Can this be tuned --or perhaps tuned with the assistance of another chemical marker-- to act as a "hunter killer" for auto-immune activated diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, etc. where the resonant pulses would only kill the erroneously activated white blood cells and not the non-reactive white blood cells?
Because if so this becomes in effect a computerized vaccine against a wide variety of ailments that have no other good medicinal choices. And because computing power is still rising exponentially faster than just about any other form of tech, this could be a whole lot quicker to market.
At least make it goat powered -- goats are much more efficient in terms of providing human-like milk, lower fat meat, and a bit more compliant than the bovines to boot. Start by finding a smaller dynamo/battery combo and hook it up to a small treadmill. So that the user of the OLPC simply needs to walk for a short distance on the treadmill to really charge the battery? And perhaps include a small solar panel on the treadmill as a trickle charger?
Something tells me that there are a lot more people and/or small animals willing to walk the treadmill based charging system than there are people with the time, energy, and cows...
Microsoft took a serious financial position in a Telco?
vs. Google took a serious financial position in a major telco,
that was in turn had content blocked by the M$ dominated telco...
Or ATT decided that all of it's copper bandwidth is not common carrier but IP traffic -- does it now have to carry my Comcast originated phone call to the ATT last mile with the same priority as ATT digital packets?
Really, this could get crazy so one of two things realistically needs to happen. Either the FCC figures it out and comes up with effective regulation, Congress passes pro-consumer effective legislation, or -- most likely -- we end up with a big stinking mess for the next then years like the '96 telco act left behind which we are still dealing with now.
There is no doubt that the fact that Hitler opened a two-front war doomed his Eurasian domination plans.
But to sit back and say that it was mostly the Russians and the Brits that won the war is empty headed nonsense. During the early phases of the war, the best the Russians and Brits were doing was fighting the Third Reich to a standstill long enough for America's industrial and technical capacity to crank up a required threshold amount of weaponry and superior tactics that tipped the balance. Which is why the US chose to fight the way it did, including supplying both England and Russia with much needed supplies, etc. until that threshold couldbe reached.
And, for the record Montgomery vs. Patton is an argument that for all intents and purposes ended with the failure of "Operation Market Garden. Patton's armies succeeded in their offensive over the winter of 1944 and early 1945 and essentially thrust a dagger directly into the heart of the Reich in a such a way that the proverbial bleeding could not be stopped.
To say that this was a Russian victory? yeah, right.
The significant statements about this new plastic are as follows:
it separates small molecules from larger ones very quickly
at a higher purity level than current membranes,
and it does so at a higher temperature.
What this presumably means is that a properly used filter could be used to clean up combustion related gases, etc., returning the unburned hydrocarbons to a burner perhaps, and allowing the the remaining C02 and water molecules to be further processed later on.The next step in the line is the one that I think is the holy grail here -- to be able to separate the water and H20 from the exhaust air stream for sequestration and whatever the presumably purified water vapor would be useful for.
If it wouldn't get me fired I'd be standing on the desk applauding. You captured the link between anonymity and freedom better than I have ever before read.
Because it gives the people a direct voice in the legislative process. I also think that overall I wouldn't want to be in a country where the idea worked completely because at a certain level, the populace has no conscience and pure democracy can be manipulated to violate human rights of minorities SO SO SO easy, i.e. populist legislation without moral direction is a dangerous dangerous course.
Also, it seems like the process can be controlled or at least subverted by the major parties simply by the leaders of the legislative bodies not bringing up any legislation for a vote where the "population driven" senators would tip the balance.
I may be missing something here but I don't think that the current iteration of their ground power is workable for a simple reason: it relies on the motion of the kite essentially going in and out to produce power. Which means that not only will there be maintenance on the kites but the wires as well -- and for a 5K radius? As a former sailplane pilot (no gliderport nearby) I also wonder how they expect to optimize for the many different wind conditions out there.
In contrast, this new vertical idea is tuned for low wind conditions, low power gen, and for all practical intents and purposes has one moving part. Pure genius in terms of non-grid electrical usage. A right sized windvane plus a much more moderate PV panel and charging system would be enough for a rural-minimal power setup, or maybe to be the seed power for another form of energy generation: a methane digester which basically can take any form of tiny chopped up bio-waste or *ahem* post-digested organic materials... and when blended with water and allowed to stew properly at the right temps will produce moderate amounts of methane that can be used for heating, cooling, and power apps...
Never heard that one before. But I disagree with you about whether or not he (Bush) means it -- I think the ornery cuss means what he says and pretty much says what he means -- badly sometimes.
I just don't happen to agree with a healthy percentage of what he says. 'Course, we 'mericans are ornery critters that can always agree to disagree. or disagree. Or....
So, if one of us techie types has a client whose information infostructure is downed hard for some reason, my company can no longer just put me on a same day flight to fix it? Or my dad (who is nearly 80) has a heart attack and I need to get there immediately or he dies first...Aside from the Airlines and Travel agents pitching a fit, business interests won't tolerate it, personal interests won't tolerate it - in fact no-one I can think of will tolerate it.
Apparently the TSA has forgotten that this is America and we go where we like when we like and how we like (unless we're in prison, of course) without Uncle Sam knowing where we are. Like the commercial says, " we are free to move about the country."
Actually having been to the PRC I do think that the US should ban a hell of a lot of imports from China, using the same anti-sweatshop regulations that worked on US companies that do import business in the Philippines, etc. have had to comply with. The fact is, the Chinese military is so entrenched in many areas out of the sight of western eyse that many of the so called "made in China" items are basically produced by slave labor, which in my mind would be no better than it would have been to buy "made in Germany" items when the Nazi party was in control.
I'm not a Bush fan much at all, but I do think he got it right when he said essentially that respect for human rights are a fundamental aspect of freedom, and that U.S. policy needs to be dictated thereby. Trouble is, I don't think that the US or other corporations are interested in human rights -- they'd rather have economic slavery and virtual indentured servitude instead.
Perhaps I should have said unregulated instead of unscrupulous. BTW, I grew up in Nevada during the days between the almost pure mafia control and to where things are now, so my *cough* rose colored glasses aren't exactly naive ones. I have also watched the US gambling interests lie, cheat, and steal their way into new communities, so I don't support them either. But fundamentally, I have the right to decide to gamble or not gamble, but my post is about being forced to pay for gambling via my taxes if the US ends up paying any kind of penalty at all because of how a treaty has been used against the U.S. in spite of the idea that nations govern themselves within their own jurisdictions.
Ever wonder why the US is or at least used to be so very careful about treaties and treaty obligations? Here's a great example.
Congress passes a law to protect US citizens from unscrupulous gambling operations that are not subject to the same kind of regulations that Casinos in the U.S. must meet -- and the world responds via the WTO by trying to extort $100 Billion dollars from the U.S. -- which means taking money from every citizen and company in the U.S. that pays taxes to support offshore companies right to not live up to regulations that make it more difficult to cheat the gamblers out of all their money -- and each of us will pay for that whether we as individuals or companies gamble or not.
Though not hopeful, I think the U.S. in this case should tell the WTO to go pound rocks.
The problem is that most of the PHB's in the world is that they won't see your comment, and those that have Red Hat Linux on the table for consideration may see the innaccurate statements and accept as real and shift their purchasing $$ to another company, say, Novell's Linux or if Ballmer's wet dreams come true --an MS platform.
What it points out is that for the giant in Redmond, business is business, and the truth doesn't matter. Microsoft also has a nickname (Microsloth) for much of their own IP -- it's been purchased, code pirated (my term for their clone products which have triggered numerous lawsuits most settled out of court against M$ to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars) -- but a deserved sharklike reputation for FUD.
Note to the pointy haired bosses: Ignore the bald man in the M$ suit from Redmond -- chances are that if his lips are moving, he's being shifty with the truth to try and get your money. Cover your wallet and walk away quickly.
So Diebold reset the machines without producing a paper trail? Why in the heck would we ever think that would be okay? I say sue Diebold for the entire cost of the new ballot issue, because the county paid for services that have now been invalidated -- and Diebold knew they had problems going into the election.That's like going into surgery with a foot doctor who knows he's not qualified to be part of a heart surgery, methinks.
Change this to a presidential election (circa 2000) and try to recount an unauditable trail. Yeah, they argued about hanging chads and the whole mess, but there was a paper trail that said "absolutely, one voter, one vote, auditable". They even had a non-partisan group do a recount after the fact, and the paper trail showed that Bush in fact did win Florida. (uh oh, forgot to put on the flame retardant overcoat before I said that -- so folks, keep it cool -- I'm not particularly fond of Bush lately anyway!!).
But folks, I think that the significance of this decision is being totally overlooked, which is this: the American governmental system has worked again -- perhaps a rare again lately IMHO -- to let the people's voice be heard, in an accountable way. Good for the judge. Right call.
We remember how the Win9X upgrade fiascoes resulted in so many new breakages that ultimately MS pulled the plug and went completely with the NT code base for Windows. So I am very cautious using MS supplied updates at all.
But earlier this year I had to allow a client's machine to use an XP service patch or be have to tell the user that the machine would be out of warranty both from the OEM and Microsoft.
The patch (SP2) froze the computer completely after an aborted install that the screen recorded as having been successfully uninstalled. It took nearly 20 hours of non-stop attempts plus two service calls to avoid having to wipe the disk -- which was not an option -- and afterwards the "Genuine Advantage" program still wants more updates.
Not surprisingly, I won't be recommending Microsoft on their next desktops. Ubuntu will be fine.
Basically I haven't changed my attitude at all about arrogant developers-- except that by their actions Wordpress has taken themselves off that list.
This is one of those cautionary things where the sped of the web and/. in particular works against us -- they probably felt like the/. flamethrower had been turned directly on them. So I offer my apologies to Wordpress but this whole issue discussion should serve as a cautionary word to any Open Source project that is out there that basically when a senior developer or developer team says "we're doing it this way and if none of you like why, fork the code -- will usually result in just that -- a fork in the code and a more humble set of developers.
On a related note, I am glad that/. updated their article as quickly as they did. Good programmers deserve kudos and apologies when we don't get our info correct, not our wrath.
Gladly. The arrogant attitude shown by these developers gives me not only a reason to think about how to fork the code, but the reasons we as a community should fork the code as soon as possible.
My thought is that though information wants to be free, my information wants to be more private, so any software that blatantly violates my privacy rights tends to not get or stay installed on my workstation.
Interestingly enough, I was once part of a development team that created a competing WFC GUI library that had no known memory leaks under the four existing "wintel" platforms of the day Win 3.11, WFW, Win95 and WinNT (3.5X), and had begun porting to other chipsets and platforms. Unfortunately, the marketroids decided to spend a bunch of the remaining dev budget to try and get some serious venture capital and IPO the darn thing rather than "release early release often, and the whole effort went up in $$$ flames, AKA the company went out of business shortly thereafter.
So when a company or group of coders say they can't fix their memory bugs, I say bull----. When they say that the parent company doesn't pay for fixed code, that I believe.
So if ten years after a small team of four had a bug and memory-leak free code stack, the fact a browser still leaks like a stuck pig after the hundreds of thousands of hours of code that went into Firefox, then it's obvious where the fault lies.
Especially because if they prioritized that fix, coders like me might actually be interested in contributing again.
Because the record for a Cadmium Telluride cell was at approximately 16% in 2001. Six years later they are ready to manufacture a 11% efficient cell, and we're supposed to think this is progress?
How about a well defined group within the W3C itself?
The working groups in the W3C seem to do a good job defining standards we can all live with, why not make them the custodians of the standards as well. That way TLDs have some semblance of order and a deprecated TLD can be selectively migrated, etc. with technically competent standards as opposed to politically appointed or "corporate overlorded" individuals as in the current processes.
Except for one problem. How the heck do you get the heat out? i.e. I can see this working for exactly 2 layers -- a front and back interconnected through the insulating layer. IF --and this is a big one for me [as someone who understands thermodynamics in the macro world not the micro world] -- a penetration (circuit connection) through the insulating layer doesn't just give one side of a chip a heat path that will basically just burn through the 2nd payer on the other side... Thoughts?
Like the other poster who notes that DNA information categorizes families, I have SOME concerns about the legality and potential abuse of DNA samples for those not convicted of a crime.
The question of usefulness does come into play, however -- and realize that in what I am about to say, I'm not a DNA expert so I welcome further commentary from those who are. If a sibling of mine were to be the person that is guilty of a "horrible" crime, and for whatever reason my DNA profile is on record (say for a security clearance type position, etc.), would my profile be useful to the police in finding that sibling? And at what level does this come into play? If the sibling is guilty of nothing but being nearby a scene and there is DNA, or the so-called crime doesn't really rise to the level of "horrible", shouldn't my anonymity and the siblings anonymity be guaranteed up to a point?MP> What do you think?
Because I am finally getting close to implementing a family related content site -- and my goal is to have a white list of allowed links that go off site, but that can't end up chaining off to a porn sites or illegal gambling sites, etc. To sites that have done their homework and have compatible content administration, privacy and fair use practices that I can morally and ethically agree with. To sites that have more value than just that which can be derived from their "click through" or hop-link revenues.
In other words, I want my content to support like minded quality content, not the legal or illegal versions "quick make-a-buck and to hell with ethics" crowd.
And how dear sir, do you calculate that? To my knowledge/. doesn't publish the karma numbers, and if it is that high and you've tracked it their, you have way way way too much time on your hands.
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Can this be tuned --or perhaps tuned with the assistance of another chemical marker-- to act as a "hunter killer" for auto-immune activated diseases such as multiple sclerosis, lupus, etc. where the resonant pulses would only kill the erroneously activated white blood cells and not the non-reactive white blood cells?
Because if so this becomes in effect a computerized vaccine against a wide variety of ailments that have no other good medicinal choices. And because computing power is still rising exponentially faster than just about any other form of tech, this could be a whole lot quicker to market.
Something tells me that there are a lot more people and/or small animals willing to walk the treadmill based charging system than there are people with the time, energy, and cows...
- Microsoft took a serious financial position in a Telco?
- vs. Google took a serious financial position in a major telco,
- that was in turn had content blocked by the M$ dominated telco...
Or ATT decided that all of it's copper bandwidth is not common carrier but IP traffic -- does it now have to carry my Comcast originated phone call to the ATT last mile with the same priority as ATT digital packets?Really, this could get crazy so one of two things realistically needs to happen. Either the FCC figures it out and comes up with effective regulation, Congress passes pro-consumer effective legislation, or -- most likely -- we end up with a big stinking mess for the next then years like the '96 telco act left behind which we are still dealing with now.
But to sit back and say that it was mostly the Russians and the Brits that won the war is empty headed nonsense. During the early phases of the war, the best the Russians and Brits were doing was fighting the Third Reich to a standstill long enough for America's industrial and technical capacity to crank up a required threshold amount of weaponry and superior tactics that tipped the balance. Which is why the US chose to fight the way it did, including supplying both England and Russia with much needed supplies, etc. until that threshold couldbe reached.
And, for the record Montgomery vs. Patton is an argument that for all intents and purposes ended with the failure of "Operation Market Garden. Patton's armies succeeded in their offensive over the winter of 1944 and early 1945 and essentially thrust a dagger directly into the heart of the Reich in a such a way that the proverbial bleeding could not be stopped.
To say that this was a Russian victory? yeah, right.
- it separates small molecules from larger ones very quickly
- at a higher purity level than current membranes,
- and it does so at a higher temperature.
What this presumably means is that a properly used filter could be used to clean up combustion related gases, etc., returning the unburned hydrocarbons to a burner perhaps, and allowing the the remaining C02 and water molecules to be further processed later on.The next step in the line is the one that I think is the holy grail here -- to be able to separate the water and H20 from the exhaust air stream for sequestration and whatever the presumably purified water vapor would be useful for.Brilliant brilliant response. Thank you.
Also, it seems like the process can be controlled or at least subverted by the major parties simply by the leaders of the legislative bodies not bringing up any legislation for a vote where the "population driven" senators would tip the balance.
Thoughts?
In contrast, this new vertical idea is tuned for low wind conditions, low power gen, and for all practical intents and purposes has one moving part. Pure genius in terms of non-grid electrical usage. A right sized windvane plus a much more moderate PV panel and charging system would be enough for a rural-minimal power setup, or maybe to be the seed power for another form of energy generation: a methane digester which basically can take any form of tiny chopped up bio-waste or *ahem* post-digested organic materials... and when blended with water and allowed to stew properly at the right temps will produce moderate amounts of methane that can be used for heating, cooling, and power apps...
Let's see where this pans out....
I just don't happen to agree with a healthy percentage of what he says. 'Course, we 'mericans are ornery critters that can always agree to disagree. or disagree. Or....
*sigh* You get the idea.
Apparently the TSA has forgotten that this is America and we go where we like when we like and how we like (unless we're in prison, of course) without Uncle Sam knowing where we are. Like the commercial says, " we are free to move about the country."
I'm not a Bush fan much at all, but I do think he got it right when he said essentially that respect for human rights are a fundamental aspect of freedom, and that U.S. policy needs to be dictated thereby. Trouble is, I don't think that the US or other corporations are interested in human rights -- they'd rather have economic slavery and virtual indentured servitude instead.
Perhaps I should have said unregulated instead of unscrupulous. BTW, I grew up in Nevada during the days between the almost pure mafia control and to where things are now, so my *cough* rose colored glasses aren't exactly naive ones. I have also watched the US gambling interests lie, cheat, and steal their way into new communities, so I don't support them either. But fundamentally, I have the right to decide to gamble or not gamble, but my post is about being forced to pay for gambling via my taxes if the US ends up paying any kind of penalty at all because of how a treaty has been used against the U.S. in spite of the idea that nations govern themselves within their own jurisdictions.
Congress passes a law to protect US citizens from unscrupulous gambling operations that are not subject to the same kind of regulations that Casinos in the U.S. must meet -- and the world responds via the WTO by trying to extort $100 Billion dollars from the U.S. -- which means taking money from every citizen and company in the U.S. that pays taxes to support offshore companies right to not live up to regulations that make it more difficult to cheat the gamblers out of all their money -- and each of us will pay for that whether we as individuals or companies gamble or not.
Though not hopeful, I think the U.S. in this case should tell the WTO to go pound rocks.
What it points out is that for the giant in Redmond, business is business, and the truth doesn't matter. Microsoft also has a nickname (Microsloth) for much of their own IP -- it's been purchased, code pirated (my term for their clone products which have triggered numerous lawsuits most settled out of court against M$ to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars) -- but a deserved sharklike reputation for FUD.
Note to the pointy haired bosses: Ignore the bald man in the M$ suit from Redmond -- chances are that if his lips are moving, he's being shifty with the truth to try and get your money. Cover your wallet and walk away quickly.
Change this to a presidential election (circa 2000) and try to recount an unauditable trail. Yeah, they argued about hanging chads and the whole mess, but there was a paper trail that said "absolutely, one voter, one vote, auditable". They even had a non-partisan group do a recount after the fact, and the paper trail showed that Bush in fact did win Florida. (uh oh, forgot to put on the flame retardant overcoat before I said that -- so folks, keep it cool -- I'm not particularly fond of Bush lately anyway!!).
But folks, I think that the significance of this decision is being totally overlooked, which is this: the American governmental system has worked again -- perhaps a rare again lately IMHO -- to let the people's voice be heard, in an accountable way. Good for the judge. Right call.
But earlier this year I had to allow a client's machine to use an XP service patch or be have to tell the user that the machine would be out of warranty both from the OEM and Microsoft.
The patch (SP2) froze the computer completely after an aborted install that the screen recorded as having been successfully uninstalled. It took nearly 20 hours of non-stop attempts plus two service calls to avoid having to wipe the disk -- which was not an option -- and afterwards the "Genuine Advantage" program still wants more updates.
Not surprisingly, I won't be recommending Microsoft on their next desktops. Ubuntu will be fine.
This is one of those cautionary things where the sped of the web and
On a related note, I am glad that /. updated their article as quickly as they did. Good programmers deserve kudos and apologies when we don't get our info correct, not our wrath.
My thought is that though information wants to be free, my information wants to be more private, so any software that blatantly violates my privacy rights tends to not get or stay installed on my workstation.
So when a company or group of coders say they can't fix their memory bugs, I say bull----. When they say that the parent company doesn't pay for fixed code, that I believe.
So if ten years after a small team of four had a bug and memory-leak free code stack, the fact a browser still leaks like a stuck pig after the hundreds of thousands of hours of code that went into Firefox, then it's obvious where the fault lies.
Especially because if they prioritized that fix, coders like me might actually be interested in contributing again.
Because the record for a Cadmium Telluride cell was at approximately 16% in 2001. Six years later they are ready to manufacture a 11% efficient cell, and we're supposed to think this is progress ?
The working groups in the W3C seem to do a good job defining standards we can all live with, why not make them the custodians of the standards as well. That way TLDs have some semblance of order and a deprecated TLD can be selectively migrated, etc. with technically competent standards as opposed to politically appointed or "corporate overlorded" individuals as in the current processes.
?? Thoughts ??
Except for one problem. How the heck do you get the heat out? i.e. I can see this working for exactly 2 layers -- a front and back interconnected through the insulating layer. IF --and this is a big one for me [as someone who understands thermodynamics in the macro world not the micro world] -- a penetration (circuit connection) through the insulating layer doesn't just give one side of a chip a heat path that will basically just burn through the 2nd payer on the other side... Thoughts?
The question of usefulness does come into play, however -- and realize that in what I am about to say, I'm not a DNA expert so I welcome further commentary from those who are. If a sibling of mine were to be the person that is guilty of a "horrible" crime, and for whatever reason my DNA profile is on record (say for a security clearance type position, etc.), would my profile be useful to the police in finding that sibling? And at what level does this come into play? If the sibling is guilty of nothing but being nearby a scene and there is DNA, or the so-called crime doesn't really rise to the level of "horrible", shouldn't my anonymity and the siblings anonymity be guaranteed up to a point?MP> What do you think?
In other words, I want my content to support like minded quality content, not the legal or illegal versions "quick make-a-buck and to hell with ethics" crowd.
And how dear sir, do you calculate that? To my knowledge /. doesn't publish the karma numbers, and if it is that high and you've tracked it their, you have way way way too much time on your hands.