Egypt's leaders should not be permitted to make an example of him to silence others.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, I would point out that Egypt isn't the US and the protections and institutions available to us are not available to Egyptians. This does point out, yet again, the problem with the 'Arab Spring' or any rapid move to a rule-of-law, marginally democratic republic: you need strong political, legal and financial institutions for all of that to work. You have virtually none of that in the Arab world.
How you get from a military theocracy to some sort of representative and stable government is a question that has yet to be answered.
Ah, but you're missing an entire other defensive mechanism. One that, I will point out, did not escape the genius of Apple. Recall the recent angst about Apple's acquisition of Beats Audio. The two theories judged most likely centered around either gratuitously spending money to annoy the Slashdot hive mind or strategically buying up an inconsequential streaming audio business. Of course, careful consideration (yes, I understand that contradiction here) would lead one to realize that neither is very likely, so I offer a more technically sound rationale:
If you've ever listened to a set of Beats headphones, the second thing you notice (the first is that they are ugly and cheap) is that it is engineered to be unable to pass frequencies higher than 4000 Hz. You're not going to hear a set of cymbals or a piccolo to save your life.
So, these nefarious persons can attempt to stuff whatever data they'd like into the higher registers - it will do them no good at all. You don't need complex software rules, you don't need specially constructed DACs. You just need bass. Furthermore, if all you are going to do is to listen to DC to 4 kHz noise, you don't need a particularly robust audio platform to do it (like an iPhone). And, as an added bonus, this limited bandwidth will save on your precious monthly allotment of data.
Yep, like holographic storage it's always five years away. This time it's another promising attempt. If it's like the dozen or so previous promising attempts, the substance will become less promising once it gets through further testing. Eventually it's likely that some approach will succeed - it is not at all clear that this one has any better chance than before (the TFA wasn't terribly insightful).
But this would be a Big Deal. A really big deal if it were priced reasonably. Blood and blood products are actually pretty expensive despite it being a non profit entity in the US - testing, storage and transport all run up a pretty hefty bill. Something that was storable (especially without refrigeration) and didn't require blood typing would be a huge win.
Although something that runs along water and would somehow work on highways would be an interesting, albeit small niche market and likely not anything that Toyota would care about. I'd love one. A local cruise operator actually has a commercial hovercraft that they had hoped to used as an inter island ferry, except that it wasn't terribly reliable and was a cast iron bitch to tow back to port.
And just how do we get from here to there? An overarching theme like 'drastically smaller government' sounds great. Until you get to the messy details. How do you de fang the NSA? Get the Pentagon to accept some rational budget? Keep Texas from starting (another) war with Mexico?
You can 'reboot' the system and hope to hell it comes up with a command prompt instead of "Disk Not Found". Or you can (slowly) work at the edges to clean the system up. No it doesn't work well and it's slow as hell - certainly slower than any human lifetime - but it sounds quite a bit more sane than the other ways.
I wondered about that. General surgery in infants is anything but common. You don't do it unless you have to. Certainly there are some other wise normal children who need general anesthesia - say from trauma, but many of them have pre existing conditions that makes them not a good 'normal'. Not sure how the rats figure into this though. What's a normal rat? A politician? A lawyer?
This discovery supports the theory that the Americas were populated by seafarers long, long before the ancestors of today's Native Americans drove the Clovis people to extinction, and before the Clovis exterminated the pre-Clovis population.
What? It does nothing of the sort. And your reading of the current trend in the literature is incorrect. The 'widely understood' theory (this month anyway) is that the Berengia hypothesis - that is the 'original' humans on the American continent came from the land bridge between Asia and Alaska - is most likely correct.
But this particular find doesn't speak at all to that issue.
Paabo pretty much makes this argument. He points out that 'race' is a construct much like 'species' - outdated and not particularly useful. IIRC he does go on a bit about how it can be difficult to dance around, but much of the book is about how surprisingly difficult this whole field was to get started, both from the technical and social points of view. Not many collections wanted him to grind up significant parts of their specimens for some strange reason. The history of how Neanderthal Man was discovered and who holds control of the major sites and fossils is also a testament to how weird homo sapiens is.
Coming out about early humans via mitochondrial DNA sequencing. This is a hugely difficult undertaking and long thought to be impossible in any useful sense. If you are interested in how this particularly technology took off, Svante Paabo, one of the pioneers of this field, has an interesting, albeit someone self aggrandizing book Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes that is remarkably readable and reasonably technical at the same time.
Which is a sad (if a bit hyperbolic) reflection of things these days. In the early 1970's, we had a time sharing terminal at our high school. I noted the manuals for the system in my father's office at Boeing, 'borrowed' the manuals and we proceeded to have a fun couple of hours screwing around in admin land. We then got a nice little reply on said terminal to please stop doing that.
So we stopped.
The school got a phone call that asked them to supervise the children a bit better and that was that. No muss. No fuss. No SWAT teams. Ah, the 70's.
I wonder if these environmentalists have ever been to Florida. Where they launch lots of rockets. Where they launch rockets right next to a wildlife preserve.
Welcome to our Slashdot where (some) people think the entire planet can be modeled by a rubber duck, a bathtub, a tray of icecubes and a fifth of cheap vodka.
The Great Doctor Famine (minus a number of high paying subspecialties) is last month. I would hazard a guess that you are correct - a PhD in the humanities plus some minimal assurance that you can handle some 'hard' science will get you into med school. Of course, paying for it is another question entirely. By the time you've finished your PhD dissertation on the effect of the Little Ice Age on parchment longevity you should be well into ramen-for-life and have made the max donation to the local plasma bank along.
- The last four digits of your card are pretty easy to get - they are typically printed out on paper / transmitted in the clear. - If they have your email (not hard), and they can get you to respond to your message, then they try to have you give them the rest of the card number (for security) and, for even more 'security' your PIN number and - Profit!
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Egypt's leaders should not be permitted to make an example of him to silence others.
While I don't disagree with the sentiment, I would point out that Egypt isn't the US and the protections and institutions available to us are not available to Egyptians. This does point out, yet again, the problem with the 'Arab Spring' or any rapid move to a rule-of-law, marginally democratic republic: you need strong political, legal and financial institutions for all of that to work. You have virtually none of that in the Arab world.
How you get from a military theocracy to some sort of representative and stable government is a question that has yet to be answered.
Ah, but you're missing an entire other defensive mechanism. One that, I will point out, did not escape the genius of Apple. Recall the recent angst about Apple's acquisition of Beats Audio. The two theories judged most likely centered around either gratuitously spending money to annoy the Slashdot hive mind or strategically buying up an inconsequential streaming audio business. Of course, careful consideration (yes, I understand that contradiction here) would lead one to realize that neither is very likely, so I offer a more technically sound rationale:
If you've ever listened to a set of Beats headphones, the second thing you notice (the first is that they are ugly and cheap) is that it is engineered to be unable to pass frequencies higher than 4000 Hz. You're not going to hear a set of cymbals or a piccolo to save your life.
So, these nefarious persons can attempt to stuff whatever data they'd like into the higher registers - it will do them no good at all. You don't need complex software rules, you don't need specially constructed DACs. You just need bass. Furthermore, if all you are going to do is to listen to DC to 4 kHz noise, you don't need a particularly robust audio platform to do it (like an iPhone). And, as an added bonus, this limited bandwidth will save on your precious monthly allotment of data.
Apple has you covered, folks.
Yep, like holographic storage it's always five years away. This time it's another promising attempt. If it's like the dozen or so previous promising attempts, the substance will become less promising once it gets through further testing. Eventually it's likely that some approach will succeed - it is not at all clear that this one has any better chance than before (the TFA wasn't terribly insightful).
But this would be a Big Deal. A really big deal if it were priced reasonably. Blood and blood products are actually pretty expensive despite it being a non profit entity in the US - testing, storage and transport all run up a pretty hefty bill. Something that was storable (especially without refrigeration) and didn't require blood typing would be a huge win.
Mayhaps, but we have the strength of character to use proper capitalization.
USA! USA!
Don't Bogart that joint, my friend.
Although something that runs along water and would somehow work on highways would be an interesting, albeit small niche market and likely not anything that Toyota would care about. I'd love one. A local cruise operator actually has a commercial hovercraft that they had hoped to used as an inter island ferry, except that it wasn't terribly reliable and was a cast iron bitch to tow back to port.
What, you don't buy anything?
And just how do we get from here to there? An overarching theme like 'drastically smaller government' sounds great. Until you get to the messy details. How do you de fang the NSA? Get the Pentagon to accept some rational budget? Keep Texas from starting (another) war with Mexico?
You can 'reboot' the system and hope to hell it comes up with a command prompt instead of "Disk Not Found". Or you can (slowly) work at the edges to clean the system up. No it doesn't work well and it's slow as hell - certainly slower than any human lifetime - but it sounds quite a bit more sane than the other ways.
The newer version of 'Hanlons' Razor' - never ascribe to sarcasm that which could, possibly, somehow be twisted into being a real complaint.
I guess they really are making Skynet...
Skynet as the world's collection of cell phone calls? Man, that is one seriously dystopian future. You need some help.
Yeah. Like the Open SSL bug. That just took, what, fourteen years to find?
This is Internet time, not geologic time.
I wondered about that. General surgery in infants is anything but common. You don't do it unless you have to. Certainly there are some other wise normal children who need general anesthesia - say from trauma, but many of them have pre existing conditions that makes them not a good 'normal'. Not sure how the rats figure into this though. What's a normal rat? A politician? A lawyer?
This discovery supports the theory that the Americas were populated by seafarers long, long before the ancestors of today's Native Americans drove the Clovis people to extinction, and before the Clovis exterminated the pre-Clovis population.
What? It does nothing of the sort. And your reading of the current trend in the literature is incorrect. The 'widely understood' theory (this month anyway) is that the Berengia hypothesis - that is the 'original' humans on the American continent came from the land bridge between Asia and Alaska - is most likely correct.
But this particular find doesn't speak at all to that issue.
Paabo pretty much makes this argument. He points out that 'race' is a construct much like 'species' - outdated and not particularly useful. IIRC he does go on a bit about how it can be difficult to dance around, but much of the book is about how surprisingly difficult this whole field was to get started, both from the technical and social points of view. Not many collections wanted him to grind up significant parts of their specimens for some strange reason. The history of how Neanderthal Man was discovered and who holds control of the major sites and fossils is also a testament to how weird homo sapiens is.
Coming out about early humans via mitochondrial DNA sequencing. This is a hugely difficult undertaking and long thought to be impossible in any useful sense. If you are interested in how this particularly technology took off, Svante Paabo, one of the pioneers of this field, has an interesting, albeit someone self aggrandizing book Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes that is remarkably readable and reasonably technical at the same time.
Is it considered hacking if the admin password is "123456"?
No, it's considered packing. As in 'packing your luggage'.
Which is a sad (if a bit hyperbolic) reflection of things these days. In the early 1970's, we had a time sharing terminal at our high school. I noted the manuals for the system in my father's office at Boeing, 'borrowed' the manuals and we proceeded to have a fun couple of hours screwing around in admin land. We then got a nice little reply on said terminal to please stop doing that.
So we stopped.
The school got a phone call that asked them to supervise the children a bit better and that was that. No muss. No fuss. No SWAT teams. Ah, the 70's.
I wonder if these environmentalists have ever been to Florida. Where they launch lots of rockets. Where they launch rockets right next to a wildlife preserve.
Welcome to our Slashdot where (some) people think the entire planet can be modeled by a rubber duck, a bathtub, a tray of icecubes and a fifth of cheap vodka.
The Great Doctor Famine (minus a number of high paying subspecialties) is last month. I would hazard a guess that you are correct - a PhD in the humanities plus some minimal assurance that you can handle some 'hard' science will get you into med school. Of course, paying for it is another question entirely. By the time you've finished your PhD dissertation on the effect of the Little Ice Age on parchment longevity you should be well into ramen-for-life and have made the max donation to the local plasma bank along.
Your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
But they would be spherical cows!
Wow. A physics approximation that actually works.
Alternatively, we could roll back our immense gains in life-expectancy.
I suppose we could start using all of those F-35s.
Buy drones instead. They are rapidly making aircraft obsolete.
Where do you live? Iran? Drones have a long way to go before they can replace a supersonic air superiority fighter.
But then again, so does the F-35.
Except that is a great segue into a scam.
- The last four digits of your card are pretty easy to get - they are typically printed out on paper / transmitted in the clear.
- If they have your email (not hard), and they can get you to respond to your message, then they try to have you give them the rest of the card number (for security) and, for even more 'security' your PIN number and
- Profit!