I believe that the point of the article was that the isotopic composition of Krypton and Xenon indicated that this was possibly not the case. It may be intuitive to believe that outgassing is responsible for our atmosphere in its entirety but that doesn't mean that it is correct. Science only progresses by challenging ideas even if they seem to be likely or even correct at first glance.
If our government had the restraint to go along the lines of what Japan is doing then that is fine and dandy. The problem is that I think the US government is trying to emulate Canada and Europe more than Japan...
I'm sure if we knocked out those pesky minimum wage laws our labor would be dirt cheap too. Now if you're referring to China as being the Communist state in question, there's one slight problem: it isn't.
Incorrect. Isotopic ratios vary depending on the conditions in the planetary nebula that formed our solar system. The disk tends to fractionate into "layers" with refractory materials tending to be toward the sun and volatiles tending to be fairly far away from the sun. Volatiles like Hydrogen and Helium would be expected to accumulate around large terrestrial masses ~50 Earth masses out around Jupiter and beyond. Volatiles like Hydrogen and Helium don't accumulate as significantly near terrestrial planets as close as the Earth is due to the fact that the Earth and similar terrestrials were of insufficient mass to retain significant Hydrogen and Helium. This is due in large part to the density of the nebula which formed our solar system.
Technically only the South for the most part. The North on the other hand is on par with Europe's life expectancy. Curiously enough, even the more conservative northern states like Montana have relatively high life expectancies compared to the south. It appears to be mostly a cultural phenomenon rather than a structural one.
The early Earth as it was forming was probably hit with quite a few objects like comets that had volatiles like Water, Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide so it is quite possible that a great deal of the water and other volatiles found on Earth have cometary or otherwise other-worldly origins. Water and Carbon Dioxide are not rare substances in our solar system. There are entire moons with more than half of their mass consisting of water or other volatiles and comets are huge sources of volatiles in general.
but these large corporations are just as large and inefficient as the government
I suspect that if that were indeed the case we'd see a lot more countries like Cuba out-performing more capitalist nations. Government isn't without a profit motive; you've just convinced yourself that there isn't one.
He's a fairly popular astrophysicist who makes fairly regular appearances on the History channel's "Universe" series and has been on the Colbert Report more than any other guest. He's also the director of the Hayden Planetarium and was one of the most vocal supporters of the position that Pluto should not be classified as a planet. He is also a member of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry
I thought stem cells were all the rage for that..is this a completely different approach?
Yes. Stem cells form new specialized cells like neurons; this approach on the other hand involves stimulating existing nerve cells to row more axons which are the electrical connections between nerve cells.
Also - if we can stimulate the growth of nerve cells to help people, can the same therapy be used for nefarious stuff? (i.e., what happens if you grow too much nerves?)
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a disease caused by the growth of too many axons and can manifest in the form of autism and it is also associated with the formation of what are called tubers which are benign tumors in the brain.
Tumors form through uncontrolled growth of cells. Axons are the connections between nerve cells that conduct the nerve impulses. There is no cell division proliferation going on here.
No. Think of the virtual particles as a loan that *must* be repaid. The more that is loaned, the quicker that it must be repaid. electron/positron virtual pairs exist for a loner time than say virtual proteon/antiproton pairs do. There is no way to use the creation of virtual pairs to create free energy or break the conservation laws.
The problem is that people are mostly only critical of things their world view desires to be false. The skepticism isn't universal; just as IDers are intensely skeptical of evolution because of their beliefs, there is also a tendency of AGW "skeptics" to be so due to their own beliefs.
Most of the "green products" you've just mentioned in all likelihood have little actual environmental benefit. Alternative energy technology on the other hand may very well serve us well economically and environmentally. Even if you don't care one bit about the environment, you've ot to admit that at some point we're going to grow beyond what fossil fuels in of themselves are capable of providing.
Any developer that gets caught doing that will only have one chance to do it and frankly, if they were well known enouh to get into the repos the last thing they need is being banned from the repos and ostracised from the Linux community.
It looks like it didn't matter how simple the script was. Someone found it within 24 hours any way. If the malware has only 24 hours to work, then it makes sense to do a bit more than what this script did. The script would probably need to be so innocuous to remain undetected for any significant amount of time as to be fairly worthless to the malware writer.
No one is being locked into the repositories. If they want they can go elsewhere to get their software. The repositories merely provide a reasonably safe set of software available for the user.
That malware was such a simple script... It could have done boat loads more damage than it did. Lock out the user from sudo by changing the sudoers file, replacing the password hash for root, IN that case just about the only thing that you can do is grab a live cd and fix the problem...
This makes me wonder how long it will be before some warning about a fake virus/trojan/worm succeeds in convincing a few Linux newbies to run some command to get rid of the fake malware which inevitably causes damage or actually downloads actual malware. Something along the lines of: "if you've been infected with virus.deb just run the following command: sudo rm -rf / usr/bin/virus" The only cure is education.
For example, should competing big companies be allowed to use their economies of scale to make and sell cheaper products based on open hardware designs developed by small start-ups without payment?
Hardware isn't special in requiring money/time to develop so why is it that this question only really gets asked when an open philosophy is applied to physical objects?
There's also the problem that hacking designs for physical objects like open source cars may have safety implications
No not really, any liability would presumably be on the one that took the blueprints and actually build the device. After all, it is an open deisgn that can be modified by the manufacturer of choice.
Does the availability of extensions put Chrome at risk of becoming bloated, like many complain about with Firefox?"
If you think extensions make your browser "bloated" then you are free not to install them. The one major stumbling block that keeps me and presumably many others from ditching Firefox for Chrome is the complete lack of useful extensions like Noscript, Adblock and several others. Customization is a hue reason why Firefox is the leading competitor against Internet Explorer.
Indeed. There's no real skill involved in the making of this "geek card" either. Looking at the title you'd expect to see a story about some geek building the thing from scratch and programming it to do whatever task was required. Instead we get two links about some random app with the Iphone glued to a piece of cardboard. The thing looks like a crafts project for the local elementary school.
Somehow I think that if the state knew that people would bring torches and pitchforks to its door every time it tried to pull garbage like ACTA there wouldn't be an ACTA in the first place. The state has little to fear from its citizens any more and so it has the freedom to restrict ours in numerous ways including secret treaties like ACTA. It is a symptom of an underlying flaw in the system.
When the state considers its citizens the enemy, treaties like this are kept secret for "national security" reasons from the "enemy" that is to say the public, not other states.
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I believe that the point of the article was that the isotopic composition of Krypton and Xenon indicated that this was possibly not the case. It may be intuitive to believe that outgassing is responsible for our atmosphere in its entirety but that doesn't mean that it is correct. Science only progresses by challenging ideas even if they seem to be likely or even correct at first glance.
If our government had the restraint to go along the lines of what Japan is doing then that is fine and dandy. The problem is that I think the US government is trying to emulate Canada and Europe more than Japan...
I'm sure if we knocked out those pesky minimum wage laws our labor would be dirt cheap too. Now if you're referring to China as being the Communist state in question, there's one slight problem: it isn't.
Incorrect. Isotopic ratios vary depending on the conditions in the planetary nebula that formed our solar system. The disk tends to fractionate into "layers" with refractory materials tending to be toward the sun and volatiles tending to be fairly far away from the sun. Volatiles like Hydrogen and Helium would be expected to accumulate around large terrestrial masses ~50 Earth masses out around Jupiter and beyond. Volatiles like Hydrogen and Helium don't accumulate as significantly near terrestrial planets as close as the Earth is due to the fact that the Earth and similar terrestrials were of insufficient mass to retain significant Hydrogen and Helium. This is due in large part to the density of the nebula which formed our solar system.
Technically only the South for the most part. The North on the other hand is on par with Europe's life expectancy. Curiously enough, even the more conservative northern states like Montana have relatively high life expectancies compared to the south. It appears to be mostly a cultural phenomenon rather than a structural one.
The early Earth as it was forming was probably hit with quite a few objects like comets that had volatiles like Water, Ammonia and Carbon Dioxide so it is quite possible that a great deal of the water and other volatiles found on Earth have cometary or otherwise other-worldly origins. Water and Carbon Dioxide are not rare substances in our solar system. There are entire moons with more than half of their mass consisting of water or other volatiles and comets are huge sources of volatiles in general.
I suspect that if that were indeed the case we'd see a lot more countries like Cuba out-performing more capitalist nations. Government isn't without a profit motive; you've just convinced yourself that there isn't one.
Both ends of the debate rely on emotion. Don't kid yourself into believing that it is just the death panel idiots appealing to peoples' emotions.
He's a fairly popular astrophysicist who makes fairly regular appearances on the History channel's "Universe" series and has been on the Colbert Report more than any other guest. He's also the director of the Hayden Planetarium and was one of the most vocal supporters of the position that Pluto should not be classified as a planet. He is also a member of the Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry
Yes. Stem cells form new specialized cells like neurons; this approach on the other hand involves stimulating existing nerve cells to row more axons which are the electrical connections between nerve cells.
Tuberous sclerosis complex is a disease caused by the growth of too many axons and can manifest in the form of autism and it is also associated with the formation of what are called tubers which are benign tumors in the brain.
Tumors form through uncontrolled growth of cells. Axons are the connections between nerve cells that conduct the nerve impulses. There is no cell division proliferation going on here.
No. Think of the virtual particles as a loan that *must* be repaid. The more that is loaned, the quicker that it must be repaid. electron/positron virtual pairs exist for a loner time than say virtual proteon/antiproton pairs do. There is no way to use the creation of virtual pairs to create free energy or break the conservation laws.
The problem is that people are mostly only critical of things their world view desires to be false. The skepticism isn't universal; just as IDers are intensely skeptical of evolution because of their beliefs, there is also a tendency of AGW "skeptics" to be so due to their own beliefs.
Most of the "green products" you've just mentioned in all likelihood have little actual environmental benefit. Alternative energy technology on the other hand may very well serve us well economically and environmentally. Even if you don't care one bit about the environment, you've ot to admit that at some point we're going to grow beyond what fossil fuels in of themselves are capable of providing.
Any developer that gets caught doing that will only have one chance to do it and frankly, if they were well known enouh to get into the repos the last thing they need is being banned from the repos and ostracised from the Linux community.
It looks like it didn't matter how simple the script was. Someone found it within 24 hours any way. If the malware has only 24 hours to work, then it makes sense to do a bit more than what this script did. The script would probably need to be so innocuous to remain undetected for any significant amount of time as to be fairly worthless to the malware writer.
No one is being locked into the repositories. If they want they can go elsewhere to get their software. The repositories merely provide a reasonably safe set of software available for the user.
That malware was such a simple script... It could have done boat loads more damage than it did. Lock out the user from sudo by changing the sudoers file, replacing the password hash for root, IN that case just about the only thing that you can do is grab a live cd and fix the problem...
This makes me wonder how long it will be before some warning about a fake virus/trojan/worm succeeds in convincing a few Linux newbies to run some command to get rid of the fake malware which inevitably causes damage or actually downloads actual malware. Something along the lines of: "if you've been infected with virus.deb just run the following command: sudo rm -rf / usr/bin/virus" The only cure is education.
Hardware isn't special in requiring money/time to develop so why is it that this question only really gets asked when an open philosophy is applied to physical objects?
No not really, any liability would presumably be on the one that took the blueprints and actually build the device. After all, it is an open deisgn that can be modified by the manufacturer of choice.
I would imagine that this would be incredibly useful to those with muscle wasting diseases.
If you think extensions make your browser "bloated" then you are free not to install them. The one major stumbling block that keeps me and presumably many others from ditching Firefox for Chrome is the complete lack of useful extensions like Noscript, Adblock and several others. Customization is a hue reason why Firefox is the leading competitor against Internet Explorer.
Indeed. There's no real skill involved in the making of this "geek card" either. Looking at the title you'd expect to see a story about some geek building the thing from scratch and programming it to do whatever task was required. Instead we get two links about some random app with the Iphone glued to a piece of cardboard. The thing looks like a crafts project for the local elementary school.
Somehow I think that if the state knew that people would bring torches and pitchforks to its door every time it tried to pull garbage like ACTA there wouldn't be an ACTA in the first place. The state has little to fear from its citizens any more and so it has the freedom to restrict ours in numerous ways including secret treaties like ACTA. It is a symptom of an underlying flaw in the system.
When the state considers its citizens the enemy, treaties like this are kept secret for "national security" reasons from the "enemy" that is to say the public, not other states.