I don't find his objection to the DMCA remarkable, in the light that he regularly ignores plain old cease and desist orders.
His campaign was playing "Barracuda" at Palin rallies without getting permission. Amy and Nancy Wilson of Heart got upset and he got a cease and desist letter. Even after this had all been in the news, they played Barracuda again as they dropped the balloons on Palin at the GOP convention.
I don't think we've won the presidency. Someone filled out "Mickey Mouse" on a registration card and handed it to ACORN. It's illegal for ACORN to throw those cards in the trash, so Mickey Mouse got registered.
Since we're all now afraid of dead people and Mickey Mouse showing up to vote, we're dumping hundreds of thousands of voters from Democratic-leaning districts in swing states, because that must be where Mickey Mouse lives.
We've really undermined the natural selection mechanisms that have shaped human development up to now. People who wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for modern medicine are now able to have kids. You don't have to be as smart as before. You don't have to be fit or healthy anymore to survive and reproduce. You can even have a severe metabolic disorder and still bear children.
We'll see what happens when the earth is 6 degrees hotter by the end of the century. Humans are quite good at isolating themselves from selective pressure, and there's not much time to adapt. If we're smart we'll start breeding ourselves to have arms shaped like fins so our descendants can swim through the underwater ruins of our cities.
That form wasn't really written to discourage people from doing nasty things to spammers like suing them or keying their cars. These are "feel-good" measures and I approve of feel-good measures. But still, feel-good measures don't amount to solutions to the spam problem. The form was written with the assumption that the problem is probably unsolvable. Anything that works like email, and has the attributes that we like about email, is going to be vulnerable to troublemakers.
Lots of people give spam some casual thought and come up with a final ultimate solution to the spam problem (FUSSP). Then you have to get into arguments with them about why their solutions won't work, and these arguments take over whole threads. So that's what the form is for.
It's reached the point where most of the "spam" stories have the form appearing in their comment section. Now whenever a FUSSP-style article gets posted on Slashdot, I scroll down until I see my form, so I can quickly see what's wrong with their idea.
If I were a governor, I certainly wouldn't let emails with state business in them hit a yahoo account, but the assumption of avoidance is a bit of a stretch, at least until it can be verified whether or not any government business emails made it into the state archives.
That's probably a more severe standard than you realize. It hasn't been met here: From the New York Times:
Interviews show that Ms. Palin runs an administration that puts a premium on loyalty and secrecy. The governor and her top officials sometimes use personal e-mail accounts for state business; dozens of e-mail messages obtained by The New York Times show that her staff members studied whether that could allow them to circumvent subpoenas seeking public records.
A discussion in state email archives about using yahoo and hotmail to avoid subpoenas is already pretty damning.
It's a good thing I did a search for "paint the bacteria" to avoid the -1 Redundant for the obvious joke... although bacteria look really good with a nice coat of white semi-gloss paint.
so her positions on issues will differ little from those of a Barbie doll.
You might even say that she is a "typical white woman". But that would be racist.
Ah, I see you have never seen a white woman. Which is only fitting, because except for that preprepared speech, we will have never seen Sarah Palin by the time of the election.
It looks like you're essentially applying an evolutionary algorithm to mRNA expression data, which requires a run of many chips over a time series, over experimental parameters, and over sample replicates. These are genotype arrays. They cost less than a thousand bucks each and you only run one per individual (maybe several replicates). Plus the measurements are easier because it's a digital signal, so the scanners don't have to be terribly sophisticated. Already people are making ones as small as shoe boxes.
The "data mining" that would be involved would be the extraction of population data, but this has been done. And that was expensive, requiring lots of chips, but it only needs to be done once per population to derive a large amount of phenotypic information from a given genotype. And a lot of this data has already been published. For thousands of SNPs, we know which ones are associated with which phenotypes now, and with what probabilities. And Illumina just started selling a chip with 1.2 million SNP probes on it, if you're asking for a large enough scale.
How would this be any different from just running a SNP chip?
I spent two years working on DNA analysis techniques, particularly with regard to the application of data mining (not for the kind of thing that would be a privacy issue).
A lot of SNPs and coding regions can be used to identify haplotypes- e.g. we might know that the probability of finding an A rather than a T at a particular base position on chromosome 3 is 90% for Asians and 20% for everyone else, or 40% of people with Huntingdon's and 90% of people without, etc. If you can gather SNP information from locations that are spread out across linkage points on different chromosomes, you can pretty much pin down the phenotype of the guy if any data has ever been gathered specifically mapping the phenotype distribution to the base pair probability. And if you're being genotyped, they'll know your race along with a lot of other phenotypic information about you from the paperwork they'll have you fill out.
This is a weird situation, because race is only one of many attributes you have that you have no control over, but we obviously single it out and make it a sore spot. Now that they can genotype bloodbaths, will we get lynchings of color blind guys to come from this? Probably not, but I can easily imagine something like this igniting racial tensions.
That's just what I'd expect a monkey like you to say.
Well maybe 00000000 you can help me with my typing here. I've been trying to decide, 000000 should I have Hamlet's mother die in the last act or just kill off Claudius and have a happy ending 000000000000?
BetaNews contacted the press office of Gov. Sarah Palin earlier this week, and received assurances that we would be receiving responses to our inquiries about the governor's position on critical technology issues, five of which we listed and explained in detail. This has been the week of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, so any number of reasons may have delayed the press office's final response to us. However, they were aware of our already-once-postponed deadline, so in the interest of absolute fairness -- especially since we already profiled Sen. Joe Biden last week -- we will proceed with as thorough an assessment as we possibly can of Gov. Palin, given the information we do have.
They're going to have a long wait.
The fact is, we have no clue where Sarah Palin stands on anything. Since she was nominated to be vice president, we've heard her read a speech, and that's about it. The McCain campaign is now going to keep her completely isolated from the press, so her positions on issues will differ little from those of a Barbie doll.
By Standard Model standards this is an ordinary, fairly well-understood ssb baryon. What makes this one newsworthy is that there are no (stable) up or down quarks in it- strange quarks and especially bottom quarks are energetically expensive and have to be generated in huge colliders. The bottom quark is especially unusual- we rarely see those. The chance of making one of these guys and actually observing it is pretty small.
If you were using Java around the time Sun sued Microsoft, you'd know that Microsoft's implementation of Java was far superior to Sun's.
Microsoft's "implementation of Java" only worked on Windows. They should have just called it C# from the beginning and let it compete on merits instead of trying to confuse everyone with the name.
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Joe the Plumber is laughing his ass off at you Brits.
I don't find his objection to the DMCA remarkable, in the light that he regularly ignores plain old cease and desist orders.
His campaign was playing "Barracuda" at Palin rallies without getting permission. Amy and Nancy Wilson of Heart got upset and he got a cease and desist letter. Even after this had all been in the news, they played Barracuda again as they dropped the balloons on Palin at the GOP convention.
I don't think we've won the presidency. Someone filled out "Mickey Mouse" on a registration card and handed it to ACORN. It's illegal for ACORN to throw those cards in the trash, so Mickey Mouse got registered.
Since we're all now afraid of dead people and Mickey Mouse showing up to vote, we're dumping hundreds of thousands of voters from Democratic-leaning districts in swing states, because that must be where Mickey Mouse lives.
We've really undermined the natural selection mechanisms that have shaped human development up to now. People who wouldn't even be alive if it weren't for modern medicine are now able to have kids. You don't have to be as smart as before. You don't have to be fit or healthy anymore to survive and reproduce. You can even have a severe metabolic disorder and still bear children.
We'll see what happens when the earth is 6 degrees hotter by the end of the century. Humans are quite good at isolating themselves from selective pressure, and there's not much time to adapt. If we're smart we'll start breeding ourselves to have arms shaped like fins so our descendants can swim through the underwater ruins of our cities.
I was the original author of the spam form. Don't believe me? Read the original post from 2003.
That form wasn't really written to discourage people from doing nasty things to spammers like suing them or keying their cars. These are "feel-good" measures and I approve of feel-good measures. But still, feel-good measures don't amount to solutions to the spam problem. The form was written with the assumption that the problem is probably unsolvable. Anything that works like email, and has the attributes that we like about email, is going to be vulnerable to troublemakers.
Lots of people give spam some casual thought and come up with a final ultimate solution to the spam problem (FUSSP). Then you have to get into arguments with them about why their solutions won't work, and these arguments take over whole threads. So that's what the form is for.
It's reached the point where most of the "spam" stories have the form appearing in their comment section. Now whenever a FUSSP-style article gets posted on Slashdot, I scroll down until I see my form, so I can quickly see what's wrong with their idea.
Yes but it's more biased.
If I am elected, all charges will be positive.
Can you fit an ENIAC in that church?
If I were a governor, I certainly wouldn't let emails with state business in them hit a yahoo account, but the assumption of avoidance is a bit of a stretch, at least until it can be verified whether or not any government business emails made it into the state archives.
That's probably a more severe standard than you realize. It hasn't been met here:
From the New York Times:
A discussion in state email archives about using yahoo and hotmail to avoid subpoenas is already pretty damning.
It's a good thing I did a search for "paint the bacteria" to avoid the -1 Redundant for the obvious joke... although bacteria look really good with a nice coat of white semi-gloss paint.
You might even say that she is a "typical white woman".
But that would be racist.
Ah, I see you have never seen a white woman. Which is only fitting, because except for that preprepared speech, we will have never seen Sarah Palin by the time of the election.
It looks like you're essentially applying an evolutionary algorithm to mRNA expression data, which requires a run of many chips over a time series, over experimental parameters, and over sample replicates. These are genotype arrays. They cost less than a thousand bucks each and you only run one per individual (maybe several replicates). Plus the measurements are easier because it's a digital signal, so the scanners don't have to be terribly sophisticated. Already people are making ones as small as shoe boxes.
The "data mining" that would be involved would be the extraction of population data, but this has been done. And that was expensive, requiring lots of chips, but it only needs to be done once per population to derive a large amount of phenotypic information from a given genotype. And a lot of this data has already been published. For thousands of SNPs, we know which ones are associated with which phenotypes now, and with what probabilities. And Illumina just started selling a chip with 1.2 million SNP probes on it, if you're asking for a large enough scale.
How would this be any different from just running a SNP chip?
I spent two years working on DNA analysis techniques, particularly with regard to the application of data mining (not for the kind of thing that would be a privacy issue).
That's interesting- what techniques specifically?
A lot of SNPs and coding regions can be used to identify haplotypes- e.g. we might know that the probability of finding an A rather than a T at a particular base position on chromosome 3 is 90% for Asians and 20% for everyone else, or 40% of people with Huntingdon's and 90% of people without, etc. If you can gather SNP information from locations that are spread out across linkage points on different chromosomes, you can pretty much pin down the phenotype of the guy if any data has ever been gathered specifically mapping the phenotype distribution to the base pair probability. And if you're being genotyped, they'll know your race along with a lot of other phenotypic information about you from the paperwork they'll have you fill out.
This is a weird situation, because race is only one of many attributes you have that you have no control over, but we obviously single it out and make it a sore spot. Now that they can genotype bloodbaths, will we get lynchings of color blind guys to come from this? Probably not, but I can easily imagine something like this igniting racial tensions.
That's just what I'd expect a monkey like you to say.
Well maybe 00000000 you can help me with my typing here. I've been trying to decide, 000000 should I have Hamlet's mother die in the last act or just kill off Claudius and have a happy ending 000000000000?
000 000, 0 000 0000 0000000 0 0 0 0000 00000! 000 0 000 000 0000000 000 000000 00000? 00 000 000000!
000 000 00 0000 000.
They're going to have a long wait.
The fact is, we have no clue where Sarah Palin stands on anything. Since she was nominated to be vice president, we've heard her read a speech, and that's about it. The McCain campaign is now going to keep her completely isolated from the press, so her positions on issues will differ little from those of a Barbie doll.
By Standard Model standards this is an ordinary, fairly well-understood ssb baryon. What makes this one newsworthy is that there are no (stable) up or down quarks in it- strange quarks and especially bottom quarks are energetically expensive and have to be generated in huge colliders. The bottom quark is especially unusual- we rarely see those. The chance of making one of these guys and actually observing it is pretty small.
It could be that a lot of people are still healthy enough to continue working after age 65... and some people actually want to!
That sounds about right, because I'm not that old and I feel like working less than half the time.
There we go, asking people to prove negatives again. Why don't you start by proving that it IS man-made?
OK, I confess... I knew it was wrong... I did it anyway.
Damn sunspots... I hate them all!
And it should be retrofitted to use the org.springframework.helloworld.core.* classes.
Crap, I thought I removed that cast to String. It makes the factory class type-specific for no good reason.
If you were using Java around the time Sun sued Microsoft, you'd know that Microsoft's implementation of Java was far superior to Sun's.
Microsoft's "implementation of Java" only worked on Windows. They should have just called it C# from the beginning and let it compete on merits instead of trying to confuse everyone with the name.
Hello World? That's easy!
public interface MessageStrategy {
public void sendMessage();
}
public abstract class AbstractStrategyFactory {
public abstract MessageStrategy createStrategy(MessageBody mb);
}
public class MessageBody {
Object payload;
public Object getPayload() {
return payload;
}
public void setPayload(Object payload) {
this.payload = payload;
}
public void send(MessageStrategy ms) {
ms.sendMessage();
}
}
public class DefaultFactory extends AbstractStrategyFactory {
private DefaultFactory() {}
static DefaultFactory instance;
public static synchronized AbstractStrategyFactory getInstance() {
if (null==instance) instance = new DefaultFactory();
return instance;
}
public MessageStrategy createStrategy(final MessageBody mb) {
return new MessageStrategy() {
MessageBody body = mb;
public void sendMessage() {
Object obj = body.getPayload();
System.out.println((String)obj);
}
};
}
}
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
MessageBody mb = new MessageBody();
mb.setPayload("Hello World!");
AbstractStrategyFactory asf = DefaultFactory.getInstance();
MessageStrategy strategy = asf.createStrategy(mb);
mb.send(strategy);
}
}
try to learn hibernate, which will be the last time you think about databases.
LOL there is no other API where you think more about databases than Hibernate. The simplicity is deceptive.