Pro tip: it's a lot harder for your boss to blame his mistakes on you instead of himself when you're in India. Insecure management leads to secure employment.
Perhaps, but at the very least if YOUR DNA leads to some mega-conglomerate making billions of dollars the leas they could do for you is, I dunno, give YOU the drug?
I'll leave the arguments about plants and animals to someone else.... But Human DNA? No... I should own my own DNA sequence in perpetuity. No one should be able to patent it. I shouldn't be able to sell it. Period.
It's not legal. Congress passed a provision in the 80's to allow companies to patent genetically modified crops so someone couldn't simply steal some seeds and resell them. The provision does not cover animals, and certainly not human DNA. The courts have continually failed to distiguish between the 2 and since congress sees the united states ecenomic future and being the worlds patent troll, they go right along with this shameful practice. There are even several AIDS drugs that were derived directly from blood samples taken from desperately poor prosititutes in Africa. They actually patented the poor womens entire DNA sequence. If anything gets you sent to hell, it's this sort of crap.
There are often times in which I do not want the mouse cursor covering up what I'm looking at. For example, typing this would be an SOB if the cursor fallowed where I'm looking.
That's because you're buying crap MB and/or are uninterested in some of the features a high-end mother board can offer you.
For example you build a box for a MediaPC/File server. You want it small, you want low power and passive cooling. So you get a $300 motherboard with everything embeded, SATA raid, passive chipset cooling, HDMI outputs, optical audio input, the works. You have this setup for 3 years, it works great, then 3 days before your family comes to visit (they love watching movies on your media pc) your CPU dies. There's a new model out thats awesome, has great features... but oh no, not backward compatible with your motherboard. You don't have the money to drop $600 on both on a Wednesday so you end up ordering one compatible with your board and not upgrading. AMDs backwards compatibility lets their users upgrade whenever they want. It makes them more money.
Perhaps, but the cops are in a bad position. They are usually out numbered and have no idea what level of threat you are. I went to college... I did all sorts of stupid shit that got me in trouble all the time. I was charged with bullshit stuff by the police and hated them for it. But the one thing I didn't screw around with was: When I got pulled over, or was at a party that got busted, etc... When the cops showed up and told me to show my hands, I showed my god damned hands. Sure there are examples of abuse, you can find that with anything... but in almost all cases the person getting tazed could have avoided it at multiple points in the evening, the very last chance being when they decided not to do what the cops were telling them to do.
When you're a psychotic PCP crazed naked guy running down main street with a samurai sword, and the police chose to tazer you or flash you with a bright light, it's a whole new level of irony that you can then turn around and sue them for any negative side affects of the procedure they chose to use instead of shooting you in the head. I think we might all be better off if the police just went back to the old, much more lethal methods of threat mitigation.
Your statement shows not only your ignorance on this disaster and Chernobyl, but on nuclear safety itself. 30 people died in the immediate aftermath of what happened at Chernobyl. No one in japan has died from this reactor yet (although there may be some in the future.)
This reactor was hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, followed up by a 30 foot tidal wave. Had this happened to any other major source of power (coal, natural gas, hydroelectric) the death toll would have been in the hundreds... maybe in even the tens of thousands if it had been a hydroelectric damn.
Please, do some reading so you have some idea of what you're comparing this to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
Chernobyl was a horrific even, orders of magnitude more devastating that what's happening in Japan right now. Just the initial released was equal to a 50 kiloton atomic bomb going off.
Work for a company that doesn't allow you to have a compiler for a while and you'll understand. Embedded software in office documents is pretty much how I made it into a "real" job. When a managers options are: Hire 3 temps OR Have your programming department quote you a $30k project that will take 6 months and run over budget OR have that smart guy over there spend half an hour writing a script in an excel file... your choice is kind of made for you.
Thank god for that! Those damned Japanese not showing up to work because they're trapped under buildings, washed out to sea or irradiated by the folly of man... how dare they!!!
So 2 years after the show aired they suddenly have evidence in the form of on-board computer records? Records that anyone here on slashdot could easily forge not to mention the programmers at tesla. The idea that they have a an electric car that has a massively larger range than any other electric in the world is implausible enough, but the fact that its a sports car should be the nail in the coffin. Anyone that's ever raced electric RC cars knows that acceleration is the bane of battery life.
With what I know of batteries and electric motors, my guess is they are both correct. Teslas purported range is probably taken from doing 25mph (or less) on a closed track with no stops. I saw the top gear episode and there's no doubt that they hammered that car just like they do every other car they put on their track. If tesla really wants to argue their point they should ask a simple question... what was the range/fuel economy of the lotus while they were pounding it just as hard? Those super cars usually get as low as 1 or 2 miles per gallon while their being raced... and they have a 20 or 30 gallon tank on them at most? So it's likely it had even LESS range than the electric under the same conditions.
I can... basically I can demand the test. But most people aren't as internet smart as those of us on slashdot. My wife, for example, could never search for her symptoms on the various sites, parse out what was real info and what was a drug add and then makes suggestions to the Doctor. Most people just don't have the ability to parse the massive amount of information on the internet into something useful. They have shooting pain in their arm... the doctor tells them to take some aspirin, they believe the doctor. 2yrs later they have a heart attack... and are never aware that they had warning signs and the doctor was just too lazy or too cheap to do any real tests on them.
Since when has a University Professors role been "intellectuals working for the public good"?
They are paid teachers. Not paid Wikipedia editors. If Wikipedia wants them to contribute I'd suggest they stop insulting them and instead try and get them to at least submit references to their own papers on topics they are familiar with so other people can then quote out of them or something.
But the guy is right. What we're headed for is a smartphone like device hooked up to a pair of eyeglasses via bluetooth (or whatever) that have a heads up display in them. Eventually the phone will go away and be part of the glasses... then eventually the glasses will go away and be replaced by contacts. It's only a matter of time.
while I dont like the idea of a government router, I do like the idea that the government is trying to measure the speed consumers are actually receiving. So I'm going to say this is a good thing. If you're concerned about your privacy, don't sign up. If not, do us all a favor and help them do this measurement.
as a person that has had multiple undiagnosed illnesses over the years that I had to finally diagnose myself and then demand tests that my healthcare provider didn't want to administer, only to find out I indeed had the diseases I was concerned about (graves disease and pernicious anemia) I can state for a fact that there is a very simple way to preemptively diagnose disease.
In both cases I had symptoms that CLEARLY indicated the diseases I had. In both cases, standard rudimentary tests that cost just a few dollars would have been enough to diagnose the disease. My doctor had a screen in which he could order blood tests. It was a single screen with check boxes. All of the tests required to diagnose me were on those screen... but he'd only check 1 at a time. Then require me to come back and he'd run another. After months even years of getting nowhere I found out that I could request my test results. I found out that the doctors I had seen were running the same, useless tests over and over. Usually for iron deficiency or blood sugar level. They never checked my TSH level, they never checked my basic blood count. In the end I looked up the tests I needed and demanded them much to my Doctors dismay.
Want to diagnose people early? Run ALL the tests. TSH level should be a standard test run once a year. Thyroid problems affect 30% of the population! Most go undiagnosed. Pernicious anemia is also common, usually appears at age 30 and usually goes undiagnosed until it becomes so severe that it induces dementia at age 60!!! Both of the tests for these disease also cover dozens if not hundreds of other common ailments. How much money was my health care provider saving by skipping these tests? How much would it eventually have cost them for not treating it and then having to put me in a nursing home at age 60 because of the brain damaged suffered because of the anemia?
Tests are cheap, and the more you run then, the cheaper they will get. There's absolutely no reason not to do a full blood panel and test for a wide range of disease once a year at their physical.
Yes, 1 version of 1 distro out of hundreds uses more power than Win7 IF you have brand new video card from a manufacturer that puts out shitty linux drivers so the power managements not up to par. But you don't need a $300, brand new video card to run a browser do you? No.
They completely missed the fact that the only browser in their list which requires Windows is IE9. I'm guessing that ANY of the browsers would beat IE9 hands down if it were running on linux instead of Windows 7.
While I applaud the effort to crack down on incompetent business like this... I have to ask... who got the money from the fine? The victims? Doubt it...
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Pro tip: it's a lot harder for your boss to blame his mistakes on you instead of himself when you're in India. Insecure management leads to secure employment.
Perhaps, but at the very least if YOUR DNA leads to some mega-conglomerate making billions of dollars the leas they could do for you is, I dunno, give YOU the drug?
I'll leave the arguments about plants and animals to someone else.... But Human DNA? No... I should own my own DNA sequence in perpetuity. No one should be able to patent it. I shouldn't be able to sell it. Period.
Maybe the government will send it to Mars, maybe they wont. Even the space shuttle could have gone to mars, they just never sent it.
It's not legal. Congress passed a provision in the 80's to allow companies to patent genetically modified crops so someone couldn't simply steal some seeds and resell them. The provision does not cover animals, and certainly not human DNA. The courts have continually failed to distiguish between the 2 and since congress sees the united states ecenomic future and being the worlds patent troll, they go right along with this shameful practice. There are even several AIDS drugs that were derived directly from blood samples taken from desperately poor prosititutes in Africa. They actually patented the poor womens entire DNA sequence. If anything gets you sent to hell, it's this sort of crap.
There are often times in which I do not want the mouse cursor covering up what I'm looking at. For example, typing this would be an SOB if the cursor fallowed where I'm looking.
Lots of funny/stupid comments on here... but as someone thats losing his hair let me be the first to say "WOOOOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!!!"
That's because you're buying crap MB and/or are uninterested in some of the features a high-end mother board can offer you.
/File server. You want it small, you want low power and passive cooling. So you get a $300 motherboard with everything embeded, SATA raid, passive chipset cooling, HDMI outputs, optical audio input, the works. You have this setup for 3 years, it works great, then 3 days before your family comes to visit (they love watching movies on your media pc) your CPU dies. There's a new model out thats awesome, has great features... but oh no, not backward compatible with your motherboard. You don't have the money to drop $600 on both on a Wednesday so you end up ordering one compatible with your board and not upgrading. AMDs backwards compatibility lets their users upgrade whenever they want. It makes them more money.
For example you build a box for a MediaPC
Perhaps, but the cops are in a bad position. They are usually out numbered and have no idea what level of threat you are. I went to college... I did all sorts of stupid shit that got me in trouble all the time. I was charged with bullshit stuff by the police and hated them for it. But the one thing I didn't screw around with was: When I got pulled over, or was at a party that got busted, etc... When the cops showed up and told me to show my hands, I showed my god damned hands. Sure there are examples of abuse, you can find that with anything... but in almost all cases the person getting tazed could have avoided it at multiple points in the evening, the very last chance being when they decided not to do what the cops were telling them to do.
When you're a psychotic PCP crazed naked guy running down main street with a samurai sword, and the police chose to tazer you or flash you with a bright light, it's a whole new level of irony that you can then turn around and sue them for any negative side affects of the procedure they chose to use instead of shooting you in the head. I think we might all be better off if the police just went back to the old, much more lethal methods of threat mitigation.
Your statement shows not only your ignorance on this disaster and Chernobyl, but on nuclear safety itself. 30 people died in the immediate aftermath of what happened at Chernobyl. No one in japan has died from this reactor yet (although there may be some in the future.)
This reactor was hit by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, followed up by a 30 foot tidal wave. Had this happened to any other major source of power (coal, natural gas, hydroelectric) the death toll would have been in the hundreds... maybe in even the tens of thousands if it had been a hydroelectric damn.
Please, do some reading so you have some idea of what you're comparing this to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster_effects
Chernobyl was a horrific even, orders of magnitude more devastating that what's happening in Japan right now. Just the initial released was equal to a 50 kiloton atomic bomb going off.
Work for a company that doesn't allow you to have a compiler for a while and you'll understand. Embedded software in office documents is pretty much how I made it into a "real" job. When a managers options are: Hire 3 temps OR Have your programming department quote you a $30k project that will take 6 months and run over budget OR have that smart guy over there spend half an hour writing a script in an excel file... your choice is kind of made for you.
Thank god for that! Those damned Japanese not showing up to work because they're trapped under buildings, washed out to sea or irradiated by the folly of man... how dare they!!!
So 2 years after the show aired they suddenly have evidence in the form of on-board computer records? Records that anyone here on slashdot could easily forge not to mention the programmers at tesla. The idea that they have a an electric car that has a massively larger range than any other electric in the world is implausible enough, but the fact that its a sports car should be the nail in the coffin. Anyone that's ever raced electric RC cars knows that acceleration is the bane of battery life.
With what I know of batteries and electric motors, my guess is they are both correct. Teslas purported range is probably taken from doing 25mph (or less) on a closed track with no stops. I saw the top gear episode and there's no doubt that they hammered that car just like they do every other car they put on their track. If tesla really wants to argue their point they should ask a simple question... what was the range/fuel economy of the lotus while they were pounding it just as hard? Those super cars usually get as low as 1 or 2 miles per gallon while their being raced... and they have a 20 or 30 gallon tank on them at most? So it's likely it had even LESS range than the electric under the same conditions.
I can... basically I can demand the test. But most people aren't as internet smart as those of us on slashdot. My wife, for example, could never search for her symptoms on the various sites, parse out what was real info and what was a drug add and then makes suggestions to the Doctor. Most people just don't have the ability to parse the massive amount of information on the internet into something useful. They have shooting pain in their arm... the doctor tells them to take some aspirin, they believe the doctor. 2yrs later they have a heart attack... and are never aware that they had warning signs and the doctor was just too lazy or too cheap to do any real tests on them.
Since when has a University Professors role been "intellectuals working for the public good"?
They are paid teachers. Not paid Wikipedia editors. If Wikipedia wants them to contribute I'd suggest they stop insulting them and instead try and get them to at least submit references to their own papers on topics they are familiar with so other people can then quote out of them or something.
But the guy is right. What we're headed for is a smartphone like device hooked up to a pair of eyeglasses via bluetooth (or whatever) that have a heads up display in them. Eventually the phone will go away and be part of the glasses... then eventually the glasses will go away and be replaced by contacts. It's only a matter of time.
while I dont like the idea of a government router, I do like the idea that the government is trying to measure the speed consumers are actually receiving. So I'm going to say this is a good thing. If you're concerned about your privacy, don't sign up. If not, do us all a favor and help them do this measurement.
as a person that has had multiple undiagnosed illnesses over the years that I had to finally diagnose myself and then demand tests that my healthcare provider didn't want to administer, only to find out I indeed had the diseases I was concerned about (graves disease and pernicious anemia) I can state for a fact that there is a very simple way to preemptively diagnose disease.
In both cases I had symptoms that CLEARLY indicated the diseases I had. In both cases, standard rudimentary tests that cost just a few dollars would have been enough to diagnose the disease. My doctor had a screen in which he could order blood tests. It was a single screen with check boxes. All of the tests required to diagnose me were on those screen... but he'd only check 1 at a time. Then require me to come back and he'd run another. After months even years of getting nowhere I found out that I could request my test results. I found out that the doctors I had seen were running the same, useless tests over and over. Usually for iron deficiency or blood sugar level. They never checked my TSH level, they never checked my basic blood count. In the end I looked up the tests I needed and demanded them much to my Doctors dismay.
Want to diagnose people early? Run ALL the tests. TSH level should be a standard test run once a year. Thyroid problems affect 30% of the population! Most go undiagnosed. Pernicious anemia is also common, usually appears at age 30 and usually goes undiagnosed until it becomes so severe that it induces dementia at age 60!!! Both of the tests for these disease also cover dozens if not hundreds of other common ailments. How much money was my health care provider saving by skipping these tests? How much would it eventually have cost them for not treating it and then having to put me in a nursing home at age 60 because of the brain damaged suffered because of the anemia?
Tests are cheap, and the more you run then, the cheaper they will get. There's absolutely no reason not to do a full blood panel and test for a wide range of disease once a year at their physical.
Yes, 1 version of 1 distro out of hundreds uses more power than Win7 IF you have brand new video card from a manufacturer that puts out shitty linux drivers so the power managements not up to par. But you don't need a $300, brand new video card to run a browser do you? No.
They completely missed the fact that the only browser in their list which requires Windows is IE9. I'm guessing that ANY of the browsers would beat IE9 hands down if it were running on linux instead of Windows 7.
While I applaud the effort to crack down on incompetent business like this... I have to ask... who got the money from the fine? The victims? Doubt it...
Does anyone know if we have the technology to extract a molten core yet or are we just going to bury this?
Almost all ISPs already do this. If they don't they risk having blocks of IP addresses they own blacklisted by other ISPs.
NCWARN is an anti-nuclear political action group and you're citing them as if they were a credible source?
Because they plan on dotting the countryside with coal fired power plants to produce electricity for their ecofriendly cars right?