Those are some reasonable points, especially with rendering medical treatment.
So what exactly is so holy about our DNA that it shouldn't be on file? Unitl I am actually deprived of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness, how are my rights being violated exactly?
Say that you are accused of a crime. Thanks to the (un)Patriot Act, the police didn't need a court order to obtain a warrant and thus seize and search your property. Your ass is hauled downtown, and you are fingerprinted, swabbed, and held for a day or two without being given a reason. But you probably do get your one phone call.
To address a different point, this DNA data is obviously going to be held online in a database. What assurance would we really have that someone wouldn't steal, break into, or otherwise abuse the information? The Law's effectiveness for punishing people is not as absolute as you portray.
But the technology does have some trade offs in performance. "Intel's ultra-low power process is a significant part of Intel's strategy to reduce platform power," he said in an interview. "But the transistor performance is lower by a factor of two" compared to the company's high-performance 65-nm process.
If Yahoo Mail were to offer anything like Labels, I'd switch back.
SBC Yahoo! has 8 color labels. (I assume it's the same as the Yahoo! Mail that you would pay for.) I have the color labels associated with my disposable email addresses.
At my home, the rate of telemarketing calls has dropped from several a day to zero, starting as soon as the registry law went into effect.
About the same here (exception: see my sig, at that was 7:00 pm local time).
But since the DNC list went into effect, I get pre-recorded messages most of the time. My answering machine emotionlessly cuts them off, as well as on the off chance it's a human drone calling.
And thanks. It's news to me that businesses could opt for DNC, as I thought it was residential numbers only. I'll look into it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
...a situation in which two alternative points of view are held to be the only options, when in reality there exist one or more alternate options which have not been considered.
The majority of voting voters in the US have swallowed this. Please, UK, don't let it happen again.
At the time I really liked the early and middle seasons of Buffy, but now I would probably have a hard time going back, particularly having to witness the love/angst. (BTW, props to Ms. Gellar as an outstanding actress across her career.) Angel was overall a solid series. I think both series have had their time.
I've managed to see Firefly series after it aired the first time, and to me it's definitely a new kind of sci-fi. Since it's not forced, it plays well to patient viewers. We need more Firefly. I'll be in line for the movie.
J Clin Invest. 2005 Aug 18; [Epub ahead of print] Related Articles, Links
Noninvasive imaging of pancreatic inflammation and its reversal in type 1 diabetes. Turvey SE, Swart E, Denis MC, Mahmood U, Benoist C, Weissleder R, Mathis D.
Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A major stumbling block for research on and treatment of type 1 diabetes is the inability to directly, but noninvasively, visualize the lymphocytic/inflammatory lesions in the pancreatic islets. One potential approach to surmounting this impediment is to exploit MRI of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) to visualize changes in the microvasculature that invariably accompany inflammation. MNP-MRI did indeed detect vascular leakage in association with insulitis in murine models of type 1 diabetes, permitting noninvasive visualization of the inflammatory lesions in vivo in real time. We demonstrate, in proof-of-principle experiments, that this strategy allows one to predict, within 3 days of completing treatment with an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, which NOD mice with recent-onset diabetes are responding to therapy and may eventually be cured. Importantly, an essentially identical MNP-MRI strategy has previously been used with great success to image lymph node metastases in prostate cancer patients. This success strongly argues for rapid translation of these preclinical observations to prediction and/or stratification of type 1 diabetes and treatment of individuals with the disease; this would provide a crucially needed early predictor of response to therapy.
You could use this to prove someone took your image and reposted it, possibly claiming it as his own. Personal and professional photographers and media outlets could really use this.
Now, if they could just offer real time radar feeds, I'd be happy.
Well, depending on where you look for the radar images, getting FREE updates every 5 minutes is pretty damn good. It works well for this armchair weather enthusiast. One alternative might be to pay $7/month for "real time" radar imagery with various enhancements.
I suppose the updates are only at every five minutes because in times of heavy weather, the forecasters need different types of data. The radar sweeps are done using 2 to 4 angles of elevation depending if they want to measure precipitation or storm relative velocities, for example.
Not only is that article highly POV, but I question this person's encyclopedic importance.
I think I understand your point, but Wikipedia has been becoming my search engine of choice when it comes to searching for basic information. The results from the usual search engines just aren't as succinct, are laden with advertisement, or lead to dead pages.
The fact that OS X has been hacked could be a blessing in disguise for Apple as it has potentially exposed OS X to an untold number of users.
I would give my testimonial to that effect. I had actually switched away from Macs in favor of AMD and Athlons. But I am interested in tinkering around with OS X, and who knows... considering on how it turns out, I'd be in the market to add a Mac to my heard by the end of this year.
... and based on a 37ft dia dish, 20,000 count we're talking 21,504,183 sqft of total collector area. Divide that into 500,000,000W, the projected peak output of the installation, and you end up with around 23W per sqft.
Typical solar panels give about 70 mW/sq.in, which equates to about 10 W/sq.ft.
It goes to show how much energy can be lost in absorption processes compared to reflective.
1. Bell Canada has finally announced they'll stop forcing the purchase of local service and will begin offering a stand-alone DSL line.
2. Earlier this week, SBC's chief financial officer, Rich Lindner, told analysts at an investor conference that he "expects [SBC] will do trials of naked DSL, especially bundled with wireless." The news was first reported by Dave Burstein in his DSL Prime newsletter. 3. SBC has not yet provided details about its new service.
OK, thanks much. "Other" Bells, but certainly not all Bells (yet). As your links reason, the competition will make this happen.
I did something similar on an Atari 800XL in hand-coded machine language. First was a plain screen dump of the hi-res graphics mode (I think 320x260 or so), and later I added a magnify routine. Good times, good times.
I've been seeing these attacks for QUITE a while now. Repeated access attempts which were guesses of people's first names as logins. I used to ban the entire source subnet, but it's futile. Now I just whitelist acceptable IPs.
By Charlie Demerjian: Friday 15 July 2005, 10:01 INTEL IS ABOUT TO CUT Linux out of the legitimate content market, and hand the keys to the future of digital media to Microsoft at your expense. Don't like it? Tough, you are screwed. The vehicle to do this is called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Those are some reasonable points, especially with rendering medical treatment.
So what exactly is so holy about our DNA that it shouldn't be on file? Unitl I am actually deprived of life, liberty or the pursuit of happiness, how are my rights being violated exactly?
Say that you are accused of a crime. Thanks to the (un)Patriot Act, the police didn't need a court order to obtain a warrant and thus seize and search your property. Your ass is hauled downtown, and you are fingerprinted, swabbed, and held for a day or two without being given a reason. But you probably do get your one phone call.
To address a different point, this DNA data is obviously going to be held online in a database. What assurance would we really have that someone wouldn't steal, break into, or otherwise abuse the information? The Law's effectiveness for punishing people is not as absolute as you portray.
Source: www.eetimes.com
Ironic for Intel, no?
I wouldn't mind having a spare power source for my Type 40.
If Yahoo Mail were to offer anything like Labels, I'd switch back.
SBC Yahoo! has 8 color labels. (I assume it's the same as the Yahoo! Mail that you would pay for.) I have the color labels associated with my disposable email addresses.
At my home, the rate of telemarketing calls has dropped from several a day to zero, starting as soon as the registry law went into effect.
About the same here (exception: see my sig, at that was 7:00 pm local time).
But since the DNC list went into effect, I get pre-recorded messages most of the time. My answering machine emotionlessly cuts them off, as well as on the off chance it's a human drone calling.
And thanks. It's news to me that businesses could opt for DNC, as I thought it was residential numbers only. I'll look into it.
The majority of voting voters in the US have swallowed this. Please, UK, don't let it happen again.
How about some slashdotters set up a database driven site where people can register to be found and find others?
One of the local TV stations has a forum for "I'm okay"/"searching for" postings.
Next thing you know, mice will be taking plotting every night to take over the world.
At the time I really liked the early and middle seasons of Buffy, but now I would probably have a hard time going back, particularly having to witness the love/angst. (BTW, props to Ms. Gellar as an outstanding actress across her career.) Angel was overall a solid series. I think both series have had their time.
I've managed to see Firefly series after it aired the first time, and to me it's definitely a new kind of sci-fi. Since it's not forced, it plays well to patient viewers. We need more Firefly. I'll be in line for the movie.
J Clin Invest. 2005 Aug 18; [Epub ahead of print] Related Articles, Links
Noninvasive imaging of pancreatic inflammation and its reversal in type 1 diabetes.
Turvey SE, Swart E, Denis MC, Mahmood U, Benoist C, Weissleder R, Mathis D.
Section on Immunology and Immunogenetics, Joslin Diabetes Center, and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
A major stumbling block for research on and treatment of type 1 diabetes is the inability to directly, but noninvasively, visualize the lymphocytic/inflammatory lesions in the pancreatic islets. One potential approach to surmounting this impediment is to exploit MRI of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) to visualize changes in the microvasculature that invariably accompany inflammation. MNP-MRI did indeed detect vascular leakage in association with insulitis in murine models of type 1 diabetes, permitting noninvasive visualization of the inflammatory lesions in vivo in real time. We demonstrate, in proof-of-principle experiments, that this strategy allows one to predict, within 3 days of completing treatment with an anti-CD3 monoclonal antibody, which NOD mice with recent-onset diabetes are responding to therapy and may eventually be cured. Importantly, an essentially identical MNP-MRI strategy has previously been used with great success to image lymph node metastases in prostate cancer patients. This success strongly argues for rapid translation of these preclinical observations to prediction and/or stratification of type 1 diabetes and treatment of individuals with the disease; this would provide a crucially needed early predictor of response to therapy.
You could use this to prove someone took your image and reposted it, possibly claiming it as his own. Personal and professional photographers and media outlets could really use this.
Now, if they could just offer real time radar feeds, I'd be happy.
Well, depending on where you look for the radar images, getting FREE updates every 5 minutes is pretty damn good. It works well for this armchair weather enthusiast. One alternative might be to pay $7/month for "real time" radar imagery with various enhancements.
I suppose the updates are only at every five minutes because in times of heavy weather, the forecasters need different types of data. The radar sweeps are done using 2 to 4 angles of elevation depending if they want to measure precipitation or storm relative velocities, for example.
Not only is that article highly POV, but I question this person's encyclopedic importance.
I think I understand your point, but Wikipedia has been becoming my search engine of choice when it comes to searching for basic information. The results from the usual search engines just aren't as succinct, are laden with advertisement, or lead to dead pages.
The fact that OS X has been hacked could be a blessing in disguise for Apple as it has potentially exposed OS X to an untold number of users.
... considering on how it turns out, I'd be in the market to add a Mac to my heard by the end of this year.
I would give my testimonial to that effect. I had actually switched away from Macs in favor of AMD and Athlons. But I am interested in tinkering around with OS X, and who knows
Typical solar panels give about 70 mW/sq.in, which equates to about 10 W/sq.ft.
It goes to show how much energy can be lost in absorption processes compared to reflective.
OK, thanks much. "Other" Bells, but certainly not all Bells (yet). As your links reason, the competition will make this happen.
Looks like the US-FCC has since approved the non-sharing provision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/06/technology/06te
Other bells have the naked DSL option.
AFAIK, you're wrong. eg, SBC (former Ameritech in the midwest) does not. You are required to have a voice line but no additional options.
Easy enough to fix, just don't provide any power outlets. Most laptop batteries will be dead in 2 hours, and they'll have to go home.
Whether by design or coincidence, our campustown Panera does just this.
I did something similar on an Atari 800XL in hand-coded machine language. First was a plain screen dump of the hi-res graphics mode (I think 320x260 or so), and later I added a magnify routine. Good times, good times.
Check out the screenshots and grab your package for Linux, Windows, or OSX."
I just don't go around grabbing other guy's packages. Let us leave that to your *.so and S.O.
Note the "©2004 NAVTEQ" at the bottom right of the aerial pictures - this company provides a lot of the raw data in that area. While the Microsoft copyright is 2005, I wonder why the Navteq one is 2004 - surely they are getting updates from those guys (?)
Google's maps are (c) 2005 Google and (c) 2005 NAVTEQ(tm). At least by my parent's house the arial view is still at least 3 years old.
I've been seeing these attacks for QUITE a while now. Repeated access attempts which were guesses of people's first names as logins. I used to ban the entire source subnet, but it's futile. Now I just whitelist acceptable IPs.
I was referred to this article on another site.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638
Intel to cut Linux out of the content market
Comment East Fork off key
By Charlie Demerjian: Friday 15 July 2005, 10:01
INTEL IS ABOUT TO CUT Linux out of the legitimate content market, and hand the keys to the future of digital media to Microsoft at your expense. Don't like it? Tough, you are screwed. The vehicle to do this is called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid.
There really could be an 'Any' key.
It's interesting to know about the time scales involved. Especially the exact formula you give for 24.96.
Have you considered adding those to the Wikipedia?