The reason NASA's budget is cannot be cut is Congress. Any time NASA wants to shut down obsolete projects or consolidate projects Congress steps in to stop them. NASA early on spread itself into as many Congressional districts as possible to gain the most political pull, now it has come back to bite them in a major way.
Lawmakers are not scientists, do not understand it and have no idea what science is. These are the same people who would legislate PI. Then again the Republican party has proved throughout the last election that they have their own idea of truth or facts that have no bearing reality.
I would leave it up to the insurance companies, let the insurance companies charge extra or not pay for treatment of people who get sick from diseases they should have been vaccinated for.
Yes, they should put the GM label on every food we eat that has been genetically modified from its original stock. Just label 100% of every produce in the super market as GM'ed since that is the case. Hmm, what about the GM'ed drugs that we are all taking now do we label those too?
I can see them doing this and then finding out that their db is totally corrupt due to multiple data disk losses. Looking for their last backup tape to find them missing or that someone has spilled coffee all over them etc..
She has had a full life doing what she loved. I loved her work, it is a legacy that will live on. The world is a sadder place without her. Thank you for the stories.
I think I once read a science fiction novel about a character that basically walked around with his life uploaded to the internet. Given the advent of bloggers and low cost high bandwidth wireless communications devices this will be a reality in a few years. We may soon have people who wear internet enabled jewelry that constantly uploaded their lives up to the net. Big brother lives! Except this time instead of just the government monitoring the citizens you would also have citizens monitoring the government.
What about Harold Camping and his failed prediction of the rapture? Are they going to sue for that? Predicting earthquakes is still an infant science. What is next? How about suing astronomers for not predicting the next extinction level event because of a GRB or Asteroid impact? Or suing Oceanographers for the rising tides or depleted fish stocks?
That still does not address the issue that Assange is an Austrialian currently residing in England. Does that mean rendition teams from US will apply US laws to any foreign citizen? Then the reverse is true and rendition teams from other foreign countries can do the same to US citizen. Like prosecute Cheney or Bush for war crimes with rendition teams in the US.
I figure the moment the technology is developed for an underground internet the lawmakers will kill it using laws made to stamp out "Pedophiles" since such an underground would be a hotbed for such activities in addition to piracy in their and their corporate sponsors opinion.
What about attorney client privilege? If a lawyer gets pulled over for a traffic violation do the police have the right to access his phone, potentially have access to attorney client privileged information or a doctor's phone with potential access to patient care information? Lets say a prominent senator's doctor gets pulled over and there is an appointment in the doctors phone calendar with the senator for a HIV test. Is that information available to the police?
If they declare linking is the same as piracy, what happens when some organization decides to SPAM the courts/ICE with takedowns due to ownership of various copyrighted works? The target would be to flood the system till it breaks or until the government realizes it has to shut down a major portion the internet including government web sites?
Pencils can be used to stab, a rolled up magazine or paper can be used as a club, a piece of clothing can be used to strangle. Anything can be used as a weapon, an extension of your body to allow you to do more damage than you otherwise would. You don't stop the fighting by prohibiting weapons you stop it by supervising and teaching the kids not to settle things with violence.
Pen and paper analysis may not find out all the issues. We had a weird one that flummoxed a bunch of network engineers. It was an IOS upgrade to the built in fiber bridge on a blade server. The old IOS worked fine, the new one worked until you tried to jumpstart a blade. Jumpstarts worked fine with the old IOS but not on the new one. As we rarely jumpstarted the blades, this issue was not caught until after the bridges on all the blade servers were upgraded.
Consider the case of publishing the cancer risks due to smoking, or the cancer risks due to radiation fallout around nuclear reactors accidents. How about publishing the the environmental effects of groundwater contamination due to mining or dumping of mining wastes into rivers?
Most pet food is made from what is left over from making human food, that is slaughter house offal. So the dogs do not actually posses as large of a footprint as that study makes it out to be.
I play a MMO "World of Kung Fu" and folks there are saying that the game is not compatible with Windows 7. As it is a game I play daily that means I won't be bothering with an upgrade until a version of the game comes out that does work with Windows 7. Probably not Microsoft's issue and more along the line of the game not following Microsoft programming guidelines but the fallout is anyone wanting to play the game cannot as yet upgrade to Windows 7. I wonder at the list of games that will work with Windows 7 especially MMO's given the stringent security precautions some MMO's install to prevent hacks or DRM that install with a lot of games. The games may well work but the DRM that comes with them may prevent the games from running.
Analysis in place should have been done. Anyone who has ever done a data center move with trained professionals knows what a nightmare it is. You have to know what servers are hooked up to what network's SAN's etc.. Without a full network topology map of the servers being removed the FBI will have a heck of a time bringing up the servers, if SAN's were used and software as well as hardware raid structures they can destroy the data they are looking for just powering up the servers and SAN's in the wrong configuration. Were the shutdown's graceful? Did they just power off the machines? Imagine what that does meta data for the volume management software then having the SAN's powered up in the wrong configuration as well. Heck, just shutting down the servers will get you a chance of blowing up some components, and if they did not move the machines properly some of the computers won't even boot up due to parts being shaken loose and possibly shorting out on power up as well as the disk failure or two that usually happens in a data center move.
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The reason NASA's budget is cannot be cut is Congress. Any time NASA wants to shut down obsolete projects or consolidate projects Congress steps in to stop them. NASA early on spread itself into as many Congressional districts as possible to gain the most political pull, now it has come back to bite them in a major way.
How about teach the Indian cosmology, Chinese creation, African tribal belief's in cosmology? Do they have to teach all of that now too?
Lawmakers are not scientists, do not understand it and have no idea what science is. These are the same people who would legislate PI. Then again the Republican party has proved throughout the last election that they have their own idea of truth or facts that have no bearing reality.
What was your funniest encounter with the supernatural believer/perpetrator?
I can not see such a sensor being too useful. A built in carbon monoxide detector would be of more use to me.
I would leave it up to the insurance companies, let the insurance companies charge extra or not pay for treatment of people who get sick from diseases they should have been vaccinated for.
Yes, they should put the GM label on every food we eat that has been genetically modified from its original stock. Just label 100% of every produce in the super market as GM'ed since that is the case. Hmm, what about the GM'ed drugs that we are all taking now do we label those too?
Now here is something for Anonymous to take up. A man being executed as there is no "Freedom of Speech" in that area of the world.
I can see them doing this and then finding out that their db is totally corrupt due to multiple data disk losses. Looking for their last backup tape to find them missing or that someone has spilled coffee all over them etc..
She has had a full life doing what she loved. I loved her work, it is a legacy that will live on. The world is a sadder place without her. Thank you for the stories.
I think I once read a science fiction novel about a character that basically walked around with his life uploaded to the internet. Given the advent of bloggers and low cost high bandwidth wireless communications devices this will be a reality in a few years. We may soon have people who wear internet enabled jewelry that constantly uploaded their lives up to the net. Big brother lives! Except this time instead of just the government monitoring the citizens you would also have citizens monitoring the government.
What about Harold Camping and his failed prediction of the rapture? Are they going to sue for that? Predicting earthquakes is still an infant science. What is next? How about suing astronomers for not predicting the next extinction level event because of a GRB or Asteroid impact? Or suing Oceanographers for the rising tides or depleted fish stocks?
Maybe some scientist should have told Reagan it was for generating anti-matter for anti-matter weapons and it would have been built.
That still does not address the issue that Assange is an Austrialian currently residing in England. Does that mean rendition teams from US will apply US laws to any foreign citizen? Then the reverse is true and rendition teams from other foreign countries can do the same to US citizen. Like prosecute Cheney or Bush for war crimes with rendition teams in the US.
I figure the moment the technology is developed for an underground internet the lawmakers will kill it using laws made to stamp out "Pedophiles" since such an underground would be a hotbed for such activities in addition to piracy in their and their corporate sponsors opinion.
What about attorney client privilege? If a lawyer gets pulled over for a traffic violation do the police have the right to access his phone, potentially have access to attorney client privileged information or a doctor's phone with potential access to patient care information? Lets say a prominent senator's doctor gets pulled over and there is an appointment in the doctors phone calendar with the senator for a HIV test. Is that information available to the police?
If they declare linking is the same as piracy, what happens when some organization decides to SPAM the courts/ICE with takedowns due to ownership of various copyrighted works? The target would be to flood the system till it breaks or until the government realizes it has to shut down a major portion the internet including government web sites?
Black Monolith? Probably a Blue British Police Box.
Pencils can be used to stab, a rolled up magazine or paper can be used as a club, a piece of clothing can be used to strangle. Anything can be used as a weapon, an extension of your body to allow you to do more damage than you otherwise would. You don't stop the fighting by prohibiting weapons you stop it by supervising and teaching the kids not to settle things with violence.
Pen and paper analysis may not find out all the issues. We had a weird one that flummoxed a bunch of network engineers. It was an IOS upgrade to the built in fiber bridge on a blade server. The old IOS worked fine, the new one worked until you tried to jumpstart a blade. Jumpstarts worked fine with the old IOS but not on the new one. As we rarely jumpstarted the blades, this issue was not caught until after the bridges on all the blade servers were upgraded.
Consider the case of publishing the cancer risks due to smoking, or the cancer risks due to radiation fallout around nuclear reactors accidents. How about publishing the the environmental effects of groundwater contamination due to mining or dumping of mining wastes into rivers?
Most pet food is made from what is left over from making human food, that is slaughter house offal. So the dogs do not actually posses as large of a footprint as that study makes it out to be.
I play a MMO "World of Kung Fu" and folks there are saying that the game is not compatible with Windows 7. As it is a game I play daily that means I won't be bothering with an upgrade until a version of the game comes out that does work with Windows 7. Probably not Microsoft's issue and more along the line of the game not following Microsoft programming guidelines but the fallout is anyone wanting to play the game cannot as yet upgrade to Windows 7. I wonder at the list of games that will work with Windows 7 especially MMO's given the stringent security precautions some MMO's install to prevent hacks or DRM that install with a lot of games. The games may well work but the DRM that comes with them may prevent the games from running.
Analysis in place should have been done. Anyone who has ever done a data center move with trained professionals knows what a nightmare it is. You have to know what servers are hooked up to what network's SAN's etc.. Without a full network topology map of the servers being removed the FBI will have a heck of a time bringing up the servers, if SAN's were used and software as well as hardware raid structures they can destroy the data they are looking for just powering up the servers and SAN's in the wrong configuration. Were the shutdown's graceful? Did they just power off the machines? Imagine what that does meta data for the volume management software then having the SAN's powered up in the wrong configuration as well. Heck, just shutting down the servers will get you a chance of blowing up some components, and if they did not move the machines properly some of the computers won't even boot up due to parts being shaken loose and possibly shorting out on power up as well as the disk failure or two that usually happens in a data center move.
Good bye and thanks for the memories and joy.