ICR's RATE project did publish a number of astonishing finds, mostly related to the following:
Carbon-14 found in diamonds and coal, suggesting that they are not millions of years old. Polonium radiohalos that suggest that granite was cooled quickly. Very inconsistent nuclear decay dates. Helium in zircon crystals.
Almost all of the experiments were hired out to commercial and university laboratories, sometimes through third-party mining companies (a common practice). They published a volume of hypotheses three years into the project, and published the second volume containing the results five years later at the end of the multi-million dollar project.
Their research was acknowledged at the annual American Geophysical Unions conference, and they were encouraged to keep up the "first good creationist research" the conference attendees had seen. Many scientists there were amazed by the project's results, and have since repeated and validated many of their finds. While evolutionist will not say that this research disproves long ages or current radioisotope dating methods, it has stirred much interest in the scientific community.
If you wish to flame me or decimate my karma, please do so by (and after) attacking the argument, not the presenters.
For as many mistakes and bad choices the US government has had, I think it is still by far the best entity to control the internet. The UN would cencor it, China would propagandize it, France would tax it, and Britain would botch it technically.
When it all boils down, a network like the internet requires centralized control, and it's often best to stick with the devil you know.
My cable ISP requires all port 25 mail to go through their own SMTP server. It's a pretty effective spambot solution (and it's fast sending, since the server is close). But of course, GMail doesn't user port 25 (I love Google's trendbucking).
Remove ALL govt subsidies, and let the free market fix it. People are generally concerned about the environment these days, and have shown that they will pay a few extra dollars to save fossil fuels. Get the socialist interference out, and things will work themselves out.
Obviously we do need some govt regulation to keep things ethical, but subsidies are way beyond the necessary regulations. It all stems back to FDR's New Deal, which was probably the biggest expansion of federal intervention and power in US history.
It would cause some immediate hurt if all farm subsidies were just nuked, but it would tremendously help our economy in the long run. Hooray for Milton Friedman!
the problem is that if you reject evolution and the means by which it is verified, you also reject the very scientific methods required to be a good scientist. Since you cannot repeat evolution, it is technically not in the realm of science. And computers will never evolve to be smarter than their programmers.
I am personally against the current form of net neutrality. I think that government intervetion is almost always bad. The ONLY regulations that should be passed:
1. All backbone providers must allow other providers to connect to them on a naked pipe. 2. All providers must use standard protocols*. 3. Providers may only throttle data/bandwidth based on protocol, not orgin/destination.
*I'd leave defining "standard" up to ICAAN, with these additional rules: 1. The protocol must be open - anyone can see how it works and get specs for it. 2. Usage or modification of the protocol must not be restricted by patents or copyright.
I believe anything more is harmful to the free market.
But when you plug the USB device in, Windows itself (or the OS itself) could recognize that the service is needed for the device to function and automatically enable the service. Just set the service startup type to Manual and it will do that.
I'd bet most of the people who do not want internet are in their 50's, probably live in a rural or semi-rural area, and know everyone for miles around. They simply don't want life in the fast lane; they want a quiet, peaceful retirement.
I know; I just want people to realize that nothing is truly invincible. Also, don't forget some of those quirky mathematicians who do things like break SHA-1...
The simply use the bully factor: $GENERIC_OFFICIAL Joe here at City Hall desk is scared and/or impressed by big rich corporate lawyers who show up first in his mailbox with lots of legal-speak on official-looking stationary, and then at his desk orating about the big bad copyright infringements going on in this town, so Joe gives them his cooperates and thinks he is doing everyone a favor.
And typically, the honest old County Judge is rather confused by all the technical mumbo-jumbo, but naturally sees it the RIAA's way when the RIAA's lawyers give him a nice (although somewhat misleading) explanation about IP addresses and file-sharing. The local ISP is also cowed by the pile of legal junk in the mail, and helpfully provides all the logs and whatnot the lawyers demand.
Where this all falls apart is when you have a local officials who are savvy or refuse to do anything until they get savvy and understand everything. Don't get me wrong; people do need punished for their illegal activities. But the RIAA simply isn't a government agency that can push people around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Crack This can brute-force a 56-bit DES key in a matter of days. This was built by the EFF for $250,000, so we can safely assume that the vastly better funded NSA can do the same or better.
It get's better: http://www.copacobana.org/ This costs less than $10,000 and takes no longer than a week on average to brute-force a DES key. It is not limited to DES, and can attack any symmetric cipher up to roughly 64 key bits. Examples include CSA (Common Scrambling Algorithm) or GSM A5.
January 13, 2006: Improved code reduces brute-force attack against DES to 7 days
Our new DES design can now be clocked at 120MHz. This reduces the average search time of the DES key space to 7.2 days. The worst case for a brute-force attack is now 14.4 days.
Well, I'm a teenager who likes programming and so might be considered gifted, and my favorite music is Mozart's, Verdi's and Handel's. I dislike rock and metal for several reasons, not least of which is my love of being able to hear.
you can't detect the hidden volume simply by seizing a drive and examining it all at once. I might just be naive (as I have never used TrueCrypt), but I don't understand why you can't just look for the true TrueCrypt driver, run the appropriate TrueCrypt version and brute-force the user password until you get to see everything.
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Their research was acknowledged at the annual American Geophysical Unions conference, and they were encouraged to keep up the "first good creationist research" the conference attendees had seen. Many scientists there were amazed by the project's results, and have since repeated and validated many of their finds. While evolutionist will not say that this research disproves long ages or current radioisotope dating methods, it has stirred much interest in the scientific community.
If you wish to flame me or decimate my karma, please do so by (and after) attacking the argument, not the presenters.
Some of Nintendo's Mario games have pretty good AI, like Mario Cart and Mario Party.
I always enjoy the C&C series "brutal" AI, even though they aren't particularly human-like, and sometimes have economy cheating.
Aspartame kills brain cells, especially developing ones (think kids). Aspartame is also classified by many chemists as a poison.
For as many mistakes and bad choices the US government has had, I think it is still by far the best entity to control the internet. The UN would cencor it, China would propagandize it, France would tax it, and Britain would botch it technically.
When it all boils down, a network like the internet requires centralized control, and it's often best to stick with the devil you know.
Em, it appears to be time-warner from the traceroute.
My cable ISP requires all port 25 mail to go through their own SMTP server. It's a pretty effective spambot solution (and it's fast sending, since the server is close). But of course, GMail doesn't user port 25 (I love Google's trendbucking).
A machine cannot be smarter than it's creator. Very similar to life only coming from life.
Hey, just show me a dog evolve into a srast or something and then I'll agree.
Microevolution: think different species of dogs. But I never saw a dog grow wings (macroevolution). It's still a dog, no matter how you slice it.
Which logically leads to the Ultimate Solution:
Remove ALL govt subsidies, and let the free market fix it. People are generally concerned about the environment these days, and have shown that they will pay a few extra dollars to save fossil fuels. Get the socialist interference out, and things will work themselves out.
Obviously we do need some govt regulation to keep things ethical, but subsidies are way beyond the necessary regulations. It all stems back to FDR's New Deal, which was probably the biggest expansion of federal intervention and power in US history.
It would cause some immediate hurt if all farm subsidies were just nuked, but it would tremendously help our economy in the long run.
Hooray for Milton Friedman!
That simply won't work.
OSTG is somewhat at odds with Torvalds over the naming issue. I'm not sure of the details.
I am personally against the current form of net neutrality. I think that government intervetion is almost always bad. The ONLY regulations that should be passed:
1. All backbone providers must allow other providers to connect to them on a naked pipe.
2. All providers must use standard protocols*.
3. Providers may only throttle data/bandwidth based on protocol, not orgin/destination.
*I'd leave defining "standard" up to ICAAN, with these additional rules:
1. The protocol must be open - anyone can see how it works and get specs for it.
2. Usage or modification of the protocol must not be restricted by patents or copyright.
I believe anything more is harmful to the free market.
Is it worse than ad hominem?
My dad's method is to stick to win95 until forced to 98, XP until Vista, ect. Right now he is using 98.
I'd bet most of the people who do not want internet are in their 50's, probably live in a rural or semi-rural area, and know everyone for miles around. They simply don't want life in the fast lane; they want a quiet, peaceful retirement.
I know; I just want people to realize that nothing is truly invincible. Also, don't forget some of those quirky mathematicians who do things like break SHA-1...
The simply use the bully factor: $GENERIC_OFFICIAL Joe here at City Hall desk is scared and/or impressed by big rich corporate lawyers who show up first in his mailbox with lots of legal-speak on official-looking stationary, and then at his desk orating about the big bad copyright infringements going on in this town, so Joe gives them his cooperates and thinks he is doing everyone a favor.
And typically, the honest old County Judge is rather confused by all the technical mumbo-jumbo, but naturally sees it the RIAA's way when the RIAA's lawyers give him a nice (although somewhat misleading) explanation about IP addresses and file-sharing. The local ISP is also cowed by the pile of legal junk in the mail, and helpfully provides all the logs and whatnot the lawyers demand.
Where this all falls apart is when you have a local officials who are savvy or refuse to do anything until they get savvy and understand everything. Don't get me wrong; people do need punished for their illegal activities. But the RIAA simply isn't a government agency that can push people around.
This can brute-force a 56-bit DES key in a matter of days. This was built by the EFF for $250,000, so we can safely assume that the vastly better funded NSA can do the same or better.
It get's better: http://www.copacobana.org/
This costs less than $10,000 and takes no longer than a week on average to brute-force a DES key. It is not limited to DES, and can attack any symmetric cipher up to roughly 64 key bits. Examples include CSA (Common Scrambling Algorithm) or GSM A5. January 13, 2006: Improved code reduces brute-force attack against DES to 7 days
Our new DES design can now be clocked at 120MHz. This reduces the average search time of the DES key space to 7.2 days. The worst case for a brute-force attack is now 14.4 days.
Well, I'm a teenager who likes programming and so might be considered gifted, and my favorite music is Mozart's, Verdi's and Handel's. I dislike rock and metal for several reasons, not least of which is my love of being able to hear.
They only have to force the user password, not the actual monster key.
If she sues, will the courts hold the NFL to the standard, and if they do, will it be more than a slap on the wrist?
This looks to be a legal milestone, for better or worse.