Does the community here accept that blocking funding to something is the same thing as blocking something? Or does blocking something require creating laws making some such or another illegal at the federal level (this probably being unconstitutional on the face of it).
The fed's number one strategy for controlling research is by holding the purse strings. Most fundamental research in the country is supported by the federal government (as a result of development timelines being longer than the 7-year investment cycle), so you don't have to pass a law against doing a certain kind of research in order to kill it. So, personally, I'd say "yes" - but don't confuse the response of one individual as the voice of the entire community.
Such as what? What exactly are you proposing hardware manufacturers do about software piracy and peer-to-peer networking? You've said there's lots they can do but provided no examples. Give some.
The easiest is a USB dongle, a lot of the more serious companies just do that.
"Yang thinks devices containing the microscope could even be implanted directly into the human body. Such a device, he suggests, could autonomously screen for and isolate rogue cancer cells in blood circulation"
Discuss!
Nope, I'm working on a project with these kinds of devices and the throughput of the microfluidic channel is not sufficient to work in your bloodstream (and I doubt they have enough channels in a small enough space). You could take a tiny portion of your blood and run it through the device, but if you're looking for rouge cancer cells to zap then this would not prove effective.
We just don't renew their contracts and blame funding cuts. We do have to choose something to cut after all, incompetence just makes the decision orders of magnitude easier.
But then you'd have to figure out how to prevent them getting buried in deposition, which is just difficult.
If the waste is buried then just mount them all over the place on the top and sides of the container. You don't really care if it gets buried provided that when it gets unburied that people can still see that it's dangerous.
I would think the increasing number of skeletal remains as one approaches the dump would be sufficient.
Actually, that would probably work - instead of putting a sign up with a skull and crossbones you could manufacture non-biodegradable human remains and use those as your "sign". (thus avoiding the confusion mentioned in TFA)
You could just use SSH to tunnel traffic to the destination. If you use DNS 'TXT' records to publish the public key then you should know that you're talking to the correct machine, except that you'd need a way to identify machines that have no DNS record.
You might want to check your reading level, even the sub title says "EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION" not PROOF. From what I read, it sounds like they don't even know how the observed change occurred, it doesn't say that they know for a fact it was evolution.
Return to remedial science class, do not pass GO.
1) Science cannot prove something to be correct, it can only prove something to be incorrect.
2) It's pretty clear, even from that watered down article, that they recorded the evolution of a complex trait in the bacteria.
3) Science has defined the term "evolution", since these bacteria mutated and acquired a new inheritable trait they have "evolved".
... even if I was down an hour a week I wouldn't likely think it was worth another $50/mo to cover it.
I had a DSL service provider that was down for about an hour every day, every other day if we were lucky. This issue actually was them being down too, if you logged into the router/modem it will tell you the link was active but the provider was unreachable. I was quite happy to move into an arrangement with Comcast, and when they started messing with the intertubes I was EXTREMELY happy to get hooked up to the Front Range GigaPop. The bandwidth and reliability is GLORIOUS.
Seriously? Is your network infrastructure -that- unreliable that its actually worth *doubling* your costs for redundancy?
Yeah, seriously - my apartment is on the same network as the USGS National Earthquake Information Center. So since I have oodles of extra bandwidth and 100% uptime, everyone else should have it too.</sarcasm>
This obviously is only a feasible for junior/senior years but it's programs like this...
I'm guessing you're from Washington, which has the program "Running Start". Running Start is a great program that provides intelligent students the opportunity to excel. Unfortunately, I moved away from Washington just before I was eligible for the program, in Colorado they have a program to take classes at local colleges - but you can only participate if you have "exhausted the resources of the school". AKA, the administration can dictate that you have to take every single class on campus before you're eligible to go to the local college.
If you haven't signed a contract it just means the record company is not allowed to use your performance at all. The only question here is if clapping is considered a performance, if it is worth anything, and if the recording doesn't fall within fair use.
In some states (California is the big one I remember from going to some conferences) they can't even use a picture of you unless you sign a contract.
The DMCA is starting to rear one of its real intent. Its use of takedown notices to suppress Linux and other OSS operating systems ability to get advanced technology because if the OSS OSes gain traction they could lose the control they have over multimedia and users could regain fair use rights.
That's insane.
Why's that? It seems reasonable to me, F/OSS frequently pushes the "information wants to be free" idea, so I can see companies confusing that with "these people want to 'steal' 'our' content".
I don't know how I could monitor that or even detect it unless the client user notified me.
Have your server compute the MD5 sum of the page of your website and transmit it as an invalid HTML tag (or just a hidden one) at either the beginning or end of the document. In this document (or in a referenced "SCRIPT" page) also insert JavaScript that computes the MD5 sum of the client-received document (sans the added information) and transmits both the original MD5 sum and the computed sum back to your sever using AJAX. If these don't match then somewhere along the way someone tampered with your document.
How did it become a monopoly in the first place? What stops another company from springing up to provide cable internet services for cheaper? Answer - government intervention.
What the hell are you talking about? I live in an area where competing cable companies show up all the time (there used to be several in fact). The problem isn't that the government doesn't allow these companies to exist, it's that comcast buys them all out.
However, there is no point in releasing drivers for this in Linux because the only use would be physics accelerated games, which won't be ported to Linux anyway.
Yeah, because Unreal Tournament 3 won't use nVidia's accelerated features or be ported to Linux at all. </sarcasm>
Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if (once this technology catches on) the Wine folks make a pass-through library that allow Windows games to take advantage of this feature when running under Linux.
Well until now, we assumed it was just an idle treat.
I assume you meant an "idle threat", but what we got IS a treat. Now whenever someone claims that open source is not viable for business applications we can claim that even Microsoft supports open source.
Not even close, do you really think that we could make a 3.8 solar mass black hole in the lab (that's several hundred thousand times the mass of our planet)? A more accurate term for the kind of black hole we might make in the lab is the hypothetical "microsingularity".
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It doesn't say "no" specifically, it says "not immediately, and no guarantee on eventually".
The fed's number one strategy for controlling research is by holding the purse strings. Most fundamental research in the country is supported by the federal government (as a result of development timelines being longer than the 7-year investment cycle), so you don't have to pass a law against doing a certain kind of research in order to kill it. So, personally, I'd say "yes" - but don't confuse the response of one individual as the voice of the entire community.
The easiest is a USB dongle, a lot of the more serious companies just do that.
Nope, I'm working on a project with these kinds of devices and the throughput of the microfluidic channel is not sufficient to work in your bloodstream (and I doubt they have enough channels in a small enough space). You could take a tiny portion of your blood and run it through the device, but if you're looking for rouge cancer cells to zap then this would not prove effective.
We just don't renew their contracts and blame funding cuts. We do have to choose something to cut after all, incompetence just makes the decision orders of magnitude easier.
If the waste is buried then just mount them all over the place on the top and sides of the container. You don't really care if it gets buried provided that when it gets unburied that people can still see that it's dangerous.
Actually, that would probably work - instead of putting a sign up with a skull and crossbones you could manufacture non-biodegradable human remains and use those as your "sign". (thus avoiding the confusion mentioned in TFA)
Then do you part to change the industry and stop consuming (or start copying) entertainment "goods".
You could just use SSH to tunnel traffic to the destination. If you use DNS 'TXT' records to publish the public key then you should know that you're talking to the correct machine, except that you'd need a way to identify machines that have no DNS record.
Return to remedial science class, do not pass GO.
1) Science cannot prove something to be correct, it can only prove something to be incorrect.
2) It's pretty clear, even from that watered down article, that they recorded the evolution of a complex trait in the bacteria.
3) Science has defined the term "evolution", since these bacteria mutated and acquired a new inheritable trait they have "evolved".
One should note that there is an automatic disqualification for most employment (and voting, ironically enough).
I had a DSL service provider that was down for about an hour every day, every other day if we were lucky. This issue actually was them being down too, if you logged into the router/modem it will tell you the link was active but the provider was unreachable. I was quite happy to move into an arrangement with Comcast, and when they started messing with the intertubes I was EXTREMELY happy to get hooked up to the Front Range GigaPop. The bandwidth and reliability is GLORIOUS.
Yeah, seriously - my apartment is on the same network as the USGS National Earthquake Information Center. So since I have oodles of extra bandwidth and 100% uptime, everyone else should have it too.</sarcasm>
Hmmm, I must explore this - awk scripts to strip LaTeX from comments are not nearly so fancy.
snippet from wine/dlls/opengl32/opengl_norm.c:
Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if (once this technology catches on) the Wine folks make a pass-through library that allow Windows games to take advantage of this feature when running under Linux.