...by quoting your wikipedia article, then editing the same article so when you look back, you won't see any direct match with the stolen quote;=)
Who checks the history anyway...
by the European court. Heck, it violates freedom of speech in essence. And, more importantly, linking/quoting has been proven to be not illegal in previous cases in the EU. Either they are all wrong, or the belgians are wrong. In my case, I come from the Netherlands, we know the answer;=)
it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a video store, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops don't have.
Mod me down.. It's a useless comment that had to be made.
With the internet 'revolution' we had a "bubble", defined as a large spherical form containing *only* air. The iPod is not *air*, it's something that actually made sales with genuine content. As such, it is not a "bubble". Choose your analogies carefully peops. Apart from that, if it should demise now it's the normal way of things. It's on top, and it's going downhill. Apple knows this, why do the investors/stock-traders not know ?
...was caused by being too much in artificial light as an infant. It appears to me that if this is the case, you should alleviate that problem before using any other more 'intruding' methods. Makes sense too, regarding the depression-rate in certain Scandinavian countries (being much higher than where the sun shines more evenly).
Flat or closed universe, open ruled out ?
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Dark Matter Exists
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This should probably put one scenario to rest, that of the open universe in which planets and galaxies (and individual atoms for that matter!) drift farther and farther out from each other, until virtual nothingness.
I am not an astrophysicist, happy to hear their opinion on this ?
due to the melting icecaps - which may or may not is/has/will happen(ing/ed), we have an abundance of fresh water anyway, which we can use for our irrigation purposes. To increase the watervolume and thus the production of precious bio-materials, we could perhaps think of increasing the exhaust of fossil fuels. Four cars per household minimum and a global road/asphalt-coverage of 80% should do the trick - we should have melted all ice in no time.
Rightfully so, Europe could deny these things...
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Viruses the New Condiment
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Moderators, before reading this post or even comprehensing its contents, mark me FLAMEBAIT please and get off with it.
For the interested parties, read on...
What is it nowadays (..) in the US that makes food-safety a non-issue with regards to new technologies ? Often Europe is being seen as "the old world", where we boycot a lot of products from countries 'without reason'. Europe is 'old-fashioned', 'isolates' itself, is perhaps even 'afraid to try new things'. I wonder if this is true and whether we didn't learn anything from our mistakes.
There was a time when heroin was made into a medicine by a medical company in Europe. And there was a time when asbestos was used as a flame retardant, only to be discovered by the US none the less that it was in fact sickening.
It seems that we live in a brave new world now, in which these things are no longer deemed as important. We are back 100 years again, and this new technology (bio-engineering) has taken hold of us. When we finally get bitten by it, and I feel that on the current way there is no escaping this - independent of the above article which could indeed prove to be quite harmless as said..- will we open our eyes again ?
Maybe Europe is old-fashioned, and we should experiment with ourselves more often. Who knows what good it will bring.
Europe is probably too narrow-minded, and boycotting products will only delay the inevitable. But still, I wonder what will happen if any of these brave new products does turn out to be "faulty". Will it backlash and totally invert current stance towards bio-engineering, negating all the hard and good work that HAS been done in this field - for which there is no denying ?
Perhaps, for the sake of the field of bio-engineering, we should guide the technology along better - give it time to grow up like any living thing in its earliest stage of life. And when we have guided it along, we - Europe - will come to find that it is indeed a brave new world, a world which we should embrace.
(cue Star Wars song here...)....
It is a dark time for the (Anti Software Patents lobby). Although the (Software Patent bill) has been destroyed, (the pro patent lobbyists) have driven the (Anti Software Patents lobbyists) from their (strong position in the patent discussion) and pursued them across (Europe).
Evading the dreaded (pro patent lobbyist laywers), a group of freedom fighters led by (Florian Müller) has established a new secret (anti-patent lobbying plan) on the remote (server of www.nosoftwarepatents.com).
The evil (EPO), obsessed with (introducing software patents), has dispatched thousands of (FUD-remarks) into the far reaches of (Europe)....
Sorry to reply to my own posting: with 'public' I meant also the stockholders. They ultimately decide the fate of Jobs. And as it goes with public companies: they often tend to listen to their stockholders.
It is a sign of the times. After Enron, these actions are no longer 'tolerated' as they were before. Why ? Because the public doesn't want it tolerated. Even if he's completely innocent, Steve Jobs will have to leave Apple as a CEO - perhaps he will get an advisory role instead.
I am sure some narcistic, evil doctor would be very interested in acquiring a cave of his own (raises pink) muhahaha !
Or, on a more serious note, we could just make a nice secure colocation facility there, beats Sealand or something like Virtu (and there are more like that)...
the manufacturer probably thinks that left-handed people are so unbelievably elite, they never get RSI !
Why make an RSI-mouse for these great people ?
...this is a secret plot to scare people away from slashdot - it all adds up:
* stage A: post dupe articles with increasing frequency to annoy regular reader
* stage B: completely re-skin slashdot to confuse reader even more
* stage C: post outright annoying articles on confusing, technically shallow subjects to scare the last bit of slashdotters away
* stage D: ????
* stage E: profit !
as resetting the CMOS doesn't really help anything if you flashed the wrong image. I wonder if this could be a possible scenario an engineer will go through:
"Bill, to you the important task for upgrading the Rover, please do so before the connection breaks, we expect dust devils tonight."
"No problem dude, will do!"
... logs in to rover... "Mars Rover OS 1.3 (c) JPL (2002-2004), (c) VxWorks (1999-2002)"
I am sorry to correct, but those would be hot pixels, if (white) stars are concerned. The surprise would be bigger if 30 new black holes were concerned - these could be dead pixels.
The question whether HD - or any high bandwidth content for that matter - is choking the *internet* is probably true. But the matter is more delicate than posed here:
Many ISP's are partnering up with content providers to actually offer streaming TV to their customers. This is an end-to-end solution, in that the ISP is directly hosting the content more or less. No backbones, other than the ISP's, are included. Thus, the ISP does not have to pay a third party (backbone) for this content, other than paying for the infrastructure to the customer. The high-bandwidth occuring through the streaming of video content is thus not putting a strain on the *internet*, and charging extra for this bandwidth to any party would be absurd (the content provider is already a partner, the customer already pays for the infrastructure).
Support for the research at Drexel is from the Army Research Office and at Harvard and at Penn from the National Science Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Dreyfus Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Center for Piezoelectric Design.
I guess if it really does give 12 petabytes, it will be restricted to classified army usage *only*...
... the inventor of this plan had with the senior manager in control of the budget:
"So let's see, in short your plan is to fly a plane up to 35 kilometers in height above the mainland of Australia, switch off the engine, let it drop down with a highly experimental engine - this 'scramjet' - that you suppose would then go off automatically and accelerate the vehicle to a phenomenal speed, finishing it all off with a nice crash of that same million dollar plane into the ground ?"
"Oh yeah mate, blimey, that's it - you got it in one row !"
"You ever done this before ?"
"Nah, if I would ave, I wouldn't be standing here mate, eh ?"
"And this 'scramjet', it would ignite automatically ?"
"Sure, that's what the manual says anyhow"
"And while it sores over our Australian mainland with this high velocity, and when it enters the ground in the final stage, it would not have reached any, say, 'populated' areas?"
"Nah mate, only a couple'a'dingos probably. Everything should be fine, unless things go wrong, but that's why we're testing eh, aye?"
"You're absolutely right, I guess... Here's your money, and now don't screw up !"
"Sure thing, won't screw up, and I will tell the same to the monkey that drives the controls ! Cheers mate !"
Slashdot Mirror
this???
Eeeerrrwwww...
...if you find drag queens attractive, I bet (s)he is :)
I mean, Lego-people got a cheek from here to Tokio with heavy masculine overtones.
...by quoting your wikipedia article, then editing the same article so when you look back, you won't see any direct match with the stolen quote ;=) ...
Who checks the history anyway
Now by the morning you'll be good as new. Or dead. The important thing is, we'll know.
Don't you just love the 49% rate on medical students ?
by the European court. Heck, it violates freedom of speech in essence. And, more importantly, linking/quoting has been proven to be not illegal in previous cases in the EU. Either they are all wrong, or the belgians are wrong. In my case, I come from the Netherlands, we know the answer ;=)
it breaks down like this:
it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a video store, it's legal to sell it.
It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops don't have.
Mod me down.. It's a useless comment that had to be made.
With the internet 'revolution' we had a "bubble", defined as a large spherical form containing *only* air.
The iPod is not *air*, it's something that actually made sales with genuine content. As such, it is not a "bubble". Choose your analogies carefully peops.
Apart from that, if it should demise now it's the normal way of things. It's on top, and it's going downhill. Apple knows this, why do the investors/stock-traders not know ?
...was caused by being too much in artificial light as an infant. It appears to me that if this is the case, you should alleviate that problem before using any other more 'intruding' methods.
Makes sense too, regarding the depression-rate in certain Scandinavian countries (being much higher than where the sun shines more evenly).
Seeing this discovery, this would also imply that the universe is either contracting to a single point or remaining in its current state.
This should probably put one scenario to rest, that of the open universe in which planets and galaxies (and individual atoms for that matter!) drift farther and farther out from each other, until virtual nothingness.
I am not an astrophysicist, happy to hear their opinion on this ?
due to the melting icecaps - which may or may not is/has/will happen(ing/ed), we have an abundance of fresh water anyway, which we can use for our irrigation purposes.
To increase the watervolume and thus the production of precious bio-materials, we could perhaps think of increasing the exhaust of fossil fuels. Four cars per household minimum and a global road/asphalt-coverage of 80% should do the trick - we should have melted all ice in no time.
Moderators, before reading this post or even comprehensing its contents, mark me FLAMEBAIT please and get off with it.
For the interested parties, read on...
What is it nowadays (..) in the US that makes food-safety a non-issue with regards to new technologies ? Often Europe is being seen as "the old world", where we boycot a lot of products from countries 'without reason'. Europe is 'old-fashioned', 'isolates' itself, is perhaps even 'afraid to try new things'. I wonder if this is true and whether we didn't learn anything from our mistakes.
There was a time when heroin was made into a medicine by a medical company in Europe. And there was a time when asbestos was used as a flame retardant, only to be discovered by the US none the less that it was in fact sickening.
It seems that we live in a brave new world now, in which these things are no longer deemed as important. We are back 100 years again, and this new technology (bio-engineering) has taken hold of us. When we finally get bitten by it, and I feel that on the current way there is no escaping this - independent of the above article which could indeed prove to be quite harmless as said..- will we open our eyes again ?
Maybe Europe is old-fashioned, and we should experiment with ourselves more often. Who knows what good it will bring.
Europe is probably too narrow-minded, and boycotting products will only delay the inevitable.
But still, I wonder what will happen if any of these brave new products does turn out to be "faulty". Will it backlash and totally invert current stance towards bio-engineering, negating all the hard and good work that HAS been done in this field - for which there is no denying ?
Perhaps, for the sake of the field of bio-engineering, we should guide the technology along better - give it time to grow up like any living thing in its earliest stage of life. And when we have guided it along, we - Europe - will come to find that it is indeed a brave new world, a world which we should embrace.
(cue Star Wars song here...) ....
It is a dark time for the (Anti Software Patents lobby). Although the (Software Patent bill) has been destroyed, (the pro patent lobbyists) have driven the (Anti Software Patents lobbyists) from their (strong position in the patent discussion) and pursued them across (Europe).
...
Evading the dreaded (pro patent lobbyist laywers), a group of freedom fighters led by (Florian Müller) has established a new secret (anti-patent lobbying plan) on the remote (server of www.nosoftwarepatents.com). The evil (EPO), obsessed with (introducing software patents), has dispatched thousands of (FUD-remarks) into the far reaches of (Europe).
Sorry to reply to my own posting: with 'public' I meant also the stockholders. They ultimately decide the fate of Jobs. And as it goes with public companies: they often tend to listen to their stockholders.
It is a sign of the times. After Enron, these actions are no longer 'tolerated' as they were before. Why ? Because the public doesn't want it tolerated. Even if he's completely innocent, Steve Jobs will have to leave Apple as a CEO - perhaps he will get an advisory role instead.
What would you like to drink today ?!
Oh, I see: you're a coca cola man, I see it in your fingerprint !
Or... wait... you like pepsi too, don't you ?!
Wow... I really feel great here ! As a matter of fact, I feel so great that I'll dispense you your drink for free !
Weeeh !
I am sure some narcistic, evil doctor would be very interested in acquiring a cave of his own (raises pink) muhahaha !
Or, on a more serious note, we could just make a nice secure colocation facility there, beats Sealand or something like Virtu (and there are more like that)...
...you insensitive clod !
the manufacturer probably thinks that left-handed people are so unbelievably elite, they never get RSI !
Why make an RSI-mouse for these great people ?
... will probably be Scotty:
"Aye Cap'n Branson, but she can't take much more !"
...this is a secret plot to scare people away from slashdot - it all adds up:
* stage A: post dupe articles with increasing frequency to annoy regular reader
* stage B: completely re-skin slashdot to confuse reader even more
* stage C: post outright annoying articles on confusing, technically shallow subjects to scare the last bit of slashdotters away
* stage D: ????
* stage E: profit !
as resetting the CMOS doesn't really help anything if you flashed the wrong image. I wonder if this could be a possible scenario an engineer will go through :
... logs in to rover ...
... uploading firmware.bin
.....
......ready
...flashing firmware.bin ...
....ready
...rebooting...
...
...
:)
"Bill, to you the important task for upgrading the Rover, please do so before the connection breaks, we expect dust devils tonight."
"No problem dude, will do!"
"Mars Rover OS 1.3 (c) JPL (2002-2004), (c) VxWorks (1999-2002)"
# upload firmware.bin
(sips some coffee, goes to another monitor, plays a small game on his second PC)
# checksum
Checksum CRC32: 0xaffe34ef
"Hrm, lets see if that's the checksum of the image I got here... hrm yep thats the one, lets flash it so I can go back to home early today"
# flash firmware.bin
(sips some more coffee, packs gear, puts on coat)
"Great, it's done, now reboot and of I go !"
# reboot
(Looks casually to the directory in which firmware.bin was, finds out it's not the firmware.bin he was supposed to flash...)
Connection lost.
connect
connecting to Rover...
connection timed out...
I guess that would make one sweat considerably
oh wait, those are just dead pixels.
I am sorry to correct, but those would be hot pixels, if (white) stars are concerned. The surprise would be bigger if 30 new black holes were concerned - these could be dead pixels.
The question whether HD - or any high bandwidth content for that matter - is choking the *internet* is probably true.
But the matter is more delicate than posed here:
Many ISP's are partnering up with content providers to actually offer streaming TV to their customers. This is an end-to-end solution, in that the ISP is directly hosting the content more or less. No backbones, other than the ISP's, are included. Thus, the ISP does not have to pay a third party (backbone) for this content, other than paying for the infrastructure to the customer. The high-bandwidth occuring through the streaming of video content is thus not putting a strain on the *internet*, and charging extra for this bandwidth to any party would be absurd (the content provider is already a partner, the customer already pays for the infrastructure).
Support for the research at Drexel is from the Army Research Office and at Harvard and at Penn from the National Science Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the Dreyfus Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, and the Center for Piezoelectric Design.
I guess if it really does give 12 petabytes, it will be restricted to classified army usage *only*...
... the inventor of this plan had with the senior manager in control of the budget:
"So let's see, in short your plan is to fly a plane up to 35 kilometers in height above the mainland of Australia, switch off the engine, let it drop down with a highly experimental engine - this 'scramjet' - that you suppose would then go off automatically and accelerate the vehicle to a phenomenal speed, finishing it all off with a nice crash of that same million dollar plane into the ground ?"
"Oh yeah mate, blimey, that's it - you got it in one row !"
"You ever done this before ?"
"Nah, if I would ave, I wouldn't be standing here mate, eh ?"
"And this 'scramjet', it would ignite automatically ?"
"Sure, that's what the manual says anyhow"
"And while it sores over our Australian mainland with this high velocity, and when it enters the ground in the final stage, it would not have reached any, say, 'populated' areas?"
"Nah mate, only a couple'a'dingos probably. Everything should be fine, unless things go wrong, but that's why we're testing eh, aye?"
"You're absolutely right, I guess... Here's your money, and now don't screw up !"
"Sure thing, won't screw up, and I will tell the same to the monkey that drives the controls ! Cheers mate !"