"What it could have done: Check the parameters of the system, and assemble them into a key. Try using it to decrypt the payload. If the parameters are correct, it will successfully decrypt. Execute it."
What advantage would give key? I do not see any, except intellectual onanism of some security researchers.
"You choose the early 50s. Others might choose a point a couple thousand years ago when the Persians invaded Greece. Therefore, Greeks need atomic weapons?"
In context of atomic weapons, early fifties are very good start point. Or you claim that atomic weapons was invented "couple thousand years ago"?
Unfortunately, scale of leak alone (250000+ cables) makes it rather unbeveliable that all of it is fabricated. But yeah, damage control could be done way lot better.
If I see "nuclear powered" as description of RTG once, just once more... no, I will sadly NOT snap. But someone woulda thought that tech-savy site would not give that dumb title.
"If there aren't any cracked versions available for the first months"
Months? Months?! You must live in some alternative reality*. I constantly heard about new games cracked BEFORE release. I bet in your pink universe with fluffy clouds and sun with smile hackers and crackers are powerless against DRM.
Welcome to so-called Reality.
* Read: you're fucking idiot.
"doing "bad stuff" to the murderer won't help anybody."
It will prevent another crime (at least for time of sentence for offender) and deterrs other to some degree ("get away with it" become less likely).
So yes, it will help.
"It's not reasonable to compare the minimum penalties for rape and murder to the maximum penalties for copyright infringement. "
It is reasonable, because they should not overlap.
"goverments/corporations penalizes copyright infringement more severely than rape and murder."
Fixed it for you.
"So clean your dirt first before calling other countries spotted!"
You know what? I am from former communist country. I see that joke "but you in USA beat blackies!" never get old, even in China. Every natin have their own load of shit, and others shit is not any excuse of your own shit. Especially if is stinker.
"Ask the Tibetan people"
Funny that jorunalists preparing to Olympics 2008 have problem with it. They cannot do that you propose. Wonder why?
"I don't think they going to publish this comment anyways as Slashdot is not a democratic forum"
What an irony in this one short sentence. Yes, Slashdot is democratic forum. You prove it yourself. No one removed it. What, you expected Slashdot to behave like your favorite totalitarian regime? No all organisations or nations are like China. Projection, people, projection...
Do you know what % of USA budget is NASA? How much USA spent on other things, like social or wars? Why people like you always want to take money from NASA, not, for example, from Iraq? Your priorities at least are clear.
Further, if we were going to spend that money why doesn't it go to the feeding the third world, stopping genocide, etc.? There are money already spent on these things. Do you suggest that we should completely dimsantle space program in order to waste money on bribes, corrupted regimes and whatnot? Do you know WHY 3 world is so poor?
And don't get me started on how environmentally harmful the industrial complexes surrounding NASA and the military are... Good, because you clearly don't know anything about enviromental impact of rocket launches in comparsion to, for example, one transatlantic Boening fly. And I do not like ecozealots.
Before we start looking for other planets, why don't we try taking care of this one? Did you fix ALL of your problems before moving out of your parent house?
Now mod me down because I had the gaul to question NASA's right to exist. No, I will not mod you, but for me you are another "look at starving children in Ethiopia" demagogic idiot.
I will cut to answer only to one most important issue.
If a person never read any criticism of black holes, then they could be forgiven for not realizing that the theory of black holes has adjusted over time to reflect observations.
Conventional cometary theory is in shambles because it has been modified so many times out of need by enigmatic observations.
I'm aware of the minor tweak that was done to the theories of comet formation. Every time that something like this happens -- when you receive a result that doesn't work with your current theories -- the result, in truth, casts doubt upon the theories. (...) The rational thing at that point would be to step back and re-evaluate our comet theory and perhaps even the bigger picture of cosmology. You seem to ignore whole premise of scientific method. Scientific method does not mean that you put into trash whole theory when slighest differences occur. If some new observations change picture, you change theory. If this does not work, change more. Only if this is impossible, THEN (and only then) you start to look for new, better theory.
"step back and re-evaluate our comet theory and perhaps even the bigger picture of cosmology" is irrational thing to do, because less drastic ways exists to reconcile theory with observations. And these ways should be tried first.
What you will find though in practice is that changes happen incrementally as there is always resistance to dramatic change. And this is perfectly normal. As i said, throwing all away in first sign of small problem would be crackpot idiocy.
Resistance was very big against ideas that now science consider valid (for example, Theory of Relativity). New ideas win because they are right (or at least "righter" than old ideas), not because they're so sexy, so new and preached by fringe groups.
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You're the one arguing that that I'm a Catastrophist. I said nothing at all about "catastrophism", although Velikovsky certainly sounds like one.
I believe strongly that the public has developed emotional attachments to many objects in astrophysics And so what? You claim that "coolness" of some science propositions have non-meritoric influence upon scientists? Your claim is strange, I encountered mainly totally opposite criticism from people like you: these pesky scientists are in their ivory towers and does not care at all about external world, including general public.
that are highly speculative and probably do not even exist. Like what? Let me guess: black holes?
the history of science is filled with these situations where dogma (somebody's belief system) superceded observations While sciencists are only humans, like we are all, they should give predecence of observations over belief system, as you say. And I think they doing pretty good, weeding out mistakes and cheats.
Obviously, you think about something else here. You do not consider some obsevations valid (specifically these at odds with EU&V - Electric Universe & Velikovsky).
And I see nothing dogmatic about science. Only people screaming "dogma!" that I see are cranks that try explaining for other and themself why their theories are not recognized as valid. God forbid that is because of errors and wrongness of said crackpot theories!
Deep Impact was supposed to find that water was present inside of the comet Tempel 1, but it failed to find sufficient quantities to lend credence to the conventional cometary models. Yes, they are more dusty and less icy than expected (but unfortunately for EU not "rocky" - of course this bit was promptly forgotten by EU proponents). Also fact that material was ejected from surface (not very deep) plays role.
The Stardust mission clearly demonstrated that comets are the result of intense, hot origins. Um... no, this claim is false. Origins was mixed, hot and cold.
Again: what comets have anything in common with Venus? Size? Mass? Temperature? Pressure on surface? Looks? Materials? Atmosphere composition? Orbital parameters? Existence of tail (if you insist on that)? Answer me. What's being argued by the EU Theorists is that the planet Venus was ejected. Rather "argued by your EU&V".
The subsequent movement of the planet away from its origin and the subsequent emission of heat caused the planet to take on a comet-like appearance. So you admit that Venus have almost nothing in common with comets? Only exception: some kind of look (apperance) in some stage of life. Right?
I strongly recommend that you take a more open-minded approach Okay, but not so open that brain fells out.
We will almost certainly see a very interesting situation unfold within our lifetimes within astrophysics as the plasma-based cosmologies regain a foothold. I don't think so. You remind me of creationists that from 150 years predicts fall of Theory of Evilution "really soon, any minute now".
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Unfortunately for you, they (SpaceX) can and will be treated seriously. This is why this in(s)ane "Liberty" contraption was born.
You "forgot" about space tourism.
"Don't be evil" went to trash bin log ago. China censorship.
I think he is sarcastic. He assign line "including the much more valuable American lives" to Bushists and similar mindset.
I thought that crossing c barrieer is forbidden, not v>c in itself (tahyons, anyone?).
Why this incoherent string of non-sequiturs was modded +3 insightful?
"What it could have done: Check the parameters of the system, and assemble them into a key. Try using it to decrypt the payload. If the parameters are correct, it will successfully decrypt. Execute it." What advantage would give key? I do not see any, except intellectual onanism of some security researchers.
"You choose the early 50s. Others might choose a point a couple thousand years ago when the Persians invaded Greece. Therefore, Greeks need atomic weapons?"
In context of atomic weapons, early fifties are very good start point. Or you claim that atomic weapons was invented "couple thousand years ago"?
"did them wrong in a number of ways" Nice weasel wording.
Unfortunately, scale of leak alone (250000+ cables) makes it rather unbeveliable that all of it is fabricated. But yeah, damage control could be done way lot better.
...someone, hold on, could make a family of rockets for that kind of money. Complete, with a few test flights. Just sayin'.
If I see "nuclear powered" as description of RTG once, just once more... no, I will sadly NOT snap. But someone woulda thought that tech-savy site would not give that dumb title.
"and you can kiss PC gaming goodbye."
Indie market will WARMLY welcome it. I don't think big game publishers can afford losing of PC gaming market.
In other words, you are bullshitting, dear sir.
Yeah, it is troll, but good troll. :)
"BUT...in the end, our technology will defeat them..." No, it will never end. On bright side, you have permament job security!
"If there aren't any cracked versions available for the first months" Months? Months?! You must live in some alternative reality*. I constantly heard about new games cracked BEFORE release. I bet in your pink universe with fluffy clouds and sun with smile hackers and crackers are powerless against DRM. Welcome to so-called Reality. * Read: you're fucking idiot.
"doing "bad stuff" to the murderer won't help anybody." It will prevent another crime (at least for time of sentence for offender) and deterrs other to some degree ("get away with it" become less likely). So yes, it will help.
"It's not reasonable to compare the minimum penalties for rape and murder to the maximum penalties for copyright infringement. "
It is reasonable, because they should not overlap.
"goverments/corporations penalizes copyright infringement more severely than rape and murder."
Fixed it for you.
No, troll. He is telling you that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Unfortunately, it is more probable that student screwed something.
"So clean your dirt first before calling other countries spotted!" You know what? I am from former communist country. I see that joke "but you in USA beat blackies!" never get old, even in China. Every natin have their own load of shit, and others shit is not any excuse of your own shit. Especially if is stinker. "Ask the Tibetan people" Funny that jorunalists preparing to Olympics 2008 have problem with it. They cannot do that you propose. Wonder why? "I don't think they going to publish this comment anyways as Slashdot is not a democratic forum" What an irony in this one short sentence. Yes, Slashdot is democratic forum. You prove it yourself. No one removed it. What, you expected Slashdot to behave like your favorite totalitarian regime? No all organisations or nations are like China. Projection, people, projection...
"step back and re-evaluate our comet theory and perhaps even the bigger picture of cosmology" is irrational thing to do, because less drastic ways exists to reconcile theory with observations. And these ways should be tried first.
What you will find though in practice is that changes happen incrementally as there is always resistance to dramatic change. And this is perfectly normal. As i said, throwing all away in first sign of small problem would be crackpot idiocy. Resistance was very big against ideas that now science consider valid (for example, Theory of Relativity). New ideas win because they are right (or at least "righter" than old ideas), not because they're so sexy, so new and preached by fringe groups.Obviously, you think about something else here. You do not consider some obsevations valid (specifically these at odds with EU&V - Electric Universe & Velikovsky).
And I see nothing dogmatic about science. Only people screaming "dogma!" that I see are cranks that try explaining for other and themself why their theories are not recognized as valid. God forbid that is because of errors and wrongness of said crackpot theories!
Deep Impact was supposed to find that water was present inside of the comet Tempel 1, but it failed to find sufficient quantities to lend credence to the conventional cometary models. Yes, they are more dusty and less icy than expected (but unfortunately for EU not "rocky" - of course this bit was promptly forgotten by EU proponents). Also fact that material was ejected from surface (not very deep) plays role. The Stardust mission clearly demonstrated that comets are the result of intense, hot origins. Um... no, this claim is false. Origins was mixed, hot and cold.http://www.planetary.org/news/2006/1216_Stardust_Samples_Rewrite_History_of.html
Again: what comets have anything in common with Venus? Size? Mass? Temperature? Pressure on surface? Looks? Materials? Atmosphere composition? Orbital parameters? Existence of tail (if you insist on that)? Answer me. What's being argued by the EU Theorists is that the planet Venus was ejected. Rather "argued by your EU&V". The subsequent movement of the planet away from its origin and the subsequent emission of heat caused the planet to take on a comet-like appearance. So you admit that Venus have almost nothing in common with comets? Only exception: some kind of look (apperance) in some stage of life. Right? I strongly recommend that you take a more open-minded approach Okay, but not so open that brain fells out. We will almost certainly see a very interesting situation unfold within our lifetimes within astrophysics as the plasma-based cosmologies regain a foothold. I don't think so. You remind me of creationists that from 150 years predicts fall of Theory of Evilution "really soon, any minute now".