Your math is flawed. The earth has a circumference of approximately 24000 miles at the equator. The earth rotates once in 24 miles. Therefore, objects at the equator are moving at approximately 1000 mph. I am in Georgia near the 34th parallel. That means I am probably traveling at somewhere around 700 - 800 mph. Just a quick guess but considerably closer than yours.
First, there is no indication that they have any evidience that the star has planets. Second, how exactly would mere velocity tear the start apart? I would not be suprised if, in the star's distant past, when it had it's close encounter with the super massive black hole at the center of the galaxy that some significant tidal forces were not placed on the star's contents. However, it appears that the star is stable, for the moment, ( moments in stellar lifetimes take millions of years ). The mere fact that the star is moving fast is not enough to tear it apart, there would have to be some other gravitational or kinetic forces at work. Do you realize that,
simply owing to the earth's rotation, you are, at this moment, moving at a rate of approximately 1000 mph? Probably less since you are probably not at the equator.
No. The scope of government should be limited to protecting us from force or fraud, providing for a common defence, and construction and/or regulation of essential infrastructure ( e.g. roads ).
Now, you might say that government owned and run Wi-Fi networks constitute "essential infrastructure" and since internet access is becomming more and more essential I would not argue against it. That is the reason we might choose to fund this sort of thing thru government not because it is "something I want, would use, and enjoy".
The point is that you should be allowed to benefit from it without your competitors being able to co-opt your idea and benefit from it also. Considering that, unless a market is in a phase of significant growth, a businesses success usually means there are other businesses failing, a new business process that gives you a competitive advantage can make the difference between sink or swim.
Stating that any software patent is bad on the basis that they are too ambiguous is the same as saying that software patents could be good if they were more precise. Patents were created to protect inventors from having their ideas ripped off and used to profit another. If you think that there are no new ideas out there ready to be patented then you lack imagination. I participated in the creation of a patented software process. This process has a extraordinary effect on the business intelligence available to those organizations that use it. If we had not patented it, anyone could take the idea, implement it and make money from it without paying us a cent. The fact that it was common for patents to be issued for "inventions" that were clearly prior art to anyone in the field, has clouded the issue. The fact is, software patents are a good thing as long as those that are issuing the patents are well versed in the prior art and can tell a trivial innovation from a profound one.
If they could find a way to reflect or refract microwave radiation from the sun they could use a space based "microwave lens" to get the 60MW microwave beam. Probably would have to be a pretty big lense.
As far as social networking goes, it is the MMOGs that probably has the longest staying power in the minds of users since they are not just socializing they are building a virtual self. I'll admit, I do not have a lot of experience with these social network sites but I do have a ton with MMOG games.
I just recieved this from the cingular wireless proxy when I tried to look at your link. So funny...
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You have a point, however, that is the fault of poor software design. Software developer's should keep the security concerns of thier users in mind. Especially programs like Palm and QuickBooks. Again, isn't it obvious to these guys that working well on a multiuser system would be important.
Login to the computer using the administrative account when you want to install that stuff. Isn't that obvious? I know that computer security and related issues are hard for people to understand. But if you are going to put your personal information into a computer, like your credit card number, or SSN, you should probably take some time to learn how to make sure it is secure. I embarrased the hell out of my nephew because I told his mother that he must have downloaded alot of that stuff while surfing for porn. He even used one of the dialers to get access to one of those "ImLive" type services. She had to put a block on those 900 type numbers.
very little danger of getting infected in this way. And we don't have any DRM mechanisms to get in our way.
But really, Windows XP does provide a way to keep users from installing just any software, that is by having a seperate administrator user and do you surfing and P2P downloading using a "limited" user account.
I went to visit some relatives a couple of weeks ago and I found 250 dialers, spyware and malware programs on thier computer using Spybot. It was unbelievable!
Some of these "so called" intellectuals aren't. A majority of these "I Believe" statements were great but some of them were just inane.
By REBECCA GOLDSTEIN
Philosopher and Novelist, Trinity College; Author, Incompleteness
I believe that scientific theories are a means of going--somewhat mysteriously--beyond what we are able to observe of the physical world, penetrating into the structure of nature. The "theoretical" parts of scientific theories--the parts that speak in seemingly non-observational terms--aren't, I believe, ultimately translatable into observations or aren't just algorithmic black boxes into which we feed our observations and churn out our predictions.
WTF does this mean? I cannot figure it out. If scientific theories were like this, then science would grind to a halt. Just plain silly. And that is only one example. There are several more.
Did you read my post? I am not saying that these sites participated in the crime directly, they are just accomplices. Under US law, and other the laws of other countries as well, it is illegal to facilitate the commision of a crime as well as to commit the crime yourself. There are accomplices "after the fact" and there are knowing accomplices "before the fact". These sites fall into the later category. Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds of people in Oklahoma City. Terry Nichols killed no one directly, but he was still an accomplice. He taught McVeigh how to commit the crime, let him use his property while he was preparing to commit the crime. Now he is serving a life sentence.
to restrict access to thier copyrighted materials. This story seems to indicate that the author thinks that shutting down sites that promote and enable the violation of copyright law is a bad thing. I cannot disagree more. Let's look at the OpenSource movement in comparison. They have protected their work using the strengths of copyright law. It would be completely within thier rights to ask that torrents and other download links, or files be removed from sites that give access to software the violates thier copyright licenses.
I checked out a few of the sites linked by that faq and they clearly are allowing access to copyrighted material using the BitTorrent network. This is wrong in the same way that if I give someone information on where and how to access a location where someone else's valuebles are stored, I would be considered an accomplice to the crime of theft if the person I gave that inforamtion to were to actually steal the valubles. Another way to look at it is, if I contract a hit man to kill another person, then later tell the hit man not to do it, I have still committed a crime. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself. In this case, the conspiracy is between these web site owners and the criminals that trade copyrighted data.
The quickest way to kill the entertainment industry is to destroy the insentive to create good movies, music, or books. The insentive to create the works of art, is created by allowing the creators to profit from thier creations. That cannot be done if people are allowed to make copious copies of the art without compensation to the artists. I know some people are going to say that the MPAA does not represent artists. But they do represent the people that pay the artists. They will not continue to do so if they cannot profit from what they are paying the artists to do.
It never fails, whenever a formerly "crackpot" idea suddenly has an undeniable volume of evidence that supports it, hundereds to scientists in the field will jump on the bandwagon and try to pretend they were there the whole time. This is what I am talking about. The first experimental or observational evidence will not produce the intense scientific interest I am talking about but maybe the 10th. The previous poster was saying that he was glad that scientists would not take psychics seriously because he thought scientists would imprison him and dissect his brain. I was just saying that IF there were a large body of credible evidence for psychic or ESP phenomena, there would be intense scientific interest.
Main Entry: extraordinary
Pronunciation: ik-'stror-d&n-"er-E, "ek-str&-'or-
Function: adjective
1 a : going beyond what is usual, regular, or customary b : exceptional to a very marked extent c of a financial transaction : NONRECURRING
2 : employed for or sent on a special function or service
Given this definition it is quite clear that certain questions that science tries to address can, in some ways, be characterized as extraordinary. To show that gravitational lensing effects actually occur as general relativity suggested, astronomers had to go to some extraordinary lengths to get into position for a solar eclipse so that the phenomena could be observed. It is in this sort of context that Mr. Sagan was using the word.
This is totally rediculous! If there were any validity to the claims of psychics, there would be intense scientific interest but no one would be deprived of thier life and liberty over it. The truth is, most psychics have such muddled thinking processes, they cant understand the basics of the scientific method and therefore dismiss it out of hand. Check out randi.org and if you do have psychic powers, collect your million dollars.
You know what, now that I think about it a little longer, it is pretty damn close to being "out of the realm of possibility". Think about it, electrical fields fall of at the square of the distance. This means that at normal conversational distances the already faint signals are going to be essentially undetectable.
It is not outside the realm of possibility, however, as Carl Sagan was fond of saying "Extrodinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Those who claim to have extra sensory perception (ESP) have consistently failed to substatiate those claims when scrutinized with truly scientific methods.
a large-scale switch to civil nuclear power. This has the benefit of being proven technology. We are aware of the problems, and current public unpopularity of this route, but we consider the dangers posed by global warming to be orders of magnitude greater than those likely to be caused by the controlled use of nuclear power. This energy source, additionally, could lie at the heart of future hydrogen-based transport systems.
Wow, never thought I'd see this from anyone in the envirnmentalist crowd. I have to so though, it makes a lot of sence. We just need to find a better solution then Yucca(sp?) Mountain.
It is interesting how these guys prioritize. I happen to share thier priorities to a certain extent. Others are taking the tack that our economic survival is more important. I think both are paramount. We cannot give up our freedoms and we certainly don't want to give up our cities. So we need a solution that allows us to keep both.
That's funny because I did read every word and I read the follow on article that they posted. In both articles 99% of the articles are taken up describing the allegations. Not a single, piece of corraborating evidence is given. There is only one mention in only one of the articles about the long standing dispute between Curtis and Feeney. Not details are given about the dispute but plenty of details about the allegations. This is clearly a biased peice and anyone saying the opposite obviously has an agenda of thier own.
As I said in my origonal post, I think we should all take this with the same grain of salt we would a similar article posted on a conservative biased website. Most reputable journalists would not print allegations like this without corraboration or atleast making it quite clear where everyones motives are. I guess that you think that Dan Rather did a fine piece of journalism on the MemoGate story. Even if the memo's had been real, he made very little effort to corraborate the evidence and if he had, he would have discovered the fakery.
Not to say this man is faking or lying. As I said before, a full investigation needs to be conducted. If this Feeney did anything even remotelly like what Curtis is saying he should probably incarcerated or at least thrown out of congress.
Again, that is one man's account and apparently this man has a long standing beef with the congressman in question. The point is, that the journalism sucks because they spend way more time talking about the allegations and not enough time validating them. If there was one stitch of corraboration in that article, I would not have critisized the journalism.
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Your math is flawed. The earth has a circumference of approximately 24000 miles at the equator. The earth rotates once in 24 miles. Therefore, objects at the equator are moving at approximately 1000 mph. I am in Georgia near the 34th parallel. That means I am probably traveling at somewhere around 700 - 800 mph. Just a quick guess but considerably closer than yours.
simply owing to the earth's rotation, you are, at this moment, moving at a rate of approximately 1000 mph? Probably less since you are probably not at the equator.
Also, Due to the earth's orbit around the sun, were are traveling at approximately 67000mph.
According to findings of COBE, our galaxy is traveling at 300 k/s or about 1.34 million mph.
Why aren't you torn apart?
Now, you might say that government owned and run Wi-Fi networks constitute "essential infrastructure" and since internet access is becomming more and more essential I would not argue against it. That is the reason we might choose to fund this sort of thing thru government not because it is "something I want, would use, and enjoy".
The point is that you should be allowed to benefit from it without your competitors being able to co-opt your idea and benefit from it also. Considering that, unless a market is in a phase of significant growth, a businesses success usually means there are other businesses failing, a new business process that gives you a competitive advantage can make the difference between sink or swim.
Stating that any software patent is bad on the basis that they are too ambiguous is the same as saying that software patents could be good if they were more precise. Patents were created to protect inventors from having their ideas ripped off and used to profit another. If you think that there are no new ideas out there ready to be patented then you lack imagination. I participated in the creation of a patented software process. This process has a extraordinary effect on the business intelligence available to those organizations that use it. If we had not patented it, anyone could take the idea, implement it and make money from it without paying us a cent. The fact that it was common for patents to be issued for "inventions" that were clearly prior art to anyone in the field, has clouded the issue. The fact is, software patents are a good thing as long as those that are issuing the patents are well versed in the prior art and can tell a trivial innovation from a profound one.
If they could find a way to reflect or refract microwave radiation from the sun they could use a space based "microwave lens" to get the 60MW microwave beam. Probably would have to be a pretty big lense.
As far as social networking goes, it is the MMOGs that probably has the longest staying power in the minds of users since they are not just socializing they are building a virtual self. I'll admit, I do not have a lot of experience with these social network sites but I do have a ton with MMOG games.
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You have a point, however, that is the fault of poor software design. Software developer's should keep the security concerns of thier users in mind. Especially programs like Palm and QuickBooks. Again, isn't it obvious to these guys that working well on a multiuser system would be important.
WOW! I had a feeling when I was posting the comment that 250 was going to be trumped by someone, but 6000! Now, THAT, is incredible.
Login to the computer using the administrative account when you want to install that stuff. Isn't that obvious? I know that computer security and related issues are hard for people to understand. But if you are going to put your personal information into a computer, like your credit card number, or SSN, you should probably take some time to learn how to make sure it is secure. I embarrased the hell out of my nephew because I told his mother that he must have downloaded alot of that stuff while surfing for porn. He even used one of the dialers to get access to one of those "ImLive" type services. She had to put a block on those 900 type numbers.
Especially not porn.
But really, Windows XP does provide a way to keep users from installing just any software, that is by having a seperate administrator user and do you surfing and P2P downloading using a "limited" user account.
I went to visit some relatives a couple of weeks ago and I found 250 dialers, spyware and malware programs on thier computer using Spybot. It was unbelievable!
What Rubix Cube. I can give my wife one of those in 15 minutes. No problem. Try loving your woman, the rest is easy.
By REBECCA GOLDSTEIN
Philosopher and Novelist, Trinity College; Author, Incompleteness
WTF does this mean? I cannot figure it out. If scientific theories were like this, then science would grind to a halt. Just plain silly. And that is only one example. There are several more.
Did you read my post? I am not saying that these sites participated in the crime directly, they are just accomplices. Under US law, and other the laws of other countries as well, it is illegal to facilitate the commision of a crime as well as to commit the crime yourself. There are accomplices "after the fact" and there are knowing accomplices "before the fact". These sites fall into the later category. Timothy McVeigh killed hundreds of people in Oklahoma City. Terry Nichols killed no one directly, but he was still an accomplice. He taught McVeigh how to commit the crime, let him use his property while he was preparing to commit the crime. Now he is serving a life sentence.
I checked out a few of the sites linked by that faq and they clearly are allowing access to copyrighted material using the BitTorrent network. This is wrong in the same way that if I give someone information on where and how to access a location where someone else's valuebles are stored, I would be considered an accomplice to the crime of theft if the person I gave that inforamtion to were to actually steal the valubles. Another way to look at it is, if I contract a hit man to kill another person, then later tell the hit man not to do it, I have still committed a crime. Conspiracy to commit a crime is a crime in itself. In this case, the conspiracy is between these web site owners and the criminals that trade copyrighted data.
The quickest way to kill the entertainment industry is to destroy the insentive to create good movies, music, or books. The insentive to create the works of art, is created by allowing the creators to profit from thier creations. That cannot be done if people are allowed to make copious copies of the art without compensation to the artists. I know some people are going to say that the MPAA does not represent artists. But they do represent the people that pay the artists. They will not continue to do so if they cannot profit from what they are paying the artists to do.
It never fails, whenever a formerly "crackpot" idea suddenly has an undeniable volume of evidence that supports it, hundereds to scientists in the field will jump on the bandwagon and try to pretend they were there the whole time. This is what I am talking about. The first experimental or observational evidence will not produce the intense scientific interest I am talking about but maybe the 10th. The previous poster was saying that he was glad that scientists would not take psychics seriously because he thought scientists would imprison him and dissect his brain. I was just saying that IF there were a large body of credible evidence for psychic or ESP phenomena, there would be intense scientific interest.
This is totally rediculous! If there were any validity to the claims of psychics, there would be intense scientific interest but no one would be deprived of thier life and liberty over it. The truth is, most psychics have such muddled thinking processes, they cant understand the basics of the scientific method and therefore dismiss it out of hand. Check out randi.org and if you do have psychic powers, collect your million dollars.
You know what, now that I think about it a little longer, it is pretty damn close to being "out of the realm of possibility". Think about it, electrical fields fall of at the square of the distance. This means that at normal conversational distances the already faint signals are going to be essentially undetectable.
It is not outside the realm of possibility, however, as Carl Sagan was fond of saying "Extrodinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Those who claim to have extra sensory perception (ESP) have consistently failed to substatiate those claims when scrutinized with truly scientific methods.
It is interesting how these guys prioritize. I happen to share thier priorities to a certain extent. Others are taking the tack that our economic survival is more important. I think both are paramount. We cannot give up our freedoms and we certainly don't want to give up our cities. So we need a solution that allows us to keep both.
As I said in my origonal post, I think we should all take this with the same grain of salt we would a similar article posted on a conservative biased website. Most reputable journalists would not print allegations like this without corraboration or atleast making it quite clear where everyones motives are. I guess that you think that Dan Rather did a fine piece of journalism on the MemoGate story. Even if the memo's had been real, he made very little effort to corraborate the evidence and if he had, he would have discovered the fakery.
Not to say this man is faking or lying. As I said before, a full investigation needs to be conducted. If this Feeney did anything even remotelly like what Curtis is saying he should probably incarcerated or at least thrown out of congress.
Again, that is one man's account and apparently this man has a long standing beef with the congressman in question. The point is, that the journalism sucks because they spend way more time talking about the allegations and not enough time validating them. If there was one stitch of corraboration in that article, I would not have critisized the journalism.