That's the thing. Universities have lawyers too... they're called the FACULTY. There's tons of them, and given that they probably taught the RIAA lawyers, they're pretty dangerous.
They're also academic in their understanding of the law, which means that given the shaky ground RIAA lawsuits are standing on, they are unlikely to win.
AFAIK the immune system isn't set to kill known bacteria, it's set to kill any unknown cell. Your own cells have a "self" marker, meaning "it's mine". Anything identified as lacking this marker is instantly marked for termination with extreme prejudice.
That's pretty much true, but absolutely irrelevant to the discussion, because self-nonself recognition is a moot point when it comes to fighting off bacteria. There isn't a problem with recognition of bacteria as pathogens.
Some fake the marker...
Bacterial recognition is not due to absence of MHC-I (CTLA), but the presence of clearly bacterial antigen that's recognized by the Toll-like receptor system. Mostly the recognition involves sugar (glycoproteins and glycolipids) such as in lipopolysaccarides and flagellin... that are nonspecifically detected.
A bacterium which is so completely foreign that it never had to live in a mammal, well, won't live too long in there. There are layers upon layers upon layers of defenses to which they have no answer whatsoever.
Again, this works both ways. I don't assume the bacterial cell has changed that much in the last few millions of years on a fundamental level, but I may be wrong. That's why I said that while it's unlikely to become a human pathogen, it still remains a possibility, in which case doing a few tests might not be out of line before handling it with the same disregard for safety as ecoli.
Yes and no, mostly no.
I would have appreciated your sarcasm more if I didn't have a degree in the subject.
Furthermore, the bacteria in question is almost certainly safe because it evolved 4 mya, in the ocean, in the absence of humans
On the other hand, you can also assume that our immune system isn't prepared to deal with this bacteria, which may be the more insidious problem in this case. Even if the bacteria WASN'T a human pathogen, doesn't mean it ISN'T going to become one, if given the opportunity.
I don't think these bugs are the Andromeda Strain, but I'd be pretty careful to use sterile technique with them, at least until I put them into mice and saw what happened.
"how pretty are a bunch more nuclear reactors all over the place?"
You need a lot less of them.
"how much beautiful habitat will your kids miss out on because there's a power plant there?"
They don't need to be placed on high, windblown places.
"how much land will be restricted from your babies eyes because of the countless acres around the waste storage facility that are cordoned off for national security?"
See rebuttal #1.
"it's not nearly as ugly as it used to be, is it really worth discounting?"
That's irrelevant. I am an environmentalist... partly because I love nature. I am an avid hiker, and I already have enough eyesores when I see high voltage wiring all over the mountains... even without the 200ft windmills.
Surely, in some locations, some wind power may be a solution. But it doesn't scale well. Certainly it cannot be discounted, but neither can it be counted on to be a major source of power.
Or we could put efforts into solar power and nuclear power, and not fuck up whatever landscape is left.
The combined investment into the ITER project is about $20 billion over the course of 20 years, by the entire world. That's literally little more than an insult. With that kind of a commitment to energy research, we can expect no advances to come anytime soon.
But if you're going to ask me what's better - marginally higher electricity costs, or huge windfarms... I'll probably pick higher costs.
That's all well and good. But I think your analogy is flawed.
It took me about 3 weeks to stop booting into Windows on laptop after I installed Ubuntu. And that's considering that I've never ever hadn't even laid my eyes on any flavor of *nix before.
Your analogy of skiing and snowboarding is flawed, because you're comparing both levels of skill and levels of difficulty that are not applicable to OS usage. The fact is that (again following your analogy) most of us are not doing the black diamonds on our Windows systems. We're doing the blues (yes, I know). And after having switched about 10 people to Ubuntu, I can conclude that anyone who has a reasonable understanding of the concept of how to use an OS, will not have any trouble using Linux, and will happily finish out their vacation on a snowboard.
Now this may be different for a grandmother who relies strictly on memorized procedures to check her email. But anyone who has a dynamic understanding of what they're doing, should have the basics covered in a week or less.
Maybe wind power is cheaper... but it's also fugly. I'll live with a semi-reflective roof... but I won't tolerate a 200ft monstrosity within sight of where I live. As for putting it where people don't live... I actually would like to be able to show my children some nature, thank you.
Oh no... terrorists also use their tongues to speak. Quick, cut the tongues of everyone you think is a terrorist...
Oh no twice... terrorists use cars for bombs and transportation! Quick - destroy all cars, and cease manufacturing any new ones that are not STRICTLY for the use by Police, TSA, DHS, and RIAA...
I suppose it would be relatively easy to implement a password system, where you generate a password when you first plug in a new iPod, and then have to use it when you sync or charge. That would let you use the iPod on as many computers as you want, as long as you enter the password. If you forget the password, you can go back to the Apple store with your credit card or receipt, and since all iPods have unique identification, they could reset it for you, once you provide proof that it's your property.... wouldn't work too well if you bought it on ebay though...... but I suppose Apple would enjoy it if their products weren't able to be resold.
Use heavily tinted polarized glasses, and you'll be fine.
On that note, I already have a special tool that can blind and disorient - it's called a Fenix L2D-CE... at 135 torch lumens, when shone into the eyes of a dark-adapted person, it will leave them blind for about 20 seconds, and will leave rings in their eyes for 10-20 minutes... if used at 2-3 meters away.
I match your billion, and raise you one gazillion bagillion... and one old laptop running Ubuntu... abandoned where it lay... alongside a keg of beer and a stash of afghan gold.
If you're playing cards in Hold'em, against decent players, you WILL lose.
Hold'em is all about betting - if, when, and how much. And THAT you determine by the behavior of your opponent. It's not a strategy game, but a psychological exercise.
I was a dreamer like that once too. As a scientist who deals with genetics and cloning on a daily basis, that's exactly what I would have written, since that's what any sane man would think is happening.
But instead it turned out that Monsanto wasn't trying to engineer a crop that required less pesticide, they were busy engineering crops that could take logs and logs more.
That's because deducing the resistance factors for insects, and then cloning them, appears to be far more complicated and costly the just figuring out what enzyme metabolizes the pesticide into a plant poison, and then knocking it out.
Maybe one day, you and I will be right, in the meantime, Monsanto can suck on my masters degree.
I would say about 90% of the software that I download for Windows (including open source projects) install by doubling clicking Install.exe
<br> But that's exactly what we want to avoid! If people didn't get so used to clicking on executables blindfolded, we wouldn't have millions of bots churning out spam or DDoS attacks.
Putting all the tested software into a central repository makes security that much more straighforward.
Furthermore, I don't know when was the last time you tried installing something via GUI in Linux, but Synaptic (and especially the Add/Remove Programs) menus in Ubuntu work pretty much flawlessly. All the dependencies are satisfied automatically.
Actually, stopping people from browsing the web to find an executable has been the hardest thing for me to make people realize, after I switched them to Ubuntu. My ex downloaded Java from Sun and then had some troubles with it, since it wasn't compiled for Ubuntu. It took a couple of times of carefully explaining the concept for her to realize that just searching in Synaptic was sufficient.
The obvious solution to this is to change the logging policy and erase the IP logs after a few days. Since there are no laws (yet) that require you to keep any sort of logs, changing this policy would instantly relieve the universities of this uncomfortable position.
Literature is merely the written work... particularly written work that has an impact on the reader. A work needs not be dreadfully complex to be masterfully crafted. I adore Dostoevsky and cannot stand Tolstoy... yet clearly the latter is a far more accomplished writer.
In the end, the quality of the writing is merely the illumination of the book, and it's the quality of the world that the author has woven together than determines the greatness of the work.
I didn't say I don't care... I just said that I feel relatively secure, while doing the most I can as a single individual to prevent this from becoming commonplace.
I only boot into Windows on my desktop... and then only to play games or watch TV. The FBI should feel free to know the IPs of all the CounterStrike servers I play on, and the page I get my TV listings from.
I surmise that the way the service works is that you can have an application on your Internet (3G or EDGE) enabled mobile phone, which can make calls to other mobile phones using only the internet connection on your end. Since in Europe, you're not responsible for the cost of incoming phone calls, this would render the calls in question totally free for the people making them.
I wonder how this plays out, given the differing models of payment for mobile phone calls in the U.S. versus much of the world, wherefore U.S. is more subscription-based, and charges both the source phone and the destination phone, while (and correct me if I am wrong) many other places prefer to have a more of a per-call charge system, where only the initiating phone is charged.
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I disagree. We do need SOMETHING capable of running Vista well...
That's the thing. Universities have lawyers too... they're called the FACULTY. There's tons of them, and given that they probably taught the RIAA lawyers, they're pretty dangerous.
They're also academic in their understanding of the law, which means that given the shaky ground RIAA lawsuits are standing on, they are unlikely to win.
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And some people would consider an abortion...
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Let the people make their own fucking choices.
Well, they discontinued the 1505N, and my guess is that a full range of the new 1X20 series Inspiron notebooks will be available shortly.
I don't think these bugs are the Andromeda Strain, but I'd be pretty careful to use sterile technique with them, at least until I put them into mice and saw what happened.
"how pretty are a bunch more nuclear reactors all over the place?"
You need a lot less of them.
"how much beautiful habitat will your kids miss out on because there's a power plant there?"
They don't need to be placed on high, windblown places.
"how much land will be restricted from your babies eyes because of the countless acres around the waste storage facility that are cordoned off for national security?"
See rebuttal #1.
"it's not nearly as ugly as it used to be, is it really worth discounting?"
That's irrelevant. I am an environmentalist... partly because I love nature. I am an avid hiker, and I already have enough eyesores when I see high voltage wiring all over the mountains... even without the 200ft windmills.
Surely, in some locations, some wind power may be a solution. But it doesn't scale well. Certainly it cannot be discounted, but neither can it be counted on to be a major source of power.
And we should've never spent money of nuclear research. All those billions would've been better spent digging up coal.
By the way, that's not that many wind turbines. They cost tens of millions each... and produce amounts of power that I don't believe are worth it.
As for what I don't like about them -> they are GIANT 200ft windmills! I am not Don Quixote... I am not going to fight them.
P.S. 20bn also buys a number of fission power plants... which will produce a hell of a lot more power than the windmills.
Or we could put efforts into solar power and nuclear power, and not fuck up whatever landscape is left.
The combined investment into the ITER project is about $20 billion over the course of 20 years, by the entire world. That's literally little more than an insult. With that kind of a commitment to energy research, we can expect no advances to come anytime soon.
But if you're going to ask me what's better - marginally higher electricity costs, or huge windfarms... I'll probably pick higher costs.
That's all well and good. But I think your analogy is flawed.
It took me about 3 weeks to stop booting into Windows on laptop after I installed Ubuntu. And that's considering that I've never ever hadn't even laid my eyes on any flavor of *nix before.
Your analogy of skiing and snowboarding is flawed, because you're comparing both levels of skill and levels of difficulty that are not applicable to OS usage. The fact is that (again following your analogy) most of us are not doing the black diamonds on our Windows systems. We're doing the blues (yes, I know). And after having switched about 10 people to Ubuntu, I can conclude that anyone who has a reasonable understanding of the concept of how to use an OS, will not have any trouble using Linux, and will happily finish out their vacation on a snowboard.
Now this may be different for a grandmother who relies strictly on memorized procedures to check her email. But anyone who has a dynamic understanding of what they're doing, should have the basics covered in a week or less.
Maybe wind power is cheaper... but it's also fugly. I'll live with a semi-reflective roof... but I won't tolerate a 200ft monstrosity within sight of where I live. As for putting it where people don't live... I actually would like to be able to show my children some nature, thank you.
Oh no... terrorists also use their tongues to speak. Quick, cut the tongues of everyone you think is a terrorist...
Oh no twice... terrorists use cars for bombs and transportation! Quick - destroy all cars, and cease manufacturing any new ones that are not STRICTLY for the use by Police, TSA, DHS, and RIAA...
Umm... please don't reproduce.
Signed: the world.
I suppose it would be relatively easy to implement a password system, where you generate a password when you first plug in a new iPod, and then have to use it when you sync or charge. That would let you use the iPod on as many computers as you want, as long as you enter the password. If you forget the password, you can go back to the Apple store with your credit card or receipt, and since all iPods have unique identification, they could reset it for you, once you provide proof that it's your property. ... wouldn't work too well if you bought it on ebay though... ... but I suppose Apple would enjoy it if their products weren't able to be resold.
Use heavily tinted polarized glasses, and you'll be fine.
On that note, I already have a special tool that can blind and disorient - it's called a Fenix L2D-CE... at 135 torch lumens, when shone into the eyes of a dark-adapted person, it will leave them blind for about 20 seconds, and will leave rings in their eyes for 10-20 minutes... if used at 2-3 meters away.
Billion?
I match your billion, and raise you one gazillion bagillion... and one old laptop running Ubuntu... abandoned where it lay... alongside a keg of beer and a stash of afghan gold.
If you're playing cards in Hold'em, against decent players, you WILL lose.
Hold'em is all about betting - if, when, and how much. And THAT you determine by the behavior of your opponent. It's not a strategy game, but a psychological exercise.
I was a dreamer like that once too. As a scientist who deals with genetics and cloning on a daily basis, that's exactly what I would have written, since that's what any sane man would think is happening.
But instead it turned out that Monsanto wasn't trying to engineer a crop that required less pesticide, they were busy engineering crops that could take logs and logs more.
That's because deducing the resistance factors for insects, and then cloning them, appears to be far more complicated and costly the just figuring out what enzyme metabolizes the pesticide into a plant poison, and then knocking it out.
Maybe one day, you and I will be right, in the meantime, Monsanto can suck on my masters degree.
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But that's exactly what we want to avoid! If people didn't get so used to clicking on executables blindfolded, we wouldn't have millions of bots churning out spam or DDoS attacks.
Putting all the tested software into a central repository makes security that much more straighforward.
Furthermore, I don't know when was the last time you tried installing something via GUI in Linux, but Synaptic (and especially the Add/Remove Programs) menus in Ubuntu work pretty much flawlessly. All the dependencies are satisfied automatically.
Actually, stopping people from browsing the web to find an executable has been the hardest thing for me to make people realize, after I switched them to Ubuntu. My ex downloaded Java from Sun and then had some troubles with it, since it wasn't compiled for Ubuntu. It took a couple of times of carefully explaining the concept for her to realize that just searching in Synaptic was sufficient.
The obvious solution to this is to change the logging policy and erase the IP logs after a few days. Since there are no laws (yet) that require you to keep any sort of logs, changing this policy would instantly relieve the universities of this uncomfortable position.
I call bullshit on that.
Literature is merely the written work... particularly written work that has an impact on the reader. A work needs not be dreadfully complex to be masterfully crafted. I adore Dostoevsky and cannot stand Tolstoy... yet clearly the latter is a far more accomplished writer.
In the end, the quality of the writing is merely the illumination of the book, and it's the quality of the world that the author has woven together than determines the greatness of the work.
Clear your download manager list. Processing the names of all those pr0n clips slows the download initiation down.
P.S. I may be kidding about the pr0n, but not about the root cause of the slowdown.
I didn't say I don't care... I just said that I feel relatively secure, while doing the most I can as a single individual to prevent this from becoming commonplace.
I only boot into Windows on my desktop... and then only to play games or watch TV. The FBI should feel free to know the IPs of all the CounterStrike servers I play on, and the page I get my TV listings from.
I surmise that the way the service works is that you can have an application on your Internet (3G or EDGE) enabled mobile phone, which can make calls to other mobile phones using only the internet connection on your end. Since in Europe, you're not responsible for the cost of incoming phone calls, this would render the calls in question totally free for the people making them.
I wonder how this plays out, given the differing models of payment for mobile phone calls in the U.S. versus much of the world, wherefore U.S. is more subscription-based, and charges both the source phone and the destination phone, while (and correct me if I am wrong) many other places prefer to have a more of a per-call charge system, where only the initiating phone is charged.