It's certainly not the language they used in the paper they actually wrote. Journalists are adept at asking leading quesions to make a more dramatic story, basically scripting the quotes they want "Would you agree, professor that you have proved..." It's almost impossible for a non-PR professional to keep control of your message once the press get hold of it.
Anybody else can just compare their height to the recorded heights of ancestors less than 500 years ago
That's not evolution, it's nutrition. Look at how Japanese youth tower over their parents. Evolution doesn't occur in one or two generations (Darwin awards excepted).
At this moment there are 450 commnets up, 5 pages, and after skimming through I find NOT ONE referring to TFA. Just the same old evolution/ID/FSM flame war over and over and over and over.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, this is compelling evidec for the devolution of Slashdot. Pointless, repetetive, off-topic flamebait.
And for some on-topic observations: The breakthrough is our direct lineage is known back to 4 million BC now. And we are all Ethiopian.
Ethiopia is "the cradle of humanity", according to Nature. All three of the species linked together by the new finds were found in Ethiopia.
"It is the only place in the world where the three phases of evolution could be documented and proved," Asfaw said.
"All (three species) were able to be found in one place, proving that evolution is a fact," Asfaw said. "Successive records that we see here prove that the Afar region is the origin of human kind."
Let me be the first to ask: Why the hell is the military storing sensitive data on USB drives, which are prone to both theft and failure?
Most likely it's just sneakernet; moving files from laptop to PC etc. After transferring the files they forget to wipe the USB stick. The army will probably try to stop this by mandating it not be done. Which will work for a while till troops rotate and a new batch come in. The only real solution is to physically disable USB ports, which would be difficult with the number of legitimate USB peripherals now. Otherwise everything needs to be transparently encrypted. The military fears losing access to critical data in battle more than possible security breaches though.
remember that MS didn't have all the fancy holograms or serial number tracking systems back in the dos days
Yes they did. I've got a retail version of DOS 6, it's got holograms, authenticity certificates, etc. Though the fakes in China are very good, and it may well be that there is no way to confirm the serial numbers at this date.
Why bother to require a licensed OS except as a deal to benefit Microsoft?
That IS the reason. Same reason Hu is buying a fleet of Boeings. They've got a huge pile of US dollars and have to spend it somehow, and handing it over to high-profile US companies helps to keep the US trade protectionists off their back.
The intent of the law is that Hu Jintao won't feel embarrassed when he has dinner at Gates' mansion next week. Once he's finished his jaunt, no one will care what you do any more. Also China does have its own officially sanctioned OS, Red Flag which all true Party members should use.
In Beijing, where bootleg software is the norm, now PCs come with a surplus, legal (possibly) version of MS DOS 6 installed. It just measn that for a while the bootlegs will be under the counter instead of in the shop window.
You almost carried that off. But your fatal mistake: just like on a Mac, a right click would bring up a contextual menu. A real Mac bigot would digress for a paragraph to explain why more than one mouse button was unnecessary and inelegant: "Oh, you mean option-click".
like claiming to know the Chinese when all you've met are people in Hong Kong.
There are 6 million people in Hong Kong, 95% of them Chinese. Most are Cantonese, but you bump into people from every mainland province you can name every day. Basically, HK is to China as New York is to the US. Not typical of the heartland perhaps, but you certainly do get a concentrated dose of the national culture.
This "feature" is becoming an obsession and a point of derision for Gates and others. The laptop has batteries and an AC adapter. Only in the absence of power would you need to charge it mechanically. And Negroponte recently said it won't have a hand crank as they found that would stress the case too much; some models may have a pedal on a cord, others will be solely battery and mains.
I know. I know what plasma is. I know what heat is. I know what the solar wind is. I don't know what any of that has to do with the subject.
Have you heard of the aurorae borealis and australis? That's a side effect of solar wind being guided along the earth's magnetic field. Note that where this is the strongest are the coldest places on the planet. Solar wind contributes neglible amounts of heat.
Running X with a (novice) user friendly gui (read kde or gnome)will require more than 128mb ram to run smoothly. Actually you will able to hear the hard drive grinding everytime you so much as open the system menu.
The $100 laptop doesn't have a hard disk.
It'll initially have 512 MB flash storage.
go to D-Link's site, fetch every firmware for those models, and see himself which of them are bad, so he could then say "DI-xxx model with firmware version less than 2.xx is affected by this problem", and ask users to upgrade, or at least show a simple workaround
Kamp did give a list of affected devices and firmware on his page. He also notes that some, but not all, seems to have been upgraded to excluded his server. But how is he to "ask users to upgrade" their devices? How is he to test the procedures to correct each such device? (Buy them?) And then he'd probably be sued by some idiot who trashed their firmware trying to do it.
Ok, so now you have switched from Creationism is behind it to just "religion."
No, I didn't switch. I assumed that Creationists were religious. I didn't know there was a non-religious form of Creationism. Is there? If you believe in a Creator, that's religion, I think by definition.
Most IDist are creationist. Isn't that what I said?
You said most just happen to be creationists. As if it was a coincidence. Maybe you can name some people who believe in ID but who aren't Creationists; I can't imagine how an intelligent person could believe in ID unless religion was behind it. And that's basically what judges have found whenever it has come to court.
Seriously though. Gzip can compress down to 98%... if your data is mostly redundant. The chance that they're doing this on the random data they claim in the article is nil.
"They" don't claim that. The random blogger that Slasdot linked to might have. See their docs. Basically they're talking about making a series of backups, and being clever about finding common factors between sets.
Is it too much to ask for a story that just says, "Hey look, we found this cool fossil
Is it too much to ask that people comment on the ACTUAL ARTICLE and not rerun the same 800-reply threads that we get here EVERY TIME the word "evolution" is mentioned in a story? Would that moderators would mod all such off topic instead of joining in the flame war and modding up those they agree with.
Depends on the ID proponent that you talk to. Most just happen to be Creationists also. ID doesn't have any official stance on evolution
Bullshit. Because the US Constitution mandates separation of Church and State, Creationism, explicitly Genesis-six-days creationism, was excluded from schools. So the SAME PEOPLE who had been thwarted in replacing teaching of evolution with creationsm did a search and replace on their tracts and came back with "intelligent design". Evidence of this (early editions of ID books used "Creation" where later editions used "ID", eg) was one of the reasons cited in the recent Dover decision. As Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas remarked, "ID is just creationism in a cheap tuxedo".
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It's certainly not the language they used in the paper they actually wrote. Journalists are adept at asking leading quesions to make a more dramatic story, basically scripting the quotes they want "Would you agree, professor that you have proved..." It's almost impossible for a non-PR professional to keep control of your message once the press get hold of it.
"Missing link" is a term newspaper headline writers use. Scientists never do.
That's not evolution, it's nutrition. Look at how Japanese youth tower over their parents. Evolution doesn't occur in one or two generations (Darwin awards excepted).
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, this is compelling evidec for the devolution of Slashdot. Pointless, repetetive, off-topic flamebait.
And for some on-topic observations: The breakthrough is our direct lineage is known back to 4 million BC now. And we are all Ethiopian.
Most likely it's just sneakernet; moving files from laptop to PC etc. After transferring the files they forget to wipe the USB stick. The army will probably try to stop this by mandating it not be done. Which will work for a while till troops rotate and a new batch come in. The only real solution is to physically disable USB ports, which would be difficult with the number of legitimate USB peripherals now. Otherwise everything needs to be transparently encrypted. The military fears losing access to critical data in battle more than possible security breaches though.
If it gets Bill Gates lobbying for you, it is.
Yes they did. I've got a retail version of DOS 6, it's got holograms, authenticity certificates, etc. Though the fakes in China are very good, and it may well be that there is no way to confirm the serial numbers at this date.
Actually, in OS8.6 I used a 2 button USB mouse with USB Overdrive software which lets you set the right button to be context menu (control-click).
That IS the reason. Same reason Hu is buying a fleet of Boeings. They've got a huge pile of US dollars and have to spend it somehow, and handing it over to high-profile US companies helps to keep the US trade protectionists off their back.
The intent of the law is that Hu Jintao won't feel embarrassed when he has dinner at Gates' mansion next week. Once he's finished his jaunt, no one will care what you do any more. Also China does have its own officially sanctioned OS, Red Flag which all true Party members should use.
In Beijing, where bootleg software is the norm, now PCs come with a surplus, legal (possibly) version of MS DOS 6 installed. It just measn that for a while the bootlegs will be under the counter instead of in the shop window.
You almost carried that off. But your fatal mistake: just like on a Mac, a right click would bring up a contextual menu. A real Mac bigot would digress for a paragraph to explain why more than one mouse button was unnecessary and inelegant: "Oh, you mean option-click".
There are 6 million people in Hong Kong, 95% of them Chinese. Most are Cantonese, but you bump into people from every mainland province you can name every day. Basically, HK is to China as New York is to the US. Not typical of the heartland perhaps, but you certainly do get a concentrated dose of the national culture.
If by firewall, you mean one made of masonry or asbestos, yes.
This "feature" is becoming an obsession and a point of derision for Gates and others. The laptop has batteries and an AC adapter. Only in the absence of power would you need to charge it mechanically. And Negroponte recently said it won't have a hand crank as they found that would stress the case too much; some models may have a pedal on a cord, others will be solely battery and mains.
I know. I know what plasma is. I know what heat is. I know what the solar wind is. I don't know what any of that has to do with the subject.
Have you heard of the aurorae borealis and australis? That's a side effect of solar wind being guided along the earth's magnetic field. Note that where this is the strongest are the coldest places on the planet. Solar wind contributes neglible amounts of heat.
The $100 laptop doesn't have a hard disk. It'll initially have 512 MB flash storage.
Kamp did give a list of affected devices and firmware on his page. He also notes that some, but not all, seems to have been upgraded to excluded his server. But how is he to "ask users to upgrade" their devices? How is he to test the procedures to correct each such device? (Buy them?) And then he'd probably be sued by some idiot who trashed their firmware trying to do it.
And what does that have to do with electromagnetic radiation, specifically heat (infra red) from the sun?
Sorry, though I followed on from your post I wasn't intending to directly criticise you.
No, I didn't switch. I assumed that Creationists were religious. I didn't know there was a non-religious form of Creationism. Is there? If you believe in a Creator, that's religion, I think by definition.
You said most just happen to be creationists. As if it was a coincidence. Maybe you can name some people who believe in ID but who aren't Creationists; I can't imagine how an intelligent person could believe in ID unless religion was behind it. And that's basically what judges have found whenever it has come to court.
"They" don't claim that. The random blogger that Slasdot linked to might have. See their docs. Basically they're talking about making a series of backups, and being clever about finding common factors between sets.
Is it too much to ask that people comment on the ACTUAL ARTICLE and not rerun the same 800-reply threads that we get here EVERY TIME the word "evolution" is mentioned in a story? Would that moderators would mod all such off topic instead of joining in the flame war and modding up those they agree with.
Bullshit. Because the US Constitution mandates separation of Church and State, Creationism, explicitly Genesis-six-days creationism, was excluded from schools. So the SAME PEOPLE who had been thwarted in replacing teaching of evolution with creationsm did a search and replace on their tracts and came back with "intelligent design". Evidence of this (early editions of ID books used "Creation" where later editions used "ID", eg) was one of the reasons cited in the recent Dover decision. As Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas remarked, "ID is just creationism in a cheap tuxedo".