...and eye cancer [com.com] [com.com] (just to emphasize the rather ridiculous domain name:P). Although this study was a bit small (as the researchers say themselves), the results aren't too accurate. But the conclusion is that cellphone users are 3 times more likely to develop cancer of the eye.
Isn't there something like "the right to demonstrate" in your 1st amendment or whatever it is called? Not that the 1st amendment would even have any meaning in the USA to day (DMCA, SSSCA, this bloke that got fined $450000 for saying something in an online discussion). Anyway - here in the Netherlands we have this basic law that everybody has the right to demonstrate. There are some exceptions, but in general it is against the law for the police to stop a demonstration.
And that fact (that they've won) means that as of now you should be carefull about what you say in ANY discussion whatsoever. And that's even more stupid than this guy ignoring the letter (which he said he didn't and so far there hasn't been any proof that the letter was even sent to him at all).
What year was that definition made up? Probably in some time eveything that was publicized (how do you spell that?!) was static. I think it's about time that definition should be renewed then. Web pages are a publication, no matter what. But a forum is an interactive communication medium and therefore the rules that were made up for static publications should not aply here.
Anyway. I don't really care about what the legal definition is, or whatever the law may say about it. I just wanted to describe what I think is right and used my own definition of publication.
Sure. He should have read the letter (if he did get it). My point was that the letter shouldn't even have been sent since the guy shouldn't have been sued because there was no libel. Libel requires a PUBLICATION. I think you can hardly consider a web forum a publication. It's a discussion. You can sue for libel because when something bad about you is publicized, you cannot respond to it in a fair way. This is completely different in an online forum. If something bad about you is said, just react and you've had your say.
Anyway. IANAL but you don't have to be one to understand that what happened here is bad. And if the law allows this, then the law is bad. Easy.
I will presently refrain from making comments about those with high user ids missing out on juicy/. tidbits like that.;-P
Hehehe the posters/. id is lower than that of www.sorehands.com:) So his user id shouldn't have much to do with missing out on juicy/. tidbits like that.;-P
Exactly. The facts are a post on a web forum. This can hardly be considered a publication; it's a forum, it's meant for discussion and therefore should not be censored (I consider this censoring) at any time. The best moral thing this company could have done is reply on the forum and saying politely that this guy is wrong and why he is wrong (if he was wrong). The company was part of the discussion (they must have read it somehow...), remained silent, went to a lawyer and sued the guy. Childish. Imagine MS doing this to us poor/.ers....
Does it even matter at all if he got the letter, if he lied about it or even if he told the truth about this company? It's very VERY clear he's telling his opinion and the moment people get fined for telling their opinion is the moment the US can be considerd on par with China and many other countries they can't stand. Emigrate while you can!
You just need to practice more. Seriously. I live in the Netherlands and we have a lot of english programs on tv - all of which (apart from cartoons for _small_ children) are subtitled. By the time we are 10 yo or so, nobody has to actively watch the subtitles anymore. In Germany otoh, EVERYTHING is dubbed. By monkeys that don't care about timing. This is so annoying...ARGH. I'm just not ready to talk about that yet. Sorry.
Probably this shrimp needs oxygen from the water and therefore technically can be considered part of a much larger ecosystem. A better example would be the ecosystems discovered in turkish caves which are for as far as I know (and I don't know it that far) not connected with any other ecosystems at all and not dependant on oxygen. Anyway; these ecosystems didn't start to exists independently; it were organisms from other ecosystems that have adapted to these ecosystems. So it isn't that far off to search for carbon-based water-requiring life; there's more to it than coincidence that the life on earth became carbon-based.
5) If you're sending spam using a list/alias, always set the Reply-to address correctly so ppl don't end up replying to the list if that is not desired behaviour.
The problem is...at least at my school, that thin clients an Sun boxes are wanted a lot more by students than windows boxes nowadays. But fortunately our cam-budget has not been cut (although the refreshrate of the (web)cams is low enough to run in and grab a boxes between 2 images being taken:P).
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And what reason would the EU have to push such legislation? Why would the listen to the USA? The only possible reason would be that the majority of us EU voters would vote for it. Would you? Probably not because here in the EU we don't vote for the ones that have the most money to spend on their campain. There's a reason we don't have the DMCA yet, you know; in the EU the people still go before the companies.
I know that "hey my toaster's got an IP address" is a bit ridiculous.
Read that again in 20 years and laugh about your own naiveness:) "20 years ago you'd have to get up to put bread in the toaster and then start it manually. Can you imagine?!" Seriously, I see only benefits to this, especially if it can be done wireless and it shouldn't even be that expensive if all-in-one-kitchen-appliance-chips emerge. Control all the electric devices in your house from just about everywhere. I can hardly wait. O...I don't even have to wait:)
...and one telephone per town should be enough! Amen.
To most of us the reason we want ipv6 is not that the possible address space is larger; it's the other benefits regarding security and easy configuration. Read more.
Well...there are also a lot of homosexual animals which probably wouldn't "marry" because that's what they're pushed to do by the society because it's "normal" (or do they?). And if it were a recessive gene, shouldn't we find more homosexuals in certain families?
Have you ever fallen in love with a person you've chosen in a rational way? I haven't and I can't. Let's just assume nobody can (let me know if you can!:)); then I don't see how homosexuality could possibly be psychological. I also think most real heterosexual persons consider people of the same sex just plain disgusting in exactly the same way they consider people of the other sex attractive. So I think those "pshychological homosexuals" are in fact normal bisexuals.
One other point your post made me think of: homosexuality is rather omnipresent in our society and is probably incluencing the way it works in ways we may not even understand. So therefore the impact of "taking it away" by genetical selection may be different than we might expect. The Alzheimer case PROBABLY doesn't influence social aspects and is therefore probably a lot safer.
And one more point: if homosexuality is genetical, why does it still exist when they cannot reproduce? (does anybody have facts on this?)
Don't you think there's a major difference between weakness and illness? You aren't going to die because of your so-called weaknesses (there are probably lots of people jealous of your mental capacities, so maybe your weakness isn't really a weakness at all?) while this child had a fairly chance of dying so I think the comparison between your "problems" and the potential problems this child would have been facing cannot be compared. Although with the technique used here, one may choose to a certain extent e.g. the colour of the hair of your child, but that's NOT what happened here so it would be rather stupid to consider this case "bad" because it uses a technique that can be used to seriously disturb "natural selection". When people start choosing not to have black-haired babies or so using this technique, your complaint would be valid.
Furthermore, since the eggs and the sperm were taken from the "natural" parents, their genes will remain in the baby so the baby is rather "normal"; it's genes were constructed in a totally natural way, it's just that the selection of the egg happened in a bit of an unconventional way. Speaking of natural selection; in most developed countries there's hardly any natural selection left; anyone can and does have babies which would not have been born if medical science wouldn't have interfered (I'm not saying they shouldn't). So science has influenced natural selection in a major way already (in the "wrong" direction). So then what's wrong about using science to push this back a bit in the "right" direction when we can do so in a very humane way?
Anyway... the kind of selection you describe in your post is probably not possible since the genes are selected from the gene-set of the parents so the choices are rather limited and natural diversity is not really harmed. I think when we start to construct babies DNA from scratch or something, we're pushing things a bit too far, but as long as it's just a "technique to choose the right egg" I don't really see a problem. I think in this situation it's not the ethical aspects that should worry us, but the rather unknown long-term effects of the hormone-treatment (which is said to increase the chance of cancer for the mother) and the tests on the DNA of the child.
Please tell me if I'm wrong; it's not like I know anything about all this and made this all up:)
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that approach will work; IDE-drives even power up when the IDE-cable is not connected and as far as I know the IDE-protocol doesn't support such a feature so you'd have to use SCSI-drives.
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...and eye cancer [com.com] [com.com] (just to emphasize the rather ridiculous domain name:P). Although this study was a bit small (as the researchers say themselves), the results aren't too accurate. But the conclusion is that cellphone users are 3 times more likely to develop cancer of the eye.
I've even seen a record-burner using laser...but I can't find the link anymore:(
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Amateurish.
Isn't there something like "the right to demonstrate" in your 1st amendment or whatever it is called? Not that the 1st amendment would even have any meaning in the USA to day (DMCA, SSSCA, this bloke that got fined $450000 for saying something in an online discussion). Anyway - here in the Netherlands we have this basic law that everybody has the right to demonstrate. There are some exceptions, but in general it is against the law for the police to stop a demonstration.
...apart from the fact that you need windows to run those tools. And windows is waaay too expensive for us poor students.
And that fact (that they've won) means that as of now you should be carefull about what you say in ANY discussion whatsoever. And that's even more stupid than this guy ignoring the letter (which he said he didn't and so far there hasn't been any proof that the letter was even sent to him at all).
Anyway. I don't really care about what the legal definition is, or whatever the law may say about it. I just wanted to describe what I think is right and used my own definition of publication.
Anyway. IANAL but you don't have to be one to understand that what happened here is bad. And if the law allows this, then the law is bad. Easy.
Hehehe the posters /. id is lower than that of www.sorehands.com:) So his user id shouldn't have much to do with missing out on juicy /. tidbits like that.;-P
My point was that this guy should not have been sued in the first place. Ignoring the letter would be stupid, but not as stupid as suing this guy was.
Exactly. The facts are a post on a web forum. This can hardly be considered a publication; it's a forum, it's meant for discussion and therefore should not be censored (I consider this censoring) at any time. The best moral thing this company could have done is reply on the forum and saying politely that this guy is wrong and why he is wrong (if he was wrong). The company was part of the discussion (they must have read it somehow...), remained silent, went to a lawyer and sued the guy. Childish. Imagine MS doing this to us poor /.ers....
Does it even matter at all if he got the letter, if he lied about it or even if he told the truth about this company? It's very VERY clear he's telling his opinion and the moment people get fined for telling their opinion is the moment the US can be considerd on par with China and many other countries they can't stand. Emigrate while you can!
You just need to practice more. Seriously. I live in the Netherlands and we have a lot of english programs on tv - all of which (apart from cartoons for _small_ children) are subtitled. By the time we are 10 yo or so, nobody has to actively watch the subtitles anymore. In Germany otoh, EVERYTHING is dubbed. By monkeys that don't care about timing. This is so annoying...ARGH. I'm just not ready to talk about that yet. Sorry.
Probably this shrimp needs oxygen from the water and therefore technically can be considered part of a much larger ecosystem. A better example would be the ecosystems discovered in turkish caves which are for as far as I know (and I don't know it that far) not connected with any other ecosystems at all and not dependant on oxygen. Anyway; these ecosystems didn't start to exists independently; it were organisms from other ecosystems that have adapted to these ecosystems. So it isn't that far off to search for carbon-based water-requiring life; there's more to it than coincidence that the life on earth became carbon-based.
5) If you're sending spam using a list/alias, always set the Reply-to address correctly so ppl don't end up replying to the list if that is not desired behaviour.
In modern cars, when you log in, you get the environment you've chosen. If only they weren't so #%#%(~ expensive.
The problem is...at least at my school, that thin clients an Sun boxes are wanted a lot more by students than windows boxes nowadays. But fortunately our cam-budget has not been cut (although the refreshrate of the (web)cams is low enough to run in and grab a boxes between 2 images being taken:P).
And what reason would the EU have to push such legislation? Why would the listen to the USA? The only possible reason would be that the majority of us EU voters would vote for it. Would you? Probably not because here in the EU we don't vote for the ones that have the most money to spend on their campain. There's a reason we don't have the DMCA yet, you know; in the EU the people still go before the companies.
The prism-effect and the inverting can easily be solved by using a periscope-like setup with 2 mirrors.
Read that again in 20 years and laugh about your own naiveness:) "20 years ago you'd have to get up to put bread in the toaster and then start it manually. Can you imagine?!" Seriously, I see only benefits to this, especially if it can be done wireless and it shouldn't even be that expensive if all-in-one-kitchen-appliance-chips emerge. Control all the electric devices in your house from just about everywhere. I can hardly wait. O...I don't even have to wait:)
To most of us the reason we want ipv6 is not that the possible address space is larger; it's the other benefits regarding security and easy configuration. Read more.
Well...there are also a lot of homosexual animals which probably wouldn't "marry" because that's what they're pushed to do by the society because it's "normal" (or do they?). And if it were a recessive gene, shouldn't we find more homosexuals in certain families?
One other point your post made me think of: homosexuality is rather omnipresent in our society and is probably incluencing the way it works in ways we may not even understand. So therefore the impact of "taking it away" by genetical selection may be different than we might expect. The Alzheimer case PROBABLY doesn't influence social aspects and is therefore probably a lot safer.
And one more point: if homosexuality is genetical, why does it still exist when they cannot reproduce? (does anybody have facts on this?)
DISCLAIMER: I'm bisexual:)
Don't you think there's a major difference between weakness and illness? You aren't going to die because of your so-called weaknesses (there are probably lots of people jealous of your mental capacities, so maybe your weakness isn't really a weakness at all?) while this child had a fairly chance of dying so I think the comparison between your "problems" and the potential problems this child would have been facing cannot be compared. Although with the technique used here, one may choose to a certain extent e.g. the colour of the hair of your child, but that's NOT what happened here so it would be rather stupid to consider this case "bad" because it uses a technique that can be used to seriously disturb "natural selection". When people start choosing not to have black-haired babies or so using this technique, your complaint would be valid.
Furthermore, since the eggs and the sperm were taken from the "natural" parents, their genes will remain in the baby so the baby is rather "normal"; it's genes were constructed in a totally natural way, it's just that the selection of the egg happened in a bit of an unconventional way. Speaking of natural selection; in most developed countries there's hardly any natural selection left; anyone can and does have babies which would not have been born if medical science wouldn't have interfered (I'm not saying they shouldn't). So science has influenced natural selection in a major way already (in the "wrong" direction). So then what's wrong about using science to push this back a bit in the "right" direction when we can do so in a very humane way?
Anyway... the kind of selection you describe in your post is probably not possible since the genes are selected from the gene-set of the parents so the choices are rather limited and natural diversity is not really harmed. I think when we start to construct babies DNA from scratch or something, we're pushing things a bit too far, but as long as it's just a "technique to choose the right egg" I don't really see a problem. I think in this situation it's not the ethical aspects that should worry us, but the rather unknown long-term effects of the hormone-treatment (which is said to increase the chance of cancer for the mother) and the tests on the DNA of the child.
Please tell me if I'm wrong; it's not like I know anything about all this and made this all up:)
I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think that approach will work; IDE-drives even power up when the IDE-cable is not connected and as far as I know the IDE-protocol doesn't support such a feature so you'd have to use SCSI-drives.