This isn't a protection of God, it's a protection of those men who claim to speak for God.
Gandhi never claimed to speak for God. He didn't elevate himself to Mahatma ether. Those where things that others attributed to him just as you are attributing that he and others like him would commit murder for this offense.
If I were to draw a picture of Drew Barrymore prostituting herself out on the Vegas Strip I could easily find myself slapped with a lawsuit as well. Free speech doesn't mean freedom to commit libel and slander.
Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam’s holiest city
The first part make the lawsuit make a little sense and make it so that the Slashdot Title is incorrect. In the US it could be considered parody, but parody usually comes close to libel and slander. Gandhi and Singh are also not Gods but religious figures. I'm a bit surprised they took a stance on the Pigs running though Mecca, but it's probably politically motivated to appease some Islamic views so that maybe possibly they might find some common ground (wishful thinking but that's what it sounds like).
Before I get offended that Google would do such a thing or that India would think that it has jurisdiction. I would like to know what the objectionable material was exactly. If it was something like someone comparing the religious leaders of India to pedophile catholic priests I would understand, but if it was just "your God sucks" then Google should have stood its ground. So does anyone have a link or something that actually describes the offence because the article did not.
This particular study was done using Mice so the hypothesis of alzheimer's might be a Prion could be tested without the ethical concern of giving healthy human being alzheimers. Though the Rats of Nimh might object. It would be fairly important to narrow down the search from a rogue Prion you could ingest to a rogue protein your genes instructed to be made.
Given that Alzheimer's was diagnosed over a hundred years ago I'd doubt that anything that we've been doing recently would actually be the source of the problem. Alzheimer's has probably been around for a very long time just was identified as old people going senile. It could easily be a Prion as you're implying with comparing it to Mad Cow disease, and it could be that something we are doing is spreading it. However, it could easily be just a genetic defect that's causing the protein to be folded incorrectly, and wasn't considered an issue until the human lifespan hit a point that the defect kicks in. A genetic defect is at least fixable. I don't know of any real treatments for Prions other then things that sound "promising", but have yet to prove themselves.
Nice that they've isolated it down to a single protein causing the problem. From what I gathered from the article the protein is supposed to provide the insulation between neural networks as you get older. Shouldn't be long then before they have it isolated down to the gene sequence that causes the protein to go rogue in the first place. Assuming that it's genetic and not some other kind of Prion.
My real concern isn't the life of the patient. As much as making the life of the patient as comfortable as possible is important in the short term. In the long term this will make a disease that occurs in a small portion of the population because it usually kills or sterilizes its victims, and turn it into a disease that is in over a quarter of the population with half being carriers. At that point, failure to make the drug would result in a quarter of the population dieing, followed by many generations of death as the disease works it way back down to a small fraction of the population. The goal needs to be removal of the gene from the genome since it never results in anything good.
The best way to deal with Cystic Fibrosis is for Carriers to go the IVF route so they don't pass the gene on to their kids. All this "CURE" will do is make it so that CF isn't as lethal making it propagate out as a benign disease when in truth it will just be making a population dependent on drugs to live. A real Cure would be a gene therapy that removes the defect from every cell in the patients body so they don't have to continue taking it for the rest of their life, and have no risk of passing it on to their kids.
Yes it is open source. But how many handsets from how many manufactures are out their that need the update. It would be easier to just update the core OS and then convince the manufactures to get their version of the OS updated. Then they can do an over the air push of the updates.
Otherwise you have to write the fix yourself for each version. Convince the manufactures to give you the keys needed to push the update. Then do it all over again for each brand when the OS has other updates because your update isn't in the Core OS.
Entertainment Software Association of Canada also wants an expansion of the enabler provision along with further tightening of the already-restrictive digital lock rules.
I've had it. I liked the idea of requesting gamer journalists to refuse to cover E3 as long as the ESA supported SOPA, but I don't think that's enough anymore. If E3 is abandoned en mass then the ESA could easily die. They need to be turned into a public example to everyone else. This needs to become a year without E3.
I don't like this because it's clearly a step backwards. Yes, Shared Nothing does work but it puts a limit on how many cores you can ultimately use. You won't get speedups from processors with more and more cores.
I'll agree that it's a pain to try and make good parallel/concurrent code work. I've seen too many cases of we'll optimize with this parallel algorithm, but it only is faster in extream cases like sorting 100,000 items. I rarely need to sort anything like a 1000 items in a web page so I'd rarely use a parallel sort like that, but what they are doing sounds more like giving up rather then continuing to search for an answer for using multiple cores long term.
Just what are we going to do when we have 32 cores? Most apps I've worked on couldn't be separated into 32 separate shared nothing tasks, but I might have a couple loops that could be partitioned into N tasks.
I don't see the problem you do with it. Rand Paul was already against the TSA. Now if they did that to the Speaker of the House or the leaders of ether party then it would ignite a fire storm. The TSA irritating Rand Paul is like preaching to the choir.
The "signs" might be worth looking into, but I have to agree with you that those signs are more likely not life at all. Honestly I don't think Venus could support complex life anyways right now. If their is life it would be more like our Extremophiles and those are usually difficult for us to locate even on the Earth.
Let me clarify for you then what General Lee said. War is supposed to be something that you do only for the extream cases. If one side has it easy they never want to come to the negotiation table. Lets take the Civil War where that quote is from. If both the North and the South could have just pressed a button and eliminated a city without ever seeing the death and carnage involved to wipe it out. Both sides would just keep pressing buttons until they were all dead. The Horror of war that both sides has to endure is what forces them to negotiate. There will always be times where negotiation isn't possible because the other side thinks they can continue, but if you eliminate the horror then we never want to stop. Watch a war movie about The Great War, and not World War II. WW I was one of if not the bloodiest and most senseless war to ever happen. WW II was one of those RARE wars were their was a clear Evil side which is why war movies usually default to it. Their will always be some people who glorify war for the sake of war, others who see war as a weapon of last resort, and yet others who see it better to lay down and die rather than fight.
You would have had the same injury doing that with a book. This article is clearly written by the radical fringe who won't be happy unless man is back in the forests eating strait from the trees.
The OpenJDK is slow and wonky with Minecraft. Even with basic GUI's I've seen the OpenJDK become unresponsive and behave as sluggish as the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. Switching to Oracle JRE7 some apps that freeze with what should be basic File>Open using the OpenJDK go away. With Minecraft the start up is smooth and sweet. The frame rates become reasonable and Memory is no longer a big problem, and the parallel garbage collection is a lot better.
GCD is just a glorified Thread Pool. The time it takes to bundle and then hand off the work always exceeds most real world applications. It's nice for things like Chrome where each web page can run in it's own thread. It saves a little time for some things when the thread is starting up. But that's actually not the real problem with Concurrent and Parallel Programming. The problem is actually memory and communication, and basic things like Sorts expose the problem pretty quickly. Merge Sort is easy to explain in Parallel, and pretty easy to write too. A simple test of a Single Threaded Merge Sort vs Merge Sort in lets say a Parallel Array will result in the Single Threaded algorithm beating the pants off the Parallel one for most cases when testing with arrays of Random Integers. On my home system it's not until I hit over 100,000 integers does the Parallel version start to show any promise. Even if the Parallel version has a check built in to see if the Array is large enough it usually gets it wrong because every system has a different threshold based on system specs for where it will and wont work. Some people point to Erlang, but that still doesn't appear to give good results for real world uses. If I'm using massive datasets I'm sure they all work, but most of my uses are small datasets with far less then 100,000 items.
Depends. Oracle has Java so it won't lose it as a language as an interface tool for its database system. If you intend on eventually doing work using an oracle database it might be good to know, but I'm sure it's not required. Outside of Oracles little world might be what's at risk. If Apache and IBM finally finds something else that they are willing to work with more then Java is dead.
Honestly, Programming in general needs a game changer anyways. Multicore chips have been around for a while now, and I have yet to see any single application reasonably use more then 2 cores and most still only use 1. I've looked into this a bit, and most of the API's out there that work to use all available cores only work when you have massive datasets. Even attempting to use more then 1 core results in the application slowing down to less than 1 core to keep up with synchronization costs.
When someone finally comes up with an API, or a Language that works well with multicore chips then learn that. Until then we are all in limbo with what we already have so what Oracle does won't matter much.
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This isn't a protection of God, it's a protection of those men who claim to speak for God.
Gandhi never claimed to speak for God. He didn't elevate himself to Mahatma ether. Those where things that others attributed to him just as you are attributing that he and others like him would commit murder for this offense.
If I were to draw a picture of Drew Barrymore prostituting herself out on the Vegas Strip I could easily find myself slapped with a lawsuit as well. Free speech doesn't mean freedom to commit libel and slander.
Singh and Gandhi in compromising positions and pigs running through Mecca, Islam’s holiest city
The first part make the lawsuit make a little sense and make it so that the Slashdot Title is incorrect. In the US it could be considered parody, but parody usually comes close to libel and slander. Gandhi and Singh are also not Gods but religious figures. I'm a bit surprised they took a stance on the Pigs running though Mecca, but it's probably politically motivated to appease some Islamic views so that maybe possibly they might find some common ground (wishful thinking but that's what it sounds like).
Before I get offended that Google would do such a thing or that India would think that it has jurisdiction. I would like to know what the objectionable material was exactly. If it was something like someone comparing the religious leaders of India to pedophile catholic priests I would understand, but if it was just "your God sucks" then Google should have stood its ground. So does anyone have a link or something that actually describes the offence because the article did not.
Oh, come on we get a lot more energy out of Fusion then we put in. It's making it not explode that's the real trick.
This particular study was done using Mice so the hypothesis of alzheimer's might be a Prion could be tested without the ethical concern of giving healthy human being alzheimers. Though the Rats of Nimh might object. It would be fairly important to narrow down the search from a rogue Prion you could ingest to a rogue protein your genes instructed to be made.
Given that Alzheimer's was diagnosed over a hundred years ago I'd doubt that anything that we've been doing recently would actually be the source of the problem. Alzheimer's has probably been around for a very long time just was identified as old people going senile. It could easily be a Prion as you're implying with comparing it to Mad Cow disease, and it could be that something we are doing is spreading it. However, it could easily be just a genetic defect that's causing the protein to be folded incorrectly, and wasn't considered an issue until the human lifespan hit a point that the defect kicks in. A genetic defect is at least fixable. I don't know of any real treatments for Prions other then things that sound "promising", but have yet to prove themselves.
Nice that they've isolated it down to a single protein causing the problem. From what I gathered from the article the protein is supposed to provide the insulation between neural networks as you get older. Shouldn't be long then before they have it isolated down to the gene sequence that causes the protein to go rogue in the first place. Assuming that it's genetic and not some other kind of Prion.
That can't be right. That map puts me 60 miles away from Detroit.
My real concern isn't the life of the patient. As much as making the life of the patient as comfortable as possible is important in the short term. In the long term this will make a disease that occurs in a small portion of the population because it usually kills or sterilizes its victims, and turn it into a disease that is in over a quarter of the population with half being carriers. At that point, failure to make the drug would result in a quarter of the population dieing, followed by many generations of death as the disease works it way back down to a small fraction of the population. The goal needs to be removal of the gene from the genome since it never results in anything good.
The best way to deal with Cystic Fibrosis is for Carriers to go the IVF route so they don't pass the gene on to their kids. All this "CURE" will do is make it so that CF isn't as lethal making it propagate out as a benign disease when in truth it will just be making a population dependent on drugs to live. A real Cure would be a gene therapy that removes the defect from every cell in the patients body so they don't have to continue taking it for the rest of their life, and have no risk of passing it on to their kids.
Yes it is open source. But how many handsets from how many manufactures are out their that need the update. It would be easier to just update the core OS and then convince the manufactures to get their version of the OS updated. Then they can do an over the air push of the updates. Otherwise you have to write the fix yourself for each version. Convince the manufactures to give you the keys needed to push the update. Then do it all over again for each brand when the OS has other updates because your update isn't in the Core OS.
Entertainment Software Association of Canada also wants an expansion of the enabler provision along with further tightening of the already-restrictive digital lock rules.
That doesn't sound like giving up.
I've had it. I liked the idea of requesting gamer journalists to refuse to cover E3 as long as the ESA supported SOPA, but I don't think that's enough anymore. If E3 is abandoned en mass then the ESA could easily die. They need to be turned into a public example to everyone else. This needs to become a year without E3.
I don't like this because it's clearly a step backwards. Yes, Shared Nothing does work but it puts a limit on how many cores you can ultimately use. You won't get speedups from processors with more and more cores.
I'll agree that it's a pain to try and make good parallel/concurrent code work. I've seen too many cases of we'll optimize with this parallel algorithm, but it only is faster in extream cases like sorting 100,000 items. I rarely need to sort anything like a 1000 items in a web page so I'd rarely use a parallel sort like that, but what they are doing sounds more like giving up rather then continuing to search for an answer for using multiple cores long term.
Just what are we going to do when we have 32 cores? Most apps I've worked on couldn't be separated into 32 separate shared nothing tasks, but I might have a couple loops that could be partitioned into N tasks.
I don't see the problem you do with it. Rand Paul was already against the TSA. Now if they did that to the Speaker of the House or the leaders of ether party then it would ignite a fire storm. The TSA irritating Rand Paul is like preaching to the choir.
The "signs" might be worth looking into, but I have to agree with you that those signs are more likely not life at all. Honestly I don't think Venus could support complex life anyways right now. If their is life it would be more like our Extremophiles and those are usually difficult for us to locate even on the Earth.
iPads burn. Just don't breath the smoke.
That's what you say now but what will you say when one side makes a Skynet Virus?
Let me clarify for you then what General Lee said. War is supposed to be something that you do only for the extream cases. If one side has it easy they never want to come to the negotiation table. Lets take the Civil War where that quote is from. If both the North and the South could have just pressed a button and eliminated a city without ever seeing the death and carnage involved to wipe it out. Both sides would just keep pressing buttons until they were all dead. The Horror of war that both sides has to endure is what forces them to negotiate. There will always be times where negotiation isn't possible because the other side thinks they can continue, but if you eliminate the horror then we never want to stop. Watch a war movie about The Great War, and not World War II. WW I was one of if not the bloodiest and most senseless war to ever happen. WW II was one of those RARE wars were their was a clear Evil side which is why war movies usually default to it. Their will always be some people who glorify war for the sake of war, others who see war as a weapon of last resort, and yet others who see it better to lay down and die rather than fight.
It is well that war is so terrible -- lest we should grow too fond of it.
Diseases caused by unnatural postures and forces
The OpenJDK is slow and wonky with Minecraft. Even with basic GUI's I've seen the OpenJDK become unresponsive and behave as sluggish as the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. Switching to Oracle JRE7 some apps that freeze with what should be basic File>Open using the OpenJDK go away. With Minecraft the start up is smooth and sweet. The frame rates become reasonable and Memory is no longer a big problem, and the parallel garbage collection is a lot better.
GCD is just a glorified Thread Pool. The time it takes to bundle and then hand off the work always exceeds most real world applications. It's nice for things like Chrome where each web page can run in it's own thread. It saves a little time for some things when the thread is starting up. But that's actually not the real problem with Concurrent and Parallel Programming. The problem is actually memory and communication, and basic things like Sorts expose the problem pretty quickly. Merge Sort is easy to explain in Parallel, and pretty easy to write too. A simple test of a Single Threaded Merge Sort vs Merge Sort in lets say a Parallel Array will result in the Single Threaded algorithm beating the pants off the Parallel one for most cases when testing with arrays of Random Integers. On my home system it's not until I hit over 100,000 integers does the Parallel version start to show any promise. Even if the Parallel version has a check built in to see if the Array is large enough it usually gets it wrong because every system has a different threshold based on system specs for where it will and wont work. Some people point to Erlang, but that still doesn't appear to give good results for real world uses. If I'm using massive datasets I'm sure they all work, but most of my uses are small datasets with far less then 100,000 items.
Clearly you don't play Minecraft
Honestly, Programming in general needs a game changer anyways. Multicore chips have been around for a while now, and I have yet to see any single application reasonably use more then 2 cores and most still only use 1. I've looked into this a bit, and most of the API's out there that work to use all available cores only work when you have massive datasets. Even attempting to use more then 1 core results in the application slowing down to less than 1 core to keep up with synchronization costs.
When someone finally comes up with an API, or a Language that works well with multicore chips then learn that. Until then we are all in limbo with what we already have so what Oracle does won't matter much.