Nice idea, but Ubuntu is, by default, about the least XP-like common Linux distro they could have chosen. Mint-MATE or something would be less of a culture shock.
Given how much the food industry is "concerned" with providing us with the best quality, is it potentially possible that they can use this molecule to block our ability to sense some bad stuff that is in their products?
You know the foil capsule that covers the cork on more expensive bottles? Take half a dozen of those and you can make a useful protective hat!
For example, The Chair is not positioned so that the commander can see every one at once and it has a ridiculous metal shell behind it creating a giant blind spot behind it
Browser issue? You should see the equations properly rendered by MathJax in the online version (maybe with a very brief delay before the sort of text you quote is replaced by an equation).
Both are right-wing 'Eurosceptic' papers, and this story is just the sort of thing their readers, who are also the core constituency of the Conservative party that leads the current Government, love to be 'outraged' about. From the Mail story:
"Last night, a Government source said Mr McLouglin had instructed officials to block the moves because they were a 'violation' of British motorists' freedom...The source said: 'This has Big Brother written all over it and is exactly the sort of thing that gets people's backs up about Brussels. We are about getting a better deal for Britain, not letting EU bureaucrats encroach further into people's lives.'"
In other words, 'We are standing up to those interfering Eurocrats and their silly ideas, so please vote for us instead of UKIP'.
"Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday."
The summary is misleading. In the BBC article, the regulator is claiming anyone who does this will be liable IF they breach the code ("Premium rate numbers are not designed to be used in this way and we would strongly discourage any listeners from adopting this idea, as they will be liable under our code for any breaches and subsequent fines that result.").
Well, it would probably just be simpler to clone Lawrence Olivier a couple of times. Then we could make a movie about an evil dentist (Lawrence Olivier, 'Marathon Man') plotting to clone and re-create John Lennon (Ian Hart, already a Lennon clone in 'Backbeat' and 'The Hours and the Times'). Only one man (Lawrence Oliver, 'The Boys from Brazil') can stop him...
Am I the only one who reads mostly on a phone, in night mode (even in daylight)? Good contrast without that feeling of having a flashlight shone in your eyes, hardly any weight to support with your hands, and nothing else to carry around. To me, this is the iPod for books.
"Because of their adaptation to posting on popular technology sites, HeLa cell stories are sometimes difficult to control. They have proven to be a persistent technology blog "weed" that contaminates other news items on the same website, interfering with stories about Linux and forcing readers to declare articles as dupes. The degree of HeLa story contamination among other news items is unknown because few editors test the identity or relevance of already-submitted articles. It has been demonstrated that a substantial fraction of front page items on Slashdot - estimates range from 10% to 20% - are contaminated with HeLa cell stories."
It is being locked down after decades of being used in countless research projects. The family wants to protect their privacy, so the data is actually being locked down, not opened up as TFS implies. The data has been out there and only small parts of it are now going to be shared with researchers with a need to know.
Nothing that's been available for decades is being locked down. The cells themselves remain available, as do the many public sequences of individual genes and other genomic fragments derived from HeLa over the years. All that's being restricted here is access to two versions of the complete genome sequence of HeLa described in papers published in 2013. One of these genomes was briefly available without restriction earlier this year. I don't see anything to suggest that 'only small parts' of the data will be made available, and I imagine that suitably qualified researchers will be able to request anything up to genome-wide variant lists and even raw sequence reads if necessary (similar controlled access arrangements already exist for other personal genome projects where consent was obtained by more conventional means).
You might as well post the inspiring speech written for the US President in the film "Independence Day."
Or better still, check out the superbly bleak BBC drama 'Threads' (1984), which showed in documentary style the build-up to a nuclear attack and its aftermath. Scarier than any horror movie at the time, when it felt like all of this might actually happen, possibly next week:
The 'Protect and Survive' public information films, made for broadcast if an attack seemed imminent, also became well known in the early 80s for their creepy jingle, amateurish DIY fallout shelter instructions, and Patrick Allen's distinctive voicover:
Hope you don't work in data security! Every decent file recovery tool (Recuva, PhotoRec, etc.) can restore files from a formatted drive. Secure wiping (as with DBAN) is a different matter.
Why should I put in hours and hours trying to make bad software usable? I used Linux for 5 years until 8 months ago when I finally gave up on Linux because GNOME 2.30 was consigned to the dustbin and I got sick of the alternatives.
8 months ago you could have spend 5 minutes installing MATE, which is really just Gnome 2 (rescued from the dustbin, cleaned up, and now nicely polished). It's not really 'Linux' that's the problem, just the attitude of the Gnome developers (who, to be fair, do seem to be coming to their senses lately).
Hasselblad, who made some of NASA's photographic equipment, used to run adverts offering free cameras to anyone who was prepared to go and pick them up. These were, of course, the Hasselblads left behind by the astronauts on the lunar surface. And now this bunch of do-gooders wants to put all the Apollo artefacts off-limits! Has the camera offer been cancelled? I feel betrayed!
I'm sick of being a product.. I mean, ok the old model of Television and Radio where you the viewer gets something of value (the programming/entertainment) without directly paying for it, then it's a reasonable tradeoff that it's paid for by advertising
How about the new model, where an ad agency comes up with a viral marketing campaign featuring a ludicrous idea about adverts supposedly conducted through train windows (but is really a meta-advert for their client's TV app) which is then picked up by a national newspaper and further distributed by the uncritical editors of a popular technology blog..?
Slashdot Mirror
Nice idea, but Ubuntu is, by default, about the least XP-like common Linux distro they could have chosen. Mint-MATE or something would be less of a culture shock.
Given how much the food industry is "concerned" with providing us with the best quality, is it potentially possible that they can use this molecule to block our ability to sense some bad stuff that is in their products?
You know the foil capsule that covers the cork on more expensive bottles? Take half a dozen of those and you can make a useful protective hat!
For example, The Chair is not positioned so that the commander can see every one at once and it has a ridiculous metal shell behind it creating a giant blind spot behind it
Perhaps they were going for a different look?: http://www.surieffect.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/676045.jpg
Browser issue? You should see the equations properly rendered by MathJax in the online version (maybe with a very brief delay before the sort of text you quote is replaced by an equation).
And that's just the unknown viruses we know about. Who knows how many unknown unknown viruses are lurking?
Ah yes, the Rumsfeldome.
As the Telegraph does not actually have any primary sources in this case, I would take the whole thing with a grain of salt.
Indeed. The Telegraph is just echoing an earlier story planted in the Mail by 'a Government source':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408012/Britain-fights-EUs-Big-Brother-bid-fit-car-speed-limiter.html
Both are right-wing 'Eurosceptic' papers, and this story is just the sort of thing their readers, who are also the core constituency of the Conservative party that leads the current Government, love to be 'outraged' about. From the Mail story:
"Last night, a Government source said Mr McLouglin had instructed officials to block the moves because they were a 'violation' of British motorists' freedom...The source said: 'This has Big Brother written all over it and is exactly the sort of thing that gets people's backs up about Brussels. We are about getting a better deal for Britain, not letting EU bureaucrats encroach further into people's lives.'"
In other words, 'We are standing up to those interfering Eurocrats and their silly ideas, so please vote for us instead of UKIP'.
"Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics it was either that or back to the dole queue on Monday."
Also check out the original BBC series from the 50s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7JY9xtpCxY
Incredibly, most of it was performed live.
The summary is misleading. In the BBC article, the regulator is claiming anyone who does this will be liable IF they breach the code ("Premium rate numbers are not designed to be used in this way and we would strongly discourage any listeners from adopting this idea, as they will be liable under our code for any breaches and subsequent fines that result.").
There's a specialised market for phones of this size in the UK - if they make a version without the strap lugs, they could be on to a winner!:
http://gizmodo.com/uk-moves-to-ban-phones-designed-to-fit-up-prisoner-butt-1178815285
Well, it would probably just be simpler to clone Lawrence Olivier a couple of times. Then we could make a movie about an evil dentist (Lawrence Olivier, 'Marathon Man') plotting to clone and re-create John Lennon (Ian Hart, already a Lennon clone in 'Backbeat' and 'The Hours and the Times'). Only one man (Lawrence Oliver, 'The Boys from Brazil') can stop him...
...and pretty much proves they've never seen 'Flatliners'.
Am I the only one who reads mostly on a phone, in night mode (even in daylight)? Good contrast without that feeling of having a flashlight shone in your eyes, hardly any weight to support with your hands, and nothing else to carry around. To me, this is the iPod for books.
"Because of their adaptation to posting on popular technology sites, HeLa cell stories are sometimes difficult to control. They have proven to be a persistent technology blog "weed" that contaminates other news items on the same website, interfering with stories about Linux and forcing readers to declare articles as dupes. The degree of HeLa story contamination among other news items is unknown because few editors test the identity or relevance of already-submitted articles. It has been demonstrated that a substantial fraction of front page items on Slashdot - estimates range from 10% to 20% - are contaminated with HeLa cell stories."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa#Contamination
It is being locked down after decades of being used in countless research projects. The family wants to protect their privacy, so the data is actually being locked down, not opened up as TFS implies. The data has been out there and only small parts of it are now going to be shared with researchers with a need to know.
Nothing that's been available for decades is being locked down. The cells themselves remain available, as do the many public sequences of individual genes and other genomic fragments derived from HeLa over the years. All that's being restricted here is access to two versions of the complete genome sequence of HeLa described in papers published in 2013. One of these genomes was briefly available without restriction earlier this year. I don't see anything to suggest that 'only small parts' of the data will be made available, and I imagine that suitably qualified researchers will be able to request anything up to genome-wide variant lists and even raw sequence reads if necessary (similar controlled access arrangements already exist for other personal genome projects where consent was obtained by more conventional means).
Yes, Utah seems like a good solution:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?24032-Location-of-Apple-Lisa-landfill
Or possibly New Mexico:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
At 2:42 you can see the scene that got him the job: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjAyazqtQj8&t=2m42s
You might as well post the inspiring speech written for the US President in the film "Independence Day."
Or better still, check out the superbly bleak BBC drama 'Threads' (1984), which showed in documentary style the build-up to a nuclear attack and its aftermath. Scarier than any horror movie at the time, when it felt like all of this might actually happen, possibly next week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MCbTvoNrAg
The 'Protect and Survive' public information films, made for broadcast if an attack seemed imminent, also became well known in the early 80s for their creepy jingle, amateurish DIY fallout shelter instructions, and Patrick Allen's distinctive voicover:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVmnRlUEO8
This, apparently, is what we really would have watched just before the sirens went off (there's a handy guide to the different alarm sounds).
It's a bit more complicated than that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_classification
...and I personally know many folk who enjoyed a series so much that they went out and bought the box set to have at home.
You know nothing, Jon Snow!
Hope you don't work in data security! Every decent file recovery tool (Recuva, PhotoRec, etc.) can restore files from a formatted drive. Secure wiping (as with DBAN) is a different matter.
I heard Firefox 98SE will be better, you might want to hold out for that instead.
We're going to skip 98 altogether and upgrade to Firefox 2000 in September.
Why should I put in hours and hours trying to make bad software usable? I used Linux for 5 years until 8 months ago when I finally gave up on Linux because GNOME 2.30 was consigned to the dustbin and I got sick of the alternatives.
8 months ago you could have spend 5 minutes installing MATE, which is really just Gnome 2 (rescued from the dustbin, cleaned up, and now nicely polished). It's not really 'Linux' that's the problem, just the attitude of the Gnome developers (who, to be fair, do seem to be coming to their senses lately).
Hasselblad, who made some of NASA's photographic equipment, used to run adverts offering free cameras to anyone who was prepared to go and pick them up. These were, of course, the Hasselblads left behind by the astronauts on the lunar surface. And now this bunch of do-gooders wants to put all the Apollo artefacts off-limits! Has the camera offer been cancelled? I feel betrayed!
I'm sick of being a product.. I mean, ok the old model of Television and Radio where you the viewer gets something of value (the programming/entertainment) without directly paying for it, then it's a reasonable tradeoff that it's paid for by advertising
How about the new model, where an ad agency comes up with a viral marketing campaign featuring a ludicrous idea about adverts supposedly conducted through train windows (but is really a meta-advert for their client's TV app) which is then picked up by a national newspaper and further distributed by the uncritical editors of a popular technology blog..?