Do any politicians up for election in 2008 care to address that? Like you know, stop sales of guns to mentally ill?
Just so everyone is clear on the topic, the issue with regard to selling guns to the mentally ill is more involved than just that statement. As long as states submit their list of mental defectives the federal database will use those records when said subject is attempting to buy a gun and goes through a background check. Again, the states have to submit the records or the federal database won't know about them. Also, not all states let the FBI handle the gun check. Some states do their own check however their request is still sent to the federal database (in addition to searching their own records of course) and the results, if any, are returned to them. The main difference is that the final decision is made by the state in that case. In the case of checks being done by the FBI the final decision is made by the FBI.
Thus, we now run into a second problem, that being the states and the feds have different criteria for what can prohibit a person from purchasing a firearm. Case in point, the recent shooting of some coworkers by a guy in Detroit, MI a month or so ago who had attempted to buy a handgun at one point (in March I believe it was) and because Michigan does their own checks for handguns they denied him the purchase. When he actually got fired he attempted to buy a long gun. Michigan is one of the weird states who split the way checks are performed so in the case of a long gun (such as a rifle) the check is done (not forwarded but completely performed) by the FBI. The FBI has certain categories of things that can prevent someone from buying a gun. For the guy in Detroit he didn't have any disqualifiers against him at the federal level, thus he was able to get his gun and kill 2 of his coworkers on the following Monday. So, just as with terrorists, if you are a first time offender then you will get through the system. But at the least, the discrepancies between the states and the feds need cleared up so things like this don't happen again. To get back on topic with the mentally ill, the feds are already covering this but the states have to do their job. And for your information, the problem in VA occurred because they didn't submit their mental defective to the FBI, however they were still playing by the rules because in VA they are only required to do that for patients who are admitted. What's his name was an outpatient and escaped the system. That loophole has now been cleared up, in VA at least.
Light could have traveled faster in the early universe than it does today thus allowing objects to appear to be so far away that the universe to us would have to be billions of years old based on the speed of light as we know it now. If you think that is so far fetched then let me remind you of the fact that many scientists currently believe in the inflationary theory of the universe where rapid expansion of the universe occurred in the first few milliseconds so if space can have rapid expansion and slow down then light (made up of particles in that space) can have higher velocity than today and later slow down. I'd even wager that since space and time have now been proven to be intertwined that time also "moved faster" in the early universe and then slowed down. The timeline used in the Holy Bible (such as the 7 days of Creation) doesn't necessarily (and most likely doesn't) coincide with our duration of a day, especially if light moved faster at that time than it does now. That doesn't mean it's wrong.
We probably won't be able to reconcile our observations of event durations with the Holy Bible's event durations until a) we can figure out just what is meant by the word "time" and accurately apply it to past events or b) we determine for sure whether light and time in the early universe moved at the same speed it does now or c) both. The moral of the story? Just because you rely on scientists to tell you about how we got here doesn't mean the Holy Bible is wrong. For all you know you are supporting evidence that will eventually prove the Bible right (that's the way I look at it). Just like we haven't quite been able to reconcile all the current scientific theories into a grand unified theory of the universe we also haven't reconciled scientific observations with the facts in the Holy Bible but that doesn't mean one is right and the other wrong.
I've noticed that those who don't believe in God also tend to shut themselves off from other theories that may explain better their preconceived/biased ideas of the universe. I have to wonder whether their bias against religion would even make them deny irrefutable proof that our current and future observations of the universe as well as our future theories eventually prove the Bible right (beyond what they already have proven). Concerning your guess that the Creationists won't like this, all I have to say is that I'm happy disappoint you because this in no way proves the Holy Bible is wrong. Reconciliation will eventually only disappoint people like you.
Because it is wiki, any initial story that is written in too esoteric terms can be further edited by people less in the know and more able to eloquently explain. So by the very nature of the media is better than either peer-reviewed or popular scientific literature in terms of how well the content gets distributed. How well the inaccuracies get caught is a whole different ball game.
And likewise, the person who originally wrote it can flip it right back to the initial state prior to your changes so it's esoteric all over again.
But silicon would allow them to be suddenly perky when an electric charge was applied to them. Obviously one nip would be the negative terminal while the other would be the positive terminal.:)
Well if it is any consolation we will probably experience global cooling in a few decades just as we did about 4 decades ago. The strange thing is that not every time in the past has there been people running around with their heads cutoff screaming end of days because of the temperature change but for some reason we have that now and the only difference is that the temperature is moving in the other direction. And at the very least, the current global warming proponents are treading new ground with pushing their agenda by making death threats against those who don't agree with them. Who would have thought that denying human involvement in global temperature changes would justify such violence. A century ago global cooling caused quite a stir. It seems scientists don't ever know what is really going to happen to the global temperature but if the past few millennia are any indication it seems that nothing globally catastrophic will happen (maybe given enough millennia another Ice Age will occur but, just as before, it won't be anything we can help because we won't be the cause).
I have TW for my cable provider and I pay $113/month. That breaks down into about $45 for 5Mbps Internet access, $50 or so for basic digital cable w/ the variety pack and miscellaneous fees and taxes. What the hell are you paying for, multiple premium movie channels? By the way, you should have told her you wouldn't cancel if you could install a cam in her house and watch her on tv because then it would be interesting again.
Every branch of psychology is a branch of marketing. Marketers will study anything to determine why you would choose one product over another and then implement something that will exercise your mind to pick their product over their competitors. Advertising is all about mind control, seriously. Ever get hungry all of a sudden when watching a commercial about food? Reality is a reflection of TV (both the shows and the ads) no matter what the media producers say. If it wasn't then commercials would be showing what people do instead of trying to get them to do it.
I have to wonder just how many people posting messages about this submission realize that if a state's driver's license is sufficiently close to already incorporating all the pieces of information that the REAL ID act specifies then that state does not need to come up with another one (although they will still need to create a database that will interface with other state databases). In effect, out of 50 states I would think there is a pretty good chance that at least 1 state basically already has what will be their national ID card but yet no one is talking about that.
By the way, concerning the ability for a national ID to track your movement, a social security number can already track where you have worked, what you buy (by cross-referencing with your credit report and then cross-referencing with each credit card statement) and where you live (additional cross-references). Maybe the issue people on here have is that the national ID would make the cross-referencing easier or non-existent? What I worry about is the fact that the national ID card just brings various prophecies that much closer to occuring. It is only a matter of time, a short period of time I believe.
And finally, there won't be a national database with this system. Each state will have their own database but supposedly linked with each other. What are the repercussions of that? Speculation abounds but there are no definitive answers.
So let me get this straight -- we're finally getting an Open Source Exchange, and now you're hoping we have something that kills it?
Would you be able to parse the sentence better if it was worded as such: "Add in support for Samba Domain Controllers and Linux Authentication, Offline Access and Evolution Support and we might finally have our long desired Exchange killer that is Open Source." ?
By the way, since Comcast doesn't have to pay CAL costs for Exchange anymore does this mean that everyone gets a cheaper cable bill? It was worth a shot.
Not necessarily. If a user doesn't know how to properly create passwords he/she will write his/hers down. But if they have been given training they know they can form a password out of the first letters of each word from a familiar phrase that is fairly long (7 words or so) and then change letters like "I" to "1" to meet complexity requirements. The person can also take a phrase that is short (3 words) and combine them together to form a password (passphrase) and change characters again to meet complexity requirements. And it isn't the fact that a password can't be part of the username that is the kicker, it's the password history that is annoying. Since there are infinite number of passwords available that don't contain your username it isn't hard to get past the username-related password requirement. For dealing with a password history a user can just append some numbers to their already sufficiently secure passphrase, or they can always come up with another phrase to use if they so desire to make it even more secure.
XP also only sends LM (and NTLM) responses by default and no requests so although it can be said that XP uses LANManager hashes it only partially does so. By the way, Vista by default is configured to only use NTLMv2 responses only so it doesn't use LANManager at all by default. And although these can be changed using registry settings the easiest way (especially if you have multiple machines on a domain) is to use Group Policies.
Government security guidelines state that when a possible security violation has occurred (such as data lost) it must be reported immediately. Of course if it is found soon thereafter then no big deal (relatively speaking) however the word is out that something cannot be found so if it takes a while to find it (if it is ever found) it has already been reported. What happens when something is reported is unknown to me so whether it really helps to report it so fast I really don't know but that's just what the guidelines state (or I should say rules, not guidelines).
They also had a limited amount of time to keep using the gaim name in the code. I believe the time frame was 6 months to make sure all instances of "gaim" were removed so in essence AOL helped guarantee us a major release within 6 months. Also, the suit with AOL actually lasted a few years.
Sudo requires a password before privileges are elevated; UAC doesn't require any further authentication before granting privileges. A regular user can still wreak havoc on a system if, as many others have already mentioned, a user gets conditioned to just click Allow all the time. The heart of sudo is challenging a user before simply granting privileges.
If he had said "open source software", then you'd have a point. But he just said free software, which only means software that is provided without charge. Sorry Bruce, I normally agree with everything you say, but not this time. The open source community has no right to redefine common English words.
First, open source software isn't necessarily software that is free; it can cost money (especially the support) but with source included.
Second, the OSS community doesn't need to redefine common English words such as 'free' because there is something called context in which a single word or phrase can implicitly have its meaning changed. The single word or phrase is properly understood then by those who understand the appropriate context. So how about you go look up the definition of context before accusing others of changing a definition. Also, any public speaker knows that knowing his/her audience is one of the keys to having a good speech. Knowing your audience will aid in determining the appropriate context and minimize the chances of you looking like a fool during your speech.
Not everyone lives in a town with a population of 500 where there is only 1 voting location, 1 sheriff, and 1 traffic light and everything is contained in an area less than a half square mile in size, so for the rest of us it is more than 200 meters. By the way, just because someone may live as close to a voting booth as you do and wants to vote online doesn't mean they can't be bothered to vote in the booth. For others like you who are too narrow-minded to think of a reason why someone would prefer to vote online despite being very close to the booth I'll mention a couple reasons: 1) people may, like me, have strong social anxiety and don't like going to a voting booth and 2) someone who is physically handicapped but is still eligible to vote may prefer to vote online.
Come on America, we all used to look up to you as the beacon of freedom, but now your country is being turned into a Tudor monarchy, within a few years there will be no freedom left, will the last one out please turn off the lights when you leave.
I'd watch what you say. It seems Britain isn't immune to changing either. Personally, I'd prefer Tudor over Islamic but that's just me.
Never in my post did I state that Brian Greene said time's existence began a split second after the big bang. I said that he discusses a theory that time's *arrow* was set a split second after the big bang. I consider there to be a difference in that wording. Since time has to exist before it's arrow can be set this doesn't violate the problem you suggested. Since I can't speak too much to this since I haven't read the entire book yet I'd guess that the theory states that time's arrow was set before the inflationary period began but maybe not.
In general relativity, time isn't even defined at the Big Bang;
I just started reading the Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene so I can't say too much more than what I'm about to say but in the beginning of his book he says that cosmologists believe that time's arrow was set very soon (split second) after the big bang occurred. He elaborates on that throughout the book but I'm still only in chapter 1.
Everytime I tell someone I have a math degree they usually respond (proudly) "I Suck at Math!" On occasion they will go into a long conversation about how bad they were at math... I wonder whether it would be acceptable for someone to proclaim "I can't read" and then talk about how they couldn't even read a book to their 4 year old child at night.
Your earning potential in the modern world is largely dependant on your Math and Language skills; regardless on whether you think you are wasting your time because you "suck" at these subjects, you need to learn the material for your own good.
That is priceless (the bolded text). How much is your earning potential dependent on your spelling skills? By the way, the continuum for reading is a lot smaller than the learning continuum for mathematics (just look at the complex equations needed to describe the universe compared to the ones we start out learning [2+2=4]). Once you learn to read you are done but if you finish calculus you still have many other levels of math to complete before you can say you are done. Unless you consider learning to read in multiple languages part of the reading continuum then I don't think the statement "I can't read" is synonymous with "I suck at math". When I say "I suck at math" it means I suck at calculus but there are a lot of other things below that level that I can do just fine (geometry and trig come to mind).
Even better are the PE1955 blades. Up to 10 can fit into an enclosure and the enclosure can have a pass-thru switch for storage and network so you can minimize your cable runs too.
Why is the chance of this planet being inhabitable any better compared to the systems that we already know about that have shown no signs of life? Just because it has similar conditions to Earth? There is no chance that (assuming you believe in it) evolution would create humans in 2 physically separate locations. Why do I consider the case of humans in 2 separate locations? Well, because Mr Udry seems to think that conditions suitable for humans somehow increase the chance for human life, at least that's the implication that can be drawn from his comment.
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Do any politicians up for election in 2008 care to address that? Like you know, stop sales of guns to mentally ill?
Just so everyone is clear on the topic, the issue with regard to selling guns to the mentally ill is more involved than just that statement. As long as states submit their list of mental defectives the federal database will use those records when said subject is attempting to buy a gun and goes through a background check. Again, the states have to submit the records or the federal database won't know about them. Also, not all states let the FBI handle the gun check. Some states do their own check however their request is still sent to the federal database (in addition to searching their own records of course) and the results, if any, are returned to them. The main difference is that the final decision is made by the state in that case. In the case of checks being done by the FBI the final decision is made by the FBI.
Thus, we now run into a second problem, that being the states and the feds have different criteria for what can prohibit a person from purchasing a firearm. Case in point, the recent shooting of some coworkers by a guy in Detroit, MI a month or so ago who had attempted to buy a handgun at one point (in March I believe it was) and because Michigan does their own checks for handguns they denied him the purchase. When he actually got fired he attempted to buy a long gun. Michigan is one of the weird states who split the way checks are performed so in the case of a long gun (such as a rifle) the check is done (not forwarded but completely performed) by the FBI. The FBI has certain categories of things that can prevent someone from buying a gun. For the guy in Detroit he didn't have any disqualifiers against him at the federal level, thus he was able to get his gun and kill 2 of his coworkers on the following Monday. So, just as with terrorists, if you are a first time offender then you will get through the system. But at the least, the discrepancies between the states and the feds need cleared up so things like this don't happen again. To get back on topic with the mentally ill, the feds are already covering this but the states have to do their job. And for your information, the problem in VA occurred because they didn't submit their mental defective to the FBI, however they were still playing by the rules because in VA they are only required to do that for patients who are admitted. What's his name was an outpatient and escaped the system. That loophole has now been cleared up, in VA at least.
Light could have traveled faster in the early universe than it does today thus allowing objects to appear to be so far away that the universe to us would have to be billions of years old based on the speed of light as we know it now. If you think that is so far fetched then let me remind you of the fact that many scientists currently believe in the inflationary theory of the universe where rapid expansion of the universe occurred in the first few milliseconds so if space can have rapid expansion and slow down then light (made up of particles in that space) can have higher velocity than today and later slow down. I'd even wager that since space and time have now been proven to be intertwined that time also "moved faster" in the early universe and then slowed down. The timeline used in the Holy Bible (such as the 7 days of Creation) doesn't necessarily (and most likely doesn't) coincide with our duration of a day, especially if light moved faster at that time than it does now. That doesn't mean it's wrong.
We probably won't be able to reconcile our observations of event durations with the Holy Bible's event durations until a) we can figure out just what is meant by the word "time" and accurately apply it to past events or b) we determine for sure whether light and time in the early universe moved at the same speed it does now or c) both. The moral of the story? Just because you rely on scientists to tell you about how we got here doesn't mean the Holy Bible is wrong. For all you know you are supporting evidence that will eventually prove the Bible right (that's the way I look at it). Just like we haven't quite been able to reconcile all the current scientific theories into a grand unified theory of the universe we also haven't reconciled scientific observations with the facts in the Holy Bible but that doesn't mean one is right and the other wrong.
I've noticed that those who don't believe in God also tend to shut themselves off from other theories that may explain better their preconceived/biased ideas of the universe. I have to wonder whether their bias against religion would even make them deny irrefutable proof that our current and future observations of the universe as well as our future theories eventually prove the Bible right (beyond what they already have proven). Concerning your guess that the Creationists won't like this, all I have to say is that I'm happy disappoint you because this in no way proves the Holy Bible is wrong. Reconciliation will eventually only disappoint people like you.
Because it is wiki, any initial story that is written in too esoteric terms can be further edited by people less in the know and more able to eloquently explain. So by the very nature of the media is better than either peer-reviewed or popular scientific literature in terms of how well the content gets distributed. How well the inaccuracies get caught is a whole different ball game.
And likewise, the person who originally wrote it can flip it right back to the initial state prior to your changes so it's esoteric all over again.
But silicon would allow them to be suddenly perky when an electric charge was applied to them. Obviously one nip would be the negative terminal while the other would be the positive terminal. :)
Well if it is any consolation we will probably experience global cooling in a few decades just as we did about 4 decades ago. The strange thing is that not every time in the past has there been people running around with their heads cutoff screaming end of days because of the temperature change but for some reason we have that now and the only difference is that the temperature is moving in the other direction. And at the very least, the current global warming proponents are treading new ground with pushing their agenda by making death threats against those who don't agree with them. Who would have thought that denying human involvement in global temperature changes would justify such violence. A century ago global cooling caused quite a stir. It seems scientists don't ever know what is really going to happen to the global temperature but if the past few millennia are any indication it seems that nothing globally catastrophic will happen (maybe given enough millennia another Ice Age will occur but, just as before, it won't be anything we can help because we won't be the cause).
I have TW for my cable provider and I pay $113/month. That breaks down into about $45 for 5Mbps Internet access, $50 or so for basic digital cable w/ the variety pack and miscellaneous fees and taxes. What the hell are you paying for, multiple premium movie channels? By the way, you should have told her you wouldn't cancel if you could install a cam in her house and watch her on tv because then it would be interesting again.
Every branch of psychology is a branch of marketing. Marketers will study anything to determine why you would choose one product over another and then implement something that will exercise your mind to pick their product over their competitors. Advertising is all about mind control, seriously. Ever get hungry all of a sudden when watching a commercial about food? Reality is a reflection of TV (both the shows and the ads) no matter what the media producers say. If it wasn't then commercials would be showing what people do instead of trying to get them to do it.
I have to wonder just how many people posting messages about this submission realize that if a state's driver's license is sufficiently close to already incorporating all the pieces of information that the REAL ID act specifies then that state does not need to come up with another one (although they will still need to create a database that will interface with other state databases). In effect, out of 50 states I would think there is a pretty good chance that at least 1 state basically already has what will be their national ID card but yet no one is talking about that.
By the way, concerning the ability for a national ID to track your movement, a social security number can already track where you have worked, what you buy (by cross-referencing with your credit report and then cross-referencing with each credit card statement) and where you live (additional cross-references). Maybe the issue people on here have is that the national ID would make the cross-referencing easier or non-existent? What I worry about is the fact that the national ID card just brings various prophecies that much closer to occuring. It is only a matter of time, a short period of time I believe.
And finally, there won't be a national database with this system. Each state will have their own database but supposedly linked with each other. What are the repercussions of that? Speculation abounds but there are no definitive answers.
So let me get this straight -- we're finally getting an Open Source Exchange, and now you're hoping we have something that kills it?
Would you be able to parse the sentence better if it was worded as such: "Add in support for Samba Domain Controllers and Linux Authentication, Offline Access and Evolution Support and we might finally have our long desired Exchange killer that is Open Source." ?
By the way, since Comcast doesn't have to pay CAL costs for Exchange anymore does this mean that everyone gets a cheaper cable bill? It was worth a shot.
Not necessarily. If a user doesn't know how to properly create passwords he/she will write his/hers down. But if they have been given training they know they can form a password out of the first letters of each word from a familiar phrase that is fairly long (7 words or so) and then change letters like "I" to "1" to meet complexity requirements. The person can also take a phrase that is short (3 words) and combine them together to form a password (passphrase) and change characters again to meet complexity requirements. And it isn't the fact that a password can't be part of the username that is the kicker, it's the password history that is annoying. Since there are infinite number of passwords available that don't contain your username it isn't hard to get past the username-related password requirement. For dealing with a password history a user can just append some numbers to their already sufficiently secure passphrase, or they can always come up with another phrase to use if they so desire to make it even more secure.
XP also only sends LM (and NTLM) responses by default and no requests so although it can be said that XP uses LANManager hashes it only partially does so. By the way, Vista by default is configured to only use NTLMv2 responses only so it doesn't use LANManager at all by default. And although these can be changed using registry settings the easiest way (especially if you have multiple machines on a domain) is to use Group Policies.
Government security guidelines state that when a possible security violation has occurred (such as data lost) it must be reported immediately. Of course if it is found soon thereafter then no big deal (relatively speaking) however the word is out that something cannot be found so if it takes a while to find it (if it is ever found) it has already been reported. What happens when something is reported is unknown to me so whether it really helps to report it so fast I really don't know but that's just what the guidelines state (or I should say rules, not guidelines).
They also had a limited amount of time to keep using the gaim name in the code. I believe the time frame was 6 months to make sure all instances of "gaim" were removed so in essence AOL helped guarantee us a major release within 6 months. Also, the suit with AOL actually lasted a few years.
Did you get a busy signal when you called it? Think about it.
Sudo requires a password before privileges are elevated; UAC doesn't require any further authentication before granting privileges. A regular user can still wreak havoc on a system if, as many others have already mentioned, a user gets conditioned to just click Allow all the time. The heart of sudo is challenging a user before simply granting privileges.
If he had said "open source software", then you'd have a point. But he just said free software, which only means software that is provided without charge. Sorry Bruce, I normally agree with everything you say, but not this time. The open source community has no right to redefine common English words.
First, open source software isn't necessarily software that is free; it can cost money (especially the support) but with source included.
Second, the OSS community doesn't need to redefine common English words such as 'free' because there is something called context in which a single word or phrase can implicitly have its meaning changed. The single word or phrase is properly understood then by those who understand the appropriate context. So how about you go look up the definition of context before accusing others of changing a definition. Also, any public speaker knows that knowing his/her audience is one of the keys to having a good speech. Knowing your audience will aid in determining the appropriate context and minimize the chances of you looking like a fool during your speech.
Not everyone lives in a town with a population of 500 where there is only 1 voting location, 1 sheriff, and 1 traffic light and everything is contained in an area less than a half square mile in size, so for the rest of us it is more than 200 meters. By the way, just because someone may live as close to a voting booth as you do and wants to vote online doesn't mean they can't be bothered to vote in the booth. For others like you who are too narrow-minded to think of a reason why someone would prefer to vote online despite being very close to the booth I'll mention a couple reasons: 1) people may, like me, have strong social anxiety and don't like going to a voting booth and 2) someone who is physically handicapped but is still eligible to vote may prefer to vote online.
Come on America, we all used to look up to you as the beacon of freedom, but now your country is being turned into a Tudor monarchy, within a few years there will be no freedom left, will the last one out please turn off the lights when you leave.
I'd watch what you say. It seems Britain isn't immune to changing either. Personally, I'd prefer Tudor over Islamic but that's just me.
Never in my post did I state that Brian Greene said time's existence began a split second after the big bang. I said that he discusses a theory that time's *arrow* was set a split second after the big bang. I consider there to be a difference in that wording. Since time has to exist before it's arrow can be set this doesn't violate the problem you suggested. Since I can't speak too much to this since I haven't read the entire book yet I'd guess that the theory states that time's arrow was set before the inflationary period began but maybe not.
In general relativity, time isn't even defined at the Big Bang;
I just started reading the Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene so I can't say too much more than what I'm about to say but in the beginning of his book he says that cosmologists believe that time's arrow was set very soon (split second) after the big bang occurred. He elaborates on that throughout the book but I'm still only in chapter 1.
No no no, washing your car makes it rain. Or in my case, buying a new convertible car made temperatures in April dip below 30 degrees Fahrenheit.
I didn't do this.
Everytime I tell someone I have a math degree they usually respond (proudly) "I Suck at Math!" On occasion they will go into a long conversation about how bad they were at math ... I wonder whether it would be acceptable for someone to proclaim "I can't read" and then talk about how they couldn't even read a book to their 4 year old child at night.
Your earning potential in the modern world is largely dependant on your Math and Language skills; regardless on whether you think you are wasting your time because you "suck" at these subjects, you need to learn the material for your own good.
That is priceless (the bolded text). How much is your earning potential dependent on your spelling skills? By the way, the continuum for reading is a lot smaller than the learning continuum for mathematics (just look at the complex equations needed to describe the universe compared to the ones we start out learning [2+2=4]). Once you learn to read you are done but if you finish calculus you still have many other levels of math to complete before you can say you are done. Unless you consider learning to read in multiple languages part of the reading continuum then I don't think the statement "I can't read" is synonymous with "I suck at math". When I say "I suck at math" it means I suck at calculus but there are a lot of other things below that level that I can do just fine (geometry and trig come to mind).
Even better are the PE1955 blades. Up to 10 can fit into an enclosure and the enclosure can have a pass-thru switch for storage and network so you can minimize your cable runs too.
Why is the chance of this planet being inhabitable any better compared to the systems that we already know about that have shown no signs of life? Just because it has similar conditions to Earth? There is no chance that (assuming you believe in it) evolution would create humans in 2 physically separate locations. Why do I consider the case of humans in 2 separate locations? Well, because Mr Udry seems to think that conditions suitable for humans somehow increase the chance for human life, at least that's the implication that can be drawn from his comment.