Intellectual property is a very egoist concept nowadays, in a time in which technological innovation can help so many people. It depends on the way it is used; if you just sit on your invention for 20 years and prevent others from doing something similar, or if you sell it at an outrageous cost (see: drugs) it's really detrimental to humanity as a whole.
@ 16787299 : It's not plagiarism, everything on the site are copyright free press releases. We just aggregate the best ones (manually chosen by me - Im a phd student in retrovirology / bioinformatics).
I am affiliated with the site (well, im the only one behind it to be honest), and I agree that the discussion part is very sad looking right now. If you have any suggestions to improve it, feel free to do so:) The system is very good, its only that no one even comments on stories, and people who do are more often than not trolls and not that 'insightfull':(
Might reopen anonymous posting someday, but it was tiring to filter the spam from the ham.
According to one of my friends who visited China twice for 2-3 months, they REALLY think that Tibet has been well treated by their country, and that no war nor genocide really happened there. They even say that they have to treat 'Tibetans' (read, chinese people now living in Tibet) as special when they visit China...
I think you're right, they're pretty efficient at controlling information:(
The website is a mess to navigate. Visiting the homepage, it's not even obvious what the website is about. And why should I care. And it fill past my browser window even if im in 1024 resolution. 3x Google Adsense Wide Skyscrapers at the bottom? Please redo your ad placement, your CTR will improve greatly.
It could make millions with 200 000 uniques a month:(
Don't know in what world you're living, but I highly doubt an article posted on/. frontpage equals 500 dollars of Adsense revenue. I should know, I had many.
Well here is your reason, I guess. Maybe not now, but in 2-3 years, when stuff will stop being compatible, and you'll stuck with the today's equivalent of Netscape 4 as your browser (IE6).
It depends. If you transfect a stable, integrated form of siRNA, you get permanent effects. Its easy to do; all you need is a "gene" coding for an hairpin corresponding to both siRNA strands.
Oh and I added a picture of the roses, for all those who wanted to see it.
Slashdot Mirror
http://feeds.esciencenews.com/eScienceNews/popular
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Actually the link I submitted was http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/06/03/a.survivor.greenland.a.novel.bacterial.species.found.trapped.120000.year.old.ice
which has 3 pictures. For some reason the editor changed it.
Thats why I linked directly to their front page, its weird, they screwed up something
Intellectual property is a very egoist concept nowadays, in a time in which technological innovation can help so many people. It depends on the way it is used; if you just sit on your invention for 20 years and prevent others from doing something similar, or if you sell it at an outrageous cost (see: drugs) it's really detrimental to humanity as a whole.
@ 16787299 : It's not plagiarism, everything on the site are copyright free press releases. We just aggregate the best ones (manually chosen by me - Im a phd student in retrovirology / bioinformatics).
I am affiliated with the site (well, im the only one behind it to be honest), and I agree that the discussion part is very sad looking right now. If you have any suggestions to improve it, feel free to do so :) The system is very good, its only that no one even comments on stories, and people who do are more often than not trolls and not that 'insightfull' :(
Might reopen anonymous posting someday, but it was tiring to filter the spam from the ham.
Hey, it worked for the US in Iraq after all ;)
Censors beats Chinese journalists with sticks.
According to one of my friends who visited China twice for 2-3 months, they REALLY think that Tibet has been well treated by their country, and that no war nor genocide really happened there. They even say that they have to treat 'Tibetans' (read, chinese people now living in Tibet) as special when they visit China...
:(
I think you're right, they're pretty efficient at controlling information
I hope you're not serious, or that you're 6 years old and will have your first math class next year.
The signal / noise ratio was also MUCH, MUCH higher.
You can't "solve" the world's food problem. You give humanity more food, you get more humans. And these supplementary humans need more food.
Yeah, and getting brand new Intel PCs / laptop for those 1000 people gonna cost... more than 10$ / person, I guess.
The website is a mess to navigate. Visiting the homepage, it's not even obvious what the website is about. And why should I care. And it fill past my browser window even if im in 1024 resolution. 3x Google Adsense Wide Skyscrapers at the bottom? Please redo your ad placement, your CTR will improve greatly.
:(
It could make millions with 200 000 uniques a month
There's a reason why most Asians don't like milk (and derived products). They don't have the enzyme to digest it, and it gives them horrible cramps.
It's for US residents only.... they can't forget about me! :)
Don't know in what world you're living, but I highly doubt an article posted on /. frontpage equals 500 dollars of Adsense revenue. I should know, I had many.
Well here is your reason, I guess. Maybe not now, but in 2-3 years, when stuff will stop being compatible, and you'll stuck with the today's equivalent of Netscape 4 as your browser (IE6).
If its gonna bring you more research funds, then its `nano`.
Just a buzzword, really.
Trademarking of common words is just... stupid.
You can't have these kind of issues with a made-up name like Coca-Cola, right?
Apple, Tiger, Windows, whats next? Imagination isn't a prerequisite anymore in marketing, it seems.
Yeah, I imagine the tagline :
"I'm a sex offender and all I got was a lousy T-shirt!"
It really depends on the kind of article. The "Christmas Light" guy claim about 100 000 hits from a front page post.
From personal experience, posting somewhat technical biology related news, I had about 2-3000 hits.
They really should have said programmed cell death, or apoptosis.
It depends. If you transfect a stable, integrated form of siRNA, you get permanent effects. Its easy to do; all you need is a "gene" coding for an hairpin corresponding to both siRNA strands.
Oh and I added a picture of the roses, for all those who wanted to see it.
Some related recent press releases about this kind of technology :
- Emory Eye Center Implants Its First Retinal Chips In Patients With Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Ophthalmologists Use Artificial Silicon Retina Microchip To Treat Vision Loss