It sounds like synchronization is the keyword here. Who cares that the telescopes were synchronized ? As long as they follow the same object and timecode all their datas, the synchronization could have been made offline. Or am I missing something ?
Well I used to think this was some sort of physics law, written in stone somewhere. But as of yet, I have been unable to find it. There are a lot of tricks that may look like FTL movement (like phase speed of a wave) but as far as I know, the "spooky action at a distance" has a measurable effect and could very well be used to transmit information. Last time I checked, however, I have been unable to find an experiment give an estimation of the speed at which this action is propagated. It is probably very quick but nothing indicates for sure that it is faster than light (and nothing indicates that this would be impossible)
Other European countries such as Germany have problems with Scientology, but in the US it is officially recognized as a religion. Germany has a special take on the question but in some European countries (well, at least in France but I doubt it is the only one). The state guarantees the religious freedom and does not maintain a list of official religion. And last time I checked, being a religion or a spiritual movement wasn't an excuse for not paying taxes on incomes.
Hmmm, I like spinning.
From what I understand, being able to bring an adult stem cell to be omni-potential means that it could be made to evolve into an embryo and then a living human being (a clone). So who is to say that this life should not be protected ? Does religion even have a point of view on the issue ? If every unicellular life is sacred as long as a complete human DNA is present, and that it can evolve into a full life, should we preserve amputated members as soon as adult stem cell research is sufficiently advanced ? If not, are we allowed to grow them to embryo stage and use their organs ? To adult human stage and reduce them into slavery ?
I agree that some ethical lines must be traced, but first, ethical whistleblowers (read : religious officials) should admit that their definition for "human life" seriously lacks precision. They still have difficulties to grasp two major changes that occurred in the 2Oth century : life creation without sexual act is now possible and sexual acts without life creation are now possible.
Even with a window manager.
Just make a user profile with few privilege. That's what the userspace is made for : not being able to mess with the system.
There is no problem with not reacting militarily in most of these cases. There has been reactions, diplomatic ones, giving ammunition for subsequent commercial negotiations.
As long as the red line that will cause military action is very clear, there are no problems with not reacting to the other side's provocation as long as they are minor enough.
Of course, not having a red line and reacting at random to provocations from other countries (or even without provocation) is a very dangerous attitude.
Likely? I would say, quite, yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Op_Fortitude_In flatable_Tank.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude
Quickly, Operation Fortitude was a decoy operation of the Allied Forces designed to make Axis forces believe that a fleet and an army was being gathered in front of the northern French town of Pas-de-Calais and to hide the real preparation of the assault in Normandy. It was a huge success.
The thing is, everything was fake, cardboard or inflatable stuff. But from a several miles point of view, it looked quite real.
Spying satellites are around since the 60s, I would be inclined to believe that sending fake informations to other nations was a very common military hobby.
Some of the famous Area 51 workers even confessed that, amused by all the ET rumors, they made fake runways in order to feed speculations.
The propeller is real and was revealed by "accident". It almost certainly is real; it's too similar to other known quiet props, with some interesting variations that the 2-D satellite image did in fact usefully reveal (blade advance angle), from the sun angle and shadows. I mean that what the GP meant was that most advanced military nations are aware of the thing called "spy satellite" and have been protecting their military secret from them with a high-tech feature called "roofs" since the cold war.
Some jokers have, in fact, put false things to be observed to fool enemies of their strength.
I, for one, completely support decisions that could lead to such a catastrophic outcome. This looks like the only way to have leaders and law makers to understand the value of openness in the technological world.
The fact that this paper is publicly presented and not presented as patented technology makes me confident that these 2 persons are real researchers that only want to see their technology used as widely as possible.
1. Let them do the metrics
2. Tell their boss their metrics are totally illogic and show it
3a. Enjoy the month of transition period to a new bean counter
3b. Enjoy your living in a Dilbert strip
I don't think the organizer can really be arrested for that. To be arrested, you have to disobey some laws. No, the main concern I see is that this could bring organizations like DHS to try to regulate amateur UAV competitions and make some international participation illegal in the future.
I would say, take the risk. Science is about international cooperation and when you have to bother about the nationality of participants, something is beginning to be fucked up. Try to maintain this as an international manifestation, be ready to make a lot of media noise if DHS has some xenophobic reactions, but I don't think there could be any trouble with the police institutions. Of course, if you are worried, take advice from a lawyer (I don't live in the USA, it is hard to take an exact measurement of the paranoia level in the Home of the Brave) but I can only see positive things coming from showing Iranian geeks in the medias.
What's preventing them from testing the sewer water directly out of a house, instead of a waste plant.
Little things like privacy or the "innocent until proven guilty" principle ?
These kind of things used to be core values of any respectable democracy.
However I can see parents installing such things in their homes to spy on their kids.
TV ads.
It apparently make people vote for X or Y, why couldn't this make parents care for their children's performance in school ? After all, the consequences of a illiterate nations would be far more frightful than international terrorism...
I don't know about this "Devils Own" XP key, but I could see a webserver giving a different page depending on which IP it gets its requests from. From Chinese government-owned IPs : a neutral website, from any other IP : "here is the link to the proxy server".
That could puzzle some human enquirers with low technical knowledge for a while.
1. Talk about homosexuality
2. Be censored
3. Become famous
4. Help change the censorship policy
you can even fit a "3.5 Profit!" if you want to. Of course I see a few issues for breakthrough-artist-wanabees :
* It HAS to be art
* It HAS to be censorship. Not just a "forbidden to kiddies" label
Advertising saturation is one of the main reasons why I never had a TV at home since I left my parents home ten years ago. People say I'm too grumpy so maybe TV hasn't reach most people's limit yet, but they may have to be cautious, they are very close to it.
Well, how many people use 10 different passwords anyway ? I think that most people end up using the same password again and again. The man in the middle attack can be prevented using a good crypto and certificates provided by the OS during installation (ie. not downloaded)
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It sounds like synchronization is the keyword here. Who cares that the telescopes were synchronized ? As long as they follow the same object and timecode all their datas, the synchronization could have been made offline. Or am I missing something ?
Well I used to think this was some sort of physics law, written in stone somewhere. But as of yet, I have been unable to find it. There are a lot of tricks that may look like FTL movement (like phase speed of a wave) but as far as I know, the "spooky action at a distance" has a measurable effect and could very well be used to transmit information. Last time I checked, however, I have been unable to find an experiment give an estimation of the speed at which this action is propagated. It is probably very quick but nothing indicates for sure that it is faster than light (and nothing indicates that this would be impossible)
Seconded.
Hmmm, I like spinning.
From what I understand, being able to bring an adult stem cell to be omni-potential means that it could be made to evolve into an embryo and then a living human being (a clone). So who is to say that this life should not be protected ? Does religion even have a point of view on the issue ? If every unicellular life is sacred as long as a complete human DNA is present, and that it can evolve into a full life, should we preserve amputated members as soon as adult stem cell research is sufficiently advanced ? If not, are we allowed to grow them to embryo stage and use their organs ? To adult human stage and reduce them into slavery ?
I agree that some ethical lines must be traced, but first, ethical whistleblowers (read : religious officials) should admit that their definition for "human life" seriously lacks precision. They still have difficulties to grasp two major changes that occurred in the 2Oth century : life creation without sexual act is now possible and sexual acts without life creation are now possible.
Even with a window manager.
Just make a user profile with few privilege. That's what the userspace is made for : not being able to mess with the system.
There is no problem with not reacting militarily in most of these cases. There has been reactions, diplomatic ones, giving ammunition for subsequent commercial negotiations.
As long as the red line that will cause military action is very clear, there are no problems with not reacting to the other side's provocation as long as they are minor enough.
Of course, not having a red line and reacting at random to provocations from other countries (or even without provocation) is a very dangerous attitude.
Yeah, it is as ridiculous as accusing telephone companies when the government wiretaps phone conversations...
Now wait...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Op_Fortitude_I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude
Quickly, Operation Fortitude was a decoy operation of the Allied Forces designed to make Axis forces believe that a fleet and an army was being gathered in front of the northern French town of Pas-de-Calais and to hide the real preparation of the assault in Normandy. It was a huge success.
The thing is, everything was fake, cardboard or inflatable stuff. But from a several miles point of view, it looked quite real.
Spying satellites are around since the 60s, I would be inclined to believe that sending fake informations to other nations was a very common military hobby.
Some of the famous Area 51 workers even confessed that, amused by all the ET rumors, they made fake runways in order to feed speculations.
Some jokers have, in fact, put false things to be observed to fool enemies of their strength.
Except Google, maybe...
Anyway, Chinese manufacturers already hijack Vista DRM mechanisms to erase anti-governmental "spywares"
Hey, it COULD be true !
I, for one, completely support decisions that could lead to such a catastrophic outcome. This looks like the only way to have leaders and law makers to understand the value of openness in the technological world.
The fact that this paper is publicly presented and not presented as patented technology makes me confident that these 2 persons are real researchers that only want to see their technology used as widely as possible.
1. Let them do the metrics
2. Tell their boss their metrics are totally illogic and show it
3a. Enjoy the month of transition period to a new bean counter
3b. Enjoy your living in a Dilbert strip
Uptime of the systems the admin is responsible for.
I don't think the organizer can really be arrested for that. To be arrested, you have to disobey some laws. No, the main concern I see is that this could bring organizations like DHS to try to regulate amateur UAV competitions and make some international participation illegal in the future.
I would say, take the risk. Science is about international cooperation and when you have to bother about the nationality of participants, something is beginning to be fucked up. Try to maintain this as an international manifestation, be ready to make a lot of media noise if DHS has some xenophobic reactions, but I don't think there could be any trouble with the police institutions. Of course, if you are worried, take advice from a lawyer (I don't live in the USA, it is hard to take an exact measurement of the paranoia level in the Home of the Brave) but I can only see positive things coming from showing Iranian geeks in the medias.
Keep it up, it IS interesting. But also understand that this is a very US-centric topic.
Little things like privacy or the "innocent until proven guilty" principle ?
These kind of things used to be core values of any respectable democracy.
However I can see parents installing such things in their homes to spy on their kids.
TV ads.
It apparently make people vote for X or Y, why couldn't this make parents care for their children's performance in school ? After all, the consequences of a illiterate nations would be far more frightful than international terrorism...
I don't know about this "Devils Own" XP key, but I could see a webserver giving a different page depending on which IP it gets its requests from. From Chinese government-owned IPs : a neutral website, from any other IP : "here is the link to the proxy server".
That could puzzle some human enquirers with low technical knowledge for a while.
1. Talk about homosexuality
2. Be censored
3. Become famous
4. Help change the censorship policy
you can even fit a "3.5 Profit!" if you want to. Of course I see a few issues for breakthrough-artist-wanabees :
* It HAS to be art
* It HAS to be censorship. Not just a "forbidden to kiddies" label
Advertising saturation is one of the main reasons why I never had a TV at home since I left my parents home ten years ago. People say I'm too grumpy so maybe TV hasn't reach most people's limit yet, but they may have to be cautious, they are very close to it.
Well, how many people use 10 different passwords anyway ? I think that most people end up using the same password again and again. The man in the middle attack can be prevented using a good crypto and certificates provided by the OS during installation (ie. not downloaded)
Yes, 2008 will be the year of the Linux desktop. Unfortunately, it will also be the year of the laptop...