Here's the really fun part.

Once upon a time there was a culture that was the technological wonder of the world. They invented many things including modern mathematics and many other wonders.

Then their theology started exerting more and more control until free thinking and invention was not only subservient to religion but in many cases was banned.

The religion, fundamentalist Islam, and the civilization, Arab.

And now our own brand of Christian fundamentalism is forcing us down that same road. Give it a couple of generations and we will be ohhh and ahhhing at the magic of magnetism, or electricity.

Fundamentalist Islam destroyed the Arab civilization and fundamentalist Christians will do so for us.

Much good advice here but before you go to far you need to understand your data.

Understand your data.
How you use it.
How it changes.
Why it changes.

Once you get a handle on the data then do a risk assessment.

Then you are ready to begin.

Made in Japan
Made in Korea
Made in Chine (perhaps a special case)

It's a cycle that 3rd world countries should celebrate.

1. Manufacturing, starting with minimal tech, moves to country with extremely cheap labor but is relatively stable.
2. Tech steadily improves as higher and higher tech move in to take advantage of labor costs.
3. Eventually the labor costs start to rise as the country joins the list of developed countries.
4. Rinse and repeat.

Assuming civilization doesn't seriously back step this process will be a great thing for the world.

Now for the pie in the sky, this process will move off world eventually. Earth orbit, moon, asteroids...

What if the child had done the same thing to someone on the city zoning board? Would that mean he could use his power and influence to punish the child? Ridiculous I know but rezone the child's home. Would that be proper punishment?

What if the child had used a picture of a principal from somewhere else for the fake Alabama principal? Would her principal be entitled to punish her?

The problem of course is that what is published on the net by "children" (or for that matter many "adults") does not come with an attribute for accuracy and many people don't have the sense to assign one for uncorroborated info from the net. That plus we assume guilt from little or no facts.

I would give better than 50% that the first person on Mars will be wearing a space/mars suit that has sponsor logo's like a race driver.

I'm happy with standard speed of light speed, or lower for that matter.

The "does this mean..." I'm curious about is for undetectable transmission of information. Commonly referred to as "Bugging".

Does this enable the installation of some type of mechanism that will enable information to be transmitted without detection by any known means.

If so the world just got much more interesting. Of course such would be the pervue of the 3 letter brigades for some time, but it gets even more entertaining (pun intended) when such technology becomes available to an average individual.

Welcome to information really is now free.

Ditto on that Amazon wins.

I would be more concerned about why they want the details of the transactions.

Are there items that are illegal to buy/own in NC?

What items might someone find embarrassing, job threatening, political suicide...

The devil is in the details.

/tinfoil hat

One might wonder why all presidents appear to quickly move to the exact same positions regardless of their prior beliefs. /tinfoil hat off

One might wonder.... hehehehe

Sci-Fi got pieces of this right decades ago.

I nailed it down for friends 10 years ago.

Just as obvious as the neuromancer interface wasn't going to work.

Hi Tom. I'm looking for a book, "Catcher in the Rye".
Hey Ralph. That's amazing, I was looking for that just last week. I made a list of where you can get it.

1. Library on 6th street. Serious restrictions on use, must return, no notes in margins.
2. Bookstore on East Main. Good place but a bit pricey. On the plus side you will have a copy with full control on how YOU use it.
3. Used bookstore on 8th and Wine. Great prices but it's a nasty neighborhood. Lot of crime recorded in the area. One might even say that area's primary purpose is criminal.

Anyway, here's the list. Hollar at me later and if I have any updates I'll let you know.

I would recommend doing a bit of research on what web resources the members of the supreme court use. Then you can provide examples of what such would be if this mess isn't corrected.

The fact that Nasa is contract stupid (I'm guessing deals to placate various legislators, but hey, I'm paranoid.) is only part of the problem.

Nasa lives and dies over gee wizz flashy programs to get funding. Nasa has to impress the powers that be, President, advisors, legislators, defense contractors, and even lobbyists, to get decent upper management and funding. They have to be even more impressive to maintain the needed funding over multiple years and administrations.

Because...

Most ventures having to do with space require a lot of time as well as consistent funding. Congress, who holds the purse strings, is motivated by short term goals and is easily swayed by other vested interests (see above).

The only way I can see to fix this would require a law or constitutional amendment, if necessary, to enable congress to assign budgetary funds, ideally multi-year, that are paid in advance and very difficult to change. At least a 2/3 or even a 3/4 vote should be necessary to remove or repeal. This sort of protection will have to include the top management at Nasa as well.

Not a lot else you can do unless you can make all three branches of government reasonable, honorable, and able to think and plan on a long range basis.

Unfortunately the morally repugnant legislators are correct as far as it goes. Nasa indeed needs gee wizz flashy programs to achieve funding as this article shows. Nasa has to impress the powers that be, President, advisors, legislators, defense contractors, and even lobbyists, to get decent upper management and funding. They have to be even more impressive to maintain the needed funding over multiple years and administrations.

Because...

Most ventures having to do with space require a lot of time as well as consistent funding. Congress, who holds the purse strings, is motivated by short term goals and is easily swayed by other vested interests (see above).

The only way I can see to fix this would require a law or constitutional amendment, if necessary, to enable congress to assign budgetary funds, ideally multi-year, that are paid in advance and very difficult to change. At least a 2/3 or even a 3/4 vote should be necessary to remove or repeal. This sort of protection will have to include the top management at Nasa as well.

Not a lot else you can do unless you can make all three branches of government reasonable, honorable, and able to think and plan on a long range basis.

I agree, however if you make it a requirement to publish, I believe that the necessity of publishing will quickly outweigh the "need" for proprietary code.

Simulations can be the key to turning data into something understandable. Especially for those who can't see patterns in datasets. Not absolutely required but reproducing someone's simulation... There are so many ways to massage a large complicated dataset.
 

Being as I have reviewed many things over the years, including software.

Getting a different answer only tells you it's different. Could be your code.

Reviewing his code can not only show a problem(s) but can let you know if it's significant. As stated before, most but not all coding errors are not relevent to the final conclusions.

Last but not least, if you are going to complain about my work, it might be helpful to offer some useful information. I got different results isn't useless, but it's in the neighborhood.

As part of publication and peer review all data and providence of the data as well as any additional formula's, algorithms, and the exact code that was used to process the data should be placed online in a neutral holding area.

Neutral area needs to be independent and needs to show any updates and changes, preserving the original content in the process.

If your data and code (readable and compilable by other researchers) isn't available then peer review and reproduction of results is foolish. If you can't look in the black box then you can't trust it.