Its "Guerilla Warfare" you are thinking of, not "Terrorist Tactics". Guerilla warfare is training the populace and providing a few weapons here and there to cause an invading army or government pain, avoiding directo confrontations, etc.
What defines a terrorist is the targets they choose to go attack. Kill soldiers and you are a freedom fighter, kill civilians and you are a terrorist.
The tactics that are used to kill make less of a difference.
So... Yes, it is OK for the US to use Guerilla Warfare against the Taliban. What is not OK is to attack civilians on purpose.
Maybe the Taliban should have put a little more weight on what they know the US culture to be....
Get em riled up and you are likely to get your ASS KICKED.
So thoses Cultural-centric Taliban got what they deserved, they should have been more open to other societies worldview and understood that from the beginning.
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I was going to mod several posts as funny, but your words made me want to post instead. (Sorry guys, get your Karma from someone else today.)
Anyway, I think non-finite time is only disturbing if you come at it (or hear arguments coming at it) from certain directions.
Time is something that has only two relevant characteristics;
- That measuring time requires a beginning and an ending point of known states of the world (quantum states or just normal states). Thus "time is what we measure with clocks"
- It has a one-way vector that ties it to an encrease in entropy. The only way I know of describing forward/backwards in time is to compare against states of entorpy (disorder) of the two points you are measuring, you know the one with less entropy came before the one with more entropy.
When drilling down into the first point, ever smaller increments of time quickly bump up against the ever smaller increments of change in particle physics. At some point, you cannot measure time anymore (it has a quantum characteristics) not because of time's characteristics, but because the beginning point and ending point we use to measure it become identical. Smaller and smaller measurements of time will end up hitting a limit because the difference in "time" is not large enough to produce a differnece in "quantum state" (energy, position, spin of all the particles in the universe).
So the moment where one starts measuring, and the moment where one stops measuring a length of time must be necessarily far enough apart for a quantum state (somewhere, somehow) to have changed. If not, the two moments are either the _SAME_TIME_ and no time has passed, or the practical measurement of time is a quantum state where time passes, yet we cannot measure it because no states have changed to give is the ability to measure, or any change to measure against (which are equivalent at this point in the arguement).
So you could collect and talk about "time particles" that represent the point where you cannot meaningfully chop time up anymore.
Note this is NOT the same as saying there are time particles, just that our view of the world runs up against a limit where we cannot tell the difference between a "smooth" time vector and a "quantum" time vector. Nor can we tell if any of this thing we have called "time" passes while we are "waiting" for the quantum state of something to change somewhere.
[I'd like to point out that our most accurate clocks ARE counts of changes of state, vibrations of quartz crystals or cesium atoms. If the atom did not vibrate or "skipped" a beat, we'd never know, and would not be able to tell the difference between it and the actual skippage of time.]
Maybe someday someone will be able to make measurements to tell which it is, but I doubt it.
To me, the second characteristic about time is a far more interesting subject that says more about the universe than "quantum time" ever would.
So the article for me, is a big "Duh, no shit Sherlock" kind of thing because he's talking about bits of time.
Why those bits of time are tied to a state of entropy, and how those bits of entropy make up the things we see in the universe; that is a more interesting question for me. Time travel paradoxes derive from the entropy vector, not from the question of quantum time or not.
I am not sure about anybody else, but even with the means and the desire I sure as heck would not put down 40k or whatever on a picture doctored up like Cylon one.
For that price, I'd expect detailed and excessive photos of the item, plus a warranty that states the condition of the item.
Without being able to see the acutal quality of the product, how do you know it hasn't had a mouse nest in it for 2 decades?
The "mass of people enter at once" tactic is used by some gangs to rob conveience stores. If 50 people run in and clean out the beer cooler (and cigarrettes) there is a lower probability of each individual being caught and less that the poor sap behind the counter can do.
I can't see this activity being non-violent and non-criminal for long. Sooner or later some punk will start taking stuff and it'll just be white-collar gang activity.
Also, on private property, this activity could be percieved as a threat. Some store managers or owners may have a bad reaction to the activity.
That said, it's an interesting activity. But maybe they should do something a little less obnoxious, like decend on a park and pick up all the litter and dog poop or something, rather than antagoizing retailers and annoying customers.
I have found that jerking off does the same thing for me. Though they frown on that at work.
Jerking off also has a long history, as my cats do it, and I've heard that monkeys in the zoo do it too.... it's a highly evolved and ancient method of stress relief!
2 to 3 seconds eh? So a Guass Sniper rifle could then shoot one subsonic, and one hypersonic and hit the guy TWICE with the same gun at the same time with one barrel. Once from a slight downard angle, and once straight in the face!
Yummy!
[Incidentally, the Naval "Proceedings" magazine has had articles about the Navy's interest in Gauss Cannon carrying Nuke Ships, they seem to think it is something worthwhile looking into. Likewise, there are fire control systems that can "dial in" salvos of artillery to hit in sequence, walk a pattern or hit all at the same time, all with one rapid-fire turreted cannon.]
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Sigh.
Depleted Uranium is not very radioactive, less so than say.... the smoke detector in your home/apartment.
The cancer rate might have gone up due to bad health (maybe sanctions, maybe not) or maybe because health care GOT BETTER. After all, Mr. Ali does not get listed as a cancer statistic if he does not go to the doctor. If anything, you should be spouting hate for Saddam because he lit all those oil wells on fire, burned oil is not a cancer causing agent either is it? Hmm? It's all the DU we shot at people! Of course!
DU does vaporize on impact, but so does the armor, plastic and flesh it hits too. So you might as well blame the Russian tank makers for putting poly-plastic whatzits in the T-62. DU is a much better armor penetrator because it is so dense, as opposed to you, who is dense but would simply splat on the outside of a T-62.
War is a high-risk behavior. People die because of it. Deal with it, or argue with it, but you should at least get a FEW facts straight before you go spouting Left-Wing FUD. Mmm'kay?
Are you trying to say that someone who DID THE CRIME (really, he did it) and got caught because the investigation led them to beleive he did it, so they asked for samples since he was in the military, and it turned out the samples proved that he did it; is somehow bad? That's just good police work.
It's not like they are systematically searching a complete and encompasing database of pre-analysed samples for every Tom, Dick and Joe Six pack that gets stopped for speeding and hoping to get a hit on some unrelated crime in another state. They were following a lead.
If you do not like to get busted for stuff, do not do the stuff. It's that simple. DNA analyisis that goes through a process like this one did can only help us law-abiding citizens. It will a) catch the real bad guys and sends them to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, or b) prove you were not it because there is no match thus allowing you to avoid pound-you-in-the-ass prison. [And then maybe even c) catch the real bad guy because they dont waste time lookin at innocent people who were ruled out by DNA mis-matches.]
The idea (implied in your post) that there is already some DNA registry they are searching is flat out fucking wrong. Even if there was such a thing, what would it be doing? A and B from above.
I see no problem with the method they used to catch the guy, and I'm glad that DNA is being used to solve crimes and set innocent people free.
The whole point, is to destroy data to the level of your needs (i.e. risk). Obviously, if you are the NSA or a medical records place you need good shredding, but the whole point (of my linear shredder) is to make it more work for someone to get my data, than it is the neighbor's data. Then the dumpster diving bums will skip me. (You could could regularly start a gasoline fire in your dumpster I suppose, but the cops tend to frown on that activity.)
So I shred and add to the dumpster, with confidence that someone else's stuff is a lot easier to get to than mine.
I should have got a cross cut simply because it fits more pages per canister of waste, the ribbons do not fall and compact nicely like the little chips do.
There are "dusters" which pull the paper apart into dust-like fuzz instead of cleanly cutting them, those gotta be pretty close to being like burning + stirring, as the letters would be disassembled as well as the words and phrases.
I am not really looking for a perfect system, just to do an easy and simple way of reducing of the many ways data can leak out.
[Complaining that shredders are usless because the waitress can get the number is silly, that's like saying you won't patch IIS because someone could always walk by the machine and reboot it with a floppy disk in the drive. Chances are you'll get probes via the web server more often than someone tries to reboot the box while standing there... It's all about risk reduction, do a little bit where the return is best until you reach your ideal risk/work level.]
Well... go into business helping companies hook up to those server rooms and bandwidth to India of course!
Joking aside, there's lots of kinds of things that simply won't work well when shipped overseas. Note the specific reference to "coding" or "programming", or "tech support" in a lot of the posts. I am not particularly concerned about most areas of IT, some things do not translate well to outsourcing. The trick is just to be doing one of those things....
Universe is *infinite* and as such it is *infinitely "expanding"*. And if it is infinite, then it was *always* infinite, and was never finite.
Please, then by all means go out and generate some evidence that the above is the case, I am sure if it is compelling enough, people (and scientists and me even) will listen to you. Right now, the above theory isn't even that, because evidence directly contradicts it and you have no evidence to support it.
Your theory is non-scientific because there is either a) no evidencce or b) evidence directly refutes it, or c) both. Also, in order to be a *Scientific* theory, it needs to be falsifiable, something those closeted bible-thumpers and crack-pot conspiracy folks forget.
It is true that the more scientists there are the better and there are far too many people running around loose who are clueless about it. Note however that you are not helping the situation any.
Yeah, 100 times a second, a normal star would fly apart, pulsars are not normal stars though and can withstand that spin due to how they are made. (100/s is actually pretty slow, 1K/s and 10K/s are also out there.)
Pulsars are nutron stars (collapsed due to gravity to the point of overcoming the repulsive force between atoms, so the nucleus of the atoms are smashed together, extremely high density matter just short of a black hole in density) where the angular velocity of the entire system is packed into a tiny space (meters or a few kilometers across).
Since it still has a magnetic field too, there is a "beam" of photons that get channeled out away at the poles, sorta like a flashlight spun on a string.
If earth is in the beam, we see a "pulse" of light energy coming from the star. (There's a proably a bunch we do not see as they do not point at us at any time during the spin.)
Counting the pulses tells you how fast the star is spinning and to a certain extent it's age (as the pulse slows down over astronomical time).
Since the spin has a lot of angular momentum (A LOT) it is extremely regular, and serves as a nice clock to use against stuff going on around the pulsar and between us and it. (Think atomic clock to synch GPS with, same concept.)
That hurts my head just thinking about it. So let me ask you this, if we discover it's theoretically possible to break one of the fundamental laws of physics, and do so, does the parallel universe spiral into oblivion (as we probably would also)?
Yes, and they believe the device for doing it is on a flatbed truck behind a used car lot in Eastern Baghdad. That's what the CIA said anyway...
Stupid Polititians. They just want to force Mr. Ralsky get out of the state and sell his house cheap for the brother-in-law to move in a nice new house with a T1 line.
being the presence of US soldiers in their holy land.
That is one reason that seems to be pretty prevalent, especially since some of the groups specifically say so in their "press releases"
Still, it is an irrational and frankly not-nice way to view the world which has no legitamacy whatsoever. If the Saudi Government invites the USAF to the country to put a base there, the beef is with the Saudi Government, not the American Public.
Moslems have a PR problem, but it's not because pasty-whites (like me) coming up with brash and racist ideas on our own (well, not entirely). It's forced female circumcision, death by stoning, violently sexist attitudes, cutting off hands for stealing, religious persecution of Jews, Christians and others, totalitarian/theocratic (and usually aggressive) governments, punishment of rape victims not the perpetrators, rape as a punishment for adultery or pre-marital sex, not to mention more than their fair share of terrorists willing to kill others and themselves... I could go on and on.
No matter that what I think is true or not. I think it because of what I have learned about Moslems over the years, from TV, newspaper, classic literature, etc. has made me think the guys over in the Middle-East and Eastern Africa are barbarians that are not willing to stop being a bunch of jerks.
If they want me to think the West should change it's behavior, they need to explain point by point why they have a problem, *AND* their complaints must be valid and rational. Until then, they get no sympathy from me.
The question of 'digital shoplifting' is an interesting one, but it comes in direct conflict with other well-established rights (or rather, non-rights).
Any person who goes out in public can expect that at some point someone may take a photograph of them. Maybe accidentally (as in the background) or on purpose as the subject. Anybody has the *RIGHT* to drive by your house and take a photograph of it (or whatever happens to face the street; fence, gate, whatever). In a public place, there is no expectation of privacy and no moral or legal standing to prevent someone from taking photographs. (Though there are some places where taking photos of "private skin" or underwear without the owner's knowledge is illegal.)
What if I happen to want to make a "photo-blog" that consists of high-res snapshots of my entire day taken at 1 minute intervals with a mounted head camera? Can the store prevent that? What happens when 3.1 megapixels can fit in a little under-hat-brim camera? What they gonna do then?
The only viable long-term solution that does not trample on someone's personal right, or the general public's rights, is to use simple measures to prevent IP rights (against copying) from being violated in the store. A sticker on the edge (break the seal you buy it or get arrested for distruction of property) or shrink wrap or something of that nature is the only way to go.
If they think techonlogy is going to not get to a point where people can easily gather that detail of information, they are flat out dumb.
Well guess what. They put the thing out there before I was hired and put a bunch of twitchy-clueless web hosting customers on it.
I got a new set of servers, got to design how it all works, all patched and good and ready to go. Know what I am waiting for? Server brackets. The boss's dad is makin em in his garage. Until then, I can't put the new ones up in the rack.
Then I get to migrate all of them-there sites to the shiney new servers and answer stupid phone calls to explain how DNS works, and explain how their ISP proxy server is fucking broken.
You think any of this is my choice? (Aside from the shiney new stuff.) Think anybody is going to stop and think "Gee, this might be patched tomorrow and it won't be a threat to anybody as a zombie then!" Nope. They won't think at all.
Your justification for web site defacement sucks. You might as well ass-rape your sister cuz she's not wearing a chastity belt. If I run across your mom, you'd better hope I don't use the same logic you do.
It's not Darwinism, it's vandalism.
I agree that there are a lot of lousy sysadmins out there, causing lots of problems by letting their machines get hacked. But you should think about how you think things should go a little bit. Maybe it would be better if you concentrated on educating those around you how to set up a web site properly, hmm?
(As for me, I hope the Spanish-speaking nitwits organizing this end up in Colombian-Federal-pound-you-in-the-ass Prison. They deserve it.)
Just bribe the local officials and get on with it. In a small place like that you should be up against an un-educated alderman equivalent for that stuff.
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Its "Guerilla Warfare" you are thinking of, not "Terrorist Tactics". Guerilla warfare is training the populace and providing a few weapons here and there to cause an invading army or government pain, avoiding directo confrontations, etc.
What defines a terrorist is the targets they choose to go attack. Kill soldiers and you are a freedom fighter, kill civilians and you are a terrorist.
The tactics that are used to kill make less of a difference.
So... Yes, it is OK for the US to use Guerilla Warfare against the Taliban. What is not OK is to attack civilians on purpose.
Maybe the Taliban should have put a little more weight on what they know the US culture to be....
Get em riled up and you are likely to get your ASS KICKED.
So thoses Cultural-centric Taliban got what they deserved, they should have been more open to other societies worldview and understood that from the beginning.
That's been done.
Pee in a bowl and leave it outside.
Flies will come if there is sugar in it. (I suppose other stuff like ants and wasps too.)
Ancient Greeks used this technique to diagnose diabetes.
I was going to mod several posts as funny, but your words made me want to post instead. (Sorry guys, get your Karma from someone else today.)
Anyway, I think non-finite time is only disturbing if you come at it (or hear arguments coming at it) from certain directions.
Time is something that has only two relevant characteristics;
- That measuring time requires a beginning and an ending point of known states of the world (quantum states or just normal states). Thus "time is what we measure with clocks"
- It has a one-way vector that ties it to an encrease in entropy. The only way I know of describing forward/backwards in time is to compare against states of entorpy (disorder) of the two points you are measuring, you know the one with less entropy came before the one with more entropy.
When drilling down into the first point, ever smaller increments of time quickly bump up against the ever smaller increments of change in particle physics. At some point, you cannot measure time anymore (it has a quantum characteristics) not because of time's characteristics, but because the beginning point and ending point we use to measure it become identical. Smaller and smaller measurements of time will end up hitting a limit because the difference in "time" is not large enough to produce a differnece in "quantum state" (energy, position, spin of all the particles in the universe).
So the moment where one starts measuring, and the moment where one stops measuring a length of time must be necessarily far enough apart for a quantum state (somewhere, somehow) to have changed. If not, the two moments are either the _SAME_TIME_ and no time has passed, or the practical measurement of time is a quantum state where time passes, yet we cannot measure it because no states have changed to give is the ability to measure, or any change to measure against (which are equivalent at this point in the arguement).
So you could collect and talk about "time particles" that represent the point where you cannot meaningfully chop time up anymore.
Note this is NOT the same as saying there are time particles, just that our view of the world runs up against a limit where we cannot tell the difference between a "smooth" time vector and a "quantum" time vector. Nor can we tell if any of this thing we have called "time" passes while we are "waiting" for the quantum state of something to change somewhere.
[I'd like to point out that our most accurate clocks ARE counts of changes of state, vibrations of quartz crystals or cesium atoms. If the atom did not vibrate or "skipped" a beat, we'd never know, and would not be able to tell the difference between it and the actual skippage of time.]
Maybe someday someone will be able to make measurements to tell which it is, but I doubt it.
To me, the second characteristic about time is a far more interesting subject that says more about the universe than "quantum time" ever would.
So the article for me, is a big "Duh, no shit Sherlock" kind of thing because he's talking about bits of time.
Why those bits of time are tied to a state of entropy, and how those bits of entropy make up the things we see in the universe; that is a more interesting question for me. Time travel paradoxes derive from the entropy vector, not from the question of quantum time or not.
I think I had too much coffee this morning.
I am not sure about anybody else, but even with the means and the desire I sure as heck would not put down 40k or whatever on a picture doctored up like Cylon one.
For that price, I'd expect detailed and excessive photos of the item, plus a warranty that states the condition of the item.
Without being able to see the acutal quality of the product, how do you know it hasn't had a mouse nest in it for 2 decades?
The "mass of people enter at once" tactic is used by some gangs to rob conveience stores. If 50 people run in and clean out the beer cooler (and cigarrettes) there is a lower probability of each individual being caught and less that the poor sap behind the counter can do.
I can't see this activity being non-violent and non-criminal for long. Sooner or later some punk will start taking stuff and it'll just be white-collar gang activity.
Also, on private property, this activity could be percieved as a threat. Some store managers or owners may have a bad reaction to the activity.
That said, it's an interesting activity. But maybe they should do something a little less obnoxious, like decend on a park and pick up all the litter and dog poop or something, rather than antagoizing retailers and annoying customers.
..or maybe it could be other stuff that comes with having a new principal that actually gives a shit about the school.
I have found that jerking off does the same thing for me. Though they frown on that at work.
Jerking off also has a long history, as my cats do it, and I've heard that monkeys in the zoo do it too.... it's a highly evolved and ancient method of stress relief!
2 to 3 seconds eh? So a Guass Sniper rifle could then shoot one subsonic, and one hypersonic and hit the guy TWICE with the same gun at the same time with one barrel. Once from a slight downard angle, and once straight in the face!
Yummy!
[Incidentally, the Naval "Proceedings" magazine has had articles about the Navy's interest in Gauss Cannon carrying Nuke Ships, they seem to think it is something worthwhile looking into. Likewise, there are fire control systems that can "dial in" salvos of artillery to hit in sequence, walk a pattern or hit all at the same time, all with one rapid-fire turreted cannon.]
Sigh.
Depleted Uranium is not very radioactive, less so than say.... the smoke detector in your home/apartment.
The cancer rate might have gone up due to bad health (maybe sanctions, maybe not) or maybe because health care GOT BETTER. After all, Mr. Ali does not get listed as a cancer statistic if he does not go to the doctor. If anything, you should be spouting hate for Saddam because he lit all those oil wells on fire, burned oil is not a cancer causing agent either is it? Hmm? It's all the DU we shot at people! Of course!
DU does vaporize on impact, but so does the armor, plastic and flesh it hits too. So you might as well blame the Russian tank makers for putting poly-plastic whatzits in the T-62. DU is a much better armor penetrator because it is so dense, as opposed to you, who is dense but would simply splat on the outside of a T-62.
War is a high-risk behavior. People die because of it. Deal with it, or argue with it, but you should at least get a FEW facts straight before you go spouting Left-Wing FUD. Mmm'kay?
Oh Christ give me a break already.
Are you trying to say that someone who DID THE CRIME (really, he did it) and got caught because the investigation led them to beleive he did it, so they asked for samples since he was in the military, and it turned out the samples proved that he did it; is somehow bad? That's just good police work.
It's not like they are systematically searching a complete and encompasing database of pre-analysed samples for every Tom, Dick and Joe Six pack that gets stopped for speeding and hoping to get a hit on some unrelated crime in another state. They were following a lead.
If you do not like to get busted for stuff, do not do the stuff. It's that simple. DNA analyisis that goes through a process like this one did can only help us law-abiding citizens. It will a) catch the real bad guys and sends them to federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison, or b) prove you were not it because there is no match thus allowing you to avoid pound-you-in-the-ass prison. [And then maybe even c) catch the real bad guy because they dont waste time lookin at innocent people who were ruled out by DNA mis-matches.]
The idea (implied in your post) that there is already some DNA registry they are searching is flat out fucking wrong. Even if there was such a thing, what would it be doing? A and B from above.
I see no problem with the method they used to catch the guy, and I'm glad that DNA is being used to solve crimes and set innocent people free.
The whole point, is to destroy data to the level of your needs (i.e. risk). Obviously, if you are the NSA or a medical records place you need good shredding, but the whole point (of my linear shredder) is to make it more work for someone to get my data, than it is the neighbor's data. Then the dumpster diving bums will skip me. (You could could regularly start a gasoline fire in your dumpster I suppose, but the cops tend to frown on that activity.)
So I shred and add to the dumpster, with confidence that someone else's stuff is a lot easier to get to than mine.
I should have got a cross cut simply because it fits more pages per canister of waste, the ribbons do not fall and compact nicely like the little chips do.
There are "dusters" which pull the paper apart into dust-like fuzz instead of cleanly cutting them, those gotta be pretty close to being like burning + stirring, as the letters would be disassembled as well as the words and phrases.
I am not really looking for a perfect system, just to do an easy and simple way of reducing of the many ways data can leak out.
[Complaining that shredders are usless because the waitress can get the number is silly, that's like saying you won't patch IIS because someone could always walk by the machine and reboot it with a floppy disk in the drive. Chances are you'll get probes via the web server more often than someone tries to reboot the box while standing there... It's all about risk reduction, do a little bit where the return is best until you reach your ideal risk/work level.]
Well... go into business helping companies hook up to those server rooms and bandwidth to India of course!
Joking aside, there's lots of kinds of things that simply won't work well when shipped overseas. Note the specific reference to "coding" or "programming", or "tech support" in a lot of the posts. I am not particularly concerned about most areas of IT, some things do not translate well to outsourcing. The trick is just to be doing one of those things....
Midi Version, in case you need to annoy your co-workers.
Thus the "Or something like that" statement at the bottom.
640 per second is still faster than one would think an multi-kilometer object could spin.
The appealing part about modern-astronomy is all the whacky, mind-boggling things that are out there.
Universe is *infinite* and as such it is *infinitely "expanding"*. And if it is infinite, then it was *always* infinite, and was never finite.
Please, then by all means go out and generate some evidence that the above is the case, I am sure if it is compelling enough, people (and scientists and me even) will listen to you. Right now, the above theory isn't even that, because evidence directly contradicts it and you have no evidence to support it.
Your theory is non-scientific because there is either a) no evidencce or b) evidence directly refutes it, or c) both. Also, in order to be a *Scientific* theory, it needs to be falsifiable, something those closeted bible-thumpers and crack-pot conspiracy folks forget.
It is true that the more scientists there are the better and there are far too many people running around loose who are clueless about it. Note however that you are not helping the situation any.
Yeah, 100 times a second, a normal star would fly apart, pulsars are not normal stars though and can withstand that spin due to how they are made. (100/s is actually pretty slow, 1K/s and 10K/s are also out there.)
Pulsars are nutron stars (collapsed due to gravity to the point of overcoming the repulsive force between atoms, so the nucleus of the atoms are smashed together, extremely high density matter just short of a black hole in density) where the angular velocity of the entire system is packed into a tiny space (meters or a few kilometers across).
Since it still has a magnetic field too, there is a "beam" of photons that get channeled out away at the poles, sorta like a flashlight spun on a string.
If earth is in the beam, we see a "pulse" of light energy coming from the star. (There's a proably a bunch we do not see as they do not point at us at any time during the spin.)
Counting the pulses tells you how fast the star is spinning and to a certain extent it's age (as the pulse slows down over astronomical time).
Since the spin has a lot of angular momentum (A LOT) it is extremely regular, and serves as a nice clock to use against stuff going on around the pulsar and between us and it. (Think atomic clock to synch GPS with, same concept.)
Or something like that.
That hurts my head just thinking about it. So let me ask you this, if we discover it's theoretically possible to break one of the fundamental laws of physics, and do so, does the parallel universe spiral into oblivion (as we probably would also)?
Yes, and they believe the device for doing it is on a flatbed truck behind a used car lot in Eastern Baghdad. That's what the CIA said anyway...
Stupid Polititians. They just want to force Mr. Ralsky get out of the state and sell his house cheap for the brother-in-law to move in a nice new house with a T1 line.
Check out "SpamBayes". Their web site says they have an Outlook 2000 and XP plugin, runs IMAP, and works with Mozilla too.
I never used it, just have it bookmarked.
being the presence of US soldiers in their holy land.
That is one reason that seems to be pretty prevalent, especially since some of the groups specifically say so in their "press releases"
Still, it is an irrational and frankly not-nice way to view the world which has no legitamacy whatsoever. If the Saudi Government invites the USAF to the country to put a base there, the beef is with the Saudi Government, not the American Public.
Moslems have a PR problem, but it's not because pasty-whites (like me) coming up with brash and racist ideas on our own (well, not entirely). It's forced female circumcision, death by stoning, violently sexist attitudes, cutting off hands for stealing, religious persecution of Jews, Christians and others, totalitarian/theocratic (and usually aggressive) governments, punishment of rape victims not the perpetrators, rape as a punishment for adultery or pre-marital sex, not to mention more than their fair share of terrorists willing to kill others and themselves... I could go on and on.
No matter that what I think is true or not. I think it because of what I have learned about Moslems over the years, from TV, newspaper, classic literature, etc. has made me think the guys over in the Middle-East and Eastern Africa are barbarians that are not willing to stop being a bunch of jerks.
If they want me to think the West should change it's behavior, they need to explain point by point why they have a problem, *AND* their complaints must be valid and rational. Until then, they get no sympathy from me.
The question of 'digital shoplifting' is an interesting one, but it comes in direct conflict with other well-established rights (or rather, non-rights).
Any person who goes out in public can expect that at some point someone may take a photograph of them. Maybe accidentally (as in the background) or on purpose as the subject. Anybody has the *RIGHT* to drive by your house and take a photograph of it (or whatever happens to face the street; fence, gate, whatever). In a public place, there is no expectation of privacy and no moral or legal standing to prevent someone from taking photographs. (Though there are some places where taking photos of "private skin" or underwear without the owner's knowledge is illegal.)
What if I happen to want to make a "photo-blog" that consists of high-res snapshots of my entire day taken at 1 minute intervals with a mounted head camera? Can the store prevent that? What happens when 3.1 megapixels can fit in a little under-hat-brim camera? What they gonna do then?
The only viable long-term solution that does not trample on someone's personal right, or the general public's rights, is to use simple measures to prevent IP rights (against copying) from being violated in the store. A sticker on the edge (break the seal you buy it or get arrested for distruction of property) or shrink wrap or something of that nature is the only way to go.
If they think techonlogy is going to not get to a point where people can easily gather that detail of information, they are flat out dumb.
Yeah?
Well guess what. They put the thing out there before I was hired and put a bunch of twitchy-clueless web hosting customers on it.
I got a new set of servers, got to design how it all works, all patched and good and ready to go. Know what I am waiting for? Server brackets. The boss's dad is makin em in his garage. Until then, I can't put the new ones up in the rack.
Then I get to migrate all of them-there sites to the shiney new servers and answer stupid phone calls to explain how DNS works, and explain how their ISP proxy server is fucking broken.
You think any of this is my choice? (Aside from the shiney new stuff.) Think anybody is going to stop and think "Gee, this might be patched tomorrow and it won't be a threat to anybody as a zombie then!" Nope. They won't think at all.
Your justification for web site defacement sucks. You might as well ass-rape your sister cuz she's not wearing a chastity belt. If I run across your mom, you'd better hope I don't use the same logic you do.
It's not Darwinism, it's vandalism.
I agree that there are a lot of lousy sysadmins out there, causing lots of problems by letting their machines get hacked. But you should think about how you think things should go a little bit. Maybe it would be better if you concentrated on educating those around you how to set up a web site properly, hmm?
(As for me, I hope the Spanish-speaking nitwits organizing this end up in Colombian-Federal-pound-you-in-the-ass Prison. They deserve it.)
Just bribe the local officials and get on with it. In a small place like that you should be up against an un-educated alderman equivalent for that stuff.