Hackerspaces are popping up all over the place. I founded one here in Cleveland (We're not detroit!), and hey, even detroit has one.
You can find one close to you at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
For a book with "Pro" in the title, I expect more than "...and there are only a few places where the code does not match the narrative, or the code is incorrect in some other way". I'm rather surprised that a book that is attempting to be a learning guide would let *major* errors such as that through. I suppose I'll go for my learning somewhere else.
The paper describes the time dimension heading toward a singularity. So, we'll get the universe rapidly expanding outward faster and faster. However, there will be a point at which there is a "big freeze", where time will stop. However, there is no 'experience' of time stopping. Instead, we would experience time as normal as we are attached to it, and would have no clue that we can go no further. There is a very interesting description of this in "Einstein's Dreams".
So, putting it into your explaination, all that spaghetti rotating in the forth dimension would keep doing so. Only an observer *outside* of time could ever see the change in the brane-space and only they would ever see the stuck versions of ourselves at the point of the signature change.
I disagree with a lot of what is being said. I don't think this is going to hurt them. They already pay to have the major radio stations play their music. So, now they can 'waive' the fee for these bigger stations. However, college stations and smaller independent stations will no longer be able to play a lot of music. They will be able to play independent labels.
It sounds like they want to kill the smaller stations again, just like they're killing internet radio.
Dr. Michael Turner is one of the figureheads of the modern cosmological scene. In 1998, he coined the term dark energy and published a paper asking the provocative question Is Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly! In it, he outlined a checklist of seven major issues that need to be addressed in the next decade in order to answer "Yes". A rhetorical exercise, he didn't actually mean cosmology could be solved so easily, it was more of a challenge to the field to take it to the next step (read his Conclusion section for more). So in this interview, about nine years later, we ask him about the status of the seven major issues and then he adds some new questions to the list.
Dr. Turner is one of the nicest people we've ever interviewed. We think one can tell from listening to him.
The big question is, how is this all going to integrate? IBM already has it's own document management system that competes against FileNet in a lot of areas. So, is one going to go away? Or perhaps they'll continue to sell both and basically bring their credibility down for both.
Not only that, but with FileNet phasing out one of their products and forcing their user base to upgrade, will FileNet lose a lot of their base because they don't trust that it will be around much longer?
There are a lot of questions without much of an answer. Sure one hell of an impulse buy.
Although the price of Dual Layer (DL) media has come down, it's still $2 - $4 a disk, vs $0.50 - $1.00 for comparable Single Layer disks. So, although you do need two disks, burning information to a single layer disk is still cheaper, about twice as much. I bought a DL burner quite awhile ago, but I'm still waiting for good news regarding media. IMHO, until the media comes down, Dual Layer just doesn't cut it.
Phishing works, no argument but...
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Sure, Phishing works. We know it does, and some of the most technical people can be caught offguard. It goes with any forgery of any secure material, be it fake IDs, S.S. Cards, etc.
However, with regard to TFA, I have some doubts about their data. First, they use *only* 22 participants, which is a horribly low number. They give no background information of how they chose them. It could have just been 22 of their friends that they could con into playing with some web pages.
Also, there are no controls with regards to the web pages. I didn't see (in the page list) two pages that would look identical and be either spoofed or real. This, to me, would be an important piece of information to support their conclusions. I personally would have had two identical web pages shown with only the browser security indicators changing. This would come a lot closer to showing people either ignore or watch those things.
It's not that I disagree with their findings, it's just it would be a lot more believable with more people and a proper writeup of the makeup of such a group. You can't get a truly random group of people, but with larger numbers you can get closer.
Honestly, if you had a project fail so spectacularly, and with so many people watching, wouldn't you want to do something (or anything) in your power to get back some of your credibility? Sure, they may be able to pinpoint some generic area of failure, such as 'hit too hard' or 'just doesn't work', but it's possible that he may just want to know what happened to his creation and gain a little bit of his own confidence and social status back.
If I sent a craft a few million miles, never heard from it again, and had the ability to possibly find it, I would probably do so.
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I'm makin' waffles! They got peanuts and soap in 'em!
I've been getting spam messages and some really bad bot messages on Yahoo! messenger for quite awhile. Most of them start out asking if you'd like to chat, then send you a link for their webcam site. Quite a few chat sites on the internet have become bot havens, with rooms filled with more bots than people trying to fish for people stupid enough to click on links.
Also, on sites such as MySpace, there are bots that will create profiles that look real and then send messages out asking for people to visit and click on their homesite. I'm not terribly surprised that a worm found its way into AIM. Although it does rely on the same thing all the others do: gullibility.
Although I definitely need to brush up on my patent law, this is just getting out of hand. Does SCO really expect to make a difference here? I mean, just the court costs of suing everyone who makes or uses *nix will outweight any gain. Also, they are giving themselves the kiss of death when it comes to people who actually want to use the software they claim is theirs.
It's almost comical, watching someone try to beat a mountain (linux) with a stick, but sad too. When will sense prevail?
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Hackerspaces are popping up all over the place. I founded one here in Cleveland (We're not detroit!), and hey, even detroit has one. You can find one close to you at http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
For a book with "Pro" in the title, I expect more than "...and there are only a few places where the code does not match the narrative, or the code is incorrect in some other way". I'm rather surprised that a book that is attempting to be a learning guide would let *major* errors such as that through. I suppose I'll go for my learning somewhere else.
I am also not a professional. However...
The paper describes the time dimension heading toward a singularity. So, we'll get the universe rapidly expanding outward faster and faster. However, there will be a point at which there is a "big freeze", where time will stop. However, there is no 'experience' of time stopping. Instead, we would experience time as normal as we are attached to it, and would have no clue that we can go no further. There is a very interesting description of this in "Einstein's Dreams".
So, putting it into your explaination, all that spaghetti rotating in the forth dimension would keep doing so. Only an observer *outside* of time could ever see the change in the brane-space and only they would ever see the stuck versions of ourselves at the point of the signature change.
I disagree with a lot of what is being said. I don't think this is going to hurt them. They already pay to have the major radio stations play their music. So, now they can 'waive' the fee for these bigger stations. However, college stations and smaller independent stations will no longer be able to play a lot of music. They will be able to play independent labels.
It sounds like they want to kill the smaller stations again, just like they're killing internet radio.
Show Notes: Cosmology 5
From Slackerpedia Galactica
Release Date: May 16, 2007
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Dr. Michael Turner is one of the figureheads of the modern cosmological scene. In 1998, he coined the term dark energy and published a paper asking the provocative question Is Cosmology Solved? Quite Possibly! In it, he outlined a checklist of seven major issues that need to be addressed in the next decade in order to answer "Yes". A rhetorical exercise, he didn't actually mean cosmology could be solved so easily, it was more of a challenge to the field to take it to the next step (read his Conclusion section for more). So in this interview, about nine years later, we ask him about the status of the seven major issues and then he adds some new questions to the list.
Dr. Turner is one of the nicest people we've ever interviewed. We think one can tell from listening to him.
* His original 1998 paper
This is the 5th interview in our series of interviews from the Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics.
The big question is, how is this all going to integrate? IBM already has it's own document management system that competes against FileNet in a lot of areas. So, is one going to go away? Or perhaps they'll continue to sell both and basically bring their credibility down for both. Not only that, but with FileNet phasing out one of their products and forcing their user base to upgrade, will FileNet lose a lot of their base because they don't trust that it will be around much longer? There are a lot of questions without much of an answer. Sure one hell of an impulse buy.
Although the price of Dual Layer (DL) media has come down, it's still $2 - $4 a disk, vs $0.50 - $1.00 for comparable Single Layer disks. So, although you do need two disks, burning information to a single layer disk is still cheaper, about twice as much. I bought a DL burner quite awhile ago, but I'm still waiting for good news regarding media. IMHO, until the media comes down, Dual Layer just doesn't cut it.
Sure, Phishing works. We know it does, and some of the most technical people can be caught offguard. It goes with any forgery of any secure material, be it fake IDs, S.S. Cards, etc.
However, with regard to TFA, I have some doubts about their data. First, they use *only* 22 participants, which is a horribly low number. They give no background information of how they chose them. It could have just been 22 of their friends that they could con into playing with some web pages.
Also, there are no controls with regards to the web pages. I didn't see (in the page list) two pages that would look identical and be either spoofed or real. This, to me, would be an important piece of information to support their conclusions. I personally would have had two identical web pages shown with only the browser security indicators changing. This would come a lot closer to showing people either ignore or watch those things.
It's not that I disagree with their findings, it's just it would be a lot more believable with more people and a proper writeup of the makeup of such a group. You can't get a truly random group of people, but with larger numbers you can get closer.
Honestly, if you had a project fail so spectacularly, and with so many people watching, wouldn't you want to do something (or anything) in your power to get back some of your credibility? Sure, they may be able to pinpoint some generic area of failure, such as 'hit too hard' or 'just doesn't work', but it's possible that he may just want to know what happened to his creation and gain a little bit of his own confidence and social status back.
If I sent a craft a few million miles, never heard from it again, and had the ability to possibly find it, I would probably do so.
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I'm makin' waffles! They got peanuts and soap in 'em!
I've been getting spam messages and some really bad bot messages on Yahoo! messenger for quite awhile. Most of them start out asking if you'd like to chat, then send you a link for their webcam site. Quite a few chat sites on the internet have become bot havens, with rooms filled with more bots than people trying to fish for people stupid enough to click on links. Also, on sites such as MySpace, there are bots that will create profiles that look real and then send messages out asking for people to visit and click on their homesite. I'm not terribly surprised that a worm found its way into AIM. Although it does rely on the same thing all the others do: gullibility.
Although I definitely need to brush up on my patent law, this is just getting out of hand. Does SCO really expect to make a difference here? I mean, just the court costs of suing everyone who makes or uses *nix will outweight any gain. Also, they are giving themselves the kiss of death when it comes to people who actually want to use the software they claim is theirs.
It's almost comical, watching someone try to beat a mountain (linux) with a stick, but sad too. When will sense prevail?