He said that you can have them regenerate, so in theory they should last forever. If you can keep making more from the ones you already have. And if that's the case, why does only having what they currently have an issue?
I'm totally talking out of my ass here, since I have no idea, but i'd venture to say that these cells may be prone to the same problems with genetic degradation that affected clones, after so many generations of the same line of DNA, you get bit-rot (basically).
Now, I don't know if this is an issue or not, or if anyone even knows if it will be yet. Someone more biologically oriented may be able to expand on this for me. I'm silicon based personally.
Has anyone thought to use something like distributed.net as a huge chess computer? I'd bet it would be several times more powerful than deep blue, even without chess ASICs.
Compared to what? I mean it's a lot harder to decode transmitted digital data, than to get root on many computers used in a business environment, or at home for that matter.
I'm not looking forward to my eventual lowering of salary due to there being more and more techies available
Ah, supply and demand. This is all natural and necessary of course though. We were in a period of rapid and unfounded growth in many areas, such as Metricom's attempt at building an infrastructure that not enough people really wanted or needed.
In all, to 95% of the people out there, the Internet is just a suppliment, like a glorified fax machine. Sure the potential is there, but the only killer app I have seen so far (from a business standpoint) is really email.
I think if metricom had started like most businesses, real business, and started small, in limited market(s), then reinvested those profits, and grown slowly, we might not be seeing them falling on their face right now. A lot of this venture capital feeding frenzy created this idea "if you build it, they will come", and that is rarely true.
So a message to all of the people out there that have to fend in this new-new economy, start small, work the bugs out, and don't try to do everything at once.
I think it's an intelligence thing. One needs to know when to design something ad hoc and when to design a whole new theoritical model.
Now, name one extremely intelligent person you know that has the social skills (read: manipulation via speech skills) to get into policial office. I can't think of one.
2. As far as windows being sucky being a form of job security: yes, but what you can do with Linux will amaze people. My boss and I are constantly amazed about what we can pull off replacing costly licenses with free stuff, that does the job better too. -
Re:GIMP can't replace PS until CMYK patents expireM
Sure, it might work "as good" on your screen (your screen can't show CMYK correctly anyway), but when you are going to be printing things on a press, you need to have support for real Pantone colors. Adobe continues to have a monopoly in this area. -
Homemade Tivo - ATI's latest offerings have me considering this myself.
Might want to be prepared for some hassle here, I got an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon, and the TV-on-demand is flaky at best. I havn't had much time to play with it, but it seems to be some sort of codec problem. (i.e. fixable in software) -
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I saw an article like on 20/20
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry. That's +5 Funny.
I don't doubt that some kid was accumulating some small amounts radioactive stuff, and they sent in the EPA to clean it all up, but this kid was supposed to have been sending out "20 letters a day" to the director of the NRC, and engaging him in scientific discourse, even though he couldn't pass the High School writing tests to graduate.
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Yeah, you really shouldn't use acid drain cleaner unless you have PVC drainpipes. And a tip for the other readers, don't waste your money on acid drain cleaner, go to the hardware store and get a box of sulphuric acid for refilling batteries, its much much cheaper. (it comes in boxes in bladders like cheap wine now, go figure) -
This whole thing smells of hoax, or at least something that has been distorted through many retellings.
For one, he couldn't spell or write well enough to pass the tests to graduate high school (as stated early in the article), and yet he:
... posing as a physics teacher, David managed to engage the agency's director of isotope production and distribution, Donald Erb, in a scientific discussion by mail.
Its an electrical signal sent at a very high frequency. If it were a radio signal you wouldn't need a wire to get it!
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Anyone knows how long a physical mouse/keyboard extension cord could be?
Just a guess but,
It could be really long, if it weren't also powering the keyboard. I would think the DC resistance of the tiny wires would drop the voltage too much after a while. The data lines would probably also have to be twisted pair with proper grounding wires. Of course if you use external power for the keyboard then you have the problem of possibly mismatched grounds.
So, probably really long if you take some special measures, but probably not so long with cheap cables. -
Cellular phones aren't secure. Anyone with a piece of hardware can listen in on your conversations. I know some people with such devices.
Yes, that device is called an "FM receiver". Nothing special there. (Narrow band FM):)
PCS and spread spectrum help avoid such simple spying, but even those can be monitored, with more difficulty.
Monitor cables, yes, the corded kind, emitt signals that a TEMPEST scanner can reconstruct into an image of your monitor, like a remote wireless VNC termanal that is set to look only.
TEMPEST is the alleged military codename of an alleged standard that allegedly defines what you allegedly have to do to be secure from such alleged snooping, not the name of the spying equipment itself. (The government refuses to even acknowledge the existance of any of this. I don't want anyone to think I am someone with government security clearance or anything, this is just what I have heard.)
As to your subject, this doesn't mean that all wireless comms are insecure, it just means that all of them are able to be monitored. Encryption fills the role of providing security. -
Ugh, does amazon use some standard template for reviews?
"The storm was coming... For the three years Name spent in Place, he kept his head down and did his time. All he wanted was Object of desire, and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his Release, departure, turning point, his Object of desire becomes unattianable, and his world became a colder place. On the plane home to central locale of story, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Name, a self-declared grifter and rogue, who offers Name a job. And Name, a man with nothing to lose, accepts. But working for Name is not without its price, and Name soon learns that his role in Name's schemes will be far more dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets and age-old mysteries, Shadow encounters, among others, the murderous Bad Guy Name, the impish Mr. Gay Name, and the beautiful Female Name--all of whom seem to know more about Name than he himself knows. Name will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his Object of Desire, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined. A storm is coming, and Name and Name will soon be swept up into a brutal and epic conflict. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought--and the prize is the very soul of America. Name of book is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, Name of book is a work of literary magic that will haunt the reader far beyond the final page." -
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I'm totally talking out of my ass here, since I have no idea, but i'd venture to say that these cells may be prone to the same problems with genetic degradation that affected clones, after so many generations of the same line of DNA, you get bit-rot (basically).
Now, I don't know if this is an issue or not, or if anyone even knows if it will be yet. Someone more biologically oriented may be able to expand on this for me. I'm silicon based personally.
Has anyone thought to use something like distributed.net as a huge chess computer? I'd bet it would be several times more powerful than deep blue, even without chess ASICs.
Compared to what? I mean it's a lot harder to decode transmitted digital data, than to get root on many computers used in a business environment, or at home for that matter.
Ah, supply and demand. This is all natural and necessary of course though. We were in a period of rapid and unfounded growth in many areas, such as Metricom's attempt at building an infrastructure that not enough people really wanted or needed.
In all, to 95% of the people out there, the Internet is just a suppliment, like a glorified fax machine. Sure the potential is there, but the only killer app I have seen so far (from a business standpoint) is really email.
I think if metricom had started like most businesses, real business, and started small, in limited market(s), then reinvested those profits, and grown slowly, we might not be seeing them falling on their face right now. A lot of this venture capital feeding frenzy created this idea "if you build it, they will come", and that is rarely true.
So a message to all of the people out there that have to fend in this new-new economy, start small, work the bugs out, and don't try to do everything at once.
Yes?
Now, name one extremely intelligent person you know that has the social skills (read: manipulation via speech skills) to get into policial office. I can't think of one.
It also tries to set about 20 cookies. Really shitty site.
RedHat 7.1 ships with very few services on with the "workstation" install. Xinetd is not even part of the install AFAIK.
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1. Try Red Hat 7.1, it is much much better.
2. As far as windows being sucky being a form of job security: yes, but what you can do with Linux will amaze people. My boss and I are constantly amazed about what we can pull off replacing costly licenses with free stuff, that does the job better too.
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Sure, it might work "as good" on your screen (your screen can't show CMYK correctly anyway), but when you are going to be printing things on a press, you need to have support for real Pantone colors. Adobe continues to have a monopoly in this area.
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I think open source is great, and something the government should be using for non-confidential or lower classified systems.
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Yeah I find that when I start to feel wrist pain grabbing my balls and rolling them around always helps. :)
Couldn't resist, really. hehe
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Might want to be prepared for some hassle here, I got an ATI all-in-wonder Radeon, and the TV-on-demand is flaky at best. I havn't had much time to play with it, but it seems to be some sort of codec problem. (i.e. fixable in software)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry. That's +5 Funny.
I don't doubt that some kid was accumulating some small amounts radioactive stuff, and they sent in the EPA to clean it all up, but this kid was supposed to have been sending out "20 letters a day" to the director of the NRC, and engaging him in scientific discourse, even though he couldn't pass the High School writing tests to graduate.
Read the whole Harper's article to see how absurd it all is.
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He allegedly got the merit badge for drawing a picture of a reactor, read the story.
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Yeah, you really shouldn't use acid drain cleaner unless you have PVC drainpipes. And a tip for the other readers, don't waste your money on acid drain cleaner, go to the hardware store and get a box of sulphuric acid for refilling batteries, its much much cheaper. (it comes in boxes in bladders like cheap wine now, go figure)
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For one, he couldn't spell or write well enough to pass the tests to graduate high school (as stated early in the article), and yet he:
Uh, Yeah, Right.
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It's basically the same thing. An analog signal going down a wire is the same "stuff" a radio signal is made of, the goal is just to keep it in the wire rather than let it leak out. (or encourage it to leak out, with a resonant antenna)
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The FTC ruling can be appealed, any ruling of administrative agencies is subject to judicial review in the "real" court system.
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Just a guess but,
It could be really long, if it weren't also powering the keyboard. I would think the DC resistance of the tiny wires would drop the voltage too much after a while. The data lines would probably also have to be twisted pair with proper grounding wires. Of course if you use external power for the keyboard then you have the problem of possibly mismatched grounds.
So, probably really long if you take some special measures, but probably not so long with cheap cables.
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Yes, that device is called an "FM receiver". Nothing special there. (Narrow band FM) :)
PCS and spread spectrum help avoid such simple spying, but even those can be monitored, with more difficulty.
Monitor cables, yes, the corded kind, emitt signals that a TEMPEST scanner can reconstruct into an image of your monitor, like a remote wireless VNC termanal that is set to look only.
TEMPEST is the alleged military codename of an alleged standard that allegedly defines what you allegedly have to do to be secure from such alleged snooping, not the name of the spying equipment itself. (The government refuses to even acknowledge the existance of any of this. I don't want anyone to think I am someone with government security clearance or anything, this is just what I have heard.)
As to your subject, this doesn't mean that all wireless comms are insecure, it just means that all of them are able to be monitored. Encryption fills the role of providing security.
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You have Lexx, how can you complain? We only get it like 2 seasons later.
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That'll get em.
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"The storm was coming... For the three years Name spent in Place, he kept his head down and did his time. All he wanted was Object of desire, and to stay out of trouble for the rest of his life. But days before his Release, departure, turning point, his Object of desire becomes unattianable, and his world became a colder place. On the plane home to central locale of story, Shadow meets a grizzled man who calls himself Mr. Name, a self-declared grifter and rogue, who offers Name a job. And Name, a man with nothing to lose, accepts. But working for Name is not without its price, and Name soon learns that his role in Name's schemes will be far more dangerous than he could have ever imagined. Entangled in a world of secrets and age-old mysteries, Shadow encounters, among others, the murderous Bad Guy Name, the impish Mr. Gay Name, and the beautiful Female Name--all of whom seem to know more about Name than he himself knows. Name will learn that the past does not die, that everyone, including his Object of Desire, had secrets, and that the stakes are higher than anyone could have imagined. A storm is coming, and Name and Name will soon be swept up into a brutal and epic conflict. For beneath the placid surface of everyday life a war is being fought--and the prize is the very soul of America. Name of book is a dark and kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth and across an America at once eerily familiar and utterly alien. Magnificently told, Name of book is a work of literary magic that will haunt the reader far beyond the final page."
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Why are you karma whoring so much by posting each prediction under a different message like that?
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