Insurances are ready to accept global warming as it will help them adjusting their prices, but that does not mean they will do anything to prevent it, nor even to get it accepted by everyone.
The service is available for very few governments: US, Japan, Korea. I wonder if they talked with others local or national governments before launching the service. There is something rude to tell citizen of a given nation that US officials can send them an alert, but not their own government for which they voted..
Scientist discovers the explanation for a piece of a phenomenon.
Journalist makes up a news stating it will lead to a cure for cancer/autism/flu/aging/diabetes/whatever
If you read a bunch of scientific news titles, you could wonder why we are not immortals yet. It would be nice if scientific journalists could stop writing their headlines with the idea that readers are stupids
The idea to add another cable through Hawaii is not obvious. In order to improve path redundancy, going to south america would be a better idea. And at least Brazil could be interested
Several years ago, my doctor diagnosed my constant stomachaches and vomiting as being caused by a certain type of bacteria which had colonized my stomach
Helicobacter pylori? It manages to prevent your stomach from producing acidity, making the place nice for him. Unfortunately that impairs your digestion a lot, favoring allergies (because of proteins that pass through intact), and other pathogen proliferation in the gut (because they are not killed in stomach).
TFA describes gut proliferation of a yeast called saccharomyces cervisae, which indeed produces ethanol. This is fairly uncommon compared to gut proliferation of other yeasts called candida.
I am not sure I understand this story: why US has its word to say about who is connecting Australia and New Zaeland? Aren't theses territories sovereign nations?
Normal people indeed need a break after some time working, otherwise they are not productive anymore. There is nothing to do against that, and forcing people overtime will just prevent them from recovering and doing good job again.
But if the team has both morning people and night people, they can get efficiency by relaying. One gets to bed too tried to solve a problem, an another one come up fresh and picks it. When the first person wakes up, the problem is solved.
That can even work with everyone having a standard schedule, if the team is scattered among the globe. This is what happens in many free software projects.
Right, American people cannot afford the cloud because their residential internet is to weak, and non American people with good internet connectivity should reject it because of NSA spying.
There is some irony here in how free market and government intervention can enter a synergy here.
Next step is to collect dream information, leaving the door open to advertising for the subconscious: you do not know you want to buy this product, but we know it is your dream!
That is clever move from the fracking industry: now if you are a fracking opponent, you are against ecology. I guess it will be impossible to debate about the reliability and profitability of the process.
As government gets larger and larger, it needs more and more money to sustain itself.
Perhaps your government's only goal is to sustain itself, but mine provides me services in education, healthcare, transports, and so on. It needs money to do that
No, the reason why this isn't being fixed is that a significant number of voters vote for politicians that run on a platform that includes deregulation and freeing the market of even modest restraints on bad behavior.
US federal elections are skewed in favor of a bipartisan system. And when people have to choose between only two candidates, they have no ability to weight on most topics. If the two big parties agree on deregulation, you have no opportunity to cast your vote on it. Sick democracy.
In this modern day do patents promote innovation, or simply protect firms from competition?
Asking the question is giving the answer. Wealthy firms had enough lawyers to kink the law by landmark rulings. The fact that the People cannot get this fixed by the legislator after decades is a hint that democracy is sick
I would like to be the devil's advocate. In TFA, the IP cop says
Intellectual property crime is already costing our economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year and placing thousands of jobs under threat, and left unchecked and free to feed on new technology could destroy some of our most creative and productive industries
Violating IP is now a crime instead of an offense in the UK? I note that we always consider the lost money stream and jobs at companies holding IP, but not at the actors that violate it. After all the two men selling counterfeit DVD created two jobs (their own), and generated revenue. Of course that revenue cannot be taxed, but the IP holder is big enought that I assume it used some fiscal tricks to avoid paying taxes too. In the end we talks about a law that guard revenue for big players, locking any other actor out for decades, and I wonder whether it is economically efficient. Even if it is, I wonder if it benefices the general interest, which is the reason why we make laws, and the only point that makes them legitimate.
The argument that IP holders could be innovative is weird, as IP holders seems very resistant to any technological change (except perhaps in the porn industry).
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot's title is deceptive: that is not a real malware but a PoC created by the researchers. They just fight their own creation.
Do they need rare elements? TFA does not say a word about it, and it is important: if the answer is yes, then it is not economically viable.
The journalist could not say their finding will cure cancer or obesity in several decades, therefore they sold it as a potential path to lightsabers!
We would probably not accept such bold tactics from politicians, why do we accept it from scientific journalists?
Insurances are ready to accept global warming as it will help them adjusting their prices, but that does not mean they will do anything to prevent it, nor even to get it accepted by everyone.
The service is available for very few governments: US, Japan, Korea. I wonder if they talked with others local or national governments before launching the service. There is something rude to tell citizen of a given nation that US officials can send them an alert, but not their own government for which they voted..
Drupal is better than you think, becasue the other offers in this world do suuuck even more.
That may cease to be true the day you need to upgrade your Drupal.
Scientist discovers the explanation for a piece of a phenomenon.
Journalist makes up a news stating it will lead to a cure for cancer/autism/flu/aging/diabetes/whatever
If you read a bunch of scientific news titles, you could wonder why we are not immortals yet. It would be nice if scientific journalists could stop writing their headlines with the idea that readers are stupids
Tell me how would you implement [DNSSEC Validator] without either arbitrary network access or calling out to the OS
It could be done at the level of the OS' DNS resolver, for the good of all applications, including browsers.
You deserve mod points;
The submarine cable map is insightful.
The idea to add another cable through Hawaii is not obvious. In order to improve path redundancy, going to south america would be a better idea. And at least Brazil could be interested
Several years ago, my doctor diagnosed my constant stomachaches and vomiting as being caused by a certain type of bacteria which had colonized my stomach
Helicobacter pylori? It manages to prevent your stomach from producing acidity, making the place nice for him. Unfortunately that impairs your digestion a lot, favoring allergies (because of proteins that pass through intact), and other pathogen proliferation in the gut (because they are not killed in stomach).
TFA describes gut proliferation of a yeast called saccharomyces cervisae, which indeed produces ethanol. This is fairly uncommon compared to gut proliferation of other yeasts called candida.
I am not sure I understand this story: why US has its word to say about who is connecting Australia and New Zaeland? Aren't theses territories sovereign nations?
Normal people indeed need a break after some time working, otherwise they are not productive anymore. There is nothing to do against that, and forcing people overtime will just prevent them from recovering and doing good job again.
But if the team has both morning people and night people, they can get efficiency by relaying. One gets to bed too tried to solve a problem, an another one come up fresh and picks it. When the first person wakes up, the problem is solved.
That can even work with everyone having a standard schedule, if the team is scattered among the globe. This is what happens in many free software projects.
Install Firefox. And if Firefox adopts it, patch and rebuild it.
Right, American people cannot afford the cloud because their residential internet is to weak, and non American people with good internet connectivity should reject it because of NSA spying.
There is some irony here in how free market and government intervention can enter a synergy here.
Next step is to collect dream information, leaving the door open to advertising for the subconscious: you do not know you want to buy this product, but we know it is your dream!
That is clever move from the fracking industry: now if you are a fracking opponent, you are against ecology. I guess it will be impossible to debate about the reliability and profitability of the process.
TFA quotes:
This is not a reform — this is a liquidation of science in Russia
Wasn't that supposed to have been done during the Boris Yeltsin era?
As government gets larger and larger, it needs more and more money to sustain itself.
Perhaps your government's only goal is to sustain itself, but mine provides me services in education, healthcare, transports, and so on. It needs money to do that
This has nothing to do with government spying: everything monitored here is already in public view.
France produce more wine that it consumes, therefore a soaring price will benefit the local economy.
No, the reason why this isn't being fixed is that a significant number of voters vote for politicians that run on a platform that includes deregulation and freeing the market of even modest restraints on bad behavior.
US federal elections are skewed in favor of a bipartisan system. And when people have to choose between only two candidates, they have no ability to weight on most topics. If the two big parties agree on deregulation, you have no opportunity to cast your vote on it. Sick democracy.
In this modern day do patents promote innovation, or simply protect firms from competition?
Asking the question is giving the answer. Wealthy firms had enough lawyers to kink the law by landmark rulings. The fact that the People cannot get this fixed by the legislator after decades is a hint that democracy is sick
I would like to be the devil's advocate. In TFA, the IP cop says
Intellectual property crime is already costing our economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year and placing thousands of jobs under threat, and left unchecked and free to feed on new technology could destroy some of our most creative and productive industries
Violating IP is now a crime instead of an offense in the UK? I note that we always consider the lost money stream and jobs at companies holding IP, but not at the actors that violate it. After all the two men selling counterfeit DVD created two jobs (their own), and generated revenue. Of course that revenue cannot be taxed, but the IP holder is big enought that I assume it used some fiscal tricks to avoid paying taxes too. In the end we talks about a law that guard revenue for big players, locking any other actor out for decades, and I wonder whether it is economically efficient. Even if it is, I wonder if it benefices the general interest, which is the reason why we make laws, and the only point that makes them legitimate.
The argument that IP holders could be innovative is weird, as IP holders seems very resistant to any technological change (except perhaps in the porn industry).