Cedars-Sinai is pretty involved in stem cell research on a variety of levels. Do a search for stem cells on their site and you'll come up with tons of stuff.
There's a big difference between public television and public access television.
Public television gives us things like Sesame Street. Public access television gives us shows that some kid created with his two friends and a sock puppet.
It is true that public access stations will usually let you use their studio and equipment for free or little charge. I doubt the same can be said for public television stations.
There wasn't then, but there is now. I submitted the story several days ago.
It says: Some members have reported attempts to gain access to their personal information through email solicitations that are falsely made to appear as having come from eBay. These solicitations will often contain links to Web pages that will request that you sign in and submit information. At eBay, we identify these as 'spoofed' emails or Web sites.
We encourage you to be very cautious of emails that ask you to submit personal information such as your credit card number or your eBay password.
To be sure that you are signing into a genuine eBay Web site, look at the Address/Location area of your browser. At an eBay.com sign-in or log-in page, the URL (link) that appears in the Address/Location area of your browser will begin with "http://cgi.ebay.com/" or "http://scgi.ebay.com". Please pay close attention to all characters in the address, including the forward slash (/) that follows "ebay.com". Even if the Address/Location includes the word "ebay", it may not be a genuine eBay Web site. If you receive or suspect you have received such an email, do not respond to it or click the links. Immediately send a copy of it to spam@ebay.com.
If you have any doubt as to whether or not the website you are on is an official eBay web page, please visit our Account Security page for more complete information on the URLs used on eBay web pages.
For more information on how to protect your eBay password and your account, click here [ebay.com].
Since I submitted the story on 12/11, they might not have had it on there yet then. But even if they did, I would think it should have been front page news, or at least somewhere findable.
I don't know anything about Dreamcasts. I'm curious to know, how do you get email on a Dreamcast???? Do you have to install an OS on it first? I mean, its a gaming system. Did it come with those capabilities?
We got a Phillips WebTV unit for my husband's parents about 3+ years ago. (If my understanding is correct the new MSN ones are just the latest incarnation of the same machine). It works great for email and simple web surfing, which is about all they need it for. I don't like using it because its frustrating as hell not to have control of what's going on and to be able to multi-task, but for people who've never used computers and have no desire to, it's great.
The thing they most like about it, is that it appears on the TV. Since they have a very large TV, its very easy to read. Also, they said if they had a computer they'd have to go off into another room or office to use it, rather than doing it from the comfy chairs in the living room.:-) I guess they think going off to use the computer by yourself in some small room isn't as desirable as doing it socially and both getting to read the messages together. (That social aspect, and everyone seeing what you're looking at, could be very undesirable for some people).
As another person has said, definitely get the keyboard. Using the remote is a pain. The only major thing we've had a problem with is that the keywords seem to be somewhat fragile or break easily. We've already had to order them a replacment once, and it looks like we might have to again.
My biggest frustration is the page size limit. When visiting a page such as E-Bay that has dozens of listings, the page cuts off and displays a warning about the page being too large. You can't get to the end of it then! I don't know if this problem is caused by the physical viewing size of the page (since webtv resizes things and makes pages much longer), or the time it takes to download. Same problem with Hotmail, but there at least I could limit the messages per page for them so they could see them all.
All in all IMO the device has its uses, but isn't for everyone.
"Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers."
How does he plan to identify who to sue? And is he really going to pay to have his lawyer track down the 300+ slashdot users who posted "anti-Ralsky posts"? This just seems silly.
This may seem like a silly question, but what good does this do people who buy the computer, but won't have an internet connection? For instance, a person who buys one for their kids to use for schoolwork or a person using it just to store recipes, use Quicken, etc? They won't even be able to access Press Play's online presence. So is the encryption done locally via something like a registration key, or does it require a connection? Just wondering.
To counter the other nasty reply - Congratulations. It (you didn't say if it was a boy or girl) will be expensive, but will provide you with more happiness in the long run than anything she could have purchased for you.
Wish I could offer something more constructive, but I only had time to skim. You were very inclusive, covering all the major points I had thought of plus some. The glossary is a nice addition to the piece. Good work!
This article isn't the pinnacle of journalism excellence, but it does bring up a good point. People trust the government with their information but not the private sector. In general people think the government has their interests at heart. Why?
I've never understood why people are so naive in thinking that the government's not going to use the the laws against them or that one day these broad sweeping bills aren't going to affect their lives. It's just a matter of time. Sure they're going to protect us, but only after their own agendas have been pushed through.
But what can we expect? There are so many contridictions in public opinion that its not even funny. For instance, in the most recent election people say they are satisfied with the Republicans and the way the election turned out, but don't like the Republican policies or stances on many issues. They want spam to be curtailed, but don't want any infringement on their rights to free speech. And the list goes on...
From my company what I'd enjoy the best is a paid day, or half day off - without any major strings attached.
Other than that, I'd recommend gift certificates. I realize that isn't a cool techy thing to give, but at least then everyone gets what they want - not what you guessed they'd want.
I went back to read this and now the article links to a story about the son of a drug boss being arrested. Not near as interesting as huge spider webs.:(
Thanks for the links. You've really made it easy! Here's what I said. Perhaps not the best, but dashed off pretty quickly on my way out the door:
I am unhappy with your corporation's misuse of an exhisting law - namely the DMCA. By using the DMCA to block the publication of your Black Friday prices from certain web sites you are acting as a bully - throwing your weight and money around. Sale prices are facts, not copyrighted material. Courts have already ruled that facts devoid of any creativity (such as telephone books) can be copied. Call it insider trading if you like, or corporate espionage, but this is not a DMCA violation. Due to your actions, I will not be shopping at your store, or others who've supported this effort, during Black Friday and will avoid future visits as well.
I agree that what they did is not ethical. The question is though, while this may be insider trading, is that covered by the DMCA? Why is this considered a copyright violation rather than something like insider trading or even corporate espionage? I don't see how the DMCA should have been the policy that was enforced here and I don't understand how prices are copyrightable.
For some reason it didn't appear on the front page, hardly anybody saw it and it got relatively no comments.:-) At last check it was only 25 or so. Luckily this story and others about the DMCA it will get some attention.
Everyone thinks their problem of choice can be fixed if we just had another law. Instead of promoting more and more laws, we need to alter or remove current ones that are obviously ineffective.
Libertarians In A Nutshell - As a party, Libertarians support the political philosophy of "libertarianism." This philosophy states that you, as an individual, know best how to live your own life. Not the government.
Obviously, you don't know a whole hell of a lot about Libertarianism or you wouldn't make such sweeping generalizations about us (yes, I am one) and our ideas. Not all Libertarians believe that we can one day just scrap police and fire protection, get rid of the entire governmental structure and leave people to fend for themselves. We don't want to destroy the world as we know it and replace with entirely privatized options. It's this kind of FUD that keeps the party down.
The LP wants to: # Substantially reduce the size and intrusiveness of government and cut all taxes.
# Let peaceful, honest people offer their goods and services to willing consumers without a hassle from government.
# Let peaceful, honest people decide for themselves what to eat, drink, read, or smoke and how to dress, medicate themselves, or make love, without fear of criminal penalties.
# The U.S. government should defend Americans and their property in America and let the U.S. taxpayer off the hook for the defense bill of wealthy countries like Germany and Japan.
Stick to posting about topics you know. www.lp.org would be a good start to your reading.
Slashdot Mirror
Cedars-Sinai is pretty involved in stem cell research on a variety of levels. Do a search for stem cells on their site and you'll come up with tons of stuff.
They offer Stem Cell/Bone Marrow Transplantation as a part of their other transplantation services. Here is their FAQ about the process. http://www.csmc.edu/bloodmarrow/859.asp
Not exactly what the article is talking about though.
No, I just wasn't paying attention to post dates.
There's a big difference between public television and public access television.
Public television gives us things like Sesame Street. Public access television gives us shows that some kid created with his two friends and a sock puppet.
It is true that public access stations will usually let you use their studio and equipment for free or little charge. I doubt the same can be said for public television stations.
There was a story on this on slashdot last week:1 9&mode=thread&tid=98
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/13/03382
and the story actually broke about Dec. 6.
The web bites back
From the story: His complaint caused glee on the Slashdot website which hatched the junk mail plan.
There wasn't then, but there is now. I submitted the story several days ago.
It says:
Some members have reported attempts to gain access to their personal information through email solicitations that are falsely made to appear as having come from eBay. These solicitations will often contain links to Web pages that will request that you sign in and submit information. At eBay, we identify these as 'spoofed' emails or Web sites.
We encourage you to be very cautious of emails that ask you to submit personal information such as your credit card number or your eBay password.
To be sure that you are signing into a genuine eBay Web site, look at the Address/Location area of your browser. At an eBay.com sign-in or log-in page, the URL (link) that appears in the Address/Location area of your browser will begin with "http://cgi.ebay.com/" or "http://scgi.ebay.com". Please pay close attention to all characters in the address, including the forward slash (/) that follows "ebay.com". Even if the Address/Location includes the word "ebay", it may not be a genuine eBay Web site. If you receive or suspect you have received such an email, do not respond to it or click the links. Immediately send a copy of it to spam@ebay.com.
If you have any doubt as to whether or not the website you are on is an official eBay web page, please visit our Account Security page for more complete information on the URLs used on eBay web pages.
For more information on how to protect your eBay password and your account, click here [ebay.com].
Regards,
eBay
Since I submitted the story on 12/11, they might not have had it on there yet then. But even if they did, I would think it should have been front page news, or at least somewhere findable.
I don't know anything about Dreamcasts. I'm curious to know, how do you get email on a Dreamcast???? Do you have to install an OS on it first? I mean, its a gaming system. Did it come with those capabilities?
We got a Phillips WebTV unit for my husband's parents about 3+ years ago. (If my understanding is correct the new MSN ones are just the latest incarnation of the same machine). It works great for email and simple web surfing, which is about all they need it for. I don't like using it because its frustrating as hell not to have control of what's going on and to be able to multi-task, but for people who've never used computers and have no desire to, it's great.
:-) I guess they think going off to use the computer by yourself in some small room isn't as desirable as doing it socially and both getting to read the messages together. (That social aspect, and everyone seeing what you're looking at, could be very undesirable for some people).
The thing they most like about it, is that it appears on the TV. Since they have a very large TV, its very easy to read. Also, they said if they had a computer they'd have to go off into another room or office to use it, rather than doing it from the comfy chairs in the living room.
As another person has said, definitely get the keyboard. Using the remote is a pain. The only major thing we've had a problem with is that the keywords seem to be somewhat fragile or break easily. We've already had to order them a replacment once, and it looks like we might have to again.
My biggest frustration is the page size limit. When visiting a page such as E-Bay that has dozens of listings, the page cuts off and displays a warning about the page being too large. You can't get to the end of it then! I don't know if this problem is caused by the physical viewing size of the page (since webtv resizes things and makes pages much longer), or the time it takes to download. Same problem with Hotmail, but there at least I could limit the messages per page for them so they could see them all.
All in all IMO the device has its uses, but isn't for everyone.
"Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers."
How does he plan to identify who to sue? And is he really going to pay to have his lawyer track down the 300+ slashdot users who posted "anti-Ralsky posts"? This just seems silly.
This may seem like a silly question, but what good does this do people who buy the computer, but won't have an internet connection? For instance, a person who buys one for their kids to use for schoolwork or a person using it just to store recipes, use Quicken, etc? They won't even be able to access Press Play's online presence. So is the encryption done locally via something like a registration key, or does it require a connection? Just wondering.
To counter the other nasty reply - Congratulations. It (you didn't say if it was a boy or girl) will be expensive, but will provide you with more happiness in the long run than anything she could have purchased for you.
That should have been, I read it as
Did Life Originate Underwear
Life Originated Underwear
As you can imagine I was pretty confused for a second....
Wish I could offer something more constructive, but I only had time to skim. You were very inclusive, covering all the major points I had thought of plus some. The glossary is a nice addition to the piece. Good work!
This article isn't the pinnacle of journalism excellence, but it does bring up a good point. People trust the government with their information but not the private sector. In general people think the government has their interests at heart. Why?
I've never understood why people are so naive in thinking that the government's not going to use the the laws against them or that one day these broad sweeping bills aren't going to affect their lives. It's just a matter of time. Sure they're going to protect us, but only after their own agendas have been pushed through.
But what can we expect? There are so many contridictions in public opinion that its not even funny. For instance, in the most recent election people say they are satisfied with the Republicans and the way the election turned out, but don't like the Republican policies or stances on many issues. They want spam to be curtailed, but don't want any infringement on their rights to free speech. And the list goes on...
Sorry to rant and get off topic.
From my company what I'd enjoy the best is a paid day, or half day off - without any major strings attached.
Other than that, I'd recommend gift certificates. I realize that isn't a cool techy thing to give, but at least then everyone gets what they want - not what you guessed they'd want.
I went back to read this and now the article links to a story about the son of a drug boss being arrested. Not near as interesting as huge spider webs. :(
Thanks for the links. You've really made it easy! Here's what I said. Perhaps not the best, but dashed off pretty quickly on my way out the door:
I am unhappy with your corporation's misuse of an exhisting law - namely the DMCA. By using the DMCA to block the publication of your Black Friday prices from certain web sites you are acting as a bully - throwing your weight and money around. Sale prices are facts, not copyrighted material. Courts have already ruled that facts devoid of any creativity (such as telephone books) can be copied. Call it insider trading if you like, or corporate espionage, but this is not a DMCA violation. Due to your actions, I will not be shopping at your store, or others who've supported this effort, during Black Friday and will avoid future visits as well.
I agree that what they did is not ethical. The question is though, while this may be insider trading, is that covered by the DMCA? Why is this considered a copyright violation rather than something like insider trading or even corporate espionage? I don't see how the DMCA should have been the policy that was enforced here and I don't understand how prices are copyrightable.
For some reason it didn't appear on the front page, hardly anybody saw it and it got relatively no comments. :-) At last check it was only 25 or so. Luckily this story and others about the DMCA it will get some attention.
And cars don't fly either. So what??? It's a children's story (primarily) and meant to be entertaining. No need to nitpick.
He reminds me more and more of one of the apes in the newest Planet of the Apes movie...
Everyone thinks their problem of choice can be fixed if we just had another law. Instead of promoting more and more laws, we need to alter or remove current ones that are obviously ineffective.
Libertarians In A Nutshell - As a party, Libertarians support the political philosophy of "libertarianism." This philosophy states that you, as an individual, know best how to live your own life. Not the government.
Obviously, you don't know a whole hell of a lot about Libertarianism or you wouldn't make such sweeping generalizations about us (yes, I am one) and our ideas. Not all Libertarians believe that we can one day just scrap police and fire protection, get rid of the entire governmental structure and leave people to fend for themselves. We don't want to destroy the world as we know it and replace with entirely privatized options. It's this kind of FUD that keeps the party down.
The LP wants to:
# Substantially reduce the size and intrusiveness of government and cut all taxes.
# Let peaceful, honest people offer their goods and services to willing consumers without a hassle from government.
# Let peaceful, honest people decide for themselves what to eat, drink, read, or smoke and how to dress, medicate themselves, or make love, without fear of criminal penalties.
# The U.S. government should defend Americans and their property in America and let the U.S. taxpayer off the hook for the defense bill of wealthy countries like Germany and Japan.
Stick to posting about topics you know. www.lp.org would be a good start to your reading.