From Google's privacy FAQ page, they conveniently dodge the question of what pausing does.
What happens when I pause the service, remove items, or delete the Web History service?
You can choose to stop storing your web activity in Web History either temporarily or permanently, or remove items, as described in Web History Help. If you remove items, they will be removed from the service and will not be used to improve your search experience. As is common practice in the industry, Google also maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users. For example, we use this information to audit our ads systems, understand which features are most popular to users, improve the quality of our search results, and help us combat vulnerabilities such as denial of service attacks.
A few things I didn't see in the article that may be of concern. The immune system itself tends to see loose (extracellular) DNA as foreign and attacks it. Have they tested this to see how the natural immune system responds to this delivery system? Does the DNA structure they used possibly have segments that could be used in transcription, should the nanobot become damaged and broken off loose DNA somehow makes it way into a cell? I only have a bachelor's in biochemistry so I'm sure these guys have considered such things but I'm curious to know.
Or we could just make a law that says it's none of the employer's fucking business what people post online and that they cannot fire them or discriminate them for it...
Anyone know if there is a list of the stores that implement this or plan to so those of us who don't wish to be tracked and don't trust their "we totally won't abuse this and care about your privacy" lies can vote with our wallets?
If they do it right, the only thing that would maybe be from the elephant is the mitochondria. The full genome should be viable. And if you have a male DNA sample, (assuming the males are XY like humans) then you can extract the Y chromosome and double up the X chromosome to make the female. It's been a while since I studied genetics in fine detail but if the result is fertile you can still breed them, they'll just be inbred as all hell.
Do you happen to have a source for that info? Not trying to be a jerk, just want something to shut my hippie friends up....ok so I guess I am trying to be a jerk, just not to you.
Did you actually read the article? "Cheap words" make up all science and literature. They explained everything they did in the article. Or do you expect them to post all their experimental data on this brief web article?
"When we detect the Stokes photon we know we have created a phonon, but we can't know even in principle in which diamond it now resides," says Walmsley. "This is the entangled state, for which neither the statement 'this diamond is vibrating' nor 'this diamond is not vibrating' is true."
To verify that the state has been made, the researchers fire a second laser pulse into the two crystals to 'read out' the phonon, from which the laser photon draws extra energy.
You also can't use a bullhorn at 3am next to a hospital and yell obscenities as loud as you can. It doesn't mean your free speech rights are being infringed upon. Don't be hyperbolic.
By making something like internet access an inalienable right, the government would be required to ensure every single person in the United States has not only access to an internet connection, but also a means of connection. The government would be required to buy people computers or smart phones. And, if a person lost, broke, or sold his computer, the government would be required to give him a new one because without a computer, he would not have inalienable right to internet access.
I take it you've not been to a public library in a while... Every one I've been to in the last 10 years already has several public computer terminals with internet access freely available.
Implausible. Heavy metal poisoning is only modestly fatal, either at alarming doses or if you draw the short straw in the carcinogen lottery; but has a huge band of unpleasant but nonfatal effects at lower doses.
Never heard of bioaccumulation I take it? (GP is clearly wearing a tinfoil hat though...)
My anecdote: I also have an anti-glare coating on my glasses. After less than a year I started noticing what looked like chemical etching on my lenses. I work with chemicals but I never wear my glasses anywhere but at home (where I don't work with chemicals). I take them to the eye doctor to check it out. It was the coating coming off the lenses. So the thing I paid extra for to prevent me from not being able to see through my glasses made me not be able to see through my glasses. (and they wanted to charge me extra to fix it)
Last I heard they didn't have a way to test men for HPV. Men are almost, if not always, asymptomatic and wouldn't have enough viral material accessible to test for it. Have they refined this? How much testing has been done to show the effectiveness of this on boys? I'm all for this vaccine and I'd get it myself if I'm not already a carrier, but it's expensive and unless they can effectively test for this it's possibly just a cash grab.
Drink a Coke huh? Not in America. We use High Fructose Corn Syrup for most soft drinks. You want to power that baby, you'll need a Coke from Mexico. They actually use real sugar.
I noticed the wheels are covered with foil and the retro-thrusters look like they have giant rubber stoppers in them. Does anyone know the purpose of these? I am assuming the stopper things would be launched out when they're fired but how does the foil come off the wheels once at Mars? (or is that just a protective covering for until the thing is fully loaded and ready to be launched into space?)
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From Google's privacy FAQ page, they conveniently dodge the question of what pausing does.
What happens when I pause the service, remove items, or delete the Web History service?
You can choose to stop storing your web activity in Web History either temporarily or permanently, or remove items, as described in Web History Help. If you remove items, they will be removed from the service and will not be used to improve your search experience. As is common practice in the industry, Google also maintains a separate logs system for auditing purposes and to help us improve the quality of our services for users. For example, we use this information to audit our ads systems, understand which features are most popular to users, improve the quality of our search results, and help us combat vulnerabilities such as denial of service attacks.
A few things I didn't see in the article that may be of concern. The immune system itself tends to see loose (extracellular) DNA as foreign and attacks it. Have they tested this to see how the natural immune system responds to this delivery system? Does the DNA structure they used possibly have segments that could be used in transcription, should the nanobot become damaged and broken off loose DNA somehow makes it way into a cell? I only have a bachelor's in biochemistry so I'm sure these guys have considered such things but I'm curious to know.
Serious Organized Crime Agency is serious.
Or we could just make a law that says it's none of the employer's fucking business what people post online and that they cannot fire them or discriminate them for it...
Oh great, more crap the airports have to buy, which increases ticket prices, for zero increased safety. Super.
The link in the summary only shows a real crab photo. Clearly this device is not a real crab. Anyone else curious to know what the ACTUAL device looks like can see in this other article, first google search link.
http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/02/experts-build-crab-like-robot-to-remove-stomach-cancer.html
Anyone know if there is a list of the stores that implement this or plan to so those of us who don't wish to be tracked and don't trust their "we totally won't abuse this and care about your privacy" lies can vote with our wallets?
So how long until I see some yutz driving one of these down the street still in the folded position?
Good authors would incredibly stupid to do this.
Looks like you to pay your editors there.
If they do it right, the only thing that would maybe be from the elephant is the mitochondria. The full genome should be viable. And if you have a male DNA sample, (assuming the males are XY like humans) then you can extract the Y chromosome and double up the X chromosome to make the female. It's been a while since I studied genetics in fine detail but if the result is fertile you can still breed them, they'll just be inbred as all hell.
Do you happen to have a source for that info? Not trying to be a jerk, just want something to shut my hippie friends up. ...ok so I guess I am trying to be a jerk, just not to you.
Did you actually read the article? "Cheap words" make up all science and literature. They explained everything they did in the article. Or do you expect them to post all their experimental data on this brief web article?
"When we detect the Stokes photon we know we have created a phonon, but we can't know even in principle in which diamond it now resides," says Walmsley. "This is the entangled state, for which neither the statement 'this diamond is vibrating' nor 'this diamond is not vibrating' is true."
To verify that the state has been made, the researchers fire a second laser pulse into the two crystals to 'read out' the phonon, from which the laser photon draws extra energy.
draw a line there and knock off $10
Hahaha, that's a good one. (wipes single tear from eye)
If they go to usage based billing and I need to make a financial choice between internet and cable, the decision for me is an easy one.
Steal your neighbor's wifi?
Please tell me someone is going to encode the audio from MST3K and overlay it onto the pertinent HD parts...
Since clearly a lot of people didn't read the article or the link in the article that directly addresses this...
You also can't use a bullhorn at 3am next to a hospital and yell obscenities as loud as you can. It doesn't mean your free speech rights are being infringed upon. Don't be hyperbolic.
By making something like internet access an inalienable right, the government would be required to ensure every single person in the United States has not only access to an internet connection, but also a means of connection. The government would be required to buy people computers or smart phones. And, if a person lost, broke, or sold his computer, the government would be required to give him a new one because without a computer, he would not have inalienable right to internet access.
I take it you've not been to a public library in a while... Every one I've been to in the last 10 years already has several public computer terminals with internet access freely available.
Does anyone have a list of the phones/carriers that implement this?
"many Android, Nokia, and BlackBerry smartphones" doesn't really help us.
If there was ever an article that should be tagged "What could possibly go wrong?" it's this one...
Implausible. Heavy metal poisoning is only modestly fatal, either at alarming doses or if you draw the short straw in the carcinogen lottery; but has a huge band of unpleasant but nonfatal effects at lower doses.
Never heard of bioaccumulation I take it?
(GP is clearly wearing a tinfoil hat though...)
My anecdote: I also have an anti-glare coating on my glasses. After less than a year I started noticing what looked like chemical etching on my lenses. I work with chemicals but I never wear my glasses anywhere but at home (where I don't work with chemicals). I take them to the eye doctor to check it out. It was the coating coming off the lenses. So the thing I paid extra for to prevent me from not being able to see through my glasses made me not be able to see through my glasses. (and they wanted to charge me extra to fix it)
Last I heard they didn't have a way to test men for HPV. Men are almost, if not always, asymptomatic and wouldn't have enough viral material accessible to test for it. Have they refined this? How much testing has been done to show the effectiveness of this on boys? I'm all for this vaccine and I'd get it myself if I'm not already a carrier, but it's expensive and unless they can effectively test for this it's possibly just a cash grab.
Drink a Coke huh? Not in America. We use High Fructose Corn Syrup for most soft drinks. You want to power that baby, you'll need a Coke from Mexico. They actually use real sugar.
I noticed the wheels are covered with foil and the retro-thrusters look like they have giant rubber stoppers in them. Does anyone know the purpose of these? I am assuming the stopper things would be launched out when they're fired but how does the foil come off the wheels once at Mars? (or is that just a protective covering for until the thing is fully loaded and ready to be launched into space?)