"SETI began in 1960 with the efforts of Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, whose Project Ozma became the first modern SETI experiment in history."
Frank Drake did receive a message during Project Ozma. One night, he started picking up, of all things, Morse code. When decoded, the message read "Message received. Send more Chuck Berry." Nobody ever owned up to the gag.
Sorry, I don't have contact with schizophrenia in my personal life. All mine is in the lab. I do basic perceptual and cognitive psychology experiments on all sorts of people to figure out how the brain works, and fails to work. Schizophrenics is one group I work with.
Understand that a diagnosis is not the same as a disease. Schizophrenia is a result. It probably has many different causes. The fact that there are several successful yet different lines of research supports that. Hence, any advice may not help, because it may help someone with a different condition that's resulting in schizophrenia, or it may help someone who's trying to cope with someone who has a different cause/kind.
Outcomes and quality of life are extremely variable. I've done experiments with people I didn't realize were schizophrenic until I read their charts afterward.
How someone has coped in a position such as yours may or may not help you, but the fact that they did certainly can. Take it as it comes, knowing it might not be easy, but it's possible.
"1999 BBC report: Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars? [bbc.co.uk] Nanobacteria - Is Cardiovascular Disease an Infection?? [noaw.com] 1998 Nanobacteria paper for biology geeks and Doctors [doctorshealthsupply.com] bottom line, this stuff has been debated since 1985. Now someone claims to discover a new form of life? That's like not naming the new world Columbus discovered Columbia (with apologies to the American Indians, who were there all along) Plenty of prior art."
All of which was speculation and initial findings. This article was corroboration, which nothing should be considered acceptable science without. As for naming, was not at least one of your references of an article by the same person the present article is about? He's still using the same name he gave it back then.
All power and thanks to the FTC -- they mean well and try hard -- but they end up trying to please everyone and accomplishing nothing. The previous attempts to stop spam (not directly out of FTC offices, but believe me, due in large part to their efforts) proved ineffectual within weeks. This will fare no better.
Of course, I may be wrong. Maybe this will work. Maybe spammers will act responsible for once. And maybe we'll get a visit from the bit fairy, after which Windows won't crash, Macs will be popular, and all version of Linux will install and run first try with no problems.
...announcing a strike at the same time Cingular and AT&T are announcing approval of a merger. The "cost" of the merger is tied to the value of the stock. The value of the stock drops, and Cingular loses. The union is blackmailing the company into settling fast and sweet by timing their announcement to knock the stock prices down at a critical time.
If SBC has the gonadal substructure, they'll reply with "Well, with all these AT&T people coming on board, we'll be way over staffed, and we'll have to start cutting some jobs..."
Hey, I'm against both sides. I just enjoy a good corporate bloodbath. Movies are getting too expensive, news is free.
If you have a brain tumor, you are likely to have headaches. However, if you have headaches, it is highly likely that It's NOT a tumah!
Finding corroboration for an observation is not nearly the same as finding support for the explanation devised to explain it. Claiming it does requires circular logic. The real conclusion is at the end of the article; the statement that we just may not yet understand enough about gravity is almost certainly true.
"Much of what I learned, I learned in spite of school, not because of it." [From 'How Old Will You Be In 1984?', a late 60's counter-culture newspaper article compilation.]
I've spent more time in school after high school graduation than before; 4 degrees and one state practician's license. I agree with the above statement.
Be aware there are alternative ways to learn math. I used to teach algebra and trig to math phobics -- people who were afraid to balance their checkbook. Converting it to a natural language is one way. Visualization is another.
Also, grasping the concepts and doing the math aren't the same thing, despite what those who teach math the traditional way would have you think. In my work I do nonlinear analysis of complex signals. I know what I'm doing. But I couldn't do the math myself for anything.
"What I do is send meaningless emails with high encryption to my friends in China. I figure that the NSA may as well spend countless CPU cycles finding out that I just installed the Guild Wars E3 demo rather then on important stuff."
I often enjoy sending such things are core dumps or font files (or maybe plans for a planet-buster nuke, I fergit) compressed twice using two different out dated compression programs (say, ARC on a PC and then ShrinkIt [NuFX] on an Apple II), strip off the archive ID header, UUencode it, strip off the leading cap M's, cut it in half, paste it second half first into an email, and send it with a subject line with likely Echelon trigger words, adding "PS: Call me for the key to decode this." If encryption is outlawed, only a8e3 5m0w s3k1 5d9k b7f2 7k1l c9r4 3yr5.
If the problem is "that I'm so busy when I come back that the notebook sits for weeks or months unopened", then the device you need is a time machine. Attempting to fix this with any other sort of technology is an attempt to fix what's not broke. You can spend as much as you like and still only have good intentions to show for it.
I would use a camera and a hand held tape recorder. Take pictures and voice notes, and merge them into a slide show. And I wouldn't ruin the immediacy by editing the recordings, which also would let you off the post-production hook.
See David Bohm and Basil Hiley's "The Undivided Universe". The "other" universes are not parallel, but rather simultaneous probabilities and implicate in what becomes the result. It explains why logic demands something like parallel universes, but explains it in a way that not only satisfies the theory but with existing math that actually works. Students of quantum theory will recognize Bohm as author of what is still one of the best text books on the subject.
If my printer will do 6 pages of letter size per minute, how many A4 pages will it do in metric time? Is there a converter for the cartridges for using metric ink? My present printer can handle 8 bits in parallel. We call that a "byte". If I get a metric capable printer, will it handle 10 bits in parallel? And what would that be called. "Tea"?
I hope we don't end up having to get both kids of equipment. I had to get both kinds of wrenchs for working on the car. They're called "this one works" and "get the hammer".
Ask the next caller for their address. Tell them you're a telemarketing consultant, and you'll be glad to listen to their pitch and rate it at your normal consultancy rate. If they give you an address, listen to their pitch, hang up, write them a letter telling them what you think of their pitch, and send it to them along with an invoice. If they don't pay, submit it to a collection agency. The resulting credit rating problems will make them notice.
I've never gotten past explaining what I needed the address for, and I've never gotten a return call from the same place. If I ever do get an address, they'll get my best effort to rate their pitch, and a bill for US$200.
Why bother to use a name that ends up being misleading? MP3.com == downloads. Garageband has picked up the old playlists and music.download.com is growing into what MP3.com was. About the only thing it could be is a come-on for pay-per-song portals, and it'd take the peculiar thinking of a dedicated marketoid to think that'll go over.
Tell your bosses to either learn about and purchase protection equipment, or don't and learn about lightning damage, then buy new equipment and THEN buy protection equipment.
Arresters typically come with insurance; if the protection fails to protect, they pay you. If this fails to catch your PHBs's attention, start wearing a scuba diving outfit to work and tell them that the rubber is to prevent you from getting killed by the lightning, and oh, by the way, would they mind very much if you took out life insurance policies on them?
BiggerIsBetter (682164) sez: "Isn't Sony in the RIAA too? Isn't that like some sort of conflict of interest?"
Not the way Sony sees it. Sony sees funny.
Back in the early 80's, Sony was one of the companies that wanted a "tax" on cassette tapes, to make up for the money they "lost" (more accurately, failed to make) due to people taping albums.
They wanted me to pay more for my Sony tape that I used in my Sony tape deck to record my Sony albums by Sony artists. They saw nothing wrong with this. Luckily, others did.
jgardn (539054) sez: "The earth is a chaotic system, and chaotic systems for the most part are unpredictable. A variation of a few hundredths of a degree in one place in the world can be responsible for a hurricane in another."
You have an extremely warped view of nonlinear system dynamics. Chaotic systems can be characterized and the state at a given time in the future stated with a degree of certaintly. Decreasing, yes, but still based on probability.
Just because the butterfly exists does not mean the butterfly controls all the weather. "Can" does not equal "will", nor even "probably".
As for what we can do about it, we can look at what we've done so far to affect things, even though it was by accident. We can do at least an equal amount by undoing what was done. We can also learn new things and effect mechanisms to make things better. All of science and technology exist for this purpose.
Will we? Hell no. Some people are making a lot of money providing us with things we like which happen to ruin the planet. They're not about to let us stop.
Since when did science belong to the US as an object to be defended? The sort of mind set that wrote the article and supports its premise is the mind set that resultss in the excessive politicization of science and causes some of its best minds to have to waste their time competing for power in order to compete for money in order to do science which they no longer have time to do because they're busy competing.
And, despite the wide recognition of the failure of the "publish or perish" paradigm, it continues to be the single most important factor in judging someone's scientific worth, while the value and implications of much of that make-work science is ignored.
It happens. However, since it's a sensitive issue, it should be addressed. If AHBL isn't making a point to contact the media on their own and explain what's going on and why, they're missing their greatest opportunity to force some change. I'd go as far as to say that if they're not doing that, they're wasting their time.
It happend with India (VSNL) and usenet. It can be quite shaming to have the world know you (as a state owned/operated/supervised pipe) are such a bad neighbor that people are erasing you from their maps. But they're only shamed if you make people notice. Such publicity also goes far towards preventing the perp from suing your ass off, since public opinion will have been engaged, and its orientation will be on the anti-spam side.
It is NOT about data transfer, or even data storage. It is about magnetic writing. Did the submitter RTFA or just the also-incorrect title?
As far as storage, 10 years ago they could store a gigabyte in a 3D crystal the size of a sugar cube and read the whole thing back in a second. {HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORIES , By: Psaltis, Demetri, Mok, Fai, Scientific American, 00368733, Nov95, Vol. 273, Issue 5}. That was before the many advances in optical storage technology, particularly high frequency lasers. And using only ONE laser focus, which even DVDs already surpass.
As for transfer rate, look to astrophysics. Radio astronomers listen to signals using amplifiers that carry a billion channels at once. That's a hell of a parallel system. Turn it around and broadcast through it using plain old 8N1+stop protocol in parallel and you're moving 100 MB PER PULSE. Multiply that times your chosen broadcast primary frequency, say 1 GHz, and you're moving 100 petabytes per second, give or take the shift to the lowest frequency on the MUXing.
It's usually at this point that the engineers start sputtering about how impossible it is due to Fourier transform limitations, proving they're not aware that radio astronomers were listening to thousands of channels even before they had time/freqency analysis via continuous wavelet transform running in real time.
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"SETI began in 1960 with the efforts of Cornell University astronomer Frank Drake, whose Project Ozma became the first modern SETI experiment in history."
Frank Drake did receive a message during Project Ozma. One night, he started picking up, of all things, Morse code. When decoded, the message read "Message received. Send more Chuck Berry." Nobody ever owned up to the gag.
Sorry, I don't have contact with schizophrenia in my personal life. All mine is in the lab. I do basic perceptual and cognitive psychology experiments on all sorts of people to figure out how the brain works, and fails to work. Schizophrenics is one group I work with.
Understand that a diagnosis is not the same as a disease. Schizophrenia is a result. It probably has many different causes. The fact that there are several successful yet different lines of research supports that. Hence, any advice may not help, because it may help someone with a different condition that's resulting in schizophrenia, or it may help someone who's trying to cope with someone who has a different cause/kind.
Outcomes and quality of life are extremely variable. I've done experiments with people I didn't realize were schizophrenic until I read their charts afterward.
How someone has coped in a position such as yours may or may not help you, but the fact that they did certainly can. Take it as it comes, knowing it might not be easy, but it's possible.
"1999 BBC report: Do nanobacteria rule Earth and Mars? [bbc.co.uk]
Nanobacteria - Is Cardiovascular Disease an Infection?? [noaw.com]
1998 Nanobacteria paper for biology geeks and Doctors [doctorshealthsupply.com]
bottom line, this stuff has been debated since 1985. Now someone claims to discover a new form of life? That's like not naming the new world Columbus discovered Columbia (with apologies to the American Indians, who were there all along) Plenty of prior art."
All of which was speculation and initial findings. This article was corroboration, which nothing should be considered acceptable science without. As for naming, was not at least one of your references of an article by the same person the present article is about? He's still using the same name he gave it back then.
All power and thanks to the FTC -- they mean well and try hard -- but they end up trying to please everyone and accomplishing nothing. The previous attempts to stop spam (not directly out of FTC offices, but believe me, due in large part to their efforts) proved ineffectual within weeks. This will fare no better.
Of course, I may be wrong. Maybe this will work. Maybe spammers will act responsible for once. And maybe we'll get a visit from the bit fairy, after which Windows won't crash, Macs will be popular, and all version of Linux will install and run first try with no problems.
...announcing a strike at the same time Cingular and AT&T are announcing approval of a merger. The "cost" of the merger is tied to the value of the stock. The value of the stock drops, and Cingular loses. The union is blackmailing the company into settling fast and sweet by timing their announcement to knock the stock prices down at a critical time.
If SBC has the gonadal substructure, they'll reply with "Well, with all these AT&T people coming on board, we'll be way over staffed, and we'll have to start cutting some jobs..."
Hey, I'm against both sides. I just enjoy a good corporate bloodbath. Movies are getting too expensive, news is free.
If you have a brain tumor, you are likely to have headaches. However, if you have headaches, it is highly likely that It's NOT a tumah!
Finding corroboration for an observation is not nearly the same as finding support for the explanation devised to explain it. Claiming it does requires circular logic. The real conclusion is at the end of the article; the statement that we just may not yet understand enough about gravity is almost certainly true.
If they're going to be stinky about it, we should just rename it.
10^100 should become one SCOillion.
that's unaccountability. IMO, it's also irresponsibility.
"Much of what I learned, I learned in spite of school, not because of it." [From 'How Old Will You Be In 1984?', a late 60's counter-culture newspaper article compilation.]
I've spent more time in school after high school graduation than before; 4 degrees and one state practician's license. I agree with the above statement.
Be aware there are alternative ways to learn math. I used to teach algebra and trig to math phobics -- people who were afraid to balance their checkbook. Converting it to a natural language is one way. Visualization is another.
Also, grasping the concepts and doing the math aren't the same thing, despite what those who teach math the traditional way would have you think. In my work I do nonlinear analysis of complex signals. I know what I'm doing. But I couldn't do the math myself for anything.
bfg9000 sez: "I'm afraid this won't work. I talked to the Echelon guys, and they use THE MIGHTY SLASHDOT LAMENESS FILTER!!!"
I know. I heard you. I tilted the tin foil over to one side and used it as a receiver dish.
"As a result, they are nearly unstoppable."
Stop them? Nobody wants to stop them. We want to keep them busy. Ghods help us if the spooks should ever find themselves without enough to do.
"What I do is send meaningless emails with high encryption to my friends in China. I figure that the NSA may as well spend countless CPU cycles finding out that I just installed the Guild Wars E3 demo rather then on important stuff."
I often enjoy sending such things are core dumps or font files (or maybe plans for a planet-buster nuke, I fergit) compressed twice using two different out dated compression programs (say, ARC on a PC and then ShrinkIt [NuFX] on an Apple II), strip off the archive ID header, UUencode it, strip off the leading cap M's, cut it in half, paste it second half first into an email, and send it with a subject line with likely Echelon trigger words, adding "PS: Call me for the key to decode this." If encryption is outlawed, only
a8e3 5m0w s3k1 5d9k
b7f2 7k1l c9r4 3yr5.
If the problem is "that I'm so busy when I come back that the notebook sits for weeks or months unopened", then the device you need is a time machine. Attempting to fix this with any other sort of technology is an attempt to fix what's not broke. You can spend as much as you like and still only have good intentions to show for it.
I would use a camera and a hand held tape recorder. Take pictures and voice notes, and merge them into a slide show. And I wouldn't ruin the immediacy by editing the recordings, which also would let you off the post-production hook.
See David Bohm and Basil Hiley's "The Undivided Universe". The "other" universes are not parallel, but rather simultaneous probabilities and implicate in what becomes the result. It explains why logic demands something like parallel universes, but explains it in a way that not only satisfies the theory but with existing math that actually works. Students of quantum theory will recognize Bohm as author of what is still one of the best text books on the subject.
If my printer will do 6 pages of letter size per minute, how many A4 pages will it do in metric time? Is there a converter for the cartridges for using metric ink? My present printer can handle 8 bits in parallel. We call that a "byte". If I get a metric capable printer, will it handle 10 bits in parallel? And what would that be called. "Tea"?
I hope we don't end up having to get both kids of equipment. I had to get both kinds of wrenchs for working on the car. They're called "this one works" and "get the hammer".
Ask the next caller for their address. Tell them you're a telemarketing consultant, and you'll be glad to listen to their pitch and rate it at your normal consultancy rate. If they give you an address, listen to their pitch, hang up, write them a letter telling them what you think of their pitch, and send it to them along with an invoice. If they don't pay, submit it to a collection agency. The resulting credit rating problems will make them notice.
I've never gotten past explaining what I needed the address for, and I've never gotten a return call from the same place. If I ever do get an address, they'll get my best effort to rate their pitch, and a bill for US$200.
Why bother to use a name that ends up being misleading? MP3.com == downloads. Garageband has picked up the old playlists and music.download.com is growing into what MP3.com was. About the only thing it could be is a come-on for pay-per-song portals, and it'd take the peculiar thinking of a dedicated marketoid to think that'll go over.
Tell your bosses to either learn about and purchase protection equipment, or don't and learn about lightning damage, then buy new equipment and THEN buy protection equipment.
Arresters typically come with insurance; if the protection fails to protect, they pay you. If this fails to catch your PHBs's attention, start wearing a scuba diving outfit to work and tell them that the rubber is to prevent you from getting killed by the lightning, and oh, by the way, would they mind very much if you took out life insurance policies on them?
BiggerIsBetter (682164) sez: "Isn't Sony in the RIAA too? Isn't that like some sort of conflict of interest?"
Not the way Sony sees it. Sony sees funny.
Back in the early 80's, Sony was one of the companies that wanted a "tax" on cassette tapes, to make up for the money they "lost" (more accurately, failed to make) due to people taping albums.
They wanted me to pay more for my Sony tape that I used in my Sony tape deck to record my Sony albums by Sony artists. They saw nothing wrong with this. Luckily, others did.
read a double density recorded DVD in a single density DVD drive and access all 8GB?
jgardn (539054) sez: "The earth is a chaotic system, and chaotic systems for the most part are unpredictable. A variation of a few hundredths of a degree in one place in the world can be responsible for a hurricane in another."
You have an extremely warped view of nonlinear system dynamics. Chaotic systems can be characterized and the state at a given time in the future stated with a degree of certaintly. Decreasing, yes, but still based on probability.
Just because the butterfly exists does not mean the butterfly controls all the weather. "Can" does not equal "will", nor even "probably".
As for what we can do about it, we can look at what we've done so far to affect things, even though it was by accident. We can do at least an equal amount by undoing what was done. We can also learn new things and effect mechanisms to make things better. All of science and technology exist for this purpose.
Will we? Hell no. Some people are making a lot of money providing us with things we like which happen to ruin the planet. They're not about to let us stop.
Since when did science belong to the US as an object to be defended? The sort of mind set that wrote the article and supports its premise is the mind set that resultss in the excessive politicization of science and causes some of its best minds to have to waste their time competing for power in order to compete for money in order to do science which they no longer have time to do because they're busy competing.
And, despite the wide recognition of the failure of the "publish or perish" paradigm, it continues to be the single most important factor in judging someone's scientific worth, while the value and implications of much of that make-work science is ignored.
It happens. However, since it's a sensitive issue, it should be addressed. If AHBL isn't making a point to contact the media on their own and explain what's going on and why, they're missing their greatest opportunity to force some change. I'd go as far as to say that if they're not doing that, they're wasting their time.
It happend with India (VSNL) and usenet. It can be quite shaming to have the world know you (as a state owned/operated/supervised pipe) are such a bad neighbor that people are erasing you from their maps. But they're only shamed if you make people notice. Such publicity also goes far towards preventing the perp from suing your ass off, since public opinion will have been engaged, and its orientation will be on the anti-spam side.
"They year's first meteor shower..."
Make that "seventh":
Shower Range Peak radiant velocity population #/hour IMO
Quadrantids Jan 01-Jan 05 Jan 04 15 20 +49 41 2.1 120 QUA
delta-Cancrids Jan 01-Jan 24 Jan 17 08 40 +20 28 3.0 4 DCA
alpha-Centaurids Jan 28-Feb 21 Feb 08 14 00 -59 56 2.0 6 ACE
delta-Leonids Feb 15-Mar 10 Feb 25 11 12 +16 23 3.0 2 DLE
gamma-Normids Feb 25-Mar 22 Mar 13 16 36 -51 56 2.4 8 GNO
Virginids Jan 25-Apr 15 (Mar 24) 13 00 -04 30 3.0 5 VIR
Lyrids Apr 16-Apr 25 Apr 22 18 04 +34 49 2.1 18 LYR
It is NOT about data transfer, or even data storage. It is about magnetic writing. Did the submitter RTFA or just the also-incorrect title?
As far as storage, 10 years ago they could store a gigabyte in a 3D crystal the size of a sugar cube and read the whole thing back in a second. {HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORIES , By: Psaltis, Demetri, Mok, Fai, Scientific American, 00368733, Nov95, Vol. 273, Issue 5}. That was before the many advances in optical storage technology, particularly high frequency lasers. And using only ONE laser focus, which even DVDs already surpass.
As for transfer rate, look to astrophysics. Radio astronomers listen to signals using amplifiers that carry a billion channels at once. That's a hell of a parallel system. Turn it around and broadcast through it using plain old 8N1+stop protocol in parallel and you're moving 100 MB PER PULSE. Multiply that times your chosen broadcast primary frequency, say 1 GHz, and you're moving 100 petabytes per second, give or take the shift to the lowest frequency on the MUXing.
It's usually at this point that the engineers start sputtering about how impossible it is due to Fourier transform limitations, proving they're not aware that radio astronomers were listening to thousands of channels even before they had time/freqency analysis via continuous wavelet transform running in real time.
"Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have their ashes put aboard a rocket and "buried" in space."
He was only one of the "first". There were 36 remains on the Orbital Sciences Taurus that launched him in December of 1999. Tim Leary was aboard also.
Only about 7 grams of each person's remains was sent. Cost was about US$5000 each.