Anyone looking to buy stock in Jolt cola in hopes they found the fountain of youth should read the final line of the abstract.
Causality is unproven.
While it is an interesting finding and deserves to be looked at further. The big problem is that data was originally collected as part of a Cancer study and like most cancer studies it only looks at data over a relatively short period of time (6 years). So the tagline should more accurately read,
People who sleep more or less than 7 hours per day are more likely to die in the next six years.
Going back to the original point, the only mechanism they propose to account for more sleep causing correlating with increased death is that people with sleep apnea (stoping breathing while asleep) have higer mortality rates. However they also point out that people with sleep apnea do not necessarily sleep longer.
In the long term Linux will have progressively fewer bugs/vulnerabilities due to its open source nature.
You are making the assumption that those bugs will just naturally be replaced with higher quality code. It may, but lots of resources and effort need to be put in to fix bugs. This is a requirement no matter what the distribution and licensing terms are.
Its one thing to make a progam invulnerable to a particular exploit script, its another to prevent the development of a new exploit.
The real question is would they be able to do it and charge a price significantly less than MS does for office righ now? I really doubt it. The real cost is not in reverse engineering the file format but implementing all the features that this format includes. If you want proof, just look at some of the free alternatives like Koffice or AbiWord. A good portion of the.doc format has been figured out, but neither of these products can handle even that much. Heck look ar RTF. This format is very well documented, yet even most payware word processors can't fully translate from it.
With no technology, and (relatively) little money, massively outnumbered and outgunned, Osama and his people are still free.
You are vastly over estimating binLaden's success. Osama may not have been captured yet, but a large number of "his people" have been. And the government that supported him has been ousted. Granted, the U.S. does not know where he is, but I doubt that he is able to communicate "at will" with his minions.
As a comment on your fast food analogy, the only reason the high school dropout can be so productive is that he is following a process designed by several people who were not high school droputs. These people have optimized everything from how far ahead of time to order frozen burgers, to whether the order screen should be on the left or right of the fry bin. The fact that the process designed for this guy was using weak crypto IS telling of the organization that was supporting him. Some of the communication have been reported to have used PGP, but obviously not everyone has been trained to fully cover their tracks.
It's been a while since I read the BSD license, (I know I should have before I posted a reply...*thwacks self*) and you are absolutely right. The only requirement is that you reproduce the license. That's fine as it lets people have some idea as to how their tax dollars are being spent.
Now if I can only figure out how to delete my posts, so I don't look like such a dolt...
My tax dollars paid for that code just as much as yours did. Why does it get to go under your favorite license which prevents me from using it in a way I see fit.
If you put in in the PD I can take it, invest my own resources and release a derived product under my own license.
If you want to invest the resources, you can take it add to it and release it under the GPL.
The competition then becomes which of us can release the better product, not who can sue who for IP.
The university isn't the only one getting a deal. The whole point of the "make it all public" argument is that the company is having its R&D subsidized by the Feds. Since the original code was not paid for by the Feds, you don't have to release it, but you do have to release the results of:
You have already been paid for your work.
Granted, it is the intellectually honest thing to do and I would be very offended if someone did not acknowledge me for my work. But if the government is the employer, then the author has already been compensated for their effort, and as a matter of property rights they are no longer the owner.
If a project was entirely funded by public funds, then the intellectual property rights for that project belong the the public and that project should be in the public domain.
It should not be open source, whether GPL, BSD, Artistic License, whatever! My tax dollars should not go to push your opensource political agenda. The source code should be made part of the final progress report for the project, and I should be able to modify it to my hearts content (funded by non-government resources) without even thinking about releasing the source to my modifications. In the same way, if you want to setup a foundation that warehouses public projects, makes modifications to the code and relicenses it under an open source license more power to you.
No macs are more reliable because the general quality of software people overload tehir machine with is much higher. When you don't have protected memory (any MacOS prior to X) your apps better behave themselves or they get deleted quick.
Woah...there is a lot to respond to.
Purchasing the DVD allows me to own a physical object, in the same way that purchasing a hammer, book, or notebook computer allows me to own a physical object.
Yes you own the physical media, but the physical media is not the content. It contains a copy of the content, but you do not own the content.
On to your hammer analogy
I can even forego the nails alltogether, and use the hammer in a manner that doesn't involve pounding anything, if I can find a use for it. I own the object.
You cannot however do illegal things with it like break the lock to the back door of a movie theatre so you and your friends can watch the movie for free.
Finally...
They do this so they can charge different prices in different areas of the world. This is also called price fixing, and is VERY illegal
Charging different prices in different parts of the world for the same or similar products is NOT illegal. It is not even illegal to charge different prices for the same or similar products in the U.S. (Other countries like Germany may have some different laws...). There are lots of industries that charge vastly different prices for the same product depending on the market (drugs companies, car companies, etc ).
Most countris go along with this because it makes long-term economic makes sense. There are exceptions (India (drugs), South Africa (drugs), Austrailia (DVDs) ), that happen when a country feels these agreements are not in the best intrest of its citizens.
Except that there is a little something called live performance that will prevent this from happening.
It's all cyclical. Once the RIAA and MPAA or whoever make it overly difficult or expensive to view content I will simply go watch someone in a live play.
I'm not a computer scientist, so for us lay people interested in cryptography, which methods could this compromise?
I am guessing it would only be those which use factoring large numbers as their "hard" problem. Right? Obviously RSA style public key based encryption is in danger, but that just means I need to find a secure channel to exchange keys.
What implications does this have for things like IDEA or even Xoring with a big chunk of random data?
or maybe the announcement was part of Microsoft's PR plan to get everyone to download this "uber-patch." Or maybe slashdoters (myself included) are just paranoid nerds that haven't been diong "stuff that matters" in too long.
Sure and then all the artists would be complaining that they are changing their artwork without their permission. Changing a recording from stereo to mono is a big change in a lot of artists minds.
The tools we have to implant genes are very crude. I doubt it would be difficult to find a way to detect their use.
Here are some ideas:
First, none of the methods of transfering genes that I know of (viral transfection, electrical or chemical shock) can target the genes insertion to a specific region of the human genome. To detect a "fake gene" you would just sequence the genes around it to find out if it is in a natrually occuring place. Or you could get the cells to divide pull out the chromosomes, and use a flourescent tracer to make sure the gene is on the right chromosome.
Second, controling the expression of the implnated DNA segment is also no where near perfect. Most geene threapies rely on implanting a promoter along with the DNA sequence of the gene to be expressed. These promoters are easy to detect and my guess is that they are not the ones that naturally occur with the gene that would be implanted. So just look for that promoter in proximity of the "fake gene."
The whole mutation argument is right out. While comicbook geneticists may make you think mutations are totally random, unpredictable, untracable events, they are not. You could prove that your gene was a true mutation by comparing you new super gene with your parent's genes and showing that a specific type of mutation occurred. The likelihood of you randomly acquiring DNA from a rabit that is not found in a human is not very high.
Most forms intraoperative monitoring I am farmiliar with (evoked potentials and blood flow measurements) use auditory cues to let the surgeon know when he is being too rough with the tissue. Auditory cues would seem to be the best mode of feedback for surgeons since their vision, touch and smell (think bowel surgery or electrocautery) are likely to be fully occupied.
That is unless you can rig something up to let the surgeon taste the tissue under his scalpel.
I'm not sure how you are coming up with this. Destroying Taliban resources and personel does not improve our defense against attacks for which the logistics are already in place. What it does do is prevent this group from organizing and supporting further attacks.
All of this is still premature as no one has claimed responsibility for this crash. Various groups have not even had the chance to condone or denounce it.
Take a look at ampexdata.com
They have put together some nice storage systems for broadcast video houses. Here are some specs on their high end DST 914 tape auto loader.
Single Tape capacity: 300 GB (uncompressed)
Transfer rate: 20 MB/sec/drive
Max Library Capacity: 26 TB (87 tapes, 2 drives)
Average file access: 50 seconds
You are still going to need something to multiplex and compress all those streams, but it sounds like you may have some other leads on that.
a good calendar is probably my most-wished-for Mozilla feature.
Mozilla is looking pretty nice now, and has stable versions of all the features I used in NS 4.7 (Browsing w/ plugins, IMAP mail, LDAP enabled address book). However, my most wished for feature is a good spell checker. ThenI can throw out netscape 4.X (except of course if I want to get on msn...)
I may be wrong, but the updated drivers you download from ATI's web site are not signed by microsoft to be compatible (at least my ol Xpert98 driver isn't). So why does ATi need to get microsoft's blessing at all?
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Anyone looking to buy stock in Jolt cola in hopes they found the fountain of youth should read the final line of the abstract.
Causality is unproven.While it is an interesting finding and deserves to be looked at further. The big problem is that data was originally collected as part of a Cancer study and like most cancer studies it only looks at data over a relatively short period of time (6 years). So the tagline should more accurately read,
People who sleep more or less than 7 hours per day are more likely to die in the next six years.
Going back to the original point, the only mechanism they propose to account for more sleep causing correlating with increased death is that people with sleep apnea (stoping breathing while asleep) have higer mortality rates. However they also point out that people with sleep apnea do not necessarily sleep longer.
So basically they have no clue as to why.
In the long term Linux will have progressively fewer bugs/vulnerabilities due to its open source nature.
You are making the assumption that those bugs will just naturally be replaced with higher quality code. It may, but lots of resources and effort need to be put in to fix bugs. This is a requirement no matter what the distribution and licensing terms are.
Its one thing to make a progam invulnerable to a particular exploit script, its another to prevent the development of a new exploit.
The real question is would they be able to do it and charge a price significantly less than MS does for office righ now? I really doubt it. The real cost is not in reverse engineering the file format but implementing all the features that this format includes. If you want proof, just look at some of the free alternatives like Koffice or AbiWord. A good portion of the .doc format has been figured out, but neither of these products can handle even that much. Heck look ar RTF. This format is very well documented, yet even most payware word processors can't fully translate from it.
With no technology, and (relatively) little money, massively outnumbered and outgunned, Osama and his people are still free.
You are vastly over estimating binLaden's success. Osama may not have been captured yet, but a large number of "his people" have been. And the government that supported him has been ousted. Granted, the U.S. does not know where he is, but I doubt that he is able to communicate "at will" with his minions.
As a comment on your fast food analogy, the only reason the high school dropout can be so productive is that he is following a process designed by several people who were not high school droputs. These people have optimized everything from how far ahead of time to order frozen burgers, to whether the order screen should be on the left or right of the fry bin. The fact that the process designed for this guy was using weak crypto IS telling of the organization that was supporting him. Some of the communication have been reported to have used PGP, but obviously not everyone has been trained to fully cover their tracks.
It's been a while since I read the BSD license, (I know I should have before I posted a reply...*thwacks self*) and you are absolutely right. The only requirement is that you reproduce the license. That's fine as it lets people have some idea as to how their tax dollars are being spent.
Now if I can only figure out how to delete my posts, so I don't look like such a dolt...
My tax dollars paid for that code just as much as yours did. Why does it get to go under your favorite license which prevents me from using it in a way I see fit.
If you put in in the PD I can take it, invest my own resources and release a derived product under my own license.
If you want to invest the resources, you can take it add to it and release it under the GPL.
The competition then becomes which of us can release the better product, not who can sue who for IP.
The university isn't the only one getting a deal. The whole point of the "make it all public" argument is that the company is having its R&D subsidized by the Feds. Since the original code was not paid for by the Feds, you don't have to release it, but you do have to release the results of:
diff originalCodeBase FedFundedCode
on a medium customarily used for software interchange
So would punch cards count?
Why BSD? Why should I have to acknowledge you?
You have already been paid for your work.
Granted, it is the intellectually honest thing to do and I would be very offended if someone did not acknowledge me for my work. But if the government is the employer, then the author has already been compensated for their effort, and as a matter of property rights they are no longer the owner.
If a project was entirely funded by public funds, then the intellectual property rights for that project belong the the public and that project should be in the public domain.
It should not be open source, whether GPL, BSD, Artistic License, whatever! My tax dollars should not go to push your opensource political agenda. The source code should be made part of the final progress report for the project, and I should be able to modify it to my hearts content (funded by non-government resources) without even thinking about releasing the source to my modifications. In the same way, if you want to setup a foundation that warehouses public projects, makes modifications to the code and relicenses it under an open source license more power to you.
No macs are more reliable because the general quality of software people overload tehir machine with is much higher. When you don't have protected memory (any MacOS prior to X) your apps better behave themselves or they get deleted quick.
Can you post a link to that documentation? I really can't believe this is true for anything more recent than word 7 (aka word7).
Woah...there is a lot to respond to.
Purchasing the DVD allows me to own a physical object, in the same way that purchasing a hammer, book, or notebook computer allows me to own a physical object.
Yes you own the physical media, but the physical media is not the content. It contains a copy of the content, but you do not own the content.
On to your hammer analogy
I can even forego the nails alltogether, and use the hammer in a manner that doesn't involve pounding anything, if I can find a use for it. I own the object.
You cannot however do illegal things with it like break the lock to the back door of a movie theatre so you and your friends can watch the movie for free.
Finally...
They do this so they can charge different prices in different areas of the world. This is also called price fixing, and is VERY illegal
Charging different prices in different parts of the world for the same or similar products is NOT illegal. It is not even illegal to charge different prices for the same or similar products in the U.S. (Other countries like Germany may have some different laws...). There are lots of industries that charge vastly different prices for the same product depending on the market (drugs companies, car companies, etc ). Most countris go along with this because it makes long-term economic makes sense. There are exceptions (India (drugs), South Africa (drugs), Austrailia (DVDs) ), that happen when a country feels these agreements are not in the best intrest of its citizens.
Except that there is a little something called live performance that will prevent this from happening.
It's all cyclical. Once the RIAA and MPAA or whoever make it overly difficult or expensive to view content I will simply go watch someone in a live play.
11. The method of claim 10 wherein said unistroke symbols are well separated from each other in sloppiness space,
Where the heck is sloppiness space? Any why does it keep spilling over into my son's room?
I'm not a computer scientist, so for us lay people interested in cryptography, which methods could this compromise?
I am guessing it would only be those which use factoring large numbers as their "hard" problem. Right? Obviously RSA style public key based encryption is in danger, but that just means I need to find a secure channel to exchange keys.
What implications does this have for things like IDEA or even Xoring with a big chunk of random data?
or maybe the announcement was part of Microsoft's PR plan to get everyone to download this "uber-patch." Or maybe slashdoters (myself included) are just paranoid nerds that haven't been diong "stuff that matters" in too long.
Sure and then all the artists would be complaining that they are changing their artwork without their permission. Changing a recording from stereo to mono is a big change in a lot of artists minds.
The tools we have to implant genes are very crude. I doubt it would be difficult to find a way to detect their use.
Here are some ideas:
First, none of the methods of transfering genes that I know of (viral transfection, electrical or chemical shock) can target the genes insertion to a specific region of the human genome. To detect a "fake gene" you would just sequence the genes around it to find out if it is in a natrually occuring place. Or you could get the cells to divide pull out the chromosomes, and use a flourescent tracer to make sure the gene is on the right chromosome.
Second, controling the expression of the implnated DNA segment is also no where near perfect. Most geene threapies rely on implanting a promoter along with the DNA sequence of the gene to be expressed. These promoters are easy to detect and my guess is that they are not the ones that naturally occur with the gene that would be implanted. So just look for that promoter in proximity of the "fake gene."
The whole mutation argument is right out. While comicbook geneticists may make you think mutations are totally random, unpredictable, untracable events, they are not. You could prove that your gene was a true mutation by comparing you new super gene with your parent's genes and showing that a specific type of mutation occurred. The likelihood of you randomly acquiring DNA from a rabit that is not found in a human is not very high.
Most forms intraoperative monitoring I am farmiliar with (evoked potentials and blood flow measurements) use auditory cues to let the surgeon know when he is being too rough with the tissue. Auditory cues would seem to be the best mode of feedback for surgeons since their vision, touch and smell (think bowel surgery or electrocautery) are likely to be fully occupied.
That is unless you can rig something up to let the surgeon taste the tissue under his scalpel.
Lets all say it together now...EWwwwwww
Nothing to make us safer....
I'm not sure how you are coming up with this. Destroying Taliban resources and personel does not improve our defense against attacks for which the logistics are already in place. What it does do is prevent this group from organizing and supporting further attacks.
All of this is still premature as no one has claimed responsibility for this crash. Various groups have not even had the chance to condone or denounce it.
They have put together some nice storage systems for broadcast video houses. Here are some specs on their high end DST 914 tape auto loader.
You are still going to need something to multiplex and compress all those streams, but it sounds like you may have some other leads on that.
Mozilla is looking pretty nice now, and has stable versions of all the features I used in NS 4.7 (Browsing w/ plugins, IMAP mail, LDAP enabled address book). However, my most wished for feature is a good spell checker. ThenI can throw out netscape 4.X (except of course if I want to get on msn...)
I may be wrong, but the updated drivers you download from ATI's web site are not signed by microsoft to be compatible (at least my ol Xpert98 driver isn't). So why does ATi need to get microsoft's blessing at all?
Now there is an insightful use of the english language. I'll just make up an offensive word to criticize the use of a real word in a way I don't like.
Please grow up.