"We've got the black holes cornered," said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., lead author of the WISE black hole study and project scientist for another NASA black-hole mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). "WISE is finding them across the full sky, while NuSTAR is giving us an entirely new look at their high-energy X-ray light and learning what makes them tick."
So that's "cornered" as in "Nobody move, I've got you all surrounded"?
Looking on the bright side, though, I've patented/dev/zero. I'm going to sell your own zeroes back to you, at 1p per megabyte. I'm offering a discount if you buy a gigabyte of zeroes all at once.
Silly, scientists don't change the world by what they say. They do it by what they learn. I blame Oppenheimer for all this social responsibility nonsense. Any scientists who start trying to change public policy runs the danger of losing the objectivity that is their principal value.
Most companies will avoid harsh pollution if it will affect their bottom line.
Truth is, most public companies can't see past their next quarterly report. If a liability case takes longer than that, it has near zero effect on corporate decision making. Remind me: how often are cases are handled inside of three months?
That CTVT example is one of just three TVTs, which rather makes my case. But the real point is that TVTs don't help the host propagate better, just the tumor. They're purely parasitic, not symbiotic. In that sense, they're less successful adaptions than malaria, RMSF, or river blindness are.
Well, cancers aren't very good at hijacking the reproductive mechanisms to make immortal babies. (SF plot idea, anyone?)
There are lots of viruses and even bacteria that will do things like that. Ticks pass Rocky Mountain spotted fever to their eggs. River blindness is a bacterium passed by nematodes through biting flies and humans that give a reproductive advantage to the flies from the bug they carry. Malaria promotes the reproduction of the mosquitos that carry it (in competition with uninfected mosquitos).
Sounds like you need to toughen up your sense of disgust. It's eat or die. Think like a vulture, they're the ultimate conservationist animals, though of course they've got nothing on fungi.
Why not just sack the luddite and his nearest boss?
If you don't sack at least a VP you don't even get management's attention on the prevention of similar nonsense. Where were the business processes to keep the luddite away from customer data?
What Pogo said to Porkypine was "YEP SON, WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US." In ALL CAPS. Now, all of you get back in your respective mom's basement until you've read your classic comics!
http://planetwaves.net/pogo.web.jpg
Mod parent up. In fact, a slick design would use the daytime adiabatic cooling for refrigeration purposes at, say, a colo datacen. Sort of the opposite of a cogen use-the-waste-heat scheme. In fact, this scheme looks a lot like a big air conditioner, but with a time lag by which to extract profit.
These slimeballs write down those "free" samples at retail price (not at their incremental cost of production) as a business expense. They probably use nearly-staledated inventory to boot. Of course they are never free (libre) products that they promote, just free (beer) samples of their highest-profit lines. In the process, they rationalize compromising patient, pharmacist and doctor integrity and privacy. Pharmacy chains have been caught selling the compiled prescribing histories of doctors to the drugmakers in order to allow them to more accurately target their sample allocations and other marketing-to-prescribers. Just consider what this means for the privacy of people with rare conditions in remote places.
All of this has just one purpose: to pad the apparent "justifiable" cost of a product with in many cases little or no additional value to the patient compared to a generic alternative. Notice how remarkably few drug trials are compared against existing gold-standard treatments and how few actually report their underwhelming results. The vast majority compare only against placebo. http://clinicaltrials.gov/
It's long past time that the profit motive was applied to delivering better care rather than the sale of more pills. The elimination of "evergreening" would go a long way toward this.
What next? Will computers running Windows qualify for the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Hypothetically, but as of this writing, there's still no provision in US immigration law for the naturalization of computers as Americans. They're all "aliens".
When someone hooks this into a fast-spreading botnet this lame excuse for a transaction verification system will be turned off overnight. Amex, Visa and MC are not too big to fail. They know they need to roll out smart "cards" that do one-time verifications even they've been able to put it off so far.
This book is an excellent read. Partly a collection of biographies, partly a history of the Institute for Advanced Studies, partly the story of the greatest of many Nazi blunders, pissing off the cleverest people they might otherwise have had working for them, then allowing them to get away. It delves into computing, codebreaking, bomb development, poker, drinking, and lots of other fascinating pastimes of the ultrasmart.
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It's blatantly just planetzuda.com spamming its own worthless article.
an american football field on the other hand is 120 x 53 and 1/3 yards.
Well, that explains why the Bills keep losing: they've been stopping after 100!
"We've got the black holes cornered," said Daniel Stern of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., lead author of the WISE black hole study and project scientist for another NASA black-hole mission, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). "WISE is finding them across the full sky, while NuSTAR is giving us an entirely new look at their high-energy X-ray light and learning what makes them tick."
So that's "cornered" as in "Nobody move, I've got you all surrounded"?
Looking on the bright side, though, I've patented /dev/zero. I'm going to sell your own zeroes back to you, at 1p per megabyte. I'm offering a discount if you buy a gigabyte of zeroes all at once.
That'd be a savings from ten pounds of naughts.
Silly, scientists don't change the world by what they say. They do it by what they learn. I blame Oppenheimer for all this social responsibility nonsense. Any scientists who start trying to change public policy runs the danger of losing the objectivity that is their principal value.
Most companies will avoid harsh pollution if it will affect their bottom line.
Truth is, most public companies can't see past their next quarterly report. If a liability case takes longer than that, it has near zero effect on corporate decision making. Remind me: how often are cases are handled inside of three months?
This is plain an simple marketing, and it is below the former editorial standards of Slashdot.
Standards? There are standards? Where?
That CTVT example is one of just three TVTs, which rather makes my case. But the real point is that TVTs don't help the host propagate better, just the tumor. They're purely parasitic, not symbiotic. In that sense, they're less successful adaptions than malaria, RMSF, or river blindness are.
Well, cancers aren't very good at hijacking the reproductive mechanisms to make immortal babies. (SF plot idea, anyone?) There are lots of viruses and even bacteria that will do things like that. Ticks pass Rocky Mountain spotted fever to their eggs. River blindness is a bacterium passed by nematodes through biting flies and humans that give a reproductive advantage to the flies from the bug they carry. Malaria promotes the reproduction of the mosquitos that carry it (in competition with uninfected mosquitos).
Face it we are very disgusting animals.
Sounds like you need to toughen up your sense of disgust. It's eat or die. Think like a vulture, they're the ultimate conservationist animals, though of course they've got nothing on fungi.
Cnet reports that German security expert Felix Lindner has...
Some expert. Now everyone knows who he is. Oh, wait, now I get it....
Why not just sack the luddite and his nearest boss?
If you don't sack at least a VP you don't even get management's attention on the prevention of similar nonsense. Where were the business processes to keep the luddite away from customer data?
What Pogo said to Porkypine was "YEP SON, WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US." In ALL CAPS. Now, all of you get back in your respective mom's basement until you've read your classic comics! http://planetwaves.net/pogo.web.jpg
Mod parent up. In fact, a slick design would use the daytime adiabatic cooling for refrigeration purposes at, say, a colo datacen. Sort of the opposite of a cogen use-the-waste-heat scheme. In fact, this scheme looks a lot like a big air conditioner, but with a time lag by which to extract profit.
These slimeballs write down those "free" samples at retail price (not at their incremental cost of production) as a business expense. They probably use nearly-staledated inventory to boot. Of course they are never free (libre) products that they promote, just free (beer) samples of their highest-profit lines. In the process, they rationalize compromising patient, pharmacist and doctor integrity and privacy. Pharmacy chains have been caught selling the compiled prescribing histories of doctors to the drugmakers in order to allow them to more accurately target their sample allocations and other marketing-to-prescribers. Just consider what this means for the privacy of people with rare conditions in remote places. All of this has just one purpose: to pad the apparent "justifiable" cost of a product with in many cases little or no additional value to the patient compared to a generic alternative. Notice how remarkably few drug trials are compared against existing gold-standard treatments and how few actually report their underwhelming results. The vast majority compare only against placebo. http://clinicaltrials.gov/ It's long past time that the profit motive was applied to delivering better care rather than the sale of more pills. The elimination of "evergreening" would go a long way toward this.
Wait... does this mean God's a lawyer?!!!!
That would explain the whole camel through the eye of a needle admission test for heaven. She just doesn't want too much competition.
You can see it from http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.587986,-80.500882&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&layer=c&cbll=27.58799,-80.500341&panoid=KtXQgty0SWZWNunOTdK8IQ&cbp=12,145.38,,0,0&z=16 but when you get close http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.578761,-80.495582&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&z=16&layer=c&cbll=27.578681,-80.495545&panoid=4sxvj9m1jeRyUC_iaxXKVg&cbp=12,88.53,,0,0 you can really enjoy the experience.
The overpasses are the most exciting part of the drive because you can see whole towns from them.
You're forgetting the garbage hill on I-95. You can see the vultures circle from fifty miles away.
Outside his parents' basement, you insensitive clod!
What next? Will computers running Windows qualify for the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Hypothetically, but as of this writing, there's still no provision in US immigration law for the naturalization of computers as Americans. They're all "aliens".
If corporations are allowed to be people then surely they, and not their computers, are accountable for what the computers do.
Wow, you really don't understand the purpose of incorporation, do you?
When someone hooks this into a fast-spreading botnet this lame excuse for a transaction verification system will be turned off overnight. Amex, Visa and MC are not too big to fail. They know they need to roll out smart "cards" that do one-time verifications even they've been able to put it off so far.
This drug was not covered on her insurance, and the ones that were covered were not effective for her condition.
Name and shame?
This book is an excellent read. Partly a collection of biographies, partly a history of the Institute for Advanced Studies, partly the story of the greatest of many Nazi blunders, pissing off the cleverest people they might otherwise have had working for them, then allowing them to get away. It delves into computing, codebreaking, bomb development, poker, drinking, and lots of other fascinating pastimes of the ultrasmart.
Perhaps the Deep Space Network? Of course it isn't all open source, but at least some of it is.