That "leader" of that African country didn't refuse the food aid because it was genetically altered.
Irregardless, that doesn't negate the fact that if one seed was planted, not only would they have to deal with a unknown ecological impacting strain, they would have found themselves mired in legal issues for an extremely long time to come.
Now, as for using starvation as a weapon, of course, I find that despicable. However, it's not inconcievable that the news sources (which do mostly stem from a few sources) could have been mistaken. In any case, I would have exercised extreme caution on accepting said food.
I'm not saying "Stop progress!" or anything like that, I am simply pointing out that the people who are saying that everything is fine and we have nothing to worry about can't even practice proper isolation techniques. What happens the next time something a bit more dangerous drifts over to food meant for humans? What happens when, unlike this time, it's not caught?
See, this is why a lot of people are cautious about genetically altered foods. The potential hazards combined with the legal tanglements of a company being able to hold a patent on seeds, so far, hasn't been worth it. Perhaps now, the na-sayers who derided the decision of the leader of that African country to refuse genetically altered foodstuffs have some "food for thought". Sorry, pun intended.
This is interesting. According to the article, you can swap out the SIM card on the modem. Two immediate options occured to me. One, cell phone theft is a problem in Europe. This can lead to people swiping a cell phone, grabbing the SIM card and doing whatever needs to be done anonymously via the Internet. I'm sure everyone can use their imagination. Second, and perhaps more interesting, there are various services that will purchase or provide SIM cards that are (more or less) anonymous, so you can make phone calls that are not traceable to you. These pre-paid SIM cards are rechargable. This could be a help if you had one in a climate where you needed to make sure something you posted on the web, for example, would be far more difficult to trace. Very exciting. Brave new world.
What si the security like with this thing, it works in the 900Mhz range, I know alot of 900Mhz phones that are easily tapped with cheap equiptment. I hope Sony has thought this through.
Personally, I hope they haven't. Maybe that's bad, but it's true.
While you're waiting for someone else to put together a distro so that you don't have to think or digging out the old computer which may or may not play new formats or switching to a platform which takes not having to learn to all new heights, I'll be listening to mp3s. Amazing the lengths people will go to to not have to think/learn.
By the way, I am not a "everyone should do it the hard way" but I am cognizant of the benefits reaped from actually reading documentation and being able to learn. Just to add, the HOWTO has nothing that isn't in the ALSA docs. I am not against HOWTOs, I am against HOWTOs that are distro specific and contain no new or helpful information.
>Doing things the hard way is stupid and that is why people choose Windows.
That's fine. Enjoy Windows. Let me know what your mp3s sound like when DRM takes away your ability to play them. Maybe then you'll read some documentation.
You don't learn anything. Learning new things is important to me, if not to anyone else.
Automagically detecting hardware is not an exact science. If all you use is a tool to do something, then you can't fix it if said tool breaks.
Lots of time to read is relative. In the time it takes to read the HOWTO, you could have read the documentation that comes with ALSA and walked away with far more knowledge. You have to learn how to do anything, that's just a fact.
Actually I believe the WinME manual is more properly titled "Don't RTFM, we took care of everything for you so you don't have to exercise that little thing you call a brain...oh, and sorry if your card isn't on our list"
Of course the best fighter would obviously be an Alien spawned from a Predator! Hmmm, wonder if I can copyright this idea...
That already happened in one of Dark Horse's Predator Vs. Aliens comics. The Alien was pretty bad ass. Interestingly enough, it seemed that the Predators view this as a particularly vile abomination. Spoiler: It took both a tough human marine (last of the human team) and a Predator (last of his hunting party) to take down the Alien. Interesting the theory that two warlike races can work together against a common threat.
P.S. That's a movie I would give a lot to have input and/or see.
Batman would win, without a doubt. Not only is he sneaky as hell, he prepares for everything. As soon as he heard about Superman, he probably started planning on what to do with him, just in case. And he's got the money to back it up. Superman is cool and all, but he's a farmboy hick at heart. He would just charge straight in, get caught by something that would slow him down and get his jaw broken with Batman's krytonite brass knuckles.
Quick question on the rating system. What's to stop the same people who are saturating KaZaa with false files to simply rate good files negatively? That way, they don't even have to flood the network, all they have to do is stomp on a file at a time and nobody is going to download it to see if it's good or not. Is the rating system simply going to make it easier for companies to steer people away from good files?
Right, my comment is off-topic when I reply directly to a statement made in the story. And thanks to OSDN for turning banner ads off for the day. Mods on crack.
This why we have affirmative action programs like "Midnight Basketball".
That's actually pretty funny cause they tried that in some areas of DC. It didn't work for the following reasons. (a) Basketball court with good lighting and high fences, with only one ingress/egress at night is a really good place to get shot. (b) Said basketball court was right next to the exit for a major highway, the 395 I belive.
By having a list of potentials, they can narrow their initial search for a suspect by checking out likely entries from the database. That's EXACTLY what the police do with people who HAVE been convicted of a crime. When a new crime takes place, they look at known criminals first.
My point is that there is a difference between conducting an investigation based on a pattern of past behavior and conducting it based on where you live. It's not even close to canvasing a neigborhood for witnesses after a burglery, it's questioning a person and marking him as a potential suspect because he was loitering in the wrong neighborhood last week. How does that (loitering and/or living in a neigborhood) do anything to narrow down a list of suspects? Might as well open the phone book and play pin the tail on the name and address.
Almost forgot, what's the file format for the archived video? Is it straight MPEG or something propriatary? Can I install NFS or somesuch on it? Sorry, it's just a day for questions apparently.
Ok, any idea what arch the processor is? Wasn't mentioned as far as I could see. Also, now all someone has to do is make a web interface so that we can pick what programs we want to record over the net, ala Tivo.
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That "leader" of that African country didn't refuse the food aid
because it was genetically altered.
Irregardless, that doesn't negate the fact that if one seed
was planted, not only would they have to deal with a unknown ecological
impacting strain, they would have found themselves mired in legal issues for an
extremely long time to come.
Now, as for using starvation as a weapon, of course, I find that despicable.
However, it's not inconcievable that the news sources (which do mostly stem
from a few sources) could have been mistaken. In any case, I would have
exercised extreme caution on accepting said food.
I'm not saying "Stop progress!" or anything like that, I am simply pointing out
that the people who are saying that everything is fine and we have nothing to
worry about can't even practice proper isolation techniques. What happens the
next time something a bit more dangerous drifts over to food meant for humans?
What happens when, unlike this time, it's not caught?
SealBeater
Misleading title - the genes haven't made the jump anywhere. They just happen
to be planted in the same place.
I realize that. What makes you think I didn't?
SealBeater
See, this is why a lot of people are cautious about genetically altered foods.
The potential hazards combined with the legal tanglements of a company being
able to hold a patent on seeds, so far, hasn't been worth it. Perhaps now, the
na-sayers who derided the decision of the leader of that African country to
refuse genetically altered foodstuffs have some "food for thought". Sorry, pun
intended.
SealBeater
This is interesting. According to the article, you can swap out the SIM card on the modem. Two immediate options occured to me. One, cell phone theft is a problem in Europe. This can lead to people swiping a cell phone, grabbing the SIM card and doing whatever needs to be done anonymously via the Internet. I'm sure everyone can use their imagination. Second, and perhaps more interesting, there are various services that will purchase or provide SIM cards that are (more or less) anonymous, so you can make phone calls that are not traceable to you. These pre-paid SIM cards are rechargable. This could be a help if you had one in a climate where you needed to make sure something you posted on the web, for example, would be far more difficult to trace. Very exciting. Brave new world.
SealBeater
What si the security like with this thing, it works in the 900Mhz range, I know alot of 900Mhz phones that are easily tapped with cheap equiptment. I hope Sony has thought this through.
Personally, I hope they haven't. Maybe that's bad, but it's true.
SealBeater
My laptop has a ac97 chip in it too, what option did you pick in the kernel? My laptop (Dell 8200) is using the intel ICH (i8xx) driver)
SealBeater
While you're waiting for someone else to put together a distro so that you don't have to think or digging out the old computer which may or may not play new formats or switching to a platform which takes not having to learn to all new heights, I'll be listening to mp3s. Amazing the lengths people will go to to not have to think/learn.
By the way, I am not a "everyone should do it the hard way" but I am cognizant of the benefits reaped from actually reading documentation and being able to learn. Just to add, the HOWTO has nothing that isn't in the ALSA docs. I am not against HOWTOs, I am against HOWTOs that are distro specific and contain no new or helpful information.
SealBeater
>Doing things the hard way is stupid and that is why people choose Windows.
That's fine. Enjoy Windows. Let me know what your mp3s sound like when DRM takes away your ability to play them. Maybe then you'll read some documentation.
SealBeater
What's wrong with that approach? Let's see:
You don't learn anything. Learning new things is important to me, if not to anyone else.
Automagically detecting hardware is not an exact science. If all you use is a tool to do something, then you can't fix it if said tool breaks.
Lots of time to read is relative. In the time it takes to read the HOWTO, you could have read the documentation that comes with ALSA and walked away with far more knowledge. You have to learn how to do anything, that's just a fact.
SealBeater
Actually I believe the WinME manual is more properly titled "Don't RTFM, we took care of everything for you so you don't have to exercise that little thing you call a brain...oh, and sorry if your card isn't on our list"
A direction I sincerly hope linux doesn't go.
SealBeater
Yea, why is this distro-specific anyway?
SealBeater
Subject line says it all...
Of course the best fighter would obviously be an Alien spawned from a Predator! Hmmm, wonder if I can copyright this idea...
That already happened in one of Dark Horse's Predator Vs. Aliens comics. The Alien was pretty bad ass. Interestingly enough, it seemed that the Predators view this as a particularly vile abomination. Spoiler: It took both a tough human marine (last of the human team) and a Predator (last of his hunting party) to take down the Alien. Interesting the theory that two warlike races can work together against a common threat.
P.S. That's a movie I would give a lot to have input and/or see.
SealBeater
Batman would win, without a doubt. Not only is he sneaky as hell, he prepares for everything. As soon as he heard about Superman, he probably started planning on what to do with him, just in case. And he's got the money to back it up. Superman is cool and all, but he's a farmboy hick at heart. He would just charge straight in, get caught by something that would slow him down and get his jaw broken with Batman's krytonite brass knuckles.
SealBeater
Just wanted to say thank you for the link. Looks to be interesting reading.
SealBeater
Quick question on the rating system. What's to stop the same people who are
saturating KaZaa with false files to simply rate good files negatively? That
way, they don't even have to flood the network, all they have to do is stomp on
a file at a time and nobody is going to download it to see if it's good or not.
Is the rating system simply going to make it easier for companies to steer
people away from good files?
SealBeater
Right, my comment is off-topic when I reply directly to a statement made in the story.
And thanks to OSDN for turning banner ads off for the day.
Mods on crack.
SealBeater
OSDN turned off the banners? I haven't seen a banner ad since I installed junkbuster.
SealBeater
This why we have affirmative action programs like "Midnight Basketball".
That's actually pretty funny cause they tried that in some areas of DC. It
didn't work for the following reasons.
(a) Basketball court with good lighting and high fences, with only one
ingress/egress at night is a really good place to get shot.
(b) Said basketball court was right next to the exit for a major highway, the
395 I belive.
Just food for thought.
SealBeater
By having a list of potentials, they can narrow their initial search for
a suspect by checking out likely entries from the
database. That's EXACTLY what the police do with people who HAVE been convicted
of a crime. When a new crime takes place, they look at known
criminals first.
My point is that there is a difference between conducting an investigation
based on a pattern of past behavior and conducting it based on where you live.
It's not even close to canvasing a neigborhood for witnesses after a burglery,
it's questioning a person and marking him as a potential suspect because he was
loitering in the wrong neighborhood last week. How does that (loitering and/or
living in a neigborhood) do anything to narrow down a list of suspects? Might
as well open the phone book and play pin the tail on the name and address.
SealBeater
If that's the case, then why bother having a list in the first place?
SealBeater
Gotcha, I missed it. Thanks. 8*)
SealBeater
Almost forgot, what's the file format for the archived video? Is it straight MPEG or something propriatary? Can I install NFS or somesuch on it? Sorry, it's just a day for questions apparently.
SealBeater
Ok, any idea what arch the processor is? Wasn't mentioned as far as I could see. Also, now all someone has to do is make a web interface so that we can pick what programs we want to record over the net, ala Tivo.
SealBeater
From the article:
"The suit states that despite Listen4ever's connections to
China, the site uses a U.S. domain name..."
Maybe I am just slow today, but what exactly is a "U.S. Domain Name"? It's not
Listen4ever.us.
SealBeater