The thing is, intentional or not, this has generated OODLES of delicious free mass-media publicity for the upcoming iPhone. A criminal investigation is even tastier, because it opens up the opportunity for new networks to talk about this case. Assuming that this was unintentional, it would be silly for Apple's PR department to let the noise die down before the actual launch of the phone.
Of course the launch itself will generate press, but in the meantime, if you keep reminding people that the iPhone 4G is coming out, many will likely hold out on whatever non-Apple phone they may have otherwise bought.
It's unlikely to be a conspiracy of any sort, but certainly it doesn't appear to be harming Apple very much.
You do realize that we're dealing with a supremely ethnocentric, rabidly racist, historically militant nation... controlled by a dictator, with a giant NBC stockpile and a massive post-superpower inferiority complex... right?
In military intelligence, politics and intent are not that relevant, what's relevant are capabilities. If you design a weapon system that looks like a nuke, CAN carry a nuke, can aggressively maneuver rendering a ballistic projection irrelevant and can strike anywhere in the world in a matter of 1 hour, you force your potential adversaries to both escalate their own offensive capabilities and feel as if they've been forced into the corner. Not a good idea.
Russians are not any more likely to strike the US than US is likely to strike Russia, but you better believe that their C&C systems aren't nearly good enough right now to manage a potential nuclear threat from the US. Considering the consequences of a single such misunderstanding, we should seriously think about what bringing such weapons to the table means for global stability.
Zhang and co go on to prove their assertion by tracing a ray that passes through the kind of isotropic carpet cloak that Pendry suggested. What they've discovered will shock carpet cloakers all over the world.
Yeah, all over the world.... uhm, all three of them. (Emphasis mine)
Only under the umbrella of the same carrier. Stolen phones tend to wind up in Russia or Latin America. As long as the phone is turned off after the theft, the kill switch becomes irrelevant unless it enters the same network.
Unless you produce a phone that REQUIRES to be connected to a certain network every X number of hours or it kills itself.
The single most vile carcinogen, responsible for the vast majority of all cancers...... is oxygen.
There are a number of cultures in the world that consume a diet of meat and milk and cheese that's extremely high in saturated fats... and yet live very long lives, such as the tribes of the Caucasus mountains.
Just like one's cholesterol level is only marginally related to the cholesterol intake, saturated fat is not innately harmful. How much of it people eat at a sitting, coupled with their level of physical activity is what's important.
All of my accounts will alert me by text and/or email of any transactions exceeding $500, or if the monthly transactions exceed $2000. I don't need to monitor my accounts daily, because the most anyone can take without triggering an alert is usually $500.
That being said, I check my accounts on a weekly basis, which is a good habit to get into. I get my balance and recent transaction history emailed to me on monday mornings, again using the banks' own systems.
I've always found it curious that anti-Semites generally claim that Jews are somehow inferior or sub-human, and then assign them unparalleled power to swindle and deceive, and claim that the Jews control most/all governments or most/all money.
The two concepts, are mutually exclusive. If the Jews were inferior, they would never have been able to control everyone else who is of higher intelligence and ability.
The logical conclusion, is that IF you are right and the Jews control all money and all governments (and have done so throughout known history), then they are clearly far superior to the rest of humanity and whatever sufferings you may ascribe to their victims, are merely the inevitable pains of one species being superseded by a further evolved descendant.
In essence, if your conspiracy theories are correct, that means that YOU are inferior to the Jew, and your skull will be examined by the Jew descendants a thousand years from now in a museum... right next to Australopithecus and Neanderthal.
If you did that in NY you would not be able to make ANY left turn that does not have a turn signal. Between the hours of 7am and 9pm ALL of those left turns are made during the "all-way-red" period due to oncoming traffic.
Why mark the above post Flamebait? Just because the situation doesn't fit the narrow scope of your understanding of reality, and because your favorite candidate turned into the same sponsored turd as the guy before him, doesn't mean you should lash out at people who make that observation.
You can only keep deluding yourself for so long...
It's very simple, no conspiracy required. The situation is as follows:
1. Large IP holders' lobbyists are applying direct financial pressure to the gov't in general and undoubtedly the negotiators personally 2. The public reaction is only important if it is large enough to affect an election outcome. This is blunted by the fact that the negotiators are appointed, not elected. In the US, even the election pressure is largely blunted by the nature of the winner-takes-all system. In Europe individual votes matter far more to the politicians. Here in the US, they don't care as long as they get their 50.1% 3. The negative reaction from the public will only come about if they find out about it, and most will not waver from mainstream media. 4. Mainstream media is largely owned by large IP holders, and will not only avoid stories about the ACTA, but will create a massive campaign to smear any protest that becomes public.
That's it. There's no conspiracy. Just self-interest all around.
It's trivial to ruin someone's life at this point using child pornography. Cracking a WPA password isn't nearly that complicated.
Also, note how the guy he was trying to frame was still arrested, and still barred from seeing his children, after someone sent the police a hard drive they claimed belonged to the guy. Of all the obvious frame jobs, this was dead sloppy, and yet the victim was STILL victimized by the authorities. I'm surprised they aren't summarily castrating people without proof these days. After all, won't someone think of the children...
"Ban Facebook now!" "They're corrupting our innocent children" "It's all the work of secret terrorist pedophiles... we must root them out by recording all facebook conversations and having a central database"
Your post isn't interesting or insightful. It's simply crap.
Russia is a hellhole. There is no law at all beyond what you can get away with through bribes and connections. There is state-sponsored xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism... and last I remember the living conditions were about equivalent to the US in the 1940s... at the latest.
That's the way it's been for centuries, and it's unlikely to change now.
Without more information (I am not particularly knowledgeable in that area), I would be cautious to make ANY sweeping judgments with regards to the concerns you brought up. This may not have any significant impact.
However, it is true that during regeneration, cells have to undergo programmed death in order to preserve the organization of the tissue, similarly to what happens during embryonic and post-embryonic development.
Of course the caveat to using mice to judge how a gene affects long-term development of cancer is that there really is no "long-term" on a human scale in mouse studies, since they only live about 3 years at most.
I'm also not entirely familiar with the effect of p21-deficiency in cases where major tumor suppressors are deregulated or otherwise deficient. It is feasible that in the absence of further regulation, the absence of a major cell cycle checkpoint will lead to a more severe phenotype, whether in terms of being more tumor prone, or development of more aggressive tumors.
I have a feeling you should know something about the subject before weighing in.
p21 knockout mice don't appear to get cancer more than wild-type mice, interestingly enough...
It's interesting, because p53 is a major regulator of p21 expression, and p21 itself is a major player in regulating cell cycle progression into S-phase, thus controlling cell replication. p53 knockouts, on the other hand, are extremely prone to cancer, as p53 is one of the most important tumor-suppressor genes.
The paper is interesting because the authors demonstrate that two separate strains of mice that contain a p21 deficiency can both regenerate differentiated tissue (measured by looking at ear-hole closure), supporting the link between p21/cell cycle progression and tissue regeneration. Whether this is of consequence therapeutically is a different story, but I'd be very interested to see the same study repeated in wild-type mice being fed or injected a small molecule p21 inhibitor.
1. A guy sent some faxes to a hospital criticizing their management and mocking them. 2. The prosecutors and police were friends of the hospital management and they investigated this as a "favor"... 3. they secured three successive indictments against the guy, all of which included felony assault against a man he never met 4. each time the indictments were dismissed by a higher court 5. but they arrested and held him anyway 6. so he sued for violation of his 4th because they got his phone records and emails without a warrant and for malicious prosecution 7. The 11th circuit dismissed ALL the malicious prosecution claims, granted the police and prosecution total immunity, and ruled that the plaintiff's rights weren't violated when his emails were turned over, because they had already been "delivered" to his ISP.
There are a lot more things wrong with this decision than just the 4th amendment violations.
This shows good sense on the part of the publications' editors and executives. There isn't much market for 130 past years of Popular Science. Bandwidth is cheap. Certainly making this move will get them brownie points. Brownie points mean good press. Brownie points mean more hits on their site... as does the actual archive. More hits on their website + good public image = guaranteed increase in subscriptions. Everyone wins.
You think that the publisher is going to treat this logically, but you fail to understand that many (if not the majority) of the CEO figures are sociopaths... simply because that's the only group that can manage to get into these positions. As such, they may interpret the sales figures differently.
If game X sells ten million copies with little DRM, they will see it as justification that DRM works (since they assume everyone will pirate, since they judge by themselves). If the sequel (X-2) sells five million copies with horrible DRM, they will see it as justification that "hackers" have gotten more sophisticated and the consumers (whom they hate) have pirated at least five million copies. In their eyes, this will mean that X-3 should have even more DRM.
This is the logic that the music industry has been using for years. You didn't buy a CD by an artist you've previously patronized because it contained DRM? You just gave the publisher another -$15 to claim as damages from piracy.
Riiiiight, that "real" reform the repub-u-cants keep proposing. What's that, tort reform and making sure illegals don't get coverage. That's going to fix everything.
Well, since you've put words into my mouth and then cursed me out, I guess the issue is decided... since you're quite happy arguing with foam at the mouth against your own strawman.
And you people complain about partisanship on Capitol Hill?
Perhaps if you took a moment to listen to what others have to say, rather than dismissing anything that doesn't EXACTLY correspond to your ill-gotten views, with hate and prejudice, something might get accomplished.
Instead, you are perfectly content to wallow in your own crap and throw it at anyone who isn't "with us".
Ok, this is Slashdot and you can continue marking my posts "Troll" for trying to make sense. In the real world, this kind of behavior is what turns politicians into the kind of stooges that you continue to re-elect, who are far more interested in winning than in resolving our society's problems.
So congratulations - you have the government you actually deserve. A government of trolls.
yeah, but it is not like the US employer sponsored healthcare is magic either.
Why is it that everyone that reads my comment assumes that I think everything is peachy. Just because I think the OP was full of shit, doesn't mean I don't have real criticisms for the way things are done here...
And why the fuck did I get marked "Troll" for this comment?
I am at the forefront of lobbying for REAL healthcare reform in the United States.
There is no reason why you should've posted this AC, unless you're saving your mod points for opinion-modding.
You bring up a perfectly valid criticism of the current system. The "pre-existing" conditions loophole MUST be closed.
If it weren't for partisan infighting between the Bolshevik left and the Fundamentalist right in our Congress, both paid off by the insurance lobby, this loophole would've been closed 6 months ago (and should've been closed YEARS ago).
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The thing is, intentional or not, this has generated OODLES of delicious free mass-media publicity for the upcoming iPhone. A criminal investigation is even tastier, because it opens up the opportunity for new networks to talk about this case. Assuming that this was unintentional, it would be silly for Apple's PR department to let the noise die down before the actual launch of the phone.
Of course the launch itself will generate press, but in the meantime, if you keep reminding people that the iPhone 4G is coming out, many will likely hold out on whatever non-Apple phone they may have otherwise bought.
It's unlikely to be a conspiracy of any sort, but certainly it doesn't appear to be harming Apple very much.
You do realize that we're dealing with a supremely ethnocentric, rabidly racist, historically militant nation... controlled by a dictator, with a giant NBC stockpile and a massive post-superpower inferiority complex... right?
In military intelligence, politics and intent are not that relevant, what's relevant are capabilities. If you design a weapon system that looks like a nuke, CAN carry a nuke, can aggressively maneuver rendering a ballistic projection irrelevant and can strike anywhere in the world in a matter of 1 hour, you force your potential adversaries to both escalate their own offensive capabilities and feel as if they've been forced into the corner. Not a good idea.
Russians are not any more likely to strike the US than US is likely to strike Russia, but you better believe that their C&C systems aren't nearly good enough right now to manage a potential nuclear threat from the US. Considering the consequences of a single such misunderstanding, we should seriously think about what bringing such weapons to the table means for global stability.
The link contains the video, but it's censored just like the TV version.
From TFA:
Zhang and co go on to prove their assertion by tracing a ray that passes through the kind of isotropic carpet cloak that Pendry suggested. What they've discovered will shock carpet cloakers all over the world.
Yeah, all over the world.... uhm, all three of them. (Emphasis mine)
The three that YOU CAN SEE...
Only under the umbrella of the same carrier. Stolen phones tend to wind up in Russia or Latin America. As long as the phone is turned off after the theft, the kill switch becomes irrelevant unless it enters the same network.
Unless you produce a phone that REQUIRES to be connected to a certain network every X number of hours or it kills itself.
... not so sure about the cancer risk tho...
The single most vile carcinogen, responsible for the vast majority of all cancers... ... is oxygen.
There are a number of cultures in the world that consume a diet of meat and milk and cheese that's extremely high in saturated fats... and yet live very long lives, such as the tribes of the Caucasus mountains.
Just like one's cholesterol level is only marginally related to the cholesterol intake, saturated fat is not innately harmful. How much of it people eat at a sitting, coupled with their level of physical activity is what's important.
All of my accounts will alert me by text and/or email of any transactions exceeding $500, or if the monthly transactions exceed $2000. I don't need to monitor my accounts daily, because the most anyone can take without triggering an alert is usually $500.
That being said, I check my accounts on a weekly basis, which is a good habit to get into. I get my balance and recent transaction history emailed to me on monday mornings, again using the banks' own systems.
Account alerts are wonderful tools. Use them!
I've always found it curious that anti-Semites generally claim that Jews are somehow inferior or sub-human, and then assign them unparalleled power to swindle and deceive, and claim that the Jews control most/all governments or most/all money.
The two concepts, are mutually exclusive. If the Jews were inferior, they would never have been able to control everyone else who is of higher intelligence and ability.
The logical conclusion, is that IF you are right and the Jews control all money and all governments (and have done so throughout known history), then they are clearly far superior to the rest of humanity and whatever sufferings you may ascribe to their victims, are merely the inevitable pains of one species being superseded by a further evolved descendant.
In essence, if your conspiracy theories are correct, that means that YOU are inferior to the Jew, and your skull will be examined by the Jew descendants a thousand years from now in a museum... right next to Australopithecus and Neanderthal.
If you did that in NY you would not be able to make ANY left turn that does not have a turn signal. Between the hours of 7am and 9pm ALL of those left turns are made during the "all-way-red" period due to oncoming traffic.
Why mark the above post Flamebait? Just because the situation doesn't fit the narrow scope of your understanding of reality, and because your favorite candidate turned into the same sponsored turd as the guy before him, doesn't mean you should lash out at people who make that observation.
You can only keep deluding yourself for so long...
It's very simple, no conspiracy required. The situation is as follows:
1. Large IP holders' lobbyists are applying direct financial pressure to the gov't in general and undoubtedly the negotiators personally
2. The public reaction is only important if it is large enough to affect an election outcome. This is blunted by the fact that the negotiators are appointed, not elected. In the US, even the election pressure is largely blunted by the nature of the winner-takes-all system. In Europe individual votes matter far more to the politicians. Here in the US, they don't care as long as they get their 50.1%
3. The negative reaction from the public will only come about if they find out about it, and most will not waver from mainstream media.
4. Mainstream media is largely owned by large IP holders, and will not only avoid stories about the ACTA, but will create a massive campaign to smear any protest that becomes public.
That's it. There's no conspiracy. Just self-interest all around.
Exactly.
It's trivial to ruin someone's life at this point using child pornography. Cracking a WPA password isn't nearly that complicated.
Also, note how the guy he was trying to frame was still arrested, and still barred from seeing his children, after someone sent the police a hard drive they claimed belonged to the guy. Of all the obvious frame jobs, this was dead sloppy, and yet the victim was STILL victimized by the authorities. I'm surprised they aren't summarily castrating people without proof these days. After all, won't someone think of the children...
Well, it's the UK, so I doubt I'd be the first:
"Ban Facebook now!"
"They're corrupting our innocent children"
"It's all the work of secret terrorist pedophiles... we must root them out by recording all facebook conversations and having a central database"
Sounds good?
Your post isn't interesting or insightful. It's simply crap.
Russia is a hellhole. There is no law at all beyond what you can get away with through bribes and connections. There is state-sponsored xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism... and last I remember the living conditions were about equivalent to the US in the 1940s... at the latest.
That's the way it's been for centuries, and it's unlikely to change now.
Without more information (I am not particularly knowledgeable in that area), I would be cautious to make ANY sweeping judgments with regards to the concerns you brought up. This may not have any significant impact.
However, it is true that during regeneration, cells have to undergo programmed death in order to preserve the organization of the tissue, similarly to what happens during embryonic and post-embryonic development.
Of course the caveat to using mice to judge how a gene affects long-term development of cancer is that there really is no "long-term" on a human scale in mouse studies, since they only live about 3 years at most.
I'm also not entirely familiar with the effect of p21-deficiency in cases where major tumor suppressors are deregulated or otherwise deficient. It is feasible that in the absence of further regulation, the absence of a major cell cycle checkpoint will lead to a more severe phenotype, whether in terms of being more tumor prone, or development of more aggressive tumors.
I have a feeling you should know something about the subject before weighing in.
p21 knockout mice don't appear to get cancer more than wild-type mice, interestingly enough...
It's interesting, because p53 is a major regulator of p21 expression, and p21 itself is a major player in regulating cell cycle progression into S-phase, thus controlling cell replication. p53 knockouts, on the other hand, are extremely prone to cancer, as p53 is one of the most important tumor-suppressor genes.
The paper is interesting because the authors demonstrate that two separate strains of mice that contain a p21 deficiency can both regenerate differentiated tissue (measured by looking at ear-hole closure), supporting the link between p21/cell cycle progression and tissue regeneration. Whether this is of consequence therapeutically is a different story, but I'd be very interested to see the same study repeated in wild-type mice being fed or injected a small molecule p21 inhibitor.
The case can be read at:
http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=infco20100311081
Here's a brief summary
1. A guy sent some faxes to a hospital criticizing their management and mocking them.
2. The prosecutors and police were friends of the hospital management and they investigated this as a "favor"...
3. they secured three successive indictments against the guy, all of which included felony assault against a man he never met
4. each time the indictments were dismissed by a higher court
5. but they arrested and held him anyway
6. so he sued for violation of his 4th because they got his phone records and emails without a warrant and for malicious prosecution
7. The 11th circuit dismissed ALL the malicious prosecution claims, granted the police and prosecution total immunity, and ruled that the plaintiff's rights weren't violated when his emails were turned over, because they had already been "delivered" to his ISP.
There are a lot more things wrong with this decision than just the 4th amendment violations.
This shows good sense on the part of the publications' editors and executives. There isn't much market for 130 past years of Popular Science. Bandwidth is cheap. Certainly making this move will get them brownie points. Brownie points mean good press. Brownie points mean more hits on their site... as does the actual archive. More hits on their website + good public image = guaranteed increase in subscriptions. Everyone wins.
You think that the publisher is going to treat this logically, but you fail to understand that many (if not the majority) of the CEO figures are sociopaths... simply because that's the only group that can manage to get into these positions. As such, they may interpret the sales figures differently.
If game X sells ten million copies with little DRM, they will see it as justification that DRM works (since they assume everyone will pirate, since they judge by themselves). If the sequel (X-2) sells five million copies with horrible DRM, they will see it as justification that "hackers" have gotten more sophisticated and the consumers (whom they hate) have pirated at least five million copies. In their eyes, this will mean that X-3 should have even more DRM.
This is the logic that the music industry has been using for years. You didn't buy a CD by an artist you've previously patronized because it contained DRM? You just gave the publisher another -$15 to claim as damages from piracy.
Riiiiight, that "real" reform the repub-u-cants keep proposing. What's that, tort reform and making sure illegals don't get coverage. That's going to fix everything.
Well, since you've put words into my mouth and then cursed me out, I guess the issue is decided... since you're quite happy arguing with foam at the mouth against your own strawman.
And you people complain about partisanship on Capitol Hill?
Perhaps if you took a moment to listen to what others have to say, rather than dismissing anything that doesn't EXACTLY correspond to your ill-gotten views, with hate and prejudice, something might get accomplished.
Instead, you are perfectly content to wallow in your own crap and throw it at anyone who isn't "with us".
Ok, this is Slashdot and you can continue marking my posts "Troll" for trying to make sense. In the real world, this kind of behavior is what turns politicians into the kind of stooges that you continue to re-elect, who are far more interested in winning than in resolving our society's problems.
So congratulations - you have the government you actually deserve. A government of trolls.
Thanks by the way, for modding me "Troll" for bringing up facts and an alternative viewpoint. Very civilized debate you're encouraging here.
yeah, but it is not like the US employer sponsored healthcare is magic either.
Why is it that everyone that reads my comment assumes that I think everything is peachy. Just because I think the OP was full of shit, doesn't mean I don't have real criticisms for the way things are done here...
And why the fuck did I get marked "Troll" for this comment?
I am at the forefront of lobbying for REAL healthcare reform in the United States.
Well, just take a look at my other post in this thread. Modded "Troll"...
There is no reason why you should've posted this AC, unless you're saving your mod points for opinion-modding.
You bring up a perfectly valid criticism of the current system. The "pre-existing" conditions loophole MUST be closed.
If it weren't for partisan infighting between the Bolshevik left and the Fundamentalist right in our Congress, both paid off by the insurance lobby, this loophole would've been closed 6 months ago (and should've been closed YEARS ago).