There are some scientists who also happen to be religious, but that's only because of the amazing human ability to compartmentalize conflicting aspects of their lives and turn a blind eye to the inherent hypocrisy.
There are some scientists who also happen to be artists. Apply identical reasoning to that and you will see the fallacy of assuming a contradiction.
For similar reasons, I've walked off jobs because I refuse to be piss-tested.
For the type of specialized labor found amongst the researchers at Los Alamos it is more efficient to organize a protest. The supply of research jobs which match a particular scientist's field of interest is usually somewhat small.
The FDA does stop some of it but it also allows much through as well as blocks some drugs that may be good.
Baby. Bathwater.
Improving the availability of medicine does not involve abolishing the agency which protects the food supply just because they happen to be currently part of the same agency.
Statements like this make my blood boil slightly from time to time. Mozilla Firefox should FALL UNDER "Netscape Navigator 6 and higher" as far as any site is concerned: It's a continuation as far as technology and popularity go.
Not to mention, Firefox is vastly more popular than Netscape Navigator. Firefox should be first in the list to be supported by government organizations, because it is the most popular browser which is available for free, to everyone, on essentially every platform.
If the only browser supported is a free cross-platform one, then no one can complain that they are being singled out.
Many of the others I'd rather see vanish off the federal registry, two of those being the FCC and the FDA!
Can you imagine for a second the crap that would be put in our food and mislabeled or deceptively labeled? It's already pretty bad WITH the FDA stopping much of it, and without them, it would be a field day of cost-cutting at the expense of the health and safety of the consumer.
Don't think for a second that your freedom of choice will protect you, because your freedom of choice doesn't mean anything if there is no agency enforcing the availability of accurate and detailed information so you can make an informed choice.
The source code wouldn't help matters. Assuming the machines were rigged, it would be simple to release the the code from a properly functioning codeline.
This is only the case if the exploit is done with systematic cooperation, or by someone with ongoing high ranking access inside the company. If an exploit is performed by a lone programmer (which we all know is quite possible and plausible), then the exploit could linger inside the source code without the knowledge of those who would then release the source code.
So yes, the absence of bugs or exploits in the source code cannot confirm that there are none, but there also exists a realistic chance of finding a significant bug or exploit with access to the source code.
The chances also go up if it is required that source code be released which compiles to a binary match of the code which was on systems during the election. This too is not a guarantee, because code can be self-modifying, but it is a significant improvement.
The problem in this case is not in designing a verifiable election system. That is a problem to solve BEFORE the election. The problem now is to do the best we can to determine if something DID go wrong with an election system which is extremely difficult to verify.
Ford is screwed. They can't make money building Accord and Civic knockoffs. The profit margins are too low. Honda and Toyota can do it because they have much lower labor and insurance costs.
Why? Japanese salaries are now fairly close to American salaries. In addition, most Hondas sold in the U.S. are made in the U.S., as are most Toyotas. Some Hondas are even shipped from U.S. factories back to Japan for sale. In comparison, most Fords are made in Mexico and Canada, where labor is cheaper.
There is another problem: it is the American car buyers. They don't want a simple, balanced, efficient car. They won't buy them.
Then why are there so many Civics and Accords on the road in the U.S.?
It saddens me that the once intelligent left has descended so far into senility that it can't even grasp the simple concept that what one does in public is observable by the public.
The problem is not with things being observable by the public. The problem is with things being held against you, particularly in matters of law enforcement. Law enforcement should be fair and impartial, yet most humans by their psychological nature are not fair and impartial when they have information which biases their judgment, even if that information is unrelated to the task of law enforcement.
For this reason it is usually prudent to only congregate and provide information related to the law enforcement task at hand.
He wasn't "outed" as a communist, only as someone associated with a known communist organization.
Did you miss the 50s?:)
This should be an important lesson to all young people out there. What you do in your youthful stupidity will bite you in the butt when you are older. No matter how much you want it otherwise, you cannot erase the past.
Whether or not you agree with his youthful political views is irrelevant. The most fundamental right of a free democracy is that people must have a COMPLETELY free right to assemble politically, express political views, and associate themselves with political groups without fear of future legal repercussions or police harassment. This is such a fundamentally necessary right that it must be a central focus of ours to avoid things which endanger it.
Other Search Engines don't exist. Face it, Google is by and far the only option.
I agree, but google doesn't necessarilly agree. If you search google for "search", you will find that MSN Search is the top hit. If you instead choose "search engine", google is at the top.
As long as the google hints are clearly marked as distinct from the search results, and are not intrusive, I see no problem with this. In the actual results google seems to be fairly honest to the algorithm for now.
I mean, if you read the DRM protection work...they completely redid everything that could break DRM, they break compatibility, they're even planning systems that need to re-do the hardware to require encryption on the *system*bus* just to keep hardware hackers from stealing contents at that place and hence making the DRM useless.....
The message is clear. They believe their monopoly can be best maintained by catering to producers, rather than to consumers. Consumer choice is not driving that market.
In copper lanes like on modern cpus, the speed is about 30-35% of c. Photonic crystals and optical fibers, otoh, can have a permiability that allows speeds of near C for photons.
Of course, this is only an advantage when the photonic processor components become the same size as the smallest modern electronic components and with equally fast switching times. If the components are three or more times larger, or have significantly slower switching times, then there is no gain.
also, greedy lawyer is hardly right, the lawyer really gets a SMALL fraction of the settlement.
For many class action suits, the lawyers involved seem to use the same spectacular accounting math used by the movie industry. A settlement will be agreed upon between the lawyers which will be something utterly useless, like every owner of a Nintendo Wii gets a free coupon for 10% off the purchase of a second Wii Console, and then the 25% profit for the lawyers will be computed out of the value of 10% of the cost of a console. In the end, Nintendo then actually profits if anyone actually redeems the coupon, the lawyer gets tangible cash, and the customer has to spend more money to get anything of value, making it no reward at all.
In arrangements like that, the only people who DO benefit are the lawyers who filed the suit.
(Not that it seems like Nintendo is much at fault here. If they hadn't included any strap in the first place I don't think people would be suing Nintendo after throwing a remote through their wall. If I buy a tennis racket and throw it through my car window, that's my fault.)
then surely you want to use a format that will consistently display the same anywhere like postscript, or PDF.
I find that many windows users do not have software for viewing postscripts, and are confused when they receive one. PDF is usually a safer bet if the document is an introduction to someone you don't know, such as with a resume.
(On linux of course these are trivial to convert between with the standard tools.)
Did these scientists have a "control experiment" done? The very usage of the word "believe" scares me. That means that there could be another scientist who might *not* believe.
Welcome to the real world of science, where conclusions are not solid, facts are not certain, and evidence is only an indication.:)
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There are some scientists who also happen to be artists. Apply identical reasoning to that and you will see the fallacy of assuming a contradiction.
For the type of specialized labor found amongst the researchers at Los Alamos it is more efficient to organize a protest. The supply of research jobs which match a particular scientist's field of interest is usually somewhat small.
We may even exceed the honesty of the 1960 elections if we can figure out a way around the absentee vote verification problem.
So don't buy mystery-meat hardware. Choose products with stability.
Baby. Bathwater.
Improving the availability of medicine does not involve abolishing the agency which protects the food supply just because they happen to be currently part of the same agency.
You mean we'll route all of our traffic through google to get around the bandwidth limitations?
Yeah, and what if they couldn't access that page either. :-P
Realplayer is a single exclusive provider. That makes it a poor choice.
Not to mention, Firefox is vastly more popular than Netscape Navigator. Firefox should be first in the list to be supported by government organizations, because it is the most popular browser which is available for free, to everyone, on essentially every platform.
If the only browser supported is a free cross-platform one, then no one can complain that they are being singled out.
Can you imagine for a second the crap that would be put in our food and mislabeled or deceptively labeled? It's already pretty bad WITH the FDA stopping much of it, and without them, it would be a field day of cost-cutting at the expense of the health and safety of the consumer.
Don't think for a second that your freedom of choice will protect you, because your freedom of choice doesn't mean anything if there is no agency enforcing the availability of accurate and detailed information so you can make an informed choice.
There must be a "6. Goto 4" somewhere in there...
This is only the case if the exploit is done with systematic cooperation, or by someone with ongoing high ranking access inside the company. If an exploit is performed by a lone programmer (which we all know is quite possible and plausible), then the exploit could linger inside the source code without the knowledge of those who would then release the source code.
So yes, the absence of bugs or exploits in the source code cannot confirm that there are none, but there also exists a realistic chance of finding a significant bug or exploit with access to the source code.
The chances also go up if it is required that source code be released which compiles to a binary match of the code which was on systems during the election. This too is not a guarantee, because code can be self-modifying, but it is a significant improvement.
The problem in this case is not in designing a verifiable election system. That is a problem to solve BEFORE the election. The problem now is to do the best we can to determine if something DID go wrong with an election system which is extremely difficult to verify.
Why? Japanese salaries are now fairly close to American salaries. In addition, most Hondas sold in the U.S. are made in the U.S., as are most Toyotas. Some Hondas are even shipped from U.S. factories back to Japan for sale. In comparison, most Fords are made in Mexico and Canada, where labor is cheaper.
Then why are there so many Civics and Accords on the road in the U.S.?
The problem is not with things being observable by the public. The problem is with things being held against you, particularly in matters of law enforcement. Law enforcement should be fair and impartial, yet most humans by their psychological nature are not fair and impartial when they have information which biases their judgment, even if that information is unrelated to the task of law enforcement.
For this reason it is usually prudent to only congregate and provide information related to the law enforcement task at hand.
Did you miss the 50s?
Whether or not you agree with his youthful political views is irrelevant. The most fundamental right of a free democracy is that people must have a COMPLETELY free right to assemble politically, express political views, and associate themselves with political groups without fear of future legal repercussions or police harassment. This is such a fundamentally necessary right that it must be a central focus of ours to avoid things which endanger it.
I agree, but google doesn't necessarilly agree. If you search google for "search", you will find that MSN Search is the top hit. If you instead choose "search engine", google is at the top.
As long as the google hints are clearly marked as distinct from the search results, and are not intrusive, I see no problem with this. In the actual results google seems to be fairly honest to the algorithm for now.
I bet with a little organized effort, we could easily put something more politically humorous at the top of that list.
The message is clear. They believe their monopoly can be best maintained by catering to producers, rather than to consumers. Consumer choice is not driving that market.
Of course, this is only an advantage when the photonic processor components become the same size as the smallest modern electronic components and with equally fast switching times. If the components are three or more times larger, or have significantly slower switching times, then there is no gain.
Supply and demand. Try buying a wii from a local store right now. See if you can find one before Christmas.
Don't people essentially do this already?
For many class action suits, the lawyers involved seem to use the same spectacular accounting math used by the movie industry. A settlement will be agreed upon between the lawyers which will be something utterly useless, like every owner of a Nintendo Wii gets a free coupon for 10% off the purchase of a second Wii Console, and then the 25% profit for the lawyers will be computed out of the value of 10% of the cost of a console. In the end, Nintendo then actually profits if anyone actually redeems the coupon, the lawyer gets tangible cash, and the customer has to spend more money to get anything of value, making it no reward at all.
In arrangements like that, the only people who DO benefit are the lawyers who filed the suit.
(Not that it seems like Nintendo is much at fault here. If they hadn't included any strap in the first place I don't think people would be suing Nintendo after throwing a remote through their wall. If I buy a tennis racket and throw it through my car window, that's my fault.)
I find that many windows users do not have software for viewing postscripts, and are confused when they receive one. PDF is usually a safer bet if the document is an introduction to someone you don't know, such as with a resume.
(On linux of course these are trivial to convert between with the standard tools.)
Welcome to the real world of science, where conclusions are not solid, facts are not certain, and evidence is only an indication.
Brilliance like that is why we're still beating those superstrong gorillas.
I'm sure you can fix that with a reboot.