Ok. It's not him, but here's an idea. There seems to be a list of teen bloggers at blogcontrol.theweblogreview.com. We can select teen as the category and monitor daily for mentions of Mad Cow or whatever it is they call it. At the first mention, the blog gets DOSd and the influential teen learns a lesson about the dangers of selling out (or at least learns to sell out for good money, not carbonated cow juice)
Oh, and doing a search for Teen Bloggers on google isn't as scary as I thought.
Not so far off. Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones (who changed his name to Bill Wyman in 1964) sued a reporter for the Atlanta-Journal Constitution with the same name for using his own name (the reporter was born in 1961)
By the way, "Gil Bates" would've worked better;)
Re:The future? Just like the past should be...
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All of which were invented and developed in the public sector.
Don't you mean Private sector?
Competition and market forces are great for some things, but for something as big as space exploration we need a gov't-directed (preferably international) project. This was there can at least be some lip service paid to "the good of humankind." A private corp doing this would be very limited (space tourism, launching satelites). Look at biomedical research, for example. To make money you have to go after the commonest diseases and ignore the rest. This is great, and makes perfect business sense, but you also need publicly-funded research for the not so lucrative diseases and for the general advancement of biological sciences.
More relevantly, take Lewis & Clark's exploration of the frontier of their time. It was directed at opening the West to settlement and commerce by european people, and it achieved its goal (for better or for worse.) Take out the racism and genocide, and that's kind of what we all hope NASA is up to - openning up space to our eventual settlement.
So this is a big deal? Wish I'd know. I could have had a story on Slashdot!
Seems apple people like to make a big deal out of what other computers normally do. Remember those "made with apple" icons we used to see on web sites? How many "made with Unix" icons were there?:)
1. Insert your referral ID into amazon links
2. Profit!
I apologize if that's what it looked like I was doing, but I don't even know how this referral thing works. I just copied and pasted the url after my search on amzon.
Thanks for the tip though. I'll make sure to use it next time:)
1. Amazon has it cheaper than BN by $5.00. And they have free shipping (vs. $4.00 min for BN)
2. The second edition of the same book is coming in about 3 weeks (Feb 13), so you may want to wait for that.
Also you need to consult a dictonary. The word coup, in this context, means: "the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group"
Oh fun. The dictionary attack. Can I play?
OED has a bunch of other definitions for coup, one of which is "A dislocation or fault by which a coal-seam is tilted up." I'm surprised you didn't use that one to suggest that I had implied W tilted up a coal-seam in Gore's ass in 2002.
There are other definitions for coup ("a successful move," "a sudden and decisive stroke of state policy," "a sudden and great change in the government carried out violently or illegally by the ruling power," etc.) that don't require violence. In any case, the bloodless in my original post made it clear that I didn't think the coup was violent.
Seems you're a bit defensive about the legitimacy of W's rule after his bloodless coup of 2000. You have every right to be, but fear not. The quotes probably refer to the fact that when you send email to the 'president,' he's not the one actually reading it. Some intern (who the president is definitely not bonking in an effort to restore honor to the office of the president) is. The letters then get compiled into a report with large letters and small words the president can read and understand.
The recent erosions of our civil liberties must've been on the minds of the editors of the Onion (a satirical magazine) when they wrote this article a few days ago, Read it fast, it may not be satire for long
from the article: WASHINGTON, DC--Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration, President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that pares its 10 original amendments down to a "tight, no-nonsense" six.
Poindexter and his Iran-Contra pals are proof that even if you don't have tax-payer/congress-approved money, you can still do what you want.
The fact that the TIPS program was even proposed is alarming, not to mention what will be when it's created
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Every once in a while I'll pick up a wIrEd at an airport or whatever. This is shortly followed by memories of why I canceled my subscription years ago. In the same way that fashion mags set up these unreasonable (and arbitrary) expectations of what it means to be a woman, wired has set up this buy-buy-buy wannabe geek culture. Example:
Sure, you might have DSL and Wi-Fi, an Xbox and a TiVo, maybe a Bang & Olufsen stereo with 5-foot speakers and a six-CD changer, but you're still an amateur in the world of extreme home networking
Extreme home networking? Is that like extreme programming? I had this burrito last night then I hunkered down for an evening of Extreme defecation
The ad:article ratio in wired has to be as high as Cosmo's, not to mention the high number of thinly veiled ads in the fetish section. But, we do get insights like:
Stored as 1s and 0s, music, video, and even television can share the same network.
What insight! What's worse is that these freaks at the forefront of graphic design somehow manage to obscure deep insights like the above with layouts and graphics that make the articles unreadable. I had to hold this one article at an angle because the paper was reflective silver before finally giving up. I guess I'm not an extreme reader! Form over function in all they do.
That egg can be carried by a surrogate mother, or possibly implanted back into you (eggs can develop pretty much anywhere).
This is not intended as a flame, but the fertilized egg/embryo will need the uterus to grow and develop. As far as I know an artificial womb has yet to be designed that will supply the blood vessels and surface markers needed for an embryo to attach and develop, and I don't know of any other part of an animal that can be stimulated to act like a uterus. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I do agree with you that there shouldn't be ethical issues harvesting organs from brainless humans. Our brains, after all, are what make us who we are.
Not only do you charge a fortune for the pig heart, which likely cost the same to produce as a pack of bacon, you can sell a lifetime (literaly) of anti-rejection drugs as well.
It'll probably cost a lot more to raise these pigs than regular (food) pigs. They will have to be raised in clean labs to avoid infections and screened regularly for diseases that might hop on to humans.
As far as being on a lifetime of immunosuppressants, that's the case with human-human transplants as well. I doubt that's these researchers's motive, since they're probably not financially linked to the drug makers. But you're right; that would be pretty evil business "synergy."
On the contrary. Who is going to develop new tests for hereditary diseases if the entire world can legitimately test for it without royalties?
Let's ignore the fact that patenting a discovery that is part of nature is plain stupid now (it made sense to encourage genomic research in the early days - now any jackass with a PCR machine and a grad student can discover new genes) With that assumption in mind, for your point to be valid these companies would have had to actually invest in the discovery. Usually what happens is that the genome-looters discover these genes using government funds. They then turn around and start a company to market their spoils.
This reminds me of my first week of med school. We were presented with hypothetical scenarios followed by questions to test our outlook on social and ethical issues (I think we were the control group) One of the scenarios involved the lone pharmacist in a remote town who had the only drug that could cure a man's wife. The pharamcist has priced the drug over an above a fair profit (like a markup of 300% or so), which placed it way above the man's reach. One of the questions was whether the man was right to break into the pharmacy and steal the drug. Everyone I talked to agreed the guy had a right to do so (maybe all my friends are pinkos). The point is we should strive to be civilized humans working for the good of all, not greedy capitalists/Ferengi (gratuitous STtNG ref for/.). Unfortunately most of us have been brainwashed since birth that socialism is evil and capitalism = freedom.
The free book idea is great, and I don't want to nit-pick (read: "of course means I want to nit-pick and am about to do so"), but there are some problems with the article:
at least two of [these free books] [4],[5] seem to be the standard textbooks in their field today
Reference 4 is by no means the standard textbook in the field of biophysics. I've been in the field for at least 6 years and this is the first I've heard of this book. None of my professors have ever mentioned it either.
Microsoft can't just say, "Romeo and Juliet was a big success for Shakespeare, so we'll write something similar."
Doesn't this happen all the time? Isn't West Side Story just Romeo and Juliet again? Isn't any star-crossed lover movie that women flock and drag their men to a remake of Romeo and Juliet? Wasn't the Leonardo DiCrapio remake an embraced and extended version of R&J?
Books, however, are easy to use, and most computer users know how to use an electronic book that is in the ubiquitous (and nonproprietary) Adobe Acrobat format.
Isn't pdf proprietary?
Finally, a story on free literature that doesn't link the asstr is not complete by any means:)
If the Australians fail to uphold their IP responsibilities we should just invade them and implement a regime change to protect our freedoms.
If only the gaming industry had more clout in the gov't (maybe in the form of one of their former execs being the president, vp, or national security advisor) we could be teaching those freedom-hating aussies a thing or two about our values.
The ADA has already been used to force companies to rehire a drivers, pilots, and policemen fired for extremely poor vision, to force professional golf to modify it's rules to allow people to ride in a cart rather than walk, and to force fitness centers to hire obese people as instructors.
Not to menshun being uzed to force slashdot to except posts from people with poor gramer and speling;)
I would assume that you need a registration or an original serial number to get the latest update
That would make sense, right? But let me tell you, I'm as surprised as anyone that my pirated copy of norton AV continues to autoupdate and autoupgrade as if it were a legit copy.
mattfusf and Taco have really outdone themselves with the posting of this article. They deserve our gratitude.
Thanks for the link to Yahoo! Not only was it useful to the discussion of the article, but it helped a lot of people find their way to this obscure new portal.
Thanks for giving this struggling new dot com credit for an AP story.
Thanks for including Bill Simon's name in the article even though it was supposed to be Tom Woolston. The name recognition will surely help Simon's campaign
Even though we saw the same thing a while back, a repeat was absolutely needed for this to sink in
So this screen we sit in front of has some machinery behind it that can track our activities and behaviors? You say it's merging like crazy consolidating databases? Nice. How very 1984.
Why do we have to watch commercials in the first place? Why not just buy the programs you like from its producers? This way more money ends up in the hands of the artists and the bloated networks can just die a miserable death. This assumes high-speed connections will be more common, but I think it would rock.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok. It's not him, but here's an idea. There seems to be a list of teen bloggers at blogcontrol.theweblogreview.com. We can select teen as the category and monitor daily for mentions of Mad Cow or whatever it is they call it. At the first mention, the blog gets DOSd and the influential teen learns a lesson about the dangers of selling out (or at least learns to sell out for good money, not carbonated cow juice)
Oh, and doing a search for Teen Bloggers on google isn't as scary as I thought.
By the way, "Gil Bates" would've worked better ;)
Don't you mean Private sector?
Competition and market forces are great for some things, but for something as big as space exploration we need a gov't-directed (preferably international) project. This was there can at least be some lip service paid to "the good of humankind." A private corp doing this would be very limited (space tourism, launching satelites). Look at biomedical research, for example. To make money you have to go after the commonest diseases and ignore the rest. This is great, and makes perfect business sense, but you also need publicly-funded research for the not so lucrative diseases and for the general advancement of biological sciences.
More relevantly, take Lewis & Clark's exploration of the frontier of their time. It was directed at opening the West to settlement and commerce by european people, and it achieved its goal (for better or for worse.) Take out the racism and genocide, and that's kind of what we all hope NASA is up to - openning up space to our eventual settlement.
Seems apple people like to make a big deal out of what other computers normally do. Remember those "made with apple" icons we used to see on web sites? How many "made with Unix" icons were there? :)
2. Profit!
I apologize if that's what it looked like I was doing, but I don't even know how this referral thing works. I just copied and pasted the url after my search on amzon.
Thanks for the tip though. I'll make sure to use it next time :)
1. Amazon has it cheaper than BN by $5.00. And they have free shipping (vs. $4.00 min for BN)
2. The second edition of the same book is coming in about 3 weeks (Feb 13), so you may want to wait for that.
Oh fun. The dictionary attack. Can I play?
OED has a bunch of other definitions for coup, one of which is "A dislocation or fault by which a coal-seam is tilted up." I'm surprised you didn't use that one to suggest that I had implied W tilted up a coal-seam in Gore's ass in 2002.
There are other definitions for coup ("a successful move," "a sudden and decisive stroke of state policy," "a sudden and great change in the government carried out violently or illegally by the ruling power," etc.) that don't require violence. In any case, the bloodless in my original post made it clear that I didn't think the coup was violent.
USA! USA! USA!
Seems you're a bit defensive about the legitimacy of W's rule after his bloodless coup of 2000. You have every right to be, but fear not. The quotes probably refer to the fact that when you send email to the 'president,' he's not the one actually reading it. Some intern (who the president is definitely not bonking in an effort to restore honor to the office of the president) is. The letters then get compiled into a report with large letters and small words the president can read and understand.
Or maybe our DNA is being used as storage for some supa-smart aliens -- probably ones who can spell super...or galaxy's ;)
from the article: WASHINGTON, DC--Flanked by key members of Congress and his administration, President Bush approved Monday a streamlined version of the Bill of Rights that pares its 10 original amendments down to a "tight, no-nonsense" six.
The fact that the TIPS program was even proposed is alarming, not to mention what will be when it's created
Every once in a while I'll pick up a wIrEd at an airport or whatever. This is shortly followed by memories of why I canceled my subscription years ago. In the same way that fashion mags set up these unreasonable (and arbitrary) expectations of what it means to be a woman, wired has set up this buy-buy-buy wannabe geek culture. Example:
Sure, you might have DSL and Wi-Fi, an Xbox and a TiVo, maybe a Bang & Olufsen stereo with 5-foot speakers and a six-CD changer, but you're still an amateur in the world of extreme home networking
Extreme home networking? Is that like extreme programming? I had this burrito last night then I hunkered down for an evening of Extreme defecation
The ad:article ratio in wired has to be as high as Cosmo's, not to mention the high number of thinly veiled ads in the fetish section. But, we do get insights like:
Stored as 1s and 0s, music, video, and even television can share the same network.
What insight! What's worse is that these freaks at the forefront of graphic design somehow manage to obscure deep insights like the above with layouts and graphics that make the articles unreadable. I had to hold this one article at an angle because the paper was reflective silver before finally giving up. I guess I'm not an extreme reader! Form over function in all they do.
The preceding was an extreme /. post
Spleen vented. whew.
This is not intended as a flame, but the fertilized egg/embryo will need the uterus to grow and develop. As far as I know an artificial womb has yet to be designed that will supply the blood vessels and surface markers needed for an embryo to attach and develop, and I don't know of any other part of an animal that can be stimulated to act like a uterus. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I do agree with you that there shouldn't be ethical issues harvesting organs from brainless humans. Our brains, after all, are what make us who we are.
It'll probably cost a lot more to raise these pigs than regular (food) pigs. They will have to be raised in clean labs to avoid infections and screened regularly for diseases that might hop on to humans.
As far as being on a lifetime of immunosuppressants, that's the case with human-human transplants as well. I doubt that's these researchers's motive, since they're probably not financially linked to the drug makers. But you're right; that would be pretty evil business "synergy."
Let's ignore the fact that patenting a discovery that is part of nature is plain stupid now (it made sense to encourage genomic research in the early days - now any jackass with a PCR machine and a grad student can discover new genes) With that assumption in mind, for your point to be valid these companies would have had to actually invest in the discovery. Usually what happens is that the genome-looters discover these genes using government funds. They then turn around and start a company to market their spoils.
This reminds me of my first week of med school. We were presented with hypothetical scenarios followed by questions to test our outlook on social and ethical issues (I think we were the control group) One of the scenarios involved the lone pharmacist in a remote town who had the only drug that could cure a man's wife. The pharamcist has priced the drug over an above a fair profit (like a markup of 300% or so), which placed it way above the man's reach. One of the questions was whether the man was right to break into the pharmacy and steal the drug. Everyone I talked to agreed the guy had a right to do so (maybe all my friends are pinkos). The point is we should strive to be civilized humans working for the good of all, not greedy capitalists/Ferengi (gratuitous STtNG ref for /.). Unfortunately most of us have been brainwashed since birth that socialism is evil and capitalism = freedom.
at least two of [these free books] [4],[5] seem to be the standard textbooks in their field today
Reference 4 is by no means the standard textbook in the field of biophysics. I've been in the field for at least 6 years and this is the first I've heard of this book. None of my professors have ever mentioned it either.
Microsoft can't just say, "Romeo and Juliet was a big success for Shakespeare, so we'll write something similar."
Doesn't this happen all the time? Isn't West Side Story just Romeo and Juliet again? Isn't any star-crossed lover movie that women flock and drag their men to a remake of Romeo and Juliet? Wasn't the Leonardo DiCrapio remake an embraced and extended version of R&J?
Books, however, are easy to use, and most computer users know how to use an electronic book that is in the ubiquitous (and nonproprietary) Adobe Acrobat format.
Isn't pdf proprietary?
Finally, a story on free literature that doesn't link the asstr is not complete by any means :)
If only the gaming industry had more clout in the gov't (maybe in the form of one of their former execs being the president, vp, or national security advisor) we could be teaching those freedom-hating aussies a thing or two about our values.
Let's roll!
Not to menshun being uzed to force slashdot to except posts from people with poor gramer and speling ;)
That would make sense, right? But let me tell you, I'm as surprised as anyone that my pirated copy of norton AV continues to autoupdate and autoupgrade as if it were a legit copy.
The machine's name is Shop 2000! I wonder how long it will take for the number 2000 to stop being associated with all things futuristic? 2010? 3000?
So this screen we sit in front of has some machinery behind it that can track our activities and behaviors? You say it's merging like crazy consolidating databases? Nice. How very 1984.
The producers, writers, set designers, etc. are artists too, right? Most actors are just overpaid eye candy.