Couldn't one create a distributed PC client that would compile the TV listings from around the world (Maybe leeching content off of TVGuide.com).
Change the dial-up information to your dial-up account (if anyone still has one of those... and if you don't $9.95 for NetZero is still cheaper than TiVO or ReplayTV's subscription costs).
Just the added note... Could you imagine a beauwolf cluster of TiVO's?
We can all argue till we are blue in the face that no one is going to used a crippled product. But, how many times have we seen them come and enter the market (DVD).... This shouldn't just be posted to slashdot. This article needs to be forwarded to everyone you know explaining that this company is trying to sell you a product that is cripplied in a fashion that doesn't allow you to exercise your given 'fair-use' rights....
Successful efforts are grassroots efforts...
As Jello Biafra said
Don't wait for sassy to come around and say it. Get sassy and say it
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My understanding of the quick sort using a binary tree would mean the data would have to be in order.... Ordering the list would take a centralized system... Or some real voodoo w/ idle network data transfer and a distributed idle proccess usage such as distributed.net/set@home.
A stem cell has been found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body. It might turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered.
Until now, only stem cells from early embryos were thought to have such properties. If the finding is confirmed, it will mean cells from your own body could one day be turned into all sorts of perfectly matched replacement tissues and even organs.
If so, there would be no need to resort to therapeutic cloning - cloning people to get matching stem cells from the resulting embryos. Nor would you have to genetically engineer embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to create a "one cell fits all" line that does not trigger immune rejection. The discovery of such versatile adult stem cells will also fan the debate about whether embryonic stem cell research is justified.
"The work is very exciting," says Ihor Lemischka of Princeton University. "They can differentiate into pretty much everything that an embryonic stem cell can differentiate into."
Remarkable findings
The cells were found in the bone marrow of adults by Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and though the team has so far published little, a patent application seen by New Scientist shows the team has carried out extensive experiments.
These confirm that the cells - dubbed multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs - have the same potential as ESCs. "It's very dramatic, the kinds of observations [Verfaillie] is reporting," says Irving Weissman of Stanford University. "The findings, if reproducible, are remarkable."
At least two other labs claim to have found similar cells in mice, and one biotech company, MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, says it has found them in skin and muscle as well as human bone marrow. But Verfaillie's team appears to be the first to carry out the key experiments needed to back up the claim that these adult stem cells are as versatile as ESCs.
Verfaillie extracted the MAPCs from the bone marrow of mice, rats and humans in a series of stages. Cells that do not carry certain surface markers, or do not grow under certain conditions, are gradually eliminated, leaving a population rich in MAPCs. Verfaillie says her lab has reliably isolated the cells from about 70 per cent of the 100 or so human volunteers who donated marrow samples.
Indefinite growth
The cells seem to grow indefinitely in culture, like ESCs. Some cell lines have been growing for almost two years and have kept their characteristics, with no signs of ageing, she says.
Given the right conditions, MAPCs can turn into a myriad of tissue types: muscle, cartilage, bone, liver and different types of neurons and brain cells. Crucially, using a technique called retroviral marking, Verfaillie has shown that the descendants of a single cell can turn into all these different cell types - a key experiment in proving that MAPCs are truly versatile.
Also, Verfaillie's group has done the tests that are perhaps the gold standard in assessing a cell's plasticity. She placed single MAPCs from humans and mice into very early mouse embryos, when they are just a ball of cells. Analyses of mice born after the experiment reveal that a single MAPC can contribute to all the body's tissues.
MAPCs have many of the properties of ESCs, but they are not identical. Unlike ESCs, for example, they do not seem to form cancerous masses if you inject them into adults. This would obviously be highly desirable if confirmed. "The data looks very good, it's very hard to find any flaws," says Lemischka. But it still has to be independently confirmed by other groups, he adds.
Fundamental questions
Meanwhile, there are some fundamental questions that must be answered, experts say. One is whether MAPCs really form functioning cells.
Stem cells that differentiate may express markers characteristic of many different cell types, says Freda Miller of McGill University. But simply detecting markers for, say, neural tissue does not prove that a stem cell really has become a working neuron.
Verfaillie's findings also raise questions about the nature of stem cells. Her team thinks that MAPCs are rare cells present in the bone marrow that can be fished out through a series of enriching steps. But others think the selection process actually creates the MAPCs.
"I don't think there is 'a cell' that is lurking there that can do this. I think that Catherine has found a way to produce a cell that can behave this way," says Neil Theise of New York University Medical School.
We should copy SeaLand and simply find our own patch of undeveloped abandoned offshore island and form our own government. Hey... Ironically.GPV is still available... And it's a good typo away from.GOV..... I wonder where whitehouse.GPV should point...
When I actually need personal cooling devices b/c I am concentrating so hard on a video game... That is when I stand up and go walk outside... I mean comon.. Are the people using these also strapping Gatorade bottles to their heads and urine bags to their waists so they can remain hydrated and excrete waste with out getting up as well....
Comon... nice hack, but, get up and walk outside for a while.:-)... Thats all...
Proof that over the years NASA has not "cut corners" but, has over spent on their projects. If a group of undergraduates can make a space survivable craft then what has NASA been doing for the last 40 years. Although I am bashing their budgeting practices I do give them credit for some of their overspending. They did pratically invent space travel and more then likely they were responsible for putting the Radio Shack advertisment in space anyway.....
Size of the annual hole which forms over the Antarctic has levelled off, say researchers.
Dick Ahlstrom reports
The ozone hole over the Antarctic this year is smaller than last year's but is still colossal. At 26 million square kilometres, it is about the size of North America.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that observations suggested that the size of the annual hole, which forms over the Antarctic during its spring, has levelled off and will slowly decline in the coming years.
Researchers in New Zealand have warned, however that the 2001 hole will probably persist longer. This, they say, will allow more ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the earth in the southern hemisphere.
Too much UV disturbs the growth of plant life. It increases the risk of cataracts and skin cancer in humans.
The hole is caused after the release over many years of chlorine compounds that drifted into the upper atmosphere. There, they react with sunlight over the Antarctic and Arctic to destroy ozone, a gas which absorbs UV radiation coming from the sun.
Last year's hole reached a record 30 million square kilometres.
Repeated depletions over the years have reduced the total ozone overhead by about 15 per cent in temperate parts of the southern hemisphere.
I have a water cooled Athlon and aside from the cost and complexity (true.. not fun) it just looks friggin cool...It's completely worth it to me when people see it and stare for that extra 30 seconds...
The best question I here is "What they hell is that?"
And sorry but, I just have to add...
It's gone from suck to blow!
Next Thing....
on
Bert Is Evil
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· Score: 5, Funny
Next thing ya know "All your base are belong to us" are gonna show up in pro-American celebrations in Afgan after we crush them:-)
Slashdot Mirror
The winner on this years contest is Microsoft for their submission of
Microsoft Corporation End User Agreement
Contributed by an anonymous user.
Couldn't one create a distributed PC client that would compile the TV listings from around the world (Maybe leeching content off of TVGuide.com).
Change the dial-up information to your dial-up account (if anyone still has one of those... and if you don't $9.95 for NetZero is still cheaper than TiVO or ReplayTV's subscription costs).
Just the added note... Could you imagine a beauwolf cluster of TiVO's?
What would I do with the full source code to windows....
Maybe line my birdcage w/ it?
We can all argue till we are blue in the face that no one is going to used a crippled product. But, how many times have we seen them come and enter the market (DVD).... This shouldn't just be posted to slashdot. This article needs to be forwarded to everyone you know explaining that this company is trying to sell you a product that is cripplied in a fashion that doesn't allow you to exercise your given 'fair-use' rights....
Successful efforts are grassroots efforts...
As Jello Biafra said
Don't wait for sassy to come around and say it. Get sassy and say it
Is it just me or does "such as fault tolerance, self-tuning and robust security" just not sound like a Microsoft product to me...
r ds /images/story/Farsite.gif
And...
http://www.computerworld.com/computerworld/reco
Was it just me or does the notion of a "Centralized file server" NOT sound like distributed computing to you?
Leave it to Microsoft to translate distributed into centralized
I wonder... Who out of anybody would be the first group to adapt and use this...
SendSpamTo(any($a, $b, $c, {....})...
Wow... Quantum Spam... Imagine the possibilities of bandwidth usage...
Or How about...
DOSAttack(any($a, $b, $c, {....})...
A Quantum DOS attack...
Hey just thinking out load how slow the net could be in the future
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OOO O OO OOO OOOO OO OO O OO OOO
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I've always loved that joke....
My understanding of the quick sort using a binary tree would mean the data would have to be in order.... Ordering the list would take a centralized system... Or some real voodoo w/ idle network data transfer and a distributed idle proccess usage such as distributed.net/set@home.
A stem cell has been found in adults that can turn into every single tissue in the body. It might turn out to be the most important cell ever discovered.
Until now, only stem cells from early embryos were thought to have such properties. If the finding is confirmed, it will mean cells from your own body could one day be turned into all sorts of perfectly matched replacement tissues and even organs.
If so, there would be no need to resort to therapeutic cloning - cloning people to get matching stem cells from the resulting embryos. Nor would you have to genetically engineer embryonic stem cells (ESCs) to create a "one cell fits all" line that does not trigger immune rejection. The discovery of such versatile adult stem cells will also fan the debate about whether embryonic stem cell research is justified.
"The work is very exciting," says Ihor Lemischka of Princeton University. "They can differentiate into pretty much everything that an embryonic stem cell can differentiate into."
Remarkable findings
The cells were found in the bone marrow of adults by Catherine Verfaillie at the University of Minnesota. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and though the team has so far published little, a patent application seen by New Scientist shows the team has carried out extensive experiments.
These confirm that the cells - dubbed multipotent adult progenitor cells, or MAPCs - have the same potential as ESCs. "It's very dramatic, the kinds of observations [Verfaillie] is reporting," says Irving Weissman of Stanford University. "The findings, if reproducible, are remarkable."
At least two other labs claim to have found similar cells in mice, and one biotech company, MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals of San Diego, says it has found them in skin and muscle as well as human bone marrow. But Verfaillie's team appears to be the first to carry out the key experiments needed to back up the claim that these adult stem cells are as versatile as ESCs.
Verfaillie extracted the MAPCs from the bone marrow of mice, rats and humans in a series of stages. Cells that do not carry certain surface markers, or do not grow under certain conditions, are gradually eliminated, leaving a population rich in MAPCs. Verfaillie says her lab has reliably isolated the cells from about 70 per cent of the 100 or so human volunteers who donated marrow samples.
Indefinite growth
The cells seem to grow indefinitely in culture, like ESCs. Some cell lines have been growing for almost two years and have kept their characteristics, with no signs of ageing, she says.
Given the right conditions, MAPCs can turn into a myriad of tissue types: muscle, cartilage, bone, liver and different types of neurons and brain cells. Crucially, using a technique called retroviral marking, Verfaillie has shown that the descendants of a single cell can turn into all these different cell types - a key experiment in proving that MAPCs are truly versatile.
Also, Verfaillie's group has done the tests that are perhaps the gold standard in assessing a cell's plasticity. She placed single MAPCs from humans and mice into very early mouse embryos, when they are just a ball of cells. Analyses of mice born after the experiment reveal that a single MAPC can contribute to all the body's tissues.
MAPCs have many of the properties of ESCs, but they are not identical. Unlike ESCs, for example, they do not seem to form cancerous masses if you inject them into adults. This would obviously be highly desirable if confirmed. "The data looks very good, it's very hard to find any flaws," says Lemischka. But it still has to be independently confirmed by other groups, he adds.
Fundamental questions
Meanwhile, there are some fundamental questions that must be answered, experts say. One is whether MAPCs really form functioning cells.
Stem cells that differentiate may express markers characteristic of many different cell types, says Freda Miller of McGill University. But simply detecting markers for, say, neural tissue does not prove that a stem cell really has become a working neuron.
Verfaillie's findings also raise questions about the nature of stem cells. Her team thinks that MAPCs are rare cells present in the bone marrow that can be fished out through a series of enriching steps. But others think the selection process actually creates the MAPCs.
"I don't think there is 'a cell' that is lurking there that can do this. I think that Catherine has found a way to produce a cell that can behave this way," says Neil Theise of New York University Medical School.
19:00 23 January 02
We should copy SeaLand and simply find our own patch of undeveloped abandoned offshore island and form our own government. Hey... Ironically .GPV is still available... And it's a good typo away from .GOV..... I wonder where whitehouse.GPV should point...
Can I set Anon Cowards to foe?? :-)
Are you sick of all of the SPAM that your receive in your email everyday. Well now there is something that you can do about it.
Our law firm will go after all of these hideous capitalist marketers...
To help our cause please forward this email to all of your friends and spread the word
Also be sure to tell them to vote no on the Congressional Act adding a tax to emails...
Faraday Cage blocks outoing EMP signals, not incoming.
Simple way to take down the site....
3 Letters.... E M P
Haha!!...
This is getting really crazy..
:-)... Thats all...
When I actually need personal cooling devices b/c I am concentrating so hard on a video game... That is when I stand up and go walk outside... I mean comon.. Are the people using these also strapping Gatorade bottles to their heads and urine bags to their waists so they can remain hydrated and excrete waste with out getting up as well....
Comon... nice hack, but, get up and walk outside for a while.
Upadate [sic] it daily, and pull it out daily. Wipe out new information on web. Lock up drive. Back it up..
Kinda hard to do w/ a 24/7/365 site...
Also... kinda hard to back-up data after it's been locked up...
Use encryption
--- Convert the credit card numbers into a series of letters. 0=A, 1=B, 2=C, etc
Not ENCRYPTION... Thats Translating
And... If I saw a table of data ALKS-AETD-KJHU-KJHO next to Name, Address, Billing Address... I'm gonna know exactly what that is....
Would you like to be able to run two Linuxes simultaneously on the same box?
On KDE I just push the big button with the 2 on it...
Damn... the Christian Scientists Lawyers have finally hit a good legal roadblock.
Since we just /. 'd their site, didn't we just shut down the Slovenian government????
Proof that over the years NASA has not "cut corners" but, has over spent on their projects. If a group of undergraduates can make a space survivable craft then what has NASA been doing for the last 40 years. Although I am bashing their budgeting practices I do give them credit for some of their overspending. They did pratically invent space travel and more then likely they were responsible for putting the Radio Shack advertisment in space anyway.....
Reduction in size
of hole in ozone
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Size of the annual hole which forms over the Antarctic has levelled off, say researchers.
Dick Ahlstrom reports
The ozone hole over the Antarctic this year is smaller than last year's but is still colossal. At 26 million square kilometres, it is about the size of North America.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that observations suggested that the size of the annual hole, which forms over the Antarctic during its spring, has levelled off and will slowly decline in the coming years.
Researchers in New Zealand have warned, however that the 2001 hole will probably persist longer. This, they say, will allow more ultraviolet (UV) radiation to reach the earth in the southern hemisphere.
Too much UV disturbs the growth of plant life. It increases the risk of cataracts and skin cancer in humans.
The hole is caused after the release over many years of chlorine compounds that drifted into the upper atmosphere. There, they react with sunlight over the Antarctic and Arctic to destroy ozone, a gas which absorbs UV radiation coming from the sun.
Last year's hole reached a record 30 million square kilometres.
Repeated depletions over the years have reduced the total ozone overhead by about 15 per cent in temperate parts of the southern hemisphere.
Odd question?...
But, for a free site that simply runs off banner ads and donations
Why does Slashdot never get Slashdotted?
Sorry just had to ask....
Hey... ya know what...
I have a water cooled Athlon and aside from the cost and complexity (true.. not fun) it just looks friggin cool...It's completely worth it to me when people see it and stare for that extra 30 seconds...
The best question I here is "What they hell is that?"
And sorry but, I just have to add...
It's gone from suck to blow!
Next thing ya know "All your base are belong to us" are gonna show up in pro-American celebrations in Afgan after we crush them :-)