If it is a matter of national security (for the U.S.A.) then the NSA will crack it. Otherwise the DOD and FBI will not crack it and you are fine from Homeland Security.
If you are a suspect of a transnational or just a national (against the U.S.A. or one of her favoured partners) then look out, because all your electric communications will be deciphered.
For the rest of us, strong encryption is enough to ward off lazy perusal.
From my experience it is a time thing. Most guys of or about that age used to play time intensive (either in learning curve or actual gameplay) games but no longer find time to do so. Further more these same guys do not find satisfaction playing solitaire, bejewelled, whatever. I mean how many of us/we/me still find Konami games satisfying? I don't. The only short term game I play is settlers online.
However I find a lot of ladies of my age prefer the immediate intellectual satisfaction of a short term, intensive game satisfying. Perhaps it is a gender preference (I knew a lot of girls that loved Doom, but I haven't kept in touch with them), but almost all the lady gamers I know play short, intense type games or social games.
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) normally take input from a range of photoreceptors and pass this down the chain to the visual cortex. I imagine this replacement therapy would result in a much more grainy image, but one that the brain can adapt to.
Okarma: It turns out that the differentiated cells that we make and put into animals are not recognized by the human immune system, and we published this last year. It's a striking finding.
Without immunosuppressive drugs I don't believe this. And even without it *should* increase the chance of gaining M.S.
There is a great pressure for scientists in this field to produce results (for money) and to move to clinical trials (because that is what motivates them, and what their backers want. But primarily it is what motivates them... to heal people). However, a lot of studies are very flawed, and it needs a lot of basic science to make sure that there are no repurcussions. Conversely the recipients tend to be the most desperate suffers, and this sways many ethics committees and researchers. I REALLY hope this works out for the best, but I am also deeply afraid it will cause more pain and suffering to the participants.
Also, there is a LOT of money going into not only spinal cord repair... there is repair of: stroke; M.S.; peripheral nerve injuries; Parkinsons's disease; Alzheimer's disease; motor neurone disease, and others that I cannot remember at this time. All ove these need cell replacement therapy, and all will be aided with ALL research into this area. However, BASIC research is the one area in neural repair, injury, degeneration and replenishment that will aid ALL of these areas.
I sometimes feel sick to my stomach at some of the studies that get published and then are lauded in the newsprint. However, I also get elation and hope from some others that offer true hope. I hope that this study is the latter.
This is quite interesting. I vividly remember when I was a teenage playing Tetris on my Gameboy one of the adults asked a riddle:
'blah blah blah, gave 30 cents change and one of the coins wasn't a 20 cent piece' (seriously that is the only bit of the riddle i picked up).
Within about 1 second I came up with the answer 'the other one was a 20 cent piece'
I was a bit surprised that I came up with the answer so quickly, especially as I was not at all thinking about it. It also mildly pissed off the person asking the question (they probably took half an hour to figure it out).
** In Australia we don't have quarters; 5, 10, 20, 50 cent pieces then $1 and $2 coins before notes.
Ah, but without wars where would the taxes (uncollected or otherwise) have been spent?
Wars certainly do drive innovation in the short term, but does incessant millitary spending in preperation for war create more developments? In a perfect world, a worldwide benevolant dictatorship works... in the real world conflict scavenges money for real basic science and applied science research meant for the exlusive benefit of society.
Ahhhh yes, all well and good. However, there is not nearly enough basic science determining the ramifications of adding pluripotent cells into CNS injury sites. Where do the cells go, do they invade nearby healthy tissue? What do they differentiate into? Do they make functional connections? Do they make abberant connections?
The stakes are high, both ways. If this is a success then absolutely FANTASTIC! However, there is not enough information to guarantee to a sufficient level that this procedure will not have massive deliterious effects on these CHILDREN for life.
Would you prefer the choice to be able to control your urination and bowel movements, with the caveat that it may not work and could indeed cause unceasing pain due to abberant growths and neuronal connections?
The basic science needs to be done first before we subject very willing patients to potentially harmful trials.
If we actually get to the technology to do this then I say HURRAH!
However, I believe we will only get to the state where we can heighten/diminish emotions, remove/highten memories, induce comosis/euphoria.
Actually intercepting senses and reorganising them to a meaningful state for the major cortices to recognise will take supercomputers or trainining from the at least 1, maybe birth.
lobbyist: we will donate $9999+4 digit prime to your fund (change prime digits to your specification up or down the original $injection)
They will be traceable.
Even without that, when a company/'believer' donates they are going to, so those trying to gain those funds are still going to succeed.
The only way forward I see is that parties get taxpayer funds for their campaigns and cannot recieve funds for such. Caveat: other interests can advertise for/against a party without giving money to their prefered party.
You live in the U.S.A. correct? Your constitution allows for a peoples uprising against an oppresive government correct?
But seriously, it needs real, dedicated and true people to turn this tide around. The big problem is that these people get twisted by the parties they join. If more grassroot people joined the major (or even minor) parties and started DEMANDING change it should be listened to. If not then the leaders of that party are going to have one hell of a time explaining why on national television.
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But when you juxtapose them slashcode must construe them as HTML
hmmm 'lessthan|greaterthan' symbol doesn't come up.
Where does a standard not equal proprietary?
Where does a standard propriety?
Well this PC runs WMP 10 under WindowsXP Pro pretty well. Do you have like 128 MB of memory?
Not really. We have progressed a lot, but have regressed a lot as well.
It was awesome just to be able to afford and use one (mobile phone that is).
This has been happening for a while. How about the techonolical changes from 1940 to 1970?
Nostalgia is good, only to see how good we have it now and how much we have screwed it up.
Unless you live in Australia. It is illegal to transcode music here.
encrypt, encrypt, encrypt.
If it is a matter of national security (for the U.S.A.) then the NSA will crack it. Otherwise the DOD and FBI will not crack it and you are fine from Homeland Security.
If you are a suspect of a transnational or just a national (against the U.S.A. or one of her favoured partners) then look out, because all your electric communications will be deciphered.
For the rest of us, strong encryption is enough to ward off lazy perusal.
From my experience it is a time thing. Most guys of or about that age used to play time intensive (either in learning curve or actual gameplay) games but no longer find time to do so. Further more these same guys do not find satisfaction playing solitaire, bejewelled, whatever. I mean how many of us/we/me still find Konami games satisfying? I don't. The only short term game I play is settlers online.
However I find a lot of ladies of my age prefer the immediate intellectual satisfaction of a short term, intensive game satisfying. Perhaps it is a gender preference (I knew a lot of girls that loved Doom, but I haven't kept in touch with them), but almost all the lady gamers I know play short, intense type games or social games.
Rambling rant over
What a fucking redundant post!
Your rhetorical questions (which are then answered, you dolt!) are the worst kind of sophistry; you don't even attempt to anwer the question.
Stop trying to be clever and you might just find yourself being so.
Have they never heard of silicosis?
Please don't use such subtle humour here... this is slashdot!
Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) normally take input from a range of photoreceptors and pass this down the chain to the visual cortex. I imagine this replacement therapy would result in a much more grainy image, but one that the brain can adapt to.
Thank you very much for that, it does seem then that this is quite a leap forward.
Okarma: It turns out that the differentiated cells that we make and put into animals are not recognized by the human immune system, and we published this last year. It's a striking finding.
Without immunosuppressive drugs I don't believe this. And even without it *should* increase the chance of gaining M.S.
There is a great pressure for scientists in this field to produce results (for money) and to move to clinical trials (because that is what motivates them, and what their backers want. But primarily it is what motivates them... to heal people). However, a lot of studies are very flawed, and it needs a lot of basic science to make sure that there are no repurcussions. Conversely the recipients tend to be the most desperate suffers, and this sways many ethics committees and researchers. I REALLY hope this works out for the best, but I am also deeply afraid it will cause more pain and suffering to the participants.
Also, there is a LOT of money going into not only spinal cord repair... there is repair of: stroke; M.S.; peripheral nerve injuries; Parkinsons's disease; Alzheimer's disease; motor neurone disease, and others that I cannot remember at this time. All ove these need cell replacement therapy, and all will be aided with ALL research into this area. However, BASIC research is the one area in neural repair, injury, degeneration and replenishment that will aid ALL of these areas.
I sometimes feel sick to my stomach at some of the studies that get published and then are lauded in the newsprint. However, I also get elation and hope from some others that offer true hope. I hope that this study is the latter.
Cheers,
maset
Have a look at WWI
OK, please explain this one to me. It is a 3x3 button mat right?
This is quite interesting. I vividly remember when I was a teenage playing Tetris on my Gameboy one of the adults asked a riddle:
'blah blah blah, gave 30 cents change and one of the coins wasn't a 20 cent piece' (seriously that is the only bit of the riddle i picked up).
Within about 1 second I came up with the answer 'the other one was a 20 cent piece'
I was a bit surprised that I came up with the answer so quickly, especially as I was not at all thinking about it. It also mildly pissed off the person asking the question (they probably took half an hour to figure it out).
** In Australia we don't have quarters; 5, 10, 20, 50 cent pieces then $1 and $2 coins before notes.
Yes.
Ah, but without wars where would the taxes (uncollected or otherwise) have been spent?
Wars certainly do drive innovation in the short term, but does incessant millitary spending in preperation for war create more developments? In a perfect world, a worldwide benevolant dictatorship works... in the real world conflict scavenges money for real basic science and applied science research meant for the exlusive benefit of society.
Cheers,
maset
Ahhhh yes, all well and good. However, there is not nearly enough basic science determining the ramifications of adding pluripotent cells into CNS injury sites. Where do the cells go, do they invade nearby healthy tissue? What do they differentiate into? Do they make functional connections? Do they make abberant connections?
The stakes are high, both ways. If this is a success then absolutely FANTASTIC! However, there is not enough information to guarantee to a sufficient level that this procedure will not have massive deliterious effects on these CHILDREN for life.
Would you prefer the choice to be able to control your urination and bowel movements, with the caveat that it may not work and could indeed cause unceasing pain due to abberant growths and neuronal connections?
The basic science needs to be done first before we subject very willing patients to potentially harmful trials.
Cheers,
maset
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If we actually get to the technology to do this then I say HURRAH!
However, I believe we will only get to the state where we can heighten/diminish emotions, remove/highten memories, induce comosis/euphoria.
Actually intercepting senses and reorganising them to a meaningful state for the major cortices to recognise will take supercomputers or trainining from the at least 1, maybe birth.
cheers,
maset.
Yes well how about this:
lobbyist: we will donate $9999+4 digit prime to your fund (change prime digits to your specification up or down the original $injection)
They will be traceable.
Even without that, when a company/'believer' donates they are going to, so those trying to gain those funds are still going to succeed.
The only way forward I see is that parties get taxpayer funds for their campaigns and cannot recieve funds for such. Caveat: other interests can advertise for/against a party without giving money to their prefered party.
Anyway around the political payola?
Please?
Cheers,
maset
You live in the U.S.A. correct? Your constitution allows for a peoples uprising against an oppresive government correct?
But seriously, it needs real, dedicated and true people to turn this tide around. The big problem is that these people get twisted by the parties they join. If more grassroot people joined the major (or even minor) parties and started DEMANDING change it should be listened to. If not then the leaders of that party are going to have one hell of a time explaining why on national television.
Cheers,
maset