I believe that Science (like many other things) has been hi-jacked by politics.
This is nothing new. Science has always been at odds with the status quo (politics, religion, etc.) Galileo's fact based observations disagreed with the church (i.e. the ruling power of his day) and he was attacked. Darwin's observations and those of paleontologists of his time were attacked in his day and ever since. In school we were all taught the flat earth denial story (and usually taught it poorly.) I expect Ogg was probably kicked out of the cave by the tribal leader for suggesting that fire might be put to good use.
Politics and religion and corporations and power in general are all invested in the status quo. They are about getting and keeping power. Science can be a threat to the status quo. It can undermine the 'reality' being sold to the masses by the holders of power. For that reason those in power often attack science as a threat, not because they are stupid.
Back in the '80s a business partner and I had a company that literally turned garbage into gold. We would deinstall old mini-computer installations. Minicomputers for those too young to remember were often larger than refrigerators and could have hundreds of circuit boards in them. We'd then pull the board from them and since the computers still had an installed base but few parts available sell the parts to 3rd party repair depots around the country. Whatever didn't sell got boxed up and sent by the ton to a smelter who would extract the gold, silver, copper, etc. Some circuit boards, NCR for instance, had every trace and ground plane gold plated many times thicker than the connectors on today's computers. The huge aluminum castings of disk drives (80 to 100 pounds each) were great scrap too.
Eventually the installed base of systems dried up. That's when my second career started...
A political campaign is not about sharing ideas or coming to a consensus. A political campaign is about getting elected. In getting elected a candidate and his staff very carefully create an image of a candidate and market that image. I doubt they would have much interest in an open forum for anyone to modify that image.
Also in a political election there is usually an opposition. Oppositions are more interested in winning than they are in helping their opponent create a consensus view of the issues on their web site and will be much more likely to introduce information and viewpoints that would not benefit the candidate who owned the wiki.
I am launching today a new Wikia website aimed at being a central meeting ground for people on all sides of the political spectrum who think that it is time for politics to become more participatory, and more intelligent.
I'm sorry. That is just naive. When is the last time you've seen a useful discussion on evolution, conservative vs. liberal, Iraq war, Linux vs. windows, that didn't spiral down the drain into name calling. Why exactly would this be different?
Debate today is much more about selling your message. If the Wiki can't be used for that it won't be used widely by campaigns.
As someone pointed out EnCase Forensic is one of the standard tools used by investigators. Thier web page states:
EnCase Linen Utility: The Linen utility is a Linux version of the industry standard DOS-based EnCase acquisition tool. While it performs the same basic function as the DOS version, it overcomes a number of limitations, such as non-Windows operating systems, extremely large hard drives and speed of acquiring data.
Respectfully, the current state of technology would not have happened if curious hackers had not pushed the envelope to find uses for things that they were not "FOR."
- Computers weren't FOR multiple users to use at the same time interactively.
- The internet wasn't FOR social interaction.
- Computers weren't FOR playing games.
The list is endless. Sure there are imitations in systems. This dev board has limits. Breakthroughs will be made by people who see those "limits" as challenges, not by people who see those "limits' and turn back just because "these devices are not FOR that kind of thing."
So it is 828 feet if you stack the books end-to-end. At about an inch per book that would be closer to 69 feet of linear book space or about 5 book cases of 4 foot shelves.
If you read the fine print associated with the map you'll see that this map uses previous recent earthquakes as predictors for future earthquakes. It is primarily used to predict the probability of aftershocks. So for the BIG ONE your house will probably be gone before the map shows that the probability of an earthquake is high.
The point of TFA is that buyers couldn't tell what the price of any article was because some sellers would include tax and some wouldn't. Now all must. Thus it is an issue of fairness.
As for the effect on buyers outside of Australia, most countries have a method for exempt persons to either get their GST back after the fact or avoid (with paperwork) paying it in the first place. In Australia for instance exports are considered GST free. Would a sale on eBay be considered an export?
I've never understood the whole "don't write down your password" warning. I carry a wallet full of credit card numbers that I probably care just as much to keep private. Those numbers are "written down."
What has to be done is make sure users are educated to PROTECT their passwords. The problem comes when the password is stored on a post-it note under the keyboard.
Common sense...
BTW, I always add a stray character at the beginning of my passwords when I write them down so even if someone gets the paper I wrote them down on they won't know my password.
Seems like the simple counter measure is a "blacklist" of the honeymonkey servers. Granted the IP addresses of these PCs should be secure but A LOT of info leaks / is stolen / is hacked / is accidentally exposed.
A US Federal bill is also in congress, the The Spyblock Act. Reading the reactions to it there seems to be a realization that these acts are somewhat toothless. I assume they are being passed to show that lawmakers "care" and "are listening" but is doesn't seem like anyone has enough imagination to really address the problem yet.
This is nice but as long as there is money to made sending spam there will be plenty of border-line companies jumping into the gap to replace others taken down. This isn't going to end until we go after the companies selling their products through the spammers.
Google requires that you have an account (you can use your GMail account) before you can access the history. They even offer you the option of deleting the My History feature from your account. But reading the privacy statement and FAQ shows that deleting the account does not delete the data or your history. The history is still collected it just isn't available to you anymore.
The "total loss" of a US$73 million ($106.19 million) satellite on Saturday morning left several Pacific Islands and Scott Base in Antarctica without telephone communications to the outside world.
My early experiences with computers were driven by a desire to explore.
At my university in 1979 there was a small room that contained two terminals, a couple of card punches and a card reader and a large window into "The Computer Room." Someone showed me Adventure on the PDP-11 that the terminals were connected to. Poking around in RSTS OS lead to the help commands and little by little, a command her and a command there, I learned how to use the computer. Then I started poking around in the BASIC programs like Star Trek to make changes. Eventually I spent so much time in that room that I converted to a math major (there was no CS degree there at the time.) Today... well, this IS/. so that tells you something.
As for kids today... I'm not sure that trying to get them "into" computers is going to be anymore successful than our parents getting us "into" ham radio. For our parents ham radio was more roll your own than it is now. For us, computers were more roll your own than they are today.
My son, now 21, got into computers back in 97 when I taught him HTML. It was common then to put together web pages with a text editor then. It appealed to the roll your own mentality. Today kids can and do create their own blogs. Very soon it will be something new.
My suggestion is to step back and realize that key is to spark the desire to explore, to reason, to use logic, to learn by experimenting, to try new things and to ask questions. The point is NOT to jut get your children to do something that was very rewarding to you. So look for activities that spark those interests and provide access to the resources.
I've been seeing articles like this since I was ight years old and digging through my grandfather's ancient collection of Popular Science.
Another article includes comments from the CEO that clearly implies that they don't yet even have a "commercial strategy for deployment."
Timothy Huff, CEO of GTEL, stated, "We are receiving increased interests in our Stratellite project on a daily basis. As we previously announced, we are having a summit on January 20 and 21, 2005 to create a commercial strategy for the deployment of the Stratellite.
Don't hold your breath folks. This is just a, um, trial baloon to get interest before their summit (aka sales presntation.)
As a manager of a software development organization I will look more favorable on someone from a lesser known school but with coop or intern experience than someone from a well known school but without any actual experience.
While I'm at it, what you've done and what you are capable of is so much more important to me that if you've made a 4.0 rather than a 3.55.
I think this would just start a new war like we have with SPAM today. Companies that wanted to write "bad" legal agreements would just reverse engineer the LegalBot rules and write clauses the LegalBot didn't filter on.
"Too bad if your D-A-T-A gets ER AS ED. We retain N.O L-I_a BILI TY."
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when significant anomalous conditions are recognized that could be indicative of an eventual hazardous volcanic event. The most likely such anomalous condition would be sustained, elevated seismicity. A "notice of volcanic unrest" expresses concern about the potential for hazardous volcanic activity but does not imply imminent hazard. Among the possible outcomes are: (1) anomalous condition is determined not symptomatic of an eventual hazardous volcanic event, leading to cancellation of "notice of volcanic unrest;" (2) symptomatic activity wanes, leading to cancellation of the "notice of volcanic unrest;" (3) conditions evolve so as to indicate progress toward hazardous volcanic activity, leading to issuance of a "volcano advisory" or "volcano alert."
Volcano Advisory Alert Level TWO
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when monitoring and evaluation indicate that processes are underway that have significant likelihood of culminating in hazardous volcanic activity but when the evidence does not indicate that a life- or property-threatening event is imminent. This alert level is used to emphasize heightened concern about potential hazard. Among the possible outcomes are: (1) precursory activity wanes, leading either to cancellation of the "volcano advisory" or to a downgrade of alert level to "notice of volcanic unrest;" (2) conditions evolve so as to indicate that a life-threatening volcanic or hydrologic event is imminent or underway, leading to issuance of a "volcano alert." "Volcano advisory" statements, supplemented as appropriate by "updated volcano advisory" statements will clarify as fully as possible USGS-CVO understanding of the hazard implications.
Volcano Alert Alert Level THREE
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when monitoring and evaluation indicate that precursory events have escalated to the point where a volcanic event with attendant volcanologic or hydrologic hazards threatening to life and property appears imminent or is underway. Depending upon further developments, a "volcano alert" will be maintained, updated, downgraded to a "volcano advisory," or canceled. A "volcano alert" statement will indicate, in as much detail as possible, the time window, place, and expected impact of an anticipated hazardous event. "Updated volcano alert" statements will amplify hazard information as dictated by evolving conditions.
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"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." Cardinal Richelieu
I suspect that these emails will be a global Rorschach test. Skeptics will see in them whatever they wish to find.
This is nothing new. Science has always been at odds with the status quo (politics, religion, etc.) Galileo's fact based observations disagreed with the church (i.e. the ruling power of his day) and he was attacked. Darwin's observations and those of paleontologists of his time were attacked in his day and ever since. In school we were all taught the flat earth denial story (and usually taught it poorly.) I expect Ogg was probably kicked out of the cave by the tribal leader for suggesting that fire might be put to good use.
Politics and religion and corporations and power in general are all invested in the status quo. They are about getting and keeping power. Science can be a threat to the status quo. It can undermine the 'reality' being sold to the masses by the holders of power. For that reason those in power often attack science as a threat, not because they are stupid.
I use the CustomizeGoogle Forefox plugin to filter out all about.com and answer.com results. Makes life just a little bit simper.
Actually the Taum Sauk reservoir experienced a catastrophic failure on December 14, 2005 and may never come back on line again.
Back in the '80s a business partner and I had a company that literally turned garbage into gold. We would deinstall old mini-computer installations. Minicomputers for those too young to remember were often larger than refrigerators and could have hundreds of circuit boards in them. We'd then pull the board from them and since the computers still had an installed base but few parts available sell the parts to 3rd party repair depots around the country. Whatever didn't sell got boxed up and sent by the ton to a smelter who would extract the gold, silver, copper, etc. Some circuit boards, NCR for instance, had every trace and ground plane gold plated many times thicker than the connectors on today's computers. The huge aluminum castings of disk drives (80 to 100 pounds each) were great scrap too.
Eventually the installed base of systems dried up. That's when my second career started...
Also in a political election there is usually an opposition. Oppositions are more interested in winning than they are in helping their opponent create a consensus view of the issues on their web site and will be much more likely to introduce information and viewpoints that would not benefit the candidate who owned the wiki.
I'm sorry. That is just naive. When is the last time you've seen a useful discussion on evolution, conservative vs. liberal, Iraq war, Linux vs. windows, that didn't spiral down the drain into name calling. Why exactly would this be different?
Debate today is much more about selling your message. If the Wiki can't be used for that it won't be used widely by campaigns.
Looks like it is finally time to break down and get one of these.
As someone pointed out EnCase Forensic is one of the standard tools used by investigators. Thier web page states:
EnCase Linen Utility: The Linen utility is a Linux version of the industry standard DOS-based EnCase acquisition tool. While it performs the same basic function as the DOS version, it overcomes a number of limitations, such as non-Windows operating systems, extremely large hard drives and speed of acquiring data.
Google onlu blurred it out in Google Local (used to be Google Maps.) Google Earth has it uncensored still.
> satellite imagery is about 5 years old in my area
Actually most of the imagery is aerial photography.
These devices are not FOR that kind of thing.
Respectfully, the current state of technology would not have happened if curious hackers had not pushed the envelope to find uses for things that they were not "FOR."
- Computers weren't FOR multiple users to use at the same time interactively.
- The internet wasn't FOR social interaction.
- Computers weren't FOR playing games.
The list is endless. Sure there are imitations in systems. This dev board has limits. Breakthroughs will be made by people who see those "limits" as challenges, not by people who see those "limits' and turn back just because "these devices are not FOR that kind of thing."
828 ft / 1082 books = appx 9.2 inches per book.
So it is 828 feet if you stack the books end-to-end. At about an inch per book that would be closer to 69 feet of linear book space or about 5 book cases of 4 foot shelves.
A lot but not the mountain they try to imply.
If you read the fine print associated with the map you'll see that this map uses previous recent earthquakes as predictors for future earthquakes. It is primarily used to predict the probability of aftershocks. So for the BIG ONE your house will probably be gone before the map shows that the probability of an earthquake is high.
The point of TFA is that buyers couldn't tell what the price of any article was because some sellers would include tax and some wouldn't. Now all must. Thus it is an issue of fairness.
As for the effect on buyers outside of Australia, most countries have a method for exempt persons to either get their GST back after the fact or avoid (with paperwork) paying it in the first place. In Australia for instance exports are considered GST free. Would a sale on eBay be considered an export?
I've never understood the whole "don't write down your password" warning. I carry a wallet full of credit card numbers that I probably care just as much to keep private. Those numbers are "written down."
What has to be done is make sure users are educated to PROTECT their passwords. The problem comes when the password is stored on a post-it note under the keyboard.
Common sense...
BTW, I always add a stray character at the beginning of my passwords when I write them down so even if someone gets the paper I wrote them down on they won't know my password.
Seems like the simple counter measure is a "blacklist" of the honeymonkey servers. Granted the IP addresses of these PCs should be secure but A LOT of info leaks / is stolen / is hacked / is accidentally exposed.
A US Federal bill is also in congress, the The Spyblock Act. Reading the reactions to it there seems to be a realization that these acts are somewhat toothless. I assume they are being passed to show that lawmakers "care" and "are listening" but is doesn't seem like anyone has enough imagination to really address the problem yet.
This is nice but as long as there is money to made sending spam there will be plenty of border-line companies jumping into the gap to replace others taken down. This isn't going to end until we go after the companies selling their products through the spammers.
Google requires that you have an account (you can use your GMail account) before you can access the history. They even offer you the option of deleting the My History feature from your account. But reading the privacy statement and FAQ shows that deleting the account does not delete the data or your history. The history is still collected it just isn't available to you anymore.
The "total loss" of a US$73 million ($106.19 million) satellite on Saturday morning left several Pacific Islands and Scott Base in Antarctica without telephone communications to the outside world.
Story here.
My early experiences with computers were driven by a desire to explore.
/. so that tells you something.
At my university in 1979 there was a small room that contained two terminals, a couple of card punches and a card reader and a large window into "The Computer Room." Someone showed me Adventure on the PDP-11 that the terminals were connected to. Poking around in RSTS OS lead to the help commands and little by little, a command her and a command there, I learned how to use the computer. Then I started poking around in the BASIC programs like Star Trek to make changes. Eventually I spent so much time in that room that I converted to a math major (there was no CS degree there at the time.) Today... well, this IS
As for kids today... I'm not sure that trying to get them "into" computers is going to be anymore successful than our parents getting us "into" ham radio. For our parents ham radio was more roll your own than it is now. For us, computers were more roll your own than they are today.
My son, now 21, got into computers back in 97 when I taught him HTML. It was common then to put together web pages with a text editor then. It appealed to the roll your own mentality. Today kids can and do create their own blogs. Very soon it will be something new.
My suggestion is to step back and realize that key is to spark the desire to explore, to reason, to use logic, to learn by experimenting, to try new things and to ask questions. The point is NOT to jut get your children to do something that was very rewarding to you. So look for activities that spark those interests and provide access to the resources.
Then step back and watch the real fun start.
Another article includes comments from the CEO that clearly implies that they don't yet even have a "commercial strategy for deployment."
Don't hold your breath folks. This is just a, um, trial baloon to get interest before their summit (aka sales presntation.)
As a manager of a software development organization I will look more favorable on someone from a lesser known school but with coop or intern experience than someone from a well known school but without any actual experience.
While I'm at it, what you've done and what you are capable of is so much more important to me that if you've made a 4.0 rather than a 3.55.
I think this would just start a new war like we have with SPAM today. Companies that wanted to write "bad" legal agreements would just reverse engineer the LegalBot rules and write clauses the LegalBot didn't filter on.
"Too bad if your D-A-T-A gets ER AS ED. We retain N.O L-I_a BILI TY."
From USGS Volcano-Warning Schemes in the United States (These are specific to the Cascade Range volcanoes in Washington and Oregon.):
Notice of Volcanic Unrest Alert Level ONE
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when significant anomalous conditions are recognized that could be indicative of an eventual hazardous volcanic event. The most likely such anomalous condition would be sustained, elevated seismicity. A "notice of volcanic unrest" expresses concern about the potential for hazardous volcanic activity but does not imply imminent hazard. Among the possible outcomes are: (1) anomalous condition is determined not symptomatic of an eventual hazardous volcanic event, leading to cancellation of "notice of volcanic unrest;" (2) symptomatic activity wanes, leading to cancellation of the "notice of volcanic unrest;" (3) conditions evolve so as to indicate progress toward hazardous volcanic activity, leading to issuance of a "volcano advisory" or "volcano alert."
Volcano Advisory Alert Level TWO
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when monitoring and evaluation indicate that processes are underway that have significant likelihood of culminating in hazardous volcanic activity but when the evidence does not indicate that a life- or property-threatening event is imminent. This alert level is used to emphasize heightened concern about potential hazard. Among the possible outcomes are: (1) precursory activity wanes, leading either to cancellation of the "volcano advisory" or to a downgrade of alert level to "notice of volcanic unrest;" (2) conditions evolve so as to indicate that a life-threatening volcanic or hydrologic event is imminent or underway, leading to issuance of a "volcano alert." "Volcano advisory" statements, supplemented as appropriate by "updated volcano advisory" statements will clarify as fully as possible USGS-CVO understanding of the hazard implications.
Volcano Alert Alert Level THREE
This alert level is declared by USGS-CVO when monitoring and evaluation indicate that precursory events have escalated to the point where a volcanic event with attendant volcanologic or hydrologic hazards threatening to life and property appears imminent or is underway. Depending upon further developments, a "volcano alert" will be maintained, updated, downgraded to a "volcano advisory," or canceled. A "volcano alert" statement will indicate, in as much detail as possible, the time window, place, and expected impact of an anticipated hazardous event. "Updated volcano alert" statements will amplify hazard information as dictated by evolving conditions.