Can you imagine how much pain you could inflict with a standard dinner fork (provided the subject was sufficiently restrained)?
Can you imagine a crowd of unrestrained test subjects turning forks, arbitrary objects in reach or just their teeth against themselves in uncontrolled fashion?
The idea of an externally triggered mass outbreak of Lesch-Nyhan-type behaviour definitively is more spooky than a bunch of refurbished dolphins.
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YMMV, but I agree with the GP: these conditions are absolutely inacceptable and in view of FOSS alternatives there's no good reason to give up your freedom!
Actually, i expect another raid during the IFA (consumer electronics show) in Berlin, end of august. And again, Roberto Dini of Sisvel will deny any responsibility.
Has anybody at Slashdot ever actually submitted anything to a journal? Yes. ACS (American Chemical Society) journals (e.g. J. Phys. Chem.) and Elsevier journals (Tetrahedron, Tetrahedron Lett., J. Photochem. Photobiol., to name a few) DO accept LaTeX submissions!
I dare to disagree. Recent big cases of misconduct (Jan Hendrik Schoen, Hwang Woo-Suk) involved forged data submitted, reviewed and published in...Science.
Peer-reviewing for Science definitely isn't better than for J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Phys. Chem., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. or even Acta Cryst E. (I'm dead serious on Acta Cryst - some co-editors there do a fantastic job!).
The problem is: If you're trying to boost your career with fabricated results, you will probably not succeed by submitting a manipulated CIF file to Acta Cryst but try to aim at the most prestigious journals - Science and Nature.
Don't get me wrong on the original article in question; i have no idea whether the data are correct or not.
But Science is not the Holy Grail - the reviewers have failed in the past and will do so in the future - the crap flood submitted by egomaniacs is simply to big!
I seriously wonder wtf is wrong with women who let a boyfriend (in most instances an uncommitted relationship of indeterminant duration) photograph or tape them nekkid.
Hint: Some of them do enjoy to pose and don't mind to be caressed, spanked and bonked before, during and after the photo session;-)
While you might want to wait I'll continue using polypropene rope (6 mm diameter) from DIY stores, which does the job quite well. It runs very smooth, doesn't absorb body liquids and the ends can be sealed with a lighter. This might not be geekish - but it is fun;-)
You might want to contact Mark Burson and William Farmer from Fistful of Film how the "release" of "First You Live Then You Die" on edonkey went for them. However note that one of them stated:
Both my co-director and I have gone on to other things, and this film is just something that pops into our heads now and then as a bunch of fun memories. [...] and yes anyone can post this on emule or anywhere they wish. Since it never found "legitimate" distribution, I don't mind letting it out there in whatever form possible.
So they pretty much just let it go, which might not be exactly what you were looking for.
Thanks, that was exactly what I missed in the whole thing. So far, their claim to "retrodifferentiate" blood cells to pluripotent stem cells (= similar to embryonal stem cells in the 8-cell-stadium) is questionable. It seems they simply went for profit and propaganda rather than for proof-reading by the scientific community.
Although enthusiastic about their results, the authors are honest enough to warn in the last paragraph of the article mentioned above:
The clinical promise of human ES cell-based therapies is great; however, because these therapies will be entirely novel, serious
concerns about safety and efficacy will need to be addressed before human clinical trials can be initiated. The malignant transformation of cells that have been cultured for extended periods is a particular concern.
This has indeed been observed by Mathias Hoehn at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany. As far as I remember, the researchers had caused an apoplectic stroke in rats. One week later, they injected the animals with embryonal stem cells from mice. MRT scans showed that the stem cells travelled through the rat brain right to the damaged region and started to differentiate and form a network. The stem cells, originating from different specimen, had replaced damaged tissue.
However, when the same stem cells (note: embryonal stem cells from mice) were used on mice, everything went out of control! Rather than moving to the damaged region, the stem cells started penetrating surrounding nerve cells and showed uncontrolled growth. In all mice examined, tumors were found!
Keeping that in mind, I prefer to take all "scientific" announcements in non-peer-reviewed journals with a ton of salt.
Whoever isn't really satisfied with the information given in the CNN article might want to have a look at the Heart News, where Eric Topol points out:
People with this exact MEF2A mutation have essentially a 100-percent chance of having a heart attack or developing coronary artery disease [...] For people without a genetic predisposition, they must make it their responsibility to take care of themselves to prevent heart disease from developing.
So for all the obese guys out there: Think about some other famous last words than
It is all genetic [...]
Notice that the gliders currently used, such as the ALACE and the APEX still use batteries to drive an electrical motor.
I'm astonished that you don't recognize a joke being one yourself.
Go fly a kite, kid! Yes, you may use the string of your greased Yoda doll.
I rather doubt that the concept is feasible for large freight.
No fuel
Well, at least no diesel. But it isn't a perpetuum mobile;-). In order to move the glider in sawtooth mode (up and down) you'll need energy to pump the "swimming oil" around. Wouldn't the amount of oil to be pumped and thus the energy used be proportional to the freight carried?
What about automated sailing ships with sturdy square sail constructions like the Shin Aitoku Maru instead?
Dellavalle, a dermatologist [...] had co-written a research report featuring [...]footnotes -- many of which referred [...] to Web sites that he and his colleagues had used to substantiate their findings.
Pardon me, but I call this unprofessional!
In order to support your own findings/experiments you may cite peer-reviewed articles form printed or online journals having an ISSN or refer to personal communications. Usually, the latter only makes sense if the source has some sort of reliability and reputation in the scientific community.
Didn't Dellavalle and collegues contact the authors of the respective web sites in time - just to make sure that the data published were correct and obtained under defined and reproducible conditions? Apparently not! If they would have done, they probably would have had enough background information to recontact the original of the data.
Joe Sixpack, www.blaaa.net/index.html.
A drunken bloke in the subway, personal communication, 2003.
Thanks for the clearing remarks. Blind passengers brought from home can be a plague to deal with. I remember visits from armenian guest scientists in pre-www times. It was crucial to confiscate all their floppies on arrival;-)
They are selling/closing these things as is the norm in these situations.
Sure. Services get cancelled if they don't sell.
And while the technical specifications (transfer rates) did sound attractive, the volume-based tarif was not.
We don't know that it was a failure.
Please read more careful. I didn't write that RWE Powerline failed, but that the original article failed to mention that the service still is out of business (= not available to the customers). Or did I miss something?
Assuming that the UF might get sued by the Record Mafia for not preventing illegal activities it seems consequent and reasonable to block P2P transfer within the university net. Why did they install a surveillance system instead? Are they up to something else?
But I really loved this part:
For a first violation, transgressors [...] must watch a 10-minute interactive Web program on copyright law.
Hmm, aversion therapy. That's nice. Are there any details about hooks holding the eye lids and electrodes attached to the testicles?
Funny indeed. Voting on paper seems to work in Germany too. It seems to be secure (anonymous) and it is fast, even if you take into account that we don't use the plurality (the winner takes it all) system but counting methods which are considered to be more fair.
A short overview (in English) is given in the German voting system
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#1 Using IE gets you a ride on the Old Sparky.
Can you imagine a crowd of unrestrained test subjects turning forks, arbitrary objects in reach or just their teeth against themselves in uncontrolled fashion?
The idea of an externally triggered mass outbreak of Lesch-Nyhan-type behaviour definitively is more spooky than a bunch of refurbished dolphins.
Sweet dreams!
http://groklaw.net/ in general and the article in particular are accessible from Germany via my local ISP. No need for any proxy!
Actually, i expect another raid during the IFA (consumer electronics show) in Berlin, end of august. And again, Roberto Dini of Sisvel will deny any responsibility.
Windows Jonestown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
I dare to disagree. Recent big cases of misconduct (Jan Hendrik Schoen, Hwang Woo-Suk) involved forged data submitted, reviewed and published in...Science. Peer-reviewing for Science definitely isn't better than for J. Am. Chem. Soc., J. Phys. Chem., Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. or even Acta Cryst E. (I'm dead serious on Acta Cryst - some co-editors there do a fantastic job!). The problem is: If you're trying to boost your career with fabricated results, you will probably not succeed by submitting a manipulated CIF file to Acta Cryst but try to aim at the most prestigious journals - Science and Nature. Don't get me wrong on the original article in question; i have no idea whether the data are correct or not. But Science is not the Holy Grail - the reviewers have failed in the past and will do so in the future - the crap flood submitted by egomaniacs is simply to big!
While you might want to wait I'll continue using polypropene rope (6 mm diameter) from DIY stores, which does the job quite well. It runs very smooth, doesn't absorb body liquids and the ends can be sealed with a lighter. This might not be geekish - but it is fun ;-)
However note that one of them stated: So they pretty much just let it go, which might not be exactly what you were looking for.
While you wait for the order, read a bit about Tetrodotoxin, which was the Molecule of the Month in November 1999.
Thanks, that was exactly what I missed in the whole thing. So far, their claim to "retrodifferentiate" blood cells to pluripotent stem cells (= similar to embryonal stem cells in the 8-cell-stadium) is questionable. It seems they simply went for profit and propaganda rather than for proof-reading by the scientific community.
One (of many) more serious examples for (embryonal) stem cell research is given by D. Kaufman in PNAS 2001, 98(19), 10716-10721, for an online pdf version see Hematopoietic colony-forming cells derived from human embryonic stem cells.
Although enthusiastic about their results, the authors are honest enough to warn in the last paragraph of the article mentioned above:
This has indeed been observed by Mathias Hoehn at the Max-Planck-Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne, Germany. As far as I remember, the researchers had caused an apoplectic stroke in rats. One week later, they injected the animals with embryonal stem cells from mice. MRT scans showed that the stem cells travelled through the rat brain right to the damaged region and started to differentiate and form a network. The stem cells, originating from different specimen, had replaced damaged tissue.
However, when the same stem cells (note: embryonal stem cells from mice) were used on mice, everything went out of control! Rather than moving to the damaged region, the stem cells started penetrating surrounding nerve cells and showed uncontrolled growth. In all mice examined, tumors were found!
Keeping that in mind, I prefer to take all "scientific" announcements in non-peer-reviewed journals with a ton of salt.
evank40767 kindly linked to an old picture stored on his own AOL account.
evank40767, don't the guys at AOL suggest having something like index.html rather than granting access to the whole directory?
And please stop crying now, it is too late anyway. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.Think about some other famous last words than It is all genetic [...]
I'm astonished that you don't recognize a joke being one yourself.
Go fly a kite, kid! Yes, you may use the string of your greased Yoda doll.
In order to move the glider in sawtooth mode (up and down) you'll need energy to pump the "swimming oil" around. Wouldn't the amount of oil to be pumped and thus the energy used be proportional to the freight carried?
What about automated sailing ships with sturdy square sail constructions like the Shin Aitoku Maru instead?
- Joe Sixpack, www.blaaa.net/index.html.
- A drunken bloke in the subway, personal communication, 2003.
are not relevant references.Thanks for the clearing remarks. ;-)
Blind passengers brought from home can be a plague to deal with. I remember visits from armenian guest scientists in pre-www times. It was crucial to confiscate all their floppies on arrival
Assuming that the UF might get sued by the Record Mafia for not preventing illegal activities it seems consequent and reasonable to block P2P transfer within the university net. Why did they install a surveillance system instead? Are they up to something else?
But I really loved this part:
Hmm, aversion therapy. That's nice. Are there any details about hooks holding the eye lids and electrodes attached to the testicles?Funny indeed. Voting on paper seems to work in Germany too. It seems to be secure (anonymous) and it is fast, even if you take into account that we don't use the plurality (the winner takes it all) system but counting methods which are considered to be more fair.
A short overview (in English) is given in the German voting system