there is zero evidence to link resistance to vancomycin (an extremely rare antibiotic, used only in cases of desperation) to the use of hand soap. in my opinion the body of this article is sensationalistic hogwash.
vancomycin resistance can come from serendipity, from vancomycin exposure, or from a mechanism which creates a much broader resistance to a class of antibiotics which includes vancomycin, subsequent to exposure to other antibiotics in that class. hand soap is not in any structurally related class.
> Make Love, Not War in the oval office, bring Back Clinton..
The problem with this sig is that it was Clinton who bombed Iraq on false pretenses the first time, and killed an estimated 1.7 million Iraqi civillians through blockade, poisoning, and bombardment. I admit Bush might kill even more, given the chance, but he hasn't done it *yet*, so Clinton remains the most heinous war criminal of our generation.
Seems to me, that as long as you avoid 3 & 4 you're copacetic. Just use the text in chunks, one smidgen at a time. For example, by using a Javascript pop-up to quote the pertinent passage in every instance. In this way, it's not usable as an alternative source of the original for general readership, and by segmentation each relevant reference is reduced to an appropriately small part of the original -- however, I tend to think that the original is not the article to which you are responding, but rather the whole of the website, which gives you a lot more slack.
Aye, I'll second that. Open source projects don't generally have a PR budget, or flaks spinning ad copy designed to decieve you into buying their dog food, and they come out the worse for it. But they do nonetheless manage to compete with the big boys, when their feature sets and operational qualities become sufficiently compelling.
It's really a tribute to the ability of admittedly corrupt humanity to do something constructive without a clear greed motivation. Now if the scale of effort applied to developing Linux, Apache, Plone, GCC, etc., could only be harnessed to do something *really* useful, like find loving homes for the 50,000 AIDS orphans in Henan...
Oxfam estimates that it costs $20 to save a human life, via rehydration and nutrition programs. So a billion dollars translates to 50 million people (although I think that's a bit optimistic). Given a billion to spend, I think I'd undo the human suffering of World War 2.
The reducing atmosphere theory was refuted decades ago. Well, it just goes to show you that it takes more than good science to drive out bad: It takes a whole lot of active scientific education of the public as well. I do think that science journalism does more harm to public understanding than good -- and this article is an example of why. It's main topical content is fairly well researched, and appears accurate to me as a non-specialist, but it's very subtitle loudly proclaims a known falsehood, in sensationalistic terms which will do more to delude the casual reader than the content will ever do to educate her.
Since you have physical freedom, you could now leave U.S. jurisdiction, and thus avoid prison. 33 months in a federal prison is much worse than death. You could have an excellent quality of life in any number of relatively free nations such as China. Why are you condemning yourself to torture?
It will always be the case that crypto which depends on computational intractability rather than a demonstrable computational impossibility will always be open to some future innovation rendering it trivial to crack. Elliptic curve crypto seems to have the best prospects for the future right now, and you can use it right now: El Gamal is implemented in GPG.
But to say that QC will render effective crypto a historical artifact is clearly mistaken. If it were true, it would imply that there are *no* hard problems any more, once QC techniques are employed. All that QC can do is compute functions over a finite field with effectively infinite parallelism. It's unfortunate that most crypto systems today rely upon functions over a finite field, but there are plenty of hard problems that are only valid over function spaces, for example.
I don't understand why everybody doesn't use docbook for everything. POD is a perlism, and documents in POD are inaccessible to people with a new interest in Perl motivated by 6/Parrot. RTF is a pseudo-standard. If you want to be accessible, you have to produce HTML. If you want POD and RTF as well, docbook is your bitch.
Demanding the source code means they release the source code, means their products get better software, means they sell more products, means they make more money.
I'm sure the Epson shareholders are just quaking in fear that they might be forced to make more money.
why anyone would *believe* the results tabulated by software that was immune to public audit gathered from complex and bug-prone devices operated by a secret mechanism is beyond my comprehension.
given the history of democratic elections around the world and in the united states itself, it seems more than apparent that such devices, if they continue in use, will inevitably result in massive electoral fraud.
with the possible exception of mod_php stability, i think the single greatest thing that would encourage the uptake of A2 is open documentation. Doc has always been a terrible deficiency of Apache, but in the 1.x series, the community gradually developed an adequate expertise by force of the demands of circumstance. But A2 configuration differs in crucially important ways from A1, and the readily visible documentation, beginning with the conceptual model, and continuing on to the detailed syntax and semantics of configuration directives, is far too inaccessible to the busy admin at this point.
Oh, and I might also add the SerialATA, with it's tagged command queueing, is very shortly about to render the 300% SCSI price premium obsolete in all but a few narrow verticals.
Slashdot Mirror
Hash your device boot time plus a random delay.
there is zero evidence to link resistance to
vancomycin (an extremely rare antibiotic, used only
in cases of desperation) to the use of hand soap.
in my opinion the body of this article is
sensationalistic hogwash.
vancomycin resistance can come from serendipity,
from vancomycin exposure, or from a mechanism which
creates a much broader resistance to a class of
antibiotics which includes vancomycin, subsequent
to exposure to other antibiotics in that class.
hand soap is not in any structurally related class.
If you want to see why I think pharma was pivotal in this move, check out the auction site.
> Make Love, Not War in the oval office, bring Back Clinton..
The problem with this sig is that it was Clinton who
bombed Iraq on false pretenses the first time, and
killed an estimated 1.7 million Iraqi civillians
through blockade, poisoning, and bombardment.
I admit Bush might kill even more, given the chance,
but he hasn't done it *yet*, so Clinton remains the
most heinous war criminal of our generation.
Seems to me, that as long as you avoid 3 & 4
you're copacetic. Just use the text in chunks,
one smidgen at a time. For example, by using a
Javascript pop-up to quote the pertinent passage
in every instance. In this way, it's not usable
as an alternative source of the original for
general readership, and by segmentation each
relevant reference is reduced to an appropriately
small part of the original -- however, I tend to
think that the original is not the article to which
you are responding, but rather the whole of the
website, which gives you a lot more slack.
Aye, I'll second that. Open source projects don't generally have a PR budget, or flaks spinning ad copy designed to decieve you into buying their dog food, and they come out the worse for it. But they do nonetheless manage to compete with the big boys, when their feature sets and operational qualities become sufficiently compelling.
It's really a tribute to the ability of admittedly corrupt humanity to do something constructive without a clear greed motivation. Now if the
scale of effort applied to developing Linux,
Apache, Plone, GCC, etc., could only be harnessed
to do something *really* useful, like find loving
homes for the 50,000 AIDS orphans in Henan...
Without a doubt the best guide to patenting without an attorney is the Nolo Press book by Pressman, Patent It Yourself, and it's attendent apparatus.
Dear Mr. I-can't-tell-sarcasm-from-a-troll-from-my-arse:
I also hope you get your wick trimmed in meta-mod.
And at the same conference, you will find overwhelming evidence of oxygenated oceans 4 billion years ago.
a bs tract_7459.htm
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2001ESP/finalprogram/
Hint: The oxygenation state of the atmosphere is
much more closely linked to that of the oceans
than that of rocks.
Oxfam estimates that it costs $20 to save a human
life, via rehydration and nutrition programs.
So a billion dollars translates to 50 million
people (although I think that's a bit optimistic).
Given a billion to spend, I think I'd undo the
human suffering of World War 2.
i'd gladly sacrifice these if it meant my
ping times would drop by half.
The reducing atmosphere theory was
refuted decades ago. Well, it just goes to show
you that it takes more than good science to
drive out bad: It takes a whole lot of active
scientific education of the public as well.
I do think that science journalism does more
harm to public understanding than good -- and
this article is an example of why. It's main
topical content is fairly well researched, and
appears accurate to me as a non-specialist, but
it's very subtitle loudly proclaims a known
falsehood, in sensationalistic terms which will
do more to delude the casual reader than the
content will ever do to educate her.
Bummer deal.
Relative to the U.S., which is quite similar to
Nero's Rome in many respects, right down to the
fasces.
Whoever mod'ed that as a troll should be
profoundly slapped in meta-mod.
Intellectual property is intellectual theft.
There is nothing there to steal.
Since you have physical freedom, you could now
leave U.S. jurisdiction, and thus avoid prison.
33 months in a federal prison is much worse than
death. You could have an excellent quality of life
in any number of relatively free nations such as
China. Why are you condemning yourself to torture?
on computational intractability rather than a
demonstrable computational impossibility will always
be open to some future innovation rendering it
trivial to crack. Elliptic curve crypto seems to
have the best prospects for the future right now,
and you can use it right now: El Gamal is
implemented in GPG.
But to say that QC will render effective crypto a
historical artifact is clearly mistaken. If it
were true, it would imply that there are *no*
hard problems any more, once QC techniques are
employed. All that QC can do is compute functions
over a finite field with effectively infinite
parallelism. It's unfortunate that most crypto
systems today rely upon functions over a finite
field, but there are plenty of hard problems that
are only valid over function spaces, for example.
Sarcasm != Flamebait.
I don't understand why everybody doesn't use docbook
for everything. POD is a perlism, and documents in
POD are inaccessible to people with a new interest
in Perl motivated by 6/Parrot. RTF is a
pseudo-standard. If you want to be accessible, you
have to produce HTML. If you want POD and RTF as
well, docbook is your bitch.
use a crossover-y cable and route
Oh joy. Now at least 12 people can read it!
Maybe someone will translate it to WordStar format
and the readership will double! Hot diggity.
You're kidding, right?
Demanding the source code means they release the
source code, means their products get better
software, means they sell more products, means they
make more money.
I'm sure the Epson shareholders are just quaking
in fear that they might be forced to make more
money.
i don't fly anymore, because i will not cooperate
with the systematic destruction of constitutionally
protected human rights.
i also encrypt almost all of my email now, since
it is much more likely to be snooped.
finally, i'm planning on leaving the country at
the end of the year.
why anyone would *believe* the results tabulated
by software that was immune to public audit gathered
from complex and bug-prone devices operated by a
secret mechanism is beyond my comprehension.
given the history of democratic elections around the
world and in the united states itself, it seems
more than apparent that such devices, if they
continue in use, will inevitably result in massive
electoral fraud.
with the possible exception of mod_php stability, i
think the single greatest thing that would encourage
the uptake of A2 is open documentation. Doc has
always been a terrible deficiency of Apache, but
in the 1.x series, the community gradually developed
an adequate expertise by force of the demands of
circumstance. But A2 configuration differs in
crucially important ways from A1, and the readily
visible documentation, beginning with the conceptual
model, and continuing on to the detailed syntax and
semantics of configuration directives, is far too
inaccessible to the busy admin at this point.
Oh, and I might also add the SerialATA, with it's
tagged command queueing, is very shortly about to
render the 300% SCSI price premium obsolete in all
but a few narrow verticals.