If we were more agressive with quarantining we wouldn't need to wait for drugs, or drug research. Sounds like our morals are already wanting if we're allowing more infections to occur because we value people's 'privacy' (the right to carry a lethal virus undetected and spread it around?!) over the lives of their victims.
I don't see any moral issues either, but there are some technical ones that may yet lurk. Using animal tissue during the cloning process is a risky business. Anything animal-like left in the cell is going to have an effect on the future human cells, benign as it may be. It bears some study to be certain that this is not going to harm the human feti down the road.
To be fair, we are talking here about strata that took millions of years to lay down. A thousand-year magnetic anomaly would be an eyeblink in a stratum of sufficient age and the 'average' value of a normal dipole would be very predominant.
Well that's just it! This evidence shows that, despite shifts, the magnetic field has always fallen into a more-or-less stable "dipole" arrangement that has remained the 'average' after a shift.
Therefore the evidence is reliable. If the field had been changing during the shifts themselves then it would have been recorded in the rock.
Deposition of glacial or glacial marine strata close to the paleo-equator during the Marinoan, Sturtian and Makganyene glaciations, indicated by a growing body of reliable paleomagnetic data from different regions.
This is a fancy way of saying that they have found deposits of submarine rock near the equator that should only be forming in an arctic climate, and which date to the period of 'snowball earth' in question. This sediment has magnetic signatures which signify it formed originally at the equator, in an equatorial magnetic field, and did not simply arrive at the equator after having been formed previously in the arctic.
Please note that we are speaking here of a process of lava cooling, and 'trapping' a fingerprint of whatever magnetic field was present at the time it cooled. That's how these fingerprints are formed and it is a well-known and documented process, and a basis for the current models of magnetic field shift.
Had the magnetic system been different in the past (not a two-pole magnetic field) it would have rendered these results useless, but this article itself explains that there is now evidence that the Earth's magnetic field has always been a dipole (two-pole) field and that these results are correct.
Viruses are made of RNA, not DNA, and by the very effort of finding the sequences for this virus on the Human genome and decrypting it into viral RNA, we have already sequenced that virus's genome.
In the GGP post, an allusion was made to the Jurassic Park idea that "life will find a way". Well... a virus isn't alive, for starters. It's a sack of protein encasing some RNA. That's it. It cannot on its own reproduce itself. It relies on a living host to replicate its code. During replication, things can change, and mutations can happen... but only during replication. This virus has been rendered unable to replicate, so that cannot happen.
A lot of things in Biology are very complex, I will grant you that, but it's well-established how the viral life-cycle works, and relatively easy to control in a lab setting. There are no hidden boogeymen here waiting to bite us in the ass, although the lie that there "might be something bad that could happen!" would make good ignorance-laden Sci-Fi.
They're supposed to be a verifiable, permanent record of the vote. Not being reusable is the whole bloody point!
...must be printed anew each election...
Good! I trust a printing press printing 100,000 equal ballots more than I trust a thousand computers running flawed software to always correlate a touch-screen press for Candidate Y with an Access entry for Candidate Y, 100% of the time. There are multiple possible points of failure for the latter scenario, and only one easily noticable one for the former.
...require human counters...
Again, good! People can be held to account for their failures. Machines cannot.
...and can be lost.
It takes a calamity or capital crime to 'lose' 100,000 ballots, but only a single hard drive crash or power failure to lose 100,000 electronic ones. I know which system I'd rather have.
What is wrong with paper ballots? Anyone? Bueller?
Seriously, what is the reason that so many of the counties in the US are switching to electronic voting machines when they're clearly unverifiable, untested, and unreliable?
Disarmament solves nothing. It is impossible to put the genie of nuclear weapons back in the bottle, and even assuming we managed to officially "disarm" every nation of nukes, it is still impossible to be certain no "rogue state" is secretly working on one... and what a coup that would be! Iran with the only nuke program in the world!
There is no going back. There is only going forward. Nukes are not going away despite the elaborate fantasies of a few.
There's a difference between pointing out security flaws, even giving detailed instructions, and providing a mechanism for breaking the law.
If he had simply pointed out the hole, people would be calling him a fearmonger.
Although one could argue that that shouldn't be illegal, I think the DMCA's provisions against circumventing a security mechanism probably apply.
It would, if the DMCA didn't solely cover breaking security mechanisms that serve to prevent copyright infringement. That's not what happened here.
On another point, the reason our airports were so lax before 9/11 is that we would not have put up with post-9/11 security back then. Actually, I just realized that I've not been on an airplane since 1999, and I don't know first hand how things are different.
So you just discredited your own statement? Thanks?
This is the type of thing that gets modded as Interesting on Slashdot?
I think what needs to be looked at here, and what is often ignored by those with agendas to push, is intent. His intent was to improve security, not to see it subverted by enemies of the state. It is the government's fault, not his, that the only way to ensure the closure of this security hole was to engineer a tool to exploit it.
The fact that he published his identity and did this entire thing above-board settles the question of intent for me. He was not maliciously motivated. That is the basis by which we should judge him.
If I showed up at my apartment with the door unlocked, I would be rather annoyed. If I had had notes posted to my door for several years beforehand telling me my lock was insecure, and how to secure it with relative ease, and I then showed up at my apartment door to find it unlocked with a note saying "Told you so", I'd be embarassed. The key is, as long as the belongings inside are left untouched, all that's hurt here is pride. Pride is not something the law needs to be protecting.
A 'GASA' would be NASA with a different name. The US could not resist controlling it either via witholding funds or knowledge, and China and Russia would never tolerate being restrained in their pursuit of space technology in any measure by US influence.
US interests are a poison pill that would smother a 'GASA' in its crib. Not to say other countries' politics are much better.
That's not the point. The point is that Microsoft has designed their OS with a single point of failure, and to top it all off, if anyone were to exploit that point of failure, the deafening ring of poetic justice would be heard the world over.
WGA is a key to every Windows box on the planet and a giant club with which to beat Microsoft over the head if it's every hacked, and you can bet that's not going to go unnoticed by those with the capability to pull this off. It would be the hack of the freaking century.
Outside of science, the absolute possibility of 'some terrible event' B following 'some innoccuous event' A is almost impossible to prove, so for all intents and purposes, unless you are referring to the "slippery slope" of throwing slow neutrons at a critical mass of Uranium, slippery slopes are a fallacy.
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If we were more agressive with quarantining we wouldn't need to wait for drugs, or drug research. Sounds like our morals are already wanting if we're allowing more infections to occur because we value people's 'privacy' (the right to carry a lethal virus undetected and spread it around?!) over the lives of their victims.
I don't see any moral issues either, but there are some technical ones that may yet lurk. Using animal tissue during the cloning process is a risky business. Anything animal-like left in the cell is going to have an effect on the future human cells, benign as it may be. It bears some study to be certain that this is not going to harm the human feti down the road.
That's a wonderful sentiment, but not all human life is equal. If it were, we'd all be born equal too, no?
To be fair, we are talking here about strata that took millions of years to lay down. A thousand-year magnetic anomaly would be an eyeblink in a stratum of sufficient age and the 'average' value of a normal dipole would be very predominant.
Well that's just it! This evidence shows that, despite shifts, the magnetic field has always fallen into a more-or-less stable "dipole" arrangement that has remained the 'average' after a shift.
Therefore the evidence is reliable. If the field had been changing during the shifts themselves then it would have been recorded in the rock.
This is a fancy way of saying that they have found deposits of submarine rock near the equator that should only be forming in an arctic climate, and which date to the period of 'snowball earth' in question. This sediment has magnetic signatures which signify it formed originally at the equator, in an equatorial magnetic field, and did not simply arrive at the equator after having been formed previously in the arctic.
Please note that we are speaking here of a process of lava cooling, and 'trapping' a fingerprint of whatever magnetic field was present at the time it cooled. That's how these fingerprints are formed and it is a well-known and documented process, and a basis for the current models of magnetic field shift.
Had the magnetic system been different in the past (not a two-pole magnetic field) it would have rendered these results useless, but this article itself explains that there is now evidence that the Earth's magnetic field has always been a dipole (two-pole) field and that these results are correct.
At least, that is my understanding.
I'm genuinely curious. You seem to hold 'democracy' to be good-in-itself. Inherently good, I might say.
What is your justification for this? Many travesties have been started democratically. Can you prove democracy is an inherent good?
Viruses are made of RNA, not DNA, and by the very effort of finding the sequences for this virus on the Human genome and decrypting it into viral RNA, we have already sequenced that virus's genome.
In the GGP post, an allusion was made to the Jurassic Park idea that "life will find a way". Well... a virus isn't alive, for starters. It's a sack of protein encasing some RNA. That's it. It cannot on its own reproduce itself. It relies on a living host to replicate its code. During replication, things can change, and mutations can happen... but only during replication. This virus has been rendered unable to replicate, so that cannot happen.
A lot of things in Biology are very complex, I will grant you that, but it's well-established how the viral life-cycle works, and relatively easy to control in a lab setting. There are no hidden boogeymen here waiting to bite us in the ass, although the lie that there "might be something bad that could happen!" would make good ignorance-laden Sci-Fi.
They're supposed to be a verifiable, permanent record of the vote. Not being reusable is the whole bloody point!
Good! I trust a printing press printing 100,000 equal ballots more than I trust a thousand computers running flawed software to always correlate a touch-screen press for Candidate Y with an Access entry for Candidate Y, 100% of the time. There are multiple possible points of failure for the latter scenario, and only one easily noticable one for the former.
Again, good! People can be held to account for their failures. Machines cannot.
It takes a calamity or capital crime to 'lose' 100,000 ballots, but only a single hard drive crash or power failure to lose 100,000 electronic ones. I know which system I'd rather have.
Molecules aren't magic, son. If I were to rip out your lungs, life wouldn't "find a way" for you to breathe, you would just die.
Deactivating the method of this virus's reproduction is not quite akin to ripping out its lungs, as it doesn't 'die', but it's damned close.
What is wrong with paper ballots? Anyone? Bueller?
Seriously, what is the reason that so many of the counties in the US are switching to electronic voting machines when they're clearly unverifiable, untested, and unreliable?
Pfft, trolls don't need proof. The opinion they've freshly squeezed out of their ass is as good as gold.
Sounds like you're talking about dictatorial 'communism'. Socialism is not that.
Disarmament solves nothing. It is impossible to put the genie of nuclear weapons back in the bottle, and even assuming we managed to officially "disarm" every nation of nukes, it is still impossible to be certain no "rogue state" is secretly working on one... and what a coup that would be! Iran with the only nuke program in the world!
There is no going back. There is only going forward. Nukes are not going away despite the elaborate fantasies of a few.
Or to be more precise, not-quite-ethical according to whose ethics?
Yes, the preview button is my friend.
Ethical according to whose ethics?
Proof of concept.
Like I said in another post, simply pointing out the flaw without an implemenation to prove it works would be squelched out as fearmongering.
If he had simply pointed out the hole, people would be calling him a fearmonger.
It would, if the DMCA didn't solely cover breaking security mechanisms that serve to prevent copyright infringement. That's not what happened here.
So you just discredited your own statement? Thanks?
This is the type of thing that gets modded as Interesting on Slashdot?
I think what needs to be looked at here, and what is often ignored by those with agendas to push, is intent. His intent was to improve security, not to see it subverted by enemies of the state. It is the government's fault, not his, that the only way to ensure the closure of this security hole was to engineer a tool to exploit it.
The fact that he published his identity and did this entire thing above-board settles the question of intent for me. He was not maliciously motivated. That is the basis by which we should judge him.
If I showed up at my apartment with the door unlocked, I would be rather annoyed. If I had had notes posted to my door for several years beforehand telling me my lock was insecure, and how to secure it with relative ease, and I then showed up at my apartment door to find it unlocked with a note saying "Told you so", I'd be embarassed. The key is, as long as the belongings inside are left untouched, all that's hurt here is pride. Pride is not something the law needs to be protecting.
A 'GASA' would be NASA with a different name. The US could not resist controlling it either via witholding funds or knowledge, and China and Russia would never tolerate being restrained in their pursuit of space technology in any measure by US influence.
US interests are a poison pill that would smother a 'GASA' in its crib. Not to say other countries' politics are much better.
That's not the point. The point is that Microsoft has designed their OS with a single point of failure, and to top it all off, if anyone were to exploit that point of failure, the deafening ring of poetic justice would be heard the world over.
WGA is a key to every Windows box on the planet and a giant club with which to beat Microsoft over the head if it's every hacked, and you can bet that's not going to go unnoticed by those with the capability to pull this off. It would be the hack of the freaking century.
The same person keeps flamebaiting me down. You will be spanked on the meta-mod, you realize this, right?
Outside of science, the absolute possibility of 'some terrible event' B following 'some innoccuous event' A is almost impossible to prove, so for all intents and purposes, unless you are referring to the "slippery slope" of throwing slow neutrons at a critical mass of Uranium, slippery slopes are a fallacy.
Slippery slopes are a logical fallacy, and arguing them borders on asinine, sorry. I would really think a slashdot reader would know this by now.
I didn't say "registered sex offender", I said convicted child rapist. I understand the difference, but apparently the mods do not.