Sorry I couldn't find a lengthier article (I'm finishing work and in a hurry to go home - maybe Google can help you). I don't quite understand why you say evolution != adaptation though - surely, evolution is the process of accumulating adaptations?
...neither can be proved to the exclusion of the other.
Something being unprovable forces it to remain a lowly theory? That's not the right view of a scientific theory. Neither ID nor Neodarwinism can be proved, period. But a scientific theory can in principle be disproved. ID cannot be disproved. Ergo, it is not a scientific theory.
Furthermore, ID introduces a hypothesis which is not needed to explain the evolution of life, so it falls foul of Occam's razor. Okay, perhaps you could argue for a creator being required to initiate the big bang (though even this First Cause role is contentious), but once t>0, science is all you should need.
Incidentally I am not an atheist, but I think it's extremely defeatist to invoke the "God made it happen" argument, rather than trying to find a conventional scientific explanation. Think what we would have missed out on over the past 2000 years.
Intelligent Design is not just unproven, it is inherently unprovable
Just being pedantic, but the problem with ID being put forward as a scientific theory is not that it cannot be proved (neither can relativity, say), but that it cannot be falsified in principle (relativity could be, experimentally). Aside from that, yes, agree fully.
I think it would be trivial for a small mutation to change the pigment.
This raises the question: what selective advantage would IR-sensitive (or UV-sensitive) eyes give you? Colour vision is fascinating stuff indeed - especially to me, being colourblind (just like my brother and grandfather). I envy 'tri-chromats' sometimes, and then an article like this comes out and reminds me that we're all in much the same boat...:-)
Sometimes, though, even if you have planned everything as well as you can (not that I'm saying NASA did/didn't), situations will arise where you are forced to improvise with such stuff as makeshift hacksaws, hammers, screwdrivers used as general purpose pokey-things etc.
Happens to me quite a lot at work actually... (I'm a repairs technician. Yay.)
I had exactly the same experience with my headset, which was bought for me for my recent(ish) birthday. Defaults to 0000 (same as you!), and there is no way of changing it. Grrrrr.
I honestly can't understand the mentality of some manufacturers - hopefully this will be a kick up the butt for them.
I wonder, would it be feasible to have the phone and headset agree on a new random PIN after the first successful connection? Obviously with a reset switch on the headset to take it back to the default. Does anyone have a headset which does something similar?
IANAL, but as I have read elsewhere, the DMCA allows reverse engineering if the reverse engineer seeks permission from the copyright owner, only uses the results of their efforts to create an interoperable computer program and does not publish the results.
This case, if successfully prosecuted, will send a strong message to the West that foreign investments are safe in China.
But how is it that Baidu are deemed responsible for the IP infringement? It's just a search engine! The article is a little light on details regarding this. Perhaps it would not be so good if this case is succesfully prosecuted.
Quite nice actually, I'm viewing it in IE6 from my PC at work, and its very similar to Google, although I don't have appropriate fonts installed so most of the search results look like matrix code. When you click on a result, the link is opened in a new window - I don't know if this behaviour can be configured (can't read matrix code).
Wow! I had a similar idea also a couple of years back, although there was a slight difference: the gas was illuminated only where two lasers intersected, because the first laser "primed" the gas molecules, having enough energy per photon to excite the atoms into a state X, then the second laser excited the atoms to a state Y above the state X. The transition Y->ground state, produces visible light. However, you'd choose your gas such that the transition Y->X produced too long a wavelength to be visible, as would the X->ground state transition. It is probably a completely naive idea and I have no idea about what gas to use, but hey it quite cool to hear someone with a broadly similar plan.
I feel that my point of view has been misunderstood somewhat. I had nothing to say about the general situation, and in fact almost completely agree with your stance on this. Quite simply, I believe that this guy knew full well, before taking advantage of the available connection, that the owner would be annoyed when the situation came to light - which makes it fundamentally different to the experiences of you and your friend Brian.
For me, intent counts for a lot in this sort of situation. I have seen it argued elsewhere that this guy honestly thought he was doing nothing wrong, and found that implausible. However I could be totally wrong (I am not psychic after all).
We both seem to agree that home users could be more careful in setting up wireless networking, but I think perhaps I disagree with this part:
If you have the knowledge required to buy an appropriate wireless router and set up a basic wireless network, it doesn't take that much more effort to add some kind of basic security if you don't want it to be available to the public.
It takes little effort, agreed. But it is not all that hard for someone with little expertise to make exactly that mistake.
It is easy to insult them for being naive, but perhaps it would be better to target some of the people who provide this stuff. Shouldn't they explain some of the potential pitfalls to the customers, rather than assuming the customers are experts?
Anyway, I'm getting dirty looks from my boss so I'll get back to work....
Glad you got your Insightful mod, and I agree with you totally. After all, average (office) users use the apps directly, not the OS, and that makes Xandros a good initial step for them.
The only reason I can see OSS advocates worrying about this, is if they for some reason have a certain lack of faith in the availble OSS applications.
What does Linux offer me other than faggotty freaks who wear pocket protectors?
Well, you could always install Linux on a spare couple of partitions and find out. I really can't answer the question for you, because I don't know what your specific needs are. Go on, dip your toe in the pool. That's what distros like this are good for.
Nah, thanks. I'll stick with Windows along with the rest of the RELEVANT world.
It's OSS, it's Linux, it's familiar. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the XP-style interface, but for some people it could ease the migration process. Let people become accustomed to the benefits of a stable kernel, a powerful software toolkit. If you have faith in the inherent quality of OSS this shouldn't scare you, surely?
Perhaps I'm an incurable optimist, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step.
If the Brazillian man was not a terrorist then why did he run from the armed plain clothes police officer?
I don't know. If you're asking me to speculate, it was because he was being chased by a plain clothed man with a gun.
I don't like these guilty unless you can prove otherwise laws.
Nor me, but there is no indication in the article that he was convicted without a fair and proper trial. If he has been, I'm sure we'll hear about it soon.
Sorry, but he either hacked into their network or not
The court decided that he hacked into their network. Sorry, that's the best answer I can give in the circumstances. I wasn't there.
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Sorry I couldn't find a lengthier article (I'm finishing work and in a hurry to go home - maybe Google can help you). I don't quite understand why you say evolution != adaptation though - surely, evolution is the process of accumulating adaptations?
Something being unprovable forces it to remain a lowly theory? That's not the right view of a scientific theory. Neither ID nor Neodarwinism can be proved, period. But a scientific theory can in principle be disproved. ID cannot be disproved. Ergo, it is not a scientific theory.
Furthermore, ID introduces a hypothesis which is not needed to explain the evolution of life, so it falls foul of Occam's razor. Okay, perhaps you could argue for a creator being required to initiate the big bang (though even this First Cause role is contentious), but once t>0, science is all you should need.
Incidentally I am not an atheist, but I think it's extremely defeatist to invoke the "God made it happen" argument, rather than trying to find a conventional scientific explanation. Think what we would have missed out on over the past 2000 years.
It is UNOBSERVABLE
Not always it isn't.
Intelligent Design is not just unproven, it is inherently unprovable
Just being pedantic, but the problem with ID being put forward as a scientific theory is not that it cannot be proved (neither can relativity, say), but that it cannot be falsified in principle (relativity could be, experimentally). Aside from that, yes, agree fully.
I think it would be trivial for a small mutation to change the pigment.
This raises the question: what selective advantage would IR-sensitive (or UV-sensitive) eyes give you? Colour vision is fascinating stuff indeed - especially to me, being colourblind (just like my brother and grandfather). I envy 'tri-chromats' sometimes, and then an article like this comes out and reminds me that we're all in much the same boat... :-)
Unfortunately NASA was not able to find a reliable psychic to tell them not to waste their time. So yes, better safe than sorry.
Sometimes, though, even if you have planned everything as well as you can (not that I'm saying NASA did/didn't), situations will arise where you are forced to improvise with such stuff as makeshift hacksaws, hammers, screwdrivers used as general purpose pokey-things etc.
Happens to me quite a lot at work actually... (I'm a repairs technician. Yay.)
I had exactly the same experience with my headset, which was bought for me for my recent(ish) birthday. Defaults to 0000 (same as you!), and there is no way of changing it. Grrrrr. I honestly can't understand the mentality of some manufacturers - hopefully this will be a kick up the butt for them.
I wonder, would it be feasible to have the phone and headset agree on a new random PIN after the first successful connection? Obviously with a reset switch on the headset to take it back to the default. Does anyone have a headset which does something similar?
IANAL, but as I have read elsewhere, the DMCA allows reverse engineering if the reverse engineer seeks permission from the copyright owner, only uses the results of their efforts to create an interoperable computer program and does not publish the results.
...$MMC, no?
Wish I could raise 4 inches......... *sigh*
This case, if successfully prosecuted, will send a strong message to the West that foreign investments are safe in China.
But how is it that Baidu are deemed responsible for the IP infringement? It's just a search engine! The article is a little light on details regarding this. Perhaps it would not be so good if this case is succesfully prosecuted.
Quite nice actually, I'm viewing it in IE6 from my PC at work, and its very similar to Google, although I don't have appropriate fonts installed so most of the search results look like matrix code. When you click on a result, the link is opened in a new window - I don't know if this behaviour can be configured (can't read matrix code).
Just looked on google and there's a ton of stuff. Quite interesting was Cprogramming.com's C++ Programming Challenge, but there's loads more....
You might want to look at The Python Challenge - admittedly not C-based, but goes to show to concept works.
Wow! I had a similar idea also a couple of years back, although there was a slight difference: the gas was illuminated only where two lasers intersected, because the first laser "primed" the gas molecules, having enough energy per photon to excite the atoms into a state X, then the second laser excited the atoms to a state Y above the state X. The transition Y->ground state, produces visible light. However, you'd choose your gas such that the transition Y->X produced too long a wavelength to be visible, as would the X->ground state transition. It is probably a completely naive idea and I have no idea about what gas to use, but hey it quite cool to hear someone with a broadly similar plan.
Thank you both for the links.
Oops, I meant "referring". Bad writing indeed...
No, he is refering to areas with low broadband availability. It's just a bit badly written.
"the freedom to change it if we like"
"the freedom to share it with anyone, for free"
I must admit it sounds like open source software to me, perhaps I'm missing something. Could you eleborate on the distinction, as you see it?
Hello, sorry for the lateness of the reply.
I feel that my point of view has been misunderstood somewhat. I had nothing to say about the general situation, and in fact almost completely agree with your stance on this. Quite simply, I believe that this guy knew full well, before taking advantage of the available connection, that the owner would be annoyed when the situation came to light - which makes it fundamentally different to the experiences of you and your friend Brian.
For me, intent counts for a lot in this sort of situation. I have seen it argued elsewhere that this guy honestly thought he was doing nothing wrong, and found that implausible. However I could be totally wrong (I am not psychic after all).
We both seem to agree that home users could be more careful in setting up wireless networking, but I think perhaps I disagree with this part:
If you have the knowledge required to buy an appropriate wireless router and set up a basic wireless network, it doesn't take that much more effort to add some kind of basic security if you don't want it to be available to the public.
It takes little effort, agreed. But it is not all that hard for someone with little expertise to make exactly that mistake. It is easy to insult them for being naive, but perhaps it would be better to target some of the people who provide this stuff. Shouldn't they explain some of the potential pitfalls to the customers, rather than assuming the customers are experts?
Anyway, I'm getting dirty looks from my boss so I'll get back to work....
Glad you got your Insightful mod, and I agree with you totally. After all, average (office) users use the apps directly, not the OS, and that makes Xandros a good initial step for them.
The only reason I can see OSS advocates worrying about this, is if they for some reason have a certain lack of faith in the availble OSS applications.
What does Linux offer me other than faggotty freaks who wear pocket protectors?
Well, you could always install Linux on a spare couple of partitions and find out. I really can't answer the question for you, because I don't know what your specific needs are. Go on, dip your toe in the pool. That's what distros like this are good for.
Nah, thanks. I'll stick with Windows along with the rest of the RELEVANT world.
Okay. I hope it works out for you.
It's OSS, it's Linux, it's familiar. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of the XP-style interface, but for some people it could ease the migration process. Let people become accustomed to the benefits of a stable kernel, a powerful software toolkit. If you have faith in the inherent quality of OSS this shouldn't scare you, surely?
Perhaps I'm an incurable optimist, but a journey of 1000 miles must begin with a single step.
If the Brazillian man was not a terrorist then why did he run from the armed plain clothes police officer?
I don't know. If you're asking me to speculate, it was because he was being chased by a plain clothed man with a gun.
I don't like these guilty unless you can prove otherwise laws.
Nor me, but there is no indication in the article that he was convicted without a fair and proper trial. If he has been, I'm sure we'll hear about it soon.
Sorry, but he either hacked into their network or not
The court decided that he hacked into their network. Sorry, that's the best answer I can give in the circumstances. I wasn't there.