Could it be that this is the key to unlocking the code that allows men to employ cooperative, empathetic strategies to achieve success thus explaining the emergence of game theory from the example of men cooperating for the affection of women in bars?
No. It's about sperm production.
With 5% of the human genome residing on this chromosome, it isn't a surprise.
Most of what we have today will be lost, or intentionally deleted by people in the future who won't give a damn about your cute dog photos or sexts or comments on slashdot and most of our literature. Frankly, that's what most of it deserves.
But they will probably keep permanent records of whatever it is from our era they find to be interesting,
The theory is supposed to be that the captive animals prevent total exinction should the wild populations die out, which the Sumatran rhinos haven't yet. It would be better to harvest sperm from a wild rhino in Sumatra or Borneo so as to get some genetic variation back into that zoo family.
That's very true, but when the lunatics and charlatans have political control in infested areas, you can't achieve eradication. That's why we still have polio and polio vaccines. To achieve eradication, you must have a disease that has no non-human hosts (e.g. polio, measles, smallpox) and governments willing for employ mandatory vaccination of everybody. And of course you must have highly effective vaccines. Not all vaccines are that effective.
These days, what we're "not getting enough of" seems to have shifted to krill oil and antioxidants, for which you must compensate by taking their pill or drinking their special juice that you can get for only $29.95 a month if you act now.
Nanoparticles are much smaller than pollen. (11.5 nm to 116 nm). At that scale, particles can be much more active than the bulk materials. And seriously, POLLEN? When people think of airborne substances that give them problems, that's very high on the list. Not to be compared in severity with coal dust, but still pretty bad.
The take home lesson is this: keep it out of your house and operate it in an area well-ventilated to the outside, or in a room with HEPA filters which MIGHT be good enough to take most of the nanoparticles out of the air before you breathe it into your lungs where it can cause problems.
Which is why these things should not be in your house. They should be operated in your garage, with the windows open and ventilation fans blowing while you're in the house waiting for your part to be made. Then it's safe.
Driving people to suicide over trivial nonsense changes things, MIT is dead. Good teachers might or might not stop associating with MIT but the extremely excellent ones will probably leave over time. Anyone on the outside with half a clue and anything resembling a human heart hears "Aaron Swartz" each and every fucking time someone mentions MIT or a paper published from MIT comes their way.
Aaron Swartz has become MIT's unwanted brand and they manage to make themselves look even worse when they try to get rid of it.
Sure the paper-mill will roll on with plenty of people but any real aces who knows what happened won't go there because they don't want to be treated that way should they happen to run afoul of the administration. They know what to expect. Those who find out afterwards (likely as a warning or implied warning) will be limited by it and the implications of it no matter if it's sensible or applicable to themselves or not simply because they now know what to expect.
"Driving people to suicide" is not what they did. It's complete bullshit to lay that at the feet of MIT. Aaron Schwartz's own psychological problems made him unable to deal with the consequences of his actions, and his own lack of thinking through the possible consequences is largely responsible for the situation in which he found himself.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of the administrators at MIT. You have a history of Schwartz pulling files that you think are protected by copyright from your school's servers and publishing them without permission. You've asked him nicely to stop. Then you've warned him not so nicely to stop. Then you've blocked his access to the files so he'll stop. Then you find him in a closet with his computer plugged right into your server.
What are you going to do? Ask him nicely AGAIN? Or admit that he must be right because he BROKE THE LAW and lawbreakers have God on their side?
Corrupt and self serving are consistent with competent. Besides, there's no indication that the educators are any more or less self-serving than any other institution, nor that the behavior you call corrupt (but which isn't) has anything to do with the professors who will teach you rather than the administration who will not.
In the linked npr article it is suspected that amoebas could mistake this virus for a bacteria because of its size and try to eat it. This way the virus would infect the amoeba.
If the size developed only for this most of the genetic material in it could be totally random and meaningless.
In that case, it most likely would be multiple copies of DNA sequences already in the virus. Or multiple copies of a normal sized genome in an extra-large case.
Summary is misleading. It's not just one species of virus. The article abstract says they found TWO species of these Pandoraviruses. The "possibly started on Mars" is just hype. There's exactly zero evidence of that.
I suspect that in the long term, they'll find abundant evidence that they're related (perhaps not closely) to every other kind of life on Earth. Especially since they are viruses. Viruses can only target particular species of cells and would quickly become extinct in the absense of those species. How could they evolve the ability to infect Earth life on Mars? That makes no sense. If something was going to make it here from another planet and establish itself in our ecosphere, it wouldn't be viruses or any other species that depends on the presence of some particular species already being here.
And with a sudden diminisging of MIT's cred with many tech people, sadly. Oh well, there are always others ready to pick any people (students or professors) that won't be heading to MIT as a reaction to this.
MIT's cred with tech people is and has always been about the competence of their educators, the capabilities of their labs and the fact that a degree from MIT is taken at face value to imply a top-notch technical education. That has not changed. Students and professors don't go there for transparency.
What about when the govt. agencies get those "legal papers" that compel MS to provide access to data on Outlook, Skydrive, etc? Do they provide encryption keys then? What about SSL certs? Do they send them over to the NSA after they expire?
When the government, any government, comes with court orders, of course they comply. Every company does, because they are then legally required to do so. Don't pretend that situation has changed between 1789 and today. NSLs, as far as I know, have no real legal standing. I don't know what a company could do if they didn't want to comply with a NSL.
When the subject line read "Piracy down in Norway" naturally I though of longships before it occurred to me they were talking about downloading movies. How the mighty have fallen!
While Destiny's Pugliese could have gone elsewhere with his plans, it seems a legal plot twist was the final nail in Destiny's coffin: A series of finger-pointing lawsuits between Pugliese and investor Fred DeLuca concluded last October when Pugliese and his business manager Joseph Reamer were charged with money laundering and fraud for using a portion of DeLuca's investment to pay for personal and business projects unrelated to Destiny.
'The security of Android devices worldwide is paralyzed by the slow patching practices of mobile carriers and other parties in the Android ecosystem,' said Oberheide. However, the fragmentation of the Android ecosystem is significant enough that it is no longer feasible for Google to take over responsibility for distributing patches. Third parties may need to step in to fill the void."
But, but, if it's no longer feasible for Google to provide patches, how come he says his company, with vastly fewer resources, can do it?
It stands to reason that if Google can't patch your phone because of "fragmentation of the ecosystem," nobody else can either. That makes me not at all anxious to install his patch.
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Could it be that this is the key to unlocking the code that allows men to employ cooperative, empathetic strategies to achieve success thus explaining the emergence of game theory from the example of men cooperating for the affection of women in bars?
No. It's about sperm production.
With 5% of the human genome residing on this chromosome, it isn't a surprise.
Or they could make movies on budgets that don't require them to blow the doors off every cinema in America to turn a profit.
Depends on what you mean by group outings, sports and exercize.
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http://thebeatofyounglosangeles.blogspot.com/2011/04/check-it-quidditch-comes-to-la.html
Linus Pauling and Adele Davis weren't quite that. They were well-educated people with scientific backgrounds who SHOULD have known better.
Most of what we have today will be lost, or intentionally deleted by people in the future who won't give a damn about your cute dog photos or sexts or comments on slashdot and most of our literature. Frankly, that's what most of it deserves.
But they will probably keep permanent records of whatever it is from our era they find to be interesting,
The theory is supposed to be that the captive animals prevent total exinction should the wild populations die out, which the Sumatran rhinos haven't yet. It would be better to harvest sperm from a wild rhino in Sumatra or Borneo so as to get some genetic variation back into that zoo family.
Not yet. The male is underage.
That's very true, but when the lunatics and charlatans have political control in infested areas, you can't achieve eradication. That's why we still have polio and polio vaccines. To achieve eradication, you must have a disease that has no non-human hosts (e.g. polio, measles, smallpox) and governments willing for employ mandatory vaccination of everybody. And of course you must have highly effective vaccines. Not all vaccines are that effective.
These days, what we're "not getting enough of" seems to have shifted to krill oil and antioxidants, for which you must compensate by taking their pill or drinking their special juice that you can get for only $29.95 a month if you act now.
A yes, another disciple of the "If a little bit is good, a whole lot must be better" school of nutrition.
Plato had it right 2400 years ago.
Probably. But at nanoscale, the plastics may be biodegradeable too. Or not. Maybe they just pile up in your lungs like some other particles.
Nanoparticles are much smaller than pollen. (11.5 nm to 116 nm). At that scale, particles can be much more active than the bulk materials. And seriously, POLLEN? When people think of airborne substances that give them problems, that's very high on the list. Not to be compared in severity with coal dust, but still pretty bad.
The take home lesson is this: keep it out of your house and operate it in an area well-ventilated to the outside, or in a room with HEPA filters which MIGHT be good enough to take most of the nanoparticles out of the air before you breathe it into your lungs where it can cause problems.
Which is why these things should not be in your house. They should be operated in your garage, with the windows open and ventilation fans blowing while you're in the house waiting for your part to be made. Then it's safe.
WHY is there no +1 Troll mod? This really needs to be fixed.
Driving people to suicide over trivial nonsense changes things, MIT is dead. Good teachers might or might not stop associating with MIT but the extremely excellent ones will probably leave over time. Anyone on the outside with half a clue and anything resembling a human heart hears "Aaron Swartz" each and every fucking time someone mentions MIT or a paper published from MIT comes their way.
Aaron Swartz has become MIT's unwanted brand and they manage to make themselves look even worse when they try to get rid of it.
Sure the paper-mill will roll on with plenty of people but any real aces who knows what happened won't go there because they don't want to be treated that way should they happen to run afoul of the administration. They know what to expect. Those who find out afterwards (likely as a warning or implied warning) will be limited by it and the implications of it no matter if it's sensible or applicable to themselves or not simply because they now know what to expect.
"Driving people to suicide" is not what they did. It's complete bullshit to lay that at the feet of MIT. Aaron Schwartz's own psychological problems made him unable to deal with the consequences of his actions, and his own lack of thinking through the possible consequences is largely responsible for the situation in which he found himself.
Imagine yourself in the shoes of the administrators at MIT. You have a history of Schwartz pulling files that you think are protected by copyright from your school's servers and publishing them without permission. You've asked him nicely to stop. Then you've warned him not so nicely to stop. Then you've blocked his access to the files so he'll stop. Then you find him in a closet with his computer plugged right into your server.
What are you going to do? Ask him nicely AGAIN? Or admit that he must be right because he BROKE THE LAW and lawbreakers have God on their side?
Seriously, what the hell would you have done?
Corrupt and self serving are consistent with competent. Besides, there's no indication that the educators are any more or less self-serving than any other institution, nor that the behavior you call corrupt (but which isn't) has anything to do with the professors who will teach you rather than the administration who will not.
In the linked npr article it is suspected that amoebas could mistake this virus for a bacteria because of its size and try to eat it. This way the virus would infect the amoeba. If the size developed only for this most of the genetic material in it could be totally random and meaningless.
In that case, it most likely would be multiple copies of DNA sequences already in the virus. Or multiple copies of a normal sized genome in an extra-large case.
Summary is misleading. It's not just one species of virus. The article abstract says they found TWO species of these Pandoraviruses. The "possibly started on Mars" is just hype. There's exactly zero evidence of that.
I suspect that in the long term, they'll find abundant evidence that they're related (perhaps not closely) to every other kind of life on Earth. Especially since they are viruses. Viruses can only target particular species of cells and would quickly become extinct in the absense of those species. How could they evolve the ability to infect Earth life on Mars? That makes no sense. If something was going to make it here from another planet and establish itself in our ecosphere, it wouldn't be viruses or any other species that depends on the presence of some particular species already being here.
And with a sudden diminisging of MIT's cred with many tech people, sadly. Oh well, there are always others ready to pick any people (students or professors) that won't be heading to MIT as a reaction to this.
MIT's cred with tech people is and has always been about the competence of their educators, the capabilities of their labs and the fact that a degree from MIT is taken at face value to imply a top-notch technical education. That has not changed. Students and professors don't go there for transparency.
What about when the govt. agencies get those "legal papers" that compel MS to provide access to data on Outlook, Skydrive, etc? Do they provide encryption keys then? What about SSL certs? Do they send them over to the NSA after they expire?
When the government, any government, comes with court orders, of course they comply. Every company does, because they are then legally required to do so. Don't pretend that situation has changed between 1789 and today. NSLs, as far as I know, have no real legal standing. I don't know what a company could do if they didn't want to comply with a NSL.
When thermocells approach the efficiency of normal heat engines, wake me up. I might be interested in that.
When the subject line read "Piracy down in Norway" naturally I though of longships before it occurred to me they were talking about downloading movies. How the mighty have fallen!
While Destiny's Pugliese could have gone elsewhere with his plans, it seems a legal plot twist was the final nail in Destiny's coffin: A series of finger-pointing lawsuits between Pugliese and investor Fred DeLuca concluded last October when Pugliese and his business manager Joseph Reamer were charged with money laundering and fraud for using a portion of DeLuca's investment to pay for personal and business projects unrelated to Destiny.
Reamer. Who would have thought?
But, but, if it's no longer feasible for Google to provide patches, how come he says his company, with vastly fewer resources, can do it?
It stands to reason that if Google can't patch your phone because of "fragmentation of the ecosystem," nobody else can either. That makes me not at all anxious to install his patch.
As long as you don't want the roads paved or the police to show up when needed.