Are the mice a good model for human radiation risk?
Radiation induce cancer, but that does not mean cancer will thrive. It needs to be promoted. Diet and environment contain promoters. I suspect the mice in the experiment were not fed with growth hormone treated beef, for instance. First-world humans tend to have a diet that highly promotes cancer, therefore their risk may be higher than the mice in the study.
You'd have to prove somehow that software is radically different than the rest of the industries.
Software are protected by copyright. Adding patent on the top of that does not give aditionnal protection to people who innovate, but it allows actors with deep pockets to expropriate them.
I agree for exercice, but for nutrition, there is no need to eat less. You can start eating better food. Less high glycemic index carbohydrates, no trans fats, more fruits and vegetables.
We have the same stuff on french DVD, thought not on all of them : I suspect they are not mandatory. However, there is a workaround. Selecting France's french gives me the lengthy antipiracy warning, but I skip it if I select Belgian french.
France is the only democracy I can think of that would flip off the US government, and that has the nuclear weapons to back it up.
Well, I suspect France is not the right place at this time. I suspect Sarkozy would do anything to please the US. But that may change tomorrow, as he is heading the way out.
A good example of a socialst nation is Cuba - The state owns all means of production. Cuba is failing
One could argue that Cuba is doing extremely well for a nation that has been under embargo for 50 years. The question becomes acute when you compare them to other caraibean countries that enjoy free market. I am not convinced Cuba's socialism flavour is a panacea, but I am not convinced either that it is the cause of their problems.
I wonder how the court managed to sidestep European Patent Convention, which Germany is signatory. Article 52 says:
(1) European patents shall be granted for any inventions, in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application.
(2) The following in particular shall not be regarded as inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1:
(...)
(c)
schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers [emphasis added];
Are they? There is a 1974 convention saying computer programs are not patented. This has been transposed in national laws of UE countries. Of course there is a lot of lobbying to change that, but it has not happened yet, AFAIK. EPO issues software patents, but they do not stand in courts for now.
Surviving sounds indeed like natural selection, but failing to find a mate to reproduce with? Isn't this more social than natural? Criterion for being an attractive mate change over time and place, they do not seem to be driven by natural pressure.
Wealth of all people is increased by a capitalist, who is underconsuming what he is overproducing and in he is using the savings that are underconsumed as investment to build more products and services..
Ok, this is the theory. How do you explain surproduction crisis, such as 1929?
I would have been interested to know the reasons why someone modded my above comment down. I think my point deserves better objections than being labelled as a troll. In my opinion, the European Union is not a democracy, and it ruins national democracy. Please explain my why I am wrong.
In the UE we are just discovering how harmful is mandatory free capital movement across states with different tax rates. What surprises me is that the USA managed to remain an union for so long with such a system.
the government sees you and your earnings as its own property. They are only asking themselves one question: how to maximise the government revenue, while the only question they should be allowed to ask is this: what is the bare minimum that gov't is allowed to do and how much should it cost.
And the answer is: it depends. capitalism helps rich people increasing their wealth, while the poor get poorer. Democracy is an antidote, since the many poor can force some wealth redistribution through taxes. And we should be glad this mechanism exists, since when the poor gets too poor to buy what is produced, the economy collapse.
Telling that taxes should be low is not a natural truth, it is a political opinion, and depending on the economical situation, following that route may be harmful for everyone
Friendly clue from Europe: (...)Fix it by changing the system. Not supporting it.
Yeah, and in Europe, we fixed the system by removing any power we can from elected national representants, and we transfered it to unelected bureaucrats in Brussel. What a smart move!
The article summary tells about "fiscal constraints", where "fiscal decisions" should be used. Remember the story about Warren Buffet tax percentage being inferior to its secretary one? This does not result from a natural law, but from political decisions.
We cannot have laws against sleeping, as it is a natural need. However we could improve safety by giving customers more information.
For instance, a law could force airlines company to tell customers how many hours a week the pilot worked, and how many flight he did in a row. That would help us avoiding pilots made dangerous by insane airline work policy.
We are going to need laws to punish manufacturers that just do not care about their security holes. While I am fully against making software writers responsible for bugs (nobody can program without introducing bugs), I think something should be done about vendor selling software well known for being insecure.
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Are the mice a good model for human radiation risk?
Radiation induce cancer, but that does not mean cancer will thrive. It needs to be promoted. Diet and environment contain promoters. I suspect the mice in the experiment were not fed with growth hormone treated beef, for instance. First-world humans tend to have a diet that highly promotes cancer, therefore their risk may be higher than the mice in the study.
You'd have to prove somehow that software is radically different than the rest of the industries.
Software are protected by copyright. Adding patent on the top of that does not give aditionnal protection to people who innovate, but it allows actors with deep pockets to expropriate them.
an internet where the rootservers are in international waters.
Mmmmh... An Internet ruled by somalian pirates :-)
Eat less and exercise more.
I agree for exercice, but for nutrition, there is no need to eat less. You can start eating better food. Less high glycemic index carbohydrates, no trans fats, more fruits and vegetables.
This poor practice is Microsoft fault: they used us to do it!
We have the same stuff on french DVD, thought not on all of them : I suspect they are not mandatory. However, there is a workaround. Selecting France's french gives me the lengthy antipiracy warning, but I skip it if I select Belgian french.
CEO101 would actually state "do not everget caught with pants on your knees". It seems Yahoo's CEO failed at that.
France is the only democracy I can think of that would flip off the US government, and that has the nuclear weapons to back it up.
Well, I suspect France is not the right place at this time. I suspect Sarkozy would do anything to please the US. But that may change tomorrow, as he is heading the way out.
A good example of a socialst nation is Cuba - The state owns all means of production. Cuba is failing
One could argue that Cuba is doing extremely well for a nation that has been under embargo for 50 years. The question becomes acute when you compare them to other caraibean countries that enjoy free market. I am not convinced Cuba's socialism flavour is a panacea, but I am not convinced either that it is the cause of their problems.
I wonder how the court managed to sidestep European Patent Convention, which Germany is signatory. Article 52 says:
just patentable in Germany!
Are they? There is a 1974 convention saying computer programs are not patented. This has been transposed in national laws of UE countries. Of course there is a lot of lobbying to change that, but it has not happened yet, AFAIK. EPO issues software patents, but they do not stand in courts for now.
Surviving sounds indeed like natural selection, but failing to find a mate to reproduce with? Isn't this more social than natural? Criterion for being an attractive mate change over time and place, they do not seem to be driven by natural pressure.
Wealth of all people is increased by a capitalist, who is underconsuming what he is overproducing and in he is using the savings that are underconsumed as investment to build more products and services..
Ok, this is the theory. How do you explain surproduction crisis, such as 1929?
"The poor" in the US is a small portion of the population, and economically insignificant
What is your definition of a "poor"?
I would have been interested to know the reasons why someone modded my above comment down. I think my point deserves better objections than being labelled as a troll. In my opinion, the European Union is not a democracy, and it ruins national democracy. Please explain my why I am wrong.
In the UE we are just discovering how harmful is mandatory free capital movement across states with different tax rates. What surprises me is that the USA managed to remain an union for so long with such a system.
the government sees you and your earnings as its own property. They are only asking themselves one question: how to maximise the government revenue, while the only question they should be allowed to ask is this: what is the bare minimum that gov't is allowed to do and how much should it cost.
And the answer is: it depends. capitalism helps rich people increasing their wealth, while the poor get poorer. Democracy is an antidote, since the many poor can force some wealth redistribution through taxes. And we should be glad this mechanism exists, since when the poor gets too poor to buy what is produced, the economy collapse.
Telling that taxes should be low is not a natural truth, it is a political opinion, and depending on the economical situation, following that route may be harmful for everyone
Friendly clue from Europe: (...)Fix it by changing the system. Not supporting it.
Yeah, and in Europe, we fixed the system by removing any power we can from elected national representants, and we transfered it to unelected bureaucrats in Brussel. What a smart move!
Stuxnet targets were not connected to the internet, that did not save them from being infected.
The problem is that when you remove the network, people start using USB keys to move information and malwares
The article summary tells about "fiscal constraints", where "fiscal decisions" should be used. Remember the story about Warren Buffet tax percentage being inferior to its secretary one? This does not result from a natural law, but from political decisions.
It would be nice if Slashdot could tell us about actual products, not vague vaporware information inferred from patent fillings.
Indeed LaTeX is better, but as soon as you collaborate on the document with computer illetrates, it gets unusable.
We cannot have laws against sleeping, as it is a natural need. However we could improve safety by giving customers more information.
For instance, a law could force airlines company to tell customers how many hours a week the pilot worked, and how many flight he did in a row. That would help us avoiding pilots made dangerous by insane airline work policy.
20 kUSD seems awfully expensive for a device that will simply inherit any android security hole.
We are going to need laws to punish manufacturers that just do not care about their security holes. While I am fully against making software writers responsible for bugs (nobody can program without introducing bugs), I think something should be done about vendor selling software well known for being insecure.