A real test for science will be when someone discover some result as disturbing as this one, the result gets independently confirmed, and then it just sits there unexplained, for 10 or 20 years.
This result may not be an example, yet, because it has not been independently confirmed yet. (Who knows if it will be?)
Something like this is bound to happen sometime. (Some think it already has.)
Will physicists have the courage and humility to admit current theories are broken, or will they act like geologists with respect to Wegener, before nuclear fission was discovered?
What is scientifically known is infinitesimal speck in a sea of truth.
What is currently known is a very small faction of that which could be scientifically known.
Science is a restrictive methodology i.e. the scientific method.
Human beings have ways of knowing things that are not scientific.
So the class of things that could be known, is even larger, than the class of things that could be scientifically known.
And then there are the questions human could pose, for which there is no conceivable way for humans to confirm an answer.
This is the unknowable. "Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses."
Then there are those truths for which humans can not even formulate the question.
Strictly speaking all programming is math. Digital computers are symbolic manipulators. We would be alot better off if the Federal Circuit Court understood this.
Wheather you need continous math such as Calculus depends on if you are programming in a area that uses continous math. Like mathematics, statistics and many others. All programmers use discreate mathemantics, if they know it or not.
But I predict that nobody will consider that. Everyone knows that Astology is incompatable with the mechanist materialist paradigm, and is therefore bunk.
Good software is not designed by the central committee; The central committee screws up everything.
Good software evolves.
You need to forget all grandiose plans to fix the software, especially if the ideas come from academia. Become unprincipled with respect to practicality.
The software has already evolved a lot. If you attempt to recreate from scratch, you will almost certainly repeat previous errors, even if you avoid the current maintenance mess.
The problem is that the software has evolved towards external goodness, while ignoring maintainability goodness.
Make a secret plan to slowly evolve the software towards maintainability.
Slowly sneak maintainability and sound software practice in the back door when no one is looking.
Scream loudly about how big the mess is and how amazing it is that anyone can make any changes at all to it.
Make the point that it is not how well the elephant dances, but the fact that the elephant can be made to dance at all.
This will give you more time.
There is no way to prove whether a nation is engaged in offensive cyber warfare.
It will always be possible to say those things were done by criminals and malefactors. "The secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions."
If those leaks had happened in China, the leakers would be shot and their families billed for the bullets. Therefore, if a treaty is signed, it will be a one-way treaty partially enforceable in the West only.
It would be colossally foolish to sign such a treaty.
I can not imagine such a treaty being ratified.
Therefore, baton down the hatches a storm is coming.
Governments and other criminal organizations can place esentially unlimited coersion on any organization or individual that publishes encryption or other security software. If the source code is not published there is no way to know that there is no back door.
Therefore the only way such software can be known to be secure is if the source is published.
akonadi can break for no reason at any upgrade. This will render kmail and kaddressbook unusable. If it does, you need system admin like skills to fix it. The fix will likely wipe your whole addressbook, so you better have it backed up in non-akonadi format.
This problem has been going on for many releases and nobody seems interested in fixing it.
Always have mutt setup and working, that way you will never lack a reliable email client.
When international cyber arms are outlawed, only international cyber outlaws will have arms. In many countries, private cyber arms have already been outlawed. How is that working out?.....
Cyber arms are invisible. You don't have to dig for uranium or run a cyclotron.
If such a treaty were signed, some counties would continue to use them, almost certainly using untraceable and denyable sub-contractors.
Therefore, no country with half a brain would sign such a treaty, with intent to obey it.
If you want to get or learn how to get you package into ubuntu, the best way is to get it into debian and let it percholate in. To get your package into debian, you must first get your package into debian unstable. This requires a debian unstable environment. You can virtualize your way in if you want to.
Debian unstable is not that unstable, most of it works most of the time. It is the source of ubuntu.
There are some people that run debian unstable as their primary environment.
The National Reconnaissance Office needed to tap in again. If you splice into a cable that is active, people would notice. A lot of U.S. intellegence agencies want to know what is going on in the Middle East. The NRO and the Navy get the job.
I wish they would think of a more original excuse.
Anyone that would turn their children over to agents of the state to be indoctrinated is clearly stupid or does not have their children's best interests at heart.
If this process were used in bootlegging, it would eliminate the still's heat signature. It would eliminate the still's distinctive sound. It might make it economical for many people to have their home stills in their garages. I see governmental regulation soon.
All these experiments occured on earth in the vicinity of a lot of matter. How do we know that if we performed the experiments on a anti-earth we would not get an opposite result?
someone needs to figure out how to get a version of debian to run on pads and phones! All the phone stuff could be just be another Linux application. You could even add encryption to encrypt your phone call if both sides were running linux! There should be no app stores. Only repositories! With a true free software, you could be sure no one is pulling this stuff, because the source code would be available for inspection!
It is impossible to prove that true randomness exists in the Universe.
Let U be the universe that you believe in, and let R source of true randomness for that universe.
Then the universe that you believe in is U(R).
Let R' be one of the pseudo random algorithms that is too computationally complex for you to detect.
How ever computationally advanced you are there will be an infinite number of these.
It will be impossible for you to prove that the real universe is not one of the U(R').
Occam's razor is only a human convention which prefers simplicity. It is true that the U(R') universes
may be more complex and violate non-locality, but these again are human conventions adopted for simplicity
not because we can exclude the U(R') with experiment.
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Testers should do the testing.
Packagers should do the packaging.
Sysadmins should do installations.
Requiring devopers to know everything in the Debian Policy manual would be too much.
Put up another video saying that no one should join that religion, what ever it is, since its leadership is all liers.
Philosophers and theologians prove exactly what they assume, no more.
These questions are a complete mystery.
Get Used to it.
This result may not be an example, yet, because it has not been independently confirmed yet. (Who knows if it will be?)
Something like this is bound to happen sometime. (Some think it already has.)
Will physicists have the courage and humility to admit current theories are broken, or will they act like geologists with respect to Wegener, before nuclear fission was discovered?
What is currently known is a very small faction of that which could be scientifically known.
Science is a restrictive methodology i.e. the scientific method.
Human beings have ways of knowing things that are not scientific. So the class of things that could be known, is even larger, than the class of things that could be scientifically known.
And then there are the questions human could pose, for which there is no conceivable way for humans to confirm an answer.
This is the unknowable. "Our line is too short to fathom such immense abysses."
Then there are those truths for which humans can not even formulate the question.
Wheather you need continous math such as Calculus depends on if you are programming in a area that uses continous math. Like mathematics, statistics and many others. All programmers use discreate mathemantics, if they know it or not.
Perhaps the author has read Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas but does not want to reveal the real source of his theory.
But I predict that nobody will consider that. Everyone knows that Astology is incompatable with the mechanist materialist paradigm, and is therefore bunk.
Nobody will consider astrology.
Good software evolves.
You need to forget all grandiose plans to fix the software, especially if the ideas come from academia. Become unprincipled with respect to practicality.
The software has already evolved a lot. If you attempt to recreate from scratch, you will almost certainly repeat previous errors, even if you avoid the current maintenance mess.
The problem is that the software has evolved towards external goodness, while ignoring maintainability goodness.
Make a secret plan to slowly evolve the software towards maintainability.
Slowly sneak maintainability and sound software practice in the back door when no one is looking.
Scream loudly about how big the mess is and how amazing it is that anyone can make any changes at all to it.
Make the point that it is not how well the elephant dances, but the fact that the elephant can be made to dance at all. This will give you more time.
apologies to RAH.
Egalitarianism is killing achievement in our culture!
Some people are not capable of learning advanced math. They should be given a calculator and a shovel so they can go dig ditches.
We should stop holding back our best minds with the stupid idea that everyone can do it. They can not.
We need our Einsteins.
We need to put proof back in Geometry class. If some can not handle it, let them go learn basket weaving or something.
Our civilization depends on our best minds. We need to stop holding them back with the stupid idea that everyone can do it.
It would be colossally foolish to sign such a treaty.
I can not imagine such a treaty being ratified.
Therefore, baton down the hatches a storm is coming.
Therefore the only way such software can be known to be secure is if the source is published.
Use free software for security.
This problem has been going on for many releases and nobody seems interested in fixing it.
Always have mutt setup and working, that way you will never lack a reliable email client.
Cyber arms are invisible. You don't have to dig for uranium or run a cyclotron.
If such a treaty were signed, some counties would continue to use them, almost certainly using untraceable and denyable sub-contractors.
Therefore, no country with half a brain would sign such a treaty, with intent to obey it.
Could someone please explain this to me?
How can galactic central maintain an orderly galaxy, if astronomers are going to be apathetic?
Attorneys thought he was absolutely crazy. And some still do.
But it worked.
Which is why some masters of thought control are trying to undermine it.
What is the normal function of the "do not eat" signal? Just what normal function is going to get messed up when you turn this off?
Debian unstable is not that unstable, most of it works most of the time. It is the source of ubuntu.
There are some people that run debian unstable as their primary environment.
I wish they would think of a more original excuse.
Anyone that would turn their children over to agents of the state to be indoctrinated is clearly stupid or does not have their children's best interests at heart.
What is this offensive content and how do I get my copy? What good is slashdot if it won't implement the Streisand effect?
If this process were used in bootlegging, it would eliminate the still's heat signature. It would eliminate the still's distinctive sound. It might make it economical for many people to have their home stills in their garages. I see governmental regulation soon.
All these experiments occured on earth in the vicinity of a lot of matter. How do we know that if we performed the experiments on a anti-earth we would not get an opposite result?
Fork the Droid.
Let U be the universe that you believe in, and let R source of true randomness for that universe. Then the universe that you believe in is U(R).
Let R' be one of the pseudo random algorithms that is too computationally complex for you to detect. How ever computationally advanced you are there will be an infinite number of these.
It will be impossible for you to prove that the real universe is not one of the U(R'). Occam's razor is only a human convention which prefers simplicity. It is true that the U(R') universes may be more complex and violate non-locality, but these again are human conventions adopted for simplicity not because we can exclude the U(R') with experiment.