This book sounds pretty interesting. I wonder if it delves into human pornography, and the fact that humans (and other animals) get excited by looking at pictures of a member of the opposite sex.
Desmond Morris has a series on TLC called The Human Animal in which he describes in termendous detail how and why humans have sex. There's even a nipple in the show! Beyond the perversion of watching it simply because it talks about sex, its really interesting.
Sorry, this is not meant to be funny, but I keep thinking of the voice in Counterstrike saying "Terrorists Win".
I also think that the way the US government has responded to terrorism reflects what they wanted to do anyway, the terrorism just gives them a reason the public will accept. So, because the government chooses to enact the Patriot Act without telling people what it involves, the terrorists win. The government helps the terrorists win by taking away over liberties.
I am saying this without knowing what can be done to stop or prevent terrorist attacks without restricting freedom. Its a dichotomy between freedom and potential terrorism.
I also think that if the US didn't invade other countries and overthrow governments and throw its weight around, it wouldn't be a target or terrorists.
I think you are thinking of the AT keyboard, or the old terminal keyboard, with the F-keys in two columns on the left side.
I remember those... solid steel back, cast aluminum casing. Painted a dull beige, with a cord as thick as a 3-prong extension cord. And large plastic knobs on the sides to turn the keyboard props up in the back.
I had an opportunity a few years ago to take one home and play with it. Well, I didn't use it because the plug was an AT style, so I decided to put it to the test against an IBM M-style keyboard. Head to head to see who would win. You know who won? The terminal keyboard.. beat the ever-living crap out of the M-style. Dropping the M style onto the terminal from a height of 5 feet did nothing to it. Dropping the terminal from the same height depressed a few keys irreversibly on the M keyboard.
The old terminal keyboards are built like tanks! you could probably bridge a gap and stand on it without it breaking. Too bad they're not very useful anymore.
It's amazing what money can do... If you have enough money, you can branch out into a new market almost instantly, and provide your services. Microsoft has enough money to whatever they want.
I really dont know why I thought of that when reading this article, but there was something about Microsoft, and watches...
I would like to know how they can prove that some or all of a person's mp3s are copyrighted. It seems that it would left to a person to decide how similar an mp3 was to a recording that was copyrighted. What if inoccent information happens to have the same name as a copyrighted song?
Some of my friends have made songs and encoded them in mp3 format and then shared them through a p2p service. I've also heard bands play songs that other bands have copyrighted. If they distribute a song that they played, recorded, and encoded, how can you prove that it is copyrighted?
What is considered 'Substantial'... I can't say that I've downloaded any music myself, however I do have a friend, with say, a lot downloaded MP3s... I'm just wondering how this 'friend' would be effected by this?
The website that he mentions as being the DNS suffix used is actually a porn website. I doubted whether this was a real attack or not at first, but assuming he's telling the truth, it may very well be.
Geez! If they had only asked me to stop sending my resume I would've stopped... and started sending it to someone else. But no, I had to hear about it on Slashdot
You could also add to that list 'suspected terrorist'.
When the Patriot Act was enacted after Sept 11, 2001, it included a provision to allow US companies to discontinue services with a suspected terrorist. At my company, a large anonymous insurance company, we are being asked (in lieu of $10,000,000 fines) to compare every claimant, vendor, and any name we come across to a database of suspected terrorists provided by the Treasury Department.
If the name matches, we are to withhold payment of the claim until we mail a form to the Treasury Dept, and they investigate the suspected terrorist.
So, if a person is injured on the job, is out of work, and wants to collect workers compensation from his employer's insurance company, he wont be able to if he has the same name as someone on the Treasury Dept's list. So, he wont be able to work because he's injured, and he wont be able to collect any insurance. Where's he going to get money to live on while the Treasury dept investigates?
Needless to say, I was appauled that we had to program these features into our claim system.
I agree with you. It is amazing how much the software industry has changed in the last few years. I graduated last year with a computer science & engineering degree. A degree that is pretty much worthless now. It took 6 months for me to find a job after graduation. A couple people I graduated with are still looking for jobs.
When I chose CSE as a major back in 1998, it seemed like a good choice. Even though i wasn't terribly fond of programming, i thought a CSE degree would guarantee me a job.
I was wrong about the job part. It turned out that i liked programming and computers, but i can easily live with that as a hobby. The job market has allowed me to focus on extending my education. Its starting to make more sense to invest time in more education and doing something that I enjoy.
I am working toward becoming a Physician Assistant. PA schools require a bachelors degree, 2 years clinical experience and some basic science classes. However, my education in engineering will not be lost. Dianosing patients is very similar to debugging a program.
I was kind of happy when it was so hard to find a job, it made it easier for me to tell other people why i wanted to switch to healthcare from engineering. But the real reason is because i enjoy working with people, and i'd get to do something that i enjoy.
Except, where are the journals? I couldn't find either of their journals on their website. I am very interested in them however. I'm sure peices published in that journal will not be funded by large companies or groups and will probably be more theoretical, and possibly more impracticle.
This is very similar to a project I worked on in college. We were working on getting a webcam to track eye-gaze and to allow a user to control the mouse with their eye. I have always wanted to continue development of the gaze tracker, but never had the time after graduating. The website is here: http://www.gbook.org/projects/index.html
While living in Hartford, CT, I used to listen to AM880 (out of NYC, a distance of about 200 miles) from my car. Whenever I stopped at a particular traffic light, the hum in the background got louder. When the light turned green, the hum got lower. After a while I was able to tell when the light turned green without even looking at it.
Actually, according to an email that i got, if you flash your lights to an oncoming vehicle, the people in the vehicle may be gang members on an initiation, and may fire bullets at and into your car. so dont flash your headlights! or the gangmembers will shoot you.
"Wooooooooooooo! You know you can't that weak ass stuff up in this humpty bumpy! You kill the joe, you make some mo, you know that baby! Else you in for a loooong, a long day. 'cause Triple E's up in this Biiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!"
Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria. They infect the bacterial cell and use it to multiply. There are many different kinds of bacteriophages and they infect bacteria in different ways. A virus is a peice of RNA inside a coating. It is not alive, and it does not eat bacteria. Like any virus, it uses the host cell to reproduce more virus.
And it's also not 100% effective against bacteria. Like an antibiotic, some bacterial cells will mutate and become resistant to the virus. Considering how many billion times the cells divide, one mutation in a million can result in possible resistance traits.
Bacteriophage development is not that simple either. Its possible to isolate a bacteriophage, but since it does not reproduce without the aide of a host cell (which it will destroy), its kind of difficult to get it to multiply and hence mutate into a form thats more virulent.
Can't make any money out of it?!!?
Makes you think.
It makes me wonder why people would imply such simple solutions to a complex problem without understanding it first.
Although this is a really great event to be able to kill certain bacteria that are resistant to current antibiotics, I'm just very skeptical as to how long the bacteria will remain susceptible to the antibiotic. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has resulted from the use of traditional antibiotics. Originally, Penicillin, and later Methicillin, were able to treat 99% of bacterial infections resulting from staph aureus.
Since bacteria grow so rapidly, that 1% of bacterium that were resistant to methicillin proliferated and became common. When blasted with antibiotics, bacteria have a tendency to become resistant.
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci are another common resistant strain of bacteria. Vancomycin is an extremely powerful antibiotic, given only by IV, and even this drug is not effective against certain infections.
I feel that this is a great discovery, however I think it will be short lived. Staph aureus will become resistant to this new drug.
I just finished 'Prey' and I thought it was a good book... I'm just wondering who came first, this scientist, or crichton.
After reading a fictional account of swarm technology, its hard for me to beleive that someone in the real scientific community has been working on the same concept.
The case actually looks like an old JVC receiver case. And why would you take an X-box and place it into another chassis and turn it into a Linux box... wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just use regular PC components?
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This book sounds pretty interesting. I wonder if it delves into human pornography, and the fact that humans (and other animals) get excited by looking at pictures of a member of the opposite sex.
Desmond Morris has a series on TLC called The Human Animal in which he describes in termendous detail how and why humans have sex. There's even a nipple in the show! Beyond the perversion of watching it simply because it talks about sex, its really interesting.
They're record stores, Taco....
Records....
Sorry, this is not meant to be funny, but I keep thinking of the voice in Counterstrike saying "Terrorists Win".
I also think that the way the US government has responded to terrorism reflects what they wanted to do anyway, the terrorism just gives them a reason the public will accept. So, because the government chooses to enact the Patriot Act without telling people what it involves, the terrorists win. The government helps the terrorists win by taking away over liberties.
I am saying this without knowing what can be done to stop or prevent terrorist attacks without restricting freedom. Its a dichotomy between freedom and potential terrorism.
I also think that if the US didn't invade other countries and overthrow governments and throw its weight around, it wouldn't be a target or terrorists.
I think you are missing the whole point of the movie "The Graduate". Dustin Hoffman got to bonk that older woman. That's it.
I think you are thinking of the AT keyboard, or the old terminal keyboard, with the F-keys in two columns on the left side.
I remember those... solid steel back, cast aluminum casing. Painted a dull beige, with a cord as thick as a 3-prong extension cord. And large plastic knobs on the sides to turn the keyboard props up in the back.
I had an opportunity a few years ago to take one home and play with it. Well, I didn't use it because the plug was an AT style, so I decided to put it to the test against an IBM M-style keyboard. Head to head to see who would win. You know who won? The terminal keyboard.. beat the ever-living crap out of the M-style. Dropping the M style onto the terminal from a height of 5 feet did nothing to it. Dropping the terminal from the same height depressed a few keys irreversibly on the M keyboard.
The old terminal keyboards are built like tanks! you could probably bridge a gap and stand on it without it breaking. Too bad they're not very useful anymore.
It's amazing what money can do... If you have enough money, you can branch out into a new market almost instantly, and provide your services. Microsoft has enough money to whatever they want.
I really dont know why I thought of that when reading this article, but there was something about Microsoft, and watches...
Now I have to worry about losing my desktop???
no need to worry! as long as it's securely attached to the desk bottom...
I would like to know how they can prove that some or all of a person's mp3s are copyrighted. It seems that it would left to a person to decide how similar an mp3 was to a recording that was copyrighted. What if inoccent information happens to have the same name as a copyrighted song?
Some of my friends have made songs and encoded them in mp3 format and then shared them through a p2p service. I've also heard bands play songs that other bands have copyrighted. If they distribute a song that they played, recorded, and encoded, how can you prove that it is copyrighted?
What is considered 'Substantial'... I can't say that I've downloaded any music myself, however I do have a friend, with say, a lot downloaded MP3s... I'm just wondering how this 'friend' would be effected by this?
The website that he mentions as being the DNS suffix used is actually a porn website. I doubted whether this was a real attack or not at first, but assuming he's telling the truth, it may very well be.
I think it's more like knowing the base class from which all other classes are derived. like CObject in Microsoft Foundation Classes.
Geez! If they had only asked me to stop sending my resume I would've stopped... and started sending it to someone else. But no, I had to hear about it on Slashdot
You could also add to that list 'suspected terrorist'.
When the Patriot Act was enacted after Sept 11, 2001, it included a provision to allow US companies to discontinue services with a suspected terrorist. At my company, a large anonymous insurance company, we are being asked (in lieu of $10,000,000 fines) to compare every claimant, vendor, and any name we come across to a database of suspected terrorists provided by the Treasury Department.
If the name matches, we are to withhold payment of the claim until we mail a form to the Treasury Dept, and they investigate the suspected terrorist.
So, if a person is injured on the job, is out of work, and wants to collect workers compensation from his employer's insurance company, he wont be able to if he has the same name as someone on the Treasury Dept's list. So, he wont be able to work because he's injured, and he wont be able to collect any insurance. Where's he going to get money to live on while the Treasury dept investigates?
Needless to say, I was appauled that we had to program these features into our claim system.
I agree with you. It is amazing how much the software industry has changed in the last few years. I graduated last year with a computer science & engineering degree. A degree that is pretty much worthless now. It took 6 months for me to find a job after graduation. A couple people I graduated with are still looking for jobs.
When I chose CSE as a major back in 1998, it seemed like a good choice. Even though i wasn't terribly fond of programming, i thought a CSE degree would guarantee me a job.
I was wrong about the job part. It turned out that i liked programming and computers, but i can easily live with that as a hobby.
The job market has allowed me to focus on extending my education. Its starting to make more sense to invest time in more education and doing something that I enjoy.
I am working toward becoming a Physician Assistant. PA schools require a bachelors degree, 2 years clinical experience and some basic science classes. However, my education in engineering will not be lost. Dianosing patients is very similar to debugging a program.
I was kind of happy when it was so hard to find a job, it made it easier for me to tell other people why i wanted to switch to healthcare from engineering. But the real reason is because i enjoy working with people, and i'd get to do something that i enjoy.
Except, where are the journals? I couldn't find either of their journals on their website. I am very interested in them however. I'm sure peices published in that journal will not be funded by large companies or groups and will probably be more theoretical, and possibly more impracticle.
This is very similar to a project I worked on in college. We were working on getting a webcam to track eye-gaze and to allow a user to control the mouse with their eye. I have always wanted to continue development of the gaze tracker, but never had the time after graduating. The website is here: http://www.gbook.org/projects/index.html
While living in Hartford, CT, I used to listen to AM880 (out of NYC, a distance of about 200 miles) from my car. Whenever I stopped at a particular traffic light, the hum in the background got louder. When the light turned green, the hum got lower. After a while I was able to tell when the light turned green without even looking at it.
Actually, according to an email that i got, if you flash your lights to an oncoming vehicle, the people in the vehicle may be gang members on an initiation, and may fire bullets at and into your car. so dont flash your headlights! or the gangmembers will shoot you.
from Reebok...
"Wooooooooooooo! You know you can't that weak ass stuff up in this humpty bumpy! You kill the joe, you make some mo, you know that baby! Else you in for a loooong, a long day. 'cause Triple E's up in this Biiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!"
Woah there.. Hold on, professor.
Bacteriophages are viruses that attack bacteria. They infect the bacterial cell and use it to multiply. There are many different kinds of bacteriophages and they infect bacteria in different ways. A virus is a peice of RNA inside a coating. It is not alive, and it does not eat bacteria. Like any virus, it uses the host cell to reproduce more virus.
And it's also not 100% effective against bacteria. Like an antibiotic, some bacterial cells will mutate and become resistant to the virus. Considering how many billion times the cells divide, one mutation in a million can result in possible resistance traits.
Bacteriophage development is not that simple either. Its possible to isolate a bacteriophage, but since it does not reproduce without the aide of a host cell (which it will destroy), its kind of difficult to get it to multiply and hence mutate into a form thats more virulent.
Can't make any money out of it?!!?
Makes you think.
It makes me wonder why people would imply such simple solutions to a complex problem without understanding it first.
Although this is a really great event to be able to kill certain bacteria that are resistant to current antibiotics, I'm just very skeptical as to how long the bacteria will remain susceptible to the antibiotic. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has resulted from the use of traditional antibiotics. Originally, Penicillin, and later Methicillin, were able to treat 99% of bacterial infections resulting from staph aureus.
Since bacteria grow so rapidly, that 1% of bacterium that were resistant to methicillin proliferated and became common. When blasted with antibiotics, bacteria have a tendency to become resistant.
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci are another common resistant strain of bacteria. Vancomycin is an extremely powerful antibiotic, given only by IV, and even this drug is not effective against certain infections.
I feel that this is a great discovery, however I think it will be short lived. Staph aureus will become resistant to this new drug.
I just finished 'Prey' and I thought it was a good book... I'm just wondering who came first, this scientist, or crichton.
After reading a fictional account of swarm technology, its hard for me to beleive that someone in the real scientific community has been working on the same concept.
The case actually looks like an old JVC receiver case. And why would you take an X-box and place it into another chassis and turn it into a Linux box... wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just use regular PC components?
So, words like evildoers, misunderestimated, and axis of evil are now cool?
Ouch... thats gotta hurt.