They already demonstrated the E.Coli bacterium evolving the ability to metabolize citric acid... that makes it a new kid of bacterium (the inability of E.Coli to metabolize citric acid is one of its defining characteristics).
And the color white was a "defining characteristic" of swans until they found a black one.
And the black swan (Cygnus atratus) is, in fact, a separate species. So even by your own argument-by-analogy, you've agreed that the new bacteria should also be considered a new species, and thus evolution has been observed to occur.
Look, I believe in evolution, but never has there been found a parent species to something alive today.
My grandparents have all passed away, but I'm pretty sure I'm still related to my cousins.
In other words, scientists can not point at any two distinct species, living or extinct, plant or animal, and say that this species evolved directly from that one.
We've had plenty of genetic evidence from preserved material to say exactly that.
But the big news about Lenski's experiment is that not only do we have living examples of a species which evolved directly from another species, and not only do we have living examples of that original species, but the scientists actually watched it happen.
Show me the fossils of the prehistoric rodent that evolved directly to today's rabbit or rat and the debate will end.
Rodent ancestors appear is the fossil record around the late Paleocene. We may not be 100% sure the actual individual fossils we have are direct ancestors of currently living rodents; they may be, say, great-great-...-great-uncle rather than great-great-...grandparent. But that doesn't matter since the existence of the latter is logically implied by the existence of the former.
The debate, among anyone who actually knows what they are talking about, has been over for a very long time. The only ones claiming otherwise are the creationists.
I'm neither a lawyer nor a member of parliament, nor have I read the whole thing in detail, but my initial impression is: this bill is actually an improvement on the status quo. Sure, it doesn't go far enough, but it does introduce some exceptions for time- and format-shifting, for example. The issues the IIA points out are certainly true, but they are all existing issues with the law as it currently stands, that this bill fails to address, rather than new things introduced by this bill.
Yes, but there are also four Horde races... so if players we evenly distributed you would expect to see 12.5% of the population playing each race. This is not the case.
I think that the presence of nipples are the foremost concern for those who object to the "nudity" nipples are apparently the most offensive part of the mammary and must therefore never be shown to children of any age.
Indeed! Imagine the chaos if children could be allowed to see nipples! Why, you'd have children as young as one or two months old actaully seeing what they were being fed by!
I'm pretty sure they already store that information - even if it's just something like a RADIUS log. And it has to do with spam because if your machine gets zombified and used as a relay, your IP address will show up in the headers of messages it sends, so it allows the ISP to identify your account and contact you to fix it (or, potentially, block your 'net access until you do).
However, I agree that it opens up a whole can of worms in terms of what else that information could be used (and subpoenaed) for.
In Australia, New South Wales extended daylight savings time for a couple of months in 2000 to accommodate the Sydney Olympics.
It basically involved a patch to the timezome files of your machine.
Politicians like to change these things occasionally, and most developers that have to deal with time will have included a configurable setup, because the rules are different from place to place to start with.
Usual rules regarding STDs and ensuring you and your life partner stay true to each other, no nipping off to the local establishment to perform other not-so-valid scientific tests with other, um, subjects
But it wouldn't be scientific without a control group!
With bluetooth, you get 8 devices. The console itself is the first, leaving seven for peripherals. Which aren't necessarily just controllers, it's also the remote for the DVD software, you eye-toy camera, lightgun, dance dance revolution mat, and so on...
But under section 3a they only have to give the source to the second party, in this case Sony. OR they can offer to give it to any third party.
But anyway, I doubt there'd be many changes to release - I imagine the kernel would just be dealing with the PowerPC master core, the stuff to operate on the vector cores would probably happen in userspace.
The GST stands for Goods and Services Tax. Basically, the price of anything you buy or pay for in Australia has to include an extra 10%, which the seller then has to give to the tax office. There are a few exceptions, most notably unprocessed food like fruit and vegetables.
On the other hand, this could be a great way to get people other than coders involved in OSS.
For example, all those projects where ther's little to no documentation because everyone involved is coding, not documenting? I'm sure there are lots of unemployed writers around.
Or projects that need to market themselves better, maybe need a sleeker looking interface or website or logo or whatever? Tap into the starving artist workforce...
People who've seen the rough cut in Sydney have commented
(registration required) that the movie does not
have sound in space. Also, the hand-held look and
feel is there.
Article 12 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his
privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
So no, the right to privacy is considered by the international community to be a fundamental human right, whatever juristiction you may be in.
The big question for the Linux/FOSS community isn't how hard is it to crack: it's can we be included without being forced to crack it.
I'm sure I'm not alone in not wanting to make pirate copies of DVDs, but just wanting to be able to watch my discs on the equipment of choice, including open source players.
This boild down to: i) will the algorithm be well known (ie rely on secrecy of keys not the algorithm) and ii) how do you get allocated a key
CSS sucked because it used weak keys and tried to keep the algorithm secret. The first rule of cryptography is to assume the algorithm is known, and thanks to DVD Jon we got it reverse engineered. And it sucked for the FOSS crowd because you couldn't make a player without paying a huge sum of money and signing all sorts of agreements.
If the new system removes these barriers to entry, then it at least it won't be as evil as the original CSS. It'll still be useless, but not actually evil.
Yes some of the others are trying to jump on board the OSS bandwagon (Greens, ALP etc), however the only party to have looked at these issues seriously, and proposed legislation are the Democrats.
As a contributor to the Greens IT policy, I can definately say we're not "jump[ing] on the OSS bandwagon".
The Greens have always supported open source software, and particularly open standards, for all the reasons that slashdotters will be well and truly familiar with by now. If the Greens increase our representation in the Senate, it will certainly not spell the end of accountability - if anything, it will enhance it.
Oh, and keep an eye out for our IT policy launch in the next few days...
I use prebuilt binaries for most applications because it saves the hassle of having to keep recompiling whenever a patch comes out - a quick up2date or apt-get every now and then and all is good.
The only things I generally recompile are the Linux kernel itself and Apache/PHP, and then only on the production servers where speed is at all an issue - for desktop use the out-of-the-box binaries run just fine, even on my old sub-1GHz machine!
The incumbent Liberal party (which is actually very conservative) uses IIS. The opposition Labor party (which is slightly less conservative) uses Apache.
The Greens (progressive) use Apache on Linux for all their websites (including the one I built) and have a pro-F/OSS policy in general.
But seriously, the film is apparently scheduled for release at the end of July here, so I haven't seen it... yet.
<plug>Also, for an Australian perspective on the lead-up to the Iraq war, I recommend Andrew Wilkie's new book, Axis of Deceit, in bookstores now. </plug>
The Greens are a real political force in Australia.
They hold the balance of power in the Senate, along with the Democrats and a few "swinging independants". The Greens will not be supporting the FTA, and in particular any DMCA-like provisions.
[Disclaimer: I'm a member and contributed to the Greens IT policy currently under development.]
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They already demonstrated the E.Coli bacterium evolving the ability to metabolize citric acid... that makes it a new kid of bacterium (the inability of E.Coli to metabolize citric acid is one of its defining characteristics).
And the color white was a "defining characteristic" of swans until they found a black one.
And the black swan (Cygnus atratus) is, in fact, a separate species. So even by your own argument-by-analogy, you've agreed that the new bacteria should also be considered a new species, and thus evolution has been observed to occur.
Look, I believe in evolution, but never has there been found a parent species to something alive today.
My grandparents have all passed away, but I'm pretty sure I'm still related to my cousins.
In other words, scientists can not point at any two distinct species, living or extinct, plant or animal, and say that this species evolved directly from that one.
We've had plenty of genetic evidence from preserved material to say exactly that. But the big news about Lenski's experiment is that not only do we have living examples of a species which evolved directly from another species, and not only do we have living examples of that original species, but the scientists actually watched it happen.
Show me the fossils of the prehistoric rodent that evolved directly to today's rabbit or rat and the debate will end.
Rodent ancestors appear is the fossil record around the late Paleocene. We may not be 100% sure the actual individual fossils we have are direct ancestors of currently living rodents; they may be, say, great-great-...-great-uncle rather than great-great-...grandparent. But that doesn't matter since the existence of the latter is logically implied by the existence of the former. The debate, among anyone who actually knows what they are talking about, has been over for a very long time. The only ones claiming otherwise are the creationists.
PDF links to the bill in question and its explanatory memoranda. And here's the existing copyright act (which the bill ammends, think diff/patch).
I'm neither a lawyer nor a member of parliament, nor have I read the whole thing in detail, but my initial impression is: this bill is actually an improvement on the status quo. Sure, it doesn't go far enough, but it does introduce some exceptions for time- and format-shifting, for example. The issues the IIA points out are certainly true, but they are all existing issues with the law as it currently stands, that this bill fails to address, rather than new things introduced by this bill.
Yes, but there are also four Horde races... so if players we evenly distributed you would expect to see 12.5% of the population playing each race. This is not the case.
I think that the presence of nipples are the foremost concern for those who object to the "nudity" nipples are apparently the most offensive part of the mammary and must therefore never be shown to children of any age.
Indeed! Imagine the chaos if children could be allowed to see nipples! Why, you'd have children as young as one or two months old actaully seeing what they were being fed by!
I'm pretty sure they already store that information - even if it's just something like a RADIUS log. And it has to do with spam because if your machine gets zombified and used as a relay, your IP address will show up in the headers of messages it sends, so it allows the ISP to identify your account and contact you to fix it (or, potentially, block your 'net access until you do). However, I agree that it opens up a whole can of worms in terms of what else that information could be used (and subpoenaed) for.
She should be fired just for that misuse of quotation marks.
From the actual press release:
So it's people that have bought the game and haven't cancelled, which seems like a pretty good definition to me.
In Australia, New South Wales extended daylight savings time for a couple of months in 2000 to accommodate the Sydney Olympics.
It basically involved a patch to the timezome files of your machine.
Politicians like to change these things occasionally, and most developers that have to deal with time will have included a configurable setup, because the rules are different from place to place to start with.
But it wouldn't be scientific without a control group!
With bluetooth, you get 8 devices. The console itself is the first, leaving seven for peripherals.
Which aren't necessarily just controllers, it's also the remote for the DVD software, you eye-toy camera, lightgun, dance dance revolution mat, and so on...
But under section 3a they only have to give the source to the second party, in this case Sony.
OR they can offer to give it to any third party.
But anyway, I doubt there'd be many changes to release - I imagine the kernel would just be dealing with the PowerPC master core, the stuff to operate on the vector cores would probably happen in userspace.
OK, I'll karma whore...
The GST stands for Goods and Services Tax. Basically, the price of anything you buy or pay for in Australia has to include an extra 10%, which the seller then has to give to the tax office. There are a few exceptions, most notably unprocessed food like fruit and vegetables.
On the other hand, this could be a great way to get people other than coders involved in OSS.
For example, all those projects where ther's little to no documentation because everyone involved is coding, not documenting? I'm sure there are lots of unemployed writers around.
Or projects that need to market themselves better, maybe need a sleeker looking interface or website or logo or whatever? Tap into the starving artist workforce...
People who've seen the rough cut in Sydney have commented (registration required) that the movie does not have sound in space. Also, the hand-held look and feel is there.
Can't wait to see for myself.
If, as the parent says, it's a local proxy, then it should work fine with firefox.
Article 12 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
So no, the right to privacy is considered by the international community to be a fundamental human right, whatever juristiction you may be in.
The big question for the Linux/FOSS community isn't how hard is it to crack: it's can we be included without being forced to crack it.
I'm sure I'm not alone in not wanting to make pirate copies of DVDs, but just wanting to be able to watch my discs on the equipment of choice, including open source players.
This boild down to: i) will the algorithm be well known (ie rely on secrecy of keys not the algorithm) and ii) how do you get allocated a key
CSS sucked because it used weak keys and tried to keep the algorithm secret. The first rule of cryptography is to assume the algorithm is known, and thanks to DVD Jon we got it reverse engineered. And it sucked for the FOSS crowd because you couldn't make a player without paying a huge sum of money and signing all sorts of agreements.
If the new system removes these barriers to entry, then it at least it won't be as evil as the original CSS. It'll still be useless, but not actually evil.
As a contributor to the Greens IT policy, I can definately say we're not "jump[ing] on the OSS bandwagon".
The Greens have always supported open source software, and particularly open standards, for all the reasons that slashdotters will be well and truly familiar with by now. If the Greens increase our representation in the Senate, it will certainly not spell the end of accountability - if anything, it will enhance it.
Oh, and keep an eye out for our IT policy launch in the next few days...
I use prebuilt binaries for most applications because it saves the hassle of having to keep recompiling whenever a patch comes out - a quick up2date or apt-get every now and then and all is good.
The only things I generally recompile are the Linux kernel itself and Apache/PHP, and then only on the production servers where speed is at all an issue - for desktop use the out-of-the-box binaries run just fine, even on my old sub-1GHz machine!
The incumbent Liberal party (which is actually very conservative) uses IIS. The opposition Labor party (which is slightly less conservative) uses Apache.
The Greens (progressive) use Apache on Linux for all their websites (including the one I built) and have a pro-F/OSS policy in general.
Yes, this is shameless self-promotion.
...we use Celcius you insensitive clod!
But seriously, the film is apparently scheduled for release at the end of July here, so I haven't seen it... yet.
<plug>Also, for an Australian perspective on the lead-up to the Iraq war, I recommend Andrew Wilkie's new book, Axis of Deceit, in bookstores now. </plug>
The Greens are a real political force in Australia.
They hold the balance of power in the Senate, along with the Democrats and a few "swinging independants". The Greens will not be supporting the FTA, and in particular any DMCA-like provisions.
[Disclaimer: I'm a member and contributed to the Greens IT policy currently under development.]