Alienating Novell sends a signal that Microsoft's patent extortion will not be tolerated by the community. It says that, should Microsoft press patent claims, that companies and people using Linux will retaliate -- with countersuits, civil disobedience, lobbying, bad PR, and whatever else.
You can bet that Novell is only coming out with this "open letter" because of the pressure they are feeling. Contracts being canceled or not renewed, bile and bad PR everywhere, FSF lawyers looking into filing suits, etc. They are probably getting the most pressure from SuSE developers, who can't be at all happy about being periahs.
The best step for the OSS community would be for Microsoft to document their protocols and formats. For instance if we had documentation on how NTFS lays out the filesystem we'd have a safe r/w driver in under a month. This Novell-MS deal is bunk. The European trustbusters have already done more than this deal ever will.
No that's not why these phones are so bad. You see, it isn't really your choice at all whether to get an ad-phone. Once a lot of people have a 'free' phone paid for by advertising the market for paid phones will be much less, so your choice will either be an 'annoy me' phone or a really expensive one with lots of features you don't even want (but maybe some CEOs want). If anything even paid phones will be like Cable where you pay *and* you get ads.
Viacom owns Comedy Central. Viacom is ~70% controlled by Sumner Restone. According to sourcewatch Sumner Redstone ' ' endorsed George W. Bush for re-election, saying that "the reason was simple: Republican values are what U.S. companies need.... 'I look at the election from what's good for Viacom. I vote for what's good for Viacom. I vote, today, Viacom.'" ' '
Now over 1/3 of thesilentpatriot's videos on YouTube have been removed. Looks to me like The Man is trying to keep all this prime satire off the web to help out the 'pubs.
I think you've just hit on the real reason Intel is making an 80-core processor: 34 cores for mass mailers, 15 for some botnets, 27 for norton antivirus, 2 cores to correct my math, and then 2 left over to run SETI@Home.
The real question is, why do we have exploits? 99% of the ones out there could be eliminated entirely by using a typesafe language for applications and the operating system. Of course you can't entirely remove bugs, but what you can do is prevent systems from running arbitrary code on your system from hacked unsafe programs.
For instance, I have absolutely no problem running Azareus and getting hundreds of connections for random unknown computers because since it is written in a typesafe language (Java) it is pretty much impossible to hack it.
What you are looking for is probably the mount command. Seriously just look at the list of FUSE filesystems to get an idea of what can be done. We don't need one filesystem that is the best at everything, in fact that's impossible.
Even Berkely DB, which I also hate, would not be so bad if you could "mount -t berkdb -rw./database.db/mnt/database".
All I know is that if I wake up in the middle of the night and a creepy 5" glowing moth is hoving over my face (sucking out my life force??) I'm going to freakin' shit myself. It's like a metaphor for the MSM; the viewers are too scared to open their eyes and see.
Those of you that watch the nightly news know what I'm talking about -- it's in every broadcast.
As long as the process is automated, such as 'most discussed' or 'most viewed' then they have some protection under the DMCA. It's not their responsibility to determine if all their videos are legit, only to take down ones that are not authorized when and if they find them and to take down any videos when copyright holder gives them a notice to do so. Thanks to Grokster they also can't advertise or make money off of having unlicensed content.
This is just more evidence that the big corporations don't care what the law is, even a crappy law they paid for like DMCA. Even though YouTube *is* legal they'll sue them to death anyway.
A few corrections... yes it was a 7600gs. An 3800 X2 is not "33% more FPS" than the 3800 64. On the benchmarks it is -10% to 10% in performance depending on the game. It's basically 2 cpus@2.0ghz vs 1 cpu@2.4ghz. Which ends up benchmarking at basically the same speed for games, and also for anything else not actively using more than one thread at a time typically the X2 will actually be significantly slower.
In actuality this core 2 duo vs 3800 is probably at gaming somewhere between 1x-1.3x judging by the benchmarks I've seen (which didn't directly compare the two). So 2.5x more expensive for even maybe 1/3 faster at everyday things (games, web browser, etc) is a pretty hard sell. At 3.5x when I bought in it was a poor choice.
I've used a dual-core for almost a year at work, where I do development, and most of the time anything is actually being done, one CPU is idle and the other at 100% (gnome-panel has a nice little rolling cpu chart so I see both CPUs all the time). Yeah core-duo is a good chip technology wise, but for the prices even 250 for e6400 is still just a fairly good deal... nothing to write home about. For everyday stuff, the second core is occasionally very fast, but no help at all the vast majority of the time.
For about the price of just your processor I got a 2.4ghz Athlon 64 processor, 800 mhz ddr2, am2 motherboard, and geforce 7600gt. This entire system draws 100-102 watts when idle including 3 hard drives (according to kill-a-watt). CPU runs at ~35C @ 1100 rpm and is silent. This isn't a top-notch system of course, but it's pretty decent.
I'm glad I had a dual core pentium d at work (ie that I didn't pay for so didn't have to rationalize) to see that the vast majority of the time the extra core doesn't get you jack. Maybe +5% overall would be a pretty generous estimate. Sometimes I'll be doing something and it kicks in and that's cool, but it's so rare that until commodity chips are all dual core it's quite a waste unless you really need it (for example video editing... on your Macintosh). Maybe Windows really needs it, I don't know, but for linux the main benefit is that emerge world overnight, while I'm not even there, is noticeably faster.
Also, last time I ptrace single-stepped some common programs it was something like 95% of the time was spent in the last 1000 instructions. So yeah, extra cache will help some (but maybe not so much as the benchmarks will have you believe), and speed freaks should go for core 2 duo. But AMD is still a decent choice for price/performance.
All the things you've said are really pretty easy to do by consciously or unsconsciously updating your bearings by observation. Most human-made buildings are highly regular, even when designed to be confusing. Many times there are subtle clues that you don't pick up on that he probably does, such as the distant hum of a generator or type of vibration in the floor or the grain of the carpet.
These feats are nothing special really. Everybody has them to some degree, whether it is direction, or time, or reading expressions, or perfect pitch, or anything else. For instance I can set a 20 min pizza timer and go play a video game, pause it, and walk out with <5 seconds left on the timer. This happens very often. Do I have some magic genes that give me some digital internal chronometer? Doubtful, more likely I just have it in the back of my mind all the time.
Writing a debugger for a high-level dynamic object oriented language where everything is at the same level (ie the application and the OS are indistiguishable) is pretty easy.
Writing a debugger for a low-level compiled language that crosses memory protection spaces and also integrates with high-level languages, and making it actually useful and reliable. That's pretty hard.
I think some people here get defensive that Linux doesn't have dtrace, but Sun really deserves kudos for dtrace and even more so for helping to port it to OSX and BSD. This is what sun has always been about. For an evil multinational corporation, they rock pretty hard.
Just sign up for this service but don't use it right away. Instead, print out their terms and make a few "changes" such as:
"Mr. may change this agreement at any time in his sole discretion. Amazon's continued providing of Media Download Service constitutes agreement to this contract. Where this contract and Terms of Service, this agreement shall prevail".
Steal the language from some other contracts so it sounds more lawyerly. Send it certified mail, then every week keep sending them new "updates" to the terms. Finally add a clause saying you shall receive all Material(s) necessary to make backup copies of delivered Media. Then start using the service. And send them a "Demand for Private Key".
This is exactly why DRM lockdown is such a bad thing for 'promoting the sciences and useful arts'. For xbox 360 these people would have to buy a sdk and pay licensing fees out the wazoo. It would never happen.
The irony of "free markets" is that the less regulation the worse they perform. Monopolies are crackable DRM.
The "Methods" section only says the methods are the same as in "Ringach DL, Hawken MJ, and Shapley R. Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex.", which I did not find on-line.
I've looked a little bit for the procedure used. TFA says the university won't say. You say the papers are out there that describe what he was doing in the expirements being protested against, so link us up with the information, buddy. I'd be interested to know what is actually done instead of hearing only one side.
"And believe me, there is nothing particularly interesting or scandalous about what they do." In other words, "trust is it's nothing bad".
Go tell the average person that your research includes cutting monkey's eyes in half and attaching a grid of wires to the retina, cutting open their skulls and inserting metal probes into their visual cortex while they are still conscious, since their brain has to be operating normally. When they ask why, you tell them the truth that the military wants to know the best sequence of lights and patterns to cause nausea and stimulus-induced epilepsy in war protestors. Or maybe you don't know that part and you think it's just basic research.
Most people will shrug or say that's great. But a lot more people will think negatively of it or become protestors than will if you just say nothing about what you do. You keep your location and name secret to protect yourselves from fanatics. But you keep the nature of the research secret because it would create many more fanatics. That's the reason why you and UCLA won't tell what the research is.
There is a reason we have laws, police and courts.
Yes the animal rights people, the ones that resorted to violence, were definitely legally wrong and should be tried and convicted accordingly. But were they morally wrong? That's a question only UCLA and the researchers can really answer, by providing us with the information about what the research was. They refuse to do so.
"the university is not releasing detailed information about projects being attacked by such group"
What I don't get is what exactly the research was. UCLA is a public institution right? So if they aren't telling, chances are that it really is something pretty upsetting -or- it's being paid for by a drug company / the gov't, in which case you can be really sure it's not something respectable.
On one side you have somebody saying "he's a murderer or worse" and on the other saying "I won't tell you what I'm doing but it's all good, just trust me". I mean wtf? Sometimes fighting fire with fire is what works the best. Just what exactly was he doing to these primates anyway?
No, he did not say that. The spin machine translated it wrong to fool people into thinking they are so evil and so much of a threat that we need to attack them. And you fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
Google "iranian president mistranslated" to see what he actually said. This has happened on several occasions. It's no accident. -- Turn off the FOX, turn on the news.
You people that think six years is justice have no fucking idea what the American prison system is like. These punishments don't act as a deterrent because most people cannot even imagine how bad it is.
Watch some P.O.V. on the subject. The PBS had a story on of this guy who was just suspected of being in a prison gang (he wasn't) and got solitary for like 20 years in supermax for it. After he got out he didn't participate in anything. In social settings he just stands in the corner not talking, despite being completely outgoing and gregarious before prison. He says he's his own best company. And he was lucky because his 6x4 echo chamber had a TV and he was able to actually stay sane. And some inmates actually commit crimes in prison to get sent to this because the general population is also so bad.
I used to think oh yeah they have free meals and a roof over their heads and get to watch tv all day, that's not so bad. Then a relative got a job in a low security prison and the stories even there are just sick. Maggots in the food. Poisonous spiders that live inside the bedframes and are attracted to the smell of necrotizing flesh from their bites. The worst maybe was when the inmates killed a cockroach and it had worms living in it and they just sat their crying, broken down, because even the fucking pests were being eaten alive. That's how desperate a situation it is.
Sending anybody to an American prison for a non-violent crime is just sick. The system needs to be fixed. The time is way too hard for most crimes and way too long. The single best thing would be to stop the 'war on drugs'. Oh and the 'each case individually' means blacks get 2x the sentence, that's just so fair. People make jokes about the "pokey" and people getting butt raped and beat in prison. Then there's some nervous laughter because most people know that this is just sick.
I mean this guy was undoubtedly a jackass. Yeah he was living it up, while we all toil away trying to make a buck. But crying a river about all the innocent customers of his that bought unlicensed software? Come on, they got working software for less money. Yeah they were so hurt by that... the company was the only actual victim of any significance.
The question I have is does light 'emit' gravity or is it just affected by it? In other words, if we shine a many-gigawatt laser next to some approaching asteroid, does its course get deflected ever so slightly towards the beam?
I mean come on... if their initial assumptions are correct and the observed current mass distribution is correct and the calculations of how a gigantic collision would behave is correct and there was dark matter there then the results might indicate it was actually dark matter that did it. Needless to say it's completely untestable.
Matter that only interacts with normal matter through gravity... or maybe dark matter is gravity? Maybe gravity is similar to sound where an approaching body would appear to have higher mass as the compressed gravity waves 'pitch' is increased while a retreating one appears to have less gravity. Then instead of dark matter they could be observing something like a gravity shock wave. Or maybe space takes 'time' to 'deform' so an object in motion has a steeper curve ahead of it than behind (or vice versa). I mean who knows. It could be so many things.
Ok I know most astronomers are honest, smart, and highly educated. But how many times do we need to hear that the universe changed its age? Have they even ruled out that we aren't in some wrapping universe, toroid style?
I say we use it to build a dyson sphere around the entire universe. Then we can finally solve the question of whether the universe is expanding / contracting / balancing. The hard way.
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Alienating Novell sends a signal that Microsoft's patent extortion will not be tolerated by the community. It says that, should Microsoft press patent claims, that companies and people using Linux will retaliate -- with countersuits, civil disobedience, lobbying, bad PR, and whatever else.
You can bet that Novell is only coming out with this "open letter" because of the pressure they are feeling. Contracts being canceled or not renewed, bile and bad PR everywhere, FSF lawyers looking into filing suits, etc. They are probably getting the most pressure from SuSE developers, who can't be at all happy about being periahs.
The best step for the OSS community would be for Microsoft to document their protocols and formats. For instance if we had documentation on how NTFS lays out the filesystem we'd have a safe r/w driver in under a month. This Novell-MS deal is bunk. The European trustbusters have already done more than this deal ever will.
No that's not why these phones are so bad. You see, it isn't really your choice at all whether to get an ad-phone. Once a lot of people have a 'free' phone paid for by advertising the market for paid phones will be much less, so your choice will either be an 'annoy me' phone or a really expensive one with lots of features you don't even want (but maybe some CEOs want). If anything even paid phones will be like Cable where you pay *and* you get ads.
Viacom owns Comedy Central. Viacom is ~70% controlled by Sumner Restone. According to sourcewatch Sumner Redstone ' ' endorsed George W. Bush for re-election, saying that "the reason was simple: Republican values are what U.S. companies need. ... 'I look at the election from what's good for Viacom. I vote for what's good for Viacom. I vote, today, Viacom.'" ' '
Now over 1/3 of thesilentpatriot's videos on YouTube have been removed. Looks to me like The Man is trying to keep all this prime satire off the web to help out the 'pubs.
I think you've just hit on the real reason Intel is making an 80-core processor: 34 cores for mass mailers, 15 for some botnets, 27 for norton antivirus, 2 cores to correct my math, and then 2 left over to run SETI@Home.
The real question is, why do we have exploits? 99% of the ones out there could be eliminated entirely by using a typesafe language for applications and the operating system. Of course you can't entirely remove bugs, but what you can do is prevent systems from running arbitrary code on your system from hacked unsafe programs.
For instance, I have absolutely no problem running Azareus and getting hundreds of connections for random unknown computers because since it is written in a typesafe language (Java) it is pretty much impossible to hack it.
Then how would I use lynx to read slashdot??
What you are looking for is probably the mount command. Seriously just look at the list of FUSE filesystems to get an idea of what can be done. We don't need one filesystem that is the best at everything, in fact that's impossible.
./database.db /mnt/database".
Even Berkely DB, which I also hate, would not be so bad if you could "mount -t berkdb -rw
All I know is that if I wake up in the middle of the night and a creepy 5" glowing moth is hoving over my face (sucking out my life force??) I'm going to freakin' shit myself. It's like a metaphor for the MSM; the viewers are too scared to open their eyes and see.
Those of you that watch the nightly news know what I'm talking about -- it's in every broadcast.
Remember this is linux, so it's either the GNU/ones or the GNU/zeroes that are at fault.
As long as the process is automated, such as 'most discussed' or 'most viewed' then they have some protection under the DMCA. It's not their responsibility to determine if all their videos are legit, only to take down ones that are not authorized when and if they find them and to take down any videos when copyright holder gives them a notice to do so. Thanks to Grokster they also can't advertise or make money off of having unlicensed content.
This is just more evidence that the big corporations don't care what the law is, even a crappy law they paid for like DMCA. Even though YouTube *is* legal they'll sue them to death anyway.
A few corrections... yes it was a 7600gs. An 3800 X2 is not "33% more FPS" than the 3800 64. On the benchmarks it is -10% to 10% in performance depending on the game. It's basically 2 cpus@2.0ghz vs 1 cpu@2.4ghz. Which ends up benchmarking at basically the same speed for games, and also for anything else not actively using more than one thread at a time typically the X2 will actually be significantly slower.
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For instance, this link for reference on X2 vs 64:
http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q3/athlon64-x2-
In actuality this core 2 duo vs 3800 is probably at gaming somewhere between 1x-1.3x judging by the benchmarks I've seen (which didn't directly compare the two). So 2.5x more expensive for even maybe 1/3 faster at everyday things (games, web browser, etc) is a pretty hard sell. At 3.5x when I bought in it was a poor choice.
I've used a dual-core for almost a year at work, where I do development, and most of the time anything is actually being done, one CPU is idle and the other at 100% (gnome-panel has a nice little rolling cpu chart so I see both CPUs all the time). Yeah core-duo is a good chip technology wise, but for the prices even 250 for e6400 is still just a fairly good deal... nothing to write home about. For everyday stuff, the second core is occasionally very fast, but no help at all the vast majority of the time.
For about the price of just your processor I got a 2.4ghz Athlon 64 processor, 800 mhz ddr2, am2 motherboard, and geforce 7600gt. This entire system draws 100-102 watts when idle including 3 hard drives (according to kill-a-watt). CPU runs at ~35C @ 1100 rpm and is silent. This isn't a top-notch system of course, but it's pretty decent.
I'm glad I had a dual core pentium d at work (ie that I didn't pay for so didn't have to rationalize) to see that the vast majority of the time the extra core doesn't get you jack. Maybe +5% overall would be a pretty generous estimate. Sometimes I'll be doing something and it kicks in and that's cool, but it's so rare that until commodity chips are all dual core it's quite a waste unless you really need it (for example video editing... on your Macintosh). Maybe Windows really needs it, I don't know, but for linux the main benefit is that emerge world overnight, while I'm not even there, is noticeably faster.
Also, last time I ptrace single-stepped some common programs it was something like 95% of the time was spent in the last 1000 instructions. So yeah, extra cache will help some (but maybe not so much as the benchmarks will have you believe), and speed freaks should go for core 2 duo. But AMD is still a decent choice for price/performance.
All the things you've said are really pretty easy to do by consciously or unsconsciously updating your bearings by observation. Most human-made buildings are highly regular, even when designed to be confusing. Many times there are subtle clues that you don't pick up on that he probably does, such as the distant hum of a generator or type of vibration in the floor or the grain of the carpet.
These feats are nothing special really. Everybody has them to some degree, whether it is direction, or time, or reading expressions, or perfect pitch, or anything else. For instance I can set a 20 min pizza timer and go play a video game, pause it, and walk out with <5 seconds left on the timer. This happens very often. Do I have some magic genes that give me some digital internal chronometer? Doubtful, more likely I just have it in the back of my mind all the time.
Writing a debugger for a high-level dynamic object oriented language where everything is at the same level (ie the application and the OS are indistiguishable) is pretty easy.
Writing a debugger for a low-level compiled language that crosses memory protection spaces and also integrates with high-level languages, and making it actually useful and reliable. That's pretty hard.
I think some people here get defensive that Linux doesn't have dtrace, but Sun really deserves kudos for dtrace and even more so for helping to port it to OSX and BSD. This is what sun has always been about. For an evil multinational corporation, they rock pretty hard.
Just sign up for this service but don't use it right away. Instead, print out their terms and make a few "changes" such as:
"Mr. may change this agreement at any time in his sole discretion. Amazon's continued providing of Media Download Service constitutes agreement to this contract. Where this contract and Terms of Service, this agreement shall prevail".
Steal the language from some other contracts so it sounds more lawyerly. Send it certified mail, then every week keep sending them new "updates" to the terms. Finally add a clause saying you shall receive all Material(s) necessary to make backup copies of delivered Media. Then start using the service. And send them a "Demand for Private Key".
This is exactly why DRM lockdown is such a bad thing for 'promoting the sciences and useful arts'. For xbox 360 these people would have to buy a sdk and pay licensing fees out the wazoo. It would never happen.
The irony of "free markets" is that the less regulation the worse they perform. Monopolies are crackable DRM.
For example in:
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Spatial Structure and Symmetry of Simple-Cell Receptive Fields in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex
http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/88/1/45
The "Methods" section only says the methods are the same as in "Ringach DL, Hawken MJ, and Shapley R. Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex.", which I did not find on-line.
I've looked a little bit for the procedure used. TFA says the university won't say. You say the papers are out there that describe what he was doing in the expirements being protested against, so link us up with the information, buddy. I'd be interested to know what is actually done instead of hearing only one side.
"And believe me, there is nothing particularly interesting or scandalous about what they do." In other words, "trust is it's nothing bad".
Go tell the average person that your research includes cutting monkey's eyes in half and attaching a grid of wires to the retina, cutting open their skulls and inserting metal probes into their visual cortex while they are still conscious, since their brain has to be operating normally. When they ask why, you tell them the truth that the military wants to know the best sequence of lights and patterns to cause nausea and stimulus-induced epilepsy in war protestors. Or maybe you don't know that part and you think it's just basic research.
Most people will shrug or say that's great. But a lot more people will think negatively of it or become protestors than will if you just say nothing about what you do. You keep your location and name secret to protect yourselves from fanatics. But you keep the nature of the research secret because it would create many more fanatics. That's the reason why you and UCLA won't tell what the research is.
Yes the animal rights people, the ones that resorted to violence, were definitely legally wrong and should be tried and convicted accordingly. But were they morally wrong? That's a question only UCLA and the researchers can really answer, by providing us with the information about what the research was. They refuse to do so.
"the university is not releasing detailed information about projects being attacked by such group"
What I don't get is what exactly the research was. UCLA is a public institution right? So if they aren't telling, chances are that it really is something pretty upsetting -or- it's being paid for by a drug company / the gov't, in which case you can be really sure it's not something respectable.
On one side you have somebody saying "he's a murderer or worse" and on the other saying "I won't tell you what I'm doing but it's all good, just trust me". I mean wtf? Sometimes fighting fire with fire is what works the best. Just what exactly was he doing to these primates anyway?
No, he did not say that. The spin machine translated it wrong to fool people into thinking they are so evil and so much of a threat that we need to attack them. And you fell for it hook, line, and sinker.
Google "iranian president mistranslated" to see what he actually said. This has happened on several occasions. It's no accident.
--
Turn off the FOX, turn on the news.
You people that think six years is justice have no fucking idea what the American prison system is like. These punishments don't act as a deterrent because most people cannot even imagine how bad it is.
Watch some P.O.V. on the subject. The PBS had a story on of this guy who was just suspected of being in a prison gang (he wasn't) and got solitary for like 20 years in supermax for it. After he got out he didn't participate in anything. In social settings he just stands in the corner not talking, despite being completely outgoing and gregarious before prison. He says he's his own best company. And he was lucky because his 6x4 echo chamber had a TV and he was able to actually stay sane. And some inmates actually commit crimes in prison to get sent to this because the general population is also so bad.
I used to think oh yeah they have free meals and a roof over their heads and get to watch tv all day, that's not so bad. Then a relative got a job in a low security prison and the stories even there are just sick. Maggots in the food. Poisonous spiders that live inside the bedframes and are attracted to the smell of necrotizing flesh from their bites. The worst maybe was when the inmates killed a cockroach and it had worms living in it and they just sat their crying, broken down, because even the fucking pests were being eaten alive. That's how desperate a situation it is.
Sending anybody to an American prison for a non-violent crime is just sick. The system needs to be fixed. The time is way too hard for most crimes and way too long. The single best thing would be to stop the 'war on drugs'. Oh and the 'each case individually' means blacks get 2x the sentence, that's just so fair. People make jokes about the "pokey" and people getting butt raped and beat in prison. Then there's some nervous laughter because most people know that this is just sick.
I mean this guy was undoubtedly a jackass. Yeah he was living it up, while we all toil away trying to make a buck. But crying a river about all the innocent customers of his that bought unlicensed software? Come on, they got working software for less money. Yeah they were so hurt by that... the company was the only actual victim of any significance.
The question I have is does light 'emit' gravity or is it just affected by it? In other words, if we shine a many-gigawatt laser next to some approaching asteroid, does its course get deflected ever so slightly towards the beam?
I mean come on... if their initial assumptions are correct and the observed current mass distribution is correct and the calculations of how a gigantic collision would behave is correct and there was dark matter there then the results might indicate it was actually dark matter that did it. Needless to say it's completely untestable.
Matter that only interacts with normal matter through gravity... or maybe dark matter is gravity? Maybe gravity is similar to sound where an approaching body would appear to have higher mass as the compressed gravity waves 'pitch' is increased while a retreating one appears to have less gravity. Then instead of dark matter they could be observing something like a gravity shock wave. Or maybe space takes 'time' to 'deform' so an object in motion has a steeper curve ahead of it than behind (or vice versa). I mean who knows. It could be so many things.
Ok I know most astronomers are honest, smart, and highly educated. But how many times do we need to hear that the universe changed its age? Have they even ruled out that we aren't in some wrapping universe, toroid style?
I say we use it to build a dyson sphere around the entire universe. Then we can finally solve the question of whether the universe is expanding / contracting / balancing. The hard way.