The planet causes a depression. Why would the moon move into the depression? Something must be pulling it down - the simple existence of a depression would not cause the moon to move (that is, if you reject gravity as the pull between bodies).
The moon doesn't move into the depression. The moon , like every other object, keeps traveling in a straight line until it collides with something. All the depression does is change the shape of a straight line. Any object in "free fall" is travelling in a straight line through curved space. Yes, satellites in orbit are falling unhindered in a straight line - that looks like a circle due to the curvature of space.
My kids thought it would be loads of fun. It should be able to handle gentle hills. The smaller kids would go in front - but I wouldn't want any cars around. Problem is, most places that don't allow cars, don't allow bikes either.
So assuming I could find a place to store it, and some places we could actually go with it, I'd pay around $300 for the contraption. Doesn't look like it'll happen soon.
If I was on the 90 day Mars mission, and discovered that I was off course due to some malfunction, I would really like to have some on-board propulsion to get back on track. On board backup propulsion sufficient for course correction, and redundant plasma generators are a must for safety and mission reliability.
For generating the plasma, Focus Fusion looks like a real possibility. Could even be light enough to carry onboard for power and backup propulsion.
I did use the words "subject to" - which is the same as what you are saying in English. However, you say that this submission is "to God alone", whereas I characterized this submission as external to an Islamic government. The word by itself can't tell us which of these understandings is correct. I base my understanding by observing what Muslims have done or attempted to do throughout history.
Of course, similar observations of the actual behaviour of self proclaimed Christians by other posters in this thread have led them to conclude that Christianity is a similarly legalistic system despite explicit doctrine to the contrary in Old and New Testament and formal statements of doctrine from both Catholics and Protestants.
Are you claiming, like President Bush, that the Islam requiring forced submission of the whole world to an Islamic state is an aberration? And that the true Islam is one of internal submission to God alone? Can you quote an Islamic cleric that supports your view?
Get baptised or 'born again' or whatever is the cheap and easy way. Now you're a good person - a 'Christian' full of the Holy Ghost.
Actually, this is a key difference between Christianity and both Islam and Communism. Both of the latter two religions (yes, Communism is a religion) promise world peace once the entire world is subjugated and morality externally imposed. The word 'Islam' is the name for the promised peace that will result once all the earth is subject to Sharia law. The word 'Communism' is the name of that state of peace and well being that is promised once all of the old capitalist systems have been overthrown and replaced with a world wide commune.
Christianity, on the other hand, while sharing the goal of promoting morality, dismisses the possibility of achieving true morality by external control as impossible. Consider the strong willed child whose parents make him sit down: "I'm may be sitting down on the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside." For Christians, true morality begins when God changes the heart, and transforms from the inside, and finally manifests itself in external behaviour. World peace will never be achieved until Christ returns to destroy this universe and move all those who have been internally transformed to a new heavens and a new earth. (In some interpretations, there is first a period of 1000 years of externally enforced peace on this Earth with Christ as the ruler - which ultimately fails, proving the need to destroy this world and start over).
Christians who think that true morality can be externally imposed are heretics. The heresy is called "legalism" or "phariseeism" after the Jewish sect prominent in the New Testament. A more subtle mistake Christians make is to think that they, as an individual, can transform their own lives by imposing a set of rules on themselves. This is no more effective than having the government do it - the result is an annoying "holier than thou" attitude. In Christian doctrine, the process of becoming truly righteous must begin with a supernatural internal change initiated by God Himself.
The use of external force is reserved for Secular Government. The specific example Paul points to was the secular Roman government - but this does not mean that officials of the government cannot be religious. The purpose of government is to externally impose morality - for example, "do not murder" is a moral principle which the government attempts to enforce. ("Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.") It is supposed to be understood, however, that this external enforcement does not produce true righteousness, but only enables the society to survive.
Attempts to externally enforce sexual morality are similarly founded on the survival of society. The healthy growth and development of children is best promoted by a stable two parent family. This principle is the basis on which the government claims the authority to take children away from a clearly disfunctional family (locking kids in closets, etc). It used to be the principle on which our government implemented sanctions against adultery. It used to be the principle on which premarital sex was sanctioned - it tends to create children in need of a home. It is also the principle on which gay marriage should not be allowed. It is one thing for people who will never raise children to fool around and cut their own lives short. It is a more serious matter to bring children (e.g. adopted) into that environment.
TC has nothing to do with preventing your computer from being hacked. Instead, it protects your computer from you. NOW WAIT, this is actually a useful thing. Most Windows viruses today do not exploit technical flaws. They exploit stupid Windows users. As in, "Open the enclosed document for details. Duuuuhhhhhh, OK."
People that use Windows don't want to think about anything related to computers. They might be smart in other areas, but when it comes to computers, they want Microsoft to take care of them. Ignoring for the moment Microsoft's evil efforts to force everyone to be a stupid Windows user, this is a legitimate role for Microsoft to fill.
Since Windows users continue to run any malware (and spyware and adware) that shows up in their inbox or on a website, and cannot be trained, the only left way for Microsoft to take care of them is to fix the hardware so that it will only let them install approved software.
This is nothing wrong with this, as long as those of us who don't want Microsoft to take care of us can use our own keys for the TCA. Linux support might be along the lines of a super tripwire. The important thing is that owners need to be able to install their own master key if desired.
Having said that, here are some evil things that Microsoft will likely do - even with the option to install your own master key.
Microsoft controlled machines will refuse to run open source software. Bye bye Firefox for Windows.
Getting a key to distribute software that Microsoft controlled machines will run will involve selling your soul in some way.
Microsoft tools will create encrypted web content that only Microsoft programs can read (ala Windows Media). The content can only be read on Microsoft controlled machines.
End users won't understand why this is happening, they will see open source software as "defective" because it can't view Microsoft compatible content. (This already happens to great extent now.)
is easy when you have multiple CPUs. Just add more. Instead of adding RAM chips to a bank of SIMMs, add a CPU/RAM module to a bank of processors. Each CPU has a gigantic L1 cache and no external memory (other than the other CPU modules). The reduction in complexity should let the CPUs run much cooler - which is fortunate with so many of them.
Ideally, the hardware and OS should handle mixing different speeds and RAM sizes for the modules, so you could upgrade by adding some of the latest without throwing away your starter modules.
Seems nuclear waste is less dangerous than people:)
The thing I like about vitrification is that it meets my criterion for protecting future generations beyond our current civilization. If todays civilization collapses (as it has several times throughout history), and some future people discover our caves full of vitrified radwaste, it won't be any more dangerous to them than a uranium cave. Cancer sufferers might start going there for the occasional cure (as with uranium caves). If some enterprising future scientists tries grinding up some of those rocks, they will discover the hard way the danger they pose - just as the Curies did with Radium. But as least it will be a small sample, and not a disaster.
It would be interesting to read their theories about how these rocks formed.:-)
is to avoid itchy trigger finger games and stick with games like Myst and Sim-City (or Sim-xxx). I think there might be something wrong with your hardware or drivers though, because my cheap LCD is plenty fast enough for Tux Racer, Moto Cross, LBreakout. I can't detect any difference from my CRT displays.
It seems to me that there is a potential synergy here.
People don't want to live near nuclear waste disposal sites.
We want to preserve large tracts of land in an undeveloped state for a variety of reasons including biodiversity and aesthetics.
So put the storage facilities in the middle of national parks you want to protect. No one wants to build house there, and the stream of tourists is reduced to those who can overcome irrational fears enough to be within a few hundred miles of some rocks that are slightly more radioactive than the rocks they are hiking on.
The moral of this story is that Linux promoters should do all they can to help Microsoft stop Windows Piracy. Just like the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it rigorously, the best way to convince people of how expensive Windows really is, is to make sure they are paying for it.
Speech recognition has to be trained for each speaker type. Cheaper systems have to be trained for each speaker. Even human beings have to be trained for each speaker type. When I took my wife to Barbados on our honeymoon, she asked me what language they were speaking (I had already been there virtually via tapes, pictures and records from my Dad). I told her it was English. She didn't believe me! It took about 2 days before she could understand the native speakers.
You are correct, but finding two messages with the same MD5 allows a shyster lawyer attack. The lawyer finds two contracts with the same MD5. One says something you would find reasonable. The other says you owe him $1000/mo for life (or your firstborn child or whatever). He presents you with the first contract to digitally sign. He then drags you into court with the second contract - your protests that "that isn't what I signed" not withstanding.
I would hope that you could present the original contract you signed with the same MD5 as evidence.
I would hope that the judge and jury would realize that it is easy (given the recent finding) for the shyster to find two contracts with the same MD5, but that it is computationally infeasible for you to find an alternate contract with a given MD5. Therefore, the existence of the two documents should be enough evidence to put the shyster in jail! One would hope...
However, as others have suggested, it would be prudent to make minor alterations to any important document you digitally sign to defeat the shyster lawyer attack.
In real life crypto systems, the minor alterations take the form of random salt added to the hash. So a properly designed crypto system is not broken by this finding. In fact, any document signing system should include random salt in the hash and signature so that you don't have to go changing color to colour before signing.
I have no objection to the monopoly on distribution. The problem is that once I buy a DVD, I can't do anything with it legally - unless I buy an approved player which I don't want or need. But you're right. It's only a show, so I just play family movies in our DVD drive. More entertaining than some of the drivel our there, anyway. I'll be happy to buy DVDs (of LOTR and Spiderman for instance) if I can get written permission to play them for personal use.
Your definition is a good one. But it still doesn't make this product the first - or revolutionary. Sendmail created the 'milter' interface many years ago precisely to make this kind of rejection of unwanted mail possible. There are many sendmail milters written in many languages. The most popular being C, Perl, Python in that order. I run a Python milter which removes Windows executables (except DOC and XLS), checks SPF, and checks content with DSPAMwrapped for Python. Of the 40000 spams a day we get, nearly all are rejected before SMTP DATA. Those flunking content check are rejected before the connection closes - except when addressed to a 'screener', in which case it goes to a spam mailbox. Screeners have the task of providing feedback to the Bayesian filter - relieving others in the company of the burden.
I should mention that these problems are fixable (e.g. always deploy anti-forgery with TDMA), and that the idea is sound. It is probably one of the better solutions for individuals. I am sorry to have been so negative. I had just got done deleting a bunch of that 'did you send me mail?' spam from users that did not check SPF.
Whenever I sit down to design one of these projects to reuse an old PC, I run up against power consumption. For instance, I had an old 486 with hard drives striped and ready to serve as a firewall. At 100 watts, a $70 Linksys would pay for itself in a year (firewall runs 24x7).
Embedded rules for these kind of applications. If you want to have a really custom solution, the One-wire products are more interesting. Start with TINI (a "Java Stamp" with ethernet) and add
One-wire sensors and controllers.
TDMA replies to an unknown sender and asks to "kindly reply to prove that you are a human". The reply-to is a temporary address with a long serial number. Once added, the address is on white-list. This is 99.999 percent effective.
And when the TDMA user doesn't use SPF or something to block forged envelopes, they spam the world with their "did you send me some email" replies. And the reply template is customizable - so every TDMA spammer is unique. Also, while using a temporary envelope address for their own reply, the system does not work with other systems that use temporary envelope addresses like SRS or SES. The underlying design assumption is that TDMA is the only anti-SPAM measure worth using.
I have been saved from injury on many occasions by my glasses. I am not wild about Lasik for the same reason I'm not wild about contacts. Everytime I absent mindedly let the oil get too hot before throwing in the frozen veggies, I bless my glasses.
If life arose spontaneously in or was designed for water on Earth, why couldn't it arise spontaneously in or be designed for other environments? How do we know there isn't life on Jupiter that drinks liquid methane? How do we know there isn't life on the Sun, with bodies formed from plasma and shaped by magnetic fields?
I don't see why everyone is so certain that water based life is the only kind there is. About the only universal principle that any kind of life must obey is entropy - there must be an energy source and an energy sink.
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The moon doesn't move into the depression. The moon , like every other object, keeps traveling in a straight line until it collides with something. All the depression does is change the shape of a straight line. Any object in "free fall" is travelling in a straight line through curved space. Yes, satellites in orbit are falling unhindered in a straight line - that looks like a circle due to the curvature of space.
So assuming I could find a place to store it, and some places we could actually go with it, I'd pay around $300 for the contraption. Doesn't look like it'll happen soon.
For generating the plasma, Focus Fusion looks like a real possibility. Could even be light enough to carry onboard for power and backup propulsion.
Of course, similar observations of the actual behaviour of self proclaimed Christians by other posters in this thread have led them to conclude that Christianity is a similarly legalistic system despite explicit doctrine to the contrary in Old and New Testament and formal statements of doctrine from both Catholics and Protestants.
Are you claiming, like President Bush, that the Islam requiring forced submission of the whole world to an Islamic state is an aberration? And that the true Islam is one of internal submission to God alone? Can you quote an Islamic cleric that supports your view?
Actually, this is a key difference between Christianity and both Islam and Communism. Both of the latter two religions (yes, Communism is a religion) promise world peace once the entire world is subjugated and morality externally imposed. The word 'Islam' is the name for the promised peace that will result once all the earth is subject to Sharia law. The word 'Communism' is the name of that state of peace and well being that is promised once all of the old capitalist systems have been overthrown and replaced with a world wide commune.
Christianity, on the other hand, while sharing the goal of promoting morality, dismisses the possibility of achieving true morality by external control as impossible. Consider the strong willed child whose parents make him sit down: "I'm may be sitting down on the outside, but I'm standing up on the inside." For Christians, true morality begins when God changes the heart, and transforms from the inside, and finally manifests itself in external behaviour. World peace will never be achieved until Christ returns to destroy this universe and move all those who have been internally transformed to a new heavens and a new earth. (In some interpretations, there is first a period of 1000 years of externally enforced peace on this Earth with Christ as the ruler - which ultimately fails, proving the need to destroy this world and start over).
Christians who think that true morality can be externally imposed are heretics. The heresy is called "legalism" or "phariseeism" after the Jewish sect prominent in the New Testament. A more subtle mistake Christians make is to think that they, as an individual, can transform their own lives by imposing a set of rules on themselves. This is no more effective than having the government do it - the result is an annoying "holier than thou" attitude. In Christian doctrine, the process of becoming truly righteous must begin with a supernatural internal change initiated by God Himself.
The use of external force is reserved for Secular Government. The specific example Paul points to was the secular Roman government - but this does not mean that officials of the government cannot be religious. The purpose of government is to externally impose morality - for example, "do not murder" is a moral principle which the government attempts to enforce. ("Whoso sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.") It is supposed to be understood, however, that this external enforcement does not produce true righteousness, but only enables the society to survive.
Attempts to externally enforce sexual morality are similarly founded on the survival of society. The healthy growth and development of children is best promoted by a stable two parent family. This principle is the basis on which the government claims the authority to take children away from a clearly disfunctional family (locking kids in closets, etc). It used to be the principle on which our government implemented sanctions against adultery. It used to be the principle on which premarital sex was sanctioned - it tends to create children in need of a home. It is also the principle on which gay marriage should not be allowed. It is one thing for people who will never raise children to fool around and cut their own lives short. It is a more serious matter to bring children (e.g. adopted) into that environment.
People that use Windows don't want to think about anything related to computers. They might be smart in other areas, but when it comes to computers, they want Microsoft to take care of them. Ignoring for the moment Microsoft's evil efforts to force everyone to be a stupid Windows user, this is a legitimate role for Microsoft to fill.
Since Windows users continue to run any malware (and spyware and adware) that shows up in their inbox or on a website, and cannot be trained, the only left way for Microsoft to take care of them is to fix the hardware so that it will only let them install approved software.
This is nothing wrong with this, as long as those of us who don't want Microsoft to take care of us can use our own keys for the TCA. Linux support might be along the lines of a super tripwire. The important thing is that owners need to be able to install their own master key if desired.
Having said that, here are some evil things that Microsoft will likely do - even with the option to install your own master key.
Ideally, the hardware and OS should handle mixing different speeds and RAM sizes for the modules, so you could upgrade by adding some of the latest without throwing away your starter modules.
The thing I like about vitrification is that it meets my criterion for protecting future generations beyond our current civilization. If todays civilization collapses (as it has several times throughout history), and some future people discover our caves full of vitrified radwaste, it won't be any more dangerous to them than a uranium cave. Cancer sufferers might start going there for the occasional cure (as with uranium caves). If some enterprising future scientists tries grinding up some of those rocks, they will discover the hard way the danger they pose - just as the Curies did with Radium. But as least it will be a small sample, and not a disaster.
It would be interesting to read their theories about how these rocks formed. :-)
is to avoid itchy trigger finger games and stick with games like Myst and Sim-City (or Sim-xxx). I think there might be something wrong with your hardware or drivers though, because my cheap LCD is plenty fast enough for Tux Racer, Moto Cross, LBreakout. I can't detect any difference from my CRT displays.
- People don't want to live near nuclear waste disposal sites.
- We want to preserve large tracts of land in an undeveloped state for a variety of reasons including biodiversity and aesthetics.
So put the storage facilities in the middle of national parks you want to protect. No one wants to build house there, and the stream of tourists is reduced to those who can overcome irrational fears enough to be within a few hundred miles of some rocks that are slightly more radioactive than the rocks they are hiking on.The moral of this story is that Linux promoters should do all they can to help Microsoft stop Windows Piracy. Just like the best way to get rid of a bad law is to enforce it rigorously, the best way to convince people of how expensive Windows really is, is to make sure they are paying for it.
Speech recognition has to be trained for each speaker type. Cheaper systems have to be trained for each speaker. Even human beings have to be trained for each speaker type. When I took my wife to Barbados on our honeymoon, she asked me what language they were speaking (I had already been there virtually via tapes, pictures and records from my Dad). I told her it was English. She didn't believe me! It took about 2 days before she could understand the native speakers.
I would hope that you could present the original contract you signed with the same MD5 as evidence.
I would hope that the judge and jury would realize that it is easy (given the recent finding) for the shyster to find two contracts with the same MD5, but that it is computationally infeasible for you to find an alternate contract with a given MD5. Therefore, the existence of the two documents should be enough evidence to put the shyster in jail! One would hope ...
However, as others have suggested, it would be prudent to make minor alterations to any important document you digitally sign to defeat the shyster lawyer attack.
In real life crypto systems, the minor alterations take the form of random salt added to the hash. So a properly designed crypto system is not broken by this finding. In fact, any document signing system should include random salt in the hash and signature so that you don't have to go changing color to colour before signing.
Amen, Brother! Preach it!
I have no objection to the monopoly on distribution. The problem is that once I buy a DVD, I can't do anything with it legally - unless I buy an approved player which I don't want or need. But you're right. It's only a show, so I just play family movies in our DVD drive. More entertaining than some of the drivel our there, anyway. I'll be happy to buy DVDs (of LOTR and Spiderman for instance) if I can get written permission to play them for personal use.
Your definition is a good one. But it still doesn't make this product the first - or revolutionary. Sendmail created the 'milter' interface many years ago precisely to make this kind of rejection of unwanted mail possible. There are many sendmail milters written in many languages. The most popular being C, Perl, Python in that order. I run a Python milter which removes Windows executables (except DOC and XLS), checks SPF, and checks content with DSPAM wrapped for Python. Of the 40000 spams a day we get, nearly all are rejected before SMTP DATA. Those flunking content check are rejected before the connection closes - except when addressed to a 'screener', in which case it goes to a spam mailbox. Screeners have the task of providing feedback to the Bayesian filter - relieving others in the company of the burden.
I should mention that these problems are fixable (e.g. always deploy anti-forgery with TDMA), and that the idea is sound. It is probably one of the better solutions for individuals. I am sorry to have been so negative. I had just got done deleting a bunch of that 'did you send me mail?' spam from users that did not check SPF.
Embedded rules for these kind of applications. If you want to have a really custom solution, the One-wire products are more interesting. Start with TINI (a "Java Stamp" with ethernet) and add One-wire sensors and controllers.
And when the TDMA user doesn't use SPF or something to block forged envelopes, they spam the world with their "did you send me some email" replies. And the reply template is customizable - so every TDMA spammer is unique. Also, while using a temporary envelope address for their own reply, the system does not work with other systems that use temporary envelope addresses like SRS or SES. The underlying design assumption is that TDMA is the only anti-SPAM measure worth using.
SCO replaced the original obscenity laced speech on their web site with an edited version.
as a Segway. The Segway is cheaper to maintain. The polo field is easier to clean up with the Segway, but requires additional fertilization.
Linux is a socially engineered worm that claims to be doing good.
I have been saved from injury on many occasions by my glasses. I am not wild about Lasik for the same reason I'm not wild about contacts. Everytime I absent mindedly let the oil get too hot before throwing in the frozen veggies, I bless my glasses.
I don't see why everyone is so certain that water based life is the only kind there is. About the only universal principle that any kind of life must obey is entropy - there must be an energy source and an energy sink.
It does if you believe the currently popular spontaneous generation theories.