Comment Biometrics are not quite unique (Score 1) 383
Wouldn't just about any biometric allow identical twins full access to each other's stuff?
This is a cautionary tale about the fundamental unreliability of human knowledge.
Precisely. If you think no "respected published author " ever did this exact same thing (got drunk and added a fabricated "fact" to one of their books), you are kidding yourself. This incident just shows how an incorrect fact can be made correct by mass citation.
An acquaintance of mine (a "first nation" tribal member) several decades ago got one of the elders drunk, and convinced him of a story he made up on the spot about a supposed ancient tribal sacred place. By the time the guy sobered up the next day, he was convinced this story was true. It got all kinds of coverage, there's now a monument there, and of course it now has a Wikipedia page and everything. In this case Wikipedia did absolutely nothing wrong, other than believing their multiple sources.
Surely this kind of thing happens all the time.
people talk about compuer programming or a certain type of programming as being especially lucrative,
The thing is, its not really. The degree programs for CS and engineering are relatively difficult. For that amount of work in college, stay a couple of extra years and get yourself a medical or law degree. Then for roughly the same amount of work in the real world, your earning potential is far greater. You get a lot more respect too.
If money is what you are after, that is.
Programming is really only a good choice for those who enjoy programming.
At the DOD site I worked at, it was a weekly training memo from our security team on the latest threats. Phishing was always a topic. People had to read the briefings or they could be terminated.
Click link below for weekly training memo about latest phishing threats. Remember failure to reading could result in the termination.
- IT Team
I'll enlist for Kansas.
I'd be tempted to make a joke here, but Kansas already has a similar political proxy war in its history. Makes it much less funny.
160 years later, and evil looks pretty much the same.
In the US pilots can and will alter their course to get around bad weather systems or take advantage of more helpful prevailing winds that day. For a trans-continental flight, 100 miles is a pittance.
Fortunately, for us, our pilots don't have to also take in consideration whether Nebraska is currently having a dispute with Kansas.
In Mountain View, where the Shadows lie.
Hey! In Mountain View that's called "marketing".
The J. Paul Getty Maxim, oft repeated in the Oil Patch where I live, is "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights".
It appears this concept applies to other celestial bodies as well.
One scenario: some systems have tables that use a separate field for storing the century.
I'm guessing the Databases they were using back in the 1800's didn't have that capability.
Even most creationists think the earth being 6k years old is nuts. Most think science is right for the most part and it just explains "how god did it"
Don't be nit-picky. When people say "creationists", they are generally using it as shorthand for Young Earth Creationists. Nobody says that out because it is too much of a mouthful, and if they said "YEC", few would know what they are talking about.
If someone wants to talk about people who think science is right for the most part and it just explains "how god did it", they can just say "most Christians".
We are so bad at predicting the future but we still do it over and over again.
I read that one. Then a couple of months ago I was in a cellphone carrier's store, and saw one of those new curved phones. I immediately thought, "Cool! Those new flexible phones Slashdot was talking about are out now!". So of course I immediately picked it up and tried to bend it...
The store clerks were not pleased.
Michael Mann is not my favorite scientist, as he has a pattern of
Do you seriously have favorite scientists? Quick: Who's your favorite and least favorite molecular biologists? How about Phytopathologists? Do they have groupies and haters too?
Believe it or not, most pilots are trained to perform instrument-only landings. I believe any commercial airliner (and most military) even has a system on-board specifically designed to facilitate this.
I've personally see even amateur pilots take off, fly around and successfully land a simulator that did not have a working visual system, relying on instruments alone. Not something you'd like them doing regularly with actual lives at stake, I'll grant you. However, it is trained for. In event of emergency, I know I'd hope my pilot has done exactly this successfully in a simulator many times before.
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
