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Re: BGP list of phishing sites?

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Tue Jun 29 20:50:21 2004 
On 29-jun-04, at 22:53, David Barak wrote:
Einstein taught as that even the simple act of
observation influences our surroundings. Wouldn't it make sense to try to
leverage this influence such that the future is shaped more to our
liking, however small the change may be?


nitpick: it wasn't Einstein, but rather Heisenberg who
developed the uncertainty principle.




Einstein's take on this was to ridicule it somewhat:



"When a person such as a mouse observes the universe, does that change
the state of the universe?"




The principle has been analogized to describe larger
systems and items, and is a useful but not always
completely accurate metaphor.  It is entirely possible
to observe some things without affecting them.




Is it? If I want to look at you, I must bounce photons off of you.
Similar stuff needs to happen for other types of observation. This may
not have a very large effect on you, but there is _some_ effect.