I imagine that their reasoning was that it was better to offer a patch, closed or not that benefited their users that would choose to make use of this processor. The solution isn't elegant, more like repairing an aircraft's hull with duct tape but apparently it is better than the alternatives they tried.
dear UK,
Educate your population seriously you rag on Americans being stupid while having an even less educated population yourselves. The only reason the BBC gets away with scaremongering nonsense is because there are many among you that don't know any better. The only way to stop selecting for idiotic deivel is to have a fairly knowledgeable population that understands basic concepts in science like the scientific method for example. That is all
Personally I am sending out many mass mailings, on an opt-out basis (I harvest interesting mail addresses myself) -
you are a spammer, you send email to people who do not give you permission to do so in the first place.
and get very few opt-outs and many reactions.
that's what you think- do you know what people do most of the time when they don't want email from a business that is opt-out not opt-in? that's right- it gets flagged as spam. personally, if a company does that kind of garbage to me they automatically get canned no questions asked. If I give a company my email address it's going to be a temp one, if the spam starts rolling in not only do they get flagged the email address gets canned too with a healthy dousing of gasoline and salt just to be sure.
I specifically send mails to people that may be interested in buying my goods. This should definitely be legal, it's a great marketing tool and helps my business very well.
the problem is that you equate an email address with automatic permission from a customer to send anything you want- not what it is, an alternate contact for times when you absolutely positively must contact your customer(s) for some very important reason. you know like- "hey that product you bought has been recalled- you might want to bring that back here for safey reasons"
But why would the anti-spam software companies want that? If they succeed in actually eliminating spam, they'd also go out of business.
you assume that all anti-spam filters are proprietary, open source filters exist and can be modified to your desire- that in its self should force anti-spam companies to adapt otherwise they got replaced by free as in gnu software. it is in their best interests to at least attempt to beat FLOSS and FLOSS has a lot going for it- if someone finds a better way to code for the project- good for them they just made it better and now anti-spam companies have to step up their efforts to do the same.
how do you propose we remove the economic incentive for spam? ok let's see how this has been attempted or hypothesized in the past: charge a fee per email rather than a blanket fee from the ISP for access. ok but most of the real spam that is being sent is done through compromised PCs so attacking the problem by charging a fee per email is useless because the people in control of this spam-net are not the ones paying for bandwidth/email fees. ok then pass laws against it. that doesn't work either, the remaining spam-nets will still work because it can not be enforced in the host country let alone all those who are not subject to the law. ok then build better spam traps. tried that, it isn't doing so well- spam is still getting through in large numbers. educate people? that will certainly make things better in a lot of ways but there will still be that twat that actually wants to get spam... have ISPs cut off high bandwidth connections from those suspected of spamming? can anyone say privacy nightmare? as much as I hate spam I hate the idea of ISPs snooping through your email no matter what their reasons are. now what?
The other factor is the youth of Ayumu and his peers. The memory for images that's needed for the tests resembles a skill found in children, but which dissipates with age. In fact, the young chimps performed better than older chimps in the new study. (Ayuma's mom did even worse than the college students).
oops? the age groups are not on equal ground. try the same thing with humans and you might just see the same thing occur. it would be amazing if the chimps' ages were more representative of those they were competing against eg. older chimps vs. corespondingly older humans, young chimps vs. young huamns
google the story, there are tons of tech sites reporting on it, slashdot's just one of the later incarnations of it.
Who greenlit the story?
apparently enough slashdotters to get it off the firehose and on to the front page I suppose. which reminds me, a lot of those tech stories about this are a week old- why did this need to get on slashdot when it has already been beaten to death elsewhere?
Why can Microsoft not slip release dates without getting flack, but it's okay for open source projects? Both are slipping for the same reasons.
first, Microsoft slips by years not months. second, the fact the KDE developers choose to extend the time until release has to do with fixing bugs which is all alround a good idea. They are not getting flak for making the right decision rather than releasing a half-assed version of KDE4 to the scorn of all. third, the reason Microsoft gets flak for slipping on its release date for Vista is that it took them 6 years to create... Vista... DRM support baked in, unnecessary and some say down right idiotic design changes, a basic requirement of RAM that is mind boggling for little in return, buggy or even non-existent drivers [broken compatibility] and a poorly copied security device called UAC which for the most part, is only annoying, etc... you get the point
I think you mean As long as Starcraft 2 is still going to be released finished, this is fine with me.
Let us hope that they don't rush SC2 out the door half-done and utter garbage shall we?
Tom Curley, the AP's chief executive, said the news cooperative spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually covering the world, and that its employees risk often their lives doing so. Technologies such as ACAP, he said, are important to protect AP's original news reports from sites that distribute them without permission.
Currently, Google, Yahoo and other top search companies voluntarily respect a Web site's wishes as declared in a text file known as robots.txt, which a search engine's indexing software, called a crawler, knows to look for on a site.
I hope they realize that restricting search engine crawlers with robots.txt this way really doesn't do much other than decrease the number of people who visit their dite in the first place. I wonder how that will alter their revenue streams. Let them go ahead with it and the whole thing will be self correcting.
Completely irrelevant. Unless you are in a position to DO something about it.
just a note, the university I am doing my studies was one of the first to work in this area so yes I could probably end up doing something about this.
We already know there are many lethal gene combinations, that produce in utero abortion or neonatal death. Your point is?
just a note that not all changes in gene expression cause in utero abortions.
Now if you could point out a case of a single gene being altered AFTER embryogenesis (by environmental factors or whatever) that produces disease, then we're talking about eventually being able to work on a way of preventing this.
even better a whole mechanism for many genes being altered- anything that methylates cytosine residues will alter gene expression although they also increase the incidence of point mutations because of hyrolysis of 5'cytosine to thymine.
However as far as I know, altering the gene in a single cell will damage THAT cell
sigh... you over simplify this far too much. You never considered the fact that these kind of changes in expression become very important in egg and sperm cells which combine to produce the next generation passing on the change in expression that occured in one single cell. if the same thing happens in the zygote you can see that that single change in expression for that particular cell can have great consequences.
While perhaps you might also be able to identify non-desirable traits that are more likely to be passed on to offspring, this won't be much use until you start obliging probable carriers to be sterilized.
gene expression can be altered possibly alleviating illness, not only that but eugenics is out of the question.
Is this how you plan to "fight" disease? I am not sure I want to live in that world.
the only one that implied such a future is *you* for I certainly do not want to see such a future.
it isn't the noobs that worry me, it's when people like you think that malware only affects the noobs and not the servers they will later attack. storm botnet ring a bell? preventing the noobs from inadvertantly joining spam botnets is in our best interests.
you are correct, the gist of the research goes like this: 1) some genes can be switched on or off by environmental factors [chemicals, other genes etc.] 2)if one of these cells that has a switched on/off gene just happens to be a sperm cell or an egg, it can carry that epigenetics to the next generation. 3) some genes can only be inherited functional from one parent 4) if that parent happens to be the one that has the inactivated [switched off] gene then that gene is entirely non-functional in the offspring because there is no functional back up gene from the other parent. this leads to the conclusion that environmental factors can alter gene expression which can be inherited to offspring which under some conditions and genes no longer have a functional gene that may or may not prevent disease, that is to say if the gene is inactivated you're likely to get the associated disease. In many cases, these genes are thought to be involved in obesity, heart disease, cancer etc. which means that environmental factors in your parent's lives or even your grandparent's may contribute to you being more likely to get a certain disease associated with a non-functional gene.
you're missing the point entirely. This isn't just a few cells that are affected, this is your entire population of cells. if you inherit a gene from your father that is "switched off" and that gene is the only one that can be inherited [only from Y chromosome for example] then you're kind of screwed. There isn't a second copy that is switched on and functional to prevent the associated disease caused by the first gene being switched off. There are a lot of these kind of genes that are regulated in the levels of expression and on/off states of the gene. Hardly mundane.
That's the thing though, the firehose isn't doing its job, part of the problem is that someone needs to be voting up this dreck in the first place. The other is that the editors are not "editing" anything, dupes, inaccuracies, basic failure to use spell-check, you know things like that. There isn't really a way at the moment to label pointless stories, dupes, innacurate articles/summeries that have been shown to work yet. what we need is for editors *and* slashdotters to pay attention to what is being submitted and maybe google some old stories to prevent dupes, check the links before it's on the front page and alert the editors to obvious problems with stories. Just like FLOSS there should be a way for everyone to review what is being produced and find the "bugs" [dupes, pointless stories erc.] perhaps fix a few here and there
one is religion, one is based on th scientific method. I fail to see why you believe religion should be taught as science when it is most clearly not anything of the kind. In your example, that particular director was peddling intelligent design as science, that's an act of incompetance and at the least lying. Intelligent design doesn't make any predictions, it isn't testable and is based on religious faith not evidence. It is not a scientific theory, just arguments [poorly made ones] that to the ignorant support the idea of a GOD. Evolution explains a series of facts and makes testable predictions about the changes in the evolution of species over time. The same exact thing would happen in your example as would a science director that tries to peddle intelligent falling over gravitational theory- tolerance is no defense for ignorance.
the ISS is about 1,000 cubic meters in size, assuming that the air is not replaced after loss, the pressure decrease would be.001 atmospheres [.999 of what it was before] this is so tiny as to be undetectable by humans. to give you an idea of how small this is, the pressure difference between a clear day and stormy weather is on the order of 100x this pressure difference. The difference in air pressure between sea level [0 feet] and 26 feet above sea level.
air has a density of about 1.28 kilograms per cubic meter so 1.3 kilograms of air occupies a space just over 1 cubic meter in size, in this case it is 35.9 cubic feet of air to be exact. The fact it has some easily measurable density allows for helium balloons to remain in the air as well as airplanes to shuffle large amounts of air around to create significant lift. the amount of energy air turbines generate depends on the density of air being as high as it is otherwise the airspeed required to produce any amount of power would be much higher if the density were lower.
While this is yet another technical issue with the ISS, when will this end? I am all for the space program, but there have been some major issues lately."
it's probably a leak about the size of a needle hole hidden somewhere out of reach with a simple leak test. it wouldn't need much, 1.3 kg of air is about 1 cubic meter in size leaking over a day's time. considering there's about 10N/cm^2 force and the force exerted by a moving column of air is mv^2 while the density m is 1.28 kg/m^3 solving for the size of a hole required to vent the gas is about 2mm in diameter if back of the envelope calculations are correct [probably not but you get my point]
that's what should happen, not exactly what could happen here. search companies could just attempt to assume the rights to searches as it was after all done on their servers.
The military was camped out on those islands a lot and one thing they brought was SPAM. SPAM was a common food in the military and the locals had fairly easy access to SPAM and eventually took a liking to it.
ammonia was "effective" for preventing poisoning from previous gas attacks because a lot of these gases were acidic/electrophillic. Phosgene in particular would hydrolyze to CO2 and hydrochloric acid in your lungs thus causing you to drown in your own lung fluids. Ammonia is a base thus neutralizing a lot of the hydrochloric acid produced. Urine contains a number of nitrogeneous compounds one of which is Urea which hydrolyzes into Ammonia and CO2.
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dear UK, Educate your population seriously you rag on Americans being stupid while having an even less educated population yourselves. The only reason the BBC gets away with scaremongering nonsense is because there are many among you that don't know any better. The only way to stop selecting for idiotic deivel is to have a fairly knowledgeable population that understands basic concepts in science like the scientific method for example. That is all
you assume that all anti-spam filters are proprietary, open source filters exist and can be modified to your desire- that in its self should force anti-spam companies to adapt otherwise they got replaced by free as in gnu software. it is in their best interests to at least attempt to beat FLOSS and FLOSS has a lot going for it- if someone finds a better way to code for the project- good for them they just made it better and now anti-spam companies have to step up their efforts to do the same.
how do you propose we remove the economic incentive for spam? ok let's see how this has been attempted or hypothesized in the past: charge a fee per email rather than a blanket fee from the ISP for access. ok but most of the real spam that is being sent is done through compromised PCs so attacking the problem by charging a fee per email is useless because the people in control of this spam-net are not the ones paying for bandwidth/email fees. ok then pass laws against it. that doesn't work either, the remaining spam-nets will still work because it can not be enforced in the host country let alone all those who are not subject to the law. ok then build better spam traps. tried that, it isn't doing so well- spam is still getting through in large numbers. educate people? that will certainly make things better in a lot of ways but there will still be that twat that actually wants to get spam... have ISPs cut off high bandwidth connections from those suspected of spamming? can anyone say privacy nightmare? as much as I hate spam I hate the idea of ISPs snooping through your email no matter what their reasons are. now what?
Cancel or Allow?
you did have a point though, considering that we have FLAC which is free as in libre *and* loss-less why use MP3?
oops? the age groups are not on equal ground. try the same thing with humans and you might just see the same thing occur. it would be amazing if the chimps' ages were more representative of those they were competing against eg. older chimps vs. corespondingly older humans, young chimps vs. young huamns
I think you mean
As long as Starcraft 2 is still going to be released finished, this is fine with me. Let us hope that they don't rush SC2 out the door half-done and utter garbage shall we?
I hope they realize that restricting search engine crawlers with robots.txt this way really doesn't do much other than decrease the number of people who visit their dite in the first place. I wonder how that will alter their revenue streams. Let them go ahead with it and the whole thing will be self correcting.
it isn't the noobs that worry me, it's when people like you think that malware only affects the noobs and not the servers they will later attack. storm botnet ring a bell? preventing the noobs from inadvertantly joining spam botnets is in our best interests.
you are correct, the gist of the research goes like this:
1) some genes can be switched on or off by environmental factors [chemicals, other genes etc.]
2)if one of these cells that has a switched on/off gene just happens to be a sperm cell or an egg, it can carry that epigenetics to the next generation.
3) some genes can only be inherited functional from one parent
4) if that parent happens to be the one that has the inactivated [switched off] gene then that gene is entirely non-functional in the offspring because there is no functional back up gene from the other parent.
this leads to the conclusion that environmental factors can alter gene expression which can be inherited to offspring which under some conditions and genes no longer have a functional gene that may or may not prevent disease, that is to say if the gene is inactivated you're likely to get the associated disease. In many cases, these genes are thought to be involved in obesity, heart disease, cancer etc. which means that environmental factors in your parent's lives or even your grandparent's may contribute to you being more likely to get a certain disease associated with a non-functional gene.
you're missing the point entirely. This isn't just a few cells that are affected, this is your entire population of cells. if you inherit a gene from your father that is "switched off" and that gene is the only one that can be inherited [only from Y chromosome for example] then you're kind of screwed. There isn't a second copy that is switched on and functional to prevent the associated disease caused by the first gene being switched off. There are a lot of these kind of genes that are regulated in the levels of expression and on/off states of the gene. Hardly mundane.
That's the thing though, the firehose isn't doing its job, part of the problem is that someone needs to be voting up this dreck in the first place. The other is that the editors are not "editing" anything, dupes, inaccuracies, basic failure to use spell-check, you know things like that. There isn't really a way at the moment to label pointless stories, dupes, innacurate articles/summeries that have been shown to work yet. what we need is for editors *and* slashdotters to pay attention to what is being submitted and maybe google some old stories to prevent dupes, check the links before it's on the front page and alert the editors to obvious problems with stories. Just like FLOSS there should be a way for everyone to review what is being produced and find the "bugs" [dupes, pointless stories erc.] perhaps fix a few here and there
one is religion, one is based on th scientific method. I fail to see why you believe religion should be taught as science when it is most clearly not anything of the kind. In your example, that particular director was peddling intelligent design as science, that's an act of incompetance and at the least lying. Intelligent design doesn't make any predictions, it isn't testable and is based on religious faith not evidence. It is not a scientific theory, just arguments [poorly made ones] that to the ignorant support the idea of a GOD. Evolution explains a series of facts and makes testable predictions about the changes in the evolution of species over time. The same exact thing would happen in your example as would a science director that tries to peddle intelligent falling over gravitational theory- tolerance is no defense for ignorance.
the ISS is about 1,000 cubic meters in size, assuming that the air is not replaced after loss, the pressure decrease would be .001 atmospheres [.999 of what it was before] this is so tiny as to be undetectable by humans. to give you an idea of how small this is, the pressure difference between a clear day and stormy weather is on the order of 100x this pressure difference. The difference in air pressure between sea level [0 feet] and 26 feet above sea level.
air has a density of about 1.28 kilograms per cubic meter so 1.3 kilograms of air occupies a space just over 1 cubic meter in size, in this case it is 35.9 cubic feet of air to be exact. The fact it has some easily measurable density allows for helium balloons to remain in the air as well as airplanes to shuffle large amounts of air around to create significant lift. the amount of energy air turbines generate depends on the density of air being as high as it is otherwise the airspeed required to produce any amount of power would be much higher if the density were lower.
that's what should happen, not exactly what could happen here. search companies could just attempt to assume the rights to searches as it was after all done on their servers.
The military was camped out on those islands a lot and one thing they brought was SPAM. SPAM was a common food in the military and the locals had fairly easy access to SPAM and eventually took a liking to it.
ammonia was "effective" for preventing poisoning from previous gas attacks because a lot of these gases were acidic/electrophillic. Phosgene in particular would hydrolyze to CO2 and hydrochloric acid in your lungs thus causing you to drown in your own lung fluids. Ammonia is a base thus neutralizing a lot of the hydrochloric acid produced. Urine contains a number of nitrogeneous compounds one of which is Urea which hydrolyzes into Ammonia and CO2.