Perhaps I'm just a tad too idealistic, but I would think that if these guys cracked the 40-bit encryption code, they would have first notified the affected companies/people.
But then again, if they did, the companies might have just shrugged it off and not done anything to make the encryption better.
Can you point me to this information (about the finches)? I'm not too current on all of it (too much time coding).:)
I would still say that the finches evolving is simply a matter of adpatation. But the birds are still birds.
I guess I am not familiar with this aspect of evolution. The one I remember learning about in college was a change in organism (lizard to bird) and not necessarily a rise of a new species.
You could say that there are different speicies of human beings because we all look different (as far as skin color, facial looks), but we are all still humans.
By the way, can those different species of finch breed with one another?
Um, I'm no guru on all of this stuff, but what you describe sounds like simple adaptation to me (micro-evolution) and not necessarily a change in organism (macro-evolution) which is what's being debated about.
Some of the posts I've seen seem to confuse this... oh well.
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Perhaps I'm just a tad too idealistic, but I would think that if these guys cracked the 40-bit encryption code, they would have first notified the affected companies/people.
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But then again, if they did, the companies might have just shrugged it off and not done anything to make the encryption better.
Oh well
Can you point me to this information (about the finches)? I'm not too current on all of it (too much time coding). :)
I would still say that the finches evolving is simply a matter of adpatation. But the birds are still birds.
I guess I am not familiar with this aspect of evolution. The one I remember learning about in college was a change in organism (lizard to bird) and not necessarily a rise of a new species.
You could say that there are different speicies of human beings because we all look different (as far as skin color, facial looks), but we are all still humans.
By the way, can those different species of finch breed with one another?
Um, I'm no guru on all of this stuff, but what you describe sounds like simple adaptation to me (micro-evolution) and not necessarily a change in organism (macro-evolution) which is what's being debated about.
... oh well.
Some of the posts I've seen seem to confuse this