Yes, it does fall under the FOIA. All weather forecasts will be published in an open format for anyone who wants to see them -- a mere five years after they are made.
But can you strip the moderators of their ability to mark shit like this +5 (well, maybe "Funny", but it was "Interesting" when I posted this)?
I mean, really... you can't have RTFA'd. The guy most likely did massive damage to himself, his university's reputation, the Scientific community that relied upon his results, and possibly his employer.
A PHD is given in exchange for the proper work done, knowledge demonstrated, and contribution made to the relevant community. It's not a Cracker-Jack prize for every lying asshole who has no problem wasting other Scientists' careers by having them run off on wild goose chases as a result of your faked numbers. The guy should have his ass sued and put in jail for what he cost everyone else in this mess. Losing his PHD should be the least of his worries.
20 years ago, there was no free software market, technology standards were much more rigidly controled, politics happened in other parts of the world that no one had a satellite phone to pipe to any of a dozen news outlets.
Granted, things can always get better, but why the/. crowd is constantly in "the sky is falling"/"things continue to get worse" mode is beyond me.
We're living in an unprecedented time of freedom of thought, prosperity, openness. Get some perspective already.
Although I was enjoying BeOS development at the time, it's a good thing that Apple went with NeXT. With NeXT, they got Jobs, who was the real reason for Apple's turn-around and continued relevance today.
If they had bought BeOS, both companies would now be gone instead of just the one.
Sure, some office are no better, but not the ones where I've worked. At home, you might feel free to spend the morning playing EQ. Miss a deadline for a feature of your software? Just tell your boss that your hard drive crashed and you spent the morning rebuilding it.
In a reasonable environment where your boss is right there and you work directly with other employees, bullshit like that is a bit harder to float.
Being in various Internet-related and enabled businesses over the past 10 years, I've lived on the "work from home" cutting edge.
Working from home is something that only 1 in 10 people does well enough to justify the practice. The other 9 out of 10 people are simply not able to focus on work as well as when they're in an office environment.
When people are left to their own devices, they just don't get much done. At home there are too many distractions like TV, the laundry, video games, etc.
However, I think it's obvious that Republicans don't really care about getting taxes anyway. As long as they can borrow against the future and funnel that money into lucrative contracts for corporations, they don't give a whit who pays taxes.
Bah, you directly employed by the DNC?
Politicians are mostly corrupt and looking out for themselves. They worry about their constituents only to the extent of getting re-elected. You're a fool if you really think that sweeping generalizations like the one you made above applies to the Republicans, but not to the Democrats.
Those guys completely lack discipline. On this particular topic, I'd give a little credit to the Republicans for lowering taxes. Despite all of the crying about tax breaks being for "the rich", my tax burden went down noticeably over the past couple of years, and I'm by no means rich.
If the government has less money, that's generally a good thing, because it means they'll have less power.
Democrats and Republicans all suck. The more Americans who realize that and vote for viable independents, the better.
Obviously, the general computer-using populace doesn't think of "free" in the way that you people must rabidly insist upon its being used.
Get over it. This is free advice. Free as in "it's fucking free, everyone understands what I mean without having to tack on a bunch of extra crap to satisfy your hang-ups."
"Aerial photographs"? Jesus Christ, you guys actually believe in that shit story? It's a STORY, people. There's no way that even a small percentage of earth's animals could have been gathered and maintained for 40 days on an ark. The geological record completely contradicts any claims that there was a massive flood 4k or so years ago.
You guys are in la la land. My five year old daughter figured out that the Easter Bunny is a fake all by herself, but you people can't figure out that the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark stories are just as fabricated? Amazing.
Not that I completely object to the idea of wanton sex... mmmm.... what? Oh yeah. Anyway, microbes are very easily transferred as a result of sex, so the church's stance -- like those of not eating pork, things that were "unclean", etc. -- actually had societal benefits.
In modern times, you need look no further than the rampant AIDS epedimic in Africa to see where promiscuity can lead a society.
Oh, BS. This isn't "sick". It's just another step in the continuing path of man's near-inevitable destiny to completely control the physical world.
We're going to genetically modify many species now that we know how. Eventually, we're going to genetically modify ourselves to make "human beings" smarter, stronger, more fuel efficient, whatever.
Sure, we should take some care to avert disaster -- but if we're going to experiment, it might as well be with grass and other simple life forms that are unlikely to harm us.
Get your head out of the sand. As the other poster basically pointed out, your whole modern western life is made possible because of mankind's messing with agriculture. Don't be such a Chicken Little now.
Now, of course that seems like hogwash, and maybe it is, but it is pretty accurate
Bullshit. If it's accurate, then you could come up with a test to prove it. You could take astrological predictions for an individual based upon his house and compare them with random predictions. These could then be compared for statistical validity, proving once and for all that astrology is accurate.
Get it through your skull. It's PROVEN TO BE bullshit. It's always been bullshit, and it will always be bullshit. I've had close dealings with astrologists. I know how some of what they say can seem to be more than just coincidence, but that's all it is -- coincidence and psychology. It's got nothing to do with anyone's "house" or "fate". It's all just bullshit. Don't be a sucker.
THe problem I have with your argument is this: capitalists justify compensation based on skill sets
How outrageous!
Next, you'll be telling me that those dirty capitalists actually try to run businesses that make money!
What's this world coming to when some of us can't just work our asses off for that unskilled, unmotivated, worthless piece of shit next door who is more than happy to reap the benefits of our hard work? If only this world were more fair like Comrade Marx wanted it to be!
(However, lately Carter seems to have taken on Trek-like problem-solving skills: "well, we could [insert improbable but ultimately 100% accurate solution 60 seconds after being presented with problem]." That bugs me a little.)
Yeah, compare that with real-life situations of a similar nature. Take the recent re-enablement of the Spirit rover -- it too a couple of weeks for them to figure out that they probably needed to dump some files to make room in memory for regular operations. No ground-breaking new technology they were dealing with... definitely not in the time-frames that Star Trek is always dealing in.
Nope, just a simple memory management issue similar to what many of us deal with every day... and it took weeks. I'm not knocking NASA at all. They did what they had to do and got it working. I'm just always amazed at the universe-saving technologies invented and implemented on the spot in the ST series.
scientists are forced by our society to lie about these uses to get public support and public funding
Don't let them off that easily. They're part of a broken system whose causes can be found all over our society.
- We have a public that's incredibly ignorant of science... which is a compliment, considering that they're mostly just stupid.
- We have ignorant politicians elected by that ignorant/stupid public who don't understand science well enough to know how we should be spending public funds.
- And back to the Scientists: We have a Scientific community with members who lie their asses off like a bunch of whores for money. No one "forces" them to lie, they do it of their own volition.
- Finally, we have supporters of Science in the public who make excuses for poor ethical behavior by saying "scientists are forced by our society to lie".
The answer to most of these problems is "education". Education, education, education. Besides the defense of our borders, it's the one thing that our government absolutely must provide: a solid education for every member of our society.
They've harnessed the power of horniness, but for evil. If only that unlimited power could be harnessed for good -- it would be like having controlable fusion and all of the heavy water we'd ever need.
I've thought about trying that one, but the problem is this: Let's say that you have two networks, A and B. Say you send a UDP packet from a host on A that has source port 100 and destinatio port 5000, NAT firewall A will translate that to some other source port, say 535. That packet will then bounce off of NAT firewall B because a connection hasn't been opened yet on port 5000. When a host on B goes to try to open the fake UDP pathway, how is it going to know to use port 535 on the A NAT firewall that will map back to port 100 on the original host machine?
I guess you could have the third party machine get the fiewall source port of A (if you send your opening packet to it instead) and pass that on to B, but wouldn't most NAT firewall writers check to make sure that all mapped ports are remote address specific? That is, if 23.34.55.66 is where my host A sent its original UDP packet to, I'm not going to accept responses from some other IP address.
Without some type of private/public digital signature system, you're going to see problems like this. Don't trust passwords on supposed read only documents as a general rule.
The sooner business people understand these things, the sooner that we'll all see the benefits of a standardized, omnipresent public key infrastructure. Make sure to educate the nontechnical people in your office so that they demand better security for their data.
Disclaimer: This is not my work, I got it in an email and thought it was relevant to "president" Bush's Homeland policy building:
It's too late. Disclaiming authorship of the writing doesn't make you look any less stupid than if you had written it yourself, what with the way you quoted it in a post and everything.
Second of all, it's hilarious that there are still people small and bothered enough that Gore lost the election to spitefully fume while typing 'president' in quotes to imply that Bush didn't win. News flash, Gore lost. Did you not receive an email about that one?
You probably would have been better served studying the penis enlargement emails you've most likely received in your inbox. You certainly won't be pleasing the ladies with your political acumen or your ability to understand history. Maybe lengthening your dick will help?
So...what are you going to say when they extend this program to include US citizens/residents?
I'll say, "Just make sure that it doesn't cause significant delays."
You have to prove your identity at the airport anyway, what's wrong with using biometric data that raises the bar against those trying to circumvent the system? Maybe it would even allow you to forget your license if you could prove your identity with your fingerprint. Probably not, but maybe.
Currently, if they want to track a law-abiders' movements through airports, they can just use the license/passport to do so. The DMV has my thumb print on file anyway, so what's the big deal?
What are you going to say when foreign countries are all going to start doing this to all foreigners entering their countries?
Who cares?
What are you going to say when the next terrorist kills thousands of people because everyone is too scared to do anything meaningful to protect the airways?
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Yes, it does fall under the FOIA. All weather forecasts will be published in an open format for anyone who wants to see them -- a mere five years after they are made.
Rejoice in the freedom of information act.
Please, it would probably take about $10B in overhead to actually collect that $5B.
Heh, "GBW"...
Dumb shit.
I mean that You can't strip someone of knowledge.
But can you strip the moderators of their ability to mark shit like this +5 (well, maybe "Funny", but it was "Interesting" when I posted this)?
I mean, really... you can't have RTFA'd. The guy most likely did massive damage to himself, his university's reputation, the Scientific community that relied upon his results, and possibly his employer.
A PHD is given in exchange for the proper work done, knowledge demonstrated, and contribution made to the relevant community. It's not a Cracker-Jack prize for every lying asshole who has no problem wasting other Scientists' careers by having them run off on wild goose chases as a result of your faked numbers. The guy should have his ass sued and put in jail for what he cost everyone else in this mess. Losing his PHD should be the least of his worries.
20 years ago, there was no free software market, technology standards were much more rigidly controled, politics happened in other parts of the world that no one had a satellite phone to pipe to any of a dozen news outlets.
/. crowd is constantly in "the sky is falling"/"things continue to get worse" mode is beyond me.
Granted, things can always get better, but why the
We're living in an unprecedented time of freedom of thought, prosperity, openness. Get some perspective already.
Although I was enjoying BeOS development at the time, it's a good thing that Apple went with NeXT. With NeXT, they got Jobs, who was the real reason for Apple's turn-around and continued relevance today.
If they had bought BeOS, both companies would now be gone instead of just the one.
Please send your resume to:
Bill Gates
C/O Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Sure, some office are no better, but not the ones where I've worked. At home, you might feel free to spend the morning playing EQ. Miss a deadline for a feature of your software? Just tell your boss that your hard drive crashed and you spent the morning rebuilding it.
In a reasonable environment where your boss is right there and you work directly with other employees, bullshit like that is a bit harder to float.
Being in various Internet-related and enabled businesses over the past 10 years, I've lived on the "work from home" cutting edge.
Working from home is something that only 1 in 10 people does well enough to justify the practice. The other 9 out of 10 people are simply not able to focus on work as well as when they're in an office environment.
When people are left to their own devices, they just don't get much done. At home there are too many distractions like TV, the laundry, video games, etc.
However, I think it's obvious that Republicans don't really care about getting taxes anyway. As long as they can borrow against the future and funnel that money into lucrative contracts for corporations, they don't give a whit who pays taxes.
Bah, you directly employed by the DNC?
Politicians are mostly corrupt and looking out for themselves. They worry about their constituents only to the extent of getting re-elected. You're a fool if you really think that sweeping generalizations like the one you made above applies to the Republicans, but not to the Democrats.
Those guys completely lack discipline. On this particular topic, I'd give a little credit to the Republicans for lowering taxes. Despite all of the crying about tax breaks being for "the rich", my tax burden went down noticeably over the past couple of years, and I'm by no means rich.
If the government has less money, that's generally a good thing, because it means they'll have less power.
Democrats and Republicans all suck. The more Americans who realize that and vote for viable independents, the better.
Obviously, the general computer-using populace doesn't think of "free" in the way that you people must rabidly insist upon its being used.
Get over it. This is free advice. Free as in "it's fucking free, everyone understands what I mean without having to tack on a bunch of extra crap to satisfy your hang-ups."
"Aerial photographs"? Jesus Christ, you guys actually believe in that shit story? It's a STORY, people. There's no way that even a small percentage of earth's animals could have been gathered and maintained for 40 days on an ark. The geological record completely contradicts any claims that there was a massive flood 4k or so years ago.
You guys are in la la land. My five year old daughter figured out that the Easter Bunny is a fake all by herself, but you people can't figure out that the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark stories are just as fabricated? Amazing.
Not that I completely object to the idea of wanton sex... mmmm.... what? Oh yeah. Anyway, microbes are very easily transferred as a result of sex, so the church's stance -- like those of not eating pork, things that were "unclean", etc. -- actually had societal benefits.
In modern times, you need look no further than the rampant AIDS epedimic in Africa to see where promiscuity can lead a society.
Oh, BS. This isn't "sick". It's just another step in the continuing path of man's near-inevitable destiny to completely control the physical world.
We're going to genetically modify many species now that we know how. Eventually, we're going to genetically modify ourselves to make "human beings" smarter, stronger, more fuel efficient, whatever.
Sure, we should take some care to avert disaster -- but if we're going to experiment, it might as well be with grass and other simple life forms that are unlikely to harm us.
Get your head out of the sand. As the other poster basically pointed out, your whole modern western life is made possible because of mankind's messing with agriculture. Don't be such a Chicken Little now.
Now, of course that seems like hogwash, and maybe it is, but it is pretty accurate
Bullshit. If it's accurate, then you could come up with a test to prove it. You could take astrological predictions for an individual based upon his house and compare them with random predictions. These could then be compared for statistical validity, proving once and for all that astrology is accurate.
Wow, if only someone would take the time to perform tests like these. Maybe someone could even make a contest to offer money to anyone who could prove a fantastic claim like "astrology is accurate".
Get it through your skull. It's PROVEN TO BE bullshit. It's always been bullshit, and it will always be bullshit. I've had close dealings with astrologists. I know how some of what they say can seem to be more than just coincidence, but that's all it is -- coincidence and psychology. It's got nothing to do with anyone's "house" or "fate". It's all just bullshit. Don't be a sucker.
THe problem I have with your argument is this: capitalists justify compensation based on skill sets
How outrageous!
Next, you'll be telling me that those dirty capitalists actually try to run businesses that make money!
What's this world coming to when some of us can't just work our asses off for that unskilled, unmotivated, worthless piece of shit next door who is more than happy to reap the benefits of our hard work? If only this world were more fair like Comrade Marx wanted it to be!
(However, lately Carter seems to have taken on Trek-like problem-solving skills: "well, we could [insert improbable but ultimately 100% accurate solution 60 seconds after being presented with problem]." That bugs me a little.)
Yeah, compare that with real-life situations of a similar nature. Take the recent re-enablement of the Spirit rover -- it too a couple of weeks for them to figure out that they probably needed to dump some files to make room in memory for regular operations. No ground-breaking new technology they were dealing with... definitely not in the time-frames that Star Trek is always dealing in.
Nope, just a simple memory management issue similar to what many of us deal with every day... and it took weeks. I'm not knocking NASA at all. They did what they had to do and got it working. I'm just always amazed at the universe-saving technologies invented and implemented on the spot in the ST series.
Yes, but I preferred to spend most of my time at Nana Plaza? :)
scientists are forced by our society to lie about these uses to get public support and public funding
Don't let them off that easily. They're part of a broken system whose causes can be found all over our society.
- We have a public that's incredibly ignorant of science... which is a compliment, considering that they're mostly just stupid.
- We have ignorant politicians elected by that ignorant/stupid public who don't understand science well enough to know how we should be spending public funds.
- And back to the Scientists: We have a Scientific community with members who lie their asses off like a bunch of whores for money. No one "forces" them to lie, they do it of their own volition.
- Finally, we have supporters of Science in the public who make excuses for poor ethical behavior by saying "scientists are forced by our society to lie".
The answer to most of these problems is "education". Education, education, education. Besides the defense of our borders, it's the one thing that our government absolutely must provide: a solid education for every member of our society.
They've harnessed the power of horniness, but for evil. If only that unlimited power could be harnessed for good -- it would be like having controlable fusion and all of the heavy water we'd ever need.
Amazingly clever, those evil spamming bastards.
I think that the important thing that we can all gather from this story, is that no one wants to actually live in Boston. Damn that Ted Kennedy. :)
I've thought about trying that one, but the problem is this: Let's say that you have two networks, A and B. Say you send a UDP packet from a host on A that has source port 100 and destinatio port 5000, NAT firewall A will translate that to some other source port, say 535. That packet will then bounce off of NAT firewall B because a connection hasn't been opened yet on port 5000. When a host on B goes to try to open the fake UDP pathway, how is it going to know to use port 535 on the A NAT firewall that will map back to port 100 on the original host machine?
I guess you could have the third party machine get the fiewall source port of A (if you send your opening packet to it instead) and pass that on to B, but wouldn't most NAT firewall writers check to make sure that all mapped ports are remote address specific? That is, if 23.34.55.66 is where my host A sent its original UDP packet to, I'm not going to accept responses from some other IP address.
Without some type of private/public digital signature system, you're going to see problems like this. Don't trust passwords on supposed read only documents as a general rule.
The sooner business people understand these things, the sooner that we'll all see the benefits of a standardized, omnipresent public key infrastructure. Make sure to educate the nontechnical people in your office so that they demand better security for their data.
Disclaimer: This is not my work, I got it in an email and thought it was relevant to "president" Bush's Homeland policy building:
It's too late. Disclaiming authorship of the writing doesn't make you look any less stupid than if you had written it yourself, what with the way you quoted it in a post and everything.
Second of all, it's hilarious that there are still people small and bothered enough that Gore lost the election to spitefully fume while typing 'president' in quotes to imply that Bush didn't win. News flash, Gore lost. Did you not receive an email about that one?
You probably would have been better served studying the penis enlargement emails you've most likely received in your inbox. You certainly won't be pleasing the ladies with your political acumen or your ability to understand history. Maybe lengthening your dick will help?
So...what are you going to say when they extend this program to include US citizens/residents?
I'll say, "Just make sure that it doesn't cause significant delays."
You have to prove your identity at the airport anyway, what's wrong with using biometric data that raises the bar against those trying to circumvent the system? Maybe it would even allow you to forget your license if you could prove your identity with your fingerprint. Probably not, but maybe.
Currently, if they want to track a law-abiders' movements through airports, they can just use the license/passport to do so. The DMV has my thumb print on file anyway, so what's the big deal?
What are you going to say when foreign countries are all going to start doing this to all foreigners entering their countries?
Who cares?
What are you going to say when the next terrorist kills thousands of people because everyone is too scared to do anything meaningful to protect the airways?