I don't see why the protocol for text messaging can't be set so that only ASCII text is sent and received, making any kind of embedded script pointless. Then again, I don't know that much about cellphone protocols to begin with. It just seems as if it SHOULD be easy to prevent.
The software on those voting machines (at least in theory) all needs to be checked and double checked by this independant authority before its installed, and ONLY THAT approved softwate can be installed on the machines.
Yeah, if only things really worked that way...
In California, Diebold was able to upload uncertified patches to their DRE systems in Oakland without any prior approval by the state. This led to California decertifying these machines, and was a big factor in California deciding to require a paper audit trail by 2006.
So yeah, even though in theory they're not supposed to be able to do this, they did.
This is pretty much the way San Mateo County voters have been voting for years. We use black markers to connect two dark lines for the candidate we want, and then feed our ballots into an optical scanner which records our votes. It's a simple, elegant solution.
It's surprising that this technology hasn't gotten more media attention. People following the news would think the only three ways to vote are old voting machines, punch cards and DRE!
The Wachowski brothers are probably thinking of making yet another sequel, but if they leave Neo alive, they know Keanu Reeves can basically name his price and they'd pretty much have to pay it. This way, they can offer Keanu a reasonable compensation package, and if he asks for more, well then, it'll turn out that he DID die, after all....
Agreed -- I don't think the child's death has all that much to do with Everquest.
I think the story is newsworthy not because the reporter takes the excuse seriously, but because it is so very idiotic. People love to read news stories in which other people screw up and then offer incredibly lame excuses for their behavior. And the lamer the excuse, the better. I feel compelled to read this kind of news story because I'd like to believe I'd never be so lame as to offer an excuse like that myself. No, if I screw up, I'd be RESPONSIBLE. It doesn't matter if I'm right or not -- I get the pleasure of saying "Oh, that's not me." Reporters know human nature and pitch their stories accordingly.
"Scientists generally think there is a natural constraint, the Hayflick limit, on how many times such cells can divide in tissue culture before they decay and die. But some work indicates that human cells given a copy of the telomerase gene can divide indefinitely, a step toward immortality on a cellular scale."
There's a big difference between adding telomerase to some cells in a culture flask, and getting human tissues to express it. Telomerase expression is seen in a very few normal stem cells, and virtually all cancers. (The exceptions are interesting: a type of neuroblastoma in infants that looks widely metastatic, but basically just stops growing after a while, because its cells' telomeres just get too short.)
You want to be adding telomerase back to normal cells? Got a way to make sure that limitless growth potential doesn't hugely increase the risk of cancer?
If that's the best science sound bite they can come up with, there's nothing new here.
1. Make an album available for $0.99/track initially.
2. Monitor sales of each track for a few weeks.
After this initial period:
3. 'Popular' tracks (over some threshold # of sales/week) would retain the 99 cent price.
4. Less popular tracks could be downloaded at 25 cents each (or whatever) by any user purchasing one of the more popular tracks.
5. Users choosing to download an entire album would get an additional discount, and free downloads of whatever cover art or text the artists wanted to make available.
Some variant of this system would ensure that the whole-album format would survive. What won't survive are the ridiculously high profit margins.
"Groups with names that don't support their actual agenda like this should really be openly chastised by major media outlets for being hypocritical to the point of just being ridiculous, if not just made flat out illegal."
I agree. I don't think The Age will be of any help here, though. I noticed that their article failed to meet one of the basic criteria for good journalism: always get both sides of a story. They didn't even make the usual lame attempt. I find it astonishing that a blatantly one-sided puff piece for the ISC would get published as if it were a real news item.
Looks like The Age is owned by John Fairfax Holdings, which is run by "Canadian media owner Conrad Black and US merchant bank Hellman and Friedman Partners". Never heard of either. I wonder what kind of ties they have to the software industry?
The most important lifestyle changes recommended to reduce hypertension are weight reduction, lowering alcohol consumption, exercise, and salt restriction. Caffeine reduction isn't on the list. But since it should elevate BP in higher doses, as you say, I looked and saw this on a Medline abstract:
"Caffeine contained in two cups of coffee may raise the BP by 5 mm Hg in infrequent users but in habitual users, caffeine has no role."
BTW, The new recommendations for how to manage hypertension stress the importance of lowering BP even for people with borderline high BP. They even coined the term 'pre-hypertension' for people who didn't meet the old diagnostic criteria. Here's a link (small PDF file):
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/p hycard.pdf
IAAD (and a pre-hypertensive too)
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I don't see why the protocol for text messaging can't be set so that only ASCII text is sent and received, making any kind of embedded script pointless. Then again, I don't know that much about cellphone protocols to begin with. It just seems as if it SHOULD be easy to prevent.
Yeah, if only things really worked that way...
In California, Diebold was able to upload uncertified patches to their DRE systems in Oakland without any prior approval by the state. This led to California decertifying these machines, and was a big factor in California deciding to require a paper audit trail by 2006.
So yeah, even though in theory they're not supposed to be able to do this, they did.
This is pretty much the way San Mateo County voters have been voting for years. We use black markers to connect two dark lines for the candidate we want, and then feed our ballots into an optical scanner which records our votes. It's a simple, elegant solution.
It's surprising that this technology hasn't gotten more media attention. People following the news would think the only three ways to vote are old voting machines, punch cards and DRE!
The Wachowski brothers are probably thinking of making yet another sequel, but if they leave Neo alive, they know Keanu Reeves can basically name his price and they'd pretty much have to pay it. This way, they can offer Keanu a reasonable compensation package, and if he asks for more, well then, it'll turn out that he DID die, after all....
Agreed -- I don't think the child's death has all that much to do with Everquest.
I think the story is newsworthy not because the reporter takes the excuse seriously, but because it is so very idiotic. People love to read news stories in which other people screw up and then offer incredibly lame excuses for their behavior. And the lamer the excuse, the better. I feel compelled to read this kind of news story because I'd like to believe I'd never be so lame as to offer an excuse like that myself. No, if I screw up, I'd be RESPONSIBLE. It doesn't matter if I'm right or not -- I get the pleasure of saying "Oh, that's not me." Reporters know human nature and pitch their stories accordingly.
"Scientists generally think there is a natural constraint, the Hayflick limit, on how many times such cells can divide in tissue culture before they decay and die. But some work indicates that human cells given a copy of the telomerase gene can divide indefinitely, a step toward immortality on a cellular scale."
There's a big difference between adding telomerase to some cells in a culture flask, and getting human tissues to express it. Telomerase expression is seen in a very few normal stem cells, and virtually all cancers. (The exceptions are interesting: a type of neuroblastoma in infants that looks widely metastatic, but basically just stops growing after a while, because its cells' telomeres just get too short.)
You want to be adding telomerase back to normal cells? Got a way to make sure that limitless growth potential doesn't hugely increase the risk of cancer?
If that's the best science sound bite they can come up with, there's nothing new here.
If you decide next month that you don't actually LIKE hair styling, then you can pick up a blaster and go on a few destroy missions.
Yeah, just like in real life! This sounds a lot like my last haircut.
1. Make an album available for $0.99/track initially.
2. Monitor sales of each track for a few weeks.
After this initial period:
3. 'Popular' tracks (over some threshold # of sales/week) would retain the 99 cent price.
4. Less popular tracks could be downloaded at 25 cents each (or whatever) by any user purchasing one of the more popular tracks.
5. Users choosing to download an entire album would get an additional discount, and free downloads of whatever cover art or text the artists wanted to make available.
Some variant of this system would ensure that the whole-album format would survive. What won't survive are the ridiculously high profit margins.
"Groups with names that don't support their actual agenda like this should really be openly chastised by major media outlets for being hypocritical to the point of just being ridiculous, if not just made flat out illegal."
I agree. I don't think The Age will be of any help here, though. I noticed that their article failed to meet one of the basic criteria for good journalism: always get both sides of a story. They didn't even make the usual lame attempt. I find it astonishing that a blatantly one-sided puff piece for the ISC would get published as if it were a real news item.
Looks like The Age is owned by John Fairfax Holdings, which is run by "Canadian media owner Conrad Black and US merchant bank Hellman and Friedman Partners". Never heard of either. I wonder what kind of ties they have to the software industry?
The most important lifestyle changes recommended to reduce hypertension are weight reduction, lowering alcohol consumption, exercise, and salt restriction. Caffeine reduction isn't on the list. But since it should elevate BP in higher doses, as you say, I looked and saw this on a Medline abstract: "Caffeine contained in two cups of coffee may raise the BP by 5 mm Hg in infrequent users but in habitual users, caffeine has no role." BTW, The new recommendations for how to manage hypertension stress the importance of lowering BP even for people with borderline high BP. They even coined the term 'pre-hypertension' for people who didn't meet the old diagnostic criteria. Here's a link (small PDF file): http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/p hycard.pdf
IAAD (and a pre-hypertensive too)