That may be a valid point, depending, as you say, on the sophistication of the system, but it is still not a distributed attack. The only way I can imagine a distributed attack is if the system is automatic and there is a threshold above which a site is flagged, but that is not the impression I got from reading the article.
This certainly has the potential for abuse, and it may be dangerous to give this kind of power to a few individuals in the state, but how could it be used for DDoS of systems other than the government's servers that receive the complaints?
I would agree that geogenesis may be considered the null hypothesis, at least for now, but that's no reason not to take panspermia seriously. We have evidence of life on earth, but we have surveyed this planet much more extensively than any other astral body. We have been able to create some complex organics, but not all of them yet. And I believe the main reason panspermia is being considered a bit more seriously now, is that some people argue that the window for geogenesis would have been too narrow, which is controversial but worth more studying.
Yeah, that's a great idea, and with Firefox extensiions like ScribeFire it's pretty easy too. Just set up a blog that ScribeFire can work with and you can add bookmarks with a couple of clicks, and categorize them too.
If you dig where you stand, and you don't find anything, you have to dig elsewhere. As Sherlock Holmes said, "whenever all other possibilities have been ruled out, the improbable, however unlikely, must be the truth". I'm not saying this is the case with panspermia, but you have to keep an open mind. I, for one, find it disturbing that people labeled "scientist" do not believe in actual life coming from outer space (as far as I know, spores can whitstand pressures equivalent to meteor hits, and can survive space travel), and discard the possibility of extraterrestrial material being needed for life, without proving it.
What do you mean by "willingly embrace"? Sagan once wrote (perhaps in Demon-Haunted World too, I'm not sure), that when people asked him about alien life, he replied that he would be very surprised if somehow we found out it didn't exist, but that for the time being his position was that there was no evidence. And when people then insisted and asked about his gut feeling, he would reply that he'd rather think with his brain than with his gut. Of course, I don't know if he later changed his opinion and "willingly embraced" the idea, as you say.
Thanks a lot, you moron. I was all set for the Herman Miller Aeron and now the wife is going to show up with some dirty car seat from the dumpster, that I will have to weld to some base.
Well, I was just calling to tell you the shed in your backyard is on fire, but if that is going to be your attitude, you can burn in hell. And that will happen pretty soon, too.
"Then there's that part of the speech, when you're flying, where they say if you are unable or unwilling to open the emergency door, you shouldn't sit next to it. Does that bother you? Unwilling? Now, who is the jerk who is unwilling to open the door of the burning jet and let us all out? I didn't even think a person like this existed, but they know he's out there, they wrote him into the speech. Not only that, they know he operates under a strict moral code, whereby he must confess if he is called on it. Ok, you got me."
That's quite interesting. I wonder if the bats that are getting killed have their echolocation system working at such a frequency that it matches the rotation of the windmills, thereby always sensing they have a clear path ahead.
"A wave generator in this context does not make waves but uses the motion of waves to generate electricity."
It's a good thing you clarified, otherwise the rare individual would imagine this company has the department of "Let's make this thing work", which tries to harvest energy, and the department of "No you won't", which sabotages their efforts.
That's a good idea, so long as you don't burn the string. I had my own method for speeding up the mouse, but I figured it would be silly to make the conduit big enough to send a cat through.
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That may be a valid point, depending, as you say, on the sophistication of the system, but it is still not a distributed attack. The only way I can imagine a distributed attack is if the system is automatic and there is a threshold above which a site is flagged, but that is not the impression I got from reading the article.
This certainly has the potential for abuse, and it may be dangerous to give this kind of power to a few individuals in the state, but how could it be used for DDoS of systems other than the government's servers that receive the complaints?
That's silly, the server is in a different room. Drums might work.
"the real (legendary) Ulysses"
Hmm, so this probe is actually the real Ulysses.
I would agree that geogenesis may be considered the null hypothesis, at least for now, but that's no reason not to take panspermia seriously. We have evidence of life on earth, but we have surveyed this planet much more extensively than any other astral body. We have been able to create some complex organics, but not all of them yet. And I believe the main reason panspermia is being considered a bit more seriously now, is that some people argue that the window for geogenesis would have been too narrow, which is controversial but worth more studying.
Yeah, that's a great idea, and with Firefox extensiions like ScribeFire it's pretty easy too. Just set up a blog that ScribeFire can work with and you can add bookmarks with a couple of clicks, and categorize them too.
If you dig where you stand, and you don't find anything, you have to dig elsewhere. As Sherlock Holmes said, "whenever all other possibilities have been ruled out, the improbable, however unlikely, must be the truth". I'm not saying this is the case with panspermia, but you have to keep an open mind. I, for one, find it disturbing that people labeled "scientist" do not believe in actual life coming from outer space (as far as I know, spores can whitstand pressures equivalent to meteor hits, and can survive space travel), and discard the possibility of extraterrestrial material being needed for life, without proving it.
Dude, in 100% of the houses where I've lived, there was a guy who looked just like me. I'm scared now.
What do you mean by "willingly embrace"? Sagan once wrote (perhaps in Demon-Haunted World too, I'm not sure), that when people asked him about alien life, he replied that he would be very surprised if somehow we found out it didn't exist, but that for the time being his position was that there was no evidence. And when people then insisted and asked about his gut feeling, he would reply that he'd rather think with his brain than with his gut. Of course, I don't know if he later changed his opinion and "willingly embraced" the idea, as you say.
Thanks a lot, you moron. I was all set for the Herman Miller Aeron and now the wife is going to show up with some dirty car seat from the dumpster, that I will have to weld to some base.
Maybe it's not common, but it's not impossible. When I was little my parents kept phone numbers of neighbors they knew but never called, just in case.
Yeah, and let's make bets while we're at it. Who'll get to the house first, the fire or the firemen?
I second that, let's all stand.
Well, I was just calling to tell you the shed in your backyard is on fire, but if that is going to be your attitude, you can burn in hell. And that will happen pretty soon, too.
Because these crackpot fundamentalist nuts have some leverage in the establishment of education policies?
"Then there's that part of the speech, when you're flying, where they say if you are unable or unwilling to open the emergency door, you shouldn't sit next to it. Does that bother you? Unwilling? Now, who is the jerk who is unwilling to open the door of the burning jet and let us all out? I didn't even think a person like this existed, but they know he's out there, they wrote him into the speech. Not only that, they know he operates under a strict moral code, whereby he must confess if he is called on it. Ok, you got me."
Well, I have always felt insulted by the Anastasia ad, given the geekiness of the Slashdot crowd. We don't order them, we build our own.
"Back then it was to the activists' benefit has CSS been badly broken and inneffective ever since DeCSS came out." Was that robo translated from Urdu?
That's quite interesting. I wonder if the bats that are getting killed have their echolocation system working at such a frequency that it matches the rotation of the windmills, thereby always sensing they have a clear path ahead.
"A wave generator in this context does not make waves but uses the motion of waves to generate electricity."
It's a good thing you clarified, otherwise the rare individual would imagine this company has the department of "Let's make this thing work", which tries to harvest energy, and the department of "No you won't", which sabotages their efforts.
You forgot to sort the results by goodness. Do you work for Microsoft?
Even better would be just $0.02, accompanied by a big rant about future direction of the project.
Drat, there goes my patent. That would be a fun one to file. "Process of cable laying by means of cat and mouse game".
That site is genius. Seriously, if you need evidence that there is still hope for mankind, look no further.
That's a good idea, so long as you don't burn the string. I had my own method for speeding up the mouse, but I figured it would be silly to make the conduit big enough to send a cat through.