My experience of these things is that there do exist powers, call them psychic, magick or whatever (not 'magic' though; that merely means sleight of hand) and that these powers are of such a nature that
a) Anyone capable of obtaining them is totally uninterested in monetary gain. This is almost a pre-requisite but is really more of a side-effect.
b) The way in which these powers manifest cannot (in my experience and opinion) be tested or verified objectively because they operate through what appear to be coincidences.
Anyone who would submit to Randis tests is, virtually by definition, not genuine. This is, I believe, his point.
The world is *full* of 'psychics' (whatever you want to call them) its just that you need something other than dollars to tempt them out into the open.
"Legally, a corporation has the rights of a human"
Ok, so how come a corporation can be owned?
In the USA, for example, people are guaranteed not to be used as property under the umpteenth ammendment to the constitution -- the post-civil war one IIRC (but I didn't get the benefit of an American education).
How is it that a corporation -- which is a legal person with rights guaranteed under the constitution of the USA -- can still be bought and sold and treated as property?
Not only that, but whenever you take the coffee out of the freezer, because it is so cold you get condensation in the container which also harms the coffee.
Of course, for non-humans such chest-bumps might fulfil completely different functions... such as huge night-vision eyes or tentacle clusters or egg sacs. All sorts of things.
But if theres anything I've learned from Trek, B5, Farscape etc etc its that theres at least one universal biological constant and thats that all alien females have some sort of rounded, paired protruberances on the chests, usually about the size of rock-melons.
This holds true whether they are mammalianoid, reptilianoid, even plant-based aliens.
I don't know whether to find it reassuring or disturbing.
Its a mass transportation system so IIRC any 'attack' on it, whether cyber or otherwise, would count as terrorism under the U SAP AT RIOT act
Watch out...
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"So which would you ban first, cars or trains?"
If it were up to me -- and I'm crazy, lets get that straight -- I'd ban anything powered and under human control (ie not including feet) from the road.
When humans will gab on the cellphone while driving a truck around a sharp corner on a busy street, they demonstrate themselves incapable (as a species) of the sort of (self) control needed for safe operation of a vehicle. Period.
This makes me wonder if it might even be possible to *find* pre-existing images (eg) that satisfy the requirements of the code without any modification at all.
If that were possible then good luck finding it with steganalysis...
As A.Crowley once wrote "double and triple meanings which must be combined in order to fully understand".
Its possible to steganographically hide more than one piece of data inside something else.
The cryptographers problem then is a decision problem; even if you find something concealed, do you stop looking for more? When do you stop expending resources?
How do you know that the piece that you found wasn't the data that you were *intended* to find? So that you'd stop looking for more.
Or perhaps there are multiple encrypted data sets, concealed side by side which all need to be found, decrypted and combined before it all makes sense? And which appear to make sense by themselves...
Ultimately, I suspect that steganography is (in general) *uncomputably* hard to break, just like the platen code.
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My experience of these things is that there do exist powers, call them psychic, magick or whatever (not 'magic' though; that merely means sleight of hand) and that these powers are of such a nature that
a) Anyone capable of obtaining them is totally uninterested in monetary gain. This is almost a pre-requisite but is really more of a side-effect.
b) The way in which these powers manifest cannot (in my experience and opinion) be tested or verified objectively because they operate through what appear to be coincidences.
Anyone who would submit to Randis tests is, virtually by definition, not genuine. This is, I believe, his point.
The world is *full* of 'psychics' (whatever you want to call them) its just that you need something other than dollars to tempt them out into the open.
So let me get this straight... if one could bio-engineer a pig to 'chew its cud', then it'd be kosher?
"It's a hard job trying to be unbiased when testing for something which, as you are 1000% sure, is impossible."
I would say that if one is ever 1000% sure of something then one is mistaken.
There is no such thing as 1000% of anything, not even of certainty.
But maybe I should have to agree to two GPLs to use it on a hyperthreading CPU?
;)
Wow, that is very interesting. I hope it works!
:)
Hmmm... are you any relation of Abbie?
"Legally, a corporation has the rights of a human"
Ok, so how come a corporation can be owned?
In the USA, for example, people are guaranteed not to be used as property under the umpteenth ammendment to the constitution -- the post-civil war one IIRC (but I didn't get the benefit of an American education).
How is it that a corporation -- which is a legal person with rights guaranteed under the constitution of the USA -- can still be bought and sold and treated as property?
Not only that, but whenever you take the coffee out of the freezer, because it is so cold you get condensation in the container which also harms the coffee.
"the star could have been holding still for a long time while the galaxy far,far away came stampeding past like the wildebeast stampede"
;)
So exactly how many stars do you need for a stampede? Is it three or more? Is there a minimum speed or what?
I get the feeling that the USA is massively overextended particularly with respect to military manpower.
They are already having to dig into reserves just to fight on one front.
If Korea went hot the USA would be completely screwed (other than using massive non-conventional strategic strikes).
See if you can get hold of a pre-2001 copy of the CIA world fact book and check out the military manpower availability figures.
Do some comparative math against other nations.
And if you are an American, anticipate the draft.
Naturally, the CIA world fact book no longer contains this particular data set.
" On earth we call the chest bumps Boobs."
Of course, for non-humans such chest-bumps might fulfil completely different functions... such as huge night-vision eyes or tentacle clusters or egg sacs. All sorts of things.
But if theres anything I've learned from Trek, B5, Farscape etc etc its that theres at least one universal biological constant and thats that all alien females have some sort of rounded, paired protruberances on the chests, usually about the size of rock-melons.
This holds true whether they are mammalianoid, reptilianoid, even plant-based aliens.
I don't know whether to find it reassuring or disturbing.
"Carbon based like our world or silicone based."
Wow, so that explains the fact that virtually all female aliens, whether carbon or, er, silicone-based have large, prominent chest-bumps...
"O'Neillians"
Like as in Jack O'Neil?
2005 and its still a joke.
I manage a bunch of servers that run java applications and they regularly get their memory resources swamped.
Hopefuly they have the memory hogging under control; somehow it seems a waste to have 4G of ram in an embedded device just to run java
;)
"giving us pure Java device drivers."
I'm sorry, but that just sounds like a joke...
I'm not sure though, are you being serious?
It does make it slightly less fun to find out where, exactly, "Bvtt-Fvck Idaho" really is when converted to longitude and latitude.
But only slightly less.
Its a mass transportation system so IIRC any 'attack' on it, whether cyber or otherwise, would count as terrorism under the U SAP AT RIOT act
Watch out...
"So which would you ban first, cars or trains?"
If it were up to me -- and I'm crazy, lets get that straight -- I'd ban anything powered and under human control (ie not including feet) from the road.
When humans will gab on the cellphone while driving a truck around a sharp corner on a busy street, they demonstrate themselves incapable (as a species) of the sort of (self) control needed for safe operation of a vehicle. Period.
"noting the value of the last bit of each byte."
This makes me wonder if it might even be possible to *find* pre-existing images (eg) that satisfy the requirements of the code without any modification at all.
If that were possible then good luck finding it with steganalysis...
As A.Crowley once wrote "double and triple meanings which must be combined in order to fully understand".
Its possible to steganographically hide more than one piece of data inside something else.
The cryptographers problem then is a decision problem; even if you find something concealed, do you stop looking for more? When do you stop expending resources?
How do you know that the piece that you found wasn't the data that you were *intended* to find? So that you'd stop looking for more.
Or perhaps there are multiple encrypted data sets, concealed side by side which all need to be found, decrypted and combined before it all makes sense? And which appear to make sense by themselves...
Ultimately, I suspect that steganography is (in general) *uncomputably* hard to break, just like the platen code.
"The time you want to limit the character set used in a password is when the password goes into a web form."
;)
My favorite is when the password contains an '@' sign and they use it to log onto a site in internet explorer. Hilarity ensues.
While 'Birth of the Federation' was an interesting game it did get bogged down in a micromanagement nightmare after a bit...
I was hoping for a movie about it... sort of "you've played the game, now see the series!"
With the relationship with the humans, andorrans and vulcans getting interesting this is exactly where it would have gone.
This is exactly the sort of thing you have to be careful of; you don't want a copy of "This Is Spinal Tap" recorded in Dobly, do you?
"VIIV makes absolutely no sense as a Roman Numeral."
Not as *a* Roman numeral, but as a group of numerals.
In fact, it could be several.
5 1 1 5
5 2 5
5 1 4
6 4
7 5
I pick 6 4
'Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?'
:-/
I thought it meant like he wanted to 'en-grave her', i.e. see her to her grave or bury her...
Morbid, but Elven.