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Some universities automatically signed up all of their students, so this is less than impressive.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2003/11/61093

I see little reason to think that we'll see any social arguments about this genetic modification that we don't already see about a) steroids, hormones, and precursors or b) genetic modifications in general.

Isn't this linked to the Wired article from over three years ago about experiments at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in which researchers were messing with PPAR-delta and got similar results? Where's the reference to earlier work on the subject?

You can switch the dock back to its old appearance with this information.

I have yet to try it though, as I don't have Leopard.

Adam Rogers did a segment on the castration of modern chemistry sets for the new Wired Science TV Show. http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2007/10/dangerous_science

as it leans at an angle against the case in this photo:

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/31/everex_gpc_tc2502.jpg

I read the story about the Killer Robot Cannon. Not sure if the picture is the system is question or if it's a frame from Starship Troopers".

Europe is at least eight years behind the USA on this one. The FBI been installing spyware in people's machines since at least 1999 and a judge ruled it was Ok to do so in 2001.

See: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2002/01/49455

(Or google for something like "scarfo keylogger")

I have to agree with having the leadership abilities from before the game. Sometimes you get the position handed to you, and you have to step up. Its a lot more common for people having to fill in, and step up to guild master situations in Wow, than it is to have to step up and handle things for the president of a company. Its good life experience to have to step up to take over something, and well it might make you more comfortable in real life if the opportunity arose.

If in doubt you can always use WoW as a job reference too like the guy who got hired for Yahoo's Senior Management in engineering. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.04/learn.html/

I thought of the SAME thing.

On the Wired article with the story they have a diagram which shows how the whole proposed list is SUPPOSED to work. One of the notes included in it is that "Consumers may have to download a browser upgrade, Plug-in, or extension to get the Do-Not-Track list to work for them"

So.... lemme get this straight.... a Fed Maintained list....which required you to install a special application onto your computer...In order to keep private companies and websites from tracking you.

Now.... I'm not normally one who immediately expects some sort of grand conspiracy in every little thing, especcially something like this whole idea which is obviously the brainchild of people who don't have a clue how the internet and Web Actually function beyond their browser. But, part of me wonders if we'd see some of the big-brother groups like the NSA throw their support behind something like this since it basically would give them a great way to track people who are under the mistaken belief that they would not be able to be tracked.

Honestly, I can see them seeing it as another GREAT way to keep tabs on people. Hell, even the FBI might tap into it, and then hide behind the "online predator" defense if they get caught, simply because a large number of people who do things they shouldn't online do so because they think they can't be tracked/caught. Throw something like this list up for them, and I could see some people thinking it's another way to hide their online usage.

"oddly close to the data mining the NSA performed BEFORE 9/11"

You can find just about any storage technology that has ever existed in use in someone's current product, right now.

Just thought that vapor (as OP said) is less.

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A thumb drive using [programmable metallization cell memory technology] could store a terabyte of information

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/10/ion_memory

1. Yes
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3. Historically the members of the RIAA cartel have had complete control over the distribution of all music. P2P/Filesharing threatens that control, so they are trying to stall adoption until they can figure out how to deal with it by suing those who participate in alternative distribution mechanisms. Make no mistake, they are suing people for voting with their feet. So far, the cartel members' adaptation has amounted more to lobbying than finding new business models, but at the core it's all about them wanting all of the money that you are paying for music and not sharing it with any dumb kids and their dotcom protocols. None of this bad press matters as long as they wind up with all of the control.
   
4. You're thinking of trademarks. Copyright law requires no such diligence.

You mean like this guy did (but for a slightly different reason)?

Who will be held responsible? I admit, already now it is a problem and you will most likely not see any justice as a (family member of a) victim, but at least at the moment, any attack done is a human decision. Also remember that back in the day, it was a human operator in a Russian Rocket base who decided the incoming rockets was a technical error, and didn't press the button.

In no way should a robot or computer make decisions about life or death issues. We humans have a conscience for a reason.

This is exactly what OLPC needs. Before getting too excited about it, read up on OLPC. Not only does it fail to address real educational concerns, the interface is sufficiently proprietary that these kids aren't going to learn how to use a standard GUI.

Kudos to Microsoft for supporting this platform, and hopefully Classmate PC will be able to bridge this gap with a real system. Certainly the OLPC business model is exciting and I think given the opportunity to buy a student this kind of computer would be something better for students and teachers to work with.

A system of government that promotes extreme nationalism, repression, anticommunism, and is ruled by a dictator.

Maybe Sansa has so much market momentum from its "iPod Killer" that it can now throw its weight around.

Oh, wait...

Isn't this the perfect case of being proactive? A possible danger existed, was looked for, and when found was avoided without incident. This is no scarier than some Toyoda designers thinking about a modification to improve mileage and discarding it when simulations showed that it would lower passenger safety.

It wasn't particularly proactive when, because of Roundup Ready seeds from Monsanto, farmers were able to drown crops in Roundup leading to superweeds that Roundup wasn't able to kill. Now there's even a Roundup Ready coca, the same plant used to make cocaine. Now instead of spraying Colombian villages and crops with Roundup they'll be using even more poisonous or toxic chemicals on villages.

Your links weren't very good, I think this is what I originally read:

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2007/09/ff_facebook

Basically, yahoo offered $1B and Zuckerburg (sorry I got his name wrong originally) acccepted it, yahoo backed out, then re-offered later, and he turned it down.

It is infamous because it isn't very often 25 year old kids turn down $1B. Or people of any age, for that matter.

... if it really must be Schneier, read: "Why the Human Brain Is a Poor Judge of Risk" ( Wired ), but better immediately turn to Kahneman .

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I've scanned through what I'm pretty sure is all of the responses to this, and I am suprised I have not seen anyone throw out the iPhone's inherent security flaws...

In a Wired News article posted earlier this morning (or yesterday morning, in my current EST location), Kim Zetter likens the security of the iPhone to that of Windows 95. As that title states: "No, that's not good." To make it short and sweet...every single application on the iPhone, including the calculator and on up from there, runs as "root", which essentially means full system privelages. So basically, you open up your handy dandy iCal and you risk being invaded by some pimply-faced basement-dweller who will proceed to have complete control over your phone.

So what kind of stuff could these hackers do? Call random numbers, take photos without your consent, seize contact information, sent and recieved calls, etc etc. The really sad thing is these vunerabilities are pretty fundamental, and "Apple should have known better."

Of course, besides that, there is always the ever-popular iPhone updates! Gotta love the "You buy it, We may break it and render it useless" mentality. All in all, while an interesting and perhaps slightly useful phone, is it really worth all of this hassle?

Hopefully, Apple will redesign the entire firmware in a back-breaking update, develop a whole new iPhone, or set some pigs loose in the sky. Any of those will probably work.

I remember when a Chineese paper copied an Onion article and ran it as real news.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/06/53048

Currently, there are approximately 25 universities across the United States with active nuclear reactors on campus

You know, when you've read as many science fiction books as I have, this shit is a liiiitle creepy.

This isn't a little creepy. Idiocracy is a bit creepy. Manna is a bit creepy. And this Wired story is down right scary and creepy. If we continue down this path, then we are well on our way to being a nation of idiots.

Here's another amazing example of what you can do with very little. A south african boy makes a homemade paraglider from fertilizer bags...
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/09/paraglider/

picture here...
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/09/gallery_paraglider?slide=1&slideView=2/

Here's another amazing example of what you can do with very little. A south african boy makes a homemade paraglider from fertilizer bags...
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/09/paraglider/

picture here...
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/09/gallery_paraglider?slide=1&slideView=2/

...because they resisted the NSA.

Logically, GMOs would be first tested with animals to see if they suffer any long-term side-effects (relative to the lifespan of the animal). I couldn't imagine a responsible scientist neglecting that step

How long is long? A few years, 10, or 50? GMOs haven't been around long enough to really test them over a long period. A person can smoke a lifetime and never get cancer yet you see, well I do, places all over banning smoking. The GE, GMO, industry would never exist if they had to prove they were safe for as long.

nor a cooperation fool-hardy enough to.

Ever hear of Exxon or Union Carbide?

As for "it could take generations to test"

Smoking doesn't cause cancer with only a few puffs, or in a few years, either. It's the long term effects that concern me.

I don't see why it should take any longer than a new medicine to test. And those certainly aren't tested over several generations.

Drugs help save lives, GE corn on the other hand only lines the pockets of Monsanto or whoever created the seed.

I'd expect they've gone down since one can now use lower amounts of stronger herbicides without killing the crops.

Herbicide resistant crops are made so you can use herbicides, if you don't use herbicides there's no reason to have herbicide resistant crops. And organic farming doesn't use any manmade chemical inputs. They aren't needed.

Either way, Round-up seems to be less toxic than most herbicides. Personally, I'd much rather farmers use Round-up rather than atrazine (the most commonly used herbicide in the US).

I'd rather farmers not use any herbicides or pesticides. As much as I can I buy organic food. And I'm not some wealth person who can afford whatever I want, I'm on disability and haven't worked in years. Actually I pretty much stay at home online, such as on /. trying to save money, er not spend it. If you look at my first post today, well yesterday because it's after midnight where I am, you'll see I've been logged in for more than 12 hours.

Sure, given the prominence of GMOs you'll find the modified genes in some plants that shouldn't have them, but the traits aren't rapidly spreading, otherwise Round-up and the like would lose their effectiveness.

AH, but herbicides are loosing effectiveness as the article in "ScienceDaily" I provided the link to says. LSU has an article on Herbicide Resistance Management in Roundup Ready Cotton. Here's an article in "Wired" magazine about a Roundup "Ready" coca plant, which is what cocaine is made from: "The Mystery of the Coca Plant That Wouldn't Die".

Reminds me of Painstation.

I think it's silly. Stego is well known for not being very effective at truly obfuscating the fact that there's hidden data in a photo. Open the file in a hex editor and it's blatantly obvious there's data in the photo. Anyone with a modicum of knowledge could detect the presence of data, uh, with the possible exception of your local border security (sorry, oblig.). I'm suspicious about the study. If you wanted to hide data in a file, why would you then post that image to the web for all to see? Why not just email it to one or two ... million people all spam-like and make sure at least one goes to your target? Most people will delete your spam without even suspecting anything. Then there are the few that would be curious. So, well, not a great idea either. I just don't think stego is what it could be, or what criminals expect it should be.

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Bruce Schneier can divide by zero

Interesting while buying and selling are illegal, in most locations in the US trading isn't illegal. I don't remember if any of you recall the Nader vote trading schemes that were going on in 2000.

Here's an article from wired in 2000 that will explain:
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2000/10/39860

The gun fired off ~ 20 rounds in about 1/8th of a second. A kill switch wouldn't have worked - nobody would have reacted that quick.

More details: http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/inside-the-robo.html

Probably just needs a little wetware.

The XBox 360 system comes with demos only not fully enabled versions of those games. It's also worth bearing in mind that with a paltry 256mb memory card instead of a HDD, that this system will be increasingly irrelevant. It can't be long before Microsoft throw back the doors and allow any game to insist they only play on HDD enabled machines. I'm sure they have motivation to do this if for no other reason than to drive sales of their HDD expansions.

Insert Dawkins quote here: "There's an infinite number of things that we can't disprove. You might say that because science can explain just about everything but not quite, it's wrong to say therefore we don't need God. It is also, I suppose, wrong to say we don't need the Flying Spaghetti Monster, unicorns, Thor, Wotan, Jupiter, or fairies at the bottom of the garden. There's an infinite number of things that some people at one time or another have believed in, and an infinite number of things that nobody has believed in. If there's not the slightest reason to believe in any of those things, why bother? The onus is on somebody who says, I want to believe in God, Flying Spaghetti Monster, fairies, or whatever it is. It is not up to us to disprove it." (http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/atheism.html)

Stuff doesn't stay online forever, but Usenet.com offers something like 150 days of retention, which is quite a while. Other usenet servers offer even more, e.g., Giganews offers 200 days on binaries and up to 1500 days on text.

The Wired article has a link to the actual lawsuit in PDF format. It actually makes an interesting read.

1. He did it in 31:04 Slideshow.
2. That sounds uncannily like "Open Road" style rally rules ( www.openroadracing.com )

I'm nice. I don't know about the changing accusations but this story looks like more evidence of high crimes to me. Are we following a felony here? This story really blew open in the media over the weekend. (Google news:Nacchio)

"What occurred before 9/11." You ask.

Well, as court documents (heavily redacted but showing enough to prove the time line) in the Nacchio trial state the whitehouse demanded wiretap information without court orders in violation of the FISA act. Nacchio refused and Qwest was passed over for big dollar contracts issued by the Feds. The rub is all this happened six months before 9/11. Why is that a story? Read on.

Perhaps this is a better article then the one linked in this story. From the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/12/AR2007101202485.html?hpid=topnews
or this one. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/nsa-asked-for-p.html

It says the NSA was demanding wiretaps without court oversight six months before 911.

But on this whitehouse.gov page. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060511-1.html it says
"President Bush: After September the 11th, I vowed to the American people that our government would do everything within the law to protect them against another terrorist attack. As part of this effort, I authorized the National Security Agency to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. In other words, if al Qaeda or their associates are making calls into the United States or out of the United States, we want to know what they're saying." [White House, 5/11/06]

Not convinced? Watch this video
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/10/bush-pushes-for-telco-immunity/
"must grant liability protection to companies who are facing multi-billion-dollar lawsuits only because they are believed to have assisted in the efforts to defend our nation following the 9/11 attacks."

FOLLOWING? How about six months before!

Oh yea, Impeachment. "Bush administration was either incompetent or is guilty of malfeasance" http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_frank_j__071015_bush_administration_.htm OK he's a known Bush basher.

"On December 17th, 2005, President Bush confirmed the existence of a National Security Agency eavesdropping program. That confirmation came one day after a report in the New York Times. The President said at the news conference, "in the weeks following the terrorist attacks on our nation, I authorized the National Security Agency, consistent with U.S. law and the constitution, to intercept the international communications of people with known links to Al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations." Critics argued that Bush became the first sitting president to admit committing a felony, when he circumvented the courts by not getting a subpoena from the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court, as required by law." http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=7112345&nav=0RY5

This would be Bush bashing; "Bush is a fake cowboy" http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2007/09/vicente_fox_cowboy_bush_is_scared_of_horses.php or "Bush is lazy" http://ask.yahoo.com/20031001.html but I won't resort to that kind of low stuff.

You can have a trademark all you want, if someone has at least the same "reason" to have a domain, you have no case.

Unfortunately, there are judges who don't agree with you:

Nissan Motors vs. Uzi Nissan

This article is a dupe. Here's what I said about Shawn last time:
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  Low-tech Inventions That Help Change Lives
arbitraryaardvark (845916) on Thursday October 11, @07:41PM (#20947701)
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276 [wired.com]
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/ [flickr.com]
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php [instapundit.com]
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/ [aidg.org]
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.

His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.
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The right of jury nullification has nothing to do with law or legal president (though it may exists there), but simply the "agreement" that we all have to work together as a governed nation. The reason the vast majority of people agree to have their disputes settled by a court instead of taking up arms against each other it that we trust and independent judge and jury to resolve our disputes in a fair manner. Even if we do lose the case, it's better (or should be) than sacrificing the safety and security we enjoy in a law-bound society. The government can't legislate away jury nullification without risking movements to overthrow the government.

That's precisely why this case is so dangerous and goes far beyond copyright infringement. It's clear as day that even if she is guilty that punishment doesn't fit the crime. First of all because I would bet that, despite the verdict, most people would agree that bankruptcy is to harsh a punishment for file sharing. More importantly because, according to this articel, over 2 million people use Kazaa. $222,000 x 2^6 = $444 Billion dollars. That's about 3.3% of the US GDP. I'd be willing to bet $444B is more than the entire industry makes many times over.

Jim Bell's sentencing: http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/08/46341

It's really not much of a stretch to imagine the military have something a little smaller, is it?

It's really not much of a stretch to imagine the military have something a little smaller, is it?

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/10/65276
A MacGyver for the Third World
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/612856202/in/set-72157600466239024/
flickr
http://instapundit.com/archives2/010388.php
instapundit is blogging the conference
http://www.aidg.org/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,34/p,33/
some blog
Shawn Frayne is the founder of Haddock Invention LLC and its recent spin-off company, Humdinger Wind Energy, LLC. The mission of these companies is two-fold. First, to create technologies that can address long-standing problems in developing countries; and second, to leverage the novel aspects of those inventions through licensing deals in capital-rich nations such as the U.S., thereby generating a self-supporting revenue stream for the projects.

His work has so far focused in the fields of solar water disinfection, inflatable packaging, food preservation, charcoal-production, and wind power generation, with several products successfully licensed or sold. It was during his time as a student in MIT's D-Lab that Shawn first became convinced that the key inventions of the next century won't necessarily be born in wealthy countries. Rather, the new industries of the coming years will be founded on breakthrough technologies invented in Haiti or Zambia or Guatemala, where the hardest problems in the world will yield the greatest inventions.

The last russian spammer who was killed specialised in Russian language spam advertising his own "American Language Center". The idea was that they taught you American (ie - English) and then you used that to get your own job (yup, no placement or visa included).

Apparently this guy sent out tons of spam inside Russia and managed to annoy too many people with the sheer volume, making a small fortune in the process.

Then he was found beaten to death. According to the Wired article I remember reading some time ago (link posted below) the people who killed him really took their time to make sure he suffered. No bullets are mentioned, although a lot of blood and a very sound kicking is. Then the police just swept the whole thing under the carpet.

I really would recommend that anyone who gets pissed off when they receive spam read the link the below. It cured me as I actually felt sorry for him by then end:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html

http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2005/04/67110

"Lunar dust is extremely abrasive -- and unavoidable -- as astronauts quickly learned during the Apollo missions of the 1960s and '70s. Within hours, the dust covered the astronauts' spacesuits and equipment, scratching lenses and corroding seals.

Fortunately for the astronauts, their contact with lunar dust was short enough that it didn't cause any major problems. But explorers living on a moon base for weeks or even months at a time are not likely to get away so clean.

Under prolonged exposure, the explorers would be at risk for everything from mechanical failures in spacesuits and airlocks to lung disease, said researchers last week at a NASA workshop focused on the issue."