You screwed your wife. Simple fact. Does everybody have to know about it?
These guys committed a crime. They paid for it. Now they should be able to move on with their lives. Some criminals in the US pay for crimes in a way that they never can get a decent job again. This is not the idea in Germany. Also it is very very difficult in Germany to change your name, unlike in the US.
Yes, I think they either have a right to not have mentioned their full name or at least get a new name to start over. Such an application for a name change would likely be rejected.
I actually was thinking about getting witopia exactly for this reason (I travel a lot).
How difficult is it to insert country based advertisement based on the accessing IP?
Not very difficult. But these guys seem to prefer to loose business to torrent.
"The Economist is a rare example of a printed paper that's still worth buying in print,"
Nope, isn't worth reading. I was used to love the economist. It helped me to learn and improve my English but what happened to it? It was was a free-market advocate and if I read it now "government should do this, should regulate that, should give incentives here should give subsidiaries there...".
Thanks, I pass and don't read it anymore, even if you can download the whole magazine FOR FREE:
You can subscribe to Playboy for US$ 12:
https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/PY/PLY/PLY33578.jsp?cds_page_id=33578&cds_mag_code=PLY&id=1255408777221&lsid=92852339372032972&vid=1
If they can't compete by 12 bucks then they can't compete at all. What should they do? Give it away for free?
I have not read Playboy in a long time. But today there are other topics than 30 years ago that interest men. MMA, SciFi, Fitness, Computer etc. Just look at men specific TV channels. Playboy does not deliver this.
Porn can be had on the internet for free. Worse, Playboy does not offer much in this direction either. The last time I browsed it the pictures were so "artistic" that Marge Simpson is the right final for it.
This does not come to a surprise. I know a woman who worked for Playboy. Guess who is the majority of the employees? Women. I am sure women can make good magazines. I am sure women can make naked women "feel comfortable" in front of a camera, I love women but I am also sure that I won't likely be interested in a magazine "What women think men like" AKA as Playboy.
What men like and what women think men like are two very different things.
> I just can't come to grips with the fact that people will actually order stuff like this off the net. > It would be no different than taking random drugs you bought off the street corner. It just seems insane to me.
Actually it isn't. A lot of this stuff comes out of pharmaceutical companies that either have FDA approval or work on a similar level. There is no "world wide patent". It would also to expensive to patent a drug world wide (let's say every African country). Some Viagra, as far as I know, comes from India. Pfizer might not, by whatever reason, have a patent there. Hence drugs from offshore pharmacies can be both, the real deal AND legal by using loop-holes.
Can you get pills that contain nothing or a wrong ingredient? Yes you can. But sorry to break the news to you, it is also well possible that you get counterfeit drugs from your own local pharmacy without you or them knowing. Your statement would then become "I just can't come to grips with the fact that people will actually buy stuff in pharmacies and don't pick it off from the manufacturer like Pfizer..."
"7 inch screen vs 14."
Well, you may not have realized that smaller is more expensive when it comes to Laptops. The EEE was the first one to have broken this trend. My Sony 10" Laptop was US$ 1500 4 years ago and it was a bargain! You prefer an 14" screen? Fine, but there are people that prefer a small device, maybe as their 2nd or 3rd computer, that they can easily carry around. So easily that you can throw it in your handbag without the need for another laptop carry bag.
"1GB of storage compared to 20GB."
Again, you are comparing the wrong things. You compare a SDD vs. HDD.
Do you know what is the most likely part in your laptop that will break?
I don't need a camera in my phone and the OpenMoko concept sounded interesting but the first phone came late, very late. It is a triband and not a Quad-band, which I would have prefered.
The worst thing is: This phone needs 3 minutes to boot-up!
Thanks, I pass!
> DNA decomposes from bactierial , chemical Wron. You can use PNA or Nylon based "DNA".
> DNA is read slowly by biological means which is hardly easy to interface to digital systems. [X] You have no idea how DNA could be used for computer chips. Hint: Intal and IBM puting money into this! Use DNA to self-assemble single walled carbon nano tubes and we are talking business.
> DNA is read sequentially , its not random access at the base level making it s. above.
If you have no idead what you are taling about it is sometimes better to just shut up.
> because every reputable scientist in the field agrees with you:
> Now, I don't really see any immediately obvious applications for this new molecule
Such a "scientist" would be very dumb. But feel free to give names.
BTW, it was published in JACS, this should give you a hint about the importance.
> This article did nothing to expand our knowledge.
It created knowledge new nucleotides. As far as I know similiar stuff already exists.
> It didn't prove anything.
Big surprise. While we have heard about prove in mathematics, it is new in science to me.
Concerning the applications, start browsing here: http://seemanlab4.chem.nyu.edu/
"Really though, sales tax is always a regressive tax and I don't think it is a great idea in general for that reason..."
Well, this is only partly true since rich people are more likely to buy a BMW than a Dodge.
What I like about the sales tax is that it is always collected, no matter if the car is produced in the US or in China. Hence it would even make more sense to rise the sales tax to lets say 30% and lower the income taxes.
This money could be used to pay the retirement obligations and maybe a general health care. It basically would at a penalty to imports.
Quote: I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual.
For an Ancap intellecutal property rights should be highly suspicious, as you can easily read in "Machinery of freedom" from David Freedman.
There is a very very easy and incredibly cheap way to protect your "intellectual property": keep it for you and don't disclose it!
All the beneficiaries of "intellectual property" need the state to protect their "property" and the taxpayers money for the incredibly high cost of defending their "intellectual property". The rolling stones make Millions when they tour the world. Do they really need taxpayers money to make sure nobody sells bootlegs from they CDs?
There are few ways in this world how you can become filthy rich. Most of them are:
* "intellectual property" (Rock bands, Software companies like Microsoft)
* work with FIAT money like Banks (government issued paper money)
* Real estate (shortage of land by government regulations. You can't just start building a house where space is available)
All this areas where disproportionate amount of money can be earned are highly government regulated and resources are artificially limited, money and wealth gets distributed from the bottom to the top.
I wish this would become true: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all
There are different ways to do this. One would be with a suite like a computer screen that just shows what the observer would expect to see. Problems: Tremendous real time number crunching needed, problems that the object will still have a shadow etc.
The elegant solution would be to use a body armor covered with a photonic crystal (Google). This would be one application of the 3D DNA nano crystal. Light would go in the amour, be guided around the body and exit the body, giving the impression that is was not reflected or diffracted -hence an object would be invisbile, at least for a part of the spectrum.
" Printing gold wouldn't be that much cheaper; it's simply not generally available, and until we start mining asteroids it will remain "unobtanium". "
Why would you want to mine asteroids? There is enough Gold on the earth you just can't mine the trace amounts. But I am aware of people who do "nanomining". While I have not seen their results they claim have made successes.
"A 3D crystal might be cool"
Yes. Cool like the only way to fabricate any designed, defined and predicted 3D nanostructures on the molecular scale. Cool like to capture proteins and hence be able to crystallize ANY given protein (what is quite difficult). Cool like to produce phonic crystals and cool like to be able to assemble 3D chips with Carbon nanotubes, guided by DNA self assembly. This kind of cool.
" and could help lead to that but I wouldn't describing it as the 'holy grail' is a bit much"
Sure. You wouldn't. On the other hand you don't have any idea of Nanotech, so who cares?
Besides SPAM, domain grabbes get really annoying.
Maybe we should set up a Web 2.0 style DNS combined with a web ob trust (similiar to GPG).
Then such grapped domains that show only advertisement for years could just be given out for re-registration.
The only disadvantage would be that you would see different Webpages for the same URL, depending on what DNS/Web ob trust you use.
BTW, at the same time you could take more easily malicious URL out of the DNS more easily.
"A friend of mine had to sign one in order to start work at Agilent"
I did not know that Agilent actually pays for work. Always thought they just like to screw people over.
But wait. You actually said he started to work there, not that he got paid...
"They can't really 'own' you, but because they own any ideas you come up with during your time at the company, they can screw you for any derivations on your previous work."
Agilent will screw you anyway. Just avoid these scumbags.
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You screwed your wife. Simple fact. Does everybody have to know about it?
These guys committed a crime. They paid for it. Now they should be able to move on with their lives. Some criminals in the US pay for crimes in a way that they never can get a decent job again. This is not the idea in Germany. Also it is very very difficult in Germany to change your name, unlike in the US.
Yes, I think they either have a right to not have mentioned their full name or
at least get a new name to start over. Such an application for a name change would likely be rejected.
I actually was thinking about getting witopia exactly for this reason (I travel a lot). How difficult is it to insert country based advertisement based on the accessing IP? Not very difficult. But these guys seem to prefer to loose business to torrent.
"The Economist is a rare example of a printed paper that's still worth buying in print," Nope, isn't worth reading. I was used to love the economist. It helped me to learn and improve my English but what happened to it? It was was a free-market advocate and if I read it now "government should do this, should regulate that, should give incentives here should give subsidiaries there...".
Thanks, I pass and don't read it anymore, even if you can download the whole magazine FOR FREE:
http://avaxhome.ws/magazines/economics_business_finances/The_Economist_October_24th_October_30th_2009.html
Why bother?
Should have bought a Fritzbox instead...
Use the Fritzbox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRITZ!Box with this hack http://trac.freetz.org/
I use xfriend personal (20 US). For your problem you would need xfriend business: http://www.xfriend.de/de/business/loesungen/
You can subscribe to Playboy for US$ 12: https://w1.buysub.com/pubs/PY/PLY/PLY33578.jsp?cds_page_id=33578&cds_mag_code=PLY&id=1255408777221&lsid=92852339372032972&vid=1 If they can't compete by 12 bucks then they can't compete at all. What should they do? Give it away for free? I have not read Playboy in a long time. But today there are other topics than 30 years ago that interest men. MMA, SciFi, Fitness, Computer etc. Just look at men specific TV channels. Playboy does not deliver this. Porn can be had on the internet for free. Worse, Playboy does not offer much in this direction either. The last time I browsed it the pictures were so "artistic" that Marge Simpson is the right final for it. This does not come to a surprise. I know a woman who worked for Playboy. Guess who is the majority of the employees? Women. I am sure women can make good magazines. I am sure women can make naked women "feel comfortable" in front of a camera, I love women but I am also sure that I won't likely be interested in a magazine "What women think men like" AKA as Playboy. What men like and what women think men like are two very different things.
> I just can't come to grips with the fact that people will actually order stuff like this off the net.
> It would be no different than taking random drugs you bought off the street corner. It just seems insane to me.
Actually it isn't. A lot of this stuff comes out of pharmaceutical companies that either have FDA approval or work on a similar level. There is no "world wide patent". It would also to expensive to patent a drug world wide (let's say every African country). Some Viagra, as far as I know, comes from India. Pfizer might not, by whatever reason, have a patent there. Hence drugs from offshore pharmacies can be both, the real deal AND legal by using loop-holes.
Can you get pills that contain nothing or a wrong ingredient? Yes you can. But sorry to break the news to you, it is also well possible that you get counterfeit drugs from your own local pharmacy without you or them knowing. Your statement would then become "I just can't come to grips with the fact that people will actually buy stuff in pharmacies and don't pick it off from the manufacturer like Pfizer..."
A wide field...
"7 inch screen vs 14." Well, you may not have realized that smaller is more expensive when it comes to Laptops. The EEE was the first one to have broken this trend. My Sony 10" Laptop was US$ 1500 4 years ago and it was a bargain! You prefer an 14" screen? Fine, but there are people that prefer a small device, maybe as their 2nd or 3rd computer, that they can easily carry around. So easily that you can throw it in your handbag without the need for another laptop carry bag. "1GB of storage compared to 20GB." Again, you are comparing the wrong things. You compare a SDD vs. HDD. Do you know what is the most likely part in your laptop that will break?
I don't need a camera in my phone and the OpenMoko concept sounded interesting but the first phone came late, very late. It is a triband and not a Quad-band, which I would have prefered. The worst thing is: This phone needs 3 minutes to boot-up! Thanks, I pass!
> DNA decomposes from bactierial , chemical
Wron. You can use PNA or Nylon based "DNA".
> DNA is read slowly by biological means which is hardly easy to interface to digital systems.
[X] You have no idea how DNA could be used for computer chips.
Hint: Intal and IBM puting money into this!
Use DNA to self-assemble single walled carbon nano tubes and we are talking business.
> DNA is read sequentially , its not random access at the base level making it
s. above.
If you have no idead what you are taling about it is sometimes better to just shut up.
> because every reputable scientist in the field agrees with you: > Now, I don't really see any immediately obvious applications for this new molecule Such a "scientist" would be very dumb. But feel free to give names. BTW, it was published in JACS, this should give you a hint about the importance. > This article did nothing to expand our knowledge. It created knowledge new nucleotides. As far as I know similiar stuff already exists. > It didn't prove anything. Big surprise. While we have heard about prove in mathematics, it is new in science to me. Concerning the applications, start browsing here: http://seemanlab4.chem.nyu.edu/
"Really though, sales tax is always a regressive tax and I don't think it is a great idea in general for that reason..." Well, this is only partly true since rich people are more likely to buy a BMW than a Dodge. What I like about the sales tax is that it is always collected, no matter if the car is produced in the US or in China. Hence it would even make more sense to rise the sales tax to lets say 30% and lower the income taxes. This money could be used to pay the retirement obligations and maybe a general health care. It basically would at a penalty to imports.
Kary Mullis (Nobelprize winner for PCR) still keeps his rejection letters from Nature and Science for his PCR invention...
Quote: I'm an anarcho-capitalist, and a huge supporter of property rights, both physical and intellectual. For an Ancap intellecutal property rights should be highly suspicious, as you can easily read in "Machinery of freedom" from David Freedman. There is a very very easy and incredibly cheap way to protect your "intellectual property": keep it for you and don't disclose it! All the beneficiaries of "intellectual property" need the state to protect their "property" and the taxpayers money for the incredibly high cost of defending their "intellectual property". The rolling stones make Millions when they tour the world. Do they really need taxpayers money to make sure nobody sells bootlegs from they CDs? There are few ways in this world how you can become filthy rich. Most of them are: * "intellectual property" (Rock bands, Software companies like Microsoft) * work with FIAT money like Banks (government issued paper money) * Real estate (shortage of land by government regulations. You can't just start building a house where space is available) All this areas where disproportionate amount of money can be earned are highly government regulated and resources are artificially limited, money and wealth gets distributed from the bottom to the top. I wish this would become true: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all
I assumed it is but now I am not sure anymore...
$4k and $8k? Dude, you forgot a zero. Otherwise: Please post the contact information of the attorneys that work for this money. Are they in india?
There are different ways to do this. One would be with a suite like a computer screen that just shows what the observer would expect to see. Problems: Tremendous real time number crunching needed, problems that the object will still have a shadow etc. The elegant solution would be to use a body armor covered with a photonic crystal (Google). This would be one application of the 3D DNA nano crystal. Light would go in the amour, be guided around the body and exit the body, giving the impression that is was not reflected or diffracted -hence an object would be invisbile, at least for a part of the spectrum.
" Printing gold wouldn't be that much cheaper; it's simply not generally available, and until we start mining asteroids it will remain "unobtanium". " Why would you want to mine asteroids? There is enough Gold on the earth you just can't mine the trace amounts. But I am aware of people who do "nanomining". While I have not seen their results they claim have made successes.
"A 3D crystal might be cool" Yes. Cool like the only way to fabricate any designed, defined and predicted 3D nanostructures on the molecular scale. Cool like to capture proteins and hence be able to crystallize ANY given protein (what is quite difficult). Cool like to produce phonic crystals and cool like to be able to assemble 3D chips with Carbon nanotubes, guided by DNA self assembly. This kind of cool. " and could help lead to that but I wouldn't describing it as the 'holy grail' is a bit much" Sure. You wouldn't. On the other hand you don't have any idea of Nanotech, so who cares?
Besides SPAM, domain grabbes get really annoying. Maybe we should set up a Web 2.0 style DNS combined with a web ob trust (similiar to GPG). Then such grapped domains that show only advertisement for years could just be given out for re-registration. The only disadvantage would be that you would see different Webpages for the same URL, depending on what DNS/Web ob trust you use. BTW, at the same time you could take more easily malicious URL out of the DNS more easily.
Quote: "I don't know if vi or vim has a mail client" I've heard emacs has a great mail client. All emacs lacks is a good editor... **G**
Wyrd - "Because you're tired of waiting for your bloated calendar program to start up." http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pelzlpj/wyrd/ Enjoy!
"In Europe (at least in those parts that I know) it's fairly simple" Then you don't know many parts...
"A friend of mine had to sign one in order to start work at Agilent" I did not know that Agilent actually pays for work. Always thought they just like to screw people over. But wait. You actually said he started to work there, not that he got paid... "They can't really 'own' you, but because they own any ideas you come up with during your time at the company, they can screw you for any derivations on your previous work." Agilent will screw you anyway. Just avoid these scumbags. YOOY