If you believe that some of the hospital staff is not partially at fault, then you are either not a proponent of personal responsibility, or you are a contradicting yourself.
The criteria for responsibility is cause and effect. If one entity was not present or did not perform an action (or held an inaction), and the problematic event did not occur, than that entity is responsible.
Victims should not deserve any benefit of lax criticism solely for being a victim. Furthermore, those who wrongfully claim to be a victim when they are not victims are clearly liars.
In this case, the victim is not just the hospital. The victims are also the patients of this hospital. However, the patients were at more of a loss than the hospital itself. There has been little discussion of how the hospital staff should be protecting the patients from this attack. The staff is complacent in their inability to protect the integrity of the hospital and, more importantly, the well being of the patients.
Consider the following examples. If a hospital did not use use sterile equiptment and patients become infected with a pathogen, should the hospital be responsible, or should the pathogen be responsible. By your logic, the pathogen will be responsible. However, the hospital is clearly at fault here.
If a network of computers becomes zombies after an individual invades them, would you consider the owners of the computers to be at fault? Clearly, you might not. However the computers are similar to pets of an owner. If a pet kills a person, the owner is also at fault. Similarly, the owners of the computer(s) are also at at fault because their property is being used, addendum a hypothesis that the zombies are to be used in an invasive act, should be partially responsible. If one does not believe that the computer owners are at fault, then one can not support laws of most Western societies in their entirety.
While you are saying all this, I have already gotten more than a hundred students here at Georgia State University to proactively boycott the music industry by distributing music to fellow students. So far, we have distributed over five thousand CDs.
Also, I have personally set up a server where one can temporarily host any music collection, less than the 100GB limit, on a ftp server.
Most importantly, we have encouraged thousands of students to think twice before participating in the extortion scheme that they have been victims of since when they first bought a piece of music in their early youths.
I'm currently trying to set up a local darknet through a few servers around the Mathematics and Computer Science departments.
Lastly, I'm volunteering my time to help anyone set up a Linux system if they pledge to not use that same system to host Windows for the rest of its existance. So far, I have liberated 17 systems.
I'm happy to say that even in an University that has no firm roots in information liberation, we have been able to encourage a few hundred students to rethink their stance on the ligitimacy of intellectual property rights.
The FTP server has an IP address of 131.96.244.6. Please Slashdot it as much as possible.
Wow, they have finally broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics! The Second Law prohibits the transfer of useful work from a high entropy source (heat) into a low entropy source (an electric current). The Second Law implies that once energy becomes heat then it remains as heat which will dissipate to the surroundings causing an overall increase of entropy in the system. With this generator, we can finally decrease entropy in the world by turning heat into electricity! We can refigerate not only without expending energy, but we get some work for it! We can make black holes smaller by sucking the entropy from it. Finally we can make a perpetual motion machine!
The problem is the rate at which heat transfers in and out of glass. A heat source wrapped in glass will retain more heat because there is more of a resistance to heat flow.
Having a water medium will only serve to buffer the heat. Heat must escape somewhere. If you insulate water with more glass then the only effect of the water would be a longer time before the circuits overheat since the water only acts to store heat.
It is better to be able to siphon off heat directly from circuit elements, coating the glass with a better heat conductor than air, or reducing the impedence of the circuits.
By the way, having an Athlon in your system can very well boil the water (even with the applied pressure of the container).
Glass is a very very poor heat conductor. Having anything running at a very low temperature on this would pale any laptop overheating horror stories. This would definately limit the power of the processor you can use. This would make a nice (and slower than 4.77mhz) palm top but nothing more.
Now there are at least two groups making necessary software for firewire networking.
If you would look at the firewire options in the newer linux-2.5 kernel configuration you will clearly see a networking driver.
Imagine cheaply building a beowulf ring with 400mbps of unshared bandwidth (ie no hub).
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Oooops!! I logged in on a Mac at my University and the stupid machine doesn't delete user data!!! Haha!! Macs SUCK!!! Now my Slashdot account has been taken over!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!! If only Macs could be more like Novell on Windows 2000....... oh my god Macs suck so bad!!! Nice security!!!!
Its certainly great that id has come out with their source code time after time. With projects such as Doomsday,Tenebrae Quake, and Legacy, id has given their old games eternal life even for their old M$ operating system base. If anything should be on your list, put the 4 released source games because they might be some of the most influential open source games for the windows platform even today.
It would be nice to have glassware that is hydrophillic. Some of the more annoying aspects of lab work, especially when dealing with small volumes, is droplets sticking to surfaces. Having (sub 1ml) pipette tips coated with a hydrophillic film would really alleviate the headache of getting every microliter of your liquid, greatly increacing the accuracy of delivery to boot. Self-cleaning glass would also help decrease the chance of a contamination from a previous experiment. Having a hydrophillic surface would also ease dissolving solids into liquids because of the adhesion of the powder to the glass and your attempt to rinse ot off will only create concentrated pools of semi-desolved solution sticking to the glass. Hydrophillic surfaces might even lessen the static clinging of powders to glassware.
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From linux-2.6 on I don't have to repatch the kernel source with that sgi.com XFS patch everytime a new kernel comes out. BTW, I still have trouble getting XFS to work on linux-2.4.19 because sgi won't update their stable XFS patch from 2.4.18.
Accounting practices. Audits routinely detect unpaid royalties. Music industry lawyer Don Engel,
who estimates that labels misreport and underpay artist royalties by 10% to 40%, says industry
accounting practices are "intentionally fraudulent." Music writer Dave Marsh describes the process
as "an entrenched system whose prowess and conniving makes Enron look like amateur hour."
Royalties, based on complex and antiquated formulas that favor labels, are disbursed only after
artists pay back advances, recording costs and other expenses.
I hope that Universal and the like will tank just like Enron. Some major changes must occur with enough public outcry that nobody would dare contrive of a business model this virulent. It's about time they pay dearly for their evil ways.
You might want to look into this. The three layer technology will give you 2(4) times the resolution for your greens (reds and blues) that your usual CCD will give. Your CCD uses only one layer that is partitioned into a checkerboard of separate color elements meaning that you will have to take 2 times less resolution than your promised 11 megapixels. With this new Foveon detector, the three layers will give you a less modified image (CCD cameras pass through a DSP which inevitably destroys information) that is 2 times the resolution (if they make a 5.5 megapixel detector, thats 11 megapixels in terms of what we call it).
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If you believe that some of the hospital staff is not partially at fault, then you are either not a proponent of personal responsibility, or you are a contradicting yourself.
The criteria for responsibility is cause and effect. If one entity was not present or did not perform an action (or held an inaction), and the problematic event did not occur, than that entity is responsible.
Victims should not deserve any benefit of lax criticism solely for being a victim. Furthermore, those who wrongfully claim to be a victim when they are not victims are clearly liars.
In this case, the victim is not just the hospital. The victims are also the patients of this hospital. However, the patients were at more of a loss than the hospital itself. There has been little discussion of how the hospital staff should be protecting the patients from this attack. The staff is complacent in their inability to protect the integrity of the hospital and, more importantly, the well being of the patients.
Consider the following examples. If a hospital did not use use sterile equiptment and patients become infected with a pathogen, should the hospital be responsible, or should the pathogen be responsible. By your logic, the pathogen will be responsible. However, the hospital is clearly at fault here.
If a network of computers becomes zombies after an individual invades them, would you consider the owners of the computers to be at fault? Clearly, you might not. However the computers are similar to pets of an owner. If a pet kills a person, the owner is also at fault. Similarly, the owners of the computer(s) are also at at fault because their property is being used, addendum a hypothesis that the zombies are to be used in an invasive act, should be partially responsible. If one does not believe that the computer owners are at fault, then one can not support laws of most Western societies in their entirety.
Also, I have personally set up a server where one can temporarily host any music collection, less than the 100GB limit, on a ftp server.
Most importantly, we have encouraged thousands of students to think twice before participating in the extortion scheme that they have been victims of since when they first bought a piece of music in their early youths.
I'm currently trying to set up a local darknet through a few servers around the Mathematics and Computer Science departments.
Lastly, I'm volunteering my time to help anyone set up a Linux system if they pledge to not use that same system to host Windows for the rest of its existance. So far, I have liberated 17 systems.
I'm happy to say that even in an University that has no firm roots in information liberation, we have been able to encourage a few hundred students to rethink their stance on the ligitimacy of intellectual property rights.
The FTP server has an IP address of 131.96.244.6. Please Slashdot it as much as possible.
Wow, they have finally broken the Second Law of Thermodynamics! The Second Law prohibits the transfer of useful work from a high entropy source (heat) into a low entropy source (an electric current). The Second Law implies that once energy becomes heat then it remains as heat which will dissipate to the surroundings causing an overall increase of entropy in the system. With this generator, we can finally decrease entropy in the world by turning heat into electricity! We can refigerate not only without expending energy, but we get some work for it! We can make black holes smaller by sucking the entropy from it. Finally we can make a perpetual motion machine!
I believe that IBM using their Blue Gene to do computational gene folding simulations. It appears that they have a vested interest in biology. Some older articles explains IBM's initiative.
Now this is the new official site, and the only place I can find that has a source download.
This(postscript) is the the original paper on the hardness of String Folding problems.
The problem is the rate at which heat transfers in and out of glass. A heat source wrapped in glass will retain more heat because there is more of a resistance to heat flow.
Having a water medium will only serve to buffer the heat. Heat must escape somewhere. If you insulate water with more glass then the only effect of the water would be a longer time before the circuits overheat since the water only acts to store heat.
It is better to be able to siphon off heat directly from circuit elements, coating the glass with a better heat conductor than air, or reducing the impedence of the circuits.
By the way, having an Athlon in your system can very well boil the water (even with the applied pressure of the container).
Glass is a very very poor heat conductor. Having anything running at a very low temperature on this would pale any laptop overheating horror stories. This would definately limit the power of the processor you can use. This would make a nice (and slower than 4.77mhz) palm top but nothing more.
Now there are at least two groups making necessary software for firewire networking.
If you would look at the firewire options in the newer linux-2.5 kernel configuration you will clearly see a networking driver.
Imagine cheaply building a beowulf ring with 400mbps of unshared bandwidth (ie no hub).
Oooops!! I logged in on a Mac at my University and the stupid machine doesn't delete user data!!! Haha!! Macs SUCK!!! Now my Slashdot account has been taken over!!!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!! If only Macs could be more like Novell on Windows 2000....... oh my god Macs suck so bad!!! Nice security!!!!
Its certainly great that id has come out with their source code time after time. With projects such as Doomsday,Tenebrae Quake, and Legacy, id has given their old games eternal life even for their old M$ operating system base. If anything should be on your list, put the 4 released source games because they might be some of the most influential open source games for the windows platform even today.
only animal with a fully-sequenced genome
I believe that the human genome project also has a complete sequence of our genome as well.
It would be nice to have glassware that is hydrophillic. Some of the more annoying aspects of lab work, especially when dealing with small volumes, is droplets sticking to surfaces. Having (sub 1ml) pipette tips coated with a hydrophillic film would really alleviate the headache of getting every microliter of your liquid, greatly increacing the accuracy of delivery to boot. Self-cleaning glass would also help decrease the chance of a contamination from a previous experiment. Having a hydrophillic surface would also ease dissolving solids into liquids because of the adhesion of the powder to the glass and your attempt to rinse ot off will only create concentrated pools of semi-desolved solution sticking to the glass. Hydrophillic surfaces might even lessen the static clinging of powders to glassware.
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From linux-2.6 on I don't have to repatch the kernel source with that sgi.com XFS patch everytime a new kernel comes out. BTW, I still have trouble getting XFS to work on linux-2.4.19 because sgi won't update their stable XFS patch from 2.4.18.
I hope that Universal and the like will tank just like Enron. Some major changes must occur with enough public outcry that nobody would dare contrive of a business model this virulent. It's about time they pay dearly for their evil ways.
You might want to look into this. The three layer technology will give you 2(4) times the resolution for your greens (reds and blues) that your usual CCD will give. Your CCD uses only one layer that is partitioned into a checkerboard of separate color elements meaning that you will have to take 2 times less resolution than your promised 11 megapixels. With this new Foveon detector, the three layers will give you a less modified image (CCD cameras pass through a DSP which inevitably destroys information) that is 2 times the resolution (if they make a 5.5 megapixel detector, thats 11 megapixels in terms of what we call it).