No chance for Buffy if NASA wouldn't even name an ISS module 'Serenity', even when they thought up the name and it won the popular vote ('Colbert' excepted):
Reminds me more of L Bob Rife ("Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent"). And owning a whole island makes an aircraft carrier look a bit second rate.
I hope they stick with it for the 'S5'. I have the Nexus 4, which is sealed, and miss the replaceable battery and uSD card of my previous phone (though to be fair, the N4 battery life is just about good enough to get me through the day without fishing out the clunky external battery I thought I'd need more often).
Sure Myriad and their stock holders would much rather have complete patent rights to the whole thing, but they kept the protections on their actual asset
If this is the case (and it probably is, hence the increased stock price), then the BRCA genes effectively remain patented in the US. Anyone 'skilled in the art' (like a grad student or junior technician) can trivially create 'artificial derivatives' of a known gene sequence (e.g. cDNA, as mentioned in the decision) just by 'designing' some primers (there's software to automate this), ordering them in (together with the relevant reagent kits), and following some step by step protocols. If this sort of thing is still patentable (as it seems to be), and Myriad is still the only provider allowed to offer a BRCA testing service, then the SC decision will make little practical difference for the moment - Myriad will still 'own' the genes if they are screened by standard methods. However, the decision might be good news for anyone using a 'next generation' sequencing approach, where relevant mutations are pulled out from (e.g.) a whole genome sequence (which isn't much more expensive than Myriad's price for targeted screening, and will be much cheaper in future):
However, you won't them in the official Ubuntu repository. I suspect Mate at least will make it into Universe after Debian adopts it, which now looks like it's going to happen:
Not even close to a competitive specification in relation to this discussion
You're missing my point. I'm replying to the AC's suggestion that most of these cameras will have been junked or shelved by now, which seems unlikely. With the very obvious exception of video, the _unhacked_ camera stands up pretty well in 2013, and has a decent second-hand value (many still photographers have only a passing interest in video). For those who are interested, this looks like a worthwhile hack, especially if it eventually produces 'better RAW video quality' than anything short of the semi-pro models.
Most of these are probably sitting in closets or got recycled by now.
This isn't a disposable point and shoot, it's a $1400 dSLR discontinued less than 3 years ago, with a still competitive specification. I'd hazard a guess that most of them are still in active use. Also, from the article "The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings, like the 5D Mark II, and it's possible we may actually get better RAW video quality out of the 50D than we do out of any of the non-CF Canon cameras." ('non-CF' cameras would include the current 60D model and below).
For anyone who doesn't subscribe to the journal, here's an interesting extract from the full text, describing early phase human testing of the procedure on a Romanian subject:
"There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath. The mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran down over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."
I can't believe most antivirus companies would turn a blind eye to the tools used by law enforcement agencies and national governments. They only do that if the malware is installed by someone _really_ important. Like Sony:
"backed" is a bit strong and he didn't 'sign a pledge', it was in their Manifesto which may be splitting hairs, but let's not forget that was if his party got in sole power.
I'm sure this is how lib dem supporters prefer to remember it, but he (and 500 other candidates from his party, including every elected MP) did indeed sign the pledge:
The wording was: "I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative", a personal promise which does not assume the lib dems would hold sole (or any) power.
Here's a photo of Nick holding up his signed copy of the pledge for the cameras, and some quotations from confidential documents in which senior party members were planning to betray this promise in the event of a hung parliament (which is, of course, exactly what they did):
Fred Hoyle's 'The Black Cloud' is one of a select group of novels that manage to combine convincing science and a classic SF situation (intelligence is discovered in a dust cloud that envelopes the earth). I read it at about that age, and learnt a few things about how science is done, like the importance of testing theories by prediction. Dawkins is a fan, and wrote the Afterword to the current edition:
"But the real virtue of The Black Cloud is this - without ever preaching at us, Hoyle manages, as the story races along, to teach us some fascinating science along the way: not just scientific facts, but important scientific principles. We get to see how scientists work and how they think. We are even uplifted and inspired."
It dates from the late 50s, and was a period piece even when I read it (punch-tape computer programs, etc.) but should retain enough geek appeal to make it interesting today.
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No chance for Buffy if NASA wouldn't even name an ISS module 'Serenity', even when they thought up the name and it won the popular vote ('Colbert' excepted):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tranquility_(ISS_module)#Naming_contest
That's no moon, that's a [ FRANCHISE ERROR DETECTED - Resetting]
My favourite Adecco tweet: "Make sure social media works for you the right way! Check out what you can do to improve your profile..."
Reminds me more of L Bob Rife ("Yeah, you know, a monopolist's work is never done. No such thing as a perfect monopoly. Seems like you can never get that last one-tenth of one percent"). And owning a whole island makes an aircraft carrier look a bit second rate.
You don't even really need a darkroom, just a light-tight changing bag and a daylight developing tank, $50 for both. Then just scan the negatives...
I hope they stick with it for the 'S5'. I have the Nexus 4, which is sealed, and miss the replaceable battery and uSD card of my previous phone (though to be fair, the N4 battery life is just about good enough to get me through the day without fishing out the clunky external battery I thought I'd need more often).
Sure Myriad and their stock holders would much rather have complete patent rights to the whole thing, but they kept the protections on their actual asset
If this is the case (and it probably is, hence the increased stock price), then the BRCA genes effectively remain patented in the US. Anyone 'skilled in the art' (like a grad student or junior technician) can trivially create 'artificial derivatives' of a known gene sequence (e.g. cDNA, as mentioned in the decision) just by 'designing' some primers (there's software to automate this), ordering them in (together with the relevant reagent kits), and following some step by step protocols. If this sort of thing is still patentable (as it seems to be), and Myriad is still the only provider allowed to offer a BRCA testing service, then the SC decision will make little practical difference for the moment - Myriad will still 'own' the genes if they are screened by standard methods. However, the decision might be good news for anyone using a 'next generation' sequencing approach, where relevant mutations are pulled out from (e.g.) a whole genome sequence (which isn't much more expensive than Myriad's price for targeted screening, and will be much cheaper in future):
http://www.genomicslawreport.com/index.php/2010/10/11/a-do-it-yourself-genomic-challenge-to-myriad-the-fda-and-the-future-of-genetic-tests/
Would you rate, e.g., the Galaxy S4 as low to mid-end?
sudo apt-get install NSA-backdoor
NSA-backdoor is already the newest version.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
constitutional-rights
The original paper is quite readable, and rather more informative than the 3rd hand ibtimes source:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064539
...like grains of sand in the dessert.
I hate it when that happens. Ruins the picnic every time.
Soon they'll come up with dragable frames around each app.
On the downside, Windows will cost $4.99 extra to cover licensing the technology from Stardock:
http://www.stardock.com/products/modernmix/
Correction - Cinnamon is actually already in Ubuntu 13.04 Universe (though you may get a later version from the developers' ppa).
Would it, in principle, be possible to to provide cinnamon or mate as packages for other distributions, e.g. Ubuntu?
Sure, both Mate and Cinnamon provide these packages (right now I'm running Mate 1.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 and it works very well):
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?page_id=61
However, you won't them in the official Ubuntu repository. I suspect Mate at least will make it into Universe after Debian adopts it, which now looks like it's going to happen:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658783
Not even close to a competitive specification in relation to this discussion
You're missing my point. I'm replying to the AC's suggestion that most of these cameras will have been junked or shelved by now, which seems unlikely. With the very obvious exception of video, the _unhacked_ camera stands up pretty well in 2013, and has a decent second-hand value (many still photographers have only a passing interest in video). For those who are interested, this looks like a worthwhile hack, especially if it eventually produces 'better RAW video quality' than anything short of the semi-pro models.
Most of these are probably sitting in closets or got recycled by now.
This isn't a disposable point and shoot, it's a $1400 dSLR discontinued less than 3 years ago, with a still competitive specification. I'd hazard a guess that most of them are still in active use. Also, from the article "The tech inside the 50D looks like it borrows a lot more from its higher-end siblings, like the 5D Mark II, and it's possible we may actually get better RAW video quality out of the 50D than we do out of any of the non-CF Canon cameras." ('non-CF' cameras would include the current 60D model and below).
You may say that now, but wait until PETA find out about the number of cats and flasks of cyanide their prototype gets through every month...
Current Blu-ray players are already infected with malware that shuts them down when a certain pattern of sounds is detected:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia
"You pathetic fool. That isn't Orac! Look at it! It's just a box of flashing lights!"
Alex: No. No! NO! Stop it! Stop it, please! I beg you! This is sin! This is sin! This is sin! It's a sin, it's a sin, it's a sin!
Dr. Brodsky: Sin? What's all this about sin?
Alex: That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
Dr. Branom: Are you referring to the background score?
Alex: Yes.
Dr. Branom: You've heard Beethoven before?
Alex: Yes!
Dr. Brodsky: So, you're keen on music?
Alex: YES!
Dr. Brodsky: Can't be helped. Here's the punishment element perhaps.
For anyone who doesn't subscribe to the journal, here's an interesting extract from the full text, describing early phase human testing of the procedure on a Romanian subject:
"There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath. The mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran down over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion."
I can't believe most antivirus companies would turn a blind eye to the tools used by law enforcement agencies and national governments. They only do that if the malware is installed by someone _really_ important. Like Sony:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2005/11/69601?currentPage=all
And don't forget the release song, "Blade Swimmer."
You know that Voight-Kampf test of yours? Did you ever take that test yourself? Theo?
"backed" is a bit strong and he didn't 'sign a pledge', it was in their Manifesto which may be splitting hairs, but let's not forget that was if his party got in sole power.
I'm sure this is how lib dem supporters prefer to remember it, but he (and 500 other candidates from his party, including every elected MP) did indeed sign the pledge:
http://web.archive.org/web/20101215160749/http://www.nus.org.uk/Campaigns/Funding-Our-Future/Lib-Dem-MPs-sign-the-pledge/
The wording was: "I pledge to vote against any increase in fees in the next parliament and to pressure the government to introduce a fairer alternative", a personal promise which does not assume the lib dems would hold sole (or any) power.
Here's a photo of Nick holding up his signed copy of the pledge for the cameras, and some quotations from confidential documents in which senior party members were planning to betray this promise in the event of a hung parliament (which is, of course, exactly what they did):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/nov/12/lib-dems-tuition-fees-clegg
'Clear yellow water' indeed.
Fred Hoyle's 'The Black Cloud' is one of a select group of novels that manage to combine convincing science and a classic SF situation (intelligence is discovered in a dust cloud that envelopes the earth). I read it at about that age, and learnt a few things about how science is done, like the importance of testing theories by prediction. Dawkins is a fan, and wrote the Afterword to the current edition:
"But the real virtue of The Black Cloud is this - without ever preaching at us, Hoyle manages, as the story races along, to teach us some fascinating science along the way: not just scientific facts, but important scientific principles. We get to see how scientists work and how they think. We are even uplifted and inspired."
It dates from the late 50s, and was a period piece even when I read it (punch-tape computer programs, etc.) but should retain enough geek appeal to make it interesting today.
Recent review here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/23/black-cloud-fred-hoyle-review