OK - so there are too few incubators available in developing nations. I bet doctors there know that
OK - so you can build an incubator out of a wide range of materials. I bet local people in developing nations are smart enough to figure that out, maybe even have a few improvements of their own to offer.
Having a government that would allow anything like this to actually come to pass. Now there's a problem...
As a devil's advocate stance, how about we abandon all aid of any description and focus simply on educating people with the hope of getting them to elect competent, open governments within the next 30 years and helping them to take control of their own fertility, give them options for living into old age that don't rely on having 20 children.
This may be ugly, but I have used a tricked out ethernet cable that has only receive wires to sniff packets.
I don't see how a sniffer that can't transmit would in any way be detected. So long as it does not attenuate the signal so much that packets are being lost routinely (in the particular circumstances in which I used this cable, this was not apparently the case)
I think when people talk of snooping on traffic they are probably thinking of a passive receive-only device.
We have a pretty good local newspaper. And I could see it setting aside its national news coverage to include a couple of pages from a major newspaper like the NYT or the WSJ or the LAT etc. Maybe even a different national guest section each day.
As for distribution. The USPS visits many homes daily, and I don't see the cost of USPS delivery inhibiting the amount of crap that arrives through my mailbox (coupons etc.)
I would have thought that a good local newspaper in combination with good editorial from a top national daily and shared costs for junk-mail distribution could do very well.
I'd pay for it (I pay for the local paper to be delivered today)
if the earth has a surface area of 5.1x 10^8 square km and they want to spray up enough water to cover the earth to a half-inch depth, that's 6.12 x 10^12 cubic meters or or 6.12x10^15 kg of water.
If you spray it into the air, let's say 100m. It requires around 6x10^18 joules of energy or 1.7TWhours.
What effect on global warming will it have generating all that from clean coal ?
Perhaps I should patent the idea of adding random superfluous crap to the end of any file such that it can be opened and the useful part accessed before the tail end of it has fully downloaded.
Or then again, maybe adobe acrobat plugins and web browsers already do that.
But in practice the phone companies (there will be one in Bulgaria too) have profited enormously from this crime, way beyond their cost for the calls in question.
It might seem reasonable to me that they should ask that their costs to be covered for the stolen minutes, not the retail price.
It's not as if the phone company did much or anything to offer a service whereby they could determine the calls were bone fide.
Chiropracty and acupuncture are really quite pleasant experiences.
Chiropracty has made me feel much better when I've gone in with joint pain too. For example, when I've lost the ability to to rotate my neck. I've never gone in to cure measles or leprosy though.
I did enjoy the acupuncture session, but I did not get the clear-cut improvement that the chiropractor offered.
I have to think that if these processes were more painful or unpleasant that they would not have the following that they do.
I'd love to see something that generated electricity on the spot from a fairly innocuous fuel than something that stored large amounts of energy in a small space and was willing to to release major quantities in a flash.
I don't see how the investment can best benefit the taxpayer financially if it is not used to actually get a jump on manufacturing something.
It's all very altruistic to research a better way to make anything, and it's great to think that the outcome may benefit humanity or employ a starving egghead. But I think taxpayers are in a mood to get something financial back for their money and I don't see why we shouldn't.
Refueling is quick - just park under the hopper and pull the rope.
In a pinch you might get home by gathering sticks or clumps of peat or elephant dung to burn. You can even borrow a few shovel-fulls from your co-workers. Try that with Gas.
The car would always be toasty warm on a cold day with a welcoming cosy glow.
And nothing beats the taste of eggs fried on a hot shovel in the firebox.
And really, what do you need to make coal clean ? surely just plastic coat it or something so it doesn't blacken your hands or soil your clothing.
By and large board level execs would prefer to spend $5000 on equipment than $2000 on support staff.
Perhaps there is a point to this, after all - it may be easier to place an upper bound on equipment costs whereas support costs for an older set of equipment could be harder to determine.
Also, you enjoy the new equipment and can look forward to it being longer before it needs replacing.
Finally - who stands by you for sox, HIPAA, PCI compliance if the vendors have stopped supporting equipment with bug fixes etc.
As sensible as it seems, old equipment just does not work for many organizations and it has nothing to do with the basic health of the equipment.
If doesn't follow that it has to behave in any other way like one. It should really be a targetted learning tool.
Yes - it really is appropriate to make a laptop that just suits the immediate needs of learning for that particular week or month in question. It does not need to be a programming tool or an exploratory box of wonders.
Whatever we feel here about the prejudices of current school administrators, we're not likely to make them go away. School boards want assurances that they are not arming kids with porn gateways and cyber-bullying kits.
It seems to me that there's money to be made in coming up with a laptop that truly is aimed at this market.
I'm thinking something robust and simple with dedicated hardware to support restrictions. Perhaps...
1) will only boot an image that has been digitally signed by the school
2) Will only load executables that have been digitally signed by the school
3) It can't access the internet at all. Instead, the server in the school constantly multicasts a stream of grade-appropriate content that is cached on the disk and "syncs" the PC when it is on school grounds.
I think that a scheme could be thought-up that was genuinely hard to work around. And when the laptop reached the end of its school life it could be "unlocked".
Geeks may be up in arms, but no-one complains when a textbook fails to run linux or a foreign-language audio cassette won't surf the web.
Was Northern Ireland about Catholics vs Protestants or about a legacy of inequality of opportunity or finances ?
Is the black vs white struggle in the south today mostly about racism or about wealth distribution ?
Is the fight against radical Islam about dogma or global inequity ?
For my part, I believe that the religious aspect is just crap piled on top of a situation that was bad for other reasons. As we move from a conflict confined within a few hundred square miles of Co. Derry to a conflict that encompasses everything south of the Mason Dixon Line to a conflict that spans the globe we need to develop a better understanding of what motivates terrorists than some glib line like "they hate our freedoms".
I want to know more and I expect world leaders to do better in helping spread understanding.
All I ever knew about her was that she was the "lady with the lamp" with all of her good deeds summed up by the description of her caring attitude and the succor she brought. This new (to me) information gives a lot more texture and certainly makes me want to learn more about her.
The law has nothing to do with it, as others have said. This is a morality question. I would question the morality that a copyright holder has to withhold access to previously published information.
The quid pro quo for reaping publication royalties should be that the publishers actually make the content reasonably available permanently. If they lack the resources to do so, there are others who will make the resources available. Perhaps this was the original intent of the library of congress.
If this were to become a requirement, then the ability to pay a publisher would, for sure, somehow emerge.
Sounds like another job for digital signatures...
My son has a "pop up medieval castle" book. Good luck getting that in plucker.
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By Omer W Blodgett
It's a work of art.
seems that its easier these days to work to thwart government regulation than it is to work to get reasonable government.
Who reads this and doesn't think... you know, with a proxy and some ssl I could probably...
So you know how to thwart it. Now how would you get the law changed to be reasonable - Yes, I give up on that one too.
The sad thing is that it is Australia that will lose in the long run by blocking innovation
OK - so there are too few incubators available in developing nations. I bet doctors there know that
OK - so you can build an incubator out of a wide range of materials. I bet local people in developing nations are smart enough to figure that out, maybe even have a few improvements of their own to offer.
Having a government that would allow anything like this to actually come to pass. Now there's a problem...
As a devil's advocate stance, how about we abandon all aid of any description and focus simply on educating people with the hope of getting them to elect competent, open governments within the next 30 years and helping them to take control of their own fertility, give them options for living into old age that don't rely on having 20 children.
What can we do to help make that happen ?
being a computer geek page.
Should this not be 51KiWh ? or even 50Ki99Wh ?
Wikipedia seems to indicate that Ki (not ki) is appropriate although to my eyes it looks like some kind of binary temperature
This may be ugly, but I have used a tricked out ethernet cable that has only receive wires to sniff packets.
I don't see how a sniffer that can't transmit would in any way be detected. So long as it does not attenuate the signal so much that packets are being lost routinely (in the particular circumstances in which I used this cable, this was not apparently the case)
I think when people talk of snooping on traffic they are probably thinking of a passive receive-only device.
I heard this argument before, from someone at a party - perhaps it was you ?
Anyhow - it's a lousy approach. The bargaining power is far too lopsided against the employee.
We have a pretty good local newspaper. And I could see it setting aside its national news coverage to include a couple of pages from a major newspaper like the NYT or the WSJ or the LAT etc. Maybe even a different national guest section each day.
As for distribution. The USPS visits many homes daily, and I don't see the cost of USPS delivery inhibiting the amount of crap that arrives through my mailbox (coupons etc.)
I would have thought that a good local newspaper in combination with good editorial from a top national daily and shared costs for junk-mail distribution could do very well.
I'd pay for it (I pay for the local paper to be delivered today)
I prefer the idea of bringing-in regular Joes off of the street and showing them an new OS called Mojave and then revealing that it is really Linux.
There's probably little need to test it - it will never be used anyway if its chosen by the Euros.
By being chosen as a standard by Europe, it could wind up being the only known effective implementation of security through obscurity.
if the earth has a surface area of 5.1x 10^8 square km and they want to spray up enough water to cover the earth to a half-inch depth, that's 6.12 x 10^12 cubic meters or or 6.12x10^15 kg of water.
If you spray it into the air, let's say 100m. It requires around 6x10^18 joules of energy or 1.7TWhours.
What effect on global warming will it have generating all that from clean coal ?
Perhaps I should patent the idea of adding random superfluous crap to the end of any file such that it can be opened and the useful part accessed before the tail end of it has fully downloaded.
Or then again, maybe adobe acrobat plugins and web browsers already do that.
That sounds good.
But in practice the phone companies (there will be one in Bulgaria too) have profited enormously from this crime, way beyond their cost for the calls in question.
It might seem reasonable to me that they should ask that their costs to be covered for the stolen minutes, not the retail price.
It's not as if the phone company did much or anything to offer a service whereby they could determine the calls were bone fide.
Chiropracty and acupuncture are really quite pleasant experiences.
Chiropracty has made me feel much better when I've gone in with joint pain too. For example, when I've lost the ability to to rotate my neck. I've never gone in to cure measles or leprosy though.
I did enjoy the acupuncture session, but I did not get the clear-cut improvement that the chiropractor offered.
I have to think that if these processes were more painful or unpleasant that they would not have the following that they do.
Wouldn't it be simpler to just place a cell phone call to a pool of typists and have them log into your PDA and type the stuff you wanted.
How about lots of electricity ?
I'd love to see something that generated electricity on the spot from a fairly innocuous fuel than something that stored large amounts of energy in a small space and was willing to to release major quantities in a flash.
I don't see how the investment can best benefit the taxpayer financially if it is not used to actually get a jump on manufacturing something.
It's all very altruistic to research a better way to make anything, and it's great to think that the outcome may benefit humanity or employ a starving egghead. But I think taxpayers are in a mood to get something financial back for their money and I don't see why we shouldn't.
But think of the advantages...
Refueling is quick - just park under the hopper and pull the rope.
In a pinch you might get home by gathering sticks or clumps of peat or elephant dung to burn. You can even borrow a few shovel-fulls from your co-workers. Try that with Gas.
The car would always be toasty warm on a cold day with a welcoming cosy glow.
And nothing beats the taste of eggs fried on a hot shovel in the firebox.
And really, what do you need to make coal clean ? surely just plastic coat it or something so it doesn't blacken your hands or soil your clothing.
wow a connection free power cradle !
I wish my toothbrush did this
This would be better spent on clean coal technology for cars.
I'm sure I could find a group of lobbyists to back me on that one.
By and large board level execs would prefer to spend $5000 on equipment than $2000 on support staff.
Perhaps there is a point to this, after all - it may be easier to place an upper bound on equipment costs whereas support costs for an older set of equipment could be harder to determine.
Also, you enjoy the new equipment and can look forward to it being longer before it needs replacing.
Finally - who stands by you for sox, HIPAA, PCI compliance if the vendors have stopped supporting equipment with bug fixes etc.
As sensible as it seems, old equipment just does not work for many organizations and it has nothing to do with the basic health of the equipment.
If doesn't follow that it has to behave in any other way like one. It should really be a targetted learning tool.
Yes - it really is appropriate to make a laptop that just suits the immediate needs of learning for that particular week or month in question. It does not need to be a programming tool or an exploratory box of wonders.
Whatever we feel here about the prejudices of current school administrators, we're not likely to make them go away. School boards want assurances that they are not arming kids with porn gateways and cyber-bullying kits.
It seems to me that there's money to be made in coming up with a laptop that truly is aimed at this market.
I'm thinking something robust and simple with dedicated hardware to support restrictions. Perhaps...
1) will only boot an image that has been digitally signed by the school
2) Will only load executables that have been digitally signed by the school
3) It can't access the internet at all. Instead, the server in the school constantly multicasts a stream of grade-appropriate content that is cached on the disk and "syncs" the PC when it is on school grounds.
I think that a scheme could be thought-up that was genuinely hard to work around. And when the laptop reached the end of its school life it could be "unlocked".
Geeks may be up in arms, but no-one complains when a textbook fails to run linux or a foreign-language audio cassette won't surf the web.
Was Northern Ireland about Catholics vs Protestants or about a legacy of inequality of opportunity or finances ?
Is the black vs white struggle in the south today mostly about racism or about wealth distribution ?
Is the fight against radical Islam about dogma or global inequity ?
For my part, I believe that the religious aspect is just crap piled on top of a situation that was bad for other reasons. As we move from a conflict confined within a few hundred square miles of Co. Derry to a conflict that encompasses everything south of the Mason Dixon Line to a conflict that spans the globe we need to develop a better understanding of what motivates terrorists than some glib line like "they hate our freedoms".
I want to know more and I expect world leaders to do better in helping spread understanding.
or at least a daemon. It must be that shifty FreeBSD crowd.
All I ever knew about her was that she was the "lady with the lamp" with all of her good deeds summed up by the description of her caring attitude and the succor she brought. This new (to me) information gives a lot more texture and certainly makes me want to learn more about her.
The law has nothing to do with it, as others have said. This is a morality question. I would question the morality that a copyright holder has to withhold access to previously published information.
The quid pro quo for reaping publication royalties should be that the publishers actually make the content reasonably available permanently. If they lack the resources to do so, there are others who will make the resources available. Perhaps this was the original intent of the library of congress.
If this were to become a requirement, then the ability to pay a publisher would, for sure, somehow emerge.
Sounds like another job for digital signatures...
My son has a "pop up medieval castle" book. Good luck getting that in plucker.