This is what happens when people try to do something new. It is called Research and Development, and it happens on -every- project to some extent. Whether it is planned that way or not...
What is different is telling the truth, which has become quite rare in recent decades. Partly because the "Internet" seems to require lies.
If you punish those who say "I was wrong" ot "I don't know", then you will end up buying from the liars. Good luck with that. 8-}
Yes, he and his people really were (are). It was the opposition that tried to make a joke out of it. We have big planes with missile-shooting lasers that work. The Navy is about to mount a large railgun turret on a destroyer. There are satellites that can skoot around and hit other satellites. There are some other things being tested, they just aren't mounted on a satellite, mostly becuse it is easier to test down here. 8-)
It is likely that "hometown" companies are assuming they will get lots of government contracts if Kapersky is banned. But the reason that so many places use Kapersky is that it was good and effective.
Of course, software from possibly hostile (or even possibly friendly) countries should not be used in high security government areas. But those leaks could have happened with -any- anti-virus software, there was nothing different about Kapersky except its home. It is -not- ok to take top-secret stuff home with you!
Also, condemning someone without any evidence is against our laws (in most countries).
... Worse than the Brazilian e-vote is the American Electoral College. That is a real PITA.
The American Electoral College works exactly as it was intended to work, and provides for more stability in the country than other ways. The US is not a pure democracy, which would be unstable. It is a modified Republic, as it was designed to be.
By the way, a pure democracy has less power for each voter. As measured by the likelyhood of being the swinging vote, a system that breaks down into sub-blocks (like States) is better for voters. (But not for incumbent politicians...)
It is likely that the dems that voted for the background checks did not provide any funding to pay for the work. So the department did the least they could get away with, as a "protest". It has happened in other states.
"It takes one to know one..." The old regulations had a flaw where officials in charge of background checks, who were political beauracrats, blocked all carry permits by refusing to do the checks. So nowdays all background check laws have a time limit, so that it does not allow extreme gun-banners to block all of them.
The only thing this experiment proves, is that the experimenters put all of their effort into the EM resonator and none into the rest of the test setup!
The DC power feed conductors most certainly have EM fields of their own. I think the DC power conductors need to be -coax- cables, which are just as capable of balancing DC fields as RF fields.
And for short tests, use a battery and enclose the -whole- thing in a metal shield, on the end of the beam, and send control signals to a light sensor. I think they need an engineer involved... 8-)
You are intellligent. Are you programmed? No, because intelligence, natural or artificial, cannot be programmed. Think of it.
Yes, humans and animals -are- programmed, we call them instincts and they are much more powerful than most people think. They can contol your actions to make you do things that you would not do if you thought about it. So remember to think about it! 8-)
Could we make computers that had "instincts"? Yes of course, the question is how well would they "stick"...
... Imagine a sort of reverse lottery. If you don't buy a ticket, there is a small chance (and nobody can tell you the exact likelihood) that your reputation will be publicly tarnished and you will be fined millions of dollars. If you buy a ticket, your chance drops drastically (but is never really zero). But the ticket costs thousands of dollars. Would you buy the ticket?...
What if the "tickets" had a small but definate chance of being contaminated, and making you very sick? The patches to computer systems have been getting more and more dangerous to people's businesses, to the point where they must consider if the risk from the patch is more than the risk from the criminal intruders. This is the real reason people are waiting, to see what happens to the first to try. All else is excuses to stop you from pestering them.
How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.
Standard M$ tactic: Pop up a question window that only needs an Enter to count as "Yes go ahead".
The user is working and typing something into a text window or word processor, while reading from a page (or something). The question pops up and "steals" the keyboard, the user typing hits an Enter, and the question takes it as a "Yes". The user probably never saw the question and just wonders "where did my words go???".
M$ has known about this bug for years and has used it before. When they say that all users agreed to upgrade, this is what they are talking about...
The problem is that lack of data is not only unscientific, it makes it a whole lot easier to fake the results. Scientists are a lot more reliable than politicians, but even scientists are not -that- reliable.
Basing law on secret data is how dictatorships work. Environmental concerns are just an excuse used by "control freaks" here, real environmentalists have plenty of other ways to get things done...
Sadly, Machiavelli's statement is not based on the importance on your perception or understandings; but that informing you is wasted energy, and that it is OK. Machiavelli's narrative is for a leader, not the rank and file folks.
His book "The Prince" was made for leaders, and that is where the quote comes from, I think. But it does not mean that was what he believed himself. He wrote other books and papers for other people, and they sounded different. These days we would probably call him a "Political Consultant".
This isn't what I mean. What I mean is people chasing fairy tales and coming up with harebrained ideas about how the universe works to make their little fairy tale land "work". I'm not talking about someone not wanting to know everything. Nobody knows everything. I'm talking about people willfully and deliberately believing nonsense for the sake of not being "mainstream".
Well, maybe they like being that way. Or, maybe they are "trolling" you. Or maybe you don't actually know what is a fairy tale and what is not? 8-)
What he didn't state and probably didn't realize is that they apparently WANT to be ignorant. Never before in the history of mankind it has been easier to acquire information and wisdom. And never before in the history of mankind have people been more willfully ignorant.
Not so much, actually. They usually have their own area of expertise and have little interest in your's. Which is good because they get to hire you, if they need that.
Even digging a ditch requires expertise. Do it without knowledge and you will have much pain and maybe broken bones.
Often, when you hear people say this, it is because others have disagreed with them. Disagreement is different from stupid. 8-)
The Scientific Paper Is not obsolete, it has just fallen into evil ways. Paper or electronic, it is still needed in it's original purpose. It just needs to be "beaten with a blacksmith's hammer to get the rust and crud off" !
We are now in an era where only very few people actually need to know how reality works. The rest of us can become brand managers and youtube content creators.
That way lies Superstition and belief in "Magic" ! 8-}
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This is what happens when people try to do something new. It is called Research and Development, and it happens on -every- project to some extent. Whether it is planned that way or not...
What is different is telling the truth, which has become quite rare in recent decades. Partly because the "Internet" seems to require lies.
If you punish those who say "I was wrong" ot "I don't know", then you will end up buying from the liars. Good luck with that. 8-}
The one thing that actor president did was name his dreams well...
I think it was the opposition that used that name. It was actually called the Strategic Defense Initiative (or SDI). 8-)
Reagan was serious, ...
Yes, he and his people really were (are). It was the opposition that tried to make a joke out of it.
We have big planes with missile-shooting lasers that work. The Navy is about to mount a large railgun turret on a destroyer. There are satellites that can skoot around and hit other satellites. There are some other things being tested, they just aren't mounted on a satellite, mostly becuse it is easier to test down here. 8-)
It is likely that "hometown" companies are assuming they will get lots of government contracts if Kapersky is banned. But the reason that so many places use Kapersky is that it was good and effective.
Of course, software from possibly hostile (or even possibly friendly) countries should not be used in high security government areas. But those leaks could have happened with -any- anti-virus software, there was nothing different about Kapersky except its home. It is -not- ok to take top-secret stuff home with you!
Also, condemning someone without any evidence is against our laws (in most countries).
... Worse than the Brazilian e-vote is the American Electoral College. That is a real PITA.
The American Electoral College works exactly as it was intended to work, and provides for more stability in the country than other ways. The US is not a pure democracy, which would be unstable. It is a modified Republic, as it was designed to be.
By the way, a pure democracy has less power for each voter. As measured by the likelyhood of being the swinging vote, a system that breaks down into sub-blocks (like States) is better for voters. (But not for incumbent politicians...)
It is likely that the dems that voted for the background checks did not provide any funding to pay for the work. So the department did the least they could get away with, as a "protest". It has happened in other states.
"It takes one to know one..."
The old regulations had a flaw where officials in charge of background checks, who were political beauracrats, blocked all carry permits by refusing to do the checks.
So nowdays all background check laws have a time limit, so that it does not allow extreme gun-banners to block all of them.
The only thing this experiment proves, is that the experimenters put all of their effort into the EM resonator and none into the rest of the test setup!
The DC power feed conductors most certainly have EM fields of their own. I think the DC power conductors need to be -coax- cables, which are just as capable of balancing DC fields as RF fields.
And for short tests, use a battery and enclose the -whole- thing in a metal shield, on the end of the beam, and send control signals to a light sensor.
I think they need an engineer involved... 8-)
But you can't be two things. ...
It's certainly -inconvenient- for something to be two things, but it most definatly -can be-.
Particularly if two people are using two languages or even two technical jargons.
That is the source of most of the arguments in the world! 8-)
"Asimov", not "Azimov". Did you even read an Asimov novel?
"As a color, shade of purple."
His name was Purple ! ;-)
You are intellligent. Are you programmed? No, because intelligence, natural or artificial, cannot be programmed. Think of it.
Yes, humans and animals -are- programmed, we call them instincts and they are much more powerful than most people think. They can contol your actions to make you do things that you would not do if you thought about it. So remember to think about it! 8-)
Could we make computers that had "instincts"? Yes of course, the question is how well would they "stick"...
Oh, in that case I take it back... 8-)
From a high level view, an OS is a library, not a program. So they don't qualify.
Quirky or clever code does not qualify.
Reliability is all.
I think a really sophisticated program probably would be one where your bugs can kill you. I have worked on a few of those... 8-)
... Imagine a sort of reverse lottery. If you don't buy a ticket, there is a small chance (and nobody can tell you the exact likelihood) that your reputation will be publicly tarnished and you will be fined millions of dollars. If you buy a ticket, your chance drops drastically (but is never really zero). But the ticket costs thousands of dollars. Would you buy the ticket? ...
What if the "tickets" had a small but definate chance of being contaminated, and making you very sick? The patches to computer systems have been getting more and more dangerous to people's businesses, to the point where they must consider if the risk from the patch is more than the risk from the criminal intruders. This is the real reason people are waiting, to see what happens to the first to try. All else is excuses to stop you from pestering them.
How many had it forced on them, were tricked into upgrading, or made no conscious choice whatsoever and really didn't notice, just turned it on one morning and whump, there it was? Be honest, Microsoft.
Standard M$ tactic: Pop up a question window that only needs an Enter to count as "Yes go ahead".
The user is working and typing something into a text window or word processor, while reading from a page (or something). The question pops up and "steals" the keyboard, the user typing hits an Enter, and the question takes it as a "Yes". The user probably never saw the question and just wonders "where did my words go???".
M$ has known about this bug for years and has used it before. When they say that all users agreed to upgrade, this is what they are talking about...
Interesting!
The problem is that lack of data is not only unscientific, it makes it a whole lot easier to fake the results. Scientists are a lot more reliable than politicians, but even scientists are not -that- reliable.
Basing law on secret data is how dictatorships work. Environmental concerns are just an excuse used by "control freaks" here, real environmentalists have plenty of other ways to get things done...
Congradulations to Europol all of the people who worked to take this website down! The fight is not over, but at least we got in a "good hit".
Sadly, Machiavelli's statement is not based on the importance on your perception or understandings; but that informing you is wasted energy, and that it is OK. Machiavelli's narrative is for a leader, not the rank and file folks.
His book "The Prince" was made for leaders, and that is where the quote comes from, I think. But it does not mean that was what he believed himself. He wrote other books and papers for other people, and they sounded different. These days we would probably call him a "Political Consultant".
This isn't what I mean. What I mean is people chasing fairy tales and coming up with harebrained ideas about how the universe works to make their little fairy tale land "work". I'm not talking about someone not wanting to know everything. Nobody knows everything. I'm talking about people willfully and deliberately believing nonsense for the sake of not being "mainstream".
Well, maybe they like being that way. Or, maybe they are "trolling" you. Or maybe you don't actually know what is a fairy tale and what is not? 8-)
What he didn't state and probably didn't realize is that they apparently WANT to be ignorant. Never before in the history of mankind it has been easier to acquire information and wisdom. And never before in the history of mankind have people been more willfully ignorant.
Not so much, actually. They usually have their own area of expertise and have little interest in your's. Which is good because they get to hire you, if they need that.
Even digging a ditch requires expertise. Do it without knowledge and you will have much pain and maybe broken bones.
Often, when you hear people say this, it is because others have disagreed with them. Disagreement is different from stupid. 8-)
The Scientific Paper Is not obsolete, it has just fallen into evil ways. Paper or electronic, it is still needed in it's original purpose. It just needs to be "beaten with a blacksmith's hammer to get the rust and crud off" !
We are now in an era where only very few people actually need to know how reality works. The rest of us can become brand managers and youtube content creators.
That way lies Superstition and belief in "Magic" ! 8-}
I might buy one of these just to encourage them!
And, it's about time I checked out Linux again...
What's the advantage of manufacturing them in the US? Higher price?
socialism for poor southern crackers
Um... I don't think very many "poor southern crackers" live in Denver !!!
(DamYankee!) 8-)