Remember that they can't just do this to anybody on the street - they need to have a reasonable suspicion that they have or are committing a crime and have specific facts to back up that suspicion.
I'm really glad you stood up to them. If only more people did this! I would (and have) stood up to them also.
Note that they don't need a search warrant to search your car, unless it is parked at your house. They need only PC, or probable cause - which they clearly didn't have. Again, thanks for standing up to them! Also if your car is impounded for any reason they can also conduct an 'inventory check' of the trunk.
I'm also concerned that these might be mutations in the hematopoietic stem cell that don't "drive" the disease. The lengthy points at the end debunking this possibility aren't convincing to me. Here are the 1st two (FTA):
1) "genetic instability does not seem to be a general feature of AML genomes."
Are they on crack? Perhaps I don't fully understand the context of this statement; genetic instability and evolution are seen in most cases of AML.
2) "Alternatively, all may have occurred simultaneously in the same leukaemia-initiating cell, but only a subset of the mutations (or an as-yet undetected mutation) is truly important for pathogenesis (that is, disease 'drivers' versus passengers). Although we suggest that the latter hypothesis is very unlikely on the basis of our current understanding of tumour progression"
Simultaneously occurring? Again, this flies in the face of common knowledge. The theory is the hematopoietic stem cell is extremely long lived and only divides once a year and so has plenty of time to accumulate genetic mutations. This explains both the average relapse time of one year and also the genetic homogeneity of the leukemic clone. Thus many of their new found eight mutations may be accidental and not disease causing.
Does anyone have any new light to shed on this? I am not a doctor and would benefit from some guidance on this issue.
Good points.
They said a version for the iPhone was coming out. I'm reading the iPhone development guide and on THAT platform, you can't even background apps. Only 1 app can run at a time (other than the kernel and low level daemons). The iPhone does a good job of saving state between app launches so most people don't notice.
For the iPhone, then, you couldn't have anything else besides the GPS app run. If you say browsed to a web site or checked your mail you'd have to remember turn the GPS app back on.
While what you say is true the use of the term 'polling' is a little misleading (maybe only to me). The cell phone is continually receives all the nearest signals (its a multichannel device) and may at any time switch channels to a stronger one.
Its not polling in the sense that the phone isn't opening short term connections to the nearest cell phone towers to determine signal strength, which is what I think of when I hear the word 'polling'.
I read the link. I think you should give up the analogy between writing software and engineering. The requirements space is WAY more complex and extensive in software engineering than it is in regular engineering. In everyday engineering, there are not that many types of desired functionality to build. Houses, bridges, spaceships, etc. Someone has always done it before and you just have to follow the procedure, possibly elaborating on it if you are building a bigger/faster thing than has been built before. In software, there are literally *hundreds* of thousands of different types of programs out there, all doing different things from each other. The requirements space is much more complex. It is not written down how to solve the software problem you are solving, because there are too many different problems to solve and no one can write them all down. In addition, the software engineering meme will lead you to wrong assumptions, e.g. that software components will solve everything. The requirements space is too complex for software components to be reused.
Yes, there are useful libraries, frameworks, and components out there, but they succeed precisely because they are low level and therefore don't apply to the high-level requirements.
I DO believe that it will get you an A+ on the paper however, as I am a previous software engineering grad student.
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Remember that they can't just do this to anybody on the street - they need to have a reasonable suspicion that they have or are committing a crime and have specific facts to back up that suspicion.
I'm really glad you stood up to them. If only more people did this! I would (and have) stood up to them also.
Note that they don't need a search warrant to search your car, unless it is parked at your house. They need only PC, or probable cause - which they clearly didn't have. Again, thanks for standing up to them! Also if your car is impounded for any reason they can also conduct an 'inventory check' of the trunk.
"16,000 tons of uranium per year (a fraction of what we now use for light water reactors). "
Wrong!!!
We only use 670 tons of uranium fuel each year - the rest is stored. From
http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.energy/2007-05/msg00141.html
"Worldwide, we 'use' about 67,000 tons of uranium per year, 670 tons of which is actually used (the rest is stored)."
You do know we can look this stuff up now with google and all, don't you?
Do everyone a favor and read the WWII article on wikipedia before you reply.
1) "genetic instability does not seem to be a general feature of AML genomes."
Are they on crack? Perhaps I don't fully understand the context of this statement; genetic instability and evolution are seen in most cases of AML.
2) "Alternatively, all may have occurred simultaneously in the same leukaemia-initiating cell, but only a subset of the mutations (or an as-yet undetected mutation) is truly important for pathogenesis (that is, disease 'drivers' versus passengers). Although we suggest that the latter hypothesis is very unlikely on the basis of our current understanding of tumour progression"
Simultaneously occurring? Again, this flies in the face of common knowledge. The theory is the hematopoietic stem cell is extremely long lived and only divides once a year and so has plenty of time to accumulate genetic mutations. This explains both the average relapse time of one year and also the genetic homogeneity of the leukemic clone. Thus many of their new found eight mutations may be accidental and not disease causing.
Does anyone have any new light to shed on this? I am not a doctor and would benefit from some guidance on this issue.
Good points. They said a version for the iPhone was coming out. I'm reading the iPhone development guide and on THAT platform, you can't even background apps. Only 1 app can run at a time (other than the kernel and low level daemons). The iPhone does a good job of saving state between app launches so most people don't notice.
For the iPhone, then, you couldn't have anything else besides the GPS app run. If you say browsed to a web site or checked your mail you'd have to remember turn the GPS app back on.
While what you say is true the use of the term 'polling' is a little misleading (maybe only to me). The cell phone is continually receives all the nearest signals (its a multichannel device) and may at any time switch channels to a stronger one. Its not polling in the sense that the phone isn't opening short term connections to the nearest cell phone towers to determine signal strength, which is what I think of when I hear the word 'polling'.
Yes, there are useful libraries, frameworks, and components out there, but they succeed precisely because they are low level and therefore don't apply to the high-level requirements.
I DO believe that it will get you an A+ on the paper however, as I am a previous software engineering grad student.