I'd venture to suggest that advanced alien technology could probably intercept our cameras and microphones, making physical fly-bys no longer necessary!
Traveling at sub-light speeds, say up to 10% the speed of light, intelligent life could have filled the galaxy by now. Especially if originating from multiple points. THE GALAXY. Not the universe. Other galaxies are way way way way out of the scope of my point.
I haven't said this thing you challenge me to defend. Your question is like asking what makes me believe there's more than one family in a given continent, and why this same family hasn't gotten to Betelgeuse yet. I don't think you really understand how big a galaxy is and how far apart they are. I don't think you understand that a civilization has a maximum size due to a need for internal communication.
Well AC, I suppose any alien species seem "insane" to each other, and experienced explorers will simply watch us calmly from a safe distance. And our pipsqueak atom bombs haven't produced any gamma ray bursts that could possibly be seen over the glare of the Sun and all other natural phenomena. It doesn't make sense for aliens to secretly contact our governments unless it is to give time to prepare for their imminent coming. And nothing our governments are doing seem to be with that in mind. Aliens are more likely to avoid us until we have our shit together. If they're responsible for triggering world unrest, then they're screwups.
I've had one certain sighting, where I was outside at night gazing at the night sky. For about 20 minutes I watched a small light which seemed very high up in the air, moving in a tight spiral, then moving over a little and then moving in a spiral again. It eventually faded from view. It was too high up to be a plane in a search pattern and those spirals probably would have been high-G maneuvers.
Intelligent life has had more than enough time to fill every corner of the galaxy, even traveling at sub-light speeds. We're either still-undiscovered, or we're being kept isolated as a sort of nature preserve. Assuming information has become the coin of the galaxy, we are valuable as an untouched phenomena to study.
It seems likely that most UFOs are optical illusions, affected by the current era's psychological concepts. (There used to be sightings of fantasy airships and flying sailing boats) If some of the UFOs we see are of alien origin, they're most likely just manifestations of remote viewing techniques.
If aliens are visiting us physically, they are doing so through artificial intelligence. They've sent wisp probes which have multiplied here, constructed more complex machines or even bases. If they've come to colonize, I wouldn't worry about them raining death down upon Earth. They'll likely build orbital colonies among the asteroids and populate them with beings replicated out of faxed DNA.
Exactly! It's like, decades pass and all "popup blockers" still do is watch for popups and try to quickly close them again. Why in hell can not a browser's code, specifically that which creates a new window and fills it with the specified contents, be flatly disabled? It's such a specific action. Hell, why not compile a browser which simply cannot open new windows? Fuxing simple!
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do I stop the bitminer? Can't I just close the web page? Or do I need to close the whole browser? Does the miner start up again when I relaunch my browser? I've been watching Firefox hog 4/5th of my PC's resources, with chronic pauses ("the browser has stopped responding") so bad that I can't switch tabs and even animated gifs freeze. Other programs run like nothing's going on. It gets worse and worse as the day goes on. Every add-on disabled. I visit one of these affected websites a couple times a week.
There are no "of courses". Some models do propose that dark matter does not even interact with itself. Alternately, some models propose that dark matter is it's own anti-particle, so it annihilates when it interacts with itself. In the latter case, we should be able to detect it as a gamma-ray source which cannot be explained by any other means. One recent report of gamma rays from dark matter was withdrawn when other sources were found.
Matter doesn't get converted to energy when it drops into a black hole, it gets mired in time. It's mass is instantaneously added to the mass of the whole though. Then again, over a very very very long period of time, the black hole will evaporate due to radiating Hawking Radiation. If you reason that everything will eventually be swept up by black holes, then it's possible that this radiation is the ultimate fate of everything. Unless the expansion of the universe prevents new black holes from forming at some point.
Science currently feels satisfied that our universe is not the inside of a higher-order black hole, but I keep thinking about all that mass that gets frozen in time upon a black hole's expanding surface. What if there actually is a lower-order universe inside of black holes, and it is populated by matter which, from the internal perspective, all seems to arrive at about the same time due to differences in the flow of time? Perhaps our own universe's Big Bang represented the matter which fell in during another universe's lifetime. Perhaps the last 13.82 billion years have only been a fraction of a flash for some future universe.
I sure agree about those manuals! Before I could program, I sat down and read them front to back, the same way I read Dungeons & Dragons spellbooks. Then I loaded up some programs and I could look at the code and know what it did! My family started out with the TRS-80 I but then we got a Lobo Max-80 with LDOS (before RS bought it to base their later versions of TRS-DOS off of) which also ran CP/M.
Of course, the first thing colleges and high schools did was forbid the use of word processors and computer printers. None of that laziness here, no sir!:D
*sigh* Somecompany.com WAS HOSTED BY GOOGLE so it was just gmail with a custom domain name. It should have created a new gmail account for her when they set up her new work mail, but instead it acted as a forward to my long-established gmail account. Just because the beginning of the address was like mine. Hers was set as firstinitialDOTlastname and mine was identical except without the DOT. They were essentially granted the ability to add aliases to my account. I recieved her email with her initial, lastname AND SOMECOMPANYNAME.COM in my inbox.
Please, for all time and space henceforth do not tell me about how Google ignores the period and everything's working like it should.
I feel that you well and truly didn't understand my point. The company wanted to assign the employee a name such as firstinitial.lastname@somecompany.com and internally Google created a forward to my, already existing and active account, which was not meant to be under somecompany's management.
XBOX is just the worst! They *know* you're not their customer (whom they're emailing) so they refuse to do anything for you *including* not emailing you any more! My theory is that since an email is required to have an account, if they remove your email, they'll have to cancel the account. This puts them in the position of possibly refunding membership fees. It's about the money. You have to receive spam emails because they want to keep someone else's money.
Those emails come with an "unsubscribe" link, but it says something like, "you may receive email for up to 2 weeks anyway". Good ole Microsoft; bestest technology in teh werld, can't stop the emails instantly like everyone else. Ugh. You'll continue to get emails for months, actually. I think they reset the clock each time you click their unsubscribe link, too.
I'm an early adopter with a common name, too. People definitely use my address for junk, but Google somehow has figured it out and puts all the right stuff in the SPAM folder. I I've been reading this thread all afternoon but no-one seems to have had my experience though...
I started getting emails from somecompany.com that was clearly legit messages intended for a new employee. They even had the employee's @somecompany.com email address in the TO: line. Test emails confirmed that email sent there would wind up in my mail box. Her address was the same as mine, but with a period in it, @somecompany.com. I know what you're thinking; somecompany.com set up the wrong private forwarding address for their new employee? Nope. I got ahold of their admin by looking up the whois record for their domain. This company used Google to host their web page and email. They'd set everything up properly (so they swear) so it was GOOGLE that was conflating some.name@somecompany.com with somename@google.com!
Besides that, I've also done the reset password thing, but the few times I was actually able to find the person trying to open the new account, they would repeatedly re-reset the password and still try to use my email. Like, they thought they could seize my gmail by using it in some shopping site's sign-up form. Ugh.
I've also been able to peer at people's homes using Google street view, leave phone messages (they always seem to know better than to answer!) and set up salesman calls and visits for people who deserved them, heheh. Nothing damaging, ever. I pinkie-swear!:D
Frankly, I was surprised when the "close tabs to the right" feature appeared in Firefox, Chrome AND Opera in essentially the same form. The guiding principle these browser designers follow is MAKE IT DIFFERENT JUST BECAUSE. Let's be honest here, none of them are really following a trial of features and time-testing them. It's just GUI fad after fad after fad. They're sh*tcanning the close tabs feature so they can proudly claim to be different again.
"Fun fact: you could telnet to password.io.com from anywhere in the world, and log on as guest. Lynx, a text-only web browser, was configured as the shell, and you would then be presented with a sparse version of the web-based customer account tools found at http://password.io.com/. This was so customers could reset their own password, update their address, set their PLAN file, etc.
IO forgot to disable browsing the filesystem (press g, period, enter). Also, IO never enforced uniform file and directory permissions or audited active accounts. As a result, through 2004, after IO was taken over by Prismnet (or later), you could roam around and directly view many customer's private files, email, and IO's sensitive system areas. You could also open the Lynx config to define a custom "editor" and thus actually edit files, or run executables. This was a direct back-door into everything! This continued a full two years after IOCOM "hardened" their network to sell network security services."
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Heh, no. Planets do not make little spirals and then spurt around in random directions to spiral around again.
Awesome story! Thanks!
I'd venture to suggest that advanced alien technology could probably intercept our cameras and microphones, making physical fly-bys no longer necessary!
Traveling at sub-light speeds, say up to 10% the speed of light, intelligent life could have filled the galaxy by now. Especially if originating from multiple points. THE GALAXY. Not the universe. Other galaxies are way way way way out of the scope of my point.
What's your point? Who said we were special? I didn't.
There could be a web of communications links sharing science and history.
I haven't said this thing you challenge me to defend. Your question is like asking what makes me believe there's more than one family in a given continent, and why this same family hasn't gotten to Betelgeuse yet. I don't think you really understand how big a galaxy is and how far apart they are. I don't think you understand that a civilization has a maximum size due to a need for internal communication.
Well AC, I suppose any alien species seem "insane" to each other, and experienced explorers will simply watch us calmly from a safe distance.
And our pipsqueak atom bombs haven't produced any gamma ray bursts that could possibly be seen over the glare of the Sun and all other natural phenomena.
It doesn't make sense for aliens to secretly contact our governments unless it is to give time to prepare for their imminent coming. And nothing our governments are doing seem to be with that in mind. Aliens are more likely to avoid us until we have our shit together. If they're responsible for triggering world unrest, then they're screwups.
Nah, they were just doing research to help understand how to test secret aircraft more stealthily.
I've had one certain sighting, where I was outside at night gazing at the night sky. For about 20 minutes I watched a small light which seemed very high up in the air, moving in a tight spiral, then moving over a little and then moving in a spiral again. It eventually faded from view. It was too high up to be a plane in a search pattern and those spirals probably would have been high-G maneuvers.
Intelligent life has had more than enough time to fill every corner of the galaxy, even traveling at sub-light speeds. We're either still-undiscovered, or we're being kept isolated as a sort of nature preserve. Assuming information has become the coin of the galaxy, we are valuable as an untouched phenomena to study.
It seems likely that most UFOs are optical illusions, affected by the current era's psychological concepts. (There used to be sightings of fantasy airships and flying sailing boats) If some of the UFOs we see are of alien origin, they're most likely just manifestations of remote viewing techniques.
If aliens are visiting us physically, they are doing so through artificial intelligence. They've sent wisp probes which have multiplied here, constructed more complex machines or even bases. If they've come to colonize, I wouldn't worry about them raining death down upon Earth. They'll likely build orbital colonies among the asteroids and populate them with beings replicated out of faxed DNA.
Exactly! It's like, decades pass and all "popup blockers" still do is watch for popups and try to quickly close them again. Why in hell can not a browser's code, specifically that which creates a new window and fills it with the specified contents, be flatly disabled? It's such a specific action. Hell, why not compile a browser which simply cannot open new windows? Fuxing simple!
Let's get down to brass tacks: How do I stop the bitminer? Can't I just close the web page? Or do I need to close the whole browser? Does the miner start up again when I relaunch my browser? I've been watching Firefox hog 4/5th of my PC's resources, with chronic pauses ("the browser has stopped responding") so bad that I can't switch tabs and even animated gifs freeze. Other programs run like nothing's going on. It gets worse and worse as the day goes on. Every add-on disabled. I visit one of these affected websites a couple times a week.
There are no "of courses". Some models do propose that dark matter does not even interact with itself. Alternately, some models propose that dark matter is it's own anti-particle, so it annihilates when it interacts with itself. In the latter case, we should be able to detect it as a gamma-ray source which cannot be explained by any other means. One recent report of gamma rays from dark matter was withdrawn when other sources were found.
Matter doesn't get converted to energy when it drops into a black hole, it gets mired in time. It's mass is instantaneously added to the mass of the whole though. Then again, over a very very very long period of time, the black hole will evaporate due to radiating Hawking Radiation. If you reason that everything will eventually be swept up by black holes, then it's possible that this radiation is the ultimate fate of everything. Unless the expansion of the universe prevents new black holes from forming at some point.
Science currently feels satisfied that our universe is not the inside of a higher-order black hole, but I keep thinking about all that mass that gets frozen in time upon a black hole's expanding surface. What if there actually is a lower-order universe inside of black holes, and it is populated by matter which, from the internal perspective, all seems to arrive at about the same time due to differences in the flow of time? Perhaps our own universe's Big Bang represented the matter which fell in during another universe's lifetime. Perhaps the last 13.82 billion years have only been a fraction of a flash for some future universe.
I sure agree about those manuals! Before I could program, I sat down and read them front to back, the same way I read Dungeons & Dragons spellbooks. Then I loaded up some programs and I could look at the code and know what it did! My family started out with the TRS-80 I but then we got a Lobo Max-80 with LDOS (before RS bought it to base their later versions of TRS-DOS off of) which also ran CP/M.
Of course, the first thing colleges and high schools did was forbid the use of word processors and computer printers. None of that laziness here, no sir! :D
*sigh* Somecompany.com WAS HOSTED BY GOOGLE so it was just gmail with a custom domain name. It should have created a new gmail account for her when they set up her new work mail, but instead it acted as a forward to my long-established gmail account. Just because the beginning of the address was like mine. Hers was set as firstinitialDOTlastname and mine was identical except without the DOT. They were essentially granted the ability to add aliases to my account. I recieved her email with her initial, lastname AND SOMECOMPANYNAME.COM in my inbox.
Please, for all time and space henceforth do not tell me about how Google ignores the period and everything's working like it should.
I feel that you well and truly didn't understand my point. The company wanted to assign the employee a name such as firstinitial.lastname@somecompany.com and internally Google created a forward to my, already existing and active account, which was not meant to be under somecompany's management.
XBOX is just the worst! They *know* you're not their customer (whom they're emailing) so they refuse to do anything for you *including* not emailing you any more! My theory is that since an email is required to have an account, if they remove your email, they'll have to cancel the account. This puts them in the position of possibly refunding membership fees. It's about the money. You have to receive spam emails because they want to keep someone else's money.
Those emails come with an "unsubscribe" link, but it says something like, "you may receive email for up to 2 weeks anyway". Good ole Microsoft; bestest technology in teh werld, can't stop the emails instantly like everyone else. Ugh. You'll continue to get emails for months, actually. I think they reset the clock each time you click their unsubscribe link, too.
I'm an early adopter with a common name, too. People definitely use my address for junk, but Google somehow has figured it out and puts all the right stuff in the SPAM folder. I I've been reading this thread all afternoon but no-one seems to have had my experience though...
I started getting emails from somecompany.com that was clearly legit messages intended for a new employee. They even had the employee's @somecompany.com email address in the TO: line. Test emails confirmed that email sent there would wind up in my mail box. Her address was the same as mine, but with a period in it, @somecompany.com. I know what you're thinking; somecompany.com set up the wrong private forwarding address for their new employee? Nope. I got ahold of their admin by looking up the whois record for their domain. This company used Google to host their web page and email. They'd set everything up properly (so they swear) so it was GOOGLE that was conflating some.name@somecompany.com with somename@google.com!
Besides that, I've also done the reset password thing, but the few times I was actually able to find the person trying to open the new account, they would repeatedly re-reset the password and still try to use my email. Like, they thought they could seize my gmail by using it in some shopping site's sign-up form. Ugh.
I've also been able to peer at people's homes using Google street view, leave phone messages (they always seem to know better than to answer!) and set up salesman calls and visits for people who deserved them, heheh. Nothing damaging, ever. I pinkie-swear! :D
Absolutely nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12 today. I repeat, nothing happened in Sector 83 by 9 by 12.
Frankly, I was surprised when the "close tabs to the right" feature appeared in Firefox, Chrome AND Opera in essentially the same form. The guiding principle these browser designers follow is MAKE IT DIFFERENT JUST BECAUSE. Let's be honest here, none of them are really following a trial of features and time-testing them. It's just GUI fad after fad after fad. They're sh*tcanning the close tabs feature so they can proudly claim to be different again.
This is what I do too. It's essentially HOW I BROWSE, not just something I do on an infrequent basis. :/
I'll just leave this here:
http://io.fondoo.net/
"Fun fact: you could telnet to password.io.com from anywhere in the world, and log on as guest. Lynx, a text-only web browser, was configured as the shell, and you would then be presented with a sparse version of the web-based customer account tools found at http://password.io.com/. This was so customers could reset their own password, update their address, set their PLAN file, etc.
IO forgot to disable browsing the filesystem (press g, period, enter). Also, IO never enforced uniform file and directory permissions or audited active accounts. As a result, through 2004, after IO was taken over by Prismnet (or later), you could roam around and directly view many customer's private files, email, and IO's sensitive system areas. You could also open the Lynx config to define a custom "editor" and thus actually edit files, or run executables. This was a direct back-door into everything! This continued a full two years after IOCOM "hardened" their network to sell network security services."