There was a time when that was the mainstream belief.
The odd thing about the anti-vaccination movement is that nobody benefits from it. It's happening without eccentric billionaires funding doublethink tanks to push their economic interests.
Unless it's part of the general anti-science movement, which benefits people who owe their leadership to the ignorance of their followers.
He did more than being an engineer. Taking a job as a retail consumer electronics salesman showed he was passionate about customers and about understanding them.
His biggest flaw was in not arranging appropriate succession.
That talking point has been hammered so hard in the media that even some scientists were surprised to find what the real state of the literature was in the 70s.
Point out that policy solutions such as increasing energy efficiency and building more nuclear power plants are good ideas anyway, then they can accept the idea that there might be a reason to do them.
"What Went Wrong?" is the title of a book by scholar Bernard Lewis about the fall of one of the world's most advanced civilizations, which was the medieval Islamic world.
A few voices in reliability engineering and safety engineering (not the same thing!) have warned that if you start producing figures that show that you can go a million years or more without an accident, that doesn't mean your product is safe, it means you've overlooked something.
Not even an anvil can live up to some of the probability estimates people have come up with for deployed systems.
That said, there's still such a thing as intellectual dishonesty. Large scale blackouts in industrialized societies are a known phenomenon (1965 eastern US, etc.) and should have been taken into account even if Japan weren't prone to natural disasters. Rumor has it that there's a plaque in the hills above Fukushima that says in effect "Water has come up this high in the past, don't build anything you care about lower than this level".
After following Martin, and doing so against the advice of the police dispatcher.
One of the sponsors of the Stand Your Ground law said that it couldn't be stretched to protect what Zimmermann was doing.
There is a qualitative distinction between using force to repel an attack and being a vigilante. If Martin needed to be pursued, that was a job for the police. If Zimmermann perceived a threat, he could have and should have stayed in the car.
Anyone carrying a gun should get educated about self-defense law. Professional training from people who teach the police is available and cheaper than a gun. Research the phrases "disparity of force" and "mantle of innocence".
An Israeli expert suggested separating risk assessment from implementation. A simple organizational change, but it would mean that the TSA could no longer expand its empire by exaggerating risks.
Conservatives have argued that if there's even a one percent chance of a nation attacking us, we should start a war.
The conservative approach to climate change would be to proceed on the basis that if there's even a one percent chance that the people who spend their lives studying climate know what they're talking about, then we should reforest, build more nuclear power plants, and generally do things that are good ideas anyway.
CO2-caused global warming? Falsifiable predictions include the stratosphere getting colder due to longwave absorption in the troposphere, nights getting warmer, and drops in longwave re-radiation measured by satellites.
Anthropogenic? Falsifiable predictions include an isotope ratio in the new CO2 compatible with fossil fuel use, and that non-anthropogenic CO2 sources aren't the cause of the increase.
Catastrophic? Falsifiable if the measured sensitivity of temperature to CO2 falls outside the calculated error bars, or if there's an observed epoch or calculated mechanism where the temperatures we're about to experience coexisted with sea levels that would not be catastrophic.
Even Attorney General Ashcroft was troubled by the sweeping nature of the powers the government wanted.
"Suspected terrorist", without some review process, means "anyone the government wants".
Monitoring the handful of people engaged in and supporting terrorist activities could be done with a consumer-grade hard drive. It doesn't require a data center.
A more apposite example would be a statement that is in the legislators's holy book.
Psalm 104, verse 5: "He hath founded the earth upon its foundations, so that it shall not be moved for ever"
If we accept that a religious text can be the basis for a controversy about science, then it follows that science classes should "teach the controversy" about heliocentric astronomy.
There is, by the way, not much Biblical support for the idea of scriptural inerrancy. Other Bible-based religions such as Judaism don't seem to have trouble with the idea that humans are the product of natural processes but still subject to divine law.
>IMHO, you CANNOT use straight dictionary words (regardless of language, and yes, I do mean Klingon and Sindarin!) in your passwords without some sort of numeric or symbolic character replacement pattern.
Of course you can. If they're selected randomly, an attacker has to use the complete source space for the random selection in a brute force attack.
http://www.diceware.com/ gives you 12.9 bits of entropy per word. Brute forcing that is already more trouble than it's worth at three words, and five would require nation-state resources to crack.
It's been notorious in the aerospace industry for decades that the best way to get classified information is to read Aviation Week and Space Technology.
The alternative being rule by an elite, but they have to be chosen _somehow_, and the historically common criteria of wealth, heredity, or violence have not served well.
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There was a time when that was the mainstream belief.
The odd thing about the anti-vaccination movement is that nobody benefits from it. It's happening without eccentric billionaires funding doublethink tanks to push their economic interests.
Unless it's part of the general anti-science movement, which benefits people who owe their leadership to the ignorance of their followers.
Your chances of getting good code improve when there's more talent to draw from.
See "Unlocking the Clubhouse" for information about how many obstacles are still in the way of women in technical education.
We're losing bright high-achieving types.
He did more than being an engineer. Taking a job as a retail consumer electronics salesman showed he was passionate about customers and about understanding them.
His biggest flaw was in not arranging appropriate succession.
http://scienceblogs.com/stoat/Myth-1970-Global-Cooling-BAMS-2008.pdf
That talking point has been hammered so hard in the media that even some scientists were surprised to find what the real state of the literature was in the 70s.
Remove the motivation for them to be wrong.
Point out that policy solutions such as increasing energy efficiency and building more nuclear power plants are good ideas anyway, then they can accept the idea that there might be a reason to do them.
"What Went Wrong?" is the title of a book by scholar Bernard Lewis about the fall of one of the world's most advanced civilizations, which was the medieval Islamic world.
A few voices in reliability engineering and safety engineering (not the same thing!) have warned that if you start producing figures that show that you can go a million years or more without an accident, that doesn't mean your product is safe, it means you've overlooked something.
Not even an anvil can live up to some of the probability estimates people have come up with for deployed systems.
That said, there's still such a thing as intellectual dishonesty. Large scale blackouts in industrialized societies are a known phenomenon (1965 eastern US, etc.) and should have been taken into account even if Japan weren't prone to natural disasters. Rumor has it that there's a plaque in the hills above Fukushima that says in effect "Water has come up this high in the past, don't build anything you care about lower than this level".
After following Martin, and doing so against the advice of the police dispatcher.
One of the sponsors of the Stand Your Ground law said that it couldn't be stretched to protect what Zimmermann was doing.
There is a qualitative distinction between using force to repel an attack and being a vigilante. If Martin needed to be pursued, that was a job for the police. If Zimmermann perceived a threat, he could have and should have stayed in the car.
Anyone carrying a gun should get educated about self-defense law. Professional training from people who teach the police is available and cheaper than a gun. Research the phrases "disparity of force" and "mantle of innocence".
Her friend would presumably size you up and screen you for whether you could be trusted with the information.
> more intelligence-driven
An Israeli expert suggested separating risk assessment from implementation. A simple organizational change, but it would mean that the TSA could no longer expand its empire by exaggerating risks.
Conservatives have argued that if there's even a one percent chance of a nation attacking us, we should start a war.
The conservative approach to climate change would be to proceed on the basis that if there's even a one percent chance that the people who spend their lives studying climate know what they're talking about, then we should reforest, build more nuclear power plants, and generally do things that are good ideas anyway.
>I'm pretty sure no one thinks the idea of pumping shit-tons of excess carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is a GOOD thing.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute produced ads, now available on Youtube, closing with "CO2: they call it pollution, we call it Life!"
>toe Washington's line
Bless you for getting this phrase right. I was afraid everyone forever was going to write "tow the line", which doesn't even make sense.
OK, take it one step at a time.
CO2-caused global warming? Falsifiable predictions include the stratosphere getting colder due to longwave absorption in the troposphere, nights getting warmer, and drops in longwave re-radiation measured by satellites.
Anthropogenic? Falsifiable predictions include an isotope ratio in the new CO2 compatible with fossil fuel use, and that non-anthropogenic CO2 sources aren't the cause of the increase.
Catastrophic? Falsifiable if the measured sensitivity of temperature to CO2 falls outside the calculated error bars, or if there's an observed epoch or calculated mechanism where the temperatures we're about to experience coexisted with sea levels that would not be catastrophic.
Even Attorney General Ashcroft was troubled by the sweeping nature of the powers the government wanted.
"Suspected terrorist", without some review process, means "anyone the government wants".
Monitoring the handful of people engaged in and supporting terrorist activities could be done with a consumer-grade hard drive. It doesn't require a data center.
A more apposite example would be a statement that is in the legislators's holy book.
Psalm 104, verse 5:
"He hath founded the earth upon its foundations, so that it shall not be moved for ever"
If we accept that a religious text can be the basis for a controversy about science, then it follows that science classes should "teach the controversy" about heliocentric astronomy.
There is, by the way, not much Biblical support for the idea of scriptural inerrancy. Other Bible-based religions such as Judaism don't seem to have trouble with the idea that humans are the product of natural processes but still subject to divine law.
VA hospitals are unconstitutional?
Dynamic pressure is going to be really high.
Spins will be a hazard. Skydivers learn to control spins but not at that speed.
>IMHO, you CANNOT use straight dictionary words (regardless of language, and yes, I do mean Klingon and Sindarin!) in your passwords without some sort of numeric or symbolic character replacement pattern.
Of course you can. If they're selected randomly, an attacker has to use the complete source space for the random selection in a brute force attack.
http://www.diceware.com/ gives you 12.9 bits of entropy per word. Brute forcing that is already more trouble than it's worth at three words, and five would require nation-state resources to crack.
Someone in the center of a crowd of ten thousand might have real trouble getting out of the way.
You can get your choice of color temperatures from a fluorescent: they make different phosphor mixes for different applications.
LED lights can even have their color balance changed on the fly.
Cybersecurity is already a lost cause. What could terrorists do that isn't already being done by vandals, hacktivists, spies, and criminals?
We are living the worst case now.
If it's possible for terrorists to take down a national power grid, some non-terrorist loser would already have done it for the lulz.
It's been notorious in the aerospace industry for decades that the best way to get classified information is to read Aviation Week and Space Technology.
Going back further, Olaf Stapledon. Truly cosmic sweep, and influential in his day.
The alternative being rule by an elite, but they have to be chosen _somehow_, and the historically common criteria of wealth, heredity, or violence have not served well.