This comparison is irrelevant. If the proposal here was to require only persons of a certain race or ethnicity to carry DNA-encoded identity cards we would have this kind of problem. But the government wants to require EVERYONE to carry a DNA-encoded identity card. That's slightly different than the Nazi allusion you are making.
The relevant comparison is not the maximum power consumption but the average power consumption during use. The hard drive is always spinning (basically) while the CPU can scale itself down when you're doing nothing. Unless you are playing Quake on your laptop, the hard drive probably rivals the CPU in average power consumption.
The wiki article says no such thing. From the article:
"Although it is produced in most autotrophic organisms, star anise is the industrial source of shikimic acid, a primary ingredient used to create the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Tamiflu is regarded as the most promising drug to mitigate the severity of bird flu (H5N1); however, reports indicate that some forms of the virus have already adapted to Tamiflu.
A shortage of star anise is one of the key reasons why there is a worldwide shortage of Tamiflu (as of 2005). Star anise is grown in four provinces in China and harvested between March and May. The shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds in a ten-stage manufacturing process which takes a year. Reports say 90% of the harvest is already used by the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche in making Tamiflu, but other reports say there is an abundance of the spice in the main regions - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan."
A more efficient method of doing another portion of the synthesis was recently discovered, but shikimic acid still comes from Chinese star anise.
Any chemical that can be synthesized biologically should be perfectly capable of being synthesized in-vitro. Any protein can be cloned and synthesized en masse. This scenario isn't very realistic, and smacks of ultra-enviromentalist garbage... like anti-GM-crop people.
This statement is categorically untrue. Tamiflu is made from an element of Chinese star anise. Are you surprised by the fact that 90% of the Chinese star anise in the world is used to make Tamiflu? Imagine if Chinese star anise is rarer than it is.
I think that's the point of the OP. Just saying you have 128 bits doesn't guarantee any level of security depending on the implementation of the encryption scheme.
There has to be some empirical data undergirding the models used, and there has to be some empirical confirmation of the results of the simulations run from that model. The new technique can be used for both of these purposes. After all, it's entirely possible to build an internally-consistent model of the world that may be quite wrong. See "brane theory" and it's ten-dimensions.
The money would be there for an anti-MRSA antibiotic. An ameliorative treatment for colon cancer that prolonged life was priced at $100,000 a year. Instead of reciting the trite tripe about recouping R&D costs, the president of the company said something like, "It lets them live." A MRSA treatment would be a blockbuster because it'll probably work against lots of stuff.
Furthermore, this substance is just the first of its class. In this age of genetic engineering, it wouldn't be far-fetched to say that scientists will get the novel mechanism of action more and more efficient. Look at the evolution of all the current antibiotics, which work in basically the same way but vary in effectiveness.
Of course, it'll be a longshot that the drug will make it to market, but that does not mean other drugs based on it will not. Nor does it mean that the money will not be there to attract investment.
In my experience, the problem is that Vonage and other pure VOIP services cannot compete with the deals the good ol' telcos and even cable cos can ring up. Verizon and Time Warner, for instance, offer great bundles on DSL/POTS/wireless or cable/cable internet/VOIP for a steal compared to obtaining such services separately. And remember, Vonage does not offer cell phone service or cable TV just yet. Antitrust?
My overall opinion is that this Koraraa guy ought to grow a pair and wait to see what the non-basement-dwelling grownups have to say about his distro's licensing.
I'm sure it's easy to act ballsy when your pair isn't at risk. He's probably making the distro for free and any attorneys fees he racks up is just lost money. Why would he launch at risk when he has no benefits to derive from doing so?
Criminal laws (at least in the United States) require the specific intent to commit the crime. For instance, that's the difference between murder and manslaughter. In both cases, the defendant has killed someone, but the difference is what was going through their minds at the time they pulled the trigger. There are rare crimes where scienter is not required, such as causing the distribution of adulterated drugs into interstate commerce. In those situations, it does not matter what you intended to do--if you did the act, you will be convicted. But generally, if you did not mean to spam someone, and you can prove it, then you won't be convicted even if you did spam someone.
Anyone else starting to feel.. (Score:5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11, @06:50PM (#15313442)..that using the word extreme should be illegal?
I don't know about you guys, but I just downloaded the Blue Frog client to return fire at the spammers. Yes, there is the risk of personally being spammed to heck. However, these guys have to be put in their place. We cannot cave into this houliganism. Imagine all the spam they have been sending with the botnet they used to dDOS TypePad and Tucows. We have to kick some spammer ass.
And how the heck did they do that "black hole" thing? Did that require rooting the tier one ISP or is it a truly "outside" attack akin to a DDOS? Because if it wasn't the ISP's fault, then the Internet has problems.
SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture?
GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across.
By reading the article, you get the sense he is not a very "techy" kind of guy. He even admits to as much. I do believe that he was able to access government military computers. But that quote above shows he did not access the images he claimed to have. Did he hack into a NASA security camera that happened to be pointed at the screen? Or did he mean "cursor"? I dunna. He said "the guy's hand"...
There are interesting considerations that have gone into the design of the warnings. For the Yucca Repository, the warning contains a disclaimer akin to, "No achievement of ours is worshipped here." The fear is that future generations will think we buried our treasure there, or set up some elaborate tomb like King Tut's. Future generations may understand the warning about sickness and death, but consider it a "curse" meant to dissuade grave robbers or the like. Perhaps they'll all be cavemen in the future if they cannot detect the radioactivity, but what if they've all moved to solar panels or fusion or some crazy, non-polluting technology we can never imagine? Furthermore, what if they don't have the equipment on an archeological dig, or some random guy who was digging a mine finds it and decides to go treasure hunting by himself? And the casks are meant to hide the radioactivity so you cannot detect it until you opened the cask? There are many bizarre things scientists have thought about when designing the cask. It's interesting to read about.
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Well, brane theory (a.k.a. string theory) is kind of funky. It posits that there are parallel universes (branes) that are tied to each other in different dimensions. There was an explosion that forced the branes apart, although they are still tied together through another dimension. As the branes (universes) spread themselves out, the force connecting them get weaker. Each brane starts to die entropically. (All the higher energy states have been taken and only chaos can exist; no ordered states are possible). At some point, the force from the initial explosion is not enough to overcome the "force" exerted by the bridging dimension to keep the branes apart. The branes then collide with each other again. There is another big bang caused by this collision.
Dimensions are weird things. Imagine a two-dimensional plane that goes on infinitely. For a finite, two-dimensional being on that plane, there can only be two-dimensions. As far as he can see, his Universe is the only one. But there can be a million other dimensions stacked onto his in the third dimension. He is just one page on the book, but he cannot observe that third plane. Brane theory observes that just because X dimensions exist, that does not mean we experience all of them.
Think about time as the fourth dimension. Basically, a n-dimension allows you to add an infinite amount of things on the same place in a (n-1)-dimension world. In a two-dimensional world, you can stack many lines onto each other in the second dimension along the plane. A two-dimension sheet can be stacked infinitely in the third-dimension, so many objects can share the same two-dimensional space along the third-dimension. Many objects can exist at the same three-dimension coordinates but at different times.
What if there are more than one time-dimensions? Or more than three-spatial dimensions? Is there any postulate that says we can observe them all if they exist? That's kind of the battle because there can be no direct "proof" of any other dimensions, if they exist. Yet the other dimensions can still affect our dimension. That's why cosmology seems to be so made: because it is.
It's so nice to see old-school geeks at work. I don't mean that in a bad way. Corey is known for the Corey-House process in organic chemistry, and basically is the father of organic chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and it isn't surprising he hasn't patented the process. Of course, he's also infamous for a suicide of one of his graduate students...
The tech support technicians have caller ID. They can verify that you are calling from your home phone. The security risks are therefore greatly reduced, because a hacker would presumably know your address already if he already could spoof your phone number. Have you ever wondered why you have to activate your credit card from your home phone?
Spin Rite was a great scam. Gibson posited that hard disk magnets weakened over time, so that they would eventually fail. Spin Rite would "correct" them by creating mistakes (indirectly) and then fixing them. Sigh.
The ONLY feature I want from Vista is scaling fonts correctly. I have high-res monitors and everything gets tiny because the OS will not correct pixels to points correctly. I hate it. Vista will fix it.
If you assume that there are lessons learned from failure, then you would like to hire him after he spent someone else's money making the mistakes. That's the theory, at least.
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This comparison is irrelevant. If the proposal here was to require only persons of a certain race or ethnicity to carry DNA-encoded identity cards we would have this kind of problem. But the government wants to require EVERYONE to carry a DNA-encoded identity card. That's slightly different than the Nazi allusion you are making.
The relevant comparison is not the maximum power consumption but the average power consumption during use. The hard drive is always spinning (basically) while the CPU can scale itself down when you're doing nothing. Unless you are playing Quake on your laptop, the hard drive probably rivals the CPU in average power consumption.
From the article you linked:
"(Note: This screen is from build 5381, although the application looks identical in Beta 2.) "
Someone has to buy the boy the game, right?
The wiki article says no such thing. From the article:
"Although it is produced in most autotrophic organisms, star anise is the industrial source of shikimic acid, a primary ingredient used to create the anti-flu drug Tamiflu. Tamiflu is regarded as the most promising drug to mitigate the severity of bird flu (H5N1); however, reports indicate that some forms of the virus have already adapted to Tamiflu.
A shortage of star anise is one of the key reasons why there is a worldwide shortage of Tamiflu (as of 2005). Star anise is grown in four provinces in China and harvested between March and May. The shikimic acid is extracted from the seeds in a ten-stage manufacturing process which takes a year. Reports say 90% of the harvest is already used by the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche in making Tamiflu, but other reports say there is an abundance of the spice in the main regions - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan."
A more efficient method of doing another portion of the synthesis was recently discovered, but shikimic acid still comes from Chinese star anise.
This statement is categorically untrue. Tamiflu is made from an element of Chinese star anise. Are you surprised by the fact that 90% of the Chinese star anise in the world is used to make Tamiflu? Imagine if Chinese star anise is rarer than it is.
I think that's the point of the OP. Just saying you have 128 bits doesn't guarantee any level of security depending on the implementation of the encryption scheme.
There has to be some empirical data undergirding the models used, and there has to be some empirical confirmation of the results of the simulations run from that model. The new technique can be used for both of these purposes. After all, it's entirely possible to build an internally-consistent model of the world that may be quite wrong. See "brane theory" and it's ten-dimensions.
The money would be there for an anti-MRSA antibiotic. An ameliorative treatment for colon cancer that prolonged life was priced at $100,000 a year. Instead of reciting the trite tripe about recouping R&D costs, the president of the company said something like, "It lets them live." A MRSA treatment would be a blockbuster because it'll probably work against lots of stuff.
Furthermore, this substance is just the first of its class. In this age of genetic engineering, it wouldn't be far-fetched to say that scientists will get the novel mechanism of action more and more efficient. Look at the evolution of all the current antibiotics, which work in basically the same way but vary in effectiveness.
Of course, it'll be a longshot that the drug will make it to market, but that does not mean other drugs based on it will not. Nor does it mean that the money will not be there to attract investment.
In my experience, the problem is that Vonage and other pure VOIP services cannot compete with the deals the good ol' telcos and even cable cos can ring up. Verizon and Time Warner, for instance, offer great bundles on DSL/POTS/wireless or cable/cable internet/VOIP for a steal compared to obtaining such services separately. And remember, Vonage does not offer cell phone service or cable TV just yet. Antitrust?
My overall opinion is that this Koraraa guy ought to grow a pair and wait to see what the non-basement-dwelling grownups have to say about his distro's licensing.
I'm sure it's easy to act ballsy when your pair isn't at risk. He's probably making the distro for free and any attorneys fees he racks up is just lost money. Why would he launch at risk when he has no benefits to derive from doing so?
Criminal laws (at least in the United States) require the specific intent to commit the crime. For instance, that's the difference between murder and manslaughter. In both cases, the defendant has killed someone, but the difference is what was going through their minds at the time they pulled the trigger. There are rare crimes where scienter is not required, such as causing the distribution of adulterated drugs into interstate commerce. In those situations, it does not matter what you intended to do--if you did the act, you will be convicted. But generally, if you did not mean to spam someone, and you can prove it, then you won't be convicted even if you did spam someone.
Anyone else starting to feel.. ..that using the word extreme should be illegal?
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11, @06:50PM (#15313442)
Extremely so.
I don't know about you guys, but I just downloaded the Blue Frog client to return fire at the spammers. Yes, there is the risk of personally being spammed to heck. However, these guys have to be put in their place. We cannot cave into this houliganism. Imagine all the spam they have been sending with the botnet they used to dDOS TypePad and Tucows. We have to kick some spammer ass.
And how the heck did they do that "black hole" thing? Did that require rooting the tier one ISP or is it a truly "outside" attack akin to a DDOS? Because if it wasn't the ISP's fault, then the Internet has problems.
Its up to us to keep the grammer nazi tradition a live, hear, bcmm.
SK: You were actually cut off the time you were downloading the picture?
GM: Yes, I saw the guy's hand move across.
By reading the article, you get the sense he is not a very "techy" kind of guy. He even admits to as much. I do believe that he was able to access government military computers. But that quote above shows he did not access the images he claimed to have. Did he hack into a NASA security camera that happened to be pointed at the screen? Or did he mean "cursor"? I dunna. He said "the guy's hand"...
There are interesting considerations that have gone into the design of the warnings. For the Yucca Repository, the warning contains a disclaimer akin to, "No achievement of ours is worshipped here." The fear is that future generations will think we buried our treasure there, or set up some elaborate tomb like King Tut's. Future generations may understand the warning about sickness and death, but consider it a "curse" meant to dissuade grave robbers or the like. Perhaps they'll all be cavemen in the future if they cannot detect the radioactivity, but what if they've all moved to solar panels or fusion or some crazy, non-polluting technology we can never imagine? Furthermore, what if they don't have the equipment on an archeological dig, or some random guy who was digging a mine finds it and decides to go treasure hunting by himself? And the casks are meant to hide the radioactivity so you cannot detect it until you opened the cask? There are many bizarre things scientists have thought about when designing the cask. It's interesting to read about.
Well, brane theory (a.k.a. string theory) is kind of funky. It posits that there are parallel universes (branes) that are tied to each other in different dimensions. There was an explosion that forced the branes apart, although they are still tied together through another dimension. As the branes (universes) spread themselves out, the force connecting them get weaker. Each brane starts to die entropically. (All the higher energy states have been taken and only chaos can exist; no ordered states are possible). At some point, the force from the initial explosion is not enough to overcome the "force" exerted by the bridging dimension to keep the branes apart. The branes then collide with each other again. There is another big bang caused by this collision.
Dimensions are weird things. Imagine a two-dimensional plane that goes on infinitely. For a finite, two-dimensional being on that plane, there can only be two-dimensions. As far as he can see, his Universe is the only one. But there can be a million other dimensions stacked onto his in the third dimension. He is just one page on the book, but he cannot observe that third plane. Brane theory observes that just because X dimensions exist, that does not mean we experience all of them.
Think about time as the fourth dimension. Basically, a n-dimension allows you to add an infinite amount of things on the same place in a (n-1)-dimension world. In a two-dimensional world, you can stack many lines onto each other in the second dimension along the plane. A two-dimension sheet can be stacked infinitely in the third-dimension, so many objects can share the same two-dimensional space along the third-dimension. Many objects can exist at the same three-dimension coordinates but at different times.
What if there are more than one time-dimensions? Or more than three-spatial dimensions? Is there any postulate that says we can observe them all if they exist? That's kind of the battle because there can be no direct "proof" of any other dimensions, if they exist. Yet the other dimensions can still affect our dimension. That's why cosmology seems to be so made: because it is.
It's so nice to see old-school geeks at work. I don't mean that in a bad way. Corey is known for the Corey-House process in organic chemistry, and basically is the father of organic chemistry. He won the Nobel Prize in 1990, and it isn't surprising he hasn't patented the process. Of course, he's also infamous for a suicide of one of his graduate students...
The tech support technicians have caller ID. They can verify that you are calling from your home phone. The security risks are therefore greatly reduced, because a hacker would presumably know your address already if he already could spoof your phone number. Have you ever wondered why you have to activate your credit card from your home phone?
Spin Rite was a great scam. Gibson posited that hard disk magnets weakened over time, so that they would eventually fail. Spin Rite would "correct" them by creating mistakes (indirectly) and then fixing them. Sigh.
I guess the source code is provided. How many people will really read it?
The question is how many people will compile the source code themselves and compare the binaries?
The ONLY feature I want from Vista is scaling fonts correctly. I have high-res monitors and everything gets tiny because the OS will not correct pixels to points correctly. I hate it. Vista will fix it.
If you assume that there are lessons learned from failure, then you would like to hire him after he spent someone else's money making the mistakes. That's the theory, at least.
Ask Valerie Plame if freedom of speech has no costs.