Tamiflu interferes with viral replication which may ease the burden on the immune system but if not administered within the 48-hour window the viral load is too high for it to contribute any significant effect. It's pure conjecture to say that it can save the life of someone who is already so far gone that their immune system can't keep ahead of the virus. There are a lot of better things the government could be spending money things to save lives than this snake oil. The stockpile is all a smoke and mirrors game to quell accusations of Katrina-like unpreparedness when a deadly pandemic eventually does strike the country. Not that it will be of any use but it allows some bureaucrat to say "see we did something" rather than look foolish at the press conferences. That's money well spent especially considering that most of the stockpile has already expired and has to be destroyed.
It is very unwise to use Tamiflu as a prophylactic. It has neurological side effects, sometimes severe enough to induce suicidal behavior. Taking it like it's as harmless as a vitamin pill is courting danger. It is also reckless and irresponsible to keep the general populace in the dark by promoting it as wonder cure and causing the sort of over consumption that actually makes it profitable for the drug spammers to make money off the foolish.
I don't understand why people go apeshit over this drug. It is not a vaccine. It has only been demonstrated to reduce the duration of illness by just one day. And that only works if you take it within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms at which point you may not know if you have the flu or an ordinary cold. It's amazing that they conned the US government into stockpiling it when it does so little and doesn't save lives.
Only vanilla sex as needed for procreation is legal in the US. We only begrudgingly accept homosexuality. The article doesn't say but my guess is that they were distributing videos containing the more extreme types of sexual activity which is still considered "depraved" enough to throw people in jail. It used to be that a lot of these types of acts were difficult to come by in the VHS and DVD era but with the explosion in online video the banned activities are becoming available since the USPS is cut out of the picture. Their mistake was to not keep a low profile to keep the government prudes off their case.
I can't believe that anyone in the DOJ is stupid enough to believe that Google taking the initiative to provide orphaned works to the public constitutes some sort of monopoly. The original work must still exist somewhere in print. It's not like they're engaging in Fahrenheit 451-style tactics to control all knowledge. Furthermore, making a settlement to get rid of a nuissance lawsuit doesn't represent an admission of wrongdoing. It's not like the idea of mass book scanning and indexing was an original idea of Google's that they have some exclusivity over. If anyone want's to engage in their own mission to do so they can. In fact there were academic projects to do just that before Google came along with their idea of how to do things. Google worked with them to help develop better technology to improve the throughput over existing scanner systems. The whole history of the books project is available for anyone to peruse if they are interested. I don't see how anyone can construe the actions described therein as monopolistic.
The only thing that's questionable is how far they're stretching the fair use principle in what they're doing. A strict interpretation of the law suggests that any complete duplication of a protected work constitutes infringement even if it is kept in private with only excerpts revealed to the public. Considering that the complaint centers around orphaned works still under copyright but with no one making a claim to them it isn't clear who the potentially damaged party is in this case. If someone wanted to acquire an orphaned work in its original form how would they do it? Resale of existing copies doesn't deprive the copyright holder of any income. If the publishing industry is wringing their hands over the inability to contact the copyright holder then they obviously can't be producing new copies of these works. So where is the damage?
What's wrong is that it is saddeningly easy for MS to use it's network of lobbyists to buy their own special government services when they need them. What you have is a publishing industry that is scared of being obsoleted like the buggy whip manufacturers. MS loves to take advantage of organizations like this and use them to do their bidding such as how they used SCO to spread FUD on the use of Linux. A previous poster had it right when they surmised that this is payback for Google's interference in the attempted Yahoo buyout.
It all worked out out in the end. Ms. Drew is freed from the predations of an overzealous prosecutor while she has to live with her reputation tarnished. For the rest of her life people will be able to read about the terrible thing she did to that poor girl and shun her for it.
What is being proposed is not a wholesale ban on acetaminophen but a ban on *some* drug combinations that include it and a reduction in the maximum OTC dosage. The drug will still be available and you'll still be able to mix drugs yourself to get the old effect.
This is definitely a bad idea. It will break interoperability with old hardware that can only handle short names. This isn't just PCs but embedded systems where a FAT-12 floppy may be the only convenient way to transfer files. This "solution" will require one to generate the short name first before the files are copied onto the destination media. Hopefully it will be easily disabled in the code.
A GPS is necessary to keep track of when you cross jurisdictional boundaries where different taxation is in effect. If you cross a state line or international border you shouldn't be paying your home tax rate on roads that aren't maintained by your own government.
32-bit Windows can support more than 4GB of RAM on processors that support PAE. This capability is not available to XP but can be had on some versions of Win2K, Server 2003, and 2008.
Lockport is more for meth heads. There are lots of GM workers there with a lot of free time and the extra cash from their union pay scale leaves them with many recreational options.
These are the sort of people who voted for Bush the second time around. Rational thought doesn't enter into the equation of small town America groupthink.
Debian is the only distro to work hard at maintaining purity in the freeness of what is distributed. They have an isolated "non-free" section for packages with restrictive licenses and cross dependencies with packages in the normal archive are disallowed. Their dissatisfaction with the Firefox trademarking led to the creation of the Iceweasel fork. Why they would cave on mono escapes me. It may be GPL but the MS patent guillotine is hanging over the neck of every open source developer who uses it.
Considering it usually looks like shit and is bog slow on Windows Firefox it would appear that they should jump off the web 2.0 bandwagon and go back to being Perl hacks.
This is not surprising. The aerospace industry just isn't able to support metric parts as there isn't enough push to have two types of everything made. Airbus uses imperial fasteners on their planes because that is all they can get in aircraft grade parts. The Comanche helicopter was originally intended to be the US military's first great foray into all metric design. Unfortunately, when it came time to build the first prototypes they found that suitable metric fasteners couldn't be sourced. The solution was to upsize everything to the next largest imperial part which caused a large increase in weight and was a big factor in the delays that led to its downfall.
But on Linux, it is inherently ugly. The beast looks ancient and the fonts and dialogs make matters worse
Part of that is Gnome but a lot of the ugliness is the native XUL theme used on Linux which goes out of its way to emulate Gnome's worst characteristics. You used to be able to download the XP on Vista theme for Linux but they've stupidly blocked Linux users from doing that anymore.
This is complete bullshit. Reverse engineering has always been legal in the US. Talking about in a public forum is likewise perfectly legal. No big media or telecom entity can do anything to stop it. If Palm doesn't like this they should have taken bigger steps to lock the phone down. The devs should proceed as normal and ignore the veiled threats from Palm.
Not all DTV is on UHF. The High VHF range was preserved. If you had such a station in your market, they had the option to remain on their old antenna. I have two in my area and they are now the strongest DTV transmitters I get. Even with a UHF specific antenna.
MS's plan is to allow OEMs to include whatever browser they want in the EU version of Windows. No manufacturer is going to be foolish enough to ship a system without some sort of browser installed.
The US is metric. It's just that nobody bothers to make the effort to switch everything over. Even the younger generation in Canada will use customary units when it suits them so it isn't just American curmudgeonness. The US military makes its best effort to spec things in metric sizes (this was somewhat responsible for the downfall of the Comanche program). In a few rare places there are even metric speed limit signs which are distinguished by a black circle around the number.
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Tamiflu interferes with viral replication which may ease the burden on the immune system but if not administered within the 48-hour window the viral load is too high for it to contribute any significant effect. It's pure conjecture to say that it can save the life of someone who is already so far gone that their immune system can't keep ahead of the virus. There are a lot of better things the government could be spending money things to save lives than this snake oil. The stockpile is all a smoke and mirrors game to quell accusations of Katrina-like unpreparedness when a deadly pandemic eventually does strike the country. Not that it will be of any use but it allows some bureaucrat to say "see we did something" rather than look foolish at the press conferences. That's money well spent especially considering that most of the stockpile has already expired and has to be destroyed.
It is very unwise to use Tamiflu as a prophylactic. It has neurological side effects, sometimes severe enough to induce suicidal behavior. Taking it like it's as harmless as a vitamin pill is courting danger. It is also reckless and irresponsible to keep the general populace in the dark by promoting it as wonder cure and causing the sort of over consumption that actually makes it profitable for the drug spammers to make money off the foolish.
I don't understand why people go apeshit over this drug. It is not a vaccine. It has only been demonstrated to reduce the duration of illness by just one day. And that only works if you take it within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms at which point you may not know if you have the flu or an ordinary cold. It's amazing that they conned the US government into stockpiling it when it does so little and doesn't save lives.
What the fuck has happened to the US?
Only vanilla sex as needed for procreation is legal in the US. We only begrudgingly accept homosexuality. The article doesn't say but my guess is that they were distributing videos containing the more extreme types of sexual activity which is still considered "depraved" enough to throw people in jail. It used to be that a lot of these types of acts were difficult to come by in the VHS and DVD era but with the explosion in online video the banned activities are becoming available since the USPS is cut out of the picture. Their mistake was to not keep a low profile to keep the government prudes off their case.
I can't believe that anyone in the DOJ is stupid enough to believe that Google taking the initiative to provide orphaned works to the public constitutes some sort of monopoly. The original work must still exist somewhere in print. It's not like they're engaging in Fahrenheit 451-style tactics to control all knowledge. Furthermore, making a settlement to get rid of a nuissance lawsuit doesn't represent an admission of wrongdoing. It's not like the idea of mass book scanning and indexing was an original idea of Google's that they have some exclusivity over. If anyone want's to engage in their own mission to do so they can. In fact there were academic projects to do just that before Google came along with their idea of how to do things. Google worked with them to help develop better technology to improve the throughput over existing scanner systems. The whole history of the books project is available for anyone to peruse if they are interested. I don't see how anyone can construe the actions described therein as monopolistic.
The only thing that's questionable is how far they're stretching the fair use principle in what they're doing. A strict interpretation of the law suggests that any complete duplication of a protected work constitutes infringement even if it is kept in private with only excerpts revealed to the public. Considering that the complaint centers around orphaned works still under copyright but with no one making a claim to them it isn't clear who the potentially damaged party is in this case. If someone wanted to acquire an orphaned work in its original form how would they do it? Resale of existing copies doesn't deprive the copyright holder of any income. If the publishing industry is wringing their hands over the inability to contact the copyright holder then they obviously can't be producing new copies of these works. So where is the damage?
What's wrong is that it is saddeningly easy for MS to use it's network of lobbyists to buy their own special government services when they need them. What you have is a publishing industry that is scared of being obsoleted like the buggy whip manufacturers. MS loves to take advantage of organizations like this and use them to do their bidding such as how they used SCO to spread FUD on the use of Linux. A previous poster had it right when they surmised that this is payback for Google's interference in the attempted Yahoo buyout.
You just lack vision. The video game tie in is going to be the real money maker. It'll be unlike anything seen before.
It all worked out out in the end. Ms. Drew is freed from the predations of an overzealous prosecutor while she has to live with her reputation tarnished. For the rest of her life people will be able to read about the terrible thing she did to that poor girl and shun her for it.
What is being proposed is not a wholesale ban on acetaminophen but a ban on *some* drug combinations that include it and a reduction in the maximum OTC dosage. The drug will still be available and you'll still be able to mix drugs yourself to get the old effect.
This is definitely a bad idea. It will break interoperability with old hardware that can only handle short names. This isn't just PCs but embedded systems where a FAT-12 floppy may be the only convenient way to transfer files. This "solution" will require one to generate the short name first before the files are copied onto the destination media. Hopefully it will be easily disabled in the code.
A GPS is necessary to keep track of when you cross jurisdictional boundaries where different taxation is in effect. If you cross a state line or international border you shouldn't be paying your home tax rate on roads that aren't maintained by your own government.
32-bit Windows can support more than 4GB of RAM on processors that support PAE. This capability is not available to XP but can be had on some versions of Win2K, Server 2003, and 2008.
Lockport is more for meth heads. There are lots of GM workers there with a lot of free time and the extra cash from their union pay scale leaves them with many recreational options.
Don't forget the hamsters and duct tape. A good Gere job never fails to tarnish one's rep.
These are the sort of people who voted for Bush the second time around. Rational thought doesn't enter into the equation of small town America groupthink.
Debian is the only distro to work hard at maintaining purity in the freeness of what is distributed. They have an isolated "non-free" section for packages with restrictive licenses and cross dependencies with packages in the normal archive are disallowed. Their dissatisfaction with the Firefox trademarking led to the creation of the Iceweasel fork. Why they would cave on mono escapes me. It may be GPL but the MS patent guillotine is hanging over the neck of every open source developer who uses it.
That's because knowing the number of characters in a password greatly eases the password guessing.
Lotus Notes had (has?) a login dialog that addressed this by showing a random number of X's for each character rather than a 1-to-1 mapping.
Considering it usually looks like shit and is bog slow on Windows Firefox it would appear that they should jump off the web 2.0 bandwagon and go back to being Perl hacks.
This is not surprising. The aerospace industry just isn't able to support metric parts as there isn't enough push to have two types of everything made. Airbus uses imperial fasteners on their planes because that is all they can get in aircraft grade parts. The Comanche helicopter was originally intended to be the US military's first great foray into all metric design. Unfortunately, when it came time to build the first prototypes they found that suitable metric fasteners couldn't be sourced. The solution was to upsize everything to the next largest imperial part which caused a large increase in weight and was a big factor in the delays that led to its downfall.
But on Linux, it is inherently ugly. The beast looks ancient and the fonts and dialogs make matters worse
Part of that is Gnome but a lot of the ugliness is the native XUL theme used on Linux which goes out of its way to emulate Gnome's worst characteristics. You used to be able to download the XP on Vista theme for Linux but they've stupidly blocked Linux users from doing that anymore.
The fax machine was invented long before the Carterphone issue. It even predates the telephone.
This is complete bullshit. Reverse engineering has always been legal in the US. Talking about in a public forum is likewise perfectly legal. No big media or telecom entity can do anything to stop it. If Palm doesn't like this they should have taken bigger steps to lock the phone down. The devs should proceed as normal and ignore the veiled threats from Palm.
Not all DTV is on UHF. The High VHF range was preserved. If you had such a station in your market, they had the option to remain on their old antenna. I have two in my area and they are now the strongest DTV transmitters I get. Even with a UHF specific antenna.
Curiously, a British girl was hit in the foot by a meteorite a few years ago. Is this tit for tat in a new grudge war between the two rivals?
MS's plan is to allow OEMs to include whatever browser they want in the EU version of Windows. No manufacturer is going to be foolish enough to ship a system without some sort of browser installed.
The US is metric. It's just that nobody bothers to make the effort to switch everything over. Even the younger generation in Canada will use customary units when it suits them so it isn't just American curmudgeonness. The US military makes its best effort to spec things in metric sizes (this was somewhat responsible for the downfall of the Comanche program). In a few rare places there are even metric speed limit signs which are distinguished by a black circle around the number.