"Dr. Mahendra Rao is internationally renowned for his research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and other somatic stem cells. He has worked in the stem cell field for more than 20 years, with stints in academia, government and regulatory affairs and industry. He received his M.D. from Bombay University in India and his Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology.
Following postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University, he established his research laboratory in neural development at the University of Utah. He next joined the National Institute on Aging as chief of the Neurosciences Section, where he studied neural progenitor cells and continued to explore his longstanding interest in their clinical potential.
Most recently, he spent six years as the vice president of Regenerative Medicine at Life Technologies in Carlsbad, California. He co-founded Q Therapeutics, a neural stem cell company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also served internationally on advisory boards for companies involved in stem cell processing and therapy; on committees, including as the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationâ(TM)s Cellular Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee chair; and as the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and International Society for Stem Cell Research liaison to the International Society for Cellular Therapy." ref
There once was a tribe of south sea islanders who used ricks as currency. As in there weren't any locally, the nearest available stock was ten miles away on another island, a hazardous journey by canoe. The ricks so gathered could be traded for goods. The current HFC state-of-the-art electronic-trading platforms function much the same. Moving worthless ones-and-noughts from one place to the other.
"Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests", by MouseTheLuckyDog
"The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz’s attorney confirmed Friday." ref
"A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. ref
"Do when the probe was launched it had software defects? I could understand upgrading data but why upgrade good software just for the sake of upgrading? Or is it a "security" upgrade?"
The developers decided it would be cheaper to get version 1.01 launched and then rely bug reports from the space aliens for upgrades..
"It is commonly said that open source software is preferable because if you need something changed, you can change it yourself".
First I've heard you have to change it yourself. Previously, when I had a problem with a video application, I contacted the developers directly and got a satisfactory response.
@iserlohn: "Carter was a good president, probably the one of the best, that just happened to be not as good at politics".
It doesn't help if the future president Regan does a deal with Iran to sell them arms and to withhold releasing the hostages until after Regan is sworn in as President. The moneys so gained being passed onto the Nicaraguan Contras. Such moneys being used to fund the importation of cocaine into the US under the protection of the CIA. "Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S."
"Penrose cites concentric rings found in the WMAP cosmic microwave background survey as preliminary evidence for his model, as he predicted black hole collisions from the previous aeon would leave such structures due to ripples of gravitational waves". ref
"Concocted by the same expert cadre that’s brought us every post-1970 education boondoggle, and resting on the same gross unfamiliarity with actual classrooms and students, the arbitrary, biased, technology-laden, assessment-obsessed Common Core is the creature of the Gates Foundation, with entities like the Pearson conglomerate sitting at Mr. Gates’s right hand. Pearson is the largest textbook and education software publisher in the world, as well as the world’s dominant education assessment contractor. Mr. Gates’s connection to the computer and software business is also a matter of public record."
"The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) was responsible for creating the proposal to collect an extensive amount of student data on our children. This pertains to Bill Gates’ desire to collect student information for each child in this country that can be accessed by those producing and profiting from products to be sold to school"
The OLPC News website in the past months has build up a reputation for sharply criticizing the $100 laptop project headed up by Nicholas Negroponte.. You can shrug your shoulders and simply ignore the blog, but Christopher Blizzard, one of the OLPC's contributors and an employee for Red Hat, looked a little bit further. It turns out that one of the site's authors works on an Intel project that is competing with the OLPC. Oops." link
@tomhath: "As I read it, the CIA searched their own computers that were made available to the Senate Committee, looking for documents that were not supposed to be made available or publicly released" link
'Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the CIA of secretly removing documents, searching committee-used computers and attempting to intimidate Congressional investigators by requesting an FBI probe of their conduct`..
'Feinstein implied that the CIA sabotaged the committees' efforts from the outset, loading a massive amount of files on computers with no index, structure or ability to search. “It was a true document dump,” Feinstein said.`
'the committee had previously seen cases in which more than 900 pages of records disappeared from the database with no explanation.`
“There is no legitimate reason to allege to the Justice Department that Senate staff may have committed a crime”
Slashdot Mirror
How much energy goes into the conversion process?
"The predicted cost of jet fuel using these technologies is in the range of $3-$6 per gallon"
What's it cost as compared to burning fossil fuels as jet fuels?
That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E
Ubuntu is completely free to download, use and share. ref
Mahendra Rao, M.D., Ph.D.
"Dr. Mahendra Rao is internationally renowned for his research involving human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and other somatic stem cells. He has worked in the stem cell field for more than 20 years, with stints in academia, government and regulatory affairs and industry. He received his M.D. from Bombay University in India and his Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology from the California Institute of Technology.
Following postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University, he established his research laboratory in neural development at the University of Utah. He next joined the National Institute on Aging as chief of the Neurosciences Section, where he studied neural progenitor cells and continued to explore his longstanding interest in their clinical potential.
Most recently, he spent six years as the vice president of Regenerative Medicine at Life Technologies in Carlsbad, California. He co-founded Q Therapeutics, a neural stem cell company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He also served internationally on advisory boards for companies involved in stem cell processing and therapy; on committees, including as the U.S. Food and Drug Administrationâ(TM)s Cellular Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee chair; and as the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine and International Society for Stem Cell Research liaison to the International Society for Cellular Therapy." ref
22% of U.S. School Districts using Chromebooks
Why Half of Our Company is Using Chromebooks
Chromebooks capture 20% of commercial notebooks
Does "misled" mean the same as lying about CIA torture methods?
There once was a tribe of south sea islanders who used ricks as currency. As in there weren't any locally, the nearest available stock was ten miles away on another island, a hazardous journey by canoe. The ricks so gathered could be traded for goods. The current HFC state-of-the-art electronic-trading platforms function much the same. Moving worthless ones-and-noughts from one place to the other.
"Swartz was not an asshole, he was however a moron, who let occupioer types convince him that just because you protest, you cannot be arrested for your protests", by MouseTheLuckyDog
"The prosecution of Aaron Swartz was motivated, in part, by the 2008 “Guerilla Open Access Manifesto” the internet activist had penned advocating for civil disobedience against copyright law, Swartz’s attorney confirmed Friday." ref
"A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. ref
"Do when the probe was launched it had software defects? I could understand upgrading data but why upgrade good software just for the sake of upgrading? Or is it a "security" upgrade?"
..
The developers decided it would be cheaper to get version 1.01 launched and then rely bug reports from the space aliens for upgrades
"It is commonly said that open source software is preferable because if you need something changed, you can change it yourself".
First I've heard you have to change it yourself. Previously, when I had a problem with a video application, I contacted the developers directly and got a satisfactory response.
"Most such attacks involve carefully crafted emails carrying malware or directing users to a website crafted to trick them into giving up credentials"
Isn't it ironic that the very people who are asking for more tolerance are totally intolerant of any opposing views ..
@iserlohn: "Carter was a good president, probably the one of the best, that just happened to be not as good at politics".
It doesn't help if the future president Regan does a deal with Iran to sell them arms and to withhold releasing the hostages until after Regan is sworn in as President. The moneys so gained being passed onto the Nicaraguan Contras. Such moneys being used to fund the importation of cocaine into the US under the protection of the CIA. "Honduran DC-6 which is being used for runs out of New Orleans is probably being used for drug runs into U.S."
a) No phone maker has opensourced the baseband ..
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b) Ubuntu hasn't opensourced the baseband
c) Therefore Ubuntu Phone isn't important
"Penrose cites concentric rings found in the WMAP cosmic microwave background survey as preliminary evidence for his model, as he predicted black hole collisions from the previous aeon would leave such structures due to ripples of gravitational waves". ref
Old version of Android may be susceptible to hijacking by a malicious app. Such a malicious app can only get onto the device by direct user action ..
"Windigo .. malware components are designed to hijack servers, infect the computers that visit them, and steal information"
Why don't these compromised UNIX servers go on to hijack Linux client desktops.
> How long until the first Darwin Award is given to someone attempting this? Haa !!!
Dmitry Kiselyov , the Bill O' Reilly of Russian television ..
"Bill Gates and Alan Greenspan, in separate forums here, offered outlooks and prescriptions for fixing jobs and income."
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One fucked up the software industry and the other fucked up the world economy, what an example
PROTHERO: Do you believe this crap, Dascombe?
DASCOMBE: It's not our job to believe it, Lewis. Our job is to tell the people -- ref
"Concocted by the same expert cadre that’s brought us every post-1970 education boondoggle, and resting on the same gross unfamiliarity with actual classrooms and students, the arbitrary, biased, technology-laden, assessment-obsessed Common Core is the creature of the Gates Foundation, with entities like the Pearson conglomerate sitting at Mr. Gates’s right hand. Pearson is the largest textbook and education software publisher in the world, as well as the world’s dominant education assessment contractor. Mr. Gates’s connection to the computer and software business is also a matter of public record."
"The Community Center for Education Results (CCER) was responsible for creating the proposal to collect an extensive amount of student data on our children. This pertains to Bill Gates’ desire to collect student information for each child in this country that can be accessed by those producing and profiting from products to be sold to school"
Just how useful has Microsoft Windows been to the NSA in the ease of remotely compromising these "computers"?
The OLPC News website in the past months has build up a reputation for sharply criticizing the $100 laptop project headed up by Nicholas Negroponte .. You can shrug your shoulders and simply ignore the blog, but Christopher Blizzard, one of the OLPC's contributors and an employee for Red Hat, looked a little bit further. It turns out that one of the site's authors works on an Intel project that is competing with the OLPC. Oops." link
@tomhath: "As I read it, the CIA searched their own computers that were made available to the Senate Committee, looking for documents that were not supposed to be made available or publicly released" link
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'Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) accused the CIA of secretly removing documents, searching committee-used computers and attempting to intimidate Congressional investigators by requesting an FBI probe of their conduct`
'Feinstein implied that the CIA sabotaged the committees' efforts from the outset, loading a massive amount of files on computers with no index, structure or ability to search. “It was a true document dump,” Feinstein said.`
'the committee had previously seen cases in which more than 900 pages of records disappeared from the database with no explanation.`
“There is no legitimate reason to allege to the Justice Department that Senate staff may have committed a crime”