coffee may be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
and
We observed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer.
Show me biochemical interactions and a pathway of downregulation of metastatic prostate cancer cells and I'll buy your title.
That being said, I'm going to go have a couple cups of joe.
It took you 8 minutes to issue that "correction", AC. I have to wonder if slower "correlation is not causation" posting is correlated with time of day.
Can't find the original article but I recall reading the BSG creators did feasibility studies on bullets or rayguns for the series and came up with laser powered handguns just not being as effective as bullets.
If by "effective" they mean for purposes of drama and entertainment, I can understand that. If, on the other hand, they mean "effective weapons" . . . this is Sci Fi -- it's as effective as you want it to be!
Seriously. What's a study like that look like? "Ok guys, what's better: a gun or some as yet un-invented personal weapon employing some known or unknown technology?"
You are assuming without lack of new stimuli in the closed environment of a space craft that humans would still evolve. There have been reports that humans are no longer evolving even here on earth, since at least the last few thousand years.
But aren't you assuming that there would be no external stimuli?
That we know what would be stimulating and what wouldn't and could avoid it? Would that be the most comfortable environment? How would we know?
And that only external stimulus results in evolution/adaptation?
And that a species couldn't improve its success absent a changing environment? I.e., we're ideally adapted now?
And that adaptation to environment is the only thing driving natural selection?
I see no problem with this. Then again I always believed that behavior profiling is a better method of screening anyway. It's very hard to train yourself to not set off behavioral queues for evasion, and so on, unless you've had a head injury that screws everything up.
What "behavior(s)" are you profiling for, and how will it detect whatever it is you want to detect?
It must be nice to be able to consider $170 + $109 a minor expense.
Did you even read the summary? Of course it's a minor expense. TFA is about a paid developer. He's presumably working indoors, with lights and a desk and chairs and HVAC. And did I mention that the developer is paid?
The world, consisting of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon. To be fair, he also went to South Africa twice, but really, "traveled the world" seems to be a slight embellishment.
The accomplishment is nonetheless pretty damn impressive. I wonder how long it took to stitch all those photos together.
Umm...no.
Nothing to see here, move along. From TFA -
use of the proposed software would be voluntary and intended only to count keystrokes and mouse clicks rather than the content of the work being completed
It's not necessarily "not equal" but rather "not necessarily not equal."
Or to be a little more memetastic: "Any sufficiently advanced keystroke counter is indistinguishable from a keylogger."
But I don't deny that you are right that in this case they do state that it's not a true keylogger in the common (and nefarious) sense of the word. However, given the hijinx we've all seen in government, business, schools and almost any group of people of size greater than or equal to one, a little paranoia is not irrational.
Wrong. A scientist who is a theist is someone who says, "I believe that the universe is rational and can best be understood through observation and careful examination of the facts at hand....except when it comes to God of course." It makes absolutely no sense and is cognitive dissonance to the highest degree.
I see what you did there. You 'defined' religion for our convenience, then used that definition to inform the rest of us what we should do or believe in order to be religious/theistic/etc. or not. Thing is, this is just what fundie Christians do to tell other Christians and non-Christians what they should believe/do or not. For that matter, it's not very different than the Global Warming Deniers who define climate change as 'less snow everywhere every year' or similar. Then it's a snap to disprove it! One winter storm is all you need. See, no global warming (according to my definition which I expect you to use).
I use a good old pre-digital hanging lateral file. Hanging filing cabinets can be quite expensive, but a good one with ball bearing slides does the job quite well. A lateral 2-drawer is excellent because you can do letter sized in one drawer, and legal sized in the other.
I lucked out and got laid off from a place that went out of business so fast they didn't have time to sell or dispose of the furniture. But good used office quality cabinets are pretty widely available, especially during a recession . ..
Lastly, things permanently installed in a house (new AC units, stoves, etc) should have all their stuff dropped in a drawer in the kitchen. Leave them for the next owner. They will love you.
I kept all those things exactly so in my last house, carefully categorized and filed in a 3-ring binder with tabs and everything. Unfortunately for the guy that bought the house, he was a real pain in the ass in negotiations, repairs and closing. I accidentally lost the folder while moving out. Ha, let's see you try to fix that sink without the faucet manual. Ya, I showed him. Showed him good.
If I die unexpectedly, my wife will be able to (a) easily see the new documents coming in, and (b) easily see the old documents that I have on file. I use hanging folders, with each business' documents going back in time five years.
I've switched to electronic documents because my wife would have no idea what to do with them if I were to prematurely shuffle off this mortal coil. Because it wouldn't be my problem anymore, and anyway, she's free to help out with the bills and documents at any time. I'm sort of kidding, maybe.
I keep the absolute minimum amount of paper lying around.
Bills get payed and then shredded. Why keep them? Same for almost every other piece of paper. My yearly insurance policy gets stuck in a binder (and the old one gets shredded). Oh, and I keep the ownership documents for my house. That's it. If everything in my paper 'archive' is 50 pages total I'm being generous.
There is no need to keep all that junk around. In fact, I wouldn't need the paper that I do keep, because if I would ever need it I can have a replacement copy sent.
I don't know where you live and what kind of tax records you would need, but the majority of my paperwork that I keep is income tax returns and the supporting documentation. I keep 5 years worth, and that's at least 60% of the volume of my paper files.
Like you, I try to keep as little paperwork as possible, but that his bitten me. A few years ago, there was a settlement involving ATT/Cingular customers. But to receive it, you needed to have the bills from the time period. And I'd destroyed the old bills annually. Amazingly, ATT was unable (unwilling? uninterested?) to provide these historical bills online -- they only provided a year's worth, IIRC. The amount of money involved wasn't really sufficient to offset the trouble of calling them up and demanding they produce the documents for me.
Similarly, I have missed out on some securities settlements for not having records of funds I held years ago and no longer own. To get compensation, you needed evidence of having the security during the affected time period.
To not walk out of a store with unpaid-for products is a tough choice? How so? Unless there was some kind of life threatening emergency, I wouldn't even consider stealing. That half... HALF of the people that went into the store would walk out without paying is really disappointing.
If I incorporate myself, then I'd be returning value to my shareholders.
about 1/2 see this as a good steal and take advantage of it.
about 1/4 would see it as a trick where they could get in trouble later in life. (oh the cameras will get me, or if I do this now and abuse the system they will tighten the system down)
about 1/8 would see this as they will get in trouble after life (Religion is an attempt to keep society honest by removing the idea you can really get away with something if you don't get caught).
about 1/8 are just very honest people.
Couldn't some of the paying customers just have been slashdotters that didn't notice that the no human staff was present?
Sure, the Republican party has radically changed in the last seventy years so that it's senseless to say it's the party of Lincoln or the party of Teddy Roosevelt, but that doesn't change the fact that you have no clue what you're talking about.
He was being ironic -- or maybe just really subtle. I disagree with him because he left out some important history that occurred between the 19th century and today w.r.t. the Democratic and Republican parties. But he understood what he was saying.
The headline is inflammatory and wrong. AT&T can't force you to do anything. All this says is that AT&T can have an element in a contract -- that you can enter into or not -- that if there's a dispute, it goes to arbitration instead of court. If you aren't willing to accept that clause, you don't sign the contract. It's just like any other condition. If you don't like a price or a part of the service or whatever, don't sign a contract.
Should there be, in your opinion, any legal right that you could not sign away with a contract? I.e., even if you agreed to give up the right, the law would not allow enforcement?
I find Kubuntu Lucid LTS stable enough for me these days and cannot really see any reason to upgrade to Natty. I think I'm going to stick to the LTS releases from now on since the new features just aren't compelling enough. Anyone else feel the same?
For me, I'd rather wait for the almost certain hardware problems to be discovered and fixed by someone else before I make the switch. I've got an Nvidia card and a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse that always seem to break with each new Ubuntu. I've already dug through my closet enough times getting out an old keyboard and coping with VGA for a few weeks to have learned my lesson. And don't get me started on sound.
Call me selfish, but I don't want to wade through support forums in 640x480 looking for just the right configuration patch merely to get back where I started.
Perhaps if I feel adventurous, I might take CFBMoo1's advice and virtualize, although I'm not entirely certain this would uncover a hardware problem.
I have Mediacom's internet service and the solution is to use a different DNS server other than the ones Mediacom provides. I use Level3's DNS servers (4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3) for my DNS lookups and I do not get any redirects. You can either manually set the DNS servers on your computer or set them at the router.
The Mediacom DNSs are a double-whammy -- or rather avoiding them is double-plus-good. I get a lot of 404s from Mediacom -- and the resultant redirect -- even for valid URLs ("http://www.google.com not found . .."). I kind of have to wonder if the "DNS problems" are intentional or just a happy coincidence for them.
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both.
A customer is asking for one web page, mediacom is substituting another for monetary gain. How is this not wire fraud?
I stopped using mine once I installed GEOSwrite on my Commodore. Sometime around 1986? Being able to use dozens of different fonts (or sizes) is a major advantage over my old typewriter with its fixed PICA size. It just took a little while for the rest of the world to catch up.
I got a commodore-serial to RS232 converter, a Smith Corona "Messenger Module" and plugged the C=64 into my new daisy wheel printer that had the previous week been my typewriter. Unless you had hearing protection, you left the room while it worked and come back when it got quiet to feed another page!
Is this what it takes to work for the Atlantic? Seriously? The clown gets the basic story wrong because he was too lazy to do five minutes of research, then waxes nostalgic over typewriters while calling the ribbon "tape"? TAPE? What a maroon.
Both of my electrics had carbon-film-on-plastic ribbons that could reasonably called "tape". I have never seen a manual with such a ribbon, though.
I stopped using mine when I learned it was secretly saving a copy of everything I typed.
Not me, I just switched back to the old-school cloth-and-ink ribbon. Actually, I didn't. But in case anyone wondered, the parent's statement about secret copies is essentially correct for carbon-film ribbon (depending on your definition of "secret").
Slashdot Mirror
FTA:
coffee may be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
and
We observed a strong inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of lethal prostate cancer.
Show me biochemical interactions and a pathway of downregulation of metastatic prostate cancer cells and I'll buy your title.
That being said, I'm going to go have a couple cups of joe.
It took you 8 minutes to issue that "correction", AC. I have to wonder if slower "correlation is not causation" posting is correlated with time of day.
Can't find the original article but I recall reading the BSG creators did feasibility studies on bullets or rayguns for the series and came up with laser powered handguns just not being as effective as bullets.
If by "effective" they mean for purposes of drama and entertainment, I can understand that. If, on the other hand, they mean "effective weapons" . . . this is Sci Fi -- it's as effective as you want it to be!
Seriously. What's a study like that look like? "Ok guys, what's better: a gun or some as yet un-invented personal weapon employing some known or unknown technology?"
You are assuming without lack of new stimuli in the closed environment of a space craft that humans would still evolve. There have been reports that humans are no longer evolving even here on earth, since at least the last few thousand years.
But aren't you assuming that there would be no external stimuli?
That we know what would be stimulating and what wouldn't and could avoid it? Would that be the most comfortable environment? How would we know?
And that only external stimulus results in evolution/adaptation?
And that a species couldn't improve its success absent a changing environment? I.e., we're ideally adapted now?
And that adaptation to environment is the only thing driving natural selection?
And a bunch of stuff I haven't thought of . . .
I see no problem with this. Then again I always believed that behavior profiling is a better method of screening anyway. It's very hard to train yourself to not set off behavioral queues for evasion, and so on, unless you've had a head injury that screws everything up.
What "behavior(s)" are you profiling for, and how will it detect whatever it is you want to detect?
It must be nice to be able to consider $170 + $109 a minor expense.
Did you even read the summary? Of course it's a minor expense. TFA is about a paid developer. He's presumably working indoors, with lights and a desk and chairs and HVAC. And did I mention that the developer is paid?
The world, consisting of Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon. To be fair, he also went to South Africa twice, but really, "traveled the world" seems to be a slight embellishment.
The accomplishment is nonetheless pretty damn impressive. I wonder how long it took to stitch all those photos together.
In Soviet Russia, world travels you.
Umm...no. Nothing to see here, move along. From TFA -
It's not necessarily "not equal" but rather "not necessarily not equal."
Or to be a little more memetastic: "Any sufficiently advanced keystroke counter is indistinguishable from a keylogger."
But I don't deny that you are right that in this case they do state that it's not a true keylogger in the common (and nefarious) sense of the word. However, given the hijinx we've all seen in government, business, schools and almost any group of people of size greater than or equal to one, a little paranoia is not irrational.
Wrong. A scientist who is a theist is someone who says, "I believe that the universe is rational and can best be understood through observation and careful examination of the facts at hand....except when it comes to God of course." It makes absolutely no sense and is cognitive dissonance to the highest degree.
I see what you did there. You 'defined' religion for our convenience, then used that definition to inform the rest of us what we should do or believe in order to be religious/theistic/etc. or not. Thing is, this is just what fundie Christians do to tell other Christians and non-Christians what they should believe/do or not. For that matter, it's not very different than the Global Warming Deniers who define climate change as 'less snow everywhere every year' or similar. Then it's a snap to disprove it! One winter storm is all you need. See, no global warming (according to my definition which I expect you to use).
But this is the English language. Not only will we add an "s", we might even throw in an apostrophe or two for good measure.
I'd give you a bonus "e" for no extra charge!
I use a good old pre-digital hanging lateral file. Hanging filing cabinets can be quite expensive, but a good one with ball bearing slides does the job quite well. A lateral 2-drawer is excellent because you can do letter sized in one drawer, and legal sized in the other.
I lucked out and got laid off from a place that went out of business so fast they didn't have time to sell or dispose of the furniture. But good used office quality cabinets are pretty widely available, especially during a recession . . .
Lastly, things permanently installed in a house (new AC units, stoves, etc) should have all their stuff dropped in a drawer in the kitchen. Leave them for the next owner. They will love you.
I kept all those things exactly so in my last house, carefully categorized and filed in a 3-ring binder with tabs and everything. Unfortunately for the guy that bought the house, he was a real pain in the ass in negotiations, repairs and closing. I accidentally lost the folder while moving out. Ha, let's see you try to fix that sink without the faucet manual. Ya, I showed him. Showed him good.
P.S. I keen even checks from supermarket, and thermal ones tend to discolor after 3 years, but it is just for fun.
Better than comic books, I bet! Who am I to judge, though -- it's your hobby. I collect spores, molds and fungus.
If I die unexpectedly, my wife will be able to (a) easily see the new documents coming in, and (b) easily see the old documents that I have on file. I use hanging folders, with each business' documents going back in time five years.
I've switched to electronic documents because my wife would have no idea what to do with them if I were to prematurely shuffle off this mortal coil. Because it wouldn't be my problem anymore, and anyway, she's free to help out with the bills and documents at any time. I'm sort of kidding, maybe.
I keep the absolute minimum amount of paper lying around.
Bills get payed and then shredded. Why keep them? Same for almost every other piece of paper. My yearly insurance policy gets stuck in a binder (and the old one gets shredded). Oh, and I keep the ownership documents for my house. That's it. If everything in my paper 'archive' is 50 pages total I'm being generous.
There is no need to keep all that junk around. In fact, I wouldn't need the paper that I do keep, because if I would ever need it I can have a replacement copy sent.
I don't know where you live and what kind of tax records you would need, but the majority of my paperwork that I keep is income tax returns and the supporting documentation. I keep 5 years worth, and that's at least 60% of the volume of my paper files.
Like you, I try to keep as little paperwork as possible, but that his bitten me. A few years ago, there was a settlement involving ATT/Cingular customers. But to receive it, you needed to have the bills from the time period. And I'd destroyed the old bills annually. Amazingly, ATT was unable (unwilling? uninterested?) to provide these historical bills online -- they only provided a year's worth, IIRC. The amount of money involved wasn't really sufficient to offset the trouble of calling them up and demanding they produce the documents for me.
Similarly, I have missed out on some securities settlements for not having records of funds I held years ago and no longer own. To get compensation, you needed evidence of having the security during the affected time period.
To not walk out of a store with unpaid-for products is a tough choice? How so? Unless there was some kind of life threatening emergency, I wouldn't even consider stealing. That half... HALF of the people that went into the store would walk out without paying is really disappointing.
If I incorporate myself, then I'd be returning value to my shareholders.
about 1/2 see this as a good steal and take advantage of it. about 1/4 would see it as a trick where they could get in trouble later in life. (oh the cameras will get me, or if I do this now and abuse the system they will tighten the system down) about 1/8 would see this as they will get in trouble after life (Religion is an attempt to keep society honest by removing the idea you can really get away with something if you don't get caught). about 1/8 are just very honest people.
Couldn't some of the paying customers just have been slashdotters that didn't notice that the no human staff was present?
Sure, the Republican party has radically changed in the last seventy years so that it's senseless to say it's the party of Lincoln or the party of Teddy Roosevelt, but that doesn't change the fact that you have no clue what you're talking about.
He was being ironic -- or maybe just really subtle. I disagree with him because he left out some important history that occurred between the 19th century and today w.r.t. the Democratic and Republican parties. But he understood what he was saying.
The headline is inflammatory and wrong. AT&T can't force you to do anything. All this says is that AT&T can have an element in a contract -- that you can enter into or not -- that if there's a dispute, it goes to arbitration instead of court. If you aren't willing to accept that clause, you don't sign the contract. It's just like any other condition. If you don't like a price or a part of the service or whatever, don't sign a contract.
Should there be, in your opinion, any legal right that you could not sign away with a contract? I.e., even if you agreed to give up the right, the law would not allow enforcement?
Where do they think the information on real time traffic speeds for various commuter routes comes from?
I have seen cameras along highways that compute average traffic speed that's fed into real-time traffic info systems.
I find Kubuntu Lucid LTS stable enough for me these days and cannot really see any reason to upgrade to Natty. I think I'm going to stick to the LTS releases from now on since the new features just aren't compelling enough. Anyone else feel the same?
For me, I'd rather wait for the almost certain hardware problems to be discovered and fixed by someone else before I make the switch. I've got an Nvidia card and a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse that always seem to break with each new Ubuntu. I've already dug through my closet enough times getting out an old keyboard and coping with VGA for a few weeks to have learned my lesson. And don't get me started on sound.
Call me selfish, but I don't want to wade through support forums in 640x480 looking for just the right configuration patch merely to get back where I started.
Perhaps if I feel adventurous, I might take CFBMoo1's advice and virtualize, although I'm not entirely certain this would uncover a hardware problem.
I have Mediacom's internet service and the solution is to use a different DNS server other than the ones Mediacom provides. I use Level3's DNS servers (4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3) for my DNS lookups and I do not get any redirects. You can either manually set the DNS servers on your computer or set them at the router.
The Mediacom DNSs are a double-whammy -- or rather avoiding them is double-plus-good. I get a lot of 404s from Mediacom -- and the resultant redirect -- even for valid URLs ("http://www.google.com not found . . ."). I kind of have to wonder if the "DNS problems" are intentional or just a happy coincidence for them.
Wire Fraud:
A customer is asking for one web page, mediacom is substituting another for monetary gain. How is this not wire fraud?
Market cap.
Did you null-modem everything over to a PC or did you find a better (i.e. faster) way?
I stopped using mine once I installed GEOSwrite on my Commodore. Sometime around 1986? Being able to use dozens of different fonts (or sizes) is a major advantage over my old typewriter with its fixed PICA size. It just took a little while for the rest of the world to catch up.
I got a commodore-serial to RS232 converter, a Smith Corona "Messenger Module" and plugged the C=64 into my new daisy wheel printer that had the previous week been my typewriter. Unless you had hearing protection, you left the room while it worked and come back when it got quiet to feed another page!
Is this what it takes to work for the Atlantic? Seriously? The clown gets the basic story wrong because he was too lazy to do five minutes of research, then waxes nostalgic over typewriters while calling the ribbon "tape"? TAPE? What a maroon.
Both of my electrics had carbon-film-on-plastic ribbons that could reasonably called "tape". I have never seen a manual with such a ribbon, though.
I stopped using mine when I learned it was secretly saving a copy of everything I typed.
Not me, I just switched back to the old-school cloth-and-ink ribbon. Actually, I didn't. But in case anyone wondered, the parent's statement about secret copies is essentially correct for carbon-film ribbon (depending on your definition of "secret").