This is exactly what is happening. Some outlines for the design of production processes for an AZT analog are available on the net, as well as for another drug that, shall we say, has only *very* recently been introduced to the market. So far, I am aware of no effective protease inhibitor analog production information sites out there. AZT is a drug that could concievably be produced without extraordinary quality control measures or technology with remarkable economy. All it might require yet is will and some money....... Zidovudine and other drugs of its type are the best line of defense right now in preventing maternal infection of newborns as well as prophylaxis for at-risk individuals.
The 8890 is shaky. It has a much higher BER (bit error rate) signal threshhold than even a lot of cheepies. As a result, it has a really hard time maintaining a digital connection in even moderate signal level coverage areas. The variation from phone to phone is pretty high as well, probably due to the same fabrication processes they use on many of their other small profile phones. Don't get me wrong- the larger Nokias are built to last. The small ones are really fragile. If you want a phone that will survive more than a year or two without the shelter of a purse, I suggest a more robust phone, like Nokia's legacy products.
This is pathetic. Software is defended in the courts by corporations and organizations (and often by/.ers) ad nauseum as speech. Expression. Communication.
Speech is allegedly protected in the US; this applies to any other speech, and certainly any criticism of that speech (with a few basic restrictions). So why is this forgotten with EULAs? Because time and time again, corporations are gunning to use the tide of law to grant more "personhood" status to their products and themselves than anything near 98.6 degrees farenheit. What gives? It's bad for business, it's bad for the consumer, and it's bad for government to facilitate this kind of intimidation. I suspect that this kind of attempt to develop US copyright laws will fail- it's too absurd here, although perhaps not too absurd for the Belgians.....
This really doesn't solve the problems presented here. A hardware scan starts in the *low* thousands of dollars. There's access to these businesses in just about every good sized town these days with at least limited capability for it, and mail-order turn around is just a phone call away.
The encrypted file system is about the only way to protect this stuff. The sensitive items are things like spreadsheets, presentations, and word processors, and from what I've seen the performance hit is simply not noticeable to the average bear. The unfortunate thing about this is that this scheme has not been acceptably developed and marketed for Windows yet. This is the platform of choice for these folks, so......
Recovered from the deep, dark, mysterious recesses of the earth after a quarter of a billion years of isolation from the real world......and vying for headlines.....
>>So what's this bacteria DO?
Sounds like a pick up line in silicon valley.
The chances that this specimen is any more or less likely to reside on the harmful or disruptive end of the scale is indeterminate. There's positively no reason to have anything but a curious opinion about it.
Singer has always been a diversified and innovative company (let's just ignore their past in WWII for a moment, shall we?)
It's great to see folks breaking through the "appliance" marketing vehicle box and really free themselves to be creative with tools.....
What else can we think of for game boys? Firmware programming? Automobile electronics testing?
This is libertarian mumble. What would happen is that premiums will be *much* higher without the test. This will happen because there is no economic market pressure to counter this trend for the industry as a whole. The test will be effectively mandatory. Small (but let's face it, *very* significant) numbers of people will be screwed. Health care is already treacherously diffucult to obtain for less than fabulously wealthy unfortunates.
An analog to this phenomenon can be found in urine testing today, where suspicion is not based on fact but whether or not you wish to take the test. As often happens, these things become law even for the most absurd cases, in time justified by nothing more than "but we've always done it this way" mantra.....
There is a GPS sea level datum. This can vary the actual MSL figure somewhat. GPS is still a poor substitute for the certified blind altitude encoder on board. Why? It's always calibrated to STP (SL and 59 degrees F, atmospheric pressure at 29.92"). The tolerance is +/- 75 feet, and it checked regularly (90 day increments). The altitude reported is always based on this calibration. The ground station can determine relevant and accurate altitude data from this information- the actual altitudes can be determined reasonably accurately, and the relative altitudes are even more accurate. The airspace is separated laterally to avoid conflicts well beyond the error tolerance of the system. The tolerance stack for a thousand aircraft in the air and a single processor on the ground collecting data is at least an order of magnitude shorter than if a thousand aircraft broadcasted a thousand personal opinions of their altitude from their own temporarily calibrated or GPS provided data sources.
The TCAS system simpy reads DME information encoded with other information on mode c/s information from other aircraft using the groud facilities; the data can be used to construct a 3d picture of the vectors of everyone with mode c/s in the area. This data is processed locally at each aircraft with TCAS by the TCAS box. The altitudes are those reported by each blind encoding altimeter, thus the entire shooting match is a relative measurement- the actual altitude of each aircraft is completely irrelevant.
Not only that, one can read more than one Catalan or Spanish history of the war to find Sr. Samaranch directly responsible for brutal intimidation of students and other even marginal resistors, and is suspected of involvement in several disappearances with substantial evidence. He was responsible for shutting down independent journalist enterprises (and took pride in this fact). He is widely regarded with a rancid taste in the mouth of a certain generation of Spaniards. Yet he became involved with the IOC by the same connections that maintained his position in Francoist Spain. Very ironic.
I've posted elsewhere on the evils of PV. It ranks with nuclear as a time waster as far as energy efficiency or pollution are concerned. Considering it takes (optimisticlly) ten years or more for many nuclear power plants to pay back the energy investment to create them, you see where this leads. In the PV case, however, the payback for even crude systems is more than a decade. For useful power as we modern consumers use, which mandates storage and conditioning, the payback approaches more than you or I have on earth, with a high pollution penalty that makes gas or other sources of energy the winner.
The real alternative energy is to use less. Efficiency, modifying use models, and less affluenza are the real winners hands down. If we were all to suddenly install roof tiles, we would a) bankrupt our energy supply, b) bankrupt our pocketbooks and those of our future generations, and c) feel really, really stupid in the morning.
This is an ugly reality that many self-described green tekkies need to be more aware of. There are approriate uses for solar electric generation. PV really ranks up there with nuclear poawer for pollution and energy yield.
Many unconditioned amorphous devices can actually pay back in 12 years or less. Just about any storage device or conditioning device puts that payback time in the theory range, past the practical horizon.
These solar-powered-server-for-the-earth folks are simply misrepresenting themselves, inadvertently or not- even though there are plenty of other reasons for being off-grid for some clients, it seems.
This is correct. I (with others as well) began to track the same calculations several years back and found that if one were to maintain any class of vehicle since 1976 to the same emissions standards under which it was manufactured (1976 since this covers about 4 sigma in the US), the payback time in emmissions ranges from about 8 years on up (class for class, ie truck, sedan, compact, etc). In addition, the payback on the basis of energy is about 12 years. The average cradle to grave period for a vehicle in the US is slightly less than seven years, although this number is rising rapidly (in 1990, this half-life number was about 5.5 years!). The other trend is that both the emissions and energy payback times are increasing at nearly twice the rate the cradle to grave period is increasing (in the US- an attempt at analyzing the Euro car market was actually very encouraging, with emissions nearly at parity with cradle to grave times due to reforms or passage of cleaner air laws, and the situation is improving still, although the energy basis is surprisingly similiar to the US market, though, due to bigger cars in general for each class).
Many states would like to get the oldest cars off the road. While safety concerns are supported by statistics, the energy or "green" argument simply does not hold up even to the flimsiest of napkin inquiries. While pollution is reduced in the actual area the car is driven, the overall energy consumed is really quite staggering (electric cars belong in this category as well, overall). The overall idea is a campaign for economic development, jobs, and whispers from the auto industry. Don't ever put up with yuppies justifying the new Xterra again. Be proud of driving your old Corolla for 5 cents per mile. Let's get the word out about this- hard to do in the current epidemic of affluenza.
They're nifty. They provide power. They're still not a good alternative to grid power right now.
1) for heat, they're still not as efficient (or, I might add, as cheap) as moderately higher efficiency furnace units.
2) for electricity, they're very expensive if you have grid electricity available. For those without this luxury, fuel cells will be great product.
3) gas prices are sky rocketing (doubling in the last year at the wholesale level, and 40% on my bottom line locally here).
If a green appearance to the fuel cell is interesting, keep looking. The unit can only slightly best an average on grid energy paradigm. There are other ways (like use less, like use more efficiently, and, god forbid, use grid-based alternative energy).
At least fuel cells are better than PV right now, which has to rank up there with nuclear as a bad idea in large quantities from just about any perspective.
Cerlyn writes:
Once its all on a single IC chip (and this can likely be done with a bit of work right now), your rights are gone.
*******
What "rights" are these? You still should have (note the should) the "right" to decode the media or otherwise mimic the access control device. It may just become too expensive. This is their tactic, and their right- to use whatever devious means at their disposal to reduce the likelihood that you will be able to reduce in any way the money they want to extort through the likes of Brittany Spears. As long as it isn't illegal to attempt to break the protection, then......
The real challenge is when these means of communication, owned by corporations, become de facto standards of communication, preferable for essential public communication over other freely accessible means. This will happen (it already has, actually).
I don't believe that anyone has a "right" to anyone else's music (since that's the content we're talking about). On the other hand, I don't believe anyone has a right to control how his or her speech is broadcasted once it is communicated at large, despite the capitalist dreams this enables. There are plenty of other, better ways of making a living. To enforce broadcast tenets is to invite corruption and injustice, which we seen to have plenty of as a result of our view of speech legalities today.
Finally, there is no "right" to secure and effective encryption. The struggle will always be between those who wish to remain anonymous and those who are able to out-think this desire. Or, if you like, this struggle will be between those who make the rules (and are free to break them for ever-relaxing ideas of utility or security) and those who are not as politically or financially powerful.
The attempt to restrict the "right" to break any encryption system is tantamount to punishing someone for thinking too hard. It is also tantamount to restricting the rights to speak or understand a language, albeit a contrived language of invention. To restrict this activity reveals that the aim in prohibiting this speech is to protect a culture where corporate goals are taken for granted as more important than the "rights" of real people.
Ugh.
No, it is not "easy" to replicate DNA that is embedded in the label or anywhere else. You need time and lab equipment to do it- and yes you can do it in your sink at home if you like, but a handheld device can only detect a taggant, not identify the DNA. PCR replicates little snippets of genetic material, so the sample would have to be prepared to extract and treat any candidate DNA, then processed with appropriate restriction enzymes, then PCR'd, etc.
Reporters are reporters, and what may seem like duck soup to you or I can easily be strung together incoherently when the info is meted and doled out to a reporter. This is not news....what is news is how people eat this stuff up.....
The likelihood that there is a handheld DNA scanner is slim. Personally, I say impossible at the current time. In addition, PCR schmee-see-r. The process requires sufficient sample size (in comparison to noisy error material), and a device using somewhat pricey chemicals and, more importantly, plenty of time. The idea of using either radioactive or fluorescent markers is immediately possible, although these techniques can be used with much greater success using other substrates- DNA degrades relatively easily compared to other candidates, and the marker expression can certainly be provided more effectively with other possibilities as well.
The idea of identifying (not merely detecting) DNA with contact or non-contact technology in a handheld package is a pretty good hoax in my opinion.
Until tomorrow, maybe.
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This is exactly what is happening. Some outlines for the design of production processes for an AZT analog are available on the net, as well as for another drug that, shall we say, has only *very* recently been introduced to the market. So far, I am aware of no effective protease inhibitor analog production information sites out there. AZT is a drug that could concievably be produced without extraordinary quality control measures or technology with remarkable economy. All it might require yet is will and some money....... Zidovudine and other drugs of its type are the best line of defense right now in preventing maternal infection of newborns as well as prophylaxis for at-risk individuals.
The 8890 is shaky. It has a much higher BER (bit error rate) signal threshhold than even a lot of cheepies. As a result, it has a really hard time maintaining a digital connection in even moderate signal level coverage areas. The variation from phone to phone is pretty high as well, probably due to the same fabrication processes they use on many of their other small profile phones. Don't get me wrong- the larger Nokias are built to last. The small ones are really fragile. If you want a phone that will survive more than a year or two without the shelter of a purse, I suggest a more robust phone, like Nokia's legacy products.
This is pathetic. Software is defended in the courts by corporations and organizations (and often by /.ers) ad nauseum as speech. Expression. Communication.
Speech is allegedly protected in the US; this applies to any other speech, and certainly any criticism of that speech (with a few basic restrictions). So why is this forgotten with EULAs? Because time and time again, corporations are gunning to use the tide of law to grant more "personhood" status to their products and themselves than anything near 98.6 degrees farenheit. What gives? It's bad for business, it's bad for the consumer, and it's bad for government to facilitate this kind of intimidation. I suspect that this kind of attempt to develop US copyright laws will fail- it's too absurd here, although perhaps not too absurd for the Belgians.....
This really doesn't solve the problems presented here. A hardware scan starts in the *low* thousands of dollars. There's access to these businesses in just about every good sized town these days with at least limited capability for it, and mail-order turn around is just a phone call away. The encrypted file system is about the only way to protect this stuff. The sensitive items are things like spreadsheets, presentations, and word processors, and from what I've seen the performance hit is simply not noticeable to the average bear. The unfortunate thing about this is that this scheme has not been acceptably developed and marketed for Windows yet. This is the platform of choice for these folks, so......
Recovered from the deep, dark, mysterious recesses of the earth after a quarter of a billion years of isolation from the real world......and vying for headlines.....
>>So what's this bacteria DO? Sounds like a pick up line in silicon valley. The chances that this specimen is any more or less likely to reside on the harmful or disruptive end of the scale is indeterminate. There's positively no reason to have anything but a curious opinion about it.
"Brazil" all over again.....
Singer has always been a diversified and innovative company (let's just ignore their past in WWII for a moment, shall we?) It's great to see folks breaking through the "appliance" marketing vehicle box and really free themselves to be creative with tools..... What else can we think of for game boys? Firmware programming? Automobile electronics testing?
An analog to this phenomenon can be found in urine testing today, where suspicion is not based on fact but whether or not you wish to take the test. As often happens, these things become law even for the most absurd cases, in time justified by nothing more than "but we've always done it this way" mantra.....
....as are ants, amoebae, and lightening.....
There is a GPS sea level datum. This can vary the actual MSL figure somewhat. GPS is still a poor substitute for the certified blind altitude encoder on board. Why? It's always calibrated to STP (SL and 59 degrees F, atmospheric pressure at 29.92"). The tolerance is +/- 75 feet, and it checked regularly (90 day increments). The altitude reported is always based on this calibration. The ground station can determine relevant and accurate altitude data from this information- the actual altitudes can be determined reasonably accurately, and the relative altitudes are even more accurate. The airspace is separated laterally to avoid conflicts well beyond the error tolerance of the system. The tolerance stack for a thousand aircraft in the air and a single processor on the ground collecting data is at least an order of magnitude shorter than if a thousand aircraft broadcasted a thousand personal opinions of their altitude from their own temporarily calibrated or GPS provided data sources. The TCAS system simpy reads DME information encoded with other information on mode c/s information from other aircraft using the groud facilities; the data can be used to construct a 3d picture of the vectors of everyone with mode c/s in the area. This data is processed locally at each aircraft with TCAS by the TCAS box. The altitudes are those reported by each blind encoding altimeter, thus the entire shooting match is a relative measurement- the actual altitude of each aircraft is completely irrelevant.
Not only that, one can read more than one Catalan or Spanish history of the war to find Sr. Samaranch directly responsible for brutal intimidation of students and other even marginal resistors, and is suspected of involvement in several disappearances with substantial evidence. He was responsible for shutting down independent journalist enterprises (and took pride in this fact). He is widely regarded with a rancid taste in the mouth of a certain generation of Spaniards. Yet he became involved with the IOC by the same connections that maintained his position in Francoist Spain. Very ironic.
I've posted elsewhere on the evils of PV. It ranks with nuclear as a time waster as far as energy efficiency or pollution are concerned. Considering it takes (optimisticlly) ten years or more for many nuclear power plants to pay back the energy investment to create them, you see where this leads. In the PV case, however, the payback for even crude systems is more than a decade. For useful power as we modern consumers use, which mandates storage and conditioning, the payback approaches more than you or I have on earth, with a high pollution penalty that makes gas or other sources of energy the winner. The real alternative energy is to use less. Efficiency, modifying use models, and less affluenza are the real winners hands down. If we were all to suddenly install roof tiles, we would a) bankrupt our energy supply, b) bankrupt our pocketbooks and those of our future generations, and c) feel really, really stupid in the morning.
This is an ugly reality that many self-described green tekkies need to be more aware of. There are approriate uses for solar electric generation. PV really ranks up there with nuclear poawer for pollution and energy yield. Many unconditioned amorphous devices can actually pay back in 12 years or less. Just about any storage device or conditioning device puts that payback time in the theory range, past the practical horizon. These solar-powered-server-for-the-earth folks are simply misrepresenting themselves, inadvertently or not- even though there are plenty of other reasons for being off-grid for some clients, it seems.
This is correct. I (with others as well) began to track the same calculations several years back and found that if one were to maintain any class of vehicle since 1976 to the same emissions standards under which it was manufactured (1976 since this covers about 4 sigma in the US), the payback time in emmissions ranges from about 8 years on up (class for class, ie truck, sedan, compact, etc). In addition, the payback on the basis of energy is about 12 years. The average cradle to grave period for a vehicle in the US is slightly less than seven years, although this number is rising rapidly (in 1990, this half-life number was about 5.5 years!). The other trend is that both the emissions and energy payback times are increasing at nearly twice the rate the cradle to grave period is increasing (in the US- an attempt at analyzing the Euro car market was actually very encouraging, with emissions nearly at parity with cradle to grave times due to reforms or passage of cleaner air laws, and the situation is improving still, although the energy basis is surprisingly similiar to the US market, though, due to bigger cars in general for each class). Many states would like to get the oldest cars off the road. While safety concerns are supported by statistics, the energy or "green" argument simply does not hold up even to the flimsiest of napkin inquiries. While pollution is reduced in the actual area the car is driven, the overall energy consumed is really quite staggering (electric cars belong in this category as well, overall). The overall idea is a campaign for economic development, jobs, and whispers from the auto industry. Don't ever put up with yuppies justifying the new Xterra again. Be proud of driving your old Corolla for 5 cents per mile. Let's get the word out about this- hard to do in the current epidemic of affluenza.
They're nifty. They provide power. They're still not a good alternative to grid power right now. 1) for heat, they're still not as efficient (or, I might add, as cheap) as moderately higher efficiency furnace units. 2) for electricity, they're very expensive if you have grid electricity available. For those without this luxury, fuel cells will be great product. 3) gas prices are sky rocketing (doubling in the last year at the wholesale level, and 40% on my bottom line locally here). If a green appearance to the fuel cell is interesting, keep looking. The unit can only slightly best an average on grid energy paradigm. There are other ways (like use less, like use more efficiently, and, god forbid, use grid-based alternative energy). At least fuel cells are better than PV right now, which has to rank up there with nuclear as a bad idea in large quantities from just about any perspective.
Cerlyn writes: Once its all on a single IC chip (and this can likely be done with a bit of work right now), your rights are gone. ******* What "rights" are these? You still should have (note the should) the "right" to decode the media or otherwise mimic the access control device. It may just become too expensive. This is their tactic, and their right- to use whatever devious means at their disposal to reduce the likelihood that you will be able to reduce in any way the money they want to extort through the likes of Brittany Spears. As long as it isn't illegal to attempt to break the protection, then...... The real challenge is when these means of communication, owned by corporations, become de facto standards of communication, preferable for essential public communication over other freely accessible means. This will happen (it already has, actually).
I don't believe that anyone has a "right" to anyone else's music (since that's the content we're talking about). On the other hand, I don't believe anyone has a right to control how his or her speech is broadcasted once it is communicated at large, despite the capitalist dreams this enables. There are plenty of other, better ways of making a living. To enforce broadcast tenets is to invite corruption and injustice, which we seen to have plenty of as a result of our view of speech legalities today. Finally, there is no "right" to secure and effective encryption. The struggle will always be between those who wish to remain anonymous and those who are able to out-think this desire. Or, if you like, this struggle will be between those who make the rules (and are free to break them for ever-relaxing ideas of utility or security) and those who are not as politically or financially powerful. The attempt to restrict the "right" to break any encryption system is tantamount to punishing someone for thinking too hard. It is also tantamount to restricting the rights to speak or understand a language, albeit a contrived language of invention. To restrict this activity reveals that the aim in prohibiting this speech is to protect a culture where corporate goals are taken for granted as more important than the "rights" of real people.
Ugh. No, it is not "easy" to replicate DNA that is embedded in the label or anywhere else. You need time and lab equipment to do it- and yes you can do it in your sink at home if you like, but a handheld device can only detect a taggant, not identify the DNA. PCR replicates little snippets of genetic material, so the sample would have to be prepared to extract and treat any candidate DNA, then processed with appropriate restriction enzymes, then PCR'd, etc. Reporters are reporters, and what may seem like duck soup to you or I can easily be strung together incoherently when the info is meted and doled out to a reporter. This is not news....what is news is how people eat this stuff up.....
The likelihood that there is a handheld DNA scanner is slim. Personally, I say impossible at the current time. In addition, PCR schmee-see-r. The process requires sufficient sample size (in comparison to noisy error material), and a device using somewhat pricey chemicals and, more importantly, plenty of time. The idea of using either radioactive or fluorescent markers is immediately possible, although these techniques can be used with much greater success using other substrates- DNA degrades relatively easily compared to other candidates, and the marker expression can certainly be provided more effectively with other possibilities as well. The idea of identifying (not merely detecting) DNA with contact or non-contact technology in a handheld package is a pretty good hoax in my opinion. Until tomorrow, maybe.