I went to a private school Did it pay off? If so, how do you know it did?
Anyway, fingerprinting/iris scan or whatever is more helpful than 1984-ish. I would prefer to have my kids fingerprinted and scanned by the institutions they attend, with enough security attached that authorities can trace attendances etc without making it publicly accessible. Newborns get footprinted for ID purposes, so why stop now?
My wife just informed me that "Randy Scouse Git" was written by Micky Dolenz. I tend to believe her as she was an original card carrying (#42) Monkee Maniac and member of the Beechwood Drive Irregulars.
From what I can remember from the early days, flash=animation and not moving pictures. Somewhere along the line *.flv became a defacto standard? Why? What possible benefit does flv have over other compressed forms of video?
That was a quote from a previous post, not mine. I only included the content as it first appeared in a Hebrew language newspaper (which I can't read) and then went worldwide. It is circumstantial. As far as I know there has been no official admissions from anyone, but it's a moot point.
Now that is insightful! Even if StuxNet wasn't found, they would have expanded the production to make up for the losses anyway. So maybe that's why those responsible didn't worry too much about the discovery and reverse engineering of it.
What is really apparent from all the reverse engineering is that it made the method a template. That's more dangerous than most think. It also means that industrial installations must now have more in-depth security to prevent invasive devices/software. This is not good. Cyberwar is real and dangerous.
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass?
A comment after the wired article points to a link: "(Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel) In a surprise admission a couple days ago, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his achievements that Israel was behind the “StuxNet” attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges and an air attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor. This was published in The Haaretz (http://translate.google.com/tr... as well as later in The Telegraph. "
It would be interesting to hypothesize if Tel Aviv/Israel was nuked, whether Israel would counterattack or expect US to counter-attack on their behalf. After all there's a lot of black gold in those wells.
Ever try to get XP to work in an MS VM running XP? Except for basic video, MS VM doesn't allow installation of 3d drivers without a lot of hacking. Yes any OS is crippled in some way as a vm.
Slowing down fast traffic is a real plus. Unfortunately here in Oz, we also have 'fried egg' roundabouts. These things don't have a curb around the centre, so traffic can drive straight across it as well as left or continue all the way around. Fortunately they are not built before residential areas, but within them so they are quite safe and easy to manage.
Everything is relative (or so I'm told), so if Scrooge was duck size then the value would also diminish. Remember he didn't have too many investments as he was more concerned with NOT spending his money. I estimate that his $44.1 billion would be more likely around $4.1 billion instead.
Humpf! I lost my rather long reply and I have run out of time. Briefly: Check out http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/opinion/24davies.html?_r=1 regarding faith in immutable scientific laws. I'm talking about the disparity of world-views between physics and meta-physics as being a positive force for human enlightenment. Flagellum and other difficult to explain* (though not necessarily ID concepts) are worthwhile as they allow us to re-examine current theories and therefore are valuable. And finally, the a priori assumptions that theoretical physicists make about the first few planck seconds of the Big Bang, where the laws of physics do not exist yet, that energy/matter travels faster than the speed of light. Also, since there is no hypothesis or theory on the origin of the primordial atom, does that mean that a creator is responsible? Is this possible to know at all or does science relent?
*Dwarf Elephants and Mammoths *Homo Floresiensis - both a result of insular dwarfism. Current evolutionary theory doesn't sit right in my opinion. One clue is the explanation that 'evolved gene encoded stress' may be responsible. Natural selection of smaller mammals as the reason for survival doesn't fit well either as the critical mass of the gene pool must be maintained during isolation and the statistical probability of a single dwarf occuring, replicating and maintaining a minimal gene pool is very low. There may be other forces at work that are not apparent yet.
The link content is close but not 100% relevant. To say it in other words: What faith does an empirical physicist have in science? What faith does a general scientist have in empirical physics? What faith does a plebian have in general science or empirical physics? It gets back to the same thing. The further you are removed from the coal face the less understanding you have about coal mining. So now we have a bunch of generalists who firmly believe in the objective truth of Darwinism, objecting against a judicial system based on Christian ethics and the belief in the Almighty. Within the mind set of science, it comes down to accepting Intelligent Design as a competing theory, which it can't be. What it is though, is a container for all those niggling little things that can't be explained by evolution and mutation. The sudden appearance of a flagella's motor for example is classic ID. That can't be a mutation because it hadn't mutated from anything. It's a complex structure which just appeared. So maybe there will be a refinement, perhaps leading up to a paradigm change of the Theory of Evolution, and for that reason alone, ID should be given an opportunity to survive and taken a bit more seriously.
Why can't we trust it here? Show me a prof with scientific evidence of god (that passes muster in the scientific community) and he can teach science all day long.
On the other hand, science has had 300 years of trying to prove the non-existance of God and has so far failed. Ultimately, a point source of dense matter exploding into a universe, then falling back on itself for another big bang doesn't explain non-god, but lends credence to Hindu and Bhuddist beliefs instead. The aim of science (as you know it) is not to prove the existence or non-existence of God but to investigate the internal and external worlds we percieve as reality. That's all it does and meant to do. It is not an instrument to judge religious beliefs.
That's only true if you believe in scientific methodology. The problem with Creationists and their theories is that they are forced into using scientific methodology which precludes the belief in God. In other words, you cannot evaluate Creationism within or by science as it doesn't exist by its conventions. The trick therefore is to find a more wholistic methodology that encompasses both.
You are right. But don't forget that DOS was just an OS and it was the exe file, often assembly coded with huge tables for graphics, collision detectors etc that did all the work.
I live on the end of a narrow valley about 10km long. On the other end is a rifle range which is really popular on the weekends. Now I know where it is, but visitors to my house do not and when they hear the sound of faint shots, they are utterly confused as to where they are coming from. If you trust your senses, you think the sounds are at right angles away from the true source, over the ridges that form the valley. The valley itself channels the sound downwind towards my home and there is no way you can pin-point the source of the shots. In fact I doubt if any acoustic technology can detect it as I think a detection system would need to be in line of sight and not obscured by geological formations.
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I went to a private school
Did it pay off? If so, how do you know it did?
Anyway, fingerprinting/iris scan or whatever is more helpful than 1984-ish.
I would prefer to have my kids fingerprinted and scanned by the institutions they attend, with enough security attached that authorities can trace attendances etc without making it publicly accessible.
Newborns get footprinted for ID purposes, so why stop now?
How do you do that? I mean
posting the URL to a JPEG file
What do you have to do (and how)?
My wife just informed me that "Randy Scouse Git" was written by Micky Dolenz.
I tend to believe her as she was an original card carrying (#42) Monkee Maniac and member of the Beechwood Drive Irregulars.
From what I can remember from the early days, flash=animation and not moving pictures. Somewhere along the line *.flv became a defacto standard?
Why? What possible benefit does flv have over other compressed forms of video?
Awww don't be a chimp!
The Monkees wrote "Mary, Mary," "For Pete's Sake," "The Girl I Knew Somewhere," "Goin' Down," "Listen to the Band" and some others, mainly by Nesmith
That was a quote from a previous post, not mine.
I only included the content as it first appeared in a Hebrew language newspaper (which I can't read) and then went worldwide. It is circumstantial. As far as I know there has been no official admissions from anyone, but it's a moot point.
Top article. Fills in some of the gaps. Good read.
Now that is insightful!
Even if StuxNet wasn't found, they would have expanded the production to make up for the losses anyway.
So maybe that's why those responsible didn't worry too much about the discovery and reverse engineering of it.
What is really apparent from all the reverse engineering is that it made the method a template. That's more dangerous than most think. It also means that industrial installations must now have more in-depth security to prevent invasive devices/software.
This is not good. Cyberwar is real and dangerous.
Israel claimed credit for Stuxnet? Do you have any reference for that or are you just speaking out of your ass?
A comment after the wired article points to a link:
"(Accuracy of the information has not been confirmed by Israel) In a surprise admission a couple days ago, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his achievements that Israel was behind the “StuxNet” attack on Iranian nuclear centrifuges and an air attack on a Syrian nuclear reactor. This was published in The Haaretz (http://translate.google.com/tr... as well as later in The Telegraph. "
Oh for shit's sake! You are either a really bad troll or have the maturity and understanding of an 8 yr old. Grow up!
It would be interesting to hypothesize if Tel Aviv/Israel was nuked, whether Israel would counterattack or expect US to counter-attack on their behalf. After all there's a lot of black gold in those wells.
Ever try to get XP to work in an MS VM running XP? Except for basic video, MS VM doesn't allow installation of 3d drivers without a lot of hacking. Yes any OS is crippled in some way as a vm.
Slowing down fast traffic is a real plus. Unfortunately here in Oz, we also have 'fried egg' roundabouts. These things don't have a curb around the centre, so traffic can drive straight across it as well as left or continue all the way around. Fortunately they are not built before residential areas, but within them so they are quite safe and easy to manage.
Hey! Maybe they can postpone the release just long enough so they can re-write the engine!
http://blogs.forbes.com/davidewalt/2011/04/06/the-forbes-fictional-15/
Check the user comments from peterm below the article.
Everything is relative (or so I'm told), so if Scrooge was duck size then the value would also diminish. Remember he didn't have too many investments as he was more concerned with NOT spending his money.
I estimate that his $44.1 billion would be more likely around $4.1 billion instead.
Humpf! I lost my rather long reply and I have run out of time.
Briefly:
Check out http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/opinion/24davies.html?_r=1 regarding faith in immutable scientific laws.
I'm talking about the disparity of world-views between physics and meta-physics as being a positive force for human enlightenment.
Flagellum and other difficult to explain* (though not necessarily ID concepts) are worthwhile as they allow us to re-examine current theories and therefore are valuable.
And finally, the a priori assumptions that theoretical physicists make about the first few planck seconds of the Big Bang, where the laws of physics do not exist yet, that energy/matter travels faster than the speed of light. Also, since there is no hypothesis or theory on the origin of the primordial atom, does that mean that a creator is responsible? Is this possible to know at all or does science relent?
*Dwarf Elephants and Mammoths
*Homo Floresiensis - both a result of insular dwarfism. Current evolutionary theory doesn't sit right in my opinion. One clue is the explanation that 'evolved gene encoded stress' may be responsible. Natural selection of smaller mammals as the reason for survival doesn't fit well either as the critical mass of the gene pool must be maintained during isolation and the statistical probability of a single dwarf occuring, replicating and maintaining a minimal gene pool is very low. There may be other forces at work that are not apparent yet.
The link content is close but not 100% relevant.
To say it in other words:
What faith does an empirical physicist have in science?
What faith does a general scientist have in empirical physics?
What faith does a plebian have in general science or empirical physics?
It gets back to the same thing. The further you are removed from the coal face the less understanding you have about coal mining.
So now we have a bunch of generalists who firmly believe in the objective truth of Darwinism, objecting against a judicial system based on Christian ethics and the belief in the Almighty.
Within the mind set of science, it comes down to accepting Intelligent Design as a competing theory, which it can't be. What it is though, is a container for all those niggling little things that can't be explained by evolution and mutation. The sudden appearance of a flagella's motor for example is classic ID. That can't be a mutation because it hadn't mutated from anything. It's a complex structure which just appeared.
So maybe there will be a refinement, perhaps leading up to a paradigm change of the Theory of Evolution, and for that reason alone, ID should be given an opportunity to survive and taken a bit more seriously.
Why can't we trust it here? Show me a prof with scientific evidence of god (that passes muster in the scientific community) and he can teach science all day long.
On the other hand, science has had 300 years of trying to prove the non-existance of God and has so far failed.
Ultimately, a point source of dense matter exploding into a universe, then falling back on itself for another big bang doesn't explain non-god, but lends credence to Hindu and Bhuddist beliefs instead.
The aim of science (as you know it) is not to prove the existence or non-existence of God but to investigate the internal and external worlds we percieve as reality. That's all it does and meant to do. It is not an instrument to judge religious beliefs.
Agree.
It is those stuck with a single modus operandi that eventually suffer ignominy.
Have a position, defend it scientifically.
That's only true if you believe in scientific methodology. The problem with Creationists and their theories is that they are forced into using scientific methodology which precludes the belief in God.
In other words, you cannot evaluate Creationism within or by science as it doesn't exist by its conventions.
The trick therefore is to find a more wholistic methodology that encompasses both.
You are right. But don't forget that DOS was just an OS and it was the exe file, often assembly coded with huge tables for graphics, collision detectors etc that did all the work.
I live on the end of a narrow valley about 10km long. On the other end is a rifle range which is really popular on the weekends.
Now I know where it is, but visitors to my house do not and when they hear the sound of faint shots, they are utterly confused as to where they are coming from. If you trust your senses, you think the sounds are at right angles away from the true source, over the ridges that form the valley. The valley itself channels the sound downwind towards my home and there is no way you can pin-point the source of the shots.
In fact I doubt if any acoustic technology can detect it as I think a detection system would need to be in line of sight and not obscured by geological formations.