A licence is required if you have equipment capable of receiving broadcast TV live in the UK now.
It is generally unenforced though in the case of those owning computers only, this makes a mockery of the TV licensing system. Arbitrarily enforced laws are very bad laws, they give too much power to those charged with enforcing them.
Netscape Communicator's composer was supposed to let me edit any webpage I was allowed to in a WYSIWYG fashion iright there in the browser.
That's still what those using computers but not web-savvy would intuativley expect to be able to do. I bet a fair few people on here have had customers/collegues/clients ask them why they can't just change webpages as easily as they can edit a word document???
Increased federalisation and progress towards a super-state has just been rejected by referenda many pro-europe countries, so it's unlikely to be getting raising taxes any time soon.
Take glucose - perhaps produced by a bacteria, or as also mentioned in the article available in the human blood stream and using a glucose oxidase enzyme - oxidise it - take electrons from it, you do this on the surface of an electrode at one end of the circuit - at the other end you have another electrode coated with another enzyme on that uses electrons to reduce someting - such as oxygen to water. With oxidation at one end and reduction at the other you have electrons flowing between them.
Why use bacteria and not just enzymes?
One answer maybe that enzymes need a specific substrate, some bacteria might be less choosey? An enzyme's only a catalyst why not use "chemical" catalysts like conventional fuel cells?
As for the biology major's worry that bacteria will lose the genetic modifications over time - yes that will happen - as the modifications that make them better for the purpose of making electricity will make them less good at simply multiplying - so loosing the extra function will give them an advantage which will be naturally selected for - so those bacteria will take over the culture. The solution's - you'll just not grow these things indefinatly - you'll have get a fresh culture of them regularly.
I agree that groups with various permissions would be useful.
I use a wiki internally in a small business and would really like to invite people external to read/edit particular pages or sets of pages in the Wiki, without giving them access to the whole thing.
This is already enacted, it just needs a ministerial order to bring it into effect. The debate was over five years ago. It came to prominance again in November last year, when the UK was debating how long it was reasonable to keep people in jail without trial, with a key point of the Government's argument being that they needed three months to decrypt data - the opposition pointed out that with holding encryption keys was already an offence in its self so that argument was nonsense.
This law scares me, because it, like many of the 700-1000 new criminal offences created by Blair's Government since 1997 it has the potential to criminalise people who've not activly done anything wrong. Read Section 3 of the RIP act the State only has to have reasonable grounds for believing someone has an encryption key to force you to reveal it (then throwing you in jail if they won't / can't / or havn't a clue what an encryption key is, when they might have used one or how to supply it to big brother.)
The law also states that it may, depending on the circumstances, be an offence to tell anyone that you've been asked to disclose your encryption keys - there is no exemption for instructing a lawyer to defend the demand for the key.
This law is not only bad for Business as indicated in the article, but yet another frightening step knocking the relationship between the state and its people out of balance
One point is that there's very little variation between individuals in terms of coding sequence - in this chromosome from the article there's only just over 1 base where there are known single base changes per gene. The most common type of variation is in the number of times repeated streaches of DNA are repeated, this generally (though not always) has no effect on an individual. The numbers of such repeats in the draft sequence are not meaningful in the published sequence.
Databases of variation in the human genome are maintained. The paper accompanying the release of the finished sequence does discuss variation - and notes that in some areas of chromosome people have different numbers of copies of a large region which includes genes.
Fake licence plates aren't that much of a problem they can still track the path taken by a car which may in itsself be informative to the police.
UK Police tracking cars using CCTV, automatic number plate recognition and a database was covered by Slashdot in the aftermath of the Bradford police woman being shot when police tracked a car involved.
A low level debate was then started about the degree of invasion of privicy (An even lower profile one started within London when the usage of the Congestion Charging cameras for monitoring was dicussed). Talk of a "launch in March", is not credible, it is a system that is already here and working and has been introduced without the scale of public consultation and debate which a project of this scale ought to have recieved.
On "Newsnight" on the BBC last Jeremy Paxman was reading out today's newspaper headlines and was visibly shocked when he came accross the story, and could be seen to go back to read it as the programme ended.
From the Independent:
The new National ANPR Data Centre is to be based at Hendon in north London, the site of the existing Police National Computer. It is being designed to store 35 million number plate 'reads' per day, to be expanded to 100 million reads within a couple of years. The time, date and place of each vehicle sighting will be stored for at least two years, with plans to extend this period to five years. Special 'data mining' software can trawl for movements and associations
The datacentre might be new, the organisation might be changing and the system might become available to the police in less high profile crimes, but the UK state tracking its citizens movemements by road isn't.
In the 1990s Central London, Roads to London (especially those en-route from Ireland) had numberplate recognising CCTV as part of London's Ring of Steel.
What little discussion there has been in Parliment has been essientially limited to the potential of the system for pay by road use taxation, not security / priviacy / freedom.
Section 15 of the Terrorism bill is to increase the penalty for withholding encryption keys from two years, to five in a "National Security Case".
While I don't support detention without trial or charge for 90 days (3 months, almost 13 weeks), arguing against this by reference to the RIP Act 2000 isn't ideal as that's also a bad, freedom restricting law, giving excessive powers to "Government Agents".
In proceedings against any person for an offence under this section, if it is shown that that person was in possession of a key to any protected information at any time before the time of the giving of the section 49 notice, that person shall be taken for the purposes of those proceedings to have continued to be in possession of that key at all subsequent times, unless it is shown that the key was not in his possession after the giving of the notice and before the time by which he was required to disclose it.
Are you in a position to provide all encryption keys that the state could prove you once had in your possession? Are you taking precautions to ensure that you always remain able to supply such keys to the state should they demand them at any future point?
What if your computer equipment was confiscated / destroyed? How many people would loose the ability to comply with the law should they have a hardware failure - or accidentally fail to backup their data.
This is one of many laws that many people are going to find themselves vulnerable to committing an offence under - I think such laws are wrong and serve to give the state a power over people that they shouldn't have - either that or the law becomes so widely ignored that a prosecution under it becomes implausible - though as long as it remains law it the potential for it to be used as an tool for the state to use to threaten and intimidate those in breach of it remains. While key disclosure is only required by law for serious offences and under certain very limited circumstances - it's not only those guilty of serious offences who might find themselves in receipt of a disclosure notice - that group includes innocent people merely under suspicion.
An additional worry is that my MPs see "IT" issues such as these as technical and not of broad interest, so irrelevant.
Google themselves advertised / provided the adverts on this when it first came out I believe - this might be where they started a year and a half ago - I can't see any evidence of Google involvement now though. Is there a Moreover/Google relationship?
Most of "Nanotechnology" is just hyped up stuff that used to be called "Chemistry" or "Molecular Biology".
In 2003 the UK Science and Technology Committee took evidence from Molecular Biologists and Chemists on the Question of if there was a need to regulate Nanotechnology. The transcript is available here.
They could charge a premium rate for current and "advance publication" material.
Older material could be made available for free - funded by the purchase of the newly released papers.
No.
If surface area mattered then leaves (nature's way of capturing solar energy) would have folds and protrusions like the gut does to increase surface area.
What leaves do is make sure that some of the light gets through to the next layer. This happens both in an individual leaf - light is not caught just at the top surface but all the way through the leaf.
Also a leaves don't trap all the available light, some is left for leaves below - it's totally dark walking through a forest.
Make the solar cells more transparant - thats the way to get the effect of increased surface area the article referes to.
Slashdot Mirror
A licence is required if you have equipment capable of receiving broadcast TV live in the UK now. It is generally unenforced though in the case of those owning computers only, this makes a mockery of the TV licensing system. Arbitrarily enforced laws are very bad laws, they give too much power to those charged with enforcing them.
Not quite cannonballs, but shot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
The UK considered using nuclear submarines to power Belfast during a workers strike: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/413263 5.stm
"RSS is very simple" No it's not its really simple.
Google Safe Browsing is a Firefox extension freely provided by google which warns of some dodgy sites.
Netscape Communicator's composer was supposed to let me edit any webpage I was allowed to in a WYSIWYG fashion iright there in the browser. That's still what those using computers but not web-savvy would intuativley expect to be able to do. I bet a fair few people on here have had customers/collegues/clients ask them why they can't just change webpages as easily as they can edit a word document???
Increased federalisation and progress towards a super-state has just been rejected by referenda many pro-europe countries, so it's unlikely to be getting raising taxes any time soon.
Take glucose - perhaps produced by a bacteria, or as also mentioned in the article available in the human blood stream and using a glucose oxidase enzyme - oxidise it - take electrons from it, you do this on the surface of an electrode at one end of the circuit - at the other end you have another electrode coated with another enzyme on that uses electrons to reduce someting - such as oxygen to water. With oxidation at one end and reduction at the other you have electrons flowing between them.
A paper describing doing this - but not using real human blood (why doesn't someone get on and do that - has the human race lost the spirit of development??)
Why use bacteria and not just enzymes? One answer maybe that enzymes need a specific substrate, some bacteria might be less choosey? An enzyme's only a catalyst why not use "chemical" catalysts like conventional fuel cells?
As for the biology major's worry that bacteria will lose the genetic modifications over time - yes that will happen - as the modifications that make them better for the purpose of making electricity will make them less good at simply multiplying - so loosing the extra function will give them an advantage which will be naturally selected for - so those bacteria will take over the culture. The solution's - you'll just not grow these things indefinatly - you'll have get a fresh culture of them regularly.I agree that groups with various permissions would be useful. I use a wiki internally in a small business and would really like to invite people external to read/edit particular pages or sets of pages in the Wiki, without giving them access to the whole thing.
This is already enacted, it just needs a ministerial order to bring it into effect. The debate was over five years ago. It came to prominance again in November last year, when the UK was debating how long it was reasonable to keep people in jail without trial, with a key point of the Government's argument being that they needed three months to decrypt data - the opposition pointed out that with holding encryption keys was already an offence in its self so that argument was nonsense.
This law scares me, because it, like many of the 700-1000 new criminal offences created by Blair's Government since 1997 it has the potential to criminalise people who've not activly done anything wrong. Read Section 3 of the RIP act the State only has to have reasonable grounds for believing someone has an encryption key to force you to reveal it (then throwing you in jail if they won't / can't / or havn't a clue what an encryption key is, when they might have used one or how to supply it to big brother.)
The law also states that it may, depending on the circumstances, be an offence to tell anyone that you've been asked to disclose your encryption keys - there is no exemption for instructing a lawyer to defend the demand for the key.
This law is not only bad for Business as indicated in the article, but yet another frightening step knocking the relationship between the state and its people out of balance
One point is that there's very little variation between individuals in terms of coding sequence - in this chromosome from the article there's only just over 1 base where there are known single base changes per gene. The most common type of variation is in the number of times repeated streaches of DNA are repeated, this generally (though not always) has no effect on an individual. The numbers of such repeats in the draft sequence are not meaningful in the published sequence.
Databases of variation in the human genome are maintained. The paper accompanying the release of the finished sequence does discuss variation - and notes that in some areas of chromosome people have different numbers of copies of a large region which includes genes.
Nature has made the Full text of the article announcing the completion of the chromosome one finished sequence available online. While this is good, it's still not the open publishing which ought be demanded by those spending public money on scientific endevours such as this.
>Moving to Sydney would do it for me.
They really do want people to move to Sidney
On this network security job ad located in Sydney Austrilia it says: "Please Note: Only candidates with EU work authorization will be considered."
According to Quasar there are several hundred known Quasars.
http://www.phicotherapeutics.com/
UK Police tracking cars using CCTV, automatic number plate recognition and a database was covered by Slashdot in the aftermath of the Bradford police woman being shot when police tracked a car involved.
A low level debate was then started about the degree of invasion of privicy (An even lower profile one started within London when the usage of the Congestion Charging cameras for monitoring was dicussed). Talk of a "launch in March", is not credible, it is a system that is already here and working and has been introduced without the scale of public consultation and debate which a project of this scale ought to have recieved.
On "Newsnight" on the BBC last Jeremy Paxman was reading out today's newspaper headlines and was visibly shocked when he came accross the story, and could be seen to go back to read it as the programme ended. From the Independent:
The datacentre might be new, the organisation might be changing and the system might become available to the police in less high profile crimes, but the UK state tracking its citizens movemements by road isn't.In the 1990s Central London, Roads to London (especially those en-route from Ireland) had numberplate recognising CCTV as part of London's Ring of Steel.
What little discussion there has been in Parliment has been essientially limited to the potential of the system for pay by road use taxation, not security / priviacy / freedom.
Section 15 of the Terrorism bill is to increase the penalty for withholding encryption keys from two years, to five in a "National Security Case".
While I don't support detention without trial or charge for 90 days (3 months, almost 13 weeks), arguing against this by reference to the RIP Act 2000 isn't ideal as that's also a bad, freedom restricting law, giving excessive powers to "Government Agents".
I am particularly worried by the section of the RIP Act 2000 stating when a failure to comply with a key disclosure notice - ie. stating when an offence will be committed:
Are you in a position to provide all encryption keys that the state could prove you once had in your possession? Are you taking precautions to ensure that you always remain able to supply such keys to the state should they demand them at any future point?
What if your computer equipment was confiscated / destroyed? How many people would loose the ability to comply with the law should they have a hardware failure - or accidentally fail to backup their data.
This is one of many laws that many people are going to find themselves vulnerable to committing an offence under - I think such laws are wrong and serve to give the state a power over people that they shouldn't have - either that or the law becomes so widely ignored that a prosecution under it becomes implausible - though as long as it remains law it the potential for it to be used as an tool for the state to use to threaten and intimidate those in breach of it remains. While key disclosure is only required by law for serious offences and under certain very limited circumstances - it's not only those guilty of serious offences who might find themselves in receipt of a disclosure notice - that group includes innocent people merely under suspicion.
An additional worry is that my MPs see "IT" issues such as these as technical and not of broad interest, so irrelevant.
Prior art - Moreover provide me with free RSS news feeds - they make the first item an advert, the advert is dependent on the search term.
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Google themselves advertised / provided the adverts on this when it first came out I believe - this might be where they started a year and a half ago - I can't see any evidence of Google involvement now though. Is there a Moreover/Google relationship?
She spends a lot of time in old cars and carriages that probably don't have built in radios.
The same team are planning to keep running them for a long time... http://support.bbc.co.uk/support/rota.shtml?Date=2 037%2F07%2F30
My Documents --> Documents ????
Until I can have it on my G5 Powerbook
How long do I have to wait?
Most of "Nanotechnology" is just hyped up stuff that used to be called "Chemistry" or "Molecular Biology".
In 2003 the UK Science and Technology Committee took evidence from Molecular Biologists and Chemists on the Question of if there was a need to regulate Nanotechnology.
The transcript is available here.
Robosapien comes with the ability to respond to noises out of the box.
The manufacturers instructions for programming it to act as a noise sensitive guard are here.
Apparantly their next product is going to be a robot dog... everything goes round in circles
They could charge a premium rate for current and "advance publication" material. Older material could be made available for free - funded by the purchase of the newly released papers.
No. If surface area mattered then leaves (nature's way of capturing solar energy) would have folds and protrusions like the gut does to increase surface area. What leaves do is make sure that some of the light gets through to the next layer. This happens both in an individual leaf - light is not caught just at the top surface but all the way through the leaf. Also a leaves don't trap all the available light, some is left for leaves below - it's totally dark walking through a forest. Make the solar cells more transparant - thats the way to get the effect of increased surface area the article referes to.