>...if the tissues were "good", then there would be no reason to illegally harvest it.
If it's harvested illegally, the donor or the donor's next-of-kin can get paid. Otherwise under present US law they can't. Getting paid would motivate people to donate who would not otherwise donate.
Thus, illegally harvesting good tissue for transplant makes excellent economic sense and would save lives. Unfortuntely, since the transaction is illegal, contract law doesn't apply and it's hard to get a positive reputation without getting caught. It's a shame that legislators are so willing to make laws that obviously cause the death of innocent people, and that voters are stupid enough to tolerate that behavior.
Hmm, this seems to be a pet issue at http://www.nationalcenter.org/ which calls itself
The National Center for Public Policy Research.
Why did the registrar change their policies?
on
Spammers on the Run
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· Score: 1
On this web page, which was the first one cited in the original story, they say that the spammer's registrar changed its policies at the time Blue Security did their organized complaining. This surely was not a complaint, but I don't see anything in Blue Security's actions that would give the registrar an incentive to change behavior. Does anyone know why the registrar changed their policy?
If political donations were secret, then Bush
wouldn't have enough information to know who
to discriminate against. Secret political
donations seem very analogous to secret balloting,
which is commonly accepted as a good thing.
Yes, scientific and technological andvancement follows an exponential curve, but at the same time, its usefullness follows an inverse exponential curve, so that in the end, what you get is a ne(a)t linear increase in life quality.
Interesting premise. Have any evidence or plausible argument for it? I don't see what principle would ensure that the good discoveries happen first.
This isn't a viable long-term strategy. The isolationist will need land to live on and raw materials. He has to be able to retain ownership of his land and buy raw materials. In a civilized society, retaining ownership of the land consists of paying property taxes, otherwise it eventually consists of buying weapons and building fortifications to keep intruders out.
Retaining ownership of land by either means or obtaining raw materials from outside requires doing commerce with the rest of society which is continually adopting new technology. If the isolationist really isolates himself, he won't adopt new technology with them, so the commerce isn't going to work.
This is why there aren't many hunter-gatherers in the US, for example.
If your backups are in the same room as your live
data, then you can lose it all by fire or theft.
If there's no plan to restore the operating system
onto a blank disk, you can be down for an unknown
amount of time after having to replace a disk.
If the data isn't encrypted during backup, then
it can be read from a stolen backup device.
Public-key cryptography would
be required to do automated encrypted backups
if you aren't going to provide the computer with
the means to decrypt.
I haven't seen an implementation of this.
ASRG SPF pointers; not shot to ribbons
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The parent says
SPF was shot to ribbons on the IETF ASRG list...
but offers no pointers to allegedly valid objections. Here are
some pointers
into the ASRG discussion. I didn't see any compelling criticisms of SPF there. The
criticism that SPF "is not a serious technical effort" is
odd, given that an implementation exists.
Google for "Leif Salford" leads to this URL for the paper:
http://www.elektro smognews.de/salfordjan2003.pdf
No referees are mentioned in the acknowledgements section.
You'd think there would be enough data on humans by now to show
practical consequences, if there are any. I would expect reducing the
brains "reserve capacity" to reduce scores on some cognitive test.
The radiation came from a real cellphone, except for a modification to
the antenna that provided controllable radiation levels for the rats.
I would like to understand their experimental setup better. I suspect
the antenna in their experimental setup might be much larger than the
antenna on a real cell phone. I don't know if that matters. I don't
know how realistic their power levels are. I bet the phone dissipates
more power if you hook it to a larger antenna;
I hope they got their power estimates by measuring
the intensity of the radiation, instead of by
consulting the manual for the telephone
(which surely assumed a smaller antenna).
They showed a code snippet that seemed plausible to them at the time. Everyone jumped on it and figured out where it came from. As a consequence, SCO now knows what they have to do to find a really good code snippet that will stand up in court. Since there's a lot of code there, they can do as many rehersals as they like before they go to trial.
They can either learn a process or learn things about specific pieces of code this way. If they learn about pieces of code, they present code at trial that stood up to public scruitiny in their practice runs before the trial. If they learned a process, then they hire people to do the same sorts of reasoning the public used to debunk their practice runs, and by that means find a better chunk of code to demonstrate at trial.
It would seem rational for them to do a few more rehersals before show time.
It would also seem rational for the open source community to refuse to play this game by not giving them further accurate information about the validity of their public claims before the trial. But since the open source community has no central control, there's no way to make that happen.
Your post
immediately raises a bunch of questions that
are essentially equivalent to my original question, so you didn't answer my question.
Why can't they go home? What pressures make it hard for them to leave their jobs? What do the
brutal managers do that's something other than
an incentive to go home?
please go ahead and read no logo.
Well, you read it (I assume), and you aren't able
to answer my
question either by speaking for yourself or
by quoting something from this book you're
recommending. Therefore I don't feel inclined
to follow your recommendation.
For the most part, multinationals working out of Economic Protection Zones (EPZ's) attempt to get the highest rate of young girls from the countryside to work for them. This allows them to::: treat their workers like shit, pay them little, threaten them easily if they try to unionize, etc etc. - all leading to poor working conditions wherein the girls feel threatened and scared, wherein the girls feel they _have_ to keep working and sending piddly change home to mom and pop, all the while suffering...
The workers must perceive working in the factory
as an improvement over working back in the countryside where they came from, otherwise they'd go home, right? Unless there's some systematized
coercion to keep them from going home, it's
dishonest to call it slavery, even if you tack
the word "economic" on the beginning.
Far fewer people have the technology to produce a fake passport with a smart chip than without.
The chip isn't the main line of defense.
The data on the
smart chip would be crypto-signed. Even if you can make chips, you'd either
need to get the government's private key or
break the cryptosystem to put data on the chip that
has a valid signature.
I think they could have done crypto-signed pictures with a largish
2-dimensional barcode
on the passport instead of a chip. The only advantage I can see of the chip over the
barcode is that the chip
gives
them the eeprom. Any idea what they will be doing
with the eeprom?
I couldn't find any checksums signed by Red Hat. Unless the CD's were maliciously altered before people got them from Red Hat Network, or I'm a liar who also corrupted the BitTorrent download, CD's matching these checksums should be good to use. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
No, just checking the sigs on the RPM's doesn't
guard against a trojan'ed installer.
Sigh. I post a request, presently with a score of one. Someone posts a significantly wrong workaround and
gets a score of two. Someone replies to my request with a subject line of "MOD PARENT UP". His reply gets modded up, but not my request.
The rumor on IRC is that even Red Hat Network customers aren't able to get crypto-signed MD5's.
That would be an oversight by Red Hat, or conceivably their
archive has been hacked. I think I'll quarantine these CD's until I know for sure. Red Hat signed
their MD5's for RH 8.0, so if these RH9 MD5's are good
they'll surely realize their error and sign them
eventually.
Gee, that sorta undoes
the benefit of fetching them in a hurry via
bittorrent, doesn't it? Oh well, getting
introduced to bittorrent was worthwhile.
So can anyone post the MD5 checksums
for the RH9 ISO's, crypto-signed by Red Hat?
Otherwise there's no way to verify that the bits
from bittorrent are right, unless we assume that
the source bits are right and bittorrent's
checksumming is correct.
There lots of buffer overrun exploits running
around for lots of applications.
Many XBox games use the network. Suppose there was
an XBox game that had
a remote exploit. You could use
that game to install Linux on the XBox, right?
So all you need to use 10,000 XBoxen for your
computational chemistry cluster is 10,000 XBoxen,
10,000 copies of the exploitable game, and
1 unconventional boot server that scans the
network and converts the XBox into a chemistry
server whenever it sees the game come up.
If your backup media are small enough and your
pockets are big enough, a reasonable
place to keep off-site backups is in your pocket.
I can fit CD's into a pocket of the fishing
vest I habitually wear, for example. Encrypt any
data that you want to stay secret if you're
mugged.
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If it's harvested illegally, the donor or the donor's next-of-kin can get paid. Otherwise under present US law they can't. Getting paid would motivate people to donate who would not otherwise donate.
Thus, illegally harvesting good tissue for transplant makes excellent economic sense and would save lives. Unfortuntely, since the transaction is illegal, contract law doesn't apply and it's hard to get a positive reputation without getting caught. It's a shame that legislators are so willing to make laws that obviously cause the death of innocent people, and that voters are stupid enough to tolerate that behavior.
- http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA409.html
- http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA378.html
- http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR50802.html
Hmm, this seems to be a pet issue at http://www.nationalcenter.org/ which calls itself The National Center for Public Policy Research.On this web page, which was the first one cited in the original story, they say that the spammer's registrar changed its policies at the time Blue Security did their organized complaining. This surely was not a complaint, but I don't see anything in Blue Security's actions that would give the registrar an incentive to change behavior. Does anyone know why the registrar changed their policy?
If political donations were secret, then Bush wouldn't have enough information to know who to discriminate against. Secret political donations seem very analogous to secret balloting, which is commonly accepted as a good thing.
I can't find an analogous note in the 2.6 changelogs.
They recently revised the page at http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html to say the probability of impact is 1.8e-05, which is 1 in 55,555.
Much better bandwidth by using that link. Thanks.
Retaining ownership of land by either means or obtaining raw materials from outside requires doing commerce with the rest of society which is continually adopting new technology. If the isolationist really isolates himself, he won't adopt new technology with them, so the commerce isn't going to work.
This is why there aren't many hunter-gatherers in the US, for example.
If there's no plan to restore the operating system onto a blank disk, you can be down for an unknown amount of time after having to replace a disk.
If the data isn't encrypted during backup, then it can be read from a stolen backup device. Public-key cryptography would be required to do automated encrypted backups if you aren't going to provide the computer with the means to decrypt. I haven't seen an implementation of this.
Here is a tool that may have been used.
You'd think there would be enough data on humans by now to show practical consequences, if there are any. I would expect reducing the brains "reserve capacity" to reduce scores on some cognitive test.
The radiation came from a real cellphone, except for a modification to the antenna that provided controllable radiation levels for the rats.
I would like to understand their experimental setup better. I suspect the antenna in their experimental setup might be much larger than the antenna on a real cell phone. I don't know if that matters. I don't know how realistic their power levels are. I bet the phone dissipates more power if you hook it to a larger antenna; I hope they got their power estimates by measuring the intensity of the radiation, instead of by consulting the manual for the telephone (which surely assumed a smaller antenna).
They can either learn a process or learn things about specific pieces of code this way. If they learn about pieces of code, they present code at trial that stood up to public scruitiny in their practice runs before the trial. If they learned a process, then they hire people to do the same sorts of reasoning the public used to debunk their practice runs, and by that means find a better chunk of code to demonstrate at trial.
It would seem rational for them to do a few more rehersals before show time.
It would also seem rational for the open source community to refuse to play this game by not giving them further accurate information about the validity of their public claims before the trial. But since the open source community has no central control, there's no way to make that happen.
I think they could have done crypto-signed pictures with a largish 2-dimensional barcode on the passport instead of a chip. The only advantage I can see of the chip over the barcode is that the chip gives them the eeprom. Any idea what they will be doing with the eeprom?
The word "felony" doesn't appear in either the cited NY Times article or the cited law, so why claim that all these people are undicted felons?
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Hash: SHA1
Okay, according to three sources that have access to Red Hat Network, the right checksums are:
400c7fb292c73b793fb722532abd09ad shrike-i386-disc1.iso
6b8ba42f56b397d536826c78c9
af38ac4316ba20df2dec5f9909
I couldn't find any checksums signed by Red Hat. Unless the CD's were
maliciously altered before people got them from Red Hat Network, or
I'm a liar who also corrupted the BitTorrent download, CD's matching
these checksums should be good to use.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE+iguBdt/+ADSxXHgRAp26AJoD3nMG8joXNS5LHSQ
sEXLoV3jITZBf6iM1QujdhU=
=SiU9
Sigh. I post a request, presently with a score of one. Someone posts a significantly wrong workaround and gets a score of two. Someone replies to my request with a subject line of "MOD PARENT UP". His reply gets modded up, but not my request.
The rumor on IRC is that even Red Hat Network customers aren't able to get crypto-signed MD5's. That would be an oversight by Red Hat, or conceivably their archive has been hacked. I think I'll quarantine these CD's until I know for sure. Red Hat signed their MD5's for RH 8.0, so if these RH9 MD5's are good they'll surely realize their error and sign them eventually.
Gee, that sorta undoes the benefit of fetching them in a hurry via bittorrent, doesn't it? Oh well, getting introduced to bittorrent was worthwhile.
So can anyone post the MD5 checksums for the RH9 ISO's, crypto-signed by Red Hat? Otherwise there's no way to verify that the bits from bittorrent are right, unless we assume that the source bits are right and bittorrent's checksumming is correct.
Many XBox games use the network. Suppose there was an XBox game that had a remote exploit. You could use that game to install Linux on the XBox, right?
So all you need to use 10,000 XBoxen for your computational chemistry cluster is 10,000 XBoxen, 10,000 copies of the exploitable game, and 1 unconventional boot server that scans the network and converts the XBox into a chemistry server whenever it sees the game come up.
So does this have any advantages (political or technical) over the Integral Fast Reactor?
If your backup media are small enough and your pockets are big enough, a reasonable place to keep off-site backups is in your pocket. I can fit CD's into a pocket of the fishing vest I habitually wear, for example. Encrypt any data that you want to stay secret if you're mugged.