Amanda Knox Indicted On Slander Charges (VIDEO)

BB, I can see your reply in the side bar but not here. I don't agree with you but I hate censoring.



I don't get your point. I'm pointing out what I think is an example of racism and you call me a racist? I don't understand your logic.
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Cloud Computing Powers up Cyberwar Threat

"Well, maybe if they have The Mother Of All Hacker Battles online, and they manage to drop the internets like a bad habit, "



That won't happen. its one of the major flaws in this article that it pretends the cloud is more vulnerable to hacking, in fact its less although there are some new concerns that have to be dealt with.



"there'd be less web-based espionage, industrial, or otherwise. "



There is almost zero actual web-based espionange industrial or otherwise right now. Most of the hacks that make the news are nuisance attacks not anything like espionage. Things that take down a server for a while or corrupt some data or steal some data that wasn't classified as secret.



The military (unlike the every day perception) has been pretty smart about how they handle data, they have very rigorous policies and procedures that they follow for handling secret data and as long as those policies are followed its virtually impossible for anyone to get at such data via the Internet.
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Cloud Computing Powers up Cyberwar Threat

"Employment of the beer can analogy was a deliberate simpling down to engage netizens who have little or no knowledge of subject matter."



OK, but that doesn't justify giving people an inaccurate picture of where the risks are in Cloud computing which I think it did a bit.



"Moore's Law will render the the cloud obsolete "



Why is that? I mean to some extent that's almost a tautology. Moore's law is what drives the rapid change in the IT world and just as other architectures (Mainframe, client-server, distributed components) that preceded the cloud were replaced by newer architectures so eventually will the cloud is that all you meant or are you implying that as Moore's law makes computers more powerful we will go away from servers completely? If its the latter I disagree.



"The main points of the article are that netizens while being data mined to the hilt for free disclosure info, they are chumps, [who] don't have role in a crafting the future of the information highway beyond heavily mediated social media conversations that are a cruise to nowhere. "



You have a high opinion of your readers. We are chumps eh? And as for "heavily mediated social media conversations that are a cruise to nowhere. " to be honest that's pretty much what I think this article was. A lot of buzzwords and names but little content and most of the actual content was mis-guided or just wrong.
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Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

Thank you. That's it exactly. No deep mystery. Its amazing that educated men like Dr. Lanza still quote the paradox as if it were an open question. A quick trip to the math department of any college and he could get it explained in a few minutes.
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Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

I'm sure you believe all that you say.



I just read a fascinating book by Steven Pinker called The Blank Slate. Pinker described some of the things we know about how the physical brain creates consciousness. One of the fascinating experiments he described was where people have the connection between their left and right brains severed. Since the different sides are responsible for things like speech, vision, etc. you would get amazing results. E.g. show someone two different bits of info, one to the left and one to the right and ask them the question and they will answer one way verbally and another if asked to point.



Now, I already knew about these experiments but the fascinating thing I didn't know was that when confronted with these inconsistencies people would make up complex rationalizations that they absolutely believed to be true.



"when a subject's right hemisphere is shown the command walk she will walk out of the room. When the left hemisphere is asked why she did that rather then say 'I don't know' or 'no reason' she'll invent some plausible reason 'to get a coke'"



To me this demonstrates the amazing ability humans have to invent rationalizations and to spontaneously believe and remember what fits in with our needs and preconceptions.
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Why I'm (Still) Catholic

"I believe in God, or at least I think that belief in God is a positive and inspiring factor in one's life. "



So regardless of whether God exists or not you think its a good thing to believe that He does? I just don't get this. For any other subject we don't weigh the alternatives as to which will make us feel better. We evaluate facts and arguments and determine what makes the most sense. Why is God somehow different? Why do people decide that on what seems to be one of the most important questions you can ask -- is there a supreme creator of the Universe? -- that its better to just ignore the truth and believe what makes us feel good?
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Is Death the End? Experiments Suggest You Create Time

"I think scientists sometimes can get too clever for themselves"



Perhaps but that has nothing to do with this article. Dr. Lanza is a scientist but what he is doing here is not science. Its more like poetry if you want to be generous or gibberish if not.



"If I stare at an atomic bomb that is set to go off, it's going to explode. I don't think I'm smart enough to understand those two analogies. "



Those aren't analogies.
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