What's needed is a layer of hardware-based identification on all internet-capable computers, which would be tied to the user's fingerprint and all of the user's actions would be logged by a central database. That way, any actions are have not been approved by the government or any corporation, would be immediately logged and the subject could be immediately arrested and shipped off to Syria/Lebanon/Turkey for tort***... i mean interrogation.
After these latter measures are in place, we can all be perfectly secure in knowing that no porn, violence, homosexual acts, books about evolution, untampered news, or any worthwhile content is being viewed by anyone in the U.S.
P.S. Or we could just make encryption and wifi security easy to implement and show people how to use it.
P.P.S. Nah... the former solution seems a lot more comprehensive in terms of public oppression... I mean security.
I think you'll find that there are a lot of people whose lives could potentially be lengthened or improved with research that involves cloning and ES cells. It seems to me that you do not respect their lives.
As much as the parent can be considered a troll, he/she is right. The pressure of religious ethics of the right wing Christians, along with this administration's spite towards science, will result in rapid elimination of the slim lead that the US has been maintaining in medical and basic research.
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Your utter ignorance is the reason why America is falling behind in terms of scientific progress. I hope a terrible degenerative disease claims your life. And as it slowly turns you into a vegetable, you can ponder how nice it would be, if you didn't project your ignorance about stem cells onto the rest of the population and allowed the research to proceed to save hundreds of thousands of lives, including yours.
Embryonic cells are the only absolutely pluripotent cells. The umbilical cord cells are partially differentiated, and some pathways have already been closed for them. And before you reply with an equally dumb statement, please refer me to where you got your M.D. or your Ph.D.
Frankly, unless you have or are at least in the process of getting a degree in life sciences, your "opinion" about what works and what doesn't is nothing more than hot air, with a heavy stench of bullshit and christian right propaganda.
Bill Gates is undoubtedly a smart guy, but in this interview he seems to have decided to follow the example of the current political administration - change the topic and pretend it is relevant.
"The DRM we put into these systems is used to protect medical records, and it's used to protect things people want to protect."
What a load of crap! I guess people are passing medical records around over bittorrent. That answer so far offtopic it's appalling, it's stupid, it's... bush-like. Oh, and he still calls open-source advocates communists.
---- Quote: So how exactly did we go from a 1 in 37 chance to a 1 in 56000 chance in a few hours? My guess is that slashdot submitters was posting meaningless statistics and editors were letting them through in order to sensationalize the issue. ----
Not true - I looked at the NASA website a few hours ago and the probability was indeed listed at 2.7%
However, I am also interested in how we went from 1/37 to 1/56000 in a few hours.
Dendritic cell vaccination does work on an individual basis - there are studies here, at NYU Med, that focus on using this technique to combat bloodborne cancers.
However, what the article fails to mention is that viral load is a really bad indicator of HIV progress. Good anti-retroviral therapy will give a viral load drop that's LARGER than 90%. Considering that the end-result is the same, since the virus has reservoirs outside the hematopoietic system, this study just proved the general usefullness of the technique, but the way this information was presented, it made it appear as if there was NO (or very limited) CLINICAL USEFULNESS for treatment of HIV.
P.S. I haven't looked up the actual clinical trial publication, but I will do so later tonight and update my point of view if it changes.
Now this may sound a little paranoid (I know I'll be modded down just for saying the phrase above), but "worst case scenario" for you.
[Tinfoil Hat Mode ON]
It's only a matter of a couple of years until RFID-embedded national ID cards are a mandatory item one has to carry both in the UK and the US. The number of readers (both public, private and secret) will multiply at a geometric rate, with databases tracking more and more of our movements.
And now that Texas school-children are being tracked under the guise of protection from kidnapping, how long before the same excuse is used to implant tags into every infant born at a major hospital. With further advances I am sure tags and readers will soon be developed that will allow detection and reading of the tags at several feet or even several meters.
[Tinfoil Hat Mode OFF]
Ok, so most of what I wrote is nonsense. But for how long? I wrote the worst case scenario because I believe that while we still have rights, we, as citizens should be on the lookout for these developments, so that the crap above does not come true.
Hmmm. How about no!
If you actually looked up at how much the red states contribute to the GDP, then maybe you'd realize that perhaps we should have let the south secede after all.
If you don't appreciate what doctors go through both physically and emotionally to treat their patients, then why don't you spend a few weeks at a medical school, or a hospital ward.
When you've had 9-10 hours of sleep per week while cramming your head full of information you MUST be able to recall at a second's notice you'll think twice before making outrageous comments like that.
I am personally offended. I chose medicine as a profession and if wasn't because I wanted to screw people out of their money. And I don't know about you, but I've met countless docs who went above and beyond their limits to help people, including those who had difficulties paying. _ _ _ _
To the original poster - I quickly skimmed the detailed writeup, but I can't seem to figure out where in the country he is right now. If he's anywhere near NY, NYU/Bellevue has ID specialists who've seen a lot more rare cases than anyone in the middle states could possibly even imagine. If it's possible for him to get his butt to NYC ASAP, I am sure he could find an ID specialist to look at him.
Give these guys a break;)
They're just trying to help out the ailing hordes of patent lawyers. I mean if one could no longer patent the very process of 'post-factum patent squatting litigation', what would happen to the poor folks?!
Personally, I have filed a patent for the "process of gaining permission for sexual activity with a previously unknown person through the use of mood-altering and/or intoxicating substances".
Upon the patent being granted I expect to file no less than 10'000 lawsuits/day for patent infringement, mainly around college campuses.
I don't understand how no one sees that this is nothing but yet another project designed to sink public money into private pockets. Sort of money laundering of a sort.
-- We should be sending accolades to journalists who take the time to report on all sides of an issue, not reprimanding them for supporting the side we disagree with. --
I don't think you're entirely correct. If someone believes that the Earth is flat, it's not journalistic integrity to report that, investigate it further, and treat it on par with what we all know the reality to be. It's plain stupidity, or even reverse bias.
Bill Maher once said: "Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance" (not sure if the phrase is his own).
I think it applies very well to this topic. However many journalists are still trying to remain true to a credo of balance, are now plagued with these episodes of hyperbolic need to represent both sides of the story. In essence, they become so balanced that they try and balance issues which are incomparably unbalanced in the first place.
I hate to sound like a cliche, but you are extremely shortsighted. Aside from the usual 'we explore because it's in our nature' explanation, there are a ton more reasons for space exploration. Largely, it is not even about the ends, but rather the means. The number of technologies that came out of the space program, including developments in electronics and materials science are probably of more benefit to the world than any direct findings that came out as the result of the space program.
Quote: --- Life is more valuable than property. By a factor of infinity. There are no exceptions. ---
Bullshit!
I'm not even going to try and explain that you DON'T KNOW who's going to rape and murder vs. who's going to take my DVD-player. For me it's a lot simpler than that.
I think back to caveman times. Another guy comes into my cave without asking my permission I crack his skull with a large club. Now he should be thankful that I won't have him for dinner afterwards.
Since I will NOT always have a clear route of escape for me/my friends/loved ones, I would never take a chance. I do not own a gun (although I will shortly) but even at this point I will use any weapon at my disposal to neutralize any possible threat.
Just remember: "It's better to be judged by 12, than carried by 6"
I am amazed that we haven't yet recognized that this is just another campaign trick. The idea behind doing it was very simple - they do it, then leak the info, and revel in the publicity that follows.
At this point, it is highly unlikely that Bush is going to GAIN any NEW votes. However, an action such as this, especially if it gains widespread attention, will thoroughly reinforce Bush's image as someone who doesn't give a shit about anything other than USA (not saying that he cares about the US).
So please stop playing along in this last-minute campaign trick.
I don't know where you get this information, but the new AMDs are somewhat cooler running that the top end Pentium 4s.
As for heat coming from the other side, that's one of the issues that an on-chip Peltier would alleviate, but presenting a cooler surface to the CPU on the side with the heatsink.
Now that we've written down Murphy's law, here's a bunch of other laws we can write down mathematically.
I + B*E^ANS = 3SHI/TS
LOG(T + A) = G/00.D/(L^A/Y)
and for the final one
Undescribable life bitching + mathematical formulas = Utter bullshit
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What's needed is a layer of hardware-based identification on all internet-capable computers, which would be tied to the user's fingerprint and all of the user's actions would be logged by a central database. That way, any actions are have not been approved by the government or any corporation, would be immediately logged and the subject could be immediately arrested and shipped off to Syria/Lebanon/Turkey for tort***... i mean interrogation.
After these latter measures are in place, we can all be perfectly secure in knowing that no porn, violence, homosexual acts, books about evolution, untampered news, or any worthwhile content is being viewed by anyone in the U.S.
P.S. Or we could just make encryption and wifi security easy to implement and show people how to use it.
P.P.S. Nah... the former solution seems a lot more comprehensive in terms of public oppression... I mean security.
Yeah, but it's too bad. If he goes against Putin, those brains will wind up serving wallpaper duty awfully fast.
1. Attend an interview session
2. Record the names of your competition
3. Hack the school's computer in their name
4. Get into Harvard
5. Profit!!!
I think you'll find that there are a lot of people whose lives could potentially be lengthened or improved with research that involves cloning and ES cells. It seems to me that you do not respect their lives.
No you don't... You have to be an absolutist, with no grasp of basic concepts of Biology.
As much as the parent can be considered a troll, he/she is right. The pressure of religious ethics of the right wing Christians, along with this administration's spite towards science, will result in rapid elimination of the slim lead that the US has been maintaining in medical and basic research.
Your utter ignorance is the reason why America is falling behind in terms of scientific progress. I hope a terrible degenerative disease claims your life. And as it slowly turns you into a vegetable, you can ponder how nice it would be, if you didn't project your ignorance about stem cells onto the rest of the population and allowed the research to proceed to save hundreds of thousands of lives, including yours. Embryonic cells are the only absolutely pluripotent cells. The umbilical cord cells are partially differentiated, and some pathways have already been closed for them. And before you reply with an equally dumb statement, please refer me to where you got your M.D. or your Ph.D. Frankly, unless you have or are at least in the process of getting a degree in life sciences, your "opinion" about what works and what doesn't is nothing more than hot air, with a heavy stench of bullshit and christian right propaganda.
Bill Gates is undoubtedly a smart guy, but in this interview he seems to have decided to follow the example of the current political administration - change the topic and pretend it is relevant. "The DRM we put into these systems is used to protect medical records, and it's used to protect things people want to protect." What a load of crap! I guess people are passing medical records around over bittorrent. That answer so far offtopic it's appalling, it's stupid, it's... bush-like. Oh, and he still calls open-source advocates communists.
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Quote:
So how exactly did we go from a 1 in 37 chance to a 1 in 56000 chance in a few hours? My guess is that slashdot submitters was posting meaningless statistics and editors were letting them through in order to sensationalize the issue.
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Not true - I looked at the NASA website a few hours ago and the probability was indeed listed at 2.7%
However, I am also interested in how we went from 1/37 to 1/56000 in a few hours.
Dendritic cell vaccination does work on an individual basis - there are studies here, at NYU Med, that focus on using this technique to combat bloodborne cancers.
However, what the article fails to mention is that viral load is a really bad indicator of HIV progress. Good anti-retroviral therapy will give a viral load drop that's LARGER than 90%. Considering that the end-result is the same, since the virus has reservoirs outside the hematopoietic system, this study just proved the general usefullness of the technique, but the way this information was presented, it made it appear as if there was NO (or very limited) CLINICAL USEFULNESS for treatment of HIV.
P.S. I haven't looked up the actual clinical trial publication, but I will do so later tonight and update my point of view if it changes.
Who modded the parent Flamebait? I posed a question for people to think about. In a calm, totally unbiased manner.
Now this may sound a little paranoid (I know I'll be modded down just for saying the phrase above), but "worst case scenario" for you. [Tinfoil Hat Mode ON] It's only a matter of a couple of years until RFID-embedded national ID cards are a mandatory item one has to carry both in the UK and the US. The number of readers (both public, private and secret) will multiply at a geometric rate, with databases tracking more and more of our movements. And now that Texas school-children are being tracked under the guise of protection from kidnapping, how long before the same excuse is used to implant tags into every infant born at a major hospital. With further advances I am sure tags and readers will soon be developed that will allow detection and reading of the tags at several feet or even several meters. [Tinfoil Hat Mode OFF] Ok, so most of what I wrote is nonsense. But for how long? I wrote the worst case scenario because I believe that while we still have rights, we, as citizens should be on the lookout for these developments, so that the crap above does not come true.
Hmmm. How about no! If you actually looked up at how much the red states contribute to the GDP, then maybe you'd realize that perhaps we should have let the south secede after all.
Shut the XXXX up.
If you don't appreciate what doctors go through both physically and emotionally to treat their patients, then why don't you spend a few weeks at a medical school, or a hospital ward.
When you've had 9-10 hours of sleep per week while cramming your head full of information you MUST be able to recall at a second's notice you'll think twice before making outrageous comments like that.
I am personally offended. I chose medicine as a profession and if wasn't because I wanted to screw people out of their money. And I don't know about you, but I've met countless docs who went above and beyond their limits to help people, including those who had difficulties paying.
_ _ _ _
To the original poster - I quickly skimmed the detailed writeup, but I can't seem to figure out where in the country he is right now. If he's anywhere near NY, NYU/Bellevue has ID specialists who've seen a lot more rare cases than anyone in the middle states could possibly even imagine. If it's possible for him to get his butt to NYC ASAP, I am sure he could find an ID specialist to look at him.
E. Friedman
NYU Med MD-PhD Program
Give these guys a break ;)
They're just trying to help out the ailing hordes of patent lawyers. I mean if one could no longer patent the very process of 'post-factum patent squatting litigation', what would happen to the poor folks?!
Personally, I have filed a patent for the "process of gaining permission for sexual activity with a previously unknown person through the use of mood-altering and/or intoxicating substances".
Upon the patent being granted I expect to file no less than 10'000 lawsuits/day for patent infringement, mainly around college campuses.
What xxxx modded me 'overrated' before any rating was applied?
I don't understand how no one sees that this is nothing but yet another project designed to sink public money into private pockets. Sort of money laundering of a sort.
--
We should be sending accolades to journalists who take the time to report on all sides of an issue, not reprimanding them for supporting the side we disagree with.
--
I don't think you're entirely correct. If someone believes that the Earth is flat, it's not journalistic integrity to report that, investigate it further, and treat it on par with what we all know the reality to be. It's plain stupidity, or even reverse bias.
Bill Maher once said: "Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance" (not sure if the phrase is his own). I think it applies very well to this topic. However many journalists are still trying to remain true to a credo of balance, are now plagued with these episodes of hyperbolic need to represent both sides of the story. In essence, they become so balanced that they try and balance issues which are incomparably unbalanced in the first place.
I hate to sound like a cliche, but you are extremely shortsighted. Aside from the usual 'we explore because it's in our nature' explanation, there are a ton more reasons for space exploration. Largely, it is not even about the ends, but rather the means. The number of technologies that came out of the space program, including developments in electronics and materials science are probably of more benefit to the world than any direct findings that came out as the result of the space program.
Quote:
---
Life is more valuable than property. By a factor of infinity. There are no exceptions.
---
Bullshit!
I'm not even going to try and explain that you DON'T KNOW who's going to rape and murder vs. who's going to take my DVD-player. For me it's a lot simpler than that.
I think back to caveman times. Another guy comes into my cave without asking my permission I crack his skull with a large club. Now he should be thankful that I won't have him for dinner afterwards.
Since I will NOT always have a clear route of escape for me/my friends/loved ones, I would never take a chance. I do not own a gun (although I will shortly) but even at this point I will use any weapon at my disposal to neutralize any possible threat.
Just remember:
"It's better to be judged by 12, than carried by 6"
Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.
------------------(Joseph Stalin)
I am amazed that we haven't yet recognized that this is just another campaign trick. The idea behind doing it was very simple - they do it, then leak the info, and revel in the publicity that follows.
At this point, it is highly unlikely that Bush is going to GAIN any NEW votes. However, an action such as this, especially if it gains widespread attention, will thoroughly reinforce Bush's image as someone who doesn't give a shit about anything other than USA (not saying that he cares about the US).
So please stop playing along in this last-minute campaign trick.
I don't know where you get this information, but the new AMDs are somewhat cooler running that the top end Pentium 4s.
As for heat coming from the other side, that's one of the issues that an on-chip Peltier would alleviate, but presenting a cooler surface to the CPU on the side with the heatsink.
Now that we've written down Murphy's law, here's a bunch of other laws we can write down mathematically. I + B*E^ANS = 3SHI/TS LOG(T + A) = G/00.D/(L^A/Y) and for the final one Undescribable life bitching + mathematical formulas = Utter bullshit