Yeah, this has been known about for a long time. We even learned about it in med school. IIRC, it's a mutation of the CD5 receptor, which is necessary for the HIV to recognize the T cell as a potentially infectable cell.
The article does not say, however, if these Chinese women have the same mutation. This is especially interesting because they've identified 11 exposed seronegative individuals but have only found the gene responsible for the protection on 2 of them. I think it will be interesting to see if the protection here is from the same mechanism as in other races or if it's completely new.
The first step is to get a paper trail. I know there are threads above talking about how that isn't fool-proof, but the redundancy of the system would make it better than black box voting. Contact your US representative showing your support for the Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003, sponsered by Rush Holt (D-New Jersey). The measure would require all voting machines to produce an actual paper record by 2004 that voters can view to check the accuracy of their votes and that election officials can use to verify votes in the event of a computer malfunction, hacking, or other irregularity.
We have the same problem here at Duke. Our food plan money, our dorm access, a general purpose debit account, and even our ability to get into basketball games is done through blackboard's card system. Granted people stealing students' card numbers through carelessness on the students' part is a more widespread problem than hacking the blackboard system. Still, it would be almost trivial for someone who knows what they're doing to get into the system. The underground tunnels that are beneath all the dorms contain the computer equipment related to the system. And it's not that hard to get into the tunnels (exploring them is actually 1 of the 5 "unofficial" graduation requirements here, so you better believe a lot of students have been down there). It's sad when a company decides it's more cost effective to send lawyers after a problem than to ensure a student's safety and privacy.
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On the other hand, licensed Professional Engineers undergo rigorous training in order to obtain that status. I'm not sure exactly how it works in Texas, but in North Carolina (where I'm in school), becoming a professional engineer takes 3 steps. 1) You have to pass an extremely long and difficult test in various areas of engineering such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and solid-state physics. 2) You have to work a set number of hours under an already licensed PE who signs off on your work. 3) After completing those required hours, you have to pass yet another exam that tests your engineering know-how. I'm sure if anyone ever tried to implement such a system for liability for software engineers, it would require having those coders undergo similar training. I'm not saying that this would make the software engineers any less likely to make mistakes, but it does mean that: (a) those who are professionally certified know the risks and have been trained in avoiding mistakes and (b) only those who are willing to be held liable would become PE's. You are allowed to do less critical engineering work without obtaining your PE license. I'm sure the same would true for software developers.
Actually, you forgot part of it:
In Heaven, the bankers are Belgian and the lovers are Spanish.
In Hell, the bankers are Spanish and the lovers are Belgian.
There seems to me to still be a difference between the serial numbers which were mostly going to track info and Palladium, which will limit fair rights use. Serial numbers are an invasion of privacy issue. Palladium seems to further restrict a user of his or her rights. I'm against both, and hopefully Intel will back off on Palladium like they did with the serial numbers, but somehow this Palladium thing seems worse.
...a robotic future with hundreds of people acting like Dr. Strangelove.
"It would not be difficult mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh... I'm sorry. Mr. President."
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Damnit! I went to Duke and live in Michigan. I'm always just a few years too old to get my free iPod.
Any room for a seppo who likes a cold Toohey's New and a warm meat pie while watching the Swans game?
Four years of pain. Oh, and massive debt.
Yeah, this has been known about for a long time. We even learned about it in med school. IIRC, it's a mutation of the CD5 receptor, which is necessary for the HIV to recognize the T cell as a potentially infectable cell. The article does not say, however, if these Chinese women have the same mutation. This is especially interesting because they've identified 11 exposed seronegative individuals but have only found the gene responsible for the protection on 2 of them. I think it will be interesting to see if the protection here is from the same mechanism as in other races or if it's completely new.
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We have the same problem here at Duke. Our food plan money, our dorm access, a general purpose debit account, and even our ability to get into basketball games is done through blackboard's card system. Granted people stealing students' card numbers through carelessness on the students' part is a more widespread problem than hacking the blackboard system. Still, it would be almost trivial for someone who knows what they're doing to get into the system. The underground tunnels that are beneath all the dorms contain the computer equipment related to the system. And it's not that hard to get into the tunnels (exploring them is actually 1 of the 5 "unofficial" graduation requirements here, so you better believe a lot of students have been down there). It's sad when a company decides it's more cost effective to send lawyers after a problem than to ensure a student's safety and privacy.
On the other hand, licensed Professional Engineers undergo rigorous training in order to obtain that status. I'm not sure exactly how it works in Texas, but in North Carolina (where I'm in school), becoming a professional engineer takes 3 steps. 1) You have to pass an extremely long and difficult test in various areas of engineering such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and solid-state physics. 2) You have to work a set number of hours under an already licensed PE who signs off on your work. 3) After completing those required hours, you have to pass yet another exam that tests your engineering know-how. I'm sure if anyone ever tried to implement such a system for liability for software engineers, it would require having those coders undergo similar training. I'm not saying that this would make the software engineers any less likely to make mistakes, but it does mean that: (a) those who are professionally certified know the risks and have been trained in avoiding mistakes and (b) only those who are willing to be held liable would become PE's. You are allowed to do less critical engineering work without obtaining your PE license. I'm sure the same would true for software developers.
Actually, you forgot part of it: In Heaven, the bankers are Belgian and the lovers are Spanish. In Hell, the bankers are Spanish and the lovers are Belgian.
...now we get to watch another 2 hour special where they discover that the other door leads to a janitorial closet.
There seems to me to still be a difference between the serial numbers which were mostly going to track info and Palladium, which will limit fair rights use. Serial numbers are an invasion of privacy issue. Palladium seems to further restrict a user of his or her rights. I'm against both, and hopefully Intel will back off on Palladium like they did with the serial numbers, but somehow this Palladium thing seems worse.
...a robotic future with hundreds of people acting like Dr. Strangelove. "It would not be difficult mein Fuhrer! Nuclear reactors could, heh... I'm sorry. Mr. President."