Horizontal gene transfer has been known about for decades, and the notion that the root of the tree of life is more a tangle of interconnecting branches has pretty much been accepted for some time now.
Further it has nothing at all to do with Darwinism.
A mechanism of gene transfer plays no role in the "Survival of the Fittest" (a phrase coined not by Darwin, but rather by Spencer), or natural selection. Its not germane.
Natural Selection is a winnowing process, and a mutation amplifying force, but says nothing about the acquisition or dispersion of said mutations. It was never meant to.
You can expect roughly the same with this program.
It will soon become another haven for educationally trained money sponges which will produce nothing but studies and unworkable pie in the sky "solutions" to employ yet more educationally trained money sponges.
I'd ask anyone who routinely overrides your authority in the data-protection sphere to sign a form
And as you flop that document out for them to sign, also ask if you can leave the building under your own power rather than being manhandled out by security.
Its time people in IT get over themselves. They don't run the company and they do not tell management what to do with their own computers.
TFA said "all computers would return to IT to have their contents backed up".
Really? What CEO in his right mind would turn over the contents of his hard drive to geeks with ink stained pockets?
Another Idea that will not catch on (hopefully)
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Or more on point, how long till there is an effective treatment for something that manifests itself with brain changes that can't be measured in seconds.
I can't imagine rambus being welcomed in any group developing memory standards ever again. They are likely to be frozen out of any cooperative industry projects. You can not take community work product and run to the patent office more than once without people getting wise.
True, you are in a situation similar to choosing something to watch on TV late at night on Saturday. (Who, Me? a Life?). Its the old "least horseshit selection process".
But Features and Capabilities do matter to anyone who wants to do anything other than make phone calls.
Since TFA mentioned "data enabled phone" you now have to consider coverage area, bandwidth, multi-tasking, data-caps, and a few other things.
The device becomes more important than the carrier. Once you pick your device, your carrier choice may be limited or non-existent.
Only if apple keeps it absolute secret. Drive one down the street to Steve's house and you pretty much gave up secrecy. Hold it up by a window while training "Geniuses", ditto.
The key word is "Theft". It is not at all clear that a photograph is theft. If it were there would be no paparazzi in California.
Its not illegal to take a picture of Steve Jobs stuck in traffic and deciding to fire up his iTablet to pass the time.
Nothing in the original offer (see 1st link in story) said that someone had to break in, or break a NDA or any such.
Opening a trade secret is also not against the law once the trade secret somehow leaves the private offices of the holder. You can't hire buglers, but you can hire long-lens photographers.
Nothing was said or suggested about paying someone to do something illegal.
Follow the first link and see Exactly what it offered.
If Apple is bold enough to bring a "secret" device out in public and photos are obtained its their own damn fault. In this country trade secrets are only protected as long as you keep it secret. Bring it out in public, or allow someone to take pictures, and all protection is lost.
I think the lawyer opened himself up for a bar inquiry by sending a threatening letter before the fact.
But what do we need to do in that environment any more?
Marshall McLuhan wrote a book titled "The Medium is the Message", and as far as the ISS is concerned, "Building it taught us what we wanted to know."
It wasn't about how peas grow in zero G, or manufacturing taking place in zero G. It was about how can we build something really big and complex in zero G.
Having done so, I wonder if there is any science left to do that is capable of being done there, given the size constraints.
Its a fragile structure in an dangerous environment. One collapsed strut and the thing could be a tangled mess.
True the US pays the lion share of the bill, and the Russians control Access. Gaak! how did that happen?
Governments have to be in the science business, if for no other reason than some projects require commitments larger than corporations can make, and time spans greater than the lives of individuals. These are planetary scale projects, tasks undertaken by/for the entire planet. I'm not aware of any organization other than Governments available to the task.
But nasa has been very good at sharing their inventions and discoveries.
Actually there is very little in the way of supplies that could handle that acceleration. Maybe freeze dried soup, maybe water, but very little else. You wouldn't dare send gasses, electronics, whole foods (even canned) or replacement parts.
The whole idea hinges on the un-compressibility of water, making the extra long cannon easier to construct, but if you've ever seen a depth charge explode you know that only works so far. It also mentions an increase of pressure of 500% which is no where near enough. Skuba tanks easily exceed that. Somebody dropped a zero.
World War I started over less. Basically the crown heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Serbia and then it escalated.
Ah, no, that's not true.
The assassination was not the cause of world war one. Nor was it even the trigger. Nations and armies were poised well before that and war was already a foregone conclusion.
In truth it wasn't even a significant event. War was inevitable, any excuse would have been used. To some how assume that were it not for that one event WWI would not have happened is historically inaccurate.
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Horizontal gene transfer has been known about for decades, and the notion that the root of the tree of life is more a tangle of interconnecting branches has pretty much been accepted for some time now.
Further it has nothing at all to do with Darwinism.
A mechanism of gene transfer plays no role in the "Survival of the Fittest" (a phrase coined not by Darwin, but rather by Spencer), or natural selection. Its not germane.
Natural Selection is a winnowing process, and a mutation amplifying force, but says nothing about the acquisition or dispersion of said mutations. It was never meant to.
You can expect roughly the same with this program.
It will soon become another haven for educationally trained money sponges which will produce nothing but studies and unworkable pie in the sky "solutions" to employ yet more educationally trained money sponges.
We need an economist to explain us how the us, by privatizing gains and socializong losses turned into a fascist state.
And an English teacher to straighten out that sentence.
I'd ask anyone who routinely overrides your authority in the data-protection sphere to sign a form
And as you flop that document out for them to sign, also ask if you can leave the building under your own power rather than being manhandled out by security.
Its time people in IT get over themselves. They don't run the company and they do not tell management what to do with their own computers.
TFA said "all computers would return to IT to have their contents backed up".
Really? What CEO in his right mind would turn over the contents of his hard drive to geeks with ink stained pockets?
Using Slashdot to hype your own damn blog!
Revenge of the Sun block scare-mongers if you ask me.
Or more on point, how long till there is an effective treatment for something that manifests itself with brain changes that can't be measured in seconds.
Its not the only diagnostic tool in the kit. In fact you probably wouldn't even encounter this device if you weren't showing some symptoms.
90% of anything detected by brain imaging is pretty amazing, since even tumors can't always be spotted.
TFA mentions skype and uStream, and then inexplicably launches off on some quest for something else..
Ustream viewers need only a web browser.
Skype views can chat and video call using the free skype application.
1) write thin article for a dying rag
2) pimp it on slashdot
3) ????
4) Profit.
TFS contradicts when it says kids are spending X hours on *the web*. Only 1.5 hrs /day on the computer. Or are kids surfing the web on TVs now?
Kids are surfing the net and watching TV on their smart phones till 4am.
Please tell me you didn't nod off again and miss the arrival of iPhone, Android, Pre, and Droid, Rumpelstiltskin.
Have you ever invented anything in your life you wanted to earn money from? Its easy to hate the system from the outside looking in.
If you had a patent, wouldn't you try to enforce it?
You say it shouldn't have been granted, but it was.
Well, so says Stallman, but Torvalds sees nothing wrong with that.
Besides, this is a nuance probably lost on Microsoft.
I'm not so sure its that funny.
Isn't tivo just serving as a surrogate for Linux here? After all, I believe Linux is at Tivo's core.
Does this not continue the chain started when Microsoft sued TomTom? Is it not a pattern of harassment of companies making money with a Linux core?
But going forward, will it matter?
I can't imagine rambus being welcomed in any group developing memory standards ever again. They are likely to be frozen out of any cooperative industry projects. You can not take community work product and run to the patent office more than once without people getting wise.
Bandwidth?
Why worry about that when your island is basically a volcano?
All that geothermal should be a clue, and if not the Atlantic rift running right up the middle of the island should give you some kind of clue.
http://www.decadevolcano.net/volcanoes/iceland/graphics/island_hekla.gif
What could Possibly go wrong?
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/e/eldfell-volcano-41861-sw.jpg
True, you are in a situation similar to choosing something to watch on TV late at night on Saturday. (Who, Me? a Life?). Its the old "least horseshit selection process".
But Features and Capabilities do matter to anyone who wants to do anything other than make phone calls.
Since TFA mentioned "data enabled phone" you now have to consider coverage area, bandwidth, multi-tasking, data-caps, and a few other things.
The device becomes more important than the carrier. Once you pick your device, your carrier choice may be limited or non-existent.
Only if apple keeps it absolute secret. Drive one down the street to Steve's house and you pretty much gave up secrecy. Hold it up by a window while training "Geniuses", ditto.
The key word is "Theft". It is not at all clear that a photograph is theft. If it were there would be no paparazzi in California.
Its not illegal to take a picture of Steve Jobs stuck in traffic and deciding to fire up his iTablet to pass the time.
Nothing in the original offer (see 1st link in story) said that someone had to break in, or break a NDA or any such.
Opening a trade secret is also not against the law once the trade secret somehow leaves the private offices of the holder. You can't hire buglers, but you can hire long-lens photographers.
Nothing was said or suggested about paying someone to do something illegal.
Follow the first link and see Exactly what it offered.
If Apple is bold enough to bring a "secret" device out in public and photos are obtained its their own damn fault. In this country trade secrets are only protected as long as you keep it secret. Bring it out in public, or allow someone to take pictures, and all protection is lost.
I think the lawyer opened himself up for a bar inquiry by sending a threatening letter before the fact.
But what do we need to do in that environment any more?
Marshall McLuhan wrote a book titled "The Medium is the Message", and as far as the ISS is concerned, "Building it taught us what we wanted to know."
It wasn't about how peas grow in zero G, or manufacturing taking place in zero G. It was about how can we build something really big and complex in zero G.
Having done so, I wonder if there is any science left to do that is capable of being done there, given the size constraints.
Its a fragile structure in an dangerous environment. One collapsed strut and the thing could be a tangled mess.
True the US pays the lion share of the bill, and the Russians control Access. Gaak! how did that happen?
Governments have to be in the science business, if for no other reason than some projects require commitments larger than corporations can make, and time spans greater than the lives of individuals. These are planetary scale projects, tasks undertaken by/for the entire planet. I'm not aware of any organization other than Governments available to the task.
But nasa has been very good at sharing their inventions and discoveries.
Actually there is very little in the way of supplies that could handle that acceleration. Maybe freeze dried soup, maybe water, but very little else. You wouldn't dare send gasses, electronics, whole foods (even canned) or replacement parts.
The whole idea hinges on the un-compressibility of water, making the extra long cannon easier to construct, but if you've ever seen a depth charge explode you know that only works so far. It also mentions an increase of pressure of 500% which is no where near enough. Skuba tanks easily exceed that. Somebody dropped a zero.
World War I started over less. Basically the crown heir to the Austrian-Hungarian empire was assassinated in Serbia and then it escalated.
Ah, no, that's not true.
The assassination was not the cause of world war one. Nor was it even the trigger. Nations and armies were poised well before that and war was already a foregone conclusion.
In truth it wasn't even a significant event. War was inevitable, any excuse would have been used. To some how assume that were it not for that one event WWI would not have happened is historically inaccurate.
Read "The Guns of August".