The origin of Life can be scientifically proven, unlike creationism. However we do not (yet) have the means to do so: Simplified method: take a just forming star system. Build a dysonsphere around it to remove outside "seeding" of life. put inside various non-organic robots which observe, provide basic building blocks like C H O N molecules and wait a few million/billion years. Either life forms or it doesn't after dozens, hundreds or thousands of such tries. If it does form in a reasonable number of times, with documentation from your robot probes, you've proven how life starts. The other possibility is watching god to work miraculously in one of his 7 days benders. If you do, please make a photo of god. I really want to know if Michelangelo got it right depicting him.
You are mistaken. No one has the good explanation for the origin of life. Heck, no one can really say what life IS. We have a theory which is so far the best explanation for observable facts about the changing, development and mutation of species called "theory of evolution" but that's it. It's like physics: relativity theory and quantum theory are very good theories which gave tremendous tangible benefits but they still have observable problems (damn gravitation!) and we're still not sure about the Big Bang thing.
Yes. They want a single architecture, which is why they bought CPU design companies like PA Semi to design ARM CPUs for them... Intel will be fabbing for Apple, but they will fab ARM CPUs. Apple isn't telling all the AppStore developers suddenly "port all your apps to x86 now!" for a very very good reason. If they did however, Google would be jumping up and down in joy: the biggest advantage of Apple gone! No more overwhelming amount of Apps, especially for tablets, compared to Android Market! Right now there is not a single reason to switch to Atom, there are actually very many reasons not to port: there isn't a single Atom CPU which is usable for a phone, tablet or music player and there won't be for some time if ever. Yes I know about Medfield and Intel claiming about a dozen tablets until the end of the year with Atom.
Not true. These people were without a laptop for 3 years. At the time the laptop died, it was worth $2000 and these people told nvidia: fix this mess you created. Nvidia declined and a suit was filed which took 3 years. It's not the customers fault it took so long to get justice. The day the damage was claimed against nvidia was the day the value of the item in question is determined. If you have to sue your insurance company about your car for 3 years, the company can't continue to depreciate the amount it owes you over that time if they're found guilty..
If they didn't, It'd be harder to pull stunts like closing the Honeycomb source.
Android uses the Linux kernel, nothing more that is GPLed. Even their libc is developed inhouse. Tho, dhcp-client by ISC has a very permissive license. Little bit of advertising, that's all. Closing the source is allowed.
From what I remember, The CPU ISA is designed by a british company, Parts of the CPU were designed by a mini startup (100? 200 people?) Apple bought and fabbed by Samsung. The flash chips are made by Toshiba (or Samsung?), another true blue american company there!
As for the rest of your statement about which company profits from building the IPad: your understanding of multinational corporations economics is utterly moronic.
Easy: artificially "cutting" CO2 emissions and greenwashing the car industries. In 2007 or so the EU wanted to make regulations for its member states to cut CO2 some amount over the next few years. Since traffic makes up quite a bit of CO2 emissions, the pressure was put on car makers as well to cut emissions substantially. However, this can basically only be done by using lighter, lower powered cars. The german car industry in particular heavily opposed that, and being the biggest industry in Germany it got its way. Instead, the proposed "solution" was to mix 10% ethanol into the gas, which is of course "ecological" now and produces 10% less CO2, lowering greenhouse emissions. Or so the theory goes... With the beginning of this year, E10 as it's called (10% Ethanol) was introduced at gas stations in Germany and consumers basically revolted. at most 30% or so of the cars suitable for it actually use it. Consumers fill their cars with the higher priced (taxes) old fuel instead and no increase in numbers for the new E10 in sight.
Cesium-137 is. In Bavaria, quite a long way from Chernobyl, all wild sows are radiation tested after been shot, and most of them treated as nuclear waste since the radiation they get from eating fungi is too high for consumption. This is 25 years after.
It was a very modern plant once. What do you think how "modern" the currently built ones (the few ones that are... finland one is the only one which is built right now) are in 40 years? Just as outdated, just as much nuclear waste no one knows what to do with. Nuclear energy is a dead end from an economic and public safety perspective and always was. The only reason for it to exist is armament, either real or potential.
All the bombs the US sold to Egypt didn't prevent the democratic uprising helped greatly by free flow of information. Remember: the pen (or in this case the pixel) is mightier than the sword.
As for your "Free speech is not a human right" you are mistaken: Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
They behave the same. All over Europe you can buy Motorola phones in normal, non-carrier affiliated shops and they all have this same DRM scheme for their bootloader.
Maybe ask this question near nuclear reprocessing sites, like LaHague and Sellafield for example. Your argument is like the tobacco industry saying no one ever died of smoking since no one asphyxiated directly on the smoke they inhaled while smoking their cigarettes. Wonder how your argument goes 10 years from now when the cancer from today's "accident" hits....
Wonder how many of the usual "Nuclear Energy is cheap, safe, clean and does the dishes AND the laundry" posts we get today. Face it: if the (unlikely) worst happens and a reactor does blow up in japan, the current recession is child's play.
It's easy for the FBI to show the legality of their surveillance operation: simply produce the warrant signed by a judge. Clearly it doesn't matter if the suspect knows about it or not, otherwise they wouldn't demand their device back. There is no logical reason at this point not to tell the suspect why he's monitored: if the suspect is guilty, he very well knows why he is monitored anyways, and if he is not, he can probably exactly tell the FBI why it's all a waste of time and money.
Dear FBI, if you have nothing to hide you can clearly show under what jurisdiction you are monitoring people, right?
Most of these newfangled JavaScript engines are simply JIT compilers, so yes, the compilation time takes some time which usually means the page loads slower. All those "OnLoad" statements have to be parsed and compiled before they can run faster than they could before. Ideally you don't notice it cause your awesome new CPU is fast enough to make it a non issue. If you didn't upgrade your PC (or mobile) last week but last decade, you might have a problem tho.
Controlling mass media. Seize and hold the newspapers, the radio stations and TV stations. That has been the highest priority for every faction coup, revolution or uprising, pro or contra, for the last century. The Internet is just a newer medium but the same principle applies. Today you don't just occupy newsrooms, printshops, broadcast towers and satelite uplinks but NOCs or DSL concentrators too, that's all.
And as for the much talked about "Internet kill switch", that is a red herring which is so dead, it smells rather awful by now. "Physical access trumps everything" and whoever has the power has this access. Network admins are not known for owning, and using, weapons om an effective way.
There is clearly a generational shift happening in the Arab world. The "old style" corrupt dictators, supported in large by a religious elite that is composed predominantly of old power-hungry zealots are facing the new (formerly) silent majority of a youth that is increasingly well educated, informed of world events and sceptical of the relgious indoctrination they are being subjected to.
You know that the current egyptian regime under Mubarak is a secular one, and if today were actually free elections, the islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood would win a landslide victory?
No the german wall between eastern Germany and western Germany: 1378 km of it. Berlin had its own wall which was 119km long. Both served the same purpose and both were similarly effective, e.g. very effective with only sporadic people making it thorugh unauthorized.
If you were to include x264 into any product for sale, MPEG-LA will come knocking to your door, demand (and get) licensing fees. x264 is an open _implementation_ of h264 but the patents still apply.
As long as Twitter wants to do business in the EU (selling ads to EU entities?) then it better follow EU law for its EU users. If they don't want that revenue, only providing a service from a US based website, ignoring it is fine. If I cross border shop I have to follow laws from both countries. Just shop for Marijuana in Holland as a german citizen. Yes, it's legally bought but the german police don't care about that at all.
Said study authors should learn what a "peak" is and what peak oil means: after the "peak" there is a decline. So "scientists": come back if there is a steady, continous decline.
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The origin of Life can be scientifically proven, unlike creationism.
However we do not (yet) have the means to do so:
Simplified method: take a just forming star system. Build a dysonsphere around it to remove outside "seeding" of life. put inside various non-organic robots which observe, provide basic building blocks like C H O N molecules and wait a few million/billion years. Either life forms or it doesn't after dozens, hundreds or thousands of such tries. If it does form in a reasonable number of times, with documentation from your robot probes, you've proven how life starts.
The other possibility is watching god to work miraculously in one of his 7 days benders. If you do, please make a photo of god. I really want to know if Michelangelo got it right depicting him.
You are mistaken. No one has the good explanation for the origin of life. Heck, no one can really say what life IS.
We have a theory which is so far the best explanation for observable facts about the changing, development and mutation of species called "theory of evolution" but that's it.
It's like physics: relativity theory and quantum theory are very good theories which gave tremendous tangible benefits but they still have observable problems (damn gravitation!) and we're still not sure about the Big Bang thing.
Yes. They want a single architecture, which is why they bought CPU design companies like PA Semi to design ARM CPUs for them...
Intel will be fabbing for Apple, but they will fab ARM CPUs. Apple isn't telling all the AppStore developers suddenly "port all your apps to x86 now!" for a very very good reason. If they did however, Google would be jumping up and down in joy: the biggest advantage of Apple gone! No more overwhelming amount of Apps, especially for tablets, compared to Android Market! Right now there is not a single reason to switch to Atom, there are actually very many reasons not to port: there isn't a single Atom CPU which is usable for a phone, tablet or music player and there won't be for some time if ever. Yes I know about Medfield and Intel claiming about a dozen tablets until the end of the year with Atom.
Not true. These people were without a laptop for 3 years. At the time the laptop died, it was worth $2000 and these people told nvidia: fix this mess you created. Nvidia declined and a suit was filed which took 3 years. It's not the customers fault it took so long to get justice. The day the damage was claimed against nvidia was the day the value of the item in question is determined.
If you have to sue your insurance company about your car for 3 years, the company can't continue to depreciate the amount it owes you over that time if they're found guilty..
It's not expensive and if you get worth out of the investment it's a good thing all the way around.
Spoken like someone who hasn't looked at DDR1 RAM prices lately.
The collected data is then sold to marketers who can come up with more interesting ads to be skipped over with your DVR.
The data is then sold to marketers to come up with better ways to do product placement inside the shows.
If they didn't, It'd be harder to pull stunts like closing the Honeycomb source.
Android uses the Linux kernel, nothing more that is GPLed. Even their libc is developed inhouse. Tho, dhcp-client by ISC has a very permissive license. Little bit of advertising, that's all. Closing the source is allowed.
From what I remember, The CPU ISA is designed by a british company, Parts of the CPU were designed by a mini startup (100? 200 people?) Apple bought and fabbed by Samsung. The flash chips are made by Toshiba (or Samsung?), another true blue american company there!
As for the rest of your statement about which company profits from building the IPad: your understanding of multinational corporations economics is utterly moronic.
Easy: artificially "cutting" CO2 emissions and greenwashing the car industries.
In 2007 or so the EU wanted to make regulations for its member states to cut CO2 some amount over the next few years. Since traffic makes up quite a bit of CO2 emissions, the pressure was put on car makers as well to cut emissions substantially. However, this can basically only be done by using lighter, lower powered cars. The german car industry in particular heavily opposed that, and being the biggest industry in Germany it got its way. Instead, the proposed "solution" was to mix 10% ethanol into the gas, which is of course "ecological" now and produces 10% less CO2, lowering greenhouse emissions. Or so the theory goes...
With the beginning of this year, E10 as it's called (10% Ethanol) was introduced at gas stations in Germany and consumers basically revolted. at most 30% or so of the cars suitable for it actually use it. Consumers fill their cars with the higher priced (taxes) old fuel instead and no increase in numbers for the new E10 in sight.
Cesium-137 is. In Bavaria, quite a long way from Chernobyl, all wild sows are radiation tested after been shot, and most of them treated as nuclear waste since the radiation they get from eating fungi is too high for consumption. This is 25 years after.
It was a very modern plant once. What do you think how "modern" the currently built ones (the few ones that are... finland one is the only one which is built right now) are in 40 years? Just as outdated, just as much nuclear waste no one knows what to do with. Nuclear energy is a dead end from an economic and public safety perspective and always was. The only reason for it to exist is armament, either real or potential.
All the bombs the US sold to Egypt didn't prevent the democratic uprising helped greatly by free flow of information.
Remember: the pen (or in this case the pixel) is mightier than the sword.
As for your "Free speech is not a human right" you are mistaken:
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
From: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml
They behave the same. All over Europe you can buy Motorola phones in normal, non-carrier affiliated shops and they all have this same DRM scheme for their bootloader.
Maybe ask this question near nuclear reprocessing sites, like LaHague and Sellafield for example.
Your argument is like the tobacco industry saying no one ever died of smoking since no one asphyxiated directly on the smoke they inhaled while smoking their cigarettes.
Wonder how your argument goes 10 years from now when the cancer from today's "accident" hits....
Wonder how many of the usual "Nuclear Energy is cheap, safe, clean and does the dishes AND the laundry" posts we get today.
Face it: if the (unlikely) worst happens and a reactor does blow up in japan, the current recession is child's play.
It's easy for the FBI to show the legality of their surveillance operation: simply produce the warrant signed by a judge. Clearly it doesn't matter if the suspect knows about it or not, otherwise they wouldn't demand their device back. There is no logical reason at this point not to tell the suspect why he's monitored: if the suspect is guilty, he very well knows why he is monitored anyways, and if he is not, he can probably exactly tell the FBI why it's all a waste of time and money.
Dear FBI, if you have nothing to hide you can clearly show under what jurisdiction you are monitoring people, right?
Most of these newfangled JavaScript engines are simply JIT compilers, so yes, the compilation time takes some time which usually means the page loads slower. All those "OnLoad" statements have to be parsed and compiled before they can run faster than they could before.
Ideally you don't notice it cause your awesome new CPU is fast enough to make it a non issue. If you didn't upgrade your PC (or mobile) last week but last decade, you might have a problem tho.
Controlling mass media.
Seize and hold the newspapers, the radio stations and TV stations. That has been the highest priority for every faction coup, revolution or uprising, pro or contra, for the last century. The Internet is just a newer medium but the same principle applies. Today you don't just occupy newsrooms, printshops, broadcast towers and satelite uplinks but NOCs or DSL concentrators too, that's all.
And as for the much talked about "Internet kill switch", that is a red herring which is so dead, it smells rather awful by now. "Physical access trumps everything" and whoever has the power has this access. Network admins are not known for owning, and using, weapons om an effective way.
Nothing to see here, move along citizen.
There is clearly a generational shift happening in the Arab world. The "old style" corrupt dictators, supported in large by a religious elite that is composed predominantly of old power-hungry zealots are facing the new (formerly) silent majority of a youth that is increasingly well educated, informed of world events and sceptical of the relgious indoctrination they are being subjected to.
You know that the current egyptian regime under Mubarak is a secular one, and if today were actually free elections, the islamists in the Muslim Brotherhood would win a landslide victory?
No the german wall between eastern Germany and western Germany: 1378 km of it. Berlin had its own wall which was 119km long. Both served the same purpose and both were similarly effective, e.g. very effective with only sporadic people making it thorugh unauthorized.
This "news" IS celebrity gossip!
now sites close as soon as /. links to them.
I see hard time ahead for /., maybe they need to create their own content now?
If you were to include x264 into any product for sale, MPEG-LA will come knocking to your door, demand (and get) licensing fees. x264 is an open _implementation_ of h264 but the patents still apply.
As long as Twitter wants to do business in the EU (selling ads to EU entities?) then it better follow EU law for its EU users. If they don't want that revenue, only providing a service from a US based website, ignoring it is fine.
If I cross border shop I have to follow laws from both countries. Just shop for Marijuana in Holland as a german citizen. Yes, it's legally bought but the german police don't care about that at all.
Said study authors should learn what a "peak" is and what peak oil means: after the "peak" there is a decline. So "scientists": come back if there is a steady, continous decline.