It seems that your own argument proves that silver is effective.
You haven't addressed the various other ways that silver trumps antibiotics. Since the time of Christ, nasty germs have not yet found a way to survive silver while antibiotics have fallen by the wayside.
I repeat, if silver were patentable the corporations would be all over it.
You might start with a search for colloidal silver. My understanding is that silver ions are suspended in pure water. You can even make your own with some fairly simple items. I understand that the solution deteriorates over time and must be protected from light.
Some take silver daily as a preventative. Others take it for colds or other unusual conditions. There are nasal sprays and I seem to recall eye drops.
Overdose can cause skin to permanently turn grey (Mr. Data syndrome) as someone noted. This seems to be extremely rare as photos of the same two people are always featured in this discussion.
Various forms of silver have killed bacteria for a couple thousand years without fail. It is currently used to sanitize hospitals and protect burn injuries. Many take it internally and claim good results.
Unfortunately it's unpatentable and of no interest to corporations.
I work in the biotech industry and I want to patent your genes. To be a winner, simply reply with your gene sequence and contact information.
If something in your genes leads to a multimillion dollar advancement in medicine, you will win an all expense paid trip to the nearest Disneyland for yourself and three others. You'll have the additional reward of knowing that you've saved precious lives and enriched not only me, but a few CEOs and many investors and attorneys.
You don't have to be smart or work hard to initiate a patent, all you need is an unusual gene. You are special and we want to reward you for it.
Correct- the 'creative class' is confused with journalists, programmers and coffee shop employees. Timberg speaks of the "laptop-powered "knowledge class""... what the heck is that? Are you talking about the texters and Facebook failures who are steeped in trivia? Do these people ever have an original thought or quiet time to develop one?
There are creative individuals, there is no creative class. Great artists, writers and composers are not part of any 'class'. They do not follow the beat of the social media or the popular press. They do not usually emerge from prestigious universities and other bastions of past culture.
The article is diffuse and pointless. It seems to be a general rant about hard times, but who is affected and why it matters is unclear from the story.
No room to reproduce my paper on the subject, but here's the executive summary:
Real time is the actual time where you are right now. If the sun is directly overhead it is noon. A mile west it is still morning, and to the east it is afternoon.
There is no reason that we cannot use real time with the technology we have today.
If you drive 30 miles east or west to work, you will have to make some adjustments to get there on time by their clock. Can you handle that?
Your biological clock can work as intended by nature and you will live longer, healthier and happier.
So I was looking at the program on my iPhone and ready to download it when it suddenly disappeared from the store. That was about 3 hours ago when 400 users said it seemed OK.
Now it's back at the store and I'm downloading it. About 900 users gave it the same average (3 of 5 stars).
I have no idea what I'll do with it, but I suppose it's a bit of history that I can tell the grandchildren I was a part of. Damn shame I missed Woodstock.
Woohoo, it's here! And it wants a username and password and god knows what else. Do I really want this? I can still tell people that I had it on that first day on the iPhone, without having to actually use it.
OK, you're probably thinking I'm silly. Well f you. You probably do and think very similar things.
Either commenters don't understand Regressive tax or aren't reading that post correctly.
When a poor person buys the $1000 TV mentioned in TFA, he plans and sweats and worries for months before taking the plunge. When a slashdot reader buys that same TV, it is with two days' earnings- petty cash. But they both pay the same sales tax.
At the end of the year, the poor person has given perhaps 4% of his income for sales, gas and other regressive taxes. The tech genius pays less than 1% and invests most of his generous income in home and businesses that offer tax advantages.
The income tax was designed so that the poor might retain enough money to put food on the table while the rich could pay a higher percentage because they could afford it. It is a Progressive tax.
True Israel is a tiny country surrounded by 'enemies'. Perhaps if Israel and the US were better world citizens, some of those enemies would direct their energy elsewhere.
How many billions of dollars would be saved if a rational relationship between nations could prevail? How many lives saved? How many weapons eliminated? It breaks my heart to see the juvenile attitude of some nationalist leaders. A heart made already brittle by the greed of corporate manipulators involved in the same disputes.
And how many of those were the weekly 'updates'? I've noticed that certain companies publish frequent updates to their freeware which are actually reminders to buy the paid version. A single App may be downloaded several times in a month or a year due to these 'updates'. I suppose Apple is counting them as unique downloads.
The VA has had electronic health records for years.
Good for employees (doctors etc who need the info) but there is still no way for veterans to see their own health records online.
For people with government insurance it is a positive trend, but for people dependent on private insurance there are privacy concerns. Who will insure you when your medical conditions are made public? What will it cost?
TFA says "The California company has plans to build a system" but then it goes on to say "It is not clear if Apple intends to develop the concept". Excellent journalism. As others have noted, few patents are implemented.
Now why would Apple do this? Why does any company apply for a patent? What is the purpose of a patent?
The purpose of a patent, simply put, is to prevent others from using the idea. Slashdotters who have been here more than a week understand the concept. Patent trolls abound. They have no intention of producing anything, their function is to extract money from infringers. Likewise Apple and other companies secure trademarks and URLs to prevent competitors or scammers from using them.
If the haters can relax for a moment they will understand that Apple is unlikely to ever use this idea. If others attempt to use it, Apple can prevent it. If mandated by law, Apple will profit- but is that likely?
BTW Why would anyone use a primitive phone camera in a venue when real cameras do the job so much better?
So let's just chill and keep the hate in a bottle somewhere.
Xylitol is another form of sugar that in addition to low calories and insulin response, kills bacteria and the evil Helicobacter pylori that causes cavities and ulcers. Stay tuned for the 2027 study that will prove it effective!
There are pointers to this 2009 video and an engineering report from 2004. No indication of a working prototype under testing, no actual measurements of efficiency, no indication of recent progress, no indication of interest or investment on the part of the automotive industry or government. This appears to be vaporware.
OTOH, the vast energy conspiracy may have forced this to the back burner for fear of disrupting established economic models.
Judges have to decide a wider variety of matters than a hardcore software developer can conceive of. Matters that can be technical or delicate or earth shaking. It's fantastic to see a judge go the extra mile in the interest of fairness.
Patent/copyright abuse goes way beyond that including the genes in your own body which may be the property of some corporation. And how can a corporation copyright a 400 year old music score and extort money from those who simply want a look? And when taxpayers fund a discovery made by university employees and students, why does a corporation get to take the patent and all the profit?
Patents and copyrights are critical to drive research and new ideas but there has to be a sensible limit. With software patents in particular and the outrageous lawsuits, patents are serving to stifle innovation. Only a very well funded corporation can afford to cope with the problems, and the small inventor/programmer is at the mercy of attorneys.
I defer to Don Lancaster, an early protester of patents who offers thought provoking ideas on the subject: http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp Thanks for your patience with this rant
I keep my Newton Message Pad mostly for nostalgia. It served well in college for taking notes. Even with the lights out during a video presentation I was able to take readable notes (both with and without the Newton backlight on). When tablets offer handwriting recognition they will be much more useful to me and, I suspect, a few million others.
This is just the opening that lawmakers need to promote panic and obliterate resistance to their 'protective legislation', which will surely be filled with special interest items buried in legalese.
Robert G. Sims St. Martini, now long gone, detested photographs. Said that they lie.
He was thinking of photos that show people and places as they were. Things change quickly and those images no longer represent anything meaningful in the present.
In our memories we often behave the same way- we see people as they once were and we are slow to notice how they evolve. We are more than a superficial image or voice recording. We are a dynamic assemblage of history, ambition, dna and much more that cannot be captured so easily as a snapshot. Take not the easy road to summing up another human being.
Slashdot Mirror
Now I am truly shocked- no paper records before Truman admin?!!?
No wonder Americans are so ignorant of the past.
Nice chatting with you. I'll be more alert for your assertions over time. I'm no expert, but interested. Thanks.
So, if they hate it so much why do they use it?
It seems that your own argument proves that silver is effective.
You haven't addressed the various other ways that silver trumps antibiotics. Since the time of Christ, nasty germs have not yet found a way to survive silver while antibiotics have fallen by the wayside.
I repeat, if silver were patentable the corporations would be all over it.
You might start with a search for colloidal silver. My understanding is that silver ions are suspended in pure water. You can even make your own with some fairly simple items. I understand that the solution deteriorates over time and must be protected from light.
Some take silver daily as a preventative. Others take it for colds or other unusual conditions. There are nasal sprays and I seem to recall eye drops.
Overdose can cause skin to permanently turn grey (Mr. Data syndrome) as someone noted. This seems to be extremely rare as photos of the same two people are always featured in this discussion.
Various forms of silver have killed bacteria for a couple thousand years without fail. It is currently used to sanitize hospitals and protect burn injuries. Many take it internally and claim good results.
Unfortunately it's unpatentable and of no interest to corporations.
I work in the biotech industry and I want to patent your genes. To be a winner, simply reply with your gene sequence and contact information.
If something in your genes leads to a multimillion dollar advancement in medicine, you will win an all expense paid trip to the nearest Disneyland for yourself and three others. You'll have the additional reward of knowing that you've saved precious lives and enriched not only me, but a few CEOs and many investors and attorneys.
You don't have to be smart or work hard to initiate a patent, all you need is an unusual gene. You are special and we want to reward you for it.
Correct- the 'creative class' is confused with journalists, programmers and coffee shop employees. Timberg speaks of the "laptop-powered "knowledge class"" ... what the heck is that? Are you talking about the texters and Facebook failures who are steeped in trivia? Do these people ever have an original thought or quiet time to develop one?
There are creative individuals, there is no creative class. Great artists, writers and composers are not part of any 'class'. They do not follow the beat of the social media or the popular press. They do not usually emerge from prestigious universities and other bastions of past culture.
The article is diffuse and pointless. It seems to be a general rant about hard times, but who is affected and why it matters is unclear from the story.
No room to reproduce my paper on the subject, but here's the executive summary:
Real time is the actual time where you are right now. If the sun is directly overhead it is noon. A mile west it is still morning, and to the east it is afternoon.
There is no reason that we cannot use real time with the technology we have today.
If you drive 30 miles east or west to work, you will have to make some adjustments to get there on time by their clock. Can you handle that?
Your biological clock can work as intended by nature and you will live longer, healthier and happier.
Wow, leave it to Standford and Hardvard to come up with the idea to give some thought to a project before implementing an expensive test of viability.
"no reflective or die layer"
Does this mean that I can't record on both sides any more?
So I was looking at the program on my iPhone and ready to download it when it suddenly disappeared from the store. That was about 3 hours ago when 400 users said it seemed OK.
Now it's back at the store and I'm downloading it. About 900 users gave it the same average (3 of 5 stars).
I have no idea what I'll do with it, but I suppose it's a bit of history that I can tell the grandchildren I was a part of. Damn shame I missed Woodstock.
Woohoo, it's here! And it wants a username and password and god knows what else. Do I really want this? I can still tell people that I had it on that first day on the iPhone, without having to actually use it.
OK, you're probably thinking I'm silly. Well f you. You probably do and think very similar things.
please mod parent up
Either commenters don't understand Regressive tax or aren't reading that post correctly.
When a poor person buys the $1000 TV mentioned in TFA, he plans and sweats and worries for months before taking the plunge. When a slashdot reader buys that same TV, it is with two days' earnings- petty cash. But they both pay the same sales tax.
At the end of the year, the poor person has given perhaps 4% of his income for sales, gas and other regressive taxes. The tech genius pays less than 1% and invests most of his generous income in home and businesses that offer tax advantages.
The income tax was designed so that the poor might retain enough money to put food on the table while the rich could pay a higher percentage because they could afford it. It is a Progressive tax.
"If Israel is to survive..."
True Israel is a tiny country surrounded by 'enemies'. Perhaps if Israel and the US were better world citizens, some of those enemies would direct their energy elsewhere.
How many billions of dollars would be saved if a rational relationship between nations could prevail? How many lives saved? How many weapons eliminated? It breaks my heart to see the juvenile attitude of some nationalist leaders. A heart made already brittle by the greed of corporate manipulators involved in the same disputes.
"App Store has reached 15 billion downloads."
And how many of those were the weekly 'updates'? I've noticed that certain companies publish frequent updates to their freeware which are actually reminders to buy the paid version. A single App may be downloaded several times in a month or a year due to these 'updates'. I suppose Apple is counting them as unique downloads.
The VA has had electronic health records for years.
Good for employees (doctors etc who need the info) but there is still no way for veterans to see their own health records online.
For people with government insurance it is a positive trend, but for people dependent on private insurance there are privacy concerns. Who will insure you when your medical conditions are made public? What will it cost?
Captain Picard flips a dog eared page of Moby Dick while the crew explores strange new worlds where no [person] has gone before.
Wow! That got the Apple haters riled, didn't it?
TFA says "The California company has plans to build a system" but then it goes on to say "It is not clear if Apple intends to develop the concept". Excellent journalism. As others have noted, few patents are implemented.
Now why would Apple do this? Why does any company apply for a patent? What is the purpose of a patent?
The purpose of a patent, simply put, is to prevent others from using the idea. Slashdotters who have been here more than a week understand the concept. Patent trolls abound. They have no intention of producing anything, their function is to extract money from infringers. Likewise Apple and other companies secure trademarks and URLs to prevent competitors or scammers from using them.
If the haters can relax for a moment they will understand that Apple is unlikely to ever use this idea. If others attempt to use it, Apple can prevent it. If mandated by law, Apple will profit- but is that likely?
BTW Why would anyone use a primitive phone camera in a venue when real cameras do the job so much better?
So let's just chill and keep the hate in a bottle somewhere.
Xylitol is another form of sugar that in addition to low calories and insulin response, kills bacteria and the evil Helicobacter pylori that causes cavities and ulcers. Stay tuned for the 2027 study that will prove it effective!
You aren't labeled.
Yes I'm sure that many secretly like to be labeled. Part of the social thing I suppose. Can't blame the web sites for that.
"Well I'm alone, I've got to clone" -Barney
There are pointers to this 2009 video and an engineering report from 2004. No indication of a working prototype under testing, no actual measurements of efficiency, no indication of recent progress, no indication of interest or investment on the part of the automotive industry or government. This appears to be vaporware.
OTOH, the vast energy conspiracy may have forced this to the back burner for fear of disrupting established economic models.
Yes, humility is great.
Judges have to decide a wider variety of matters than a hardcore software developer can conceive of. Matters that can be technical or delicate or earth shaking. It's fantastic to see a judge go the extra mile in the interest of fairness.
Software patents?
Patent/copyright abuse goes way beyond that including the genes in your own body which may be the property of some corporation. And how can a corporation copyright a 400 year old music score and extort money from those who simply want a look? And when taxpayers fund a discovery made by university employees and students, why does a corporation get to take the patent and all the profit?
Patents and copyrights are critical to drive research and new ideas but there has to be a sensible limit. With software patents in particular and the outrageous lawsuits, patents are serving to stifle innovation. Only a very well funded corporation can afford to cope with the problems, and the small inventor/programmer is at the mercy of attorneys.
I defer to Don Lancaster, an early protester of patents who offers thought provoking ideas on the subject:
http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp
Thanks for your patience with this rant
I keep my Newton Message Pad mostly for nostalgia. It served well in college for taking notes. Even with the lights out during a video presentation I was able to take readable notes (both with and without the Newton backlight on). When tablets offer handwriting recognition they will be much more useful to me and, I suspect, a few million others.
This is just the opening that lawmakers need to promote panic and obliterate resistance to their 'protective legislation', which will surely be filled with special interest items buried in legalese.
Robert G. Sims St. Martini, now long gone, detested photographs. Said that they lie.
He was thinking of photos that show people and places as they were. Things change quickly and those images no longer represent anything meaningful in the present.
In our memories we often behave the same way- we see people as they once were and we are slow to notice how they evolve. We are more than a superficial image or voice recording. We are a dynamic assemblage of history, ambition, dna and much more that cannot be captured so easily as a snapshot. Take not the easy road to summing up another human being.