Why the hell doesn't anyone stop this crap from happening.
They do, but Microsoft either a) ignores the ruling and throws money and lawyers at the courts to get an appeal and/or b) doesn't pay the fines/make the required changes. So until someone gets the balls to arrest the board of directors and throw them in jail for contempt, it's business as usual.
If you're going to pick sides on the media's "war on the public", you had better be on the same side. I for one will not be buying any more Western Digital products. I don't recall giving them permission to censor what I choose to store on a hard drive. I hope this comes back and bites them in the face.
Don't worry, I have been purposefully avoiding the US whenever I can for the last 5 years or so. Makes travelling to Canada a bitch (I have to stop in Mexico City), but it satisfies me. My understanding is that I am not the only one, either. One day the US will realize how much its irrational behavior has cost it.
Obviously this only applies to people crossing the border LEGALLY. People who for whatever reason cross the border illegally will never get a "terrorist profile". Well done, America, well done. Who advised you on this, the RIAA/MPAA/copy protection industry?
ah ok gotcha, thought the paint on the ground was from painting the cable. Man, that sure sucks ass and is probably illegal in your municipality. Good luck with the fight.
No wonder their stock has been climbing lately. I have made so much money day-trading them. I guess it's time to go short now that all the sheeple will want some... I'll sell you some on Monday afternoon.
While I agree with the general gist of your post, that robotics are certainly going to be a big part of a "future" army, I have to make a few counter-points.
Your "robot" needs a human to oversee it - a human who requires supplies whether or not the robot is "in combat".
Your "robot" cannot make decisions on the fly like a human can. Therefore all data gathered by the robot needs far greater resources to determine if something in front of it is or isn't a "threat" than a grunt would. We see this today with UAV's - it's a lot harder to make the decision to shoot from 8000 miles away. So human friendly casualties are reduced but reaction time is decreased. Assuming you want to stick to the rules of war and not just kill anything in front of the robot. But if you're going to do THAT, why don't you just nuke the fuckers - a lot cheaper.
Unless your robot has a decent "brain" (ie lots of $$$) and can think for itself, it requires communication with remote human or artificial "brains". This need for communication is a vulnerability and subject to interferece/jamming, etc.
By no means can you fight a war completely remotely. At least not yet.
And I have probably had a bit too much to drink, so forgive the deeply philosophical question.
When they mean that it's the "flattest place on Earth", do they mean that it conforms exactly to the curvature of the earth (thus not REALLY flat but earth shaped sort of flat), or is it FLAT flat, as in a chord across the curvature of the earth at that point...
Sorry, just trying to work out the meaning of "flat" on a round planet... blame the rum.
Completely irrelevant. Unless you are in a position to DO something about it. We already know there are many lethal gene combinations, that produce in utero abortion or neonatal death. Your point is?
Now if you could point out a case of a single gene being altered AFTER embryogenesis (by environmental factors or whatever) that produces disease, then we're talking about eventually being able to work on a way of preventing this. However as far as I know, altering the gene in a single cell will damage THAT cell only. Now with the exception of the cancers (which I made in my previous post) please point out a disease resulting from a mutation of a single cell?
While perhaps you might also be able to identify non-desirable traits that are more likely to be passed on to offspring, this won't be much use until you start obliging probable carriers to be sterilized.
"Sorry Mr. Smith we've spotted that you have inherited a non-functional gene for the GLUT-2 glucose transporter and therefore since you only have one working gene your children are at risk for type II diabetes, please report for sterilization?" Is this how you plan to "fight" disease? I am not sure I want to live in that world.
As you said, you are not a biologist. Leukemia is a type of cancer, and I specifically excluded cancer in my post. This research may be relevant to cancer (ONLY, in my opinion). However it's not the Holy Grail it is presented as.
There are many stem cells in the bone marrow and wiping one of those cells out will not lead to aplasia. And we're talking about millions of cells getting the exact same gene damaged - in theory. Now what are the odds of THAT?
As for your other example, we are well aware of the pathological/biochemical mechanisms behind chronic inflammation and the changes it can produce in the lung or other tissues. Cells die, tissue structure is altered - most of the time by the host's own immune response - and becomes less functional, but this has nothing to do with malfunctioning genes.
The exception of cancer and the oncogenes, and the second exception of this happening at an extremely early stage (around gastrulation time), I don't get it. What does my pancreas care if a single Beta (insulin producing) cell dies/mutates, or a single bone marrow cell dies/mutates, etc? I don't think this research will have as "profound" effects on human health as they would like us to believe. Although no doubt it's yet another link in the chain that will finally lead us to understanding intra-nuclear biochemistry.
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Why the hell doesn't anyone stop this crap from happening.
They do, but Microsoft either a) ignores the ruling and throws money and lawyers at the courts to get an appeal and/or b) doesn't pay the fines/make the required changes. So until someone gets the balls to arrest the board of directors and throw them in jail for contempt, it's business as usual.
If you're going to pick sides on the media's "war on the public", you had better be on the same side. I for one will not be buying any more Western Digital products. I don't recall giving them permission to censor what I choose to store on a hard drive. I hope this comes back and bites them in the face.
No one has told this guy about encryption yet?
I didn't even have to do that. I noticed an error message with BOOT.INI, and the machine booted just fine. Talk about alarmist.
This same complex will be used for their next-generation launchers as well
That is, if they can ever afford to build a "next generation launcher".
Don't worry, I have been purposefully avoiding the US whenever I can for the last 5 years or so. Makes travelling to Canada a bitch (I have to stop in Mexico City), but it satisfies me. My understanding is that I am not the only one, either. One day the US will realize how much its irrational behavior has cost it.
Want my vote?
The problem is there is no one else to give your vote to anymore. It's all the same bullshit.
Obviously this only applies to people crossing the border LEGALLY. People who for whatever reason cross the border illegally will never get a "terrorist profile". Well done, America, well done. Who advised you on this, the RIAA/MPAA/copy protection industry?
Today if you act suspicious, your neighbor will call the fbi and report you as a possible terrorist.
ah ok gotcha, thought the paint on the ground was from painting the cable. Man, that sure sucks ass and is probably illegal in your municipality. Good luck with the fight.
I don't get it - who painted the cable orange? You, so that you wouldn't hit it with your lawnmower?
Join the army and get yourself a job flying UAVs... sounds like that would be your bag.
Command and Conquer?
You better not let EA hear you say that. They're the ones that own Westwood now no? Anyway they suck, all the good people left. Petroglyph ftw.
No wonder their stock has been climbing lately. I have made so much money day-trading them. I guess it's time to go short now that all the sheeple will want some... I'll sell you some on Monday afternoon.
Try to grow up a bit and realize that human history has been full of "we just killed them, so they must be the baddies
So this is a justification?
See, the entire world had (and I do mean the past tense) such hopes that the "Great" Unites States was something better. But it's not.
And when it comes bearing down on a pickup truck full of bad guys,
We're using the US Army definition of "bad guy" which means "whoever was in the pickup truck", right?
While I agree with the general gist of your post, that robotics are certainly going to be a big part of a "future" army, I have to make a few counter-points.
Your "robot" needs a human to oversee it - a human who requires supplies whether or not the robot is "in combat".
Your "robot" cannot make decisions on the fly like a human can. Therefore all data gathered by the robot needs far greater resources to determine if something in front of it is or isn't a "threat" than a grunt would. We see this today with UAV's - it's a lot harder to make the decision to shoot from 8000 miles away. So human friendly casualties are reduced but reaction time is decreased. Assuming you want to stick to the rules of war and not just kill anything in front of the robot. But if you're going to do THAT, why don't you just nuke the fuckers - a lot cheaper.
Unless your robot has a decent "brain" (ie lots of $$$) and can think for itself, it requires communication with remote human or artificial "brains". This need for communication is a vulnerability and subject to interferece/jamming, etc.
By no means can you fight a war completely remotely. At least not yet.
And I have probably had a bit too much to drink, so forgive the deeply philosophical question.
When they mean that it's the "flattest place on Earth", do they mean that it conforms exactly to the curvature of the earth (thus not REALLY flat but earth shaped sort of flat), or is it FLAT flat, as in a chord across the curvature of the earth at that point...
Sorry, just trying to work out the meaning of "flat" on a round planet... blame the rum.
Not to mention Comcast. Sending RST commands at will is pretty much malware in my book.
Hardly mundane.
Completely irrelevant. Unless you are in a position to DO something about it. We already know there are many lethal gene combinations, that produce in utero abortion or neonatal death. Your point is?
Now if you could point out a case of a single gene being altered AFTER embryogenesis (by environmental factors or whatever) that produces disease, then we're talking about eventually being able to work on a way of preventing this. However as far as I know, altering the gene in a single cell will damage THAT cell only. Now with the exception of the cancers (which I made in my previous post) please point out a disease resulting from a mutation of a single cell?
While perhaps you might also be able to identify non-desirable traits that are more likely to be passed on to offspring, this won't be much use until you start obliging probable carriers to be sterilized.
"Sorry Mr. Smith we've spotted that you have inherited a non-functional gene for the GLUT-2 glucose transporter and therefore since you only have one working gene your children are at risk for type II diabetes, please report for sterilization?" Is this how you plan to "fight" disease? I am not sure I want to live in that world.
As you said, you are not a biologist. Leukemia is a type of cancer, and I specifically excluded cancer in my post. This research may be relevant to cancer (ONLY, in my opinion). However it's not the Holy Grail it is presented as.
There are many stem cells in the bone marrow and wiping one of those cells out will not lead to aplasia. And we're talking about millions of cells getting the exact same gene damaged - in theory. Now what are the odds of THAT?
As for your other example, we are well aware of the pathological/biochemical mechanisms behind chronic inflammation and the changes it can produce in the lung or other tissues. Cells die, tissue structure is altered - most of the time by the host's own immune response - and becomes less functional, but this has nothing to do with malfunctioning genes.
The exception of cancer and the oncogenes, and the second exception of this happening at an extremely early stage (around gastrulation time), I don't get it. What does my pancreas care if a single Beta (insulin producing) cell dies/mutates, or a single bone marrow cell dies/mutates, etc? I don't think this research will have as "profound" effects on human health as they would like us to believe. Although no doubt it's yet another link in the chain that will finally lead us to understanding intra-nuclear biochemistry.
but just keeps on doing what I want - it plays tunes while I run.
Who are you running from? Oh wait. Hey hang on a minute. Nerds do NOT exercise. Get out of here, nerd card revoked.
wait, you forgot!
Stream decrypted, saved to your hard- drive and commercials removed in 5, 4, 3...
This is the internet, remember?