It wasn't news to us that poisons can have benefits at low concentrations, it was the fact that Carbon Monoxide in particular may have uses beyond the ones we already know about like vaso-dilation and anti-inflammatory effects. That would certainly be news to us 500 years ago.
or tylenol, botulinum toxin, carboplatin, warfarin and many others. Just because a chemical is deadly toxic at some level doesn't mean it can't be useful at lower concentrations.
The problem is that the First Amendment's scope is really only limited to the Federal government.
Don't forget that because of the ratification of the fourteenth amendment, it also applies to lower levels of government. States and local governments are restricted from taking away your first amendment rights as well.
You could easily make the argument that net neutrality is neccessary for protecting the privacy of users or that anti-net neutral policies are anti-competitive and thus fall under existing anti-trust legislation. There are corps on both sides of the fence; their stance on the issue is interesting but not in of itself a reason to support net neutrality.
Not everything that corporations are against is good for the public. It is quite possible for government action to both make the situation worse for the public and be at odds with what the corps want. The real issue is whether or not that government action actually improves the situation.
That is the crux of the problem... The last mile is the major reason why infrastructure such as this tends toward a natural monopoly. However, there are a few ways to address the problem. Utilize wifi instead of underground infrastructure, allow cities/localities to build the last mile themselves and lease the infrastructure at market rates to competitors.
Right now they throttle people who actually use their connection to its fullest because there's little monetary incentive for the ISPs not to do this. They are for profit corporations, if it is profitable to throttle people, that is exactly what they will do. The system needs to be set up in such a way as to make it profitable for them not to throttle or otherwise restrict people's connections not just a simple legislative band-aid but actively attack the root causes of the throttling and general anti-net neutral policies.
When there's little choice in what providers are available in your area, there's very little reason for ISPs to provide better service. Internet users need to be able to move to viable alternatives when Comcast and friends implement anti-net neutrality measures. If you don't like your p2p being throttled, there should be somewhere else to take your money. Get rid of those local monopolies; they are more trouble than they are worth. There are a lot of changes to the current system that would improve the situation that involve little more than discouraging monopolies and stronger enforcement of current laws.
Except that it isn't all junk. Yes there are vestigial genes and repeats such as Ala however, that does not mean that it serves no structural role. Some repeats especially GGG can distort the DNA coiling structure from the normal B form to other forms that are less useful (eg. Z).
That is possible, non-coding DNA is already known to be a source of raw material for the evolution of functional genes and contains some gene regulatory regions. The concept that it retains other functions outside of direct coding of proteins isn't a new one. Also, few in the biological scientific community really calls "junk DNA" junk DNA any more because of the inaccuracy of doing so.
What's up with all the editorializing in the summary? Danger was bought by MS only 18 months ago. What the heck has this got to with Office and cloud computing except wishful thinking by the submitter?
Er... because it is a form of cloud computing which failed? When a failure like this occurs, it rightfully raises doubt as to the reliability of other cloud computing services, one of which happens to involve office.
As reported earlier this week, the phone network had to admit that some users' data had been permanently lost due to a problem with a server run by Microsoft-owned company Danger. The handset works by storing data such as contacts and appointments on a remote computer rather than on the phone itself.
Most of the problem is malware and the live cd protects against that threat very well. Also, if your cd burning software is so compromised that it some how manages to corrupt the live cd without the integrity checking program finding it then you probably shouldn't be banking on that computer anyway.
The court order prohibited communication between the two directly or indirectly. A poke is a form of communication that was recognised by the court as being in violation of the order. The order its self could be wrong but the interpretation of the poke as being a form of communication and thus breaching the court order is correct.
Playboy doesn't have to target you to be successful. All they have to do is consistently find what enough people like to stay in business. This time, they're thinking that Marge would be the key to getting the attention of the "20 somethings" that might not normally pick up a copy.
Well, Fox probably still likes money and the Simpsons isn't the cash cow it once was so... I'm thinking that Playboy dangled cash in front of Fox and Fox couldn't say "no."
Murdoch needs Google a lot more than Google needs Murdoch. All Google has to do is ignore Murdoch's content entirely until Murdoch learns his lesson or until his media empire collapses like the newspapers did. As for myself, I'm rooting for the latter to occur.
the author spent three months replicating 1TB of home data via cable modem to an online backup service.
Surely the 100$ the author "saved" by doing that could not have been worth the three months it took? That's about 140 kbps... You could buy yourself a 100$ TB drive and have a local system set to back up and restore your data whenever you need and it won't take 3 months for the data to get there and back. *And* you have control over your data and its security. *And* it would probably be cheaper anyway in the end.
And the DOJ might enforce the antitrust ruling against MS... I am sorry but I think that there is little chance that SCOTUS will do that right thing here.
Another name for it is "water gas" and it was originally used in homes before natural gas became common. Sources of Carbon are heated with water to very high temperatures ~1000C and react to form CO,CO2,H2,CH4... The CO and hydrocarbons in the gas can be removed and further reacted with water to produce a mix of CO2 and H2. Or the mixture can be reacted in the presence of an Ni/Al catalyst to form hydrocarbons and water. New Zealand produces approximately 1/3 of its petrol in this fashion. The advantage to synthesizing "water gas" or "syn gas" as it is often called is that you can convert many Carbon sources to liquid or gaseous fuel and can strip out the more toxic chemicals normally found in coal and other Carbon sources. As conventional sources of petrol become less available, this process may account for a significant quantity of the liquid and gaseous fuel consumed in the world.
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It wasn't news to us that poisons can have benefits at low concentrations, it was the fact that Carbon Monoxide in particular may have uses beyond the ones we already know about like vaso-dilation and anti-inflammatory effects. That would certainly be news to us 500 years ago.
or tylenol, botulinum toxin, carboplatin, warfarin and many others. Just because a chemical is deadly toxic at some level doesn't mean it can't be useful at lower concentrations.
Don't forget that because of the ratification of the fourteenth amendment, it also applies to lower levels of government. States and local governments are restricted from taking away your first amendment rights as well.
How about treating PTSD?
Casinos have an obligation to follow the outlined rules. They do not however, have any obligation to lose money.
You could easily make the argument that net neutrality is neccessary for protecting the privacy of users or that anti-net neutral policies are anti-competitive and thus fall under existing anti-trust legislation. There are corps on both sides of the fence; their stance on the issue is interesting but not in of itself a reason to support net neutrality.
Not everything that corporations are against is good for the public. It is quite possible for government action to both make the situation worse for the public and be at odds with what the corps want. The real issue is whether or not that government action actually improves the situation.
That is the crux of the problem... The last mile is the major reason why infrastructure such as this tends toward a natural monopoly. However, there are a few ways to address the problem. Utilize wifi instead of underground infrastructure, allow cities/localities to build the last mile themselves and lease the infrastructure at market rates to competitors.
Right now they throttle people who actually use their connection to its fullest because there's little monetary incentive for the ISPs not to do this. They are for profit corporations, if it is profitable to throttle people, that is exactly what they will do. The system needs to be set up in such a way as to make it profitable for them not to throttle or otherwise restrict people's connections not just a simple legislative band-aid but actively attack the root causes of the throttling and general anti-net neutral policies.
When there's little choice in what providers are available in your area, there's very little reason for ISPs to provide better service. Internet users need to be able to move to viable alternatives when Comcast and friends implement anti-net neutrality measures. If you don't like your p2p being throttled, there should be somewhere else to take your money. Get rid of those local monopolies; they are more trouble than they are worth. There are a lot of changes to the current system that would improve the situation that involve little more than discouraging monopolies and stronger enforcement of current laws.
Except that it isn't all junk. Yes there are vestigial genes and repeats such as Ala however, that does not mean that it serves no structural role. Some repeats especially GGG can distort the DNA coiling structure from the normal B form to other forms that are less useful (eg. Z).
That is possible, non-coding DNA is already known to be a source of raw material for the evolution of functional genes and contains some gene regulatory regions. The concept that it retains other functions outside of direct coding of proteins isn't a new one. Also, few in the biological scientific community really calls "junk DNA" junk DNA any more because of the inaccuracy of doing so.
Er... because it is a form of cloud computing which failed? When a failure like this occurs, it rightfully raises doubt as to the reliability of other cloud computing services, one of which happens to involve office.
Most of the problem is malware and the live cd protects against that threat very well. Also, if your cd burning software is so compromised that it some how manages to corrupt the live cd without the integrity checking program finding it then you probably shouldn't be banking on that computer anyway.
ORLY?
I don't know the details but it could be that the two were friends at one point and did not bother to unfriend each other.
The court order prohibited communication between the two directly or indirectly. A poke is a form of communication that was recognised by the court as being in violation of the order. The order its self could be wrong but the interpretation of the poke as being a form of communication and thus breaching the court order is correct.
Playboy doesn't have to target you to be successful. All they have to do is consistently find what enough people like to stay in business. This time, they're thinking that Marge would be the key to getting the attention of the "20 somethings" that might not normally pick up a copy.
Playboy is portable and doesn't require internet access or power. I predict that it's still quite popular with that crowd.
Well, Fox probably still likes money and the Simpsons isn't the cash cow it once was so... I'm thinking that Playboy dangled cash in front of Fox and Fox couldn't say "no."
Murdoch needs Google a lot more than Google needs Murdoch. All Google has to do is ignore Murdoch's content entirely until Murdoch learns his lesson or until his media empire collapses like the newspapers did. As for myself, I'm rooting for the latter to occur.
Surely the 100$ the author "saved" by doing that could not have been worth the three months it took? That's about 140 kbps... You could buy yourself a 100$ TB drive and have a local system set to back up and restore your data whenever you need and it won't take 3 months for the data to get there and back. *And* you have control over your data and its security. *And* it would probably be cheaper anyway in the end.
And the DOJ might enforce the antitrust ruling against MS... I am sorry but I think that there is little chance that SCOTUS will do that right thing here.
Another name for it is "water gas" and it was originally used in homes before natural gas became common. Sources of Carbon are heated with water to very high temperatures ~1000C and react to form CO,CO2,H2,CH4... The CO and hydrocarbons in the gas can be removed and further reacted with water to produce a mix of CO2 and H2. Or the mixture can be reacted in the presence of an Ni/Al catalyst to form hydrocarbons and water. New Zealand produces approximately 1/3 of its petrol in this fashion. The advantage to synthesizing "water gas" or "syn gas" as it is often called is that you can convert many Carbon sources to liquid or gaseous fuel and can strip out the more toxic chemicals normally found in coal and other Carbon sources. As conventional sources of petrol become less available, this process may account for a significant quantity of the liquid and gaseous fuel consumed in the world.
At least you can make more straw.