Yes, but I meant that English-speakers are probably more familiar with the word 'umlaut' than 'dieraesis', at least from what I've read previously in these discussions. Thus there's three different meanings to two dots like that: dieresis, umlaut, and no meaning but part of a letter.
They're just two more vowels that you don't have in English:
Ä or ä - like 'a' in 'at'
Ö or ö - like.. um.. somewhat like 'u' in 'burden', but a bit higher sound.
These dot's are called "umlaut" sometimes, coming from their German counterpart. Notice though, that they are not 'umlaut' in Finnish or any other nordic language, because they belong to the letter itself, they don't modify it. In Finnish they're called simply ä and ö, and the dots are ä-dots or ö-dots. Info on these vowels.
As I understand it, it should actually be possible to do it in-house, simply by including your own root cert in every machine and workstation deployed, thus making them trust your own stuff. What is not possible is to expect any random user on the 'net to trust any random root authority, that is not good security. Unless of course, the user can get the cert, or it's fingerprint by other means, but that's a fairly uncommon situation.
It's not just about outsourcing key management, it's about trust. If you trust the root server, then you can trust anything signed by them. If the key isn't signed, it could be anyone doing location bar trickery and man-in-the-middle whatnot.
The USA is actually a net carbon SINK, rather than a carbon SOURCE. This is one of the reasons the USA didn't sign the Kyoto treaty; the treaty doesn't take into account consumers of atmospheric carbon, only producers.
That doesn't compute. It's global warming, remember.
If the US produces carbon sources, it places a global strain on the system. If the USA produces carbon sinks, it reduces the strain on the system. Is there any industry that traps more carbon than it produces? In other words, just because the USA is a net carbon sink, doesn't mean that it should be allowed to run around willy-nilly filling their local quota of carbon absorption, because that absorption does not belong only to them, it belongs to the world (as it always has).
On the other hand, if someone plants 211 900 km^2 of carbon-vacuum-cleaning forest and vegetation, then sure, use it to an advantage.
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Yeah, I follow you. And freezing down air routes won't completely stop people from moving either. A person who takes a train or boat from an infected region, and then jumps on a plane seems to be an overlooked vector, at least when looking at the SARS epidemic. Also, a backpacker, say, could unwittingly cause a break out of containment.
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You're right, expect a serious outbreak when all american soldiers return from Iraq.
I'm thinking that it's a black box script that provides an example. The students are then probbly supposed to make their own that does the same. In this case it might actually work with heavy obfuscation, because the simple requirement of well-commented submissions will defeat any deparsing/-compiling attempts.
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Only if it has an orbital angular velocity of 88 degrees per hour.
So, from your point of view, the question is why evolution happens, not if and how?
I can see the point with that, it's similar to "Did God start the Big Bang with just the right parameters". However, I suspect that discrediting the theory of evolution is on the agenda of many people (in the US), at least it seems that way.
Also, exactly how unlikely is "mathematically unlikely"? Is there any credible calculation of this probability anywhere? The thing is, the Earth is a very large system, and it spans a very long timeframe. Just about anything can be done with enough time and resources, why not "accidental" evolution as some call it? Indeed, since I am here arguing about it, something must obviously have worked, and thus we set out to find that something.
Finally, you could argue that this "something" is a designer, but who is he, how did he do it, and why is this designer more likely to exist than evolution to have occured?
And even more finally, even if "accidental" or "random" evolution is shown to be very unlikely, it means only that. It doesn't mean that life must be designed.
Of course, if there are bugs, or lacking features, you need some central codebase to improve upon, etc.
No problem, just open-source it. Suddenly there's a java port of the client on sourceforge, a myriad of clients sporting new features and increased resilience, and an entire cvs tree on Freenet.
Ok so that last one is pretty unrealistic as of yet, but otherwise... a good and popular enough P2P program just won't be shut down.
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Of course. Generally, the requirement of a sudoku puzzle is that it can be solved using logic alone, without guessing, and that it has only one solution. It's not rocket science, it's a light brain-workout.
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Yes, but I meant that English-speakers are probably more familiar with the word 'umlaut' than 'dieraesis', at least from what I've read previously in these discussions. Thus there's three different meanings to two dots like that: dieresis, umlaut, and no meaning but part of a letter.
Ä or ä - like 'a' in 'at' .. um.. somewhat like 'u' in 'burden', but a bit higher sound.
Ö or ö - like
These dot's are called "umlaut" sometimes, coming from their German counterpart. Notice though, that they are not 'umlaut' in Finnish or any other nordic language, because they belong to the letter itself, they don't modify it. In Finnish they're called simply ä and ö, and the dots are ä-dots or ö-dots. Info on these vowels.
As I understand it, it should actually be possible to do it in-house, simply by including your own root cert in every machine and workstation deployed, thus making them trust your own stuff. What is not possible is to expect any random user on the 'net to trust any random root authority, that is not good security. Unless of course, the user can get the cert, or it's fingerprint by other means, but that's a fairly uncommon situation.
It's not just about outsourcing key management, it's about trust. If you trust the root server, then you can trust anything signed by them. If the key isn't signed, it could be anyone doing location bar trickery and man-in-the-middle whatnot.
That's just great, do you want Microsoft to translate the variable names?!
I think you misspelled '4. Defense industry profited!!!' there.
That doesn't compute. It's global warming, remember.
If the US produces carbon sources, it places a global strain on the system. If the USA produces carbon sinks, it reduces the strain on the system. Is there any industry that traps more carbon than it produces? In other words, just because the USA is a net carbon sink, doesn't mean that it should be allowed to run around willy-nilly filling their local quota of carbon absorption, because that absorption does not belong only to them, it belongs to the world (as it always has).
On the other hand, if someone plants 211 900 km^2 of carbon-vacuum-cleaning forest and vegetation, then sure, use it to an advantage.
Yeah, I follow you. And freezing down air routes won't completely stop people from moving either. A person who takes a train or boat from an infected region, and then jumps on a plane seems to be an overlooked vector, at least when looking at the SARS epidemic. Also, a backpacker, say, could unwittingly cause a break out of containment.
Oh, wait...
There is no AM/PM, only 24 hours.
Ah, it's a company that's setting up the machine, forget what I said. :)
I'm thinking that it's a black box script that provides an example. The students are then probbly supposed to make their own that does the same. In this case it might actually work with heavy obfuscation, because the simple requirement of well-commented submissions will defeat any deparsing/-compiling attempts.
Only if it has an orbital angular velocity of 88 degrees per hour.
The goat-man? Organ pipe.
Simple, don't store incomplete arp entries from sequential scans.
I think I'll have the mind-control instead, thank you.
No, Venereal Mounds.
Yeah, there certainly is a lot of "acceptable spelling" over there. :)
And no, I won't say Cytherean mounds, and Venereal mounds sounds even more hazardous.
I do prefer Venetian mounds, thank you.
It does have a rather nice phallic look to it though.
Indeed, we might in fact find our own bacteria there, adapted to the conditions.
I can see the point with that, it's similar to "Did God start the Big Bang with just the right parameters". However, I suspect that discrediting the theory of evolution is on the agenda of many people (in the US), at least it seems that way.
Also, exactly how unlikely is "mathematically unlikely"? Is there any credible calculation of this probability anywhere? The thing is, the Earth is a very large system, and it spans a very long timeframe. Just about anything can be done with enough time and resources, why not "accidental" evolution as some call it? Indeed, since I am here arguing about it, something must obviously have worked, and thus we set out to find that something.
Finally, you could argue that this "something" is a designer, but who is he, how did he do it, and why is this designer more likely to exist than evolution to have occured?
And even more finally, even if "accidental" or "random" evolution is shown to be very unlikely, it means only that. It doesn't mean that life must be designed.
No problem, just open-source it. Suddenly there's a java port of the client on sourceforge, a myriad of clients sporting new features and increased resilience, and an entire cvs tree on Freenet.
Ok so that last one is pretty unrealistic as of yet, but otherwise... a good and popular enough P2P program just won't be shut down.
Of course. Generally, the requirement of a sudoku puzzle is that it can be solved using logic alone, without guessing, and that it has only one solution. It's not rocket science, it's a light brain-workout.