Re: BGP list of phishing sites?

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

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.