Interestingly, what if a time traveller was actually there. How would they be able to prove it to you.
To go through all the effort of risking life and limb to show up at such a lame event, avoiding the government agents, and nobody believes you are from the future anyway.
That's why I'm not going anyway. There's a much better convention held every year on the dark side of the moon anyway. We get quite a chuckle out of you losers on earth not being able to figure it out!
Thanks for the hot tip... I'm really anxious to see how the world changes now that the concept of the cache has finally been brought to light.
Behold, sarcasm, I've invented sarcasm! Wow, maybe we should create a/. article for me?
I'm guessing this is part of the difference between being in hibernation and dead. You are still conducting a small portion of lifes processes when you hibernate like this -- it is just greatly reduced.
In short, the energy you are expending in this state is probably enough to keep your immune system somewhat operational. There are a lot of things we do or are ready to do that take a lot of energy -- that can be cut out without any detriment.
For example, the brain and liver are both using about 20% of your energy expenditure most of the time. Heck, turn them "off" and you have nearly a 50% slowdown. Stop all the growth and cell division processes and the use of energy that consumes, stop digestive processes and relax all of the muscles (including autonomous ones that deal with posture and so forth) and your energy needs get quite low.
I'm guessing you'd stay healthy as long as your fat stores were able to leak energy into your systems while you were in such a basic maintaince mode... assuming of course that any of this actually applies to human hibernation.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see a lot of geeks griping about silly things. Other than bitching about a lack of encryption, there isn't much to bitch about here.
They should have picked a better shipper? I mean come on, even if you use FedEx, UPS and/or the USPS, you will eventually find that things get lost or stolen in transit. This is real life, stuff happens.
Lack of encryption though, the IT staff are incompetent to not realize that appropriate encryption should have been used -- unless they were shipping it to the government and had to follow precise braindead formatting and delivery specifications?
You are partially correct. However, it is a real stretch to say their is no proof or that there is no research.
Have you ever done a search on PubMed? There are all kinds of studies being done -- random double blind and so on with strong statistical results to draw from in many cases.
I will agree that people often fall prey to hype, but is it really the job of the government to act as our nanny? What if you are sick and traditional medicine does not have much to offer? Should the government deny you the opportunity to try non-traditional means?
Health is just an area that people treat as a sacred cow. It is not right that in all other areas we are allowed to make our own decisions, supposedly, but that in health we are forced to let others decide what is better for us.
I would propose we disallow baseless claims and hype, which is really just truth in advertising, instead of disallowing the sale of products to those that want them.
Food supplements are making inroads into various health issues. However, the drug industry is fighting them tooth and nail with the help of the FDA -- because they hurt profits.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist wacko, just look at the hatchet job they attempted on the Life Extension Foundation. I don't have the exact link, you'll have to do some digging to find it.
Ignoring all the whining comments about what people like or don't like...
The owner of the copyright is perfectly within their right to make you purchase the right to view or read the material presented.
Technically, it is hard for them to know whether or not you have viewed the advertising, but if the advertising is the price they put on viewing their material, how can you assume you have the "right" to view the material if you haven't purchased that right?
Yes, I hate all the annoying advertising too, but that doesn't mean I have any right to the material or to avoid paying for the right to view it, no matter how painful the price might be to me.
Unfortunately, I did not sign this "alleged" treaty...
When I get to the moon, and establish my base, I shall exert domination over the entire moon. How? I shall bring surgical tubing and build an escape velocity capable slingshot.
If you attempt to land on my moon you will be blasted from the skies with moonshot.
Beware earthlings, your time of domination is nearing an end... you filthy mud dwellers!
Your last point is pretty interesting, but I think you have every right for the person asking to see your ID to "prove" who they are before you allow them to see it.
You are recording that person X asserted authority in situation Y with respect your conduct attempted conduct of action Z at point in time T.
Finally, shame on the retards who willingly usher in the era of big brother under the notion that power isn't going to be abused. It is *always* abused, whether legally or not, just wait and see.
Those silly MIT fools were duped by a randomly created conference... though they do get partial credit for submitting a randomly generated paper in the final analysis.
Perhaps you should consider writing a book review... especially if you could whip this reply off in a matter of minutes.
I can only imagine if you spent the time to fill out some detail for each of the "bullets" you raised. Then it would be easy for a prospective purchaser to know if the book had something to offer to them.
Okay, as an industry professional, I tire of books calling themselves "for professionals". Don't most professionals already know about index types and choosing their usage? If they don't, why are they calling themselves professionals.
The important thing is, does it tell you how to set up and manage highly distributed system managing gigabytes of data under high transaction volumes?
If it doesn't, and just discusses the general issues to consider under such conditions, it is worthless for those that are already professionals. Professionals know how to consider these things, they just want concrete examples so they don't have to spend months of reading and tinkering to figure it out on their own.
Unfortunately, reading the review above doesn't even let me know whether or not the book has anything in it at a level that I might want. However, if I was writing the review I'd probably order the paragraphs differently and use some different words. That might just be personal preference....:p
Okay, I'm all for volunteer activities, but how can you trust it? Does it matter if people misclassify material or simply make up numbers for the heck of it?
If it does, then you can't use it. If it doesn't, that what is the point of collecting the information in the first place?
It's a dumb ruling. Since when has there been a problem with trying to make money on something? Given that the site disclaimed any association with the "real" site, why on earth would people realistically be confused.
Also, copyright applies to stealing the text of another, not having a similar name. Although slimy, I don't think using a similar name should be in violation of anything unless the user of the similar name is trying to represent themselves as the original.
So, copying the look and feel or the layour or the content of the similarly named site might be a no-no. Having a similar name, no way. However, there is the concept of domain squatting which is yet another issue.
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And people refer to tin foil hats in a disparaging way... tsk.
Moo!
So, finally, our endless pollution will end up saving us!
To go through all the effort of risking life and limb to show up at such a lame event, avoiding the government agents, and nobody believes you are from the future anyway.
That's why I'm not going anyway. There's a much better convention held every year on the dark side of the moon anyway. We get quite a chuckle out of you losers on earth not being able to figure it out!
I do have a nifty t-shirt from 2007 though.
Thanks for the hot tip... I'm really anxious to see how the world changes now that the concept of the cache has finally been brought to light. Behold, sarcasm, I've invented sarcasm! Wow, maybe we should create a /. article for me?
... If you can read this ... you are too close!
In short, the energy you are expending in this state is probably enough to keep your immune system somewhat operational. There are a lot of things we do or are ready to do that take a lot of energy -- that can be cut out without any detriment.
For example, the brain and liver are both using about 20% of your energy expenditure most of the time. Heck, turn them "off" and you have nearly a 50% slowdown. Stop all the growth and cell division processes and the use of energy that consumes, stop digestive processes and relax all of the muscles (including autonomous ones that deal with posture and so forth) and your energy needs get quite low.
I'm guessing you'd stay healthy as long as your fat stores were able to leak energy into your systems while you were in such a basic maintaince mode... assuming of course that any of this actually applies to human hibernation.
You're fired!
I'm guessing "special equipment" equates to antiquated out of date tape drives that very few people actually have anymore.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see a lot of geeks griping about silly things. Other than bitching about a lack of encryption, there isn't much to bitch about here.
They should have picked a better shipper? I mean come on, even if you use FedEx, UPS and/or the USPS, you will eventually find that things get lost or stolen in transit. This is real life, stuff happens.
Lack of encryption though, the IT staff are incompetent to not realize that appropriate encryption should have been used -- unless they were shipping it to the government and had to follow precise braindead formatting and delivery specifications?
Have you ever done a search on PubMed? There are all kinds of studies being done -- random double blind and so on with strong statistical results to draw from in many cases.
I will agree that people often fall prey to hype, but is it really the job of the government to act as our nanny? What if you are sick and traditional medicine does not have much to offer? Should the government deny you the opportunity to try non-traditional means?
Health is just an area that people treat as a sacred cow. It is not right that in all other areas we are allowed to make our own decisions, supposedly, but that in health we are forced to let others decide what is better for us.
I would propose we disallow baseless claims and hype, which is really just truth in advertising, instead of disallowing the sale of products to those that want them.
Food supplements are making inroads into various health issues. However, the drug industry is fighting them tooth and nail with the help of the FDA -- because they hurt profits.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist wacko, just look at the hatchet job they attempted on the Life Extension Foundation. I don't have the exact link, you'll have to do some digging to find it.
The owner of the copyright is perfectly within their right to make you purchase the right to view or read the material presented.
Technically, it is hard for them to know whether or not you have viewed the advertising, but if the advertising is the price they put on viewing their material, how can you assume you have the "right" to view the material if you haven't purchased that right?
Yes, I hate all the annoying advertising too, but that doesn't mean I have any right to the material or to avoid paying for the right to view it, no matter how painful the price might be to me.
Unfortunately, I did not sign this "alleged" treaty...
When I get to the moon, and establish my base, I shall exert domination over the entire moon. How? I shall bring surgical tubing and build an escape velocity capable slingshot.
If you attempt to land on my moon you will be blasted from the skies with moonshot.
Beware earthlings, your time of domination is nearing an end... you filthy mud dwellers!
Your last point is pretty interesting, but I think you have every right for the person asking to see your ID to "prove" who they are before you allow them to see it. You are recording that person X asserted authority in situation Y with respect your conduct attempted conduct of action Z at point in time T. Finally, shame on the retards who willingly usher in the era of big brother under the notion that power isn't going to be abused. It is *always* abused, whether legally or not, just wait and see.
Those silly MIT fools were duped by a randomly created conference... though they do get partial credit for submitting a randomly generated paper in the final analysis.
Sigh, this opinion is junk. You can't stand in front of progress and wish it away. Sorry Bill, you are rich enough, stop whining already!
I can only imagine if you spent the time to fill out some detail for each of the "bullets" you raised. Then it would be easy for a prospective purchaser to know if the book had something to offer to them.
The important thing is, does it tell you how to set up and manage highly distributed system managing gigabytes of data under high transaction volumes?
If it doesn't, and just discusses the general issues to consider under such conditions, it is worthless for those that are already professionals. Professionals know how to consider these things, they just want concrete examples so they don't have to spend months of reading and tinkering to figure it out on their own.
Unfortunately, reading the review above doesn't even let me know whether or not the book has anything in it at a level that I might want. However, if I was writing the review I'd probably order the paragraphs differently and use some different words. That might just be personal preference.... :p
Okay, I'm all for volunteer activities, but how can you trust it? Does it matter if people misclassify material or simply make up numbers for the heck of it? If it does, then you can't use it. If it doesn't, that what is the point of collecting the information in the first place?
It's a dumb ruling. Since when has there been a problem with trying to make money on something? Given that the site disclaimed any association with the "real" site, why on earth would people realistically be confused.
Also, copyright applies to stealing the text of another, not having a similar name. Although slimy, I don't think using a similar name should be in violation of anything unless the user of the similar name is trying to represent themselves as the original.
So, copying the look and feel or the layour or the content of the similarly named site might be a no-no. Having a similar name, no way. However, there is the concept of domain squatting which is yet another issue.
It's just conservative judge...
Now you want every site in the world to be able to verify who every user is? Unless you are in the porn industry, who cares?
Do I have to prove who I am to buy popcorn at the movies? Why should I have to prove who I am just to read your crappy web site?