Some physicians have been successfully treating patients for C. difficile with ground-up, filtered fecal material inserted into the stomach with a tube, not via an enema
It is surprising they did not insert the bacteria through the other side: stomach is a harsh place for bacteria
And the flag is passed to an API? (libX11 level? higher?), or it lives within the X11 protocol? Or both? I understand the background, I was just saying it was weird to use a flag name as being #define'ed in source code without the context required for it to make any sense.
It is a bit unusual to craft a news entry with deeply technical stuff taken from project mailing lists. What is _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN_EXCLUSIVE? A flag in some protocol?
GlusterFS is the most interesting piece of software here. It features elastic distributed and replicated storage, with full POSIX semantics (including locks), and no single point of failure (SPOF). An interesting point: it is coded in C, without nasty external dependencies (I mean that is no java bloatware)
This is very nice, but one question remains: that kind of software will give us cheap massive storage. How will be backup the data?
The newer APs were designed to handle cluttered environments, and their more-advanced algorithms provide improved performance over the previous generations' products.
Yes, this is the key point: how the AP decide to switch from a modulation to another? worsened RF dignal/noise can undercover design flaws in that area.
Printing a trillion dollars right now won't magically generate a trillion dollars in wealth (e.g. physical goods) - rather it will make everybody who currently holds USD collectively one trillion dollars poorer
But at the same time it makes people that have debts less poor, since the value of their debt lowers. Printing money is a linear tax on capital.
NetBSD 5.1 is dedicated to the memory of Martti Kuparinen, who was the victim of a traffic accident in June 2010.
Martti's technical contributions are too many to list here in full. He created and maintained numerous packages in pkgsrc, updated two packet filter solutions distributed with NetBSD and improved several hardware drivers. Beyond that, he was always helpful and friendly. His example encouraged users to contribute to the project and share their work with the community. Some of these users later became NetBSD developers themselves thanks to Martti's efforts.
That treaty says that patent application in a given state is not restricted to nationals: foreigners can file patents and enjoy the same protection as nationals. It does not create international patents: the inventor has to file patents in each state it wants to enjoy IP protection. And patent filing is still subject to local law of each state, which may forbid software patents, for instance.
The problem isn't government borrowing today, it's government borrowing yesterday. Today, the government should be borrowing on a massive scale to stimulate growth.
Indeed. In depression, the most actors are bound to procyclal behaviors: businesses and workers make less money, they spend less money. The only actor that can have a countercyclal action is the state: despite that depression is cutting its revenues, it can still borrow to spend more and restart the economy.
US situation may be bad, but it is nothing like the madness that is occurring in UE. Here most member states (all except UK and Czech Republic) are signing a treaty that is forbidding states from borrowing money (deficit shall be less that 0.5% of GDP). UE member states are about to carve recession in the stone.
The oddity is that there is no international treaties about patents. They are only backed by national laws. The ITU will not be able to talk about what is patentable, for instance.
Elementary school in France in 1985: there was a national effort called plan informatique pour tous (computer science for all plan). Children had access to computers one afternoon per week and learned procedural programming in Logo. On the contrary, computers were completely absent from high school afterwards.
They are about to get a null labor cost, and of course they will still try to avoid paying taxes. If we follow that path, nobody will be able to purchase the produced goods, which means the market will disappear. Will capitalism collapse because of its own victory over workers?
UE does not have a problem with germans, but with Germany right wing government and its obsessions. However I have trouble to understand why François Holland accepts that treaty. We even have a precedent, as United Kindown and Czech Republic refused to sign it.
yeh, the French know that sacking the public sector in times of crisis does not help the economy; quite the reverse in fact. M. Hollande is old school ENA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration) which turns out highly-educated senior French bureaucrats and politicians, who, whatever else they may be, are not daft.
Not Daft? They why is he pursuing austerity, a policy which has always led to economic depression and increased debt? It is nice he restrained to blow education, but then why blowing everything else?
I am sometime surrounded by people all hooked to their smartphones. This gives me a strange feeling that they have lost some humanity. They are not there anymore, they are just ghosts.
All nations that engage in trade agree to rules (e.g., via the WTO) to ensure no one abuses the
system(...) But their governments have decided that the benefits outweigh the costs.
This is exactly where democracy dies. Few governments asked their people about their opinion about entering WTO. Choosing to enter means a huge political choice, which is free trade and globalization.
The citizens of the member states of the EU are free to elect parliaments that will withdraw their country from the EU, but they don't because the benefits outweigh the costs.
Do not take that for granted forever. UE is heading in such a stupid way that time will come where some state will have to break the rules. Not sure no one will even bother leaving. They will just cease obey some UE rules
prosperous Europe of the late 20th Century couldn't have happened with the EU.
Tell that to the italians and the spanish. UE is no more a solution, UE is our worst problem now.
(...) it is hardly "wrecking sovereignty," particularly in the Netherlands which has benefited tremendously from environmental laws that regulate upstream pollution
I agree UE enforced environmental laws, which is good. But you did not made a point on people sovereignty, here. The UE building process is destroying people sovereignty that exist in member states without ever recreating it at the UE level, and the goal is to enforce some policies. Some like environmental rules sounds good to me. Others, like neoliberalism, do not. The problem is that citizen cannot have their words on theses policies anymore
but modern Europe simply wouldn't be possible without a governing body like the EU
There are modern european countries that are not part of the UE: Norway, Switzerland, Iceland. Their existence is not threatened by this situation. The UE is not the only way to organize collaboration between states.
I can't speak for The Netherlands, but in the United States, there are certain things that "International Law" cannot do in the United States.
As a basic rule (there are no doubt exceptions), if Congress can't do it by law, the President and the Senate can't do it by treaty.
Unfortunately for us UE citizen, we completely wrecked people sovereignty when building UE. Many key policies are in the hands of the UE commission or the UE council, without much control left on what they do.
Religion about faith, not rational thinking, therefore it is impossible to define blasphemy in an objective way. Faith of some are the blasphemy of others.
It is possible to define blasphemy against some major religion(s) in a given country, but a global blasphemy law seems unlikely to happen.
The pirate parties from various countries tend to be sectoral parties: they propose a lot of interesting stuff on some subject, but lack a global platform covering everything. Social or economic subjects may not be clearly included in their platform, for instance. It will be interesting how this pirate major will cope with matters that do not make consensus among pirates
Note that the term sectoral is not negative in my point of view. The goal of a sectoral party is to influence other parties so that their ideas get adopted in global platforms. Good example are greed parties: some of them could not decide for some time if they were left wing or right wing, but that did not prevent their green ideas spread far beyond their own ranks
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Some physicians have been successfully treating patients for C. difficile with ground-up, filtered fecal material inserted into the stomach with a tube, not via an enema
It is surprising they did not insert the bacteria through the other side: stomach is a harsh place for bacteria
And the flag is passed to an API? (libX11 level? higher?), or it lives within the X11 protocol? Or both? I understand the background, I was just saying it was weird to use a flag name as being #define'ed in source code without the context required for it to make any sense.
It is a bit unusual to craft a news entry with deeply technical stuff taken from project mailing lists. What is _NET_WM_STATE_FULLSCREEN_EXCLUSIVE? A flag in some protocol?
GlusterFS is the most interesting piece of software here. It features elastic distributed and replicated storage, with full POSIX semantics (including locks), and no single point of failure (SPOF). An interesting point: it is coded in C, without nasty external dependencies (I mean that is no java bloatware)
This is very nice, but one question remains: that kind of software will give us cheap massive storage. How will be backup the data?
The newer APs were designed to handle cluttered environments, and their more-advanced algorithms provide improved performance over the previous generations' products.
Yes, this is the key point: how the AP decide to switch from a modulation to another? worsened RF dignal/noise can undercover design flaws in that area.
"The network itself has had its share of problems, with people dying as a result." : This happens everywhere.
At least here in France, rail accidents are extremely rare events. A quick search at wikipedia suggests that this is no exception
Printing a trillion dollars right now won't magically generate a trillion dollars in wealth (e.g. physical goods) - rather it will make everybody who currently holds USD collectively one trillion dollars poorer
But at the same time it makes people that have debts less poor, since the value of their debt lowers. Printing money is a linear tax on capital.
It is odd to see a legislator threatening the FTC so that it does not do what the legislator asked it to do.
The laws must be the same for everyone. It cannot be bad just for Google and remain as is for the others.
There are precedents. For instance NetBSD has dedicated releases to its deceased developers a few times.
From NetBSD-5.1 releases notes
NetBSD 5.1 is dedicated to the memory of Martti Kuparinen, who was the victim of a traffic accident in June 2010. Martti's technical contributions are too many to list here in full. He created and maintained numerous packages in pkgsrc, updated two packet filter solutions distributed with NetBSD and improved several hardware drivers. Beyond that, he was always helpful and friendly. His example encouraged users to contribute to the project and share their work with the community. Some of these users later became NetBSD developers themselves thanks to Martti's efforts.
That treaty says that patent application in a given state is not restricted to nationals: foreigners can file patents and enjoy the same protection as nationals. It does not create international patents: the inventor has to file patents in each state it wants to enjoy IP protection. And patent filing is still subject to local law of each state, which may forbid software patents, for instance.
The problem isn't government borrowing today, it's government borrowing yesterday. Today, the government should be borrowing on a massive scale to stimulate growth.
Indeed. In depression, the most actors are bound to procyclal behaviors: businesses and workers make less money, they spend less money. The only actor that can have a countercyclal action is the state: despite that depression is cutting its revenues, it can still borrow to spend more and restart the economy.
US situation may be bad, but it is nothing like the madness that is occurring in UE. Here most member states (all except UK and Czech Republic) are signing a treaty that is forbidding states from borrowing money (deficit shall be less that 0.5% of GDP). UE member states are about to carve recession in the stone.
The oddity is that there is no international treaties about patents. They are only backed by national laws. The ITU will not be able to talk about what is patentable, for instance.
Elementary school in France in 1985: there was a national effort called plan informatique pour tous (computer science for all plan). Children had access to computers one afternoon per week and learned procedural programming in Logo. On the contrary, computers were completely absent from high school afterwards.
They are about to get a null labor cost, and of course they will still try to avoid paying taxes. If we follow that path, nobody will be able to purchase the produced goods, which means the market will disappear. Will capitalism collapse because of its own victory over workers?
Uh, because of the fucking Germans.
UE does not have a problem with germans, but with Germany right wing government and its obsessions. However I have trouble to understand why François Holland accepts that treaty. We even have a precedent, as United Kindown and Czech Republic refused to sign it.
yeh, the French know that sacking the public sector in times of crisis does not help the economy; quite the reverse in fact. M. Hollande is old school ENA (Ecole Nationale d'Administration) which turns out highly-educated senior French bureaucrats and politicians, who, whatever else they may be, are not daft.
Not Daft? They why is he pursuing austerity, a policy which has always led to economic depression and increased debt? It is nice he restrained to blow education, but then why blowing everything else?
I am sometime surrounded by people all hooked to their smartphones. This gives me a strange feeling that they have lost some humanity. They are not there anymore, they are just ghosts.
No Linux distribution: I am using NetBSD, you insensitive clod!
All nations that engage in trade agree to rules (e.g., via the WTO) to ensure no one abuses the system(...) But their governments have decided that the benefits outweigh the costs.
This is exactly where democracy dies. Few governments asked their people about their opinion about entering WTO. Choosing to enter means a huge political choice, which is free trade and globalization.
The citizens of the member states of the EU are free to elect parliaments that will withdraw their country from the EU, but they don't because the benefits outweigh the costs.
Do not take that for granted forever. UE is heading in such a stupid way that time will come where some state will have to break the rules. Not sure no one will even bother leaving. They will just cease obey some UE rules
prosperous Europe of the late 20th Century couldn't have happened with the EU.
Tell that to the italians and the spanish. UE is no more a solution, UE is our worst problem now.
(...) it is hardly "wrecking sovereignty," particularly in the Netherlands which has benefited tremendously from environmental laws that regulate upstream pollution
I agree UE enforced environmental laws, which is good. But you did not made a point on people sovereignty, here. The UE building process is destroying people sovereignty that exist in member states without ever recreating it at the UE level, and the goal is to enforce some policies. Some like environmental rules sounds good to me. Others, like neoliberalism, do not. The problem is that citizen cannot have their words on theses policies anymore
but modern Europe simply wouldn't be possible without a governing body like the EU
There are modern european countries that are not part of the UE: Norway, Switzerland, Iceland. Their existence is not threatened by this situation. The UE is not the only way to organize collaboration between states.
I can't speak for The Netherlands, but in the United States, there are certain things that "International Law" cannot do in the United States.
As a basic rule (there are no doubt exceptions), if Congress can't do it by law, the President and the Senate can't do it by treaty.
Unfortunately for us UE citizen, we completely wrecked people sovereignty when building UE. Many key policies are in the hands of the UE commission or the UE council, without much control left on what they do.
Religion about faith, not rational thinking, therefore it is impossible to define blasphemy in an objective way. Faith of some are the blasphemy of others.
It is possible to define blasphemy against some major religion(s) in a given country, but a global blasphemy law seems unlikely to happen.
I meant "green", but this is an interesting lapse :-)
What's the fastest service actually available where you live, and what does it cost?
Universities pipes are not cheap for the university itself, but they are fat
The pirate parties from various countries tend to be sectoral parties: they propose a lot of interesting stuff on some subject, but lack a global platform covering everything. Social or economic subjects may not be clearly included in their platform, for instance. It will be interesting how this pirate major will cope with matters that do not make consensus among pirates
Note that the term sectoral is not negative in my point of view. The goal of a sectoral party is to influence other parties so that their ideas get adopted in global platforms. Good example are greed parties: some of them could not decide for some time if they were left wing or right wing, but that did not prevent their green ideas spread far beyond their own ranks