Oh, I completely, agree, that reaching a star system is possible, possibly even probable, given a direct course. However to contribute it must survive the journey and reach the right destination. Given that suns are the biggest attractor, and heavy Jupiters are next most attractors, these guys will suck up the majority of material and destroy it through temperature. Even after arriving on an planet of suitable composition, temperature and chemistry, it still has to wait around and last long enough to influence the chemistry there. Landing on the surface is not nearly as good as landing in an ocean. I don't expect it to play out like the movie "Evolution" where the ejecta was able to create its own micro climate.
The odds are low, but non-zero. And I find that very exciting.
You've heard of panspermiation, but lets call it what it is, a massive organic molecule cross pollination, with everything coming from one's own solar system. I have a real hard time accepting panspermiation from interstellar space. And while it might happen, the odds of it are is virtually zero. I'd assume those events to be from supernovas which would likely destroy any organic bonds as the material gets distributed throughout the universe on the shockwave of the supernova. Then it has to survive stellar formation...
Anyway, I think We'll have to add galaxy and solar system to the taxonomical names of species. Ours would be wilky way : sol
Why not have the browser have some kind of globally coordinated download queue that queues the download until someone can scan it. If it's (by URL) already been scanned, then let it download, then verify the MD5 sum of the downloaded vs scanned content. If it matches, then all is good. If not delete it. I don't define "scanned" because it could be a virus scan, or an automated install to a virtual machine, which reports back any opened ports or initiated connections for further review.
This would be a pain for developers and IT, so have a way to disable it, but for most people telling them "we don't know if this download is safe" "We'll download it when we know more" would go a long way to stopping malware. And it has the peripheral effect of slowing up malware people too.
If we didn't measure up to their standards, they'd probably just hack our DNA in whatever way they wanted to turn us into a nice, docile subservient species to serve their purpose on this planet. We're pretty good at doing everything already. Just a few tweaks and we could be ideal for whatevver purpose. At this stage of development we can even engineer our own tools!
Of course some people propose that they've already mucked about making us more intelligent, good gold farmers and possibly even breeding partners. But this isn't nut-jobs of today. This is the ancient Sumerian culture.
I really like the fact that the jack can spin. I can't believe they'd kill that feature for thinness.This means all plugs have to always be straight, or of 90degrees, plugged in the same way all the time.
I'd rather they just invent a 1mm stub plug (1/4 length).
You joke, but there is a scene in American Treasure II where they fingerprint a keyboard and deduce the password using letters hit and a dictionary attack. One shift or caps-lock key use and it blows the solution space exponentially high.
I am waiting for ATMs to have NFC support. That way, my card and/or phone is needed so that I don't have to even touch that machine.
Without these hostile actions, we'd never harden our defenses. We'd never worry about XSS or SQL injections.
I was shocked the first time I looked at the http logs of a "real site" It just amazed me. So now, even if I am going throw-away work on a hobby site, I am sure to guard against these attacks. And everything is better.
Better to know the hackers are out there, rather than assume they don't exist. It makes the threat credible and real and that leads to improvements.
I understand the reason for it existing. I don't understand why we leave so much in the developer's hands. Developers are flawed. They make mistakes like everyone else. I'd much rather have the compiler handle the complexity identically every time rather than rely on a human to always implement correctly. That's what compilers are for.
My rules might be arbitrary. But it is not that I want to stop other languages from working. I just want to eliminate language fragmentation. A lot of that is syntactic saccharin.
"syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" - Alan Perlis
Today I was thinking, as I read some Windows Scripting Host code Why do we still have multiple syntaxs by the same vendor? Ok, LISP gets it's own. But the following languages are all OOP or OOP-able, and all do the same thing: C++, Python, PHP, Perl, C#, Java, WSH, JavaScript
Can we make a couple rules, like: We don't use $ to precede variables Members are '.' Scope is designated with '.' Blocks are indented statements are separated with new lines, unless you want multiple statements on one line, in which case you use ';' Characters are strings of length 1.
And for the love of god, stop that C++0x stuff. Its a mess adding to mess. Making a bigger mess. Its humans worrying about implementation details. That should be the compiler's job. While it takes some level of implementation detail to get the computer to do what you want, the people programming it need to get stuff done. Then home for dinner. We should be working at the algebraic/calculus level and not worrying about how we add.
I believe you are right on. I watched all this play out just after got out of college as a C/C++ developer.
Here's what I remember. C++ was dominating the land. MFC was lousy, but worked. Sun in an attempt to sell SPARC systems invents Java MS Embraces and extends Java, and loses in court MS invents.NET which is Java, but taken to Java's logical conclusion. Originally I applauded MS for this, the CLR was a fanastic idea. But I knew what they were doing... The C/C++ world was moving to POSIX compliance and MS could not have that because we would have source compatibility. Remember, Windows 98, ME, 2000 and were out and blue screens were still common. The 640K barrier still had implications for 98/ME. The internet was taking off and powered by Unix. By introducing.NET they pulled everyone off track.
But In the mean time, scripting languages arose and got polished. Python in particular really advanced, and I learned it. Then this year, I had to learn C#. And it was a step back from Python. It was nice not having to worry about header files, -> vs . and memory management, C# and Python both delivered this, but C# seems unnecessarily complex.
Meanwhile Qt advanced and as far as I am concerned is the only true cross-platform development kit. It's suffered from license issues but not anymore. And when you bring Qt into Python via PySide or PyQt, then you get a truly cross-platform 4th generation language.
We could have done it without.NET It really hasn't added anything to computing. And me talking to the.NET heads at work are talking a different language, but we both mean the same thing. They definitely embraced and extended Java... While still keeping it single platform! Java is actually used on many platforms, but.NET? When was the last time you used Mono?
Yes and no. Fission reactions are bad, and generate bad radiation. Americanism which is in smoke detectors is radioactive. And fission reactors can melt down.
However there is a nuclear reactor that is safe - a fusion reactor. But they are not viable yet. But I bet the "nuclear" word and the dangers of fission reactors will be used to mar the adoption of safe fusion reactors.
Residents are not* billed hourly rates, just daily rates at the most, eliminating the rationale.
Businesses are billed minute or hourly, so it makes sense for them, but they consume way more than the battery can put out, eliminating that rationale.
No, the courts are the protector. Any such law is unconstitutional because it violates your right to property which is the original right that governments are supposed to protect.
We will either default the sudden way of just not paying, Or we will default by printing money (and destroying everyone's retirement funds - public and private)
Nations, when they hit the debt to GDP ratio have NEVER come back. And we are so hooked on the welfare state and our current spending we cannot ever pay it down without major societal changes. The one thing the 2007 crash taught me was we will ignore the situation until we are forced to acknowledge. We will pay higher rates and we will only worry when we can't get a dime no matter the rate.
Given that spending & taxation is the responsibility of congress, it is the President's job to execute the laws & budget that congress hands him, with whatever funding they provide. We are looking now at a dictator if Obama does not sign a budget passed by congress. The president is essentially saying that his social programs are more important to him than the nation not defaulting.
As much as people hate the tea party, a balanced budget constitutional amendment is not evil. It is the first step at fixing the debt-to-GDP ratio. If we always balance the budget and have 3% inflation we can have the debt down to a 50% ratio in 17 years. Then 25% 17 years after that. And we'll be back at the top of the world again in terms of stability and banking product.
The major changes we'd need to make are not going to go over well. We need to bring the military home. When we do, unemployment will go above 12%. We'll have to give up the war on terror, and the war on drugs, both of which fund major parts of the economy through the narco/military industrial complex, which will ripple through the economy.
There is no way without a balanced budget but default.
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Seems very Nine Inch Nails-y, a la Ghosts.
You could have just downloaded everything you needed for free... The only fee is for listing in the Ovi store.
I never got how you could bounce around on stage like a monkey yelling "developers" and still charge people to develop on your platform.
Oh, I completely, agree, that reaching a star system is possible, possibly even probable, given a direct course. However to contribute it must survive the journey and reach the right destination. Given that suns are the biggest attractor, and heavy Jupiters are next most attractors, these guys will suck up the majority of material and destroy it through temperature. Even after arriving on an planet of suitable composition, temperature and chemistry, it still has to wait around and last long enough to influence the chemistry there. Landing on the surface is not nearly as good as landing in an ocean. I don't expect it to play out like the movie "Evolution" where the ejecta was able to create its own micro climate.
The odds are low, but non-zero. And I find that very exciting.
You've heard of panspermiation, but lets call it what it is, a massive organic molecule cross pollination, with everything coming from one's own solar system. I have a real hard time accepting panspermiation from interstellar space. And while it might happen, the odds of it are is virtually zero. I'd assume those events to be from supernovas which would likely destroy any organic bonds as the material gets distributed throughout the universe on the shockwave of the supernova. Then it has to survive stellar formation...
Anyway, I think We'll have to add galaxy and solar system to the taxonomical names of species. Ours would be wilky way : sol
From what I know, they just used a regular SMS alert. What this probably means is it bypassed the SMS, and uses the apple push notifications API.
Why not have the browser have some kind of globally coordinated download queue that queues the download until someone can scan it. If it's (by URL) already been scanned, then let it download, then verify the MD5 sum of the downloaded vs scanned content. If it matches, then all is good. If not delete it. I don't define "scanned" because it could be a virus scan, or an automated install to a virtual machine, which reports back any opened ports or initiated connections for further review.
This would be a pain for developers and IT, so have a way to disable it, but for most people telling them "we don't know if this download is safe" "We'll download it when we know more" would go a long way to stopping malware. And it has the peripheral effect of slowing up malware people too.
I've recently found evidence that they are dumbing us down. The most recent experimental subjects can be found on the show "Jersey Shore"
If we didn't measure up to their standards, they'd probably just hack our DNA in whatever way they wanted to turn us into a nice, docile subservient species to serve their purpose on this planet. We're pretty good at doing everything already. Just a few tweaks and we could be ideal for whatevver purpose. At this stage of development we can even engineer our own tools!
Of course some people propose that they've already mucked about making us more intelligent, good gold farmers and possibly even breeding partners. But this isn't nut-jobs of today. This is the ancient Sumerian culture.
I really like the fact that the jack can spin. I can't believe they'd kill that feature for thinness.This means all plugs have to always be straight, or of 90degrees, plugged in the same way all the time.
I'd rather they just invent a 1mm stub plug (1/4 length).
You joke, but there is a scene in American Treasure II where they fingerprint a keyboard and deduce the password using letters hit and a dictionary attack. One shift or caps-lock key use and it blows the solution space exponentially high.
I am waiting for ATMs to have NFC support. That way, my card and/or phone is needed so that I don't have to even touch that machine.
Contact the post office. You can put your mail on hold. You can even do it on their web site. Amazing, isn't it?
Bulk bail is the only way the post office survives. Sad but true.
I have a commercial web hosting account with a company and they use Horde. And I like it. Very full featured.
Without these hostile actions, we'd never harden our defenses. We'd never worry about XSS or SQL injections.
I was shocked the first time I looked at the http logs of a "real site" It just amazed me. So now, even if I am going throw-away work on a hobby site, I am sure to guard against these attacks. And everything is better.
Better to know the hackers are out there, rather than assume they don't exist. It makes the threat credible and real and that leads to improvements.
I understand the reason for it existing. I don't understand why we leave so much in the developer's hands. Developers are flawed. They make mistakes like everyone else. I'd much rather have the compiler handle the complexity identically every time rather than rely on a human to always implement correctly. That's what compilers are for.
My rules might be arbitrary. But it is not that I want to stop other languages from working. I just want to eliminate language fragmentation. A lot of that is syntactic saccharin.
"syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" - Alan Perlis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_sugar
Addendum:
Today I was thinking, as I read some Windows Scripting Host code Why do we still have multiple syntaxs by the same vendor? Ok, LISP gets it's own.
But the following languages are all OOP or OOP-able, and all do the same thing:
C++, Python, PHP, Perl, C#, Java, WSH, JavaScript
Can we make a couple rules, like:
We don't use $ to precede variables
Members are '.'
Scope is designated with '.'
Blocks are indented
statements are separated with new lines, unless you want multiple statements on one line, in which case you use ';'
Characters are strings of length 1.
And for the love of god, stop that C++0x stuff. Its a mess adding to mess. Making a bigger mess. Its humans worrying about implementation details. That should be the compiler's job. While it takes some level of implementation detail to get the computer to do what you want, the people programming it need to get stuff done. Then home for dinner. We should be working at the algebraic/calculus level and not worrying about how we add.
I believe you are right on. I watched all this play out just after got out of college as a C/C++ developer.
Here's what I remember. .NET which is Java, but taken to Java's logical conclusion. Originally I applauded MS for this, the CLR was a fanastic idea. .NET they pulled everyone off track.
C++ was dominating the land. MFC was lousy, but worked.
Sun in an attempt to sell SPARC systems invents Java
MS Embraces and extends Java, and loses in court
MS invents
But I knew what they were doing... The C/C++ world was moving to POSIX compliance and MS could not have that because we would have source compatibility. Remember, Windows 98, ME, 2000 and were out and blue screens were still common. The 640K barrier still had implications for 98/ME. The internet was taking off and powered by Unix. By introducing
But In the mean time, scripting languages arose and got polished. Python in particular really advanced, and I learned it. Then this year, I had to learn C#. And it was a step back from Python. It was nice not having to worry about header files, -> vs . and memory management, C# and Python both delivered this, but C# seems unnecessarily complex.
Meanwhile Qt advanced and as far as I am concerned is the only true cross-platform development kit. It's suffered from license issues but not anymore. And when you bring Qt into Python via PySide or PyQt, then you get a truly cross-platform 4th generation language.
We could have done it without .NET It really hasn't added anything to computing. And me talking to the .NET heads at work are talking a different language, but we both mean the same thing. They definitely embraced and extended Java... While still keeping it single platform! Java is actually used on many platforms, but .NET? When was the last time you used Mono?
The craft from The Sphere?
Use a submersible, man. More plentiful and can stay down longer.
Human exploration is dangerous, let a machine do it.
Yes and no. Fission reactions are bad, and generate bad radiation. Americanism which is in smoke detectors is radioactive. And fission reactors can melt down.
However there is a nuclear reactor that is safe - a fusion reactor. But they are not viable yet. But I bet the "nuclear" word and the dangers of fission reactors will be used to mar the adoption of safe fusion reactors.
Residents are not* billed hourly rates, just daily rates at the most, eliminating the rationale.
Businesses are billed minute or hourly, so it makes sense for them, but they consume way more than the battery can put out, eliminating that rationale.
What do you mean?
If we all had mini reactors, we'd be free of oil and electric companies.
You lost me. So the way to fix the deficit is more deficit?
No, the courts are the protector. Any such law is unconstitutional because it violates your right to property which is the original right that governments are supposed to protect.
I hate Ron Paul being right, but he is.
We will either default the sudden way of just not paying,
Or we will default by printing money (and destroying everyone's retirement funds - public and private)
Nations, when they hit the debt to GDP ratio have NEVER come back. And we are so hooked on the welfare state and our current spending we cannot ever pay it down without major societal changes. The one thing the 2007 crash taught me was we will ignore the situation until we are forced to acknowledge. We will pay higher rates and we will only worry when we can't get a dime no matter the rate.
Given that spending & taxation is the responsibility of congress, it is the President's job to execute the laws & budget that congress hands him, with whatever funding they provide. We are looking now at a dictator if Obama does not sign a budget passed by congress. The president is essentially saying that his social programs are more important to him than the nation not defaulting.
As much as people hate the tea party, a balanced budget constitutional amendment is not evil. It is the first step at fixing the debt-to-GDP ratio. If we always balance the budget and have 3% inflation we can have the debt down to a 50% ratio in 17 years. Then 25% 17 years after that. And we'll be back at the top of the world again in terms of stability and banking product.
The major changes we'd need to make are not going to go over well. We need to bring the military home. When we do, unemployment will go above 12%. We'll have to give up the war on terror, and the war on drugs, both of which fund major parts of the economy through the narco/military industrial complex, which will ripple through the economy.
There is no way without a balanced budget but default.
I encourage everyone to read this from Commentaries on the Common Laws of England (1827 pp242-)