know how much, if any of the comet will survive its encounter with the sun. It's possible it could be anywhere from barely visible or extremely spectacular. We're just going to have to wait and see. I really hope it's a dazzler though. My sons 5yrs old and I can't even put into words how fantastic an event that would be for him. It's the kind of thing that would spawn a whole generation of scientists.
You just don't understand what Anonymous is then.
I'm not sure if you noticed, but at this point I think it's safe to say that we're ALL on the list.
But they did more than this. The backdoors are not the worst part. They manipulated the standards bodies into making the security tools hard to use, hard to manipulate and hard to maintain. There-by discouraging the adoption of encryption itself. You don't need a backdoor if the traffic isn't encrypted. They weekended the ENTIRE internet, and likely even private networks by doing this. The entire world is less secure because of their actions. Of all the things they've done, this is probably the most damaging to the modern world.
So again, what exactly are you afraid of?
And again, it's none of your fucking business. I can chose not to use an application written by an entity that have absolutely no trust in. What I have to hide is everything. They have no right to know anything about me that they do not explicitly need to know. By asking me "What are you afraid of?" you're indicating that I couldn't possibly be afraid of this innocuous app and you're asking me to defend my abstinence with an explanation of how the app could be used against me or to incriminate me. The point of fact is, it's none of your business why I chose not to use the app. I do not have to explain myself. My choices and my reasons for them are my own and not subject to peer review. This fact is what needs to change about modern society. You have no right to know why I chose not to trust my government.
What precisely are you afraid of?
I'm sorry, but that's none of your business.
She needs to talk to her credit card company. She has all the power here. If VISA finds out about this they'll pull the sites contract in a heartbeat and they'll be out of business in a week.
Mean "time served / Offense in the US
12yrs / Murder
6.5yrs / Sexual Assault
3.5yrs / Aggravated assault
1.75yrs / Burglary
So hacking is slightly worse than Rape but not quite murder. I wonder if George Friedman would trade?
SHOW ME THE PROOF
Ok...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130909/11430124454/john-gilmore-how-nsa-sabotaged-key-security-standard.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet-encryption.html?hp&_r=0
I think you're just failing to understand the scope of what they've done. The NSA planted people in standards bodies to deliberately weaken those standards. Not only do we have eye whiteness's from those standards committees that have complained about this for years, but we've got leaked documents from the NSA bragging about doing it. One of their primary goals seems to have been to dissuade broadening the use of encryption in general. By making the standards complicated, hard to understand, a lot of people just gave up and didn't implement them. In other cases they tried to block standards from using encryption by default. All of this leads to a less secure network. Without a doubt those actions of made crime and identity theft much easier. Can we find some guy and say that his identity was stolen because of the NSA? No... but what we can say is that without the NSA's interference, there would be more, and better encryption... and more and better encryption would have definitely reduced the numbers of identity thefts in the world.
That "Trust" should be no-where in your security plan.
You're right. The entire problem with the, what I'll call "leftist" approach to the environment, is that it's almost entirely based on people giving a shit. Something they clearly don't. What makes it worse is that the people screaming in their ear about it are opposed to them politically and often morally. They do not trust them. So they want to pass laws that force the issue. Well that's never going to happen, everyone can vote...
The solution is to stop trying to force people to stop using fossil fuels. Instead, give them a better alternative. Either figure out a way to make bio-fuels cheap, or stop with all the nonsensical doomsday crap in regards to nuclear power. The majority of the Safety concerns that revolve around modern reactor design and use are actually CAUSED by the environmental movement. Why can't we upgrade old reactors? Why can't we store the waste properly? Why can't we transport waste easily? Because the environmental movement protest every move you make. Nuclear power is the least environmentally impactfull method of power generation we have. Solar requires vast amounts of silver... silver mining is horrible for the environment. Wind requires rare earth alloys. Geothermal is only viable in certain areas. For the love of god if you want to stop or even reverse Global warming we need to build hundreds of reactors, and we need to do it soon.
Yea, but we aren't even remotely there yet. The fact that we have a lot of computers that can process even more than the human brain can, yet we can't come closer to the consciousness of a cockroach that a very complicated SQL statement should tell us something. There is something fundamental about the mind that we do not grasp yet.
Is Open Source safe?
It might be. You can take a look for yourself. You can never be 100% sure. You might miss something but at least you can look. With closed source it's like getting into a car with a random person driving. The windows are blacked out, and the door is locked. Sure, you can get in the car and see that the persons driving you here or there... it apparently works. But who says they're sober? Who says they're not a thief that's going to drive you out in the countryside and rob you? The comparison to open source would be, you can choose the driver. The windows are not blacked out. You can pick a close friend or just use a cab, if you feel cab drivers are relatively safe. You can smell their breath if you feel the need. NONE of that can happen with closed source software. All you have protecting you from your vendors secret motives, lackings, incompetencies and maliciousness is a contract. Even then they can refuse to renew the contract, they can simply stop driving the fucking car and leave you in the desert. It happens all the time. If it's open source YOU can maintain it if you have to.
They even figured it out on 9/11. Remember there was a 4th plane.
Are you telling people buy cars as status symbols? I can't believe it! The only thing more shocking about your statement is that you think it's limited to 1 social group and 1 type of music. Next time I drive by a Prius blaring Mumford and Sons I'll tell them to go get a pickup like God intended!
Will these Data-centers defraud their customers like the auto-centers did?
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/23/business/sears-auto-centers-halt-commissions-after-flap.html
Sears has been dead to me for at least 15 years, and it's not due to their irrelevancy. They have destroyed the public's trust in them with very long series of scams and deceptions. Remember the craftsman lifetime unlimited warranty on tools? Try getting them to fulfill that now... they just tell you they don't make that part anymore and offer you a coupon for a new wrench. Fuck sears, they should have died in the 80s.
I'm tired of this ridiculous argument. It sounds stupid when you say it but you think you're technically correct. Well you're not. They actually have 2 sets of customers. They get something non-monetary from one set, which they trade to the other set for cash. If they lose either customer they are going out of business.
What's really funny is how they completely failed to understand who their customers were. It'd be like Whole Foods spritzing free Pesticides on your produce as you checked out.