To quote: "Male circumcision has been associated with a lower risk for HIV infection in international observational studies and in three randomized controlled clinical trials."
Copyright law needs a review across the board. By which I mean on an international level.
Here is my short list:
- Licences across borders has to be easier
- Software Patents should be revoked (in the US et al)
- Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
- Public performance should have "fair use" exclusions
- Heck, all copyright should have "fair use"
- Damages should be limited to value (e.g. 100% of damages, not 10,000%)
I'm sure there are other things. But frankly the copyright system as it stands is broken. When web-sites have to buy highly expensive licences in dozens of states and companies are winning millions for a few MP3s something is wrong.
So something I've been wondering for a while. Why haven't space planes been developed? Is it just lack of an engine?
- Rotary = efficient at low altitudes
- Jet = efficient at medium
- ?? = high to orbital?
Couldn't we just use a Scramjet until it becomes inefficient and then a rocket for the rest of the way? It would still get us up to 25% of the way there and that is a large amount of rocket fuel (and cost) you've just saved. It would have a weight associated with it but it might still be less than carrying up to 20%~ less rocket fuel for part of the trip.
That's great news for the people within the trial area. They will have much more free time to, you know, go out and meet women. Since now a ton of web-sites break when they attempt to visit them.
If it was just a matter of software updates, but alas there are mountains of sites that are literally hard-coded to store IPv4 addresses and you get a nice PHP error when you attempt to visit them.
They're giving the money to BT (DSL) and Virgin (cable). BT is a private for-profit company and as such will limit what it will allow competition to do and set the prices higher than a public network. Virgin [Media] doesn't allow people to use their network at all.
A public network is always the right answer. You set up the cables, maintain them, and then set the fees based on what you're paying to keep it up-and-running.
With your hugely sarcastic post you also didn't address why these private for-private companies should be getting a huge check out of the pocket of tax payers? Or a better question, why they're getting a huge check which they can then turn around and use to make EVERY MORE money? It is just handing them the keys to the vault.
Instead of the gov' taxing people and placing down public broadband lines companies can compete over... They're literally handing a giant check to the existing two big broadband network suppliers (cable and DSL) and asking them to put down the lines. So in the long term they're just giving the broadband networks a larger subscriber base without any real public benefit.
There is nothing wrong with the tax but what they're using it for is flawed. It will lead to monopolies in most areas, or at best two options to pick from that both charge similar rates and provide similar services.
So when you introduce legal MP3s, does that mean it is now impossible to detect illegal content? . You read these stories about police or customs finding pirate content and I wonder what the chances of getting hit with that after just using this service to download MP3s? And if these MP3s contain signatures what is stopping me from altering my existing music library to make it appear legitimate? When everything is an MP3 who is to say what was obtained legally and illegally?
. Music publishers won't sign on to an "all you can eat MP3 download service" for the simple reason that it just doesn't make financial sense for them to do so. So what you'll wind up with is a bunch of junk no-name artists for your monthly subscription with a few big names kicking around just for the adverts.
. Plus Virigin Media lose any moral high ground they had by dropping people offline, and have also agreed to police their network at whatever that costs to do. I for one will be creating an MD5 hash for every file on my hard disk and asking Virgin Media to stop them being download on their network.
I know this might shock the US crowd, but the rest of the world exists too, and nobody told Microsoft while they were developing Bing's neat features. So what happens is, that all those interesting little local search and filter things are useless to everyone else and winds just winds up being Live Search with new branding.
I like the concept of the filters but they only work for a very small selection of US centric pre-selected results. In fact if it isn't on MSN.com it doesn't seem to exist as far as Bing is concerned.
So bing is meh, it was an interesting demo but just wasn't developed enough to be a real product. Google's unfiltered results are still much better than Live Search.
Just traditional money laundering via a slightly new route. They used to do similar things with Auction Houses, they'd list an item of no real value and then buy it. Dirty money into clean money!
The Megadrive, SNES, Cell Phones, and Game Boy all have exceptional games created for them. The only difference between those devices and the WII is that the WII almost requires you to use the motion capture controller and while we've spent over thirty years designing games using joysticks, controllers, and similarly keyboards this motion capture thing is still very new.
Let's also consider, that because out of the top three platforms only one supports motion capture, you might see less of a return on your investment as opposed to just creating a traditional game with existing code and hitting the 360, PS3, and PC.
TLDR:
- Technology
- Creativity
- Existing Code / Legacy
- And most of all MONEY
Also, airlines DO tell you what kind of Aircraft you're flying on.
At least BA, American Airlines, Delta, and Virgin Airways do. In fact if you don't know then clearly you aren't checking the seat chart to find the optimal seating position for max leg room, head room, and comfort. But that might be more of an issue for those over 6.1:)
In almost every case when the pilot tube (speed, altitude indicator) at night the pilot has been unable to recover the aircraft and crashed.
You have no visible reference at night over water, so you have to rely on your instruments, be it the computer or the traditional indicators we have been using for the last 100 years.
This is true of Boeing Aircrafts just as much as Airbus. Personally I think the pilot tube should have a GPS backup in this day and age but what do I know:)
American Aircraft don't always have manual overrides, and EU (UK, German, French) aircraft often don't lack it. In fact Airbus is its own company and as such follows its own principles as far as design goes. Right now they're designing their aircraft to be as simple as possible and want to eliminate a lot of the human element.
I don't agree with a lot of the discussions Airbus has made over the years:
- Low strength materials in key areas
- No warning alarm when auto-pilot is disengaged
- Less manual control in case of system failure
But then again Boeing has made some HUGE errors and has updated their 747 thousands of times to fix design flaws. People forget that not only is Boeing an older company but a lot of their aircraft designs are up to 40 years old and have been evolving constantly.
American Vs. EU is complete bs but whatever helps Americans sleep at night.
I've spoken with, and listened to, several game developers over the years and it just strikes me how different they have been to the guys on this. I'm watching the videos and it reminds me of my college days geeking it out with other geeky types and screwing around with code.
Very different from the professional environment that you find in a lot of studios these days. They often seem to be run more like a Hollywood Movie or similar to commercial software companies and less like a college startup.
But then again I've not played (or heard of) Demigod before this, and if they can produce fun games that's all that is really important.:)
We have a statistic, 70% of PhDs in Mathematics go to men and up to 30% go to women.
But does this tell us anything about the abilities of both men and women to compete at that level? It might, but it also could be social. Boys are from a very young age encouraged in Maths, Engineering, and Sciences while a lot of girls are encouraged to embrace their social and emotional sides.
If you look at a Psychology, Social Science, or English they have an extremely disproportional amount of women in them. Just as Maths, and Science often has a disproportionate amount of men.
PS - Too few women in Maths/Engineering is "broken." Too few men in Social Science/Child Care/Psychology is "fine."
My point was less about the severity of the compromise and more about the nature of it being on "US Army Servers." I was just trying to show the distinction between the public facing kind of "US Army Servers" and the behind the scenes equipment that one might hope was secure.
SQL injections are fairly common, as have been buffer overflows. But while companies have responded to buffer overflows by making better compilers, better frameworks, and even new CPUs there has only been a slow crawl to a better way to write SQL statements to make SQL injection more difficult.
Some frameworks support Parameters but they're still largely rare (both usage or support) with most people still attempting to write SQL statements with data embedded directly.
The article makes vague speculation about what could potentially happen but neglects to consider that it is the US's ball to hand off.
So if the US wants certain terms (e.g. Freedom of Speech) met when it hands it to an international body they have the leverage to get it.
As far as the "US has never done anything bad with domain names" thing that is bull. The current system basically gives any company with enough money any domain they want and let's not forget the insane anti-gabling domain grab recently.
Because DVD Playback requires a basic $5~ codec (for all the patent holders etc) some versions of Windows do not ship with it and thus without third party applications like PowerDVD or WinDVD that supply a codec, DVD Playback is "impossible."
I'm not sure I know a workaround without sending data to the station, either a codec or third party software that has a built-in decoder.
I read several people talking about the alternatives to Live Messenger but what are they? I'm sure every open source alternative supports emotes and simple text formatting but what about Video Chat?
Currently I only know of four IM applications that support video: - Live Messenger - Skype (Horrible quality) - Yahoo! - Apple iChat (Mac Only)
The year is 2009 and we have fat pipes, so you have little excuse for sticking to 1980s style text conversations.
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If he had invested $38k in the stock market how much would he have after 12 years?
I'm guessing even in these harsh economic times the result would be more than the initial $38k. :)
Disproven? Seems scientific double-blind studies disagree with you.
To quote: "Male circumcision has been associated with a lower risk for HIV infection in international observational studies and in three randomized controlled clinical trials."
Men who disregard birth-control entirely are dicks. Condoms are pretty universally unpopular amongst men and are somewhat unpopular with women too.
Why? You're stretching a piece of rubber across places and both parties are fully aware of that fact. Do I need to explain more?
Copyright law needs a review across the board. By which I mean on an international level.
Here is my short list:
- Licences across borders has to be easier
- Software Patents should be revoked (in the US et al)
- Patents should be 70 years or 30 years after the creator's death
- Public performance should have "fair use" exclusions
- Heck, all copyright should have "fair use"
- Damages should be limited to value (e.g. 100% of damages, not 10,000%)
I'm sure there are other things. But frankly the copyright system as it stands is broken. When web-sites have to buy highly expensive licences in dozens of states and companies are winning millions for a few MP3s something is wrong.
So something I've been wondering for a while. Why haven't space planes been developed? Is it just lack of an engine?
- Rotary = efficient at low altitudes
- Jet = efficient at medium
- ?? = high to orbital?
Couldn't we just use a Scramjet until it becomes inefficient and then a rocket for the rest of the way? It would still get us up to 25% of the way there and that is a large amount of rocket fuel (and cost) you've just saved. It would have a weight associated with it but it might still be less than carrying up to 20%~ less rocket fuel for part of the trip.
While Microsoft's campaign is rubbish, unfortunately Mozilla is no better.
That's great news for the people within the trial area. They will have much more free time to, you know, go out and meet women. Since now a ton of web-sites break when they attempt to visit them.
If it was just a matter of software updates, but alas there are mountains of sites that are literally hard-coded to store IPv4 addresses and you get a nice PHP error when you attempt to visit them.
IPv6 is the new Y2K.
They're giving the money to BT (DSL) and Virgin (cable). BT is a private for-profit company and as such will limit what it will allow competition to do and set the prices higher than a public network. Virgin [Media] doesn't allow people to use their network at all.
A public network is always the right answer. You set up the cables, maintain them, and then set the fees based on what you're paying to keep it up-and-running.
With your hugely sarcastic post you also didn't address why these private for-private companies should be getting a huge check out of the pocket of tax payers? Or a better question, why they're getting a huge check which they can then turn around and use to make EVERY MORE money? It is just handing them the keys to the vault.
Instead of the gov' taxing people and placing down public broadband lines companies can compete over... They're literally handing a giant check to the existing two big broadband network suppliers (cable and DSL) and asking them to put down the lines. So in the long term they're just giving the broadband networks a larger subscriber base without any real public benefit.
There is nothing wrong with the tax but what they're using it for is flawed. It will lead to monopolies in most areas, or at best two options to pick from that both charge similar rates and provide similar services.
So when you introduce legal MP3s, does that mean it is now impossible to detect illegal content?
.
You read these stories about police or customs finding pirate content and I wonder what the chances of getting hit with that after just using this service to download MP3s? And if these MP3s contain signatures what is stopping me from altering my existing music library to make it appear legitimate? When everything is an MP3 who is to say what was obtained legally and illegally?
.
Music publishers won't sign on to an "all you can eat MP3 download service" for the simple reason that it just doesn't make financial sense for them to do so. So what you'll wind up with is a bunch of junk no-name artists for your monthly subscription with a few big names kicking around just for the adverts.
.
Plus Virigin Media lose any moral high ground they had by dropping people offline, and have also agreed to police their network at whatever that costs to do. I for one will be creating an MD5 hash for every file on my hard disk and asking Virgin Media to stop them being download on their network.
I know this might shock the US crowd, but the rest of the world exists too, and nobody told Microsoft while they were developing Bing's neat features. So what happens is, that all those interesting little local search and filter things are useless to everyone else and winds just winds up being Live Search with new branding.
I like the concept of the filters but they only work for a very small selection of US centric pre-selected results. In fact if it isn't on MSN.com it doesn't seem to exist as far as Bing is concerned.
So bing is meh, it was an interesting demo but just wasn't developed enough to be a real product. Google's unfiltered results are still much better than Live Search.
Just traditional money laundering via a slightly new route. They used to do similar things with Auction Houses, they'd list an item of no real value and then buy it. Dirty money into clean money!
No.
The Megadrive, SNES, Cell Phones, and Game Boy all have exceptional games created for them. The only difference between those devices and the WII is that the WII almost requires you to use the motion capture controller and while we've spent over thirty years designing games using joysticks, controllers, and similarly keyboards this motion capture thing is still very new.
Let's also consider, that because out of the top three platforms only one supports motion capture, you might see less of a return on your investment as opposed to just creating a traditional game with existing code and hitting the 360, PS3, and PC.
TLDR:
- Technology
- Creativity
- Existing Code / Legacy
- And most of all MONEY
Stand in the way of exceptional games on the WII.
Also, airlines DO tell you what kind of Aircraft you're flying on.
At least BA, American Airlines, Delta, and Virgin Airways do. In fact if you don't know then clearly you aren't checking the seat chart to find the optimal seating position for max leg room, head room, and comfort. But that might be more of an issue for those over 6.1 :)
In almost every case when the pilot tube (speed, altitude indicator) at night the pilot has been unable to recover the aircraft and crashed.
You have no visible reference at night over water, so you have to rely on your instruments, be it the computer or the traditional indicators we have been using for the last 100 years.
This is true of Boeing Aircrafts just as much as Airbus. Personally I think the pilot tube should have a GPS backup in this day and age but what do I know :)
American Aircraft don't always have manual overrides, and EU (UK, German, French) aircraft often don't lack it. In fact Airbus is its own company and as such follows its own principles as far as design goes. Right now they're designing their aircraft to be as simple as possible and want to eliminate a lot of the human element.
I don't agree with a lot of the discussions Airbus has made over the years:
- Low strength materials in key areas
- No warning alarm when auto-pilot is disengaged
- Less manual control in case of system failure
But then again Boeing has made some HUGE errors and has updated their 747 thousands of times to fix design flaws. People forget that not only is Boeing an older company but a lot of their aircraft designs are up to 40 years old and have been evolving constantly.
American Vs. EU is complete bs but whatever helps Americans sleep at night.
I've spoken with, and listened to, several game developers over the years and it just strikes me how different they have been to the guys on this. I'm watching the videos and it reminds me of my college days geeking it out with other geeky types and screwing around with code.
Very different from the professional environment that you find in a lot of studios these days. They often seem to be run more like a Hollywood Movie or similar to commercial software companies and less like a college startup.
But then again I've not played (or heard of) Demigod before this, and if they can produce fun games that's all that is really important. :)
We have a statistic, 70% of PhDs in Mathematics go to men and up to 30% go to women.
But does this tell us anything about the abilities of both men and women to compete at that level? It might, but it also could be social. Boys are from a very young age encouraged in Maths, Engineering, and Sciences while a lot of girls are encouraged to embrace their social and emotional sides.
If you look at a Psychology, Social Science, or English they have an extremely disproportional amount of women in them. Just as Maths, and Science often has a disproportionate amount of men.
PS - Too few women in Maths/Engineering is "broken." Too few men in Social Science/Child Care/Psychology is "fine."
My point was less about the severity of the compromise and more about the nature of it being on "US Army Servers." I was just trying to show the distinction between the public facing kind of "US Army Servers" and the behind the scenes equipment that one might hope was secure.
SQL injections are fairly common, as have been buffer overflows. But while companies have responded to buffer overflows by making better compilers, better frameworks, and even new CPUs there has only been a slow crawl to a better way to write SQL statements to make SQL injection more difficult.
Some frameworks support Parameters but they're still largely rare (both usage or support) with most people still attempting to write SQL statements with data embedded directly.
I'm just playing devil's advocate but who puts their public website inside their defences?
I know it is an extremely common practice in this country to actually put sites like these on standard third party hosting services (e.g. Rackspace).
They set them up to be as secure as other e-commerce sites, so fairly secure, but without having to poke holes in a nice heavy firewall.
Because some thing that work aren't "fair." Like monopolies for example...
The article makes vague speculation about what could potentially happen but neglects to consider that it is the US's ball to hand off.
So if the US wants certain terms (e.g. Freedom of Speech) met when it hands it to an international body they have the leverage to get it.
As far as the "US has never done anything bad with domain names" thing that is bull. The current system basically gives any company with enough money any domain they want and let's not forget the insane anti-gabling domain grab recently.
Because DVD Playback requires a basic $5~ codec (for all the patent holders etc) some versions of Windows do not ship with it and thus without third party applications like PowerDVD or WinDVD that supply a codec, DVD Playback is "impossible."
I'm not sure I know a workaround without sending data to the station, either a codec or third party software that has a built-in decoder.
Another day, another victory for DRM!
According to this page at one point Coca Cola did indeed contain trace amounts but that is no longer the case and hasn't been the case since 1929
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/cocaine.asp
I read several people talking about the alternatives to Live Messenger but what are they? I'm sure every open source alternative supports emotes and simple text formatting but what about Video Chat?
Currently I only know of four IM applications that support video:
- Live Messenger
- Skype (Horrible quality)
- Yahoo!
- Apple iChat (Mac Only)
The year is 2009 and we have fat pipes, so you have little excuse for sticking to 1980s style text conversations.