Just like fish in the ocean, space junk is not evenly distributed.
Funny, I seem to remember something about over-fishing is causing species numbers to dwindle and overall reduction http://goo.gl/Nu9kT in fish populations... yeah, big nets could NEVER work to clean up non-evenly distributed anything.
My band 1) enjoys creating consistent new music 2) Isn't cutesy teenage girls (or looks like girls, Bieber, coff) 3) Not fabricated puppets pandering to the lowest common denominator.
To: Band
And you expect to sell music? Mwahahaa... never! sincerely, RIAA
"An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. The survey was conducted using a breakthrough technique that detects "shadows" of galaxy clusters on the cosmic microwave background radiation, a relic of the "big bang" that gave birth to the universe."
"Theorists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich predicted the shadow phenomenon 40 years ago, now known as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, or S-Z effect. Shortly thereafter astronomers verified it by observing shadows cast by previously known galaxy clusters. The higher sensitivity and resolution of ACT now makes it practical for astronomers to essentially reverse the procedure – to search the cosmic background radiation for shadows that indicate the presence of unseen clusters.
"The 'shadows' that ACT revealed are not shadows in the traditional sense, as they are not caused by the galaxy clusters blocking light from another source," said Jack Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers. "Rather, the hot gases within the galaxy clusters cause a tiny fraction of the cosmic background radiation to shift to higher energies, which then makes them appear as shadows in one of ACT's observing bands."
Phasing out coal over the next 40-50yrs would cut those emissions in half. However, just replacing the existing capacity of coal plants would require building two large nuclear reators (or 1000 windmills) per day. Such a massive undertaking may seem impossible until you condsider that we have accomplished the same feat with coal plants in less than my lifetime.
Coal? Dig in the ground with really big shovels dump the coal in really big trucks, bring it to the power plant by train, burn it, make electricity.
There are a FEW more steps in getting the nuclear fuel material from the ground to power plants.
Just a few...
So, we might be able to bring together infrastructure on an accelerated pace but we won't have the fuel.
Yeah really - and next some paranoid crackpot will be saying that Google is *scanning the air* recording electromagnetic signals from inside of people's houses. We need to get this population on better meds.
Lol... whoosh?
He means, that the people in charge of refining results probably use searches with the boolean (-) to figure out why people are trending to (-) a site.
You do know that Google studies the searches made on their site right? I worked on this one project for Google 9 years ago. I was given a CRAPLOAD of data that I had to manually mine for correlations. Cool thing is, I see the results of that project everyday when I do a search.
Dude... if I had (more) pix that my dad took, I would look thru them. Or pix that my mom took during the war, or after the war... or during the occupation, so yeah... just because you can't conceive of yourself wanting to look at images someone else took, does not preclude others of the desire.
AND, right as I was about to hit send... this thought popped in my head as a footnote; Technology is SOOO rapid right now, what you may consider to be a kludge at "interest" in time and money spent might be a trivial issue, of a holographic cube, that costs $50 in a decade and has a write speed in the Gbps.
Cause a decade ago, that 1TB raid server I have, cost over $20,000 and was SLOW! But this only cost me $200 and is capable of streaming 1080p to my media PC while having data written to it.
In fact, after buying another 1TB the other day for $50, I realized that I wasn't going to bother with "trashing old/large files" as a task anymore... it's not worth my time. Spring cleaning because the drive is full? "Cleaning" hard drives manually?
Why? Of course I'll run some scripts every now and then to clean temp files, cache files, etc but if the drive gets full, that time spent is more than halfway to a whole 'nother drive in cost/value.
I also considered that with my current setup, I may break the mirror every... 3 months? 4? 6? And save that drive as a very convenient backup of my current OS's states, data and programs that are installed. Freezing in time a drive that I can just pop back in the box and boot back in time. Wayback machine meet the home PC =) Much easier than a backup and more convenient when you need it.
Um, just in case there isn't a patent on that concept, here is my public statement of IP.
$100 a year for a website, when you can buy a 1TB drive for $50? http://goo.gl/9jQJm and make two distinct archives each year, every year.
Or get a Dlink DNS-321 and RAID them.
For that money, you could shrink wrap one and bury it in the yard so you have a copy after 12/12/2012 =)
-AI
fwiw, I would never, EVER put the bulk of my photos online for hackers to plunder at the next onset of vulnerabilities that just happen to plague whatever site is hosting your website.
From D-Link, http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=666: The availability of four different hard drive modes (Standard, JBOD, RAID 0, and RAID 1) allows you to choose the configuration best suited for your needs. Standard mode creates two separately accessible hard drives. JBOD combines both hard drives into one for maximum space efficiency. RAID 0 combines all drives in a ‘striped’ configuration, splitting data evenly across the hard disk drives to provide the highest performance, while RAID 1 causes the drives to mirror each other, providing maximum protection. If one drive fails while configured as RAID 1, the unaffected drive will continue to function as a single drive until the failed drive is replaced.
I have a few of these in my AV setup. One is Raid 1, for stuff that I can't replace, pictures, home movies, important docs, etc. The others are JBOD.
Last I checked (a year ago) it would accept up to 2x 1.5TB drives. And I started with two spare 250's, when I got my first one, and JBOD'd them into a half TB. Which was really nice.
[ If anyone else is considering it... if you have spare SATA's laying around, this thing is GREAT! ]
Once the image is on your screen, it's decrypted... it's yours, it's in the cache, it's on your harddrive. Not only that, if your cache is persistent, and you have a super long expiration on it, it'll be on your drive for X months which may end up being Their Date+X = new expiration. Oh, that person just got elected? Hmm, I looked at their profile 4 months ago, let me rummage in my cache.
Does the wayback hold facebook info?
Can't someone just write some script to copy all available images off of Facebook while they are still up and just put them on a drive somewhere? I know pron-heads have been doing that for a while, lol.
X-pire's website is broken, if you look at the link that is supposed to explain it, when you scroll the text, you can't read it, lol. Lemme check another browser... nope just broken in IE8, Chrome works fine. Hmmm, almost forgot why I quit using IE, haha.
So, I looked at their site... 1) price has already gone up. 2) only works (viewing) on Firefox cause of the extension 3) only works on jpg 4) specifically states it doesn't prevent copying before expiration 5) W00t! you can add a captcha for "added protection", shame captcha's been broken.
from website: If the images are viewed using a browser in which X-pire! is not installed or using another software for viewing images, only a black and white image is shown with a text indicating where X-pire! can be downloaded (free of charge for solely viewing these images). The image remains protected.
Protected? Is the text everywhere? Humans can't see in black and white? If it's past expiration is the image still visible in black and white with text on it? Or does it show expired?
I'm sure Facebook will be happy with all of these images showing expired. Isn't that 'one' of the things that made MySpace so ugly, all those 'hosted' images suddenly expiring or going over their quota then you have some horribly offensive (white) box in place of the image.
Only real huge benefit I see, I read on their site that you can hit a panic button and exire ALL of your images at the same time, instantly. That, I kinda like.
Can't wait to see it implemented! (So I can take bets how long before it's fully defeated and useless)
You wouldn't believe the number of college grads I've encountered with advanced degrees who turn out to be absolutely useless when taken out of the walled garden of academia and need to be carried by the old curmudgeons until the probationary reviews come around.
I decided to read some posts to see if anyone touched on what I was thinking when I RTFA. And here it is.
Any "old fogies" will be babysitting this kid, getting them up to speed in the new environment... which will be taking away from his ability to do work. It will look like his own productivity is moving down and the new shiny toy will look stupendous for their productivity (because they only have ONE thing they need to concentrate on).
In fact, I just got fired a week ago cause I was absolutely sick and tired of carrying someone that had been with us for FIVE months. No dichotomy of knowledge, our knowledge was SUPPOSED to be equal. But this guy just would not absorb the stuff he had to. I was constantly going behind him, fixing his fuckups, I was doing what he was supposed to know to do autonomously. And during that time, my productivity slipped. I noticed tho and moved more of my staff to overlap his shortcomings.
So, instead of having added +1 employee to help with work, I have now, 6x 90% employees, and a dud... -1. Puts me behind 160%.
I talked with regional management. I talked with HR. No one wanted to move him or fire him. He was my problem alone.
Maybe foolishly I said to myself on Dec 31st... no more. A rather random New Year's Res. Jan 1st happened, that same guy ticked me off at the end of the night... and I couldn't hold my tongue anymore. He got both barrels and I got walking papers. (He did too... finally, much too late for me tho).
Ahh, unemployment... now I can study up and coming technology (that should only be viable for a year or so) and hop into another establishment making 30% more than everyone else on the team and have the old fogeys there carry me, lol =)
Their interest in astrology (however skeptical or believing) no doubt led to or amplified their interest in astronomy, which has pretty much disproved everything any religion or superstition has ever said about what is in the skies or what they do or mean.
If that's not "scientific merit," I don't know what is.
While I always do appreciate having someone meet 'citation please' with a citation, it does leave the door open to confuse others when they are presented with historical fallacies. Namely, Newton.
I won't begrudge your listing of Newton with the others though because it has been regarded as a quibble point among scholars as to one reference in which he is engaging Halley and states that he (Newton) has studied 'the matter' and Halley hadn't.
To further the point, it could be interpreted as Newton was defending Astronomy in his attack against Halley or it could just be an egotistical jab that was directed at Halley since this period of history was a great formative time where we discovered many new things of the heavens and so arguments were abound.
Additionally, at the beginning of the 17th century astrology was popular among the well known names of the time, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, et al. but it moved into disfavor and non-inclusion as the century wore on to the point that in scientific works it was no longer mentioned. So while at first these astro-titans held some belief in astrology, the community as a whole dismissed it eventually. For they, and all of their contemporaries it was astrology that made those people interested in Astronomy.
Thus, during the time it was a believable tenet of the study of the heavens it was included and drove some of the curiosity... for what learned man wouldn't want to become rich by parlaying his occupation of staring into the heavens to the favor of his monarch?
So, I know it's pedantic... but answering "Astrology makes people interested in astronomy" with a list of people that did not exist after 1727, ie, before the age of enlightenment is almost straw man in nature.
Say al-Qaeda brought down Bank of America's online systems for a few days. Economically it would not have much of an impact overall.
It would not have much of an impact overall??? I guess that means you bank with Well's Fargo or some other bank?
Cause, if B of A was down for a few days, I would be so fucked it would be stupid.
I'm one of these that bought into the, don't carry cash anymore.
So, yeah, I don't. And if BofA went offline let's say yesterday morning cause I did my shopping, got gas, etc in the evening... I would be so completely fucked. I wouldn't have money in my pockets, I wouldn't have food for me to eat or for my poor dog
If BofA went offline for a few days, that means no gas for me to go to work, no food for me or my dog. Couldn't necessarily bum some money from someone else for the same reasons... they're not carrying any, or they're banking with BofA, etc. And I live way out in BFE, no carpooling.
So, maybe you're leading a life more off-grid than I, but I do enjoy 'electronic conveniences' and would see a CyberWarfare Attack on our banking infrastructure as a break-out-the-stealth- fighters-and-bombers-and-pound-them actionable offense.
I guess the fallacy there would be 'to whom do we do the pounding' without a propensity of evidence pointing to them as culprits.
Wait a minute, I live in the US... we don't need evidence!
I'm left thinking that not only do many Slashdotters buy into this 'no cyberwar threat' campaign, but that our leaders may
Really? Last place in the world I would expect people to "not get it" would be here. Maybe I see my fellow/.'rs as a different animal, but I'd expect a full 90% here to be the rallying cry for "watch out".
And I'm just allowing 10% for the typical populous of naysayers.
"A pair of British researchers have said states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them"
That is a ridiculously stupid assertion.
IANAG, and...
I haven't studied every war in history but I'm pretty sure they all started when "another state" instigated military action. Now the journalistic view of a war starting is a jet taking off or a tank rolling into town. But it can just as easily be started by someone hitting the ENTER key.
Best thing you could do for your war is to do some meat tenderizing on every computer system you can gain access to, immediately preceding a military movement into another territory. Keep them imbalanced and busy. Potentially blind. If you knock their internet off, no tweeting/email/FB about the insurgency, etc. Keep the civis in the dark.
I have no reason to believe that "CyberWarfare" won't be just as an effective tool in the WarToolChest as any other society disrupting attacks.
Slashdot Mirror
Just like fish in the ocean, space junk is not evenly distributed.
Funny, I seem to remember something about over-fishing
is causing species numbers to dwindle and overall reduction
http://goo.gl/Nu9kT
in fish populations... yeah, big nets could NEVER work to
clean up non-evenly distributed anything.
-AI
Jim Carey and that other bitch both need to be hurt with hot pokers.
Pseudo-science will always win because the media outlets can get "passionate" famous people behind the campaigns.
Hey, leave Jim out of this, he was just doing what any guy
that looks like him would do if he was smashin a hot porn
star.
What ever she asks him to.
-AI
You're sending slow-ass plain text from one computer to another and you call this thing ARPANET? Genius idea, guys.
Really no points for him? Mod him insightful ppl, he's right.
It's usually a hater that starts bagging on proof of concept limitations in their specs.
3 fps, 80 scanlines, in the wrong color, against a black background. Genius recreation guys.
The air is fresher outside of the basement.
-AI
Moon based laser.
Sure there's a lil downtime every month, but when it's up...
watch out!
-AI
To: RIAA
My band
1) enjoys creating consistent new music
2) Isn't cutesy teenage girls (or looks like girls, Bieber, coff)
3) Not fabricated puppets pandering to the lowest common denominator.
To: Band
And you expect to sell music? Mwahahaa... never!
sincerely,
RIAA
I tried running Linux on a 386SX back in 99 and it was beyond painful.
"kids"...
A 386 running BSD was our mail box and dial up box. c.1998
Still have it, still runs. Anyone need 32x 56k modems? lol
-AI
"Guns are for self defence" is pure myth. Actually it's worse than that, it's idiocy.
Says the idiot?
Many, many examples of citizens carrying guns as being a plus
to the overburdened police department.
[ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/nyregion/09wheelchair.html?_r=1 ]
[ http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25792735-41/combs-barista-braziel-affidavit-dutch.csp ]
[ http://www.8newsnow.com/story/13865042/man-thwarts-robbery-by-shooting-at-suspect ]
[ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/anne-arundel/would-be-dunkin-donuts-robber.html ]
Just do your own googling and draw your own conclusions;
citizen gun shot perpetrator OR robber OR thief [ http://news.google.com/news/search?&q=citizen+gun+shot+perpetrator+OR+robber+OR+thief ]
^ fails hard in bing, no boolean? [ http://www.bing.com/search?q=citizen+gun+shot+perpetrator+OR+robber+OR+thief ]
-AI
There actually are, they are using them to
discover galaxy clusters....
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1942032/new_galaxy_clusters_revealed_by_cosmic_shadows/
"An international team of scientists led by Rutgers University astrophysicists have discovered 10 new massive galaxy clusters from a large, uniform survey of the southern sky. The survey was conducted using a breakthrough technique that detects "shadows" of galaxy clusters on the cosmic microwave background radiation, a relic of the "big bang" that gave birth to the universe."
"Theorists Rashid Sunyaev and Yakov Zel'dovich predicted the shadow phenomenon 40 years ago, now known as the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, or S-Z effect. Shortly thereafter astronomers verified it by observing shadows cast by previously known galaxy clusters. The higher sensitivity and resolution of ACT now makes it practical for astronomers to essentially reverse the procedure – to search the cosmic background radiation for shadows that indicate the presence of unseen clusters.
"The 'shadows' that ACT revealed are not shadows in the traditional sense, as they are not caused by the galaxy clusters blocking light from another source," said Jack Hughes, professor of physics and astronomy at Rutgers. "Rather, the hot gases within the galaxy clusters cause a tiny fraction of the cosmic background radiation to shift to higher energies, which then makes them appear as shadows in one of ACT's observing bands."
Since many won't rtfa.
-AI
Some parts of the world will benefit from the change. Some parts have already benefited.
Exactly! I would definitely benefit from more surf days without that
pesky California in the way.
-AI
Phasing out coal over the next 40-50yrs would cut those emissions in half. However, just replacing the existing capacity of coal plants would require building two large nuclear reators (or 1000 windmills) per day. Such a massive undertaking may seem impossible until you condsider that we have accomplished the same feat with coal plants in less than my lifetime.
Coal? Dig in the ground with really big shovels
dump the coal in really big trucks, bring it to the
power plant by train, burn it, make electricity.
There are a FEW more steps in getting the
nuclear fuel material from the ground to power
plants.
Just a few...
So, we might be able to bring together infrastructure
on an accelerated pace but we won't have the fuel.
-AI
Yeah really - and next some paranoid crackpot will be saying that Google is *scanning the air* recording electromagnetic signals from inside of people's houses. We need to get this population on better meds.
Lol... whoosh?
He means, that the people in charge of refining results
probably use searches with the boolean (-) to figure out
why people are trending to (-) a site.
You do know that Google studies the searches made
on their site right? I worked on this one project for Google
9 years ago. I was given a CRAPLOAD of data that I
had to manually mine for correlations. Cool thing is,
I see the results of that project everyday when I do a
search.
-AI
It says so, right here:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229000789
-AI
Drink a lot of coke and your sweat will turn white clohtes yellow when you sweat.
Aside from your mum and your observations of yellow pits
do you have a valid citation?
I'm sure current belief is proteins in the sweat cause the
stains... which is vetted by enzymatic detergents.
Unless the effect is that the pH of the soda enhances
the protein effect and it's not JUST coke as you state.
-AI
I had to
Wind power doesn't require any semiconductors.
Really?
Citation please.
-AI
I would NOT want to be in charge of dusting those...
-AI
Dude... if I had (more) pix that my dad took, I would
look thru them. Or pix that my mom took during the
war, or after the war... or during the occupation, so
yeah... just because you can't conceive of yourself
wanting to look at images someone else took, does
not preclude others of the desire.
AND, right as I was about to hit send... this thought
popped in my head as a footnote; Technology is
SOOO rapid right now, what you may consider to
be a kludge at "interest" in time and money spent
might be a trivial issue, of a holographic cube, that
costs $50 in a decade and has a write speed in the
Gbps.
Cause a decade ago, that 1TB raid server I have,
cost over $20,000 and was SLOW! But this only cost
me $200 and is capable of streaming 1080p to my
media PC while having data written to it.
In fact, after buying another 1TB the other day for
$50, I realized that I wasn't going to bother with
"trashing old/large files" as a task anymore... it's
not worth my time. Spring cleaning because the
drive is full? "Cleaning" hard drives manually?
Why? Of course I'll run some scripts every now
and then to clean temp files, cache files, etc but
if the drive gets full, that time spent is more than
halfway to a whole 'nother drive in cost/value.
I also considered that with my current setup, I
may break the mirror every...
3 months? 4? 6? And save that drive as a very
convenient backup of my current OS's states,
data and programs that are installed. Freezing in
time a drive that I can just pop back in the box
and boot back in time. Wayback machine meet
the home PC =) Much easier than a backup
and more convenient when you need it.
Um, just in case there isn't a patent on that
concept, here is my public statement of IP.
5) profit!!
-AI
$100 a year for a website, when you can buy
a 1TB drive for $50? http://goo.gl/9jQJm
and make two distinct archives each year,
every year.
Or get a Dlink DNS-321 and RAID them.
For that money, you could shrink wrap one
and bury it in the yard so you have a copy after
12/12/2012 =)
-AI
fwiw, I would never, EVER put the bulk of
my photos online for hackers to plunder at
the next onset of vulnerabilities that just
happen to plague whatever site is hosting
your website.
From D-Link, http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=666:
The availability of four different hard drive modes (Standard, JBOD, RAID 0, and RAID 1) allows you to choose the configuration best suited for your needs. Standard mode creates two separately accessible hard drives. JBOD combines both hard drives into one for maximum space efficiency. RAID 0 combines all drives in a ‘striped’ configuration, splitting data evenly across the hard disk drives to provide the highest performance, while RAID 1 causes the drives to mirror each other, providing maximum protection. If one drive fails while configured as RAID 1, the unaffected drive will continue to function as a single drive until the failed drive is replaced.
I have a few of these in my AV setup. One is Raid 1, for stuff that I can't
replace, pictures, home movies, important docs, etc. The others are JBOD.
Accessible via UPnP for your AV setup
Not expensive for what it does...
Google Products listing: http://goo.gl/4KT6c
Last I checked (a year ago) it would accept up to
2x 1.5TB drives. And I started with two spare 250's,
when I got my first one, and JBOD'd them into a
half TB. Which was really nice.
[ If anyone else is considering it... if you have
spare SATA's laying around, this thing is GREAT! ]
Oh yeah, fast too on the ethernet, giga ethernet.
-AI
Why is everyone saying screenshot?
Once the image is on your screen, it's decrypted... it's yours,
it's in the cache, it's on your harddrive. Not only that, if your
cache is persistent, and you have a super long expiration
on it, it'll be on your drive for X months which may end up
being Their Date+X = new expiration. Oh, that person just
got elected? Hmm, I looked at their profile 4 months ago,
let me rummage in my cache.
Does the wayback hold facebook info?
Can't someone just write some script to copy all available
images off of Facebook while they are still up and just put
them on a drive somewhere? I know pron-heads have been
doing that for a while, lol.
X-pire's website is broken, if you look at the link that is
supposed to explain it, when you scroll the text, you can't
read it, lol. Lemme check another browser... nope just broken
in IE8, Chrome works fine. Hmmm, almost forgot why I quit
using IE, haha.
So, I looked at their site...
1) price has already gone up.
2) only works (viewing) on Firefox cause of the extension
3) only works on jpg
4) specifically states it doesn't prevent copying before expiration
5) W00t! you can add a captcha for "added protection", shame
captcha's been broken.
from website:
If the images are viewed using a browser in which X-pire! is not installed or using another software for viewing images, only a black and white image is shown with a text indicating where X-pire! can be downloaded (free of charge for solely viewing these images). The image remains protected.
Protected? Is the text everywhere? Humans can't see in
black and white? If it's past expiration is the image still
visible in black and white with text on it? Or does it show
expired?
I'm sure Facebook will be happy with all of these images
showing expired. Isn't that 'one' of the things that made
MySpace so ugly, all those 'hosted' images suddenly
expiring or going over their quota then you have some
horribly offensive (white) box in place of the image.
Only real huge benefit I see, I read on their site that you
can hit a panic button and exire ALL of your images at
the same time, instantly. That, I kinda like.
Can't wait to see it implemented! (So I can take bets how
long before it's fully defeated and useless)
-AI
You wouldn't believe the number of college grads I've encountered with advanced degrees who turn out to be absolutely useless when taken out of the walled garden of academia and need to be carried by the old curmudgeons until the probationary reviews come around.
I decided to read some posts to see if anyone touched on
what I was thinking when I RTFA. And here it is.
Any "old fogies" will be babysitting this kid, getting them
up to speed in the new environment... which will be taking
away from his ability to do work. It will look like his own
productivity is moving down and the new shiny toy will
look stupendous for their productivity (because they only
have ONE thing they need to concentrate on).
In fact, I just got fired a week ago cause I was absolutely
sick and tired of carrying someone that had been with
us for FIVE months. No dichotomy of knowledge, our
knowledge was SUPPOSED to be equal. But this guy
just would not absorb the stuff he had to. I was constantly
going behind him, fixing his fuckups, I was doing what
he was supposed to know to do autonomously. And
during that time, my productivity slipped. I noticed tho
and moved more of my staff to overlap his shortcomings.
So, instead of having added +1 employee to help with
work, I have now, 6x 90% employees, and a dud... -1.
Puts me behind 160%.
I talked with regional management. I talked with HR.
No one wanted to move him or fire him. He was my
problem alone.
Maybe foolishly I said to myself on Dec 31st... no more.
A rather random New Year's Res. Jan 1st happened, that
same guy ticked me off at the end of the night... and I
couldn't hold my tongue anymore. He got both barrels
and I got walking papers. (He did too... finally, much too
late for me tho).
Ahh, unemployment... now I can study up and coming
technology (that should only be viable for a year or so)
and hop into another establishment making 30% more
than everyone else on the team and have the old fogeys
there carry me, lol =)
-AI
uh, yeah... I got too much pride to be carried.
Citation?
Callippus
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Their interest in astrology (however skeptical or believing) no doubt led to or amplified their interest in astronomy, which has pretty much disproved everything any religion or superstition has ever said about what is in the skies or what they do or mean.
If that's not "scientific merit," I don't know what is.
While I always do appreciate having someone meet
'citation please' with a citation, it does leave
the door open to confuse others when they are
presented with historical fallacies. Namely, Newton.
I won't begrudge your listing of Newton with the
others though because it has been regarded as a
quibble point among scholars as to one reference
in which he is engaging Halley and states that he
(Newton) has studied 'the matter' and Halley hadn't.
To further the point, it could be interpreted as
Newton was defending Astronomy in his attack against
Halley or it could just be an egotistical jab that
was directed at Halley since this period of history
was a great formative time where we discovered many
new things of the heavens and so arguments were abound.
Additionally, at the beginning of the 17th century
astrology was popular among the well known names of
the time, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo, et al. but it moved
into disfavor and non-inclusion as the century wore on
to the point that in scientific works it was no longer
mentioned. So while at first these astro-titans held
some belief in astrology, the community as a whole
dismissed it eventually. For they, and all of their
contemporaries it was astrology that made those people
interested in Astronomy.
Thus, during the time it was a believable tenet of the
study of the heavens it was included and drove some of
the curiosity... for what learned man wouldn't want to
become rich by parlaying his occupation of staring
into the heavens to the favor of his monarch?
So, I know it's pedantic... but answering "Astrology
makes people interested in astronomy" with a list of
people that did not exist after 1727, ie, before the
age of enlightenment is almost straw man in nature.
-AI
Say al-Qaeda brought down Bank of America's online systems for a few days. Economically it would not have much of an impact overall.
It would not have much of an impact overall??? I guess that
means you bank with Well's Fargo or some other bank?
Cause, if B of A was down for a few days, I would be so
fucked it would be stupid.
I'm one of these that bought into the, don't carry cash anymore.
So, yeah, I don't. And if BofA went offline let's say yesterday
morning cause I did my shopping, got gas, etc in the evening...
I would be so completely fucked. I wouldn't have money in my
pockets, I wouldn't have food for me to eat or for my poor dog
If BofA went offline for a few days, that means no gas for me to
go to work, no food for me or my dog. Couldn't necessarily bum
some money from someone else for the same reasons... they're
not carrying any, or they're banking with BofA, etc. And I live way
out in BFE, no carpooling.
So, maybe you're leading a life more off-grid than I, but I do
enjoy 'electronic conveniences' and would see a CyberWarfare
Attack on our banking infrastructure as a break-out-the-stealth-
fighters-and-bombers-and-pound-them actionable offense.
I guess the fallacy there would be 'to whom do we do the pounding'
without a propensity of evidence pointing to them as culprits.
Wait a minute, I live in the US... we don't need evidence!
-AI
I'm left thinking that not only do many Slashdotters buy into this 'no cyberwar threat' campaign, but that our leaders may
Really? Last place in the world I would expect people to "not get it" /.'rs as a different animal,
would be here. Maybe I see my fellow
but I'd expect a full 90% here to be the rallying cry for "watch out".
And I'm just allowing 10% for the typical populous of naysayers.
-AI
"A pair of British researchers have said states are only likely to use cyberattacks against other states when already involved in military action against them"
That is a ridiculously stupid assertion.
IANAG, and...
I haven't studied every war in history but I'm pretty sure they all
started when "another state" instigated military action. Now the
journalistic view of a war starting is a jet taking off or a tank rolling
into town. But it can just as easily be started by someone hitting the
ENTER key.
Best thing you could do for your war is to do some meat tenderizing
on every computer system you can gain access to, immediately
preceding a military movement into another territory. Keep them
imbalanced and busy. Potentially blind. If you knock their internet
off, no tweeting/email/FB about the insurgency, etc. Keep the civis
in the dark.
I have no reason to believe that "CyberWarfare" won't be just as
an effective tool in the WarToolChest as any other society disrupting
attacks.
-AI