these bacteriophages they talk about don't indiscriminately attack bacteria, they are quite specific. since the russians have been using a similar treatment for skin/shallow wound infections for years and even better, the viruses evolve against the bacteria, no problem of resistance cropping up because the virus is evolving as well.
t'll like one of those, howtcha call it... Oh: "solutions in search of a problem".
how do you figure that? if a bacteria species is making a biofilm which if left untreated will kill the patient, how exactly is this a solution without a problem? how many people would die if we didn't try to find a solution?
Where do the deadliest viruses appear? Hospitals. Why? Because hospitals keep killing them and they mutate to survive (rather, weirder mutations manage to survive, and deadlier).
first, most of the antibiotic resistance you are talking about is due to idiot people taking antibiotics when they shouldn't, not finishing their dose when they should, and the fact that over time bacteria will evolve a defense against an antibiotic eventually if given enough time. secondly, viruses dont get killed by antibiotics nor are they really technically alive to begin with [call it un-dead] they have a tendency to start in China due to the fact people are exposed to animal viruses on a daily basis, specifically birds and pigs which because pigs have receptors common to both humans and birds in the case of flu, they serve to evolve viruses found in birds to be mre able to infect humans.
I've not noticed the majority of the population having a big problem with the bacteria and viruses on their skin, mouse, keyboard, banknotes, whatever. So why work so hard on selling us snake-oil for it?
why do you think this is "snake oil" if it is the only treatment where the cure actually evolves to fight the bacteria you want SPECIFICALLY and not only doesn't poison/attack you, but it won't attack bacteria that we don't want them to, [broadspectrum antibiotics de-populate good bacteria too]
We can only hope, then when MediaDefender gets slaughtered [or ties up the MPAA], other companies will think twice about helping the MAFIAA to break the law.
The Greeks used these rope powered machines to function in their plays. they would set up what amounts to be an automatic play, it would be set up beforehand, they would program it and let it run through and the audience was thus amazed. The Greeks were also the first to create a primitive steam engines, it consited of to curved spouts attached to a wheel of some sort which would spin. they used it primarily as entertainment for the emperor and such. if only they had thought about using that power like we learned how to over 1500 years later, imagine what the world would be like.
this seems to be a fairly localized decision mainly in germany but possibly Switzerland and Spain in the future, so what is going to become of google's email system in these areas? do they look at the IP address to determine where you reside and modify accordingly? what does Google intend to call Gmail in the relevant areas now?
Google has filed lawsuits against Giersch in Spain, Portugal and Switzerland.
"Google has announced, at least in writing, to 'fight' my client abroad for as long as it takes before he drops the legal claims lodged in Germany," Eble confirmed.
But a court in Switzerland threw out Google's case and now Giersch will file a suit to prohibit Google from using the name in that country.
MS benefits a lot from upgrades, that way you end up "needing" to pay for an upgrade down the road regardless of whether you bought a new computer or not. they stand to lose everything if open source is seen to be nearly or just as good by people at large/the government so they do just what they are required but not enough to weaken future cash streams from upgrades in the future.
The sims series wins hands down as a series if you look at how many people play it.
starcraft wins because you cant beat the sound of zerg being slaughtered in a poorly planned attack
mario bros because of the fact that people still play it
halo because of the fan following
warcraft doesn't need an explanation
spore is going to win if what they say about it is true
what ges me is that very few security researchers ever get the chance to examine MS code like Linux allows, who knows how much code is a security risk, millions of lines of code that only its creators can really examine. there also exists the problem that in addition to security flaws in the code its self, there is the fact that most of MS users dont really take care of their OS like they should. very few people avoid IE, update their software, have a firewall or any security smarts [ie cant resist the free wallpapers/ringtones/random spyware infestations] It is better to have a good user on a flawed system than PEBKAC on a good system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_crater
if there is water ice underneath MArs' surface or even temporarily exposed ice, this is the spot. what ever created the crater whether a deorbited moon, asteroid or comet likely left water behind after the impact. so even if the rover doesnt come out again it will be well wortth the sacrifice.
The process they are talking about sounds a lot like petroleum cracking, both use catalysts to break larger hydrocarbons/polymers into smaller pieces but the petroleum cracking takes place upwards of 1000 degrees so if it is already being used, why not this too? Currently to produces plastics we use crack petroleum into ethylene, propylene etc. and to produces certain precursors we use superacids, zeolites and super lewis acids which are really not very environmentally friendly. whatever use they can get out of the process without needing to crack more petrol is a good thing at least on paper.
but could they send up a satellite to look for some debris and zap it with a laser to vaporize it?
nice idea but think about how precise you would need to be to take out chunks the size of a pebble spaced out [they are not clumps anymore they drift] from anywhere with any efficiency without blinding higher satellites.
What happens if we set of a nuke in the upper atmosphere?
Judging by how humanity acts on Earth it was a logical step to bring war to space as sad as that is. what happened was China took out one of their clunky near-dead weather satellite with a missile [kinetic warhead I believe] which basically tore the hell out of it with sheer speed and mass. They failed a few times before but by the rate their military spending is going it wont be long before they actually out pace us [if not already] this combined with their long standing rivalry with us on economic, political and cyberspace issues we very much need to watch this a lot closer than Iraq/war on terror because of the real implications of possible future conflict.
most meteors that hit the ground are indeed composed of refractory materials but very large objects made primarily of ices eg. volatiles can indeed enter the atmosphere and survive quite a trip. what was thought about tunguska was that it was a chunk of a comet or something that was mainly ices and shattered due to atmospheric stresses, and yes this object is thought to be quite large, nearly 100 feet or so.
Now what would we find at this site if it were the tunguska impact crater? since it was likely mostly ice/volatiles mixed with some rocky material would it be fair to say that we wouldnt be finding evidence of shok metamorphosis when the volatiles likely carried off most of the heat? for that matter, would there even be a single crater when the original object shattered as it did? wouldnt it be likely that several small impacts form and over the years erode?
Thats a neat trick
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by patio11 (857072) Alter Relationship on Monday June 25, @10:50PM (#19645671)
You managed to say "Its the piracy, stupid" without getting modded down. That takes some serious skill on Slashdot. And yes, "Its the piracy, stupid"
[well that's ironic] You are right, most people couldn't care less about DRM, like a lot of other things that should have their attention. But really, piracy isn't the sole reason cd sales are decreasing, that's a poor excuse. It just does not make any sense to pay 20$ for a CD that has a set in stone collection of songs when Itunes is arguably just as good for most people and costs about 1$ a track. Even with DRM stripped off at 1.30$ a pop, it is still a hell of a lot better deal to buy only what you want online than to go get a CD with 2/3 of the songs that you didn't want just to have the songs that you did.
Cds did a lot better when people didnt have as much access to online sources of music and when 56k was the rule not the exception. Now that any library, office and a large number of homes have high speed of some sort and more tech savvy people than ever it is no surprise that people are less willing to shell out 15 to 20 dollars on a cd that has a lot of music they didnt personally choose to have. People can go online, download the songs they want and do whatever they want [especially on p22p where DRM just doesnt have a foothold] with their music.
Many of the advancements to science can be considered outside of what is considered "science" at the time. An attempt to limit scholarly inquiry by excluding it from scientific discussion will only discourage diversity in the scientific community.
that is dead wrong, the great leaps forward were strictly through the scientific method which is about as far away from being outside science as you can get. Intelligent design is as you say "excluded" because it explains nothing, predicts nothing and does not adhere to any logical methodology. If ID wants to be scientific they need to provide real evidence, not just what the Bible says. We want concrete testible predictions and an actual theory that extends what is known not just a God of the gaps ideology.
ID is unique (I'm not talking about young earth crap) because it really is not straight philosophy as it has too many ties to empirical data, it shouldn't be religion because (at least the reasonable arguments) don't actually argue for a "God,"
Intelligent design is nothing more than a philosophy, it makes no predictions and explains nothing outside of a purposefully un-named designer [after Dover it was well understood that God was the implied designer] It isn't based on solid empirical evidence but mere misunderstandings and ideology.
I don't think it is fair to any argument to preclude it being reasonable based on the fact that it doesn't really fit into current frameworks that have been set up.
if you are referring to fairness in the context of giving equal time to each side it is entirely irrelevant. The side that has the most well estabolished evidence and predictive power wins. The scientific community is not interested in being dragged into an ancient ideological pissing contest.
I don't mean to start a flame or anything here, I am just sick of religion pretending to be science when it is nothing of the sort.
New equipment for data processing, as well as some purchased for one of the agency's signature initiatives, the mammoth modernization effort dubbed Turbulence , are among those that have been held up, the senior official said. The lengths of the delays are classified.
They may have a lot of power problems but at least they have good sense naming their projects.
web 2.0 and Myspace would get my votes except for the fact myspace had something like a hundred million accounts going so the mainstream likes it but I am sure a lot don't.
The new aircraft would offer a combination of speed, altitude and stealth that could make it virtually impervious to ground-based missiles, sources said. Even the SR-71 is said to have evaded hundreds of missiles fired at it during its long career, although some aircraft sustained minor damage.
kind of like how they thought the U-2 was beyond missiles isn't it? The shear amount of heat coming off the plane should be easily noticeable to any system capable of detecting infared. That combined with potential laser defenses [at least in current development] there is no such thing as "out-running" a laser system.
Of course that's true, but is it also the case that a black hole can hold a stargate open, slowly sucking all of the surrounding area around the other gate into its time dilation bubble? Really, as a taxpayer funding this research, I want answers.
Well as you know after O'neille and Sam got trapped on that ice planet they figured out eventually that the weapons fire behind them had caused the wormhole to switch gates [from SGC to antarctica] using that knowledge they then dealt with the later blackhole problem by detonating a high explosive device to cause the wormhole to switch gates thus taking the problematic gravity from the blackhole with it. thus we having learned from their mistakes intend to have a stock of 2 or 3 of these high explosive device just for such an occasion.
what hybrid car exactly have you been driving? at the very least they are more efficient than most of the cars on the road and certainly any SUV that people drive.
Manufacturing the batteries and disposing of them when they wear out after five years or so is an ecological nightmare.
that is what recycling is for.
They're costly and complex to build and repair.
so is everything that is relatively new technology. especially when it hasn't yet been put into production at the scale that normal cars have.
Why are people so hung up on hybrids?
because cars are a necessary evil and yet there are some of us who would like to lessen the impact of the cars we need to use. The battle for more efficient cars has been fought already, and diesels won. Forget hybrids, they're an evolutionary dead end. no, fuel cells won the battle of efficiency but lost in power [at the moment at least] but then again all chemical fuel sources are an evolutionary dead end, there are better things on the horizon, they just require a lot of work to start rolling.
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these bacteriophages they talk about don't indiscriminately attack bacteria, they are quite specific. since the russians have been using a similar treatment for skin/shallow wound infections for years and even better, the viruses evolve against the bacteria, no problem of resistance cropping up because the virus is evolving as well.
We can only hope, then when MediaDefender gets slaughtered [or ties up the MPAA], other companies will think twice about helping the MAFIAA to break the law.
[clinton]I'm only going to say this once, I did not have relations with that company, MediaDefender. {/Clinton]
The Greeks used these rope powered machines to function in their plays. they would set up what amounts to be an automatic play, it would be set up beforehand, they would program it and let it run through and the audience was thus amazed. The Greeks were also the first to create a primitive steam engines, it consited of to curved spouts attached to a wheel of some sort which would spin. they used it primarily as entertainment for the emperor and such. if only they had thought about using that power like we learned how to over 1500 years later, imagine what the world would be like.
kind of like IE?
MS benefits a lot from upgrades, that way you end up "needing" to pay for an upgrade down the road regardless of whether you bought a new computer or not. they stand to lose everything if open source is seen to be nearly or just as good by people at large/the government so they do just what they are required but not enough to weaken future cash streams from upgrades in the future.
The sims series wins hands down as a series if you look at how many people play it. starcraft wins because you cant beat the sound of zerg being slaughtered in a poorly planned attack mario bros because of the fact that people still play it halo because of the fan following warcraft doesn't need an explanation spore is going to win if what they say about it is true
CTFE Chlorotrifluoroethylene PVDF Polyvinylidene fluoride http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinylidene_fluori de
what ges me is that very few security researchers ever get the chance to examine MS code like Linux allows, who knows how much code is a security risk, millions of lines of code that only its creators can really examine. there also exists the problem that in addition to security flaws in the code its self, there is the fact that most of MS users dont really take care of their OS like they should. very few people avoid IE, update their software, have a firewall or any security smarts [ie cant resist the free wallpapers/ringtones/random spyware infestations] It is better to have a good user on a flawed system than PEBKAC on a good system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_crater if there is water ice underneath MArs' surface or even temporarily exposed ice, this is the spot. what ever created the crater whether a deorbited moon, asteroid or comet likely left water behind after the impact. so even if the rover doesnt come out again it will be well wortth the sacrifice.
The process they are talking about sounds a lot like petroleum cracking, both use catalysts to break larger hydrocarbons/polymers into smaller pieces but the petroleum cracking takes place upwards of 1000 degrees so if it is already being used, why not this too? Currently to produces plastics we use crack petroleum into ethylene, propylene etc. and to produces certain precursors we use superacids, zeolites and super lewis acids which are really not very environmentally friendly. whatever use they can get out of the process without needing to crack more petrol is a good thing at least on paper.
Judging by how humanity acts on Earth it was a logical step to bring war to space as sad as that is. what happened was China took out one of their clunky near-dead weather satellite with a missile [kinetic warhead I believe] which basically tore the hell out of it with sheer speed and mass. They failed a few times before but by the rate their military spending is going it wont be long before they actually out pace us [if not already] this combined with their long standing rivalry with us on economic, political and cyberspace issues we very much need to watch this a lot closer than Iraq/war on terror because of the real implications of possible future conflict.
most meteors that hit the ground are indeed composed of refractory materials but very large objects made primarily of ices eg. volatiles can indeed enter the atmosphere and survive quite a trip. what was thought about tunguska was that it was a chunk of a comet or something that was mainly ices and shattered due to atmospheric stresses, and yes this object is thought to be quite large, nearly 100 feet or so.
Now what would we find at this site if it were the tunguska impact crater? since it was likely mostly ice/volatiles mixed with some rocky material would it be fair to say that we wouldnt be finding evidence of shok metamorphosis when the volatiles likely carried off most of the heat? for that matter, would there even be a single crater when the original object shattered as it did? wouldnt it be likely that several small impacts form and over the years erode?
Cds did a lot better when people didnt have as much access to online sources of music and when 56k was the rule not the exception. Now that any library, office and a large number of homes have high speed of some sort and more tech savvy people than ever it is no surprise that people are less willing to shell out 15 to 20 dollars on a cd that has a lot of music they didnt personally choose to have. People can go online, download the songs they want and do whatever they want [especially on p22p where DRM just doesnt have a foothold] with their music.
New equipment for data processing, as well as some purchased for one of the agency's signature initiatives, the mammoth modernization effort dubbed Turbulence , are among those that have been held up, the senior official said. The lengths of the delays are classified.
They may have a lot of power problems but at least they have good sense naming their projects.
web 2.0 and Myspace would get my votes except for the fact myspace had something like a hundred million accounts going so the mainstream likes it but I am sure a lot don't.