Its not a complete fallicy, with scientific method it only takes a single flaw to disprove a theory, see Falsifiability
Of course, this doesn't prove that evolution is wrong, just that it might need some tweaks.
You can't test evolution either, only state example from the world.
Just hear me out on this.
Michael Behe wrote a book on 'irreducible complexity' stating that (among other things) the Bacterial Flegella is made up of over 40 incredibly complex proteins, that self assemble into a molecular motor, complete with a driveshaft (see animations here)
If a single one of those components was missing, then the motor would simply not function.
And as Darwin pointed out in the origin of a species (page 90 in the first edition):
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been
formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. So far the scientific community haven't provided a way for the Bacterial flagella to evolve, just that a small subset of those same components could be used for another function, see
wikipedia
Until you solve this small kink, you can not prove that evolution is correct. The reason you have never heard about this before: Behe's book was labeled fringe science, and shunned by the scientific community.
But the observation that the flagellum couldn't evolve with our current understanding is completely valid science.
If the ID people want to be taken seriously. They can produce good research and put forward a good testable hypothesis that can better explain the world or the liars for Jesus can just STFU. But as the trailer points out, people have done the research (no idea if its correct) but the second they try to publish it, the Darwinans label them crackpots and shot out: "Its not Darwinism, so its wrong"
Acting like that is just childish. If Darwin was right, then you have nothing to lose by carefully writing a counter paper, countering the evidence.
Simply, this just takes a known method for steganography and encodes random noise, wiping out any messages already there.
It can only block known steganography methods, so simply think up another method and your safe... Its just one big arms race
FTA:
New Experimental Class
For both competitions, BattleBots would like to open the door to a new "anything goes," experimental class. There are NO rules and NO weights for this class. So the answer is yes, as long as you enter into the experimental class, otherwise check the rules.
No, from my memory the person was crossing the border with their laptop in standby, and the encrypted volume containing the child porn was already unlocked.
The Border security officer examined the laptop, saw the porn and confiscated it. Somehow the laptop turned off (maybe the officer turned it off when confiscating it, or it ran out of battery) and the decryption key was cleared from memory, locking the child porn drive again.
Ah, found the article
I just played hl2 recently, There was only one fade to black moment in all of hl2 when you teleport out out of the prison back to the lab, and you find out that it actually took you a week to get there.
If you count halflife, hl2, ep1 and ep2 as one game, there are 6, one at the end of each game, where you get take out of time and space, or knocked unconscious, the teleport in hl2, and the when you get knocked unconscious in halflife and put in the trash compactor. Even including these, from the time you get on the train at the start the game is a complete presentation of Gordon Freeman's life, with no gaps where he goes off and does something without you.
For someone who'd written 10,000 lines of C# code, it seems they never picked up on the idea that merely removing an object from a list doesn't delete all references to it.
That was one of the things I thought about many times when I was doing c# coding back in high school, and I wrote nowhere near 10,000 lines of code, maybe 2000.
I think I tried hard to have only a single reference to each object, inside a static array, belonging to that class, or a parent class.
You do know most multimeters are not rated for the amps and peek voltages of mains power.
The same thing happened to me, also in New Zealand, late at night about one and a half years ago. The power cut out for a second, the computer died then started back up, but never started booting. The lights were real dim, and my alarm clock started showing weird digits. The washing machine (which was off) managed to get its self halfway into a wash cycle and started beeping. I never checked the TV, but the computer screen was.
You wouldn't happen to live near Springston?
But the Doom9 forums already had access to the decoder, its in every single player, so they didn't need to raid subs.
The British didn't have access to the enigma machine, and the Germans tried to keep it that way. Thats security through obscurity.
But security through obscurity doesn't work, Hackers just managed to get serial shell access on the iPhone about an hour and a half ago, including all the radio commands.
My handwriting seams to take the form of what ever I'm copying, both handwritten and computer fonts, so across many classes, with different teachers my handwriting will be very different.
As the article states, people have problems recognising other peoples handwriting, so since Its not my handwriting, but the writing of the thing I was copying to signup, I will have the same problem.
Halo 2 is actually only directX 9, with just a few directX 10 extensions, that can be used if you have a directX 10 video card. The only thing stopping Halo running on XP is the "running on vista" check, and perhaps the fact that it was never bug checked on xp.
I think the idea is to find the vulnerability way before anyone else.
From the article:
Intellectual Weapons is offering to accept vulnerabilities you've discovered, as long as you haven't told anyone else, haven't discovered the vulnerability through illegal means or have any legal responsibility to tell a vendor about the vulnerability.
Sony's drug would install a rootkit, which made it impossible for you to ever pirate anything ever again, short of a complete re-install of your brain.
I saw a good idea on slashdot or Digg:
Encrypt the Harddrive with a large key, the key is written to a location on the harddrive.
When you want to erase the drive quickly, just overwrite the the key 50+ times. Should take a few seconds at the most, much faster than wipeing the entire harddrive, and unless they have a supercomputer, and a lot of time, Its just as good.
What I hate more, is when you are copying small files in vista, it won't 'finish' copying until after it finished estimated the remaining time, even if the files finished coping 10 or 20 seconds ago.
And still the estimated times are not accurate, despite taking 10 times longer to calculate than XP.
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Mods, why is that modded Insightful?
Its Funny.
I did several posts up.
Of couse its only a book, because the scientific journals wouldn't accept it.
Its not a complete fallicy, with scientific method it only takes a single flaw to disprove a theory, see Falsifiability
Of course, this doesn't prove that evolution is wrong, just that it might need some tweaks.
Just hear me out on this.
Michael Behe wrote a book on 'irreducible complexity' stating that (among other things) the Bacterial Flegella is made up of over 40 incredibly complex proteins, that self assemble into a molecular motor, complete with a driveshaft (see animations here)
If a single one of those components was missing, then the motor would simply not function.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. So far the scientific community haven't provided a way for the Bacterial flagella to evolve, just that a small subset of those same components could be used for another function, see wikipediaAnd as Darwin pointed out in the origin of a species (page 90 in the first edition):
Until you solve this small kink, you can not prove that evolution is correct.
The reason you have never heard about this before: Behe's book was labeled fringe science, and shunned by the scientific community.
But the observation that the flagellum couldn't evolve with our current understanding is completely valid science.
Acting like that is just childish. If Darwin was right, then you have nothing to lose by carefully writing a counter paper, countering the evidence.
Simply, this just takes a known method for steganography and encodes random noise, wiping out any messages already there.
It can only block known steganography methods, so simply think up another method and your safe... Its just one big arms race
It managed to overload Firefox 3 beta with infinite popups. First time I've seen a popup in ages.
Oww, My eyes.
Don't click that link
For both competitions, BattleBots would like to open the door to a new "anything goes," experimental class. There are NO rules and NO weights for this class. So the answer is yes, as long as you enter into the experimental class, otherwise check the rules.
IE8 only passes the acid 2 test when the 404 page redirect thing is on the same domain as the test, otherwise it the eyes fail.
No, from my memory the person was crossing the border with their laptop in standby, and the encrypted volume containing the child porn was already unlocked.
The Border security officer examined the laptop, saw the porn and confiscated it. Somehow the laptop turned off (maybe the officer turned it off when confiscating it, or it ran out of battery) and the decryption key was cleared from memory, locking the child porn drive again.
Ah, found the article
You probably have a problem with your ad filter settings (adblock or whatever).
but don't feel bad, your not the only person, http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The_Great_Google_Banner_Ad_Conspiracy_.aspx
I just played hl2 recently, There was only one fade to black moment in all of hl2 when you teleport out out of the prison back to the lab, and you find out that it actually took you a week to get there.
If you count halflife, hl2, ep1 and ep2 as one game, there are 6, one at the end of each game, where you get take out of time and space, or knocked unconscious, the teleport in hl2, and the when you get knocked unconscious in halflife and put in the trash compactor.
Even including these, from the time you get on the train at the start the game is a complete presentation of Gordon Freeman's life, with no gaps where he goes off and does something without you.
You do know most multimeters are not rated for the amps and peek voltages of mains power. The same thing happened to me, also in New Zealand, late at night about one and a half years ago. The power cut out for a second, the computer died then started back up, but never started booting. The lights were real dim, and my alarm clock started showing weird digits. The washing machine (which was off) managed to get its self halfway into a wash cycle and started beeping. I never checked the TV, but the computer screen was. You wouldn't happen to live near Springston?
But the Doom9 forums already had access to the decoder, its in every single player, so they didn't need to raid subs. The British didn't have access to the enigma machine, and the Germans tried to keep it that way. Thats security through obscurity.
But security through obscurity doesn't work, Hackers just managed to get serial shell access on the iPhone about an hour and a half ago, including all the radio commands.
not really, We now have the key, but its no use without a door to put it in.
My handwriting seams to take the form of what ever I'm copying, both handwritten and computer fonts, so across many classes, with different teachers my handwriting will be very different. As the article states, people have problems recognising other peoples handwriting, so since Its not my handwriting, but the writing of the thing I was copying to signup, I will have the same problem.
Halo 2 is actually only directX 9, with just a few directX 10 extensions, that can be used if you have a directX 10 video card. The only thing stopping Halo running on XP is the "running on vista" check, and perhaps the fact that it was never bug checked on xp.
If you read it to check if its still there, then you have refreshed it.
Sony's drug would install a rootkit, which made it impossible for you to ever pirate anything ever again, short of a complete re-install of your brain.
I saw a good idea on slashdot or Digg: Encrypt the Harddrive with a large key, the key is written to a location on the harddrive. When you want to erase the drive quickly, just overwrite the the key 50+ times. Should take a few seconds at the most, much faster than wipeing the entire harddrive, and unless they have a supercomputer, and a lot of time, Its just as good.
What I hate more, is when you are copying small files in vista, it won't 'finish' copying until after it finished estimated the remaining time, even if the files finished coping 10 or 20 seconds ago. And still the estimated times are not accurate, despite taking 10 times longer to calculate than XP.