I like your red-herring: it always helps to distract from the context. You also mean "Heracles". Additionally, there is not much evidence that Heracles, the fabled hero, actually existed. Though it is possible, there is just not enough evidence. Meaning, "Heracles, the man, most likely did not exist."
But if you want to go this route:
"Jesus Christ" of Nazareth, the man, the one executed by the Romans and considered blasphemous by the Pharisees, was most likely real.
I have a fictional superhero I created based largely off of someone I used to know in terms of mannerisms, power origins and certain actions they do or situations they get into.
Is this hero fictional or real?
Also, it would be astounding if the Romans hadn't killed a man named Jesus or that there wasn't a man named Jesus at some point that challenged the authority of what were tyrannical political/social/religious institutions, given how popular the name was in that period.
However, this person is not, in any way, the same person as the bible discusses, and in fact, outside of some evidence of his execution, there is scant information about his life. Almost all stories in the bible are laughably false, from the idea of returning home for a census when Jesus was born, to the actions of the ruling Jewish authority at the time of Jesus' death, and in fact, most of the stories that even made it into the bible [sic] are incredibly archetypal of stories from those times and I'm sure I don't need to point out how much content from those stories is borrowed almost directly from previous stories and myths.
Because someone named Jesus lived at some point is really not an answer to my contention that Jesus is a fictional character any more than the person I based my superhero on existing makes that character real. Like, do you think Mohammed, as in, calls down angels to fight in wars and performs miracles, is a real person? I mean, it is almost certain there was a person named Mohammed who spread Islam through warfare in the 500s/600s (somewhere in there, can't be bothered to look it up, lol), however, the character Mohammed in the Islamic faith is fictional.
You honestly don't think people like Hercules, Jason, ... That guy Brad Pitt played... starts with an A I think... don't have origins in real life events? That someone just, out of thin air, made it up based on nothing they had seen in the world? Like, there is historical debate about whether the Trojan Horse, and that war entirely, even happened. Lets pretend it didn't, how likely do you think it is that the characters of that story and its events don't reflect some form of real things that occurred? Now, does the fact that the story may be based on some things that happened make it anything even close to true?
Very interesting. With this kind of processing power, cracking quantum encrypted networks, should be far easier. All things are relative . I guess the armed forces around the world had better begin reacting by reducing the attack surface now, before they have a serious problem.
All networks or PC's have an attack surface. In the case of a network, what a typical system admin. would do to reduce the attack surface, would be to disallow certain things from being accessed. Through adding permissions, or not allowing as much in terms of privileges to certain users. The Admin would reduce the possibility of being attacked on a certain levels. These are called exceptions in the firewall. If you ever want to be God of anything, become a Network Administrator, and that domain will be your kingdom. With Quantum encrypted networks, it becomes difficult to break into a system or network using alpha numerical hacking, or brute force attacks, but not impossible. One method of taking down anything is called a DOS attack or DDOS attack (Denial of Service, or Distributed Denial of Service attack) <--- there's a bunch of ways in . DOS and DDOS however, when done by the big boys, are virtually untraceable, and are impossible to defend against, even with several layers of redundancy. Very interesting stuff. I did very well in the Comtia Security Plus course. I could talk about this stuff all day long, and would love to learn more on it.
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Jan 17th, 2012 11:04 PM
. I guess the armed forces around the world had better begin reacting by reducing the attack surface now, before they have a serious problem.
