Is this the sort of thing anyone in the/. community would use? I don't mean to troll, but aren't there already a million and a half applications that people are already familiar with / already have installed that could do the exact same thing(s)?
This isn't the days of Hotline anymore. (Though it did pwn for its time... Ahh, the power of dc++)
Or does it seem like this new worm proves that there is a digital advertising war going on? Bear with me a second...
Previously (well, like early-mid 90s) when a site got hacked or a virus was running rampant, there was usually some sort of political message along with it, like a US Gov website getting hacked by a mexican / chinese hacker group that would deface the main index.html to say 'oh these people are doing some bad shit, now we're going to tell you what it is since they wont'
Notice you don't see that anymore? Like, ever? The new world of commonly noticed 'hackers' seems to be a world of mostly spyware / virus infections targeted at data mining and reselling the information gathered to advertisers. Now, with that in mind, from Symantec's description of what the worm does, look at the following:
from the following subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\RunO nce
10. Searches for the following files and folders to delete the files and the contents of folders:
* %SYSTEM%\pnpsrv.exe
* %SYSTEM%\winpnp.exe
* %SYSTEM%\csm.exe
* %SYSTEM%\botzor.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWebSearch\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Hotbar\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay
* %PROGRAMFILES%\MyWay\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions
* %PROGRAMFILES%\180Solutions\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\WinTools\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Toolbar\*.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\CxtPls
* %PROGRAMFILES%\NavExcel
* %PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate
* %PROGRAMFILES%\AutoUpdate\AutoUpdate.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\EbatesMoeMoneyMaker
* %PROGRAMFILES%\eZula
* %PROGRAMFILES%\eZula\mmod.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT
* %PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\GMT\GMT.exe
* %PROGRAMFILES%\CommonFiles\CMEII
Ever heard of a virus removing spyware for you? What reasons can we think of for a worm to do this? The one that comes to my mind seems far fetched, but assume that the spyware being removed by this virus was engineered by competitors to whoever made this virus. So maybe now we will see turf battles over drone zombified boxen? What other reasons can the/. community present for this virus removing spyware?
I played Everquest from about a 3 months after it came out (late 98 I believe) til around 2002, I 'quit' several times in between. In this small town at one point there were around 20 or so of us that played. You'd never believe the amount of absolute insanity that followd that game. I had friends that got married to someone (in game) then later that person would come to meet all of us.
One incident comes to mind, ok.. Let me see if I can explain properly. In the high end game there is a system called DKP that guilds choose to use or not, basically it is if you are on alot and at their events you get DKP that you can cash in to get an item that a monster yeilds, if everyone wants the item, it comes down to who has the most DKP. Well... This real life friend of mine, who is a girl (we got her hooked on eq, bad idea, anyway), she got married in game to this dude that came down to meet her, so he shows up, they get together what ever, and he leaves. Come to find out his guild had set up this 'underground' DKP system that consisted of this - if you could have sex (in real life) with a girl from the game, you would get insane 'underground' DKP from the guild that you could cash in for anything (like getting someone kicked out for no reason, etc).
Ended up he didn't get his DKP though, because some other guy from his guild had already came to visit and had sex with her and claimed the DKP off her. Sooo, yeah, that game was all kinds of snafu.
But I'll tell you this, even though I had logged in over 300+ actual real time played / logged in on my account, I would have at any time left the game at the drop of a dime to do something with my friends in real life, the game never had me that hooked, but it was sure something to do those countless nights when I couldn't find any IT work. I'm happily retired now, for the last few years, and would never ever go back to it. I could have been a CCIE with all the time I wasted on that shit. Anyway...
Had you bothered to review any of the links yourself, rather than going against it simply because it is against what you were taught at school by the mislead, you would have discovered that it isn't, as you put it, 'one wacko', but the entire scientific community through their inability to disprove it for the last several years (read, decades.).
Robert Gentry's has worked for years at the Oak Ridge National Lab and has had much scientific data published in magazines and reports such as:
Science, Nature, Geophysical Research Letters
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Physical Review Letters,
Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science
All of which are publications that are printed for peer review, so other scientists can hold the data to scrutiny and try to recreate the project given the provided data.
Why is it that the 'open minded' are open minded to anything so long as it doesn't deal with them having to be heald accountable for their actions?
In a broader meaning, science can be taken to be the search for the workings of nature, and that would probably include certain religions. The fact that many people view any religion as a bunch of unfulfilled promises is telling. As is the fact that I see people who have "lost faith" in science and turned to some other framework to explain the world to them.
Science really is just another belief system, which has enough things reasonably explained so people think it's going to lead them to the whole truth. It isn't.
I agree with you on most everything except some of the above, I believe that Science and Religion can totally coexist and back eachother up on many many levels.
Example: Scientist Robert V. Gentry, in the 60's or 70's, completely invalidated the 'Billion year earth' and Evolution theory with the shocking discovery that Granite had to be created instantly, as opposed to being created over the course of billions of years cooling down from lava. You might be thinking "Oh BS, if that were the case, we wouldn't be teaching evolution in school as the primary theory." Thats what I thought too. See for yourself.
Some of his other more recent, and shocking, work was censored (more like deleted off a gov funded public website, twice, then his password changed) by fellow 'open minded scientists' because they knew it would turn the scientific world completely upside down.
You should watch his videos, they are from like the 70s or 80s, and ittl make your head spin when you see what kind of evidence they have to show, considering after that sort of groundbreaking research we should have never been teaching this totally bunk theory of evolution.
So, what took our planet (loosely theoretically) a couple billion of years to do, could be (again loosely theoretically) done there in a matter of hundereds? (I realize that theoretically the larger portion of the time it took for life to develop here had more to do with variable chances than it did with the atmosphere, although atmosphere is included in those variables)
It just seems to me that the world of science has recently turned more into a smorgishboard of unfulfilled promises and reluctance to realize that we cannot even figure out 90% of the problems with our own people, on our own planet, so why should we be trying to conquer others?
You joyless fuck, I'd wager your mother would have chosen differently if she had the foresight to see you as the facist you have become.
at least i stand behind what i have to say with my identification. i know its a very unpopular view to say that people should be held accountable for their actions. you show your true colors AC. btw, grats on marking me off as a facist. you should run for office.
For example, many US Republicans are against abortion but in favour of the death penalty (no doubt they have their reasons)
That is such skewed to be expected bullshit. I am against abortion and for the death penalty and that is no fucking contradiction whatsoever. If some jackass goes out and murders people he should be killed. What the fuck wrong did that child in the womb do?
Oh and here is another seemingly contradictory statement too, I fully support a womans right to choose.
You heard me right.(or read, as it may be)
That's right. I support a womans right to choose. That bitches choice is made the second she pulls down her pants and any of you that think different are simply looking for an excuse to justify your 'sex for fun' that has so abundantly spread over the face of this world.
The half-life of C14 does not mean that we can only date organic material 5730 years old and newer -- I'm not entirely certain where you got that information. [btw, i never said that, i mentioned that it got sketchy past/near the half life, sure, my explanation below]
The half-life of C14 is the time it takes for half of a sample to undergo radioactive decay. The effective range of Carbon Dating seems to be about 50,000 years. There is a good article Here [wikipedia.org] that you might find enlightening.
As far as your understanding of the half life I am in agreement with, this is my problem with it - we currently know that about 21 pounds of nitrogen are converted into radioactive c14 in the atmosphere per year (mainly from a neutron colliding into a Nitrogen14 atom and also from both He 4 reacting with carbon13 and finally Oxygen17 reacting with neutrons). Now, when we go and try to estimate how old something is, using C14 dating, we assume that the rate of Nitrogen - > C14 conversion has remained constant throughout thousands of years. That is very skeptical. It is basically nothing short of an assumption. I believe there was far less C14 thousands of years ago, because of several obvious variables that didn't exist thousands of years ago.
There are actually several assumptions made with C14 dating, including:
a) the decay rate of c14 has always been the same (there is alot of evidence supporting this assumption overall, but not when put into a specific instance. lots of variables could cause c14 to decay faster in one specific creature, but not overall for everything that died the same year.)
b) the organic matter has not gained any c14 since being buried
c) the ratio of c12/c14 has remained constant throughout thousands of years
d) the organic matter was in equilibrium with biosphere when said organic matter was buried
The oldest tree in the world is a Bristlecone Pine named "Methuselah" -- It's 4,767 years old.
Why isn't there an older tree? Perhaps changes in climate and geography over time, natural disasters (think: fire, etc.). It's preaty amazing anything could survive that long.
depending on who you go to for those numbers they fluctuate for hundereds of years. for all we know that tree could be 5.2k years old or 4.0k, I seriously doubt they would appreciate (or allow for that matter) multiple more drills to know a closer to exact estimation of its age.
what i find kind of interesting is that evolutionists are quick to dismiss the idea of a creator, and yet welcome with open arms the idea that all life came from a rock (which if you think about long enough, and trace the steps back, you will realize that is what they believe)
Not quite -- the oldest reef in the world is is located in a very odd place -- Vermont -- The Chazy Reef is estimated to be over 480 million years old. Though it has competition from Rowland's Reef in Nevada -- a multi-million year old bioherm. (Perhaps you shouldn't trust info you get from John Ankerberg?)
I'd like to thank you for bringing these to my attention, I will surely be investigating them further. As far as John Ankerberg, i've never heard of him but I will look into him as well.
id like to leave you with a few quotes from former atheist scientists and authors.
"It is, for example, impossible for evolution to account for the fact than one single cell can carry more data than all the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together."
"It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design."
- Anthony Flew
Professor of Philosophy, former atheist, author, and debater
"When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I
The oldest tree in the world is in California.
It is 4200 years old.
That's an old tree, but if this world is billions
of years old, why isn't there an older one?
The oldest and biggest reefs in the world are outside the coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reefs. After a 30 year study, several groups of scientists all came to the conclusion that the reef
had to be less than 4300 years old.
That's some pretty old reef. But once again, with a billion year old world, shouldn't that be WAAY older?
The are so many different simple things that we
can find in nature that really put a kink in the entire evolution viewpoint.
By the way, according to the bible, the earth was created around 7000 years ago. The flood happened 4500 years ago. Ties in pretty well with what we see in nature now, no?
And before anyone mentions Carbon14 dating.. Actually:) go ahead. I'd love to show you just how sketchy that 'science' gets going near / past the half life (5730 years).
Somebody mod this faggot down please. This is offtopic and certainly not insightful or interesting. Fuckers.
woah dude, don't blow a gasket or anything. it really looks like you have a case of karma envy:(
btw the poster clearly mentioned in his subject that it was OT. even if he didn't, really, who gives a fuck par (apparently) you?
Can someone please enlighten me...
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Ice Lake on Mars
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...as to, in light of this article, why there has been such debate about whether or not there was at one point water on Mars. I mean seriously, did we start forming "intelligent" theorys about the planet before we even had high res images of the entire planet? Sorry but to me this makes absolutely no sense. Have we taken high res images of the moon? Shit maybe there IS a portion of it made of cheese after all! (Sorry but this is just really mindblowing to me that we had not previously discovered this. Like, you know, 10+ years ago)
perhaps we shoud have neither, or perhaps
slashdot should have their own catagory...
bugs:)
just use the same borg gates icon or maybe
make a cute lil windows logo icon:D
really, at what point did we convince even ourselves that we could put a pricetag on life. not only did we ruin it for ourselves, but we've completley fucked generations to come not only with the laws that we've allowed to be passed, but also putting the notion into our society that doing wrong is acceptable and even merited if the end result is a 'successful' business. what have we really succeeded in? whats even worse is the the consensus of the american public now: it doesn't really matter, because it doesnt effect me(yet), what is important is as said before - that new bmw.
I've been a pc tech for too many years now:/ can't seem to get my foot in the door to a decent IT job / NOC even with certs, anyway here is my opinion:
I see around 50-70 spyware -infested- computers per month, and though at first I did install all the good free apps that helped prevent spyware before it installed itself, it really killed return business (like the people that would go pr0n browsing the day they got their computer back, and we'd see it back in the shop after the weekend). so my boss made me stop installing the good shit (firefox/spybot/hijackthis/cwshredder/etc). anyway I think that as long as most apps are released mainly for MS OS's the problem will never be solved. and i doubt we will be seeing a huge shift toward linux (thank god) or unix anytime soon.
for the most part I don't care what people use, and with the morons that come in here that call their computers a 'modem', im kinda glad MS is around. imagine explaning editing a Makefile to an applebees manager. anyway, my -2cents. (matches my karma, eh?)
this stuff happens all the time. its just usually there isnt enough hard evidence to do anything about it. as scary as it sounds, though, in big business nothing is a mistake. i bet you 186 million that that money is going to end up back in the hands of the people that started this price fix to begin with.
anyway, maybe im over paranoid when it comes to money. perhaps it has something to do with the fact
that the federal reserve isnt owned by the usa,
and every president that attempted to change that
died under odd circumstances or was assassinated.
anyway, nothing to see here, go back to earning
your ink'd papers.
god help us all.
I never said I was leet because I could hook up 2 cables, nor would anyone claim to be (so I hope). My point is this, any city could make a huge wifi radius for under 10k, and that being said, it's such a bad bad idea because I'm sure more and more towns will be doing it soon. Wireless gives people too much privacy IMO - not saying that is a bad thing, and neither are you I bet, until your network is broken into and lots of sensitive data is stolen and the best thing you can trace the originating MAC is somewhere in a 1x1 mile square.
Btw, offtopic, but AC, I bet I know like 30 or so of you in real life. You got nothing to prove though man:) Just chill.
Yay! Yet another unsecure wifi point to pwn people from... Too bad I dont live in Ohio. Err wtf am I saying?
Anyway. I dont see what the big deal about this is,
talk about simple shit to set up. Installed a dlink dwl7200 at a golf course the other day that will reach a lil over 5 football fields long that was only like 820$... Hrm yeah I was right:
802.11a/g (Full Power with 5dBi gain diversity dualband dipole antenna)
Indoors:
98ft (30m) @ 54Mbps
112ft (34m) @ 48Mbps
128ft (39m) @ 36Mbps
154ft (47m) @ 24Mbps
184ft (56m) @ 18Mbps
217ft (66m) @ 12Mbps
259ft (79m) @ 9Mbps
325ft (99m) @ 6Mbps
Outdoors:
367ft (112m) @ 54Mbps
820ft (250m) @ 18Mbps
1640ft (500m) @ 6Mbps
I must say though, this is an awful idea.
Wireless internet has to be the best ticket out of jail for criminals since lawyers.
"I guess I have my own Big Brother paranoia. Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't."
How long will we be able to opt out of it?
I probably have one in my shirt now, a few in my car, some in my food, etc.
This is the same kind of shit that has us in the state we are currently in, people see the potential abuse of a technology and continue to use it (and push it to the mainstream) until the
shit hits the fan, then everyone has a negative opinion.
I remember back in 2001 when people were calling for RFID & Biometric data to be stored on Passports, Drivers Licenses, etc.. The gov said by 2010 we would probably have it mandantory on passports.. Every year they make the mandantory date closer and closer, last I heard the end of this year it will be the default.
I opened up a old IBM 300GL the other day, id say it was from around 97 / 98, maybe older. So right behind the front plastic of the case I see this odd thing that appears to be an 'external' cmos battery velcro'd onto the case.. After looking around another second or two I realize that it can't be a battery, so I do some hard searching. Turns out its an undocumented RFID antenna, mentioned nowhere on IBMs website. Those things are still somewhat expensive, so why the hell did they include them on a computer from 97 without even plastering huge stickers all over the case boasting how much you need it?
This may all sound a little too paranoid, but in my opinion RFID is the worse thing to happen to this planet since monsanto.
Isn't it odd, that the United States doesn't even own the Federal Reserve? Isn't it even odder that all the new money has RFID chips in em?:/
My boss bought a new mercedes the other day, while he was test driving it I was inside talking to one of the sales reps. He was telling me about all the crazys that show up there to test drive a car and end up trying to run off with it, from what he said the cars are all tracked by RFID, they can alert the cops when the car gets X miles away and the cops can apparently track down the car via RFID. Wonder how long that's been a standard option, hell the car companies didn't even admit to the 'black box' til about what, a year ago in that canada court case? Anyway... later.
/paranoia
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Is this the sort of thing anyone in the /. community would use? I don't mean to troll, but aren't there already a million and a half applications that people are already familiar with / already have installed that could do the exact same thing(s)?
This isn't the days of Hotline anymore. (Though it did pwn for its time... Ahh, the power of dc++)
now i can wear my tinfoil hat without people looking at me weird. technology++
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/06/xbox.html http://www.bbspot.com/toys/slashtitle/index.html my two favs :p
(sorry, I could have sworn they were Onion
when I went to google them.. nonetheless)
did this really get posted? im asleep right?... wtmfh?
Previously (well, like early-mid 90s) when a site got hacked or a virus was running rampant, there was usually some sort of political message along with it, like a US Gov website getting hacked by a mexican / chinese hacker group that would deface the main index.html to say 'oh these people are doing some bad shit, now we're going to tell you what it is since they wont'
Notice you don't see that anymore? Like, ever? The new world of commonly noticed 'hackers' seems to be a world of mostly spyware / virus infections targeted at data mining and reselling the information gathered to advertisers. Now, with that in mind, from Symantec's description of what the worm does, look at the following:
Ever heard of a virus removing spyware for you? What reasons can we think of for a worm to do this? The one that comes to my mind seems far fetched, but assume that the spyware being removed by this virus was engineered by competitors to whoever made this virus. So maybe now we will see turf battles over drone zombified boxen? What other reasons can the
I played Everquest from about a 3 months after it came out (late 98 I believe) til around 2002, I 'quit' several times in between. In this small town at one point there were around 20 or so of us that played. You'd never believe the amount of absolute insanity that followd that game. I had friends that got married to someone (in game) then later that person would come to meet all of us.
One incident comes to mind, ok.. Let me see if I can explain properly. In the high end game there is a system called DKP that guilds choose to use or not, basically it is if you are on alot and at their events you get DKP that you can cash in to get an item that a monster yeilds, if everyone wants the item, it comes down to who has the most DKP.
Well... This real life friend of mine, who is a girl (we got her hooked on eq, bad idea, anyway), she got married in game to this dude that came down to meet her, so he shows up, they get together what ever, and he leaves. Come to find out his guild had set up this 'underground' DKP system that consisted of this - if you could have sex (in real life) with a girl from the game, you would get insane 'underground' DKP from the guild that you could cash in for anything (like getting someone kicked out for no reason, etc).
Ended up he didn't get his DKP though, because some other guy from his guild had already came to visit and had sex with her and claimed the DKP off her. Sooo, yeah, that game was all kinds of snafu.
But I'll tell you this, even though I had logged in over 300+ actual real time played / logged in on my account, I would have at any time left the game at the drop of a dime to do something with my friends in real life, the game never had me that hooked, but it was sure something to do those countless nights when I couldn't find any IT work. I'm happily retired now, for the last few years, and would never ever go back to it. I could have been a CCIE with all the time I wasted on that shit. Anyway...
Had you bothered to review any of the links yourself, rather than going against it simply because it is against what you were taught at school by the mislead, you would have discovered that it isn't, as you put it, 'one wacko', but the entire scientific community through their inability to disprove it for the last several years (read, decades.).
Robert Gentry's has worked for years at the Oak Ridge National Lab and has had much scientific data published in magazines and reports such as:
Science, Nature, Geophysical Research Letters
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Physical Review Letters,
Annual Reviews of Nuclear Science
All of which are publications that are printed for peer review, so other scientists can hold the data to scrutiny and try to recreate the project given the provided data.
Why is it that the 'open minded' are open minded to anything so long as it doesn't deal with them having to be heald accountable for their actions?
I agree with you on most everything except some of the above, I believe that Science and Religion can totally coexist and back eachother up on many many levels.
Example: Scientist Robert V. Gentry, in the 60's or 70's, completely invalidated the 'Billion year earth' and Evolution theory with the shocking discovery that Granite had to be created instantly, as opposed to being created over the course of billions of years cooling down from lava. You might be thinking "Oh BS, if that were the case, we wouldn't be teaching evolution in school as the primary theory." Thats what I thought too. See for yourself.
Some of his other more recent, and shocking, work was censored (more like deleted off a gov funded public website, twice, then his password changed) by fellow 'open minded scientists' because they knew it would turn the scientific world completely upside down.
You should watch his videos, they are from like the 70s or 80s, and ittl make your head spin when you see what kind of evidence they have to show, considering after that sort of groundbreaking research we should have never been teaching this totally bunk theory of evolution.
So, what took our planet (loosely theoretically) a couple billion of years to do, could be (again loosely theoretically) done there in a matter of hundereds? (I realize that theoretically the larger portion of the time it took for life to develop here had more to do with variable chances than it did with the atmosphere, although atmosphere is included in those variables)
It just seems to me that the world of science has recently turned more into a smorgishboard of unfulfilled promises and reluctance to realize that we cannot even figure out 90% of the problems with our own people, on our own planet, so why should we be trying to conquer others?
at least i stand behind what i have to say with my identification. i know its a very unpopular view to say that people should be held accountable for their actions. you show your true colors AC. btw, grats on marking me off as a facist. you should run for office.
That is such skewed to be expected bullshit. I am against abortion and for the death penalty and that is no fucking contradiction whatsoever. If some jackass goes out and murders people he should be killed. What the fuck wrong did that child in the womb do?
Oh and here is another seemingly contradictory statement too, I fully support a womans right to choose.
You heard me right.(or read, as it may be)
That's right. I support a womans right to choose. That bitches choice is made the second she pulls down her pants and any of you that think different are simply looking for an excuse to justify your 'sex for fun' that has so abundantly spread over the face of this world.
As far as your understanding of the half life I am in agreement with, this is my problem with it - we currently know that about 21 pounds of nitrogen are converted into radioactive c14 in the atmosphere per year (mainly from a neutron colliding into a Nitrogen14 atom and also from both He 4 reacting with carbon13 and finally Oxygen17 reacting with neutrons). Now, when we go and try to estimate how old something is, using C14 dating, we assume that the rate of Nitrogen - > C14 conversion has remained constant throughout thousands of years. That is very skeptical. It is basically nothing short of an assumption. I believe there was far less C14 thousands of years ago, because of several obvious variables that didn't exist thousands of years ago.
There are actually several assumptions made with C14 dating, including:
a) the decay rate of c14 has always been the same (there is alot of evidence supporting this assumption overall, but not when put into a specific instance. lots of variables could cause c14 to decay faster in one specific creature, but not overall for everything that died the same year.)
b) the organic matter has not gained any c14 since being buried
c) the ratio of c12/c14 has remained constant throughout thousands of years
d) the organic matter was in equilibrium with biosphere when said organic matter was buried
depending on who you go to for those numbers they fluctuate for hundereds of years. for all we know that tree could be 5.2k years old or 4.0k, I seriously doubt they would appreciate (or allow for that matter) multiple more drills to know a closer to exact estimation of its age.
what i find kind of interesting is that evolutionists are quick to dismiss the idea of a creator, and yet welcome with open arms the idea that all life came from a rock (which if you think about long enough, and trace the steps back, you will realize that is what they believe)
I'd like to thank you for bringing these to my attention, I will surely be investigating them further. As far as John Ankerberg, i've never heard of him but I will look into him as well.
id like to leave you with a few quotes from former atheist scientists and authors.
"It is, for example, impossible for evolution to account for the fact than one single cell can carry more data than all the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica put together."
"It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design."
- Anthony Flew
Professor of Philosophy, former atheist, author, and debater
"When I began my career as a cosmologist some twenty years ago, I
The oldest tree in the world is in California.
:) go ahead. I'd love to show you just how sketchy that 'science' gets going near / past the half life (5730 years).
It is 4200 years old.
That's an old tree, but if this world is billions of years old, why isn't there an older one?
The oldest and biggest reefs in the world are outside the coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reefs. After a 30 year study, several groups of scientists all came to the conclusion that the reef had to be less than 4300 years old.
That's some pretty old reef. But once again, with a billion year old world, shouldn't that be WAAY older?
The are so many different simple things that we can find in nature that really put a kink in the entire evolution viewpoint.
By the way, according to the bible, the earth was created around 7000 years ago. The flood happened 4500 years ago. Ties in pretty well with what we see in nature now, no?
And before anyone mentions Carbon14 dating.. Actually
woah dude, don't blow a gasket or anything. it really looks like you have a case of karma envy
btw the poster clearly mentioned in his subject that it was OT. even if he didn't, really, who gives a fuck par (apparently) you?
...as to, in light of this article, why there has been such debate about whether or not there was at one point water on Mars. I mean seriously, did we start forming "intelligent" theorys about the planet before we even had high res images of the entire planet? Sorry but to me this makes absolutely no sense. Have we taken high res images of the moon? Shit maybe there IS a portion of it made of cheese after all! (Sorry but this is just really mindblowing to me that we had not previously discovered this. Like, you know, 10+ years ago)
heh, one good thing comes out of this. i got a screenshot of /.'s mainpage with 2 different descriptions of this :D shit, am i posting on the wrong one?
perhaps we shoud have neither, or perhaps slashdot should have their own catagory... bugs :)
just use the same borg gates icon or maybe
make a cute lil windows logo icon :D
i dont mean to be trolling/flaimbait, but please
:/
mod me accordingly if i am.
do we really need to see it posted here, every time
a firefox sploit is found?
gettin me all excited for nothing
zappepcs hit the nail on the head imo.
really, at what point did we convince even ourselves that we could put a pricetag on life. not only did we ruin it for ourselves, but we've completley fucked generations to come not only with the laws that we've allowed to be passed, but also putting the notion into our society that doing wrong is acceptable and even merited if the end result is a 'successful' business. what have we really succeeded in? whats even worse is the the consensus of the american public now: it doesn't really matter, because it doesnt effect me(yet), what is important is as said before - that new bmw.
I've been a pc tech for too many years now :/ can't seem to get my foot in the door to a decent IT job / NOC even with certs, anyway here is my opinion:
I see around 50-70 spyware -infested- computers per
month, and though at first I did install all the good free apps that helped prevent spyware before it installed itself, it really killed return business (like the people that would go pr0n browsing the day they got their computer back, and we'd see it back in the shop after the weekend). so my boss made me stop installing the good shit (firefox/spybot/hijackthis/cwshredder/etc). anyway I think that as long as most apps are released mainly for MS OS's the problem will never be solved. and i doubt we will be seeing a huge shift toward linux (thank god) or unix anytime soon.
for the most part I don't care what people use, and with the morons that come in here that call their computers a 'modem', im kinda glad MS is around. imagine explaning editing a Makefile to an applebees manager. anyway, my -2cents. (matches my karma, eh?)
this stuff happens all the time. its just usually there isnt enough hard evidence to do anything about it. as scary as it sounds, though, in big business nothing is a mistake. i bet you 186 million that that money is going to end up back in the hands of the people that started this price fix to begin with. anyway, maybe im over paranoid when it comes to money. perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the federal reserve isnt owned by the usa, and every president that attempted to change that died under odd circumstances or was assassinated. anyway, nothing to see here, go back to earning your ink'd papers. god help us all.
I never said I was leet because I could hook up 2 cables, nor would anyone claim to be (so I hope). My point is this, any city could make a huge wifi radius for under 10k, and that being said, it's such a bad bad idea because I'm sure more and more towns will be doing it soon. Wireless gives people too much privacy IMO - not saying that is a bad thing, and neither are you I bet, until your network is broken into and lots of sensitive data is stolen and the best thing you can trace the originating MAC is somewhere in a 1x1 mile square.
:) Just chill.
Btw, offtopic, but AC, I bet I know like 30 or so of you in real life. You got nothing to prove though man
It only takes one....
:)
me
Yay! Yet another unsecure wifi point to pwn people from... Too bad I dont live in Ohio. Err wtf am I saying?
Anyway. I dont see what the big deal about this is, talk about simple shit to set up. Installed a dlink dwl7200 at a golf course the other day that will reach a lil over 5 football fields long that was only like 820$... Hrm yeah I was right:
802.11a/g (Full Power with 5dBi gain diversity dualband dipole antenna)
Indoors:
98ft (30m) @ 54Mbps
112ft (34m) @ 48Mbps
128ft (39m) @ 36Mbps
154ft (47m) @ 24Mbps
184ft (56m) @ 18Mbps
217ft (66m) @ 12Mbps
259ft (79m) @ 9Mbps
325ft (99m) @ 6Mbps
Outdoors:
367ft (112m) @ 54Mbps
820ft (250m) @ 18Mbps
1640ft (500m) @ 6Mbps
I must say though, this is an awful idea. Wireless internet has to be the best ticket out of jail for criminals since lawyers.
"I guess I have my own Big Brother paranoia. Given the choice of Orwellian societies, I'd rather live in one based on RFID tags than fingerprints, DNA, or facial structure; an RFID tag system is easy to manage and opt out of, whereas DNA sampling or facial recognition, well, isn't."
:/
/paranoia
How long will we be able to opt out of it? I probably have one in my shirt now, a few in my car, some in my food, etc.
This is the same kind of shit that has us in the state we are currently in, people see the potential abuse of a technology and continue to use it (and push it to the mainstream) until the shit hits the fan, then everyone has a negative opinion.
I remember back in 2001 when people were calling for RFID & Biometric data to be stored on Passports, Drivers Licenses, etc.. The gov said by 2010 we would probably have it mandantory on passports.. Every year they make the mandantory date closer and closer, last I heard the end of this year it will be the default.
I opened up a old IBM 300GL the other day, id say it was from around 97 / 98, maybe older. So right behind the front plastic of the case I see this odd thing that appears to be an 'external' cmos battery velcro'd onto the case.. After looking around another second or two I realize that it can't be a battery, so I do some hard searching. Turns out its an undocumented RFID antenna, mentioned nowhere on IBMs website. Those things are still somewhat expensive, so why the hell did they include them on a computer from 97 without even plastering huge stickers all over the case boasting how much you need it?
This may all sound a little too paranoid, but in my opinion RFID is the worse thing to happen to this planet since monsanto.
Isn't it odd, that the United States doesn't even own the Federal Reserve? Isn't it even odder that all the new money has RFID chips in em?
My boss bought a new mercedes the other day, while he was test driving it I was inside talking to one of the sales reps. He was telling me about all the crazys that show up there to test drive a car and end up trying to run off with it, from what he said the cars are all tracked by RFID, they can alert the cops when the car gets X miles away and the cops can apparently track down the car via RFID. Wonder how long that's been a standard option, hell the car companies didn't even admit to the 'black box' til about what, a year ago in that canada court case? Anyway... later.