We need all the sciences to assemble the complete and real picture. In the case of dark matter we need the philosophy/logic to pull everyone else back down to earth right now. An example of where philosophy/logic comes into play is in falsifying a theory when it breaks the actual laws of physics and thus makes no logical sense. Case in point, "Abell 520 bullet cluster" vs "dark matter" theory. Assuming the most current gravitational lensing experiments are valid, the dark matter theory looks pretty dim right now. In order to get the needed distribution of dark matter that appears in the gravitational lensing survey of Abell 520 you need a "special property" for all dark matter. That special property is that while it provides extra mass to pull on normal matter, the dark matter itself must be immune to being pulled on by normal matter, or it would otherwise not be lensing in the distribution we currently see. That can't be, without breaking the laws of physics as we know it today. Dark matter is therefore not a predictive theory to explain what we currently see, without some kind of heroic extensions glued to its sides. One only needs a single true contradiction to properly falsify a theory, and the consequences of Abell 520 is promptly being ignored.
Of course I admit I am a little biased in my analysis above, because my own theory actually predicts this lensing effect and doesn't even require any new fictitious or magic particles to do it. When the Abell 520 survey came out it merely confirmed my hypothesis of how the physics actually works at the quantum level.
Actually I was hoping for that. If only it were built on a flood plane and everyone had a chance to actually see how seaworthy it is. Those steel and concrete piles driven into the ground would likely not let it get away, and certainly it has no possibility of ever floating. Sinking is the only alternative, if you can even call it that.
I do have to wonder, with all the concrete footings, if the floor is actually wood and bowed up at the edges like a true ship hull would have been, so we can watch all the people slide towards the keel where the eliminated swill from the animals would have collected by the ton before it gets carted up several stories to be thrown out the one tiny window. Of course they didn't have steel wheel barrows back then, so they woud have to put the animals to work. You couldn't even hire someone for that these days. No wonder they want to raise the minimum wage!
Is this one big enough to be a real Biblical ARK? Probably still not large enough to carry two of every species, but still fun to calculate how close it would come to that goal. I'm guessing (seat of the pants/armchair calculation) we are roughly about half the way there if we discount things like bacteria, fungi, and viruses (the actual majority of lifeforms on earth). Waste disposal would be one heck of a problem, and with only one window, to shovel it out, yikes!.
The FCC has an Android App that will test your data connections from your phone, and allows them to monitor your provider bandwidths. When your phone connects to your local WiFi the app is testing your Cable ISP, and when not, its testing your cellular ISP. In both cases the data is collected by the FCC to make sure your bandwidth is not being throttled unnecessarilly.
In theory the ISP's might look to see where your data is headed and make adjustments based on that, but that of course would be deceitful. No, they wouldn't do that would they?
If you are into system security then check this one out. Security by hardware isolation is very hard to crack. Even the NIC and its kernel drivers live in its own VM and protects your system via IOMMU.
If you give Comcast the ability to become the gatekeeper to their competitors services you have crossed the line. This is not about emotions rather stifling the freemarket. At least change the equasion so that comcast charges the customer directly so the customer knows who is milking then and can then choose the lowest bidder of those services ( if there is one, but thats another problem). The customer is already paying for Internet services, and the costs of that service should be directly reflected in that price. Its dangerous to give the ISP the right to adjust the indirect costs of other businesses whos services are depending on that connection that is already paid for by the customers monthly fees.
Allow this and Comcast will be able to kill off their direct competition.
I doesn't need to be *that* old, just not the latest model. It is a known fact, from a previous SD article, that older models slow down when a new iphone is released, which always coincides with a bright new shiny OS upgrade. If you upgrade the older hardware to keep up with the Jone's you are likely to have a slower phone,ipod, or ipad after you are done.
So true. At the end of the day it only takes a single copy of non-drm'ed music file to hit the street and all the Billions they spend to lock it down are wasted. Basic problem: You give the buyer the data, and you give them the key to read the data, and then ask them nicely (via leagal threats) to not put the two together in a way that is not authorized. Like that will ever happen. You only need one pissed off geek that can't play their newly purchased music to make it all worthless by providing a single download of that music file as a simple mp3. Hell, you can plug your speaker wires into another console to record it. Game over. I've personally never seen a system I couldn't break, but then I'm too honest to be that one pissed off geek. There are so many others out there that are not as honest.
What is the point to "interactive music" anyway. I like to listen to music, not hold a conversation with it. Why would I even want this? Its just a solution looking for a problem.
I have several suggestions from the things I do to stay on top of things. I have limited time to devote to my passion but there are things you can do to multitask.
Podcasts: pick up a used ipod and subscribe to the astronomy related podcasts.
Kindle: get a used kindle that has the bubble-type keyboard, and let it read books and papers to you. The keyboard lets you start/stop the reader without looking, for in the car use. Download Calibre application and convert online/document resources and copy them to the kindle. You are not stuck with just Amazon eBooks, but many of them are good.
They can prevent you from allowing others to connect into a service you are providing. Public Tor servers (aka entry/exit nodes) would thus be against the user agreement and likely result in termination of services. Running the client portion should not run afoul of that agreement. (ianal)
They would first need to prove illegal activity is happening, and that would be difficult, but then there are known exploits for some Tor applications that can be used to leak data which can give away this kind of evedence of your activity. The question is, would they go through the trouble to inject these exploits into your system so that they can find out what you are doing? Like unsecured DNS, or injections of web bugs into your open http traffic. That sounds illegal to me, and a clear invasion of privacy. Privacy is exasctly the reason for using Tor in the first place, so don't expect those kinds of users to sit back and say nothing when terminated.
... count. The uptake of new users is going to decline big time. Established users will learn to deal with the changes, but new users will be turned off before learning how to turn all this off.
The human brain is a marvel of technology. Brain waves move through it as waves of activity. It only consumes (most) energy where the wave of intensified activity is passing through it. If a 3d circuit could be made to sense when a signal is incoming then it could be more efficient. In this paradigm its no 1's and 0's, but rather circuit on vs circuit off.
In addition, if you could turn those on/off cycles into charge pump circuits then you could essentially recycle the a partial of that charge and reuse it in a casade like or layered circuit. I believe Sun Micro was working on one such design, but the cost benifits were not there at the time to make it to production. Things have changed.
Is useless drivel. Its a one page abstract that reads like a news media comentatry of the test. There are not even graphs of measurments taken, no specifics on the test setup. Nothing. Its not even Science by my definition. Lets move along, nothing to see here.
This is fine. If Verizon wants to increase *my* bill because of my bandwidth is higher, then you and I have no problem. I pay more for that bandwidth. That is an open market system. But that is based on my bandwidth usage and not by increasing the cost of a competitor. If I were instead downloading Gigabytes of anything else, again Verizon would have the right to charge *me* more money.
Charging Netflix money just to connect is anti-competitive, because both companies sell the same service, only one is the gatekeeper to the customer. If anyone gets charged more for my bandwidth it should be me, and only me. I then get to choose who I use to connect to the Internet. If Verizon raises my rate I have the right to go shopping. If they rise the rate for Netflix that is extortion, and Netflix doesn't get to go shopping for a better source of customers. it doesn't work that way, and there are laws against that sort of thing. Why Congress doesn't get it is a mystery to me.
How about because customers are paying them for Internet service, and going to Netflix is where they want to go? People don't want to pay for bad service do they? The real problem here is Verizon is a competitor to Netflix, and Verizon is not only being allowed to be anti-competitive but also hoping to get paid for it.
No, I think the next step is likely that someone will 'mathematically prove' that you can have anti-energy or something cruft like that, to explain away Dark Energy. Where the word 'prove' actually means 'infer' from some magical fantasy land mathematical contortions. Once you divest yourself from the physical reality you can twist equations around to do many impossible things. Why so many people invent fantasy to try and explain away actual evidence is beyond me. At least with anti-matter we have actual evidence of it. We can create it, and experiment with it. Its physical.
You just can't do that with Dark Matter or Gravity waves, because they simply don't exist. General Relativity is thermodynamically incomplete as a theory and no amount of fantasy-like invention is going to compensate for an incorrect/incomplete theory.
Maxwel Smart agent 86 just prevented KAOS from turning their Super-laser on to the US Capital building last year. Unfortunately, as usual, he tripped over the power cord and spun the lazer around and blew a 40 meter hole in the USSR Siberian outback before his food tangled and pulled out the power cord. That incident of course caused a fair amount of damage and eventually forced the KAOS spaceship to perform an emergancy landing right behind the CONTROL building parking lot. Furtunatly 99 prevented Hyimie from repairing the craft which would have allowed the KAOS agents to excape. The Chief is in protracted negotiations with the Kremlin over the loss of the summer vacation home that was said to be on that property.
I'm guessing that less than 2% of you know probably what the heck I'm talking about here.
By leap I mean assumptions, not 'getting ahead'. How does one go from proving that a Higgs CAN decay into fermions, in accordance to the math of the standard model, all the way to saying that the Higgs is responsible for creating mass in general? What is the proof of any connection here? Yes, a fermion will have some mass, but how do they manage to jump to the conclusion that the Higgs creates the mass of all particles? I've looked a the paper and still don't see any connection. Looks like another overly sensational headline to me.
Anti-gravity! But how does one perturb space-time? We can't even detect gravitational waves much less create them. I don't think we will solve this one overnight
The F-35 does the same video trick, the only difference is there is still a cockpit and the video is in the helmet not on a screen. It seems all you have to do is steal someone's idea and make a small modification and... Profit!!
First they publish the SELinux security enhanced architecture for all of the Linux community to use, to be safely computing. A really great technology, and highly advisable.
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Then they put all the people on the black list that might want to *read* about SELinux, or other technologies, before using it?
Come on, you either want people to be safe _from_ hackers (the bad guys) or arrest all the hackers (software engineers). Maybe someone needs to buy them a current dictionary including the many uses of the common word "hacker" and what it really means in which context?
Microsoft has given up trying to promote the Surface as a...
... saleable machine. Rather than dumping their excess, in public view of shareholders, they are now even more willing to take a more substantial loss, so long as they can still claim X millions of units sold . Better than tossing them like with the Surface RT. Shareholders will likely complain if they try that one again.
There is LOTS of eye tracking software out there. Just do a Google for 'eyetracking software' and there are lots of hits, far too many for me to list here.
No, what they did was to dup Novell into developing a complex product using an API that they provided, but planned on changing at the 12th hour to defeat their competition out of the gate. Their goal was to make Novell look so bad in the eyes of the consumer that nobody would ever trust the product again. This is pure maliciousness and way over the top. Its one thing to simply not give information, its entirely another to mislead and make your competition do what you tell them, and then change it so that it is guaranteed not to work.
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Bottom line: If you shake hands with Bill Gates you had better count your fingers.
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Of course I admit I am a little biased in my analysis above, because my own theory actually predicts this lensing effect and doesn't even require any new fictitious or magic particles to do it. When the Abell 520 survey came out it merely confirmed my hypothesis of how the physics actually works at the quantum level.
I do have to wonder, with all the concrete footings, if the floor is actually wood and bowed up at the edges like a true ship hull would have been, so we can watch all the people slide towards the keel where the eliminated swill from the animals would have collected by the ton before it gets carted up several stories to be thrown out the one tiny window. Of course they didn't have steel wheel barrows back then, so they woud have to put the animals to work. You couldn't even hire someone for that these days. No wonder they want to raise the minimum wage!
Is this one big enough to be a real Biblical ARK? Probably still not large enough to carry two of every species, but still fun to calculate how close it would come to that goal. I'm guessing (seat of the pants/armchair calculation) we are roughly about half the way there if we discount things like bacteria, fungi, and viruses (the actual majority of lifeforms on earth). Waste disposal would be one heck of a problem, and with only one window, to shovel it out, yikes!.
In theory the ISP's might look to see where your data is headed and make adjustments based on that, but that of course would be deceitful. No, they wouldn't do that would they?
If you are into system security then check this one out. Security by hardware isolation is very hard to crack. Even the NIC and its kernel drivers live in its own VM and protects your system via IOMMU.
If you give Comcast the ability to become the gatekeeper to their competitors services you have crossed the line. This is not about emotions rather stifling the freemarket. At least change the equasion so that comcast charges the customer directly so the customer knows who is milking then and can then choose the lowest bidder of those services ( if there is one, but thats another problem). The customer is already paying for Internet services, and the costs of that service should be directly reflected in that price. Its dangerous to give the ISP the right to adjust the indirect costs of other businesses whos services are depending on that connection that is already paid for by the customers monthly fees. Allow this and Comcast will be able to kill off their direct competition.
I doesn't need to be *that* old, just not the latest model. It is a known fact, from a previous SD article, that older models slow down when a new iphone is released, which always coincides with a bright new shiny OS upgrade. If you upgrade the older hardware to keep up with the Jone's you are likely to have a slower phone,ipod, or ipad after you are done.
What is the point to "interactive music" anyway. I like to listen to music, not hold a conversation with it. Why would I even want this? Its just a solution looking for a problem.
Podcasts: pick up a used ipod and subscribe to the astronomy related podcasts.
Kindle: get a used kindle that has the bubble-type keyboard, and let it read books and papers to you. The keyboard lets you start/stop the reader without looking, for in the car use. Download Calibre application and convert online/document resources and copy them to the kindle. You are not stuck with just Amazon eBooks, but many of them are good.
When online use an RSS reader and connecty to the publications feeds: e.g. http://iopscience.iop.org/ http://arxiv.org/ http://www.physicsforums.com/ http://prl.aps.org/ http://phys.org/ http://physics.stackexchange.c... http://prd.aps.org/ and many blogs!
They would first need to prove illegal activity is happening, and that would be difficult, but then there are known exploits for some Tor applications that can be used to leak data which can give away this kind of evedence of your activity. The question is, would they go through the trouble to inject these exploits into your system so that they can find out what you are doing? Like unsecured DNS, or injections of web bugs into your open http traffic. That sounds illegal to me, and a clear invasion of privacy. Privacy is exasctly the reason for using Tor in the first place, so don't expect those kinds of users to sit back and say nothing when terminated.
... count. The uptake of new users is going to decline big time. Established users will learn to deal with the changes, but new users will be turned off before learning how to turn all this off.
The human brain is a marvel of technology. Brain waves move through it as waves of activity. It only consumes (most) energy where the wave of intensified activity is passing through it. If a 3d circuit could be made to sense when a signal is incoming then it could be more efficient. In this paradigm its no 1's and 0's, but rather circuit on vs circuit off. In addition, if you could turn those on/off cycles into charge pump circuits then you could essentially recycle the a partial of that charge and reuse it in a casade like or layered circuit. I believe Sun Micro was working on one such design, but the cost benifits were not there at the time to make it to production. Things have changed.
Somehow I do see that as a problem, even for a good hospital. lets hope they have a good containment center.
Is useless drivel. Its a one page abstract that reads like a news media comentatry of the test. There are not even graphs of measurments taken, no specifics on the test setup. Nothing. Its not even Science by my definition. Lets move along, nothing to see here.
Charging Netflix money just to connect is anti-competitive, because both companies sell the same service, only one is the gatekeeper to the customer. If anyone gets charged more for my bandwidth it should be me, and only me. I then get to choose who I use to connect to the Internet. If Verizon raises my rate I have the right to go shopping. If they rise the rate for Netflix that is extortion, and Netflix doesn't get to go shopping for a better source of customers. it doesn't work that way, and there are laws against that sort of thing. Why Congress doesn't get it is a mystery to me.
How about because customers are paying them for Internet service, and going to Netflix is where they want to go? People don't want to pay for bad service do they? The real problem here is Verizon is a competitor to Netflix, and Verizon is not only being allowed to be anti-competitive but also hoping to get paid for it.
You just can't do that with Dark Matter or Gravity waves, because they simply don't exist. General Relativity is thermodynamically incomplete as a theory and no amount of fantasy-like invention is going to compensate for an incorrect/incomplete theory.
I'm guessing that less than 2% of you know probably what the heck I'm talking about here.
By leap I mean assumptions, not 'getting ahead'. How does one go from proving that a Higgs CAN decay into fermions, in accordance to the math of the standard model, all the way to saying that the Higgs is responsible for creating mass in general? What is the proof of any connection here? Yes, a fermion will have some mass, but how do they manage to jump to the conclusion that the Higgs creates the mass of all particles? I've looked a the paper and still don't see any connection. Looks like another overly sensational headline to me.
Anti-gravity! But how does one perturb space-time? We can't even detect gravitational waves much less create them. I don't think we will solve this one overnight
The F-35 does the same video trick, the only difference is there is still a cockpit and the video is in the helmet not on a screen. It seems all you have to do is steal someone's idea and make a small modification and... Profit!!
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Then they put all the people on the black list that might want to *read* about SELinux, or other technologies, before using it?
Come on, you either want people to be safe _from_ hackers (the bad guys) or arrest all the hackers (software engineers). Maybe someone needs to buy them a current dictionary including the many uses of the common word "hacker" and what it really means in which context?
Microsoft has given up trying to promote the Surface as a ...
... saleable machine. Rather than dumping their excess, in public view of shareholders, they are now even more willing to take a more substantial loss, so long as they can still claim X millions of units sold . Better than tossing them like with the Surface RT. Shareholders will likely complain if they try that one again.
There is LOTS of eye tracking software out there. Just do a Google for 'eyetracking software' and there are lots of hits, far too many for me to list here.
just as an example is here http://www.eyetechds.com/partn... but there are many many more. Even open source.
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Bottom line: If you shake hands with Bill Gates you had better count your fingers.