how did people live in central asia and siberia thousands of years ago if it's supposed to be a frozen tundra? how did the mongols cross it along with the huns? maybe this is normal weather?
Mongolia has been having increasingly frequent Dzud winters, where it gets below -50C and even Mongolian cattle, sheep, goats and horses die off. And those fuckers are extremely tough.
What paradox do you run into if space and time are discrete?
They go through a whole series of examples testing space being continuous, space being discrete, time being continuous, time being discrete, various combinations. Its really complicated and not something I'd go into detail here.
I'm just saying they used fairly sophisticated methods of reasoning to arrive at a fairly sophisticated and bewildering conclusion; that the underlying structure of space and time are nothing like anything we can conceive of.
Whether theres any flaw in the examples they give and the specific cases they cover, thats another story. Historically what tends to happen with the Zeno paradoxes is that one round of development of physics says "This is bunk, theres no paradox" then the next round of development of physics says "Actually there might be something to this." And this goes round and round, I'm not sure where we are right now, I think there are several branches of modern physics some of which might say the paradoxes are bunk and others which might say theres something to them.
The main point is the bewildering conclusion that the Eleatics were drawn to and what it says about their appreciation of the complex issues surrounding trying to understand the nature of reality.
Second, if you want to appeal to Noether's theorem, note that the theorem refers to smooth manifolds. If space is quantized, then Noether's theorem doesn't apply (despite being true). It's possible that Noether's theorem will break down at small scales. (If space is smooth, ie *not* quantized, then the true location of any particle is a [mathematical] real number with infinite entropy and it's action is non-computable. Not that having a non-computable universe is a problem, but...)
Theres something about this that reminds me of Zenos paradoxes.
The Eleatics had the idea that they could logically prove that reality is nothing like anything we can imagine.
First, if you assume that space or time are discrete, you are led to paradox. So they can't be discrete. Second, if you assume that space or time are continuous, you are led to paradox. So they can't be continuous. So space and time can be neither continuous nor discrete, nor can they be both continuous and discrete. What is left? Nothing we can imagine. There appears to be no other option than continuous or discrete. Therefore time and space, reality, must be something unimaginable.
Yes, there were people thinking like this a very very long time ago.
"Geoblocking," exists to confine your purchases to your area, in support of your area. Your area has its own content for sale.
That's precisely what's going on in Australia. The Aussie content providers are pissed that Aussies want American stuff instead of Aussie stuff. Think of the children.
A whole bunch of Canadian made content is not available on Canadian Netflix but is available on US Netflix.
Then again, I might just understand why religion causes people to try to eliminate other religions. But everyone has the right to their own beliefs as long as they aren't slicing off women's private bits or flying airplanes into buildings. Then I get mad, just like Mr Bigglesworth.
But I don't think this specific case really is about someone elses religion; it seems this guy really doesn't believe and really is just using the 'religion' as a tool.
And isn't that the trap of religion? It's been used as a tool by many who are using it to make a lot of money, control, or other things.
I think when its as open as this, it needs to be called out.
It is indeed. But even if the individual does not actually believe in any of this, we should have the same standard for everyone. If we are going to doubt this person's belief, we should also doubt the beliefs of self professed christians, jews, muslims, buddhists, hindus, etc. Maybe they should have to pass a religious test supplied by their church in order to claim membership.
Then again, I might just understand why religion causes people to try to eliminate other religions. But everyone has the right to their own beliefs as long as they aren't slicing off women's private bits or flying airplanes into buildings. Then I get mad, just like Mr Bigglesworth.
But I don't think this specific case really is about someone elses religion; it seems this guy really doesn't believe and really is just using the 'religion' as a tool.
The FSM certainly contains satire, but it also contains genuine beliefs that are not satire, one of which is the belief that satire is a good tool for their goal of "belief equality" (e.g. that certain religious beliefs should not have special privileges).
Its arguable whether this individual even believes this.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant to entertain while making a pointed political statement," and thus not a "real" religion.
I though all religion were work of satire meant to entertain. The main broad difference is that FSM is indeed making a political statement whereas other religion are not meant to be anything else than pure entertainment, or when they are making political statement, it's most of the time not in the good direction.
You don't seem to actually know anything about religion, therefore your opinion doesn't count for shit. And I say that as a non-religious person.
it doesn't actually matter what *other people* think - yes pastafarianism was created as satire, but there *will* be people who will choose to follow it religiously (and i do use that word quite deliberately). let's take it the other way round: should this judge be permitted to rule that an individual who *pretends* to follow christianity is somehow "okay"??? that because that individual merely *claims* to be following a religion - yet his daily life and thoughts (if they were made public) would clearly demonstrate that his entire committment to christianity is a complete and utter sham.
Indeed.
If this man were allowed to count as religious, whats next? Forcing other religions to recognise followers who explicitly say they don't believe in the faith but want to cash in on some benefits of belonging?
I've seen people pretend to believe in Christianity in order to manipulate others and get benefits from Christian organisations. Is that somehow supposed to be ok?
Also, while offsite backups are useful, for a host with 1,535 customers, who are all making changes, even if you have a daily offsite tape backup, you could find yourself missing a lot of changes. I suppose it is better than losing all of the sites, but I'd think that some simple precautions to ensure your online backups were not immediately delete-able with one easy command would pay much higher dividends.
To be fair, the customers should be making changes, keeping those in a revision control system, backing that up, and uploading to the hosting provider. Never rely on the hosting provider for backups.
This guy did have offline backups which were online in order to actually do a backup. If he had two independent sets of backups he'd have been ok. Or, you know, check that the variables weren't empty in the shell script.
Children (especially this generation) are selfish entitled brats, just absolutely disgusting creatures. Fuck your special snowflake.
(I'm a teacher by the way. Maybe I less hate kids than I hate the way they are raised by their parents. But regardless, had a long day and need to blow off some steam.)
Where you live, maybe. Don't tar all of humanity with the same brush.
And as thats probably the USA guess what? They grow up to be selfish entitled brats. Your adults behave like gigantic toddlers.
Does the rouge network need to dnsmasq time.apple.com? Or could this be accomplished by just passing on a DHCP option on the network to trust a local NTP server? Obviously setting up a dnsmasq makes the exploit more difficult.
Roughly have of the iOS devices that are controlled by my BES12 server are running versions older than 9.3.1.
Redirecting DNS traffic, or NTP for that matter, is not difficult. No need for DHCP, a simple iptables rule will do this in about one line...
It's not just the engineers who were supposed to have fixed the 1970 issue, it's the ones who thought it would be a good idea to connect to random NTP servers and blindly accept their claim that time travel has been invented and it's now the 1960s, only now they have wifi and NTP.
What I'd do is set up to capture all DNS traffic and direct it to my own DNS server and return my own NTP server for any requests for the NTP servers that iDevices are typically configured to use.
No need for 'rouge NTP servers'.
However, checking that the amount of time change that the NTP server is asking for is within sane parameters is normally normal...
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how did people live in central asia and siberia thousands of years ago if it's supposed to be a frozen tundra? how did the mongols cross it along with the huns? maybe this is normal weather?
Mongolia has been having increasingly frequent Dzud winters, where it gets below -50C and even Mongolian cattle, sheep, goats and horses die off. And those fuckers are extremely tough.
It has been better for the US, therefore it must be good.
By 'better' they probably just mean 'hotter' because everyone likes really hot weather, right?
What paradox do you run into if space and time are discrete?
They go through a whole series of examples testing space being continuous, space being discrete, time being continuous, time being discrete, various combinations. Its really complicated and not something I'd go into detail here.
I'm just saying they used fairly sophisticated methods of reasoning to arrive at a fairly sophisticated and bewildering conclusion; that the underlying structure of space and time are nothing like anything we can conceive of.
Whether theres any flaw in the examples they give and the specific cases they cover, thats another story. Historically what tends to happen with the Zeno paradoxes is that one round of development of physics says "This is bunk, theres no paradox" then the next round of development of physics says "Actually there might be something to this." And this goes round and round, I'm not sure where we are right now, I think there are several branches of modern physics some of which might say the paradoxes are bunk and others which might say theres something to them.
The main point is the bewildering conclusion that the Eleatics were drawn to and what it says about their appreciation of the complex issues surrounding trying to understand the nature of reality.
Seriously? Are you quoting Zeno's paradox to conclude that space cannot be continuous? I think you need to study some calculus.
No, I'm quoting it to illustrate the method of reasoning that the Eleatics employed and the goal of their reasoning.
Second, if you want to appeal to Noether's theorem, note that the theorem refers to smooth manifolds. If space is quantized, then Noether's theorem doesn't apply (despite being true). It's possible that Noether's theorem will break down at small scales. (If space is smooth, ie *not* quantized, then the true location of any particle is a [mathematical] real number with infinite entropy and it's action is non-computable. Not that having a non-computable universe is a problem, but...)
Theres something about this that reminds me of Zenos paradoxes.
The Eleatics had the idea that they could logically prove that reality is nothing like anything we can imagine.
First, if you assume that space or time are discrete, you are led to paradox. So they can't be discrete.
Second, if you assume that space or time are continuous, you are led to paradox. So they can't be continuous.
So space and time can be neither continuous nor discrete, nor can they be both continuous and discrete.
What is left? Nothing we can imagine. There appears to be no other option than continuous or discrete.
Therefore time and space, reality, must be something unimaginable.
Yes, there were people thinking like this a very very long time ago.
You are offended for the wrong reasons.
"Geoblocking," exists to confine your purchases to your area, in support of your area. Your area has its own content for sale.
That's precisely what's going on in Australia. The Aussie content providers are pissed that Aussies want American stuff instead of Aussie stuff. Think of the children.
A whole bunch of Canadian made content is not available on Canadian Netflix but is available on US Netflix.
I can tell you've never had a spiritual experience nor any other kind of paranormal experience that opens your eyes.
Oh well Jesus must be true then. Good argument.
Try taking some LSD or, better yet, salvia. Theres more to this world.
Then again, I might just understand why religion causes people to try to eliminate other religions. But everyone has the right to their own beliefs as long as they aren't slicing off women's private bits or flying airplanes into buildings. Then I get mad, just like Mr Bigglesworth.
But I don't think this specific case really is about someone elses religion; it seems this guy really doesn't believe and really is just using the 'religion' as a tool.
And isn't that the trap of religion? It's been used as a tool by many who are using it to make a lot of money, control, or other things.
I think when its as open as this, it needs to be called out.
It is indeed. But even if the individual does not actually believe in any of this, we should have the same standard for everyone. If we are going to doubt this person's belief, we should also doubt the beliefs of self professed christians, jews, muslims, buddhists, hindus, etc. Maybe they should have to pass a religious test supplied by their church in order to claim membership.
Thats a very cool idea.
Why stop at scientology ?
Bible ? Coran ? Tora ? Any other ?
Thank you, judge, for stating that all religions are fake.
Arguably they are not works or satire.
FSM definitely is a work of satire. Deliberately so.
However, how dare you claim that even satire is not allowed to be believed in?
Yes because its being used as a dialectic device, not as an article of faith.
Its just like a debating club trick.
Then again, I might just understand why religion causes people to try to eliminate other religions. But everyone has the right to their own beliefs as long as they aren't slicing off women's private bits or flying airplanes into buildings. Then I get mad, just like Mr Bigglesworth.
But I don't think this specific case really is about someone elses religion; it seems this guy really doesn't believe and really is just using the 'religion' as a tool.
The FSM certainly contains satire, but it also contains genuine beliefs that are not satire, one of which is the belief that satire is a good tool for their goal of "belief equality" (e.g. that certain religious beliefs should not have special privileges).
Its arguable whether this individual even believes this.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Gospel is plainly a work of satire, meant to entertain while making a pointed political statement," and thus not a "real" religion.
I though all religion were work of satire meant to entertain. The main broad difference is that FSM is indeed making a political statement whereas other religion are not meant to be anything else than pure entertainment, or when they are making political statement, it's most of the time not in the good direction.
You don't seem to actually know anything about religion, therefore your opinion doesn't count for shit. And I say that as a non-religious person.
it doesn't actually matter what *other people* think - yes pastafarianism was created as satire, but there *will* be people who will choose to follow it religiously (and i do use that word quite deliberately). let's take it the other way round: should this judge be permitted to rule that an individual who *pretends* to follow christianity is somehow "okay"??? that because that individual merely *claims* to be following a religion - yet his daily life and thoughts (if they were made public) would clearly demonstrate that his entire committment to christianity is a complete and utter sham.
Indeed.
If this man were allowed to count as religious, whats next? Forcing other religions to recognise followers who explicitly say they don't believe in the faith but want to cash in on some benefits of belonging?
I've seen people pretend to believe in Christianity in order to manipulate others and get benefits from Christian organisations. Is that somehow supposed to be ok?
Objectively, no religion is real. Unfortunately most people are not objectively rational. Reality is real, make belief is not.
Theres an old, old saying.
The future exists first in imagination. Then in Will. Then in reality.
Reality is the least important thing that exists.
All religions are obviously works of fiction, according to everyone not of that religion...
Take any religion, much more than 50% of living human beings think it's obviously fake.
So, tell me again: what is a "real" religion, objectively?
I can tell you've never had a spiritual experience nor any other kind of paranormal experience that opens your eyes.
Agile clearly is
In this case, it's clear and unambiguous that pastafarianism is not a religion, and no-one actually believes it.
Yeah I have to agree. People go through the motions of believing in the FSM without actual belief, in order to satirically make a political point.
Its kind of like veganism except they don't actually believe in it themselves.
Why stop at scientology ?
Bible ? Coran ? Tora ? Any other ?
Thank you, judge, for stating that all religions are fake.
Arguably they are not works or satire.
FSM definitely is a work of satire. Deliberately so.
Also, while offsite backups are useful, for a host with 1,535 customers, who are all making changes, even if you have a daily offsite tape backup, you could find yourself missing a lot of changes. I suppose it is better than losing all of the sites, but I'd think that some simple precautions to ensure your online backups were not immediately delete-able with one easy command would pay much higher dividends.
To be fair, the customers should be making changes, keeping those in a revision control system, backing that up, and uploading to the hosting provider. Never rely on the hosting provider for backups.
Offsite, offline BACKUPS
You'd have to add 'multiple redundant' to that.
This guy did have offline backups which were online in order to actually do a backup. If he had two independent sets of backups he'd have been ok. Or, you know, check that the variables weren't empty in the shell script.
NTP authentication
Yes that might help. In the 'near' future.
Good. The fewer children in the world the better.
Children (especially this generation) are selfish entitled brats, just absolutely disgusting creatures. Fuck your special snowflake.
(I'm a teacher by the way. Maybe I less hate kids than I hate the way they are raised by their parents. But regardless, had a long day and need to blow off some steam.)
Where you live, maybe. Don't tar all of humanity with the same brush.
And as thats probably the USA guess what? They grow up to be selfish entitled brats. Your adults behave like gigantic toddlers.
Does the rouge network need to dnsmasq time.apple.com? Or could this be accomplished by just passing on a DHCP option on the network to trust a local NTP server? Obviously setting up a dnsmasq makes the exploit more difficult.
Roughly have of the iOS devices that are controlled by my BES12 server are running versions older than 9.3.1.
Redirecting DNS traffic, or NTP for that matter, is not difficult. No need for DHCP, a simple iptables rule will do this in about one line...
It's not just the engineers who were supposed to have fixed the 1970 issue, it's the ones who thought it would be a good idea to connect to random NTP servers and blindly accept their claim that time travel has been invented and it's now the 1960s, only now they have wifi and NTP.
What I'd do is set up to capture all DNS traffic and direct it to my own DNS server and return my own NTP server for any requests for the NTP servers that iDevices are typically configured to use.
No need for 'rouge NTP servers'.
However, checking that the amount of time change that the NTP server is asking for is within sane parameters is normally normal...