Sorry, I saw it on the CBC a few years ago, so I don't remember who did it.
However, I just googled myself, and found
this one.
Here is the relavent quote from it:
Research by the MRC's PROMEC Unit indicates that patulin levels in apple juice made from conventionally grown apples ranged from 250-4000g/l. But in organically produced apple cider, a study done by other researchers has found levels of up to 45 000g/l.
Patulin is the chemical produced by this fungus, and it is ALSO the chemical used in the fungicide. However, I was mistaken. It isn't carcinogenic, it is mutanagenic, which means it MAY cause cancer, but they don't know yet. Plus, even if it does cause cancer, the anti-oxidents in apples MORE than cancel out any dangers.
Just FYI, the Google search I used was "apple cause cancer organic fungus":D
I don't see how some 57 voting machines could have accidently opened an FTP connection to the diebold FTP site and uploaded the.mdb files into "orig.zip" and password protected the archive with the name of a Diebold employee, then flagged them for said employee.
And yes, an MS Access.mdb file. They are Windows machines, you know;)
As to the debate on whether or not the food is better for you. I know it can't be worse.
It sometimes IS worse. Take apples, for example. Apples are sprayed with fungicides. These fungicides have a carcigenic ingredient. So it would be a fair assumption that organic apples are better for you, since they do not contain this nasty cancer-causing chemical. Well, a pro-organic group did a test to prove this. What they found is, on sprayed apples, the levels of this chemical were WELL below concentrations in which they become carcinagenic. But the organic apples, they had this chemical in dangerous concentrations. Why? Because the spray killed a fungus which also produces this dangerous chemical, and produces more of it.
So there you have it. Organic isn't always better for you, and it is dangerous to make such assumptions without careful investigation. I'm only talking about produce though. Free range, anti-biotic free meat, eggs, and dairy, in my opinion, taste better, and arn't much more expensive.
Supposedly the connection is one way, so they cannot "rig" the election, per se. An article I had read earler said that it was only summary information, tallies, of the votes, not each individual vote, that was uploaded. The article posted here isn't clear on the subject.
But either way, it is very illegal to count votes while the poles are still open, regardles of whether or not you can tie each vote to each person.
Even if IBM didn't know, they still deserve compensation for harm that IBM exposed them to. Just because IBM didn't know, shouldn't mean that these people are screwed.
That's my opinion. My other opinion is they if IBM did know, and didn't tell the workers, the people responsible should face jail time for criminal negligence. But that could never happen because in the US, corporations are people, and since it was the corporation that did it, only the corporation can be charged with anything. Yay!
Yes, of course...you can't dismiss it when thousands of people are showing symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and radiation damage to the lungs. You can't dismiss it as "Well, some people get sick. It's a fluke." or "They are making it up to defraud us out of money. You're not really dead! GET UP!" Just like you can't dismiss the fact that these people have heavy levels of toxic heavy metals in their blood, lungs, and sometimes even semen. "Well...who knows how that got there...Besides, its not dangerous" Just like you can't dismiss your own internal reports which outline the dangers of exposure, saying "We were wrong. That report is old and we have since found that it was wrong."
Oh...wait...you'll be fine? And you can even cut their pensions and healthcare coverage WHILE THEY DIE, and it STILL won't get any good news coverage? I guess IBM won't have any problems, then.
One of my proff's sister worked for Intel. She wanted to have a baby. They told her she had to stop working on chips for at least 18 months before getting pregenant. I don't know much about an autobody shop...but do they wear bunny suits? And are they not allowed to have children?
Filesharing apps have an interesting legal question about them. Who is doing the copying? The downloader, or the uploader? I would say the uploader, since they copy it to the Internet, but it could be argued the other way. If it is the uploader, there is nothing illegal about downloading songs, whether or not you own the CD or the AAC. Only sharing them is illegal. It is perfectly legal to possess copyrighted material, just not COPY. (It's called copyright, not possesionright;)
Since the RIAA is going after the big sharers, they obviously agree that it is the uploader who is making the copy.
Yes, but their argument is that if you bankrupt the big 5, the artists will still exist, and can get a better deal with an "indy" label.
Not saying I agree with them, but that is how they managed to come up with "An artist is better off with $0 than with $1/cd"
Basically, what it comes down to is "I care enough about you to hurt you...but not enough to hurt me." If they REALLY cared, they would make a sacrifice themselves and NOT LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, rather than ONLY imposing a sacrifice on the artists.
Optimally, what you would want to do is download the songs, and then mail the artists a nice crisp $2 bill (Or coin, or whatever) along with a letter explaining WHY you are mailing them money.
That way you get the music, the record company gets boycotted, AND the band makes money...more money than they would if you bought the CD.
If you buy a Playstation that you KNEW was stolen, you can be charged with possesion of stolen property. But not theft. And if you didn't know, then you can't be charged with anything. Although you DO have to give it back.
Hehe, somebody stole one of my (software) CD's, and lent it to somebody else. And when I found out who had it went like this.
Me: You have my CD, I want it back sometime soon
Him: I don't have to, Jamie lent it to me
Me: He stole it from me, so give it back
Him: No
Me: Don't make me call the cops, I don't need the hassel
Him: Nothing they can do, I didn't steal it
Me: Possesion of stolen property
Him: Nope, I didn't know it was stolen
Me: But now you do
One of the proposed solutions to the so called "Analog hole" is to make CD players only output an encrypted, digital signal. And make the speakers/headphones have a a decryptor build right in to them.
Of course, you could open up your speaker, and use the wires that were connected to the drivers as an analog signal...but then you would go to jail for 5 years for violating the DMCA:D
Actually, the worst they can do is a nuclear missile to the face.
On the note of France and nuclear weapons...anybody notice how France resumes nuclear testing, and everybody makes a big stink. The US announces it is pulling out of nuclear treaties, and resuming testing, and nobody cares.
Actually, it does matter. Because if you invoice over a good/service that you didn't provide, but you are claiming that you DID, that is fraud, which is a federal offence. If a judge rules that there is SCO code in Linux, AND that Linux users have to pay, then all is good for SCO. But if the judge determines that there ISN'T any code, or that users don't have to pay, then SCO could very well get charged with one count of fraud for every invoice they sent.
At least, that is MY understanding of fraud. IANAL
Sure there is. A header tag which indicates which folders it should go in, regardless of whether or not it matches the other criteria.
With the example the author gave...
x-virtualfolders: vendor;project name
Besides which, Black Widows arn't as danagerous as most people think. Sure, they can kill a small child or an old person. But the most a black widow bite will do to a fit person is make them feel cramps, cold sweats, and nausia. You should still see a doctor, but it's unlikely that you are in any danger. There has not been a fatal Black Widow bite in the USA for over 10 years.
The brown recluse, on the other hand, is a pretty nasty North American spider. I still have scars on my leg from a bite. It is NOT fun having your flesh dissolve, believe me!
On the other hand, if you STATE that your post will be modded up as something, that almost always means it won't be modded up. Moderators don't like proving people right, and may just mod it offtopic or troll out of spite.
Imagine I run a website. It becomes REALLY popular and is costing thousands of dollars per month in bandwidth. So I put up a bunch of banner ads and popups to offset the cost. People are EXTREAMLY pissed because they hate ads, and start using Mozilla to block to popups, filter the banners, etc...so I can no longer make money off advertising. So I start making the website subscription only. "How DARE you!" the people scream "I am a loyal reader, I DEMAND service! You used to give me free entertainment and your expense, and you MUST CONTINUE TO DO SO! I refuse to pay for anything! You are evil!"
Now, if I happen to be stinking rich, and able to pay the thousands per month without a worry, does that make a difference? Because somebody CAN afford to lose money, they should HAVE to?
Sure, Microsoft is an asshole for closing off 3rd party clients, and they raised a stink about others shutting THEM out of their IM networks...but think about it. They pay money, lots of money, to run their IM servers. They make it back by having adverts in the IM client. And people like Trillian are SELLING software to access it without the ads. They are MAKING MONEY off Microsofts servers. Why should they not have to pay?
You are right. They are FREE. Which means that money DIDN'T go into the economy. Ever seen a homeless person? They are homeless because of the economy. Still think Linux is harmless?
No, YOUR math is off. Parent is not saying that you need that many for a 50/50 of ANY of them having the same one. You need that many for a 50/50 of having "...the desired MD5 hash."
In other words, while it's true that you only need twenty-odd people to have a fair chance of at least two of them sharing a birthday, you DO need 183 to have a fair chance of one or more of them having MY birthday.
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Sorry, I saw it on the CBC a few years ago, so I don't remember who did it.
However, I just googled myself, and found this one.
Here is the relavent quote from it:
Patulin is the chemical produced by this fungus, and it is ALSO the chemical used in the fungicide. However, I was mistaken. It isn't carcinogenic, it is mutanagenic, which means it MAY cause cancer, but they don't know yet. Plus, even if it does cause cancer, the anti-oxidents in apples MORE than cancel out any dangers.Just FYI, the Google search I used was "apple cause cancer organic fungus" :D
I don't see how some 57 voting machines could have accidently opened an FTP connection to the diebold FTP site and uploaded the .mdb files into "orig.zip" and password protected the archive with the name of a Diebold employee, then flagged them for said employee.
And yes, an MS Access .mdb file. They are Windows machines, you know ;)
This may be of interest.
It sometimes IS worse. Take apples, for example. Apples are sprayed with fungicides. These fungicides have a carcigenic ingredient. So it would be a fair assumption that organic apples are better for you, since they do not contain this nasty cancer-causing chemical. Well, a pro-organic group did a test to prove this. What they found is, on sprayed apples, the levels of this chemical were WELL below concentrations in which they become carcinagenic. But the organic apples, they had this chemical in dangerous concentrations. Why? Because the spray killed a fungus which also produces this dangerous chemical, and produces more of it.
So there you have it. Organic isn't always better for you, and it is dangerous to make such assumptions without careful investigation. I'm only talking about produce though. Free range, anti-biotic free meat, eggs, and dairy, in my opinion, taste better, and arn't much more expensive.
Supposedly the connection is one way, so they cannot "rig" the election, per se. An article I had read earler said that it was only summary information, tallies, of the votes, not each individual vote, that was uploaded. The article posted here isn't clear on the subject.
But either way, it is very illegal to count votes while the poles are still open, regardles of whether or not you can tie each vote to each person.
Even if IBM didn't know, they still deserve compensation for harm that IBM exposed them to. Just because IBM didn't know, shouldn't mean that these people are screwed.
That's my opinion. My other opinion is they if IBM did know, and didn't tell the workers, the people responsible should face jail time for criminal negligence. But that could never happen because in the US, corporations are people, and since it was the corporation that did it, only the corporation can be charged with anything. Yay!
Yes, of course...you can't dismiss it when thousands of people are showing symptoms of heavy metal toxicity and radiation damage to the lungs. You can't dismiss it as "Well, some people get sick. It's a fluke." or "They are making it up to defraud us out of money. You're not really dead! GET UP!" Just like you can't dismiss the fact that these people have heavy levels of toxic heavy metals in their blood, lungs, and sometimes even semen. "Well...who knows how that got there...Besides, its not dangerous" Just like you can't dismiss your own internal reports which outline the dangers of exposure, saying "We were wrong. That report is old and we have since found that it was wrong."
Oh...wait...you'll be fine? And you can even cut their pensions and healthcare coverage WHILE THEY DIE, and it STILL won't get any good news coverage? I guess IBM won't have any problems, then.
Hehe, still better than Fox. "Here is something pro-US posted to a blog! Let's announce it as coming from a reliable newspaper in the UK!"
One of my proff's sister worked for Intel. She wanted to have a baby. They told her she had to stop working on chips for at least 18 months before getting pregenant. I don't know much about an autobody shop...but do they wear bunny suits? And are they not allowed to have children?
Filesharing apps have an interesting legal question about them. Who is doing the copying? The downloader, or the uploader? I would say the uploader, since they copy it to the Internet, but it could be argued the other way. If it is the uploader, there is nothing illegal about downloading songs, whether or not you own the CD or the AAC. Only sharing them is illegal. It is perfectly legal to possess copyrighted material, just not COPY. (It's called copyright, not possesionright ;)
Since the RIAA is going after the big sharers, they obviously agree that it is the uploader who is making the copy.
Yes, but their argument is that if you bankrupt the big 5, the artists will still exist, and can get a better deal with an "indy" label.
Not saying I agree with them, but that is how they managed to come up with "An artist is better off with $0 than with $1/cd"
Basically, what it comes down to is "I care enough about you to hurt you...but not enough to hurt me." If they REALLY cared, they would make a sacrifice themselves and NOT LISTEN TO THE MUSIC, rather than ONLY imposing a sacrifice on the artists.
Optimally, what you would want to do is download the songs, and then mail the artists a nice crisp $2 bill (Or coin, or whatever) along with a letter explaining WHY you are mailing them money. That way you get the music, the record company gets boycotted, AND the band makes money...more money than they would if you bought the CD.
If you buy a Playstation that you KNEW was stolen, you can be charged with possesion of stolen property. But not theft. And if you didn't know, then you can't be charged with anything. Although you DO have to give it back.
Hehe, somebody stole one of my (software) CD's, and lent it to somebody else. And when I found out who had it went like this.
:D
Me: You have my CD, I want it back sometime soon
Him: I don't have to, Jamie lent it to me
Me: He stole it from me, so give it back
Him: No
Me: Don't make me call the cops, I don't need the hassel
Him: Nothing they can do, I didn't steal it
Me: Possesion of stolen property
Him: Nope, I didn't know it was stolen
Me: But now you do
I got it back the next day
One of the proposed solutions to the so called "Analog hole" is to make CD players only output an encrypted, digital signal. And make the speakers/headphones have a a decryptor build right in to them. :D
Of course, you could open up your speaker, and use the wires that were connected to the drivers as an analog signal...but then you would go to jail for 5 years for violating the DMCA
Actually, the worst they can do is a nuclear missile to the face.
On the note of France and nuclear weapons...anybody notice how France resumes nuclear testing, and everybody makes a big stink. The US announces it is pulling out of nuclear treaties, and resuming testing, and nobody cares.
Actually, it does matter. Because if you invoice over a good/service that you didn't provide, but you are claiming that you DID, that is fraud, which is a federal offence. If a judge rules that there is SCO code in Linux, AND that Linux users have to pay, then all is good for SCO. But if the judge determines that there ISN'T any code, or that users don't have to pay, then SCO could very well get charged with one count of fraud for every invoice they sent.
At least, that is MY understanding of fraud. IANALSure there is. A header tag which indicates which folders it should go in, regardless of whether or not it matches the other criteria.
With the example the author gave...
x-virtualfolders: vendor;project name
They probably just didn't know that. Now that you've mentioned it, we won't be allowed to bring batteries on board planes. Thanks a bunch.
The idea is, they want to prevent somebody who SHOULD have access from e-mailing it to somebody who SHOULD NOT.
Besides which, Black Widows arn't as danagerous as most people think. Sure, they can kill a small child or an old person. But the most a black widow bite will do to a fit person is make them feel cramps, cold sweats, and nausia. You should still see a doctor, but it's unlikely that you are in any danger. There has not been a fatal Black Widow bite in the USA for over 10 years.
The brown recluse, on the other hand, is a pretty nasty North American spider. I still have scars on my leg from a bite. It is NOT fun having your flesh dissolve, believe me!
On the other hand, if you STATE that your post will be modded up as something, that almost always means it won't be modded up. Moderators don't like proving people right, and may just mod it offtopic or troll out of spite.
Imagine I run a website. It becomes REALLY popular and is costing thousands of dollars per month in bandwidth. So I put up a bunch of banner ads and popups to offset the cost. People are EXTREAMLY pissed because they hate ads, and start using Mozilla to block to popups, filter the banners, etc...so I can no longer make money off advertising. So I start making the website subscription only. "How DARE you!" the people scream "I am a loyal reader, I DEMAND service! You used to give me free entertainment and your expense, and you MUST CONTINUE TO DO SO! I refuse to pay for anything! You are evil!"
Now, if I happen to be stinking rich, and able to pay the thousands per month without a worry, does that make a difference? Because somebody CAN afford to lose money, they should HAVE to?
Sure, Microsoft is an asshole for closing off 3rd party clients, and they raised a stink about others shutting THEM out of their IM networks...but think about it. They pay money, lots of money, to run their IM servers. They make it back by having adverts in the IM client. And people like Trillian are SELLING software to access it without the ads. They are MAKING MONEY off Microsofts servers. Why should they not have to pay?
You are right. They are FREE. Which means that money DIDN'T go into the economy. Ever seen a homeless person? They are homeless because of the economy. Still think Linux is harmless?
Sincerely, D. McBrideHahaha, he's just kidding there's only one person who posts on Slashdot. Oops, I mean I'M just kidding.
Good grief, they are giving instructions for how to DoS people! Arrest them using the DMCA! QUICK, BEFORE THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG!
No, YOUR math is off. Parent is not saying that you need that many for a 50/50 of ANY of them having the same one. You need that many for a 50/50 of having "...the desired MD5 hash."
In other words, while it's true that you only need twenty-odd people to have a fair chance of at least two of them sharing a birthday, you DO need 183 to have a fair chance of one or more of them having MY birthday.