Iraq is just a convenient excuse. All scientific programs in the US are hit by serious budget cuts. Eliminate all chances of finding a job for an entire generation of scientists and you cripple science for decades.
Dr. Donald Lamb, University of Chicago: "The bottom line: science at NASA is disappearing -- fast" Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "We're getting ready to fire all the people we've built up" "Such a lengthy suspension would be a devastating blow to the program and the science community"
This is exactly why we should not use HTML, MIME, JAVASCRIPT, PDF, MSWORD, WTF encoding for e-mail messages. Plain ASCII does the job. If you need more, then replace the ancient SMTP protocol and include ISO standard fonts. End of story. Sadly RFC-based protocols are just patchwork. With every additional layer of encoding there are new possibilities of interference, new bugs, new security issues. Those who do not understand this matter should ask themselves why people use Javascript to encapsulate an ad in an HTML document. What is good to bypass ad filters is also good to introduce malicious code.
wired_parrot wrote: A patient suffering from a STD may well withhold embarassing information about his symptoms if forced to translate through a relative.
I find that most of the "English" contributions are actually only US contributions. Many topics are seen quite differently in the US and UK. It is not just a matter of flavour. Now, if you go to UK Wikipedia.org you will be surprised.
Interesting idea. But if DARPA gets a share, then so should CERN for inventing the world wide web. Both organizations have one thing in common: they are funded by the tax payers. To simplify this matter I suggest that governments represent the people's interest and tell the ISP's to accept the status quo or face a bill from the tax payers. It might be also important to notice that the federal government still is a major shareholder of Deutsche Telekom shares. And they control Deutsche Telekom through regulations and laws. If the German government wanted to avoid double charging, they simply had to say no. Maybe some MdB's have other interests, too.
You are absolutely right. And if a random quick check reveals evidence for a BSE case in the US, then the material has to be validated again by a specialized (say qualified) lab in the UK where they use reliable tests.
But, you cannot donate blood in the US if you lived in Europe. http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/supp ly/tse/bsepolicy.html Of course, Europeans donate blood for Europeans, without a problem. The problem is that people in the US confuse the UK with the EU. Anybody who thinks that there had been an epidemic in the EU should compare the numbers in the entire EU, except for the UK (!), with the US. Good morning, America! The point is, we need to get the facts right and learn from mistakes. Otherwise we end up with a situation like the one we had in the UK. For some reason beyond my comprehension it seems we are facing a lot of FUD on the one hand side and total ignorance on the other hand.
Let me add that farm animals are not only treated with antibiotics when they are sick. Antibiotics are used as prophylaxis. Best chances for bacteria to adapt. This is sick!
If Napster has problems with DRM and proprietary file formats, then it gets pretty clear what customers are going to face in the future if this nonsense spreads. Just say NO to DRM and proprietary file formats.
What discussion? The whole topic of creationism/intelligent design is only being discussed in the US. The problem is that we have too many unteachable people in the US who take every nonsense for granted as soon as it gets the religious smoke screen. And the media in the US love this topic because it allows them to spread their pitiful program 24*7. Not only scientists, but also almost the entire world have put this "discussion" to rest. If you find it mentioned in European media, then only with reference to the difficulties in the US. This is not a discussion. It is comedy.
I do not appreciate journals like space.com, cnn.com or pcworld.com. All they do is copy a story, add ads, trace you with cookies, change metric units into antic units, misspell every foreign name, tell you only a fraction of the story, omit references and fill up their plagiarism with links to similar stories on their own web site. /. writers and editors, please check your sources.
It just amazes me to see that they still deal with these stupid imperial units. Remember when Lockheed Martin's engineers caused the loss of a NASA Mars probe because Lockheed Martin still has not adapted the metric system, which 95% of the world use, including NASA? Or take the Spaceshipone mission. At first nobody knew whether they reached the goal of 100km altitude, because the Spaceshipone team used another imperial unit, the mile? The problem was that people use a ratio of 1.6 km/mile. The actual factor is 1.61. The whole world is laughing about this. One unit per physical quantity, only factors of 10 - that's it. Please, adapt. My grandmother mastered this little step for mankind.
If you have a problem to provide them your e-mail address, which BTW they need to notify you in case you win, then why not create one of those free accounts for this purpose? For the Microsoft search engine use a Yahoo account and vice versa. If you do not win and someone starts to send spam to the account, then just ignore it. Another fine method, which only works if you are in control of your mail server, is to use one mail account per contact with a specific number, like user101 for MSN and user102 for Yahoo. Later, if you get spam to user101, simply forward all mail addressed to this e-mail address to someone at MSN, like their service department or sales department (they love that). I used this method years ago to fix Amazon and others. It works.
We are already victims of identity theft, because we have to constantly check if someone is misusing our information. I am talking about my time. It is just fair to punish those who leak the information. This is no different than a libel suit. Someone spreads lies about you which might harm you and you sue, and win.
IMHO global poverty will not be addressed with one billion dollars from Google. Many companies and governments in the EU and US are doing the same thing for decades, without success. Google may be only interested in a tax shelter. The problem is that companies and governments in the rich countries are causing the problems in the poor countries. Of course, we, the people in rich countries are not completely innocent either. What can make a difference is fair trade. And that is where we have a chance to make a difference with a few cents every day. In return we get better products and a safer world. Read about it, think about it.
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Are you sure? US media are changing the world rapidly!
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http://funfire.de/lustige/bilder-399-irak-oder-de
http://funfire.de/lustige/bilder-782-verkehrte-we
http://funfire.de/lustige/bilder-282-cnn.html
Iraq is just a convenient excuse. All scientific programs in the US are hit by serious budget cuts. Eliminate all chances of finding a job for an entire generation of scientists and you cripple science for decades.
Dr. Donald Lamb, University of Chicago: "The bottom line: science at NASA is disappearing -- fast"
Dr. Charles Beichman, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: "We're getting ready to fire all the people we've built up"
"Such a lengthy suspension would be a devastating blow to the program and the science community"
Well said!
This is exactly why we should not use HTML, MIME, JAVASCRIPT, PDF, MSWORD, WTF encoding for e-mail messages. Plain ASCII does the job. If you need more, then replace the ancient SMTP protocol and include ISO standard fonts. End of story. Sadly RFC-based protocols are just patchwork. With every additional layer of encoding there are new possibilities of interference, new bugs, new security issues. Those who do not understand this matter should ask themselves why people use Javascript to encapsulate an ad in an HTML document. What is good to bypass ad filters is also good to introduce malicious code.
I am sure these are going to be great stealth spies, thanks to the sonar used to control them. HELLO SPY SHARK, PLEASE ENTER THE PORT AHEAD!
IMHO the death of the seven Columbia astronauts should not be ridiculed.
. stm
In memory of the lost seven astronauts, forever:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2716369
wired_parrot wrote:
:)
A patient suffering from a STD may well withhold embarassing information about his symptoms if forced to translate through a relative.
Absolutely, nobody likes to talk about Chlamydia Psittaci (parrot fever).
Sure, no dog should be without a CAT (Computer-assisted translation)!
I find that most of the "English" contributions are actually only US contributions. Many topics are seen quite differently in the US and UK. It is not just a matter of flavour. Now, if you go to UK Wikipedia.org you will be surprised.
Interesting idea. But if DARPA gets a share, then so should CERN for inventing the world wide web. Both organizations have one thing in common: they are funded by the tax payers. To simplify this matter I suggest that governments represent the people's interest and tell the ISP's to accept the status quo or face a bill from the tax payers. It might be also important to notice that the federal government still is a major shareholder of Deutsche Telekom shares. And they control Deutsche Telekom through regulations and laws. If the German government wanted to avoid double charging, they simply had to say no. Maybe some MdB's have other interests, too.
You are absolutely right. And if a random quick check reveals evidence for a BSE case in the US, then the material has to be validated again by a specialized (say qualified) lab in the UK where they use reliable tests.
p ly/tse/bsepolicy.html
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a cob.html
But, you cannot donate blood in the US if you lived in Europe.
http://www.redcross.org/services/biomed/blood/sup
Of course, Europeans donate blood for Europeans, without a problem. The problem is that people in the US confuse the UK with the EU. Anybody who thinks that there had been an epidemic in the EU should compare the numbers in the entire EU, except for the UK (!), with the US. Good morning, America!
The point is, we need to get the facts right and learn from mistakes. Otherwise we end up with a situation like the one we had in the UK. For some reason beyond my comprehension it seems we are facing a lot of FUD on the one hand side and total ignorance on the other hand.
BTW the biography of Dr. Hans-Gerhard Creutzfeldt and his family is quite interesting.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gerhard_Creutzf
http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/91.html
Lots of information about prions has been published over the past century.
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/marcblum/PageCreutzfeld-J
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/3035/prions.html
Let me add that farm animals are not only treated with antibiotics when they are sick. Antibiotics are used as prophylaxis. Best chances for bacteria to adapt. This is sick!
If Napster has problems with DRM and proprietary file formats, then it gets pretty clear what customers are going to face in the future if this nonsense spreads. Just say NO to DRM and
proprietary file formats.
Terra is also the Latin word for earth. Tera stands for the factor 10^12.
What discussion? The whole topic of creationism/intelligent design is only being discussed in the US. The problem is that we have too many unteachable people in the US who take every nonsense for granted as soon as it gets the religious smoke screen. And the media in the US love this topic because it allows them to spread their pitiful program 24*7. Not only scientists, but also almost the entire world have put this "discussion" to rest. If you find it mentioned in European media, then only with reference to the difficulties in the US. This is not a discussion. It is comedy.
Why can't the National Archives provide this service? I would like to see public property in the hand of the public.
How about productions by PBS and NPR? Where are their digital archives?
Thank you so much for the reference!
/. writers and editors, please check your sources.
I do not appreciate journals like space.com, cnn.com or pcworld.com. All they do is copy a story, add ads, trace you with cookies, change metric units into antic units, misspell every foreign name, tell you only a fraction of the story, omit references and fill up their plagiarism with links to similar stories on their own web site.
The meter is defined to be the length of path traveled by light in vacuum in 1/299792458 s [B.W.Petley, Nature 303, 373 (1983)].
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The latest news: the use of metric measurement standards in the United States has recently been authorized by law.
http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/usc-cgi/get_external
(39th Congress, Sess. I, Ch. 301, 302. 1866)
It just amazes me to see that they still deal with these stupid imperial units. Remember when Lockheed Martin's engineers caused the loss of a NASA Mars probe because Lockheed Martin still has not adapted the metric system, which 95% of the world use, including NASA? Or take the Spaceshipone mission. At first nobody knew whether they reached the goal of 100km altitude, because the Spaceshipone team used another imperial unit, the mile? The problem was that people use a ratio of 1.6 km/mile. The actual factor is 1.61. The whole world is laughing about this. One unit per physical quantity, only factors of 10 - that's it. Please, adapt. My grandmother mastered this little step for mankind.
If you have a problem to provide them your e-mail address, which BTW they need to notify you in case you win, then why not create one of those free accounts for this purpose? For the Microsoft search engine use a Yahoo account and vice versa. If you do not win and someone starts to send spam to the account, then just ignore it. Another fine method, which only works if you are in control of your mail server, is to use one mail account per contact with a specific number, like user101 for MSN and user102 for Yahoo. Later, if you get spam to user101, simply forward all mail addressed to this e-mail address to someone at MSN, like their service department or sales department (they love that). I used this method years ago to fix Amazon and others. It works.
Well, this is /. so maybe my comparison with a libel case was too complex.o rts-identity-theft.html
Anyway, you may be perfectly in line with the US Senate.
http://www.davidsirota.com/2005/03/us-senate-supp
We are already victims of identity theft, because we have to constantly check if someone is misusing our information. I am talking about my time. It is just fair to punish those who leak the information. This is no different than a libel suit. Someone spreads lies about you which might harm you and you sue, and win.
Perhaps your or the judge's perspective would change if you are the victim.
Sounds like End of Line (EOL).
IMHO global poverty will not be addressed with one billion dollars from Google. Many companies and governments in the EU and US are doing the same thing for decades, without success. Google may be only interested in a tax shelter. The problem is that companies and governments in the rich countries are causing the problems in the poor countries. Of course, we, the people in rich countries are not completely innocent either. What can make a difference is fair trade. And that is where we have a chance to make a difference with a few cents every day. In return we get better products and a safer world. Read about it, think about it.
http://www.transfair.org/ (Germany)
http://www.equo.it/ (Italy)
http://www.transfair.ca/ (Canada)
http://www.fairtrade.at/ (Austria)
http://www.maxhavelaarfrance.org/ (France)
http://www.fairtrade-jp.org/ (Japan)
http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/ (UK)
http://www.transfairusa.org/ (USA)
etc.