Rather than simply changing somebody's genes to cure a phobia, being able to study what this gene does (which protiens does it enable or inhibit?) could lead to a better understanding of the physiological (rather than psychological) component of phobias.
The main focus of the article is getting the crew up and back, and some of the similarities with the general strategies used in Apollo and earlier missions. There is not much discussion of the cargo lifter, but the earlier NY Times article had a much larger cargo container (100 tons vs current 20 tons) atop an existing shuttle booster.
What happens to the cargo container when it's done? Throw it away, to burn up on re-entry? Or is it possible to make it in such a way that it could be module added to a growing space station? If nothing else, a component for a module which could be filled in orbit?
The new crew transport system will have a crew compartment for ascent and re-entry, but presumably also extra space for the crew to work and live in and to keep things needed during a mission. Again, is this abandoned? If it were also a module which could be added to a growing station then it would not just be thrown out as trash.
Alternatively, a small ascent/descent capsule could rendevous with a parked larger orbital vehicle which they use for their mission and then leave in a parked orbit for the next mission, with refueling and restock of supplies done separately or as part of the ascent stage.
It's clear that a lot of stuff is one-time use only, but if we're putting all this stuff up there can it be made useful for future construction?
The early Pioneer data relevant to the anomaly were not kept as carefully as later data, but it turns out they may shed some light on the puzzle. A recent paper here proposes looking at the data in more detail, but this will take time and effort, and therefore money.
How did Healthcare Advocates determin that Haridng Early was making hundreds of requests for files on the Wayback Machine? The logs would have been kept on the Wayback Machine's servers, not on anything Healthcare Advocates would have access to easily.
Possibly from referer logs. If their server has this turned on then it logs both the web page accessed and the web page from which it was linked.
Also, the poor guy admitted to using the connection too (unauthorized access to a computer network, which is a third degree felony according to the article).
Last week I stayed with a friend, and I set up my laptop to run overnight to finish a calculation which I expected to upload later when I could get network access. In the morning I was surprised to find the workunits I was expecting to be finished were gone, as if they had already been uploaded. It turns out when the laptop fired up it automatically found the open WiFi from the next door neighbors.
Did I access their network without permission?
I would argue that I didn't, since nothing ever asked me to authenticate, and in fact I didn't even know there was a connection until the next day.
But I go through this argument with my colleagues, who say that using short, descriptive variable names 'should' be enough as long as the code is well-organized. Who's right?
It's kinda like antibiotics. If everyone uses it then the population as a whole becomes more vulnerable. (Okay, the mechanisms are slightly different.)
So many sites use -- no, require! -- javascript in order to be viewed properly, which causes a large body of users to have it enabled by default, making them vulnerable.
A particular site can say that they use javascript responsibly, it's the bad guys who cause problems. But just forcing people to view their site with javascript enabled contributes to the problem.
In the least a site should be viewable with javascript turned off. It may just not have all the fancy features, but it should work. That is good design, but it may only become common practice if enough people can be convinced to turn javascript off, which unfortunately I don't see happening anytime soon. But exposing vulnerabilities like this will certainly help.
...how can we (or _you_ since I don't live in the US) expect that a small Cessna or similar plane flying below radar coverage, carrying a small bomb, won't make it to it's destination?
Except that a small Cessna does not have the capacity to carry all that much explosive material, or anything else for that matter (compared, say, to a rental truck full of fertilizer and diesel fuel). A small plane crashing into something would be more like a little British sports car crashing into something.
On the whole I think this is a good idea. I just looked at textbooks for a course I'll be teaching next fall and they range from $109 to $136 for a book we will use for only one semester. Textbook prices are way too high. On top of that publishers are releasing new editions of some books more quickly, forcing us to change to the newer edition (or switch to a different publisher) more often, and making previous editions "obsolete" when they are just fine.
But there are a few things that the publishers do provide that contribute to the quality of the book. Publishers can take care of layout, complicated drawings and photos, photo copyright permissions, and lots of other mundane production issues. More importantly, they will send out draft copies of new texts, new editions, or chapters of new editions to other professors in the field to get feedback and to provide quality control.
There may be tools which help self-published authors take care of formatting and layout,
and you may not need to use all those pictures (or you can make your own). But if this is to succeed as a way to publish quality textbooks some mechanism of "peer review" is needed. That might end up being word of mouth, or there might have to be some kind of stamp of approval from some group people respect. Or some new mechanism we haven't figured out yet.
But I do think it's an interesting idea, and I hope it works. Years ago, before the web, I had thought about getting together some notes on quantum field theory and putting them out for anonymous FTP, without my name on them, as the "anonymous Field Theory Primer":-)
(Actually, now that I think of it, TV suffered the same fate. Originally touted as an educational resource, it turned into the junk box it is today. It's just history repeating.)
Similar claims about international communication and understanding, etc... were made about the Telegraph, but it also never lived up to all of them. The book The Victorian Internet illustrates the parallels between the "promise" of the Internet and the supposed potential of the Telegraph.
There are alternatives to Nvidia. No one is forcing you to use Nvidia hardware.
Actually, I didn't have much choice. I bought a laptop that I otherwise liked and only later found out it had an Nvidia chip.
Next time I'll check the chip more closely, but for a laptop you have fewer choices than if you roll your own desktop machine.
I recently rebuilt the Linux kernel on my laptop, so I thought it would be worthwhile to get the latest Nvidia driver. Having done so, I found that their installer had deleted all copies of nvidea.o under/lib/modules, not just a previous copy for the kernel I was still testing. That means I lost the video driver for the stable kernel I wanted to use between tests. Ouch!
This has nothing to do with Macrovision, but it's another reason to dislike or distrust Nvidia.
Since I've been turning newbies into Unix users for a while, I've found it useful to have `help` give a short tutorial on the man command and a list of the most commonly used commands for new users. New users invariably type "help" as a command and so the result should be something that in fact is helpful to them.
I should probably update this a bit, but here is what I have found useful:
clicky
Actually, it does affect IE on the Mac, but slightly differently.
It doesn't work with %01, but with %00 the true URL is masked in the status bar (bottom of the page) when you move the pointer over the link. The address display is not affected.
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Rather than simply changing somebody's genes to cure a phobia, being able to study what this gene does (which protiens does it enable or inhibit?) could lead to a better understanding of the physiological (rather than psychological) component of phobias.
The main focus of the article is getting the crew up and back, and some of the similarities with the general strategies used in Apollo and earlier missions. There is not much discussion of the cargo lifter, but the earlier NY Times article had a much larger cargo container (100 tons vs current 20 tons) atop an existing shuttle booster.
What happens to the cargo container when it's done? Throw it away, to burn up on re-entry? Or is it possible to make it in such a way that it could be module added to a growing space station? If nothing else, a component for a module which could be filled in orbit?
The new crew transport system will have a crew compartment for ascent and re-entry, but presumably also extra space for the crew to work and live in and to keep things needed during a mission. Again, is this abandoned? If it were also a module which could be added to a growing station then it would not just be thrown out as trash.
Alternatively, a small ascent/descent capsule could rendevous with a parked larger orbital vehicle which they use for their mission and then leave in a parked orbit for the next mission, with refueling and restock of supplies done separately or as part of the ascent stage.
It's clear that a lot of stuff is one-time use only, but if we're putting all this stuff up there can it be made useful for future construction?
The early Pioneer data relevant to the anomaly were not kept as carefully as later data, but it turns out they may shed some light on the puzzle. A recent paper here proposes looking at the data in more detail, but this will take time and effort, and therefore money.
Did I access their network without permission?
I would argue that I didn't, since nothing ever asked me to authenticate, and in fact I didn't even know there was a connection until the next day.
Put the 911 local call center info in the DHCP packet, which comes from the "local" network.
They are wrong, you are right.
Can it find Osama?
It's kinda like antibiotics. If everyone uses it then the population as a whole becomes more vulnerable. (Okay, the mechanisms are slightly different.)
So many sites use -- no, require! -- javascript in order to be viewed properly, which causes a large body of users to have it enabled by default, making them vulnerable.
A particular site can say that they use javascript responsibly, it's the bad guys who cause problems.
But just forcing people to view their site with javascript enabled contributes to the problem.
In the least a site should be viewable with javascript turned off. It may just not have all the fancy features, but it should work. That is good design, but it may only become common practice if enough people can be convinced to turn javascript off, which unfortunately I don't see happening anytime soon. But exposing vulnerabilities like this will certainly help.
Except that a small Cessna does not have the capacity to carry all that much explosive material, or anything else for that matter (compared, say, to a rental truck full of fertilizer and diesel fuel). A small plane crashing into something would be more like a little British sports car crashing into something.
But there are a few things that the publishers do provide that contribute to the quality of the book. Publishers can take care of layout, complicated drawings and photos, photo copyright permissions, and lots of other mundane production issues. More importantly, they will send out draft copies of new texts, new editions, or chapters of new editions to other professors in the field to get feedback and to provide quality control.
There may be tools which help self-published authors take care of formatting and layout, and you may not need to use all those pictures (or you can make your own). But if this is to succeed as a way to publish quality textbooks some mechanism of "peer review" is needed. That might end up being word of mouth, or there might have to be some kind of stamp of approval from some group people respect. Or some new mechanism we haven't figured out yet.
But I do think it's an interesting idea, and I hope it works. Years ago, before the web, I had thought about getting together some notes on quantum field theory and putting them out for anonymous FTP, without my name on them, as the "anonymous Field Theory Primer" :-)
Similar claims about international communication and understanding, etc... were made about the Telegraph, but it also never lived up to all of them. The book The Victorian Internet illustrates the parallels between the "promise" of the Internet and the supposed potential of the Telegraph.
I heard the author interviewed by Terri Gross on Fresh Air yesterday. It's definitely a fake, but an interesting story.
Actually, I didn't have much choice. I bought a laptop that I otherwise liked and only later found out it had an Nvidia chip. Next time I'll check the chip more closely, but for a laptop you have fewer choices than if you roll your own desktop machine.
I recently rebuilt the Linux kernel on my laptop, so I thought it would be worthwhile to get the latest Nvidia driver. Having done so, I found that their installer had deleted all copies of nvidea.o under /lib/modules, not just a previous copy for the kernel I was still testing. That means I lost the video driver for the stable kernel I wanted to use between tests. Ouch!
This has nothing to do with Macrovision, but it's another reason to dislike or distrust Nvidia.
I should probably update this a bit, but here is what I have found useful: clicky
Actually, it does affect IE on the Mac, but slightly differently.
It doesn't work with %01, but with %00 the true URL is masked in the status bar (bottom of the page) when you move the pointer over the link. The address display is not affected.