Credit card companies and airlines do these things quite often. Ever get a notice in the mail that your APR on your credit card went up? They just changed the contract. Ever had a flight canceled but be charged to reschedule? They changed the contract on you. All because they reserved the right in the original contract to do so. I am baffled, however, how any such contract can be considered legal and binding, it clearly favors one party to a ludicrous degree and provides no method for a resolution of changes for BOTH parties (one side dictates all the terms).
Informative? Really? For the difference between 495 light years and 600 light years? Do I get modded 'informative' for correcting it to 640 ± 140 light years?
While I totally agree with what I believe your point was, that popular media distorts scientific results and that there are certainly a subset of scientists who seem more inclined to push an agenda than to report scientific results, I must take offense at your statement that:
Science is nothing more than a marketing term to convince people to buy whatever they're selling.
Science is a method for obtaining data, testing hypotheses, and reporting results. The results of science, like virtually anything else, can be misused. The current atmosphere of decreeing that "science is marketing" or "science is biased" degrades the method which is NOT at fault. If we want to improve our understanding of nature and the universe then we need to learn, as a society to decouple objective results from interpretation, rather analogous to how society would be better served by a clearer decoupling of news opinion from news facts.
You have made quite a few assertions as to the viability of attempting such a maneuver, could you please provide evidence in the form of a well respected news article or scientific journal? As was noted by another poster the USSR often claimed things worked when they, in fact, did not.
It is also worth noting that your closing statement about Obama makes it appear that he is to blame for all of this, American Presidents, for decades, have been taking money from big oil who have demanded repayment in a variety of ways. This is not unique to the US and certainly not unique to Democrats or Republicans. Trying to make this out to be an issue about Obama alone is short sighted and politics at its worst.
WE have a environment catastrophe on OUR hands and working together is the only way to deal with it. Similarly the only way of ensuring something similar does not happen again is to demand of all of our politicians a break from the status quo.
I think the post above was referring to the fact that you and abigsmurf haven't actually provided evidence, you have made assertions. Do you have links which indicate that the Russians did this and succeeded? Other evidence that validates those claims outside of the USSR?
Except when it comes to packing more data into a limited bandwidth data stream. It is often the case that bit information is encoded into large integers then unpacked when analysis/reconstruction is done for instruments where data bandwidths are limited (e.g. the South Pole and satellite missions). That said most groups working in those environments do not use MATLAB.
This makes me sad. I have yet to teach many undergrad courses and I am in the hard sciences but it frightens me if I am going to have to deal with people who think they can reinvent the wheel much less all of physics just to not be "thieves."
You may want to research which airlines did this on their own accord and which did it at the request of their governments. I believe the KLM flights were requested by the government, but google would know for sure.
It has bothered me for some time that sites are becoming more and more willing to add third party content to the site I navigate to. In theory I do not have a problem with it but in practice it just means that they are skirting their editorial duties and pushing un-reviewed content at users. As others above have mentioned many of these third party ad networks have served up some great malware in the recent past and I am sure will continue to do so. When I go to a site I am indicating that I trust the content served by that site, if they want me to load content from another site I see no reason I am not within my rights to say no. I would be happy to see sites reviewing the ads they want their users to view and serving them from their own domains (they could give a sub domain to their ad provider but it might backfire). But as it stands sites make it difficult for me to pick the good from the bad since I am not going to research all the different ad networks.
Of course. I think you and others have misinterpreted my statement. The OP asked why OpenStreetMap did not fit the criteria. The answer is that it doesn't have the data. Simple as that. WHY it doesn't have the data is because the data holders haven't entered it in.
That brings up the question of whether OpenStreetMap is the best repository for the information in the eyes of those who wish to build businesses off it. I would suspect that it is not, at this point. They do not have the infrastructure to handle a twitter like traffic load. It could become able to handle the traffic and provide the business level service that the above players would demand but it currently is not and it may be far cheaper for the above to just build a consortium of their own.
I find it amusing that you post that "only their own Safari can actually display" HTML5 on the iPhone in this thread discussing the acceptance of a different browser onto the iPhone/iPad.
Haven't had time to read the article but it would amazing if force measurements at these levels could be conducted between well characterized masses to validate general relativity at low mass short distance scales.
If Google is abiding by its user agreement then it provides data on users if given a subpoena from a court of law under which it operates. The problem with China was that they did not go through their own legal process but turned to hacking Google's and users' computers. I believe that in the past Google HAS given Chinese law enforcement information on users when requested to do so by a court and when the data was within that courts jurisdiction.
So your refutation is to assert that his question can never be asked? Basically you are saying that there is no such thing as increased efficiency and that there is no such thing as pollution. Finally you don't even address the question of how this effects the economy except to make another assertion that anything attempted will down us 'in a sea of harm.' How is that a reasonable or useful response?
I think we can all agree that people will come up with amazingly stupid ideas to solve nonexistent/pointless problems that being said people can come up with even more amazing solutions to real world problems given the resources to try. As far as I have seen the current attempts to reduce pollution have had a dramatic effect: there are far fewer instances of acid rain throughout the world than 20 years ago, building maintenance has been eased by not having to routinely clean coal dust from every nook and cranny, and rivers and streams throughout the world are providing humanity with cleaner safer drinking water and food. Do you have any instances where 'the approach taken is so stupid and expensive that any benefits are drowned in a sea of harm?' or are you just preaching to some choir that I don't hear.
People are far too enamored with dark matter. It is extremely frustrating having to place everything in the context of dark matter (often with only the most tenuous connection) when trying to explain interesting observations to the general public. The author of this article, thankfully, made it clear at the top of the article that it was NOT related to dark matter and went on to explain the observation.
This type of logic is inane. If a spouse says "Don't make me hit you," and then proceeds to beat their spouse for not having dinner ready the person doing the beating is at fault. China is responsible for China's actions pure and simple. What Google has does in perfectly LEGAL within the current legal structure of China, if they don't like their own laws....
Not sure what your point is; both are horrible for the internet at large. Saying that China is doing something similar to something the USA is doing does not make either OK.
Symmetric key encryption without knowing the algorithm or the data format can be quite effective. Reconstructing documentation is non trivial and requires detailed knowledge of the system. In this situation you have a undocumented data storage format which will contain undocumented codes. Seems pretty effective to me.
This sounds like an explanation given by someone on Black Adder.
W: Very well then. Three other paths are open to you. Three cunning
plans to cure thy ailment.
E: Oh good.
W: The first is simple. Kill Bob!
E: Never.
W: Then try the second. Kill your self!
E: Neu. And the third?
W: The third is to ensure that no one else ever knows.
E: Ha, that sounds more like it. How?
W: Kill everybody in the whole world. Ah, ha, ha...
The article is rather bad about conflating observation of an isotropic intensity with something inherently extra-galactic. That being said emission due to cosmic ray interactions confined by the heliopause have been predicted and aside from being too faint it is also anisotropic.
Who are you and why is your opinion modded 'Insightful?' While I am perfectly okay with you expressing your opinion it seems ludicrous that it is being modded as somehow being insightful when you bring nothing to the conversation.
I do not believe that they have stated that the 18 recovered laptops were recovered due to the software. That may be the case but I do not believe it has been stated thus far.
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Credit card companies and airlines do these things quite often. Ever get a notice in the mail that your APR on your credit card went up? They just changed the contract. Ever had a flight canceled but be charged to reschedule? They changed the contract on you. All because they reserved the right in the original contract to do so. I am baffled, however, how any such contract can be considered legal and binding, it clearly favors one party to a ludicrous degree and provides no method for a resolution of changes for BOTH parties (one side dictates all the terms).
They get along great with the anarchist clubs at Universities the world over.
Informative? Really? For the difference between 495 light years and 600 light years? Do I get modded 'informative' for correcting it to 640 ± 140 light years?
Science is a method for obtaining data, testing hypotheses, and reporting results. The results of science, like virtually anything else, can be misused. The current atmosphere of decreeing that "science is marketing" or "science is biased" degrades the method which is NOT at fault. If we want to improve our understanding of nature and the universe then we need to learn, as a society to decouple objective results from interpretation, rather analogous to how society would be better served by a clearer decoupling of news opinion from news facts.
You have made quite a few assertions as to the viability of attempting such a maneuver, could you please provide evidence in the form of a well respected news article or scientific journal? As was noted by another poster the USSR often claimed things worked when they, in fact, did not.
It is also worth noting that your closing statement about Obama makes it appear that he is to blame for all of this, American Presidents, for decades, have been taking money from big oil who have demanded repayment in a variety of ways. This is not unique to the US and certainly not unique to Democrats or Republicans. Trying to make this out to be an issue about Obama alone is short sighted and politics at its worst.
WE have a environment catastrophe on OUR hands and working together is the only way to deal with it. Similarly the only way of ensuring something similar does not happen again is to demand of all of our politicians a break from the status quo.
I think the post above was referring to the fact that you and abigsmurf haven't actually provided evidence, you have made assertions. Do you have links which indicate that the Russians did this and succeeded? Other evidence that validates those claims outside of the USSR?
Except when it comes to packing more data into a limited bandwidth data stream. It is often the case that bit information is encoded into large integers then unpacked when analysis/reconstruction is done for instruments where data bandwidths are limited (e.g. the South Pole and satellite missions). That said most groups working in those environments do not use MATLAB.
This makes me sad. I have yet to teach many undergrad courses and I am in the hard sciences but it frightens me if I am going to have to deal with people who think they can reinvent the wheel much less all of physics just to not be "thieves."
You may want to research which airlines did this on their own accord and which did it at the request of their governments. I believe the KLM flights were requested by the government, but google would know for sure.
20 years and 365 days may not mean someone is 21 years old, we have leap years to make it fun.
It has bothered me for some time that sites are becoming more and more willing to add third party content to the site I navigate to. In theory I do not have a problem with it but in practice it just means that they are skirting their editorial duties and pushing un-reviewed content at users. As others above have mentioned many of these third party ad networks have served up some great malware in the recent past and I am sure will continue to do so. When I go to a site I am indicating that I trust the content served by that site, if they want me to load content from another site I see no reason I am not within my rights to say no. I would be happy to see sites reviewing the ads they want their users to view and serving them from their own domains (they could give a sub domain to their ad provider but it might backfire). But as it stands sites make it difficult for me to pick the good from the bad since I am not going to research all the different ad networks.
Of course. I think you and others have misinterpreted my statement. The OP asked why OpenStreetMap did not fit the criteria. The answer is that it doesn't have the data. Simple as that. WHY it doesn't have the data is because the data holders haven't entered it in.
That brings up the question of whether OpenStreetMap is the best repository for the information in the eyes of those who wish to build businesses off it. I would suspect that it is not, at this point. They do not have the infrastructure to handle a twitter like traffic load. It could become able to handle the traffic and provide the business level service that the above players would demand but it currently is not and it may be far cheaper for the above to just build a consortium of their own.
It hasn't been filled with all the useful information within the above mentioned companies databases.
I find it amusing that you post that "only their own Safari can actually display" HTML5 on the iPhone in this thread discussing the acceptance of a different browser onto the iPhone/iPad.
Haven't had time to read the article but it would amazing if force measurements at these levels could be conducted between well characterized masses to validate general relativity at low mass short distance scales.
If Google is abiding by its user agreement then it provides data on users if given a subpoena from a court of law under which it operates. The problem with China was that they did not go through their own legal process but turned to hacking Google's and users' computers. I believe that in the past Google HAS given Chinese law enforcement information on users when requested to do so by a court and when the data was within that courts jurisdiction.
So your refutation is to assert that his question can never be asked? Basically you are saying that there is no such thing as increased efficiency and that there is no such thing as pollution. Finally you don't even address the question of how this effects the economy except to make another assertion that anything attempted will down us 'in a sea of harm.' How is that a reasonable or useful response?
I think we can all agree that people will come up with amazingly stupid ideas to solve nonexistent/pointless problems that being said people can come up with even more amazing solutions to real world problems given the resources to try. As far as I have seen the current attempts to reduce pollution have had a dramatic effect: there are far fewer instances of acid rain throughout the world than 20 years ago, building maintenance has been eased by not having to routinely clean coal dust from every nook and cranny, and rivers and streams throughout the world are providing humanity with cleaner safer drinking water and food. Do you have any instances where 'the approach taken is so stupid and expensive that any benefits are drowned in a sea of harm?' or are you just preaching to some choir that I don't hear.
People are far too enamored with dark matter. It is extremely frustrating having to place everything in the context of dark matter (often with only the most tenuous connection) when trying to explain interesting observations to the general public. The author of this article, thankfully, made it clear at the top of the article that it was NOT related to dark matter and went on to explain the observation.
This type of logic is inane. If a spouse says "Don't make me hit you," and then proceeds to beat their spouse for not having dinner ready the person doing the beating is at fault. China is responsible for China's actions pure and simple. What Google has does in perfectly LEGAL within the current legal structure of China, if they don't like their own laws....
Not sure what your point is; both are horrible for the internet at large. Saying that China is doing something similar to something the USA is doing does not make either OK.
Symmetric key encryption without knowing the algorithm or the data format can be quite effective. Reconstructing documentation is non trivial and requires detailed knowledge of the system. In this situation you have a undocumented data storage format which will contain undocumented codes. Seems pretty effective to me.
The article is rather bad about conflating observation of an isotropic intensity with something inherently extra-galactic. That being said emission due to cosmic ray interactions confined by the heliopause have been predicted and aside from being too faint it is also anisotropic.
Who are you and why is your opinion modded 'Insightful?' While I am perfectly okay with you expressing your opinion it seems ludicrous that it is being modded as somehow being insightful when you bring nothing to the conversation.
I do not believe that they have stated that the 18 recovered laptops were recovered due to the software. That may be the case but I do not believe it has been stated thus far.