I had to look over that summary a bit to understand what context this information occurred. Does this sound about right?
1) There was some rain in India that was red color for some reason. 2) Various theories were put forth as to why, including some earth-born algae in the rain. 3) The guy from this article claims that there are some space-borne cells (that don't have DNA) that caused the red rain. 4) This guy also claims that these space-borne cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius 5) This is 'possible' because there are some cells on Earth that apparently divide at 121 degrees Celcius. 6) This also explains some weird lighting patterns in various constellations.
Assuming this is all true, you would think alien cells that are not made from DNA would be something the general scientific community would love to have samples of, for analysis. The whole thing sounds like bunk to me. An obvious question is that if these cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius, what do they do in the extreme cold of space, just hibernate?
Say goodbye to youtube in its entirety. The risk of liability would be too great, it would turn into another hulu. What would happen to user generated video content?
Cue references to the Andromeda strain and all, but this is too much in line with the story from a typical Doctor Who episode.
Bacteria from a small English fishing village have returned from a space trip to be examined on Earth. Next thing you know, someone will be alone in a room with these samples, it will get dark, ominous music will play, and you will hear a single scream. Next the researcher will appear, appropriately tentacled, infecting everyone else on the base. UNIT will come in to help solve the problem. Everyone in the town will die, and life will continue.
I did this manually in 6th grade. We had to write a story, so I wrote a story about when I was playing Adventure (the Atari game). Sure it was more of a story than a straight walk-through, but I did get a ribbon for it.
I would think that a coronal mass ejection hitting the ISS would be much like a tidal wave hitting a twig. It's the atmosphere that diverts the particles, which is what the auroras are. The ISS wouldn't do a whole lot if it were in the path.
One of the things I dislike about having things solved with regulation as opposed to laws is that regulations typically fall under the executive branch, and as such could change on a whim as administrations change. I see from the article that this is part of an list of exemptions (from the DMCA?) that is set by the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress. At a risk of showing my ignorance, is this a Legislative office, or an Executive one? How are its members appointed, how easy is it for them to add/revoke things, etc?
I don't know if it is getting ridiculous as much as the law itself is just confusing and unclear. It requires court arbitration to figure out the simplest of questions. "Is ripping CDs for a backup 'fair use'?", etc. Unfortunately, law is worse than code in terms of legacy support. Think of this as the ultimate code bloat legacy application. All you want to do is gut the whole thing and start over, but management will not entertain that motion at all.
I think it depends on what people are accustomed to. Do silencers really work on guns as silently as shown in the movies? Or do punches really have the big "phwak" sound that you hear there? People are only good at determining "natural" sounds compared to what they are used to. They may not be realistic though.
Setting these mosquitoes up in the wild assumes they will 'take over' the role of existing mosquitoes within the environment. What advantage does being malaria-free have to these mosquitoes? If none, will they survive in the wild? (Or make a big enough dent in the population to matter). Also, what happens when these mosquitoes mate with existing mosquitoes?
You know, I normally take a rather conservative view on legislature vs judicial power breakdown. I'm not a fan of things like having the judiciary set environmental limits, for example, and would prefer the legislature not abdicate their responsibility. (Don't get me started on all of the agencies that are created because Congress doesn't legislate anymore). On the other hand, when I see all the junk that Congress does pass, which is blatantly unconstitutional (Internet Decency act, COPA, etC), and that they probably know are unconstitutional, I'm not sure what I think about it anymore.
IA (definitely) NAL, but I thought the whole purpose of patents (other than protection) was to disclose the invention in full (not behind trade secrets) in exchange for knowledge of how the invention is done/made. Have the patent owners given any implementation details about their application?
Really? Isn't "hip developer" an oxymoron? Or do they literally mean "one who develops for hips", in which case the language of choice is clearly "Limp".
Damage has been done. Sure Firefox, Chrome, Opera and the lot are slowly regaining market share, but that was a tactic they needed when they wanted to drive Netscape out of the market, which they ultimately did. Companies like this don't create arguments that hold up to long term scrutiny, they don't need to.
I'm sorry I didn't clarify my position originally more. I am not at all in favor of going back to that system, as I agree that it would be even more incentive to play the "everything for my state" game. Personally, I think we should have term limits, but that will never fly as Congress itself would have to approve it. I also don't like having committee chair status based on Senate seniority, it gives even more incentive to stick with the incumbent.
It makes me wonder, if Senators bring in pork to their state to get re-elected, do you think there would be more pork in general if we repealed the direct election of senators, which some claim would give states more say in the Federal government? As is I think the fact that so much party money is on the line to keep representatives 'pure', which greatly distorts the idea of local elections.
I worked for a start-up in the.com boom whose selling point was "self updating address book". It consisted of a web app PIM suite (email, calendar, chat, address book, etc) where each field displayed was available for access to "friends" etc. This was 1999. The original patent filing date looks like 1997 though, so is that prior art, and if not, why is a patent whose filing date was 1997 finally granted now?
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I had to look over that summary a bit to understand what context this information occurred. Does this sound about right?
1) There was some rain in India that was red color for some reason.
2) Various theories were put forth as to why, including some earth-born algae in the rain.
3) The guy from this article claims that there are some space-borne cells (that don't have DNA) that caused the red rain.
4) This guy also claims that these space-borne cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius
5) This is 'possible' because there are some cells on Earth that apparently divide at 121 degrees Celcius.
6) This also explains some weird lighting patterns in various constellations.
Assuming this is all true, you would think alien cells that are not made from DNA would be something the general scientific community would love to have samples of, for analysis. The whole thing sounds like bunk to me. An obvious question is that if these cells divide at 121 degrees Celcius, what do they do in the extreme cold of space, just hibernate?
Because it runs Linux?...oh wait.
Say goodbye to youtube in its entirety. The risk of liability would be too great, it would turn into another hulu. What would happen to user generated video content?
Cue references to the Andromeda strain and all, but this is too much in line with the story from a typical Doctor Who episode.
Bacteria from a small English fishing village have returned from a space trip to be examined on Earth. Next thing you know, someone will be alone in a room with these samples, it will get dark, ominous music will play, and you will hear a single scream. Next the researcher will appear, appropriately tentacled, infecting everyone else on the base. UNIT will come in to help solve the problem. Everyone in the town will die, and life will continue.
Next there will be a special breed of ant that evolves to place the larval fungus in its stomach pouch.
I did this manually in 6th grade. We had to write a story, so I wrote a story about when I was playing Adventure (the Atari game). Sure it was more of a story than a straight walk-through, but I did get a ribbon for it.
iPad : "Awesome Windows 7 based 'tablets" :: iPod : Zune ?
I would think that a coronal mass ejection hitting the ISS would be much like a tidal wave hitting a twig. It's the atmosphere that diverts the particles, which is what the auroras are. The ISS wouldn't do a whole lot if it were in the path.
One of the things I dislike about having things solved with regulation as opposed to laws is that regulations typically fall under the executive branch, and as such could change on a whim as administrations change. I see from the article that this is part of an list of exemptions (from the DMCA?) that is set by the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress. At a risk of showing my ignorance, is this a Legislative office, or an Executive one? How are its members appointed, how easy is it for them to add/revoke things, etc?
I don't know if it is getting ridiculous as much as the law itself is just confusing and unclear. It requires court arbitration to figure out the simplest of questions. "Is ripping CDs for a backup 'fair use'?", etc. Unfortunately, law is worse than code in terms of legacy support. Think of this as the ultimate code bloat legacy application. All you want to do is gut the whole thing and start over, but management will not entertain that motion at all.
On Earth ... 200 years ago ... I was a prince... with power over millions...
Take that, comet!
Nice way to make even more space junk. Nice going, China. Are you trying to destroy access to LEO over time?
I think it depends on what people are accustomed to. Do silencers really work on guns as silently as shown in the movies? Or do punches really have the big "phwak" sound that you hear there? People are only good at determining "natural" sounds compared to what they are used to. They may not be realistic though.
Setting these mosquitoes up in the wild assumes they will 'take over' the role of existing mosquitoes within the environment. What advantage does being malaria-free have to these mosquitoes? If none, will they survive in the wild? (Or make a big enough dent in the population to matter). Also, what happens when these mosquitoes mate with existing mosquitoes?
You know, I normally take a rather conservative view on legislature vs judicial power breakdown. I'm not a fan of things like having the judiciary set environmental limits, for example, and would prefer the legislature not abdicate their responsibility. (Don't get me started on all of the agencies that are created because Congress doesn't legislate anymore). On the other hand, when I see all the junk that Congress does pass, which is blatantly unconstitutional (Internet Decency act, COPA, etC), and that they probably know are unconstitutional, I'm not sure what I think about it anymore.
What happened? I remember in 1985, Plutonium was available in every corner drug store, but in 2010, it's a little hard to come by.
IA (definitely) NAL, but I thought the whole purpose of patents (other than protection) was to disclose the invention in full (not behind trade secrets) in exchange for knowledge of how the invention is done/made. Have the patent owners given any implementation details about their application?
Really? Isn't "hip developer" an oxymoron? Or do they literally mean "one who develops for hips", in which case the language of choice is clearly "Limp".
Do any of these parasites modify your voice timbre and give you glowing eyes and create in you a desire to build healing sarcophagi?
Damage has been done. Sure Firefox, Chrome, Opera and the lot are slowly regaining market share, but that was a tactic they needed when they wanted to drive Netscape out of the market, which they ultimately did. Companies like this don't create arguments that hold up to long term scrutiny, they don't need to.
No soup for you.
I think monopoly is bad enough, but when you have businesses getting both into the content and distribution business, it allows for market abuse.
I'm sorry I didn't clarify my position originally more. I am not at all in favor of going back to that system, as I agree that it would be even more incentive to play the "everything for my state" game. Personally, I think we should have term limits, but that will never fly as Congress itself would have to approve it. I also don't like having committee chair status based on Senate seniority, it gives even more incentive to stick with the incumbent.
It makes me wonder, if Senators bring in pork to their state to get re-elected, do you think there would be more pork in general if we repealed the direct election of senators, which some claim would give states more say in the Federal government? As is I think the fact that so much party money is on the line to keep representatives 'pure', which greatly distorts the idea of local elections.
I worked for a start-up in the .com boom whose selling point was "self updating address book". It consisted of a web app PIM suite (email, calendar, chat, address book, etc) where each field displayed was available for access to "friends" etc. This was 1999. The original patent filing date looks like 1997 though, so is that prior art, and if not, why is a patent whose filing date was 1997 finally granted now?