I remember being somewhat excited about a headline like that a few years ago but nothing ever comes of these breakthroughs.
Two things:
1) As someone else points out, it's relatively easy to kill cancer cells in a dish (see the last "Cure For Cancer!" story from a few days ago) or even in a mouse (as in this case). That's a long, long way from a usable treatment.
2) In fact, some fraction of these do become useful treatments, but you're not aware of them because they're not miracle cure-alls and because they're not advertised on television like Cialis or Clarinex.
In fairness, the Nouveau guys (Heh, I hadn't grasped the name before but that's fairly clever...) aren't asking for money, say they don't need the $10K and make it clear that they're not expecting to have a reliable driver for the Fedora 7 release. The hype isn't their fault and I look forward to seeing what they come up with.
People can spend their money as they see fit, but giving $10,000, no strings attached, to a project whose only accomplishment (unless I'm missing something) is "Currently, nothing works" seems like an odd prioritization.
For that matter, why bother with a "pledge drive"? If you think they need $10, why not just send them $10?
And here I had a perfect reason to break out the ol' 4.5" that goes woefully underutilized most days...
I can't bring myself to do it...
Anyway, the map is helpful if you can recognize Altair, but a bit less so for those of us who have to locate anything in the sky by the Big Dipper and Orion. I don't understand how if it's the "brightest comet in decades" I haven't noticed it, though. Hale-Bopp was pretty obvious. Is this one going to be getting much brighter than it is now?
What I find astonishing is how the dopes who can't reliably build something as familiar and unambitious as an internal "content management system" can insist that if cancer hasn't been cured, it must be because of a conspiracy.
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Being accustomed to human genome data -- my first thought was that whoever has 31 chromosomes has more pressing concerns than some ugly SQL.
The guy's site is flattened and Coral Caching doesn't seem to have happened yet so I can't check this, but... I had the same thought as you and then saw a note at the bottom or a comment or something that indicated that this "drizzt" strategem is only a partial solution.
At any rate, after fighting with yet another Portage update disaster and finding that the Gentoo documentation now recommends recompiling your entire system after updating GCC, I'm thinking this license issue is far from Gentoo's biggest problem.
Personally, I think Japan is building a gigantic supercomputer out of PS3s;)
That's precisely what this YDL distribution is aimed at. (I submitted this story here multiple times back when it happened, figuring that eventually it would take priority over the day's Jack Thompson story, but no dice.)
If you're jazzed...doesn't quite grok it yet. The only logic bomb...
If you're rolling your eyes already, wait til you get to "geodetic markers in memespace"...
Tapscott and Williams dismiss Jaron Lanier's worry that wikis can devolve when a smart mob develops the the same kind of "mass stupidity" that brought us Pol Pot or the Stalinist movement.
The funny thing (besides the usual question of whether Jaron Lanier has ever actually done anything) is that there's actually a failure of imagination here, as online collaboration brings us entirely new forms of stupidity! For example, as giggling Colbert fans vandalize Wikipedia under the delusion that anything is somehow clever-funny when said with raised eyebrows.
I have to say that most of these aren't that bad, and plenty are at least debatable. Pretty much every science-related story here has comments that are far, far more witless than anything on that list.
But the real news here is -- Chris de Burgh is a "celebrity"? Does anyone here under 30 know who he was? For that matter, how many people over 30 remember who he was?
In this case, that would effectively be true, anyway. The "innovation" here represents <1% of the process of making the drug in the first place -- if it hadn't been for the companies' developing and testing the compound, there'd be nothing to find an alternate synthesis route to.
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.. while others are switching from OS X to Linux because they feel more comfortable about the transparency under which security vulnerabilities are handled..
Well, as the OP points out, they seem to have run out of Apple vulnerabilities after one day. So perhaps it would be more accurate to say "others are switching from OS X to Linux because they feel more comfortable about the transparency under which a security vulnerability was handled." Tell 'em to say hi to the 12-year-olds in #mplayer for me!
It's nice to see a company address accusations directly, without resorting to lawsuits or just more propaganda.
I had the same reaction at first, but you know -- if Starbucks is correct (*If*. I have no idea.) and a very large, very wealthy group is engaged in a completely dishonest, high-profile smear campaign against their business, that group should get its pants sued off.
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See, the point of switching back to Mac from Linux for recreational desktop use is that I just click on files and they play. If I wanted abuse for not being familiar with some media player minutia, I'd still be in #mplayer trying to figure out what to install to view a WMV.
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Man, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it's only January 2nd! A string handling vulnerability in a cross-platform app I've never heard of? They should at least have been able to make it to the end of the BCS before resorting to filler like that.
My favorite was how My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss was cited as documentary evidence. Next Joe Millionaire will turn out to have been an informative look a the love lives of the wealthy!
A state that has but a single ISP has the power of censorship readily available.
In the case of Saudi Arabia, that's exactly what happens. The whole country is behind a proxy server (or was, last I heard) and it's difficult to block a single abusive user without locking out everyone. That was my first thought reading this story, but Qatar has a vastly different government than Saudi Arabia does and there seem to be the usual accuracy problems with the summary here so I'll decline to speculate.
Bottom line is: I have a PS2, don't have an HD television and even if I did, the only announced HD movie that would possibly interest me is the scuba diving one with Jessica Alba and the Fast And The Furious guy. If one of the new consoles offered something really new, and if it weren't an adventure game in itself to find one, I'd buy it (and had been planning to buy first a 360 and then a PS3), but right now just don't see the point.
The series varies between child-level reading that even a beginner to a language can understand, and advanced gobbledy-gook about magical spells, that is often specific entirely to the Harry Potter series, or at least to English mythology.
Putting aside the first half of that (I'm rusty, that's the point), I'm not sure what your objection is. The Harry Potter specific-jargon isn't any harder in a foreign language than in English, and it's not like that's all or even most of the vocabulary in the books. The only downside is that it's hard to discuss the books with people who have read them in English, since I had no idea what a "dementor" or an "OWL" was.
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Tell you what, Mr. Haxx0r -- you find a qualifying vulnerability, let me know, I'll give them my info and Paypal $7500K to you.
Two things:
1) As someone else points out, it's relatively easy to kill cancer cells in a dish (see the last "Cure For Cancer!" story from a few days ago) or even in a mouse (as in this case). That's a long, long way from a usable treatment.
2) In fact, some fraction of these do become useful treatments, but you're not aware of them because they're not miracle cure-alls and because they're not advertised on television like Cialis or Clarinex.
In fairness, the Nouveau guys (Heh, I hadn't grasped the name before but that's fairly clever...) aren't asking for money, say they don't need the $10K and make it clear that they're not expecting to have a reliable driver for the Fedora 7 release. The hype isn't their fault and I look forward to seeing what they come up with.
For that matter, why bother with a "pledge drive"? If you think they need $10, why not just send them $10?
I can't bring myself to do it...
Anyway, the map is helpful if you can recognize Altair, but a bit less so for those of us who have to locate anything in the sky by the Big Dipper and Orion. I don't understand how if it's the "brightest comet in decades" I haven't noticed it, though. Hale-Bopp was pretty obvious. Is this one going to be getting much brighter than it is now?
What I find astonishing is how the dopes who can't reliably build something as familiar and unambitious as an internal "content management system" can insist that if cancer hasn't been cured, it must be because of a conspiracy.
Being accustomed to human genome data -- my first thought was that whoever has 31 chromosomes has more pressing concerns than some ugly SQL.
At any rate, after fighting with yet another Portage update disaster and finding that the Gentoo documentation now recommends recompiling your entire system after updating GCC, I'm thinking this license issue is far from Gentoo's biggest problem.
And almost all of it seems to have taken place at public places (i.e. beaches, parties etc.)
I believe that wearing skimpy clothing to the beach is considered very scandalous in Brazil.
That's precisely what this YDL distribution is aimed at. (I submitted this story here multiple times back when it happened, figuring that eventually it would take priority over the day's Jack Thompson story, but no dice.)
2) Wherever that million dollars is going, it's certainly not to the stipends of Idaho grad students and postdocs.
3) There is zero weapons potential to this work.
Heh, yet again "susano otter" and I post similar sentiments almost simultaneously. I think we were somehow separated at birth.
If you're rolling your eyes already, wait til you get to "geodetic markers in memespace"...
Tapscott and Williams dismiss Jaron Lanier's worry that wikis can devolve when a smart mob develops the the same kind of "mass stupidity" that brought us Pol Pot or the Stalinist movement.
The funny thing (besides the usual question of whether Jaron Lanier has ever actually done anything) is that there's actually a failure of imagination here, as online collaboration brings us entirely new forms of stupidity! For example, as giggling Colbert fans vandalize Wikipedia under the delusion that anything is somehow clever-funny when said with raised eyebrows.
But the real news here is -- Chris de Burgh is a "celebrity"? Does anyone here under 30 know who he was? For that matter, how many people over 30 remember who he was?
In this case, that would effectively be true, anyway. The "innovation" here represents <1% of the process of making the drug in the first place -- if it hadn't been for the companies' developing and testing the compound, there'd be nothing to find an alternate synthesis route to.
Well, as the OP points out, they seem to have run out of Apple vulnerabilities after one day. So perhaps it would be more accurate to say "others are switching from OS X to Linux because they feel more comfortable about the transparency under which a security vulnerability was handled." Tell 'em to say hi to the 12-year-olds in #mplayer for me!
I had the same reaction at first, but you know -- if Starbucks is correct (*If*. I have no idea.) and a very large, very wealthy group is engaged in a completely dishonest, high-profile smear campaign against their business, that group should get its pants sued off.
See, the point of switching back to Mac from Linux for recreational desktop use is that I just click on files and they play. If I wanted abuse for not being familiar with some media player minutia, I'd still be in #mplayer trying to figure out what to install to view a WMV.
Man, they're really scraping the bottom of the barrel, and it's only January 2nd! A string handling vulnerability in a cross-platform app I've never heard of? They should at least have been able to make it to the end of the BCS before resorting to filler like that.
My favorite was how My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss was cited as documentary evidence. Next Joe Millionaire will turn out to have been an informative look a the love lives of the wealthy!
In the case of Saudi Arabia, that's exactly what happens. The whole country is behind a proxy server (or was, last I heard) and it's difficult to block a single abusive user without locking out everyone. That was my first thought reading this story, but Qatar has a vastly different government than Saudi Arabia does and there seem to be the usual accuracy problems with the summary here so I'll decline to speculate.
Somehow, I'm thinking the person who wrote this doesn't actually work as a scientist...
And for those of you who do -- get back in the lab! Wasn't taking a day off for Christmas enough for you? You can watch football while your gel runs.
Bottom line is: I have a PS2, don't have an HD television and even if I did, the only announced HD movie that would possibly interest me is the scuba diving one with Jessica Alba and the Fast And The Furious guy. If one of the new consoles offered something really new, and if it weren't an adventure game in itself to find one, I'd buy it (and had been planning to buy first a 360 and then a PS3), but right now just don't see the point.
Anyway, didn't they buy Blogger? And was it "beta" when they bought it, or do they actually move acquired products backwards in their lifecycle?
Putting aside the first half of that (I'm rusty, that's the point), I'm not sure what your objection is. The Harry Potter specific-jargon isn't any harder in a foreign language than in English, and it's not like that's all or even most of the vocabulary in the books. The only downside is that it's hard to discuss the books with people who have read them in English, since I had no idea what a "dementor" or an "OWL" was.