Google created Chrome because of AdBlockPlus and NoScript.
Of all the firefox users out there, most run both addin's. I'm willing to bet that of all the users running NoScript that 90% of them block the Google tracking scripts most websites run. Chrome wouldn't have been created had it not been for those two Firefox addins and my guess is they will make sure chrome can never run them. ABP and NoScript hurt revenues and tracking, both prime revenue generators for Google.
The reason they supported Firefox so early on was to break MS's control and to have a browser they had a say in. When Firefox added the ability for users to create Addin's and ABP and NoScript were created they decided they needed a browser they could control to make sure ABP and NoScript never make it to their browser.
He voluntarily killed and disposed of the body of the mother of his children. There isn't room in society for people that do that. Murder is that red line that we let far too many people get away with. I take more of the old bible view of murder, it's just not acceptable under any circumstance and the people that do it shouldn't be allowed around the rest of us ever again.
That's, police, fire, and other emergency services, what property tax is for. Sales tax shouldn't be used to pay those. And that's if a user doesn't pay, once I got a bad cramp I my abdomen and someone called an ambulance. Though I had medical insurance then I was still charged for the ambulance, about $700.
Sales tax should (and is in Utah) be used to pay for emergency services because it's an equal load all users should pay. If focused only on property taxes only the property owners and not renters are paying directly. Personally I'm of the view that a system where there is one huge tax (sales or property) and the other is non-existent is a broken system. A properly balanced tax system with sales and property taxes is more ideal. In the case of Utah the majority of sales tax is remitted directly back to the cities where the sales are made. Again, I believe this system is ideal as it keeps property taxes focused on schools, parks and other infrastructure expenses.
Finally, if you want your ambulance paid out of your tax dollars you should petition your local politicians to raise taxes and support ambulance services with those tax revenues. Personally I prefer my local system where much like your own the users of the services are on the hook for the expense. An ambulance should never be necessary except in the most immediate need circumstances (such as imminent death) as someone can always drive you the short distance to the emergency room. Making ambulance services essentially free encourages people to abuse the service. The ride should cost what it costs to deliver so people are encouraged to save the ambulances for the people that really need the sirens.
I own two notebooks with Nvidia Chipsets in them. Both HP notebooks, one contains an 8400M the other an 8800m GTS. The 8400M notebook's cover broke at the hinge conection (a problem that was in no way related to circuit boards) last week and was sent back, just got it back today and checked on the repair slip was a note that they replaced the outside cover but they had also replaced the video circuit board. Surprise!
Just last week the Laptop with the 8800GTS started blue screening windows with a video subsystem problem before the login prompt. Ubuntu booted without error but would freeze every 30 seconds for 15 seconds or so if you moved the cursor on the screen. HP concluded the graphics system was malfunctioning and off to repair it went. I'll know in a couple weeks what was replaced but I bet the 8800GTS gets replaced.
This is a BIG deal people. Charlie is being a sensationalist but it's a BIG deal if HP extends the warranty on every laptop with the chips in them for an additional year. HP wouldn't do that unless they feared loss of customers or a class action lawsuit because the warranty extension costs them serious dollars. And I would also bet HP isn't going to eat every dollar. Nvidia will share the cost at a minimum. Even 10% bad parts could cost Nvidia hundreds of millions.
Charlie might go overboard in his complaints about Nvidia but he's right about this issue, it's really really big and Nvidia will eventually talk about it because of stories like this. Without Charlie's stories Nvidia would probably try to bury the issue and pretend it wasn't happening and if I was invested in NVDA I would want to know this information because it's a harbinger of a profit warning by NVDA.
I suppose you tell that to the people that died from the Seattle area Jack-in-box hamburger meat that was contaminated by salmonella. I don't remember the number of fatalities (in the low single digits) but the nearly 200 people that got intensely sick for a several weeks would probably contest that point with you.
Salmonella poisonings linked to beef are indeed rare but Salmonella is a principle community member of the bovine intestinal system and if proper hygiene measures aren't used during slaughter and processing the spread of contamination is highly probable.
The mythical "campaigned for Hillary will vote for McCain" banter you hear is going to be for the most part Conservatives who campaigned to get Hillary nominated because they knew Hillary on the Dem ticket would get the religious right to the polls. That many of them persist in their attempts to sway the public that there is some huge group of voters that would have voted for Hillary but won't vote for Obama when faced with the choice of 4 more years of Republican leadership is nonsense. Yes there are some voters who feel that way, a large ground swell of voters, not a chance.
Not true in Utah, Utah sales tax is also a use tax and if the merchant doesn't collect it you are required to remit it with your annual tax statement. Failure to do so is Tax Evasion and punishable by jail time. Now does anyone report it in the real world, yea, a number of devout religious folks I know tabulate and remit. Sales tax at least in Utah is remitted directly back to the city and pays for police, fire and other emergency local services.
All things being equal the acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s. As soon as any object loses support and begins to fall that acceleration is constant. The crackpots think buildings would maintain some support during collapse and that support would cause the building to pivot as it falls. The only time I'm aware of a building has ever tipped and fallen was when a building shortly after the Kobe earthquake tipped over. This building tipped over because of liquefaction. The vibration of the sand and water had caused the ground to soften, weakening the foundation and causing the building to tip over.
This is the only case I'm aware of where a structure tipped over and in this case the structure was completely intact with no damage. Once you damage structural components a single failure cascade as the additional weight transfers to the other members and causes ever expanding failure. Imagine a single floor falling, all that mass, hundreds of thousands of pounds is now moving at significant velocity as it impacts the next floor. No member in the building will be strong enough to resist the force of impact or the additional weight with enough strength to pivot the upper members.
Buildings are not designed for these forces. We don't design a building to take failure of members and still survive. The entire building must be in tact. There is no question that when the towers came down debris impacted WTC-7. Debris that would have been moving hundreds of miles per hour with lots of mass behind it. Massive structural damage would have been almost guaranteed. Take into account a massive fire that is well documented and you have a structure with softened steel and structural damage. Collapse would be highly likely under those circumstances. That gravity was the largest force and the building didn't resist in it's motion downward is simply logical. There was nothing in the building with enough strength to pivot that amount of weight and cause the building to do anything other that come down as vertically as WTC-7 did.
If anything what happened in WTC-7 probably confirms that controlled demolition is more about the publicity than the science of making a building come straight down. As it indicates that given no external forces the building will likely come straight down anyway. Although speculating a bit here the explosives are probably strong enough to cause sideways motion during collapse as the structural members would be given horizontal forces immediately before collapse.
Computers are tools and tools should do what their owners want. If I want to use a wrench as a hammer there is nothing stopping me. Would you want a wrench that if you tried to use it as a hammer it would shock you or better yet report back to some authority that you are misusing your tool?
The owner of the computer should have ultimate control over the hardware and software. Hardware that disobeys the owners wishes won't sell well. Look at Vista, it's sales have no doubt been hurt by it's inbuilt copy protection system. A system that prevents the computers owner from doing what they want to do in some cases.
A very short time ago Liberty Media purchase the LA times and fired most of the staff because they felt the web was going to destroy newspapers. They did this even though at the time the Times was making 200million a year in PROFIT. The LATimes is now a shell of what it used to be, given the great decline in quality and near complete lack of original content from the staff firings I wouldn't be surprised if the new management causes the prediction of the new owners to become reality.
His claims that all they care about is the 1% (I'm not going to comment on his percentage being incredibly wrong) because in the USA we don't take away legitimate tools because they can be used to commit crimes. He makes the argument we should make owning crowbars illegal because they can be used for crime. This is exactly the reason the supreme court has refused laws that make items illegal where there is a legitimate and legal use. This is why owning crowbars and bolt cutters isn't illegal even though they are the primary tools of burglary.
To have a long term MMO where there isn't a set script and people aren't really "role playing" in the sense of writing stories and pretending events occur you have to have grindage or quests that are not easy. Both have huge negatives associated with them. This has been known for close to the 20 years that muds have existed.
It's quite simply just the nature of the game. In a game without a set storyline, where the players make the story the only real reason to play is to reach higher levels than everyone else or to get strong enough to kill that NPC. If you can reach the highest level in 10 hours of play the game ends at 10 hours of play. As the developer is interested in your monthly fee the game is structured to make reaching the next level take twice as much time as the last once your past the first 10 levels or so (you have to make roughly the first 10 easy or you lose the first time players). The only method to accomplish this difficulty is by making the game take longer. So to reach level 20 you have to spend 1024 (2^10) times as much time playing as level 10, to reach level 30 you have to play 1048576 (2^20) times more time than it took to reach level 10, etc. The biggest problem long term for the developers is to keep adding NPC's and Levels so that players that reach the top keep playing.
This need to spend time playing to advance creates demand to avoid/reduce this time, either through character sales or sales of items that equate to time, such as gold in the game. Those players with money and little time will trade small sums of money to avoid large time commitments. That's human nature because as everyone knows, Time = Money.
My HP OfficeJet has a configuration page thats by default https, it's also a self signed certificate and the 4 step process to access the configuration page on a network printer is nuts.
Did the MBTA learn a lesson here about making a mountain out of a molehill? They essentially took something that would have received almost no attention and turned it into a national news story and then publicly filed all the details in open court such that anyone with the wherewithal to defraud the MBTA now not only knew about the exploit but had the full details on how to do it.
For all their attempts to be a major regional power they should spend less money on putting some Iranian in space a lot more effort on making sure the Iranian people have food, shelter, heat, roads, sewers, water and jobs.
On one hand you have a country developing ICBM's and trying to put people in space and on the other you have hundreds of people freezing to death because a government with some of the largest energy reserves in the world can't provide natural gas to rural populations living in the mountains.
Personally I'm astounded the Iranian people or even the clerics of Iran put up with it. Everyone in control must be so out of touch with the people on the ground they don't even realize the difference they could make and the power Iran would have if they could solve the real economic and infrastructure problems the country has.
Current understanding of quantum mechanics is likely extremely limited. When it starts to be a serious issue with IC's much much more research will be done into tunneling and ways to avoid it. You are falling into the trap of thinking that because we don't have the technology or understanding now, that we never will. To say that because of our understanding right now we will never achieve something is not correct. I point simply to those that said we would never break the sound barrier. Our knowledge continues to grow and I'm not going to discount the possibility that they find a way to work around or nullify the quantum level effects introduced at that process level.
It was proved that North Korea altered official documents to allow underage girls to participate in world gymnastic competitions and they are currently bared from participation because of their falsification of documents.
Much like this proof should involve the striping of the Chinese medals and a bar on participation by Chinese competitors in international gymnastics should be imposed, probably in the 4 year range.
Yes, and the value of that information is suspect because the people involved would have done anything to have the water boarding stop. That's the problem with torture, it makes people say what the torturer wants to hear to make the torture stop. The information gleaned from the torture of those "3" people (I don't believe for a minute it's only 3) has NO value. Any value it might have had is gone because it's validity is completely suspect. And don't think independent confirmation makes it ok, it's very possible that independent verification was mentioned during the torture as inspiration for the "confession". Not only that but any other information mentioned to the subject or related by the torture subject at any time even in passing during the torture is now suspect as well. Because even if they weren't being actively tortured they would have continued to "appease" the tortures to avoid being resubmitted to the treatment.
Torture doesn't generate information, it makes it's collection much more difficult. It adds volumes of miss information.
Assuming of course that there is no advance in technology.
I remember when they said 90nm was the limit of lithography. All the limits fall as there is a massive amount of money going into systems and methods to cheat the "limit". The real physical limit is a single atom width, at that point you can't go smaller, assuming there is a limit other than that single qualifier is dishonest because as with most of the other limits we have found ways to engineer around the "limit". Even if you think there is no way we could possibly have single atom paths you aren't considering the engineering advancement that could make such a thing possible including the use of materials other than silicon.
Don't worry, with this ruling he will. He's now eligible for disgorgement of profits, statutory damages, punitive awards, legal fees and expenses. I imagine the legal expenses alone is going to be rather massive but tack in a few statutory damages at $150K per violation (for every single file they stripped the copyright notice from which exceeds 300 files by my reading of the JMRI site and possibly each of these violations applies for each distribution of Katzer's product so if he sold 10 copies he's on the hook for 3000 violations of copyright). Jacobsen's not going to end up with millions but my guess is Jacobsen is going to get back every dime he spent probably three times over and he won't be paying any legal bills. My hope is they can destroy Katzer financially, his behavior is reprehensible and he should be punished for it.
Keep following the Saga though, this Katzer guy is as slimy as SCO. He'll probably try to fend off any judgement with Bankruptcy just like SCO.
This issue was raised in the Movie Gattica, everyone is addressing the issue of current doping while ignoring what the original poster is discussing with his future projections. That is, what happens when biology excels to the point that we as humans begin modifying the gene code to improve humans. First we will start by eliminating genetic diseases, then people will start improving their children. Probably clandestine at first but I have no doubt it will grow into a culturally approved and even expected process. At the point when you can genetically create the perfect human swimmer do you ban them from the Olympics? What happens in the beginning when you can subtly make a stronger faster human and the enhanced humans aren't common, how do you select and prohibit those that were modified?
It's an essential question because at the point where we begin altering the human genome and improving the strength, speed and intellect of humans at the genetic level, doping is a non issue and those without the modifications become incapable of competing against those that have been. Not only that, but it's going to be nearly impossible to tell if someone was modified at the genetic level before birth. It's decades away, but it is going to happen, I have no doubt, the genie was out of the bottle years ago and making it illegal won't change the fact that we will start changing the human genome while trying to make a better human being than the one nature created.
Until it kills a bus load of kids in Africa and everyone comes out and says how horrible the US is for not destroying the satellite, that we knew it wouldn't hit the US and didn't care if it killed those poor innocent African children. The fact is 90% of the bleeding hearts would have been all over it if it had hit and killed people and the liability and the bad press would have far exceeded the cost of shooting it down, regardless of how improbable.
Just how valuable is a human life? Once you provide that number you can start calculating the value of shooting down the satellite otherwise you are just blowing smoke out your ass. Sometimes it's not about the probability of killing people, sometimes a life is worth more than a few million to shoot a bird down regardless if the risk is minimal to nonexistent.
All the conspiracy theorists come out in situations like this and complain that it's a cover-up, while at the same time completely disregarding the value of human life and the damage this thing could cause, even if incredibly remote.
Steam makes it possible for independent developers to get wide exposure and delivery of their games. Audiosurf is an independently developed game on steam available for $9.99 that has consistently ranked in the top 10 for sales beating out even major Valve titles like Half Life. The game was developed over the period of a year by one guy in his basement and I wouldn't be surprised if he's made a substantial amount of money off sales possibly even making it possible for him to quit his day job.
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Google created Chrome because of AdBlockPlus and NoScript.
Of all the firefox users out there, most run both addin's. I'm willing to bet that of all the users running NoScript that 90% of them block the Google tracking scripts most websites run. Chrome wouldn't have been created had it not been for those two Firefox addins and my guess is they will make sure chrome can never run them. ABP and NoScript hurt revenues and tracking, both prime revenue generators for Google.
The reason they supported Firefox so early on was to break MS's control and to have a browser they had a say in. When Firefox added the ability for users to create Addin's and ABP and NoScript were created they decided they needed a browser they could control to make sure ABP and NoScript never make it to their browser.
Your right, disregard my comment. E.Coli it was. Salmonella is a poultry disease.
He voluntarily killed and disposed of the body of the mother of his children. There isn't room in society for people that do that. Murder is that red line that we let far too many people get away with. I take more of the old bible view of murder, it's just not acceptable under any circumstance and the people that do it shouldn't be allowed around the rest of us ever again.
That's, police, fire, and other emergency services, what property tax is for. Sales tax shouldn't be used to pay those. And that's if a user doesn't pay, once I got a bad cramp I my abdomen and someone called an ambulance. Though I had medical insurance then I was still charged for the ambulance, about $700.
Sales tax should (and is in Utah) be used to pay for emergency services because it's an equal load all users should pay. If focused only on property taxes only the property owners and not renters are paying directly. Personally I'm of the view that a system where there is one huge tax (sales or property) and the other is non-existent is a broken system. A properly balanced tax system with sales and property taxes is more ideal. In the case of Utah the majority of sales tax is remitted directly back to the cities where the sales are made. Again, I believe this system is ideal as it keeps property taxes focused on schools, parks and other infrastructure expenses.
Finally, if you want your ambulance paid out of your tax dollars you should petition your local politicians to raise taxes and support ambulance services with those tax revenues. Personally I prefer my local system where much like your own the users of the services are on the hook for the expense. An ambulance should never be necessary except in the most immediate need circumstances (such as imminent death) as someone can always drive you the short distance to the emergency room. Making ambulance services essentially free encourages people to abuse the service. The ride should cost what it costs to deliver so people are encouraged to save the ambulances for the people that really need the sirens.
I own two notebooks with Nvidia Chipsets in them. Both HP notebooks, one contains an 8400M the other an 8800m GTS. The 8400M notebook's cover broke at the hinge conection (a problem that was in no way related to circuit boards) last week and was sent back, just got it back today and checked on the repair slip was a note that they replaced the outside cover but they had also replaced the video circuit board. Surprise!
Just last week the Laptop with the 8800GTS started blue screening windows with a video subsystem problem before the login prompt. Ubuntu booted without error but would freeze every 30 seconds for 15 seconds or so if you moved the cursor on the screen. HP concluded the graphics system was malfunctioning and off to repair it went. I'll know in a couple weeks what was replaced but I bet the 8800GTS gets replaced.
This is a BIG deal people. Charlie is being a sensationalist but it's a BIG deal if HP extends the warranty on every laptop with the chips in them for an additional year. HP wouldn't do that unless they feared loss of customers or a class action lawsuit because the warranty extension costs them serious dollars. And I would also bet HP isn't going to eat every dollar. Nvidia will share the cost at a minimum. Even 10% bad parts could cost Nvidia hundreds of millions.
Charlie might go overboard in his complaints about Nvidia but he's right about this issue, it's really really big and Nvidia will eventually talk about it because of stories like this. Without Charlie's stories Nvidia would probably try to bury the issue and pretend it wasn't happening and if I was invested in NVDA I would want to know this information because it's a harbinger of a profit warning by NVDA.
I suppose you tell that to the people that died from the Seattle area Jack-in-box hamburger meat that was contaminated by salmonella. I don't remember the number of fatalities (in the low single digits) but the nearly 200 people that got intensely sick for a several weeks would probably contest that point with you.
Salmonella poisonings linked to beef are indeed rare but Salmonella is a principle community member of the bovine intestinal system and if proper hygiene measures aren't used during slaughter and processing the spread of contamination is highly probable.
The mythical "campaigned for Hillary will vote for McCain" banter you hear is going to be for the most part Conservatives who campaigned to get Hillary nominated because they knew Hillary on the Dem ticket would get the religious right to the polls. That many of them persist in their attempts to sway the public that there is some huge group of voters that would have voted for Hillary but won't vote for Obama when faced with the choice of 4 more years of Republican leadership is nonsense. Yes there are some voters who feel that way, a large ground swell of voters, not a chance.
Not true in Utah, Utah sales tax is also a use tax and if the merchant doesn't collect it you are required to remit it with your annual tax statement. Failure to do so is Tax Evasion and punishable by jail time. Now does anyone report it in the real world, yea, a number of devout religious folks I know tabulate and remit. Sales tax at least in Utah is remitted directly back to the city and pays for police, fire and other emergency local services.
All things being equal the acceleration of gravity is 9.8m/s. As soon as any object loses support and begins to fall that acceleration is constant. The crackpots think buildings would maintain some support during collapse and that support would cause the building to pivot as it falls. The only time I'm aware of a building has ever tipped and fallen was when a building shortly after the Kobe earthquake tipped over. This building tipped over because of liquefaction. The vibration of the sand and water had caused the ground to soften, weakening the foundation and causing the building to tip over.
This is the only case I'm aware of where a structure tipped over and in this case the structure was completely intact with no damage. Once you damage structural components a single failure cascade as the additional weight transfers to the other members and causes ever expanding failure. Imagine a single floor falling, all that mass, hundreds of thousands of pounds is now moving at significant velocity as it impacts the next floor. No member in the building will be strong enough to resist the force of impact or the additional weight with enough strength to pivot the upper members.
Buildings are not designed for these forces. We don't design a building to take failure of members and still survive. The entire building must be in tact. There is no question that when the towers came down debris impacted WTC-7. Debris that would have been moving hundreds of miles per hour with lots of mass behind it. Massive structural damage would have been almost guaranteed. Take into account a massive fire that is well documented and you have a structure with softened steel and structural damage. Collapse would be highly likely under those circumstances. That gravity was the largest force and the building didn't resist in it's motion downward is simply logical. There was nothing in the building with enough strength to pivot that amount of weight and cause the building to do anything other that come down as vertically as WTC-7 did.
If anything what happened in WTC-7 probably confirms that controlled demolition is more about the publicity than the science of making a building come straight down. As it indicates that given no external forces the building will likely come straight down anyway. Although speculating a bit here the explosives are probably strong enough to cause sideways motion during collapse as the structural members would be given horizontal forces immediately before collapse.
Computers are tools and tools should do what their owners want. If I want to use a wrench as a hammer there is nothing stopping me. Would you want a wrench that if you tried to use it as a hammer it would shock you or better yet report back to some authority that you are misusing your tool?
The owner of the computer should have ultimate control over the hardware and software. Hardware that disobeys the owners wishes won't sell well. Look at Vista, it's sales have no doubt been hurt by it's inbuilt copy protection system. A system that prevents the computers owner from doing what they want to do in some cases.
A very short time ago Liberty Media purchase the LA times and fired most of the staff because they felt the web was going to destroy newspapers. They did this even though at the time the Times was making 200million a year in PROFIT. The LATimes is now a shell of what it used to be, given the great decline in quality and near complete lack of original content from the staff firings I wouldn't be surprised if the new management causes the prediction of the new owners to become reality.
His claims that all they care about is the 1% (I'm not going to comment on his percentage being incredibly wrong) because in the USA we don't take away legitimate tools because they can be used to commit crimes. He makes the argument we should make owning crowbars illegal because they can be used for crime. This is exactly the reason the supreme court has refused laws that make items illegal where there is a legitimate and legal use. This is why owning crowbars and bolt cutters isn't illegal even though they are the primary tools of burglary.
To have a long term MMO where there isn't a set script and people aren't really "role playing" in the sense of writing stories and pretending events occur you have to have grindage or quests that are not easy. Both have huge negatives associated with them. This has been known for close to the 20 years that muds have existed.
It's quite simply just the nature of the game. In a game without a set storyline, where the players make the story the only real reason to play is to reach higher levels than everyone else or to get strong enough to kill that NPC. If you can reach the highest level in 10 hours of play the game ends at 10 hours of play. As the developer is interested in your monthly fee the game is structured to make reaching the next level take twice as much time as the last once your past the first 10 levels or so (you have to make roughly the first 10 easy or you lose the first time players). The only method to accomplish this difficulty is by making the game take longer. So to reach level 20 you have to spend 1024 (2^10) times as much time playing as level 10, to reach level 30 you have to play 1048576 (2^20) times more time than it took to reach level 10, etc. The biggest problem long term for the developers is to keep adding NPC's and Levels so that players that reach the top keep playing.
This need to spend time playing to advance creates demand to avoid/reduce this time, either through character sales or sales of items that equate to time, such as gold in the game. Those players with money and little time will trade small sums of money to avoid large time commitments. That's human nature because as everyone knows, Time = Money.
My HP OfficeJet has a configuration page thats by default https, it's also a self signed certificate and the 4 step process to access the configuration page on a network printer is nuts.
Did the MBTA learn a lesson here about making a mountain out of a molehill? They essentially took something that would have received almost no attention and turned it into a national news story and then publicly filed all the details in open court such that anyone with the wherewithal to defraud the MBTA now not only knew about the exploit but had the full details on how to do it.
For all their attempts to be a major regional power they should spend less money on putting some Iranian in space a lot more effort on making sure the Iranian people have food, shelter, heat, roads, sewers, water and jobs.
On one hand you have a country developing ICBM's and trying to put people in space and on the other you have hundreds of people freezing to death because a government with some of the largest energy reserves in the world can't provide natural gas to rural populations living in the mountains.
Personally I'm astounded the Iranian people or even the clerics of Iran put up with it. Everyone in control must be so out of touch with the people on the ground they don't even realize the difference they could make and the power Iran would have if they could solve the real economic and infrastructure problems the country has.
You lived in a bunker since Fox News and "fair and balanced" journalism became the norm?
Current understanding of quantum mechanics is likely extremely limited. When it starts to be a serious issue with IC's much much more research will be done into tunneling and ways to avoid it. You are falling into the trap of thinking that because we don't have the technology or understanding now, that we never will. To say that because of our understanding right now we will never achieve something is not correct. I point simply to those that said we would never break the sound barrier. Our knowledge continues to grow and I'm not going to discount the possibility that they find a way to work around or nullify the quantum level effects introduced at that process level.
It was proved that North Korea altered official documents to allow underage girls to participate in world gymnastic competitions and they are currently bared from participation because of their falsification of documents.
Much like this proof should involve the striping of the Chinese medals and a bar on participation by Chinese competitors in international gymnastics should be imposed, probably in the 4 year range.
We got information from them.
Yes, and the value of that information is suspect because the people involved would have done anything to have the water boarding stop. That's the problem with torture, it makes people say what the torturer wants to hear to make the torture stop. The information gleaned from the torture of those "3" people (I don't believe for a minute it's only 3) has NO value. Any value it might have had is gone because it's validity is completely suspect. And don't think independent confirmation makes it ok, it's very possible that independent verification was mentioned during the torture as inspiration for the "confession". Not only that but any other information mentioned to the subject or related by the torture subject at any time even in passing during the torture is now suspect as well. Because even if they weren't being actively tortured they would have continued to "appease" the tortures to avoid being resubmitted to the treatment.
Torture doesn't generate information, it makes it's collection much more difficult. It adds volumes of miss information.
Assuming of course that there is no advance in technology.
I remember when they said 90nm was the limit of lithography. All the limits fall as there is a massive amount of money going into systems and methods to cheat the "limit". The real physical limit is a single atom width, at that point you can't go smaller, assuming there is a limit other than that single qualifier is dishonest because as with most of the other limits we have found ways to engineer around the "limit". Even if you think there is no way we could possibly have single atom paths you aren't considering the engineering advancement that could make such a thing possible including the use of materials other than silicon.
Don't worry, with this ruling he will. He's now eligible for disgorgement of profits, statutory damages, punitive awards, legal fees and expenses. I imagine the legal expenses alone is going to be rather massive but tack in a few statutory damages at $150K per violation (for every single file they stripped the copyright notice from which exceeds 300 files by my reading of the JMRI site and possibly each of these violations applies for each distribution of Katzer's product so if he sold 10 copies he's on the hook for 3000 violations of copyright). Jacobsen's not going to end up with millions but my guess is Jacobsen is going to get back every dime he spent probably three times over and he won't be paying any legal bills. My hope is they can destroy Katzer financially, his behavior is reprehensible and he should be punished for it.
Keep following the Saga though, this Katzer guy is as slimy as SCO. He'll probably try to fend off any judgement with Bankruptcy just like SCO.
This issue was raised in the Movie Gattica, everyone is addressing the issue of current doping while ignoring what the original poster is discussing with his future projections. That is, what happens when biology excels to the point that we as humans begin modifying the gene code to improve humans. First we will start by eliminating genetic diseases, then people will start improving their children. Probably clandestine at first but I have no doubt it will grow into a culturally approved and even expected process. At the point when you can genetically create the perfect human swimmer do you ban them from the Olympics? What happens in the beginning when you can subtly make a stronger faster human and the enhanced humans aren't common, how do you select and prohibit those that were modified?
It's an essential question because at the point where we begin altering the human genome and improving the strength, speed and intellect of humans at the genetic level, doping is a non issue and those without the modifications become incapable of competing against those that have been. Not only that, but it's going to be nearly impossible to tell if someone was modified at the genetic level before birth. It's decades away, but it is going to happen, I have no doubt, the genie was out of the bottle years ago and making it illegal won't change the fact that we will start changing the human genome while trying to make a better human being than the one nature created.
Until it kills a bus load of kids in Africa and everyone comes out and says how horrible the US is for not destroying the satellite, that we knew it wouldn't hit the US and didn't care if it killed those poor innocent African children. The fact is 90% of the bleeding hearts would have been all over it if it had hit and killed people and the liability and the bad press would have far exceeded the cost of shooting it down, regardless of how improbable.
Just how valuable is a human life? Once you provide that number you can start calculating the value of shooting down the satellite otherwise you are just blowing smoke out your ass. Sometimes it's not about the probability of killing people, sometimes a life is worth more than a few million to shoot a bird down regardless if the risk is minimal to nonexistent.
All the conspiracy theorists come out in situations like this and complain that it's a cover-up, while at the same time completely disregarding the value of human life and the damage this thing could cause, even if incredibly remote.
Steam makes it possible for independent developers to get wide exposure and delivery of their games. Audiosurf is an independently developed game on steam available for $9.99 that has consistently ranked in the top 10 for sales beating out even major Valve titles like Half Life. The game was developed over the period of a year by one guy in his basement and I wouldn't be surprised if he's made a substantial amount of money off sales possibly even making it possible for him to quit his day job.