They haven't kept it. Hundreds of people have talked (and I'm not talking about nutcases, high level, very respected people). It's just that the media has not been listening because they related this topic to the tabloids long ago.
While it is very true that some very high profile UFO incidents have not been explained. We don't have enough evidence at this point to postively conclude that they were of extra-terrestrial origin.
Some of the vehicles that have appeared certainly seem to be beyond our current level of technology, but there are other explanations besides aliens. Some have suggested they are us visiting from the future, or another dimension, or some ancient civilization of earth (Atlantis?) with incredibly technology and can hide themselves well.
However, I do agree that this issue has been trivialized and tossed around as a joke in a very inappropriate manner. There are serious questions here and so far science has been unwilling to try and answer them.
Also it wasn't my intention to insult Indians, I was just relating a humorous anecdote regarding the article topic that Indians need more English speaking workers (which clearly sometimes is the case).
The above example was indeed made up, simply because I didn't feel like digging though code looking for an appropriate real example. However I am working on an ecommerce site that Indians used to work on, and the spelling is very bad. That part was not made up.
I'm working on an ecommerce site right now for a client who got sick of the Indian developers who originally were working with it.
The funniest thing about the code is the parts where the spelling is actually worse than on/.
I keep seeing stuff like:
function calkulate_shiping($prodoct) { if (in_shoping_cart($prodoct)) { return get_shiping_charge($prodoct); } }
This won't happen anytime in the near future for one simple reason. As soon as MS sees any indication that Apple is competing with them directly in that manner, OS X Office is as dead as a doornail.
I'm not opposed to IP law in general, just the incredibly broad ways in which the WIPO, the xxAAs, et al believe it should be extended and strengthened.
/msg l33tk1dd1e We have your IP. Prepare to meet our lawyers in half an hour at your house. If your parents refuse to unlock the basement, we will push for the death penalty in court.
This is like the RIAA opening up an IRC channel to get some "intelligent discussion" going about IP enforcement. I think we all know where this will lead.
I think what is likely going on is that they want to hear some opinions from common people on these issues so they can analyze how to best promote their views in ways that will resonate. That way they can tweak their FUD for optimal consumption by the masses.
Since the article bases the data on number of software units sold, I think the 16% refers to the percentage of users who use a Mac, not the installed number of machines.
Though I don't really blame you for this response, it is typical of someone who is largely unaware of the reality of this phenomenon.
Technology available to amateurs is more than good enough that any claim of "something" that supposedly is all over the place, but still mysteriously manages to avoid being captured on film without being sufficiently blurry to be impossible to identify whenever imaged by someone willing to talk isn't worthy much consideration.
I agree. However this isn't the case. A great deal of non-blurry video exists. It just isn't frequently shown by the news media because it was relegated to the junk bin a long time ago.
I've seen plenty of things I could call UFO's. But the thing is, they were just that: unidentified. Just as I don't go around calling every strange coincidence a result of ESP, I don't go around calling every light I see in the night sky spaceships, because there is simply no proof of either.
I agree again. No one is suggesting that the best explanation for all unidentifieds is alien spacecraft. Clearly that would be a stupid assumption. In the professional realm of ufology, the possibility of alien spacecraft is posited for a very small subset of rather unexplainable sightings.
And while the absence of proof isn't proof to the contrary, the likelihood that any of these UFO's were anything more than a plane, a helicopter, a weather baloon, an athmospheric phenomenon (such as seing flickers of aurora borealis hundreds of kilometers south of where you'd normally see any, which I know from experience lots of people wouldn't recognise for what it is), meteorites or any number of other possible explanations is so vanishingly small all the time we have not been able to image anything "interesting" clearly or pick up any kind of signals from any ET's.
First of all, most of the people in the link the grandparent posted would recognize those things for what they are. Secondly, you are again correct that the possibility of any particular sighting being an ET is vanishingly small. However a great number of thorough and very scientific investigations of groups of sightings have been conducted in the past 50 years and every one of them has revealed that a small subset of sightings (generally on the order of 5-10%) seem to be completely unexplainable. Additionally, one of the most famous ones conducted by the military rated the sightings by quality (I think it was poor, good, and excellent) or something like that. This was a measure of how clearly the object was observed and how reliable the witness was. It found that of the sightings rated higher, more were unexplainable. If all of them were the result of mundane things, you would expect the opposite.
Secondly, as someone who has studied a lot of the evidence, the capabilities some of these craft performed are simply not in the realm of our technology to reproduce. Many have been tracked on radar at speeds in excess of 7,000 mph while turning around instantly (this is easily verifiable). Even given the possibility that some incredible breakthrough in propulsion occurred recently that could explain this, there is absolutely no way we had this capability in the 40s and 50s when many of these kinds of incidents (craft flying at ridiculous speeds) were first observed. Also, a huge number of people in advanced positions in the military and government have said as much. Admirals, generals, President's, they've said it, sometimes publicly and sometimes in documents that anyone can now read. The military takes this topic very seriously and they always have. What an odd posture if they know it is all nothing. I could go on but I don't really feel like writing a novel here. It comes back to the unfortunately reality that I described in my other reply to the parent, the history of ufology has been subjected to such obfuscation that only the people who really invest significant time can get to where the reality of the situation is today.
I agree, however I think I remember him saying that he didn't want to work on any other Trek after DS9. At least that was how he felt around the time it ended.
Berman announced that he planned to kill any positive effect the fresh blood of new writers might bring to the table by appointing himself executive producer.
Well, I thank you for taking the honor this time around. By that I mean, every time a story about aliens comes up, someone makes a post like this. Unfortunately the history of ufology is an obscure one, long since rejected by science and subjected to incessant ridicule, very few people are willing to take the statements of people like this at face value, because they believe they are being made in a vacuum.
The problem is compounded when you still have a few kooks mixed in with the credible people. Anytime one of them is exposed the baby is once again thrown out with the bathwater. Only those who invest significant hours in doing reading/research by themselves can get at a reasonable picture of what is currently known. Without any serious motivation to do so or the promise that anything is there to make it worth it, few people choose to do so.
I would say there is progress being made though. For those who want a respectable quick assessment, check out INFLATION-THEORY IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATION by DEARDORFF/HAISCH/MACCABEE/PUTHOFF (JBIS, Vol. 58, pp. 43-50) A very compelling argument about why close minded rejection of this phenomenon needs to end (and the first paper on this topic to be published in a mainstream refereed journal in a very long time).
Outside the realm of science, I don't think the general public will catch onto this in any greater magnitude until someone makes it a serious national political issue.
An anonymous informant writes "The last time CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal met up to discuss the possibilities of reducing dupes on the geek news site Slashdot, Rob turned down the offer. However, new reports show that the two parties are talking again. The informant submitted a document which suggests that given the nature of the increasing problem of duplicate stories, some execs at OSTG feel that something must be done. Several major news outlets have indicated plans to supply their original content for the future version of Slashdot that will sport non-dupe capabilities."
What is this middle click you speak of? I've been using Safari for a while but I can't test this because I don't see any buttons to "click" on my mouse.
My name is Dr. Samouismai from the royal family of Nigeria and I would like to offer you a proposal that you may find compelling.
I have recently come into an inheritance of goatse pics and I feel that I can not hold all of it safely. I would propose that if you agree I will hold 26 million of these pics in trust for you to deposit at whatever place you wish to keep them.
I would like to meet to arrange this as soon as possible. If this deal succeeds, I would also like to discuss the possibility of you acquiring my collection of 4.3 million woopie cushions.
Sincerely, I forgot my real name but I usually go by Jack Ass
i've got a lot of research and learning time in all of the platforms i've listed above. The continual incremental investment in windows seems to be the least of all of them i keep around.
I can't really speak to Linux because I don't use it that much as a desktop (just as a server where maintenance is virtually nonexistant), but regarding OS X that may be because as a new OS it has been undergoing a large amount of architectural changes and refinements recently (epescially 10.3 and 10.4). The basic stuff on Windows has not changed very much in recent years since the transition to the NT codebase.
Virtually every single P2P app and website that has ever existed has had TOS similar to this. In most cases the app/site creators know exactly what will be going on, but they have to put in this kind of language to make it look like they are not openly encouraging infringement.
Don't expect this to be any kind of legal shield though, because it isn't.
You can manually specifiy any directories that you want to be included in the index. By default System, Library, and all of the hidden unix dirs are excluded. You just need to edit a config file to tell spotlight which ones you want to include and then reindex your drive.
Slashdot Mirror
They haven't kept it. Hundreds of people have talked (and I'm not talking about nutcases, high level, very respected people). It's just that the media has not been listening because they related this topic to the tabloids long ago.
While it is very true that some very high profile UFO incidents have not been explained. We don't have enough evidence at this point to postively conclude that they were of extra-terrestrial origin.
Some of the vehicles that have appeared certainly seem to be beyond our current level of technology, but there are other explanations besides aliens. Some have suggested they are us visiting from the future, or another dimension, or some ancient civilization of earth (Atlantis?) with incredibly technology and can hide themselves well.
However, I do agree that this issue has been trivialized and tossed around as a joke in a very inappropriate manner. There are serious questions here and so far science has been unwilling to try and answer them.
Also it wasn't my intention to insult Indians, I was just relating a humorous anecdote regarding the article topic that Indians need more English speaking workers (which clearly sometimes is the case).
The above example was indeed made up, simply because I didn't feel like digging though code looking for an appropriate real example. However I am working on an ecommerce site that Indians used to work on, and the spelling is very bad. That part was not made up.
I keep seeing stuff like:
This won't happen anytime in the near future for one simple reason. As soon as MS sees any indication that Apple is competing with them directly in that manner, OS X Office is as dead as a doornail.
I'm not opposed to IP law in general, just the incredibly broad ways in which the WIPO, the xxAAs, et al believe it should be extended and strengthened.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/
Supposedly it will be up before the end of the day.
This is like the RIAA opening up an IRC channel to get some "intelligent discussion" going about IP enforcement. I think we all know where this will lead.
I think what is likely going on is that they want to hear some opinions from common people on these issues so they can analyze how to best promote their views in ways that will resonate. That way they can tweak their FUD for optimal consumption by the masses.
Since the article bases the data on number of software units sold, I think the 16% refers to the percentage of users who use a Mac, not the installed number of machines.
I think you meant alt.binaries.pics.private.parts.crushed.sco
Seriously, you can't pay someone to come up with schlock this bad.
You have clearly never read a John Dvorak article.
Though I don't really blame you for this response, it is typical of someone who is largely unaware of the reality of this phenomenon.
Technology available to amateurs is more than good enough that any claim of "something" that supposedly is all over the place, but still mysteriously manages to avoid being captured on film without being sufficiently blurry to be impossible to identify whenever imaged by someone willing to talk isn't worthy much consideration.
I agree. However this isn't the case. A great deal of non-blurry video exists. It just isn't frequently shown by the news media because it was relegated to the junk bin a long time ago.
I've seen plenty of things I could call UFO's. But the thing is, they were just that: unidentified. Just as I don't go around calling every strange coincidence a result of ESP, I don't go around calling every light I see in the night sky spaceships, because there is simply no proof of either.
I agree again. No one is suggesting that the best explanation for all unidentifieds is alien spacecraft. Clearly that would be a stupid assumption. In the professional realm of ufology, the possibility of alien spacecraft is posited for a very small subset of rather unexplainable sightings.
And while the absence of proof isn't proof to the contrary, the likelihood that any of these UFO's were anything more than a plane, a helicopter, a weather baloon, an athmospheric phenomenon (such as seing flickers of aurora borealis hundreds of kilometers south of where you'd normally see any, which I know from experience lots of people wouldn't recognise for what it is), meteorites or any number of other possible explanations is so vanishingly small all the time we have not been able to image anything "interesting" clearly or pick up any kind of signals from any ET's.
First of all, most of the people in the link the grandparent posted would recognize those things for what they are. Secondly, you are again correct that the possibility of any particular sighting being an ET is vanishingly small. However a great number of thorough and very scientific investigations of groups of sightings have been conducted in the past 50 years and every one of them has revealed that a small subset of sightings (generally on the order of 5-10%) seem to be completely unexplainable. Additionally, one of the most famous ones conducted by the military rated the sightings by quality (I think it was poor, good, and excellent) or something like that. This was a measure of how clearly the object was observed and how reliable the witness was. It found that of the sightings rated higher, more were unexplainable. If all of them were the result of mundane things, you would expect the opposite. Secondly, as someone who has studied a lot of the evidence, the capabilities some of these craft performed are simply not in the realm of our technology to reproduce. Many have been tracked on radar at speeds in excess of 7,000 mph while turning around instantly (this is easily verifiable). Even given the possibility that some incredible breakthrough in propulsion occurred recently that could explain this, there is absolutely no way we had this capability in the 40s and 50s when many of these kinds of incidents (craft flying at ridiculous speeds) were first observed. Also, a huge number of people in advanced positions in the military and government have said as much. Admirals, generals, President's, they've said it, sometimes publicly and sometimes in documents that anyone can now read. The military takes this topic very seriously and they always have. What an odd posture if they know it is all nothing. I could go on but I don't really feel like writing a novel here. It comes back to the unfortunately reality that I described in my other reply to the parent, the history of ufology has been subjected to such obfuscation that only the people who really invest significant time can get to where the reality of the situation is today.
I agree, however I think I remember him saying that he didn't want to work on any other Trek after DS9. At least that was how he felt around the time it ended.
Berman announced that he planned to kill any positive effect the fresh blood of new writers might bring to the table by appointing himself executive producer.
Well, I thank you for taking the honor this time around. By that I mean, every time a story about aliens comes up, someone makes a post like this. Unfortunately the history of ufology is an obscure one, long since rejected by science and subjected to incessant ridicule, very few people are willing to take the statements of people like this at face value, because they believe they are being made in a vacuum.
The problem is compounded when you still have a few kooks mixed in with the credible people. Anytime one of them is exposed the baby is once again thrown out with the bathwater. Only those who invest significant hours in doing reading/research by themselves can get at a reasonable picture of what is currently known. Without any serious motivation to do so or the promise that anything is there to make it worth it, few people choose to do so.
I would say there is progress being made though. For those who want a respectable quick assessment, check out INFLATION-THEORY IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITATION by DEARDORFF/HAISCH/MACCABEE/PUTHOFF (JBIS, Vol. 58, pp. 43-50) A very compelling argument about why close minded rejection of this phenomenon needs to end (and the first paper on this topic to be published in a mainstream refereed journal in a very long time).
Outside the realm of science, I don't think the general public will catch onto this in any greater magnitude until someone makes it a serious national political issue.
An anonymous informant writes "The last time CmdrTaco and CowboyNeal met up to discuss the possibilities of reducing dupes on the geek news site Slashdot, Rob turned down the offer. However, new reports show that the two parties are talking again. The informant submitted a document which suggests that given the nature of the increasing problem of duplicate stories, some execs at OSTG feel that something must be done. Several major news outlets have indicated plans to supply their original content for the future version of Slashdot that will sport non-dupe capabilities."
What is this middle click you speak of? I've been using Safari for a while but I can't test this because I don't see any buttons to "click" on my mouse.
Dear Sir,
My name is Dr. Samouismai from the royal family of Nigeria and I would like to offer you a proposal that you may find compelling.
I have recently come into an inheritance of goatse pics and I feel that I can not hold all of it safely. I would propose that if you agree I will hold 26 million of these pics in trust for you to deposit at whatever place you wish to keep them.
I would like to meet to arrange this as soon as possible. If this deal succeeds, I would also like to discuss the possibility of you acquiring my collection of 4.3 million woopie cushions.
Sincerely,
I forgot my real name but I usually go by Jack Ass
i've got a lot of research and learning time in all of the platforms i've listed above. The continual incremental investment in windows seems to be the least of all of them i keep around.
I can't really speak to Linux because I don't use it that much as a desktop (just as a server where maintenance is virtually nonexistant), but regarding OS X that may be because as a new OS it has been undergoing a large amount of architectural changes and refinements recently (epescially 10.3 and 10.4). The basic stuff on Windows has not changed very much in recent years since the transition to the NT codebase.
Virtually every single P2P app and website that has ever existed has had TOS similar to this. In most cases the app/site creators know exactly what will be going on, but they have to put in this kind of language to make it look like they are not openly encouraging infringement.
Don't expect this to be any kind of legal shield though, because it isn't.
Power fails you.
You can manually specifiy any directories that you want to be included in the index. By default System, Library, and all of the hidden unix dirs are excluded. You just need to edit a config file to tell spotlight which ones you want to include and then reindex your drive.
See here.
I tried to email the editor but I was too slow.
/dev/null.
I don't think time was your most serious problem here.
I've had the distinct impression for a while that all the editors email is mapped to