I'm 5'9" without the heels, but I wear them anyway.
Factor in the fact that women earn.75 to every dollar, and we are typically shorter, I have to wonder if this really is a male/female discrepancy versus a tall/short discrepancy.
The article says researchers are hoping the carvings will help them better understand Stonehenge. I visited the site, but I can't tell if they are implying that they know the carvings and the arrangement of the stones were done by the same people.
Could the stone arrangement predate the carvings?
Does anyone know if there is proof that understanding the carvings will actually help them understand Stonehenge? Maybe the axes are just bronze age graffiti.
"We think the Skype offering (and whatever may follow it) is akin to a giant meteor hurtling on a collision course toward Earth," the report said.
Other analysts are more skeptical. Eventually, they say, Skype's growth will depend on customers who do not understand peer-to-peer networking or have computer headsets. Moreover, the program works best over broadband connections, which just 16 percent of Americans have at home, according to a May report from the Pew Research Center.
Hmmm. Nice to try to downplay it, but the music industry sure is in an uproar over something that is mostly only for broadband users who know how to use P2P file sharing...namely the swapping of mp3's...and popular music has a smaller base of interested parties. And I don't see that not having a $10 headset is going to cripple the popularity of this.
I know you're being being funny, but as a chick who has to periodically register domain names for work...and who has not done so from home for privacy reasons...I think this is an excellent idea that is WAY overdue.
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Actually, we just get together online to play CS drunk.
Actually intellectual property, which is what copyright protects, is just as real as physical property according to U.S. law. If you don't believe me, try using Mickey Mouse without a license...or ask a musician who wrote a song if it "belongs" to her...or use your favorite football team's logo without a license....or talk to disgraced researcher who has been accused of plagiarism...or read slashdot articles on cases the RIAA has won or settled.
Whether you like it or not, intellectual property is BIG business. Music, film and book publising companies buy, sell, license, and profit from intellectual property daily. It is far more profitable to deal in intellectual property than most "physical" property, which is why Jennifer Aniston is a millionaire and you are not.
Using someone else's copyright material without permission or license, according to the law, IS stealing. And no-one flamed me, because they got the point I was trying to make, which is that the LAW needs to be re-examined.
What's amazing to me is that we keep talking about the hypothetical reasons why the RIAA should not be after people because they might be legitimate users, but we've yet to see any so called legitmate users get busted.
I hate the RIAA as much as the next person (feel free to read some of my previous postings), but what needs to change here is the law. These people (er, we...) are stealing, according to the law. The RIAA is defending their property.
More time needs be spent talking about redefining the law and less on bashing the (evil, petty, corporate rapists) RIAA.
I don't oppose having ethics for researchers and corporations. In fact, I stated that I am not proposing free reign. Having ethical guidleines in place, written by scientists, for scientists is a great idea. Unfortunately, we tend to have draconian or nonsensical laws instead.
"...we run the risk of reducing the biosphere to gray goo, and if so, what should we do?"
I'm a bit sick of reactionary fear of technology. I work for a major university and deal with "outcry" to many of our
"potentially dangerous" research projects. I hate to tell the reactionaries this, but the people capable of, say, bioengineering plants to extract toxins from the soil, are also the most competent ones for putting in safeguards and policing themselves.
The IT world is a perfect example of what happens when the uninformed start trying to regulate an industry they don't understand. I'm not saying everyone whould have free reign, I'm just saying that the fanatics should get maybe work on getting their PhD's if they are that concerned. Of course, then they might then find that they can solve problems with technology that they create, instead of wasting their time fearing what the can't comprehend.
The name's not familiar, and I don't work for SCO, but I'm almost positive I've worked for this guy before:
I'm not sure which possibility is more pathetic -- that the CEO of SCO is lying through his teeth for tactical reasons, or that you genuinely aren't capable of recognizing honest outrage when you see it. To a manipulator, all behaviors are manipulation. To a conspirator, all opposition is conspiracy. Is that you?
Seriously, is tech industry culture overrun with sociopaths fitting that description, or is this my own weird coincidence? Did Gates start this "movement"?
Over the course of the next three decades, millions of people will purchase their own power plants. Fuel cells inside cars, homes, factories and offices will be capable of producing electricity for their own use during emergencies, while sending the surplus back to the power grid to share with others.
Which works great until the RIAA, um I mean Power Companies, start suing us for sharing on our P2P energy network.
And a bike is A LOT lighter. Eighty pounds? Come on! This rules out me (I'm a reasonably stong girl, but not so strong as to want to lug 80 lbs. into my office stairs).
Nice analysis but it still doesn't apease my concern for the potential mishaps, like the (granted extreme) example I cited. That wasn't the reporter speaking. It was the scientist.
Wireless is nifty, but I won't really be happy until a chip in my brain is recieving data and I get a nice little readout in my peripheral vision. Neruomancer anyone?
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Theoretically, the fetus could be incubated just fine until the size of the fetus killed the mouse or until the blood supply from the placenta was insufficient. Both of those limitations would happen pretty quickly, terminating the pregnancy. Still the thought of an aborted human fetus from a rodent mother is absolutely chilling.
I consider myself open to scientific experimentation, but I guess I just never really considered this as a possiblitlity. I'm surprised that it never crossed my mind. This issue was bound to be raised. Even more disturbing to me is the fact that my repulsion is seems more emotional than logical--a characteristic I associate with rightwing conservative freaks. One telling comment though:
He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells. He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells.
But what is really exciting is that if we succeed, we could change the world.
If they do succeed, how exactly have the changed the world? Am I missing the point? Do I just not get it? Won't they just have changed the Internet...and in a way that would be seamless to most users? Isn't the general consensus that we are not all that vunerable.
...for being offtopic if you want, but I just recently received a promo copy of The Vines new record. I told my husband that I intended to go buy the record so they could make the profit.
Then it occured to me that if I buy it, the label gets the cash. I just mailed The Vines a buck instead.
That's what we should do when we download music we really like.
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Factor in the fact that women earn .75 to every dollar, and we are typically shorter, I have to wonder if this really is a male/female discrepancy versus a tall/short discrepancy.
Ahh! Thank you.
Could the stone arrangement predate the carvings?
Does anyone know if there is proof that understanding the carvings will actually help them understand Stonehenge? Maybe the axes are just bronze age graffiti.
Excuse me, but some of us female slashdotters like hearing about how Torvald looks. He's cuter than I imagined he would be.
Other analysts are more skeptical. Eventually, they say, Skype's growth will depend on customers who do not understand peer-to-peer networking or have computer headsets. Moreover, the program works best over broadband connections, which just 16 percent of Americans have at home, according to a May report from the Pew Research Center.
Hmmm. Nice to try to downplay it, but the music industry sure is in an uproar over something that is mostly only for broadband users who know how to use P2P file sharing...namely the swapping of mp3's...and popular music has a smaller base of interested parties. And I don't see that not having a $10 headset is going to cripple the popularity of this.
Everyone uses the phone.
I know you're being being funny, but as a chick who has to periodically register domain names for work...and who has not done so from home for privacy reasons...I think this is an excellent idea that is WAY overdue.
Actually, we just get together online to play CS drunk.
Whether you like it or not, intellectual property is BIG business. Music, film and book publising companies buy, sell, license, and profit from intellectual property daily. It is far more profitable to deal in intellectual property than most "physical" property, which is why Jennifer Aniston is a millionaire and you are not.
Using someone else's copyright material without permission or license, according to the law, IS stealing. And no-one flamed me, because they got the point I was trying to make, which is that the LAW needs to be re-examined.
I hate the RIAA as much as the next person (feel free to read some of my previous postings), but what needs to change here is the law. These people (er, we...) are stealing, according to the law. The RIAA is defending their property.
More time needs be spent talking about redefining the law and less on bashing the (evil, petty, corporate rapists) RIAA.
I don't oppose having ethics for researchers and corporations. In fact, I stated that I am not proposing free reign. Having ethical guidleines in place, written by scientists, for scientists is a great idea. Unfortunately, we tend to have draconian or nonsensical laws instead.
I'm a bit sick of reactionary fear of technology. I work for a major university and deal with "outcry" to many of our "potentially dangerous" research projects. I hate to tell the reactionaries this, but the people capable of, say, bioengineering plants to extract toxins from the soil, are also the most competent ones for putting in safeguards and policing themselves.
The IT world is a perfect example of what happens when the uninformed start trying to regulate an industry they don't understand. I'm not saying everyone whould have free reign, I'm just saying that the fanatics should get maybe work on getting their PhD's if they are that concerned. Of course, then they might then find that they can solve problems with technology that they create, instead of wasting their time fearing what the can't comprehend.
I'm not sure which possibility is more pathetic -- that the CEO of SCO is lying through his teeth for tactical reasons, or that you genuinely aren't capable of recognizing honest outrage when you see it. To a manipulator, all behaviors are manipulation. To a conspirator, all opposition is conspiracy. Is that you?
Seriously, is tech industry culture overrun with sociopaths fitting that description, or is this my own weird coincidence? Did Gates start this "movement"?
Which works great until the RIAA, um I mean Power Companies, start suing us for sharing on our P2P energy network.
On a lighter note, our whole University has been preoccupied with trying to shut this bitch down. Today I am reminded of why I am happy to NOT be IT.
Turing's 'imitation game' is now usually called 'the Turing test' for intelligence.
Hmmm. I'm pretty sure that there already are computers that would seem more intelligent than some of the people I've had talked to while playing CS.
Some of you guys should get a job reviewing patent applications. You seem to know more about prior art & novelty than these patent officers do.
And a bike is A LOT lighter. Eighty pounds? Come on! This rules out me (I'm a reasonably stong girl, but not so strong as to want to lug 80 lbs. into my office stairs).
Nice analysis but it still doesn't apease my concern for the potential mishaps, like the (granted extreme) example I cited. That wasn't the reporter speaking. It was the scientist.
Wireless is nifty, but I won't really be happy until a chip in my brain is recieving data and I get a nice little readout in my peripheral vision. Neruomancer anyone?
Theoretically, the fetus could be incubated just fine until the size of the fetus killed the mouse or until the blood supply from the placenta was insufficient. Both of those limitations would happen pretty quickly, terminating the pregnancy. Still the thought of an aborted human fetus from a rodent mother is absolutely chilling.
He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells. He gave as an extreme example the possibility that a mouse making human sperm might accidentally be allowed to mate with a mouse that had made its eggs from human cells.
If they do succeed, how exactly have the changed the world? Am I missing the point? Do I just not get it? Won't they just have changed the Internet...and in a way that would be seamless to most users? Isn't the general consensus that we are not all that vunerable.
Then it occured to me that if I buy it, the label gets the cash. I just mailed The Vines a buck instead.
That's what we should do when we download music we really like.
And unreleased movies. Don't forget those!