In general I'd say yes, but their measures of efficiency were literacy, life expectancy and wealth - all measures that are generally better in capitalist countries with smaller governments. In this case, government "efficiency" is a good thing.
If the hijacker gets on your wireless AP, then he's NATed behind the same public IP address as you. Voila, he matches your IP. Another layer is to also fix the session cookie to the browser's UA string, but that won't work if the attacker knows you're doing it and changes his browser's UA string to match yours. In summary, secure your wireless AP if you're a user and buy some SSL acceleration hardware so you can support forcing all traffic on your website to use SSL if you're a service provider.
Libertarians wouldn't call this privatization, either. This is still government-funded research done by government contractors. Libertarians would call this "corporate welfare."
My parents and grandparents make/made excellent matzoh ball soup. I usually put cayenne pepper in it instead of salt, though. The miso paste idea sounds awesome! I found a recipe for hot and sour soup, too, and I might try to combine it... maybe replace the tofu with matzoh balls or something.
I highly doubt that saying "X is a monkey" is slander. Insults aren't slander, and nobody will be convinced that X is literally a monkey. Hell, have you seen Bush or Chimp?
Monarchies are useless in the modern world, and this is yet another shining example of why. The funny thing is, the king in Thailand seems to like to pardon people (or at least foreigners) that do this, according to TFA.
There's better coverage of the story at Physorg (via Engadget).
Question: If the fuel cell contains enzymes, couldn't a 2-stage fuel cell be created that has cellulases, thus making waste switchgrass/etc. a potential direct fuel? Why would we need to even bother with cellulosic ethanol then? Or is this even possible?
I liked Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children for (what appeared to me to be) fairly sensible and well-researched biology. It's a refreshing treatment of human evolution when compared to X-Men and Heroes, and takes into account recent evidence that human evolution has been taking place fairly recently (that is, only tens of thousands to thousands of years ago).
I agree that prohibition in general is not the way to go. However, I disagree that this will be as dire as you expect.
CFLs do suck to some extent. This law, and the proposed law in CA, may increase the incentive to develop home lighting based on LEDs instead. LEDs use even less energy than CFLs for the same level of light output, and the light is consistent, instant, and does not flicker due to rectification/smoothing of the current to (usually) 12VDC. LEDs also last longer than CFLs. The technology is there, it's just a matter of product development and ramping up production.
When this happens, it'll be like prohibiting muskets. The only people that will actually want incandescents (or CFLs) will be collectors.
From the way it looks, the compound has been known for quite a while, and it hasn't been obvious until just now that it could treat cancer...
That said, I would much rather NOT have it patented, and have the clinical trials supported by charity or government, because the world needs a cheap, effective cancer drug.
Since the drug is not currently being used to treat cancer, can't the use of it to treat cancer be patented? This is a way that drug companies often keep a monopoly on at least part of a drug's utility, IIRC.
> Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
His theory is not wrong. The new material interacts 50% more strongly than light than any previously known material, but that previous record was still 30 times less than the theoretical limit proposed in 1999. So now, it's only 20 times less than the theoretical limit.
Roland's just not that bright. The "law" is a theoretical limit to a molecule's interaction with light. The new molecules are nowhere near it. They interact with light 50% more strongly than any previously created materials, not 50% more strongly than the theoretical limit the physicist calculated.
I saw no such features on the XenSource site, but it may be more difficult, because the VMs aren't userspace processes in Xen. I don't know how VMWare does it, but I know it does it well.:)
Moshe Bar founded both XenSource (the people behind Xen) and Qumranet (the company behind KVM), so hopefully he'll be able to develop something like this if he hasn't already.
The company I work for now is virtualizing on RedHat boxes running VMWare, and one of the neat features that it has is called VMotion, which lets you nearly instantly move a virtual machine from one box to another without interrupting its execution (except a slight delay). The high availability (HA) feature, which they also have but we have not yet configured, allows this to happen automatically if a host box goes down. There are rules about which VMs may not run on the same machines, etc. (for redundancy purposes, you don't want all your web servers running on the same host, for example).
Is this at all possible with KVM? If not, are they planning it? Is it possible to approximate it with something like OpenMosix, since (IIRC) OpenMosix can move processes around dynamically when nodes fail or get bogged down, and a VM is just a process (assuming a central SAN that all the host boxes connect to)?
Actually, at first, the longer-legged lizards were better survivors because they're faster runners. For the first six months of the experiment, they had an advantage.
When the anoles learned that they could better avoid the predator lizards by climbing trees, the shorter-legged lizards had a climbing advantage, and they were being selected for.
The summary only tells half of the story. The article spells it out completely. It was a behavior change on the part of the prey that caused a change in which trait was selected for. Don't blame the article. Blame the summary.
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Yes, but it depends on the settings for ownership chaining, and the ownership of the tables and stored procs. See here
In general I'd say yes, but their measures of efficiency were literacy, life expectancy and wealth - all measures that are generally better in capitalist countries with smaller governments. In this case, government "efficiency" is a good thing.
If the hijacker gets on your wireless AP, then he's NATed behind the same public IP address as you. Voila, he matches your IP. Another layer is to also fix the session cookie to the browser's UA string, but that won't work if the attacker knows you're doing it and changes his browser's UA string to match yours. In summary, secure your wireless AP if you're a user and buy some SSL acceleration hardware so you can support forcing all traffic on your website to use SSL if you're a service provider.
Libertarians wouldn't call this privatization, either. This is still government-funded research done by government contractors. Libertarians would call this "corporate welfare."
My parents and grandparents make/made excellent matzoh ball soup. I usually put cayenne pepper in it instead of salt, though. The miso paste idea sounds awesome! I found a recipe for hot and sour soup, too, and I might try to combine it... maybe replace the tofu with matzoh balls or something.
That... sounds surprisingly delicious. *makes note*
I highly doubt that saying "X is a monkey" is slander. Insults aren't slander, and nobody will be convinced that X is literally a monkey. Hell, have you seen Bush or Chimp?
Monarchies are useless in the modern world, and this is yet another shining example of why. The funny thing is, the king in Thailand seems to like to pardon people (or at least foreigners) that do this, according to TFA.
There's better coverage of the story at Physorg (via Engadget).
Question: If the fuel cell contains enzymes, couldn't a 2-stage fuel cell be created that has cellulases, thus making waste switchgrass/etc. a potential direct fuel? Why would we need to even bother with cellulosic ethanol then? Or is this even possible?
Information Lifecycle Management. :)
I liked Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio and Darwin's Children for (what appeared to me to be) fairly sensible and well-researched biology. It's a refreshing treatment of human evolution when compared to X-Men and Heroes, and takes into account recent evidence that human evolution has been taking place fairly recently (that is, only tens of thousands to thousands of years ago).
I agree that prohibition in general is not the way to go. However, I disagree that this will be as dire as you expect.
CFLs do suck to some extent. This law, and the proposed law in CA, may increase the incentive to develop home lighting based on LEDs instead. LEDs use even less energy than CFLs for the same level of light output, and the light is consistent, instant, and does not flicker due to rectification/smoothing of the current to (usually) 12VDC. LEDs also last longer than CFLs. The technology is there, it's just a matter of product development and ramping up production.
When this happens, it'll be like prohibiting muskets. The only people that will actually want incandescents (or CFLs) will be collectors.
So here it is...
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http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0957-4484/18/9/095
Sorry, better reference is here.
You're correct, but creating and keeping a gradient also requires energy. That energy is given to the rotaxane molecules in the form of photons.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/20/011121 5&tid=217
If Robert X. Cringely is right, then Google has indeed calculated well.
From the way it looks, the compound has been known for quite a while, and it hasn't been obvious until just now that it could treat cancer...
That said, I would much rather NOT have it patented, and have the clinical trials supported by charity or government, because the world needs a cheap, effective cancer drug.
Since the drug is not currently being used to treat cancer, can't the use of it to treat cancer be patented? This is a way that drug companies often keep a monopoly on at least part of a drug's utility, IIRC.
> Second, from an employer's perspective, it may in the narrow self-interest of the company for such a person to go be a drain on its competitors. Where's the rational economic incentive to discourage that?
:)
He COULD go to work for one of your vendors...
His theory is not wrong. The new material interacts 50% more strongly than light than any previously known material, but that previous record was still 30 times less than the theoretical limit proposed in 1999. So now, it's only 20 times less than the theoretical limit.
Roland's just not that bright. The "law" is a theoretical limit to a molecule's interaction with light. The new molecules are nowhere near it. They interact with light 50% more strongly than any previously created materials, not 50% more strongly than the theoretical limit the physicist calculated.
I saw no such features on the XenSource site, but it may be more difficult, because the VMs aren't userspace processes in Xen. I don't know how VMWare does it, but I know it does it well. :)
Moshe Bar founded both XenSource (the people behind Xen) and Qumranet (the company behind KVM), so hopefully he'll be able to develop something like this if he hasn't already.
That's incredibly awesome. Thanks for the info!
Not unless it really IS made of cheese.
The company I work for now is virtualizing on RedHat boxes running VMWare, and one of the neat features that it has is called VMotion, which lets you nearly instantly move a virtual machine from one box to another without interrupting its execution (except a slight delay). The high availability (HA) feature, which they also have but we have not yet configured, allows this to happen automatically if a host box goes down. There are rules about which VMs may not run on the same machines, etc. (for redundancy purposes, you don't want all your web servers running on the same host, for example).
Is this at all possible with KVM? If not, are they planning it? Is it possible to approximate it with something like OpenMosix, since (IIRC) OpenMosix can move processes around dynamically when nodes fail or get bogged down, and a VM is just a process (assuming a central SAN that all the host boxes connect to)?
Actually, at first, the longer-legged lizards were better survivors because they're faster runners. For the first six months of the experiment, they had an advantage.
When the anoles learned that they could better avoid the predator lizards by climbing trees, the shorter-legged lizards had a climbing advantage, and they were being selected for.
The summary only tells half of the story. The article spells it out completely. It was a behavior change on the part of the prey that caused a change in which trait was selected for. Don't blame the article. Blame the summary.