With every advancement in figuring out genetic diseases, I can't help but think that the combination of this plus drug testing will lead to genetic discrimination, or at least defamation.
Plus, even then is there much we -can- do if we figure out something is genetic?
Sad you were modded flamebait for voicing honest concerns. Good thing you were the FP.
Genetic discrimination is already illegal in the US.
Understanding that a disease is genetic DOES allow us to do something. Take pompe disease for instance, there are now 2 possible ways of treating it that we were able to derrive from our genetic understanding. The first, and most obvious; make the protein that is deficient in the patients with the disease and administer it to them. The second; now that we know the cause of the disease, find a small molecule that restores function to the mutated protein (or potentially further up stream: allows the mRNA to fold properly).
Disclaimer: I own a G1, nonetheless I'm fairly certain my view here is correct:
The hero's with it's well spaced out keys would of crushed the others, and is the reason I didn't choose a clque, or mytouch/hero and why I haven't upgraded to the N900, droid or nexus one. Moreover, I previously had a tilt (htc kaiser), and had tried the N900 for a couple weeks, the keyboards for both are very similar to the nokia 75. Without the spacing between the keys, there's no way one can be as accurate as the hero (g1).
The real problem is the lack of a standardized language between different scientists / agencies. It's really up to the funding sources (such as the NCI) to come up with the standards else you end up with standards, that while technically better, that only a few follow, ie: chembank.broad.mit.edu. Further, having mutiple "standards
In a perfect market, nothing, even in government, should be "too big to fail". The difference between a perfect market and a / the free market is why most Libertarians end up looking like loonies.
I tried to go to the RMV (DMV everywhere else) to get a duplicate license today, and there wasn't a single center within 30 miles of Boston that had less that 1 hr wait! The Boston office it self had a 2.5 hr wait!!! Moreover, when I got there I had some issues due to a 6 yr old fine that I didn't know about from NJ. For some f-ed up reason I can pay for the duplicate license with a credit card, but the fine had to be paid for in cash. Not knowing I'd have to pay a fine I didn't have cash on me. Here's were things get really F-ed: At that point I'd been waiting for 1hr 40 min to get service (I took a bus to a branch outside Boston), during this time they had closed the gate to the office. Just outside the office was an atm (100 ft away tops), but they wouldn't let me leave to get the cash and come back!!! Now I get to waist another 3 hrs (1 hr in transit) to do it all again on Monday!! Talk about inefficiencies!
...well that would certainly take away it's price advantage from using an SD / usb sick.
Nevertheless, as the posts piled up, the tech does seem a bit more valid if all you want to do is encrypt data before long-term storage. However, in any other circumstance, I'd choose a different solution.
I'd argue a USB version is MORE secure as the attacker would have to know what they are looking for. Any key logger would pickup the output of a bar-code reader; and that sort of output would obvious when reviewing your catch.
Yes, but you need to first install linux on the router, there are many flavors such as Tomato, OpenWrt, x-wrt, and freewrt, but I think DD-WRT is probably the best place to start.
Then you need to split the network as mentioned below.
While BitHive's analogy mis-represents your post, his point if valid; you need to deal with the fact that the free market will never work on the whole. Your points play right into this as the "free market" does exist, both sides are a part of it, and therefore it strangles it self during normal economic periods. As "explosions" are rare, the system on average fails.
Actually, if enough quacks game the US system, then the effectiveness of the Special 301 will be undermined as the rest of the world will flock to the notion that US policy is afowl, and therefore easily duck any pressure applied by the US.
... humm I wonder if asking for someone to be modded a troll counts as trolling? LOL
Anyway, your question seems like a great slash poll. I for one would love to never have to touch a computer with software by either company on it again.
According to the Red Cross and Insurance Industry, we are considered adults at the age of 25... which on the whole I'd say is fairly close to when most people actually have the wisdom needed to consistently make mature decisions in all aspects of life.
AT&T has a horrible record when it comes to privacy, especially with illegal wiretaps, so much so that the AT&T logo should be changed to "Your world wiretapped." There was a PBS NOVA special about this, and the CIA has intentionally placed their wiretapping boxes inside AT&T's San Francisco building they will intercept DOMESTIC calls. They don't care about the legality of what they are doing and were said to actually listen to domestic calls between citizens because they were unable to separate them from the international calls. This could have easily been avoided had they placed their system in San Luis Obispo.
Basically there is a lot of money floating around to incentivise such activities. Here in Boston, homeland security helped pay for the T (bus/train) turnstile upgrades to 'Charlie' cards (RFID) so that people can be more easily tracked.
From this, the logical next step would be to subject a bully to so much abuse that his self esteem is shattered and see if this changes their behavior. This would obviously be immoral.
How is that obviously immoral? Would it really be that much different from going to war to fight an aggressor nation?
A lot of schools today have "zero tolerance" policies toward fighting. It doesn't matter if he started it; it doesn't matter if you were defending yourself. You are disciplined if you are in a fight with another student.
It just changes the risk/reward calculus. If the abuser and abused are equally punished, it makes more sense to go after the bully first. It pays off in the long run, once they start avoiding you.
This probably works quite often, and I had preformed a similar feat in 2nd grade that protected me though high-school. However, I wouldn't expect it to work in all situations or with all bullies. For instance if you were to try this in front of the bullies friends you could likely expect a beat-down then, and several times after that!
...By the time they get any money out of Universal, it's going to have cost them $400,000 in legal feels. Besides, how is this any different than $150,000 per song infringement fees? They had it coming to them...
I wanted to disagree, but either way you spin it, it's true:
the people that voted for him because they actually like his policies are selfish retards
the people that voted form him out of spite because the Dems are about to pass a bill without a public option have been indirectly manipulated by the selfish retards that forced the removal of the option.
the people that voted him out of spite for the slow change in the economy, the the Democrats lack of response to the wall street bonuses were indirectly driven to do so by the selfish bankers that caused this collapse and continue to not care.
BS - Capitol-ism and charity are mutually exclusive values; spending money doesn't have any Karma value.
Given the current economic structure in the US how much of the average vacation expenditure do you really think goes back into the economy?! Do you really going to wallmart and to stock up for your vacation (buying goods made in china) and then then filling your non-American car with gas and taking off for a week to stay at holiday inn and sip on Budweiser puts money back into the US economy, you might want to find out where those dollars are really going....
Bad idea: Infiltrating said groups and using lies and manipulation to undermine and destroy the leadership's control over the group by pretending to disprove their theories and by smearing their reputation.
Sounds exactly like what the Republicans have been doing in most of the political debates.
I for one would welcome fairness doctrine that didn't force a neutral bias, and thus couldn't be use use to impose a certain line of though, but instead just be used to clean up lies and FUD.
Comparing the false positive rate of ABP to noScipt is about as useful as comparing apples and oranges.
ABP is a blacklist based service, Noscript is a whitelist.
Therfore ABP only has false negatives (including all of the things you need noscript for).
No-script therefore has only false positives. Unfortunately, un-like ABP, a user curated list isn't practical; as soon as you do and whitelist a paticular script, someone will change it to do something malicious.
....the fact that some users are too dumb to figure out how to use no-script makes me like it that much more.
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Less than 3 yrs before it's feasible; more than 7 due to public backlash.
George Church, one of the Professors interviewed in the article is doing just that: http://www.personalgenomes.org/
With every advancement in figuring out genetic diseases, I can't help but think that the combination of this plus drug testing will lead to genetic discrimination, or at least defamation. Plus, even then is there much we -can- do if we figure out something is genetic?
Sad you were modded flamebait for voicing honest concerns. Good thing you were the FP.
Genetic discrimination is already illegal in the US.
Understanding that a disease is genetic DOES allow us to do something. Take pompe disease for instance, there are now 2 possible ways of treating it that we were able to derrive from our genetic understanding. The first, and most obvious; make the protein that is deficient in the patients with the disease and administer it to them. The second; now that we know the cause of the disease, find a small molecule that restores function to the mutated protein (or potentially further up stream: allows the mRNA to fold properly).
Disclaimer: I own a G1, nonetheless I'm fairly certain my view here is correct:
The hero's with it's well spaced out keys would of crushed the others, and is the reason I didn't choose a clque, or mytouch/hero and why I haven't upgraded to the N900, droid or nexus one. Moreover, I previously had a tilt (htc kaiser), and had tried the N900 for a couple weeks, the keyboards for both are very similar to the nokia 75. Without the spacing between the keys, there's no way one can be as accurate as the hero (g1).
The real problem is the lack of a standardized language between different scientists / agencies. It's really up to the funding sources (such as the NCI) to come up with the standards else you end up with standards, that while technically better, that only a few follow, ie: chembank.broad.mit.edu. Further, having mutiple "standards
MySQL is a very, very bastardized form of "open source".
Troll much? The GPL is the most open of "open source" because the licensing locks the code open for everyone to see and modify.
In a perfect market, nothing, even in government, should be "too big to fail". The difference between a perfect market and a / the free market is why most Libertarians end up looking like loonies.
I tried to go to the RMV (DMV everywhere else) to get a duplicate license today, and there wasn't a single center within 30 miles of Boston that had less that 1 hr wait! The Boston office it self had a 2.5 hr wait!!! Moreover, when I got there I had some issues due to a 6 yr old fine that I didn't know about from NJ. For some f-ed up reason I can pay for the duplicate license with a credit card, but the fine had to be paid for in cash. Not knowing I'd have to pay a fine I didn't have cash on me. Here's were things get really F-ed: At that point I'd been waiting for 1hr 40 min to get service (I took a bus to a branch outside Boston), during this time they had closed the gate to the office. Just outside the office was an atm (100 ft away tops), but they wouldn't let me leave to get the cash and come back!!! Now I get to waist another 3 hrs (1 hr in transit) to do it all again on Monday!! Talk about inefficiencies!
...well that would certainly take away it's price advantage from using an SD / usb sick. Nevertheless, as the posts piled up, the tech does seem a bit more valid if all you want to do is encrypt data before long-term storage. However, in any other circumstance, I'd choose a different solution.
I'd argue a USB version is MORE secure as the attacker would have to know what they are looking for. Any key logger would pickup the output of a bar-code reader; and that sort of output would obvious when reviewing your catch.
Yes, but you need to first install linux on the router, there are many flavors such as Tomato, OpenWrt, x-wrt, and freewrt, but I think DD-WRT is probably the best place to start. Then you need to split the network as mentioned below.
While BitHive's analogy mis-represents your post, his point if valid; you need to deal with the fact that the free market will never work on the whole. Your points play right into this as the "free market" does exist, both sides are a part of it, and therefore it strangles it self during normal economic periods. As "explosions" are rare, the system on average fails.
Actually, if enough quacks game the US system, then the effectiveness of the Special 301 will be undermined as the rest of the world will flock to the notion that US policy is afowl, and therefore easily duck any pressure applied by the US.
... humm I wonder if asking for someone to be modded a troll counts as trolling? LOL
Anyway, your question seems like a great slash poll. I for one would love to never have to touch a computer with software by either company on it again.
The moral of this thread is: don't use software made by apple or adobe!
According to the Red Cross and Insurance Industry, we are considered adults at the age of 25... which on the whole I'd say is fairly close to when most people actually have the wisdom needed to consistently make mature decisions in all aspects of life.
Sorry, I fscked the link to the Nova special, "The spy factory"
No you aren't paranoid.
AT&T has a horrible record when it comes to privacy, especially with illegal wiretaps, so much so that the AT&T logo should be changed to "Your world wiretapped." There was a PBS NOVA special about this, and the CIA has intentionally placed their wiretapping boxes inside AT&T's San Francisco building they will intercept DOMESTIC calls. They don't care about the legality of what they are doing and were said to actually listen to domestic calls between citizens because they were unable to separate them from the international calls. This could have easily been avoided had they placed their system in San Luis Obispo.
Basically there is a lot of money floating around to incentivise such activities. Here in Boston, homeland security helped pay for the T (bus/train) turnstile upgrades to 'Charlie' cards (RFID) so that people can be more easily tracked.
From this, the logical next step would be to subject a bully to so much abuse that his self esteem is shattered and see if this changes their behavior. This would obviously be immoral.
How is that obviously immoral? Would it really be that much different from going to war to fight an aggressor nation?
A lot of schools today have "zero tolerance" policies toward fighting. It doesn't matter if he started it; it doesn't matter if you were defending yourself. You are disciplined if you are in a fight with another student.
It just changes the risk/reward calculus. If the abuser and abused are equally punished, it makes more sense to go after the bully first. It pays off in the long run, once they start avoiding you.
This probably works quite often, and I had preformed a similar feat in 2nd grade that protected me though high-school. However, I wouldn't expect it to work in all situations or with all bullies. For instance if you were to try this in front of the bullies friends you could likely expect a beat-down then, and several times after that!
...By the time they get any money out of Universal, it's going to have cost them $400,000 in legal feels. Besides, how is this any different than $150,000 per song infringement fees? They had it coming to them...
I wanted to disagree, but either way you spin it, it's true:
the people that voted for him because they actually like his policies are selfish retards
the people that voted form him out of spite because the Dems are about to pass a bill without a public option have been indirectly manipulated by the selfish retards that forced the removal of the option.
the people that voted him out of spite for the slow change in the economy, the the Democrats lack of response to the wall street bonuses were indirectly driven to do so by the selfish bankers that caused this collapse and continue to not care.
BS - Capitol-ism and charity are mutually exclusive values; spending money doesn't have any Karma value.
Given the current economic structure in the US how much of the average vacation expenditure do you really think goes back into the economy?! Do you really going to wallmart and to stock up for your vacation (buying goods made in china) and then then filling your non-American car with gas and taking off for a week to stay at holiday inn and sip on Budweiser puts money back into the US economy, you might want to find out where those dollars are really going....
Bad idea: Infiltrating said groups and using lies and manipulation to undermine and destroy the leadership's control over the group by pretending to disprove their theories and by smearing their reputation.
Sounds exactly like what the Republicans have been doing in most of the political debates. I for one would welcome fairness doctrine that didn't force a neutral bias, and thus couldn't be use use to impose a certain line of though, but instead just be used to clean up lies and FUD.
Comparing the false positive rate of ABP to noScipt is about as useful as comparing apples and oranges. ABP is a blacklist based service, Noscript is a whitelist. Therfore ABP only has false negatives (including all of the things you need noscript for). No-script therefore has only false positives. Unfortunately, un-like ABP, a user curated list isn't practical; as soon as you do and whitelist a paticular script, someone will change it to do something malicious.
....the fact that some users are too dumb to figure out how to use no-script makes me like it that much more.