There doesn't seem to be a paper yet, but the guy has a serious publication record and doesn't seem prone to publicity stunts. Probably it's the usual case of a university PR office hearing "HIV" and going nuts with the press release.
The only experiments described are in cell cultures. (I.e. the stuff is dumped directly on cells in in a dish.) The "can produce an 80% slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body" seems to be just wishful thinking at the moment.
And the dictionary source below contradicts it. Hooray.
Interestingly, the Online Etymology Dictionary entry also on that page claims the transitive form is the original verb. Presumably the newer intransitive usage has now displaced the older convention, except here.
The Colosseum??? I've been to see it, and it isnt very Wonderous. It's just an ancient arena. Machu Picchu, Petra etc are good candidates as they are unique in this world.
This is like when eighth graders read Shakespeare and say "It's full of cliches!" The wonder of the Colosseum is that two thousand years later, it hasn't been improved upon. Pyramids, on the other hand, never really caught on.
Are you kidding me? You expect these people, who are the low-paid,
bottom-of-the-IT-food-chain to have ethics? Why are they any different
from a parking lot attendant or car wash guy?
Given the opportunities for misconduct that valet parkers, low-level IT techs, waiters, cleaning people and others have, the number of times they take advantage is astonishingly low. They may make less money than 1337 PHP developers, but there's no reason to question their ethics.
I frequently bitch about those IT guys, who all think they're Alan Turing when they have maybe a 50% chance of not making my computer worse. But their integrity in the face of temptation is almost always excellent, and it's not like most of them have any idea how to cover their tracks.
What is it with all the new consoles having so many hardware problems?...Heh. My NES / SNES still work fine ~15 years later.
Because there was no Internet back then* for you to hear about isolated cases of hardware failure. If someone's NES burned up, he went back to Woolworth's or whatever they had back then, got a new one and complained to his buddies. Now, consoles come out and the most freakish problems (hurling your Wiimote through the TV screen, for example) gets spread worldwide.
* Yes, I know that there actually was an Internet back then, with at least 11 users.
I suppose I've one question - does this actually remove memories (as in cause them to no longer be able to be recalled) or does it "smooth the landing", by which I mean disassociate the memories from the intense anguish/pain that they cause.
The latter.
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Because the way you get to be "DVD Jon" is by bragging about trivial "hacks" to high-profile Apple hardware and services.
OK, you get to be him by taking credit for someone else's DVD player hack. But you stay "DVD Jon" with noisy, pointless attacks on Apple gear.
...that someone usually gets some celebrity status, but also they run the risk of being crushed under the company's legal department.
This guy seems to have been crushed under the weight of being a marginal Linux celebrity. It gives you some sympathy for Paris Hilton the way he's flipping out after 248 Slashdot comments and a Forbes reporter not following through with an interview.
I'm not saying there aren't legitimate objections to it, just that it's not an inexorable first step to the gulag. The OP was wondering why Americans were flying into a panic over something that is completely uncontroversial and unthreatening to him, and I was putting it in context.
For that matter, maintaining distinctive national quirks is a legitimate concern in its own right.
Yes, of course we knew that brands matter in decisions. What they showed was it triggers emotional reaction. Not logical decisions. Not recall of past experience with a brand. Emotions.
Are you talking about the brain researchers or the search engine study? If the latter, I don't understand how you concluded that from the article. If the former -- yes, I agree that that research is completely unrelated to what is being studied in the search engine experiment, which is why I was mystified by the author's reference to it.
I think the reality is that every 10-15 years the number of illegals gets out of hand, and some legislation gets passed that clears the decks but also "ensures that now we get serious about controlling our borders!" It's inevitable, and I don't get worked up about it either way. If the bill had passed, we'd be having exactly the same discussion in 2022.
But whether amnesty is good or bad is irrelevant to the original question.
By "mandatory" I don't mean that you have to carry it around with you, just that every citizen and resident is routinely assigned a national identifier. (That is the case, right? If not, amend the "every other country in the world" in my original comment, which wan't intended to be literally true anyway.)
If anything, you're illustrating my point: the existence of a national ID card (in this case an RFID card) doesn't automatically lead to the Gestapo hauling you off to prison.
There's nothing wrong with a little extra rigor to determine if common sense "knowledge" is actually true.
Yeah, but common sense and looking at people's brains aren't the only two options. If you're drawing conclusions about behavior, studies (like this one) about behavior are more appropriate than seeing whether some neuron fires when you see a Coke can. It's been directly established for decades that perceptions are affected by prejudices.
It's not really rational. The US has this deeply embedded association of mandatory, national ID cards with Hitler or Stalin. Obviously universally accepted identifiers are necessary, but people are willing to accept driver's licenses (state-issued, and not theoretically mandatory) and social security numbers (not theoretically IDs), just not a Mandatory National ID Card like every other country in the world has.
Every country has its distinctive quirks; this is one of them.
1) The issue that killed the bill was amnesty, not Real ID. I don't believe I've seen a single story outside of here even mention the Real ID issue, and anyone who thinks that was the dealbreaker is either dishonest or delusional.
2) Aside from point 1), this makes no sense. The immigration bill collapsed, the Real ID is going through and that somehow proves that Real ID is politically untenable?!?
This is in line with the finding last year by German researchers who showed using MRI scans that well-known brands activate positive emotional responses in people's brains.
Surely the fact that people's preconceptions color their perceptions has been known for more than a year, and doesn't require looking directly into brains...?
And... did you write to your congressman and senators?
if everyone who steals music would put five minutes of effort into keeping legal streams viable, there's no way the royalty ruling is going to go through.
I've enjoyed Talk Like A Pirate Day as much as the next guy, but enough already! The pirate thing needs a few years of rest before it becomes fun again.
This was yet another of those deals where a company includes the usual collection of possible disasters in its SEC filings and the morons at Groklaw turned it into one of their "Company We Don't Like Trembles In Fear Of Teh Community!" fantasies, right?
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There doesn't seem to be a paper yet, but the guy has a serious publication record and doesn't seem prone to publicity stunts. Probably it's the usual case of a university PR office hearing "HIV" and going nuts with the press release.
The only experiments described are in cell cultures. (I.e. the stuff is dumped directly on cells in in a dish.) The "can produce an 80% slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body" seems to be just wishful thinking at the moment.
Interestingly, the Online Etymology Dictionary entry also on that page claims the transitive form is the original verb. Presumably the newer intransitive usage has now displaced the older convention, except here.
News For Nerds, Vocabulary From The 19th Century.
This is like when eighth graders read Shakespeare and say "It's full of cliches!" The wonder of the Colosseum is that two thousand years later, it hasn't been improved upon. Pyramids, on the other hand, never really caught on.
Heh, they've fallen so far off the radar that Zonk doesn't realize there's a Transmeta topic!
Given the opportunities for misconduct that valet parkers, low-level IT techs, waiters, cleaning people and others have, the number of times they take advantage is astonishingly low. They may make less money than 1337 PHP developers, but there's no reason to question their ethics.
I frequently bitch about those IT guys, who all think they're Alan Turing when they have maybe a 50% chance of not making my computer worse. But their integrity in the face of temptation is almost always excellent, and it's not like most of them have any idea how to cover their tracks.
Because there was no Internet back then* for you to hear about isolated cases of hardware failure. If someone's NES burned up, he went back to Woolworth's or whatever they had back then, got a new one and complained to his buddies. Now, consoles come out and the most freakish problems (hurling your Wiimote through the TV screen, for example) gets spread worldwide.
* Yes, I know that there actually was an Internet back then, with at least 11 users.
"I thought about doing that, its a bit obvious" isn't prior art, even if it were spelled correctly.
The latter.
OK, you get to be him by taking credit for someone else's DVD player hack. But you stay "DVD Jon" with noisy, pointless attacks on Apple gear.
This guy seems to have been crushed under the weight of being a marginal Linux celebrity. It gives you some sympathy for Paris Hilton the way he's flipping out after 248 Slashdot comments and a Forbes reporter not following through with an interview.
I'm not saying there aren't legitimate objections to it, just that it's not an inexorable first step to the gulag. The OP was wondering why Americans were flying into a panic over something that is completely uncontroversial and unthreatening to him, and I was putting it in context.
For that matter, maintaining distinctive national quirks is a legitimate concern in its own right.
Here's the paper. I'm not a cell biologist, but from my limited understanding you're exactly correct.
Are you talking about the brain researchers or the search engine study? If the latter, I don't understand how you concluded that from the article. If the former -- yes, I agree that that research is completely unrelated to what is being studied in the search engine experiment, which is why I was mystified by the author's reference to it.
But whether amnesty is good or bad is irrelevant to the original question.
If anything, you're illustrating my point: the existence of a national ID card (in this case an RFID card) doesn't automatically lead to the Gestapo hauling you off to prison.
Yeah, but common sense and looking at people's brains aren't the only two options. If you're drawing conclusions about behavior, studies (like this one) about behavior are more appropriate than seeing whether some neuron fires when you see a Coke can. It's been directly established for decades that perceptions are affected by prejudices.
It's not really rational. The US has this deeply embedded association of mandatory, national ID cards with Hitler or Stalin. Obviously universally accepted identifiers are necessary, but people are willing to accept driver's licenses (state-issued, and not theoretically mandatory) and social security numbers (not theoretically IDs), just not a Mandatory National ID Card like every other country in the world has.
Every country has its distinctive quirks; this is one of them.
2) Aside from point 1), this makes no sense. The immigration bill collapsed, the Real ID is going through and that somehow proves that Real ID is politically untenable?!?
Surely the fact that people's preconceptions color their perceptions has been known for more than a year, and doesn't require looking directly into brains...?
You could do that, but they were actually using an engineered mouse strain with the FMR1 gene knocked out.
One thing to note is that this isn't a drug; it's a dominant negative transgene, so you're not going to popping pills for this any time soon.
if everyone who steals music would put five minutes of effort into keeping legal streams viable, there's no way the royalty ruling is going to go through.
I've enjoyed Talk Like A Pirate Day as much as the next guy, but enough already! The pirate thing needs a few years of rest before it becomes fun again.
This was yet another of those deals where a company includes the usual collection of possible disasters in its SEC filings and the morons at Groklaw turned it into one of their "Company We Don't Like Trembles In Fear Of Teh Community!" fantasies, right?