I didnt catch this article till after it was pulled, Personally I'd like to see it anyway, so I can compare it to the re-posting of it. If anyone saved to article (for some unknow reason), I'd apprciated it if you could post it as a reply to this post. Thanks
I'd love to know what school you are going to, my college sell computers and computers parts, but the prices are horrible. Not to meantion the fact that a 10 base T connection here costs $250 for the year(100 base T is $500), about $32 a month... a little costly for a college student.
Honestly this scares the crap outta me. If this kind of idea is ever supported in a court room, large companies would basically be able to do wahtever they want, and if you complain, YOU'RE the bad guy....
Last year my high school (which was a boarding school) tried to start using a filter program called "bess" to "protect" us...from what I'm not sure. Being a boarding school, not only was the filtering software used in the library and computer labs, but also the server thru which we got our internet access. This means that even in what should be considered our own homes, we didnt not have access to a non-filtered computer. This filter was finally removed, not just due to student complaints, but complants form the teaching staff as well. This filter blocked anything that might be considered offensive to anyone somehow. This included sites that were about slavery, the KKK, and the Nazis....explain to me how we are to learn anything with about the civil war, the civil rights movement, or World War II, withiout complete access to all information, distastful as it may be to some. One more rant before I go, for some really strange reason, bess also blocks download.com, which to my knowledge has zero pornographic or illegal material.
Despite what advocates of "progressive" education like to say, standardized test, like the SAT, will generally give a good indication of that persons overall intelligence. While there are alway some exceptions to this, no form of testing can be 100% accurate.
Umm...did you read the article? these are optical black holes, they only affect light, and these "holes" would be a parellel to what happens to mass in a real black hole. So unless you are composed entirely of photons, I don't think you have too much to worry about.
This has the possiblity of becoming a large scientific field, as studying a real black hole would be rather difficult (only possible assuming we ever figure out intersteller travel anyway) this could provide a lot of insight on the mechanics of the universe, with the added bonus of not having to leave our own back yards, so to speak:)
This is just the standard practice for turning public opinion against a just cuase. Paint all involved with it a extermists, thieves, and hoolums. The general population, in my opinion, is not yet comupter savvy enough to understand the details of the case, and will often rather believe what they read in the more mainstream publications, then ones that are more interested in spreading the truth.
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You forgot being framed for bomb threats
Operation FreakOut anyone?
Great counter-arguments, we you on the debate team in school?
I didnt catch this article till after it was pulled, Personally I'd like to see it anyway, so I can compare it to the re-posting of it. If anyone saved to article (for some unknow reason), I'd apprciated it if you could post it as a reply to this post. Thanks
It's better than calling it "hacking" as the mainsteam press has been, although personally I call it stupid.
I'd love to know what school you are going to, my college sell computers and computers parts, but the prices are horrible. Not to meantion the fact that a 10 base T connection here costs $250 for the year(100 base T is $500), about $32 a month... a little costly for a college student.
Honestly this scares the crap outta me. If this kind of idea is ever supported in a court room, large companies would basically be able to do wahtever they want, and if you complain, YOU'RE the bad guy....
...to free speach issue because the "Bigots for Jesus" (apologies to the good, open-minded Christians out there) think that... Apology accepted ;)
Apology accepted ;)
Last year my high school (which was a boarding school) tried to start using a filter program called "bess" to "protect" us...from what I'm not sure. Being a boarding school, not only was the filtering software used in the library and computer labs, but also the server thru which we got our internet access. This means that even in what should be considered our own homes, we didnt not have access to a non-filtered computer. This filter was finally removed, not just due to student complaints, but complants form the teaching staff as well. This filter blocked anything that might be considered offensive to anyone somehow. This included sites that were about slavery, the KKK, and the Nazis....explain to me how we are to learn anything with about the civil war, the civil rights movement, or World War II, withiout complete access to all information, distastful as it may be to some. One more rant before I go, for some really strange reason, bess also blocks download.com, which to my knowledge has zero pornographic or illegal material.
Despite what advocates of "progressive" education like to say, standardized test, like the SAT, will generally give a good indication of that persons overall intelligence. While there are alway some exceptions to this, no form of testing can be 100% accurate.
Umm...did you read the article? these are optical black holes, they only affect light, and these "holes" would be a parellel to what happens to mass in a real black hole. So unless you are composed entirely of photons, I don't think you have too much to worry about.
The idea is to use a medium where light is only going something like a few meters per second, check out the article.
This has the possiblity of becoming a large scientific field, as studying a real black hole would be rather difficult (only possible assuming we ever figure out intersteller travel anyway) this could provide a lot of insight on the mechanics of the universe, with the added bonus of not having to leave our own back yards, so to speak :)
Hell yeah, as long as we are a bunch of gaming junkies, the PC is gonna be quite strong.
This is just the standard practice for turning public opinion against a just cuase. Paint all involved with it a extermists, thieves, and hoolums. The general population, in my opinion, is not yet comupter savvy enough to understand the details of the case, and will often rather believe what they read in the more mainstream publications, then ones that are more interested in spreading the truth.