"We will be able to fashion a human being with software built upon the twin-shuffle microcode of DNA, perhaps with friendly applications like "The Gene Construction Kit" by Textco or "Visual Cloning" by Redasoft, software currently used to visualize and design plasmid vectors. The deep language of Nature will reveal itself through simple menus on medical Web sites."
Getting as much material wealth as possible will help your kids reproduce and help carry on your genes for a long time.
IMHO, the effect is partially mitigated by modern society 'cause it keeps rich guys in check and such. But if contraception and prevailing notions of monogamy didn't exist...and hell, stratified society, rich guys would have a lot more children. Just look at late 19th century mormons. Average # of kids in the highest classes is ~28. And that's with crappy medical technology.
Samir Nayeenanajar gets disappeared by the Feds and Peter, Michael Bolton, and Lawrence try to get him out with clever programming tricks & ugly sticks.
PORTLAND, Ore., April 3 -- For the last two weeks, Maher Hawash, a 38-year-old software engineer and American citizen who was from the West Bank and grew up in Kuwait, has been held in a federal prison here, though he has not been charged with a crime or brought before a judge.
Relatives and friends of Mr. Hawash, who works for the Intel Corporation and is married to a native Oregonian, say he has no idea why he was arrested by a federal terrorism task force when he arrived for work at the Intel parking lot in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb. The family home was raided at dawn on the same day by nearly a dozen armed police officers, who woke Mrs. Hawash and the family's three children, friends said.
Mr. Hawash, who is known as Mike, has yet to be interrogated and is being kept in solitary confinement, his supporters say.
Federal officials will not comment on Mr. Hawash, though they have been pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and by a group of supporters led by a former Intel vice president, for basic information about why he is being detained.
In a statement after his arrest, the F.B.I. said he was being held as a material witness in an "ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Federal search warrants in the case are sealed.
The case has drawn the attention of civil liberties groups nationwide, who say Mr. Hawash's case is an example of how the Bush administration is holding a handful of American citizens without offering them normal legal protection.
Although at least two American citizens are being held without normal legal rights as "enemy combatants," Mr. Hawash has not been categorized as such. As a material witness, he is being held to compel testimony. But supporters say he has not been told anything about what the government may want from him.
"Our friend has fallen into some kind of `Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka," said Steven McGeady, the former Intel executive, who started a legal defense fund and a Web site for Mr. Hawash.
"You hear about this happening in other countries and to immigrants and then to American citizens," Mr. McGeady went on. "And finally you hear about it happening to someone you know. It's scary."
Mr. Hawash's family thought at first that his arrest was connected to two donations he made three years ago to an Islamic charity, Global Relief Foundation, whose assets were frozen last year when federal authorities said it was linked to terrorism. But now relatives say the contributions may not be related to his arrest, and he may be asked to testify about six people charged here last year with aiding terrorism.
Asked about the charitable donations -- which totaled a little more than $10,000 -- Mr. Hawash told the local newspaper, The Oregonian, in November: "We believed that they are doing good work. It's a well-known organization."
Civil liberties groups say material witness statutes are being abused by the Bush administration to hold people like Mr. Hawash indefinitely. "The government doesn't have and should not have the power to arrest and detain someone without charging them," said Lucas Guttentag, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants Rights Project. "If this kind of thing is permitted, then any United States citizen can be swept off the street and locked up without being charged."
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the courts have made conflicting rulings on the legality of holding material witnesses without charging them. A federal judge in Manhattan, Shira A. Scheindlin, said such detentions were "an illegitimate use of the statute," but another ruling in the same court, by Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey, said detaining witnesses to compel testimony was a legitimate investigative tool.
Attorney General John Ashcroft has defended the tactic, saying it is "vital to preventing, disrupting or delaying new attacks."
The Justice Department has not said how many Americans have been held without charges in terro
Joe Collegestudent's political-representative-writing parents find out this. No one wants to see their kid pay big money and/or go to jail for a number of years.
Also, it seems out of character for the RIAA to sue a couple of rich colleges. Did they have to make sure the kids' parents would have the dough to put up a decent fight? I would have expected to see them sue some poor-ass state colleges or something, not Princeton. You know, like all those patent-peddling bullshit companies that sue the little fishes to build up the war chest to take on the bigguns? People at these colleges have connections.
Okay, check out this page for starters. Stavatti allegedly has 3+ fighter planes in development, ready for release in '07. They think they'll get 15% of the world market share in airplanes upon introduction... with no prototype pictures! Just a bunch of 3ds-max modelling with funky colors. It's probably just some role-players living out their fantasies. Plus, the domain was registered last year. No company worth its mettle that has fighter planes in development and presumably tons of investment would have their domain name created in '02.
I always liked the big MSDOS moricon icon. It's the one where the "MS" part of the icon looks like it's burned (ash-white) and the whole thing is listing to the left.
I also like the sunglasses-road-trip icon too. Ahh, memories. Anyone else have favorite icons from that dll?
That's like saying a bunch of expensive golf clubs are going to make you the next Tiger Woods. Unless you are typing your reply as a professional photographer, you would need to take classes and learn how to photograph before you can charge $1000/hour or take pics well enough to get $1000 for them.
Meanwhile, you can buy the gameboy, which gives you +9 hand-eye-coordination, buy a camera after taking some classes and start taking wedding pics. Not $1000/hour, but maybe $200 for a day and free food.
'sides, G3 isn't that hot. Get a D60 or something if you want to go pro.
1)I don't want to sound like a kill-joy, but There's plan for world domination is a bunch of crap. Who would want to join an authoritarian virtual world that does nothing but milk you dry? Who would want their every conversation & personal experience logged and probably recorded?
Not me. I'm not paying to join a virtual police-state.
Personally I'd like to see an open-source collaboration to create such a world, with virtual civic duties and councils. By its very nature, it would be immensely democratic. There would even be a place for capitalism too, with donations = vr money.
Lastly, having a virtual "club med" would be cool for a short time, but it wouldn't have the long-term appeal that say, being a virtual farmer or fisherman would have.
2)As long as I have to use a keyboard and a mouse, a virtual world will feel exceedingly so. Give me some sensors that I can tape to my arms and some vr goggles. THEN come to me about your virtual world.
I think that this product is mostly geared towards third-world countries that do not yet have populations dependent on automobiles. Not all new products are designed solely for Americans in CA.
And while the two-stroke engine may produce a lot of exhaust, it's probably a lot cheaper to develop an infrastructure based on motorized bicycles than cars.
Probably a lot safer too...You ever seen those third-world rush hours? Not cool.
You are correct, it's not slashdotted currently and if it's not slashdotted by now, then it probably won't be. Maybe it grows stronger with every hit? Does it feed on web and ftp access, growing stronger with each download?
Looks like the music industry finally found that new business model they've been looking for!
Too bad for them this shit will *NEVER* fly in America. We hate taxes. Especially taxes that do nothing more than line the pockets of people who weren't savvy enough to solve their problem from the get-go.
Yeah, we may be ruled by special interests, but how many people have broadband access on their PC? How many huge companies (that lobby) are dependent on selling computers or computers selling?
If I can own a TV and a VCR without a license, it had better remain the same with computers.
"knowledge transfer" wouldn't happen. The brain is like a sponge, yes, but you can't squish it to make all the memories come out...input only.
And with regards to physics and the like, you might be able to regurgitate laws and theories, but one's ability to understand the laws & theory (and better yet conceptualize them) comes only with practice and dedication.
"That did not stop music publishers from suing Bertelsmann for $17 billion last week, arguing that by throwing Napster a lifeline in 2002 it was responsible for the service continuing its illegal infringement.
Uhhh..afaik, napster went offline in 2001. And I don't think Napster ever came back up.
And what's this about $17 billion dollars? I know punative damages are usually in excess of what's really expected, but $17 Billion? In 2001, only $13 billion worth of music was sold. So what is this, $4 billion in lawyer's fees?
Yeesh. Let's all pitch in and buy a timeshare nerd resort on Vanuatu so we all have a place to relax and trade files in peace...
Yes, post-modernism, that ubitquitous but indescribable phenomenon sweeping the industrialized world is represented partially by a rise in hucksterism. As the industrialized world starts to lose faith in scientific progress, a return to mythopoeic beliefs, organized religion and pseudoscience begins to grow. People start to eschew rationality and science for things that "sound good", and are consequently tricked by con-artists that no urologist would ever endorse (read: people that send out Mangina Enlargement Spam).
Solution(s)? If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Free money? Doesn't exist. Free energy? Doesn't exist in a practical form. Use common sense and diligence to see through the hucksters! And while one may not always want to have faith in science on moral grounds (because, well, science has no morals allegedly), have faith in science on rational grounds.
(REUTERS) JUPITER--"C'mere, I wanna eat ye! I'm bigger than you and I'm stronger than you, I'm higher on the food chain!" Jupiter announced today, shortly before it embarked on a moon-gobbling smorgasbord adventure.
"By jove, I think he's mad," Europa said through a spokesperson today.
The other 47 moons did not return our calls.
Slashdot Mirror
I can see it now...
$dbh = DBI->connect ("DBI:mysql:host=yourmom;database=yourparents)
my @baby = $sth->fetchrow_array ();
foreach $baby (@baby){
writeDNA();
startGestation() or die;
}
$sth->finish();
Or as Batman said:
"Chicks dig the car."
Getting as much material wealth as possible will help your kids reproduce and help carry on your genes for a long time.
IMHO, the effect is partially mitigated by modern society 'cause it keeps rich guys in check and such. But if contraception and prevailing notions of monogamy didn't exist...and hell, stratified society, rich guys would have a lot more children. Just look at late 19th century mormons. Average # of kids in the highest classes is ~28. And that's with crappy medical technology.
Yeah, I rhymed.
PORTLAND, Ore., April 3 -- For the last two weeks, Maher Hawash, a 38-year-old software engineer and American citizen who was from the West Bank and grew up in Kuwait, has been held in a federal prison here, though he has not been charged with a crime or brought before a judge.
Relatives and friends of Mr. Hawash, who works for the Intel Corporation and is married to a native Oregonian, say he has no idea why he was arrested by a federal terrorism task force when he arrived for work at the Intel parking lot in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb. The family home was raided at dawn on the same day by nearly a dozen armed police officers, who woke Mrs. Hawash and the family's three children, friends said.
Mr. Hawash, who is known as Mike, has yet to be interrogated and is being kept in solitary confinement, his supporters say.
Federal officials will not comment on Mr. Hawash, though they have been pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, and by a group of supporters led by a former Intel vice president, for basic information about why he is being detained.
In a statement after his arrest, the F.B.I. said he was being held as a material witness in an "ongoing investigation" by the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Federal search warrants in the case are sealed.
The case has drawn the attention of civil liberties groups nationwide, who say Mr. Hawash's case is an example of how the Bush administration is holding a handful of American citizens without offering them normal legal protection.
Although at least two American citizens are being held without normal legal rights as "enemy combatants," Mr. Hawash has not been categorized as such. As a material witness, he is being held to compel testimony. But supporters say he has not been told anything about what the government may want from him.
"Our friend has fallen into some kind of `Alice in Wonderland' meets Franz Kafka," said Steven McGeady, the former Intel executive, who started a legal defense fund and a Web site for Mr. Hawash.
"You hear about this happening in other countries and to immigrants and then to American citizens," Mr. McGeady went on. "And finally you hear about it happening to someone you know. It's scary."
Mr. Hawash's family thought at first that his arrest was connected to two donations he made three years ago to an Islamic charity, Global Relief Foundation, whose assets were frozen last year when federal authorities said it was linked to terrorism. But now relatives say the contributions may not be related to his arrest, and he may be asked to testify about six people charged here last year with aiding terrorism.
Asked about the charitable donations -- which totaled a little more than $10,000 -- Mr. Hawash told the local newspaper, The Oregonian, in November: "We believed that they are doing good work. It's a well-known organization."
Civil liberties groups say material witness statutes are being abused by the Bush administration to hold people like Mr. Hawash indefinitely. "The government doesn't have and should not have the power to arrest and detain someone without charging them," said Lucas Guttentag, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants Rights Project. "If this kind of thing is permitted, then any United States citizen can be swept off the street and locked up without being charged."
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the courts have made conflicting rulings on the legality of holding material witnesses without charging them. A federal judge in Manhattan, Shira A. Scheindlin, said such detentions were "an illegitimate use of the statute," but another ruling in the same court, by Chief Judge Michael B. Mukasey, said detaining witnesses to compel testimony was a legitimate investigative tool.
Attorney General John Ashcroft has defended the tactic, saying it is "vital to preventing, disrupting or delaying new attacks."
The Justice Department has not said how many Americans have been held without charges in terro
"The trick is to find a way to describe, in a
manner useful to computer scientists, the
urinary transformations that underlie a
program."
Quantum pee!!!
Also, it seems out of character for the RIAA to sue a couple of rich colleges. Did they have to make sure the kids' parents would have the dough to put up a decent fight? I would have expected to see them sue some poor-ass state colleges or something, not Princeton. You know, like all those patent-peddling bullshit companies that sue the little fishes to build up the war chest to take on the bigguns? People at these colleges have connections.
Yeesh. A day late and $10 billion bucks short.
I also like the sunglasses-road-trip icon too. Ahh, memories. Anyone else have favorite icons from that dll?
It's vaporware.
Meanwhile, you can buy the gameboy, which gives you +9 hand-eye-coordination, buy a camera after taking some classes and start taking wedding pics. Not $1000/hour, but maybe $200 for a day and free food.
'sides, G3 isn't that hot. Get a D60 or something if you want to go pro.
No comparison on price? The gameboy advance is $99. The Powershot G3 is $800. Case closed. Get a Gameboy.
Personally I'd like to see an open-source collaboration to create such a world, with virtual civic duties and councils. By its very nature, it would be immensely democratic. There would even be a place for capitalism too, with donations = vr money.
Lastly, having a virtual "club med" would be cool for a short time, but it wouldn't have the long-term appeal that say, being a virtual farmer or fisherman would have.
2)As long as I have to use a keyboard and a mouse, a virtual world will feel exceedingly so. Give me some sensors that I can tape to my arms and some vr goggles. THEN come to me about your virtual world.
And while the two-stroke engine may produce a lot of exhaust, it's probably a lot cheaper to develop an infrastructure based on motorized bicycles than cars.
Probably a lot safer too...You ever seen those third-world rush hours? Not cool.
I can still get >100k? How can this be?:)
Mozilla is contacted by slashdot.
Thursday March 13, @04:30PM
Mozilla is slashdotted.
Thursday March 13, @04:50PM
Mozilla takes FIRE BREATHING REVENGE OF DOOM! LAUNCHES NUCLEAR MISSLES AT "THE THREAT"
Thursday March 13, @05:01PM
Mozilla successfully slashdots slashdot with nuclear missles.
Too bad for them this shit will *NEVER* fly in America. We hate taxes. Especially taxes that do nothing more than line the pockets of people who weren't savvy enough to solve their problem from the get-go.
Yeah, we may be ruled by special interests, but how many people have broadband access on their PC? How many huge companies (that lobby) are dependent on selling computers or computers selling?
If I can own a TV and a VCR without a license, it had better remain the same with computers.
And with regards to physics and the like, you might be able to regurgitate laws and theories, but one's ability to understand the laws & theory (and better yet conceptualize them) comes only with practice and dedication.
IMHO, Roxio was just spun off of Adaptec so they wouldn't have their name associated with a piece of garbage software.
Uhhh..afaik, napster went offline in 2001. And I don't think Napster ever came back up.
And what's this about $17 billion dollars? I know punative damages are usually in excess of what's really expected, but $17 Billion? In 2001, only $13 billion worth of music was sold. So what is this, $4 billion in lawyer's fees?
Yeesh. Let's all pitch in and buy a timeshare nerd resort on Vanuatu so we all have a place to relax and trade files in peace...
Stuff is news, from nerds that matter.
Repeal the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extention Act!
Yes, post-modernism, that ubitquitous but indescribable phenomenon sweeping the industrialized world is represented partially by a rise in hucksterism. As the industrialized world starts to lose faith in scientific progress, a return to mythopoeic beliefs, organized religion and pseudoscience begins to grow. People start to eschew rationality and science for things that "sound good", and are consequently tricked by con-artists that no urologist would ever endorse (read: people that send out Mangina Enlargement Spam).
Solution(s)? If it's too good to be true, it probably is. Free money? Doesn't exist. Free energy? Doesn't exist in a practical form. Use common sense and diligence to see through the hucksters! And while one may not always want to have faith in science on moral grounds (because, well, science has no morals allegedly), have faith in science on rational grounds.
That's my $.02x10E80
The 'by jove' thing was intentional;) astro-nerd-pun i guess.
(REUTERS) JUPITER--"C'mere, I wanna eat ye! I'm bigger than you and I'm stronger than you, I'm higher on the food chain!" Jupiter announced today, shortly before it embarked on a moon-gobbling smorgasbord adventure.
"By jove, I think he's mad," Europa said through a spokesperson today.
The other 47 moons did not return our calls.
Well, where is it? Someone have an answer???