I believe that science in its strictest sense can be separate from the social context.
But platonic ideals really don't help in the real world. All real world science is influenced by what is happeing in the society producing it.
What science does, when it works, is to allow people in noticably different contexts to cross-check each other. That can happen across the world or across time.
they are calling us idiots for criticizing them for not sticking to science.
If you critisise them for `not sticking to science' then you deserve to be called an idiot, as they rightly say it's impossible to isolate science from the social context in which it happens. Eg. if you don't know what is being funded, you can't know whether it's significant that there are a lot of results in some area recently; if you don't see reports of scientists being pressured by the state top change their results, how will you know what weight to put on those results?
Christopher Eccleston, on the other hand, has no flair and no presence.
I don't think he was too bad, at least not for a first outing. I think the wardrobe needs some work -- I can understand them wanting to distance themselves from the clown costumes they put the recent doctors in, but for Eccleston they went too far the other way and he just looked like a normal man in the street. The doctor should give the feeling of someone who hasn't quite got the hang of earth clothes.
More like the BBC are idiots. Given that he was seemingly keen to play the part, they damn well aught to have got him signed up for at least a couple of series.
Tom Baker's done reasonably well with his writing, and various speaking appearances,
Also on radio. He has a great voice, I particularly remember him as Barley Blair in some BBC radio4 productions of Le Carre novels. He's also the narrator on Little Britain.
why not have Richard E. Grant in for the next series then?
Too well known. They made that mistake with Peter Davidson. I was always expectim him to stick his hand up the monster's arse to diagnose why it wanted to take over the universe. The ideal doctor is an experienced character actor, not a star.
Don Warrington. Great voice, imagine him being sarcastic to a dalek, already done some Who IIRC.
id you as well notice that a hacked computer login is now called "identity theft"
She didn't hack the login, she used ID information to impersonate the professors and get the passwords changed.
Given the level of security, it's perhaps better called ``identity casually picked up off the floor where it was just lying around'', but it's clearly a subclass of identity theft.
Doesn't it say that they're sluts who have no skills in IT
Er, no. Read it again.
It says nothing about women or their behaviour, it is purely an assertion that they have an option open to them.
If I said `if a nerd wants to get a pay rise, all they have to do is hack the company personel files', that does not imply that all nerds are dishonest. It's a statement about a single-point weakness in company organisation.
A smarter hacker would infect the system with a script that would gradually, over time, boost their GPA
Anythig which boosts your score is going to point at you.
What you want to do is plant evidence of the professors having a bias against you. Subtle things. Enough to form the basis of an appeal. Then you drop your grades in your good subjects so a review will see that you are a victim and give you a pass.
While we're on that note, lets fault me for having a wooden door instead of a steel one
It doesn't matter what the door is like if copies of the key are distributed to random people all over the country clearly labeled with your name and address.
There is a difference between having slightly less security than you could have and just being plain stupid and leaving things wide open.
At least the people responsible for the change auditing seem to have been more on the ball than whoever put in that SSN hole.
What with men having the advantage because they give better blowjobs you mean?
"if a woman wants to get ahead, all she has to do is suck some dick."
Strange choice of example. It says that men are easily corrupted by offers of trivial sexual favours. It doesn't say anything negative about women at all.
part of what turns people off about a centralized server, however, is the possibility of snooping by the very people running the server
If the people who would run that server wrote the software which stores the information locally and decides what to send to whom when, then they are owning all your bases anyway.
This is really just M$ saying `we couldn't make Passport reliable, so we are designing a distributed database which will use your computer resources rather than stuff we have to pay for'.
Hell, this new way they can squirrel away data you'd never willingly send to a central server. The local DB will, of course, e propriatory and opaque, so you'll never know what is in there and being sent where.
The fundamental problem is not architecture, but centralised control.
Running a website that is viewed as a "threat" to the government in which the servers reside should have taught the admin (Dave) to know better and not to keep logs of any kind past a short period of time (minutes?) so that a webstats program could be run and the data incorporated and then removed.
Given that it's not a commercial operation, he probably has no use beyond curiosity for stats on where people connect from, so why not just log without IP addresses. Then you don't have to worry, because the information the suits might demand is never on disk.
Who gets to decide when communications are dangerous to the state?
And what if they are? Is the state something whose danger level we should worry about to the extent of compromising basic freedoms. We can always get another state, the damn things spring up like mushrooms.
Generally when political and security types start talking about dangers to the state they usually mean that they want to justify something, but there is no danger to actual people to justify it. Or, sometimes, that there is a claim of `danger' to a jumped up pulic employee who thinks they are an embodyment of the state but the `danger' is such that we'd all laugh at them if they said what it actually was.
Mind you, you have to worry about the brain of someone who sets up an anarchist web server and proceeds to keep detailed records on the users. Quite apart from voluntarilly opening themselves up to this kind of raid, isn't it fundamentally philosophically at odds with the stated aims of the site? It's the equivalent of running an anti-Micorsoft site on IIS under Windows.
Their entire business model is to sell superficially pretty but crap stuff and have no customer support. They are Microsoft with a soldering iron.
They made a big corporate anouncement last week that their new policy was to start to try to make something that someone might want now and again, maybe, starting sometime in the future.
I used to think I had an unusually low opinion of Sony, but clearly their top management agree with me.
I havnt asked any of our Windows-using custumors, but I dont think a Cygwin-solution would fit them well
How could they tell if their apache executable was linked against Windows libraries or cygwin ones? It's rally no differnet from, say, running linux binaries under BSD. I only know the difference when something grubby and low level like getting the java plugin to work in Opera rears it's head.
Now, actually, the only case where we run an interesting web server under Windows, we use the native apachie even though we have cygwin on the server (for easy remote access, and because it lets us use the same software fo the application everywhere without dealing with windows APIs). I didn't install that apache:-).
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But platonic ideals really don't help in the real world. All real world science is influenced by what is happeing in the society producing it.
What science does, when it works, is to allow people in noticably different contexts to cross-check each other. That can happen across the world or across time.
Otherwise it's time to tag all gmail sourced email as spam.
If you critisise them for `not sticking to science' then you deserve to be called an idiot, as they rightly say it's impossible to isolate science from the social context in which it happens. Eg. if you don't know what is being funded, you can't know whether it's significant that there are a lot of results in some area recently; if you don't see reports of scientists being pressured by the state top change their results, how will you know what weight to put on those results?
As they have mapped the kid's genome and so are in a position to supply source code to the buyer.
I don't think he was too bad, at least not for a first outing. I think the wardrobe needs some work -- I can understand them wanting to distance themselves from the clown costumes they put the recent doctors in, but for Eccleston they went too far the other way and he just looked like a normal man in the street. The doctor should give the feeling of someone who hasn't quite got the hang of earth clothes.
I mean, dietary fibre is a good thing, but these health nuts are just going to far when they mess with the noble chip!
More like the BBC are idiots. Given that he was seemingly keen to play the part, they damn well aught to have got him signed up for at least a couple of series.
Also on radio. He has a great voice, I particularly remember him as Barley Blair in some BBC radio4 productions of Le Carre novels. He's also the narrator on Little Britain.
Too well known. They made that mistake with Peter Davidson. I was always expectim him to stick his hand up the monster's arse to diagnose why it wanted to take over the universe. The ideal doctor is an experienced character actor, not a star.
Don Warrington. Great voice, imagine him being sarcastic to a dalek, already done some Who IIRC.
Maybe timelords reincarnate when they run out of regenerations, so Morbeus was doing the equivalent of hypnotic regression to past lives.
I vote the Doctor is a reincarnation of Rassilon.:-)
Very few words in English have gender (pronouns basicly).
From there on you just get more and more confused...
Er, set up a system where you couldn't change someone's password just by knowing their SSN?
Like what?
She didn't hack the login, she used ID information to impersonate the professors and get the passwords changed.
Given the level of security, it's perhaps better called ``identity casually picked up off the floor where it was just lying around'', but it's clearly a subclass of identity theft.
OTOH, what does it say about the IQ of the staff at UCSB?
Maybe the value of a degree should be weighted by the level of complete idiocy shown by the staff.
Those of you with Harvard degrees, recycle them as firelighters now:-).
Er, no. Read it again.
It says nothing about women or their behaviour, it is purely an assertion that they have an option open to them.
If I said `if a nerd wants to get a pay rise, all they have to do is hack the company personel files', that does not imply that all nerds are dishonest. It's a statement about a single-point weakness in company organisation.
Anythig which boosts your score is going to point at you.
What you want to do is plant evidence of the professors having a bias against you. Subtle things. Enough to form the basis of an appeal. Then you drop your grades in your good subjects so a review will see that you are a victim and give you a pass.
It doesn't matter what the door is like if copies of the key are distributed to random people all over the country clearly labeled with your name and address.
There is a difference between having slightly less security than you could have and just being plain stupid and leaving things wide open.
At least the people responsible for the change auditing seem to have been more on the ball than whoever put in that SSN hole.
What with men having the advantage because they give better blowjobs you mean?
"if a woman wants to get ahead, all she has to do is suck some dick."
Strange choice of example. It says that men are easily corrupted by offers of trivial sexual favours. It doesn't say anything negative about women at all.
If the people who would run that server wrote the software which stores the information locally and decides what to send to whom when, then they are owning all your bases anyway.
This is really just M$ saying `we couldn't make Passport reliable, so we are designing a distributed database which will use your computer resources rather than stuff we have to pay for'.
Hell, this new way they can squirrel away data you'd never willingly send to a central server. The local DB will, of course, e propriatory and opaque, so you'll never know what is in there and being sent where.
The fundamental problem is not architecture, but centralised control.
Given that it's not a commercial operation, he probably has no use beyond curiosity for stats on where people connect from, so why not just log without IP addresses. Then you don't have to worry, because the information the suits might demand is never on disk.
And what if they are? Is the state something whose danger level we should worry about to the extent of compromising basic freedoms. We can always get another state, the damn things spring up like mushrooms.
Generally when political and security types start talking about dangers to the state they usually mean that they want to justify something, but there is no danger to actual people to justify it. Or, sometimes, that there is a claim of `danger' to a jumped up pulic employee who thinks they are an embodyment of the state but the `danger' is such that we'd all laugh at them if they said what it actually was.
Mind you, you have to worry about the brain of someone who sets up an anarchist web server and proceeds to keep detailed records on the users. Quite apart from voluntarilly opening themselves up to this kind of raid, isn't it fundamentally philosophically at odds with the stated aims of the site? It's the equivalent of running an anti-Micorsoft site on IIS under Windows.
This is Sony.
Their entire business model is to sell superficially pretty but crap stuff and have no customer support. They are Microsoft with a soldering iron.
They made a big corporate anouncement last week that their new policy was to start to try to make something that someone might want now and again, maybe, starting sometime in the future.
I used to think I had an unusually low opinion of Sony, but clearly their top management agree with me.
You missed the word `over' from just before `pay'.
How could they tell if their apache executable was linked against Windows libraries or cygwin ones? It's rally no differnet from, say, running linux binaries under BSD. I only know the difference when something grubby and low level like getting the java plugin to work in Opera rears it's head.
Now, actually, the only case where we run an interesting web server under Windows, we use the native apachie even though we have cygwin on the server (for easy remote access, and because it lets us use the same software fo the application everywhere without dealing with windows APIs). I didn't install that apache:-).
Real Wndows bigots would demand IIS anyway.