Makes you wonder if other spammers feel like the water is getting any hotter. I know that someone out there is smart enough to circumvent just about anything, but you have to believe most spammers are fairly unsophisticated joes who are just getting away with it for now. My hope is that it becomes too risky and expensive for spammers to operate and they just look for other ways leech.
While I wish your comment were (was?) correct, history shows us that it is wrong. Look at phishers. They used to have very simple web pages and they got away with it. (I know as I love to trash their files and so I fill them with junk info. Java does a wonderul job at that.) Now the better ones are getting better at handling the HTML code and hiding their tracks. I see them getting better.... Some phishers even seem to check credit card numbers before they will accept them. They are not going away. The same is true with the Nigerian scammers.
Read the real article (http://www.yeesjob.com/v8engine.htm) and you will find out that the 'motor' is a little electric motor used to turn the paper model of a V8
The claims appear to cover the literary elements of a story involving an ambitious high school student who applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years."
you might have a good idea to abolish the patent system altogether. - Hey I just thought, maybe your idea is patentable!
Turns do affect the flow of air. It is something known as 'conductance.' The higher the conductance the higher the flow. In general the conductance goes down approximately linearly with the tube length and approximately linearly up with the cube of the tube diameter. e.g. Conductance = constants * d^3/L. Adding bends is like adding length to a tube. As I remember a 90 degree bend of a 2 inch pipe is like adding 2 feet of piping. Think of it this way, if you want to shoot a spit wad out of a straw, putting bends in it will make the spit wad go slower.
They ARE stupid if they think that science and engineering has no future. Where do these brilliant students go to make money? These geniuses are either going to leech off their parents or they are not going to be well off if they reject science as an option. Do you think a law degree or a medical degree is so lucrative compared to a good engineering degree? I'm not so sure about that.
Well let's see:
Point 1) Our US students that go beyond a BSEE tend to get an MBA. It is easier and typically pays better than a MSEE. More respect in business and shorter hours as well.
In fact a few years ago the Dean of the School of Management PO'd local CEOs of high tech companies by saying that they needed to raise salaries and treat engineers better - right after the CEO pi--ed and moaned that they could not hire enough US engineers. [Personally, I'd be bored to tears as an MBA but that is me.]
Point 2) My wife (an MD) makes a lot more than I do... I have a PhD and similar numbers of years of experince. Finally my older brother a JD (lawyer) makes a lot more then me. Both of them are treated better as well. I guess our students are not all that dumb. But then this feeds right into your next point. US businesses do not really care about engineers and there is no real respect for the field. [Again, I'd go nuts in almost any other field - but that is me and I am not typical.]
Here is the text - the best part is at the end. (I hope it is readable!)
Exclusive: Glitches at county jail swallowed up inmates
Officials say they did their best to release them on time
10:04 PM CDT on Saturday, May 28, 2005
By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas Morning News
It was as if Scott Williams had vanished into a black hole.
MONA REEDER/DMN
Scott Williams was arrested on a DWI charge during the jail's most chaotic week. He hoped to be out the next day, but, denied his medications, he says he endured "a week of hell."
Shortly after his rush-hour fender-bender on Central Expressway, he made a cellphone call from the back of a police car. In a voice laced with agitation, he told his partner, Rodney Russell, that he had been drinking, that he had rear-ended a Jeep, and that he was headed to the Dallas County Jail on a DWI charge.
Mr. Williams thought he would quickly be released - as soon as Mr. Russell could learn from the jail how much bail to post.
But Mr. Williams' arrest occurred on Friday, Feb. 4, during the most chaotic week the Dallas jail has likely ever seen.
"I expected to be out the next day, for sure," Mr. Williams said. "But it turned into a week of hell."
Just days before his arrest, on Jan. 31, the county had launched a new computer system for the jail. The Adult Information System, or AIS, which has cost $3 million in federal grant money, was designed to make book-in and law enforcement work more efficient. Someday it might do that.
Instead, the system's launch caused a staggering backlog of defendants waiting for book-in the week of Mr. Williams' arrest. In addition, lists of new inmates produced by the county's old mainframe could no longer be produced, wreaking havoc with court officials' ability to know who was in jail and to set inmates' court dates.
Jail clerks - some poorly trained - also had trouble with the new system.
The passel of problems caused scores of people, including Mr. Williams, to languish in the jail for weeks and months too long.
Through interviews with court officials, defendants and others, and after reviewing data in the new system and in court documents, The Dallas Morning News has identified at least 40 cases in which defendants were imprisoned too long after the launch of AIS. Some officials say the total number is far higher.
"These cases are just a small representation of the chaos we experienced," District Court Judge Vic Cunningham said.
In the four months since the crisis began, the county has never tried to determine how many people were affected. As a result, some who might have been located and released remained imprisoned far too long.
For instance, one inmate was booked in Feb. 8, but the courts learned of him only when he managed to get a message to a judge 56 days later. In many cases, court officials discovered someone's imprisonment only because family members alerted them.
"It comes down to a tremendous failure by the county. It's outrageous," said Michael Linz of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. "But it's not unusual for the county to think of these folks as just people in jail - the weak and powerless - and to ignore them."
Mr. Linz said those held too long could have the basis for a civil rights lawsuit against the county.
"Ordinarily, the government's not permitted to hold you without cause," he said. "Dallas has been notoriously deficient in taking care of basic human liberties."
To date, Dallas County has no idea whether people who should have been released are still in the jail. One court accidentally discovered a defendant still imprisoned as recently as May 12 even though it had told the jail to release him 34 days earlier. The court learned he was still imprisoned only when he failed to show up for a court appointment, and his attorney called his family to ask why. They said he was still in jail.
News analysis
To gauge the extent of the problem, The News looked at the cases of 50 defendants booked in at the jail ov
About 9 months ago, The Dallas (county) Sheriff's office installed a new prisoner tracking program and LOST some of the prisoners. No, they did not let them out, they were still in jail but they could not find them. (Even the prisoner's lawyers could not find them!) Here is an example: http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stor ies/052905dnmetjailstuck.f2f1f79c.html
I wake up with a massive hangover on 01/01/09 and my teevee gets 123 channels of Home Shopping Network.
and a week later pink dresses, fancy gem rings, and "Ginsoo" knifes begin arriving droves. Seems the Home shopping networks were on the air earlier in the evening of 12/31/08 and you had a bottle of Jack in your hands and your credit card out.
Yup. I think that NIH (National Institutes of Health (US Gov)) has a budget in the neighborhood of 28.6 Billion dollars this year. Yes that is billion with a 'b'. That is double what it was ~12 years ago. The jump started under Clinton and has continued under Bush. see http://www.hhs.gov/budget/testify/b20040421.html for more info.
The issue I have is when scientists forget about the modesty of their goals and start to imagine how important they are.
So you know some of the other faculty in my university...;-). Some are real BHs.
So knowing that someone is a liar is not necessarily a gain in information
yes and no. If I know that you are a liar then I will not trust infomation from you in the future but instead look for other sources of information. This in itself is a gain in information. (It is known as 'game theory') Yes, you can argue that there are a limited sources of info and that I will eventually run out of sources. However if you have a set of sources with which you know are at best unreliable results from each source, you'd test as many sources as possible and look at the average result. In fact this is what is commonly done. (OK what I do.) Does it make you always right - no. But your batting average will be above 0.500 (Sorry, I don't know if you are from the US - that is 50%.) It is the 'on average 'that works in science's favor. This is the same thing that gambling place do to make money. Just tilt the odds slightly in your favor and you win over time.
By the way - this was a nice conversation and you make interesting points. Have fun
Let me guess, you're a philosophy major. You're argument is that we don't know if we are learning any thing so we can't learn. You might as well ask if we are real. However your case has holes in it.. as example:
If you want to go to New York and I tell you how to board a plane that really does go to New York, that's information. If you want to go to a village and I tell you how to board a plane to New York, then I am misinforming you.
So I take the plane that you suggest. If you told me the truth, I now know the way to NYC. If you lied to me I have learned that you are a liar. Either way I have more knowledge. This is true in general and is the way the scientific method works and it does work. It is not perfect and it is messy. (and the maze probably goes on forever.) but it does work.
I know that you AC'd so you won't look again but how thick is your skin, ~1/4 inch ~1/2 inch.... someplace in between. A big cat (my size) could rip thru that with no problem.
First read my post. Dirt = 'knowledge' that is wrong... not a way to describe science. That said, I don't think humans will ever understand everything but we do know a lot nore then 600 years ago. For example do you know that the world is NOT FLAT and that the universe does not orbit the earth.... Now for your other comments
Ambiguity is a natural state of things, is it not?
This is only true to a point. (Think Quantum Mechanics) However, in classical systems there is not that much ambiguity,
While scientists present us with findings that seem more and more precise, there is no finding that the human capacity for error has been fundamentally decreased.
You are wrong again, ok wrong in what you have implied. Yes humans still have the same capacity for error and by this I mean that we can fool ourselves. BUT our tools are more presice - offering better and better data. At some point the data is such that we can no longer fool ourselves and that bit of the truth is found. Happens all of the time.
To accurately say that we get closer and closer to truth, you must know precisely where the truth is.
This is simply not true. Try going thru a maze with hints along the way. It is relatively easy to do. Science is more of a long maze with lots of hints .
t seems possible their methodology and conclusions are flawed.
I would agree. I don't think they have ever owned a cat. (or been owned by a cat.) I have gotten long nasty scratches from house cats. Not enough to kill me but if the size difference where not as great - maybe.
So what makes scientific method pure? Is it pure a priori?
I was thinking of a smart a$$ remark as reply when your statement really took hold and made me think. (OK I do think on occasion,)
The real answer is not the that the scientific method is pure or perfect, it is neither. I would proposes that this is clearly true a priori. However, by the nature of science, the 'truth' proposed by science comes closer to perfect/pure each day. This is because of the nature of science to always test that 'truth' against new information. Think of it as repeated washing of a dirty shirt. Sometimes dirt just gets moved from place to place but in general each time the shirt gets run thru the washer it comes out on average cleaner. (I am now thinking of shampoo - lather, rinse, repeat... oh well.)
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I don't think 'mile high club' means what you think it means.
Are you going to tell that it is a sports club in Denver? I don't think so...
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: October 12, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT
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More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo.
"When I first saw him, he was upside-down, and I didn't recognize his face," the Florida-based cell biology researcher said.
Davidson suspected at first that the tiny design he saw was circular patterns added to the chip to thwart attempts by reverse-engineers to deduce its inner workings. But a second inspection showed it to be the characteristically hard-to-find character from the children's book series. "I realized, 'This is a doodle of some kind.' Then I started looking over the whole chip. I discovered Daffy Duck and other things on that chip," Davidson said.
That was just the start of a catalog that now holds more than 100 images of extremely small automobiles, dinosaurs, birds of prey, cartoon characters and even a wedding announcement silhouette--all tucked away among microchip circuits. Davidson calls the collection the Silicon Zoo.
After Davidson found Waldo, he and others started enthusiastically tearing apart Hewlett-Packard workstations and Digital Equipment Corp.'s Vax minicomputers from to find more. And when Davidson posted the images online, chip designers started sending him new samples, often challenging him to find the artwork without telling him what it was. Now he has more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery.
While the width of the Waldo image is just over half the diameter of a human hair, sizes vary widely, depending on artistic impulses and the ever-shrinking features made possible with more advanced chip manufacturing. The difficulty of finding them is commensurate. "Some are so big, it's like finding an automobile in a haystack. Some are so small, it's like finding a needle," Davidson said.
Davidson is a cell biology researcher at Florida State University, but he also does educational Web sites about microscopy under contract for microscope makers Nikon and Olympus. He also has micrographs of everything from beer to vitamin C.
The silicon chip images show a particular kind of technical aesthetic. For example, one of the images Davidson finds most impressive is of Thor, the Norse god of thunder--a comparatively large, square image measuring about 1 millimeter on edge of an HP chip. The picture is created out of a matrix of tiny dots, each one a "sunken via," or a tiny wire that connects one layer of a chip to a deeper layer.
But such artistic whimsy in some cases came with a cost, Davidson said.
"A lot of chip designers told me it was absolutely forbidden. Some of them lost their jobs doing this stuff," he said.
With the extensive scrutiny that today's chips undergo, it's now impossible to sneak in a doodle without corporate authorities knowing. "You put Dogbert on one of these chips, and they're going to notice," Davidson said.
Historical etchings
Silicon artistry is a skill more than three decades old. The earliest known images in the Silicon Zoo are on Texas Instruments chips from the late 1960s or early 1970s, featuring a sailboat, the Apollo mission lunar lander and the U.S.S. Enterprise starship from the "Star Trek" TV series.
The most prolific practitioners of silicon artistry were at HP, in Davidson's opinion. "They had a competition going as to who could create the most complex art," he said.
Intel microchips, by contrast, have hardly any artwork. "The only thing we found was that shepherd on that dual-ported RAM controller," he said. In a visual-technical pun, the shepherd is overseeing a ram with two heads, symbolizing a chip that governs random access memory (RAM) with two communication channels.
Not all the discoveries have been artistic. On one chip, there's a rambling hodgepodge of nonsensical legal
No mirror but here are the words from the site - hope it helps:
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: October 12, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT
TalkBackE-mailPrintTrackBack
More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo.
"When I first saw him, he was upside-down, and I didn't recognize his face," the Florida-based cell biology researcher said.
Davidson suspected at first that the tiny design he saw was circular patterns added to the chip to thwart attempts by reverse-engineers to deduce its inner workings. But a second inspection showed it to be the characteristically hard-to-find character from the children's book series. "I realized, 'This is a doodle of some kind.' Then I started looking over the whole chip. I discovered Daffy Duck and other things on that chip," Davidson said.
That was just the start of a catalog that now holds more than 100 images of extremely small automobiles, dinosaurs, birds of prey, cartoon characters and even a wedding announcement silhouette--all tucked away among microchip circuits. Davidson calls the collection the Silicon Zoo.
After Davidson found Waldo, he and others started enthusiastically tearing apart Hewlett-Packard workstations and Digital Equipment Corp.'s Vax minicomputers from to find more. And when Davidson posted the images online, chip designers started sending him new samples, often challenging him to find the artwork without telling him what it was. Now he has more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery.
While the width of the Waldo image is just over half the diameter of a human hair, sizes vary widely, depending on artistic impulses and the ever-shrinking features made possible with more advanced chip manufacturing. The difficulty of finding them is commensurate. "Some are so big, it's like finding an automobile in a haystack. Some are so small, it's like finding a needle," Davidson said.
Davidson is a cell biology researcher at Florida State University, but he also does educational Web sites about microscopy under contract for microscope makers Nikon and Olympus. He also has micrographs of everything from beer to vitamin C.
The silicon chip images show a particular kind of technical aesthetic. For example, one of the images Davidson finds most impressive is of Thor, the Norse god of thunder--a comparatively large, square image measuring about 1 millimeter on edge of an HP chip. The picture is created out of a matrix of tiny dots, each one a "sunken via," or a tiny wire that connects one layer of a chip to a deeper layer.
But such artistic whimsy in some cases came with a cost, Davidson said.
"A lot of chip designers told me it was absolutely forbidden. Some of them lost their jobs doing this stuff," he said.
With the extensive scrutiny that today's chips undergo, it's now impossible to sneak in a doodle without corporate authorities knowing. "You put Dogbert on one of these chips, and they're going to notice," Davidson said.
Historical etchings
Silicon artistry is a skill more than three decades old. The earliest known images in the Silicon Zoo are on Texas Instruments chips from the late 1960s or early 1970s, featuring a sailboat, the Apollo mission lunar lander and the U.S.S. Enterprise starship from the "Star Trek" TV series.
The most prolific practitioners of silicon artistry were at HP, in Davidson's opinion. "They had a competition going as to who could create the most complex art," he said.
Intel microchips, by contrast, have hardly any artwork. "The only thing we found was that shepherd on that dual-ported RAM controller," he said. In a visual-technical pun, the shepherd is overseeing a ram with two heads, symbolizing a chip that governs random access memory (RAM) with two communication channels.
Not all the discoveries have been artistic. On one chip, there's a rambling hodgepodge of nonsensical legal warnings. In another, a Vax chip from DEC, is a message in Russian for the would-be
This has been going on since the beginning of the IC. In fact I heard once that the Soviets copied some IC (I think from TI) and even had the Easter eggs on it... They did not seem to know the difference - or else they were told to copy it exactly and they did it so that they did not get into trouble.
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While I wish your comment were (was?) correct, history shows us that it is wrong. Look at phishers. They used to have very simple web pages and they got away with it. (I know as I love to trash their files and so I fill them with junk info. Java does a wonderul job at that.) Now the better ones are getting better at handling the HTML code and hiding their tracks. I see them getting better.... Some phishers even seem to check credit card numbers before they will accept them. They are not going away. The same is true with the Nigerian scammers.
Excuse me, but do you have any Fluorescent lights? They have mercury as well: http://www.p2pays.org/mercury/lights.asp
Read the real article (http://www.yeesjob.com/v8engine.htm) and you will find out that the 'motor' is a little electric motor used to turn the paper model of a V8
if they used the original web site http://www.yeesjob.com/v8engine.htm
http://www.starregistry.com/ ?
Soooo, if you you live on the moon are you a Mooner or a Mooni?
Sorry - I know, a bad joke.
The claims appear to cover the literary elements of a story involving an ambitious high school student who applies for entrance to MIT and prays to remain sleeping until the acceptance letter comes, which doesn't happen for another 30 years."
you might have a good idea to abolish the patent system altogether. - Hey I just thought, maybe your idea is patentable!
Turns do affect the flow of air. It is something known as 'conductance.' The higher the conductance the higher the flow. In general the conductance goes down approximately linearly with the tube length and approximately linearly up with the cube of the tube diameter. e.g. Conductance = constants * d^3/L. Adding bends is like adding length to a tube. As I remember a 90 degree bend of a 2 inch pipe is like adding 2 feet of piping. Think of it this way, if you want to shoot a spit wad out of a straw, putting bends in it will make the spit wad go slower.
Well let's see:
Point 1) Our US students that go beyond a BSEE tend to get an MBA. It is easier and typically pays better than a MSEE. More respect in business and shorter hours as well.
In fact a few years ago the Dean of the School of Management PO'd local CEOs of high tech companies by saying that they needed to raise salaries and treat engineers better - right after the CEO pi--ed and moaned that they could not hire enough US engineers. [Personally, I'd be bored to tears as an MBA but that is me.]
Point 2) My wife (an MD) makes a lot more than I do... I have a PhD and similar numbers of years of experince. Finally my older brother a JD (lawyer) makes a lot more then me. Both of them are treated better as well. I guess our students are not all that dumb. But then this feeds right into your next point. US businesses do not really care about engineers and there is no real respect for the field. [Again, I'd go nuts in almost any other field - but that is me and I am not typical.]
Exclusive: Glitches at county jail swallowed up inmates Officials say they did their best to release them on time
10:04 PM CDT on Saturday, May 28, 2005
By JAMES M. O'NEILL / The Dallas Morning News
It was as if Scott Williams had vanished into a black hole.
MONA REEDER/DMN Scott Williams was arrested on a DWI charge during the jail's most chaotic week. He hoped to be out the next day, but, denied his medications, he says he endured "a week of hell."
Shortly after his rush-hour fender-bender on Central Expressway, he made a cellphone call from the back of a police car. In a voice laced with agitation, he told his partner, Rodney Russell, that he had been drinking, that he had rear-ended a Jeep, and that he was headed to the Dallas County Jail on a DWI charge.
Mr. Williams thought he would quickly be released - as soon as Mr. Russell could learn from the jail how much bail to post.
But Mr. Williams' arrest occurred on Friday, Feb. 4, during the most chaotic week the Dallas jail has likely ever seen.
"I expected to be out the next day, for sure," Mr. Williams said. "But it turned into a week of hell." Just days before his arrest, on Jan. 31, the county had launched a new computer system for the jail. The Adult Information System, or AIS, which has cost $3 million in federal grant money, was designed to make book-in and law enforcement work more efficient. Someday it might do that.
Instead, the system's launch caused a staggering backlog of defendants waiting for book-in the week of Mr. Williams' arrest. In addition, lists of new inmates produced by the county's old mainframe could no longer be produced, wreaking havoc with court officials' ability to know who was in jail and to set inmates' court dates. Jail clerks - some poorly trained - also had trouble with the new system.
The passel of problems caused scores of people, including Mr. Williams, to languish in the jail for weeks and months too long.
Through interviews with court officials, defendants and others, and after reviewing data in the new system and in court documents, The Dallas Morning News has identified at least 40 cases in which defendants were imprisoned too long after the launch of AIS. Some officials say the total number is far higher. "These cases are just a small representation of the chaos we experienced," District Court Judge Vic Cunningham said.
In the four months since the crisis began, the county has never tried to determine how many people were affected. As a result, some who might have been located and released remained imprisoned far too long. For instance, one inmate was booked in Feb. 8, but the courts learned of him only when he managed to get a message to a judge 56 days later. In many cases, court officials discovered someone's imprisonment only because family members alerted them.
"It comes down to a tremendous failure by the county. It's outrageous," said Michael Linz of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. "But it's not unusual for the county to think of these folks as just people in jail - the weak and powerless - and to ignore them."
Mr. Linz said those held too long could have the basis for a civil rights lawsuit against the county. "Ordinarily, the government's not permitted to hold you without cause," he said. "Dallas has been notoriously deficient in taking care of basic human liberties."
To date, Dallas County has no idea whether people who should have been released are still in the jail. One court accidentally discovered a defendant still imprisoned as recently as May 12 even though it had told the jail to release him 34 days earlier. The court learned he was still imprisoned only when he failed to show up for a court appointment, and his attorney called his family to ask why. They said he was still in jail.
News analysis
To gauge the extent of the problem, The News looked at the cases of 50 defendants booked in at the jail ov
About 9 months ago, The Dallas (county) Sheriff's office installed a new prisoner tracking program and LOST some of the prisoners. No, they did not let them out, they were still in jail but they could not find them. (Even the prisoner's lawyers could not find them!) Here is an example: http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/dn/latestnews/stor ies/052905dnmetjailstuck.f2f1f79c.html
and a week later pink dresses, fancy gem rings, and "Ginsoo" knifes begin arriving droves. Seems the Home shopping networks were on the air earlier in the evening of 12/31/08 and you had a bottle of Jack in your hands and your credit card out.
Yup. I think that NIH (National Institutes of Health (US Gov)) has a budget in the neighborhood of 28.6 Billion dollars this year. Yes that is billion with a 'b'. That is double what it was ~12 years ago. The jump started under Clinton and has continued under Bush. see http://www.hhs.gov/budget/testify/b20040421.html for more info.
So you know some of the other faculty in my university... ;-). Some are real BHs.
So knowing that someone is a liar is not necessarily a gain in information
yes and no. If I know that you are a liar then I will not trust infomation from you in the future but instead look for other sources of information. This in itself is a gain in information. (It is known as 'game theory') Yes, you can argue that there are a limited sources of info and that I will eventually run out of sources. However if you have a set of sources with which you know are at best unreliable results from each source, you'd test as many sources as possible and look at the average result. In fact this is what is commonly done. (OK what I do.) Does it make you always right - no. But your batting average will be above 0.500 (Sorry, I don't know if you are from the US - that is 50%.) It is the 'on average 'that works in science's favor. This is the same thing that gambling place do to make money. Just tilt the odds slightly in your favor and you win over time.
By the way - this was a nice conversation and you make interesting points. Have fun
If you want to go to New York and I tell you how to board a plane that really does go to New York, that's information. If you want to go to a village and I tell you how to board a plane to New York, then I am misinforming you.
So I take the plane that you suggest. If you told me the truth, I now know the way to NYC. If you lied to me I have learned that you are a liar. Either way I have more knowledge. This is true in general and is the way the scientific method works and it does work. It is not perfect and it is messy. (and the maze probably goes on forever.) but it does work.
I know that you AC'd so you won't look again but how thick is your skin, ~1/4 inch ~1/2 inch.... someplace in between. A big cat (my size) could rip thru that with no problem.
Ambiguity is a natural state of things, is it not?
This is only true to a point. (Think Quantum Mechanics) However, in classical systems there is not that much ambiguity,
While scientists present us with findings that seem more and more precise, there is no finding that the human capacity for error has been fundamentally decreased.
You are wrong again, ok wrong in what you have implied. Yes humans still have the same capacity for error and by this I mean that we can fool ourselves. BUT our tools are more presice - offering better and better data. At some point the data is such that we can no longer fool ourselves and that bit of the truth is found. Happens all of the time.
To accurately say that we get closer and closer to truth, you must know precisely where the truth is.
This is simply not true. Try going thru a maze with hints along the way. It is relatively easy to do. Science is more of a long maze with lots of hints .
Is there a problem with this list?
I would agree. I don't think they have ever owned a cat. (or been owned by a cat.) I have gotten long nasty scratches from house cats. Not enough to kill me but if the size difference where not as great - maybe.
I was thinking of a smart a$$ remark as reply when your statement really took hold and made me think. (OK I do think on occasion,)
The real answer is not the that the scientific method is pure or perfect, it is neither. I would proposes that this is clearly true a priori. However, by the nature of science, the 'truth' proposed by science comes closer to perfect/pure each day. This is because of the nature of science to always test that 'truth' against new information. Think of it as repeated washing of a dirty shirt. Sometimes dirt just gets moved from place to place but in general each time the shirt gets run thru the washer it comes out on average cleaner. (I am now thinking of shampoo - lather, rinse, repeat... oh well.)
Are you going to tell that it is a sports club in Denver? I don't think so...
wow they have name on a chip! (and you wonder how I got my name!)
By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: October 12, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT TalkBackE-mailPrintTrackBack More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo.
"When I first saw him, he was upside-down, and I didn't recognize his face," the Florida-based cell biology researcher said.
Davidson suspected at first that the tiny design he saw was circular patterns added to the chip to thwart attempts by reverse-engineers to deduce its inner workings. But a second inspection showed it to be the characteristically hard-to-find character from the children's book series. "I realized, 'This is a doodle of some kind.' Then I started looking over the whole chip. I discovered Daffy Duck and other things on that chip," Davidson said.
That was just the start of a catalog that now holds more than 100 images of extremely small automobiles, dinosaurs, birds of prey, cartoon characters and even a wedding announcement silhouette--all tucked away among microchip circuits. Davidson calls the collection the Silicon Zoo.
After Davidson found Waldo, he and others started enthusiastically tearing apart Hewlett-Packard workstations and Digital Equipment Corp.'s Vax minicomputers from to find more. And when Davidson posted the images online, chip designers started sending him new samples, often challenging him to find the artwork without telling him what it was. Now he has more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery.
While the width of the Waldo image is just over half the diameter of a human hair, sizes vary widely, depending on artistic impulses and the ever-shrinking features made possible with more advanced chip manufacturing. The difficulty of finding them is commensurate. "Some are so big, it's like finding an automobile in a haystack. Some are so small, it's like finding a needle," Davidson said.
Davidson is a cell biology researcher at Florida State University, but he also does educational Web sites about microscopy under contract for microscope makers Nikon and Olympus. He also has micrographs of everything from beer to vitamin C.
The silicon chip images show a particular kind of technical aesthetic. For example, one of the images Davidson finds most impressive is of Thor, the Norse god of thunder--a comparatively large, square image measuring about 1 millimeter on edge of an HP chip. The picture is created out of a matrix of tiny dots, each one a "sunken via," or a tiny wire that connects one layer of a chip to a deeper layer.
But such artistic whimsy in some cases came with a cost, Davidson said.
"A lot of chip designers told me it was absolutely forbidden. Some of them lost their jobs doing this stuff," he said.
With the extensive scrutiny that today's chips undergo, it's now impossible to sneak in a doodle without corporate authorities knowing. "You put Dogbert on one of these chips, and they're going to notice," Davidson said.
Historical etchings Silicon artistry is a skill more than three decades old. The earliest known images in the Silicon Zoo are on Texas Instruments chips from the late 1960s or early 1970s, featuring a sailboat, the Apollo mission lunar lander and the U.S.S. Enterprise starship from the "Star Trek" TV series.
The most prolific practitioners of silicon artistry were at HP, in Davidson's opinion. "They had a competition going as to who could create the most complex art," he said.
Intel microchips, by contrast, have hardly any artwork. "The only thing we found was that shepherd on that dual-ported RAM controller," he said. In a visual-technical pun, the shepherd is overseeing a ram with two heads, symbolizing a chip that governs random access memory (RAM) with two communication channels.
Not all the discoveries have been artistic. On one chip, there's a rambling hodgepodge of nonsensical legal
No mirror but here are the words from the site - hope it helps: By Stephen Shankland Staff Writer, CNET News.com Published: October 12, 2005, 4:00 AM PDT TalkBackE-mailPrintTrackBack More than 10 years ago, Michael Davidson went looking to capture the beauty of microchip circuitry in photographs. In among the transistors and wire traces, he found something unexpected: Waldo. "When I first saw him, he was upside-down, and I didn't recognize his face," the Florida-based cell biology researcher said. Davidson suspected at first that the tiny design he saw was circular patterns added to the chip to thwart attempts by reverse-engineers to deduce its inner workings. But a second inspection showed it to be the characteristically hard-to-find character from the children's book series. "I realized, 'This is a doodle of some kind.' Then I started looking over the whole chip. I discovered Daffy Duck and other things on that chip," Davidson said. That was just the start of a catalog that now holds more than 100 images of extremely small automobiles, dinosaurs, birds of prey, cartoon characters and even a wedding announcement silhouette--all tucked away among microchip circuits. Davidson calls the collection the Silicon Zoo. After Davidson found Waldo, he and others started enthusiastically tearing apart Hewlett-Packard workstations and Digital Equipment Corp.'s Vax minicomputers from to find more. And when Davidson posted the images online, chip designers started sending him new samples, often challenging him to find the artwork without telling him what it was. Now he has more than 300 chips with unusual micrographic imagery. While the width of the Waldo image is just over half the diameter of a human hair, sizes vary widely, depending on artistic impulses and the ever-shrinking features made possible with more advanced chip manufacturing. The difficulty of finding them is commensurate. "Some are so big, it's like finding an automobile in a haystack. Some are so small, it's like finding a needle," Davidson said. Davidson is a cell biology researcher at Florida State University, but he also does educational Web sites about microscopy under contract for microscope makers Nikon and Olympus. He also has micrographs of everything from beer to vitamin C. The silicon chip images show a particular kind of technical aesthetic. For example, one of the images Davidson finds most impressive is of Thor, the Norse god of thunder--a comparatively large, square image measuring about 1 millimeter on edge of an HP chip. The picture is created out of a matrix of tiny dots, each one a "sunken via," or a tiny wire that connects one layer of a chip to a deeper layer. But such artistic whimsy in some cases came with a cost, Davidson said. "A lot of chip designers told me it was absolutely forbidden. Some of them lost their jobs doing this stuff," he said. With the extensive scrutiny that today's chips undergo, it's now impossible to sneak in a doodle without corporate authorities knowing. "You put Dogbert on one of these chips, and they're going to notice," Davidson said. Historical etchings Silicon artistry is a skill more than three decades old. The earliest known images in the Silicon Zoo are on Texas Instruments chips from the late 1960s or early 1970s, featuring a sailboat, the Apollo mission lunar lander and the U.S.S. Enterprise starship from the "Star Trek" TV series. The most prolific practitioners of silicon artistry were at HP, in Davidson's opinion. "They had a competition going as to who could create the most complex art," he said. Intel microchips, by contrast, have hardly any artwork. "The only thing we found was that shepherd on that dual-ported RAM controller," he said. In a visual-technical pun, the shepherd is overseeing a ram with two heads, symbolizing a chip that governs random access memory (RAM) with two communication channels. Not all the discoveries have been artistic. On one chip, there's a rambling hodgepodge of nonsensical legal warnings. In another, a Vax chip from DEC, is a message in Russian for the would-be
This has been going on since the beginning of the IC. In fact I heard once that the Soviets copied some IC (I think from TI) and even had the Easter eggs on it... They did not seem to know the difference - or else they were told to copy it exactly and they did it so that they did not get into trouble.