Also, isn't there a company that holds a trademark on the term "CD"? If you sell something as a CD that doesn't comply with the established format, then you'd likely be infringing the terms under which the trademark is licensed.
Interesting. Of course, if every promising treatment worked, we'd all be immortal by now.
As a college sophomore, I'm not qualified to answer your other points, but I did manage to find the full text of the article, if you're interested: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/554 6/1537
While I agree by and large, there will be some SMALL amount of damage to normal cells. Some of the alpha particles will make it outside of the cancer cell, or be released before the 'cage' finds the cancer cell.
That said, every drug known (from caffeine on up) causes some tiny amount of damage to the body; anyone who's drunk 5 shots of espresso in a setting will agree with me:)
Traditional chemotherapy pretty much incapacitates the patient while it is in progress, and can leave them sterile or with other permanent effects. If this works, and is safer - not necessarily perfectly safe - for the same degree of effect against cancer, there is no reason not to use it.
We're all getting a constant low dose of radiation. The desk on which I'm typing this is made of wood, and thus contains some amount of radioactice carbon 14, which is emitting gamma rays and neutrons throughout my body. The pasta I just ate is doing the same. That doesn't mean it'll kill me.
If you look at the article, they attached the thing to an antibody that locks onto cancer cells. Also, they used an atom with a half-life of, IIRC, a few weeks - plenty of time for it to get inside the cancer cell before emitting too much radiation. An alpha particle is very damaging, but can only go a very short distance through flesh; thus, it'll really goof up the cell it is released in, but not cause a lot of general harm.
ONE alpha particle can ionize everything it passes, releasing 'free radicals' which do even more damage; I wouldn't be surprised if a single one could kill a cancer cell.
The number hasn't been announced on the webpages because it has yet to be verified (for example, there could be a bizarre bug in the testing software, or someone might have learned to forge a "this number is prime" signal to the server).
It has only been announced on the GIMPS project mailing list, and it looks like someone from that list prematurely submitted the story to Slashdot.
Actually, the webpage says that when a large prime is found, a fair amount of money (five grand, IIRC) will go to each discoverer of a prime found before that time.
As a member of the mailing list for the project, the identity of the number hasn't even been released - just the fact that one was found, and THAT has been known under 16 hours. Any message sent to outer space using a Mersenne prime must have used one of the earlier, smaller ones.
Yeah... I think a good start would be getting the latest version of WinAmp, and I doubt even the RIAA would be STUPID enough to use a protection strategy that only blocks playing in WinAmp, not other programs or whatever.
Not only will the rate of return be high, but if folks are smart they'll use their credit card's guaranteed return policy - then, not only will Amazon (or a store you visit and return an item to in 3D) lose your business, they'll have to pay fairly large penalty fees and risk their relationship with the card issuer.
Frankly, if "the suits" had any common sense at all, they'd have negotiated with Napster a year and a half ago. As things stand now, they can "crush [morpheus and friends] with lawsuits."
If they do that, then those programs will be shut down. The users will wake up the next morning, and download Gnutella clients. Fifteen minutes later, "the suits" will have no choice short of shutting down the entire Internet. Gnutella has no fixed port, no central authority, and no single programmer. Once it becomes the standard - which is certain to happen if they force the presently popular programs to charge fees - the RIAA and MPAA are permanently and totally screwed.
Uhm, also he never got caught doing drugs. He just - decades after the fact - refused to specifically deny using drugs. I'm an underage college student, and I won't deny using alcohol. Should I expect the FBI to read this message and arrest me later today?
It's NOT all they spent the semester doing. I assume it was an independent study for the students; as such it might have been 2-4 hours of coursework, but not all they did the entire semester. If so, it would indeed be ridiculous.
I seem to recall that people are often awarded legal fees, but that doesn't account for traveling to the location of the trial, being out of work for said trial, etc.
And, for that matter, there's no guarantee of getting such an award.
No judge would ever enforce a trademark that effectively covered every program with 'open' in its name.
This means that it's just lawyers trying to intimidate people. In our system, it's sadly easy to do that, since most people don't have the money to fight even the most inane of charges in court - and even if they do, the company can find another issue to sue on until the victim is bankrupt.
Okay, to start with I suppose I should say that I'm only a college freshman, and don't really know very much about these issues.
However, if a company has provided email servers to their employees for the express purpose of business, it's reasonable that they wouldn't want those servers being used to display the goatsex pic of the month or something.
I think the real problem comes in only when the sorts of situations described in this article happen. In those cases, when people can't read about security, the company is at a disadvantage - and it's in the company's interest to not use the filtering software.
However, in the final analysis, it's their resource, and they're as right in refusing to allow porn email as they are to allow an employee not to have a pornographic background on their workstation, or to hang pictures in their office.
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Also, isn't there a company that holds a trademark on the term "CD"? If you sell something as a CD that doesn't comply with the established format, then you'd likely be infringing the terms under which the trademark is licensed.
Interesting. Of course, if every promising treatment worked, we'd all be immortal by now.
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As a college sophomore, I'm not qualified to answer your other points, but I did manage to find the full text of the article, if you're interested: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/294/55
While I agree by and large, there will be some SMALL amount of damage to normal cells. Some of the alpha particles will make it outside of the cancer cell, or be released before the 'cage' finds the cancer cell.
:)
That said, every drug known (from caffeine on up) causes some tiny amount of damage to the body; anyone who's drunk 5 shots of espresso in a setting will agree with me
Traditional chemotherapy pretty much incapacitates the patient while it is in progress, and can leave them sterile or with other permanent effects. If this works, and is safer - not necessarily perfectly safe - for the same degree of effect against cancer, there is no reason not to use it.
We're all getting a constant low dose of radiation. The desk on which I'm typing this is made of wood, and thus contains some amount of radioactice carbon 14, which is emitting gamma rays and neutrons throughout my body. The pasta I just ate is doing the same. That doesn't mean it'll kill me.
Please mod up the parent.
I looked at the articles and this message has probably the best information of any post so far.
If you look at the article, they attached the thing to an antibody that locks onto cancer cells. Also, they used an atom with a half-life of, IIRC, a few weeks - plenty of time for it to get inside the cancer cell before emitting too much radiation. An alpha particle is very damaging, but can only go a very short distance through flesh; thus, it'll really goof up the cell it is released in, but not cause a lot of general harm.
ONE alpha particle can ionize everything it passes, releasing 'free radicals' which do even more damage; I wouldn't be surprised if a single one could kill a cancer cell.
The number hasn't been announced on the webpages because it has yet to be verified (for example, there could be a bizarre bug in the testing software, or someone might have learned to forge a "this number is prime" signal to the server).
It has only been announced on the GIMPS project mailing list, and it looks like someone from that list prematurely submitted the story to Slashdot.
And, for that matter, the exact prime number has not been released yet, pending verification.
Actually, the webpage says that when a large prime is found, a fair amount of money (five grand, IIRC) will go to each discoverer of a prime found before that time.
As a member of the mailing list for the project, the identity of the number hasn't even been released - just the fact that one was found, and THAT has been known under 16 hours. Any message sent to outer space using a Mersenne prime must have used one of the earlier, smaller ones.
Yeah... I think a good start would be getting the latest version of WinAmp, and I doubt even the RIAA would be STUPID enough to use a protection strategy that only blocks playing in WinAmp, not other programs or whatever.
(sorry, didn't mean this to be anonymous)
Not only will the rate of return be high, but if folks are smart they'll use their credit card's guaranteed return policy - then, not only will Amazon (or a store you visit and return an item to in 3D) lose your business, they'll have to pay fairly large penalty fees and risk their relationship with the card issuer.
Frankly, if "the suits" had any common sense at all, they'd have negotiated with Napster a year and a half ago. As things stand now, they can "crush [morpheus and friends] with lawsuits."
If they do that, then those programs will be shut down. The users will wake up the next morning, and download Gnutella clients. Fifteen minutes later, "the suits" will have no choice short of shutting down the entire Internet. Gnutella has no fixed port, no central authority, and no single programmer. Once it becomes the standard - which is certain to happen if they force the presently popular programs to charge fees - the RIAA and MPAA are permanently and totally screwed.
Uhm, also he never got caught doing drugs. He just - decades after the fact - refused to specifically deny using drugs. I'm an underage college student, and I won't deny using alcohol. Should I expect the FBI to read this message and arrest me later today?
cat /dev/zero | /dev/mem
It's NOT all they spent the semester doing. I assume it was an independent study for the students; as such it might have been 2-4 hours of coursework, but not all they did the entire semester. If so, it would indeed be ridiculous.
RMS would get upset at a lot of the icons here. Look at the icons for Linux and Linux Business - there's not a single 'GNU/' in either!
Which was, sadly, more or less my point.
I seem to recall that people are often awarded legal fees, but that doesn't account for traveling to the location of the trial, being out of work for said trial, etc.
And, for that matter, there's no guarantee of getting such an award.
No judge would ever enforce a trademark that effectively covered every program with 'open' in its name.
This means that it's just lawyers trying to intimidate people. In our system, it's sadly easy to do that, since most people don't have the money to fight even the most inane of charges in court - and even if they do, the company can find another issue to sue on until the victim is bankrupt.
Okay, to start with I suppose I should say that I'm only a college freshman, and don't really know very much about these issues.
However, if a company has provided email servers to their employees for the express purpose of business, it's reasonable that they wouldn't want those servers being used to display the goatsex pic of the month or something.
I think the real problem comes in only when the sorts of situations described in this article happen. In those cases, when people can't read about security, the company is at a disadvantage - and it's in the company's interest to not use the filtering software.
However, in the final analysis, it's their resource, and they're as right in refusing to allow porn email as they are to allow an employee not to have a pornographic background on their workstation, or to hang pictures in their office.
Even more fascinating, some news from Microsoft about "Upgrading your computer's operating system".
So, in other words, it is largely shut down. Is there any word on how likely it is that the school will recover?
Hey, look at it this way - if VA Linux were to go from its present price to any other price in its history, you'd be rich instantly!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this university is mostly on-line in the first place.
Thus, how badly will it hurt them to not accept on-campus students, an action that would shut down most schools?
I joined in November (username Pakaran). I never heard anything about porn...
I read your nodes. All 20-some of them. And I think they fit quite neatly in that category.