It would be trivial for me to frame someone if I wanted to. Just "hack" into someones computer... we all know how secure the vast majority of people are. Hack your enemies and their lives are ruined.
We all know that's what this amounts to.
It also allows the government hackers to frame people for leverage both politically and criminally. Except the government has the resources to gain physical access to computers to plant evidence with little chance of being exposed. At least before when they planted evidence they had to prove a case of you acquiring the material. Usually a money trail of some sort or unaccounted spending.
I say let the poor sick bastards jack off to the material all they want. It's only a matter of 15 years when computer animation looks so real I doubt anyone will be able to identify the real stuff from the computer generated and doctored stuff.
Use it now to identify abusers. Focus on the people making the material and abusing the children. Focus on the sex touring industry to other countries. Focus on illegal immigration and sexual slavery. Focus on the people that make non trial money in distributing the material. No, that would be within the government ability and responsibility but they can't do that... instead the are motivated by power and control.
Like growing new arteries for transplant within 24 hrs.
First heart attack might do a little damage to the heart but provided he survives the first year he should have another 25 years before he clogs up the new ones and by then he'll be having regular checkups.
Commercial exploitation of space is going to take off in the next twenty years. Once liability is firmly established the first commercial businesses will be the junk collectors/deflectors along with fuel/energy storage/production/transmission and repair services. All mostly robotic.
To a reasonable certainty anything the size of a nut or bolt is tracked and we know where it came from.
Anything that is already in orbit before you get there is your responsibility to avoid.
So if your satellite blows up because someone "new junk" damages it then that countries/entities responsibly for the damage to the satellite and future damage from the consequential debris from it.
When it comes to collecting against governments there are tons of ways to collect if they have the money. The most likely being deduction or increase of trade deficits. And the companies in return get a big fat deduction on their taxes.
Before MP3's I wasn't into music that much. I remember when MP3's came on the scene years before the popular public had heard of them,... downloading them by modem, this was before cable modems and DSL, it would take at least 15/20 minutes a song.
At first I just downloaded but naturally every year or so I'd get a crash or something would happen and I would lose my collection. All the current stuff you can find at decent quality but not necessarily stuff from two or five years back. And not all rips are the same so I eventually found myself just buying the CD's just to rip them myself at higher quality. I never bought CD's before this. I fell into the pattern of downloading the new stuff and buying at least 2/3 of the stuff within a couple years by shopping for used CD's in stores and online. Usually paying no more than like $7 a CD but remember that chances are I only like 2 songs on the disc. I buy my music, maybe not how the music industry would me to; but non the less I do, it's on my terms and it works for me.
Want do I want? Electronic per song transferable digital licenses. And with those access to the music companies online computers to download the music. And I want the FTC and FCC involved so that the licenses are locked in and guaranteed so that when the technology and protocols of the digital licenses change they are guaranteed transferable to the next technology. And songs are not locked into one account or device(as they are with apple), your free to sell and transfer the per song licenses to someone else in the free market. And it would be nice if the licenses covered all relatively close versions of the song sung by the same performer so they can't charge you again for acoustic, karaoke, different file formats, or higher bit quality. In other words you own the rights to listen to that song and your entitled to all versions of it. That would be worth something.
I briefly mentioned this to one of MS licensing people a while back but we didn't go that much into it. They simply need to repackage the product. This is the same sort of thing that happened with windows ME except there was simply no value in ME what so ever. He seemed to think I was talking about starting from scratch which is the furthest thing from what I was getting at. The operating system itself is fine, the kernel is a superior design over what they had, a redesign.
It simply all about features (positive and negative) and price and from both you get value.
What's bad about Vista? DRM, it requires much more memory, and price.
Step one, do some market research and find out what consumers want and what they are willing to pay for.
They can keep the DRM but they have to make it opt in. If you have something raw and unencrypted it should play it and it should be able to rip raw and unencrypted period. The DRM should be modular so that there isn't just one engine, if other companies want to bargain and do a trade of with the consumer over their media then it should be up to the consumer to weigh the benefits and deficits, and then to accept or reject the deal.
The new interface is nice, what they should have done is develop and promote an engine for creating third party shells and window managers. Make it easier, provide hooks for all kinds of potential features that they can't quite imagine how to use. Make it similar to DirectX so that upgrading the features of the engine isn't upgrading the operating system so they can have a rapid response to required capabilities. Keep it simple, yes it requires real programming and binaries, no script(third parties will do that).
Time for them to do something with MS Works. Revise it and bundle a fully functional version into the operating system so kinds everywhere can do their homework. Include your supposedly open document format.
Create a bunch of applets but this time put them under your version of an open source license and watch the interest and creativity.
Make a driver emulation subsystem to emulate old operating systems for old drivers and bridge the gap between old drivers and new. And get this, the emulation can be done in kernel mode or user mode. Sure it's slower, but at least it works.
Open up the design of at least the user mode portion of the operating system, talk to developers and find out what they want to see, be an operating system vendor, don't make assets feel like your the enemy.
Lastly reduce the price to $200 for the premium version and restructure the server features as an upgrade or add on. The premium or "workstation" version is where you are going to make your money. The home, pro, and server monikers, were working so well but you changed them, why? If you concentrate on user land usability features and commit to a clockwork predictable two year release cycle it doesn't matter if the OS is revolutionary. Things don't have to be perfect, release the feature and think of it as a public beta. Users automatically understand the first version of anything is going to be revised anyway.
Want to cut the hacker piracy in half? Give your software away legitimately to them... if they can program or do something else that improves your software. Coupons, discounts, make them feel like they are in your elite. Make friends, not enemies.
You really need to focus on improving your PR. PR should be enmeshed with marketing, and the specifically PR people should have a vision. You need something like Google's "Do no evil" motto. If we do this how are people going to perceive us? One of the oldest jokes is... Name a small company that got rich doing business with Microsoft? Everyone really needs to stop feeling like they are in competition with you. You could turn that around in 5 years if you really wanted to. Microsoft needs a fan base like apple, so that when a new product comes out instead of customers asking if they should buy the product they are wondering when it's going to arrive on their doorstep.
Ok, I'm glad I got that off my chest...
A standard XP install only has 2GB available to user mode program, Server versions have access to 3GB but only if the program was specifically write to take advantage of this mode. Vista probably has this special paging mode build into all versions but the programs still need to be compiled to take advantage of it. Only programs I know compiled for it are databases.
But windows can take advantage of all that extra memory for disk cache and won't need to touch the first two gigs, leaving it completely available to user programs. Also buggy drivers with memory leaks are only likely to bother you for a reboot every couple days.
The thing about turning over ip addresses when they claimed they weren't available was wrong but that info wouldn't have been useful against them, it would have been used to go after people that posted to the forums as automatic pirates for posting to a forum.
What they did do was clean up their forums which I believe partially what the MPAA's complaint were about. Further they didn't destroy old posted, they archived them. They removed movie clips.
When they were ordered to log IP's again they simply refused to further provide service to US citizens until the matter was resolved.
Sounds to me like another judge confused by computers.
You have two different entities here. The search engine itself and the web forums.
Sure the woman probably did it. But $200,000 sure? Depends on how much she makes but $7,000 total would have been more appropriate and a realistic message balanced with the slight possibility she didn't do it.
That quote couldn't possibly have been more targeted as an insult and challenge to hackers. I expect they are already at work figuring out how frame thousands of people, luring the RIAA into going after them only to make a mockery of juries by coming out anonymously afterwards with proof that they hacked that persons computer. Sure no one would believe them the first time but after 50 or 100 people... after it got on dateline or 20/20... imagine the websites with the identities and pictures of the stupid people that don't think malicious hackers exist. Imagine them getting hacked themselves and framed...
While I'm still against the ATI merger (I doubt they will ever compete for long with nVidia with performance cards again) at least there is a consolation prize. ATI just became the premiere UNIX card. It might even be possible that Intel will license ATI technology. Intel and AMD go back and for on patents all the time so it wouldn't surprise me if they did a deal for the ATI tech.
It was just the first time a computer could plot the future fast enough and far enough that it unlikely to lose against an intelligent mind. Brute force vs Intelligence in a very specific game.
Now the race is on to create an AI that learns the game and does not use brute force that can beat a human. A computer program that can look at a board and get a "feeling" from the board as a whole and from each of the pieces.
That my fellow community developers will take this opportunity to drop the BitTorrent protocol. Time to develop something better.
It's time we address it's critical failure... that you can see which IP's are trafficking in which files. There has to be an obscure way in which people can just exchange data blobs. Where the blobs are interleaved or multiplexed with data of other files and you don't know and can't know with all practicality what a particular blob contains until you finally collect enough blobs to reconstruct your data file. There are more blobs to be collected for a particular file for data redundancy but you only need to collect so many of them to recreate the data set. Meanwhile sure you downloaded more data then you needed to for that particular file but all the blobs you downloaded are still in demand from other people because of their relevance to other data sets. And you can safely continute to server those files because you don't necessarily know what multiplexed data they contain. Blobs also mutate and remix over time as to which combined data they contain.
The GPL3 has nothing to do with Microsoft. No one ever thought that Microsoft would ever choose to release any software under it. Simply put it blocks other companies and developers from paying Microsoft protection money. If you gain privileges from Microsoft then you no longer have the right to distribute the GPL3 software unless you can transfer your privileges to all subsequent developers which MS obviously won't allow. This part of the GPL3 is all about trying to keep a level playing field. It prevents open software from being locked up and restricted through patents.
A great feature is that open source developers don't need to use the GPL3, that it exists gives them political clout should a company like MYSQL try to lock up open source software though a patent. If any such company tried to do that they know the open source developers outside their company could easily jump ship with a code fork under the GPL3 (patching the code with a non patented technique) and the company wouldn't be able to touch the new code base, open source developers could turn the table on said company.
In all reality you wouldn't plug it in, you'd take the thing apart and dissolve the black goo. Then you would proceed with a hardware attack, reading the contents of the flash memory out and then attempt to crack the memory file.
Only if the attacker doesn't know what the memory stick is will it be able to erase itself.
No he didn't just walk away. Con finished what he started. He produced a bunch of code and people can choose to take it or leave it. He produced something, it's up to others to carry the ball if they find it worthwhile. Linus decided that it wasn't worthwhile.
I think he made a mistake though. The mistake was not compromising and allowing a plug in scheduler design so that individual system users could choose what's best for their systems. No one involved really wanted that, everyone had their opinions about what was best for the Linux kernel but it was offered up as a fair compromise and it's too bad that Linus didn't embrace it.
Linus is not a god, he's a man... a good man. I forgive his mistakes, he's done a lot of good, he can afford some mistakes.
Just want I wanted to hear. Law firm will get another payday settling for a chump change payoff for them and nothing for the consumers supposedly harmed.
When I picture it I imagine objects outside this and other solar systems. That is outside the immediate reasonable proximity of a star whither technically in orbit or not. I do not imagine extrasolar meaning a planet in orbit around another star in another solar system.
Sure you could have a power station that only broadcast radio energy when a suitable device comes in range but even with that I'd guess at least 95% of the power is wasted. That's fine for medical implants and other devices where the wireless power transfer is a necessity rather than an option. But for conventional devices like cell phones and mice and keyboards, your burning a lot of fossil fuel just for a little convenience.
The schools and professors have the upper hand. The service will merely require professors and schools to get a signed blanket license on all assignments either when the student enrolls or the first day of class when the student can drop the class for a refund if they won't sign.
It should be twin chimeras found. A cloned chimera is exponentially unlikely to be identical.
Basically each chimera has two sets of semi-identical DNA. The identical portions inherited from the mother make it possible for the DNA to be identical enough to interface and mix together to create a single entity. The TWO stains of DNA are 3/4 average identical. But for the DNA to be compatible enough that the child is viable is rare.
It's possible to have two children 3/4 identical just by chance. You would just need to have lots of babies and compare the DNA against each other. This is a case of true semi identical siblings (though not twins). But if you took these two children and swapped organs and mixed their body parts and didn't give they anti-rejection drugs it's unlikely they would be similarly identical enough for them to survive as chimeras.
Youtube was ahead of it's time. It was inevitable that the media conglomerates would try to role their own. They will find out exactly how expensive and difficult it is to do this type of site and predictably the small players and producers will eventually go with Youtube and then the major ones will crumble one by one as they strike amicable deals due to customer demand for a single site.
Evidently no one at the top at Microsoft has a clue about brand names and company image. By Microsoft trying to be a one size fits all we do everything company, it's losing it's identity. People just don't trust the name Microsoft or that one company can be good at many things. The brand Microsoft isn't even recognized as making good software, just as being dominant in the industry and cut throat.
What people instinctively know is that for every product and business you need a leader and a vision. It would just be way better if Microsoft started businesses as DBA's all with their own organizations or just spun off new companies. It would still be the same people owning the companies and receiving the profits but they would be real brands and have identities of their own.
Sure Goggle many have it's fingers in many pots but when it comes down to it I recognize them as an Internet and web services company. If they tried to sell me a desktop operating system I'd look at them cross-eyed.
Let me go on the slashdot record saying that I don't buy into the environmental propaganda. Are we destroying this planet? Dam right we are. But is mankind excessively contributing to global warming ? I'm beginning to doubt it more and more. Is there global warming? Yes, but the temperature of this planet isn't static. Compared to the amount of co2 that the earth itself naturally dumps into the atmosphere we are a campfire next to a forest fire.
Can we instead talk about species going extinct, forests being destroyed, and the way we are turning the oceans into a toilet? Those are identifiable problems that we can actually have an impact on today.
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It would be trivial for me to frame someone if I wanted to. Just "hack" into someones computer... we all know how secure the vast majority of people are. Hack your enemies and their lives are ruined.
We all know that's what this amounts to.
It also allows the government hackers to frame people for leverage both politically and criminally. Except the government has the resources to gain physical access to computers to plant evidence with little chance of being exposed. At least before when they planted evidence they had to prove a case of you acquiring the material. Usually a money trail of some sort or unaccounted spending.
I say let the poor sick bastards jack off to the material all they want. It's only a matter of 15 years when computer animation looks so real I doubt anyone will be able to identify the real stuff from the computer generated and doctored stuff.
Use it now to identify abusers. Focus on the people making the material and abusing the children. Focus on the sex touring industry to other countries. Focus on illegal immigration and sexual slavery. Focus on the people that make non trial money in distributing the material. No, that would be within the government ability and responsibility but they can't do that... instead the are motivated by power and control.
Like growing new arteries for transplant within 24 hrs.
First heart attack might do a little damage to the heart but provided he survives the first year he should have another 25 years before he clogs up the new ones and by then he'll be having regular checkups.
Commercial exploitation of space is going to take off in the next twenty years. Once liability is firmly established the first commercial businesses will be the junk collectors/deflectors along with fuel/energy storage/production/transmission and repair services. All mostly robotic.
To a reasonable certainty anything the size of a nut or bolt is tracked and we know where it came from.
Anything that is already in orbit before you get there is your responsibility to avoid.
So if your satellite blows up because someone "new junk" damages it then that countries/entities responsibly for the damage to the satellite and future damage from the consequential debris from it.
When it comes to collecting against governments there are tons of ways to collect if they have the money. The most likely being deduction or increase of trade deficits. And the companies in return get a big fat deduction on their taxes.
Before MP3's I wasn't into music that much. I remember when MP3's came on the scene years before the popular public had heard of them, ... downloading them by modem, this was before cable modems and DSL, it would take at least 15/20 minutes a song.
At first I just downloaded but naturally every year or so I'd get a crash or something would happen and I would lose my collection. All the current stuff you can find at decent quality but not necessarily stuff from two or five years back. And not all rips are the same so I eventually found myself just buying the CD's just to rip them myself at higher quality. I never bought CD's before this. I fell into the pattern of downloading the new stuff and buying at least 2/3 of the stuff within a couple years by shopping for used CD's in stores and online. Usually paying no more than like $7 a CD but remember that chances are I only like 2 songs on the disc. I buy my music, maybe not how the music industry would me to; but non the less I do, it's on my terms and it works for me.
Want do I want? Electronic per song transferable digital licenses. And with those access to the music companies online computers to download the music. And I want the FTC and FCC involved so that the licenses are locked in and guaranteed so that when the technology and protocols of the digital licenses change they are guaranteed transferable to the next technology. And songs are not locked into one account or device(as they are with apple), your free to sell and transfer the per song licenses to someone else in the free market. And it would be nice if the licenses covered all relatively close versions of the song sung by the same performer so they can't charge you again for acoustic, karaoke, different file formats, or higher bit quality. In other words you own the rights to listen to that song and your entitled to all versions of it. That would be worth something.
I briefly mentioned this to one of MS licensing people a while back but we didn't go that much into it. They simply need to repackage the product. This is the same sort of thing that happened with windows ME except there was simply no value in ME what so ever. He seemed to think I was talking about starting from scratch which is the furthest thing from what I was getting at. The operating system itself is fine, the kernel is a superior design over what they had, a redesign. It simply all about features (positive and negative) and price and from both you get value. What's bad about Vista? DRM, it requires much more memory, and price. Step one, do some market research and find out what consumers want and what they are willing to pay for. They can keep the DRM but they have to make it opt in. If you have something raw and unencrypted it should play it and it should be able to rip raw and unencrypted period. The DRM should be modular so that there isn't just one engine, if other companies want to bargain and do a trade of with the consumer over their media then it should be up to the consumer to weigh the benefits and deficits, and then to accept or reject the deal. The new interface is nice, what they should have done is develop and promote an engine for creating third party shells and window managers. Make it easier, provide hooks for all kinds of potential features that they can't quite imagine how to use. Make it similar to DirectX so that upgrading the features of the engine isn't upgrading the operating system so they can have a rapid response to required capabilities. Keep it simple, yes it requires real programming and binaries, no script(third parties will do that). Time for them to do something with MS Works. Revise it and bundle a fully functional version into the operating system so kinds everywhere can do their homework. Include your supposedly open document format. Create a bunch of applets but this time put them under your version of an open source license and watch the interest and creativity. Make a driver emulation subsystem to emulate old operating systems for old drivers and bridge the gap between old drivers and new. And get this, the emulation can be done in kernel mode or user mode. Sure it's slower, but at least it works. Open up the design of at least the user mode portion of the operating system, talk to developers and find out what they want to see, be an operating system vendor, don't make assets feel like your the enemy. Lastly reduce the price to $200 for the premium version and restructure the server features as an upgrade or add on. The premium or "workstation" version is where you are going to make your money. The home, pro, and server monikers, were working so well but you changed them, why? If you concentrate on user land usability features and commit to a clockwork predictable two year release cycle it doesn't matter if the OS is revolutionary. Things don't have to be perfect, release the feature and think of it as a public beta. Users automatically understand the first version of anything is going to be revised anyway. Want to cut the hacker piracy in half? Give your software away legitimately to them ... if they can program or do something else that improves your software. Coupons, discounts, make them feel like they are in your elite. Make friends, not enemies.
You really need to focus on improving your PR. PR should be enmeshed with marketing, and the specifically PR people should have a vision. You need something like Google's "Do no evil" motto. If we do this how are people going to perceive us? One of the oldest jokes is... Name a small company that got rich doing business with Microsoft? Everyone really needs to stop feeling like they are in competition with you. You could turn that around in 5 years if you really wanted to. Microsoft needs a fan base like apple, so that when a new product comes out instead of customers asking if they should buy the product they are wondering when it's going to arrive on their doorstep.
Ok, I'm glad I got that off my chest...
A standard XP install only has 2GB available to user mode program, Server versions have access to 3GB but only if the program was specifically write to take advantage of this mode. Vista probably has this special paging mode build into all versions but the programs still need to be compiled to take advantage of it. Only programs I know compiled for it are databases.
But windows can take advantage of all that extra memory for disk cache and won't need to touch the first two gigs, leaving it completely available to user programs. Also buggy drivers with memory leaks are only likely to bother you for a reboot every couple days.
The thing about turning over ip addresses when they claimed they weren't available was wrong but that info wouldn't have been useful against them, it would have been used to go after people that posted to the forums as automatic pirates for posting to a forum.
What they did do was clean up their forums which I believe partially what the MPAA's complaint were about. Further they didn't destroy old posted, they archived them. They removed movie clips.
When they were ordered to log IP's again they simply refused to further provide service to US citizens until the matter was resolved.
Sounds to me like another judge confused by computers.
You have two different entities here. The search engine itself and the web forums.
Sure the woman probably did it. But $200,000 sure? Depends on how much she makes but $7,000 total would have been more appropriate and a realistic message balanced with the slight possibility she didn't do it.
That quote couldn't possibly have been more targeted as an insult and challenge to hackers. I expect they are already at work figuring out how frame thousands of people, luring the RIAA into going after them only to make a mockery of juries by coming out anonymously afterwards with proof that they hacked that persons computer. Sure no one would believe them the first time but after 50 or 100 people... after it got on dateline or 20/20... imagine the websites with the identities and pictures of the stupid people that don't think malicious hackers exist. Imagine them getting hacked themselves and framed...
I think I just shat myself.
While I'm still against the ATI merger (I doubt they will ever compete for long with nVidia with performance cards again) at least there is a consolation prize. ATI just became the premiere UNIX card. It might even be possible that Intel will license ATI technology. Intel and AMD go back and for on patents all the time so it wouldn't surprise me if they did a deal for the ATI tech.
It was just the first time a computer could plot the future fast enough and far enough that it unlikely to lose against an intelligent mind. Brute force vs Intelligence in a very specific game.
Now the race is on to create an AI that learns the game and does not use brute force that can beat a human. A computer program that can look at a board and get a "feeling" from the board as a whole and from each of the pieces.
That my fellow community developers will take this opportunity to drop the BitTorrent protocol. Time to develop something better.
It's time we address it's critical failure... that you can see which IP's are trafficking in which files. There has to be an obscure way in which people can just exchange data blobs. Where the blobs are interleaved or multiplexed with data of other files and you don't know and can't know with all practicality what a particular blob contains until you finally collect enough blobs to reconstruct your data file. There are more blobs to be collected for a particular file for data redundancy but you only need to collect so many of them to recreate the data set. Meanwhile sure you downloaded more data then you needed to for that particular file but all the blobs you downloaded are still in demand from other people because of their relevance to other data sets. And you can safely continute to server those files because you don't necessarily know what multiplexed data they contain. Blobs also mutate and remix over time as to which combined data they contain.
The GPL3 has nothing to do with Microsoft. No one ever thought that Microsoft would ever choose to release any software under it. Simply put it blocks other companies and developers from paying Microsoft protection money. If you gain privileges from Microsoft then you no longer have the right to distribute the GPL3 software unless you can transfer your privileges to all subsequent developers which MS obviously won't allow. This part of the GPL3 is all about trying to keep a level playing field. It prevents open software from being locked up and restricted through patents.
A great feature is that open source developers don't need to use the GPL3, that it exists gives them political clout should a company like MYSQL try to lock up open source software though a patent. If any such company tried to do that they know the open source developers outside their company could easily jump ship with a code fork under the GPL3 (patching the code with a non patented technique) and the company wouldn't be able to touch the new code base, open source developers could turn the table on said company.
In all reality you wouldn't plug it in, you'd take the thing apart and dissolve the black goo. Then you would proceed with a hardware attack, reading the contents of the flash memory out and then attempt to crack the memory file.
Only if the attacker doesn't know what the memory stick is will it be able to erase itself.
No he didn't just walk away. Con finished what he started. He produced a bunch of code and people can choose to take it or leave it. He produced something, it's up to others to carry the ball if they find it worthwhile. Linus decided that it wasn't worthwhile.
I think he made a mistake though. The mistake was not compromising and allowing a plug in scheduler design so that individual system users could choose what's best for their systems. No one involved really wanted that, everyone had their opinions about what was best for the Linux kernel but it was offered up as a fair compromise and it's too bad that Linus didn't embrace it.
Linus is not a god, he's a man... a good man. I forgive his mistakes, he's done a lot of good, he can afford some mistakes.
Just want I wanted to hear. Law firm will get another payday settling for a chump change payoff for them and nothing for the consumers supposedly harmed.
When I picture it I imagine objects outside this and other solar systems. That is outside the immediate reasonable proximity of a star whither technically in orbit or not. I do not imagine extrasolar meaning a planet in orbit around another star in another solar system.
Sure you could have a power station that only broadcast radio energy when a suitable device comes in range but even with that I'd guess at least 95% of the power is wasted. That's fine for medical implants and other devices where the wireless power transfer is a necessity rather than an option. But for conventional devices like cell phones and mice and keyboards, your burning a lot of fossil fuel just for a little convenience.
The schools and professors have the upper hand. The service will merely require professors and schools to get a signed blanket license on all assignments either when the student enrolls or the first day of class when the student can drop the class for a refund if they won't sign.
It should be twin chimeras found. A cloned chimera is exponentially unlikely to be identical.
Basically each chimera has two sets of semi-identical DNA. The identical portions inherited from the mother make it possible for the DNA to be identical enough to interface and mix together to create a single entity. The TWO stains of DNA are 3/4 average identical. But for the DNA to be compatible enough that the child is viable is rare.
It's possible to have two children 3/4 identical just by chance. You would just need to have lots of babies and compare the DNA against each other. This is a case of true semi identical siblings (though not twins).
But if you took these two children and swapped organs and mixed their body parts and didn't give they anti-rejection drugs it's unlikely they would be similarly identical enough for them to survive as chimeras.
Youtube was ahead of it's time. It was inevitable that the media conglomerates would try to role their own. They will find out exactly how expensive and difficult it is to do this type of site and predictably the small players and producers will eventually go with Youtube and then the major ones will crumble one by one as they strike amicable deals due to customer demand for a single site.
Amen
They are totally screwed when they actually read their accounting sheet.
Divide it up any way you like there are only two or three outcomes.
Evidently no one at the top at Microsoft has a clue about brand names and company image. By Microsoft trying to be a one size fits all we do everything company, it's losing it's identity. People just don't trust the name Microsoft or that one company can be good at many things. The brand Microsoft isn't even recognized as making good software, just as being dominant in the industry and cut throat.
What people instinctively know is that for every product and business you need a leader and a vision. It would just be way better if Microsoft started businesses as DBA's all with their own organizations or just spun off new companies. It would still be the same people owning the companies and receiving the profits but they would be real brands and have identities of their own.
Sure Goggle many have it's fingers in many pots but when it comes down to it I recognize them as an Internet and web services company. If they tried to sell me a desktop operating system I'd look at them cross-eyed.
Let me go on the slashdot record saying that I don't buy into the environmental propaganda. Are we destroying this planet? Dam right we are. But is mankind excessively contributing to global warming ? I'm beginning to doubt it more and more. Is there global warming? Yes, but the temperature of this planet isn't static. Compared to the amount of co2 that the earth itself naturally dumps into the atmosphere we are a campfire next to a forest fire.
Can we instead talk about species going extinct, forests being destroyed, and the way we are turning the oceans into a toilet? Those are identifiable problems that we can actually have an impact on today.