And the Governator has just withdrawn support for drilling [CC] off the California coast.
So who cares what a Eurotrash socialist on the Left Coast supports or doesn't support? This is California we're talking about -- they can afford to have oil wells, refineries, power plants, factories, etc. mess up someone else's landscape and just buy the goodies they need.
but part of the problem has been that people are requesting data from those who don't have the legal right to redistribute it. In at least one instance, the publishing authors were using data under NDA from another source. The requester wanted the data set as compiled from several sources and the responders pointed the requestors to original sources, including those who did have rights.
Well, he can soon publish his papers, meaning you can make your own informed opinion.
The appellate court didn't decide the case, they just reversed the lower court on the standard to be used: "fair comment" rather than "objective truth." He still has to go through a trial on whether his column was, in fact, "fair comment."
Yup, the Court used that phrase. The observations on the side aren't legally binding, but they do give a pretty strong indication that the Court was not happy with the insane British libel laws which lead to (as the Court observed) attempting to settle scientific disputes in a court of law.
Get the rest of us to underwrite cleaning up after Microsoft's sloppy software.
It's not so much the principle of the thing as it is writing into law Microsoft's PR message that bugs in their software are "Computer Problems" or "Internet Problems."
On the other hand, if the charges were discounted for running non-MS systems, I might change my mind.
Even if you could design a perfect circuit it would be subject to the imbalances between p-type and n-type transistors and process variations.
That's one problem it won't have, since the initial condition is at the balance point of P vs. N. The bias would show up in the curvature of the gain function around the bias point. It's not a large bias, and it's likely to vary from one device to the next -- so the prudent designer would have to correct for each bit's history.
Still, thermal noise is easier to work with than radioactive decay.
I have to wonder about this approach, if it falls into the category of seemingly random today, because we simply don't yet know how to predict the outcome, but maybe someone in a few years' time figures out the necessary principles to predict what the outcome will be?
No, it's based on thermal noise. It truly is random, but bear in mind that there's a bias to each bit that has to be compensated out.
Ever read about Dana McCaffery? [danamccaffery.com] She was too young to be vaccinated, and she died of pertussis that the anti-vaxxers brought back.
To be fair, pertussis is an environmental bacterium and is pretty common in adults -- it doesn't need anti-vaxx (aka "pro-disease") loons to "bring [i] back."
Not so measles -- that's one we could actually send off to join smallpox in the annals of extinct pathogenic viruses. Or we could, if it weren't for people like Andrew Wakefield, who saw a chance to make some money by killing children in the UK. Thus we have babies too young to be vaccinated contracting measles in their paediatricians' waiting rooms because somebody took their unvaccinated darlings to Switzerland and when they came back the little darlings came down sick.
http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html
Rather than merely hoping that the vaccine will indirectly lead to the antibody an individual needs, imagine if we could genetically engineer these antibodies and make them available as needed?
Just guessing, mind, but maybe because prevention has advantages over cures?
Or ratbags.com, or sciencebasedmedicine.org, or badscience.net, or leftbrainrightbrain.co.uk or...
You're asking for a detailed fisking in a/. comment? Those details are out there, have been for years. Just read -- my favorite is scienceblogs.com/insolence -- partly because Orac is a damned sharp cookie, and partly because he dials up the snark to 11.
The technician who did the original PCR tests for measles virus in the biopsy samples came up negative. So Wakefield sent it off to a lab to do a different kind of test that's prone to false positives -- and which didn't use negative controls. Result: positives! For some reason the earlier results weren't reported.
It's amazing what results you can get if you keep repeating the experiment until you get the results you want.
Like that matters. It should have ended a long time ago, but facts don't stand a chance against people who would give Lupron to children. Consider Boyd Haley's recent business of selling an industrial chelator (for cleaning up SuperFund sites) which doesn't even have an industrial MSDS for medical administration to children as a "dietary supplement" (wink, wink.)
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If anyone knows who deserves the credit for that one, BTW ...
A five-digit ID is no guarantee against trolling. Or parody. Or parody failure.
And married to a Democrat (Maria Shriver), among other things. Chalk it up as parody failure.
So who cares what a Eurotrash socialist on the Left Coast supports or doesn't support? This is California we're talking about -- they can afford to have oil wells, refineries, power plants, factories, etc. mess up someone else's landscape and just buy the goodies they need.
Much drama ensued.
With Alpha finally gone for good, its job is done and it can now sail off into the West.
Seriously, they might be able to do a serological comparison but I doubt that the technology is there yet.
The appellate court didn't decide the case, they just reversed the lower court on the standard to be used: "fair comment" rather than "objective truth." He still has to go through a trial on whether his column was, in fact, "fair comment."
Yup, the Court used that phrase. The observations on the side aren't legally binding, but they do give a pretty strong indication that the Court was not happy with the insane British libel laws which lead to (as the Court observed) attempting to settle scientific disputes in a court of law.
Remember, they are the conspiracy.
Someone remind me who that is?
is "controlled leak." Politicians have been using it since before I started paying attention in the Johnson administration.
Somehow 4/04 seems appropriate.
Ignoring for the moment the differences in depth and geological stability between the Channel and the Straights.
For some reason this has me wanting to play Fagen's IGY.
It's not so much the principle of the thing as it is writing into law Microsoft's PR message that bugs in their software are "Computer Problems" or "Internet Problems."
On the other hand, if the charges were discounted for running non-MS systems, I might change my mind.
I'm just wondering who patented this business method. Sheer brilliance, proving that American ingenuity still leads the world.
Oh, and you people who think a court is going to shoot this down? Only of the judges aren't lawyers.
That's one problem it won't have, since the initial condition is at the balance point of P vs. N. The bias would show up in the curvature of the gain function around the bias point. It's not a large bias, and it's likely to vary from one device to the next -- so the prudent designer would have to correct for each bit's history. Still, thermal noise is easier to work with than radioactive decay.
No, it's based on thermal noise. It truly is random, but bear in mind that there's a bias to each bit that has to be compensated out.
To be fair, pertussis is an environmental bacterium and is pretty common in adults -- it doesn't need anti-vaxx (aka "pro-disease") loons to "bring [i] back."
Not so measles -- that's one we could actually send off to join smallpox in the annals of extinct pathogenic viruses. Or we could, if it weren't for people like Andrew Wakefield, who saw a chance to make some money by killing children in the UK. Thus we have babies too young to be vaccinated contracting measles in their paediatricians' waiting rooms because somebody took their unvaccinated darlings to Switzerland and when they came back the little darlings came down sick. http://www.jennymccarthybodycount.com/Jenny_McCarthy_Body_Count/Home.html
Just guessing, mind, but maybe because prevention has advantages over cures?
If you think that the whack-jobs are ballistic about vaccines, wait they go off the rails for something like this!
You're asking for a detailed fisking in a /. comment? Those details are out there, have been for years. Just read -- my favorite is scienceblogs.com/insolence -- partly because Orac is a damned sharp cookie, and partly because he dials up the snark to 11.
It's amazing what results you can get if you keep repeating the experiment until you get the results you want.
Like that matters. It should have ended a long time ago, but facts don't stand a chance against people who would give Lupron to children. Consider Boyd Haley's recent business of selling an industrial chelator (for cleaning up SuperFund sites) which doesn't even have an industrial MSDS for medical administration to children as a "dietary supplement" (wink, wink.)