Well, can the police read, say, my notebook, kept in my backpack in the car? Can they look at my wallet full of business cards and contacts? What if these papers and information are protected by attorney or medical privilege? What if these are my (HIPAA-protected) health records? These seem to be the closest analogues to what's on my iPhone, apart from the actual phone itself.
In retrospect, Sanar thinks he can trace his problem to a search marketing consultant he had paid $35,000 to improve Skyfacet's Google rankings. He now believes the consultant mistakenly replicated content on many of the site's pages, making them look like duplicate--that is, spam--content. But even after he reversed the consultant's changes, he couldn't get Skyfacet's pages out of Google Hell, where they remain today.
Mistakenly? Really? Are you sure? I thought that was the SOP for search-engine gaming-- the amateurish ones that don't charge 35k for a net change of -$500k overall-- but still standard, ham-handed SEO nonetheless.
Wow. An announcement that there will be an announcement next year about a game that likely will not come out for a while after that, barring no (ahem) delays. Anything to get hits on a blog/AdSense clicks, right?
In the criminal justice system, arboreal trespassing offenses are considered especially heinous. In the West Midlands, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Halesowen police. These are their stories.
Part of me wishes Sony had not withdrawn their software voluntarily and had put up a legal fight, such that the courts could have struck down parts of the law as unconstitutional and or invalid. An appeal to the US Copyright office has less legal weight and force of precedence, IMO.
No doubt many of these awards are symbolic awards for the efforts in creating the entire trilogy, not just RotK. I have my doubts if the third LotR movie was that good, especially given some of the films it was up against, but the trilogy as a whole merits siginificant recognition and I think that was given tonight.
"Most of the illegal-exploit spammers use hash busters and any other trick they can to get past filters, refusing to accept that people use spam filters because they really don't want spam," Linford added.
I really understand this part: going after people who are taking active measures against your enterprise due to their disinterest. Why bother to market to them at all? Is the rate of return worth all the ill will, DOS attacks and legislation?
The project will begin with M. genitalium, a minuscule organism that lives in the genital tracts of people and may cause or contribute to some cases of urethritis, an inflammation of the urethra. The scientists will remove all genetic material from the organism, then synthesize an artificial string of genetic material, resembling a naturally occurring chromosome, that they hope will contain the minimum number of M. genitalium genes needed to sustain life. The artificial chromosome will be inserted into the hollowed-out cell, which will then be tested for its ability to survive and reproduce.
They're taking an already extant organism, "hollowing it out" as it were, and seeing if it can live and reproduce normally with a series of increasingly customized (and minimal) genetic material. Not creating something from nothing.
"The new information enabled me to add to some rudimentary precautions I'd taken previously based on earlier information," said Gary Flynn, a security engineer at James Madison University. "But, of course, it also made it easier for others to take advantage of the situation."
That's very nice for the well informed, but unfortunately,
{people who take rudimentary precautions} is tons smaller than {people who have no idea, and who might get hacked}
I don't see how having the code broadcast to the entire world so that people could make very basic (but non-default) IE settings changes was worth the trade-off of having all the people who don't know enough to take these precautions (read everybody who doesn't follow bug or exploit lists) potentially get hacked.
His colleague Dr. Jackiw compared modern physics to modern art: "One person looks at a piece of art and says it is gibberish; another person looks and says it's wonderful."
Unfortunately, modern art isn't ultimately graded on if it's falsifiable or not, whereas physics is. Thus, the debate of good/bad art can rage forever without settlement, and that's fine; however, sooner or later, many scientific theories are demonstrated to be false (excepting those which aren't, of course.:-))
With five different fan models from four different manufacturers, there is no real way of comparing one to another, although I can definitely give my opinion on certain features or aspects. For instance, I found the LEDs on the Antec Blue and TriLight fans to be much brighter and colorful than the LEDs found on the Cooler Master Blue LED fan
The fact that the first comment the authors make in their summary regarding the various merits of the fans deals not with performance or cost, but rather completely superfluous colored lights says something about this review in general.
This sort of thing makes for great corporate performance art, but honestly... does it make the average person want to choose them as their ISP? If not, then they might as well make origami out of their money and set it on fire.
I applaud this guy for standing up to eBay; while this is one of the least of their offenses (their staggering disregard to fraud their foremost), it's good to find somebody who will at least muster up some popular sentiment against being treated impersonally.
That being said, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble by just not using the term CD-R. It's clear that the terminology is where eBay's mental scripts are breaking, and not just in one person at thier end, and so rather than make eBay overhaul their (admittedly overly simplistic) mental algorithms (yes, I know that he said he had copyright, but their rules probably had lots of "Cover The Company's And Your Own Ass" built into them), it would've made sense to said "New Indie CD on sale" and make no mention that one side of the CD happens to be blue.
CNN is reporting on a Wildlife Conservation Society report that states that humans take up 83 percent of the Earth's land surface
This is not a good summary of what the rWCN report states. 83% of the earth's surface is "directly influenced by human agency" (their words). This does not mean humans occupy or farm in 83%; this measure could be anything as simple as "takes water from an aquifer that flows though land x".
To me, the more shocking claim is that humans appropriate directly or indirectly 40% of the NPP of world as a whole. That's a hell of a lot of caloric consumption by any standard.
No no no no no no, that's not what the article says at all!
The point of the article is that in order to do Human Rights work, the all partions of your data collection and processing must be transparent and above reproach. Free Software facilitates this by letting all parties examine the code behind the data presented so that bias and obfuscation are minimized. Basically, the subject of the article wants to be able to show people human rights statistics and data without having to resort to expensive software where what's "going on under the hood" is not apparent to all. That's all. There's nothing about how Free Software is a basic human right. It's just a tool used by some of those who seek to protect and defend human rights, a means to an end.
Excuse me if this may seem like an extradinarily ignorant question, but wouldn't an agency that has as much power as the FCC be better served with a voting panel with an odd number off members?
This is more along the lines of cleanup or bioremediation, where organic methods of agglutinating very disperse amounts of something dangerous (heavy metals, arsenic, etc. in the soil/aquifer/etc.) into larger, more manageable clumps without disposing of the substrate wholesale. The article mentions things like cleaning up oil spills with bacteria and removing toxic metals from soil. This isn't a technique to remove large, concentrated deposits of metals from the ground, it's actually much the opposite: it removes scattered, relatively small amounts from the environment in a way that facilitates their safe(r) disposal.
Later mathematical analyses revealed that the accuracy of the robot movements was roughly proportional to the number of neurons recorded, but this linear relation began to taper off as the number increased. By sampling 100 neurons we could create robot hand trajectories that were about 70 percent similar to those the monkeys produced. Further analysis estimated that to achieve 95 percent accuracy in the prediction of one-dimensional hand movements, as few as 500 to 700 neurons would suffice, depending on which brain regions we sampled. We are now calculating the number of neurons that would be needed for highly accurate three-dimensional movements. We suspect the total will again be in the hundreds, not thousands.
This part amazes me above all the other facts in the article: 100 neurons was all it took to get ~70% similarity in action. That seems (at least to me) to be an incredibly small number and says a great deal about signal redundancy in the human brain. Cool.
As long as it's better* than msn, excite, yahoo or the like, yes.
*bett er - adj Does not have insanely annoying banner ads everywhere, nor advertisements disguised as headlines, or random flash popups or interstitial ads.
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Well, can the police read, say, my notebook, kept in my backpack in the car? Can they look at my wallet full of business cards and contacts? What if these papers and information are protected by attorney or medical privilege? What if these are my (HIPAA-protected) health records? These seem to be the closest analogues to what's on my iPhone, apart from the actual phone itself.
BioBricks? But 'Plasmid' and 'tonic' have such nicer rings to them...
In retrospect, Sanar thinks he can trace his problem to a search marketing consultant he had paid $35,000 to improve Skyfacet's Google rankings. He now believes the consultant mistakenly replicated content on many of the site's pages, making them look like duplicate--that is, spam--content. But even after he reversed the consultant's changes, he couldn't get Skyfacet's pages out of Google Hell, where they remain today.
Mistakenly? Really? Are you sure? I thought that was the SOP for search-engine gaming-- the amateurish ones that don't charge 35k for a net change of -$500k overall-- but still standard, ham-handed SEO nonetheless.
Wow. An announcement that there will be an announcement next year about a game that likely will not come out for a while after that, barring no (ahem) delays. Anything to get hits on a blog/AdSense clicks, right?
In the criminal justice system, arboreal trespassing offenses are considered especially heinous. In the West Midlands, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Halesowen police. These are their stories.
"Introducing the superfast, blogging, podcasting, breakfast-cooking, do-everything-out-of-the-box MacBook."
By the way, yes, I am a Mac user.
Nice keyboard. Now if there was only something to plug it into, say a gaming console...
Part of me wishes Sony had not withdrawn their software voluntarily and had put up a legal fight, such that the courts could have struck down parts of the law as unconstitutional and or invalid. An appeal to the US Copyright office has less legal weight and force of precedence, IMO.
There are less costly, less limiting, non-preferential policy options to achieve the same goals.
However, Microsoft is as unsure as you what these options are; they certainly aren't their products.
No doubt many of these awards are symbolic awards for the efforts in creating the entire trilogy, not just RotK. I have my doubts if the third LotR movie was that good, especially given some of the films it was up against, but the trilogy as a whole merits siginificant recognition and I think that was given tonight.
"Most of the illegal-exploit spammers use hash busters and any other trick they can to get past filters, refusing to accept that people use spam filters because they really don't want spam," Linford added.
I really understand this part: going after people who are taking active measures against your enterprise due to their disinterest. Why bother to market to them at all? Is the rate of return worth all the ill will, DOS attacks and legislation?
How about
btdownloadcurses --max_upload_rate ($something more reasonable)?
Does this mean that smuggling OncoMice across the border to Canadian medical researchers will become the new Hot Item on the black market?
The project will begin with M. genitalium, a minuscule organism that lives in the genital tracts of people and may cause or contribute to some cases of urethritis, an inflammation of the urethra. The scientists will remove all genetic material from the organism, then synthesize an artificial string of genetic material, resembling a naturally occurring chromosome, that they hope will contain the minimum number of M. genitalium genes needed to sustain life. The artificial chromosome will be inserted into the hollowed-out cell, which will then be tested for its ability to survive and reproduce.
They're taking an already extant organism, "hollowing it out" as it were, and seeing if it can live and reproduce normally with a series of increasingly customized (and minimal) genetic material. Not creating something from nothing.
"The new information enabled me to add to some rudimentary precautions I'd taken previously based on earlier information," said Gary Flynn, a security engineer at James Madison University. "But, of course, it also made it easier for others to take advantage of the situation."
That's very nice for the well informed, but unfortunately,
{people who take rudimentary precautions} is tons smaller than {people who have no idea, and who might get hacked}
I don't see how having the code broadcast to the entire world so that people could make very basic (but non-default) IE settings changes was worth the trade-off of having all the people who don't know enough to take these precautions (read everybody who doesn't follow bug or exploit lists) potentially get hacked.
His colleague Dr. Jackiw compared modern physics to modern art: "One person looks at a piece of art and says it is gibberish; another person looks and says it's wonderful."
:-))
Unfortunately, modern art isn't ultimately graded on if it's falsifiable or not, whereas physics is. Thus, the debate of good/bad art can rage forever without settlement, and that's fine; however, sooner or later, many scientific theories are demonstrated to be false (excepting those which aren't, of course.
With five different fan models from four different manufacturers, there is no real way of comparing one to another, although I can definitely give my opinion on certain features or aspects. For instance, I found the LEDs on the Antec Blue and TriLight fans to be much brighter and colorful than the LEDs found on the Cooler Master Blue LED fan
The fact that the first comment the authors make in their summary regarding the various merits of the fans deals not with performance or cost, but rather completely superfluous colored lights says something about this review in general.
This sort of thing makes for great corporate performance art, but honestly... does it make the average person want to choose them as their ISP? If not, then they might as well make origami out of their money and set it on fire.
I applaud this guy for standing up to eBay; while this is one of the least of their offenses (their staggering disregard to fraud their foremost), it's good to find somebody who will at least muster up some popular sentiment against being treated impersonally.
That being said, he could have saved himself a lot of trouble by just not using the term CD-R. It's clear that the terminology is where eBay's mental scripts are breaking, and not just in one person at thier end, and so rather than make eBay overhaul their (admittedly overly simplistic) mental algorithms (yes, I know that he said he had copyright, but their rules probably had lots of "Cover The Company's And Your Own Ass" built into them), it would've made sense to said "New Indie CD on sale" and make no mention that one side of the CD happens to be blue.
CNN is reporting on a Wildlife Conservation Society report that states that humans take up 83 percent of the Earth's land surface
This is not a good summary of what the rWCN report states. 83% of the earth's surface is "directly influenced by human agency" (their words). This does not mean humans occupy or farm in 83%; this measure could be anything as simple as "takes water from an aquifer that flows though land x".
To me, the more shocking claim is that humans appropriate directly or indirectly 40% of the NPP of world as a whole. That's a hell of a lot of caloric consumption by any standard.
No no no no no no, that's not what the article says at all!
The point of the article is that in order to do Human Rights work, the all partions of your data collection and processing must be transparent and above reproach. Free Software facilitates this by letting all parties examine the code behind the data presented so that bias and obfuscation are minimized. Basically, the subject of the article wants to be able to show people human rights statistics and data without having to resort to expensive software where what's "going on under the hood" is not apparent to all. That's all. There's nothing about how Free Software is a basic human right. It's just a tool used by some of those who seek to protect and defend human rights, a means to an end.
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Excuse me if this may seem like an extradinarily ignorant question, but wouldn't an agency that has as much power as the FCC be better served with a voting panel with an odd number off members?
This is more along the lines of cleanup or bioremediation, where organic methods of agglutinating very disperse amounts of something dangerous (heavy metals, arsenic, etc. in the soil/aquifer/etc.) into larger, more manageable clumps without disposing of the substrate wholesale. The article mentions things like cleaning up oil spills with bacteria and removing toxic metals from soil. This isn't a technique to remove large, concentrated deposits of metals from the ground, it's actually much the opposite: it removes scattered, relatively small amounts from the environment in a way that facilitates their safe(r) disposal.
Later mathematical analyses revealed that the accuracy of the robot movements was roughly proportional to the number of neurons recorded, but this linear relation began to taper off as the number increased. By sampling 100 neurons we could create robot hand trajectories that were about 70 percent similar to those the monkeys produced. Further analysis estimated that to achieve 95 percent accuracy in the prediction of one-dimensional hand movements, as few as 500 to 700 neurons would suffice, depending on which brain regions we sampled. We are now calculating the number of neurons that would be needed for highly accurate three-dimensional movements. We suspect the total will again be in the hundreds, not thousands.
This part amazes me above all the other facts in the article: 100 neurons was all it took to get ~70% similarity in action. That seems (at least to me) to be an incredibly small number and says a great deal about signal redundancy in the human brain. Cool.
As long as it's better* than msn, excite, yahoo or the like, yes.
*bett er - adj Does not have insanely annoying banner ads everywhere, nor advertisements disguised as headlines, or random flash popups or interstitial ads.