The new smuggling will bring not drugs, liquor, or other banned physical things, but ungoverned data. There is already lots of this going on in the form of USB sticks with media from the West traded by people in countries with repressive governments, and use of internet proxies to receive data that is restricted by region where intellectual property is a tool of corporate totalitarianism (that means here in the US, folks). The new smuggling will be satellite ground stations providing direct, un-gatewayed access to global communications. Free speech is the crime here.
Hi, I'm Bruce Perens. If you know me, you know that I don't usually post anything entitled "WTF". But really, "WTF"? Why would anyone mind want to encourage this person and his documented behavior? It sounds like tipping an anonymous coward on Slashdot. Which might make sense if it's tipping them over the edge of a tall building. But really, WTF?
I won the lower court case, and Open Source Security Inc. and Bradley Spengler took out a $300,000 bond payable to me so that they could make two appeals, and that money is being held by the bond company until the appeals are over. All papers are filed in the two appeals, and we are waiting for the appeals court to rule. The magistrate judge in the lower court case actually spent most of her career in that appeals court, starting as a clerk for one of its judges and eventually becoming head attorney of that appeals court. She knows exactly what the specific appeals court judges want to see in a lower-court case, and has a very low reversal rate by that appeals court.
Will the source of the patch that is being proxy-fought over ever be freed again?
This won't be decided in my defamation case. Perhaps someone with a copyright interest in the Linux kernel will sue Open Source Security, Inc. for copyright infringement.
Is the GPL enforceable or is it fairly toothless when it comes to the predominant open-source operating system?
Yes, but any stable currency could serve that role, and the demand for dollars was very clear the last time I was in Brazil, when their own currency was pegged to an unrealistic exchange rate.
It's because charges can be brought anonymously. A John Doe was charged with the crime, and remained fugitive for 25 years. At the end of that interval, a specific person was identified as the John Doe. In this case he did not incriminate himself, he was incriminated by genetic information.
Moron doesn't understand the difference between a heinous murder / rape and a protest movement
Many nations are unable to make this same distinction. There are quite a few where you can be executed or jailed for what you say. If you think that the one you live in can't become like that, you're wrong.
That said, I would not recommend that anyone have any of these publicly-sold DNA tests. It might be possible to take them anonymously, especially by making use of attorney-client privilege, but I will leave that to a lawyer to figure out.
Yeah, but sensors for fires really do make sense. And although the rivers here in California are reasonably well instrumented, I suppose that can use improvement in a lot of places.
Those weren't in my lines. My lines were all stuff I would have said anyway. I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
IoT for natural disasters I can understand. For example, sprinkle sensors through a forest to detect when fires start.
I haven't read the proposal about using blockchain to reduce proverty, and that sounds a little unlikely. At least they weren't proposing to use cryptocurrency to reduce poverty. That would be like using alchemy to make gold so everyone could be rich.
So, I did this just for fun. It's the first and probably the last time in my life that I would be cast for a commercial. I got the limousine treatement to and from the airport on both sides, a stay in the Fairmont Bungalows in Santa Monica, a few hours costuming, and a 4 AM wake-up and 4:30 AM pick-up to shoot the commercial. I got the full make-up thing and we were finished shooting by 9:30 AM. I am being paid screen actors guild scale, and would get some residuals if they use the spot a lot.
All over the place. How many times can they say that this drug is like another, barely pausing long enough to put in the full stop? Fucking over the top slashdot and not so great unless it is your own writing I guess.
Oh, sorry to hear that you're having trouble parsing the article, AC. Maybe you need one of these new ligands that will help you recover your brain power.
Oh holy cow! I've discovered the cure for Anonymous Coward Syndrome!
Altered gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) function is consistently reported in psychiatric disorders, normal aging, and neurodegenerative disorders and reduced function of GABA interneurons is associated with both mood and cognitive symptoms. Benzodiazepines (BZ) have broad anxiolytic, but also sedative, anticonvulsant and amnesic effects, due to nonspecific GABA-A receptor (GABAA-R) targeting. Varying the profile of activity of BZs at GABAA-Rs is predicted to uncover additional therapeutic potential. We synthesized four novel imidazobenzodiazepine (IBZD) amide ligands and tested them for positive allosteric modulation at multiple α-GABAA-R (α-positive allosteric modulators), pharmacokinetic properties, as well as anxiolytic and antidepressant activities in adult mice. Efficacy at reversing stress-induced or age-related working memory deficits was assessed using a spontaneous alternation task. Diazepam (DZP) was used as a control. Three ligands (GL-II-73, GL-II-74, and GL-II-75) demonstrated adequate brain penetration and showed predictive anxiolytic and antidepressant efficacies. GL-II-73 and GL-II-75 significantly reversed stress-induced and age-related working memory deficits. In contrast, DZP displayed anxiolytic but no antidepressant effects or effects on working memory. We demonstrate distinct profiles of anxiolytic, antidepressant, and/or pro-cognitive activities of newly designed IBZD amide ligands, suggesting novel therapeutic potential for IBZD derivatives in depression and aging.
There are some cases in which union protection is important. Unfortunately, they don't always provide that protection, and one wonders why. One case where the union fell flat recently is the proposition in California that passed requiring changes in how EMTs handled emergencies during their breaks. This was promoted as making sure that emergency services were available to all, but they already were. The only change was that the big ambulance firm would no longer have to pay them overtime if they had to drop everything and take a call during their breaks.
The EMT's union, which I think was the same one that now wants to unionize game developers, declined to write anything in opposition to this proposition, and didn't mount any viable publicity campaign aginst the proposition. Thus, those EMTs who are out to save your life got screwed over.
If people infected by it become crazy cat ladies and host 20 cats in their homes, even though the bacterium in the lady does not reproduce, it has promoted the reproduction of genetically identical bacteria in the cats. It is evolutiotionarily successful.
School is one thing, but there are many venues where two children can come into contact. There isn't really a legitimate reason not to vaccinate. Not any substantial religious reason - people are smart enough to make them kosher and halal, not that you are eating them in the first place. And the various conspiracy theorists have blood on their hands.
A family we're friendly with have the most wonderful daughter, who went through a brain tumor and had chemotherapy until her brain was developed enough to use focused radiation to get rid of the thing. She's fine now, but for years she was immuno-compromised. An un-vaccinated child in school could have been a disease vector leading to her death.
People all around you have chemo, get autologous bone marrow transplants and spend a week with no immune system, etc. During that, your unwillingness to vaccinate can kill them. Not that killing your own kid is any nicer. Please get your family all of their shots.
SpaceX actually has a high-load cable system that can hold down the rocket with all engines firing. This is in a lot of photos of static fire tests at their engine test site in Macgregor, Texas. They put it on and take it off with a crane.
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The new smuggling will bring not drugs, liquor, or other banned physical things, but ungoverned data. There is already lots of this going on in the form of USB sticks with media from the West traded by people in countries with repressive governments, and use of internet proxies to receive data that is restricted by region where intellectual property is a tool of corporate totalitarianism (that means here in the US, folks). The new smuggling will be satellite ground stations providing direct, un-gatewayed access to global communications. Free speech is the crime here.
The city of Oakland has to remove the scooters from urban lakes on a regular basis.
I'm sorry, but you won't be getting a tip.
Hi, I'm Bruce Perens. If you know me, you know that I don't usually post anything entitled "WTF". But really, "WTF"? Why would anyone mind want to encourage this person and his documented behavior? It sounds like tipping an anonymous coward on Slashdot. Which might make sense if it's tipping them over the edge of a tall building. But really, WTF?
I won the lower court case, and Open Source Security Inc. and Bradley Spengler took out a $300,000 bond payable to me so that they could make two appeals, and that money is being held by the bond company until the appeals are over. All papers are filed in the two appeals, and we are waiting for the appeals court to rule. The magistrate judge in the lower court case actually spent most of her career in that appeals court, starting as a clerk for one of its judges and eventually becoming head attorney of that appeals court. She knows exactly what the specific appeals court judges want to see in a lower-court case, and has a very low reversal rate by that appeals court.
This won't be decided in my defamation case. Perhaps someone with a copyright interest in the Linux kernel will sue Open Source Security, Inc. for copyright infringement.
Yes, it is enforceable.
Yes, but any stable currency could serve that role, and the demand for dollars was very clear the last time I was in Brazil, when their own currency was pegged to an unrealistic exchange rate.
Oh come on. Babies get switched in hospital, courts and law enforcement change people's identities for their protection (even infants sometimes), etc.
If the person isn't related to any other samples in the library, this is simply a sign of the library being incomplete.
It's because charges can be brought anonymously. A John Doe was charged with the crime, and remained fugitive for 25 years. At the end of that interval, a specific person was identified as the John Doe. In this case he did not incriminate himself, he was incriminated by genetic information.
Go read about H. Edgar Hoover's operation of the FBI and his pursuit of the black power movement, etc.
Many nations are unable to make this same distinction. There are quite a few where you can be executed or jailed for what you say. If you think that the one you live in can't become like that, you're wrong.
Here's information about the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
That said, I would not recommend that anyone have any of these publicly-sold DNA tests. It might be possible to take them anonymously, especially by making use of attorney-client privilege, but I will leave that to a lawyer to figure out.
The best way to help a victim is indeed to avert the disaster. But if you google for it, there are papers on using IoT during the disaster.
Yeah, but sensors for fires really do make sense. And although the rivers here in California are reasonably well instrumented, I suppose that can use improvement in a lot of places.
Those weren't in my lines. My lines were all stuff I would have said anyway. I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
IoT for natural disasters I can understand. For example, sprinkle sensors through a forest to detect when fires start.
I haven't read the proposal about using blockchain to reduce proverty, and that sounds a little unlikely. At least they weren't proposing to use cryptocurrency to reduce poverty. That would be like using alchemy to make gold so everyone could be rich.
So, I did this just for fun. It's the first and probably the last time in my life that I would be cast for a commercial. I got the limousine treatement to and from the airport on both sides, a stay in the Fairmont Bungalows in Santa Monica, a few hours costuming, and a 4 AM wake-up and 4:30 AM pick-up to shoot the commercial. I got the full make-up thing and we were finished shooting by 9:30 AM. I am being paid screen actors guild scale, and would get some residuals if they use the spot a lot.
AC Wrote:
Oh, sorry to hear that you're having trouble parsing the article, AC. Maybe you need one of these new ligands that will help you recover your brain power.
Oh holy cow! I've discovered the cure for Anonymous Coward Syndrome!
This article is by a subset of the authors and seems to be about the same molecules.
Here's the paper abstract:
Altered gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) function is consistently reported in psychiatric disorders, normal aging, and neurodegenerative disorders and reduced function of GABA interneurons is associated with both mood and cognitive symptoms. Benzodiazepines (BZ) have broad anxiolytic, but also sedative, anticonvulsant and amnesic effects, due to nonspecific GABA-A receptor (GABAA-R) targeting. Varying the profile of activity of BZs at GABAA-Rs is predicted to uncover additional therapeutic potential. We synthesized four novel imidazobenzodiazepine (IBZD) amide ligands and tested them for positive allosteric modulation at multiple α-GABAA-R (α-positive allosteric modulators), pharmacokinetic properties, as well as anxiolytic and antidepressant activities in adult mice. Efficacy at reversing stress-induced or age-related working memory deficits was assessed using a spontaneous alternation task. Diazepam (DZP) was used as a control. Three ligands (GL-II-73, GL-II-74, and GL-II-75) demonstrated adequate brain penetration and showed predictive anxiolytic and antidepressant efficacies. GL-II-73 and GL-II-75 significantly reversed stress-induced and age-related working memory deficits. In contrast, DZP displayed anxiolytic but no antidepressant effects or effects on working memory. We demonstrate distinct profiles of anxiolytic, antidepressant, and/or pro-cognitive activities of newly designed IBZD amide ligands, suggesting novel therapeutic potential for IBZD derivatives in depression and aging.
There are some cases in which union protection is important. Unfortunately, they don't always provide that protection, and one wonders why. One case where the union fell flat recently is the proposition in California that passed requiring changes in how EMTs handled emergencies during their breaks. This was promoted as making sure that emergency services were available to all, but they already were. The only change was that the big ambulance firm would no longer have to pay them overtime if they had to drop everything and take a call during their breaks.
The EMT's union, which I think was the same one that now wants to unionize game developers, declined to write anything in opposition to this proposition, and didn't mount any viable publicity campaign aginst the proposition. Thus, those EMTs who are out to save your life got screwed over.
1000 men are looking up and saying "this explains my old girlfriend".
If people infected by it become crazy cat ladies and host 20 cats in their homes, even though the bacterium in the lady does not reproduce, it has promoted the reproduction of genetically identical bacteria in the cats. It is evolutiotionarily successful.
Moron AC wrote:
It is an unfortunate fact of our society that you need a license to cut hair, and not to be a parent.
School is one thing, but there are many venues where two children can come into contact. There isn't really a legitimate reason not to vaccinate. Not any substantial religious reason - people are smart enough to make them kosher and halal, not that you are eating them in the first place. And the various conspiracy theorists have blood on their hands.
A family we're friendly with have the most wonderful daughter, who went through a brain tumor and had chemotherapy until her brain was developed enough to use focused radiation to get rid of the thing. She's fine now, but for years she was immuno-compromised. An un-vaccinated child in school could have been a disease vector leading to her death.
People all around you have chemo, get autologous bone marrow transplants and spend a week with no immune system, etc. During that, your unwillingness to vaccinate can kill them. Not that killing your own kid is any nicer. Please get your family all of their shots.
SpaceX actually has a high-load cable system that can hold down the rocket with all engines firing. This is in a lot of photos of static fire tests at their engine test site in Macgregor, Texas. They put it on and take it off with a crane.