>>That is because you, like most christians, simply deny anything that does not support your false god.
I made a historical argument he existed. I don't think athesists or any one else disagree with that. If you know of serious arguments on the topic which disagree with my statement post a link.
>I'm not trying real hard to argue yes or no about whether he existed, I am pointing out that the historical accuracy of parts of the Bible does little to establish its legitimacy.
What would? I used the same line of reasoning as the article itself and no one went out of their way to argue against the article.
I'm not aware of any group which denies Jesus was a real person. They may not all agree on "who" he was or the meaning of his teachings, but they agree he existed.
>>What other "myths" could be somewhat verified in this manner?
Like the day Jesus was crucified?
"... because with Kepler's equations we can determine exactly when historical eclipses occurred. Perhaps it will not surprise you to learn that only one Passover lunar eclipse was visible from Jerusalem while Pilate was in office (30). It occurred on April 3, 33 AD, the Day of the Cross...."
"The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood..." The gospels do recount that the sun was darkened on the day of the crucifixion from noon until 3 in the afternoon (29). Ancient non-Biblical sources confirm this. Phlegon Trallianus records in his history, Olympiades (41):
"In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad [AD 32-33], a failure of the Sun took place greater than any previously known, and night came on at the sixth hour of the day [noon], so that stars actually appeared in the sky; and a great earthquake took place in Bithynia and overthrew the greater part of Niceaea," obviously not a simple astronomical event. (42)
Or the Star of Bethlehem? A conjunction of Jupiter and the star Regulas in 2 BC which fulfills all 9 Biblical requirements of the star of Bethlehem?
QUOTE
1. It signified birth.
2. It signified kingship.
3. It had a connection with the Jewish nation.
4. It rose in the east, like other stars.
5. It appeared at a precise time.
6. Herod didn't know when it appeared.
7. It endured over time.
8. It was ahead of the Magi as they went south from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
9. It stopped over Bethlehem. (Retrograde motion)
One point in contention is when Herod died. This theory depends on Herod dying in 1 BC, but most historians believe he died 4 BC. There is evidence for this theory but it isn't widely accepted. See the link for more details.
A database app written on top of sqllite, with tag support for each of the entries. The interface is a little kludgy at this point but looks like it could become a very useful app.
A: Zfone is my new secure VoIP phone software which lets you make secure encrypted phone calls over the Internet. The ZRTP protocol used by Zfone will soon be integrated into many standalone secure VoIP clients, but today we have a software product that lets you turn your existing VoIP client into a secure phone. The current Zfone software runs in the Internet protocol stack on any Windows XP, Mac OS X, or Linux PC, and intercepts and filters all the VoIP packets as they go in and out of the machine, and secures the call on the fly. You can use a variety of different software VoIP clients to make a VoIP call. The Zfone software detects when the call starts, and initiates a cryptographic key agreement between the two parties, and then proceeds to encrypt and decrypt the voice packets. It has its own little separate GUI, telling the user if the call is secure. It's as if Zfone were a "bump on the cord", sitting between the VoIP client and the Internet. Think of it as a bump in the protocol stack.
You forgot the 4th, it wouldn't be upgraded nearly as often as the current maintainers upgrade it. Noscript is updated all the time. Firefox needs a hybrid approach include extensions by default AND allow them to be independently updated separately from the main release, they don't do that currently for any extension.
>What has changed is a decrease in our earning power. >Proof that gasoline is still too cheap: I still see tons of Hummers, Expeditions, Navigators, Armadas, Sequoias and other mondo SUVs (aka Urban Assault Vehicles) on the road.
This hints at what I learned this year, while a free market will always self adjust ie more expensive gas will force car makers to make cheaper more fuel efficient cars the true cost of delay between the changes will be felt most by the lower middle class and poor. The "letting the market fix its own problems, in its own time" mentality is a real bummer to those who don't have much to start with.
But government interference with the free market usually has long term consequences because it produces at best sub optimial results, at worst it moves it in the wrong direction and creates dependence.
I'm not sure of the solution, but seeing that there is a problem is a start.
I had the same problem at first in firefox and IE in windows. The FAQ below answers it. Short answer, click accept HIT at the top of the screen to log in with your amazon account first or it will not enable the forms. The "reward" discussed below is how much a site may pay you per recognition task, this particular task pays nothing.
You can get started right away exploring Amazon Mechanical Turk, and finding work you want to complete. When you accept your first HIT, you will be prompted to sign in with your Amazon.com account e-mail address and password. If you already have an Amazon.com account, you can simply sign in. If you don't yet have an Amazon.com account, you can easily create one on the spot.
What is a HIT?
A Human Intelligence Task, or HIT, is a question that needs an answer. A HIT represents a single, self-contained task that you can perform to completion and collect a reward. You may do as many HITs as you like, whenever you like, in any order.
"The second use of chemical evolution or chemosynthesis is as a hypothesis to explain how life might possibly have developed or evolved from non-life (see abiogenesis). Various experiments have been made to show certain aspects of this process, the first ones were done by Stanley L. Miller in the 1950s. For that they are now called Miller experiments. However only very basic organic building blocks were obtained. The challenge is getting complex molecules organized consistently."
Just because he's good a chess doesn't mean that he is good at general purpose strategy. The article below is about what makes a person an expert at chess. While it doesn't discuss how transitive skills are to any depth, it does state that winning at chess does equal = tons of domain knowledge in chess and the discipline to refine and broaden that knowledge through practice. In short, it's possible that chess skills may not transition to other fields at all.
"Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well"
This sounds like a project for google.org more than google.com projects like this is why the started the google foundation with 1 Billion in start up funds.
"The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay taxes."
I can see the value of a social site like digg, delicious, or slashdot providing the list of pages for a personalized search from domains of popular past stories (or bookmark submissions) automatically. Filter out the noise of the internet automatically by only searching only your favorite pages and optionally add the pages of 1000's of like minded individuals your site attracts. Then Google gets a whole new set of data about the popularity of sites to take and put back into their main index. Social story submission, social bookmarking, and now social search.
2 years ago I got four fillings and my dentist used a laser rather than a drill. I assumed that was what starting to be standard practice but all the discussions seem to suggest that most people are still seeing the drill. They were my first fillings so I can't compare the experience to getting fillings with a drill. But it was odd smelling my own tooth being "cut" into.
>This is a straw man argument. Nobody is claiming you can use radiocarbon dating on anything but recent fossils. Geological layers are dated by a variety of means, including radiological dating of isotopes much longer-lived than carbon-14.
Can you (or anyone) provide a couple of examples of a fossil that was dated by any other means than its position in a geological layers? The creation web sites state a couple of quotes from secular sources stating that other dating methods are not generally used creationscience. Evolution sites claim they are talkorgins but no examples are presented.
Except one very important one. That everything can be explained by materialist means. Meaning, a God is not needed, is a fundamental part of science. Not science when it used as a tool, but when it used as dogma.
Interesting quote.
'We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.'
>>Science makes no claim about anyone's beliefs. The very idea of whether there is or isn't a creator is completely out of bounds.
It's only out of bounds if you believe that God is not needed and that science can explain everything without him. Then true, whether he exists or not is not needed as part of discussion about how creation happened. But, if someone holds to the philosophy that science can't explain everything then if God exists it is very relevant to the discussion because God wouldn't have had to create the world using the rules of science.
This crasher bug has no effect on my post 1.5 beta 2 version of firefox on Linux. Gecko/20051017. A new crasher bug is also not news. There are hundreds of ways to crash mozilla. Lets face it most browsers aren't at a state to jump every time there is a new bug to crash or "DOS Them" as the article states. Just another security site trying to make themselves look good at a products expense. How much money does it cause companies like the Mozilla Organization to release a new version of their browser, just to put an end to the bad press of a so called "exploit"?
It now support's SSO HTTP Authentication using GSSAPI Kerberos. Similiar MS's implementation of SPNEGO in IE. See bug 17578 in bugzilla for more information.
This is compatible with both IIS, and mod_authkerb for apache.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modauthkerb/
Next the plan is to make kerberos support more general so it can be used for other protocol's like IMAP.
It would be fun (maybe not useful) to mix this with securId. I'm sure you could come up with a fun code that converts your securId passcode into a special knock.
I've also not seen any messages about how fun this could be for a root kit.
>There are also a whole list of regulations specifying what orders songs can't play in, how often they can play, etc.
IANAL blah, blah
If webradio stations posted their broadcast schedules like normal TV does, the client could change "stations" as needed to get the songs they wanted. I'm not sure this is what he was referring to, but it would appear the same to the client (but possibly destroy the pricing structure he had in mind, I haven't given that much thought but I think it could still be a reasonable amount)
A further step, would be a TIVO like service for Internet radio.
1. Internet radio stations post their playlists
2. User set up their software to automatically switch sites as needed to get the songs they want for "time-shifting" purposes.
3. They listen to the songs they want out of their local cache
You would have to set up a method to prevent sharing from the cache, but if it was cheap enough get the music legitimately, sharing would not be such a temptation.
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>>That is because you, like most christians, simply deny anything that does not support your false god.
I made a historical argument he existed. I don't think athesists or any one else disagree with that. If you know of serious arguments on the topic which disagree with my statement post a link.
>I'm not trying real hard to argue yes or no about whether he existed, I am pointing out that the historical accuracy of parts of the Bible does little to establish its legitimacy.
What would? I used the same line of reasoning as the article itself and no one went out of their way to argue against the article.
For the Bethlehem star research the creator of the website http://www.bethlehemstar.net/ used the starry night software.
It shows the sky from any place on earth from any point in history. This should VERY useful for this type of research for only a few dollars.
http://www.starrynightstore.com/
I'm not aware of any group which denies Jesus was a real person. They may not all agree on "who" he was or the meaning of his teachings, but they agree he existed.
Here are a few resources for this
http://www.carm.org/bible/extrabiblical_accounts.htm
>>What other "myths" could be somewhat verified in this manner?
Like the day Jesus was crucified?
"... because with Kepler's equations we can determine exactly when historical eclipses occurred. Perhaps it will not surprise you to learn that only one Passover lunar eclipse was visible from Jerusalem while Pilate was in office (30). It occurred on April 3, 33 AD, the Day of the Cross...."
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/day/day.htm
The earth quakes which occurred during Jesus's Crucifixion?
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/day/day.htm
"The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood..." The gospels do recount that the sun was darkened on the day of the crucifixion from noon until 3 in the afternoon (29). Ancient non-Biblical sources confirm this. Phlegon Trallianus records in his history, Olympiades (41):
"In the fourth year of the 202nd Olympiad [AD 32-33], a failure of the Sun took place greater than any previously known, and night came on at the sixth hour of the day [noon], so that stars actually appeared in the sky; and a great earthquake took place in Bithynia and overthrew the greater part of Niceaea," obviously not a simple astronomical event. (42)
Or the Star of Bethlehem? A conjunction of Jupiter and the star Regulas in 2 BC which fulfills all 9 Biblical requirements of the star of Bethlehem?
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/dance/dance.htm
QUOTE
1. It signified birth.
2. It signified kingship.
3. It had a connection with the Jewish nation.
4. It rose in the east, like other stars.
5. It appeared at a precise time.
6. Herod didn't know when it appeared.
7. It endured over time.
8. It was ahead of the Magi as they went south from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.
9. It stopped over Bethlehem. (Retrograde motion)
One point in contention is when Herod died. This theory depends on Herod dying in 1 BC, but most historians believe he died 4 BC. There is evidence for this theory but it isn't widely accepted. See the link for more details.
http://www.bethlehemstar.net/stage/stage.htm
http://tobu.lightbird.net/overview.html
A database app written on top of sqllite, with tag support for each of the entries. The interface is a little kludgy at this point but looks like it could become a very useful app.
>all.js is *not* user data, it's *public* app data. Your preferences are stored in prefs.js which are not exposed by greprefs.
;-).
A firefox developer agrees with the above poster (or possibly since its anonymous could BE the above poster difficult to tell
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/02/10/view-sourceresource-vulnerability-does-not-expose-personal-information/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Shaver
You forgot the 4th, it wouldn't be upgraded nearly as often as the current maintainers upgrade it. Noscript is updated all the time. Firefox needs a hybrid approach include extensions by default AND allow them to be independently updated separately from the main release, they don't do that currently for any extension.
>What has changed is a decrease in our earning power.
>Proof that gasoline is still too cheap: I still see tons of Hummers, Expeditions, Navigators, Armadas, Sequoias and other mondo SUVs (aka Urban Assault Vehicles) on the road.
This hints at what I learned this year, while a free market will always self adjust ie more expensive gas will force car makers to make cheaper more fuel efficient cars the true cost of delay between the changes will be felt most by the lower middle class and poor. The "letting the market fix its own problems, in its own time" mentality is a real bummer to those who don't have much to start with.
But government interference with the free market usually has long term consequences because it produces at best sub optimial results, at worst it moves it in the wrong direction and creates dependence.
I'm not sure of the solution, but seeing that there is a problem is a start.
I had the same problem at first in firefox and IE in windows. The FAQ below answers it. Short answer, click accept HIT at the top of the screen to log in with your amazon account first or it will not enable the forms. The "reward" discussed below is how much a site may pay you per recognition task, this particular task pays nothing.
t arted#what_HIT
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=gettings
How do I get started?
You can get started right away exploring Amazon Mechanical Turk, and finding work you want to complete. When you accept your first HIT, you will be prompted to sign in with your Amazon.com account e-mail address and password. If you already have an Amazon.com account, you can simply sign in. If you don't yet have an Amazon.com account, you can easily create one on the spot.
What is a HIT?
A Human Intelligence Task, or HIT, is a question that needs an answer. A HIT represents a single, self-contained task that you can perform to completion and collect a reward. You may do as many HITs as you like, whenever you like, in any order.
There are lots of ancient drawings which look like dinosaurs but they are usually referred to as dragons http://www.genesispark.org/genpark/ancient/ancient .htm
>>Uh, too bad evolution is about how life is changing, and completely unrelated to how life started
He is referring to Chemical Evolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_evolution
"The second use of chemical evolution or chemosynthesis is as a hypothesis to explain how life might possibly have developed or evolved from non-life (see abiogenesis). Various experiments have been made to show certain aspects of this process, the first ones were done by Stanley L. Miller in the 1950s. For that they are now called Miller experiments. However only very basic organic building blocks were obtained. The challenge is getting complex molecules organized consistently."
It's a problem with gmail which effects every browser. No open source software involved.
Just because he's good a chess doesn't mean that he is good at general purpose strategy. The article below is about what makes a person an expert at chess. While it doesn't discuss how transitive skills are to any depth, it does state that winning at chess does equal = tons of domain knowledge in chess and the discipline to refine and broaden that knowledge through practice. In short, it's possible that chess skills may not transition to other fields at all.
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"Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well"
http://scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?chanID=
This sounds like a project for google.org more than google.com projects like this is why the started the google foundation with 1 Billion in start up funds.
o gle.html?ei=5070&en=34734cd29e33eac7&ex=1163998800 &adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1163874077-JfKBwifhkRrkgg62H/WNS w
"The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming.
But unlike most charities, this one will be for-profit, allowing it to fund start-up companies, form partnerships with venture capitalists and even lobby Congress. It will also pay taxes."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/technology/14go
I can see the value of a social site like digg, delicious, or slashdot providing the list of pages for a personalized search from domains of popular past stories (or bookmark submissions) automatically. Filter out the noise of the internet automatically by only searching only your favorite pages and optionally add the pages of 1000's of like minded individuals your site attracts. Then Google gets a whole new set of data about the popularity of sites to take and put back into their main index. Social story submission, social bookmarking, and now social search.
2 years ago I got four fillings and my dentist used a laser rather than a drill. I assumed that was what starting to be standard practice but all the discussions seem to suggest that most people are still seeing the drill. They were my first fillings so I can't compare the experience to getting fillings with a drill. But it was odd smelling my own tooth being "cut" into.
>This is a straw man argument. Nobody is claiming you can use radiocarbon dating on anything but recent fossils. Geological layers are dated by a variety of means, including radiological dating of isotopes much longer-lived than carbon-14.
Can you (or anyone) provide a couple of examples of a fossil that was dated by any other means than its position in a geological layers? The creation web sites state a couple of quotes from secular sources stating that other dating methods are not generally used creationscience.
Evolution sites claim they are talkorgins but no examples are presented.
>> Science has no absolute truths
d mission.asp
Except one very important one. That everything can be explained by materialist means. Meaning, a God is not needed, is a fundamental part of science. Not science when it used as a tool, but when it used as dogma.
Interesting quote.
'We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.'
Professor Richard Lewontin, a geneticist
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v20/i3/a
>>Science makes no claim about anyone's beliefs. The very idea of whether there is or isn't a creator is completely out of bounds.
It's only out of bounds if you believe that God is not needed and that science can explain everything without him. Then true, whether he exists or not is not needed as part of discussion about how creation happened. But, if someone holds to the philosophy that science can't explain everything then if God exists it is very relevant to the discussion because God wouldn't have had to create the world using the rules of science.
This crasher bug has no effect on my post 1.5 beta 2 version of firefox on Linux. Gecko/20051017. A new crasher bug is also not news. There are hundreds of ways to crash mozilla. Lets face it most browsers aren't at a state to jump every time there is a new bug to crash or "DOS Them" as the article states. Just another security site trying to make themselves look good at a products expense. How much money does it cause companies like the Mozilla Organization to release a new version of their browser, just to put an end to the bad press of a so called "exploit"?
Well first I agree with you completely and second I think our prayers may have already been answered.
A new checkin to the Firefox branch appears to have enabled exactly what we where asking for.
Bug 253220 Description
Implement proper software update that replaces the running instance of Firefox
with a newer version, can add add on components, apply patches, etc.
CVS Checking comment from Ben Goodger from today
"253220 - better software update - in place software update, etc etc. glory!"
It now support's SSO HTTP Authentication using GSSAPI Kerberos. Similiar MS's implementation of SPNEGO in IE. See bug 17578 in bugzilla for more information.
This is compatible with both IIS, and mod_authkerb for apache.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/modauthkerb/
Next the plan is to make kerberos support more general so it can be used for other protocol's like IMAP.
It would be fun (maybe not useful) to mix this with securId. I'm sure you could come up with a fun code that converts your securId passcode into a special knock.
I've also not seen any messages about how fun this could be for a root kit.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/Change Log-2.6.0-test2
>There are also a whole list of regulations specifying what orders songs can't play in, how often they can play, etc.
IANAL blah, blah
If webradio stations posted their broadcast schedules like normal TV does, the client could change "stations" as needed to get the songs they wanted. I'm not sure this is what he was referring to, but it would appear the same to the client (but possibly destroy the pricing structure he had in mind, I haven't given that much thought but I think it could still be a reasonable amount)
A further step, would be a TIVO like service for Internet radio.
1. Internet radio stations post their playlists
2. User set up their software to automatically switch sites as needed to get the songs they want for "time-shifting" purposes.
3. They listen to the songs they want out of their local cache
You would have to set up a method to prevent sharing from the cache, but if it was cheap enough get the music legitimately, sharing would not be such a temptation.