There most definitely is a middle ground, and just before I go any further, I _am_ a parent, and I'm a young parent (which incidentally had nothing to do with the way I was brought up, my parents did a great job, and I'm sure that will be reflected in the type of parent I am).
Surely for young kids you want to give them the representation of as much freedom as possible! Why not give the child a full access lockdown to a computer, there's nothing they can really do that's not going to remove the experience from themselves (rm -rf / isn't going to trouble them). If you want access controls, do it upstream. Most cheap routers I've worked with have some form of parental access control! If you don't trust that, set up a squid proxy or something. Plus good old education can't hurt.
If your child really wants to circumvent the protection placed upon them, I'm sure they will _regardless_ of how they were brought up. I've heard the mantra 'security by obscurity is not security' repeated so many times, however here are people suggesting that if you want to control a childs internet access, don't connect their computer to the internet. Honestly though, what could be easier than using someone elses computer elsewhere (where you don't have control) or learning how to connect their own computer to the network. Giving them access (that is restricted) is far easier. Parental controls don't have to be on the user computer (and are far easier to circumvent if they are!).
People love to blame bad parenting, but sometimes kids just need to learn for themselves.
"If you actually need to dual boot both operating systems, then you are either someone in a small minority (e.g., a developer porting an application), or for some reason your preferred OS isn't up to the job of doing everything you need."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Microsoft Office 2008 (ie for Mac) ship without Macros enabled (or supported?) thus anyone needing these would have to run an earlier version or the Windows version, so if someone had a Mac with OSX and wanted Macros, perhaps they might have to dual boot. It's not always the OS that's not up to the job. Even if my example is wrong (I'm going from what my friendly mac user said) there are often situations when the software you want isn't available. For example as a chemist I dual boot Windows and Linux. Why? I love using Linux, running fluxbox because it's light and configurable. I run windows because I need the ChemOffice and Microsoft Office compatibility. I can't afford to not have absolute compatibility! To a small degree this also extends to EndNote, although this is replaceable it's personal thing.
"To add to the excitement there have been rumours recently that Dell and Google are on the point of making a surprise announcement at the 3GSM World Mobile Congress with speculation growing over an iPhone-challenging mobile device."
This is in fact rather sad. IIRC New Zealand (whilst in general a small and insignificant nation) has recently (ie within the last month) signed, or drawn up a free trade agreement (correct me if I'm not quite on top of the details, but this is my understanding on what was reported, I'm a scientist not a politician). Now NZ does have a fairly good standing in medal tallies for such a small country. I wonder how much political protesting our athletes would dare make... sad really!
Is brain size indicative of higher intelligence or bigger head? I'm fairly sure that male brains are on average bigger than female brains, we're also on average bigger, and have larger heads... however we are not necessarily more intelligent.
Well that's certainly interesting, given the US is the biggest pharmaceutical market (some estimates put it as 5x bigger than the nearest competitor) I would say that most nations would look to the FDA (the regulator of the biggest market, and hence the one pharmaceutical companies strive to please) for what they think of a pharmaceutical. In drug development the FDA is often the agency you first try to register with because if you fail with them, your drug isn't going anywhere fast (keep in mind big pharma love money and only have ~ 15-20 years to make it per drug). So given that the FDA is often the first body to register a new drug, if you were to ignore their findings you'd seem a bit stupid.
Let us also keep in mind that the FDA is one of the ONLY regulatory bodies in the world that said no to Thalidomide.
Amoxicillin is out of patent, was first marketed early 1970's. Would be interesting if anyone rushes for a Swiss Claim patent, could potentially make money if a local industry managed it...
The FA mentions use of clavulanate, if you read the abstract for the ACS article linked to by the FA you will see there are three beta lactamase inhibitors - sulbactam, tazobactam, and clavulanate - trialled.
Apparently nobody really has tried beta-lactam antibiotics in this indication, but it seems suprising that any medical professional would consider this a "one-two punch strategy". Realistically this would be one combo of a multi hit process. Modern day TB therapy always includes a specifically chosen 3-4 drug combination. This combination depends on where the infection was contracted along with any characterisation of the strain that is possible. This is simply because if you feed a drug that's not killing it, you're selecting for resistance to that drug. If physicians start using beta-lactamase inhibitors they'd better be careful because there are already several examples of other infections resistant to clavulanic acid (just google search).
Whilst the article reports this as if it is a major breakthrough, this is purely sensationalism. It is a minor breakthrough in a major problem.
FDA is generally accepted (at least that's how I'm taught and I'm not in the USA) to be the gold standard for drug acceptance. While there is no authority per se, many regulatory bodies will simply stamp and use the FDA data sheet.
I think you'll find that if you swallow that willow bark you may get some of the nice effects of aspirin but you'll also find you get some nasty gastric bleeds. Salicylic acid (the active components of willow bark) causes these bleeds. There is a reason your lovely aspirin is acetyl salicylic acid.
I think you'll find that the "medicine-man knowledge" you talk of has not been completely lost. In fact there are whole university departments who find these remedies, purify the active components and then improve them to remove side effects. In general your synthetic pharmaceutical has FEWER side effects that a herbal remedy purely because it'd never make it past the FDA for general usage if it had heaps of side effects.
If you're "popping a pill" not knowing what is in it, I would suggest you find out. The information is out there, whilst most of it means nothing you the layman, you can trust that the FDA has approved all pharmaceuticals (or the relevent agency for your country), that being said most herbal remedies need pass no such approval processes (depending on where you are).
Who was it that revolutionised the dye industry? The Americans and Germans? I'm sorry I was of the impression that an Englishman by the name (Sir) William Perkins revolutionised the dye industry. The first non-plant based die, based on coal-tar analine products was discovered by Sir William. The first such die was Mauve, this discovery of how to manipulate organic products is generally recognised as one of the discoveries that revolutionised modern chemistry, drugs etc which you credit to America and Germany. Interesting that you use American spellings, so I presume you are American yourself.
Sure it would be true to say that other countries took the revolution and made the most of it, the revolution itself, and the start of such industrial manufacturing of dies(leading onto other related areas) started in the house of William Perkins, in London England.
Well I have to say when I hear Novell I think Linux company. Many other people probably will now to that it's hit/. Only reason I know is that over here in NZ they came to our LUG meeting and gave us a big talk about what they were doing and told us about plans for the future with SuSe and Ximian.
So I think once they get it into the headlines, and if they are doing the face to face contact elsewhere in the world, Linux users and others will start seeing them as Opensource Linux company.
Yeah, I noticed this the other day when I was slaving away serving customers. I was so tired it was all I could do not to just open the box and start eating right then and there at the checkout. This is the food geeks have been waiting for! Now we have caffeine in all forms, drink, cereal, even tablets!
"Oops I did it again, patched your system, now you must pay..."
I can see it now, they'd release "half patches".
Although, for a company that is trying to claim that it is secure, a fault in their patching system that is supposed to keep clients software up to date and secure is a pretty major flaw. This has to be a hit for them.
I still can't help but think back to the lawsuit against that 12 year old girl. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hadn't she paid for the service she was using in downloading the mp3s, or at least had been led to believe that was what she was paying for.
I can just imagine people buying into this sort of service and then a loophole being found and the RIAA's lawsuit numbers increasing. I think the online community should watch this sort of thing with suspicion.
As always Caveat Emptor. I'm not saying it's likely that HP will do this, but when smaller players come into the play it should be watched that they are dealing with the RIAA in the correct ways.
This is the second time today I have written a beware for a similar image. It is not for kids, grandparents, or any faint hearted person. Can someone please mod this down.
Beware the above link is probably not suited for children or parents/anyone else that may be seated with or standing behind you. In fact the faint hearted may be disturbed by it.
I don't know if it's just me(although, I'd be willing to bet it isn't) but when I hear or read the acronym RIAA I automatically think of suing 12 year old girls. Hell, reading that article, evertime I saw an 'f' I had to check it wasn't 'female' connected with 'suing' and '12'. In my mind that link has been created, and that can't be good publicity. In fact it probably does nothing for the reputations of such organisations, which in turn reflects on the atists.
In my opinion the RIAA need to watch out, they're already a laughing stock.
I guess in a way Microsoft's Windows Update must be spyware, as it reports on what you have installed. Interesting, perhaps that is why the definitions are not like this, they don't want to get in the way of Microsoft.
Slashdot Mirror
There most definitely is a middle ground, and just before I go any further, I _am_ a parent, and I'm a young parent (which incidentally had nothing to do with the way I was brought up, my parents did a great job, and I'm sure that will be reflected in the type of parent I am).
Surely for young kids you want to give them the representation of as much freedom as possible! Why not give the child a full access lockdown to a computer, there's nothing they can really do that's not going to remove the experience from themselves (rm -rf / isn't going to trouble them). If you want access controls, do it upstream. Most cheap routers I've worked with have some form of parental access control! If you don't trust that, set up a squid proxy or something. Plus good old education can't hurt.
If your child really wants to circumvent the protection placed upon them, I'm sure they will _regardless_ of how they were brought up. I've heard the mantra 'security by obscurity is not security' repeated so many times, however here are people suggesting that if you want to control a childs internet access, don't connect their computer to the internet. Honestly though, what could be easier than using someone elses computer elsewhere (where you don't have control) or learning how to connect their own computer to the network. Giving them access (that is restricted) is far easier. Parental controls don't have to be on the user computer (and are far easier to circumvent if they are!).
People love to blame bad parenting, but sometimes kids just need to learn for themselves.
"If you actually need to dual boot both operating systems, then you are either someone in a small minority (e.g., a developer porting an application), or for some reason your preferred OS isn't up to the job of doing everything you need." Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Microsoft Office 2008 (ie for Mac) ship without Macros enabled (or supported?) thus anyone needing these would have to run an earlier version or the Windows version, so if someone had a Mac with OSX and wanted Macros, perhaps they might have to dual boot. It's not always the OS that's not up to the job. Even if my example is wrong (I'm going from what my friendly mac user said) there are often situations when the software you want isn't available. For example as a chemist I dual boot Windows and Linux. Why? I love using Linux, running fluxbox because it's light and configurable. I run windows because I need the ChemOffice and Microsoft Office compatibility. I can't afford to not have absolute compatibility! To a small degree this also extends to EndNote, although this is replaceable it's personal thing.
"To add to the excitement there have been rumours recently that Dell and Google are on the point of making a surprise announcement at the 3GSM World Mobile Congress with speculation growing over an iPhone-challenging mobile device."
We were reading the same TFA right?
OT re: sig linux user, used space in username purely because it was a novelty.
This is in fact rather sad. IIRC New Zealand (whilst in general a small and insignificant nation) has recently (ie within the last month) signed, or drawn up a free trade agreement (correct me if I'm not quite on top of the details, but this is my understanding on what was reported, I'm a scientist not a politician). Now NZ does have a fairly good standing in medal tallies for such a small country. I wonder how much political protesting our athletes would dare make... sad really!
Is brain size indicative of higher intelligence or bigger head? I'm fairly sure that male brains are on average bigger than female brains, we're also on average bigger, and have larger heads... however we are not necessarily more intelligent.
Well that's certainly interesting, given the US is the biggest pharmaceutical market (some estimates put it as 5x bigger than the nearest competitor) I would say that most nations would look to the FDA (the regulator of the biggest market, and hence the one pharmaceutical companies strive to please) for what they think of a pharmaceutical. In drug development the FDA is often the agency you first try to register with because if you fail with them, your drug isn't going anywhere fast (keep in mind big pharma love money and only have ~ 15-20 years to make it per drug). So given that the FDA is often the first body to register a new drug, if you were to ignore their findings you'd seem a bit stupid.
Let us also keep in mind that the FDA is one of the ONLY regulatory bodies in the world that said no to Thalidomide.
Bacteriophages are viruses - so called bacteriophages because they infect bacteria.
Amoxicillin is out of patent, was first marketed early 1970's. Would be interesting if anyone rushes for a Swiss Claim patent, could potentially make money if a local industry managed it...
Or the antibacterial agent had no antifungal activity? Keep in mind bacteria are prokaryotic, and yeast eukaryotic...
The FA mentions use of clavulanate, if you read the abstract for the ACS article linked to by the FA you will see there are three beta lactamase inhibitors - sulbactam, tazobactam, and clavulanate - trialled.
Apparently nobody really has tried beta-lactam antibiotics in this indication, but it seems suprising that any medical professional would consider this a "one-two punch strategy". Realistically this would be one combo of a multi hit process. Modern day TB therapy always includes a specifically chosen 3-4 drug combination. This combination depends on where the infection was contracted along with any characterisation of the strain that is possible. This is simply because if you feed a drug that's not killing it, you're selecting for resistance to that drug. If physicians start using beta-lactamase inhibitors they'd better be careful because there are already several examples of other infections resistant to clavulanic acid (just google search).
Whilst the article reports this as if it is a major breakthrough, this is purely sensationalism. It is a minor breakthrough in a major problem.
FDA is generally accepted (at least that's how I'm taught and I'm not in the USA) to be the gold standard for drug acceptance. While there is no authority per se, many regulatory bodies will simply stamp and use the FDA data sheet.
I think you'll find that if you swallow that willow bark you may get some of the nice effects of aspirin but you'll also find you get some nasty gastric bleeds. Salicylic acid (the active components of willow bark) causes these bleeds. There is a reason your lovely aspirin is acetyl salicylic acid. I think you'll find that the "medicine-man knowledge" you talk of has not been completely lost. In fact there are whole university departments who find these remedies, purify the active components and then improve them to remove side effects. In general your synthetic pharmaceutical has FEWER side effects that a herbal remedy purely because it'd never make it past the FDA for general usage if it had heaps of side effects. If you're "popping a pill" not knowing what is in it, I would suggest you find out. The information is out there, whilst most of it means nothing you the layman, you can trust that the FDA has approved all pharmaceuticals (or the relevent agency for your country), that being said most herbal remedies need pass no such approval processes (depending on where you are).
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't believe you can receive the Nobel prize post-humously.
Who was it that revolutionised the dye industry? The Americans and Germans? I'm sorry I was of the impression that an Englishman by the name (Sir) William Perkins revolutionised the dye industry. The first non-plant based die, based on coal-tar analine products was discovered by Sir William. The first such die was Mauve, this discovery of how to manipulate organic products is generally recognised as one of the discoveries that revolutionised modern chemistry, drugs etc which you credit to America and Germany. Interesting that you use American spellings, so I presume you are American yourself.
Sure it would be true to say that other countries took the revolution and made the most of it, the revolution itself, and the start of such industrial manufacturing of dies(leading onto other related areas) started in the house of William Perkins, in London England.
William Perkins
Also a good read:
Mauve
Well I have to say when I hear Novell I think Linux company. Many other people probably will now to that it's hit /. Only reason I know is that over here in NZ they came to our LUG meeting and gave us a big talk about what they were doing and told us about plans for the future with SuSe and Ximian.
So I think once they get it into the headlines, and if they are doing the face to face contact elsewhere in the world, Linux users and others will start seeing them as Opensource Linux company.
Yeah, I noticed this the other day when I was slaving away serving customers. I was so tired it was all I could do not to just open the box and start eating right then and there at the checkout. This is the food geeks have been waiting for! Now we have caffeine in all forms, drink, cereal, even tablets!
"Oops I did it again, patched your system, now you must pay..."
I can see it now, they'd release "half patches".
Although, for a company that is trying to claim that it is secure, a fault in their patching system that is supposed to keep clients software up to date and secure is a pretty major flaw. This has to be a hit for them.
Think certain politicians might take hold of this?
"BushLAN for the George in all of us."
I can just see him trying to sell it to Iraq and certain other middle eastern nations.
I still can't help but think back to the lawsuit against that 12 year old girl. Correct me if I'm wrong, but hadn't she paid for the service she was using in downloading the mp3s, or at least had been led to believe that was what she was paying for.
I can just imagine people buying into this sort of service and then a loophole being found and the RIAA's lawsuit numbers increasing. I think the online community should watch this sort of thing with suspicion.
As always Caveat Emptor. I'm not saying it's likely that HP will do this, but when smaller players come into the play it should be watched that they are dealing with the RIAA in the correct ways.
This is the second time today I have written a beware for a similar image. It is not for kids, grandparents, or any faint hearted person. Can someone please mod this down.
Beware the above link is probably not suited for children or parents/anyone else that may be seated with or standing behind you. In fact the faint hearted may be disturbed by it.
I don't know if it's just me(although, I'd be willing to bet it isn't) but when I hear or read the acronym RIAA I automatically think of suing 12 year old girls. Hell, reading that article, evertime I saw an 'f' I had to check it wasn't 'female' connected with 'suing' and '12'. In my mind that link has been created, and that can't be good publicity. In fact it probably does nothing for the reputations of such organisations, which in turn reflects on the atists.
In my opinion the RIAA need to watch out, they're already a laughing stock.
I guess in a way Microsoft's Windows Update must be spyware, as it reports on what you have installed. Interesting, perhaps that is why the definitions are not like this, they don't want to get in the way of Microsoft.
Working for hotmail eh? Well, in my experience with hotmail they'd be VERY experienced with spam wouldn't they.
In fact, if I remember correctly, the only spam that ever got through my filtering was from hotmail itself.
It makes you wonder, will this mentaility become part of the Spamcop/IronPorp relationship?