I think Microsoft shouldn't think of a catastrophe as the loss of a little market share to open source software but the loss of a viable high tech infrastructure. Without silicon foundries, hard drives, laser diodes for cd-roms, communications or electrical power they are dead. Therefore, they should define a catastrophe as any event reducing society to a point they either have no high tech infrastructure or cannot afford such. Either of these could be protected against by a world wide distributed knowledge base and education infrastructure. The infrastructure could be engaged in times of crisis to better manage recovery efforts much as FEMA can use geological databases to map flooding or coordinate rescue efforts. If the knowledge base contained these databases, databases on streets, pipelines, sewage and water lines, weather patterns, census data on populations, ocean currents, medical data, agricultural data indeed every known piece of human knowledge in a human/machine readable format such as XML it would be a resource for any contingency.
But it shouldn't stop there. There should be expert knowledge extraction processes to combine, mine and discover new facts within that data. This new data could be reviewed by some system to insure correctness and added back to the knowledge base. At this point the catastrophe recovery system could start paying for its existence. I see this as the next killer app.
Finally to truly be a catastrophe recovery system for humanity it would need lesions and tests to teach people from the grade school level up. However such a system would be too important to be the property of some corporation or in some propitiatory format but would need to be in a self descriptive format that even an alien visitor or out-of-the-woods aborigine could deduce and utilize.
While this may seem a far fetched catastrophe recovery plan I think whoever is in charge of such a thing would be sitting pretty when ever there actually was a disaster. Who would you try to ensure survived if not the one's you depended upon to survive. And as it would have use by both civilians, researchers, and government agencies in times of need and in times of plenty it might be quite profitable as both a private enterprise and a developed and developing government subscription. Something the U.N. might think about.
Aside from the efficiency gain of not trying something that won't work there is a much more important reason for a journal of this nature. Consider that we are all to happy to accept that what we expected to happen did but it can be more informative to try to figure out why what we expected to happen didn't. This latter is much more important in the long run and can be seen as the very essence of science. Suppose you thought the earth was flat and ran an experiment to "prove" that. Or you thought the parts of an atom were put together like a raisin pudding. Our greatest advancements and development of new fields have occurred when the conventional wisdoms were proven incorrect.
So such a journal needs to have two aspects. One a list of things that won't work and why the person that tried them thought they would to reduce reinventing square wheels and the other is a critical examination/explanation/"proof" of why it wouldn't work. Those experiments that don't have the latter stand as possible areas for great gain to humanity.
You may be closer to the truth than you think. After the Spaniards had ethnically cleaned Europe of Muslims there was one other place to open a war front. That was India, which was known to be under the control of the Muslims at the time. Knowing that, when Columbus planted a flag and "clamed" the land for Spain he was actually declaring war in a standard old fashion manner. There is evidence that Columbus "cooked his books" to show that he had done just that but there was too much evidence that he had instead landed somewhere else. Where that was was unknown at the time and Columbus was disgraced and fell out of favor. It is only many years after the fact that a new storyline became popular. The word "Careeb" in Arabic means "near" and the Caribbean Islands where Columbus first landed would be the Muslim islands near to Europe. Columbus wrote in his books the names for the individual islands that are Arabic names, before giving them the Christianized names we know today. He even describes seeing mosques and Arabic turbans on some of the Indians. This gives the impression that the Muslims actually discovered America before Columbus unless the "cook the book" theorem is accepted. See http://www.plaza.interport.net/gmqm/mamerica.html Who was first to the Americas, hard to tell, but it is known that Columbus used Muslims for his pilots and sailed from Spain not very long after the Moors had been expelled. Was he using knowledge already commonplace to the Moors? Few people look at the details instead of the storyline even if the details are much more interesting.
The most beautiful experiment has to be Newton's light slit and prism showing that white light is actually made up of many other frequencies. From there young minds can be introduced to all sorts of things such as why sticks appear to be bent when half in water and at what angle they seem to disappear. But to really get them going, help them create a hand drawn hologram. http://www.amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
Elfen cloak or mood ring?
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How about a grid of paint on solar cells to power it alternated with three color lcd photopours and programmable Artificial Life processors in a spatial "Beowulf cluster".
And just for fun 3-D stereograms.
Gee whiz, $20 mill and Rahman noodles for supper. That ought to kill off the tourist market real fast. Not that I'll ever have $20 mill to burn but even eco-tourists get beef jerky and a tee-shirt.
Just remember folks that your right to "address the accuser" as also been revoked because the government wants to "provide for the safety of the accuser" (which just happens to be the government). It the short span of time from Regan to present each of the things our founding fathers fought against (actions of the British Government of the time) have now become commonplace practices of the government. Except stationing troops in peoples homes. But I do know a government that does the last and our government seems to be lead around by the nose by that one so it may be just a matter of time.
Strange definition of patriotism. Patriotism to the government not to the governed. Can you translate the word "Nationalism" into German?
And while there is a problem with being on the wrong side of whoever gets elected (eg. Nixon and Watergate) (notice how wide the government definition of terrorism is) there are all the underpaid, harassed civil servants (the proverbial postman with a gun, IRS agent and crooked cops) that can now just claim "patriot act" (you wouldn't want to be investigated for protecting a terrorist would you")
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"Law enforcement officials have begun to press sources to deliver information without a formal subpoena, according to company lawyers. "Investigators have quickly learned that they don't need to leave a paper trail anymore so nobody can judge the lawfulness of a request," Gidari said."
Just remember folks that your right to "address the accuser" as also been revoked because the government wants to "provide for the safety of the accuser" (which just happens to be the government). It the short span of time from Regan to present each of the things our founding fathers fought against (actions of the British Government of the time) have now become commonplace practices of the government. Except stationing troops in peoples homes. But I do know a government that does the last and our government seems to be lead around by the nose by that one so it may be just a matter of time.
Strange definition of patriotism. Patriotism to the government not to the governed. Can you translate the word "Nationalism" into German?
When they get the car to lock the guy in and drive him to the prison on its on (giving him a fair trial on the way) we'll all pay a little less for car insurance and court time.
Now if they will just make atm machines with super glue and stun guns.
Frankly, I find physics majors make better programmers. They take a much more applied approach instead of theoretical and they get more experience trying to get their equipment to work where as CS majors just blow off practicing algorithms or get happy with "power programming" that is unmaintainable. CS majors do it cause they want to (and won't when they don't) while physics majors do it because they have to. Those that will take the time to figure out what they need to learn, learn what they have to and how to apply it to the real world make better programmer employees.
This is just more anti-OPEC feel good FUD for the ditto heads. What are we going to do. Dig a strip-mine two miles deep, Crush cubic tons of crustal rock, hall the powder up the two miles of gravity well to get it out of the way. Pump tons of rain water up the two miles also. For what "1000 liters per cubic meter of rock". Excuse me but 1000 liters at what P and T. Why not report the mass of hydrogen extracted. Could it be that the energy costs of uncover, extract, crush, and dispose would vastly exceed the recovery. And is anyone seriously considering up heaving the total surface of the planet to keep the hot water heater working. Tell me now and I'll send a Rainbow Warrior over to put you out of your silliness. This is either scholars for dollars or PR for ditz.
At that depth you would probably get more energy from the geothermal than the hydrogen. Clue number two, I'll sell you the rights to the iron ore in the earth's core under my land, cheap. Clue number three, There's lots of hydrogen in the sun and it spits it at us in the solar wind, 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / 1000 = 1000000 litters per cubic meter. We just need to build a big pipeline to the sky.
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Sending your search terms to a third party is clearly a security violation. For instance, Microsoft may be gathering information on which terms the Justice department is searching on. Given that the packets are not secure a third party could also gather information on which terms any government agency is searching on with a packet sniffer. Then with this information the return packets can be selected. Homeland security needs to be notified about this. The Justice department needs to be notified about this. DOD, State department. Heck, windows XP should be banned from any department with a security level higher than FOUO. Which as far as I am concerned is every part of Government.
Tattoos will be favored over an implantable chip for a variety of reasons.
1. An implantable chip will become the target of electronic counter measures
a. faraday shield to get past scanner undetected
b. installed on/off switches
c. reprogrammable ID's
d. multiple chips implanted
2. The more a system is trusted, the slacker human oversight becomes
a. Lower paid workers are easer to bribe
b. More intelligent workers take better paying jobs
c. The innocent are assumed guilty, not the system (as if they care until it happens to them)
d. The lower the probability of bypass the less alert the scanner
e. Maintenance is ignored, and mean time to repair rises
3. Tatoos have certain advantages
a. They don't break and can't be turned off
b. You can't claim it is was stolen without showing a large patch of missing skin
c. Only the very evil will try to steal a tattoo and the punishment will be severe
d. Everybody and their brother will work hard to find the thief
e. A stolen tattoo won't last long
f. Much harder to spoof the person scanning one.
g. Not easy to reprogram and many modifications will be permanent
Thankfully, due to the Bible, it will be a dark day before Big Brother gets to use them. You can understand why those that get one, and make it more socially acceptable, will be considered enemies of humanity and God.
So, what they will do is set up a system with smart cards or implantable chips and let people get accustomed to the intrusion. Then there be a big media push about all the problems of the present system and the advantages of the tattoos. And it is down hill from there (assuming you don't think Bush's never ending "war on terrorism" isn't the first shot).
How about the argument of prior restraint of trade. If we outlaw anything that could be used for illegal purposes then we will have to outlaw everything from box cutters to telephones to automobiles. All of these have long histories of being used for criminal purposes.
To me these laws are a first assault on the innovation of freeware. You can point out the secondary effects of freeware on the economy when the majority of internet servers are run on apache and routers have embedded versions of Linux. Without this "publicly funded R&D" the economy would probably be in much worse condition. Outlawing, "enjoyable use" of these things will reduce this segment of expertise development in the U.S. making U.S. programmers less completive and create an effect of brain drain. These people are not actually targeting the copying process, of which humans are guilty, but are targeting the competitiveness of garage entrepreneurs. Which is where HP, Apple, Microsoft and many other tech industries got their start.
This prior restraint of trade strikes at the very heart of "the American Dream". And he can be scewered in the Geek Press if he isn't carefull.
As always the choice is the individuals. But if you will bear with me let me introduce some of the physical problems with this topic. You see all stellar bodies are "black body radiators" and there is a complete Maxwelliean frequency distribution to black body radiation that goes through the infrared, microwave, short-wave and long-wave frequencies. Anyone with a radar or satellite antenna that gets pointed toward the sun by the earths rotation finds their receiver is swamped by noise. Now a civilization that wants to communicate with another world could modulate their star but that is a pretty fool hearty thing and such civilizations are likely to destroy themselves before they get a reply. If they try to send out an EM pulse then it will suffer from 1/r^3 signal strength loss. To get a significant s/n ratio with that big stellar noise source nearby they will have to have extreme power with extreme culmination. Such a pulse would ionize the atmosphere leading to attenuation and disruption of the culmination. (not to mention the environmental damage). So such an emitter would have to be put on a space platform. Now such a platform could not only be pointed at other planets but also the planet of origin. It would be for all intents and purposes a tyrant's dream, invincible and able to destroy large portions of the planet. Unless the society that created it was proactively moral it would destroy itself within a short time. There are many such scenarios and they point to the fact that the ergotic probability of an unethical society evolving to the point of traveling to the stars before destroying itself approaches zero with certainty. And any proactively ethical society that made it would impose proactive ethics on other societies before allowing them to join in.
Now religious revelation demonstrates that the most moral being known to man is The Creator. You can apply the preceding discussion to God to understand why Muslims call The Creator "The most Gracious", "The most Mercifull" and "The Just". So one way or the other there will be and actually is a "cosmological governance". In fact that cosmological governance has contacted humanity and told them what it will take to join in. Jesus said "I say unto you unless you are reborn you can not enter the kingdom of heaven." In the Quran there is a statement that translates roughly as "if you think you can travel through heavens then attempt to do so, but you will not be allowed without our permission" and other passages state what will happen to those that attempt it. These would be a strange statements to be in a book written some 1400 years ago if not for the topic under discussion. I can point out many examples along this thread.
You see it is only recently that science and religion got a divorce and then mainly in the West. It was a requirement at one time that one had to be an ordained minister to be a professor. Newton had to get a waver because he was ordained in the Coptic Church and not the Anglican Church. If the Roman Catholic Church hadn't gotten arrogant and declared it's body politic infallible and therefore couldn't budge from its Aristotelian Cosmological Model people probably wouldn't assume the separation was necessary. There are a lot of other screwed up interpretations of religious parables but that is in the nature of distracting the unworthy. Science, for most of its history, has been the study of the metaphors and parables The Creator imbedded in creation, it's reason for existence. And similarly the reason for mankind's existence lies there as well.
The study of science is one of mankind's gifts but unless it is balanced with a strong ethics it is a tool of self destruction. Together they form the prerequisites for religious understanding. It is no accident that the non-corpuscular non-spatial being commonly known as the devil can read and whisper into individual minds. Those that develop the ability to identify and reject those bad ideas have gained the ability to identify and reject their own bad ideas. Those that follow these bad ideas either self-destruct or get taken out. This is proactive ethical training and evaluation. Similarly it is also no accident that the chestnut "if power corrupts, absolute power..." starts with the word "if".
Advancement in this topic comes not from external technology but self development. "I say unto you, you shall not enter"... The flying carpets of legend are Muslim prayer rugs. "My heart slips its earthly bounds in the presence of my Lord"
You said that the understanding of the metaphors and parables will pass away but I say that as long as people pray they will be taught. It has also been said that as long as there are tests in school there will be prayer in school. Well, creation is a school with lots of tests. There are many levels of understanding and once you qualify, those that have permission will help you. I will leave you with a translation of the opening chapter of the Quran. Muslims use it in prayer 17 times a day. Think about how it fits this topic.
In the name of God, The most Gracious, The most Merciful.
Praise be to God the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds.
Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Master of the Day of Judgment.
Thy do we worship, and Thy aid we seek.
Show us the straight way,
The way of those upon whom You have bestowed Your grace.
Not the way of those whose portion is wrath and who go astray.
Think about how God is not only non-corpuscular and non-spatial but also non-temporal. You limit your range of understanding excessively and therefore your understanding of your Creator and what has been created. Arbitrary self-imposed limits on concepts are not good things. Science, ethics, beauty and religion are all aspects of the same thing. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness man, Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I don't know how far off topic we are. Clay beings (made of matter) have the problem of traveling less than the speed of light, Lorenz contraction and all that. However some forces are not restricted by the speed of light. Gravity for instance does not have that constraint or black holes would not be able to suck anything past the event horizon. Particles with confounded spin change synchronously also breaking the light speed constraint. One could therefore presume that energy beings are the only forms of intelligent life capable of traveling across, communicating across and therefore controlling the universe. (read some of the Hindu Getas and the concept of space travel and battles in space is pretty explicit.) If man wishes to escape Earth or receive visitors or for that matter communicate with others it would most likely only be with the permission and help of those beings. Humanity (or some portion of it), therefore, must deal with that before traveling and given the ethical requirements I don't think that will happen till we prove we can take care of Earth first. Religion, you see, is actually about much more than generally conceived but so few qualify very few are allowed to understand.
Well, I'll take the historical perspective of there being 3 classes of energy beings: God, Angles and Jinn. The first having a single instance and the latter two having both multiple instances and multiple species. The first two and part of the third class work in concert with certain humans to "run the works" giving us Prophets, Saints and such what. Also, knowing the chestnut "if power corrupts..." they require humans to pre-qualify themselves before making contact, hence the ethical portion of religion. Of course each religion has its statement that those who don't qualify will be misled into not believing. (for Christianity it is somewhere in Corinthians). Science, which works off the black box principle of proof is insufficient to prove the existence of an intelligent being that does not want that to occur. So while it seems silly to look light years away to see if "we are not alone" most folks won't do what is necessary to search for the First Cause. Still if you want a better explanation try the Quran. There is a lot more science in there than one would expect. You just have to get over the popular science to 600's desert Arabs aspect to analyze it.
What do you mean "life as we know it" can't exist on a gas giant. We have bacteria, tubeworms, crabs and catfish living in conditions of 1000's of atmospheres pressure and 700+ degrees Celsius temperatures at the deep ocean vents. At this pressure many gasses are supper critical and act like fluids. C02 is polar just like water and could act as a solvent for life at the right T and P. Or for that matter a gas giant might have a layer of liquid water floating on a denser gas. (remember those folks that want to compress the C02 and dump it into the oceans). If we can have a complete spectrum of life from bacteria to vertebrates living in a deep ocean rift I don't think we can claim that "life as we {commonly} know it" is a necessary condition for "life as it could be". To assume so is just scientific arrogance. Who knows what exists deeper into those vents. There are bacteria that live in the crust and smelt gold compounds for energy. There are bacteria that live in old faithful. Bacteria living in the stratosphere, the artic ice, wherever we've been. And if you ask religious folks, matter isn't even necessary for intelligent life, just energy in the right configuration. After all, that's all matter is anyway, energy in a particular configuration. The idea that intelligent life as we know it can evolve beyond matter may not be just a fairy tale. Or for that matter that intelligent life started out as nothing but an infinite amount of intelligent energy that turned a portion of that energy into the space-time-matter complex we call the cosmos. And then for reasons of it's own, put the matter in a particular configuration that we, in our limited consciousness call "life as we know it".
Maybe they just pick who they want to talk to.
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This is a rant not a troll.
There is within the question "why do they hate us" the very answer to the question. Because we take a "we" vs. "them" attitude to begin with and then act like a frightened bull in a china shop with arrogant bravado added to cover our ignorance over the damage we have done. Bush has made a mockery of the truths and high ideals our founding fathers fought for till America is known as the "Land of the Hypocrites". An appointed president using an admittedly horrible excuse to wag the dog and cover his lack of ability to even sham compassion has found his calling in creating a never-ending-war and an excuse to brand anybody who gets in his way a terrorist. It's the McCarthyism of the 50's coupled with the Nazism of the 40's and the big brother concept of 1984. The glee of destruction coming out of this nations capital is broadcast world wide to sicken and terrify anyone who would stand up for human rights and justice.
Bush's stance on Palestine reminds me of Hitler telling the French Resistance to stop attacking his troops. Its frightening that a country of religious fanatics can so boondoggle the U.S. government that they are given more military hardware than they can use and so they turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. China can now shoot down American airplanes with American missiles given for free to Israel.
The peace process was over when the U.N. passed the Balfor Declaration. The fact is, all Israelis are foreign nationalist occupiers of Palestinian. That the west created this situation and continues to support it shows the west did not learn anything from WWII. We may have to go through that exercise of "white man's burden" stupidity one more time.
The path to peace is to try and execute Sharon for war crimes and send a message that taking land by armed force, crimes against humanity and other forms of state terrorism will not be tolerated even if it is against non-whites. Isn't that one of the rules of the U.N. Or is that only enforced when it is convenient to the West?
As long as Israel exists where it is the world knows the West doesn't understand the concept of justice.
If the west truly wants peace, give them Arizona (just not on Indian land, you forgot them didn't you). Globalism, like "the war on terror" is just western colonialism in sheep's clothing.
If it printed out the words instead of speaking them it would give the deaf and mute a feedback mechanism to practice the muscle movements needed to speak more clearly. After practice a listener could chouse either the persons voice or the speaker of the device.
The real trick would be to implant the pickup leads to the cranial nerve that drives the muscle like the cochlea implants. Put a LED/phototransistor pair under the skin somewhere for an optical output/optoisolator.
With both, cops, solders, secret service agents and other people that need to work without giving away their position could communicate. Note taking in classrooms or libraries could use the to-text functions and I could get rid of this keyboard and have a much more compact portable computer/pda without a noisy microphone in the way or wirers plastered to my face. Speeches and lectures could be recorded for posterity in text format and TV shows could have close captioning of the actors actual words. Listen to music without bothering your neighbors or blocking your environmental sounds with earphones. It would be interesting to imagine how language would morph over time.
Move the leads farther up the brains processing and viola the equivalent to schizophrenia. Yep, needs an optoisolator instead of wireless link, and faraday shields on the leads.
If you will compare the Bible and the Quran for their information on the Genesis of Humanity you will find that proto-man existed prior to man taking up the Trust of Stewardship. At that point proto-man was *evolved* to know the difference between good and evil, a side effect of eating of the fruit(badly translated as apple) of knowledge was the loss of bliss (ignorance is bliss). A second side effect was that woman would give birth in pain (due to the enlarged head at birth). There are three differences then between present man and proto-man. 1) increased early development of the brain, 2) directed development of society and probably most important 3) "Praise be to God who has taught man what he knew not, Taught man by the pen." (I may have quoted the Quran incorrectly there but you can find it.)
All animals have language(we are just to stupid to accept that it may be nonverbal, read the book the horse whisperer), though not so developed, many animals use tools (most grow them themselves, long tongues, claws...) but few have directed development and the pen. The pen allows our knowledge to be passed on in time and space. Civilization as we know it would have been greatly limited without the pen. Any given person would be little more than an animal without the benefits from them. Religious development and the pen are necessary conditions for the development of society past a certain point.
Most people misunderstand the stories. The atomic(indivisible matter) theory came from Democratus but his teachings on the four phases of matter got dummied down to earth(solid), water(liquid), air(gas) and fire(plasma) (most common examples). You can only imagine what happened to the teachings of (indivisible man) "adam" when it got dummied down to the concepts available then. Note the similarity to "atom" and "adam" in spelling. When man gets divided from God he becomes animal. Religion (re- again, ligio- to bind) is about making man whole again by binding himself back to God (willfully). Like an atom, a human is not stable until its parts (spin, charge...) are balanced and functioning as willed by God. And society will be just as unstable when unbalanced and not functioning as willed by God.
That's the difference between fully developed humans and animals. We are (at our best) wisdom(light e=mc^2) made clay (a mix of solid, liquid, gas and ions) and the pen allows us to do the same, metaphorically speaking.
I for one have never understood the concept of drugging yourself into stupidly as a form of having fun. Nor am I of the type to endlessly discuss inanities of the latest instantiation of "the circus". The "bread and circus" appreciators (extraverts) need to recognize that others have things they would rather do with their life than waste it discussing wasting it. Those that don't get into this behavior mode get labeled as introverts and social misfits when the reality is that they have much broader horizons of interest that turn the extraverts off. Get a group with common interests together in a non-threatening atmosphere (e.g. no extraverts sneering at them for not knowing the ins and outs of the latest fad) and they can have enjoyable times. The problem can be that there are many different subjects to discuss and this lowers the probability of encountering common cause. Over time introverts tend to give up on "parties" as boring and sneer filled.
Go with the basics- Good food -variety here. Remember that there are people with food allergies and they don't want to get uncomfortable having to explain why they aren't
"appreciative" of the generosity. Nore do they want to go hungry when others are eating.
Good drinks- again variety - there are people that don't drink alcohol for religious, medical, addiction or other reasons and they don't want to get uncomfortable having to explain that either. Many introverts don't appreciate dealing with drunks either. Your company may not appreciate the liability.
You can make the food and drinks a topic of conversation and exploration by having various countries represented. Introverts tend to explore more than extraverts. (After one unenjoyable party why waste time at the next)
Music- you might try several areas each with a different type and not so loud that it disturbs conversation.
Don't forget the eye candy, but forget about smell and touch, too many strong emotions/liabilities there.
Do not try to force conversation but encourage it by creating a variety of situations where any given individual can find a comfort zone. Also try encouraging conversations in topics that people are comfortable with and can find others with similar interests. Give each person a nametag and urge them to put two or more topics they are comfortable with on it. This cuts down on both the bother of name remembrance and topic discovery protocol. These can be killers for introverts.
Remember that there is more to life than football and gossip. Finding other topics quickly and easily is a problem.
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can anyone think of a single case in the last twenty years where an individual or non-profit group was victorious in an action brought by a large corporation
I think they made a movie about a case with Julia Roberts showing a lot of cleavage in the movie. Something about a small red necked woman beating the pants off of a corporation that poisoned hundreds of workers. Go red necks!!!
The install for SUSE version 7.2 professional had it built into the install. Select expert partitioning and it was a check box selection in the mount-point, file system type dialog box. You could edit the boot sequence to remove the prompt to mount the file system and then mount it only when you wanted it mounted. Once mounted it was visible in unencrypted form but you could un-mount anytime. Reading and writing is done via a loop back that decrypts/encrypts during read/write. It is visible as a standard file system once mounted to all programs by all users.
SUSE 7.3 has this to say http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/i386/se curity.html
Watch the space in security, comment dialog box is too small to fit url without it injecting a space.
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But it shouldn't stop there. There should be expert knowledge extraction processes to combine, mine and discover new facts within that data. This new data could be reviewed by some system to insure correctness and added back to the knowledge base. At this point the catastrophe recovery system could start paying for its existence. I see this as the next killer app.
Finally to truly be a catastrophe recovery system for humanity it would need lesions and tests to teach people from the grade school level up. However such a system would be too important to be the property of some corporation or in some propitiatory format but would need to be in a self descriptive format that even an alien visitor or out-of-the-woods aborigine could deduce and utilize.
While this may seem a far fetched catastrophe recovery plan I think whoever is in charge of such a thing would be sitting pretty when ever there actually was a disaster. Who would you try to ensure survived if not the one's you depended upon to survive. And as it would have use by both civilians, researchers, and government agencies in times of need and in times of plenty it might be quite profitable as both a private enterprise and a developed and developing government subscription. Something the U.N. might think about.
So such a journal needs to have two aspects. One a list of things that won't work and why the person that tried them thought they would to reduce reinventing square wheels and the other is a critical examination/explanation/"proof" of why it wouldn't work. Those experiments that don't have the latter stand as possible areas for great gain to humanity.
You may be closer to the truth than you think. After the Spaniards had ethnically cleaned Europe of Muslims there was one other place to open a war front. That was India, which was known to be under the control of the Muslims at the time. Knowing that, when Columbus planted a flag and "clamed" the land for Spain he was actually declaring war in a standard old fashion manner. There is evidence that Columbus "cooked his books" to show that he had done just that but there was too much evidence that he had instead landed somewhere else. Where that was was unknown at the time and Columbus was disgraced and fell out of favor. It is only many years after the fact that a new storyline became popular. The word "Careeb" in Arabic means "near" and the Caribbean Islands where Columbus first landed would be the Muslim islands near to Europe. Columbus wrote in his books the names for the individual islands that are Arabic names, before giving them the Christianized names we know today. He even describes seeing mosques and Arabic turbans on some of the Indians. This gives the impression that the Muslims actually discovered America before Columbus unless the "cook the book" theorem is accepted. See http://www.plaza.interport.net/gmqm/mamerica.html Who was first to the Americas, hard to tell, but it is known that Columbus used Muslims for his pilots and sailed from Spain not very long after the Moors had been expelled. Was he using knowledge already commonplace to the Moors? Few people look at the details instead of the storyline even if the details are much more interesting.
The most beautiful experiment has to be Newton's light slit and prism showing that white light is actually made up of many other frequencies. From there young minds can be introduced to all sorts of things such as why sticks appear to be bent when half in water and at what angle they seem to disappear. But to really get them going, help them create a hand drawn hologram. http://www.amasci.com/amateur/holo1.html
How about a grid of paint on solar cells to power it alternated with three color lcd photopours and programmable Artificial Life processors in a spatial "Beowulf cluster". And just for fun 3-D stereograms.
Gee whiz, $20 mill and Rahman noodles for supper. That ought to kill off the tourist market real fast. Not that I'll ever have $20 mill to burn but even eco-tourists get beef jerky and a tee-shirt.
I take it they don't plan on selling too many space tourist slots.
Strange definition of patriotism. Patriotism to the government not to the governed. Can you translate the word "Nationalism" into German?
And while there is a problem with being on the wrong side of whoever gets elected (eg. Nixon and Watergate) (notice how wide the government definition of terrorism is) there are all the underpaid, harassed civil servants (the proverbial postman with a gun, IRS agent and crooked cops) that can now just claim "patriot act" (you wouldn't want to be investigated for protecting a terrorist would you")
QUOTE "Law enforcement officials have begun to press sources to deliver information without a formal subpoena, according to company lawyers. "Investigators have quickly learned that they don't need to leave a paper trail anymore so nobody can judge the lawfulness of a request," Gidari said."
Strange definition of patriotism. Patriotism to the government not to the governed. Can you translate the word "Nationalism" into German?
Now if they will just make atm machines with super glue and stun guns.
But learning heres against the rules
This here schools just for fools
Frankly, I find physics majors make better programmers. They take a much more applied approach instead of theoretical and they get more experience trying to get their equipment to work where as CS majors just blow off practicing algorithms or get happy with "power programming" that is unmaintainable. CS majors do it cause they want to (and won't when they don't) while physics majors do it because they have to. Those that will take the time to figure out what they need to learn, learn what they have to and how to apply it to the real world make better programmer employees.
This is just more anti-OPEC feel good FUD for the ditto heads. What are we going to do. Dig a strip-mine two miles deep, Crush cubic tons of crustal rock, hall the powder up the two miles of gravity well to get it out of the way. Pump tons of rain water up the two miles also. For what "1000 liters per cubic meter of rock". Excuse me but 1000 liters at what P and T. Why not report the mass of hydrogen extracted. Could it be that the energy costs of uncover, extract, crush, and dispose would vastly exceed the recovery. And is anyone seriously considering up heaving the total surface of the planet to keep the hot water heater working. Tell me now and I'll send a Rainbow Warrior over to put you out of your silliness. This is either scholars for dollars or PR for ditz. At that depth you would probably get more energy from the geothermal than the hydrogen. Clue number two, I'll sell you the rights to the iron ore in the earth's core under my land, cheap. Clue number three, There's lots of hydrogen in the sun and it spits it at us in the solar wind, 1000 * 1000 * 1000 / 1000 = 1000000 litters per cubic meter. We just need to build a big pipeline to the sky.
Sending your search terms to a third party is clearly a security violation. For instance, Microsoft may be gathering information on which terms the Justice department is searching on. Given that the packets are not secure a third party could also gather information on which terms any government agency is searching on with a packet sniffer. Then with this information the return packets can be selected. Homeland security needs to be notified about this. The Justice department needs to be notified about this. DOD, State department. Heck, windows XP should be banned from any department with a security level higher than FOUO. Which as far as I am concerned is every part of Government.
1. An implantable chip will become the target of electronic counter measures a. faraday shield to get past scanner undetected b. installed on/off switches c. reprogrammable ID's d. multiple chips implanted
2. The more a system is trusted, the slacker human oversight becomes a. Lower paid workers are easer to bribe b. More intelligent workers take better paying jobs c. The innocent are assumed guilty, not the system (as if they care until it happens to them) d. The lower the probability of bypass the less alert the scanner e. Maintenance is ignored, and mean time to repair rises
3. Tatoos have certain advantages a. They don't break and can't be turned off b. You can't claim it is was stolen without showing a large patch of missing skin c. Only the very evil will try to steal a tattoo and the punishment will be severe d. Everybody and their brother will work hard to find the thief e. A stolen tattoo won't last long f. Much harder to spoof the person scanning one. g. Not easy to reprogram and many modifications will be permanent
Thankfully, due to the Bible, it will be a dark day before Big Brother gets to use them. You can understand why those that get one, and make it more socially acceptable, will be considered enemies of humanity and God.
So, what they will do is set up a system with smart cards or implantable chips and let people get accustomed to the intrusion. Then there be a big media push about all the problems of the present system and the advantages of the tattoos. And it is down hill from there (assuming you don't think Bush's never ending "war on terrorism" isn't the first shot).
To me these laws are a first assault on the innovation of freeware. You can point out the secondary effects of freeware on the economy when the majority of internet servers are run on apache and routers have embedded versions of Linux. Without this "publicly funded R&D" the economy would probably be in much worse condition. Outlawing, "enjoyable use" of these things will reduce this segment of expertise development in the U.S. making U.S. programmers less completive and create an effect of brain drain. These people are not actually targeting the copying process, of which humans are guilty, but are targeting the competitiveness of garage entrepreneurs. Which is where HP, Apple, Microsoft and many other tech industries got their start.
This prior restraint of trade strikes at the very heart of "the American Dream". And he can be scewered in the Geek Press if he isn't carefull.
Now religious revelation demonstrates that the most moral being known to man is The Creator. You can apply the preceding discussion to God to understand why Muslims call The Creator "The most Gracious", "The most Mercifull" and "The Just". So one way or the other there will be and actually is a "cosmological governance". In fact that cosmological governance has contacted humanity and told them what it will take to join in. Jesus said "I say unto you unless you are reborn you can not enter the kingdom of heaven." In the Quran there is a statement that translates roughly as "if you think you can travel through heavens then attempt to do so, but you will not be allowed without our permission" and other passages state what will happen to those that attempt it. These would be a strange statements to be in a book written some 1400 years ago if not for the topic under discussion. I can point out many examples along this thread.
You see it is only recently that science and religion got a divorce and then mainly in the West. It was a requirement at one time that one had to be an ordained minister to be a professor. Newton had to get a waver because he was ordained in the Coptic Church and not the Anglican Church. If the Roman Catholic Church hadn't gotten arrogant and declared it's body politic infallible and therefore couldn't budge from its Aristotelian Cosmological Model people probably wouldn't assume the separation was necessary. There are a lot of other screwed up interpretations of religious parables but that is in the nature of distracting the unworthy. Science, for most of its history, has been the study of the metaphors and parables The Creator imbedded in creation, it's reason for existence. And similarly the reason for mankind's existence lies there as well.
The study of science is one of mankind's gifts but unless it is balanced with a strong ethics it is a tool of self destruction. Together they form the prerequisites for religious understanding. It is no accident that the non-corpuscular non-spatial being commonly known as the devil can read and whisper into individual minds. Those that develop the ability to identify and reject those bad ideas have gained the ability to identify and reject their own bad ideas. Those that follow these bad ideas either self-destruct or get taken out. This is proactive ethical training and evaluation. Similarly it is also no accident that the chestnut "if power corrupts, absolute power..." starts with the word "if".
Advancement in this topic comes not from external technology but self development. "I say unto you, you shall not enter"... The flying carpets of legend are Muslim prayer rugs. "My heart slips its earthly bounds in the presence of my Lord"
You said that the understanding of the metaphors and parables will pass away but I say that as long as people pray they will be taught. It has also been said that as long as there are tests in school there will be prayer in school. Well, creation is a school with lots of tests. There are many levels of understanding and once you qualify, those that have permission will help you. I will leave you with a translation of the opening chapter of the Quran. Muslims use it in prayer 17 times a day. Think about how it fits this topic.
In the name of God, The most Gracious, The most Merciful.
Praise be to God the cherisher and sustainer of the worlds.
Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
Master of the Day of Judgment.
Thy do we worship, and Thy aid we seek.
Show us the straight way,
The way of those upon whom You have bestowed Your grace.
Not the way of those whose portion is wrath and who go astray.
Think about how God is not only non-corpuscular and non-spatial but also non-temporal. You limit your range of understanding excessively and therefore your understanding of your Creator and what has been created. Arbitrary self-imposed limits on concepts are not good things. Science, ethics, beauty and religion are all aspects of the same thing. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness man, Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
I don't know how far off topic we are. Clay beings (made of matter) have the problem of traveling less than the speed of light, Lorenz contraction and all that. However some forces are not restricted by the speed of light. Gravity for instance does not have that constraint or black holes would not be able to suck anything past the event horizon. Particles with confounded spin change synchronously also breaking the light speed constraint. One could therefore presume that energy beings are the only forms of intelligent life capable of traveling across, communicating across and therefore controlling the universe. (read some of the Hindu Getas and the concept of space travel and battles in space is pretty explicit.) If man wishes to escape Earth or receive visitors or for that matter communicate with others it would most likely only be with the permission and help of those beings. Humanity (or some portion of it), therefore, must deal with that before traveling and given the ethical requirements I don't think that will happen till we prove we can take care of Earth first. Religion, you see, is actually about much more than generally conceived but so few qualify very few are allowed to understand.
Well, I'll take the historical perspective of there being 3 classes of energy beings: God, Angles and Jinn. The first having a single instance and the latter two having both multiple instances and multiple species. The first two and part of the third class work in concert with certain humans to "run the works" giving us Prophets, Saints and such what. Also, knowing the chestnut "if power corrupts..." they require humans to pre-qualify themselves before making contact, hence the ethical portion of religion. Of course each religion has its statement that those who don't qualify will be misled into not believing. (for Christianity it is somewhere in Corinthians). Science, which works off the black box principle of proof is insufficient to prove the existence of an intelligent being that does not want that to occur. So while it seems silly to look light years away to see if "we are not alone" most folks won't do what is necessary to search for the First Cause. Still if you want a better explanation try the Quran. There is a lot more science in there than one would expect. You just have to get over the popular science to 600's desert Arabs aspect to analyze it.
Maybe they just pick who they want to talk to.
There is within the question "why do they hate us" the very answer to the question. Because we take a "we" vs. "them" attitude to begin with and then act like a frightened bull in a china shop with arrogant bravado added to cover our ignorance over the damage we have done. Bush has made a mockery of the truths and high ideals our founding fathers fought for till America is known as the "Land of the Hypocrites". An appointed president using an admittedly horrible excuse to wag the dog and cover his lack of ability to even sham compassion has found his calling in creating a never-ending-war and an excuse to brand anybody who gets in his way a terrorist. It's the McCarthyism of the 50's coupled with the Nazism of the 40's and the big brother concept of 1984. The glee of destruction coming out of this nations capital is broadcast world wide to sicken and terrify anyone who would stand up for human rights and justice.
Bush's stance on Palestine reminds me of Hitler telling the French Resistance to stop attacking his troops. Its frightening that a country of religious fanatics can so boondoggle the U.S. government that they are given more military hardware than they can use and so they turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. China can now shoot down American airplanes with American missiles given for free to Israel.
The peace process was over when the U.N. passed the Balfor Declaration. The fact is, all Israelis are foreign nationalist occupiers of Palestinian. That the west created this situation and continues to support it shows the west did not learn anything from WWII. We may have to go through that exercise of "white man's burden" stupidity one more time.
The path to peace is to try and execute Sharon for war crimes and send a message that taking land by armed force, crimes against humanity and other forms of state terrorism will not be tolerated even if it is against non-whites. Isn't that one of the rules of the U.N. Or is that only enforced when it is convenient to the West?
As long as Israel exists where it is the world knows the West doesn't understand the concept of justice.
If the west truly wants peace, give them Arizona (just not on Indian land, you forgot them didn't you). Globalism, like "the war on terror" is just western colonialism in sheep's clothing.
The real trick would be to implant the pickup leads to the cranial nerve that drives the muscle like the cochlea implants. Put a LED/phototransistor pair under the skin somewhere for an optical output/optoisolator.
With both, cops, solders, secret service agents and other people that need to work without giving away their position could communicate. Note taking in classrooms or libraries could use the to-text functions and I could get rid of this keyboard and have a much more compact portable computer/pda without a noisy microphone in the way or wirers plastered to my face. Speeches and lectures could be recorded for posterity in text format and TV shows could have close captioning of the actors actual words. Listen to music without bothering your neighbors or blocking your environmental sounds with earphones. It would be interesting to imagine how language would morph over time.
Move the leads farther up the brains processing and viola the equivalent to schizophrenia. Yep, needs an optoisolator instead of wireless link, and faraday shields on the leads.
Matrix here we come.
All animals have language(we are just to stupid to accept that it may be nonverbal, read the book the horse whisperer), though not so developed, many animals use tools (most grow them themselves, long tongues, claws ...) but few have directed development and the pen. The pen allows our knowledge to be passed on in time and space. Civilization as we know it would have been greatly limited without the pen. Any given person would be little more than an animal without the benefits from them. Religious development and the pen are necessary conditions for the development of society past a certain point.
Most people misunderstand the stories. The atomic(indivisible matter) theory came from Democratus but his teachings on the four phases of matter got dummied down to earth(solid), water(liquid), air(gas) and fire(plasma) (most common examples). You can only imagine what happened to the teachings of (indivisible man) "adam" when it got dummied down to the concepts available then. Note the similarity to "atom" and "adam" in spelling. When man gets divided from God he becomes animal. Religion (re- again, ligio- to bind) is about making man whole again by binding himself back to God (willfully). Like an atom, a human is not stable until its parts (spin, charge ...) are balanced and functioning as willed by God. And society will be just as unstable when unbalanced and not functioning as willed by God.
That's the difference between fully developed humans and animals. We are (at our best) wisdom(light e=mc^2) made clay (a mix of solid, liquid, gas and ions) and the pen allows us to do the same, metaphorically speaking.
Go with the basics- Good food -variety here. Remember that there are people with food allergies and they don't want to get uncomfortable having to explain why they aren't "appreciative" of the generosity. Nore do they want to go hungry when others are eating.
Good drinks- again variety - there are people that don't drink alcohol for religious, medical, addiction or other reasons and they don't want to get uncomfortable having to explain that either. Many introverts don't appreciate dealing with drunks either. Your company may not appreciate the liability.
You can make the food and drinks a topic of conversation and exploration by having various countries represented. Introverts tend to explore more than extraverts. (After one unenjoyable party why waste time at the next)
Music- you might try several areas each with a different type and not so loud that it disturbs conversation.
Don't forget the eye candy, but forget about smell and touch, too many strong emotions/liabilities there.
Do not try to force conversation but encourage it by creating a variety of situations where any given individual can find a comfort zone. Also try encouraging conversations in topics that people are comfortable with and can find others with similar interests. Give each person a nametag and urge them to put two or more topics they are comfortable with on it. This cuts down on both the bother of name remembrance and topic discovery protocol. These can be killers for introverts.
Remember that there is more to life than football and gossip. Finding other topics quickly and easily is a problem.
I think they made a movie about a case with Julia Roberts showing a lot of cleavage in the movie. Something about a small red necked woman beating the pants off of a corporation that poisoned hundreds of workers. Go red necks!!!
The install for SUSE version 7.2 professional had it built into the install. Select expert partitioning and it was a check box selection in the mount-point, file system type dialog box. You could edit the boot sequence to remove the prompt to mount the file system and then mount it only when you wanted it mounted. Once mounted it was visible in unencrypted form but you could un-mount anytime. Reading and writing is done via a loop back that decrypts /encrypts during read/write. It is visible as a standard file system once mounted to all programs by all users.
SUSE 7.3 has this to say http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/i386/se curity.html
Watch the space in security, comment dialog box is too small to fit url without it injecting a space.