As a neuroscientist I can tell you why many scientists in the life sciences are surprised by findings: shocker! It's because living systems are so absurdly complicated. Just take a look at what is known currently for any major biochemical pathway, or gene regulation, or mitochondrial metabolism, or protein trafficking in the cell. The complexity is mind boggling. Anyone who thinks you can wade into that abyss of unknowns with certainty hasn't done any biological research.
MS does not seem to care at all about their customers, which shows just how much they think they have us by the throats, or some other body parts. MS is now assuming they can do just about anything, and everyone will just go along. The absurdly crappy patches, that are often more destructive than the supposed threats they are meant to block, make the entire Windows experience truly miserable now. I never remember patch Tuesdays as being disaster Tuesdays until the last couple of years, when they farmed out the patch work to clueless kids in some distant place. The recent patch that hosed AMD computers is just one example. Any potential hacking threat could never have hoped to do that much damage.
And how many people got switched to W10 when they didn't want it? Now they are stuck with it. I for one am not going to switch my 5 computers to 10 anytime in the foreseeable future since I don't see anything but downsides. Prefer the greater control over Windows 7. My updates are turned off, and I only install them after they have been well vetted, and as I see the need, not when MS says so. MS hasn't done anything to 10 that makes me want to switch, but they have done lots of things to it that make me want to stick with 7. If it was a clearly better OS I would switch. It isn't.
So you've got food and shelter, and that means you don't have to worry about anything your government is doing? Rather than insurrection, which no one mentioned except you, how about just complain to your representatives that military spending is out of control? How about complaining to them that our military should not be bombing other countries that did not attack the US? How about you stand up for yourself and your family and demand that all that money be spent here in the US to fix our failing infrastructure rather than making defense contractors rich? How about taxing the wealthy to pay for Medicare for All instead of having the wealthy collude with the government to launch spy satellites we are not allowed to know about? Who said anything about burning the country down? Oh, right, that was only you.
Yeah, exactly what we need now, private companies run by billionaires colluding with the government to launch secret spy satellites that we aren't allowed to know about, even if they crash back to earth (or don't). I fail to understand why people are so complacent about secret corporate/government collusion on projects we are not deemed worthy of knowing about.
Yeah, I don't even want Windows 10, and certainly don't want Amazon's Alexa in my OS anyway. Amazing how Microsoft can't figure out any way to make Windows 10 attractive to so many consumers and grasps at straws like Alexa.
My main PC is in a Corsair 800D case and weighs about 50 pounds. Nobody is walking away with it. Wouldn't put anything critical on a laptop that I took around with me.
And by the way, with regard to your other post that you directed me to - scientists and engineers do not use the same methods. Engineering is not working at discovering facts of nature, like how a particular transcription factor works in conjunction with other proteins to enhance transcription of a particular gene, or how a protein complex at synapses regulates neurotransmission by altering dopamine uptake. You build and test things. That is quite different.
I use the scientific method every day at work because I am a scientist. It takes a very acrobatic thought process to come to the conclusion that my post was an argument against the scientific method. My post was about making laws about what happens in college courses. This is a quote from one of the bills
“That each institution shall strive to remain neutral, as an institution, on the public policy controversies of the day, and may not take action, as an institution, on the public policy controversies of the day in such a way as to require students or faculty to publicly express a given view of social policy.”
That is saying the school can't take sides even when the science says one argument is accurate, and the other isn't (evolution is fact, or it is false).
I am one of the STEM scientists you claim to be defending. We don't need to be protected by assholes like you. I would have left the last part out if you had been civil.
This has nothing to do with challenging science. You would actually have to know something about science to challenge it. This is about trying for force false equivalence. "Scientists claim the earth is spherical, but some non-scientists disagree". That kind of crap comes from the right wing every day. It is called the doubt machine. Sow doubt that cigarettes cause cancer, doubt that humans are altering the biosphere or climate, Sow doubt that evolution is a well documented fact. It is all about preventing positive action that might hurt a political agenda or corporate bottom line.
When you can't win the argument, just pass a law. Bullshit.
Almost all journals that are published on citation sources like PubMed print retractions when a major issue comes up with a published paper. Beall's List used to keep track of publishers that have low standards and publish anything if they get paid, but that now appears to have shut down.
I'll stay more serious. This is information that the deep state wanted out anyway, this is not information that is embarrassing or harmful for the spooks. It also gives us no real information on what supposedly happened. I smell a big fat rat.
And by the way everyone knows the show's writers shot JR. Hagman knew too much.
It just seems fishy. It will be interesting to see how the Intercept handles the back story of their whistle blower now. They encourage people to come forward, and tell them they can do it anonymously, so it will be informative to see how they deal with that system apparently breaking down for such a dumb reason. Maybe if they had read/. over the years the watermark issue would have been more on their minds.
I can't believe no one here is being more skeptical of this. The contractor and the Intercept should have known about the watermarks. All they had to do was transcribe the documents into a plain text document. In addition, there is no actual information revealed other than again supposed hacking, without any information on what that hacking did before or during the election. Nothing about what systems were compromised, or what became of that. Why do I think that "Reality" is not going to jail? Because she was probably part of an NSA leak plan that made the Intercept look bad. This was not critical enough information to put your life and freedom on the line for.
You must watch Fox News for your information. The government failure started with Rick Snyder, a corporate Republican. The water problems did not start until he signed a bill giving emergency managers more power, and then turned the city management over to a private emergency manager, who switched the water supply to the river water to save money. The city council tried to reverse the situation.
I would like to see a parallel system set up that can be tested before taking over. It makes the most sense. They need to transfer to GPS but I think that ground based backup is a good idea in case of solar storms, orbiting debris issues, etc. But it should be a government run system without any profit motive, or any motive to cut costs whatsoever.
I also think that there should be a big tax on first class and business class travel to help pay for it.
Yup. The thing that gets me the most angry is that Republicans claim that economic growth is their god, and yet they love it when the wealthy offshore their profits tax free in other countries (like the Panama papers exposed). Economies work best, just like circulatory systems, when the flow is maintained the system is healthy. Offshoring huge profits and leaving them there cuts off the circulation. It stagnates the very economy they claim they want to see grow. Either they are insane, or more likely the money makes them not give a shit about anything but more money. I guess that is a type of insanity in itself, like drug addiction.
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As a neuroscientist I can tell you why many scientists in the life sciences are surprised by findings: shocker! It's because living systems are so absurdly complicated. Just take a look at what is known currently for any major biochemical pathway, or gene regulation, or mitochondrial metabolism, or protein trafficking in the cell. The complexity is mind boggling. Anyone who thinks you can wade into that abyss of unknowns with certainty hasn't done any biological research.
...says the nuclear industrial complex
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MS does not seem to care at all about their customers, which shows just how much they think they have us by the throats, or some other body parts. MS is now assuming they can do just about anything, and everyone will just go along. The absurdly crappy patches, that are often more destructive than the supposed threats they are meant to block, make the entire Windows experience truly miserable now. I never remember patch Tuesdays as being disaster Tuesdays until the last couple of years, when they farmed out the patch work to clueless kids in some distant place. The recent patch that hosed AMD computers is just one example. Any potential hacking threat could never have hoped to do that much damage.
And how many people got switched to W10 when they didn't want it? Now they are stuck with it. I for one am not going to switch my 5 computers to 10 anytime in the foreseeable future since I don't see anything but downsides. Prefer the greater control over Windows 7. My updates are turned off, and I only install them after they have been well vetted, and as I see the need, not when MS says so. MS hasn't done anything to 10 that makes me want to switch, but they have done lots of things to it that make me want to stick with 7. If it was a clearly better OS I would switch. It isn't.
Sorry, that is not in their mission statement.
So you've got food and shelter, and that means you don't have to worry about anything your government is doing? Rather than insurrection, which no one mentioned except you, how about just complain to your representatives that military spending is out of control? How about complaining to them that our military should not be bombing other countries that did not attack the US? How about you stand up for yourself and your family and demand that all that money be spent here in the US to fix our failing infrastructure rather than making defense contractors rich? How about taxing the wealthy to pay for Medicare for All instead of having the wealthy collude with the government to launch spy satellites we are not allowed to know about? Who said anything about burning the country down? Oh, right, that was only you.
Or, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"...
Yeah, exactly what we need now, private companies run by billionaires colluding with the government to launch secret spy satellites that we aren't allowed to know about, even if they crash back to earth (or don't). I fail to understand why people are so complacent about secret corporate/government collusion on projects we are not deemed worthy of knowing about.
Yeah, I don't even want Windows 10, and certainly don't want Amazon's Alexa in my OS anyway. Amazing how Microsoft can't figure out any way to make Windows 10 attractive to so many consumers and grasps at straws like Alexa.
My main PC is in a Corsair 800D case and weighs about 50 pounds. Nobody is walking away with it. Wouldn't put anything critical on a laptop that I took around with me.
And by the way, with regard to your other post that you directed me to - scientists and engineers do not use the same methods. Engineering is not working at discovering facts of nature, like how a particular transcription factor works in conjunction with other proteins to enhance transcription of a particular gene, or how a protein complex at synapses regulates neurotransmission by altering dopamine uptake. You build and test things. That is quite different.
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/...
I use the scientific method every day at work because I am a scientist. It takes a very acrobatic thought process to come to the conclusion that my post was an argument against the scientific method. My post was about making laws about what happens in college courses. This is a quote from one of the bills
“That each institution shall strive to remain neutral, as an institution, on the public policy controversies of the day, and may not take action, as an institution, on the public policy controversies of the day in such a way as to require students or faculty to publicly express a given view of social policy.”
That is saying the school can't take sides even when the science says one argument is accurate, and the other isn't (evolution is fact, or it is false).
I am one of the STEM scientists you claim to be defending. We don't need to be protected by assholes like you. I would have left the last part out if you had been civil.
This has nothing to do with challenging science. You would actually have to know something about science to challenge it. This is about trying for force false equivalence. "Scientists claim the earth is spherical, but some non-scientists disagree". That kind of crap comes from the right wing every day. It is called the doubt machine. Sow doubt that cigarettes cause cancer, doubt that humans are altering the biosphere or climate, Sow doubt that evolution is a well documented fact. It is all about preventing positive action that might hurt a political agenda or corporate bottom line.
When you can't win the argument, just pass a law. Bullshit.
The Russia hack story is the biggest fabrication in recent history. There is 0 evidence, and no reason to believe a word of it.
http://www.truthdig.com/report...
Almost all journals that are published on citation sources like PubMed print retractions when a major issue comes up with a published paper. Beall's List used to keep track of publishers that have low standards and publish anything if they get paid, but that now appears to have shut down.
Maybe I should have said I smell a honey pot, filled with stuff that TPTB wanted released. They got a two for one deal.
I'll stay more serious. This is information that the deep state wanted out anyway, this is not information that is embarrassing or harmful for the spooks. It also gives us no real information on what supposedly happened. I smell a big fat rat.
And by the way everyone knows the show's writers shot JR. Hagman knew too much.
It just seems fishy. It will be interesting to see how the Intercept handles the back story of their whistle blower now. They encourage people to come forward, and tell them they can do it anonymously, so it will be informative to see how they deal with that system apparently breaking down for such a dumb reason. Maybe if they had read /. over the years the watermark issue would have been more on their minds.
I can't believe no one here is being more skeptical of this. The contractor and the Intercept should have known about the watermarks. All they had to do was transcribe the documents into a plain text document. In addition, there is no actual information revealed other than again supposed hacking, without any information on what that hacking did before or during the election. Nothing about what systems were compromised, or what became of that. Why do I think that "Reality" is not going to jail? Because she was probably part of an NSA leak plan that made the Intercept look bad. This was not critical enough information to put your life and freedom on the line for.
You must watch Fox News for your information. The government failure started with Rick Snyder, a corporate Republican. The water problems did not start until he signed a bill giving emergency managers more power, and then turned the city management over to a private emergency manager, who switched the water supply to the river water to save money. The city council tried to reverse the situation.
https://www.foodandwaterwatch....
But you probably knew that, and were just pissing.
You are probably right, but I had fun posting it anyway. :)
I would like to see a parallel system set up that can be tested before taking over. It makes the most sense. They need to transfer to GPS but I think that ground based backup is a good idea in case of solar storms, orbiting debris issues, etc. But it should be a government run system without any profit motive, or any motive to cut costs whatsoever.
I also think that there should be a big tax on first class and business class travel to help pay for it.
Yup. The thing that gets me the most angry is that Republicans claim that economic growth is their god, and yet they love it when the wealthy offshore their profits tax free in other countries (like the Panama papers exposed). Economies work best, just like circulatory systems, when the flow is maintained the system is healthy. Offshoring huge profits and leaving them there cuts off the circulation. It stagnates the very economy they claim they want to see grow. Either they are insane, or more likely the money makes them not give a shit about anything but more money. I guess that is a type of insanity in itself, like drug addiction.