Reminds me of the ultimate evolution of pointless screensavers: After Dark's gameshow screensaver for Mac OS 9. It was fully keyboard-interactive, only a specific keystroke would exit it.
I'm too lazy to read the actual study results, and TFA doesn't say, but "self-assembling peptide nanofibers" sound an awful lot like prions to me. Given all the work that's been done on using viruses for genetic engineering, I suppose prion-based therapy was bound to come along eventually.
The French have had about a dozen revolutions since then; they're on the Fifth Republic now, but that doesn't count all the restorations of monarchy in between. To claim that modern France deserves any credit for what the Bourbon dynasty did more than two centuries ago would ludicrous even if there were any continuity between the two: the complete lack just makes it moreso.
What the hell does "Intel ready" mean? That sounds like a PPC iBook which can have an Intel chip swapped in, which is nonsense. Is this just another meaningless headline from our illustrious editors?
The problems with intellectual property of all sorts (copyrights, patents, trade marks, service marks) stem from a fundamental belief that competition is the most efficient mechanism for progress. This belief means that government's role is to protect players from excessive competition by granting intellectual property monopolies.
Um, say what? I don't see how this follows at all. Ask the nearest libertarian, and the odds are he'll tell you that patents have no place in a truely free capitalist economy.
My favorite actual, reall-and-truly existing, one is Catholicism for Dummies. I have a hard time imagining anyone taking that title seriously--it's either highly offensive or hilariously redundant, depending on your point of view.
Some would say that it is a good citizen's duty to disobey a bad law.
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Surely this kind of factoring is an "embarassingly parallel" problem, like SETI, Folding, etc.? If so, shouldn't the complete independence of the calculations each machine runs mean you *do* get an n-fold speedup, minus some trivial adjustment for transmission of the data? It's not like this is a physicist's particle simulation, where every calculation involves every other one.
...obviously needs improvement, or the reviewer wouldn't be such a horrible writer. What the hell was samzenpus smoking to let this tripe make the front page?
"On the books" is IMHO somewhat debatable when SCOTUS has struck down a law. I'm not sure what the actual technical process is, if a law that's been struck down is actually removed from the legal code or what, but I'd say that it's no longer a law. "Still on the books" tends to refer to (theoretically) constitutional stuff that is not actually enforced, like marijuana laws in NYC, or adultery laws or something.
Sodomy laws are now unenforcable, thanks to the Supreme Court, so that's not a worry anymore, and statutory rape laws always include a marriage exception. Other things often do not--it's still child pornography if you videotape you and your 17-year-old wife having sex--but the sex itself is legal.
IANAL either, but I have taken a computer forensics course, and what actually tends to happen is that they yoink your HDs and stick them in a machine with a write-blocker installed--either custom hardware or just an IDE cable with the right pins removed. Anyway, they image it and start scanning it with various tools, many of which are indeed Linux-based. The one thing that will *never* happen with a competant forensic tech is examining the disk under its own OS.
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Actually, certain parts of the America were prison colonies--I know Georgia was one, and I'm not sure about the other colonies.
Reminds me of the ultimate evolution of pointless screensavers: After Dark's gameshow screensaver for Mac OS 9. It was fully keyboard-interactive, only a specific keystroke would exit it.
I'm too lazy to read the actual study results, and TFA doesn't say, but "self-assembling peptide nanofibers" sound an awful lot like prions to me. Given all the work that's been done on using viruses for genetic engineering, I suppose prion-based therapy was bound to come along eventually.
And Mormons and Ba'hai too, IIRC.
The French have had about a dozen revolutions since then; they're on the Fifth Republic now, but that doesn't count all the restorations of monarchy in between. To claim that modern France deserves any credit for what the Bourbon dynasty did more than two centuries ago would ludicrous even if there were any continuity between the two: the complete lack just makes it moreso.
What the hell does "Intel ready" mean? That sounds like a PPC iBook which can have an Intel chip swapped in, which is nonsense. Is this just another meaningless headline from our illustrious editors?
Um, say what? I don't see how this follows at all. Ask the nearest libertarian, and the odds are he'll tell you that patents have no place in a truely free capitalist economy.
You know where the word "Palestine" comes, from, right?
My favorite actual, reall-and-truly existing, one is Catholicism for Dummies. I have a hard time imagining anyone taking that title seriously--it's either highly offensive or hilariously redundant, depending on your point of view.
I hope you mean it's a pet peeve of yours, otherwise you're part of the problem.
"Dirty space aliens that wrecked up our planet"--cute.
OK, who wants to write shors-algorithm-in-4-lines-of-perl, so we can start putting it in our sigs?
Pages currently show "planned downtime". Have we actually managed to bring down ZDnet? Color me impressed!
Have you seen the fanfilm "Sith Apprentice"? It's been done.
Some would say that it is a good citizen's duty to disobey a bad law.
Surely this kind of factoring is an "embarassingly parallel" problem, like SETI, Folding, etc.? If so, shouldn't the complete independence of the calculations each machine runs mean you *do* get an n-fold speedup, minus some trivial adjustment for transmission of the data? It's not like this is a physicist's particle simulation, where every calculation involves every other one.
What is the "too late for me" in reference to? TFA give no clue.
Why not get the best of both worlds? Make it Orion-powered.
...obviously needs improvement, or the reviewer wouldn't be such a horrible writer. What the hell was samzenpus smoking to let this tripe make the front page?
"On the books" is IMHO somewhat debatable when SCOTUS has struck down a law. I'm not sure what the actual technical process is, if a law that's been struck down is actually removed from the legal code or what, but I'd say that it's no longer a law. "Still on the books" tends to refer to (theoretically) constitutional stuff that is not actually enforced, like marijuana laws in NYC, or adultery laws or something.
Sodomy laws are now unenforcable, thanks to the Supreme Court, so that's not a worry anymore, and statutory rape laws always include a marriage exception. Other things often do not--it's still child pornography if you videotape you and your 17-year-old wife having sex--but the sex itself is legal.
IANAL either, but I have taken a computer forensics course, and what actually tends to happen is that they yoink your HDs and stick them in a machine with a write-blocker installed--either custom hardware or just an IDE cable with the right pins removed. Anyway, they image it and start scanning it with various tools, many of which are indeed Linux-based. The one thing that will *never* happen with a competant forensic tech is examining the disk under its own OS.
Do you have a link to a page describing that word? I know enough Japanese to at least figure out how to pronounce it.
Possibly, but I'm quoting someone else.
Wget sucks, curl rules!