"Intellectual property rights theft is not a victimless crime. It threatens U.S. businesses and robs hard-working Americans of their jobs, which negatively impacts the economy. It can also pose serious health and safety risks to consumers, and oftentimes, it fuels global organized crime."
Here is a link to Homeland Security's rationale: http://www.dhs.gov/topic/intellectual-property-rights
Some types of viruses, like AIDS and flu, mutate more rapidly because of their mechanism of making DNA from RNA which is error-prone. http://www.virology.ws/2009/05/10/the-error-prone-ways-of-rna-synthesis/
Other viruses are more stable may benefit from the idea in TFA. However, to me it seems dangerous to engineer viruses just reduce the number of required booster shots.
Here is an opportunity to leverage the power of the HPC to detect and correct and workaround any integrity issues in the system. Not a new problem, just the opportunity for productive application of research.
This reminds me of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot commercials that used to be on some of my favorite Saturday morning TV shows years ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpuTqD1Nc
. . . if the head of the office is trying to use smartphones as an example of patents inspiring "innovation", he is... an idiot, quite frankly (or a liar, either way, not trustworthy).
On the other hand, the Patent system works well when viewed in its historical context. They have been a net benefit for innovation. . For example, there are many fewer patents lawsuits regarding Smart Phones than there were in the time the original telephone was invented. Here is a god article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/02/09/no-the-patent-system-is-not-broken/2/
What we need is general legal reform so that disputes can be decided simply and inexpensively without Lawyers getting all the goodies.
Mike Lynch, the former CEO of Autonomy, has had a "midas touch" with respect to companies he has been associated with. He is commonly referred to as the "Bill Gates of the UK." The short time I worked for Autonomy (after they bought Verity, my former employer) my stock options showed surprising appreciation. Like google, their business is based on unstructured search algorithms. But their algorithm (Shannon's Information Theory) is published and peer reviewed.
Well Crichton he is a Scientist and also a Medical Doctor and Science Fiction writer who happened to write a fiction book called "State of Fear".
However, he also a scientist who gave a factual speech to National Press Club that I linked in the other message as well.
If you think we should discount Crichton, then perhaps we should debunk the "global warming" movement because one of its leaders, Al Gore, also is a politician whose highest degree is Bachelor of Arts in Government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore
Here is a speech given by the late Michael Crichton, (who wrote Jurassic Park and other novels and screenplays, and who also graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researching public policy with Jacob Bronowski. He taught courses in anthropology at Cambridge University.) Here he criticises the papers done by IPCC and debunks other global warning myths.
Michael's detailed explanation of why he criticizes global warming scenarios. Using published UN data, he reviews why claims for catastrophic warming arouse doubt; why reducing CO2 is vastly more difficult than we are being told; and why we are morally unjustified to spend vast sums on this speculative issue when around the world people are dying of starvation and disease.
You make my point for me, thanks! All these cooling and warming myths are cyclical, and just not worth wasting money to try to "fix." Humans are just too tiny a factor in the eons the earth has been around, and the many tons of gasses in the atmosphere. Do you know that CO2 comprises 0.0383% of the earth's atmosphere? If modern society is producting a few "extra" tons of CO2, then doubtless some vegetation will quickly evolve to make use of it. I'm more worried about the "cap-and-trade" tax. Now there's a truly dangerous idea!
. . . Other sources such as volcanoes emit 100x less than humans do.
You need to reread the article you cite. It states "Human emissions of CO2 are now estimated to be 26.4 Gt per year," and earlier states "The consumption of terrestrial vegetation by animals and by microbes (rotting, in other words) emits about 220 gigatonnes of CO2 every year, while respiration by vegetation emits another 220 Gt. "
so non-human processes contribute many more times more CO2 emission than modern humans.
You quoted from newscientist.com. But this is a "pop" science source. Not a peer-reviewed scientific journal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist.
But perhaps this all is a cycle, because there is peer-reviewed scientific basis for the prediction of catastrophic "Global Cooling." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v391/n6665/abs/391351a0.html
What we must be suspicious of any power-seeking politician that wants to tax industry to support speculative ideas like global-warming.
They have never been able to accurately predict what the weather will be tomorrow. It is arrogant for Al Gore (who incidentally also invented the Internet) to claim he knows what the effect will be decades from now. The largest cause of CO2 emissions is natural activity. The most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Greenhouse_effects_in_Earth.27s_atmosphere
Here are suggestions I follow. I heard this from a professional archivist who works for Federal courts.
Always burn at slower speeds than maximum speed of the burner
Don't fill completely to capacity. The media burns from the inside-out. Because it turns at constant rate, the data on the outside tracks may be more affected by small degradation of the encoded pits
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Here is a link directly to Nashorn presentation: http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/images/c/ce/Nashorn.pdf
This will be most beneficial to tool builders. Also, maybe we won't have to use kludgy 'eval' so often when writing highly dynamic javascript.
"Intellectual property rights theft is not a victimless crime. It threatens U.S. businesses and robs hard-working Americans of their jobs, which negatively impacts the economy. It can also pose serious health and safety risks to consumers, and oftentimes, it fuels global organized crime." Here is a link to Homeland Security's rationale: http://www.dhs.gov/topic/intellectual-property-rights
Some types of viruses, like AIDS and flu, mutate more rapidly because of their mechanism of making DNA from RNA which is error-prone. http://www.virology.ws/2009/05/10/the-error-prone-ways-of-rna-synthesis/ Other viruses are more stable may benefit from the idea in TFA. However, to me it seems dangerous to engineer viruses just reduce the number of required booster shots.
Band 4. This will benefit T-Mobile and Cricket. Verison and Sprint are still out of luck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Wireless_Services
These jobs are relatively immune from competition with H-1B visa holders.
He certainly has a history of uncovering exploits. Here are his youtube videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/longrifle0x
Here is an opportunity to leverage the power of the HPC to detect and correct and workaround any integrity issues in the system. Not a new problem, just the opportunity for productive application of research.
This reminds me of Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot commercials that used to be on some of my favorite Saturday morning TV shows years ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVDpuTqD1Nc
This is especially ironic since Leahy is not only handling this warrantless wiretap issue, but he is also a man who has already has resigned from a Senate committee for his inability to keep secrets. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/29/us/iran-contra-hearings-senator-leahy-says-he-leaked-report-of-panel.html
. . . if the head of the office is trying to use smartphones as an example of patents inspiring "innovation", he is... an idiot, quite frankly (or a liar, either way, not trustworthy).
On the other hand, the Patent system works well when viewed in its historical context. They have been a net benefit for innovation. . For example, there are many fewer patents lawsuits regarding Smart Phones than there were in the time the original telephone was invented. Here is a god article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/02/09/no-the-patent-system-is-not-broken/2/
What we need is general legal reform so that disputes can be decided simply and inexpensively without Lawyers getting all the goodies.
Mike Lynch, the former CEO of Autonomy, has had a "midas touch" with respect to companies he has been associated with. He is commonly referred to as the "Bill Gates of the UK." The short time I worked for Autonomy (after they bought Verity, my former employer) my stock options showed surprising appreciation. Like google, their business is based on unstructured search algorithms. But their algorithm (Shannon's Information Theory) is published and peer reviewed.
Otellini was on Barack Obama's jobs counsel. And yet notoriously supported Romney for president. Maybe there is a cause-and-effect here.
Well Crichton he is a Scientist and also a Medical Doctor and Science Fiction writer who happened to write a fiction book called "State of Fear".
However, he also a scientist who gave a factual speech to National Press Club that I linked in the other message as well.
If you think we should discount Crichton, then perhaps we should debunk the "global warming" movement because one of its leaders, Al Gore, also is a politician whose highest degree is Bachelor of Arts in Government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore
You make my point for me, thanks! All these cooling and warming myths are cyclical, and just not worth wasting money to try to "fix." Humans are just too tiny a factor in the eons the earth has been around, and the many tons of gasses in the atmosphere. Do you know that CO2 comprises 0.0383% of the earth's atmosphere? If modern society is producting a few "extra" tons of CO2, then doubtless some vegetation will quickly evolve to make use of it. I'm more worried about the "cap-and-trade" tax. Now there's a truly dangerous idea!
You need to reread the article you cite. It states "Human emissions of CO2 are now estimated to be 26.4 Gt per year," and earlier states "The consumption of terrestrial vegetation by animals and by microbes (rotting, in other words) emits about 220 gigatonnes of CO2 every year, while respiration by vegetation emits another 220 Gt. " so non-human processes contribute many more times more CO2 emission than modern humans.
But many scientist are sceptical of global warming. See List of Scientists Opposing the Mainstream Scientific Assessment of Global Warming it www.ipcc.ch reports are not without criticism. They do not claim to conduct original research. There is certainly room for discussion.
You quoted from newscientist.com. But this is a "pop" science source. Not a peer-reviewed scientific journal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Scientist. But perhaps this all is a cycle, because there is peer-reviewed scientific basis for the prediction of catastrophic "Global Cooling." http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v391/n6665/abs/391351a0.html What we must be suspicious of any power-seeking politician that wants to tax industry to support speculative ideas like global-warming.
They have never been able to accurately predict what the weather will be tomorrow. It is arrogant for Al Gore (who incidentally also invented the Internet) to claim he knows what the effect will be decades from now. The largest cause of CO2 emissions is natural activity. The most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Greenhouse_effects_in_Earth.27s_atmosphere
Some old folks that keep physically fit can can keep gathering food through their 80's and beyond. Look at Jack Lalanne for example.
Depends on who is commissioning the poll.
Making it colder than normal refrigeration temperature doesn't mean you have to freeze it, there's some leeway there, just keep it above freezing.
A refrigerator is supposed to always be just above freezing. http://home.howstuffworks.com/question121.htm
Ha Ha, have you tried the public library?