The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £10 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
As a privately endowed charity, we are independent from governments, from industry and from donors.
The governing document of the Wellcome Trust is its constitution. This represents an updated version of the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, through which the Wellcome Trust was established in 1936. Ultimate responsibility for our activities lies with our Board of Governors.
The only thing I have seen that is close to this is The Free State Project, where a Yale guy worked out the math that if 20,000 like-minded Americans move to a less populated state, they could form a voting block that could return Freedoms.
Get one state, then then work on the federal government. Show how one state's freedom increases the quality of life and others will follow. etc.
He's up to about 6500 people who have pledged that they will move to New Hampshire once they reach the 20,000 number.
I'd love to see this succeed!
Off Topic, I know, but while we're on File Sharing...
It's tax time - time to run the annual check to see who is sharing their.tax files (and "Tax Return.pdf") with the world.
Good old P2P. You think it's cute that your kid saves a few bucks by downloading music for free. Instead, you set yourself up for identity theft by publishing your complete tax return on the Intarweb.
Gnucleus (or substitute BearShare, Kazaa, or the P2P program of your choice) shows handfuls of people sharing.tax files. But don't try to be a Good Samaritan and tell them! They may shoot the messenger if you let Dad know that Daughter has opened up the confidential files to the world!
It's like telling someone that their zipper's down, and they punch you because you peeked.
0=s or z,
1=t or d
2=n
3=m
4=r
5=l
6=j, sh, ch
7=hard c, k
8=f, ph
9=p or b
Called the Major System, it's been around for hundreds of years (as I recall, haha).
In college I could memorize a deck of cards on clock-ticks. 52 seconds for a deck.
A more impressive trick (to most people) is to have the person shuffle the deck, take out 5 cards and put them in their pocket.
I flip through the remaining 47 card for 30 seconds, and tell them what's in their pocket. (Loraine / Lucas explain how to do this one in the memory book). It's not hard, but takes practice.
After that, I found girls, and quit doing the geek memory thing. You don't want girls to know that you have a good memory - then you lose all your excuses for forgetting to call them, forgetting anniversaries, etc.
You can't redownload the song for free anyway. If you wipe out your entire library and save nothing, you have to buy it all again.
...or download your library from Gnucleus After all, you bought the license. You are legally entitled to have the downloads, right? (I think.) Now, those that share the file are not legally allowed to do that, but that's a separate issue.
This is DVD Jon we're talking about. He has a lawyer. He already hacked DVD's, got arrested, charged, sued, and won.
For the unfamiliar: His DVD hacking software (DeCSS) was deemed illegal because it allowed you to bypass the protection put onto DVD's (so that you could store the digital content onto a hard drive or make a backup copy). He ultimately won that case. This was HUGE for the rights of YOU AND ME, akin to the original case that allowed us to use VCR's to record TV shows!
Successes are built in small increments: Add 5% functionality here. Grow 10% there. Expand by 15% in this market.
Failures (and business declines) often happen in big chunks: Lawsuit settlement of tens of millions of dollars. Major market shift away from your technology.
This is just smart business. Google will continue to move and enhance and grow in manageable increments. If they try to take over the world, it will be suicidal.
Anyone remember the dot-bomb era? The survivors are those that performed managed growth and bit off pieces that could be chewed. The failures tried to take over the world, and translate eyeballs into unrealistic company valuations. Works for a while, then you get an unemployment check....
10 years ago today, the Apache Group decloaked with the creation of the new-httpd archive and initial accounts on hyperreal.org. I had the lucky timing of having the first message archived on the list,
ok, so now the first post guy is celebrating his tenth anniversary, and bragging about it? ("hey, I got first post ten years ago! nah-nah-nah-nah boo-boo")
First five messages on the "new-httpd" archive:
1) fp??
2) First p0st!!!!
3) pirst fost
4) In Soviet Russia, Daemon posts you
5)... profit...
Also, finding a factor of a prime is pretty hard too,
Actually, your statement is false. The beauty of THIS Mersenne Prime is that each and every binary digit of the 42nd Mersenne Prime (and I checked all 25 Million of them)... each bit ends up BEING a factor of EVERY prime. So finding a factor of a prime is trivial.
Now, finding a non-trivial factor of a prime number is a little bit of a challenge. I'll work on that over lunch.
(idiot customer didnt unscrew the thumbscrews before he yanked).
I consider that an oxymoron. If he is a customer of mine, then he is no idiot. However, if he fails to pay his bill, then he may be an idiot, but then he's not a customer.
You are slightly off in your estimate. Originally, astronomical events were measured in years. Then Light Years were invented, which had a third less calories than our regular years. So the energy in a Light Year is one third less than a full-bodied year.
Perhaps something along the lines of "I love/. last month I posted 10 times" this fulfils all requirements for complexity and is changeable and easy to remember.
The other solution I often tell people is make your passwords a personal acronym, who would guess "Il/mIp10t" as a password, yet it is easy for me to remember.
Apparently it's not all that easy for you to remember, because the acronym would be "Il/.lmIp10t".
C'mon, this is slashdot and we know the difference between hackers and crackers.
As a white guy, and a representative of Nabisco, I am offended by your choice of terms, you insensitive clod...should post this anonymously; there goes my karma... be kind, mods!
1. Register a domain name using your enemy's name and address
2. Put a fake Red Cross site on there, using yahoo, so that it's not easily traced to you
3. Post a message in Slashdot - doesn't matter if it's off topic.. just say "Take these scamming f--kers down" in caps.
4. Your enemy gets arrested
5. ???
6. Profit
(steps 5 and 6 added as part of the standard Slashdot "scheme protocol")
Since it is very typical with such options that the employee cannot sell or exercise the option for several years, the model isn't ideal. But it's better than pure guesswork at the value.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy solution: You want the filtering turned on? We block ALL Packets from everyone (have fun surfin!). Otherwise, we block no packets.
Nice Troll... I'll bite.
From their "About Us" page:
The Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health.
Established in 1936 and with an endowment of around £10 billion, it is the UK's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research.
As a privately endowed charity, we are independent from governments, from industry and from donors.
The governing document of the Wellcome Trust is its constitution. This represents an updated version of the will of Sir Henry Wellcome, through which the Wellcome Trust was established in 1936. Ultimate responsibility for our activities lies with our Board of Governors.
Get one state, then then work on the federal government. Show how one state's freedom increases the quality of life and others will follow. etc.
He's up to about 6500 people who have pledged that they will move to New Hampshire once they reach the 20,000 number. I'd love to see this succeed!
It's tax time - time to run the annual check to see who is sharing their .tax files (and "Tax Return.pdf") with the world.
Good old P2P. You think it's cute that your kid saves a few bucks by downloading music for free. Instead, you set yourself up for identity theft by publishing your complete tax return on the Intarweb.
Gnucleus (or substitute BearShare, Kazaa, or the P2P program of your choice) shows handfuls of people sharing .tax files. But don't try to be a Good Samaritan and tell them! They may shoot the messenger if you let Dad know that Daughter has opened up the confidential files to the world!
It's like telling someone that their zipper's down, and they punch you because you peeked.
0=s or z,
1=t or d
2=n
3=m
4=r
5=l
6=j, sh, ch
7=hard c, k
8=f, ph
9=p or b
Called the Major System, it's been around for hundreds of years (as I recall, haha).
In college I could memorize a deck of cards on clock-ticks. 52 seconds for a deck.
A more impressive trick (to most people) is to have the person shuffle the deck, take out 5 cards and put them in their pocket.
I flip through the remaining 47 card for 30 seconds, and tell them what's in their pocket. (Loraine / Lucas explain how to do this one in the memory book). It's not hard, but takes practice.
After that, I found girls, and quit doing the geek memory thing. You don't want girls to know that you have a good memory - then you lose all your excuses for forgetting to call them, forgetting anniversaries, etc.
...or download your library from Gnucleus After all, you bought the license. You are legally entitled to have the downloads, right? (I think.) Now, those that share the file are not legally allowed to do that, but that's a separate issue.
This is DVD Jon we're talking about. He has a lawyer. He already hacked DVD's, got arrested, charged, sued, and won.
For the unfamiliar: His DVD hacking software (DeCSS) was deemed illegal because it allowed you to bypass the protection put onto DVD's (so that you could store the digital content onto a hard drive or make a backup copy). He ultimately won that case. This was HUGE for the rights of YOU AND ME, akin to the original case that allowed us to use VCR's to record TV shows!
Failures (and business declines) often happen in big chunks: Lawsuit settlement of tens of millions of dollars. Major market shift away from your technology.
This is just smart business. Google will continue to move and enhance and grow in manageable increments. If they try to take over the world, it will be suicidal.
Anyone remember the dot-bomb era? The survivors are those that performed managed growth and bit off pieces that could be chewed. The failures tried to take over the world, and translate eyeballs into unrealistic company valuations. Works for a while, then you get an unemployment check....
Wiki News: Free to the user, anyone can contribe.
1000 articles and counting!
1000 articles and counting!
If it works, then they could probably corner the music market. If not, well then it'd only be the death of a few RIAA members - no big loss...
This is the link to the pics that got the flight attendant fired.
Ever heard of Google?
No way! Google was not around before Apache. And I don't think they were ever a web server either!
Geez, n00b!
I'm sure I can prove it... let me see, how could I research this...
Oh wait...
ok, so now the first post guy is celebrating his tenth anniversary, and bragging about it? ("hey, I got first post ten years ago! nah-nah-nah-nah boo-boo")
First five messages on the "new-httpd" archive:
1) fp?? ... profit...
2) First p0st!!!!
3) pirst fost
4) In Soviet Russia, Daemon posts you
5)
Actually, your statement is false. The beauty of THIS Mersenne Prime is that each and every binary digit of the 42nd Mersenne Prime (and I checked all 25 Million of them)... each bit ends up BEING a factor of EVERY prime. So finding a factor of a prime is trivial.
Now, finding a non-trivial factor of a prime number is a little bit of a challenge. I'll work on that over lunch.
I consider that an oxymoron. If he is a customer of mine, then he is no idiot. However, if he fails to pay his bill, then he may be an idiot, but then he's not a customer.
Just keep the IT staff off slashdot and pr0n sites all day, and things should take care of themselves.
This is due to a user error. You're not supposed to read the article.
You are slightly off in your estimate. Originally, astronomical events were measured in years. Then Light Years were invented, which had a third less calories than our regular years. So the energy in a Light Year is one third less than a full-bodied year.
I knew you were going to say that. More evidence that the black box theory is correct.
Apparently it's not all that easy for you to remember, because the acronym would be "Il/.lmIp10t".
As a white guy, and a representative of Nabisco, I am offended by your choice of terms, you insensitive clod. ..should post this anonymously; there goes my karma... be kind, mods!
1. Register a domain name using your enemy's name and address
2. Put a fake Red Cross site on there, using yahoo, so that it's not easily traced to you
3. Post a message in Slashdot - doesn't matter if it's off topic.. just say "Take these scamming f--kers down" in caps.
4. Your enemy gets arrested
5. ???
6. Profit
(steps 5 and 6 added as part of the standard Slashdot "scheme protocol")
Cmon you slashdotters! you can be first.. you still have about 6 hours to get in a"head" of him...
It's up to $15,000 right now.. you could use that money!
Since it is very typical with such options that the employee cannot sell or exercise the option for several years, the model isn't ideal. But it's better than pure guesswork at the value.