Can't find the article now, but people who lived in the trials had something very spooky happen once their new "hearts" were installed - their life became really quiet.
Usually you don't notice your heartbeat, or have other things going on to drown out the noise. But with an artificial heart, you aren't spending as much time in bars and so forth - you get more quiet time. The man who lived the longest compained that once the artificial heart was installed he could no longer hear the beating of his heart and it was eerie. The heartbeat is something every human knows, and many cultures have played on it in their music (trance, drums).
So yes it is spooky, but for more problematic reasons. It just needs a virtual drum machine or something...
Actuall, looking at TFA you see that it hasn't been totally rejected yet:
Slashdot title: FDA Rejects Artificial Heart
Washington Post title: FDA Panel Rejects Artificial Heart
In article text: the panel voted 7-6 that the heart's probable benefit didn't outweigh the risks... The FDA is not bound by its advisers' recommendations but usually follows them
There is still hope, and writing a letter to people like Tom DeLay or George Bush might help (only in that they may get together and pressure the FDA). Kinda ironic that I might actually take their side on this sort of issue - assuming that they would support it due to their right to life/culture of life stance.
We aren't talking about bringing back 110 year old people from near death. A lot of children are running around with defective hearts and middle-aged people running around that had poor health education in their younger years. Of course, letting people with "defective" organs die and not reproduce is another argument/fight altogether.
You are right - if you only have one option: DEATH - then you should be able to take any chance at avoiding death you want. I mean, heart surgery is pretty common today. When I hear of a relative or friend getting a bypass I think "good for them, it will make them better". I know there is pain involved, but I would thank my stars that we found I needed one before I died (rather than go without it).
The only way to develop the technology is to deploy it on those "lost causes". (Not against their will - I'm not a Nazi!).
Of course these kinds of cases are more important to the powers at be. Culture of life my ass!
I've been using a lot of (ported) GPL Windows software lately (Apache2, MySQL, Gaim, so forth) and depend on it greatly. I've been starting to use Cygwin more because I've noticed it has matured a great deal - but more work is always needed.
Can we get Cygwin in on this?
It sure would be nice to have more GNU tools for Windows.
Considering the software that often uses bundled adware and spyware is questionable at best (Kazaa at one time, other - more bogus - P2P software bundles) I wonder how much these Fortune 500 companies have funded even dirtier scams.
You know someone who has clicked a "free screensaver" or "system performance" pop-up before only to get trojans and adware. Does Circuit City endorse these scams on user intelligence? [Oxymoron I know]
Let's not even mention Compaq who bundles WeatherBug on their new machines!
Is it always going to be "us" versus the corporations? And why do I feel more libertarian and less "liberal" everyday?
I guess the solution is simple - start a list of people to boycott based on their aggressive advertising.
The city has obviously reached a certain critical mass - or has the worst planning and execution ever. Mexico city is another that either needs to shape up or abandon all hope. Public transportation in its current form isn't enough, and sorry to say, the cars are doing a lot of polluting.
I know you are going for humor, but why not leave now?
It's only 25 light years away. If solar sails can be asumed to go "a significant fraction" of light speed (at their best) we can assume that it would take no longer than a few minutes - to the passengers (assuming that a trip of 100,000 light years would take about 3 minutes "to the riders").
This means a two-way trip to "snap photos" would mean that your loved ones may have passed, but you are theorically only about 50-100 years into the future. TFA mentions the amount of learning that could be had - if we left in the next 100 years we would learn even more, but this solar system is still young. Even sending instruments to beam back data would be worth it.
Sure, there are a lot of things to work out - but it is something to shoot for. And a whole lot more worth it than going for Mars or the Moon again.
Putting the system in a secure computer room with a heavy door and lock.
Really, what else do you need? In commercial applications companies can afford to lock up systems thus making this pointless. I assume this is really geared towards home "hobbiest" types. And by hobbiests I mean those partaking in illegal activities.
Physical security is just as important, and let me point out that data loss prevention is yet another form of security. This is a silly idea, and will only be bought by those who think it's 'kewl' and have money to burn. Of course, my question is: do they *give* you a new drive when the last one dies?
Let's be honest, this isn't for the security admin. This is for piracy/crackers and kiddie porn collectors/producers. My favorite story is the young man who put (BIG) magnets in his door frame so as the computer was carried out the data disappeared. Of course that was in the 1980's...
Why worry about asteroids? Even the latest playboy points out that all we have to do is paint them white - turning them into solar sail type devices and sending them packing...
We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't
I say that I have a problem with intellectual property that includes open-source technology it shouldn't!
Joking aside. As others have and will point out: They don't belive the GPL is Constitutional or enforceable - and because of this they have no rights under the license. I wonder how long it takes for GPL code to enter their software?
Users have to pay for each track they download, but sharing songs they've purchased from Peer Impact earns them credits they can spend on the service.
I think this is a genius idea. In fact, it might make the downloads faster *if it swarms* instead of relying on a central server to host all of the music. I know playing iTunes previews can be slow, purchases sometimes come in slower - and I'm a 3 Mbps DSL connection.
I say download a song you think is going to be a hit and then take the gamble. If it is the next "Hit me baby one more time" then you could finally get that obscure album you want for free.
As of December 2004 blacks are the highest unemployed ethnic group in America at 10.8 percent. Now, by definition that means these people are *looking* for work. I understand that some are under-qualified, and other factors, but doesn't that show something. Put your racism away; we aren't counting "bums" here - we are counting workers who will take wages for a job done.
You see, the great thing is that after you have not been looking for a job for four weeks you aren't counted as "unemployed". Learned that in my first Economics class. That is when I realized why the benefits were extended to 26 weeks. You see, before (9/11) you could only collect for 13 weeks - 3 months. Then under the guise of 9/11 'we' extended benefits to 26 weeks - 6 months.
This way after 182(.5) days of benefits you are no longer counted as part of the labor force. You see, when you are getting paid for nothing for six months there is an economic insentive to not look for work. Where three months is too close for most people and they are eager to find another job (the incentive isn't there). Also, you may not start looking in the first month of benefits. At that point you are already not counted. Give you six months and by the time the next quarter's numbers come out it looks as if the labor force has in fact grown.
Wikipedia sheds some light on the faulty system of unemployment numbers:
Typically, employment and the labor force include only work done for economic gain. Hence, a homemaker is neither part of the labor force nor unemployed. Nor are full-time students nor prisoners considered to be part of the labor force or unemployment. The latter can be important. In 1999, economists Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger estimated that increased incarceration lowered measured unemployment in the United States by 0.17 percentage points between 1985 and the late 1990s. In particular, as of this writing (2004) 3 percent of the US population is incarcerated.
On the other hand, individuals are classified as "unemployed" if they do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the prior four weeks, and are currently available for work. The unemployed includes all individuals who were not working for pay but were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been temporarily laid off.
Finally, it is possible to be neither employed nor unemployed by BLS definitions, i.e., to be outside of the "labor force." These are people who have no job and are not looking for one. Many of these are going to school or are retired. Family responsibilities keep others out of the labor force. Still others have a physical or mental disability which prevents them from participating in labor force activities.
Children, the elderly, and some individuals with disabilities are typically not counted as part of the labor force in and are correspondingly not included in the unemployment statistics. However, some elderly and many disabled individuals are active in the labor market.
You have a point, but not really. It's wrong to use (commercial) software without paying for it - I agree. But it is *more* wrong to charge money for software you don't have the right to.
If something is OK to do, then it should be OK to do it for money.
But I never said that it is OK to do... just that one action is more wrong (hey, I know it's wrong but it doesn't keep me up at night). Downloading mp3's is one action, selling mp3's that you don't have the distribution rights to is another. (And I still maintain that any P2P software that makes a profit is wrong, along with mp3 download sites riddled with adverts)
I mentioned those Star Wars torrents. Now in our little group we assume that Lucas & Company knows about what we are doing, but since it's trading and out-of-print material they do nothing. If you did the same thing on eBay, you'd be in jail.
And that is the proof: Bootleggers end up in jail, p2p'ers get sued because one is more wrong than the other.
Downloading software or music is one thing - making money off of "pirated" copies is another. I don't even think about using Gnutella or downloading MST3K DAP releases from eDonkey (using eMule) because no one is making a profit from those actions(ok, my ISP). I would never use Kazaa, because piracy is their business model (and if you think Kazaa is just a tool, I think you are).
In fact, one torrent supplier of rare Star Wars stuff always points out to *NOT* buy stuff from the "Dark Side Dealers" and make copies available so those trying to cash in on piracy can't.
I'd copy Windows, Office or even UnixWare for you no problem - but if I saw you selling copies of any of these I might just kick you in the nuts.
Someone who decides on both sides of the aisle is a waffler? This isn't the Presidency or Congress, it's a judgeship - one that requires a few waffles when it's necessary.
You might argue that it says nothing about taking private property for private use, but I would argue that such action is so against the very principles of private property that it needn't have been enumerated.
I'd start sleeping at the development site, or try getting banned from the establishments. Once I'm barred from entry I'd file suit, and *hopefully* have the court force the property back into the public domain. I mean, the court is saying that the property is public - otherwise they can't find that way.
Slashdot Mirror
Can't find the article now, but people who lived in the trials had something very spooky happen once their new "hearts" were installed - their life became really quiet.
Usually you don't notice your heartbeat, or have other things going on to drown out the noise. But with an artificial heart, you aren't spending as much time in bars and so forth - you get more quiet time. The man who lived the longest compained that once the artificial heart was installed he could no longer hear the beating of his heart and it was eerie. The heartbeat is something every human knows, and many cultures have played on it in their music (trance, drums).
So yes it is spooky, but for more problematic reasons. It just needs a virtual drum machine or something...
Actuall, looking at TFA you see that it hasn't been totally rejected yet:
... The FDA is not bound by its advisers' recommendations but usually follows them
Slashdot title:
FDA Rejects Artificial Heart
Washington Post title:
FDA Panel Rejects Artificial Heart
In article text:
the panel voted 7-6 that the heart's probable benefit didn't outweigh the risks
There is still hope, and writing a letter to people like Tom DeLay or George Bush might help (only in that they may get together and pressure the FDA). Kinda ironic that I might actually take their side on this sort of issue - assuming that they would support it due to their right to life/culture of life stance.
We aren't talking about bringing back 110 year old people from near death. A lot of children are running around with defective hearts and middle-aged people running around that had poor health education in their younger years. Of course, letting people with "defective" organs die and not reproduce is another argument/fight altogether.
You are right - if you only have one option: DEATH - then you should be able to take any chance at avoiding death you want. I mean, heart surgery is pretty common today. When I hear of a relative or friend getting a bypass I think "good for them, it will make them better". I know there is pain involved, but I would thank my stars that we found I needed one before I died (rather than go without it).
The only way to develop the technology is to deploy it on those "lost causes". (Not against their will - I'm not a Nazi!).
Of course these kinds of cases are more important to the powers at be. Culture of life my ass!
I've been using a lot of (ported) GPL Windows software lately (Apache2, MySQL, Gaim, so forth) and depend on it greatly. I've been starting to use Cygwin more because I've noticed it has matured a great deal - but more work is always needed.
Can we get Cygwin in on this?
It sure would be nice to have more GNU tools for Windows.
Considering the software that often uses bundled adware and spyware is questionable at best (Kazaa at one time, other - more bogus - P2P software bundles) I wonder how much these Fortune 500 companies have funded even dirtier scams.
You know someone who has clicked a "free screensaver" or "system performance" pop-up before only to get trojans and adware. Does Circuit City endorse these scams on user intelligence? [Oxymoron I know]
Let's not even mention Compaq who bundles WeatherBug on their new machines!
Is it always going to be "us" versus the corporations? And why do I feel more libertarian and less "liberal" everyday?
I guess the solution is simple - start a list of people to boycott based on their aggressive advertising.
No, I'm not telling just you to move - everyone.
The city has obviously reached a certain critical mass - or has the worst planning and execution ever. Mexico city is another that either needs to shape up or abandon all hope. Public transportation in its current form isn't enough, and sorry to say, the cars are doing a lot of polluting.
I know you are going for humor, but why not leave now?
It's only 25 light years away. If solar sails can be asumed to go "a significant fraction" of light speed (at their best) we can assume that it would take no longer than a few minutes - to the passengers (assuming that a trip of 100,000 light years would take about 3 minutes "to the riders").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
This means a two-way trip to "snap photos" would mean that your loved ones may have passed, but you are theorically only about 50-100 years into the future. TFA mentions the amount of learning that could be had - if we left in the next 100 years we would learn even more, but this solar system is still young. Even sending instruments to beam back data would be worth it.
Sure, there are a lot of things to work out - but it is something to shoot for. And a whole lot more worth it than going for Mars or the Moon again.
Putting the system in a secure computer room with a heavy door and lock.
Really, what else do you need? In commercial applications companies can afford to lock up systems thus making this pointless. I assume this is really geared towards home "hobbiest" types. And by hobbiests I mean those partaking in illegal activities.
Physical security is just as important, and let me point out that data loss prevention is yet another form of security. This is a silly idea, and will only be bought by those who think it's 'kewl' and have money to burn. Of course, my question is: do they *give* you a new drive when the last one dies?
I want this for my kids!
If someone tries to kidnap them, they blow up! If I can't have them no one can!
Disclaimer: Don't worry, I don't actually have kids.
Let's be honest, this isn't for the security admin. This is for piracy/crackers and kiddie porn collectors/producers. My favorite story is the young man who put (BIG) magnets in his door frame so as the computer was carried out the data disappeared. Of course that was in the 1980's...
Now what they need to figure out is how to fix the pollution in LA.
Move. No, seriously - get everyone and leave. Plant some trees on the way out and I think the smog would be gone in no time.
I was going to say stop driving your cars, but I didn't want to seem like a smart ass
Why worry about asteroids? Even the latest playboy points out that all we have to do is paint them white - turning them into solar sail type devices and sending them packing...
I wonder about Firefox, being released under the "Mozilla Public License"...
Of course the only a few other companies outhere besides IBM with plenty of lawyers with nothing to do...
So I assume that SCO is taking on AOL/TimeWarner next?
We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that includes intellectual property it shouldn't
I say that I have a problem with intellectual property that includes open-source technology it shouldn't!
Joking aside. As others have and will point out: They don't belive the GPL is Constitutional or enforceable - and because of this they have no rights under the license. I wonder how long it takes for GPL code to enter their software?
RTF Summary:
Users have to pay for each track they download, but sharing songs they've purchased from Peer Impact earns them credits they can spend on the service.
I think this is a genius idea. In fact, it might make the downloads faster *if it swarms* instead of relying on a central server to host all of the music. I know playing iTunes previews can be slow, purchases sometimes come in slower - and I'm a 3 Mbps DSL connection.
I say download a song you think is going to be a hit and then take the gamble. If it is the next "Hit me baby one more time" then you could finally get that obscure album you want for free.
This is a problem:
As of December 2004 blacks are the highest unemployed ethnic group in America at 10.8 percent. Now, by definition that means these people are *looking* for work. I understand that some are under-qualified, and other factors, but doesn't that show something. Put your racism away; we aren't counting "bums" here - we are counting workers who will take wages for a job done.
This way after 182(.5) days of benefits you are no longer counted as part of the labor force. You see, when you are getting paid for nothing for six months there is an economic insentive to not look for work. Where three months is too close for most people and they are eager to find another job (the incentive isn't there). Also, you may not start looking in the first month of benefits. At that point you are already not counted. Give you six months and by the time the next quarter's numbers come out it looks as if the labor force has in fact grown.
Wikipedia sheds some light on the faulty system of unemployment numbers:
I have cobuyitaphobia you insensitive clod!
Ok, I'll feed the troll...
You have a point, but not really. It's wrong to use (commercial) software without paying for it - I agree. But it is *more* wrong to charge money for software you don't have the right to.
If something is OK to do, then it should be OK to do it for money.
But I never said that it is OK to do... just that one action is more wrong (hey, I know it's wrong but it doesn't keep me up at night). Downloading mp3's is one action, selling mp3's that you don't have the distribution rights to is another. (And I still maintain that any P2P software that makes a profit is wrong, along with mp3 download sites riddled with adverts)
I mentioned those Star Wars torrents. Now in our little group we assume that Lucas & Company knows about what we are doing, but since it's trading and out-of-print material they do nothing. If you did the same thing on eBay, you'd be in jail.
And that is the proof: Bootleggers end up in jail, p2p'ers get sued because one is more wrong than the other.
Downloading software or music is one thing - making money off of "pirated" copies is another. I don't even think about using Gnutella or downloading MST3K DAP releases from eDonkey (using eMule) because no one is making a profit from those actions(ok, my ISP). I would never use Kazaa, because piracy is their business model (and if you think Kazaa is just a tool, I think you are).
In fact, one torrent supplier of rare Star Wars stuff always points out to *NOT* buy stuff from the "Dark Side Dealers" and make copies available so those trying to cash in on piracy can't.
I'd copy Windows, Office or even UnixWare for you no problem - but if I saw you selling copies of any of these I might just kick you in the nuts.
I know, it's amazing to see people twist the facts when writing propaganda!
It's only a joke. No matter, us Jews don't buy that Revelations bullshit.
Only in America!
Someone who decides on both sides of the aisle is a waffler? This isn't the Presidency or Congress, it's a judgeship - one that requires a few waffles when it's necessary.
...and you should be able to hack anything you own -- it's yours.
Yes, some people would say that once you own something... you 0wn it.
At least it will provide kicks for those botnet operators...
[Person Sitting At Computer]
*click, click, click*
[Phone rings, answered]
Excited teenage voice: Hey d00d, look that's my attack on TV!
You might argue that it says nothing about taking private property for private use, but I would argue that such action is so against the very principles of private property that it needn't have been enumerated.
I'd start sleeping at the development site, or try getting banned from the establishments. Once I'm barred from entry I'd file suit, and *hopefully* have the court force the property back into the public domain. I mean, the court is saying that the property is public - otherwise they can't find that way.