Interesting the China and Great Britain are now pursuing stem-cell research although it may have little effect on the bovine mentality of our legislators.
The last time this kind of ethical brouhaha occurred was with encryption, when RSA had patents and Zimmerman was in trouble regarding exporting PGP.
I was trying in the early eighties to export hardware to China for Oil Accounting, but was prevented from doing so. What a joke! Our partners walked across the Hong Kong border an purchased grey market equipment!
Now we have the ethical wringing of hands in the Beltway over stem cell research...louder only than the wringing of hands over Enron profits and subsequent guilt.
Many Americans suffering from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and so forth could do with some honest, regulated, stem-cell research to help alleviate their suffering.
Meanwhile, lip service to the primitives in this country takes precedence over common sense. So, maybe China will produce the breakthrough and people suffering from Parkinsons will have implants there AND see the Great Wall!
Unfortunately the Great Wall here is in our legislators' minds, those of the great paedophilic Catholic church and the pre-Darwinians in such places as Tennessee and Kansas.
The popularity of relational databases is that, with hierarchical, the hierarchy has to exist prior to the entry of data. Together with single parent inheritance, it imposes a structure upon a systems designer which, does not necessarily represent a real world process. With time, the process alters, and the model fractures.
The same occurs with that special breed of database, the directory. LDAP owes its single parent inheritance from X.500. This model is becoming less useful in representing the complexity of electronic commerce transaction events.
Multiple inheritance is implicit in many program structures such as Python, but not in LDAP. This is where the big change will be seen - in iPlanet, eDirectory and Active Directory.
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Interesting the China and Great Britain are now pursuing stem-cell research although it may have little effect on the bovine mentality of our legislators.
The last time this kind of ethical brouhaha occurred was with encryption, when RSA had patents and Zimmerman was in trouble regarding exporting PGP.
I was trying in the early eighties to export hardware to China for Oil Accounting, but was prevented from doing so. What a joke! Our partners walked across the Hong Kong border an purchased grey market equipment!
Now we have the ethical wringing of hands in the Beltway over stem cell research...louder only than the wringing of hands over Enron profits and subsequent guilt.
Many Americans suffering from Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and so forth could do with some honest, regulated, stem-cell research to help alleviate their suffering.
Meanwhile, lip service to the primitives in this country takes precedence over common sense. So, maybe China will produce the breakthrough and people suffering from Parkinsons will have implants there AND see the Great Wall!
Unfortunately the Great Wall here is in our legislators' minds, those of the great paedophilic Catholic church and the pre-Darwinians in such places as Tennessee and Kansas.
Go China!
The popularity of relational databases is that, with hierarchical, the hierarchy has to exist prior to the entry of data. Together with single parent inheritance, it imposes a structure upon a systems designer which, does not necessarily represent a real world process. With time, the process alters, and the model fractures.
The same occurs with that special breed of database, the directory. LDAP owes its single parent inheritance from X.500. This model is becoming less useful in representing the complexity of electronic commerce transaction events.
Multiple inheritance is implicit in many program structures such as Python, but not in LDAP. This is where the big change will be seen - in iPlanet, eDirectory and Active Directory.