Canada is behind in HDTV broadcasts as well. And don't even get me started on the inability to get US satellite in Canada, legally. Thank you CRTC - the Canakistan's Radio and Television Censors. That's what they are or think they are.
No, I do not label Canada Canakistan but CRTC deserves that label.
All you guys are missing the point here. It is not about countering this "defense" system. It is about disabling current offensive technology like these missiles. So, how do they know it will work? The people that make the "defense" make the missiles (or know people that make the missiles). They know what the shady groups have, so they know how to counter them.
The terrorists that target civilian aircraft DO NOT make their own missiles. They just buy them from the black market. Generally the cheap, old tech missiles and guns. That is, they do not have,
1. radar guided ground to air missiles
2. radar guided anti-aircraft guns
3. fly-by-wire missiles with ground radar stations
4. MiG-27 aircraft etc.
Windows environment is much more expensive to use than Linux based environment. There is no question about about. For examples, look at Debian. 18733 software packages. Enough said right there.
People of all ages and backgrounds start believing in Jesus. That should be a subtle clue that they're rather different. Christianity having a basis in historical events would be another.
Yes. It is called mass delusion.
You believe it because so many others believe it. After all, how can all these people be wrong, eh?
Use examples from the past. Greek gods and Roman gods would be one. Egyptian gods another. Also Japanese emperor is a god figure as well. No one believes any of these anymore, yet not so long ago, A LOT of people believed it and you would be killed for saying different. A LOT of people can't be wrong. All current religions are just a natural continuation of the past religions. As people outgrew their deities, we needed to create more powerful ones.
Why do we believe? People can't accept futility of their lives. They think they are special and try to justify it with religion (eg. afterlife and "god's will").
Finally, people do not just start to believe in a religion. 95%+ percent, they are indoctrinated into that religion from a little kid that can't think for themselves. Then they stay in that religion mostly out of fear - leave and maybe get the wrath of god as preached by almost every religion so most don't want to take risk like that. This explains the lack of mobility from one religion to another.
Aside: Santa has a basis in historical events that are a lot closer than 2000 years yet look what happened to that. Santa now lives in the North Pole, sports a Coca Cola suit (yes, they made it red), and eats cookies and milk. Santa, from real facts to current myth seems to mimic the so called "religious historical facts" quite well.
Vista's memory tester is basic of the basic type memory tester. You can't really compare it to memtest86. One hint would be that Vista's memory tester runs a few magnitudes faster than memtest86.
After many, many years I finally got an "mp3" player for $17. It is a Nextar MA933A with 1G flash. It doubles as a flash drive (bootable too) - maybe a little larger than a flash drive. Uses *regular* rechargable AAA battery and seems to get 12-16 hours per charge. Heck, it plays WMA, MP3, and even OGG ("unadverised" feature). Sadly, their website still lists old models while the manual lists them as up to 8GB size.
Sorry, but in comparison, something like iPod is unwieldy, expensive mess with a 2 year lifetime unless you want to pay apple $60 for a new battery. iPod only got its name going for it now. Technically, it is nothing special anymore.
You brought out the dreaded Domain Controller. How many hours have I spent on that darn thing that just did NOT work out of the box, at all! First, the DNS update problems, so installed MS DNS. No luck. Still error messages in Event Viewer about some DNS update issues, and Active Directory permissions - mind you, this is a *clean* install with no configuration, out of the box brokenness.
Anyway, last attempt was,
1. Install w2k3 sp1 from scratch
2. On first startup, it asks to configure server. Ok, set it up as domain controller with DNS server.
3. It did it's magic (took about 1-2 hours to get it to this point)
4. On reboot, started to get weird error messages that DNS was not running (though running on same Windows machine).
5. Could not login to the DC machine with a user unless admin logged out - wtf? That is with so called "unlimited" licenses.
That's when I totally gave up on Windows as being capable of running any server. The mind numbing, unsearchable wrath of clicky-clacky configuration dialog boxes combined with meaningless error messages just proves my point.
Fortunately, this is was just a development MSDN subscription so no money lost.
Anyway, from my own experience, it is easier to debug spurious Linux kernel messages than trying to get Windows Server running and understand what is actually happening. Setting any service on something like Debian using nothing but command line is dead simple even for someone that is not a *nix "guru". And at least there is choice in stuff. You don't like LDAP? Run PostgreSQL/MySQL based authentication backend or even flat file if you'd like. With Windows? You are stuck with Active Directory that is easier to setup and running properly in Samba anyday.
PS. As a nice exercise, I dare you to turn off all udp/tcp/raw 0.0.0.0 listening ports except for 80 and only have the bare necessary services running using either named pipes or 127.0.0.1 interface. No go? Another point why Windows is difficult to manage.
Oh and finally, do not bring out the $/h crap. Your IT people work flat out 100% workloads? Really? Then either they don't know their jobs or you have one person for 1,000 people? Any IT personnel worth $100,000 a year would be able to set up Samba in their spare time as a side project within one week with all the bells and whistles. Better than writing comments on Slashdot. Which reminds me....
How do you go from $400 being "measly" that only "Only hobbyists and small-time outfits that run their own hosts would mind" to $5000 and up being "VERY EXPENSIVE"??
As far as I know, prices for non-consumer end software (eg. CAD, programming toolkits, databases) run in range where $5000 is about the middle of the road. "Very Expensive" stuff runs in the $50,000 range and measly is about $500. Also, free (see GNU definition) stuff like GCC, PostgreSQL, Apache is *not* measly because it doesn't cost anything to use.
$5000 is not expensive if putting it on $20,000 machine, but then you'd need a $50,000 license to run on that...
Anyway, for server, Linux + Apache + PostgreSQL for me as that is the software that,
Your own parts are also much better for OSes like Linux where manufacturers just fsck you over - they do not provide drivers. If you are running Windows or OS X, sure, building it doesn't make too much sense these days, but if you want a Linux box, you probably want to buy some things over another. For example, graphics chip. There is still A LOT of crap out there that will not be supported by Linux. Also, hard drives tend to have 3 year warranty on OEMs, or maybe even 1 year, while you can get Seagate drives with 5 year warranty. Also, a cheap-ass power supply can ruin your day with a Dell or HP, though they are not as bad as some "white box" ones - Enermax is still king;)
Build it yourself systems just work better from my experience. Spending $50 extra (10% generally) on a system I want vs. a system they want me to have is well worth it.
Now, if I wanted to buy 100s of boxes for a business, well, that may be different.
Maybe people should start to read the manual instead of acting stupid?
For example, how the heck did people manage their computers back in the DOS days? How did they manage their computers with Windows 3.1? Were they magically smarter back then and now became zombies all of a sudden? I don't think so. Back in the olden days, people used to read manuals and follow directions because otherwise shit just did not work at ALL. Now, they think they can click randomly and get some sort of results. This trial and error just results from utter laziness.
When did anyone even read software manual? Or any other manual in recent memory? You are lucky if someone even reads "Quick Start" guide before calling support and saying "it doesn't work". There are still people stating that Debian is difficult to install! I guess OpenBSD is hopeless then.
I'd say if someone wants to setup a fast, cheap and safe server, they have to kind of understand what they are doing first. So, they should read,
1. basics of firewalls and networking (so they know what the terms mean at least and how it works overall)
2. Samba HOWTO
3a.Stuff about disk partitions.
3. Debian Install guide and getting started documentation (http://www.us.debian.org/doc/)
4. Actually install Debian, setup RAID1 (software) and setup Samba to share files on it. Do things one step at a time.
How long will this take? Maybe a day, maybe a week if they are "busy" (a.k.a. TV for most) At the end of the exercise, they'll know *how* stuff works.
Treating users as idiots just creates lazier, bigger idiots. They have a brain after all - make them use it.
The thing is, it will just become *cheaper* to keep that system running.
Heck, even if you had 3 of these systems in 3 different geographical locations and moved data over Internet to sync it up, it would still be A LOT cheaper than 200k a year per movie TODAY and cheaper in future.
Also, the 35MB per frame is probably uncompressed stuff. Compress it and you can probably save 50% or more with losing any quality - lossless compression.
Finally, drives DO NOT need to run 24/7 to store data. There is that "powerdown" mode where the drive is still available, but not spinning and heads are parked. Makes failure a lot less likely and no money spent on wasting electricity for spinning drives and running AC.
200k is a ridicules amount. It is a lot easier to store film in digital form than in analog - at least you can make lossless copies for storage in different data centers.
In a multi-party elections, in first round of voting, you vote for whoever you want. That narrows down the field to 2 people. Then you vote for one of the two in second round of voting. This tends to prevent fringe from getting in.
In the US, it is not suppose to be the president you vote for, but for the Electoral Collage. Then these people decide who is the president. Of course, it is kind of completely broken now and direct elections may be better than current implementation. Electoral College actually make it possible to win with minority vote anyway. No 'powerful friends' required for cheating.
You can say the same about Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, browsers in general. Just revert back to using lynx I guess, but that had a remote hole as well! Actually 2 remove holes,
So, should we go back to using
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | netcat slashdot.org 80
Kinda sucks!
Clearly one of the answers is to limit the browser to sub-user access. I think that is what Vista tells us is happening there. Debian doesn't do that by default. But then I'm not sure how easy it would be to limit iceweasel (firefox) to not executable stuff except known plugins, etc...
As for the solution to problems like this, it is clearly the client that needs patching!! A client needs to handle ALL cases without allowing someone to compromise information, etc.
There is a balance between security and usability. You can't have both perfect at the same time.
Time is just something used to describe finiteness of the speed of light in vacuum. The slower c is, the slower the time.
Thus, if they can demonstrate that light is slowing down and was faster "back when....", then their postulation may be correct. If c remained the same over billions of years, their idea is wrong.
Aside: I'm assuming that speed of everything is limited by c as per Special Relativity. Hence, massless particles like gravitons would propagate at c and massive particles would be somewhat slower. This raises interesting experiments based on the range of the strong and weak forces... Composition of far off supernova remnants?
Anyway, *time* as we know it is just a mirage of the finite c.
1. Give control of your box and hard drive to someone to install something, this includes software 2. They install it 3. They look for stuff on HD to burn for testing 4. Find crap 5. Report
NP there. They were given *permission* to access the computer, and the content was not protected such that anyone with access to computer had implicit access to the data. If you want guarantees, have them sign a NDA. Oh, and NDA does not apply if you report illegal stuff anyway.
This also means you never should trust anyone with your data. How dumb can you be? Always encrypt sensitive client stuff or private encryption keys and not just hand them over when the box needs repairs. How many times have I seen "My GPG key is invalid now because I sent it went with my box when it got repaired". Protect your sh*t people.
Finally, the guy in question should have been charged.
Otherwise they'd just have made copies for their own consumption
And guess what, maybe not all people gets turned on by child porn like you seen to imply.
Significant figures is not used anywhere. Precision of the measurement must be the same as the precisions of the error or both are kind of meaningless -> you have to get rid of the extra "sig figs" as erroneous until two precisions match up.
For example, 450 +- 0.0023 km/h is stupid and worthless (450.1+-0.0023 is NOT 450.0+-0.0023, but both are 450 by "sigfigs"), unless it is suppose to be 450.0000 +- 0.0023 km/h. That's why in real science, you tend to write that number as 450.0000(23) meaning there is a +- 23 error in last 2 digits. Furthermore, you really have to justify that 3 in the error and why it is not just 450.000(3) -- errors should be rounded up AFAIK.
People also tend to look at you funny if you have a split error like they do with different values on one side than another. Split errors may indicate that there is some skew to your data. Generally one ends up using the larger of the two errors in the end.
Tell me that when you have brownouts. Then I can point you back that to your post that we do not need any more power sources. Also, please disconnect yourself from your power grid (if you live in the US). Vast majority if your power there is supplied by coal. Please also do not buy anything from China anymore, as almost all power there used to make that stuff was supplied by coal.
It is sad that people say "we don't need nuclear because we have wind/solar/hydro", but then go on using all the products and all the power that was supplied by the super-polluter => coal.
There is no power plant today that can compete on the cost basis with nuclear power (in absolute costs). Even if the costs of nuclear power were to double due to reprocessing and storage costs, that would still be cheaper than the environmental costs that are imposed by the fossil fuel plants. At least with nuclear power you can't just discard the waste on the entire population like with the crap (including radiation) from coal.
Urgh! Just read the abstract and it is as sloppy as the the article!
+0.91 to 1.17 Myr at 4568 Myr ago
Sad. So, they either exaggerated their accuracy of their error measurement or someone removed the stuff after decimal for 4568. As stated, the relative errors are meaningless since the accuracy of the real value is *not* stated.
Furthermore, someone that didn't pass his/her science class wrote the article.
4,568 million years ago, within a range of about 2,080,000 years
So, measure the age of the solar system to 1 million years, but then state the error to few orders of magnitude more precise! 2.08 million years. The real error was either 2 million years or some percentage of the original measurement. The real error must not be more accurate than the measurement, so,
4568 +- 2 million years, or
4568.0 +- 2.1 million years, or
4568.00 +- 2.08 million years or,
4568.000 +- 2.080 million years, or,....
4568.000000 +- 2.080000 million years?
which one is it?
I would question that +- 2 million years as being too naive - we don't know much about solar system creation! The measurement may be +- 2 million years for *their* setup, but this will have to be validated and scrutinized. Publishing an article (even in a journal) does not imply the measurement is correct or even if their technique is valid (not arguing that it is not - I'm not an expert - just keep you reservations about these type of measurements).
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Canada is behind in HDTV broadcasts as well. And don't even get me started on the inability to get US satellite in Canada, legally. Thank you CRTC - the Canakistan's Radio and Television Censors. That's what they are or think they are.
No, I do not label Canada Canakistan but CRTC deserves that label.
All you guys are missing the point here. It is not about countering this "defense" system. It is about disabling current offensive technology like these missiles. So, how do they know it will work? The people that make the "defense" make the missiles (or know people that make the missiles). They know what the shady groups have, so they know how to counter them.
The terrorists that target civilian aircraft DO NOT make their own missiles. They just buy them from the black market. Generally the cheap, old tech missiles and guns. That is, they do not have,
1. radar guided ground to air missiles
2. radar guided anti-aircraft guns
3. fly-by-wire missiles with ground radar stations
4. MiG-27 aircraft
etc.
Your mom dropped you on your head a few too many times? That's the only explanation for your shortsighted and illogical statement above.
Windows environment is much more expensive to use than Linux based environment. There is no question about about. For examples, look at Debian. 18733 software packages. Enough said right there.
Yes. It is called mass delusion.
You believe it because so many others believe it. After all, how can all these people be wrong, eh?
Use examples from the past. Greek gods and Roman gods would be one. Egyptian gods another. Also Japanese emperor is a god figure as well. No one believes any of these anymore, yet not so long ago, A LOT of people believed it and you would be killed for saying different. A LOT of people can't be wrong. All current religions are just a natural continuation of the past religions. As people outgrew their deities, we needed to create more powerful ones.
Why do we believe? People can't accept futility of their lives. They think they are special and try to justify it with religion (eg. afterlife and "god's will").
Finally, people do not just start to believe in a religion. 95%+ percent, they are indoctrinated into that religion from a little kid that can't think for themselves. Then they stay in that religion mostly out of fear - leave and maybe get the wrath of god as preached by almost every religion so most don't want to take risk like that. This explains the lack of mobility from one religion to another.
Aside: Santa has a basis in historical events that are a lot closer than 2000 years yet look what happened to that. Santa now lives in the North Pole, sports a Coca Cola suit (yes, they made it red), and eats cookies and milk. Santa, from real facts to current myth seems to mimic the so called "religious historical facts" quite well.
Vista's memory tester is basic of the basic type memory tester. You can't really compare it to memtest86. One hint would be that Vista's memory tester runs a few magnitudes faster than memtest86.
You can boot memtest86 from USB stick.
After many, many years I finally got an "mp3" player for $17. It is a Nextar MA933A with 1G flash. It doubles as a flash drive (bootable too) - maybe a little larger than a flash drive. Uses *regular* rechargable AAA battery and seems to get 12-16 hours per charge. Heck, it plays WMA, MP3, and even OGG ("unadverised" feature). Sadly, their website still lists old models while the manual lists them as up to 8GB size.
http://www.nextar.com/frontend/proddetail.asp?pn=MA933A&co=10000309
Sorry, but in comparison, something like iPod is unwieldy, expensive mess with a 2 year lifetime unless you want to pay apple $60 for a new battery. iPod only got its name going for it now. Technically, it is nothing special anymore.
OMG!!!! OMG!!!!!
You brought out the dreaded Domain Controller. How many hours have I spent on that darn thing that just did NOT work out of the box, at all! First, the DNS update problems, so installed MS DNS. No luck. Still error messages in Event Viewer about some DNS update issues, and Active Directory permissions - mind you, this is a *clean* install with no configuration, out of the box brokenness.
Anyway, last attempt was,
1. Install w2k3 sp1 from scratch
2. On first startup, it asks to configure server. Ok, set it up as domain controller with DNS server.
3. It did it's magic (took about 1-2 hours to get it to this point)
4. On reboot, started to get weird error messages that DNS was not running (though running on same Windows machine).
5. Could not login to the DC machine with a user unless admin logged out - wtf? That is with so called "unlimited" licenses.
That's when I totally gave up on Windows as being capable of running any server. The mind numbing, unsearchable wrath of clicky-clacky configuration dialog boxes combined with meaningless error messages just proves my point.
Fortunately, this is was just a development MSDN subscription so no money lost.
Anyway, from my own experience, it is easier to debug spurious Linux kernel messages than trying to get Windows Server running and understand what is actually happening. Setting any service on something like Debian using nothing but command line is dead simple even for someone that is not a *nix "guru". And at least there is choice in stuff. You don't like LDAP? Run PostgreSQL/MySQL based authentication backend or even flat file if you'd like. With Windows? You are stuck with Active Directory that is easier to setup and running properly in Samba anyday.
PS. As a nice exercise, I dare you to turn off all udp/tcp/raw 0.0.0.0 listening ports except for 80 and only have the bare necessary services running using either named pipes or 127.0.0.1 interface. No go? Another point why Windows is difficult to manage.
Oh and finally, do not bring out the $/h crap. Your IT people work flat out 100% workloads? Really? Then either they don't know their jobs or you have one person for 1,000 people? Any IT personnel worth $100,000 a year would be able to set up Samba in their spare time as a side project within one week with all the bells and whistles. Better than writing comments on Slashdot. Which reminds me....
How do you go from $400 being "measly" that only "Only hobbyists and small-time outfits that run their own hosts would mind" to $5000 and up being "VERY EXPENSIVE"??
As far as I know, prices for non-consumer end software (eg. CAD, programming toolkits, databases) run in range where $5000 is about the middle of the road. "Very Expensive" stuff runs in the $50,000 range and measly is about $500. Also, free (see GNU definition) stuff like GCC, PostgreSQL, Apache is *not* measly because it doesn't cost anything to use.
$5000 is not expensive if putting it on $20,000 machine, but then you'd need a $50,000 license to run on that...
Anyway, for server, Linux + Apache + PostgreSQL for me as that is the software that,
Just Works
Price is secondary.
No. It is not an increase of over 250%. It is an increase of over 150%. 250% *increase* means,
200 * ( 1 + 2.50 ) => 200 * 3.50 => 700
The key word here is *increase*. The new figure is 250% of the old one, but it is an increase of over 150% or 150% more.
If you don't like it, fly with Chinese or Pakistani airlines. Then you don't have to worry about all those nasty regulations.
Your own parts are also much better for OSes like Linux where manufacturers just fsck you over - they do not provide drivers. If you are running Windows or OS X, sure, building it doesn't make too much sense these days, but if you want a Linux box, you probably want to buy some things over another. For example, graphics chip. There is still A LOT of crap out there that will not be supported by Linux. Also, hard drives tend to have 3 year warranty on OEMs, or maybe even 1 year, while you can get Seagate drives with 5 year warranty. Also, a cheap-ass power supply can ruin your day with a Dell or HP, though they are not as bad as some "white box" ones - Enermax is still king ;)
Build it yourself systems just work better from my experience. Spending $50 extra (10% generally) on a system I want vs. a system they want me to have is well worth it.
Now, if I wanted to buy 100s of boxes for a business, well, that may be different.
Maybe the part about notification when it's ready is important here. Otherwise, everything else has already been done.
Maybe people should start to read the manual instead of acting stupid?
For example, how the heck did people manage their computers back in the DOS days? How did they manage their computers with Windows 3.1? Were they magically smarter back then and now became zombies all of a sudden? I don't think so. Back in the olden days, people used to read manuals and follow directions because otherwise shit just did not work at ALL. Now, they think they can click randomly and get some sort of results. This trial and error just results from utter laziness.
When did anyone even read software manual? Or any other manual in recent memory? You are lucky if someone even reads "Quick Start" guide before calling support and saying "it doesn't work". There are still people stating that Debian is difficult to install! I guess OpenBSD is hopeless then.
I'd say if someone wants to setup a fast, cheap and safe server, they have to kind of understand what they are doing first. So, they should read,
1. basics of firewalls and networking (so they know what the terms mean at least and how it works overall)
2. Samba HOWTO
3a.Stuff about disk partitions.
3. Debian Install guide and getting started documentation (http://www.us.debian.org/doc/)
4. Actually install Debian, setup RAID1 (software) and setup Samba to share files on it. Do things one step at a time.
How long will this take? Maybe a day, maybe a week if they are "busy" (a.k.a. TV for most) At the end of the exercise, they'll know *how* stuff works.
Treating users as idiots just creates lazier, bigger idiots. They have a brain after all - make them use it.
Motorcycle fleet => electric motorcycle fleet => Judge Dread!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd_(film)
I can see it now - Judge Judy on one of these motorcycles spreading justice in the NY badlands.
The thing is, it will just become *cheaper* to keep that system running.
Heck, even if you had 3 of these systems in 3 different geographical locations and moved data over Internet to sync it up, it would still be A LOT cheaper than 200k a year per movie TODAY and cheaper in future.
Also, the 35MB per frame is probably uncompressed stuff. Compress it and you can probably save 50% or more with losing any quality - lossless compression.
Finally, drives DO NOT need to run 24/7 to store data. There is that "powerdown" mode where the drive is still available, but not spinning and heads are parked. Makes failure a lot less likely and no money spent on wasting electricity for spinning drives and running AC.
200k is a ridicules amount. It is a lot easier to store film in digital form than in analog - at least you can make lossless copies for storage in different data centers.
No.
In a multi-party elections, in first round of voting, you vote for whoever you want. That narrows down the field to 2 people. Then you vote for one of the two in second round of voting. This tends to prevent fringe from getting in.
In the US, it is not suppose to be the president you vote for, but for the Electoral Collage. Then these people decide who is the president. Of course, it is kind of completely broken now and direct elections may be better than current implementation. Electoral College actually make it possible to win with minority vote anyway. No 'powerful friends' required for cheating.
You can say the same about Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, browsers in general. Just revert back to using lynx I guess, but that had a remote hole as well! Actually 2 remove holes,
http://secunia.com/advisories/17372/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17216/
That is with just a text-only browser.
So, should we go back to using
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\nHost: slashdot.org\n\n" | netcat slashdot.org 80
Kinda sucks!
Clearly one of the answers is to limit the browser to sub-user access. I think that is what Vista tells us is happening there. Debian doesn't do that by default. But then I'm not sure how easy it would be to limit iceweasel (firefox) to not executable stuff except known plugins, etc...
As for the solution to problems like this, it is clearly the client that needs patching!! A client needs to handle ALL cases without allowing someone to compromise information, etc.
There is a balance between security and usability. You can't have both perfect at the same time.
Time is just something used to describe finiteness of the speed of light in vacuum. The slower c is, the slower the time.
....", then their postulation may be correct. If c remained the same over billions of years, their idea is wrong.
Thus, if they can demonstrate that light is slowing down and was faster "back when
Aside: I'm assuming that speed of everything is limited by c as per Special Relativity. Hence, massless particles like gravitons would propagate at c and massive particles would be somewhat slower. This raises interesting experiments based on the range of the strong and weak forces... Composition of far off supernova remnants?
Anyway, *time* as we know it is just a mirage of the finite c.
Err, what about the satellites NASA and ESA has in orbit around Mars?
Mars Express
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/
Both are kinda closer than we are so may get a better picture.
2. They install it
3. They look for stuff on HD to burn for testing
4. Find crap
5. Report
NP there. They were given *permission* to access the computer, and the content was not protected such that anyone with access to computer had implicit access to the data. If you want guarantees, have them sign a NDA. Oh, and NDA does not apply if you report illegal stuff anyway.
This also means you never should trust anyone with your data. How dumb can you be? Always encrypt sensitive client stuff or private encryption keys and not just hand them over when the box needs repairs. How many times have I seen "My GPG key is invalid now because I sent it went with my box when it got repaired". Protect your sh*t people.
Finally, the guy in question should have been charged.
And guess what, maybe not all people gets turned on by child porn like you seen to imply.
No.
Significant figures is not used anywhere. Precision of the measurement must be the same as the precisions of the error or both are kind of meaningless -> you have to get rid of the extra "sig figs" as erroneous until two precisions match up.
For example, 450 +- 0.0023 km/h is stupid and worthless (450.1+-0.0023 is NOT 450.0+-0.0023, but both are 450 by "sigfigs"), unless it is suppose to be 450.0000 +- 0.0023 km/h. That's why in real science, you tend to write that number as 450.0000(23) meaning there is a +- 23 error in last 2 digits. Furthermore, you really have to justify that 3 in the error and why it is not just 450.000(3) -- errors should be rounded up AFAIK.
People also tend to look at you funny if you have a split error like they do with different values on one side than another. Split errors may indicate that there is some skew to your data. Generally one ends up using the larger of the two errors in the end.
Tell me that when you have brownouts. Then I can point you back that to your post that we do not need any more power sources. Also, please disconnect yourself from your power grid (if you live in the US). Vast majority if your power there is supplied by coal. Please also do not buy anything from China anymore, as almost all power there used to make that stuff was supplied by coal.
It is sad that people say "we don't need nuclear because we have wind/solar/hydro", but then go on using all the products and all the power that was supplied by the super-polluter => coal.
There is no power plant today that can compete on the cost basis with nuclear power (in absolute costs). Even if the costs of nuclear power were to double due to reprocessing and storage costs, that would still be cheaper than the environmental costs that are imposed by the fossil fuel plants. At least with nuclear power you can't just discard the waste on the entire population like with the crap (including radiation) from coal.
Urgh! Just read the abstract and it is as sloppy as the the article!
+0.91 to 1.17 Myr at 4568 Myr ago
Sad. So, they either exaggerated their accuracy of their error measurement or someone removed the stuff after decimal for 4568. As stated, the relative errors are meaningless since the accuracy of the real value is *not* stated.
So, measure the age of the solar system to 1 million years, but then state the error to few orders of magnitude more precise! 2.08 million years. The real error was either 2 million years or some percentage of the original measurement. The real error must not be more accurate than the measurement, so,
4568 +- 2 million years, or
4568.0 +- 2.1 million years, or
4568.00 +- 2.08 million years or,
4568.000 +- 2.080 million years, or,
4568.000000 +- 2.080000 million years?
which one is it?
I would question that +- 2 million years as being too naive - we don't know much about solar system creation! The measurement may be +- 2 million years for *their* setup, but this will have to be validated and scrutinized. Publishing an article (even in a journal) does not imply the measurement is correct or even if their technique is valid (not arguing that it is not - I'm not an expert - just keep you reservations about these type of measurements).