One class of compounds called angiogenesis inhibitors help protect the body from cancers by blocking the enzymes emitted by the cancers to signal the body to build a blood supply to the cancer. No additional blood supply means the cancer stalls out.
The pioneer in the area is a Dr. Judah Folkman. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, don't pass up the opportunity.
According to Dr Folkman, the food with the highest amount of angiogenesis inhibitors found so far are Indian curries.
So have curries with your beer and attack the cancers on two fronts.
Even better, restrict your intake of iron and attack the cancers on three fronts. Too much iron can increase the growth of certain cancers.
If the lawsuit is won, than the money goes into the coffers of the state of Texas, which will result in an increase in public works, which *does* benefit us.
What do you bet the Governor uses it to pay for all those crazy toll roads, aka the Trans Texas Corridor, he wants so badly.
While this is a rootkit, "infected" systems don't display the normal symptoms: no (appreciable) slowdown, no annoying popups, no self-propagation or open ports.
Methinks thee art confusing rootkits with spyware.
The last thing a rootkit author would want in a rootkit would be for it to be noticeable to the average user. Or even to the expert user. If symptoms are noticed, it isn't a good rootkit.
This article is long; I read up to the quote from Edward Whiteacre, CEO of SBC. Whiteacre said obvious and sensible things:
We'll see about that.
Google, Yahoo, etc. have to pay for transport. That money goes to the pipe owners.
They pay for transport to their local provider. That it isn't SBC does not matter.
What SBC seems to want to do is to require everyone to be their customer in order to carry their traffic on SBC's network.
Look at it as if it were telephone traffic. In that case, it is as if they would not complete any telephone calls unless the calling party and the called party were both customers of theirs.
Or, more accurately, they want to charge long distance tolls. I guess for your $30 per month, you will be able to connect to your local town without paying additional fees. If you want to connect to the next town, you're gong to have to pay more.
If a cable TV company can offer phone services without paying the city a franchise fee, AT&T should be able to offer TV service without paying the city a franchise fee.
I never understood the rationale for franchise fees other than just another way to stick it to the public.
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I think I came across that more than twenty years ago. I think it was on a CME (Continuing Medical Education) show broadcast on a regular tv channel early one Sunday morning, but it may have been elsewhere. (I'm not a medical professional, but I kind of enjoy watching those kinds of shows.)
I figured a little searching on the Internet might find something. With a little searching, this is all I found:
From The "Flu" (written by a Dr. Kimball who's doctorate was in immunology, not medicine):
(The pandemic of 1957 probably made more people sick than the one of 1918. But the availability of antibiotics to treat the secondary infections, that are the usual cause of death, resulted in a much lower death rate.)
Also, in 1918 there were no vaccines available to stem the spread of the disease. In 1957, a vaccine was made available a few months after the disease was first identified in Asia.
For what it's worth, the 1918 virus was probably worse since the virus itself did seem to kill a good number of its victims quickly, but whether it was, in fact, more lethal in absolute terms it is not 100% clear.
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The influenza virus in the 1957 influenza epidemic may have actually been considerably worse than that in the 1918 epidemic.
What made a difference was the incredible advances in medicine between the epidemics.
As for the avian influenza, there is little indication that the virus is being spread between humans and no indication that it spreads easily between humans. If and when the virus mutates and that becomes possible, the mutation may also change the severity of the resulting illness.
Prepare for the worst and be thankful for the best.
I hate that phrase. While true, it is very misleading since obscurity does contribute to security.
It should be "Security by obscurity is not the TOTAL answer.
Security by obscurity is a necessary and vital part of security. By reducing the likelihood of computers being randomly attacked over the Internet, there would be an increase in security. It would not provide absolute security, but it would help.
If you think about it, when you use passwords, you are using security by obscurity.
For that matter, when you use a public key that is the product of two very large primes, you are using security by obscurity. With increases in techniques and hardware, that obscurity is greatly reduced overtime and the security suffers.
You realize IPv6 has more IP's then there are atoms in the universe, right?
Just think of all these worms scanning blocks of IP addresses somewhat randomly for vulnerable machines. It's a target rich environment.
Now imagine that we were using IPv6 instead. With a random approach to scanning, many of those worms would take years before they happened to locate an actual computer.
Of course, those writing the worms would have to switch to non-random techniques. But someone who is reasonably careful (i.e. didn't use Internet Exploder and Outhouse Express), they could have a system wide open to exploitation without it ever being exploited.
Back in the mid 70s, I knew one guy who was arrested by the same cop two Saturday nights in a row for taking a leak on the same telephone pole outside a bar.
I've wondered whether or not he has to register as a sex offender now.
Another guy I knew was arrested once for taking a leak at a road side park. His brother, a lawyer, requested a jury trial. The charges were eventually dropped because the prosecuting attorney knew that around here, most of the people who might be selected for the jury would think he had lost his marbles for putting the guy on trial for such a ridiculous charge.
My office is right across the street from the town's only movie theater.
Unfortunately, the movie theater closed down about 40 years ago.
But it doesn't matter much. There are very few new movies that I am interested in seeing at all. I'd be more likely to go to the theater to watch old westerns and war movies than the crap they show now.
It is very possible that Microsoft wants to require Google to jump through hoops before serving up information on their web pages.
Not only the obvious cases such as when you type in someone's name and address to get their telephone number, but every web page that might contain information that might be deemed to be private (like a name and e-mail address).
It got po'ed at the Amarillo newspaper a little over 10 years ago and haven't subscribed since.
Their problem is that they hardly cover any college sports besides Texas Tech.
For example, one year, Texas A&M won the NWIT (National Women's Invitational Tournament) post-season basketball tournament held in Amarillo. The Amarillo paper didn't seem to think that news was worth the effort to cover since they didn't report it until a few days later. From the coverage, you would have thought that Notre Dame won since they got a full page or more the morning after the end of the tournament.
I wonder what happens when you buy a new computer with Windows XP pre-installed and you decline to accept the EULA displayed when you first start it up.
Do you return the whole computer for a complete refund? Or just the OS?
Courts have said that as long as you know that it's there before you buy and have the right to refuse the agreement after you buy (by, say, returning the product), you have that.
How many stores will accept the merchandise for return if you refuse the agreement? I've asked about store managers about this on occasion in stores and every single one said they will not accept software returns if the package has been opened.
One of the more interesting things I've seen is to see how different software developers write a program for the following problem:
Jack bought a bag of 100 pieces of candy at the store. It has 90 cherry candies and 10 lemon candies. He prefers the cherry candies over the lemon candies.
Every day Jack randomly picks a candy from the bag. If the candy is a cherry candy, he eats it. If the candy is a lemon candy, he puts it back and randomly draws again. He eats the second randomly chosen candy no matter what flavor.
What are the odds that the last piece of candy in the bag is a lemon candy?
Interestingly enough, the approach nearly always used it horribly inefficent. I've never seen anyone run the program long enough to get an answer.
In contrast, the approach used less often solves it in a fraction of a second.
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One class of compounds called angiogenesis inhibitors help protect the body from cancers by blocking the enzymes emitted by the cancers to signal the body to build a blood supply to the cancer. No additional blood supply means the cancer stalls out.
The pioneer in the area is a Dr. Judah Folkman. If you ever get a chance to hear him speak, don't pass up the opportunity.
According to Dr Folkman, the food with the highest amount of angiogenesis inhibitors found so far are Indian curries.
So have curries with your beer and attack the cancers on two fronts.
Even better, restrict your intake of iron and attack the cancers on three fronts. Too much iron can increase the growth of certain cancers.
I wouldn't even pay 5 cents to download a ringtone.
What do you bet the Governor uses it to pay for all those crazy toll roads, aka the Trans Texas Corridor, he wants so badly.
When I lived in Houston, someone told me about one wealthy woman who provided daily suits and ties to the construction workers remodeling her house.
I'm dressed better than usual today - flannel shirt and bib overalls. Usually I wear t-short and shorts.
Methinks thee art confusing rootkits with spyware.
The last thing a rootkit author would want in a rootkit would be for it to be noticeable to the average user. Or even to the expert user. If symptoms are noticed, it isn't a good rootkit.
We'll see about that.
They pay for transport to their local provider. That it isn't SBC does not matter.
What SBC seems to want to do is to require everyone to be their customer in order to carry their traffic on SBC's network.
Look at it as if it were telephone traffic. In that case, it is as if they would not complete any telephone calls unless the calling party and the called party were both customers of theirs.
Or, more accurately, they want to charge long distance tolls. I guess for your $30 per month, you will be able to connect to your local town without paying additional fees. If you want to connect to the next town, you're gong to have to pay more.
I never understood the rationale for franchise fees other than just another way to stick it to the public.
I think I came across that more than twenty years ago. I think it was on a CME (Continuing Medical Education) show broadcast on a regular tv channel early one Sunday morning, but it may have been elsewhere. (I'm not a medical professional, but I kind of enjoy watching those kinds of shows.)
I figured a little searching on the Internet might find something. With a little searching, this is all I found:
From The "Flu" (written by a Dr. Kimball who's doctorate was in immunology, not medicine):
Also, in 1918 there were no vaccines available to stem the spread of the disease. In 1957, a vaccine was made available a few months after the disease was first identified in Asia.
For what it's worth, the 1918 virus was probably worse since the virus itself did seem to kill a good number of its victims quickly, but whether it was, in fact, more lethal in absolute terms it is not 100% clear.
The influenza virus in the 1957 influenza epidemic may have actually been considerably worse than that in the 1918 epidemic.
What made a difference was the incredible advances in medicine between the epidemics.
As for the avian influenza, there is little indication that the virus is being spread between humans and no indication that it spreads easily between humans. If and when the virus mutates and that becomes possible, the mutation may also change the severity of the resulting illness.
Prepare for the worst and be thankful for the best.
Yeah, but a court hasn't found in their favor.
In fact, there isn't even a suit yet. Merely the threat of one.
If it did go to court, it should probably take a few years before anything happened, anyway. By that time, the question will probably be moot.
It's just a lame attempt that is doomed to failure.
I can't believe that a court would find in their favor.
I hate that phrase. While true, it is very misleading since obscurity does contribute to security.
It should be "Security by obscurity is not the TOTAL answer.
Security by obscurity is a necessary and vital part of security. By reducing the likelihood of computers being randomly attacked over the Internet, there would be an increase in security. It would not provide absolute security, but it would help.
If you think about it, when you use passwords, you are using security by obscurity.
For that matter, when you use a public key that is the product of two very large primes, you are using security by obscurity. With increases in techniques and hardware, that obscurity is greatly reduced overtime and the security suffers.
Just think of all these worms scanning blocks of IP addresses somewhat randomly for vulnerable machines. It's a target rich environment.
Now imagine that we were using IPv6 instead. With a random approach to scanning, many of those worms would take years before they happened to locate an actual computer.
Of course, those writing the worms would have to switch to non-random techniques. But someone who is reasonably careful (i.e. didn't use Internet Exploder and Outhouse Express), they could have a system wide open to exploitation without it ever being exploited.
Back in the mid 70s, I knew one guy who was arrested by the same cop two Saturday nights in a row for taking a leak on the same telephone pole outside a bar.
I've wondered whether or not he has to register as a sex offender now.
Another guy I knew was arrested once for taking a leak at a road side park. His brother, a lawyer, requested a jury trial. The charges were eventually dropped because the prosecuting attorney knew that around here, most of the people who might be selected for the jury would think he had lost his marbles for putting the guy on trial for such a ridiculous charge.
My office is right across the street from the town's only movie theater.
Unfortunately, the movie theater closed down about 40 years ago.
But it doesn't matter much. There are very few new movies that I am interested in seeing at all. I'd be more likely to go to the theater to watch old westerns and war movies than the crap they show now.
It is very possible that Microsoft wants to require Google to jump through hoops before serving up information on their web pages.
Not only the obvious cases such as when you type in someone's name and address to get their telephone number, but every web page that might contain information that might be deemed to be private (like a name and e-mail address).
Then they'll just hide it in an alternate stream somewhere.
I was wondering what happens if you just disable autoplay. Does it let you have regular access to the CD?
It got po'ed at the Amarillo newspaper a little over 10 years ago and haven't subscribed since.
Their problem is that they hardly cover any college sports besides Texas Tech.
For example, one year, Texas A&M won the NWIT (National Women's Invitational Tournament) post-season basketball tournament held in Amarillo. The Amarillo paper didn't seem to think that news was worth the effort to cover since they didn't report it until a few days later. From the coverage, you would have thought that Notre Dame won since they got a full page or more the morning after the end of the tournament.
I've often thought we need a "-2 Completely Wrong" modifier.
I wonder what happens when you buy a new computer with Windows XP pre-installed and you decline to accept the EULA displayed when you first start it up.
Do you return the whole computer for a complete refund? Or just the OS?
How many stores will accept the merchandise for return if you refuse the agreement? I've asked about store managers about this on occasion in stores and every single one said they will not accept software returns if the package has been opened.
I wish that we would allow at most 1% of the patents applied for each year to actually be granted.
Even that would, in my opinion, be more than the number of true inventions, but it would be much better than the craziness we have now.
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Tresspassers will be experimented upon.
One of the more interesting things I've seen is to see how different software developers write a program for the following problem:
Interestingly enough, the approach nearly always used it horribly inefficent. I've never seen anyone run the program long enough to get an answer.
In contrast, the approach used less often solves it in a fraction of a second.