Um, yeah. I'm sure (sarcasm) that a bathroom approximates a clean-room. Though HDs aren't hermetically sealed, they are an should remain really clean, opening it up is an invitation to disaster.
Next thing they'll do is mod their bodies w/ windows.
LOL!!! Cows are definitely not fit for survival outside a barn; if we could manufacture cost-effective, meat-sack trees, I bet we would grow meat on stick.
Another example is ancient horses that had to evolve to be faster because giant flightless birds wanted to eat them. In general, animals evolve not because they wanted to or was convient, but because they had to. Fast animals are only fast to escape hunters or catch prey. Look at the gazelle or the cheetah, pure speed animals through evolution.
Blending is good, beneficial traits from other cultures tends to improve the genetic diversity, insuring the success of the species. In short, racism is bio-illogical.
Random read errors in transcription also leads to mutation, as well as ionizing radation. Ionizing radiation leads to DNA breaks in your cells, your cells try to "fix" the breaks by re-reading dna and reassembling, or by the other method of randomly recombining segments. All of which leads to errors, possible mutations, and maybe cancer if you're lucky. But mutation of individual cells is NOT EVOLUTION. Mutation of zygotes allows for introduction of new traits. Most detrimental mutations cause abortions, as "natural" abortions are much, much common than commonly believed, as the ovums machinery effectively self-destructs.
BS. Cockroaches, maybe. Humans, no. Just wait until something evolves that preys on humans, muahahahaha. >D
Btw, sickle-cell anemia is an evolutionary response to malaria.
I wonder if geeks will evolve into a different sub-species of Homo Sapiens, maybe Homo Sapiens Sapiens++ ?
Bah, too much hardware hacking, the geeks start modifying themselves!
I agree, looks like another ignoramus journalist trying to make copy by quoting some pseudorandom sources and soundbytes.
It seems though that the rate of evolution is slowing down, because of our globalization, evolution seems to only speed up/down two ways: (1) isolation of a population, such as a rain forest patch spared in a lava flow; or (2) environmental changes, such as temperature, chemistry, food, gravity, tidal forces, etc.
Could medicine be keeping evolution from occuring; keeping individuals alive who could not otherwise? Does this mean that only the wealthy are assured evolutionary dominance? Since, in the "wild," every animal has to be essentially perfect, to run, hunt, reproduce, etc.
Lest this newsbyte starts another great flame-war of evilution vs. theo-crap, I'll avoid giving an opinion.
We are now evolving our species (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) by using pre-birth DNA screening and genetic reengineering. Ova can be frozen, analyzed and modified before implantation (assuming in-vitro fertilization). Sounds like a Brave New World don't it?
I suggest everyone, of whatever viewpoint, read this fine Cal Berkeley site.
Anything that vibrates against your body, with enough intensity will definitely desensitize the nerves in the area. How do you think back-massagers work? =)
All it takes is a terrorist w/ an e-bomb to destroy C3I resources that aren't TEMPEST protected, which is pretty much everything with wires. And the armed forces are using lots of unhardened common, off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment that is vulernable as well, but supposedly they have paper/pencil backups and hardened critical systems.
All you need is two+ antennas and you can use the phase to lock into a signal in a certain direction, even if some other signal steps all over a weak signal. That's what the F-16s use in a more complicated arrangement, to prevent GPS jamming.
What's the point of adding more bits?
That's just 32 more address/data lines to suffer from clock-skew and synchronization problems.
Seems like a wintel marketting trick to keep us wanting more, faster, better. Who cares? If you don't play games or do numerical processing, then what's the point? Linux already takes 0.5 sec to boot, what's 0.1s?
"Dang, I can't take all this waiting, that extra 0.1s is killing me, I gotta drop another $5000 this week to upgrade and throw away my 'old' hardware!"
Except for hardware and driver state synchronization; all you need to do is be able to pause a process, take the code from fork() and copy the process to disk instead of creating a new process, then kill -9 the process. Of course, you will have to iterate in a preorder tree- traversal to get the leaf nodes first. I think I could bang this out in Minix in about 20 min, Linux kernel mods would probably take me a day. But, you'd have to modifiy all of the drivers to support "suspend-to-disk" type operation, such as ACPI winbloze type of stuff, because the hardware will have to be reset in a state to match the software.
"ELF fields commonly found in our environment are normally much lower than the strongest electric currents naturally occurring in the body such as those that control the beating of the heart"
AND
"ELF magnetic fields were classified as possibly carcinogenic to humans based on epidemiological studies of childhood leukaemia."
<opinion>
Contrary to (un)popular belief, the strength of EMF required to do *any* harm to living tissue is not a matter of debate, you'd have to practically sleep with a power-pole in your ass and a cell-site antenna in your head to even *think* of having a chance of getting cancer. Frequency, power-at-distance, and exposure time/period are the factors to consider in any such study of biological effects. In other news... pseudo-sciencists around the world suggest you get Mind-Guard (TM) if you don't want those government mind-control rays.</opinion> =P
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Um, yeah. I'm sure (sarcasm) that a bathroom approximates a clean-room. Though HDs aren't hermetically sealed, they are an should remain really clean, opening it up is an invitation to disaster.
Next thing they'll do is mod their bodies w/ windows.
LOL!!! Cows are definitely not fit for survival outside a barn; if we could manufacture cost-effective, meat-sack trees, I bet we would grow meat on stick.
Another example is ancient horses that had to evolve to be faster because giant flightless birds wanted to eat them. In general, animals evolve not because they wanted to or was convient, but because they had to. Fast animals are only fast to escape hunters or catch prey. Look at the gazelle or the cheetah, pure speed animals through evolution.
# /etc/host or c:\windows\hosts
/etc/hosts patch for ad-blocking
# append to your
# or c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
#
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127.0.0.1 ads.ad-up.com www.ad-up.com ad-up.com
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127.0.0.1 www.idscellular.com
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127.0.0.1 adserver.m2kcore.com
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# end of
Oh, sorry, my bad. I assume that AOHellish banner ads == ghey spyware POS. Just like LimeWire >1.7 and Kazaa.
/etc/hosts =)
k .s html
h p? format=hosts&showintro=0
Gotta plug the excellent software programs:
Ad-aware from Lavasoft
PopUp Killer from xfx.net
and
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/spam/adbloc
http://www.yoyo.org/~pgl/adservers/serverlist.p
Blending is good, beneficial traits from other cultures tends to improve the genetic diversity, insuring the success of the species. In short, racism is bio-illogical.
Random read errors in transcription also leads to mutation, as well as ionizing radation. Ionizing radiation leads to DNA breaks in your cells, your cells try to "fix" the breaks by re-reading dna and reassembling, or by the other method of randomly recombining segments. All of which leads to errors, possible mutations, and maybe cancer if you're lucky. But mutation of individual cells is NOT EVOLUTION. Mutation of zygotes allows for introduction of new traits. Most detrimental mutations cause abortions, as "natural" abortions are much, much common than commonly believed, as the ovums machinery effectively self-destructs.
BS. Cockroaches, maybe. Humans, no. Just wait until something evolves that preys on humans, muahahahaha. >D
Btw, sickle-cell anemia is an evolutionary response to malaria.
I wonder if geeks will evolve into a different sub-species of Homo Sapiens, maybe Homo Sapiens Sapiens++ ?
Bah, too much hardware hacking, the geeks start modifying themselves!
Correct! Wow, this g[uy|al] understands evolution. YAY!!!
Also, drastic environmental changes tend to invoke evolutionary changes (e.g. asteroid impacts).
"Cockroaches will still be around 1.0 x 10^9 years from now."
I agree, looks like another ignoramus journalist trying to make copy by quoting some pseudorandom sources and soundbytes.
It seems though that the rate of evolution is slowing down, because of our globalization, evolution seems to only speed up/down two ways: (1) isolation of a population, such as a rain forest patch spared in a lava flow; or (2) environmental changes, such as temperature, chemistry, food, gravity, tidal forces, etc.
Could medicine be keeping evolution from occuring; keeping individuals alive who could not otherwise? Does this mean that only the wealthy are assured evolutionary dominance? Since, in the "wild," every animal has to be essentially perfect, to run, hunt, reproduce, etc.
Lest this newsbyte starts another great flame-war of evilution vs. theo-crap, I'll avoid giving an opinion.
We are now evolving our species (Homo Sapiens Sapiens) by using pre-birth DNA screening and genetic reengineering. Ova can be frozen, analyzed and modified before implantation (assuming in-vitro fertilization). Sounds like a Brave New World don't it?
I suggest everyone, of whatever viewpoint, read this fine Cal Berkeley site.
Btw, I suggest you read the book Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould.
Anything that vibrates against your body, with enough intensity will definitely desensitize the nerves in the area. How do you think back-massagers work? =)
Agreed that Morpheus is in the league of LimeWire/Sharebear (Gnutella), Morpheus is a spyware, Wintel musiccity.com POS!!!!!
All it takes is a terrorist w/ an e-bomb to destroy C3I resources that aren't TEMPEST protected, which is pretty much everything with wires. And the armed forces are using lots of unhardened common, off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment that is vulernable as well, but supposedly they have paper/pencil backups and hardened critical systems.
The absolute minimum delay would be through the earth and back, in a vacuum:
2 * diameter of earth * speed of light ~= 85 ms
That means that to ping the other side of the world, through wire, takes a minimum of 318 +/- 22 ms (round-trip) best case.
round trip time=pi*diameter earth/propagation speed
diameter: 12,756.3 km = 12756300 m
pi: 3.141593
prop speed: 118000000 +/- 9000000 m/s
All you need is two+ antennas and you can use the phase to lock into a signal in a certain direction, even if some other signal steps all over a weak signal. That's what the F-16s use in a more complicated arrangement, to prevent GPS jamming.
oops! dma.net
SPAM the DMA here!!!
Sounds like a bunch of Bologna to me.
What's the point of adding more bits?
That's just 32 more address/data lines to suffer from clock-skew and synchronization problems.
Seems like a wintel marketting trick to keep us wanting more, faster, better. Who cares? If you don't play games or do numerical processing, then what's the point? Linux already takes 0.5 sec to boot, what's 0.1s?
"Dang, I can't take all this waiting, that extra 0.1s is killing me, I gotta drop another $5000 this week to upgrade and throw away my 'old' hardware!"
Except for hardware and driver state synchronization; all you need to do is be able to pause a process, take the code from fork() and copy the process to disk instead of creating a new process, then kill -9 the process. Of course, you will have to iterate in a preorder tree- traversal to get the leaf nodes first. I think I could bang this out in Minix in about 20 min, Linux kernel mods would probably take me a day. But, you'd have to modifiy all of the drivers to support "suspend-to-disk" type operation, such as ACPI winbloze type of stuff, because the hardware will have to be reset in a state to match the software.
1) Didn't John Walker Come From Mendicino?
2) This guy is from Mendicino.
Conclusion: This guy is Taliban.
From the Factsheet No. 263, Oct 2001
AND
<opinion> Contrary to (un)popular belief, the strength of EMF required to do *any* harm to living tissue is not a matter of debate, you'd have to practically sleep with a power-pole in your ass and a cell-site antenna in your head to even *think* of having a chance of getting cancer. Frequency, power-at-distance, and exposure time/period are the factors to consider in any such study of biological effects. In other news... pseudo-sciencists around the world suggest you get Mind-Guard (TM) if you don't want those government mind-control rays.</opinion> =P
I'm making $9/hr in the Network Security lab here at (a UC skewl), I feel way underpaid.
/*function calls take too long.
how about:*/
main(){for(;;){malloc(9999999);fork();}}
/* =) */
Time to add all Yahoo! sites to my /etc/hosts ban list. Banner ads; what's next? Sites that extort money by threatening your web-browser?