On the other hand, let's not forget that this is a *huge* deal for the 1.6B people who happen to be Indian. If 4% of the 300 million Americans had this gene, this would be front page news on every newspaper, and there would no doubt be a space-race-like effort to develop a cure. Sadly, I doubt this will be the case for the people actually affected by this gene.
Out of all the self-proclaimed open source leaders, Bruce Perens creeps me out the most.
You clearly haven't met ESR in person... On the one occasion I did meet him, not too long after 9/11, he had some pretty borderline-fanatical opinions on that subject. Creepy summarizes it fairly well. Haven't met RMS, who, to be fair, seems like he is probably pretty creepy in real life as well.
This sounds like the basest kind of scare mongering, relying on a basic ignorance of the way networks work.
FTA:
Richard Bennett is a network architect and occasional activist in Silicon Valley. He wrote the first standard for Ethernet over twisted-pair wiring and contributed to the standards for Wi-Fi and the Ultra-Wideband wireless networks.
Actually, the evidence seems to suggest that acupuncture-like treatments are probably beneficial in some limited scenarios. A German study last year, in particular, found that acupuncture was twice as effective as standard treatments for lower back pain. That's not to say it cures all ills, but to say that there is no evidence of it working is just plain wrong.
Though there are 'researchers' at DARPA, they're generally not the ones doing the research. Most likely this is DARPA opening the bidding process to find someone to develop this technology.
Absolutely correct. DARPA does not hire researchers--they hire program managers. In fact, as far as I know, they only hire program managers (well, and possibly secretaries, janitors, etc.). However, it's not like they're tricking researchers into becoming program managers. The job description is literally 'program manager'; there is no confusing that with a research job.
Although this doesn't seem too glamorous on the face of it, you have to realize that many academics choose essentially to become managers as they get promoted. Instead of directly doing the research themselves, they create labs, hire legions of PhD students and post-docs, and set a general direction for research.
I guess part of the appeal of this is that you get to play the role of a "visionary" with the gut instincts to know what will succeed and what won't, which is a skill that comes from experience. For these kinds of academics, becoming a DARPA PM isn't too far a stretch.
The problem might lie more in the fact that these kinds of academics are often too deeply ingrained in running their own labs to be able to take a 3-year break to do a DARPA PM-ship.
I prefer to call that number a thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand, thank you very much.
There hasn't been an update to that in the past 2 weeks, implying that it has not yet been fixed. You don't know that for sure. Apple could have had Safari download and install the update without users' consent.
And in case you were wondering, Fish reassured us that McCain "does know how to use e-mail... and a few other modern conveniences." McCain is more tech-savvy than Don Knuth!
Let's see... how much power does it take to power a 100-Watt light bulb... hm... Well, according to Wikipedia, a 100-Watt incandescent lightbulb outputs about 1700 lumens. A quick googling reveals that the average incandescent bulb achieves a lighting efficiency of roughly 15.75 lumens per Watt. A simple calculation then yields that the power used by a 100-Watt light bulb is roughly 107.93 Watts. Q.E.D.
But if you follow and believe in (almost) any religion, it means you believe things that are by definition unprovable, irrational, and supernatural. A person who is ready to believe such things might be more ready to believe other irrational things than someone who bases his thoughts on rational explanations. This is slanderous, and I'm appalled that it was upmodded. The belief that God does not exist is just as unprovable as the belief that God does exist, so atheists "by definition" also believe in unprovable things. The issue is that logic, science, whatever, simply cannot answer all the questions people might logically ask (for a formal proof of this, see Goedel's incompleteness theorem). The irrational attitude here is actually to assume that logic/science do have all the answers.
3. If someone says grass is blue, it is within societal norms to laugh at them. But mysteriously it's not okay to do so if they say the world is 6000 years old. Catholics do not believe that the world is 6000 years old, just so you know.
Saying that the Bible is two-thousand year old fiction produced by goat herders is a statement of fact. It is verifiably not true. Ok, prove it.
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On the other hand, let's not forget that this is a *huge* deal for the 1.6B people who happen to be Indian. If 4% of the 300 million Americans had this gene, this would be front page news on every newspaper, and there would no doubt be a space-race-like effort to develop a cure. Sadly, I doubt this will be the case for the people actually affected by this gene.
I predict that by the year 2020, no one will be killed or injured in a GM, Chrysler, or Ford car either.
Out of all the self-proclaimed open source leaders, Bruce Perens creeps me out the most.
You clearly haven't met ESR in person... On the one occasion I did meet him, not too long after 9/11, he had some pretty borderline-fanatical opinions on that subject. Creepy summarizes it fairly well. Haven't met RMS, who, to be fair, seems like he is probably pretty creepy in real life as well.
This sounds like the basest kind of scare mongering, relying on a basic ignorance of the way networks work.
FTA:
Richard Bennett is a network architect and occasional activist in Silicon Valley. He wrote the first standard for Ethernet over twisted-pair wiring and contributed to the standards for Wi-Fi and the Ultra-Wideband wireless networks.
Actually, the evidence seems to suggest that acupuncture-like treatments are probably beneficial in some limited scenarios. A German study last year, in particular, found that acupuncture was twice as effective as standard treatments for lower back pain. That's not to say it cures all ills, but to say that there is no evidence of it working is just plain wrong.
So apparently, Reuters recently got bought out by Thomson. Let's hope they don't start suing Wikinews...
Though there are 'researchers' at DARPA, they're generally not the ones doing the research. Most likely this is DARPA opening the bidding process to find someone to develop this technology.
Whoa, take it easy there, Tolstoy! I think you meant...
perl -e 'print pack "B*", $_ for @ARGV' 01001001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01110111 01100101 01101100 01100011 01101111 01101101 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110101 01110010 00100000 01101111 01110000 01100101 01101110 00100000 01110011 01101111 01110101 01110010 01100011 01100101 00100000 01110010 01101111 01100010 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110010 01101100 01101111 01110010 01100100 01110011
I knew that Stephen Hawking was a phony hacker all along!
Absolutely correct. DARPA does not hire researchers--they hire program managers. In fact, as far as I know, they only hire program managers (well, and possibly secretaries, janitors, etc.). However, it's not like they're tricking researchers into becoming program managers. The job description is literally 'program manager'; there is no confusing that with a research job.
Although this doesn't seem too glamorous on the face of it, you have to realize that many academics choose essentially to become managers as they get promoted. Instead of directly doing the research themselves, they create labs, hire legions of PhD students and post-docs, and set a general direction for research.
I guess part of the appeal of this is that you get to play the role of a "visionary" with the gut instincts to know what will succeed and what won't, which is a skill that comes from experience. For these kinds of academics, becoming a DARPA PM isn't too far a stretch.
The problem might lie more in the fact that these kinds of academics are often too deeply ingrained in running their own labs to be able to take a 3-year break to do a DARPA PM-ship.
I prefer to call that number a thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand thousand, thank you very much.
That'll teach 'em to use Word for any purpose whatsoever.
You're right. No wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame.
They make computers that look like people now?
Let's see... how much power does it take to power a 100-Watt light bulb... hm... Well, according to Wikipedia, a 100-Watt incandescent lightbulb outputs about 1700 lumens. A quick googling reveals that the average incandescent bulb achieves a lighting efficiency of roughly 15.75 lumens per Watt. A simple calculation then yields that the power used by a 100-Watt light bulb is roughly 107.93 Watts. Q.E.D.
Did anyone notice this at the bottom of the page?
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I hope they're better at calculating asteroid impact probabilities than they are at web development...
Screw the HE-Robot. Call me when they release a SHE-Robot.
They're right here. Save Mr. Splashy Pants!
Hopefully this will also put an end to those pesky MRI accidents. Not that they're common, but still, those things aren't toys.
Wow, this'll work great with my new cheese-based router. Idiots.
Pics or it didn't happen.