Oh and about North Korea....
NK is like an evil child who just keeps poking at its siblings and parents. Now it wants a new toy that it cant have. Eventually we're (US, Russia, China, SK, Japan) are just going to slap it.
I dont like war but I will not oppose beating Pyongyang to a pulp when the time comes.
Ah, you didnt mention Japan. I dont believe NK or Iran can compare the the US, but Japan definitely can. Although the US would be the last target of a Japanese attack. After all the US and Japan are major trading partners. (and im sure they remember the first time they pissed us off...which segways back into fission, heh)
Anyway I was not aware of that Costa Rican provision. Its certainly very interesting. In fact, what they have done is probably decades ahead of its time. As a smaller country, Costa Rica probably realized that there really is no point to having a military. Sure they could respond to national threats very rapidly, but -- like you said -- the US will have troops deployed in response to an invasion within hours. Of course this makes Costa Rica basically bound to the United States. Kudos Costa Rica;-)
Basically I agree with what your saying. I know we are not in the same situation that helped perpetuate the need for a fission bomb.
IMO, NSF grants would be the best way to fund research into fusion. I like NASA's idea of creating X-Prize-like awards for research breakthroughs, however the overhead for fusion research is obviously way to prohibative for this.
Anyway, I also agree with you on the amazing scope and level of collaboration involved with the Apollo project. But I do not agree with your statement:
The U.S. military budget is barely #2 on the list of priorities.
I am not sure what charts you were reading, but military funding is not number 2. In fact, in terms of discretionary congressional spending, the military is funded with over five times more money than the next best funded department (which is H&HS).
Also, the following statement:
Compared to the overall GNP of the USA, [defense spending] is only 3.3% of the entire U.S. economy. This is much smaller than many other nations like North Korea or Iran, where they are spending a considerably larger portion of their economic output on military purposes.
You seem like a very intelligent person, which is why I am amazed that you would make this comparison. The GDP of the United States is $11.4 Trillion. The GDP of North Korea and Iran is $29.6 Billion and $478.2 Billion, respectively. Obviously you cannot compare spending percentages between these nations. Even if North Korea spent 100% of its GDP on its military, U.S. spending would still exceed that value several times over. Not to mention that NK has a 1% GDP growth rate and spends ~$5B on its army.
As for Iran, they spend exactly the same on their armed services percent-wise as the U.S. (3.3% which comes to 5 B).
Finally, the whole argument is moot since we are not at war, and proabably will never be at war, with Iran. If Iran attacked us, we would not buy any of the 3Mil barrels of oil they produce daily... and that would be devestation.
True, thank you for correcting me. Just substitute 20% for 50%, the exclamations remain. Also, I used 400B as my reference, as I knew that was roughly the amount (underestimate, heh). I should have realized my overall spending nnumber was a tad low.
Regardless, I just want to see Education spending increase at at least twice that of military.
According to the discretionary spending estimates, military spending will will increase more than twice that of education, percentage wise. (7.1% mil vs 3% ed).
On second thought, the percentages dont justify the gap. Military spending: 433B versus Education: 53B.
That corresponds to a 26B increase military funding in 2005 vs 1B increase in education funding.
Im not anti-military, im not anti war, I am anti-wasting-life-for-no-reason. Come on, lets get our priorities straight. The long term benefits of educational spending are far greater than that of defense spending. Besides, a better educated population base can design better bombs and submarines:-)
I'm getting carried away, and this isnt the right place for this discussion, so im done.
Let's hope that you can't make an effective weapon with fusion reactors. That will kill research into it (or perhaps that is the problem).
Now your on the right track. For the record, the United States of America allocates fifty-percent (yes 50%!!!) of annual budget to the military. The vast majority of that is for research, grants and buying air craft carriers. ( the carriers cost more than it would cost to feed every starving person in the world )
So I would be willing to bet that if the military considered fission a viable weapon, a reactor would be constructed in a few years. Sadly that is the price we pay for placing virtually all R&D in the hands of the military (and NASA or course).
Of course I would rather wait a decade or two than have fission be used as a weapon. Its just not an acceptable use.
Also, if you were wondering, our nearest enemy is considered to be Russia (what a joke) and they allocate a very small fraction of what we do to the military.
Your not guilty of anything, except being a valuable employee. Your perl scripts have not hurt the economy, and in some ways you've helped the IT industry... or at least yourself.
How much money has your company saved by NOT highering 50 or so employees? $600,000/year? more?
(Think of all the overhead involved in 50 tech employees)
Now what has your company done with all that cash? Im sure they are not hoarding it into some bank account. When companies have extra money they usually use it to improve services/products, purchase newer and better equiptment, offer their employees better benefits, and most importantly of all expand!!
Expansion creates more jobs and the potential to gain more money. As a side effect, your scripting has prevented your company from needing 50 engineers to possibly wanting a few more. So now you can worry about the quality of the engineers you hire, instead of the quantity.
people need to stop intruding so much on animals' natural habitats so that they can have a healthy population that can rebound from the occasional disease or natural disaster.
ummm... first off strict Darwinism has to do with genetic adaption. If this Dolphin was in open waters it would most likely have found a mate and spawned offspring before it got sick (illness struck at age 32). If this rare disease takes affect late in life, and can be passed to children, then over many generations, the population of inflicted Dolphins would grow. Only then will the Dolphin population begin to adapt to it.
And if you are mistakenly interpreting Darwinism to apply to physical strength or short term changes, consider this:
Humans feed it every day. Humans monitor its vitals. Humans maintain a clean tank/living space for it. It even has human "friends." This is not how Dolphins survive in their natural environment. So you see, in some sense, this "Dolphin" is not really even a Dolphin anymore. It has already physically adapted to suit Humanities purposes, so why not change a little more?
It won't stop phishing. They'll just use the domain names they've already bought -- secure-visa.com, ebay-fraud.com, etc.
Actually Daedala, you have touched on one of Domain Keys greatest strengths. If all spammers used their legit, yet misleading, domains to spam, DomainKey-enabled servers could effortlessly block the keys associated with these domains. Thus, properly signing scam e-mails will cause your server's key to be blacklisted *very* quickly, and permenantly on the organization level.
But with 99% global cooperation, wouldnt this solution provide additional accuracy for existing spam filters?
What I mean is this:
- Assume 99% of all ISPs implement DK.
- Assume the major email providers (AOL/Time Warner's cable co's, AOL itself, Yahoo!, MS,......) got together and formed a public blacklist consisting of domains that send alot of spam.
If the blacklist database listed spamming domains along with the ration of spam:legit e-mails from those domains, that data could be used to make filtering more accurate. For example, SpamAssassin could add a few points to an e-mail from a domain with high spam volume.
Im not saying combining these solution would even approach four nines, but it may help.
Otherwise, I see your point, this system is not very useful without full participation.
Spammers don't use their ISPs servers, except by accident. They run an SMTP server right on the injecting system, and spam direct from the dialup, Cable, ADSL, or T1.
This is precisely the form of spam that will be impossible under domain keys. If I send spam from my Comcast cable account, the outgoing message will have my insanely_long_dhcp_dns_id.attbi.net or whatever ridiculously long DNS entry they assigned me this week.
There will be no DomainKey or SPF record on the attbi.net DNS server corresponding to my SMTP server. Therefore such mail will be rejected.
Note: I have'nt finished reading the ASTA's proposal to the IETF so I may be slightly off on this one.
Anyway, I do not claim that the standard will eliminate spam, I do claim that it will make it much more difficult to spam from low cost ISP accounts, such as my cable account.
There seems to be alot of confusion amound/.ers about how SPF and DomainKeys fight spam. The primary accomplishment of these technologies is to make it difficult to scam e-mail recipiants. e.g. you cant pretent to be Bank of America anymore.
DomainKeys makes it harder to send general spam as well. It allows spammers to be tracked. It also allows easy blacklisting of known spam servers. ISP's will be more strict about letting spammers use their SMTP servers out of fear of being blacklisted.
Finally, while it is possible for a spammer to change SMTP servers frequently, this adds significant financial overhead. I believe DomainKeys has the ability to eliminate all of the small spammers, as well as almost all phishing scams.
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People have tried, and it is completely possible to factor ANY prime number.
Basically this task takes a prohibitively long time on modern technology. Even employing the top 5 of the Top500 super computers, results would still take a while (for large primes).
I think that even if it became possible to factor any prime in 1 months time, ecommerce stores *could* rotate their keys on a daily basis until a more permenant solution is developed.
Ideally, we should be using a key system that is mathematically impossible to reverse using a computer ( rather a Turing machine).
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Oh and about North Korea.... NK is like an evil child who just keeps poking at its siblings and parents. Now it wants a new toy that it cant have. Eventually we're (US, Russia, China, SK, Japan) are just going to slap it. I dont like war but I will not oppose beating Pyongyang to a pulp when the time comes.
Ah, you didnt mention Japan. I dont believe NK or Iran can compare the the US, but Japan definitely can. Although the US would be the last target of a Japanese attack. After all the US and Japan are major trading partners. (and im sure they remember the first time they pissed us off...which segways back into fission, heh)
;-)
Anyway I was not aware of that Costa Rican provision. Its certainly very interesting. In fact, what they have done is probably decades ahead of its time. As a smaller country, Costa Rica probably realized that there really is no point to having a military. Sure they could respond to national threats very rapidly, but -- like you said -- the US will have troops deployed in response to an invasion within hours. Of course this makes Costa Rica basically bound to the United States. Kudos Costa Rica
IMO, NSF grants would be the best way to fund research into fusion. I like NASA's idea of creating X-Prize-like awards for research breakthroughs, however the overhead for fusion research is obviously way to prohibative for this.
Anyway, I also agree with you on the amazing scope and level of collaboration involved with the Apollo project. But I do not agree with your statement:
I am not sure what charts you were reading, but military funding is not number 2. In fact, in terms of discretionary congressional spending, the military is funded with over five times more money than the next best funded department (which is H&HS).
Also, the following statement:
You seem like a very intelligent person, which is why I am amazed that you would make this comparison. The GDP of the United States is $11.4 Trillion. The GDP of North Korea and Iran is $29.6 Billion and $478.2 Billion, respectively. Obviously you cannot compare spending percentages between these nations. Even if North Korea spent 100% of its GDP on its military, U.S. spending would still exceed that value several times over. Not to mention that NK has a 1% GDP growth rate and spends ~$5B on its army.
As for Iran, they spend exactly the same on their armed services percent-wise as the U.S. (3.3% which comes to 5 B).
Finally, the whole argument is moot since we are not at war, and proabably will never be at war, with Iran. If Iran attacked us, we would not buy any of the 3Mil barrels of oil they produce daily... and that would be devestation.
True, thank you for correcting me. Just substitute 20% for 50%, the exclamations remain. Also, I used 400B as my reference, as I knew that was roughly the amount (underestimate, heh). I should have realized my overall spending nnumber was a tad low.
:-)
Regardless, I just want to see Education spending increase at at least twice that of military.
According to the discretionary spending estimates, military spending will will increase more than twice that of education, percentage wise. (7.1% mil vs 3% ed).
On second thought, the percentages dont justify the gap. Military spending: 433B versus Education: 53B.
That corresponds to a 26B increase military funding in 2005 vs 1B increase in education funding.
Im not anti-military, im not anti war, I am anti-wasting-life-for-no-reason. Come on, lets get our priorities straight. The long term benefits of educational spending are far greater than that of defense spending. Besides, a better educated population base can design better bombs and submarines
I'm getting carried away, and this isnt the right place for this discussion, so im done.
Your not guilty of anything, except being a valuable employee. Your perl scripts have not hurt the economy, and in some ways you've helped the IT industry... or at least yourself. How much money has your company saved by NOT highering 50 or so employees? $600,000/year? more? (Think of all the overhead involved in 50 tech employees) Now what has your company done with all that cash? Im sure they are not hoarding it into some bank account. When companies have extra money they usually use it to improve services/products, purchase newer and better equiptment, offer their employees better benefits, and most importantly of all expand!! Expansion creates more jobs and the potential to gain more money. As a side effect, your scripting has prevented your company from needing 50 engineers to possibly wanting a few more. So now you can worry about the quality of the engineers you hire, instead of the quantity.
ummm... first off strict Darwinism has to do with genetic adaption. If this Dolphin was in open waters it would most likely have found a mate and spawned offspring before it got sick (illness struck at age 32). If this rare disease takes affect late in life, and can be passed to children, then over many generations, the population of inflicted Dolphins would grow. Only then will the Dolphin population begin to adapt to it.
And if you are mistakenly interpreting Darwinism to apply to physical strength or short term changes, consider this:
Humans feed it every day. Humans monitor its vitals. Humans maintain a clean tank/living space for it. It even has human "friends." This is not how Dolphins survive in their natural environment. So you see, in some sense, this "Dolphin" is not really even a Dolphin anymore. It has already physically adapted to suit Humanities purposes, so why not change a little more?
Actually Daedala, you have touched on one of Domain Keys greatest strengths. If all spammers used their legit, yet misleading, domains to spam, DomainKey-enabled servers could effortlessly block the keys associated with these domains. Thus, properly signing scam e-mails will cause your server's key to be blacklisted *very* quickly, and permenantly on the organization level.
But with 99% global cooperation, wouldnt this solution provide additional accuracy for existing spam filters? What I mean is this: - Assume 99% of all ISPs implement DK. - Assume the major email providers (AOL/Time Warner's cable co's, AOL itself, Yahoo!, MS,......) got together and formed a public blacklist consisting of domains that send alot of spam. If the blacklist database listed spamming domains along with the ration of spam:legit e-mails from those domains, that data could be used to make filtering more accurate. For example, SpamAssassin could add a few points to an e-mail from a domain with high spam volume. Im not saying combining these solution would even approach four nines, but it may help. Otherwise, I see your point, this system is not very useful without full participation.
There seems to be alot of confusion amound /.ers about how SPF and DomainKeys fight spam. The primary accomplishment of these technologies is to make it difficult to scam e-mail recipiants. e.g. you cant pretent to be Bank of America anymore.
DomainKeys makes it harder to send general spam as well. It allows spammers to be tracked. It also allows easy blacklisting of known spam servers. ISP's will be more strict about letting spammers use their SMTP servers out of fear of being blacklisted.
Finally, while it is possible for a spammer to change SMTP servers frequently, this adds significant financial overhead. I believe DomainKeys has the ability to eliminate all of the small spammers, as well as almost all phishing scams.
People have tried, and it is completely possible to factor ANY prime number.
Basically this task takes a prohibitively long time on modern technology. Even employing the top 5 of the Top500 super computers, results would still take a while (for large primes).
I think that even if it became possible to factor any prime in 1 months time, ecommerce stores *could* rotate their keys on a daily basis until a more permenant solution is developed.
Ideally, we should be using a key system that is mathematically impossible to reverse using a computer ( rather a Turing machine).