Re:BadAstronomy has covered it already...
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See, already we've got more coverage than this badastronomy site. Good stuff.
And as for this well known "fact", it's a fact provided you discount this 2004 supposed meteorite find. So using this "fact" to in turn discredit the find is circular.
Re:BadAstronomy has covered it already...
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Covered? The "coverage" consists of:
the claim that no meteorite remain from Tunguska has ever been found (proof by bold assertion)
a comment that the writer couldn't find the foundation's website. Gee, I wonder if the writer was searching for websites in Russian?
mockery and sarcasm as soon as the subject of aliens arises. After all, scientists know that aliens can't be visisting the earth, because the Fermi Paradox says so.
Yes, ha ha. But just so people don't get the wrong idea, apodyopsis wasn't starting a new sentence, but rather was using a question mark mid-sentence, which is perfectly allowed.
It can also be used mid-sentence to mark a merely interrogative phrase, where it functions similarly to a comma, such as in the single sentence "Where shall we go? and what shall we do?", but this usage is increasingly rare.
This is my main problem with IPv6. I've seen some excellent replies as to why this isn't really an issue on various technical grounds, including your reply. However it's not the technical issues that concern me.
Allow me to rephrase the objection:
3a. IPv6 addresses are too large for people.
I deal with IP addresses all the time. Few days go by where I'm not typing one into a computer for one reason or another, or reading one out over a phone to somebody. "Your internet seems to be down? It could be a DNS issue. Try typing this IP address into your browser and tell me if you get anything." IPv4 address are simple and easy to remember. They are like phone numbers. They are easy to relate to others, and I have most of my commonly used ones memorised. I can copy one from paper to a computer usually at a glance, two glances at most.
But when I see an IPv6 address, my eyes glaze over. It's alphabet soup. No way in hell do I want to be dealing with those things on a day-to-day basis
I've seen it happen it twice. In both cases you had company.com with SPF on its domain running a website alternatebranding.com on a colocated server, but which sent out automated emails using @company.com From addresses. When the server was moved to a different IP, the DNS on alternatebranding.com was changed, but the company.com SPF wasn't, and emails started to go missing. In one case it went undetected for over a month, and in the other it was well over a year.
SPF is cost-free as long as the SPF records remain accurate for your domain. The problem is that things change, servers get moved, new websites get created, and if the SPF records aren't updated to reflect those changes, then some emails are going to go missing. A problem like that could go undetected for months, and that bears a cost.
The fact is, in larger companies the left hand doesn't alway know what the right hand is doing, while in smaller companies IT can get farmed out to multiple providers who can be blissfully unaware of what is happening in the big picture.
SPF can be an effective technology for companies that have their IT act together. But it can be a source of headaches for everyone else, which I expect is the majority.
No kidding. I implimented a primative version of this in GWBASIC on an 8088 in the early 80s. It could identify me based on the way I typed my name. It worked reasonably well, considering I never actually learned to type. Jeez, that takes me back.
Yes, 616 was the original number of the beast. However he changed it to 666 because it was easier to remember. I think it was the combination on his briefcase or something.
I do tech support for a number of friends/family and they all fall into that category. They use email, web, and word processing, and that's it. Heck, one of my friends only does web as he can't figure out email.
We're talking about people who can't handle the nested Start menu on Windows, and for whom double-cliking icons is both physically difficult and confusing (how do I know if it's one click or two?)
The one who lives farthest away is also the one who needs the most help. So I set her up on Kubuntu, with a simplified desktop featuring big obvious panel buttons for launching apps, as well as a big red OFF button. It's worked out pretty well. Now I can do most of my support by phone (I also use KDE) or ssh.
I wish there was a dummed-down linux distro specifically for extremely non-techie users, but to be installed and supported by techies like me. Simplified interface, and a special GET HELP button that would fire off an email to the techie to allow them to connect via ssh or remote desktop. It would also be nice to have a FIX PRINTER button for flushing the print queue and restarting the printer (and if necessary CUPS), for when they run out of paper, then hit print 12 more times before they realise what the problem is.
I work three jobs, so I grok "not having time", but it helps if you have a system. For me, finding music is a fun little hobby, and not too terribly time consuming. I download new music in batches of about 30 and apply a multi-level filtration process:
listen to the first 10 to 60 seconds of each tune and delete the obvious drek
transfer the remainder to my mp3 player, listen to for several days, deleting those that don't make the cut
transfer the "keepers" back to my PC, and listen to from time to time, dropping from rotation those that I get tired of, or that are OK but not great
finally, pick out the really great ones, and burn them to CD for my car
I've been doing this for four years (when I swore not to give the RIAA another dime), and have averaged 30 legal downloads a week. I keep about one in 20, and about one in three of those make it to CD. It's fun getting people in my car who consider themselves well versed in modern music, and then they start flipping through my home-made CDs and they can't find a single artist they recognise.
Maybe if these new smart surveillance cameras get sufficiently smart, Britain won't need scientists. Just put surveillance cameras on all natural phenomena, and let the cameras figure out how stuff works.
Umm, exactly what credible scientific studies have been made to find evidence of galactic colonisation?
Don't say SETI. SETI's focus is on finding broadcast beacons from ETIs who have not colonised the galaxy; if you've colonised the galaxy you don't need to set up beacons. SETI is not looking for general comm traffic, and the last time I checked, most researchers conceded they couldn't detect such traffic even if they wanted to. The only signals we are likely to find are those specifically broadcast to be easy to find. The failure of SETI to detect such signals supports the idea that the galaxy has been colonised.
Scientists seem to have this conceit that either:
a) they can find the most extraordinary evidence of the most extraordinary scientific discovery in human history - without ever actually having to look for it; and/or
b) if aliens were here, then they would necessarily come and announce themselves to the scientific community, because it is just so important to aliens that our scientists be given irrefutable evidence.
In my opinion, there are three common assumptions about aliens that should never ever be made:
1) They think like we do
2) They are the result of natural evolution
3) They still engage in the quaint habit of living on planets (or even around stars)
When you are talking about a civilisation that may be hundreds of millions of years old, these assumptions are completely unsupportable. Without these assumptions, there is no reason to believe that evidence of galactic colonisation should necessarily fall into our lap. And if it's not going to fall into our lap, and scientists have made no credible effort to find such evidence, then I don't see how anybody can make a conclusion about the Fermi Paradox one way or another.
Fine. If raw acoustic filtering it is too difficult, then run any outbound audio stream through the same speech recognition software, and filter out any duplicate commands that result.
Assuming of course that Microsoft's legions of highly skilled programmers can figure out a way to compare two text strings.
In both Firefox and Opera, if I want to go Yahoo, I go to my address bar and type "yahoo" and it fills in the rest. Same thing on the browser on my cell phone. Heck, even lynx does automatic address completion!
Maybe I'm missing the point to this, but shouldn't these variable formats all be parsed and handled by the software in the first place? How hard is it for a computer to be able to convert between, and simultaneously understand, the use of spaces, underscores, dashes, quotes, StudlyCaps, etc? Seems to me that is the right way of handling this, because you surely can't expect all implimentations and all users to know and follow whatever standard may possibly eventually arise.
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See, already we've got more coverage than this badastronomy site. Good stuff.
And as for this well known "fact", it's a fact provided you discount this 2004 supposed meteorite find. So using this "fact" to in turn discredit the find is circular.
Covered? The "coverage" consists of:
I don't think that's particularly good coverage
Anyway, here is a 2004 story from what looks to be a reputable science website on the discovery of the meteorite, with photo
Yes, ha ha. But just so people don't get the wrong idea, apodyopsis wasn't starting a new sentence, but rather was using a question mark mid-sentence, which is perfectly allowed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark
This is my main problem with IPv6. I've seen some excellent replies as to why this isn't really an issue on various technical grounds, including your reply. However it's not the technical issues that concern me.
Allow me to rephrase the objection:
3a. IPv6 addresses are too large for people.
I deal with IP addresses all the time. Few days go by where I'm not typing one into a computer for one reason or another, or reading one out over a phone to somebody. "Your internet seems to be down? It could be a DNS issue. Try typing this IP address into your browser and tell me if you get anything." IPv4 address are simple and easy to remember. They are like phone numbers. They are easy to relate to others, and I have most of my commonly used ones memorised. I can copy one from paper to a computer usually at a glance, two glances at most.
But when I see an IPv6 address, my eyes glaze over. It's alphabet soup. No way in hell do I want to be dealing with those things on a day-to-day basis
I dunno. On the web, where all information is specified by its location (url), I think "here here" is rather apt.
Actually, it's 1198 Lansdowne Drive at Guillford Way. North of the Barnet Highway. I've been to that 7-11. Its storefront faces Guillford.
1198 Landsdowne St, Coquitlam, BC according to 7-eleven.com
Thank you, come again
I've seen it happen it twice. In both cases you had company.com with SPF on its domain running a website alternatebranding.com on a colocated server, but which sent out automated emails using @company.com From addresses. When the server was moved to a different IP, the DNS on alternatebranding.com was changed, but the company.com SPF wasn't, and emails started to go missing. In one case it went undetected for over a month, and in the other it was well over a year.
SPF is cost-free as long as the SPF records remain accurate for your domain. The problem is that things change, servers get moved, new websites get created, and if the SPF records aren't updated to reflect those changes, then some emails are going to go missing. A problem like that could go undetected for months, and that bears a cost.
The fact is, in larger companies the left hand doesn't alway know what the right hand is doing, while in smaller companies IT can get farmed out to multiple providers who can be blissfully unaware of what is happening in the big picture.
SPF can be an effective technology for companies that have their IT act together. But it can be a source of headaches for everyone else, which I expect is the majority.
Well of course *that* won't work. The -300 is interpreted as a command line option! It should be:
sleep -- -300
No kidding. I implimented a primative version of this in GWBASIC on an 8088 in the early 80s. It could identify me based on the way I typed my name. It worked reasonably well, considering I never actually learned to type. Jeez, that takes me back.
Yes, 616 was the original number of the beast. However he changed it to 666 because it was easier to remember. I think it was the combination on his briefcase or something.
Saturn is the sixth planet out.
A hexagon has six sides.
There is a second hexagon inside the first. Another six sides.
6-6-6
Hmmm, that number kind of has a ring to it. And so does Saturn.
Coincidence?
I do tech support for a number of friends/family and they all fall into that category. They use email, web, and word processing, and that's it. Heck, one of my friends only does web as he can't figure out email.
We're talking about people who can't handle the nested Start menu on Windows, and for whom double-cliking icons is both physically difficult and confusing (how do I know if it's one click or two?)
The one who lives farthest away is also the one who needs the most help. So I set her up on Kubuntu, with a simplified desktop featuring big obvious panel buttons for launching apps, as well as a big red OFF button. It's worked out pretty well. Now I can do most of my support by phone (I also use KDE) or ssh.
I wish there was a dummed-down linux distro specifically for extremely non-techie users, but to be installed and supported by techies like me. Simplified interface, and a special GET HELP button that would fire off an email to the techie to allow them to connect via ssh or remote desktop. It would also be nice to have a FIX PRINTER button for flushing the print queue and restarting the printer (and if necessary CUPS), for when they run out of paper, then hit print 12 more times before they realise what the problem is.
Close. Geordi wears the 180 model. The 360 wraps completely around the head.
I work three jobs, so I grok "not having time", but it helps if you have a system. For me, finding music is a fun little hobby, and not too terribly time consuming. I download new music in batches of about 30 and apply a multi-level filtration process:
I've been doing this for four years (when I swore not to give the RIAA another dime), and have averaged 30 legal downloads a week. I keep about one in 20, and about one in three of those make it to CD. It's fun getting people in my car who consider themselves well versed in modern music, and then they start flipping through my home-made CDs and they can't find a single artist they recognise.
Maybe if these new smart surveillance cameras get sufficiently smart, Britain won't need scientists. Just put surveillance cameras on all natural phenomena, and let the cameras figure out how stuff works.
Umm, exactly what credible scientific studies have been made to find evidence of galactic colonisation?
Don't say SETI. SETI's focus is on finding broadcast beacons from ETIs who have not colonised the galaxy; if you've colonised the galaxy you don't need to set up beacons. SETI is not looking for general comm traffic, and the last time I checked, most researchers conceded they couldn't detect such traffic even if they wanted to. The only signals we are likely to find are those specifically broadcast to be easy to find. The failure of SETI to detect such signals supports the idea that the galaxy has been colonised.
Scientists seem to have this conceit that either:
a) they can find the most extraordinary evidence of the most extraordinary scientific discovery in human history - without ever actually having to look for it; and/or
b) if aliens were here, then they would necessarily come and announce themselves to the scientific community, because it is just so important to aliens that our scientists be given irrefutable evidence.
In my opinion, there are three common assumptions about aliens that should never ever be made:
1) They think like we do
2) They are the result of natural evolution
3) They still engage in the quaint habit of living on planets (or even around stars)
When you are talking about a civilisation that may be hundreds of millions of years old, these assumptions are completely unsupportable. Without these assumptions, there is no reason to believe that evidence of galactic colonisation should necessarily fall into our lap. And if it's not going to fall into our lap, and scientists have made no credible effort to find such evidence, then I don't see how anybody can make a conclusion about the Fermi Paradox one way or another.
Fine. If raw acoustic filtering it is too difficult, then run any outbound audio stream through the same speech recognition software, and filter out any duplicate commands that result.
Assuming of course that Microsoft's legions of highly skilled programmers can figure out a way to compare two text strings.
What sadass browsers are you using?
In both Firefox and Opera, if I want to go Yahoo, I go to my address bar and type "yahoo" and it fills in the rest. Same thing on the browser on my cell phone. Heck, even lynx does automatic address completion!
Maybe I'm missing the point to this, but shouldn't these variable formats all be parsed and handled by the software in the first place? How hard is it for a computer to be able to convert between, and simultaneously understand, the use of spaces, underscores, dashes, quotes, StudlyCaps, etc? Seems to me that is the right way of handling this, because you surely can't expect all implimentations and all users to know and follow whatever standard may possibly eventually arise.
Meanwhile, the Who-Still-Gives-A-Flying-Fig-About-The-Doomsday-Cl ock Clock remains stuck on flashing 12:00
Can't stop the signal.
I aim to misbehave.
Let's be bad guys.
... or is the lake near the middle of the picture shaped like a giant fish? No wonder the Face on Mars has vanished, he's gone fishing on Titan!