The little known health benefits of eating junk food...
Severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication: kinetics and trials to enhance elimination in two patients.
In spring 1998, two women were diagnosed with severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication. Over the following 3 years, TCDD levels were monitored under various attempts to enhance its elimination, and the half-lives were evaluated. Olestra, a non-digestible, non-absorbable dietary fat substitute, was continuously administered to the patients either as pure substance or in potato-chips...As previously reported, administration of olestra was found to be effective in increasing the fecal excretion of TCDD.
I was playing Ubisoft's Far Cry. At the higher levels you meet up with this female CIA agent who will mow down 100s of people with a machine gun but will not let you see her boobs and even acts like a stuck up feminist studies professor to the main character, which the user plays.
I will never buy another Ubisoft game again after that because it was just not fun and reminded me of the pathetic wastes of $1000s of dollars of college tuition I had to sit through to get enough of said requirements to graduate. I pay $50 to play a video game to be entertained not to be "educated". Perhaps they can have games rated on their sensitivity to feminist sensibilities so I can choose the ones labeled "does not seem to care, much more focused on adolecent fantasy storytelling".
/** Oh duh.. My apple II basic skills are rusty! Version 2.0 will ask the question over and over again till you get it right. Sorry bout the formatting.. Slashdot whitespace filter's fault ***/ package slashdot; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class DorkTest { public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException {
while (true) {
System.out.println("What is the Password?");
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader read=new BufferedReader(reader);
String a=read.readLine();
if ("b".equals(a)) { System.out.println("Right!"); break; }
else { System.out.println("Wrong!"); } } }}
I think the "new package manager every month" people must all still be using redhat 9? I haven't thought about packaging since I switched to a Debian based distro (Ubuntu). The most intresting I've seen lately in packaging is Klik .
I run a mail server and have a 100Base-T connection between my mail server and IMAP client app (Thunderbird) and found a little while ago that Gmail operates much faster than this setup so I just started forwarding all my mail to Gmail. One thing I've found is that when I give people Gmail invites they don't understand how to use the labels and just use the thing as a single inbox. I've found that the power of Gmail is the labels and filters, which really set it apart from all desktop email clients that I've used. If they added a group calendaring function it would be an absolutely killer app.
Amazingly free software has avoided becoming overtly politicized! Probably because software developers are a lot more intelligent than the average "movement".
When I say politicized, here's the long academic, but very interesting explanation of what I'm talking about:
I was once on a electronic music mailing list dedicated to the subgenre of electronic music known as "Trance". This is just electronic music but more repetitive. Electronic music of this subgenre in general does not have lyrics.
Anyway, the Iraq war was starting and some guy came on the list and said "If you're really a 'Trancer' and believe in the trance music spirit you'll come to my anti-Iraq war protest".
I replied back that if ALL I really cared about was trance music than I would be for Nuking Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia and putting the entire middle east under the domination of Israel as Israel has some of the best trance music in the world and raves, techno music, dancing, hallucinogenic drugs etc are treated far more severely in these Islamic countries than in Israel.
Anyway, invevitably every single movement of any size is at least attempted to be co-opted somehow into the left wing political coalition, no matter how tenuous the link between the left's ideology and the aims of the movement they are attempting to assimilate.
Why not just extract the micronutrient chemically and put it in a vitamin supplement? There's probably someone at GNC working on this already. The problem with beer is the ethanol (a.k.a alcohol) it contains.
I went to high school with some very talented professional atheletes. One guy was a pro-snowboarder and skater. The guy was good at every single sport he tried. At the local cafe/video game parlor he got the highest score anyone had ever seen on 720 and he didn't even play that often. I spent a lot of time at this particular cafe and had never seen anyone even get close to matching his performance.
Another example, the wife of a friend of mine who's a native born Czech went target shooting and on her first try she had almost perfect aim.
So the moral of the story is, stop being envious, look for your natural talents, and develop them.
As anyone who has read Bruce Sterling's excellent Schismatrix series knows, Sterling predicts a movement both scientific and political called the "Shapers" who pursue genetic modifications to themselves to extend their lifespans and their physical and mental capabilities. They are opposed by the "Mechanists" who seek to integrate themselves with machines to attain the same feats. The main character Abelard Lindsay, who lives for several hundred years and is followed throughout the book at one point is offered an antique of immense value, the first 500 year old immortal mouse.
The present version of the "Shaper" movement is known as "Transhumanism". The modern day version of the "Mechanists" would be those who believe in the Ray Kurzweils, Verner Vinge (Singularity Sky) version of the future wherein artificial intelligence becomes integrated with and even exceeds Human Intelligence.
A bit about Transhumanism::
Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an emergent philosophy analyzing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
...
Dr. Anders Sandberg describes modern transhumanism as "the philosophy that we can and should develop to higher levels, physically, mentally and socially using rational methods," while Dr. Robin Hanson describes it as "the idea that new technologies are likely to change the world so much in the next century or two that our descendants will in many ways no longer be 'human'."
The funny thing is , if the crackpots are right and it finds oil this is actually a great thing and money well spent as finding worthwhile oil wells can cost many billions of dollars.
Right now I'm more concerned about trying to set up coding standards, so that any developer can jump into any part of a project and be able to figure out what's going on, without wasting a couple hours just to figure out the code.
Unless you are dealing with trivial projects it will take more than a couple of hours to figure out the code. Even the best documented open source and commercial projects take a few days to figure out.
"Alright you primitive screw-heads, listen up. See this? This is my boomstick! It's a 150 decibel double-barreled LRAD. American Technology's top of the line. You can find this in the sonic goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in San Diego, CA; retails for about one hundred nine, ninety-five thousand. It's got a metal stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right, shop smart, shop American Technology!"
Could we use this to print really fine cuts of beef for pennies? Being a geek, I find this particularly interesting because it means I could cook without leaving my computer.
/**** * Cluephone 1.0. Give as your first parameter the activity that you are trying to accomplish. * Cluephone will give you advice as to how to accomplish that task **/ #include <stdio.h>
#define NERD_LANGUAGE_TRANSLATION 1
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { if (!strcmp(argv[1],"Distributing Software")) {
printf("popularity is better than respect\n"); } else if (!strcmp(argv[1],"Dating Women")) {
printf("You have to be good looking and have a nice car\n"); } return 0; }
Just go look at the stats on sourceforge, software that runs on windows gets 10x the downloads that linux software does. A great example is Postgresql which was ignored by many until it got a windows port. Who needs respect when you've got popularity?
I was curious as to how rich a programmer would feel in India vs the U.S. That is a comparison of wages programmers receive in the Us vs India divided by the average wage for those countries which dictates the cost of living in general. Perhaps somebody could put together a global index for various professions? The International Herald Tribune says that the average wage for an experienced programmer in India is $11,423 a year. The average wage for an experienced programmer in the U.S is $83,000 a year. However the average per capita income in India is $3,100 and in the U.S it is $40,100. Per capita income is a good indicator of the relative cost level for people living in a particular country.
So the programmer vs average salary ratio in India is 3.684 while in the U.S it is 2.069. To feel as rich as an experienced Indian programmer an American Programmer would have to make $147,728.
ICS is a cornerstone of Customs' massive Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) project. This was intended to replace the export and brokerage industry-developed EDI system Customs Connect with a Web-based model co-developed by Customs and a consortium of IT vendors led by Computer Associates. The project aims to facilitate all aspects of Customs involvement in the import and export process including declarations and GST transactions collected at port.
Nother Article More than seven years to this point of readiness, ICS is a cornerstone of Customs' massive Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) project, which will replace the export and brokerage industry-developed EDI system, Customs Connect. CMR is a Web-based model co-developed by Customs and a consortium of IT vendors led by Computer Associates, EDS, IBM and Telstra nee Kaz.
In the U.S a good engineer makes $100,000 a year. Somebody who works at Mcdonalds makes $15,000 a year.
In India a good engineer makes $40,000 a year. Somebody who works at the local noodle shop makes $1000 a year.
So if we had a similar wage differential in the U.S an engineer would make $600,000 a year. If engineers made that much I am positive that there would be a huge rush for people to be engineers. It all comes down to simple economics.
Those irresposible Republicans! They're screwing things up across the entire galaxy.
Article And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.
I'm curious. Do you really actually KNOW people at the E.U or do you just write letters to them? If they you know them are they really as stupid as you suggest? What is it with the E.U where there is never anyone to take responsibility or have accountability for particular actions? It seems like whenever the E.U takes an action, the acting is always done by some collective body and everyone who was actually involved gets away with it.
At its triennial congress in Yokohama last September, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) overwhelmingly voted to send a delegation to China to investigate charges that dissidents were being imprisoned and maltreated as "political maniacs" both in regular mental hospitals and in police-run psychiatric custodial institutions known as the Ankang. (The word literally means "Peace and Health.")
The psychiatrists who staff these institutions, Dangerous Minds shows, tend to assume that their patients are mad because of their political beliefs or actions. The diagnoses made in both the political dissident and Falun Gong cases, ranging from "delusions of reform" to "paranoid psychosis," are highly reminiscent of the long-discredited label of "sluggish schizophrenia" that the Soviets used to apply to their dissidents and religious nonconformists.
So what do we build multi-billion dollar nuclear powered air craft carriers for if the Russians, and whichever army they sell to, can destroy them with these things?
From FAS (Federation Of American Scientists) - NOT a conspiracy site:
Apparently fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes, Shkval has a range of about 7,500 yards. The weapon clears the tube at fifty knots, upon which its rocket fires, propelling the missile through the water at 360 kph [about 100 m/sec / 230 mph / 200-knots], three or four times as fast as conventional torpedoes. The solid-rocket propelled "torpedo" achieves high speeds by producing a high-pressure stream of bubbles from its nose and skin, which coats the torpedo in a thin layer of gas and forms a local "envelope" of supercavitating bubbles. Carrying a tactical nuclear warhead initiated by a timer, it would destroy the hostile submarine and the torpedo it fired. The Shkval high-speed underwater missile is guided by an auto-pilot rather than by a homing head as on most torpedoes.
There are no evident countermeasures to such a weapon, its employment could put adversary naval forces as a considerable disadvantage. One such scenario is a rapid attack situation wherein a sudden detection of a threat submarine is made, perhaps at relatively short range, requiring an immediate response to achieve weapon on target and to ensure survival. Apparently guidance is a problem, and the initial version of the Shkval was unguided However, the Russians have been advertising a homing version, which runs out at very high speed, then slows to search.
Slashdot Mirror
The little known health benefits of eating junk food...
Severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication: kinetics and trials to enhance elimination in two patients.
In spring 1998, two women were diagnosed with severe 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo- p-dioxin (TCDD) intoxication. Over the following 3 years, TCDD levels were monitored under various attempts to enhance its elimination, and the half-lives were evaluated. Olestra, a non-digestible, non-absorbable dietary fat substitute, was continuously administered to the patients either as pure substance or in potato-chips...As previously reported, administration of olestra was found to be effective in increasing the fecal excretion of TCDD.
PubMed Link
I was playing Ubisoft's Far Cry. At the higher levels you meet up with this female CIA agent who will mow down 100s of people with a machine gun but will not let you see her boobs and even acts like a stuck up feminist studies professor to the main character, which the user plays. I will never buy another Ubisoft game again after that because it was just not fun and reminded me of the pathetic wastes of $1000s of dollars of college tuition I had to sit through to get enough of said requirements to graduate. I pay $50 to play a video game to be entertained not to be "educated". Perhaps they can have games rated on their sensitivity to feminist sensibilities so I can choose the ones labeled "does not seem to care, much more focused on adolecent fantasy storytelling".
/** Oh duh.. My apple II basic skills are rusty! Version 2.0 will ask the question over and over again
till you get it right.
Sorry bout the formatting.. Slashdot whitespace filter's fault ***/
package slashdot;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class DorkTest { public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException {
while (true) {
System.out.println("What is the Password?");
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader read=new BufferedReader(reader);
String a=read.readLine();
if ("b".equals(a)) { System.out.println("Right!"); break; }
else { System.out.println("Wrong!"); } } }}
/** Sorry bout the formatting.. Slashdot whitespace filter's fault ***/
package slashdot;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class DorkTest { public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException {
System.out.println("What is the Password?");
InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
BufferedReader read=new BufferedReader(reader);
String a=read.readLine();
if ("b".equals(a)) { System.out.println("Right!"); }
else { System.out.println("Wrong!"); } } }
I think the "new package manager every month" people must all still be using redhat 9? I haven't thought about packaging since I switched to a Debian based distro (Ubuntu). The most intresting I've seen lately in packaging is Klik .
I run a mail server and have a 100Base-T connection between my mail server and IMAP client app (Thunderbird) and found a little while ago that Gmail operates much faster than this setup so I just started forwarding all my mail to Gmail. One thing I've found is that when I give people Gmail invites they don't understand how to use the labels and just use the thing as a single inbox. I've found that the power of Gmail is the labels and filters, which really set it apart from all desktop email clients that I've used. If they added a group calendaring function it would be an absolutely killer app.
Amazingly free software has avoided becoming overtly politicized! Probably because software developers are a lot more intelligent than the average "movement".
When I say politicized, here's the long academic, but very interesting explanation of what I'm talking about:
Why everything everywhere all the time must be political.
The short explanation is this:
I was once on a electronic music mailing list dedicated to the subgenre of electronic music known as "Trance". This is just electronic music but more repetitive. Electronic music of this subgenre in general does not have lyrics.
Anyway, the Iraq war was starting and some guy came on the list and said "If you're really a 'Trancer' and believe in the trance music spirit you'll come to my anti-Iraq war protest".
I replied back that if ALL I really cared about was trance music than I would be for Nuking Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia and putting the entire middle east under the domination of Israel as Israel has some of the best trance music in the world and raves, techno music, dancing, hallucinogenic drugs etc are treated far more severely in these Islamic countries than in Israel.
Anyway, invevitably every single movement of any size is at least attempted to be co-opted somehow into the left wing political coalition, no matter how tenuous the link between the left's ideology and the aims of the movement they are attempting to assimilate.
Why not just extract the micronutrient chemically and put it in a vitamin supplement? There's probably someone at GNC working on this already. The problem with beer is the ethanol (a.k.a alcohol) it contains.
The American Physical Society's Timeline of Physics in the 20th Century
1990-2000s:
1989 - 1992 "The cosmic background radiation is explored." (Never effect me)
1990 "The Hubble Space Telescope becomes operational." (Never effect me)
1998 - 2008 "The solar neutrino puzzle may be solved." (Never effect me)
1998 - 2008 "Weather and climate predictions come of age." (Weather Forecasting?)
1999 - 2009 "Simulation of Brain Functions in Real Time." (Neural Networks have been around since the 60's)
2000 - 2010 "Gravitational waves open a new window on the universe." (Still just General Relativity?)
2000 - 2010 "Photonics competes with electronics. (Just a prediction, hasn't actually happened yet)
Compare this with the 1930s
1938 - 1939 Atomic Nuclear fission is observed in uranium.
1939 The first FM (frequency modulation) radio station is built.
1939 The first helicopter designed for mass production flies.
1936 Sound is recorded on Magnetic Tape
So basically I want to know where is my flying car, d**mit!
I went to high school with some very talented professional atheletes. One guy was a pro-snowboarder and skater. The guy was good at every single sport he tried. At the local cafe/video game parlor he got the highest score anyone had ever seen on 720 and he didn't even play that often. I spent a lot of time at this particular cafe and had never seen anyone even get close to matching his performance.
Another example, the wife of a friend of mine who's a native born Czech went target shooting and on her first try she had almost perfect aim.
So the moral of the story is, stop being envious, look for your natural talents, and develop them.
The present version of the "Shaper" movement is known as "Transhumanism". The modern day version of the "Mechanists" would be those who believe in the Ray Kurzweils, Verner Vinge (Singularity Sky) version of the future wherein artificial intelligence becomes integrated with and even exceeds Human Intelligence.
A bit about Transhumanism:: Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated >H or H+) is an emergent philosophy analyzing or favouring the use of science and technology, especially neurotechnology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, to overcome human limitations and improve the human condition.
...
Dr. Anders Sandberg describes modern transhumanism as "the philosophy that we can and should develop to higher levels, physically, mentally and socially using rational methods," while Dr. Robin Hanson describes it as "the idea that new technologies are likely to change the world so much in the next century or two that our descendants will in many ways no longer be 'human'."
Maybe they could sell a home version of this that would help rate aspiring actor on their ability to convincingly speak a part from a screenplay.
The funny thing is , if the crackpots are right and it finds oil this is actually a great thing and money well spent as finding worthwhile oil wells can cost many billions of dollars.
Unless you are dealing with trivial projects it will take more than a couple of hours to figure out the code. Even the best documented open source and commercial projects take a few days to figure out.
"Alright you primitive screw-heads, listen up. See this? This is my boomstick! It's a 150 decibel double-barreled LRAD. American Technology's top of the line. You can find this in the sonic goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in San Diego, CA; retails for about one hundred nine, ninety-five thousand. It's got a metal stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right, shop smart, shop American Technology!"
Could we use this to print really fine cuts of beef for pennies? Being a geek, I find this particularly interesting because it means I could cook without leaving my computer.
/****
* Cluephone 1.0. Give as your first parameter the activity that you are trying to accomplish.
* Cluephone will give you advice as to how to accomplish that task
**/
#include <stdio.h>
#define NERD_LANGUAGE_TRANSLATION 1
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (!strcmp(argv[1],"Distributing Software")) {
printf("popularity is better than respect\n");
}
else if (!strcmp(argv[1],"Dating Women")) {
printf("You have to be good looking and have a nice car\n");
}
return 0;
}
Just go look at the stats on sourceforge, software that runs on windows gets 10x the downloads that linux software does. A great example is Postgresql which was ignored by many until it got a windows port. Who needs respect when you've got popularity?
I was curious as to how rich a programmer would feel in India vs the U.S. That is a comparison of wages programmers receive in the Us vs India divided by the average wage for those countries which dictates the cost of living in general. Perhaps somebody could put together a global index for various professions?
The International Herald Tribune says that the average wage for an experienced programmer in India is $11,423 a year. The average wage for an experienced programmer in the U.S is $83,000 a year. However the average per capita income in India is $3,100 and in the U.S it is $40,100. Per capita income is a good indicator of the relative cost level for people living in a particular country.
So the programmer vs average salary ratio in India is 3.684 while in the U.S it is 2.069. To feel as rich as an experienced Indian programmer an American Programmer would have to make $147,728.
Origional article + links to references, etc over at my blog
Computer World Article
ICS is a cornerstone of Customs' massive Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) project. This was intended to replace the export and brokerage industry-developed EDI system Customs Connect with a Web-based model co-developed by Customs and a consortium of IT vendors led by Computer Associates. The project aims to facilitate all aspects of Customs involvement in the import and export process including declarations and GST transactions collected at port.
Nother Article
More than seven years to this point of readiness, ICS is a cornerstone of Customs' massive Cargo Management Re-engineering (CMR) project, which will replace the export and brokerage industry-developed EDI system, Customs Connect. CMR is a Web-based model co-developed by Customs and a consortium of IT vendors led by Computer Associates, EDS, IBM and Telstra nee Kaz.
In the U.S a good engineer makes $100,000 a year. Somebody who works at Mcdonalds makes $15,000 a year.
In India a good engineer makes $40,000 a year. Somebody who works at the local noodle shop makes $1000 a year.
So if we had a similar wage differential in the U.S an engineer would make $600,000 a year. If engineers made that much I am positive that there would be a huge rush for people to be engineers. It all comes down to simple economics.
Those irresposible Republicans! They're screwing things up across the entire galaxy.
Article
And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.
I'm curious. Do you really actually KNOW people at the E.U or do you just write letters to them? If they you know them are they really as stupid as you suggest? What is it with the E.U where there is never anyone to take responsibility or have accountability for particular actions? It seems like whenever the E.U takes an action, the acting is always done by some collective body and everyone who was actually involved gets away with it.
China's Psychiatric Terror
At its triennial congress in Yokohama last September, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) overwhelmingly voted to send a delegation to China to investigate charges that dissidents were being imprisoned and maltreated as "political maniacs" both in regular mental hospitals and in police-run psychiatric custodial institutions known as the Ankang. (The word literally means "Peace and Health.")
The psychiatrists who staff these institutions, Dangerous Minds shows, tend to assume that their patients are mad because of their political beliefs or actions. The diagnoses made in both the political dissident and Falun Gong cases, ranging from "delusions of reform" to "paranoid psychosis," are highly reminiscent of the long-discredited label of "sluggish schizophrenia" that the Soviets used to apply to their dissidents and religious nonconformists.
So what do we build multi-billion dollar nuclear powered air craft carriers for if the Russians, and whichever army they sell to, can destroy them with these things?
From FAS (Federation Of American Scientists) - NOT a conspiracy site:
VA-111 Shkval underwater rocket
Apparently fired from standard 533mm torpedo tubes, Shkval has a range of about 7,500 yards. The weapon clears the tube at fifty knots, upon which its rocket fires, propelling the missile through the water at 360 kph [about 100 m/sec / 230 mph / 200-knots], three or four times as fast as conventional torpedoes. The solid-rocket propelled "torpedo" achieves high speeds by producing a high-pressure stream of bubbles from its nose and skin, which coats the torpedo in a thin layer of gas and forms a local "envelope" of supercavitating bubbles. Carrying a tactical nuclear warhead initiated by a timer, it would destroy the hostile submarine and the torpedo it fired. The Shkval high-speed underwater missile is guided by an auto-pilot rather than by a homing head as on most torpedoes.
There are no evident countermeasures to such a weapon, its employment could put adversary naval forces as a considerable disadvantage. One such scenario is a rapid attack situation wherein a sudden detection of a threat submarine is made, perhaps at relatively short range, requiring an immediate response to achieve weapon on target and to ensure survival. Apparently guidance is a problem, and the initial version of the Shkval was unguided However, the Russians have been advertising a homing version, which runs out at very high speed, then slows to search.