1) I want to download my movies in high quality. I can't - the best quality is crappy Apple HD - if I go the illegal way I can get high quality and its conveniently packaged
2) The same applied for music for a decade before some sanity was restored courtesy of Apple having them over a barrel
3) I like to DVR programs and store them for posterity. I used to have an analog Media Center hooked up but now I need to either buy their equipment (cable card) with encrypted content (Anti DRM person), use their DVR equipment AND that not only doesn't allow me to do what I want but has a tiny hard drive allowing me to record a couple of high definition shows (no they don't have an eSata port or allow expansion)
4) My cable bill is north of 80 dollars a month (premium channels etc) but I'm not getting the product I want.
5) If I went the way of DVD-Sets it's illegal for me to rip movies I buy (DVD / DeCSS / Bluray equivalent etc) to my computer
6) If I buy the DVD-sets as per their opinion I'm buying a license not the product yet I have to pay again to re-buy it in high definition (double dipping on their part)
7) The MAFIAA is to put it nicely evil and a monopoly. (oligopoly?).
8) Copyright exists to benefit the people not MAFIAA and their cohorts in-spite of their destroying it.
Generally in a competitive market what the consumer is willing to pay for the consumer gets. Not what is forced down their throat and enforced by a bought and paid for government. I like spending my money on movies and music. I go to the movies regularly (inspite of having a pretty good home theater). But if instead of trying to woo me as a customer the only thing they do is a big middle finger at me...........
What would be fair would be to reduce copyright back to the original 7-14 years with progressively higher licensing fees making it ever more onerous for them to hold onto copyright of something non profitable. Perhaps do it on a percentage of revenue (would say profit but we know how they cook their books)
Create a central licensing authority for all media (that can be copyrighted) - books, videos, music whatever. An artist registers their copyright and a copy is stored there . A consumer could then buy a license and download (or have a physical copy shipped) in whatever format they choose.
Tack on a transit fee (bandwidth or shipping) to allow for the costs to be recouped if your downloading a bluray vs a dvd (preferably torrents to minimize the load)
The above also eliminates DRM
Have a network of private providers feeding of the central authority (create an API linked with a payment system). This would allow innovation - say an iphone store etc to be driven independantly
Artists could independently add their work and hire a 'marketing company' to market it. (bye bye RIAA hello to a bunch of marketing companies)
Provide a mechanism where-in the content will be universally available upon release (one could perhaps copyright it from day X indicating pre-production and on release anywhere its available on the repository) preventing them from gaming markets further minimizing incentive for anyone to pirate content
Somebody smarter then me could add in clever incentives for individual (non corporate) content creation.
The problem is a failure of markets caused by the MAFIAA and their ilk and can easily be fixed by ignoring them imho
Ditto for Windows. I use both and have been frustrated by both. Running a dual video card setup Linux (Ubuntu) often craps out when configuring the display (need to manually edit Xorg.conf)
On the other hand I've had Windows crap out because a single service got corrupted e.g. IIS's configuration got corrupted (can't uninstall / reinstall IIS - get a 1053 error on other services - windows installer service dead). With an in-place reinstall borking the entire thing coupled with a wipe and new install - the new install ending with a ran out of activation error. Not exactly user friendly
Both have their pro's and con's. Out of the box windows 'just works' far better (binary drivers, multiple displays whatever). On the other hand if anything does go wrong good luck ever figuring it out SOP seems to be to wipe and reinstall it
From TFA its a beta status driver that makes the api available. Is there any timeframe for when the release version comes out (Holding off on an upgrade O:-))
Loved the look, seems far more 'modern' if you may , menu animations etc
10 minutes in and I've had to temporarily go back to KDE 3.x (I was using KDE4.0 before)
My second X Screen is not accepting any keyboard input (regardless of how an application is started up there). I even had a session of KRDC started from the command line and had whatever I typed in the command line instead of the application on the second screen.
Acc to Tesla's own figures (with California electricity costs) - it'll cost you 4 cents/mile.
In comparison (again using California Gas) $4.6 (45mpg Prius = 10+cents) (27 mpg bmw=17+ cents) (20mpg corvette = 23 cents)
I just talked to the lady from the campaign who told me that while he opposes telecom immunity - he hasn't made a statement on this and she doesn't know if he will (basic evasiveness imho) but anyways she said they're the campaign and don't deal with policy issue per se and I should call his Senate office @ 202-224-2854
It has improved dramatically for memory management but still sucks big time. I had the browser open for a while and have this bad habit of right-click / open in new tab for anything I find interesting. Last night I opened around 50-60 tabs , which eventually (after being for a few hours) caused the machine to act sluggish. I checked firefox's memory usage which had jumped to 1.3GB
I googled but couldn't find anything specific - Basically a lot of people have expressed concern but nothing definitively negative - the issue that I found waaas it apparently activates larger muscles which in turn causes compression of the spine causing long-term problems. If you could point me in the right direction, would appreciate it - was on the verge of picking one up:)
Most people are fine with decent looking picture, its to replace a point and shoot pocketable camera not to replace the camera you take when you want to store memories - think of it as the camera you'll take on a night out on the town vs one you'd take to a wedding / birthday:)
Or they never even tried to compete? Most people didn't even know it existed, there was no marketing push only of late have I noticed the embed url's to link to the videos directly etc.
Far more importantly though they didn't try to offset costs. I'm sure they could've come up with a P2P based variant wherein users could have active clients helping them distribute the load with them providing heavy bandwidth sources reducing their costs pretty dramatically.
That isn't actually accurate. (Disclaimer: I used to be muslim).
To begin with Sharia was a creation that came into existence many centuries after Islam and was primarily religious folks trying to unify the people against their 'corrupt' leaders using a unified codex across the Islamic lands.
Nobody can and/or should be forced to do anything. The whole bit about 'There can be no compulsion in religion'
Even quranically the prophet was told to back off after telling people what was right/wrong because the rest was upto them.
In the spirit of full disclosure I at the moment believe that religion itself is bunk, regardless of which variety you look at.
The danish thing has been going on for a while, it took them this long to ban it for that?
Otoh there were elections a few days ago and there were multiple clips about rigging that happened in the election.
Forward to 1:20
or just search for pakistan rigging
What's the more probable cause for the ban?
Not quite true. They said they'd release the specs so said driver could be created but they only released partial specs for the 2D aspects of their chips. They still haven't released updated doc's for 3D/Video rendering etc
Sorry, shouldn't have included that on there, was somewhat off topic. But in any case my point wasn't just education but social justice. The issue is when things go off-balance beyond a certain degree where one can quite plainly see the injustices around them (even if they themselves aren't a target) people begin to rise up and say enough. Different people react differently and try to bring about change differently. But as other people said intelligent people have a higher probability of moving forward with whatever they decide on.
My point was more akin to by trying to minimize those kinds of problems you would have far fewer people motivated to 'fix' things which in a religious society often leads to religious solutions. If you read texts on why the Muslim countries fell off most treatements by Muslim authors focus on how the people stopped leading pious lives and were hence forsaken by God instead of actual issues such as economic competitiveness education etc
I'm from Pakistan and would be willing to guess that this is true. The issue primarily why these results would exist is the concept of fine arts etc aren't as common in most 3rd world countries. In pakistan for example the revered professions are Medicine and Engineering. The best and brightest always gravitate towards those (top 500 out of 50K candidates get into the main tech university in Karachi).
In any case, I'm willing to bet these are also the minds that go hmm there are problems with our society that need to be solved. One could probably divvy up these people into those that leave the country, those that stick behind and those that turn to religion for answers and eventually rise among the ranks of extremists etc.
Terrorism vs extremism isn't as finely delineated as Bush et. al would like to make it out to be. If one could fix the issue of social injustice and lack of opportunities / education I'm willing to bet most of these problems will go away as well.
Tad pie in the sky. I can speak from some family experience with #20
How do you prove abuse? Most people that are being abused don't go up and maintain records or complain to the police. It takes a massive amount of courage and people to lean on to walk away from a situation that is truly bad. And thats without going into emotional abuse - destroying the essence of who someone is. I personally know people who have had their pregnancies threatened, been flung down a flight of stairs but still refused to report their Significant Others or believe that they did wrong. Actual abuse is far more insidious then the simple idea that omg he/she hit me i'm out.
I was specifically referring to computer science since it was directly applicable, as in I was able to engage with the subject matter. Which I thought I further clarified by stating that I'm now a Software Engineer b/c of it. In any case I agree that it 'inherently' can't increase GPA. It's simply a tool, its usage dictates what its effects are. Even so from my point of view I'd rather have more tools available for their improvement. This is particularly true where the kids don't have to be dependent on the status quo (bad education systems/teachers) to improve themselves.
I'm sorry I never took Sociology or Econ but with a passing knowledge in it, I did read the wikipedia article but the only thing I got from it was people graduating from college at a rate higher then high-skills job creation makes competition stiffer raising the minimum bar. Don't see how computers factor into that except increasing the competitors? As an American that may be bad but as a citizen of the world, may the best/smartest man/woman win.
I agree that it is incapable of solving the problems but IF it increases the amount of people that can solve the problem (educated free thinkers) it is at least a step in the right direction.
I think your looking at it as a cure-all, its just a nudge in the right direction, without a people rising up to control their destiny to fight those trying to squeeze them dry, to educate themselves and improve their lot no one can externally 'fix' their problems. This isn't misguided enough to think it can, they're simply attempting to improve the quality of education as an end to itself. Now if (admittedly a big if) they have some mild success with it, there can be secondary effects which have a high probability of being positive.
One more thing these are tools, no more no less and without them being used right won't achieve anything positive, can actually create a generation of scammers etc. I haven't read into the XO into much detail but I'd hope they're working to integrate the laptop's with educational followthrough - candidate material (I read about them wanting an SDK to let kids tinker etc but beyond that methods to leverage it to lower the cost of educational materials as much as possible n improve the quality of available material).
As an aside, evolution isn't mentioned much in the Pakistani curricula, I know a significant quantity of medical doctors that don't understand it much less agree with it. By having easily referenced external sources available the odd curious soul might go HMMMM...
Legislation mandating calorie counts and fat counts on menu's and displays should solve the problem to a great degree. I think they were trying to get this passed in NYC but was shot down by the restaurants association.
A tad draconian / big brother but perhaps making a rule of no single order can exceed 500 calories and a certain fat percentage, if you want more, buy 2 / 3 etc. That way people will at least be aware of much they're eating.
First point: Anecdotal evidence of course is largely meaningless, just that it seemed to me to mirror what the OLPC guys are targetting.
Second point: I never mentioned their capacity for solving any social issues. Nor will it fix the library issues, what it will do is allow people without access to 'google' (provided they get the mesh working of course) and get information, it will also allow one to access stuff like project gutenberg and participate in online discussion forums (say for understanding a physics concept that one's teacher is particularly ill equipped at). Again not saying there aren't other avenues just that the available avenues will expand dramatically
Third Point: I think your missing the point. Having a computer won't do diddly squat, heck even I started off massively gaming. But being able to cut down the cost of acquiring books to near zero will help a lot. Being able to see animations of say bio stuff (how the heart pumps blood etc etc) will allow people to understand stuff better , pique and retain their interest. It's simply a tool to lower cost and increase the amount of information available. Whether it's used @ all or wasted is obviously up to the individual using it.
Fourth Point: I haven't read much about it nor have you provided anything actually backing up what you said? Especially don't get how computers have anything to do with it except perhaps increasing the total pool of smart people out there.
Fifth Point: Again no one is saying they'll solve social issues, they'll just make it easier for people to get educated. There may be spin-off effects of more people being educated. If you go to Pakistan for example and talk about democracy the average person will talk about voting, ask them about the need for checks and balances? The importance of institutions and you'll draw a blank stare, if perhaps a certain percentage read up on democracy that would shift (again not saying that will happen, just making a point that unintended positive consequences of education exist).
I was among the top 0.3 percent of my class (we have a city-wide exam with 50K candidates, I was among the top 150). Highly probable that I would've made something of myself, maybe not computer related but the point I was making was that it piqued my interest, was able to engage me with that subject and eventually gave me the tools to excel in it.
On a slightly related note, I knew other kids in Pakistan that were interested in computers and wanted to make a career out of it, but didn't have access to the resources. I actually got one of them a computer with which he did diddly squat (stuck in a dead-end 90 dollar a month job), imo didn't have the right guidance to make something of it.
Again my point isn't that it won't be abused and wasted but that if even 1% of the people that get it make something out of themselves and manage to pull their families and their descendants out of poverty. I'd say its definitely worth it.
It's easier to track. And like social security will escalate and be abused far beyond its original mandates. Virtually any power given to the government will be abused against the people.. It's just a matter of how long it takes
like reading a book at home on a computer instead of at the local school or library
Heh I grew up in Pakistan, not exactly the most impoverished of nations and the largest city has one large scale public library (there are local ones in high-end areas that cater to local neighborhood residents).
In order to read say a 3 investigators novel in middle/elemntary school I had to fork over 10 cents / day to a local private library. The household income at this point was in the range of 200 dollars (6k rupees) a month on which a family of 7 lived. And we were considered middle class. In comparison buying a new (pirated) book was around a dollar with a 'genuine' copy being around 6 dollars.
As you may guess even renting books from the local library was not exactly affordable in great quantities.
Far more relevant though, is back in the day my school had computer programming classes (BASIC) which I was virtually flunking, the whole thing seemed completely alien to me. A generous uncle bought us our first computer and my grades went from 50/100 to 99/100 and stayed in that range. I'm now earning well above the middle class in the US as a software engineer. For every person like me that actually got access to a computer and was able to leverage that there are probably hundreds if not thousands that were smarter then me and didn't. Imagine the potential lost, regardless of which field of study you think of.
imnsho this is a brilliant idea provided the likes of small minded governments and Intel don't completely screw it over.
It's not that it negates the existence of god. As others have pointed out there is no empirical way to prove that either ways. The thing it does do is peel the veneer of reality that most religions try to hide behind. One after the other it has disproven the myths presented by various religions (From Creation Myths to Morality n so on). I used to be Muslim but as I read up on both Religion and Science I've come to the conclusion that no one and especially those that espouse to know in particular have any idea whether there's a god.
In summation science has denuded most if not all religions, while the god hypothesis in and of itself is too abstract to come under direct scientific scrutiny
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Generally in a competitive market what the consumer is willing to pay for the consumer gets. Not what is forced down their throat and enforced by a bought and paid for government. I like spending my money on movies and music. I go to the movies regularly (inspite of having a pretty good home theater). But if instead of trying to woo me as a customer the only thing they do is a big middle finger at me...........
The problem is a failure of markets caused by the MAFIAA and their ilk and can easily be fixed by ignoring them imho
Ditto for Windows. I use both and have been frustrated by both. Running a dual video card setup Linux (Ubuntu) often craps out when configuring the display (need to manually edit Xorg.conf) On the other hand I've had Windows crap out because a single service got corrupted e.g. IIS's configuration got corrupted (can't uninstall / reinstall IIS - get a 1053 error on other services - windows installer service dead). With an in-place reinstall borking the entire thing coupled with a wipe and new install - the new install ending with a ran out of activation error. Not exactly user friendly Both have their pro's and con's. Out of the box windows 'just works' far better (binary drivers, multiple displays whatever). On the other hand if anything does go wrong good luck ever figuring it out SOP seems to be to wipe and reinstall it
From TFA its a beta status driver that makes the api available. Is there any timeframe for when the release version comes out (Holding off on an upgrade O:-))
Don't know about you but try playing back a 1080p H.264 video file and watch it choke to death and then some.
Shouldn't that be a super-bozo explosion?
10 minutes in and I've had to temporarily go back to KDE 3.x (I was using KDE4.0 before)
My second X Screen is not accepting any keyboard input (regardless of how an application is started up there).
I even had a session of KRDC started from the command line and had whatever I typed in the command line instead of the application on the second screen.
Acc to Tesla's own figures (with California electricity costs) - it'll cost you 4 cents/mile. In comparison (again using California Gas) $4.6 (45mpg Prius = 10+cents) (27 mpg bmw=17+ cents) (20mpg corvette = 23 cents)
I just talked to the lady from the campaign who told me that while he opposes telecom immunity - he hasn't made a statement on this and she doesn't know if he will (basic evasiveness imho) but anyways she said they're the campaign and don't deal with policy issue per se and I should call his Senate office @ 202-224-2854
It has improved dramatically for memory management but still sucks big time. I had the browser open for a while and have this bad habit of right-click / open in new tab for anything I find interesting. Last night I opened around 50-60 tabs , which eventually (after being for a few hours) caused the machine to act sluggish. I checked firefox's memory usage which had jumped to 1.3GB
I googled but couldn't find anything specific - Basically a lot of people have expressed concern but nothing definitively negative - the issue that I found waaas it apparently activates larger muscles which in turn causes compression of the spine causing long-term problems. If you could point me in the right direction, would appreciate it - was on the verge of picking one up :)
Most people are fine with decent looking picture, its to replace a point and shoot pocketable camera not to replace the camera you take when you want to store memories - think of it as the camera you'll take on a night out on the town vs one you'd take to a wedding / birthday :)
- AutoFocus/Flash for the Camera
- 3G
- GPS
and I'm set, getting rid of a bunch of electronics for just one deviceWhat else do you guys think could be added?
Or they never even tried to compete? Most people didn't even know it existed, there was no marketing push only of late have I noticed the embed url's to link to the videos directly etc. Far more importantly though they didn't try to offset costs. I'm sure they could've come up with a P2P based variant wherein users could have active clients helping them distribute the load with them providing heavy bandwidth sources reducing their costs pretty dramatically.
That isn't actually accurate. (Disclaimer: I used to be muslim).
To begin with Sharia was a creation that came into existence many centuries after Islam and was primarily religious folks trying to unify the people against their 'corrupt' leaders using a unified codex across the Islamic lands.
Nobody can and/or should be forced to do anything. The whole bit about 'There can be no compulsion in religion'
Even quranically the prophet was told to back off after telling people what was right/wrong because the rest was upto them.
In the spirit of full disclosure I at the moment believe that religion itself is bunk, regardless of which variety you look at.
The danish thing has been going on for a while, it took them this long to ban it for that?
Otoh there were elections a few days ago and there were multiple clips about rigging that happened in the election.
Forward to 1:20 or just search for pakistan rigging
What's the more probable cause for the ban?
Not quite true. They said they'd release the specs so said driver could be created but they only released partial specs for the 2D aspects of their chips. They still haven't released updated doc's for 3D/Video rendering etc
My point was more akin to by trying to minimize those kinds of problems you would have far fewer people motivated to 'fix' things which in a religious society often leads to religious solutions. If you read texts on why the Muslim countries fell off most treatements by Muslim authors focus on how the people stopped leading pious lives and were hence forsaken by God instead of actual issues such as economic competitiveness education etc
I'm from Pakistan and would be willing to guess that this is true. The issue primarily why these results would exist is the concept of fine arts etc aren't as common in most 3rd world countries. In pakistan for example the revered professions are Medicine and Engineering. The best and brightest always gravitate towards those (top 500 out of 50K candidates get into the main tech university in Karachi).
In any case, I'm willing to bet these are also the minds that go hmm there are problems with our society that need to be solved. One could probably divvy up these people into those that leave the country, those that stick behind and those that turn to religion for answers and eventually rise among the ranks of extremists etc.
Terrorism vs extremism isn't as finely delineated as Bush et. al would like to make it out to be. If one could fix the issue of social injustice and lack of opportunities / education I'm willing to bet most of these problems will go away as well.
Tad pie in the sky. I can speak from some family experience with #20 How do you prove abuse? Most people that are being abused don't go up and maintain records or complain to the police. It takes a massive amount of courage and people to lean on to walk away from a situation that is truly bad. And thats without going into emotional abuse - destroying the essence of who someone is. I personally know people who have had their pregnancies threatened, been flung down a flight of stairs but still refused to report their Significant Others or believe that they did wrong. Actual abuse is far more insidious then the simple idea that omg he/she hit me i'm out.
I'm sorry I never took Sociology or Econ but with a passing knowledge in it, I did read the wikipedia article but the only thing I got from it was people graduating from college at a rate higher then high-skills job creation makes competition stiffer raising the minimum bar. Don't see how computers factor into that except increasing the competitors? As an American that may be bad but as a citizen of the world, may the best /smartest man/woman win.
I agree that it is incapable of solving the problems but IF it increases the amount of people that can solve the problem (educated free thinkers) it is at least a step in the right direction.
I think your looking at it as a cure-all, its just a nudge in the right direction, without a people rising up to control their destiny to fight those trying to squeeze them dry, to educate themselves and improve their lot no one can externally 'fix' their problems. This isn't misguided enough to think it can, they're simply attempting to improve the quality of education as an end to itself. Now if (admittedly a big if) they have some mild success with it, there can be secondary effects which have a high probability of being positive.
One more thing these are tools, no more no less and without them being used right won't achieve anything positive, can actually create a generation of scammers etc. I haven't read into the XO into much detail but I'd hope they're working to integrate the laptop's with educational followthrough - candidate material (I read about them wanting an SDK to let kids tinker etc but beyond that methods to leverage it to lower the cost of educational materials as much as possible n improve the quality of available material).
As an aside, evolution isn't mentioned much in the Pakistani curricula, I know a significant quantity of medical doctors that don't understand it much less agree with it. By having easily referenced external sources available the odd curious soul might go HMMMM...
A tad draconian / big brother but perhaps making a rule of no single order can exceed 500 calories and a certain fat percentage, if you want more, buy 2 / 3 etc. That way people will at least be aware of much they're eating.
Second point: I never mentioned their capacity for solving any social issues. Nor will it fix the library issues, what it will do is allow people without access to 'google' (provided they get the mesh working of course) and get information, it will also allow one to access stuff like project gutenberg and participate in online discussion forums (say for understanding a physics concept that one's teacher is particularly ill equipped at). Again not saying there aren't other avenues just that the available avenues will expand dramatically
Third Point: I think your missing the point. Having a computer won't do diddly squat, heck even I started off massively gaming. But being able to cut down the cost of acquiring books to near zero will help a lot. Being able to see animations of say bio stuff (how the heart pumps blood etc etc) will allow people to understand stuff better , pique and retain their interest. It's simply a tool to lower cost and increase the amount of information available. Whether it's used @ all or wasted is obviously up to the individual using it.
Fourth Point: I haven't read much about it nor have you provided anything actually backing up what you said? Especially don't get how computers have anything to do with it except perhaps increasing the total pool of smart people out there.
Fifth Point: Again no one is saying they'll solve social issues, they'll just make it easier for people to get educated. There may be spin-off effects of more people being educated. If you go to Pakistan for example and talk about democracy the average person will talk about voting, ask them about the need for checks and balances? The importance of institutions and you'll draw a blank stare, if perhaps a certain percentage read up on democracy that would shift (again not saying that will happen, just making a point that unintended positive consequences of education exist).
I was among the top 0.3 percent of my class (we have a city-wide exam with 50K candidates, I was among the top 150). Highly probable that I would've made something of myself, maybe not computer related but the point I was making was that it piqued my interest, was able to engage me with that subject and eventually gave me the tools to excel in it.
On a slightly related note, I knew other kids in Pakistan that were interested in computers and wanted to make a career out of it, but didn't have access to the resources. I actually got one of them a computer with which he did diddly squat (stuck in a dead-end 90 dollar a month job), imo didn't have the right guidance to make something of it.
Again my point isn't that it won't be abused and wasted but that if even 1% of the people that get it make something out of themselves and manage to pull their families and their descendants out of poverty. I'd say its definitely worth it.
It's easier to track. And like social security will escalate and be abused far beyond its original mandates. Virtually any power given to the government will be abused against the people.. It's just a matter of how long it takes
like reading a book at home on a computer instead of at the local school or library
Heh I grew up in Pakistan, not exactly the most impoverished of nations and the largest city has one large scale public library (there are local ones in high-end areas that cater to local neighborhood residents).
In order to read say a 3 investigators novel in middle/elemntary school I had to fork over 10 cents / day to a local private library. The household income at this point was in the range of 200 dollars (6k rupees) a month on which a family of 7 lived. And we were considered middle class. In comparison buying a new (pirated) book was around a dollar with a 'genuine' copy being around 6 dollars.
As you may guess even renting books from the local library was not exactly affordable in great quantities.
Far more relevant though, is back in the day my school had computer programming classes (BASIC) which I was virtually flunking, the whole thing seemed completely alien to me. A generous uncle bought us our first computer and my grades went from 50/100 to 99/100 and stayed in that range. I'm now earning well above the middle class in the US as a software engineer. For every person like me that actually got access to a computer and was able to leverage that there are probably hundreds if not thousands that were smarter then me and didn't. Imagine the potential lost, regardless of which field of study you think of.
imnsho this is a brilliant idea provided the likes of small minded governments and Intel don't completely screw it over.
It's not that it negates the existence of god. As others have pointed out there is no empirical way to prove that either ways. The thing it does do is peel the veneer of reality that most religions try to hide behind. One after the other it has disproven the myths presented by various religions (From Creation Myths to Morality n so on). I used to be Muslim but as I read up on both Religion and Science I've come to the conclusion that no one and especially those that espouse to know in particular have any idea whether there's a god.
In summation science has denuded most if not all religions, while the god hypothesis in and of itself is too abstract to come under direct scientific scrutiny