Why does the water have to have come from comet/asteroid/whatever impacts? Maybe it just kind of seeped out of rocks or something. Hydrogen and oxygen are pretty common.
I will agree that western designed tests show that westerners do well at western institutions. Nearly any time someone creates a metric of something as difficult to define as intelligence, they create it in such a way that they're the top scorers. I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.
Except for some weird reason, those eastern orientals seem to do very well on these western tests of intelligence, even though they learn English as a second language! So much so that western universities are flooded with them and the administrators of the western universities are restricting oriental student numbers while handing out affirmative action slots to blacks.
Doesn't it strike you as odd that first generation immigrant oriental children score higher on the English (verbal) portion of the SATs than African-American children, whose families have been speaking English natively for umpteen generations? Or were these tests created specifically to favor western AND eastern students while somehow excluding blacks? (that would be quite a trick)
Yeah he better stay his pasty white ass in Seattle or whatever f*ckin whitebread town he lives in. Cuz if he ever comes down here then me and the homeboys from East LA are gonna f**k him up.
kind of like two children arguing whether Batman can beat up Spiderman. It's fun to talk about it but in the end it doesn't matter because Spiderman doesn't exist.
The climate change types seem to have both science and scientists on their side
Yeah that's puzzled me also. I think the answer is that climate science is fairly new (at least the doomsday predicting variety), and there's a built-in bias towards alarmism. You can't justify your department's funding (or its very existence) if you report back and say there's nothing to worry about. We tend to think of scientists as Einstein and Feynman and other brilliant figures, but in reality most of them are pedestrian academics and if not for climate research they'd be fighting for their jobs at the university or waiting tables.
Some of them are outright frauds (Michael Mann, Phil Jones and a few others from Climategate) but probably most are not. The thing is, earth is a big place, there's a crapton of things you can measure, and the climate is really really complex. You can do an honest study and come up with all sorts of different conclusions. Like macroeconomics. Ask the 5 most eminent economists in the world about where we're headed and you'll get 5 different answers.
And there's an echo chamber effect where climate change believers talk to each other and reinforce their beliefs. And the media laps it up because *they* also have a built in bias for sensationalism ("nothing to worry about" makes a lousy story but "we're all gonna die from rising sea levels" gets the page views)
Anyways that's my opinion on why so many scientists are insisting on this "scientific consensus".
Come back in about 20 years. AGW will be have topped the Piltdown Man as the greatest scientific fraud of all time.
Pretty much every prediction they've made to date have been proven wrong (we are not having a Katrina-strength hurricane every year, England is not snow-free, Hockey Stick never happened, etc). But the basic idea that man is evil (esp. Western man) and that industrialization is bad resonates deep with those who want to believe, and they're gonna have a hard time letting it go. And of course Algore and IPCC and others who profit from the scaremongering will keep egging it on.
But I figure 20 more years of their dire predictions not coming to pass aught to be enough for most people to wake up and smell the bullshit.
Well the founders of Uber are extremely "ethically challenged". For instance them digging up dirt on news reporters is exactly what Scientology does with its critics. And sabotaging competitors by calling in fake orders sound just like what the mafia would do.
I have nothing against ride-sharing apps in general, I hope Lyft and others succeed. Just not Uber, they are dirtbags.
Uber is just about the least likeable company I've ever seen. Hope they disappear for good.
They employ scientology and mafia like tactics. But they don't have body thetans like scientologists, and they don't have the personality or the cooking skills of mafiosi. That just makes them boring thugs.
North Korea is unlikely, but South Korea seems an obvious choice since they have the most to gain from Sony's market share.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in quite a while. It's like saying Apple would hack Nokia to gain market share.
Sony (the electronics firm) is in death throes and the last time they turned a decent profit is when Dubya was pumped for a Middle East invasion. Samsung alone makes more profit in a quarter than Sony made in the last decade.
Sony the Hollywood studio is doing fine but there's no equivalent South Korean competitor that would try to steal market share from it. And even if there was one, destroying Sony's movies doesn't make your own movies do any better at the box office. Movie business is not like the smartphone business.
And generally speaking, legitimate businesses that earn good money don't go around hacking into competitors' networks. The risk to reward just isn't there. Repercussions of getting caught would be catastrophic.
TFA (second link) says the Sony attack used similar components as the 2013 "DarkSeoul" attacks on S. Korean banks and government sites. Those were confirmed as originating from N. Korea.
Add to that the other circumstantial evidence and it's looking more and more like the Norks are responsible.
Another clue is the grammatical style used. I have to think that any official DPRK hacking group would have close ties to the government, and any press releases or emails would be written by someone with the official news/media services there.
Not necessarily. This isn't an official communique from the N. Korean government. Remember, they denied involvement. My gut feeling is that it was written by the head of cyber warfare unit.
I do think they're capable of it. Their cyber warfare unit has plenty of experience hacking S. Korean targets. They are not noob at all. They employ thousands and the competition to join is fierce. Cyber warfare unit members get top-notch treatment such as getting enough food to eat and your own apartment, which are rare luxuries there. Even though we tend to think of N.Korea as a dirt-poor stone age nation, they have their own nukes and missiles. They managed to put a satellite in orbit. They send their best and brightest to Russia and China for training.
About the threats to Sony: seems to me like it was written by a Korean with a poor book learning of English. Also seems like a dictionary translation. I've seen English written by such people, and this has the same flavor.
"It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time." - this definitely sounds like something a Korean would write while looking up words in a Korean-English dictionary. He's probably thinking of "shil-soo" which means a mistake, but if you look it up in a 1960's paperbound dictionary, "false" is one of the entries! "Some time" is also commonly used by dictionary Koreans because there's a specific noun in Korean that means "Short interval of time", but English has no such noun. A fluent English speaker would use an adjective or an adverb to express himself, but a dictionary Korean would look for an equivalent noun and use whatever he found in the dictionary.
Thus "It's your mistake if you think this crisis will be over shortly" becomes "It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time."
Well, North Korea is known to display asinine behavior. Such as abducting Japanese and S. korean citizens and forcing them to work in N. Korea. And blowing up S. Korean airliners with bombs.
Lesson for Sony and anyone else: if a nation- state threatens you personally by name, take it seriously. Even if it's a poor backward nation like N. Korea. It's still a nation state with its own armed forces and intelligence agents.
That was never gonna happen with that kind of budget requirements. $500 billion in 1991 dollars? That's close to a trillion today. Might as well wish for unicorns to bring world peace.
Instead of trying to ramrod monstrously expensive programs through, what we should've been concentrating on is lowering the cost to get stuff into orbit. Get cheap enough space access and a Mars trip will happen easily and naturally. Unfortunately all the players involved were making good money from the existing system so there was/is no incentive to change.
We needed something like a WW2 situation where the survival of U.S. and E.U. is at stake. Get lots of mass in orbit cheaply or you will cease to exist as a nation and all your money and assets will be seized by Nazis. That would've shaken things up. I'd probably be writing this from Mars today.
Or have a genius visionary billionaire do everything. Thanks Elon, let's hope the F9R and FHR succeed.
Hey I wanna see people go to Mars as much as anyone here. But let's get realistic: Mars is way harder to get to than the moon. WAY harder.
And since Mars has an atmosphere deorbitting is essentially free.
Not even close. Landing a heavy craft on Mars is difficult. In fact the top scientists in the world (including NASA) aren't even sure how we're gonna do it exactly. Smithsonian mag has a lengthy and highly informative article on this.
Yes but that doesn't include the time to get there. Moon = 3 days. Mars = 9 to 12 months. If you're sending a robotic probe then no problem. But if you're sending humans, compare the weight in supplies (food water etc) that you need for a 3 day journey vs. a 10 month journey. That's a gigantic weight difference. And that's not even counting the shielding you will need for a Mars journey.
A system that moves the panels shouldn't add that much to the cost and will probably pay for itself very quickly with the extra energy collected.
Wishful thinking. It *does* add much to the cost and no it won't pay for itself quickly at all. In case of home installations where the panels are mounted on sloped roofs, it's not even possible in most cases.
Space-based solar and nuclear are the only things that can completely replace fossil fuels with zero emissions.
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Why does the water have to have come from comet/asteroid/whatever impacts? Maybe it just kind of seeped out of rocks or something. Hydrogen and oxygen are pretty common.
1/2 the size of jpg for equivalent quality. I'm sold.
As soon as Photoshop and Firefox/Chrome start supporting it I can see widespread adoption.
I will agree that western designed tests show that westerners do well at western institutions. Nearly any time someone creates a metric of something as difficult to define as intelligence, they create it in such a way that they're the top scorers. I'm sure if those living in sub-saharan africa were to design their own intelligence tests, it would favor them instead.
Except for some weird reason, those eastern orientals seem to do very well on these western tests of intelligence, even though they learn English as a second language! So much so that western universities are flooded with them and the administrators of the western universities are restricting oriental student numbers while handing out affirmative action slots to blacks.
Doesn't it strike you as odd that first generation immigrant oriental children score higher on the English (verbal) portion of the SATs than African-American children, whose families have been speaking English natively for umpteen generations? Or were these tests created specifically to favor western AND eastern students while somehow excluding blacks? (that would be quite a trick)
Yeah he better stay his pasty white ass in Seattle or whatever f*ckin whitebread town he lives in. Cuz if he ever comes down here then me and the homeboys from East LA are gonna f**k him up.
kind of like two children arguing whether Batman can beat up Spiderman. It's fun to talk about it but in the end it doesn't matter because Spiderman doesn't exist.
The climate change types seem to have both science and scientists on their side
Yeah that's puzzled me also. I think the answer is that climate science is fairly new (at least the doomsday predicting variety), and there's a built-in bias towards alarmism. You can't justify your department's funding (or its very existence) if you report back and say there's nothing to worry about. We tend to think of scientists as Einstein and Feynman and other brilliant figures, but in reality most of them are pedestrian academics and if not for climate research they'd be fighting for their jobs at the university or waiting tables.
Some of them are outright frauds (Michael Mann, Phil Jones and a few others from Climategate) but probably most are not. The thing is, earth is a big place, there's a crapton of things you can measure, and the climate is really really complex. You can do an honest study and come up with all sorts of different conclusions. Like macroeconomics. Ask the 5 most eminent economists in the world about where we're headed and you'll get 5 different answers.
And there's an echo chamber effect where climate change believers talk to each other and reinforce their beliefs. And the media laps it up because *they* also have a built in bias for sensationalism ("nothing to worry about" makes a lousy story but "we're all gonna die from rising sea levels" gets the page views)
Anyways that's my opinion on why so many scientists are insisting on this "scientific consensus".
Come back in about 20 years. AGW will be have topped the Piltdown Man as the greatest scientific fraud of all time.
Pretty much every prediction they've made to date have been proven wrong (we are not having a Katrina-strength hurricane every year, England is not snow-free, Hockey Stick never happened, etc). But the basic idea that man is evil (esp. Western man) and that industrialization is bad resonates deep with those who want to believe, and they're gonna have a hard time letting it go. And of course Algore and IPCC and others who profit from the scaremongering will keep egging it on.
But I figure 20 more years of their dire predictions not coming to pass aught to be enough for most people to wake up and smell the bullshit.
Well the founders of Uber are extremely "ethically challenged". For instance them digging up dirt on news reporters is exactly what Scientology does with its critics. And sabotaging competitors by calling in fake orders sound just like what the mafia would do.
I have nothing against ride-sharing apps in general, I hope Lyft and others succeed. Just not Uber, they are dirtbags.
Uber is just about the least likeable company I've ever seen. Hope they disappear for good.
They employ scientology and mafia like tactics. But they don't have body thetans like scientologists, and they don't have the personality or the cooking skills of mafiosi. That just makes them boring thugs.
Christian Security: How would Jesus defend his network?
North Korea is unlikely, but South Korea seems an obvious choice since they have the most to gain from Sony's market share.
That's the stupidest thing I've heard in quite a while. It's like saying Apple would hack Nokia to gain market share.
Sony (the electronics firm) is in death throes and the last time they turned a decent profit is when Dubya was pumped for a Middle East invasion. Samsung alone makes more profit in a quarter than Sony made in the last decade.
Sony the Hollywood studio is doing fine but there's no equivalent South Korean competitor that would try to steal market share from it. And even if there was one, destroying Sony's movies doesn't make your own movies do any better at the box office. Movie business is not like the smartphone business.
And generally speaking, legitimate businesses that earn good money don't go around hacking into competitors' networks. The risk to reward just isn't there. Repercussions of getting caught would be catastrophic.
Just a dumb comment all around.
TFA (second link) says the Sony attack used similar components as the 2013 "DarkSeoul" attacks on S. Korean banks and government sites. Those were confirmed as originating from N. Korea.
Add to that the other circumstantial evidence and it's looking more and more like the Norks are responsible.
Another clue is the grammatical style used. I have to think that any official DPRK hacking group would have close ties to the government, and any press releases or emails would be written by someone with the official news/media services there.
Not necessarily. This isn't an official communique from the N. Korean government. Remember, they denied involvement. My gut feeling is that it was written by the head of cyber warfare unit.
I do think they're capable of it. Their cyber warfare unit has plenty of experience hacking S. Korean targets. They are not noob at all. They employ thousands and the competition to join is fierce. Cyber warfare unit members get top-notch treatment such as getting enough food to eat and your own apartment, which are rare luxuries there. Even though we tend to think of N.Korea as a dirt-poor stone age nation, they have their own nukes and missiles. They managed to put a satellite in orbit. They send their best and brightest to Russia and China for training.
About the threats to Sony: seems to me like it was written by a Korean with a poor book learning of English. Also seems like a dictionary translation. I've seen English written by such people, and this has the same flavor.
"It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time." - this definitely sounds like something a Korean would write while looking up words in a Korean-English dictionary. He's probably thinking of "shil-soo" which means a mistake, but if you look it up in a 1960's paperbound dictionary, "false" is one of the entries! "Some time" is also commonly used by dictionary Koreans because there's a specific noun in Korean that means "Short interval of time", but English has no such noun. A fluent English speaker would use an adjective or an adverb to express himself, but a dictionary Korean would look for an equivalent noun and use whatever he found in the dictionary.
Thus "It's your mistake if you think this crisis will be over shortly" becomes "It's your false if you think this crisis will be over after some time."
Well, North Korea is known to display asinine behavior. Such as abducting Japanese and S. korean citizens and forcing them to work in N. Korea. And blowing up S. Korean airliners with bombs.
Lesson for Sony and anyone else: if a nation- state threatens you personally by name, take it seriously. Even if it's a poor backward nation like N. Korea. It's still a nation state with its own armed forces and intelligence agents.
windows 98 is so old that soon it may be immune to malware.
no it was Steve Jobs reality distortion field that made the plaintiffs think they bought an ipod when they didn't.
real men have their own programming language, that's why!
Like how they used to say in the chip business, real men have their own fab.
That was never gonna happen with that kind of budget requirements. $500 billion in 1991 dollars? That's close to a trillion today. Might as well wish for unicorns to bring world peace.
Instead of trying to ramrod monstrously expensive programs through, what we should've been concentrating on is lowering the cost to get stuff into orbit. Get cheap enough space access and a Mars trip will happen easily and naturally. Unfortunately all the players involved were making good money from the existing system so there was/is no incentive to change.
We needed something like a WW2 situation where the survival of U.S. and E.U. is at stake. Get lots of mass in orbit cheaply or you will cease to exist as a nation and all your money and assets will be seized by Nazis. That would've shaken things up. I'd probably be writing this from Mars today.
Or have a genius visionary billionaire do everything. Thanks Elon, let's hope the F9R and FHR succeed.
Hey I wanna see people go to Mars as much as anyone here. But let's get realistic: Mars is way harder to get to than the moon. WAY harder.
And since Mars has an atmosphere deorbitting is essentially free.
Not even close. Landing a heavy craft on Mars is difficult. In fact the top scientists in the world (including NASA) aren't even sure how we're gonna do it exactly. Smithsonian mag has a lengthy and highly informative article on this.
So
Earth -> Moon: 15.58
Earth -> Mars: 16.65
Difference: 6.9%
Yes but that doesn't include the time to get there. Moon = 3 days. Mars = 9 to 12 months. If you're sending a robotic probe then no problem. But if you're sending humans, compare the weight in supplies (food water etc) that you need for a 3 day journey vs. a 10 month journey. That's a gigantic weight difference. And that's not even counting the shielding you will need for a Mars journey.
don't release that movie that made fun of him (the one with Seth Rogen). Then North Korea won't release the Sony internal data.
Lesson: don't fuck with North Korea. They are bad-asses!
knowledge. Must be because they are repentant for deleting users' music earlier.
Romulans. And their bird of prey. Apple will lose.
I have a customers hard drive I am copying data from currently. Has 15,147 power on hours, it has only written 1.3TB of data.
How can you tell? Does the HDD keep track of this info somewhere in the firmware?
and make TouchWiz open too. That way you can run TouchWiz on Nexus and HTC and LG phones!
A system that moves the panels shouldn't add that much to the cost and will probably pay for itself very quickly with the extra energy collected.
Wishful thinking. It *does* add much to the cost and no it won't pay for itself quickly at all. In case of home installations where the panels are mounted on sloped roofs, it's not even possible in most cases.
Space-based solar and nuclear are the only things that can completely replace fossil fuels with zero emissions.