"Can we expect anyone who followed a warrantless wiretap from the Bush administration to also be fired then? I mean, they violated our privacy as well.
I wish I could mod that comment up. If it'd been a normal comment, it would've gotten +5 Insightful in no time flat.
My god people, is slashdot actually linking to ABC action news? I mean come on, firstly the summary (of the summary) is woefully incomplete.. Even though the original link also belongs to ABC at least it doesnt have the word "action" attached to "news". I'm just waiting for ABC's next upgrade to SEXY, ACTION NEWS... a bit elitist? Maybe.. but at least the original link clarifies the story rather than leaving out information in order to make the story more "exciting".. From TFA: "NASA isn't sure where the spider could have gone." Doesn't mean they don't have an idea..
From the original article: "Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says that while only one spider is visible, that doesn't mean the other is missing. 'We don't believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days."
This doesnt surprise me at all. Console makers pay studios good money to get exclusive first rights. The Playstation consoles was a great success but somehow I don't think it would've been had it not been for the exhaustive list of exclusives compared to Xbox. Devil May Cry, Tekken, Final Fantasy, GTA 3. Yea, some of those were eventually ported over to the xbox.. months later and yeah xbox had the Halo series, but that was after Microsoft had bought Bungie that they managed to get Halo. I remember reading in GamesTM that Rockstar studios had approached Sony about making GTA 4 exclusive for the PS3 and were surprised when Sony werent willing to cough up the dough. It wouldnt be a stretch of the imagination thinking that a few more PS3s would've been sold if that was the only chance gamers would've had of playing GTA4
Additionally, a lot of studios are afraid of piracy and that most definitely would act as a deterrent. Argue all you like why they shouldn't be but with all the DRM buzz flying around titles such as Spore, it's obvious to be pretty high on their agenda. I wouldn't be surprised if studios would rather release games on consoles to generate the most profit due to hype/new release status before releasing it onto PC. And yes, I am aware that it is possible to pirate console games.. with the aid of a mod chip, add on, etc vs. downloading a game off bittorrent that's already been cracked.
I remember reading about this ages ago but never followed up on it. Here's the result straight from Michael Righi's blog and it's a pretty interesting read, although it focuses more on him being arrested due to refusing to show his driver's licence, so decide yourself if this should be modded off topic or not. Some highlights:
"In the days that followed a few things changed. First, I learned that the prosecutor was more interested in protecting the city against a civil law suit than she was in silencing my speech. Prosecutor Hillary Goldberg was willing to drop my charges and expunge my record if I promised not to sue. Although this was welcome news I still wanted to fight the charges in court in order to set a legal precedent for others."
Here's the original article with a bunch more pics and a video at the bottom. They did this feature first and interviewed him after, so it kinda makes sense to browse this before clicking the original link I posted:)
I was thinking the exact same thing. I didn't realize that men and women have different genomes. According to this page
"Surprisingly, a male genome is not the same as a female genome â" and it even appears that genomes may be engaged in a genetic 'tug of war' within a developing embryo."
It continues saying
"An example is the insulin-like growth factor system, which has a strong influence on the size of a baby. The logic is that the paternal genome works to maximise the growth of the offspring, to give it the best chance of survival when it is born. The maternal genome, though, protects the mother, so she can go through further pregnancies.
Male and female genomes may be constantly battling with one another, driven by evolutionary pressures to ensure that their genes survive and spread."
"Willard and Carrel's work has focused largely on x chromosome inactivation, and the way in which this expresses itself in between-and-within sex phenotypes. Hotz quotes Willard: "In essence, there is not one human genome, but two: male and female."
As discussed in a previous post, Steven Pinker (2005) theorizes that there is greater variation in ability in males; basically, that males are the guinea pigs for evolutionary change. This is part of Pinker's explanation of why men are overrepresented at the highest levels of achievement. Critics such as Chabris and Glickman (2006) have attempted to disprove this using examples such as chess achievement, but Hotz suggests that Willard and Carrel's research may have found genetic evidence to the contrary: "Females can differ from each other almost as much as they do from males in the way many genes at the heart of sexual identity behave."
One last article, I promise:) But I find this stuff pretty interesting as I never realized there was a difference:
"Analysis of the "X" chromosome - the female sex chromosome - has revealed that women are genetically more complicated than men. The findings reveal that men have taken a genetic battering that has dwindled the size of their own "Y" chromosome.
The battle of the sexes has its roots in a 300-million-year struggle between the X and the Y chromosomes which have vied with each other for influence over successive generations of males and females. Scientists showed yesterday that the X chromosome has retained its physical integrity while the Y of men has dwindled in size and power to become a shadow of its former self."
Now I am definitely oversimplifying this, but it seems the X and Y chromosome play a pretty big part in the difference. Odd how I never put 2 and 2 together. But if this has been known for so long, why hasn't anyone taken the time to map out a female genome before? Breast cancer is a pretty obvious female specific disease, so it strikes me odd that if the human genome has been mapped out since 2003 that no one has done this before.
Ken didn't forget to build a way out. I first read about this via this interview.
"The idea to build the car in the basement is pretty simple really. I recalled back to my childhood again and remember my Dad's car projects always being put on hold during the winter because we couldn't afford to heat the one car garage. Sure I could heat my garage and do the work in there, but then my cars would have to sit in the driveway. I live in Wisconsin where winters seem to last six months out of the year, so that would be a long time with no place to put the daily drivers. This was going to be a long project and I figured the house had an unfinished basement with plenty of room and was heated anyway, what a perfect scenario. There would be no excuses not to work on the car right? Before I started off on the project, I had a neighborhood contractor take a look at it and he was confident I wasn't losing my mind. I will admit, the one thing I didn't think beforehand was how everything was going to either go down the stairs or go through a small basement window. There were times I wondered how well those 50 year old stairs were built, but thankfully I never did have an incident."
"The Gulf of California came into being as tectonic forces rifted the Baja California Peninsula off of the North American Plate about 12 million years ago. As part of this process, the East Pacific Rise propagated up the middle of the Gulf along the seabottom. The Gulf would extend as far as Indio, California except for the tremendous delta created by the Colorado River. This delta blocks the sea from flooding the Mexicali and Imperial Valleys."
Got this little gem from good ol' Wikipedia. So the Colorado river delta is only temporarily holding back the expansion that would otherwise occur? Obviously I'm not a geologist so just wondering if anyone in the know can compare the above comment to the East African rift?
Here's another case that's fairly similar. An employee at one of Coke Cola's offices tried selling the recipe to Pepsi, except Pepsi informed Coke of what had happened.
Pani's alleged motive: to impress his new employer, say the Feds. They added that there is no evidence that AMD condoned or was even aware of Pani's alleged actions, which the FBI said the engineer admitted to during a interview in late July.
Wait, so does this mean he was going to pass off intel's technology as his own - which he would undoubtedly be caught out on - or is AMD lying about this? It's not like he was only hired a week ago. I'm just wondering how he could impress his new employer without actually giving anything away.
The woman who runs my local bakery is 87 and one of the nicest people you'll ever have the pleasure of talking with. When realizing how old she actually was, my first reaction was "Why are you still getting up at 5 am every morning doing this?" Turns out she actually did retire at 70 and hated retirement so she went back to work. Now that she has, she claims its the best thing she's ever done. Only problem now is that a lot of people she knows are dying all around her, which she claims is due to them doing nothing but watch TV all day.
I do remember reading an article aaaaaages back where it claimed that people who had at least a part time job tended to live a few extra years as it gave them something to get up for. Who knows, but I think there might truth behind that.
I didn't get the joke until I realized "die" wasn't meant to be German. Gotten pretty use to microsoft (zune) being the butt of so many jokes:-)
Sideshow Bob: "No, That's German for, 'The Bart, The."
Council Member: "No one who speaks German could be an evil man!"
"But aren't Fox [arentfox.com] Warner's attorneys anyway?"
Maybe they are. Maybe this is in order to generate more publicity for the movie? Not everyone read the comics so a copyright case involving this flick might raise more awareness.
Before I RTFA, I already had a comment in mind "I'll believe it when I see it". But alas, no....
Am I the only one who got slightly excited about this being Duke Nukem Forever and then feeling absolutely gutted upon realizing it was 3D? Again? Surely anyone who has wanted to play Duke 3D has, at some point, played it already. I really don't see how "newer" gamers (i.e. those who started gaming after the original playstation) would be interested especially after all the controversy surrounding the vaporware aspect of Forever. Though that being said, I suppose squeezing the last few pennies out of their retired, senile old cash cow might throw some cash towards the development of Forever.. but jesus tap dancing christ, somehow I doubt the final game will even be worth playing in the end!
I was thinking of adding a PETA reference to the story when I submitted it, but considering they already have a Fish Amnesty Day I'd hate to be forced into a Pledge if they ever found out who I was!
Slashdot Mirror
case in point ;)
But, if you can act confidently and fake it...that will carry you a long way.
Are you talking to us, or the "hot" women?
"Can we expect anyone who followed a warrantless wiretap from the Bush administration to also be fired then? I mean, they violated our privacy as well.
I wish I could mod that comment up. If it'd been a normal comment, it would've gotten +5 Insightful in no time flat.
My god people, is slashdot actually linking to ABC action news? I mean come on, firstly the summary (of the summary) is woefully incomplete.. Even though the original link also belongs to ABC at least it doesnt have the word "action" attached to "news". I'm just waiting for ABC's next upgrade to SEXY, ACTION NEWS... a bit elitist? Maybe.. but at least the original link clarifies the story rather than leaving out information in order to make the story more "exciting".. From TFA: "NASA isn't sure where the spider could have gone." Doesn't mean they don't have an idea..
From the original article: "Kirk Shireman, deputy shuttle program manager, says that while only one spider is visible, that doesn't mean the other is missing. 'We don't believe he has escaped the payload. I am sure we will find him spinning a web somewhere in the next few days."
This doesnt surprise me at all. Console makers pay studios good money to get exclusive first rights. The Playstation consoles was a great success but somehow I don't think it would've been had it not been for the exhaustive list of exclusives compared to Xbox. Devil May Cry, Tekken, Final Fantasy, GTA 3. Yea, some of those were eventually ported over to the xbox.. months later and yeah xbox had the Halo series, but that was after Microsoft had bought Bungie that they managed to get Halo. I remember reading in GamesTM that Rockstar studios had approached Sony about making GTA 4 exclusive for the PS3 and were surprised when Sony werent willing to cough up the dough. It wouldnt be a stretch of the imagination thinking that a few more PS3s would've been sold if that was the only chance gamers would've had of playing GTA4
Additionally, a lot of studios are afraid of piracy and that most definitely would act as a deterrent. Argue all you like why they shouldn't be but with all the DRM buzz flying around titles such as Spore, it's obvious to be pretty high on their agenda. I wouldn't be surprised if studios would rather release games on consoles to generate the most profit due to hype/new release status before releasing it onto PC. And yes, I am aware that it is possible to pirate console games.. with the aid of a mod chip, add on, etc vs. downloading a game off bittorrent that's already been cracked.
"Just give us an IP address linked in the summary. That's all we ned."
It's funny, laugh.
I remember reading about this ages ago but never followed up on it. Here's the result straight from Michael Righi's blog and it's a pretty interesting read, although it focuses more on him being arrested due to refusing to show his driver's licence, so decide yourself if this should be modded off topic or not. Some highlights:
"In the days that followed a few things changed. First, I learned that the prosecutor was more interested in protecting the city against a civil law suit than she was in silencing my speech. Prosecutor Hillary Goldberg was willing to drop my charges and expunge my record if I promised not to sue. Although this was welcome news I still wanted to fight the charges in court in order to set a legal precedent for others."
Nice work Ken. Need more pics though
Here's the original article with a bunch more pics and a video at the bottom. They did this feature first and interviewed him after, so it kinda makes sense to browse this before clicking the original link I posted :)
When it comes down to using time on /b/ and Sexy Beautiful Women, who can blame them?
Although I have to admit, seeing Obama wielding nunchucks while skateboarding off an exploding helicopter is kinda cool too.
I was thinking the exact same thing. I didn't realize that men and women have different genomes. According to this page
:) But I find this stuff pretty interesting as I never realized there was a difference:
"Surprisingly, a male genome is not the same as a female genome â" and it even appears that genomes may be engaged in a genetic 'tug of war' within a developing embryo."
It continues saying
"An example is the insulin-like growth factor system, which has a strong influence on the size of a baby. The logic is that the paternal genome works to maximise the growth of the offspring, to give it the best chance of survival when it is born. The maternal genome, though, protects the mother, so she can go through further pregnancies. Male and female genomes may be constantly battling with one another, driven by evolutionary pressures to ensure that their genes survive and spread."
Additionally, I found this blog post and I quote
"Willard and Carrel's work has focused largely on x chromosome inactivation, and the way in which this expresses itself in between-and-within sex phenotypes. Hotz quotes Willard: "In essence, there is not one human genome, but two: male and female."
As discussed in a previous post, Steven Pinker (2005) theorizes that there is greater variation in ability in males; basically, that males are the guinea pigs for evolutionary change. This is part of Pinker's explanation of why men are overrepresented at the highest levels of achievement. Critics such as Chabris and Glickman (2006) have attempted to disprove this using examples such as chess achievement, but Hotz suggests that Willard and Carrel's research may have found genetic evidence to the contrary: "Females can differ from each other almost as much as they do from males in the way many genes at the heart of sexual identity behave."
One last article, I promise
"Analysis of the "X" chromosome - the female sex chromosome - has revealed that women are genetically more complicated than men. The findings reveal that men have taken a genetic battering that has dwindled the size of their own "Y" chromosome.
The battle of the sexes has its roots in a 300-million-year struggle between the X and the Y chromosomes which have vied with each other for influence over successive generations of males and females. Scientists showed yesterday that the X chromosome has retained its physical integrity while the Y of men has dwindled in size and power to become a shadow of its former self."
Now I am definitely oversimplifying this, but it seems the X and Y chromosome play a pretty big part in the difference. Odd how I never put 2 and 2 together. But if this has been known for so long, why hasn't anyone taken the time to map out a female genome before? Breast cancer is a pretty obvious female specific disease, so it strikes me odd that if the human genome has been mapped out since 2003 that no one has done this before.
Ken didn't forget to build a way out. I first read about this via this interview.
"The idea to build the car in the basement is pretty simple really. I recalled back to my childhood again and remember my Dad's car projects always being put on hold during the winter because we couldn't afford to heat the one car garage. Sure I could heat my garage and do the work in there, but then my cars would have to sit in the driveway. I live in Wisconsin where winters seem to last six months out of the year, so that would be a long time with no place to put the daily drivers. This was going to be a long project and I figured the house had an unfinished basement with plenty of room and was heated anyway, what a perfect scenario. There would be no excuses not to work on the car right? Before I started off on the project, I had a neighborhood contractor take a look at it and he was confident I wasn't losing my mind. I will admit, the one thing I didn't think beforehand was how everything was going to either go down the stairs or go through a small basement window. There were times I wondered how well those 50 year old stairs were built, but thankfully I never did have an incident."
Who's John Gilmore and what has he ever done for defending freedom in the digital world?
"I could keep track of my wife and kids, check up on my gf"
;)
Maybe your wife should be the one keeping track of you
"The Gulf of California came into being as tectonic forces rifted the Baja California Peninsula off of the North American Plate about 12 million years ago. As part of this process, the East Pacific Rise propagated up the middle of the Gulf along the seabottom. The Gulf would extend as far as Indio, California except for the tremendous delta created by the Colorado River. This delta blocks the sea from flooding the Mexicali and Imperial Valleys."
Got this little gem from good ol' Wikipedia. So the Colorado river delta is only temporarily holding back the expansion that would otherwise occur? Obviously I'm not a geologist so just wondering if anyone in the know can compare the above comment to the East African rift?
I love how close this was posted to international talk like a pirate day :-)
Arrrr...
Someone looks to be having a beary good day! ...I crack myself up sometimes
Here's another case that's fairly similar. An employee at one of Coke Cola's offices tried selling the recipe to Pepsi, except Pepsi informed Coke of what had happened.
Pani's alleged motive: to impress his new employer, say the Feds. They added that there is no evidence that AMD condoned or was even aware of Pani's alleged actions, which the FBI said the engineer admitted to during a interview in late July.
Wait, so does this mean he was going to pass off intel's technology as his own - which he would undoubtedly be caught out on - or is AMD lying about this? It's not like he was only hired a week ago. I'm just wondering how he could impress his new employer without actually giving anything away.
The woman who runs my local bakery is 87 and one of the nicest people you'll ever have the pleasure of talking with. When realizing how old she actually was, my first reaction was "Why are you still getting up at 5 am every morning doing this?" Turns out she actually did retire at 70 and hated retirement so she went back to work. Now that she has, she claims its the best thing she's ever done. Only problem now is that a lot of people she knows are dying all around her, which she claims is due to them doing nothing but watch TV all day.
I do remember reading an article aaaaaages back where it claimed that people who had at least a part time job tended to live a few extra years as it gave them something to get up for. Who knows, but I think there might truth behind that.
"die Zunes".
I didn't get the joke until I realized "die" wasn't meant to be German. Gotten pretty use to microsoft (zune) being the butt of so many jokes :-)
Sideshow Bob: "No, That's German for, 'The Bart, The."
Council Member: "No one who speaks German could be an evil man!"
I have to admit, I had a look at your homepage just to make sure it wasn't sonic.net ;)
"But aren't Fox [arentfox.com] Warner's attorneys anyway?"
Maybe they are. Maybe this is in order to generate more publicity for the movie? Not everyone read the comics so a copyright case involving this flick might raise more awareness.
Before I RTFA, I already had a comment in mind "I'll believe it when I see it". But alas, no.... Am I the only one who got slightly excited about this being Duke Nukem Forever and then feeling absolutely gutted upon realizing it was 3D? Again? Surely anyone who has wanted to play Duke 3D has, at some point, played it already. I really don't see how "newer" gamers (i.e. those who started gaming after the original playstation) would be interested especially after all the controversy surrounding the vaporware aspect of Forever. Though that being said, I suppose squeezing the last few pennies out of their retired, senile old cash cow might throw some cash towards the development of Forever.. but jesus tap dancing christ, somehow I doubt the final game will even be worth playing in the end!
I was thinking of adding a PETA reference to the story when I submitted it, but considering they already have a Fish Amnesty Day I'd hate to be forced into a Pledge if they ever found out who I was!