The overlooked thing here is that it does have potential to help control immune-responsive diseases.
These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of IL-4 for the inhibition of powerful cell-mediated immune reactions and suggest strategies potentially useful for the control of deleterious immune responses, such as autoimmune reactions.
These studies show that IL-4 plays a huge role in moderating the immune cascade. Diseases from rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, sepsis... and even probably cancer and heart disease have problems with different mechanisms in this immune cascade.
Finding ways to turn off this spiral could have great potential benefits.
The press is going to spin this the sexiest direction to get people to think, talk, and react. The research has potential to really help medical knowledge. Now what the real purpose of the research is we will never know...
Gamma interferon is shown to be critical in recovery of C57BL/6 mice from mousepox. Anti-gamma interferon treatment of mice infected in the footpad with ectromelia virus resulted in enhanced spread to and efficient virus replication in the spleen, lungs, ovaries, and, especially, liver. All treated, infected mice died within a mean of 7 days, 2.5 days earlier than mice with severe combined immunodeficiency that were given a comparable infection. On the other hand, alpha interferon appeared not to have a major role in controlling virus replication in tissues examined, and beta interferon was important for virus clearance in the liver and ovaries but not the spleen. Either anti-alpha, beta interferon or anti-beta interferon antibody therapy resulted in only 25% mortality. Infected control mice survived but showed persistence of ectromelia virus at the site of infection (the footpad) and transient presence of the virus in the spleen, liver, lungs, and ovaries and in the fibroreticular but not lymphoid cells of the draining popliteal lymph node. Depletion of gamma interferon but not alpha and/or beta interferon resulted in a significant reduction in the numbers of splenic T (especially gamma delta-TCR+), B, and Mac-1+ cells, although the proportion of Mac-1+ cells in the spleen increased compared with control values. Depletion of alpha, beta, or gamma interferons did not severely affect the generation of virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses or natural killer cell cytolytic activity. This study, in which a natural virus disease model was used, underscores the crucial importance of gamma interferon in virus clearance at all stages of infection and in all tissues tested except the primary site of infection, where virus clearance appears to be delayed.
From these variations, he could calculate the frequencies of the sound waves propagating through the Universe during its first 760,000 years, when it was just 18 million light years across. At that time the sound waves were too low in frequency to be audible. To hear them, Cramer had to scale the frequencies 100,000 billion billion times.
I am not sure of the scientific strength of a study where you take some extremely, extremely small number multiply it times "100,000 billion billion"... and then try to make some scientific sense from it.
I'll agree that it's interesting enough that he may be able to get a grant and make some scientific cents out of it.
We feel that the Claria Corporation name will allow us to better communicate the expanding breadth of offerings that we provide to consumers and advertisers."
Translation: "We feel that changing your name will allow us to continue our evil actions under a different alias... and continue to profit."
You asked: What sort of qualifications does Diebold have to be making voting systems?
They are evidently good showmen and salespeople.
In response to a question about a presentation in El Paso County, Colorado: "For a demonstration I suggest you fake it. Progam them both so they look the same, and then just do the upload fro [sic] the AV. That is what we did in the last AT/AV demo." [source: http://chroot.net/s/lists/support.w3archive/199903/msg00098.html ]
Now, I've been to demostrations... and I've created demostrations. But to "fake it" sounds like lying to me. How good can a voting system be if it's based on untruths?
Of course, how good can a company be that leaves confidental, image-soiling messages open enough that somebody could snatch them up? If they can't keep their message board private, I would doubt they are going to care much about your privacy of your vote.
"I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb"." [source: http://chroot.net/s/lists/support.w3archive/200101/msg00068.html ]
I am not pro-Gore or anti-Gore or Republician or Democrat. But the quote cracks me up...
No matter if he won or lost, quotes like this now make me understand why he at least wanted a recount.
By flying someone safely into space and returning him home, China bolted itself to a new level. The entire world had to admit that China was a new technological power. It's a trophy. It's a mark by which countries are judged.
The side effects of this? The people of China immediately (at least those who understood what happened) were filled with joy and respect for their government.
The space race is costly... but we use the technolgical research from it on a daily basis. Even more so, we must stay ahead in the space race for the respect of our citizens and the rest of the world.
In times like today... we need dreams. We need to know that we are exploring, researching, and reaching to new places. It's a part of the human desire to discover.
The old semi-dead people in the senate may not realize this. However, the majority of us thought about being an astronaut as a child. Even more of us would risk our life to see the earth from "out there."
We need to push into space... regardless of the cost.
The board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster recommended that the future goals of human spaceflight be subject to a national debate before any replacement for the shuttle be considered.
Do we need manned spacecraft to do our research? This is the important question that is being floated under the surface.
I have cared for many elderly people who would sit and listen to the world--their world--on the radio each day.
Church services, local sports, weather, politics, school functions--these all are often played on small local radio stations... and the older generation feels that they can keep in touch this way.
With their decreasing vision and difficulty manipulating the TV, the radio is an excellent friend to these people.
I wonder if they'll be prying the keyboard out of my hands one day... as all the younger generations have their neural inplants. They'll all be slashdotting with direct neural connections and laughing how the mouse and keyboard will soon die.
Am I the only one just waiting for FOX news to start a radio station?
NPR just has a great lock on the morning news... very similar to CNN previous lock on television news.
Fox probably figures the world needs a "fair and balanced" (or whatever they say) version of the radio news.
Davak
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What bothers me the most about music companies is that they crush promising acts just like Microsoft crushes upcoming companies.
I personally know of two bands that signed to "major deals" and then the company just refused to push their music with ads or radio play. They were good enough to be competition... so the company signs them for a percentage and then refuses to push their music.
The band starves because they can't sell any albums... and they can't get out of their contracts.
Sounds just like microsoft to me... buying up small companies and then just letting them waste away to nothing.
Maybe a better question would be... will analog radio die?
NPR is always begging for money. Music radio is 50% commericals.
Maybe the market will soon only support fee-for-service digital radio.
I think it would suck... but it wouldn't shock me. The music nazis would just have to demand more money per song played on the radio... and the whole system would be in danger.
I always wondered what the "multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce" part of the law included.
It kinda sounds like "we won't tax electronic commerce" to me.
a) Moratorium.--No State or political subdivision thereof shall impose any of the following taxes during the period beginning on October 1, 1998, and ending 3 years after the date of the enactment of this Act--
(1) taxes on Internet access, unless such tax was generally imposed and actually enforced prior to October 1, 1998; and
(2) multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce.
I thought Dick Cheney promised that we need not worry about this problem!
Cheney Just Says NO to Internet Taxes
Vice President Dick Cheney recently stated that Congress should make the current law banning Internet access taxes permanent and extend the moratorium on any Internet sales taxes. President Bush, during his presidential campaign, had also called for an extension of this moratorium created by the 1998 Internet Tax Freedom Act. It is currently set to expire in October 2001. The collection of sales taxes on Internet purchases is definitely a hot topic for many states and retailers alike, but there are no easy answers at this point.
While most online purchases are, in fact, subject to sales taxes, many Internet retailers have not been forced to collect them. Now, they are only required to collect sales tax from customers located in states where the company has a "physical" presence, such as a retail store or office. But even some of the larger national retailers have been able to work around this requirement by establishing separate companies located in only a few carefully chosen locations.
This is where the confusion gets even greater for consumers. If the retailer did not collect sales taxes, most states require consumers to report these non-taxed purchases on their state income tax returns. However, as you can guess, most consumers are not reporting these online purchases. Much of the problem is the confusion created by the current system. Most consumers and businesses simply do not understand the requirements placed on them. State tax authorities and Congress are currently considering several plans that might assist in finding a remedy to the problem. It becomes more important every year as more states realize their resulting revenue losses from increasing numbers of Internet purchases.
Legislation has been introduced that addresses the issue in three major areas: 1. Uniform collection policies for all states 2. Continued moratorium on taxes for Internet access 3. Target web retailers over $5,000,000 for enforcement
This issue is far from settled since states are still prevented by law from collecting tax on interstate commerce. Only companies located within the state are liable to collect and remit sales tax. The Internet obviously makes this issue much more difficult to assess, but consumers and retailers alike can be assured that Congress is committed to helping everyone agree on a plan for the future. Stay tuned for more updates.
Slashdot Mirror
Great idea... ...as long as I know where the mute button is.
The overlooked thing here is that it does have potential to help control immune-responsive diseases.
These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of IL-4 for the inhibition of powerful cell-mediated immune reactions and suggest strategies potentially useful for the control of deleterious immune responses, such as autoimmune reactions.
These studies show that IL-4 plays a huge role in moderating the immune cascade. Diseases from rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, sepsis... and even probably cancer and heart disease have problems with different mechanisms in this immune cascade.
Finding ways to turn off this spiral could have great potential benefits.
The press is going to spin this the sexiest direction to get people to think, talk, and react. The research has potential to really help medical knowledge. Now what the real purpose of the research is we will never know...
Davak
Sorry to reply to my own message... but I just found some of Buller's old research as well. He's been playing with this stuff since 1993.
= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7685412&dopt=Abstract
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
Gamma interferon is shown to be critical in recovery of C57BL/6 mice from mousepox. Anti-gamma interferon treatment of mice infected in the footpad with ectromelia virus resulted in enhanced spread to and efficient virus replication in the spleen, lungs, ovaries, and, especially, liver. All treated, infected mice died within a mean of 7 days, 2.5 days earlier than mice with severe combined immunodeficiency that were given a comparable infection. On the other hand, alpha interferon appeared not to have a major role in controlling virus replication in tissues examined, and beta interferon was important for virus clearance in the liver and ovaries but not the spleen. Either anti-alpha, beta interferon or anti-beta interferon antibody therapy resulted in only 25% mortality. Infected control mice survived but showed persistence of ectromelia virus at the site of infection (the footpad) and transient presence of the virus in the spleen, liver, lungs, and ovaries and in the fibroreticular but not lymphoid cells of the draining popliteal lymph node. Depletion of gamma interferon but not alpha and/or beta interferon resulted in a significant reduction in the numbers of splenic T (especially gamma delta-TCR+), B, and Mac-1+ cells, although the proportion of Mac-1+ cells in the spleen increased compared with control values. Depletion of alpha, beta, or gamma interferons did not severely affect the generation of virus-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte responses or natural killer cell cytolytic activity. This study, in which a natural virus disease model was used, underscores the crucial importance of gamma interferon in virus clearance at all stages of infection and in all tissues tested except the primary site of infection, where virus clearance appears to be delayed.
Read some of the research for yourself:
= Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11152493&dopt=Abstrac t
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
Don't accept the media's spin on things!
No.
But in other news, God is now suing the researcher for copyright violations.
Please stop downloading this material or the RIAA will be contacted. If that doesn't work, then the world will end in with plaques and fire.
That's all.
From these variations, he could calculate the frequencies of the sound waves propagating through the Universe during its first 760,000 years, when it was just 18 million light years across. At that time the sound waves were too low in frequency to be audible. To hear them, Cramer had to scale the frequencies 100,000 billion billion times.
I am not sure of the scientific strength of a study where you take some extremely, extremely small number multiply it times "100,000 billion billion"... and then try to make some scientific sense from it.
I'll agree that it's interesting enough that he may be able to get a grant and make some scientific cents out of it.
In other news... our weapons for cleaning this crap off have not changed their names:
Spybot
Ad-Ware
Davak
Wanna see what evil will be appearing on your network soon? Source: Claria
Date-Manager
Gator E-Wallet
Weatherscope
www.precision-time
gainpublishing
Searchscout
I know I've seen several of these installed already on our systems at work.
Once spyware, always spyware.
Quote from their page...
Claria Offers Multiple GAIN Network Ad Vehicles To Meet Your Campaign Objectives:
Instant Message Sliders
Instant Message Pop Ups
Pop Unders
Tag-A-Long Sliders
Flash and Rich Media
Okay, they attack using instant messaging, sliders, and pop under windows.
Spyware or not--this guys are using advertising methods that they are evil.
Doh!
Correction: "We feel that changing our name..."
We feel that the Claria Corporation name will allow us to better communicate the expanding breadth of offerings that we provide to consumers and advertisers."
Translation: "We feel that changing your name will allow us to continue our evil actions under a different alias... and continue to profit."
They are evidently good showmen and salespeople.
Now, I've been to demostrations... and I've created demostrations. But to "fake it" sounds like lying to me. How good can a voting system be if it's based on untruths?
Of course, how good can a company be that leaves confidental, image-soiling messages open enough that somebody could snatch them up? If they can't keep their message board private, I would doubt they are going to care much about your privacy of your vote.
Davak
"I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb"." [source: http://chroot.net/s/lists/support.w3archive/200101 /msg00068.html ]
I am not pro-Gore or anti-Gore or Republician or Democrat. But the quote cracks me up...
No matter if he won or lost, quotes like this now make me understand why he at least wanted a recount.
Davak
When we examine the rain forests, we send people to live with the animals and catalog their findings.
:)
We don't send probes to blindly gather data. Space should be no different.
Just ask Cartman how useful probes are.
We need manned spacecraft.
China gives us our answer!
By flying someone safely into space and returning him home, China bolted itself to a new level. The entire world had to admit that China was a new technological power. It's a trophy. It's a mark by which countries are judged.
The side effects of this? The people of China immediately (at least those who understood what happened) were filled with joy and respect for their government.
The space race is costly... but we use the technolgical research from it on a daily basis. Even more so, we must stay ahead in the space race for the respect of our citizens and the rest of the world.
In times like today... we need dreams. We need to know that we are exploring, researching, and reaching to new places. It's a part of the human desire to discover.
The old semi-dead people in the senate may not realize this. However, the majority of us thought about being an astronaut as a child. Even more of us would risk our life to see the earth from "out there."
We need to push into space... regardless of the cost.
Davak
The board that investigated the Columbia space shuttle disaster recommended that the future goals of human spaceflight be subject to a national debate before any replacement for the shuttle be considered.
Do we need manned spacecraft to do our research? This is the important question that is being floated under the surface.
Davak
Why not just use the new electronic nose technology? Why do we need people for this?
We use it for tea
We use it for water purification
Diagnosis of female issues
Predicting who has diabetes
Davak
The elderly really depend on radio.
I have cared for many elderly people who would sit and listen to the world--their world--on the radio each day.
Church services, local sports, weather, politics, school functions--these all are often played on small local radio stations... and the older generation feels that they can keep in touch this way.
With their decreasing vision and difficulty manipulating the TV, the radio is an excellent friend to these people.
I wonder if they'll be prying the keyboard out of my hands one day... as all the younger generations have their neural inplants. They'll all be slashdotting with direct neural connections and laughing how the mouse and keyboard will soon die.
Davak
Am I the only one just waiting for FOX news to start a radio station?
NPR just has a great lock on the morning news... very similar to CNN previous lock on television news.
Fox probably figures the world needs a "fair and balanced" (or whatever they say) version of the radio news.
Davak
What bothers me the most about music companies is that they crush promising acts just like Microsoft crushes upcoming companies.
I personally know of two bands that signed to "major deals" and then the company just refused to push their music with ads or radio play. They were good enough to be competition... so the company signs them for a percentage and then refuses to push their music.
The band starves because they can't sell any albums... and they can't get out of their contracts.
Sounds just like microsoft to me... buying up small companies and then just letting them waste away to nothing.
Bastards... all of them
Davak
Move to a college town!
I have lived in several college towns over the last few years... and those kids always put fresh interesting stuff on the air.
Yes, a lot of time it sucks...
but hey, at least it's not the same top 20 shit 24/7.
Davak
Maybe a better question would be... will analog radio die?
NPR is always begging for money.
Music radio is 50% commericals.
Maybe the market will soon only support fee-for-service digital radio.
I think it would suck... but it wouldn't shock me. The music nazis would just have to demand more money per song played on the radio... and the whole system would be in danger.
Davak
Here are the removal programs...
Spybot
Adware
However, this begs the more interesting questions....
Is there *nix spyware?
Why not?
Davak
I always wondered what the "multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce" part of the law included.
It kinda sounds like "we won't tax electronic commerce" to me.
Another copy of the bill if you so wish
Davak
I thought Dick Cheney promised that we need not worry about this problem!