No matter how rich or poor you are it is safe to assume that you will be dead within 100 years of your birth. Now what if there was a way for someone to cheat aging and live indefinitely. Now picture what life in the world would be like if the people who believed in slavery, segregation, and those who opposed suffrage for women were still alive and running the government and industry. A society where the people in power are over 100 years old would cease to socially evolve.
At the beginning of the last century the average age at death was 47. When, 19 1935, FDR signed the law that allowed social security plans to start at 65, they figured almost nobody would be around to collect, so it would be easy to fund.
Now we're living a LOT longer. And we're continuing to increase our average life expectancy. And that's in the face of increases in diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
So they could come up with a cream that lets you remain wrinkle-free until you are past your nineties, but at the expense of being unable to tolerate prolonged exposure to sunlight?
Don't tell me, the other side effect is the development of fangs and a desire to drink blood.
To the contrary - the mice that had the enzyme blocked tolerated prolonged expose without and problems. You'd be able to stay outside a LOT longer.
When you hit 90+, you'll likely be found sitting in a pile of your own excrement with a grimace on your face.
Trading the grimace for a beatific grin simply by putting on a magnetic hat seems like a pretty good deal.
Considering that these are electromagnetic fields, I guess it's time to upgrade the ol' tin-foil hat.
Dr. Stuart Meloy never set out to study orgasms. It was an accident.
He was in the operating room one day in 1998, implanting electrodes into a patient's spine to treat her chronic leg pain. (The electrodes are connected to a device that fires impulses to the brain to block pain signals.) But when he turned on the power, "the patient suddenly let out something between a shriek and moan," says Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in North Carolina.
Asked what was wrong, she replied, "You'll have to teach my husband how to do that."
This is no different than how employers staff their positions -- if they have a need that they can't fill, they increase the pay until a qualified person is motivated to take the position.
That is so last century. Now they just claim a labor shortage and bring in more cheap foreign labor.
Finally, those high programmer salaries are actually low, because the same talents (analytical and problem-solving ability, attention to detail) command much more money in other fields, such as law and finance. A large technology company might typically pay new law-school graduates and MBAs salaries and compensation approaching double what they give new master’s degree grads in computer science.
It's like the could, but at ground level, so you can actually SEE it.
Imagine being surrounded in a fog of data.
(okay, it's just servers in a closet somewhere on the premises, but now that so many have moved to the cloud, it's a way to sell them back their old servers at a premium price, BOfH-style)
Remember all those "ask slashdot" posts that go something like "I was laid off at my job/have a crappy degree in $WHATEVER and I'm thinking about getting into software/mobile/web development.?"
We should at least give the poor sods a hint as to what lies ahead in their work environment.
I know millennials think they are the first generation that is morally superior and have the answers to everything."
Every generation thinks they're superior,
And the previous and next are inferior,
But no matter your exterior,
We have the same interior,
So the Kruger-Dunning Effect bites your posterior.
Burma Shave
The idea is remarkably simple, in spite of the sophisticated technology that makes it possible: when we try living in someone else’s skin, empathy arises
naturally
Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs" tried that, and I doubt there was much empathy floating around.
Mind you, I never watched the movie. When I walked in, I saw this guy hunched over a sewing machine.:What's he doing?" "Making a body suit out of women's skins." "Bye!"
It should be pointed out that Apple later convinced the music labels to let them remove DRM from the iTunes Store. Which really kind of makes the whole thing moot.
It's moot - for now.
You say "Don't have a cow!"
But you never can know
How the wind will blow
Come the next lobbyist - politician pow-wow.
Burma Shave
They were doing an end run around the law, which requires that you have a reasonable basis to conduct an investigation - probable cause - and get a warrant authorizing the surveillance.
Putting the camera up before they had probable cause to get a warrant was putting the cart before the horse - "you can't get from here to there that way."
No problem if plain sight from public property, but if they stuck it on the pole to see in the backyard that's otherwise obscured, that's a violation of privacy.
Actually, it is still a problem. Cyber-stalking, for one thing. The cops, without a warrant, have no more right to stalk someone than you do.
Actually, it is different. For one thing, even an unmarked car sitting there 24/7 is going to raise eyebrows, as well as probably get the police some phone calls for suspicious activity.
Mounting a camera 24/7 at his house lowers the cost barrier - eventually it will be cheap enough to do this to everyone. You can be sure that, at that point, there will be selective enforcement. After all, if they enforced every law on the books on everyone, the only people who wouldn't be in jail would be???
I think you missed the point. If you can write to it, then it's not Read Only Memory. Yet, somehow, at some point, all ROM was written to, or there would be nothing to read later.
Actually mask roms are never written to. The circuits are hard-wired. If the mask is defective, you throw the chip out.
I think the problem is just misconceptualized. Think of read-only memory, like say DVDs. They're not *100* read-only. Data is written to them once in an irreversible manner before their operational life begins using an alternative write mechanism, and then during their design life they're read-only. If you apply the same paradigm to write-only memory, it's perfectly reasonable for, say, a datalogger: data is written during the operation of the device, then when the device has completed its task, the memory is retrieved and read in an irreversible manner.
I think you missed the point - if you can read it, then it's not write-only memory.
Slashdot Mirror
No matter how rich or poor you are it is safe to assume that you will be dead within 100 years of your birth. Now what if there was a way for someone to cheat aging and live indefinitely. Now picture what life in the world would be like if the people who believed in slavery, segregation, and those who opposed suffrage for women were still alive and running the government and industry. A society where the people in power are over 100 years old would cease to socially evolve.
At the beginning of the last century the average age at death was 47. When, 19 1935, FDR signed the law that allowed social security plans to start at 65, they figured almost nobody would be around to collect, so it would be easy to fund.
Now we're living a LOT longer. And we're continuing to increase our average life expectancy. And that's in the face of increases in diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.
Does anyone know how to make an inhibitor for this Granzyme B enzyme?... Before pfizer patents it and charges $10.000 per drop?
This is what they were experimenting with to see if they could protect large arteries from scarring. It's in TFA, which now appears to be slashdotted.
So they could come up with a cream that lets you remain wrinkle-free until you are past your nineties, but at the expense of being unable to tolerate prolonged exposure to sunlight?
Don't tell me, the other side effect is the development of fangs and a desire to drink blood.
To the contrary - the mice that had the enzyme blocked tolerated prolonged expose without and problems. You'd be able to stay outside a LOT longer.
Comcast will retaliate with ads featuring Bart Simpson saying "Don't have tucows!"
When you hit 90+, you'll likely be found sitting in a pile of your own excrement with a grimace on your face. Trading the grimace for a beatific grin simply by putting on a magnetic hat seems like a pretty good deal.
Considering that these are electromagnetic fields, I guess it's time to upgrade the ol' tin-foil hat.
Have Hollywood fallen so far
Yes.
Well, to their credit, they did warn us. Thee was the Orgasmatron in "The Sleeper" and no-physical-contact brain-stimulated sex in "Demolition Man".
And then there's the real orgasmatron
Dr. Stuart Meloy never set out to study orgasms. It was an accident.
He was in the operating room one day in 1998, implanting electrodes into a patient's spine to treat her chronic leg pain. (The electrodes are connected to a device that fires impulses to the brain to block pain signals.) But when he turned on the power, "the patient suddenly let out something between a shriek and moan," says Meloy, an anesthesiologist and pain specialist in North Carolina.
Asked what was wrong, she replied, "You'll have to teach my husband how to do that."
As long as I don't have to sign an NDA to watch the video ... :-)
I expected that around Uranus, but not Mars.
You could ask the Klingons orbiting around Uranus.
When methane's around,
Fart jokes abound.
But what we can't figure
Is who pulled the Martian's finger?
Burma Shave
Okay, all joking aside, we don't know if the methane is even indigenous to Mars, or if it rode in on a dirty snowball comet, or what.
This is no different than how employers staff their positions -- if they have a need that they can't fill, they increase the pay until a qualified person is motivated to take the position.
That is so last century. Now they just claim a labor shortage and bring in more cheap foreign labor.
The decentralized currency that's lost two thirds of its value over the past year or a different one?
You mean the Russian ruble?
You might want to check out Software engineers will work one day for english majors, written by Norman Matloff, professor of computer science, University of California, Davis
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Finally, those high programmer salaries are actually low, because the same talents (analytical and problem-solving ability, attention to detail) command much more money in other fields, such as law and finance. A large technology company might typically pay new law-school graduates and MBAs salaries and compensation approaching double what they give new master’s degree grads in computer science.
Cloud.
Fog
It's like the could, but at ground level, so you can actually SEE it.
Imagine being surrounded in a fog of data.
(okay, it's just servers in a closet somewhere on the premises, but now that so many have moved to the cloud, it's a way to sell them back their old servers at a premium price, BOfH-style)
Remember all those "ask slashdot" posts that go something like "I was laid off at my job/have a crappy degree in $WHATEVER and I'm thinking about getting into software/mobile/web development.?"
We should at least give the poor sods a hint as to what lies ahead in their work environment.
I know millennials think they are the first generation that is morally superior and have the answers to everything."
Every generation thinks they're superior,
And the previous and next are inferior,
But no matter your exterior,
We have the same interior,
So the Kruger-Dunning Effect bites your posterior.
Burma Shave
The idea is remarkably simple, in spite of the sophisticated technology that makes it possible: when we try living in someone else’s skin, empathy arises naturally
Buffalo Bill in "Silence of the Lambs" tried that, and I doubt there was much empathy floating around.
Mind you, I never watched the movie. When I walked in, I saw this guy hunched over a sewing machine. :What's he doing?" "Making a body suit out of women's skins." "Bye!"
It should be pointed out that Apple later convinced the music labels to let them remove DRM from the iTunes Store. Which really kind of makes the whole thing moot.
It's moot - for now.
You say "Don't have a cow!"
But you never can know
How the wind will blow
Come the next lobbyist - politician pow-wow.
Burma Shave
Cops cannot simply park in front of your place 24/7 for a month and watch you. Nobody can.
I do it every year. It's called "getting a decent tan."
They were doing an end run around the law, which requires that you have a reasonable basis to conduct an investigation - probable cause - and get a warrant authorizing the surveillance.
Putting the camera up before they had probable cause to get a warrant was putting the cart before the horse - "you can't get from here to there that way."
No problem if plain sight from public property, but if they stuck it on the pole to see in the backyard that's otherwise obscured, that's a violation of privacy.
Actually, it is still a problem. Cyber-stalking, for one thing. The cops, without a warrant, have no more right to stalk someone than you do.
If you point the camera on a politician you won't have to wait a month to watch a crime to happen.
If you point a camera at a politician, you won't have to wait a month to see the camera removed.
Actually, it is different. For one thing, even an unmarked car sitting there 24/7 is going to raise eyebrows, as well as probably get the police some phone calls for suspicious activity.
Mounting a camera 24/7 at his house lowers the cost barrier - eventually it will be cheap enough to do this to everyone. You can be sure that, at that point, there will be selective enforcement. After all, if they enforced every law on the books on everyone, the only people who wouldn't be in jail would be???
I had no problem downloading it quuickly yesterday after I saw the story in the firehose. Maybe it doesn't take much to slashdot them?
I think you missed the point. If you can write to it, then it's not Read Only Memory. Yet, somehow, at some point, all ROM was written to, or there would be nothing to read later.
Actually mask roms are never written to. The circuits are hard-wired. If the mask is defective, you throw the chip out.
I think the problem is just misconceptualized. Think of read-only memory, like say DVDs. They're not *100* read-only. Data is written to them once in an irreversible manner before their operational life begins using an alternative write mechanism, and then during their design life they're read-only. If you apply the same paradigm to write-only memory, it's perfectly reasonable for, say, a datalogger: data is written during the operation of the device, then when the device has completed its task, the memory is retrieved and read in an irreversible manner.
I think you missed the point - if you can read it, then it's not write-only memory.