I'm a type 1 diabetic. I have given up on a cure in my lifetime because of the fundamentalist rants that have changed the research culture that was, once, 18 months from a cure for type 1 diabetes. We will now never see a cure in my lifetime.
The reasoning of these fundamentalists is this: abortion is endangered, so it must be said to lead to something good. Therefore, they claim that embryonic stem cells are a cure-all. These fundamentalists find it trivial to ignore the fact that EVERY human who ever received an injection of embryonic stem cells had terminal cancer 18 months later resulting from the injection. These fundamentalists also find it trivial to ignore the miracle cures arising from adult (e.g., bone marrow & cord blood) stem cells.
Who are there fundamentalists? I would like to indict, on capital charges: (1) The American News Media, who talk about cures from "stem cells" when they mean adult stem cells, and then talk about a ban on research using "stem cells" when they mean embryonic stem cells. They know the difference, but they lie and kill diabetics. (2) The American Congress, who take about cures from "stem cells" when they mean adult stem cells, and then talk about a ban on research using "stem cells" when they mean embryonic stem cells. They know the difference, but they lie and kill diabetics. (3) The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which is run by genocidal left-wing nuts. They monopolized all research money intended to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and now refuse to let one dime go to finding any possible cure that does not involve the known-fatal embryonic stem cells. They know better, but they lie and kill diabetics.
The RIAA's former head legal counsel now teaches at DBU (Dallas Baptist University) near Dallas, TX. His address is now public. Am I the only one planning a picket? Am I the only one planning a small claims court suit for civil compensation for a criminal act? (terrorism)
Andy Out!
I found the flaws in Visual Studio 2005 and Sequel 2005 AMAZING! VS crashed every 10 minutes, even during the MS demo at the Dallas Convention Center on Nov 30th. The things were obviously NOT ready to "rock the launch."
Sequel 2005 includes built-in encryption. Every encryption scheme MS ever launched had bugs so bad it could be cracked by a 6-year-old in 15 minutes. This will likely prove to be no exception. I can just see a script kiddie having access to every database that uses Sequel 2005.
VS includes something called "smart clients." This means that web servers have the same access to your PC as a locally run program. They can print, format a floppy, burn a CD, or save to your HDD. DOES ANYONE SEE A PROBLEM HERE!?!?! I remember in the late 1990's, when MS released ActiveX, and I learned you could turn off somone's PC via IE. I simply shut down every moron using IE who visited my web page. One friend told me he just gave up and bought a new PC, because his aparently had a bad power supply when it ran IE.
The one thing that every virus writer must know is how the machine he is infecting works. That's because the virus is a program that runs on the pc (try writing a Win32 application, using Mac system calls) and because it trys to jump through holes to do damage (which takes even more knowledge of the system.) If these aliens know that much about our technology, they could fabricate phony games and drop them off at any flea market, and wait for someone to find them. Heck, they could counterfit coppies of XP and sell them on eBay, or just dial in and infect us.
Yes, a massively superior computer might be able to find holes we never imagined in our systems, just like our computers can crack a WW1 cypher in seconds, but that does not mean that they can do it without knowing our basic computers, which requires paying us a visit to learn about them. Once they are here, they do not need to go through SETI.
Even if they hijacked a communications satellite, and stole the code to Windows Longhorn, it would be easier to beam the virus from that satellite after it miracuously "recovers" than to enter through SETI.
I've never seen an apropriate DMCA notice, but in the 2004 election, I took out every web site that belonged to a Texas politicianin the other party - one week before the election. I'll do it again in 2006. I plan to take them out 2 months before the election, and file suits to stop them from coming back up.
Life is good, politicians are helpless, and lawyers are too slow to do anything.
High tech has always been boom or bust. The trick is that unlike other boom or bust industries, high tech always changes between booms. You will not make serious money in an out of date tech field.
I'm developing a curriculum (I'm a college professor) on entrepreneurship in the merging fields of biotech, nanotech, and robotics. We've got a pretty good record in our existing departments. 25% of our graduates own their own businesses, as opposed to less than 1% from most state schools.
Another trick is that there are so many people who think they "know" tech, who really don't have a clue. Clueless HR departments and employers make it MUCH worse. Eventually, we'll learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff, and how to give honest feedback to the job seekers.
EVERY case of embryonic stem cell transplanation into a human has ALWAYS resulted in incurable, terminal cancer.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have been cured by adult stem cell transplants.
Q: Why would the FDA approve a lethal injection of fetal stem cells into children? A: This is the same FDA that approved killing children to "harvest" the stem cells in the first place.
I assume that you know that attourneys & the courts serve only the wealthy & connected few. They exist to keep the rest of us down. If I were writing the search engine, it would have been taken down by DMCA notices day one. Only a rich company like Google can compete against a rich company like Perfect 10.
Trial by pocketbook, togeather with the trampling of the Bill of Rights, makes our "government" illegal. Some of us have known this for quite some time, and have been preparing for the revolution for years. The rest of you have either caught on, or are too stupid to deserve to live.
The revolution is coming in the next year. It will be a pleasure to hunt down the attourneys, hiding in basements, and exterminate them.
If we buy one epaper display, and all walk up to the checkout at the 7-11, we could "buy" the magazines wirelessly, with nobody ever having to pay to print a million coppies of something that does not sell.
We could pick up PC Week (or whatever) for $0.50, instead of $3.95...wirelessly.
I'm sure we can do it now, with wi-fi, the 'net, etc...but having a name branded electronic-paper-tablet-thingy would make it more understandable to the average idiot.
Uncyclopedia.org is supposed to be full of hoaxes. It's a parody of Wikipedia.org that allows hoaxers to enjoy themselves without vandalizing the real wiki.
Nobody has pointed this out so far...what has happened to/.??? Doesn't anyone look at the web site to see what it's about? Would you have to read the content of an article on TheOnion.com to see if it was a parody?
Stop what Linus called the "yanking" and start reading, and only posting when you have something interesting to say.
I was preparing an entry for the 1st Grand Challenge, and was thrown out by DARPA's absurd rule changes.
They changed the rules daily for more than 3 months, and claimed publicly that they had not changed anything.
The rule changes left every team unable to build anything for the constant redesigns to meet these rule changes.
Aparently, DARPA's methodology is: 1. Announce a challenge, that many people were able to do the first year, with a $1 Million prize 2. Change the rules constantly so that few people are able to mee the rules 3. Disqualify all qualified entrants, leaving half-assed teams from the big names 4. Lie, and say you never changed the rules 5. Hold a disasterous challenge 6. Finally, stop changing the rules 7. Watch the big names build entries that meet the now-static rules 8. Delcare that you have "done the impossible" 9. Thank God that you have run off all the rif-raf, and that only the multi-billion dollar groups will even talk to DARPA any more, post-Grand-Challenge
I can not be the only one who was stung by DARPA's lies in 2002...did anyone else notice the constant changes?
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Some say it's not time to shoot them yet, but it's getting really fricking close to time to shoot the bastards. They say we need to wait a few more days.
I think they are off by a few days.
If this does not bring the assasination of FBI and FCC officials, we all deserve to live in slavery.
I've got guns too. If you can not shoot, LEARN! If you do not own a militarily useful rifle (full-auto, military caliber) then GET ONE!
The National Guard is confiscating guns ranging from.22s to lever actions in Houston, TX AS WE SIT HERE! (That's from a disserter who left Fort Hood last night.)
The penalty for a useful weapons or a shoulder-fired SAM or RPG is the same as a.22 - give it up or they kill you. At least with the better weapon, you stand a chance.
Finall, know that armored vehicles burn REALLY WELL! He he he he he he...
3. Teach them the orders of magniutde of thousands, millions, billions, etc. For example, if you ask a common office critter how many thousands are in a billion, you will head "2," "3," or "8." The reality is that if you take a stack of 100 dollar bills, it will be 4/10ths of an inch long.
$1,000 (one-thousand dollars) will be 4 inches tall. This fits in your hand.
$1,000,000 (one-million dollars) will be 300+ feet tall. That's the length of a football field.
$1,000,000,000 (one-billion dollars) will be 60+ miles tall. That's tall enough to reach the space station.
$1,000,000,000,0000 (one trillion dollars) will be 60,000+ miles tall. That's tall enough to wrap around the earth almost 3 times.
4. Show them what Kilo (Thousand), Mega (Million), Giga (Billion), and Terra (Trillion) mean. Give examples where they find out how many 4.5 GB DVDs will fit on a half-terrabyte HDD. How many 14 MB MP3 files (half-hour meeting recordings) will fit on a 495 MB keychain drive? Show them real examples from your company, using their disks. Show them how much each disk holds and how to find out how much capacity a disk has.
5. (optional) explain that network tranmission speeds are in bits, and storage is in bytes, so sending 56k over a 56k/second connection takes 8 seconds.
6. Give it away on/. for free instead of the usual final step ($$$)
English seems to be more a matter of style than of grammar. People want something to sound "right" and to be easy to read. Ending a sentence with a preposition is not an offense to die for.
Could we program in a set of styles, and check the document against a style?
One small problem...I'm a college professor, and hold my office hours in a computer lab...a student just tried to log into her Yahoo eMail account, and got a confirmation screen saying that her Yahoo Dial would be shipped the next day.
My theory has always been that if the GUI responds, the user will get much less frustrated. So...why don't make the OS Kernel and the GUI run in real time?
Imagine if you never again had Windows lock up so badly that you could not find out who was hogging the processor, and kill the process.
> government needs _your_ permission to take from > you what it does
I'll tell that one to my best friend & his wife, who are loosing the only home their daughter has ever known to the Dallas Cowboys. They could use a good laugh. Soon, felons will be prancing after doing well in a child's game - over the ruins of what used to be her room. They built Arlington, TX, and now are loosing their piece of it to thugs who bribe politicians.
> Take your mind and your ability to produce what the > government so desperately requires -- ideas, wealth > -- out of the equation.
Done that, then I started stockpiling weapons, ammo, MREs, clothes, gear, etc.
I've said this before: "Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!"
> I firmly favor the second amendment, even if I am > too accident prone to personally exercise it
Carrying a firearm takes a whole new level of discipline. 80% of students get that level when the safety rules are correctly presented. I suggest taking an NRA safety course, and seeing how you do. Statistically, it's safer than being in your own home if you do what you are told to do, and take it seriously.
If you still don't feel like learning to shoot, consider the implication of high-tech in our next civil war...
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I'm a type 1 diabetic. I have given up on a cure in my lifetime because of the fundamentalist rants that have changed the research culture that was, once, 18 months from a cure for type 1 diabetes. We will now never see a cure in my lifetime.
The reasoning of these fundamentalists is this: abortion is endangered, so it must be said to lead to something good. Therefore, they claim that embryonic stem cells are a cure-all. These fundamentalists find it trivial to ignore the fact that EVERY human who ever received an injection of embryonic stem cells had terminal cancer 18 months later resulting from the injection. These fundamentalists also find it trivial to ignore the miracle cures arising from adult (e.g., bone marrow & cord blood) stem cells.
Who are there fundamentalists? I would like to indict, on capital charges:
(1) The American News Media, who talk about cures from "stem cells" when they mean adult stem cells, and then talk about a ban on research using "stem cells" when they mean embryonic stem cells. They know the difference, but they lie and kill diabetics.
(2) The American Congress, who take about cures from "stem cells" when they mean adult stem cells, and then talk about a ban on research using "stem cells" when they mean embryonic stem cells. They know the difference, but they lie and kill diabetics.
(3) The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, which is run by genocidal left-wing nuts. They monopolized all research money intended to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and now refuse to let one dime go to finding any possible cure that does not involve the known-fatal embryonic stem cells. They know better, but they lie and kill diabetics.
Andy Out!
This makes sense...It'll never pass...
Andy Out!
The RIAA's former head legal counsel now teaches at DBU (Dallas Baptist University) near Dallas, TX. His address is now public. Am I the only one planning a picket? Am I the only one planning a small claims court suit for civil compensation for a criminal act? (terrorism) Andy Out!
I found the flaws in Visual Studio 2005 and Sequel 2005 AMAZING! VS crashed every 10 minutes, even during the MS demo at the Dallas Convention Center on Nov 30th. The things were obviously NOT ready to "rock the launch."
Sequel 2005 includes built-in encryption. Every encryption scheme MS ever launched had bugs so bad it could be cracked by a 6-year-old in 15 minutes. This will likely prove to be no exception. I can just see a script kiddie having access to every database that uses Sequel 2005.
VS includes something called "smart clients." This means that web servers have the same access to your PC as a locally run program. They can print, format a floppy, burn a CD, or save to your HDD. DOES ANYONE SEE A PROBLEM HERE!?!?! I remember in the late 1990's, when MS released ActiveX, and I learned you could turn off somone's PC via IE. I simply shut down every moron using IE who visited my web page. One friend told me he just gave up and bought a new PC, because his aparently had a bad power supply when it ran IE.
Andy Out!
The one thing that every virus writer must know is how the machine he is infecting works. That's because the virus is a program that runs on the pc (try writing a Win32 application, using Mac system calls) and because it trys to jump through holes to do damage (which takes even more knowledge of the system.) If these aliens know that much about our technology, they could fabricate phony games and drop them off at any flea market, and wait for someone to find them. Heck, they could counterfit coppies of XP and sell them on eBay, or just dial in and infect us.
Yes, a massively superior computer might be able to find holes we never imagined in our systems, just like our computers can crack a WW1 cypher in seconds, but that does not mean that they can do it without knowing our basic computers, which requires paying us a visit to learn about them. Once they are here, they do not need to go through SETI.
Even if they hijacked a communications satellite, and stole the code to Windows Longhorn, it would be easier to beam the virus from that satellite after it miracuously "recovers" than to enter through SETI.
Andy Out!
Eastfield college is cursed with these. They seem unsanitary, and they do smell.
I agree that a flush every x users would be nice.
Andy Out!
I've never seen an apropriate DMCA notice, but in the 2004 election, I took out every web site that belonged to a Texas politicianin the other party - one week before the election. I'll do it again in 2006. I plan to take them out 2 months before the election, and file suits to stop them from coming back up.
Life is good, politicians are helpless, and lawyers are too slow to do anything.
God bless Texas!
Andy Out!
High tech has always been boom or bust. The trick is that unlike other boom or bust industries, high tech always changes between booms. You will not make serious money in an out of date tech field.
I'm developing a curriculum (I'm a college professor) on entrepreneurship in the merging fields of biotech, nanotech, and robotics. We've got a pretty good record in our existing departments. 25% of our graduates own their own businesses, as opposed to less than 1% from most state schools.
Another trick is that there are so many people who think they "know" tech, who really don't have a clue. Clueless HR departments and employers make it MUCH worse. Eventually, we'll learn how to sort the wheat from the chaff, and how to give honest feedback to the job seekers.
Andy Out!
Check the front page of the Wall Street Journal today.
The rest of this comment is for people too stupid to check it themselves: It said that the job market in Silicon Valley was heating up.
Andy
EVERY case of embryonic stem cell transplanation into a human has ALWAYS resulted in incurable, terminal cancer.
Meanwhile, thousands of people have been cured by adult stem cell transplants.
Q: Why would the FDA approve a lethal injection of fetal stem cells into children?
A: This is the same FDA that approved killing children to "harvest" the stem cells in the first place.
Tick...tick...tick...the revolution is coming.
Andy Out!
This case will never make it to trial.
I assume that you know that attourneys & the courts serve only the wealthy & connected few. They exist to keep the rest of us down. If I were writing the search engine, it would have been taken down by DMCA notices day one. Only a rich company like Google can compete against a rich company like Perfect 10.
Trial by pocketbook, togeather with the trampling of the Bill of Rights, makes our "government" illegal. Some of us have known this for quite some time, and have been preparing for the revolution for years. The rest of you have either caught on, or are too stupid to deserve to live.
The revolution is coming in the next year. It will be a pleasure to hunt down the attourneys, hiding in basements, and exterminate them.
Andy Out!
If we buy one epaper display, and all walk up to the checkout at the 7-11, we could "buy" the magazines wirelessly, with nobody ever having to pay to print a million coppies of something that does not sell.
We could pick up PC Week (or whatever) for $0.50, instead of $3.95...wirelessly.
I'm sure we can do it now, with wi-fi, the 'net, etc...but having a name branded electronic-paper-tablet-thingy would make it more understandable to the average idiot.
Andy Out!
Uncyclopedia.org is supposed to be full of hoaxes. It's a parody of Wikipedia.org that allows hoaxers to enjoy themselves without vandalizing the real wiki.
/.??? Doesn't anyone look at the web site to see what it's about? Would you have to read the content of an article on TheOnion.com to see if it was a parody?
Nobody has pointed this out so far...what has happened to
Stop what Linus called the "yanking" and start reading, and only posting when you have something interesting to say.
Andy Out!
I was preparing an entry for the 1st Grand Challenge, and was thrown out by DARPA's absurd rule changes.
They changed the rules daily for more than 3 months, and claimed publicly that they had not changed anything.
The rule changes left every team unable to build anything for the constant redesigns to meet these rule changes.
Aparently, DARPA's methodology is:
1. Announce a challenge, that many people were able to do the first year, with a $1 Million prize
2. Change the rules constantly so that few people are able to mee the rules
3. Disqualify all qualified entrants, leaving half-assed teams from the big names
4. Lie, and say you never changed the rules
5. Hold a disasterous challenge
6. Finally, stop changing the rules
7. Watch the big names build entries that meet the now-static rules
8. Delcare that you have "done the impossible"
9. Thank God that you have run off all the rif-raf, and that only the multi-billion dollar groups will even talk to DARPA any more, post-Grand-Challenge
I can not be the only one who was stung by DARPA's lies in 2002...did anyone else notice the constant changes?
Andy Out!
Given that this nation has the best legal system that money can buy...she does not have a chance.
Her only option is to get into the court room with a bomb on, and blwo a few people up. It's called open source justice.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Some say it's not time to shoot them yet, but it's getting really fricking close to time to shoot the bastards. They say we need to wait a few more days.
I think they are off by a few days.
If this does not bring the assasination of FBI and FCC officials, we all deserve to live in slavery.
Andy Out!
You are aware that you can vote, right?
I've got guns too. If you can not shoot, LEARN! If you do not own a militarily useful rifle (full-auto, military caliber) then GET ONE!
The National Guard is confiscating guns ranging from .22s to lever actions in Houston, TX AS WE SIT HERE! (That's from a disserter who left Fort Hood last night.)
The penalty for a useful weapons or a shoulder-fired SAM or RPG is the same as a .22 - give it up or they kill you. At least with the better weapon, you stand a chance.
Finall, know that armored vehicles burn REALLY WELL! He he he he he he...
Andy Out!
I teach intro computer classes at several colleges, so it's my job to solve this.
/. for free instead of the usual final step ($$$)
1. Show them how to click a web browser (90% know this.)
2. Bookmark http://en.wikipedia.org/ for them - that's for the things they don't know.
3. Teach them the orders of magniutde of thousands, millions, billions, etc. For example, if you ask a common office critter how many thousands are in a billion, you will head "2," "3," or "8." The reality is that if you take a stack of 100 dollar bills, it will be 4/10ths of an inch long.
$1,000 (one-thousand dollars) will be 4 inches tall. This fits in your hand.
$1,000,000 (one-million dollars) will be 300+ feet tall. That's the length of a football field.
$1,000,000,000 (one-billion dollars) will be 60+ miles tall. That's tall enough to reach the space station.
$1,000,000,000,0000 (one trillion dollars) will be 60,000+ miles tall. That's tall enough to wrap around the earth almost 3 times.
4. Show them what Kilo (Thousand), Mega (Million), Giga (Billion), and Terra (Trillion) mean. Give examples where they find out how many 4.5 GB DVDs will fit on a half-terrabyte HDD. How many 14 MB MP3 files (half-hour meeting recordings) will fit on a 495 MB keychain drive? Show them real examples from your company, using their disks. Show them how much each disk holds and how to find out how much capacity a disk has.
5. (optional) explain that network tranmission speeds are in bits, and storage is in bytes, so sending 56k over a 56k/second connection takes 8 seconds.
6. Give it away on
Andy Out!
English seems to be more a matter of style than of grammar. People want something to sound "right" and to be easy to read. Ending a sentence with a preposition is not an offense to die for.
Could we program in a set of styles, and check the document against a style?
Andy Out!
One small problem...I'm a college professor, and hold my office hours in a computer lab...a student just tried to log into her Yahoo eMail account, and got a confirmation screen saying that her Yahoo Dial would be shipped the next day.
They might want to fix that...
Andy Out!
My theory has always been that if the GUI responds, the user will get much less frustrated. So...why don't make the OS Kernel and the GUI run in real time?
Imagine if you never again had Windows lock up so badly that you could not find out who was hogging the processor, and kill the process.
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we either shoot the bastards or take away their ability to use our software.
Has anyone considered licensing the content so that no member of the RIAA or MPAA, nor any employee of any member company, may use the software?
Andy Out!
> government needs _your_ permission to take from
> you what it does
I'll tell that one to my best friend & his wife, who are loosing the only home their daughter has ever known to the Dallas Cowboys. They could use a good laugh. Soon, felons will be prancing after doing well in a child's game - over the ruins of what used to be her room. They built Arlington, TX, and now are loosing their piece of it to thugs who bribe politicians.
> Take your mind and your ability to produce what the
> government so desperately requires -- ideas, wealth
> -- out of the equation.
Done that, then I started stockpiling weapons, ammo, MREs, clothes, gear, etc.
I've said this before: "Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!"
> I firmly favor the second amendment, even if I am
> too accident prone to personally exercise it
Carrying a firearm takes a whole new level of discipline. 80% of students get that level when the safety rules are correctly presented. I suggest taking an NRA safety course, and seeing how you do. Statistically, it's safer than being in your own home if you do what you are told to do, and take it seriously.
If you still don't feel like learning to shoot, consider the implication of high-tech in our next civil war...
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Andy Out!
Nothing is going to change until we shoot the bastards!
Andy Out!