We the people are not out to haraas but simply trying to track delegates who are aligned with the war party. We need to keep them under control as they are dangerous individuals who are known to back the anti-democratic minority. The procedure is similar to implementation of criminal registration procedures.:)
Holy shit. Let's change the wording a bit shall we:
We the Government/Republicians/etc are not out to haraas but simply trying to track delegates who are aligned with the Democratic/Green/etc party. We need to keep them under control as they are dangerous individuals who are known to back the anti-democratic minority. The procedure is similar to implementation of criminal registration procedures.:)
So simply by putting "using a Wireless Internet-enabled bicycle outfitted" in the abstract, the article becomes Slashdot worthy?
What this guy's actions were over the line and he was well aware of the risk that he was taking. While the timing of the arrest is suspect (can they hold him for a week over a valdalism charge?), quite frankly I'm surprised he was able to go on for as long as he did.
Great job with the preview - it was well written and enjoyable to read. While the recent crop of RPGs are nothing short of phenomenal, when it comes to saving one's game, I feel they've actually taken a step back from the old school RPGs. Why is it, with the Xbox's hard drive, that both my wife and I are unable to each have our own character? Back in the day, my brother, sister and I were able to each save our own Zelda game - yet we can't do this with today's games. I want my wife and I to think of Fable as our game, not my game or her game. Please bring back the multiple save slots.
Now only if they would allow people to get cheap access to drugs such as Norvir whose research was funded with public money.
What was funded by public money? The basic sciences research? The clinical trials? Setting up production? Paying the laywers for their IP expertise? Defending from patient lawsuits? What about research funded in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute? By private donation? By companies?
The world is not nearly as black and white as you make it out to be.
PLoS does not remove the reviewing process from the equation - in fact quite the opposite. PLoS realizes that if they are to be treated seriously as a journal and have any hope of scientists submitting to them, they must have a highly regarded review process. PLoS my be critized on many things, but this isn't one of them.
Of course, a hacker might also have fun and disassemble the neighbours car.
Sometimes hackers just get way too much credit. We definitely need to educate people regarding the pitfalls of technology and the dangers of relying too much on security. However, it's erroneous, and dangerous, for us to portray the idea that some 'hacker' could simply sit at a street corner with a laptop and create havoc with all things that contain a chip. We need to raise awareness, but let's not create an irrational fear.
Sure, I suppose a 'hacker' could have fun and disassemble the neighbours car - after they pop the hood, hook up their laptop (likey using special hardware), and run the correct program (probably with little to no 'hacking' involved). Heck, while they were at it they might as well go the extra mile and hack the car's chip.
Give credit where credit is due, but let's not make 'hackers' more powerful than they really are.
what happens when you find yourself injured in later life and morphine based painkillers no longer work
Are derivatives to morphine all based off of Heroin, cocaine, or nicotine? Would the 'vaccine' even affect morphine? Would preventing the euphoria caused by heroin, cocaine, or nicotine even affect the medicinal properties provided by these same compounds?
It sounds like the submitter extrapolated far beyond the scope of the article and the conclusion is shaky at best. Questioning what happens if the 'vaccine' interferes with the medicinal properties of morphine is a good idea. From what I've seen though, we're far from questioning when the 'vaccine' interferes with the medicinal properties of morphine.
Dang. It was easy hating India - they have a unique culture, live on the other side of the world, 'all look alike', and they don't speak perfect english. I like being xenophobic damn it!
Now Canada has to come in and screw everything up. I have friends in Canada. I ski in Canada. Hell, I like Canada. Who should I hate now? Thank God for mindless, faceless corporations.
Seems to me that everytime we have some sort of a disaster (earthquake, bombing, etc), the networks get so clogged from everyone calling their family and friends that they're essentially out of service anyway.
Why would a terrorist group attack a telecommunications network when they could simply create a stir and let the public do it for them?
Color me confused, but one day I hear the Slashdot crowds screaming the evils of copy protection while the next day I hear how we would be better served by stronger copy protection.
Now, I understand that Slashdot is composed of various camps, and this may simply be one of those cases. However, the feeling I get from the previous posts is if it supports OSS, it's all good - the end justifies the means. How is this different than certain corporations' business tactics?
Should I be allowed to make a backup copy of my software even if by being allowed to do so OSS is hurt? Should I forgo my right to create a backup for the common good of promoting OSS?
Practically, is there any reason why you wouldn't want to identify yourself to a police officer? Except for trying to be difficult or 'proving a point', I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't provide my name to an officer upon request.
You're thinking like a slashdotter. Forget everything you know about computers and you'll still be ahead of the general population.
I've installed pop-up blockers on all of the computers in our laboratory as well as the other labs on our floor. Thanks to an advertisement that managed to slip through, just last week I had a tech. come to me all paniced that there may be porn stored on her computer. She was very aware that her computer had a pop-up stopper.
I'm constantly amazed by how some of the same people who complain about pop-up and how no one ever pays attention to them, gunk up their computer by downloading pop-up suggested crap.
I find most of the pop-ups target computer illiterate individuals - "Your time may be wrong!", "Protect your computer NOW!!", "There may be porn stored on your computer!". You, my slashdotting friends, are not the target audience.
Another example of the little guy getting his ass kicked yet again by the Powell and his idiot-brigade known as the FCC.
Oh, I don't know. Mercer Island High School resides in one of the wealthiest areas of Seattle. If any high school has easy access to top lawyers, this would be the one.
Being 'unwired' is only half the picture. I've worked at universities that had an extensive wireless network, but unfortunately the IT department had the network so restricted that I far prefered to work at home through my personal DSL service. On the otherhand, I've also worked at universities that, while not hosting nearly the wireless network, had an incredible IT department that really knew how to make things easy for me. I'd take incredible IT department over the extensive wireless network any day.
Way back when, I used to play a MUD that had a permadeath system (One life - you die, you restart). By far, I had more fun on that MUD than any other. Sure, it sucked losing your character of 100 hours, but dang the gameplay was awesome - exploring meant something, the adrenaline rushes were great, and the players treated the game with far more respect. I would join a permadeath MMORPG in a heartbeat.
Regarding griefers, I never experienced that problem on the permadeath mud. Players that caused problems didn't last very long and often moved on to other muds. Additionally, since there weren't levels (Armageddon is a skill based MUD), griefers couldn't recognize and target lesser skilled players without a bit of work.
I want a MMORPG with exciting gameplay - something a permadeath system would definitely provide. Simply being 'high level' doesn't make the gameplay any more exciting - on most MMORPGs level is simply a measure of time.
Woah. Our Slashdot settings must be completely different. While moderated as funny, the vast majority of posts definitely "displayed a cathartic wave of pleasure". Of the posts moderated interesting / informative, one - that's right, one - spoke of the evils of viruses, seven were worried about how the open source / linux community would look publicly, and the vast majority were talking about how the virus works.
I'll be perfectly honest, I think the virus was written by someone who wanted to stick it to the SCO (and not something the SCO did to themselves to discredit the linux community). I know I've heard my fair share, both in person and on boards, of people who thought on some level that Blaster was funny and who have jokingly suggested that the same could be done to other groups like the RIAA and the SCO.
Guppy06 couldn't have said it better: "We're about the last people who would be out writing Windows viruses."
Really, the best way to stop piracy is to actually make the game worth $50.
Or you could just wait a few months until the price drops. When you're paying $50 for a game, you're paying for novelty of having the latest, "greatest" game.
I would think that the information provided by the RFID tags would be invaluable - not in terms of violating privacy but for the planning of future conferences. I'd gladly wear RFID chips in my conference badge if it lead to improved trafficking for future conferences. One doesn't attend conferences for the privacy.
I'm absolutely shocked that the NCBI's (National Center for Biotechnology Information - part of the NIH) genomic and proteomic search engine BLAST isn't included in the list. BLAST is consistantly used by scientists worldwide to search the genome of several organizms. I'm similarly shocked that MEDLINE / PubMed isn't included as it's the primary database for searching published scientific literature. When I think of databases, I think of these two sites - not Amazon.
But this could yield unwanted side-effects - an artificially "too strong" or "too weak" immune system should have the same problems: either attacking everything, including you possibly (stronger one) or not attacking what it should at all (weaker one).
You're confusing "too strong" and "too weak" with specificity. Autoimmune diseases result from the immune system attacking the wrong target (self). Having a given autoimmune disorder does not provide a boost in defending against cancer or an attack by a pathogen.
Immune suppressive drugs work by non-specifically decreasing the immune system as a whole. Immune suppressive drugs work by a method totally foreign to the immune system and parallels to how the immune system is regulated in a healthy individual can not be made.
I'm not that familiar with CD8+ suppressor T cells, however the jury is still out regarding if CD4+CD25+ suppressor cells are target specific or non-specific (data to support both).
The immune system is far more complicated that you're making it out to be.
By pre-treating patients who are about to undergo an organ transplant, it's possible to 'redirect' the immune system so that it does not launch an attack on the donor organ.
A couple of quick points: 1. The experiments were done in mice, not humans. 2. All the mice undergoing the treatment underwent graft rejection.
During the early 80s scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center experimented with T-cell depleted stem cell transplants in an effort to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a principal cause of death following bone marrow transplantation. The principle behind GvHD is similar to that of an organ rejection, except that the immune system recognizes the whole body as foreign and attacks it. When mice were given T-cell depleted transplants from MHC mismatched donors (something that promotes GvHD and is why you have to find a bone marrow donor match), their survival rates were identical to that of mice who receaved autologous transplants (they donated bone marrow to themselves - no GvHD). To say that the transplant community was excited would be an understatement. One prominent scientist even wrote that "we've (the transplant community) solved the problem of GvHD".
However, when clinical trials involving humans begain, it was quick discovered that while GvHD was reduced (not eliminated), there was a huge increase in graft failure (in otherwords, the patients didn't develop an immune system - very bad).
The immune system is a tricky thing. While mice are the experimental model, the experimental results don't always match those from humans. We can do a whole lot of things in vitro to mice cells that we can't even begin to duplicate in human lymphocytes. Additionally, mice and humans don't always share the same functional receptors (mice Ly-108 vs the human KIRs).
I applaud the BBC news report - at least they identified that the study was simply a step, used animals, and didn't cure the mice. The Slashdot summary is simply flat out incorrect.
For some reason I imagine that Billy the Kid would get a huge kick out of the whole controversy.
Personally, I've made it well known that when I die I hope to be able to donate my organs and have whatever's left used for research and/or medical student training. Then again, if you all want to dig me up and do immoral/unethical things to my corpse, I really couldn't care less - It's not as if I'll be using it once I'm dead.
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We the people are not out to haraas but simply trying to track delegates who are aligned with the war party. We need to keep them under control as they are dangerous individuals who are known to back the anti-democratic minority. The procedure is similar to implementation of criminal registration procedures. :)
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Holy shit. Let's change the wording a bit shall we:
We the Government/Republicians/etc are not out to haraas but simply trying to track delegates who are aligned with the Democratic/Green/etc party. We need to keep them under control as they are dangerous individuals who are known to back the anti-democratic minority. The procedure is similar to implementation of criminal registration procedures.
Do as I say, not as I do.
What this guy's actions were over the line and he was well aware of the risk that he was taking. While the timing of the arrest is suspect (can they hold him for a week over a valdalism charge?), quite frankly I'm surprised he was able to go on for as long as he did.
Great job with the preview - it was well written and enjoyable to read. While the recent crop of RPGs are nothing short of phenomenal, when it comes to saving one's game, I feel they've actually taken a step back from the old school RPGs. Why is it, with the Xbox's hard drive, that both my wife and I are unable to each have our own character? Back in the day, my brother, sister and I were able to each save our own Zelda game - yet we can't do this with today's games. I want my wife and I to think of Fable as our game, not my game or her game. Please bring back the multiple save slots.
What was funded by public money? The basic sciences research? The clinical trials? Setting up production? Paying the laywers for their IP expertise? Defending from patient lawsuits? What about research funded in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute? By private donation? By companies?
The world is not nearly as black and white as you make it out to be.
5 years isn't enough time to get through clinical trials, much less bring a product to market.
PLoS does not remove the reviewing process from the equation - in fact quite the opposite. PLoS realizes that if they are to be treated seriously as a journal and have any hope of scientists submitting to them, they must have a highly regarded review process. PLoS my be critized on many things, but this isn't one of them.
Sometimes hackers just get way too much credit. We definitely need to educate people regarding the pitfalls of technology and the dangers of relying too much on security. However, it's erroneous, and dangerous, for us to portray the idea that some 'hacker' could simply sit at a street corner with a laptop and create havoc with all things that contain a chip. We need to raise awareness, but let's not create an irrational fear.
Sure, I suppose a 'hacker' could have fun and disassemble the neighbours car - after they pop the hood, hook up their laptop (likey using special hardware), and run the correct program (probably with little to no 'hacking' involved). Heck, while they were at it they might as well go the extra mile and hack the car's chip.
Give credit where credit is due, but let's not make 'hackers' more powerful than they really are.
Are derivatives to morphine all based off of Heroin, cocaine, or nicotine? Would the 'vaccine' even affect morphine? Would preventing the euphoria caused by heroin, cocaine, or nicotine even affect the medicinal properties provided by these same compounds?
It sounds like the submitter extrapolated far beyond the scope of the article and the conclusion is shaky at best. Questioning what happens if the 'vaccine' interferes with the medicinal properties of morphine is a good idea. From what I've seen though, we're far from questioning when the 'vaccine' interferes with the medicinal properties of morphine.
Now Canada has to come in and screw everything up. I have friends in Canada. I ski in Canada. Hell, I like Canada. Who should I hate now? Thank God for mindless, faceless corporations.
Why would a terrorist group attack a telecommunications network when they could simply create a stir and let the public do it for them?
Color me confused, but one day I hear the Slashdot crowds screaming the evils of copy protection while the next day I hear how we would be better served by stronger copy protection.
Now, I understand that Slashdot is composed of various camps, and this may simply be one of those cases. However, the feeling I get from the previous posts is if it supports OSS, it's all good - the end justifies the means. How is this different than certain corporations' business tactics?
Should I be allowed to make a backup copy of my software even if by being allowed to do so OSS is hurt? Should I forgo my right to create a backup for the common good of promoting OSS?
Practically, is there any reason why you wouldn't want to identify yourself to a police officer? Except for trying to be difficult or 'proving a point', I can't think of any reason why I wouldn't provide my name to an officer upon request.
I've installed pop-up blockers on all of the computers in our laboratory as well as the other labs on our floor. Thanks to an advertisement that managed to slip through, just last week I had a tech. come to me all paniced that there may be porn stored on her computer. She was very aware that her computer had a pop-up stopper.
I'm constantly amazed by how some of the same people who complain about pop-up and how no one ever pays attention to them, gunk up their computer by downloading pop-up suggested crap.
I find most of the pop-ups target computer illiterate individuals - "Your time may be wrong!", "Protect your computer NOW!!", "There may be porn stored on your computer!". You, my slashdotting friends, are not the target audience.
Another example of the little guy getting his ass kicked yet again by the Powell and his idiot-brigade known as the FCC.
Oh, I don't know. Mercer Island High School resides in one of the wealthiest areas of Seattle. If any high school has easy access to top lawyers, this would be the one.
I would have picked the PS2 and then ask for her number.
We're talking a 30 second baseball game stunt - I doubt she was offended.
Being 'unwired' is only half the picture. I've worked at universities that had an extensive wireless network, but unfortunately the IT department had the network so restricted that I far prefered to work at home through my personal DSL service. On the otherhand, I've also worked at universities that, while not hosting nearly the wireless network, had an incredible IT department that really knew how to make things easy for me. I'd take incredible IT department over the extensive wireless network any day.
Regarding griefers, I never experienced that problem on the permadeath mud. Players that caused problems didn't last very long and often moved on to other muds. Additionally, since there weren't levels (Armageddon is a skill based MUD), griefers couldn't recognize and target lesser skilled players without a bit of work.
I want a MMORPG with exciting gameplay - something a permadeath system would definitely provide. Simply being 'high level' doesn't make the gameplay any more exciting - on most MMORPGs level is simply a measure of time.
Woah. Our Slashdot settings must be completely different. While moderated as funny, the vast majority of posts definitely "displayed a cathartic wave of pleasure". Of the posts moderated interesting / informative, one - that's right, one - spoke of the evils of viruses, seven were worried about how the open source / linux community would look publicly, and the vast majority were talking about how the virus works.
I'll be perfectly honest, I think the virus was written by someone who wanted to stick it to the SCO (and not something the SCO did to themselves to discredit the linux community). I know I've heard my fair share, both in person and on boards, of people who thought on some level that Blaster was funny and who have jokingly suggested that the same could be done to other groups like the RIAA and the SCO.
Guppy06 couldn't have said it better:
"We're about the last people who would be out writing Windows viruses."
Try reading at -1 every once in a while.
Really, the best way to stop piracy is to actually make the game worth $50.
Or you could just wait a few months until the price drops. When you're paying $50 for a game, you're paying for novelty of having the latest, "greatest" game.
I would think that the information provided by the RFID tags would be invaluable - not in terms of violating privacy but for the planning of future conferences. I'd gladly wear RFID chips in my conference badge if it lead to improved trafficking for future conferences. One doesn't attend conferences for the privacy.
I'm absolutely shocked that the NCBI's (National Center for Biotechnology Information - part of the NIH) genomic and proteomic search engine BLAST isn't included in the list. BLAST is consistantly used by scientists worldwide to search the genome of several organizms. I'm similarly shocked that MEDLINE / PubMed isn't included as it's the primary database for searching published scientific literature. When I think of databases, I think of these two sites - not Amazon.
How so? Seems to me what you're talking about is a vaccine.
You're confusing "too strong" and "too weak" with specificity. Autoimmune diseases result from the immune system attacking the wrong target (self). Having a given autoimmune disorder does not provide a boost in defending against cancer or an attack by a pathogen.
Immune suppressive drugs work by non-specifically decreasing the immune system as a whole. Immune suppressive drugs work by a method totally foreign to the immune system and parallels to how the immune system is regulated in a healthy individual can not be made.
I'm not that familiar with CD8+ suppressor T cells, however the jury is still out regarding if CD4+CD25+ suppressor cells are target specific or non-specific (data to support both).
The immune system is far more complicated that you're making it out to be.
By pre-treating patients who are about to undergo an organ transplant, it's possible to 'redirect' the immune system so that it does not launch an attack on the donor organ.
A couple of quick points:
1. The experiments were done in mice, not humans.
2. All the mice undergoing the treatment underwent graft rejection.
During the early 80s scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center experimented with T-cell depleted stem cell transplants in an effort to prevent graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a principal cause of death following bone marrow transplantation. The principle behind GvHD is similar to that of an organ rejection, except that the immune system recognizes the whole body as foreign and attacks it. When mice were given T-cell depleted transplants from MHC mismatched donors (something that promotes GvHD and is why you have to find a bone marrow donor match), their survival rates were identical to that of mice who receaved autologous transplants (they donated bone marrow to themselves - no GvHD). To say that the transplant community was excited would be an understatement. One prominent scientist even wrote that "we've (the transplant community) solved the problem of GvHD".
However, when clinical trials involving humans begain, it was quick discovered that while GvHD was reduced (not eliminated), there was a huge increase in graft failure (in otherwords, the patients didn't develop an immune system - very bad).
The immune system is a tricky thing. While mice are the experimental model, the experimental results don't always match those from humans. We can do a whole lot of things in vitro to mice cells that we can't even begin to duplicate in human lymphocytes. Additionally, mice and humans don't always share the same functional receptors (mice Ly-108 vs the human KIRs).
I applaud the BBC news report - at least they identified that the study was simply a step, used animals, and didn't cure the mice. The Slashdot summary is simply flat out incorrect.
Personally, I've made it well known that when I die I hope to be able to donate my organs and have whatever's left used for research and/or medical student training. Then again, if you all want to dig me up and do immoral/unethical things to my corpse, I really couldn't care less - It's not as if I'll be using it once I'm dead.