97% of the human genome is "junk" DNA. What does this mean? Simply, that any company who wants to patent a genetic sequence based on junk DNA can do so with no complication.
What I don't get is why all this padding? Is/was "God" a programmer for Microsoft?
Jokes aside, it also means that your DNA, for all intents, belongs to someone else. You're just renting it.
Fingerprinting is old and mature tech. DNA profiling is still very new, and not very reliable (when you're talking about 1:300,000,000 error in the most detailed profiling that's currently used, however rarely, that's not very reliable. Even less reliable when you're using 32 markers or even 16, when the error ratio goes down to 1:4,000,000 and 1:100,000 respectively). What makes it *even less reliable* is the absolutely pitiful methods employed to maintain records of custody of samples - cross contamination is a real danger, both in transit and inside the lab. Fingerprints can be a: taken on scene, b: sent through an AFIS terminal and c: matched ON SCENE. The chain of custody is limited to *1* and the possibility of cross contamination of the sample is ZERO.
But he's not. When you invade a country, you polarise its citizens against you. When you murder civilians, you polarise their relatives against YOUR citizens, you CREATE the problem you're supposedly preventing by murdering foreign civilians on their own soil. This is basic Human nature and that is something you cannot ever extinguish. People will kill for their freedom, and they will target those who attempt to stockade their freedom. If you speak with a long drawl or you wear the Star Spangled Banner on your sleeve, you are a target. Thank your President for that, but if you're one of those on foreign soil because you're following orders, I for one have no sympathy for you or your family. You are an idiot.
Your President is deliberately endangering you and your family, and he must be brought to task for that and for the murders that he is sanctioning on a daily basis.
"I've been many places in the world. Libya [of 2009] has the highest standard of living anywhere. America has the highest prison population anywhere, and the highest murder rate anywhere. Iraq just had its first "free" elections in my lifetime. Yay democracy. Speaking of which, I stand here in the middle of London, which by the way has probably the worst air in the world, and need to say this as a representative of a country which is supposedly run under a dictatorship [Nigeria]: Britain is by far the least democratic country I have ever been in."
Well let's see: Eire had three referenda on Lisbon. Three. Now, that's democracy. England got none. The rest of Europe voted and rejected the idea of blanket invasion of the Middle East. Now, that's democracy. England? Our Glorious Leaders decided they'd be America's lapdog and follow them in, without the rest of Europe. Without a vote on the issue.
Just because they got "voted in" (on a minority!) does NOT give them the automatic right to decide our long term future without consulting US FIRST.
It has been a subject of much hilarity in this office that we should be sent a threatening letter from yourselves, a self-authority in software licensing with little to no legal authority to follow through on your threat.
However, for your records it should be noted that as a registered company of Legal Advocates (Company #07248227), one of the things we tend to do is ensure that we operate completely legally. As software goes, this means the purchase of license keys as and when necessary. While we are not at liberty to discuss details for reasons of client information security and more to the point, national security, we can assure you and your employers at Microsoft and Adobe that our licenses are copasetic. When you can show the following, we would gladly participate in a full audit, at your expense and on your time:
1. SCI-5 clearance signed by the Minister for Defence and the Home and Foreign Secretaries; 2. Written Royal assent for the potential of disclosure of information which could affect the safety and security of Royal members, Crown properties and/or Subjects; 3. A commitment to Non-Disclosure under Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1989, by persons thereto authorised to carry out the audit; 4. Assent by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to cover the potential disclosure of information pertaining to live in camera proceedings; 5. Reference to the Authority of Law by which the BSA operate; 6. Reference to the Authority of Law which compels ourselves as individuals and the Company as a Legal entity to co-operate with a private concern whose singular purpose seems to be the extraction of money from legitimate businesses and individuals with zero return.
When (not before) all the above conditions are met, shall we even consider further correspondence.
Good Day to you, Sir.
-
Their response:
Sir,
We acknowledge receipt of your counteroffer, and hereby inform you that no further action shall be taken.
personal mobile neutrino transceivers with limitless range wireless comms for spelunkers and support/rescue personnel on the surface
Question: since the abstract is talking about a "beam" of neutrinos, does this mean that the thing is unidirectional? If so, I foresee a problem with applications like the above, however, there is a possibility to use it from fixed sites with literally a beeline between terminals - extreme narrowcasting of messages, especially if encrypted, would make for one hell of a secure transport layer particularly if you can measure the density of neutrinos hitting the receiver - you can instantly tell if the messages are being intercepted. If the beam is going through the *planet*, you can be pretty sure it ain't getting intercepted.
I remember when Tomorrow's World did the whole song and dance about CDs, you got one of the presenters (Judith Hann I think it was) scratching the surface of a disc, then putting it in the player... and the soundtrack coming from a different device! "See, even damaged the disc plays perfectly!"
Yeah, right. One smudge and the bloody thing skips.
It's 50% substrate, 50% storage environment. My CDs are stored at a constant dry 25C (same conditions as my videotapes, in fact). Some of them are well over 20 years old. Some of my videos date from the mid-80's. I've yet to come across one of my tapes that loses itself around a head or a CD that delaminates itself inside a player (oh yeah, seen that when the missus put one of her discs in her deck and the thing just/shattered/. She'd kept it, of all places, out the case, on top of the DVD player - so even if it didn't shatter it was doubtful that it would have actually played).
I remember lifted ET tapes going for £85, I thought it was just crazed faddishness. Later I learned that library quality tape is much more durable than what you find in budget-shelf cassettes. I mean, MUCH thicker and with much denser magnetic trace. You could leave one library tape (oh, go on, ET) on a shelf next to a Maxell E180 with the same movie, guess which one will be still watchable in ten, fifteen, twenty years?
I'm still there. Still trawling through over four thousand tapes, ripping what I can't buy on pressed DVD or download off the 'Net (you know what? I don't care where it comes from; nobody has told me *how* I can or can't format shift, only that precedent says it's actually legal to format shift).
I have an example of how idiotic the studios are: in 1980, Universal published the final season of Battlestar Galactica. In 1987, I recorded said show on VHS. From that point until February 2008, my only source of that show were those tapes (it was not available on prerecorded VHS, period. I ripped them to digital around 2004, which was lucky because the tapes by that time were incredibly well worn 3rd generation copies and ready to break). I did buy the DVDs the day they came out but I was royally PISSED OFF that Universal had waited so bleedin' long!
In the strictly legal sense, yes by that example I am a "pirate". Fuck it, I'll put my hand up to it. But you know what? If the studio had released the show a: on library quality tape soon after airing in the UK, b: on DVD when practicable and not just to cashcow the Larson/Moore rework, then I'd be less inclined to say "fuck the studios, I want what I want NOW, not on their schedule!"
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97% of the human genome is "junk" DNA. What does this mean? Simply, that any company who wants to patent a genetic sequence based on junk DNA can do so with no complication.
What I don't get is why all this padding? Is/was "God" a programmer for Microsoft?
Jokes aside, it also means that your DNA, for all intents, belongs to someone else. You're just renting it.
He wasn't promptly removed from office - he finished his incumbent term then did another four!
Fingerprinting is old and mature tech. DNA profiling is still very new, and not very reliable (when you're talking about 1:300,000,000 error in the most detailed profiling that's currently used, however rarely, that's not very reliable. Even less reliable when you're using 32 markers or even 16, when the error ratio goes down to 1:4,000,000 and 1:100,000 respectively). What makes it *even less reliable* is the absolutely pitiful methods employed to maintain records of custody of samples - cross contamination is a real danger, both in transit and inside the lab. Fingerprints can be a: taken on scene, b: sent through an AFIS terminal and c: matched ON SCENE. The chain of custody is limited to *1* and the possibility of cross contamination of the sample is ZERO.
ACLU are first in line when it comes to defending the rights of people who clearly don't deserve it, where are they right now??
interesting question. Any Virtualbox devs in the house?
... If your mission critical server is still running Windows, then you're doing it wrong...
FTFY. :)
(just to please up the anti-microsoft crowd...)
See? Europe works! NOT!
But he's not. When you invade a country, you polarise its citizens against you. When you murder civilians, you polarise their relatives against YOUR citizens, you CREATE the problem you're supposedly preventing by murdering foreign civilians on their own soil. This is basic Human nature and that is something you cannot ever extinguish. People will kill for their freedom, and they will target those who attempt to stockade their freedom. If you speak with a long drawl or you wear the Star Spangled Banner on your sleeve, you are a target. Thank your President for that, but if you're one of those on foreign soil because you're following orders, I for one have no sympathy for you or your family. You are an idiot.
Your President is deliberately endangering you and your family, and he must be brought to task for that and for the murders that he is sanctioning on a daily basis.
Mod up. In the words of Dele Ogun:
"I've been many places in the world. Libya [of 2009] has the highest standard of living anywhere. America has the highest prison population anywhere, and the highest murder rate anywhere. Iraq just had its first "free" elections in my lifetime. Yay democracy. Speaking of which, I stand here in the middle of London, which by the way has probably the worst air in the world, and need to say this as a representative of a country which is supposedly run under a dictatorship [Nigeria]: Britain is by far the least democratic country I have ever been in."
Well let's see: Eire had three referenda on Lisbon. Three. Now, that's democracy. England got none.
The rest of Europe voted and rejected the idea of blanket invasion of the Middle East. Now, that's democracy. England? Our Glorious Leaders decided they'd be America's lapdog and follow them in, without the rest of Europe. Without a vote on the issue.
Just because they got "voted in" (on a minority!) does NOT give them the automatic right to decide our long term future without consulting US FIRST.
I'm sure the families of those sixteen Afghan civilians killed by an American soldier the other day will be very comforted by those words.
They do now.
very Hitler Youth, "Shop Your Family"... ...did I just TEC myself?
Remember that case well. Quoted it often.
This is all I can find...
Dear BSA,
It has been a subject of much hilarity in this office that we should be sent a threatening letter from yourselves, a self-authority in software licensing with little to no legal authority to follow through on your threat.
However, for your records it should be noted that as a registered company of Legal Advocates (Company #07248227), one of the things we tend to do is ensure that we operate completely legally. As software goes, this means the purchase of license keys as and when necessary. While we are not at liberty to discuss details for reasons of client information security and more to the point, national security, we can assure you and your employers at Microsoft and Adobe that our licenses are copasetic. When you can show the following, we would gladly participate in a full audit, at your expense and on your time:
1. SCI-5 clearance signed by the Minister for Defence and the Home and Foreign Secretaries;
2. Written Royal assent for the potential of disclosure of information which could affect the safety and security of Royal members, Crown properties and/or Subjects;
3. A commitment to Non-Disclosure under Section 4 of the Official Secrets Act 1989, by persons thereto authorised to carry out the audit;
4. Assent by the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales to cover the potential disclosure of information pertaining to live in camera proceedings;
5. Reference to the Authority of Law by which the BSA operate;
6. Reference to the Authority of Law which compels ourselves as individuals and the Company as a Legal entity to co-operate with a private concern whose singular purpose seems to be the extraction of money from legitimate businesses and individuals with zero return.
When (not before) all the above conditions are met, shall we even consider further correspondence.
Good Day to you, Sir.
-
Their response:
Sir,
We acknowledge receipt of your counteroffer, and hereby inform you that no further action shall be taken.
Faithfully,
pp.
I can see so many applications for this:
personal mobile neutrino transceivers with limitless range
wireless comms for spelunkers and support/rescue personnel on the surface
Question: since the abstract is talking about a "beam" of neutrinos, does this mean that the thing is unidirectional? If so, I foresee a problem with applications like the above, however, there is a possibility to use it from fixed sites with literally a beeline between terminals - extreme narrowcasting of messages, especially if encrypted, would make for one hell of a secure transport layer particularly if you can measure the density of neutrinos hitting the receiver - you can instantly tell if the messages are being intercepted. If the beam is going through the *planet*, you can be pretty sure it ain't getting intercepted.
I remember when Tomorrow's World did the whole song and dance about CDs, you got one of the presenters (Judith Hann I think it was) scratching the surface of a disc, then putting it in the player... and the soundtrack coming from a different device! "See, even damaged the disc plays perfectly!"
Yeah, right. One smudge and the bloody thing skips.
It's 50% substrate, 50% storage environment. My CDs are stored at a constant dry 25C (same conditions as my videotapes, in fact). Some of them are well over 20 years old. Some of my videos date from the mid-80's. I've yet to come across one of my tapes that loses itself around a head or a CD that delaminates itself inside a player (oh yeah, seen that when the missus put one of her discs in her deck and the thing just /shattered/. She'd kept it, of all places, out the case, on top of the DVD player - so even if it didn't shatter it was doubtful that it would have actually played).
Shouldn't it be "3.14159... things to do on Pi day"?
Format shifting for personal use, if not specifically rendered illegal by Statute, is fundamentally LEGAL.
This is true for ANYTHING.
I remember lifted ET tapes going for £85, I thought it was just crazed faddishness. Later I learned that library quality tape is much more durable than what you find in budget-shelf cassettes. I mean, MUCH thicker and with much denser magnetic trace. You could leave one library tape (oh, go on, ET) on a shelf next to a Maxell E180 with the same movie, guess which one will be still watchable in ten, fifteen, twenty years?
I'm still there. Still trawling through over four thousand tapes, ripping what I can't buy on pressed DVD or download off the 'Net (you know what? I don't care where it comes from; nobody has told me *how* I can or can't format shift, only that precedent says it's actually legal to format shift).
I have an example of how idiotic the studios are: in 1980, Universal published the final season of Battlestar Galactica. In 1987, I recorded said show on VHS. From that point until February 2008, my only source of that show were those tapes (it was not available on prerecorded VHS, period. I ripped them to digital around 2004, which was lucky because the tapes by that time were incredibly well worn 3rd generation copies and ready to break). I did buy the DVDs the day they came out but I was royally PISSED OFF that Universal had waited so bleedin' long!
In the strictly legal sense, yes by that example I am a "pirate". Fuck it, I'll put my hand up to it. But you know what? If the studio had released the show a: on library quality tape soon after airing in the UK, b: on DVD when practicable and not just to cashcow the Larson/Moore rework, then I'd be less inclined to say "fuck the studios, I want what I want NOW, not on their schedule!"
Windows Media Center?
XBMC+DVD2XBOX?
'cos if it does, I'll be upset. I just got everything working the way I like it.
<voice="Mr_T">Don't go too fast, fool, or Ah clench my buttocks together an' snap yo dick off...!"</>
Magna Carta 1297, Clause 29: "... We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right."
Representation that acts in your interest is your Lawfully guaranteed RIGHT! It does NOT depend on your status or role.
if all else fails (which it pretty much has)... then yes.