We write numbers from the most significant part to the least significant. Following the same reasoning, dates and times should be written year, month, day, hour, minute, second.
Therefore, it's demonstrated that 10/10/10 is the only logical way to write 10/10/10.
Other than a James Bond movie, CSI episode, or Dan Brown novel, I can't think of any circumstance in which your arguments could be called evidence.
Actually, all the bits pointing to Israel should be assumed to be evidence *against* a conspiracy starting in Israel.
Bits in code aren't like pollen or clay that get accidentally stuck to the culprit's clothing and shoes. It's not like software written in Israel would have any tendency to pick obscure references to Jewish culture.
Therefore, if there are some unneeded bits in the code that have references to Israel, the most logical assumption is that they were put there in order to draw the suspicion away from the true authors of the malware.
the lack of tidal pumping means the crust of the planet is locked, which means no plate tectonics, which means no CO2 recycling, which means a Venus-like planet.
Right on. I would even add that perhaps the moon is fundamental to the creation of life.
There was a time when the moon was much closer to the earth, when tides were hundreds of meters high.
There are theories that life might have been created first when some clay crystals with the right shape got stuck with some complex organic molecules.
Maybe if there were no moon, then no complex organic molecules would have reached the right clays.
According to the accepted theories, the moon may have been created in a freak accident, when a Mars-sized planet hit the earth in the early solar system. The combination of a moon-forming impact with being right in the liquid water zone could be an improbable event.
Yes, there is more to learn about physics and perhaps there is a small exception to Relativity that might permit people to travel faster than light besides an "Einstein-Rosen bridge" or some other thing like an Alcubierre drive. Good luck with those.
I'd rather say that relativity has some better explaining to do before thought experiments become absolute truth.
Things like, when I walk down the street, in my my left foot's reference the earth's invasion has started in a distant planet, while in my left foot's reference the invasion hasn't been decided yet and may be canceled. In the next step, both references shift from one foot to the other.
Or what seems like pretty strong evidence that invalidates one of the basic postulates of relativity, the idea that some local change somewhere cannot cause instant changes in some remote place.
Although relativity is quite accurate in its predictions, there are logical and experimental arguments against it, such as those I mentioned above, so it's not quite OK to regard it as absolute truth in *all* its predictions yet.
Except JFK was ending the intervention in Vietnam. The units were coming back when he was killed.
Except that's not true, at least according to Wikipedia and a couple of citations:
'In April 1962, John Kenneth Galbraith warned Kennedy of the "danger we shall replace the French as a colonial force in the area and bleed as the French did."[101] By 1963, there were 16,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam, up from Eisenhower's 900 advisors.[102]'
[101] John Kenneth Galbraith. "Memorandum to President Kennedy from John Kenneth Galbraith on Vietnam, 4 April 1962." The Pentagon Papers. Gravel. ed. Boston, Massachusetts Beacon Press, 1971, vol. 2. pp. 669671.
[102] "Vietnam War". Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
I, like so many others, had the audacity of hope that Obama was a good man and interested in a better America... a second coming of JFK. (Yeah, I know there are people who will say JFK was the anti-christ.)
Politics is like that. The great advantage JFK has over others today is that he was assassinated. Had he not been killed, people would be criticizing him for escalating the US intervention in Vietnam, for starting/bungling the Bay of Pigs incident, for nearly triggering WWIII or for not going far enough in the Cuban missile crisis, and so on.
my understanding is it can lead to psychosis - sure it doesn't do it to everyone but the people it does it to have permanent mental damage. Even 'harmless' marijuana has psychological effects after prolonged use that outweigh the benefits.
If we are going to prohibit certain activities because of the extreme reactions it can cause in some people, we should outlaw religion
FTFA: "Atoms usually move at the speed of sound, making them difficult to manipulate."
It's not quite as simple as that.
Sound moves at the speed of sound, not atoms. Sound is a perturbation in the medium and is not always directly related with the speed of the particles. A simple experiment: bang a railroad rail with a hammer. The sound will travel at 6000 meters per second along the rail. Observe the rail: is it moving at 6000 m/s? I don't think so.
In a gas, the statement about the typical speed of an atom being on the same order of magnitude as the speed of sound is correct, but the statement as written in the article is misleading.
You beat me to it, that's exactly what I was going to write.
Saying something as stupid as this "secure zone" proposal should be enough to get banned from ever working in a high responsibility government job again. "Secure zones" already exist, if they aren't being used correctly by the government is because people like Keith Alexander aren't doing their job.
Anecdotal evidence, but where I work there were some people using pro*fortran to access Oracle databases from Fortran. pro*fortran was dropped between Oracle 8 and 8.1
It took six months of digging for the Oracle support people to finally tell us they had dropped pro*fortran from their product. Everyone kept saying "sure, we support Fortran, but that's not my specialty, let me get an expert for you"
When the technical support people don't know their own product, what worth is it paying for that it?
Ruby is the only solution we can use in the real world. Django is getting close, but it will never be able to catch up with Ruby on Rails because Django doesn't use Ruby.
Python is the only solution we can use in the real world. Ruby on Rails is getting close to Django, but it will never be able to catch up with Django because Ruby on Rails doesn't use Python.
Just because you don't lock the door doesn't mean its not the thief's fault you got robbed.
It's the thief's fault that you got robbed. It's your fault that you didn't lock up your guns properly.
Responsible people always think about the consequences of anything they do, even if those consequences aren't due to their personal fault.
Car analogy: someone runs a stop sign across your path. Do you brake, or do you push the pedal to the metal to crash him? It's not your fault that he didn't stop at the stop sign.
Assange leaked information that caused real-world consequences. Big consequences, like death and torture,
That information was leaked by the US military, not by Assange. He merely published the leaked information. If Assange got that information, it could just as easily have been obtained by the Taliban or any other organization.
When you have information that could cause death and torture, it's your sacred duty to make sure no one will be able to get that information.
Demonizing the guy who got the information you shouldn't have let escape is like killing the messenger.
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Don't worry, your eulogy will be written like this: "People - Billy Gates died last night"
No one will be complaining that People != Billy Gates.
We write numbers from the most significant part to the least significant. Following the same reasoning, dates and times should be written year, month, day, hour, minute, second.
Therefore, it's demonstrated that 10/10/10 is the only logical way to write 10/10/10.
If someone wants to sign their code with a date, the most logical pick would be their birthdate
If you want to make a veiled threat, you wouldn't pick something that gets hundreds of thousands results in Google. You would try to make your threat clear but deniable
Other than a James Bond movie, CSI episode, or Dan Brown novel, I can't think of any circumstance in which your arguments could be called evidence.
Actually, all the bits pointing to Israel should be assumed to be evidence *against* a conspiracy starting in Israel.
Bits in code aren't like pollen or clay that get accidentally stuck to the culprit's clothing and shoes. It's not like software written in Israel would have any tendency to pick obscure references to Jewish culture.
Therefore, if there are some unneeded bits in the code that have references to Israel, the most logical assumption is that they were put there in order to draw the suspicion away from the true authors of the malware.
DO you mean diesels run in the opposite direction south of the equator?
It's the stuff that matters.
This just goes to show you the difference in difficulty between finding a Jupiter-sized planet and an Earth-sized planet.
As an electrical engineer, I feel I have a fairly firm grasp on how people figure out a lot of these seemingly magical things.
A sufficiently advanced technology.
OK, OK, I know...
Right on. I would even add that perhaps the moon is fundamental to the creation of life.
There was a time when the moon was much closer to the earth, when tides were hundreds of meters high.
There are theories that life might have been created first when some clay crystals with the right shape got stuck with some complex organic molecules.
Maybe if there were no moon, then no complex organic molecules would have reached the right clays.
According to the accepted theories, the moon may have been created in a freak accident, when a Mars-sized planet hit the earth in the early solar system. The combination of a moon-forming impact with being right in the liquid water zone could be an improbable event.
*sniff**2 I don't have children, you insensitive clod!
I bet those machines will run Linux. But I won't bet on the control console desktop running Linux.
I don't know what's so bad about it. I pasted the word "fuck" and ten translations later it still came out as "fuck".
It seems that, no matter the language, a fuck is still a fuck.
I'd rather say that relativity has some better explaining to do before thought experiments become absolute truth.
Things like, when I walk down the street, in my my left foot's reference the earth's invasion has started in a distant planet, while in my left foot's reference the invasion hasn't been decided yet and may be canceled. In the next step, both references shift from one foot to the other.
Or what seems like pretty strong evidence that invalidates one of the basic postulates of relativity, the idea that some local change somewhere cannot cause instant changes in some remote place.
Although relativity is quite accurate in its predictions, there are logical and experimental arguments against it, such as those I mentioned above, so it's not quite OK to regard it as absolute truth in *all* its predictions yet.
Except that's not true, at least according to Wikipedia and a couple of citations:
'In April 1962, John Kenneth Galbraith warned Kennedy of the "danger we shall replace the French as a colonial force in the area and bleed as the French did."[101] By 1963, there were 16,000 American military personnel in South Vietnam, up from Eisenhower's 900 advisors.[102]'
[101] John Kenneth Galbraith. "Memorandum to President Kennedy from John Kenneth Galbraith on Vietnam, 4 April 1962." The Pentagon Papers. Gravel. ed. Boston, Massachusetts Beacon Press, 1971, vol. 2. pp. 669671.
[102] "Vietnam War". Swarthmore College Peace Collection.
Politics is like that. The great advantage JFK has over others today is that he was assassinated. Had he not been killed, people would be criticizing him for escalating the US intervention in Vietnam, for starting/bungling the Bay of Pigs incident, for nearly triggering WWIII or for not going far enough in the Cuban missile crisis, and so on.
If we are going to prohibit certain activities because of the extreme reactions it can cause in some people, we should outlaw religion
FTFA: "Atoms usually move at the speed of sound, making them difficult to manipulate."
It's not quite as simple as that.
Sound moves at the speed of sound, not atoms. Sound is a perturbation in the medium and is not always directly related with the speed of the particles. A simple experiment: bang a railroad rail with a hammer. The sound will travel at 6000 meters per second along the rail. Observe the rail: is it moving at 6000 m/s? I don't think so.
In a gas, the statement about the typical speed of an atom being on the same order of magnitude as the speed of sound is correct, but the statement as written in the article is misleading.
You beat me to it, that's exactly what I was going to write.
Saying something as stupid as this "secure zone" proposal should be enough to get banned from ever working in a high responsibility government job again. "Secure zones" already exist, if they aren't being used correctly by the government is because people like Keith Alexander aren't doing their job.
LOL. Good luck with that, even if you "secure" all your networks
Anecdotal evidence, but where I work there were some people using pro*fortran to access Oracle databases from Fortran. pro*fortran was dropped between Oracle 8 and 8.1
It took six months of digging for the Oracle support people to finally tell us they had dropped pro*fortran from their product. Everyone kept saying "sure, we support Fortran, but that's not my specialty, let me get an expert for you"
When the technical support people don't know their own product, what worth is it paying for that it?
Python is the only solution we can use in the real world. Ruby on Rails is getting close to Django, but it will never be able to catch up with Django because Ruby on Rails doesn't use Python.
It's the thief's fault that you got robbed. It's your fault that you didn't lock up your guns properly.
Responsible people always think about the consequences of anything they do, even if those consequences aren't due to their personal fault.
Car analogy: someone runs a stop sign across your path. Do you brake, or do you push the pedal to the metal to crash him? It's not your fault that he didn't stop at the stop sign.
I surely hope the US military would try harder to filter what information goes to a "SPEC4", whatever does that mean.
People with "a history of being not that stable" should have no place in the military.
It's not like the conditions for the car were any easier.
That information was leaked by the US military, not by Assange. He merely published the leaked information. If Assange got that information, it could just as easily have been obtained by the Taliban or any other organization.
When you have information that could cause death and torture, it's your sacred duty to make sure no one will be able to get that information.
Demonizing the guy who got the information you shouldn't have let escape is like killing the messenger.