Black holes do radiate particles (search for "hawking radiation" on Wikipedia), but that's not what they're talking about here. As matter falls into the black hole, it gets superheated and radiates lots of EM. Thus, it isn't radiation from the black hole that clears out the surrounding space, but radiation from the matter falling into the black hole.
That ranks right up there with librarians that wouldn't demagnetize the anti-theft strip in your library books if they had a CD in the back cover because it might erase it (would it have even damaged floppies?).
I always had to remember to drop those books off at the drive through so that I wouldn't set off the alarms walking into the building.
You can only prove it on a case by case basis. The exact same solution that saves one company money might cost another company more once you figure in required training, infrastructure, and staffing changes.
Hmm...I've never heard anyone criticize Schneier's book before.
Please give us your recommendation for a book on cryptography that is highly regarded by people who know cryptography (perhaps in addition to knowing network security).
It most certainly is if you've done a good job looking for the evidence. It may not be conclusive evidence, but it is definitely evidence.
Say it with me: Absence of evidence after thoroughly exhausting all reasonable search methods for said evidence is most definitely evidence of absence.
Are you already using solar water heating? Unless you're above the arctic circle, solar water heating will probably pay for itself in far less than 20 years in your area.
Solar electricity might not be there for most areas for a while, but progress is progress.
Pedantically speaking, preventing pregnancy isn't the same thing as dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. Once you're pregnant, it too late to do any preventing.
Really, preventing unwanted pregnancies and dealing with unwanted pregnancies are two entirely different problems which mutually exclusive problem spaces.
Until people understand this distinction, the debate around abortion will always be clouded by people who think that abstinence is the solution, not realizing that it's a solution to AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM than the one being debated.
You say the energy density is horrible compared to lithium batteries, but 20% is within 1 order of magnitude. That sounds pretty impressive to me for something that lasts for decades. Electric cars may not use them for a while, but charging stations for electric cars might since they're not as space constrained.
Secure communication over untrusted medium is a solved problem.
Hell, Diffie-Hellman key exchange is older than I am.
So, the moral is that any protocol that cares to protect itself from MitM attacks can. The current problem is that many protocols currently in use don't bother (either from laziness or from the fact that they were designed during a more trusting age).
But what about married couples? My wife works in one direction, I work in the other. If we lived by her work, I'd have a 25 mile commute. If we lived by my work, she'd have a 25 mile commute.
I think you've got the development community all wrong. By the time a project has moved from the "useful to me" phase to the "useful to the community" phase, the developer has already acknowledged that the opinions of the users are valuable.
As long as the requests from the community don't directly contradict something that the developer requires the project to have, the developer will usually attempt to make the community happy. The problem is the community doesn't often speak with one voice and so it's difficult for the developer to know which side of contradicting requests he should accept. Often, the only position the developer can take is to wait for the community to reach a consensus before he does anything.
Don't blame the developers for this, they're just part of the equation.
We bought an ibook for my wife 4 years ago and I don't know anything about it because she's never asked me for help. Seriously, these things just work.
Do I recommend macs? Absolutely. Do I know anything about actually using a mac? Nope.
If I got a mac, the first thing I would do is throw Linux on it.
You can make natural gas out of biogas, so there's no reason that natural gas should be considered nonrenewable.
Also, I get natural gas piped straight to my house. If I had an inline compressor, I could bottle it up and use it in a hypothetical natural gas powered car. How convenient would that be?
I don't believe that any pirated copies of OS X are involved. All Apple can do is hope either EULA holds up in court or arrange some sort of settlement.
I feel if there are many things our schools lack, and there are, one of them is an exploration of World Religions.
We read a wide variety of mythology (including bible stories) in my 7th grade english class. They were correctly presented the same way that fairy tales were presented: as fictional stories.
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lying in a court of law is a serious criminal offence.
Thanks, I needed that laugh.
Seriously, how often does perjury get prosecuted?
Black holes do radiate particles (search for "hawking radiation" on Wikipedia), but that's not what they're talking about here. As matter falls into the black hole, it gets superheated and radiates lots of EM. Thus, it isn't radiation from the black hole that clears out the surrounding space, but radiation from the matter falling into the black hole.
That ranks right up there with librarians that wouldn't demagnetize the anti-theft strip in your library books if they had a CD in the back cover because it might erase it (would it have even damaged floppies?).
I always had to remember to drop those books off at the drive through so that I wouldn't set off the alarms walking into the building.
Drivers are unnecessary bloat? When did that happen?
I've got AT&T on the home phone and I'm required to enter a password when I try to check my voicemail from the home phone.
Maybe it's a regional thing (I was originally a BellSouth customer).
Categorically speaking, you can't prove it.
You can only prove it on a case by case basis. The exact same solution that saves one company money might cost another company more once you figure in required training, infrastructure, and staffing changes.
Hmm...I've never heard anyone criticize Schneier's book before.
Please give us your recommendation for a book on cryptography that is highly regarded by people who know cryptography (perhaps in addition to knowing network security).
It most certainly is if you've done a good job looking for the evidence. It may not be conclusive evidence, but it is definitely evidence.
Say it with me:
Absence of evidence after thoroughly exhausting all reasonable search methods for said evidence is most definitely evidence of absence.
What are you talking about?
Well, it's one thing to discover a better solar unit. It's quite another to discover how to mass produce it economically.
You must have both pieces to the puzzle to bring these things to market.
Where are you?
Are you already using solar water heating? Unless you're above the arctic circle, solar water heating will probably pay for itself in far less than 20 years in your area.
Solar electricity might not be there for most areas for a while, but progress is progress.
Pedantically speaking, preventing pregnancy isn't the same thing as dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. Once you're pregnant, it too late to do any preventing.
Really, preventing unwanted pregnancies and dealing with unwanted pregnancies are two entirely different problems which mutually exclusive problem spaces.
Until people understand this distinction, the debate around abortion will always be clouded by people who think that abstinence is the solution, not realizing that it's a solution to AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PROBLEM than the one being debated.
You say the energy density is horrible compared to lithium batteries, but 20% is within 1 order of magnitude. That sounds pretty impressive to me for something that lasts for decades. Electric cars may not use them for a while, but charging stations for electric cars might since they're not as space constrained.
Shooting people who obviously intend harm to you or your property is not a morally ambiguous situation: you shoot to kill.
If it's your employer's property and you job is to protect it, you do the same.
Secure communication over untrusted medium is a solved problem.
Hell, Diffie-Hellman key exchange is older than I am.
So, the moral is that any protocol that cares to protect itself from MitM
attacks can. The current problem is that many protocols currently in use
don't bother (either from laziness or from the fact that they were
designed during a more trusting age).
But what about married couples? My wife works in one direction, I work in the other. If we lived by her work, I'd have a 25 mile commute. If we lived by my work, she'd have a 25 mile commute.
It'll never get that bad.
That's the whole point of evidence based medicine.
I think you've got the development community all wrong. By the time a project has moved from the "useful to me" phase to the "useful to the community" phase, the developer has already acknowledged that the opinions of the users are valuable.
As long as the requests from the community don't directly contradict something that the developer requires the project to have, the developer will usually attempt to make the community happy. The problem is the community doesn't often speak with one voice and so it's difficult for the developer to know which side of contradicting requests he should accept. Often, the only position the developer can take is to wait for the community to reach a consensus before he does anything.
Don't blame the developers for this, they're just part of the equation.
Your notion of what a modern Linux distro requires memory-wise is very wrong.
My work machine only has 512M RAM and I almost never ever swap (I only swap when loading large PDFs in Acrobat reader).
I'm running Gentoo with Firefox and Evolution open all the time, plus whatever I happen to be working with at the time.
We bought an ibook for my wife 4 years ago and I don't know anything about it because she's never asked me for help. Seriously, these things just work.
Do I recommend macs? Absolutely.
Do I know anything about actually using a mac? Nope.
If I got a mac, the first thing I would do is throw Linux on it.
You can make natural gas out of biogas, so there's no reason that natural gas
should be considered nonrenewable.
Also, I get natural gas piped straight to my house. If I had an inline
compressor, I could bottle it up and use it in a hypothetical natural gas
powered car. How convenient would that be?
I don't believe that any pirated copies of OS X are involved. All Apple can do is hope either EULA holds up in court or arrange some sort of settlement.
But then, IANAL.
Did anyone else try to read that post as a poem?
But if you wanted to actually build such a device, you'd still have to license the patent that your patent improved on.
I feel if there are many things our schools lack, and there are, one of them is an exploration of World Religions.
We read a wide variety of mythology (including bible stories) in my 7th grade english class. They were correctly presented the same way that fairy tales were presented: as fictional stories.