Too bad Rumsfeld's not in a position to announce this to the public. I can hear the press conference now: "There are the ones we know we lost, then there are the ones we don't know we lost, then are are the ones we know are not lost....."
"I'd continue on but I just lost my speech outline"
I just started work as a patent officer and while I don't deal with any genetic-related patents I did wonder why this field was around. Sure it's great that people can protect their ideas but when it comes down to it, a patent is nothing but a legal 20 year monopoly. How would you like to know that someone you loved and cared about died because a very underdeveloped company didn't have the R&D finances to back a mass-market production and the idea the patent was founded around died for 20 years. I do agree that the company should be given some time to themselves to try and take off with the idea, but I think a much shorter time frame would assure that if that company does not have the resources, the true life-saving ideas will still soon hit market.
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs.
Or it'd be like getting arrested for engaging in prostitution (or whatever the actual offense is) if you're seen with a prostitute, even if you haven't actually had sex. I've always been amused by that one, too.
or maybe being retarded just because you wear a helmet...
Honestly, I could see almost every contractor getting into this...
I think people need to realize that this will be it's major market as surveying costs run in the $20~30/hour range for a single trained surveyor... this is skilled work. If companies can instead send out untrained (or barely trained) individuals at $10-$15/hr with much less time spent in calculation and only a $100 sunk cost into the software there is no reason they wouldn't choose this method. Very good news for contractors, bad for surveyors.
The price is almost low enough for consumers with a need to calculate distances relatively regularly to purchase this software.
I'm a patent examiner and unfortunately the ap (only at first glance) looks pretty solid. I never like to see a technology that exploits people as it's main purpose but this branch of government won't be able to stop it.
The good news is at the current time it appears the implementation is cost-prohibitive so it won't be implemented for a number of years in mass.
I hope when this technology is implemented there are some restrictions put on it. Invasion of privacy is a big and growing problem.
You're exactly right... it's interesting how many people there are above you (and a lot below you probably too) that didn't even bother to look at the actual content.
Didn't you hear though... the next film they're working on is Star Wars: XP. The name scheme is just to show that they loaded it up with effects and skipped any meaningful content.
I happen to agree that the killing of human life is quite wrong. One of the major issues that this boils down to is when does an organism become living. Well I quite happen to believe in a rather famous philisophical quote "I think therefore I am." Without thought we cannot concieve what human rights even are. I would say that makes them rather insignificant in the scope of things. Without the ability to think this makes the human zygote exactly as alive as its sperm and egg counterpart. There is no pain, there is no trauma and this could vastly help the human race in general. Do you not believe me... go ahead... hook up an EEG to the "head" of these cells... what's that... it hasn't developed... hmmm... guess it can't really know it's "suffing.
Now, on to quality. The human race in the past has had a rough time for their very survival. This has caused many ppl to believe that any manner in which a potential life is ended is wrong. In more primitive times that was exactly the case. Now we have the tecnology to harvest sperm and eggs (There are literally trillions of extras folks) that would have been otherwise unused and killed naturally. If instead they can better human life why should they not? I think it it very much nieve and wrong to believe that anything like using stem cells is killing when this organism never truly "is."
On to cloning... The best part of all of this is that we don't have to entirely deny that organism the right to life. We can use the same copy of an embryo over and over again. And if someone feels it's wrong that we do that to this hunk of geenes (at this point that all that exists) then we can give that organism the right to life still. I know I would be quite proud to know it was "me" that helped hundreds or thousands of ppl get over alsheimers or parkensons.
Anyway... I understand your desire to not in any way harm the sanctity of life, but when that will not be upheald naturally anyway, and the quality of life can thus be improved, I am very much for the latter.
That's the amazing thing about science... it actually helps you... you just have to let it.
I think a lot of us are mistaking the spin of electrons with the spin of quarks. The spin of quarks has no know effect on magnetism and there are 6 different known types of spin on them. This is what, if measured, changes it's own state. The spin on electrons however is vastly different. It does indeed have a large effect on magnetism and there are only two different types of spin. I hope this has clarified things.
Wow... um I'm sorry to say, but relativistic effects that would be significant enough to matter in this case would not be displayed at any speed a human has traveled at. Yes, there would be a small bit of error due to travel but it would not even compare to that of the magnitude that the atomic clock is accurate to. Instead of being off a second every 3 million years, it may be off 1.00000001 seconds.
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I'm sure it's not far off... after all they've already made a DRAM hard drive
I vote they make a spinoff of Robot Wars
I can see it now...
Malware wars... watch rival malware rip each other apart!
"Oh my god, Malwarior just executed an amazing kill maneuver!"
"it looks like Spymaster is only hanging on by a thread!
"Oh... and he's done for. Spymaster is terminated... add him to the hexdump!"
New DRM protection methods are now in the works which were cracked last week.
"I'd continue on but I just lost my speech outline"
Man I hate to agree with Mike but...
I just started work as a patent officer and while I don't deal with any genetic-related patents I did wonder why this field was around. Sure it's great that people can protect their ideas but when it comes down to it, a patent is nothing but a legal 20 year monopoly. How would you like to know that someone you loved and cared about died because a very underdeveloped company didn't have the R&D finances to back a mass-market production and the idea the patent was founded around died for 20 years. I do agree that the company should be given some time to themselves to try and take off with the idea, but I think a much shorter time frame would assure that if that company does not have the resources, the true life-saving ideas will still soon hit market.
Man, I want a bender phone. One you can bend to any angle: 30 degrees, 32 degrees, you name it. 31...
"But I couldn't go on living after I found out what the phones were featured in..."
"/. articles!"
Which give even more credence to this
Let's have Slashdot solve a problem revolving around human sexual relationships. I can't think of three words more "anti-slashdot" than that ;)
really, that's why we turn to the porn industry
This must be Solviet Russia because I don't think Vista is ready for Apple
To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs.
Or it'd be like getting arrested for engaging in prostitution (or whatever the actual offense is) if you're seen with a prostitute, even if you haven't actually had sex. I've always been amused by that one, too.
or maybe being retarded just because you wear a helmet...
wait... that would be the RIAA
Dell: our computers are elecrifying!
That is shockingly clever idea for a current marketing campaign.
All I know is that will sure zap the competition!
At the moment every other OS has better security than Windows, what's new?
That's true... even the brand new Linux "Backdoor" distro has better security!
Dell's new marketing campaign should be: Dell: our computers are elecrifying!
Honestly, I could see almost every contractor getting into this...
I think people need to realize that this will be it's major market as surveying costs run in the $20~30/hour range for a single trained surveyor... this is skilled work. If companies can instead send out untrained (or barely trained) individuals at $10-$15/hr with much less time spent in calculation and only a $100 sunk cost into the software there is no reason they wouldn't choose this method. Very good news for contractors, bad for surveyors.
The price is almost low enough for consumers with a need to calculate distances relatively regularly to purchase this software.
I'm a patent examiner and unfortunately the ap (only at first glance) looks pretty solid. I never like to see a technology that exploits people as it's main purpose but this branch of government won't be able to stop it. The good news is at the current time it appears the implementation is cost-prohibitive so it won't be implemented for a number of years in mass. I hope when this technology is implemented there are some restrictions put on it. Invasion of privacy is a big and growing problem.
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my name is M0lester... not MOlester
You're exactly right... it's interesting how many people there are above you (and a lot below you probably too) that didn't even bother to look at the actual content.
Who needs freedom when there's just got so many cool options?
Didn't you hear though... the next film they're working on is Star Wars: XP. The name scheme is just to show that they loaded it up with effects and skipped any meaningful content.
I happen to agree that the killing of human life is quite wrong. One of the major issues that this boils down to is when does an organism become living. Well I quite happen to believe in a rather famous philisophical quote "I think therefore I am." Without thought we cannot concieve what human rights even are. I would say that makes them rather insignificant in the scope of things. Without the ability to think this makes the human zygote exactly as alive as its sperm and egg counterpart. There is no pain, there is no trauma and this could vastly help the human race in general. Do you not believe me... go ahead... hook up an EEG to the "head" of these cells... what's that... it hasn't developed... hmmm... guess it can't really know it's "suffing.
Now, on to quality. The human race in the past has had a rough time for their very survival. This has caused many ppl to believe that any manner in which a potential life is ended is wrong. In more primitive times that was exactly the case. Now we have the tecnology to harvest sperm and eggs (There are literally trillions of extras folks) that would have been otherwise unused and killed naturally. If instead they can better human life why should they not? I think it it very much nieve and wrong to believe that anything like using stem cells is killing when this organism never truly "is."
On to cloning... The best part of all of this is that we don't have to entirely deny that organism the right to life. We can use the same copy of an embryo over and over again. And if someone feels it's wrong that we do that to this hunk of geenes (at this point that all that exists) then we can give that organism the right to life still. I know I would be quite proud to know it was "me" that helped hundreds or thousands of ppl get over alsheimers or parkensons.
Anyway... I understand your desire to not in any way harm the sanctity of life, but when that will not be upheald naturally anyway, and the quality of life can thus be improved, I am very much for the latter.
That's the amazing thing about science... it actually helps you... you just have to let it.
I think a lot of us are mistaking the spin of electrons with the spin of quarks. The spin of quarks has no know effect on magnetism and there are 6 different known types of spin on them. This is what, if measured, changes it's own state. The spin on electrons however is vastly different. It does indeed have a large effect on magnetism and there are only two different types of spin. I hope this has clarified things.
Just a 23 cent stamp!
Sweet! Now I don't have to liberate them myself!
Wow... um I'm sorry to say, but relativistic effects that would be significant enough to matter in this case would not be displayed at any speed a human has traveled at. Yes, there would be a small bit of error due to travel but it would not even compare to that of the magnitude that the atomic clock is accurate to. Instead of being off a second every 3 million years, it may be off 1.00000001 seconds.