What exactly do you think they did? Re read Kim Stanley Robinson? Yes, their is spectroscopic data that supports the ideas, yes they need to do more it.
Proper science isn't waiting until you know everything. That never happens anyway.
They make announcements like this all the time. I understand, they need funds, but they discover the same thing again and again: they announced a half dozen times they discovered water on Mars, for example. Now they're announcing again the presence of flowing water, the first time they were heavily questioned. Don't get me wrong, I'd like to know everything about our solar system and universe and I'd like to travel to Mars someday, but this is getting more and more like the extrasolar planets thing: one day someone makes a bombastic announcement about the discover of an earth-like planet, and the day after someone else disproves it all, quietly.
Google released Android for free: if Google had joined M$, Apple and Oracle, it would extort money from all the companies that use android (like M$ does), thus negating its own declared purpose.
This is just more evidence that if you're already a global mega-corporation it's much easier to put these ideas into production (and, more importantly, lock everyone else out with IP laws).
The fact is that, at least in Europe, you have to implement your idea into a real device to patent it, so to show that:
* you can build it for real
* it is useful
It's a much worse situation when someone patent just an idea, just waiting for someone else to do the dirty job (i.e. implementing the idea into a real device) and profit.
The reason is that the frequencies cell phones use are below the spectrum of ultraviolet light. It is near the spectrum of ultraviolet light where the first ionizing radiation occurs, which is required to be able to cause cancer.
99% of all carcinogenic substances do not emit ionizing radiations.
On the other hand it is known that microwaves alter the physiology of the brain: http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v29/n5/full/jcbfm200914a.html http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v26/n7/full/9600279a.html
There are a lot of scientific articles pointing out that low-power microwaves can damage brain cells or alter their physiology. Since that's the primary effect of a ionizing radiation (cancer is a secondary effect of the induced damage), none can exclude that microwaves can cause cancer because "ionizing radiations are required to be able to cause cancer". They're not.
Running up-to-date software would probably be a good start. The rest isn't rocket science either. Creating secure networks is not some esoteric art. I mean, plenty companies out there run their servers for years without having issues like that. Some even do it on *gasp* Windows servers! Maybe Sony needs to hire some of people who manage that?
There are good evidences that their servers were up to date:
This is so dangerous that LG seems a second SCO to me. If Sony doesn't want to settle and LG loses (which is probable, since those are US patents in a EU court), they'll have to pay a huge amount of money to Sony for this seizure.
The questioner knows that this statement is misleading and, while he could be more precise, he chooses to be not: so it's purposely misleading.
To say the truth the problem is ill posed.
I think that there are better explanations for this paintings (like bad artists or bad science), however the Kafirs sculpted and engraved figurines of horses for centuries, without seeing a real horse.
( a quick reference for the sceptics: http://madamepickwickartblog.com/?p=9431 )
They don't need a "concept of ethics." But there's the basic problem that if they have no problem with taking resources from another civilization, what problem do they have with taking resources from each other? Unless they are invincible they will almost certainly begin by taking resources from each other. If both you and I need a resource and one of us becomes short on it, we engage in conflict unless there is a sense of "ethics" or some basic moral guidelines.
Phoenicians, Greeks, Vikings... all of them thought that raiding and plundering foreign peoples was rightful, nonetheless they all punished theft.
That way it'd be the same as the change from GIF to PNG all those years ago, where those who want to use GIF could, and those who needed / wanted the free option (which was also superior) could use it without killing support for the other.
IE didn't support transparent PNG files until IE7, 2006 (yes... 2006). I hope I have answered your question.
What's the purpose of something that has an infinitesimal probability of success? If you really want to know if there are alien civilizations, wouldn't you use all that money for finding a viable method to discover alien life rather than insisting on treading a neverending path?
I have 99 cats: 90 black cats and 9 white cats. For some reason I build a machine that kills cats, but only if they are black. So 89 black cats die and now I have 9 white cats and 1 black cat. My cats population has not evolved, the remaining individuals have nothing new or different in respect to the old ones. Moreover, if black fur is a dominant characteristic and my machine breaks, I can foresee that I'll have again much more black cats than black ones in the future. That's all.
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Economics and especially Finance have nothing to do with Mathematics: they're a branch of Cabal.
What exactly do you think they did? Re read Kim Stanley Robinson? Yes, their is spectroscopic data that supports the ideas, yes they need to do more it.
Proper science isn't waiting until you know everything. That never happens anyway.
They make announcements like this all the time. I understand, they need funds, but they discover the same thing again and again: they announced a half dozen times they discovered water on Mars, for example. Now they're announcing again the presence of flowing water, the first time they were heavily questioned.
Don't get me wrong, I'd like to know everything about our solar system and universe and I'd like to travel to Mars someday, but this is getting more and more like the extrasolar planets thing: one day someone makes a bombastic announcement about the discover of an earth-like planet, and the day after someone else disproves it all, quietly.
Google released Android for free: if Google had joined M$, Apple and Oracle, it would extort money from all the companies that use android (like M$ does), thus negating its own declared purpose.
Because KDM is not a window manager.
-2006: Citigroup and M$ Develop a New Digital Identity Solution
-2008: Citi's Market Montage Solution Supports 200,000 Updates per Second with SQL Server 2005
- june 2011: Citigroup hacker attack affected more customers than first thought
-a week later, in the neighborhood of Redmont (about the PSN outage): "As a company, you can look back 8, 9 years ago, when Bill Gates wrote his Trustworthy Computing Memo that basically said, 'We need to change the way we architect our products and it has to be designed into the way we architect our products and services.' So it’s in our DNA, across the company. This is not just an IEB thing. So this has really been a multi-year effort for us as a company and it’ll continue to be one because this future, which we think is very much about services and very much cloud based - whether it be entertainment consumption or productivity - in order to do that, you have to have a secure environment. So we’re going to continue to do that and we don’t want to see any of our competitors hurt along the way. We think that’s bad for consumers."
This is just more evidence that if you're already a global mega-corporation it's much easier to put these ideas into production (and, more importantly, lock everyone else out with IP laws).
The fact is that, at least in Europe, you have to implement your idea into a real device to patent it, so to show that:
* you can build it for real
* it is useful
It's a much worse situation when someone patent just an idea, just waiting for someone else to do the dirty job (i.e. implementing the idea into a real device) and profit.
The reason is that the frequencies cell phones use are below the spectrum of ultraviolet light. It is near the spectrum of ultraviolet light where the first ionizing radiation occurs, which is required to be able to cause cancer.
99% of all carcinogenic substances do not emit ionizing radiations. On the other hand it is known that microwaves alter the physiology of the brain:
http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v29/n5/full/jcbfm200914a.html
http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v26/n7/full/9600279a.html
There are a lot of scientific articles pointing out that low-power microwaves can damage brain cells or alter their physiology. Since that's the primary effect of a ionizing radiation (cancer is a secondary effect of the induced damage), none can exclude that microwaves can cause cancer because "ionizing radiations are required to be able to cause cancer". They're not.
Running up-to-date software would probably be a good start. The rest isn't rocket science either. Creating secure networks is not some esoteric art. I mean, plenty companies out there run their servers for years without having issues like that. Some even do it on *gasp* Windows servers! Maybe Sony needs to hire some of people who manage that?
There are good evidences that their servers were up to date:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1549251&postcount=491
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?p=2673715&postcount=961
Noboby has fully assessed what happened. Nobody but the usual mythomaniac guys that crowd the big net.
According to the WHO, the biggest impact on public health of the disaster of Chernobyl was to the mental health, thanks to a lack of accurate information. I'm with the Japanese Government. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html
This is so dangerous that LG seems a second SCO to me. If Sony doesn't want to settle and LG loses (which is probable, since those are US patents in a EU court), they'll have to pay a huge amount of money to Sony for this seizure.
Because Google had a reason to link "delhipublicschool40 chdjob" to Credit Union (to deceive Bing), while Bing had not.
The most marketed piece of hardware of 2010, maybe. Moreover it was developed by an Israeli company, Primesense, not by MS.
The questioner knows that this statement is misleading and, while he could be more precise, he chooses to be not: so it's purposely misleading. To say the truth the problem is ill posed.
??? you can charge your MP3 player when your computer is off?
I think that there are better explanations for this paintings (like bad artists or bad science), however the Kafirs sculpted and engraved figurines of horses for centuries, without seeing a real horse. ( a quick reference for the sceptics: http://madamepickwickartblog.com/?p=9431 )
They don't need a "concept of ethics." But there's the basic problem that if they have no problem with taking resources from another civilization, what problem do they have with taking resources from each other? Unless they are invincible they will almost certainly begin by taking resources from each other. If both you and I need a resource and one of us becomes short on it, we engage in conflict unless there is a sense of "ethics" or some basic moral guidelines.
Phoenicians, Greeks, Vikings... all of them thought that raiding and plundering foreign peoples was rightful, nonetheless they all punished theft.
That way it'd be the same as the change from GIF to PNG all those years ago, where those who want to use GIF could, and those who needed / wanted the free option (which was also superior) could use it without killing support for the other.
IE didn't support transparent PNG files until IE7, 2006 (yes... 2006). I hope I have answered your question.
What's the purpose of something that has an infinitesimal probability of success? If you really want to know if there are alien civilizations, wouldn't you use all that money for finding a viable method to discover alien life rather than insisting on treading a neverending path?
People need to study orders of magnitude [youtube.com] before they get on SETI's case about not finding anything exciting.
Better not: they'd know that SETI is useless and a waste of money.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5.x: unpatched 0 of 6 Secunia advisories.
MS Internet Explorer 8.x: unpatched 4 of 8 Secunia advisories.
MS Internet Explorer 7.x: unpatched 11 of 42 Secunia advisories.
Opera 10.x: unpatched 0 of 3 Secunia advisories.
I can't see your point, are you trolling?
I have 99 cats: 90 black cats and 9 white cats. For some reason I build a machine that kills cats, but only if they are black. So 89 black cats die and now I have 9 white cats and 1 black cat. My cats population has not evolved, the remaining individuals have nothing new or different in respect to the old ones. Moreover, if black fur is a dominant characteristic and my machine breaks, I can foresee that I'll have again much more black cats than black ones in the future. That's all.
Selection != evolution ...
The bacteria and viruses of today have exactly as long evolutionary history than us.
No, they have much much much more ancestors than us. Evolution is not a matter of years, but of generations.
Or the environmental impact of C++ developers?
Are you assuming that C++ developers don't live when they're not coding?