Yet another Dilbert-Reality crossover. This really reminds me of the strip where the boss is explaining to the Engineers that due to the lousy results of the employee satisfaction survey (upon which part of management bonuses are based) the survey would be discontinued.
On a more serious note I would have thought there'd be some legislation to stop a public services company ('cause that's what ICANN is, like it or not) from reducing it's public accountability...
By a stroke of luck it actually worked and did what I wanted it to do.
I do however count not having to ever make any changes to it as the luckiest thing after simply making it. After too much work and wayyyy too much coffee you start writing things that are completely impossible to work out once you're in a sane state of mind again. Basically the type of thing Frost would have written had he known PERL...
The best way to approach a project like this is with a thirst for discovery and new experience and [let me emphasise this] no intention whatsoever of deploying the results in a production environment.... ever
The inherent problem lies in the fact that your Senate and Congress members strongly disagree on this whole topic, thusly ensuring several competing acts, some for censorware, and the others totally against such information-reducing software methods.
I completely agree, the dichotomy of democracy is that is represents one of the least stable structures from the point of view of the people actually seen to be running it - presidents, prime ministers - people who can be voted out with relative ease. I'd imagine they look with more than a little jealousy at countries led by people who maintain a more rigid grip on the reigns of power using censorship to great effect.
The key to it all is the difference between good censorship and bad censorship - the good used to secure the powerbase of the government and keep the people ignorant, the bad used by other governments to do the same thing to their people.
A recent case this brings to mind is in the UK where the media was gagged from reporting on the details of a case (and in fact gagged from reporting on the gag). The case concerned evidence that the UK government had previously paid Al'queda (back in the 80's) to assassinate Gaddafi - something the government believed the people should not be allowed to know...
Now, is that because it's better for me not to know that the government used terrorists, or is it the government worried that the fact may reduce their credibility in the current 'war on terror'...
Probably should just stick to using the term satellite. Avoids the old 'but is it [?] enough to qualify as a [?]' trap. Won't be as popular with astronomers who like to be able to claim discovery of 'significant' stellar bodies, though I agree that 'moon' insinuates some measure of significance that a 12 mile rock simply does not have. There are asteriods orders of magnitude larger that get less special treatment...
I used to think it'd be cool to have more than one obviously visible moon in the sky. 21 may be a bit much but it'd certainly make the sky interesting.
Thinking about it, 21 significant orbital bodies accompanying a planet the size of our own would create nightmares for people trying to predict the tides, and we'd have to get some pretty serious seismic activity from any significant alignment.
Even worse some form of collision is almost inevitable over the full expanse of time, moons ricocheting like billiards around the sky [joking].
Give a lot of options for moon bases too - countries could argue over who gets the biggest or best situated. I guess we'd lose the use of the L points as a side effect though (or there'd be L orbits weaving monstrously complicated paths though the orbits of the moons)...
I also like how the captain has no objection to just outright killing defenseless bad guys.
The generally casual attitude to killing has been lacking from most of the great sci-fi shows for years. Mal seems to be a captain who isn't gonna let his conscience come back and stab him a couple of episodes later. Besides that you've gotta love the way Jayne calls his gun 'Vera'...
Don't agree on the poor science (errr... sorta). General uptake of tech is proportional to ease of use and ease of maintenance. gunpowder weapons come out top of that scale especially when you don't have access to the all the supplementary tech you need to maintain something more fancy.
Combines my love of westerns with my love of sci-fi, though I am a bit mystified by the terraformers decision to make all the (hundreds of) planets[?] into semi-arid dustballs rather than fertile paradisi...
now you can't run illegally copied games, boo hoo.
From one point of view yes. From another point of view I must now seek out a supplier to provide me with equipment to play games I have legitimately purchased overseas. In Australia this practice enjoys legal protection and is a way to curb corporations natural instinct to try and charge as much for a product as any particular market will bear. Providing themselves with protection against piracy is a legitimate cause for a software company, I just dislike the way the cause can also be used to render useless certain 'inconvenient' liberties that get in the way of maximising profits...
No, but you have violated a contract that's legally binding (i.e., that has the force of law over its signatory parties) in Australia. You aren't committing a crime, per se, but you could be sued for breach of contract.
Honest Curiosity:
Australia has legislation to specifically prohibit corporations from attempting to control the import or use of their products from other locales outside Aus. Surely the contract itself would be illegal (and unenforcable) by Australian law. IANAL but I would have thought it was very wasteful to have to challenge an illegal contract in court to render it non-binding (or to use the inverse I don't like the implication that I could be held in breach of an illegal contract simply because I lack the legal muscle or money to force a challenge.)
The difference for the RIAA is one of scale I believe. It is far easier for them to extract royalties from a single corporate entity (lets say ClearChannel for arguements sake) with large revenues than from 1600 smaller concerns who are much more frugal with their money as their operating profits are smaller (or nil).
Executives in the RIAA know how to make the former type of deal. What they are not dealing with well is the idea of having to deal with thousands of companies (perhaps even tens or hundreds of thousands) all of whom are going to want their personal perspectives considered when it comes time to pay up.
The article states that: "...cheap and easy distribution of media devalues the obsolete distribution methods they make their fortunes on." and this applies equally well to the royalty collection practice. If the RIAA cannot take advantage of the economies of scale offered by large scale distributers (radio/retail et al.) they risk being sucked into a system that may cost them as much to administer as they stand to make from it.
By the skin of my teeth really, running a PC in orbit really just gives you different problems for dealing with the heat (radiation is much less efficient than conduction so you need a big cooling fin) rather than any real advantage from the (perceived) cold.
Many factor determine the speed of evaporation in space - primarily whether it is in the sun or not. In the sun it generally explosively boils away (nearly 250F) and in the dark it tends to freeze quite quickly.
My gut feel is that you'd get colder fast if you were wet in space, though it would be the least of you (or your cat's) problems at the time...
The vacuum of space prevents the sink losing heat through conduction, it does not prevent heat loss through radiation.
The thermos works to minimise all main energy transfers, the vaccum deals with conduction, the silvered surfaces with radiation etc.
For a good desc. of how a Thermos Works go here.
Have the guys on the ISS (or indeed any space mission/station) ever used the 'cold hard vacuum' of space to get their systems running cool and fast. You don't have the problem of condensation, you could make the sink a great big copper array (being very, very sure to always keep it out of the sun) and you'd enjoy even better performance (it's only about 3 Kelvin out there...).
I guess you'd run into problems with cosmic radiation - but nothing a good dose of shielding wouldn't fix. Placement would also be an issue, couldn't just pin it to the back of the station...
From the site: I've been trying to think about what I can do to distribute Liquid, because a lot of my time is spent working at my day job I feel like I'd be spreading myself way to thin to market, distribute and support a full production tool like Liquid. I've been looking at other means of distribution, either through another company, an open-development group or even open sourcing it. I've finally settled on OpenSourcing it, my hope is that those using it will contribute back any additions to the community.
Nice to see. The more people who associate O/S with first class production companies (like WETA) and their work (LOTR) the better cred it'll have to the populace in general.
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But because of copyright this will never be allowed to happen to the majority of books
I'd just like to point out that this is because of the publishers application of their copyright rights, rather than because of copyright itself. They have chosen to restrict supply of their property to only people who can acquire a physical copy (be it bookstore or library), with a bias towards people who pay for it.
Having made extensive use of libraries when I was younger I can appreciate their immense value (I still think of them as smaller, slower internets from before the day...) but also appreciate what a digital library would mean to publishers. Most of the solutions I can think of only involve crippling digital distribution to match the shortcomings of print distribution, not an acceptable way of dealing with changing technology but one we seem to be stuck with in lieu of creative new business plans from publishers.
For the record, I think librarians are cool, 'cause if they are I stand a better chance of also being cool one day...
What I do not understand is how this (admittedly not new) classification can be used efficiently when it seems so vague.
There needs to be some more clarity regarding the potential risk of each piece of information involved.
The main difference I see is that each 'sensitive' piece of data needs to be combined with other data to be a potiential risk with the level of risk comparable to the quantity of additional data required. In your example quite a bit of other data would be needed to derive operational intentions from an average single unit posting order. At the other end a report detailing vulnerabilities in systems designed to prevent bioweapons entering the country requires far less extra data to constitute a risk so should be far more 'sensistive'.
What the government shouldn't do is use the sensitive label to hide an issue from public examination. We do not need to know the specifics of shortcomings in security to realise the consequences of them being exploited. We do need to know they exist.
That good old error box that used to pop up in W98. It just had that error traffic sign and no text whatsoever. Wonderfully descriptive. I think it was the O/S accidentally realising it's own complete uselessness and flagging it up to the poor fool behind the monitor...
Ran a horror chaimber once using the ol' dry ice + hot water trick but noticed a cool effect along the way.
The blocks of dry ice we had were quite large, large enough to take the full blades of the replica swords we had (and convenient to run through, at least compared to the consequences of trying on customers...). If we left the blades in the ice for a couple of minutes they'd be completely coated with a layer. When you took the blade out you get a small scale fog effect coming off the sword - very impressive if you've always dreamed of having an enchanted sword (reality has always let me down on this).
A little experimentation showed this to work on just about anything (coolest was the swords though). A black leather glove was also effective (up to the point fragments started falling inside...
In the UK a 'sensible' and 'affordable' pricing scheme sets the price for GPRS data at around 4UKP per Mb. (Cheaper if you buy a lot in advance). Most of the work involved in getting content to the phones is making sure as little data as possible is actually transmitted. This is to both make the access feel faster (works) and reduce the cost to the user (sorta works) or at least make the barefaced robbery a little less obvious.
19Mbit per second seems to me like I'd be sucking down a little over 2Mb/s (2 3/8) for a present cost of about 8UKP/s. Sheesh.
I can live with paying 5p per minute for GSM net access, perhaps with 3G for 20p p/m but it's stacking up to (non-sensationalist) about 400UKP/m. Even if I was willing to pay 40p p/m I am looking to massively debt-ridden companies to drop their data rate by 3 orders of magnitude... (I'm actually looking forwards to the arguments surrounding the relative pricing of data access on the networks...)
I realise the public won't stand for the extremes of pricing you get using that kind of math but I fear the pricing for these services are gonna remain on the high side of acceptable for a long time after they are available...
Yeah, the 'Sharp Knife' technique works every time. I personally use a Global Flexible Utility knife, so damned sharp the food almost parts before you start slicing. I also occasionally get small pieces of me entering the meal (so sharp you don't feel the cuts) which is a problem for a vegetarian...
I don't know about everyone else but my home setup falls short of the 'cinema experience' in several key areas.
1. Screen Size: 32" is no slouch but it still doesn't compare to the walls I watch at the local multiplex. Say what you want about projection setups but I haven't found one yet that fits my lounge, taste or budget...
2. Sound Quality: 5.1 is also quite good, especially inside the confines of my lounge. But again it doesn't measure up to the cinema both on the clarity front (the room is far from an ideal shape) and the volume I can use without attracting police attention.
3. The Seats: admittedly much of a gamble at the cinema but my local has unusually large and comfortable ones with plenty of leg room. I can fit more friends and family into a cinema than into my lounge...
I have about 200 DVD's myself and view the format as far superior to vhs - but still filling the same niche in the entertainment ecology. It allows me to replicate part of the cinema experience at home, but not to replace it.
Given the option of seeing The Two Towers first at home or in a Cinema I would have no problem choosing the cinema - home theatre has a long way to go to match it...
If I remember rightly the idea had a recent ressurgence in the Stephen Baxter book Time (Manifold series, interesting read). The 'reactor' (read: large pile of fissile material maintained by people suffering terminal radiation poisoning) was used to power a small teleport system. Nice mix of the primative and super high tech.
I think it's interesting how long the story has persisted (and the many forms it has taken over the years). I remember reading (in one of those amusing crackpot pseudoscience books) about Oklo being proof that ET's had visited earth in eaons past (and presumably built primitive reactors to boot)...
I can just imagine what the conspiracy theorists are thinking now - 'those are not pictures of the same features - cover up! cover up!'
No easy way to stop this, even if we could place them en masse right by the formations - if what they saw didn't match their expectations (read: delusions) they will still find a way to deny it.
This is a pretty common problem for humans, I can remember reading a good book on the most famous faked scientific discoveries and how 'selective reporting' and 'interpretation' made fools of many intelligent people.
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Time to stock up on Ultrasparcs and Alphas... (and I guess forever abandon windows for Unix would be a necessary part of it too...)
If the industry is determined enough sooner or later you won't have a choice, you'll have Palladium or you won't have a computer.
Still, there's the Soaring Dragon to consider, can't see the chinese buying the whole TCPA thing in the short term...
Yet another Dilbert-Reality crossover. This really reminds me of the strip where the boss is explaining to the Engineers that due to the lousy results of the employee satisfaction survey (upon which part of management bonuses are based) the survey would be discontinued.
On a more serious note I would have thought there'd be some legislation to stop a public services company ('cause that's what ICANN is, like it or not) from reducing it's public accountability...
STDOUT> 2500 lines undocumented PERL.
By a stroke of luck it actually worked and did what I wanted it to do.
I do however count not having to ever make any changes to it as the luckiest thing after simply making it. After too much work and wayyyy too much coffee you start writing things that are completely impossible to work out once you're in a sane state of mind again. Basically the type of thing Frost would have written had he known PERL...
The best way to approach a project like this is with a thirst for discovery and new experience and [let me emphasise this] no intention whatsoever of deploying the results in a production environment.... ever
The inherent problem lies in the fact that your Senate and Congress members strongly disagree on this whole topic, thusly ensuring several competing acts, some for censorware, and the others totally against such information-reducing software methods.
I completely agree, the dichotomy of democracy is that is represents one of the least stable structures from the point of view of the people actually seen to be running it - presidents, prime ministers - people who can be voted out with relative ease. I'd imagine they look with more than a little jealousy at countries led by people who maintain a more rigid grip on the reigns of power using censorship to great effect.
The key to it all is the difference between good censorship and bad censorship - the good used to secure the powerbase of the government and keep the people ignorant, the bad used by other governments to do the same thing to their people.
A recent case this brings to mind is in the UK where the media was gagged from reporting on the details of a case (and in fact gagged from reporting on the gag). The case concerned evidence that the UK government had previously paid Al'queda (back in the 80's) to assassinate Gaddafi - something the government believed the people should not be allowed to know...
Now, is that because it's better for me not to know that the government used terrorists, or is it the government worried that the fact may reduce their credibility in the current 'war on terror'...
Probably should just stick to using the term satellite. Avoids the old 'but is it [?] enough to qualify as a [?]' trap. Won't be as popular with astronomers who like to be able to claim discovery of 'significant' stellar bodies, though I agree that 'moon' insinuates some measure of significance that a 12 mile rock simply does not have. There are asteriods orders of magnitude larger that get less special treatment...
I used to think it'd be cool to have more than one obviously visible moon in the sky. 21 may be a bit much but it'd certainly make the sky interesting.
Thinking about it, 21 significant orbital bodies accompanying a planet the size of our own would create nightmares for people trying to predict the tides, and we'd have to get some pretty serious seismic activity from any significant alignment.
Even worse some form of collision is almost inevitable over the full expanse of time, moons ricocheting like billiards around the sky [joking].
Give a lot of options for moon bases too - countries could argue over who gets the biggest or best situated. I guess we'd lose the use of the L points as a side effect though (or there'd be L orbits weaving monstrously complicated paths though the orbits of the moons)...
I also like how the captain has no objection to just outright killing defenseless bad guys.
The generally casual attitude to killing has been lacking from most of the great sci-fi shows for years. Mal seems to be a captain who isn't gonna let his conscience come back and stab him a couple of episodes later. Besides that you've gotta love the way Jayne calls his gun 'Vera'...
Don't agree on the poor science (errr... sorta). General uptake of tech is proportional to ease of use and ease of maintenance. gunpowder weapons come out top of that scale especially when you don't have access to the all the supplementary tech you need to maintain something more fancy.
Combines my love of westerns with my love of sci-fi, though I am a bit mystified by the terraformers decision to make all the (hundreds of) planets[?] into semi-arid dustballs rather than fertile paradisi...
now you can't run illegally copied games, boo hoo.
From one point of view yes. From another point of view I must now seek out a supplier to provide me with equipment to play games I have legitimately purchased overseas. In Australia this practice enjoys legal protection and is a way to curb corporations natural instinct to try and charge as much for a product as any particular market will bear.
Providing themselves with protection against piracy is a legitimate cause for a software company, I just dislike the way the cause can also be used to render useless certain 'inconvenient' liberties that get in the way of maximising profits...
No, but you have violated a contract that's legally binding (i.e., that has the force of law over its signatory parties) in Australia. You aren't committing a crime, per se, but you could be sued for breach of contract.
Honest Curiosity:
Australia has legislation to specifically prohibit corporations from attempting to control the import or use of their products from other locales outside Aus. Surely the contract itself would be illegal (and unenforcable) by Australian law. IANAL but I would have thought it was very wasteful to have to challenge an illegal contract in court to render it non-binding (or to use the inverse I don't like the implication that I could be held in breach of an illegal contract simply because I lack the legal muscle or money to force a challenge.)
The difference for the RIAA is one of scale I believe. It is far easier for them to extract royalties from a single corporate entity (lets say ClearChannel for arguements sake) with large revenues than from 1600 smaller concerns who are much more frugal with their money as their operating profits are smaller (or nil).
Executives in the RIAA know how to make the former type of deal. What they are not dealing with well is the idea of having to deal with thousands of companies (perhaps even tens or hundreds of thousands) all of whom are going to want their personal perspectives considered when it comes time to pay up.
The article states that: "...cheap and easy distribution of media devalues the obsolete distribution methods they make their fortunes on." and this applies equally well to the royalty collection practice. If the RIAA cannot take advantage of the economies of scale offered by large scale distributers (radio/retail et al.) they risk being sucked into a system that may cost them as much to administer as they stand to make from it.
By the skin of my teeth really, running a PC in orbit really just gives you different problems for dealing with the heat (radiation is much less efficient than conduction so you need a big cooling fin) rather than any real advantage from the (perceived) cold.
Many factor determine the speed of evaporation in space - primarily whether it is in the sun or not. In the sun it generally explosively boils away (nearly 250F) and in the dark it tends to freeze quite quickly.
My gut feel is that you'd get colder fast if you were wet in space, though it would be the least of you (or your cat's) problems at the time...
The vacuum of space prevents the sink losing heat through conduction, it does not prevent heat loss through radiation.
The thermos works to minimise all main energy transfers, the vaccum deals with conduction, the silvered surfaces with radiation etc.
For a good desc. of how a Thermos Works go here.
And what carries your heat off into space?
That great big copper sink I mentioned.
Have the guys on the ISS (or indeed any space mission/station) ever used the 'cold hard vacuum' of space to get their systems running cool and fast. You don't have the problem of condensation, you could make the sink a great big copper array (being very, very sure to always keep it out of the sun) and you'd enjoy even better performance (it's only about 3 Kelvin out there...).
I guess you'd run into problems with cosmic radiation - but nothing a good dose of shielding wouldn't fix. Placement would also be an issue, couldn't just pin it to the back of the station...
Anyone know of any experiments along those lines?
From the site: I've been trying to think about what I can do to distribute Liquid, because a lot of my time is spent working at my day job I feel like I'd be spreading myself way to thin to market, distribute and support a full production tool like Liquid. I've been looking at other means of distribution, either through another company, an open-development group or even open sourcing it. I've finally settled on OpenSourcing it, my hope is that those using it will contribute back any additions to the community.
Nice to see. The more people who associate O/S with first class production companies (like WETA) and their work (LOTR) the better cred it'll have to the populace in general.
But because of copyright this will never be allowed to happen to the majority of books
I'd just like to point out that this is because of the publishers application of their copyright rights, rather than because of copyright itself. They have chosen to restrict supply of their property to only people who can acquire a physical copy (be it bookstore or library), with a bias towards people who pay for it.
Having made extensive use of libraries when I was younger I can appreciate their immense value (I still think of them as smaller, slower internets from before the day...) but also appreciate what a digital library would mean to publishers. Most of the solutions I can think of only involve crippling digital distribution to match the shortcomings of print distribution, not an acceptable way of dealing with changing technology but one we seem to be stuck with in lieu of creative new business plans from publishers.
For the record, I think librarians are cool, 'cause if they are I stand a better chance of also being cool one day...
What I do not understand is how this (admittedly not new) classification can be used efficiently when it seems so vague.
There needs to be some more clarity regarding the potential risk of each piece of information involved.
The main difference I see is that each 'sensitive' piece of data needs to be combined with other data to be a potiential risk with the level of risk comparable to the quantity of additional data required. In your example quite a bit of other data would be needed to derive operational intentions from an average single unit posting order. At the other end a report detailing vulnerabilities in systems designed to prevent bioweapons entering the country requires far less extra data to constitute a risk so should be far more 'sensistive'.
What the government shouldn't do is use the sensitive label to hide an issue from public examination. We do not need to know the specifics of shortcomings in security to realise the consequences of them being exploited. We do need to know they exist.
That good old error box that used to pop up in W98. It just had that error traffic sign and no text whatsoever. Wonderfully descriptive. I think it was the O/S accidentally realising it's own complete uselessness and flagging it up to the poor fool behind the monitor...
Ran a horror chaimber once using the ol' dry ice + hot water trick but noticed a cool effect along the way. ...
The blocks of dry ice we had were quite large, large enough to take the full blades of the replica swords we had (and convenient to run through, at least compared to the consequences of trying on customers...). If we left the blades in the ice for a couple of minutes they'd be completely coated with a layer. When you took the blade out you get a small scale fog effect coming off the sword - very impressive if you've always dreamed of having an enchanted sword (reality has always let me down on this).
A little experimentation showed this to work on just about anything (coolest was the swords though). A black leather glove was also effective (up to the point fragments started falling inside
In the UK a 'sensible' and 'affordable' pricing scheme sets the price for GPRS data at around 4UKP per Mb. (Cheaper if you buy a lot in advance). Most of the work involved in getting content to the phones is making sure as little data as possible is actually transmitted. This is to both make the access feel faster (works) and reduce the cost to the user (sorta works) or at least make the barefaced robbery a little less obvious.
19Mbit per second seems to me like I'd be sucking down a little over 2Mb/s (2 3/8) for a present cost of about 8UKP/s. Sheesh.
I can live with paying 5p per minute for GSM net access, perhaps with 3G for 20p p/m but it's stacking up to (non-sensationalist) about 400UKP/m. Even if I was willing to pay 40p p/m I am looking to massively debt-ridden companies to drop their data rate by 3 orders of magnitude... (I'm actually looking forwards to the arguments surrounding the relative pricing of data access on the networks...)
I realise the public won't stand for the extremes of pricing you get using that kind of math but I fear the pricing for these services are gonna remain on the high side of acceptable for a long time after they are available...
Yeah, the 'Sharp Knife' technique works every time. I personally use a Global Flexible Utility knife, so damned sharp the food almost parts before you start slicing. I also occasionally get small pieces of me entering the meal (so sharp you don't feel the cuts) which is a problem for a vegetarian...
I don't know about everyone else but my home setup falls short of the 'cinema experience' in several key areas.
1. Screen Size: 32" is no slouch but it still doesn't compare to the walls I watch at the local multiplex. Say what you want about projection setups but I haven't found one yet that fits my lounge, taste or budget...
2. Sound Quality: 5.1 is also quite good, especially inside the confines of my lounge. But again it doesn't measure up to the cinema both on the clarity front (the room is far from an ideal shape) and the volume I can use without attracting police attention.
3. The Seats: admittedly much of a gamble at the cinema but my local has unusually large and comfortable ones with plenty of leg room. I can fit more friends and family into a cinema than into my lounge...
I have about 200 DVD's myself and view the format as far superior to vhs - but still filling the same niche in the entertainment ecology. It allows me to replicate part of the cinema experience at home, but not to replace it.
Given the option of seeing The Two Towers first at home or in a Cinema I would have no problem choosing the cinema - home theatre has a long way to go to match it...
If I remember rightly the idea had a recent ressurgence in the Stephen Baxter book Time (Manifold series, interesting read). The 'reactor' (read: large pile of fissile material maintained by people suffering terminal radiation poisoning) was used to power a small teleport system. Nice mix of the primative and super high tech.
I think it's interesting how long the story has persisted (and the many forms it has taken over the years). I remember reading (in one of those amusing crackpot pseudoscience books) about Oklo being proof that ET's had visited earth in eaons past (and presumably built primitive reactors to boot)...
funny world...
I can just imagine what the conspiracy theorists are thinking now - 'those are not pictures of the same features - cover up! cover up!'
No easy way to stop this, even if we could place them en masse right by the formations - if what they saw didn't match their expectations (read: delusions) they will still find a way to deny it.
This is a pretty common problem for humans, I can remember reading a good book on the most famous faked scientific discoveries and how 'selective reporting' and 'interpretation' made fools of many intelligent people.
Still, there could be a conspiracy...