The only people I've seen recently storming ships to sieze parts of the cargo (ie. Pirates) has been Greenpeace themselves. Trying to prove GM soya bean shipments so taking samples of the cargo while in International Waters.
But you need to know which parts of the EU Commission are still accepting payments in brown paper bags. A whole load of corruption was cleared out a few years back (almost entire departments resigning). The EU Commissioners do NOT need campaign contributions as they have no campaigns to run - they are politically appointed by the member state governments. A bit like the Secretary of State/Defense/etc in the USA - not voted for, but appointed by the boss.
I'm not sure where you get the "backstabbing little shit" from.. As part of his job he is asked by the authorities to examine evidence they already hold - in the case of the Welsh hacker and Gary Glitter where the police already had the evidence. As ANOTHER part of his job, he does systems penetration tests.
He doesn't do illegal stuff these days - it would completely destroy the reputation he has built up as a credible expert witness. Why bother illegally breaking into systems when people will pay you to break into their own?
According to your thinking, every CSI and other specialist investigator is a "backstabbing little shit" as they turn over all the info they find to the authorities (who also hand it over to the defense as required to do so if they are using it in a court).
Why not give all the principle actors (and crew) a percentage instead of a direct wage.
Some of the more character actors have done this with smaller films, and made a handsome profit from the work.
Think of the money Alec Guinness made from Star Wars: A New Hope.
I can see this happening as a result of the Apple-v-Apple court case next month.
That way Apple can get out of the Music business leave it all to the iDivision.
The location is picked as it is on the equator - so it takes less energy to get things into orbit. As nice as it might be to have it located in SF it would mean it costing more.
Think of this as a proving ground for the technology. An extra step in the march forward. Various governments are currently after high altitude, long endurance aircraft. What better showcase for Scaled Composites than to say that they hold the record.
Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same party. Go back far enough and they were the same party. They have a nice little system working for their benefit and they don't want anyone else butting in to spoit it with checks and balances.
And the Electoral College system means that in all but one or two states the vote of the people means nothing. Its the Electoral College voters that have the power, not the people.
Probably the only time The Sun would be classed as a utility - wonder how much Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, 20th Century, Sky, etc) paid for that to appear.
What is it with senators appending bills to others to try and get them passed.
Surely if you are voting on a specific Bill then thats all you should be voting on - not "The Senate should buy more duck food for the ducks on the lake Bill" with the appended "Nuke Russia Bill" and "Give Hollywood and Microsoft everyone's firstborn Bill"
ISP could become more responsible and by DEFAULT restrict certain ports and services, unless specifically requested by the user.
Grannie Jones doesn't need to run an IRC server (or any other server) on her home PC which she uses to collect emailed pics of the kids on.
At the moment ISP are Windows with everything open and enabled by default. They should be more like OpenBSD with everything closed by default and opened up by the user requesting the services.
But the North American and European plates meet at Iceland (his homeland). There is a lake in the middle of the rift valley (the shores of which the original Icelandic Parliament used to meet on) http://www.randburg.com/is/thingvellir.html
He could have just pulled a fast one and swam across the lake:-)
There is NOTHING in the GPL to say you can't sell the packages - this is how RedHat are able to sell copies of GNU/Linux packed with all the GNU utils and other FOSS packages.
The only thing the GPL states is that any modifications have to be given back to the community and any customers are entitled to the source as used in the product.
I am perfectly entitled according the the GPL to take a copy of PearPC - maybe fork the code and call it CoxsOrangePippinOS(*) and then release a package for sale. All you would have to do is credit accordingly, allow access to the code and profit.
* Cox's Orange Pippin is a very delicious variety of desert Apple.
But you'd have to go to Calder Bridge for the pint and Egremont for the fish and chips.
Personally - I prefer Ravenglass for both as Egremont is a scary place - every stereotype you can think of is found there - plus the have the crab fair and the gurning contest. http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Cumbria_Traditi ons/Gurning/Gurning.php
But the articles were not about anything which was blatently untrue so they cannot sue on the grounds of defamation, slander, libel, etc.
The journalists sources are 'protected' as long as its the truth, or the journalist wants to take the fall for their source when its untrue.
The problem now is with the proliferation of websites "publishing" information, what constitutes a journalist. Previously, it was someone who worked for the mainstream media or was a freelance with a press pass, now it seems that anyone who can write in a blog can be called a 'journalist':-)
Media Releases 10 January 2005 A Morse code for human cells
Morse code is a simple, effective and clear method of communication and now scientists believe that cells in our body may also be using patterns of signals to switch genes on and off. The discovery may have major implications for the pharmaceutical industry as the signalling molecules that are targeted by drugs may have more than one purpose. The number of 'dots and dashes' being used by each signal could have different purposes, all of which could be modified by a drug.
The researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and working at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, in collaboration with scientists at AstraZeneca and Pfizer, have studied transcription factors, the signalling molecules inside cells that activate or deactivate genes. They found that the strength of the signal is less important than the dynamic frequency pattern that is used.
Professor Michael White of the Centre for Cell Imaging at Liverpool and leader of the research group said, "The timing of the repeating signal is essential for its interpretation. It seems that cells may read the oscillations in level of transcription factors in a similar way to Morse code."
The researchers focused on the response of a transcription factor involved in controlling the crucial processes of cell division and cell death. They found that the dynamics of the signalling molecule resemble the changes in calcium levels that encode other messages in cells. The results suggest how common signalling molecules could convey different messages through different frequencies.
Professor Douglas Kell, who sits on BBSRC Council and is a member of the research team, said, "This raises new challenges for drug designers. It appears that simply aiming to knock down signalling molecules with drugs, as many people are trying to do, may have weak or even undesirable effects as a range of signals could be cancelled out. It is going to be important in the future to decode the Morse-like messages from the molecules to make sure that only the desired effects are blocked."
Professor Julia Goodfellow, BBSRC Chief Executive, said, "This research is an example of a multi-disciplinary approach producing vitally important results. By combining expertise in cell biology, chemistry, mathematical modelling and bio-imaging the research team have discovered this coded signal that is going to inform the development of better, more effective drugs."
ENDS Contacts
Matt Goode , BBSRC Media Office
Tel: 01793 413299, E-mail: matt.goode@bbsrc.ac.uk
Professor Michael White, University of Liverpool
E-mail: m.white@liv.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Kell, University of Manchester
E-mail: dbk@man.ac.uk
Notes to Editors
This research features in the January 2005 issue of Business, the quarterly magazine of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
The researchers used cultured cells, which had been modified to carry fluorescent proteins or a gene for bioluminescence which enabled them to visualise events in the cell.
The signalling molecule focused on was NF-kappa B which is a transcription factor involved in cell death and cell division.
The collaborative research was conducted by scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool , The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
About BBSRC
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences. Sponsored by Government, BBSRC annually invests around £300 million in a wide ran
I'd have thought it would be a little too far for current cables to export the electricity. You would need some very low resistance cables (probably super conductors) to be able to transmit the power that far.
Why outsource the manufacturing, why not take the same route as ARM.
They just design the CPU core and then licence it to anyone and everyone. Intel licenses ARM cores (XScale is 'compatible with ARM 5TE'), you've probably got an ARM based processor in your phone and Palm Pilot these days too....
It means that ARM can concentrate on what they do best - design decent low power CPU cores, and leave it to everyone else to actually make them and put them in things.
Slashdot Mirror
The only people I've seen recently storming ships to sieze parts of the cargo (ie. Pirates) has been Greenpeace themselves. Trying to prove GM soya bean shipments so taking samples of the cargo while in International Waters.
But you need to know which parts of the EU Commission are still accepting payments in brown paper bags.
A whole load of corruption was cleared out a few years back (almost entire departments resigning). The EU Commissioners do NOT need campaign contributions as they have no campaigns to run - they are politically appointed by the member state governments. A bit like the Secretary of State/Defense/etc in the USA - not voted for, but appointed by the boss.
I'm not sure where you get the "backstabbing little shit" from..
As part of his job he is asked by the authorities to examine evidence they already hold - in the case of the Welsh hacker and Gary Glitter where the police already had the evidence.
As ANOTHER part of his job, he does systems penetration tests.
He doesn't do illegal stuff these days - it would completely destroy the reputation he has built up as a credible expert witness. Why bother illegally breaking into systems when people will pay you to break into their own?
According to your thinking, every CSI and other specialist investigator is a "backstabbing little shit" as they turn over all the info they find to the authorities (who also hand it over to the defense as required to do so if they are using it in a court).
Why not give all the principle actors (and crew) a percentage instead of a direct wage. Some of the more character actors have done this with smaller films, and made a handsome profit from the work. Think of the money Alec Guinness made from Star Wars: A New Hope.
But modern inspiration is about copying the original with just enough changes not to get hit with patent issues. No need for imagination :-)
I can see this happening as a result of the Apple-v-Apple court case next month. That way Apple can get out of the Music business leave it all to the iDivision.
The location is picked as it is on the equator - so it takes less energy to get things into orbit. As nice as it might be to have it located in SF it would mean it costing more.
Think of this as a proving ground for the technology. An extra step in the march forward. Various governments are currently after high altitude, long endurance aircraft. What better showcase for Scaled Composites than to say that they hold the record.
Going back to the moon is a technology testbed - to prove and test the technologies to get man to Mars (and beyond).
Just like the early rocket launches built up to Apollo, current projects test the technologies we will be using in the future. Ion drives and such.
Just having a quick browse through http://exploration.nasa.gov/ shows the stuff they want to develop - for unmanned and then manned flight.
Wait till the stock rises and he makes some money from them.
Then we can have the "Jack Thompson profiteering from video game violence" as a headline.
Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same party. Go back far enough and they were the same party.
They have a nice little system working for their benefit and they don't want anyone else butting in to spoit it with checks and balances.
And the Electoral College system means that in all but one or two states the vote of the people means nothing. Its the Electoral College voters that have the power, not the people.
Actually OpenSolaris is a good comparison.
Loads of bits of Solaris were developed by others outside of Sun.
But they spent the time and effort to either remove them or sort out the licenses and then release.
Probably the only time The Sun would be classed as a utility - wonder how much Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, 20th Century, Sky, etc) paid for that to appear.
Who really needs AV for unix?
Any sysadmin who runs Samba with Windows clients connecting.
Its so much easier to scan everything on the server.
What is it with senators appending bills to others to try and get them passed.
Surely if you are voting on a specific Bill then thats all you should be voting on - not "The Senate should buy more duck food for the ducks on the lake Bill" with the appended "Nuke Russia Bill" and "Give Hollywood and Microsoft everyone's firstborn Bill"
ISP could become more responsible and by DEFAULT restrict certain ports and services, unless specifically requested by the user.
Grannie Jones doesn't need to run an IRC server (or any other server) on her home PC which she uses to collect emailed pics of the kids on.
At the moment ISP are Windows with everything open and enabled by default. They should be more like OpenBSD with everything closed by default and opened up by the user requesting the services.
But the North American and European plates meet at Iceland (his homeland).
:-)
There is a lake in the middle of the rift valley (the shores of which the original Icelandic Parliament used to meet on) http://www.randburg.com/is/thingvellir.html
He could have just pulled a fast one and swam across the lake
Its not called stealing - its providing an insecure off-site backup :-)
There is NOTHING in the GPL to say you can't sell the packages - this is how RedHat are able to sell copies of GNU/Linux packed with all the GNU utils and other FOSS packages.
The only thing the GPL states is that any modifications have to be given back to the community and any customers are entitled to the source as used in the product.
I am perfectly entitled according the the GPL to take a copy of PearPC - maybe fork the code and call it CoxsOrangePippinOS(*) and then release a package for sale. All you would have to do is credit accordingly, allow access to the code and profit.
* Cox's Orange Pippin is a very delicious variety of desert Apple.
But you'd have to go to Calder Bridge for the pint and Egremont for the fish and chips.i ons/Gurning/Gurning.php
Personally - I prefer Ravenglass for both as Egremont is a scary place - every stereotype you can think of is found there - plus the have the crab fair and the gurning contest. http://www.thecumbriadirectory.com/Cumbria_Tradit
But the articles were not about anything which was blatently untrue so they cannot sue on the grounds of defamation, slander, libel, etc.
:-)
The journalists sources are 'protected' as long as its the truth, or the journalist wants to take the fall for their source when its untrue.
The problem now is with the proliferation of websites "publishing" information, what constitutes a journalist. Previously, it was someone who worked for the mainstream media or was a freelance with a press pass, now it seems that anyone who can write in a blog can be called a 'journalist'
The original article (without ads)
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/05_01_1 0_cell_morse_code.html
Media Releases
10 January 2005
A Morse code for human cells
Morse code is a simple, effective and clear method of communication and now scientists believe that cells in our body may also be using patterns of signals to switch genes on and off. The discovery may have major implications for the pharmaceutical industry as the signalling molecules that are targeted by drugs may have more than one purpose. The number of 'dots and dashes' being used by each signal could have different purposes, all of which could be modified by a drug.
The researchers, funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and working at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, in collaboration with scientists at AstraZeneca and Pfizer, have studied transcription factors, the signalling molecules inside cells that activate or deactivate genes. They found that the strength of the signal is less important than the dynamic frequency pattern that is used.
Professor Michael White of the Centre for Cell Imaging at Liverpool and leader of the research group said, "The timing of the repeating signal is essential for its interpretation. It seems that cells may read the oscillations in level of transcription factors in a similar way to Morse code."
The researchers focused on the response of a transcription factor involved in controlling the crucial processes of cell division and cell death. They found that the dynamics of the signalling molecule resemble the changes in calcium levels that encode other messages in cells. The results suggest how common signalling molecules could convey different messages through different frequencies.
Professor Douglas Kell, who sits on BBSRC Council and is a member of the research team, said, "This raises new challenges for drug designers. It appears that simply aiming to knock down signalling molecules with drugs, as many people are trying to do, may have weak or even undesirable effects as a range of signals could be cancelled out. It is going to be important in the future to decode the Morse-like messages from the molecules to make sure that only the desired effects are blocked."
Professor Julia Goodfellow, BBSRC Chief Executive, said, "This research is an example of a multi-disciplinary approach producing vitally important results. By combining expertise in cell biology, chemistry, mathematical modelling and bio-imaging the research team have discovered this coded signal that is going to inform the development of better, more effective drugs."
ENDS
Contacts
Matt Goode , BBSRC Media Office
Tel: 01793 413299, E-mail: matt.goode@bbsrc.ac.uk
Professor Michael White, University of Liverpool
E-mail: m.white@liv.ac.uk
Professor Douglas Kell, University of Manchester
E-mail: dbk@man.ac.uk
Notes to Editors
This research features in the January 2005 issue of Business, the quarterly magazine of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
The researchers used cultured cells, which had been modified to carry fluorescent proteins or a gene for bioluminescence which enabled them to visualise events in the cell.
The signalling molecule focused on was NF-kappa B which is a transcription factor involved in cell death and cell division.
The collaborative research was conducted by scientists at the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool , The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and the pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Pfizer.
About BBSRC
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the UK funding agency for research in the life sciences. Sponsored by Government, BBSRC annually invests around £300 million in a wide ran
I'd have thought it would be a little too far for current cables to export the electricity.
You would need some very low resistance cables (probably super conductors) to be able to transmit the power that far.
Why outsource the manufacturing, why not take the same route as ARM.
They just design the CPU core and then licence it to anyone and everyone. Intel licenses ARM cores (XScale is 'compatible with ARM 5TE'), you've probably got an ARM based processor in your phone and Palm Pilot these days too....
It means that ARM can concentrate on what they do best - design decent low power CPU cores, and leave it to everyone else to actually make them and put them in things.