a. i didn't think it was possible to shield magnetic waves or fields b. the magnetic field in an mri scanner is SO strong, that it would be HIGHLY unadvicable to run a metal waveguide into it. (from several meters away, you can feel the tug if you're wearing a wristwatch, mostly made of plastic)
are you sure you're not thinking about a cat-scanner, which uses x-rays? Not that this has any less impact on it's relevance for the article, just for the detail.
That's a very real problem. If his case fails, it's a good question if raising the case itself constitutes a breach. I highly recommend reading the above post, and doing as it says, even if you haven't had this problem, because once you get it, you might not be able to.
I have to compare this to the secret police of Eastern Germany during the cold war, even though it seems far fetched, and i certainly don't hope the FBI act like this, they do have the power to outdo it.
if you'd bother reading TFA you'd realized they did answer that question.
You'll need to add more alcohol about as often as you change oil, the lack of oxygen to peoples brains is a much bigger problem
Yes, i'm whoring on the firstpost reply...
Daniel Cohn from MIT claims to have increased the efficiency of a regular car engine, by altering the fuel injection system to combine direct injection, turbo charging and alchool into one system.
A vehicle that used this approach would operate around 25 percent more efficiently than a vehicle with a conventional engine.
They state that it is key to overcome the knock effect, from when the gas explodes before it's supposed to be ignited by the sparkplug. This is done by using the cooling effect of evaporating alcohol.
They also recognize the fact that these addons makes the engine more expensive, but claim that it will be offset by not needing as large an engine. (It does not appear as if it has been properly analyzed).
They claim that because it's a hybrid of existing technologies it could be ready as soon as 2011.
This should be a lot more accurate than the original summary.
This cannot possibly surprise anyone, seeing how 3 new consoles have just been launched, and loads of advertising dollars have been pumped into it.
i wonder who comes up with stuff like that, but I've been inspired... The days of the next summer will be warmer than the nights of next winter. Cars will not start driving in reverse on highways. Solar electricity will do during summer than winter, especially in countries far from the equator. water will run downhill, or evaporate. war will break out somewhere. I will get frustrated by non-news
Exactly, and not quite right. I'm certainly agnostic. My belief is that it's impossible to know whether there is a god, or something you just don't understand. However, i do believe one should assume that things are just hard to understand, because that's the only way you can learn about them.
I refuse to rule out gods or pantheons, even though i find many of them unlikely to the point of idiocy. I also refuse to accept those that cannot be proven. I'm also quite convinced that no human can convince me to believe in any religion.
A funny thing about the bible, is that its started as a peer review. (no it doesn't make me think it's right) A funny thing about slashdots non-bot confirmation, is that i just got the word possible.. random is fun, but only when you notice it (or is it the other way around).
That's absolutely right, compared to 1983, the relative price is down, early adopters pay a price! Thats an age old truth.
Now, thanks to economies of scale and lots of hours of research, it's much cheaper to produce the individual cd. Not only that, due to IT it is also cheaper to produce the individual album.
I'm still waiting for legally downloadable music to be as problem free and cheap as the distribution method should allow. until then, Happy Mp3.com. (yes i stopped buying cds the first time i got a malware loaded cd). The distribution is already a lot cheaper, which means that the price has to cover three things: Development of the site, music production and marketing. Please lower the price and drop the drm.
It's illegal according to at least one of the universally adopted Geneva conventions to use weapons that will injure, but are not capable of killing.
However, violating these conventions does not seem to stop the U.S.
Yes, there's a good chance that you'll get in trouble for this when entering the Peoples Republic of China, However China does not claim to be a democratic society with independant courts, they do not do the peoples will, they do what they think is best for the people (tm).
They at used to be very isolationist, only part of the international community (UN) to prevent harm coming to China.
Hi guys, and happy new year.
Gutman wrote an article about this, which should be required reading when talking about vistas builtin idiocies.
It goes through how MS with Vista requires drivers to be closed source, hardware to be revokable and quality to be degraded.
It really should be required reading, before installing any version of Vista
Anyone answering above this post have not have time to read the article, here's the summary:
The article is about research into whether or not cancerous stemcells are necessary for cancer growth.
It discusses (biased) that they are, and talks briefly about where in the body you'll find stem cells and what they do.
then finishes of with presenting a (in my non-medical view) convincing animal study, showing that when cancer cells are injected into mice, it was predominantly the mice who were injected with cancerous stem cells which showed cancer growth, while only one mouse (in 47) injected with cancerous non-stem cells showed a growing cancer.
It probably has something to do with Nintendo trying to do things in a new way, while Sony/MS are "just" doing the things they do better.
Novelty and originality does count.
If even the publishers feel that they're having problems offering anything special, of course their numbers go down. I really don't think this is something they're trying to hide.
It would be against the most universal human rights charters.
Notably the freedom of assembly, which is considered one of the basic freedoms.
The Government, and in extension those it hires are not allowed to discriminate against any person based solely on membership of legal organizations.
This is also why they cannot discriminate against Diebold based on the CEO being declared republican.
So if you can't discriminate against people out of fear of corruption, you have to review their work.
The need for review is the reason a lot of people are trying to get voting machines made open source.
In my opinion it makes sense, an election or referendum should never contain corporate secrets anyway, so the point of protecting intelectual property is mood anyway.
oh and i hope this is not a dupe, i tried replying to this post, but apparently the reply was eaten
(How about starting off with) banning all employees from being affiliated with any political party?
Preventing people from being members of a party would be against the freedom of assembly.
I don't know what it's called, but it's one of the basic freedoms which is in all the basic human rights declarations i remember (french, euro, un (NOT childrens rights)).
I do agree it would be nice to have neutral people make it, but it would be quite unlawful to reject a job application due to partisanship, and even more obviously to fire someone because they joined a political party.
I'm aware that something like this probably happened during the commie-witchhunt, but none of us want to go that way again anyway.
An obvious other way to ensure the same neutrality, would be to have it open to review by anyone who wish to do so. This is why so many are advocating for forcing open source onto voting machines.
(How about starting off with) banning all employees from being affiliated with any political party?
Preventing people from being members of a party would be against the freedom of assembly. I don't know what it's called, but it's one of the basic freedoms which is in all the basic human rights declarations i remember (french, euro, un (NOT childrens rights)).
I do agree it would be nice to have neutral people make it, but it would be quite unlawful to reject a job application due to partisanship, and even more obviously to fire someone because they joined a political party. I'm aware that something like this probably happened during the commie-witchhunt, but none of us want to go that way again anyway.
An obvious other way to ensure the same neutrality, would be to have it open to review by anyone who wish to do so. This is why so many are advocating for forcing open source onto voting machines.
Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades.
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner."
so it's a bit off, maybe the Finnish president will hold a speech in New Mexico when it leaves the union and saying "I am an Albuquerquean"
The x-box is out of warranty because it was bought a while ago, and the warranty is now outdated. the knowledge base article is from before any x-boxes ran out of warranty.
Hmmmm... the built in spell checker in Firefox could have a huge impact on slash dot;)
the thing is..
what upsets him is that now, ms is not only digging in at his freedom of choice (by abusing a monopoly) they're also systematically invading our right of privacy.
A lot of people have given their lives to defend at least one of these things, comparing them to a murderer might be a bit off, comparing them to a soviet dictator might be more on the spot, of course, some of those were murderers and microsoft haven't been shown to do this (yet;)
Which is why nobody should use their real name when filling in the customer information papers. It's another great reason why nobody should use their real name on msn.
If you don't want to be used by businesses, don't give them more than they need; and remember, you decide what they need, they don't. Don't let yourself be used.
here it gets a bit repetative, for the sake of knocking common sense into some people: don't let them use you!
I know, I'm preaching to the choir:P but this isn't even common sense with all techies.
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a. i didn't think it was possible to shield magnetic waves or fields
b. the magnetic field in an mri scanner is SO strong, that it would be HIGHLY unadvicable to run a metal waveguide into it. (from several meters away, you can feel the tug if you're wearing a wristwatch, mostly made of plastic)
are you sure you're not thinking about a cat-scanner, which uses x-rays? Not that this has any less impact on it's relevance for the article, just for the detail.
nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (magnetic fields)!= computerized axial tomography (ionizing electromagnetic radiation)
The catch is, he's not allowed to do this.
That's a very real problem.
If his case fails, it's a good question if raising the case itself constitutes a breach.
I highly recommend reading the above post, and doing as it says, even if you haven't had this problem, because once you get it, you might not be able to.
I have to compare this to the secret police of Eastern Germany during the cold war, even though it seems far fetched, and i certainly don't hope the FBI act like this, they do have the power to outdo it.
You should reconsider what you're doing, if your target-customers are ruining your business.
if you'd bother reading TFA you'd realized they did answer that question. You'll need to add more alcohol about as often as you change oil, the lack of oxygen to peoples brains is a much bigger problem
This should be a lot more accurate than the original summary.
This cannot possibly surprise anyone, seeing how 3 new consoles have just been launched, and loads of advertising dollars have been pumped into it.
i wonder who comes up with stuff like that, but I've been inspired...
The days of the next summer will be warmer than the nights of next winter.
Cars will not start driving in reverse on highways.
Solar electricity will do during summer than winter, especially in countries far from the equator.
water will run downhill, or evaporate.
war will break out somewhere.
I will get frustrated by non-news
Exactly, and not quite right.
I'm certainly agnostic.
My belief is that it's impossible to know whether there is a god, or something you just don't understand.
However, i do believe one should assume that things are just hard to understand, because that's the only way you can learn about them.
I refuse to rule out gods or pantheons, even though i find many of them unlikely to the point of idiocy. I also refuse to accept those that cannot be proven.
I'm also quite convinced that no human can convince me to believe in any religion.
A funny thing about the bible, is that its started as a peer review. (no it doesn't make me think it's right)
A funny thing about slashdots non-bot confirmation, is that i just got the word possible.. random is fun, but only when you notice it (or is it the other way around).
mod parent up
That's absolutely right, compared to 1983, the relative price is down, early adopters pay a price!
Thats an age old truth.
Now, thanks to economies of scale and lots of hours of research, it's much cheaper to produce the individual cd.
Not only that, due to IT it is also cheaper to produce the individual album.
I'm still waiting for legally downloadable music to be as problem free and cheap as the distribution method should allow.
until then, Happy Mp3.com. (yes i stopped buying cds the first time i got a malware loaded cd).
The distribution is already a lot cheaper, which means that the price has to cover three things: Development of the site, music production and marketing.
Please lower the price and drop the drm.
It's illegal according to at least one of the universally adopted Geneva conventions to use weapons that will injure, but are not capable of killing. However, violating these conventions does not seem to stop the U.S.
Yes, there's a good chance that you'll get in trouble for this when entering the Peoples Republic of China, However China does not claim to be a democratic society with independant courts, they do not do the peoples will, they do what they think is best for the people (tm). They at used to be very isolationist, only part of the international community (UN) to prevent harm coming to China.
Hi guys, and happy new year. Gutman wrote an article about this, which should be required reading when talking about vistas builtin idiocies.
It goes through how MS with Vista requires drivers to be closed source, hardware to be revokable and quality to be degraded.
It really should be required reading, before installing any version of Vista
bleat, forgot to mention. it also discusses how current treatments are better at targeting regular cells than it is at targeting stem cells :P
Anyone answering above this post have not have time to read the article, here's the summary: The article is about research into whether or not cancerous stemcells are necessary for cancer growth. It discusses (biased) that they are, and talks briefly about where in the body you'll find stem cells and what they do. then finishes of with presenting a (in my non-medical view) convincing animal study, showing that when cancer cells are injected into mice, it was predominantly the mice who were injected with cancerous stem cells which showed cancer growth, while only one mouse (in 47) injected with cancerous non-stem cells showed a growing cancer.
It probably has something to do with Nintendo trying to do things in a new way, while Sony/MS are "just" doing the things they do better. Novelty and originality does count.
If even the publishers feel that they're having problems offering anything special, of course their numbers go down.
I really don't think this is something they're trying to hide.
It would be against the most universal human rights charters.
Notably the freedom of assembly, which is considered one of the basic freedoms.
The Government, and in extension those it hires are not allowed to discriminate against any person based solely on membership of legal organizations.
This is also why they cannot discriminate against Diebold based on the CEO being declared republican.
So if you can't discriminate against people out of fear of corruption, you have to review their work.
The need for review is the reason a lot of people are trying to get voting machines made open source.
In my opinion it makes sense, an election or referendum should never contain corporate secrets anyway,
so the point of protecting intelectual property is mood anyway. oh and i hope this is not a dupe, i tried replying to this post, but apparently the reply was eaten
those titles you mentioned are not obsolete, your way of thinking is just too 1337
I do agree it would be nice to have neutral people make it, but it would be quite unlawful to reject a job application due to partisanship, and even more obviously to fire someone because they joined a political party.
I'm aware that something like this probably happened during the commie-witchhunt, but none of us want to go that way again anyway.
An obvious other way to ensure the same neutrality, would be to have it open to review by anyone who wish to do so. This is why so many are advocating for forcing open source onto voting machines.
Preventing people from being members of a party would be against the freedom of assembly.
I don't know what it's called, but it's one of the basic freedoms which is in all the basic human rights declarations i remember (french, euro, un (NOT childrens rights)).
I do agree it would be nice to have neutral people make it, but it would be quite unlawful to reject a job application due to partisanship, and even more obviously to fire someone because they joined a political party.
I'm aware that something like this probably happened during the commie-witchhunt, but none of us want to go that way again anyway.
An obvious other way to ensure the same neutrality, would be to have it open to review by anyone who wish to do so. This is why so many are advocating for forcing open source onto voting machines.
The x-box is out of warranty because it was bought a while ago, and the warranty is now outdated.
;)
the knowledge base article is from before any x-boxes ran out of warranty.
Hmmmm... the built in spell checker in Firefox could have a huge impact on slash dot
the thing is.. what upsets him is that now, ms is not only digging in at his freedom of choice (by abusing a monopoly) they're also systematically invading our right of privacy. A lot of people have given their lives to defend at least one of these things, comparing them to a murderer might be a bit off, comparing them to a soviet dictator might be more on the spot, of course, some of those were murderers and microsoft haven't been shown to do this (yet ;)
Which is why nobody should use their real name when filling in the customer information papers.
:P but this isn't even common sense with all techies.
It's another great reason why nobody should use their real name on msn.
If you don't want to be used by businesses, don't give them more than they need;
and remember, you decide what they need, they don't.
Don't let yourself be used.
here it gets a bit repetative, for the sake of knocking common sense into some people:
don't let them use you!
I know, I'm preaching to the choir