Because part of it stems from the fat the animal grows; part from it's diet; I would even go as far as to say from the landscape the animal was grown in.
Will this meat flavor depend on the culture medium it was grown?
I seem to recall the guy did a TED talk a few months ago where he pointed out this fact -- growing muscle from stem cells has been doable for quite some time; the trick was (and is) to grow all the parts that make it tasty. He still hasn't (or at least hadn't back then) been able to reproduce marbled meat, but he's been able to grow the right proportions of meat, fat, and tissue cells to make a ground beef substitute. I presume he could do the quantities to order, for different tastes. I'd think the culture medium would also have an effect, as it would influence what extra minerals etc. were included.
Fun fact: the two major rights holders these days to the SoftKey (aka, The Learning Company) IP are Houghton Mifflin Harcort and Ubisoft. Yeah... those are some fun people to try and work with...
I must have missed the merger between Houghton Mifflin and Harcort Brace Jovanovich. I guess they didn't want to go with Houghton Mifflin Harcort Brace Jovanovich. Just shows that it's worthwhile to insist your name goes at the beginning of the merger name; Eventually when we have Houghton Bell, everyone else will have been forgotten.
Reminds me; who owns Humongous Entertainment with Atari going the way of the Dodo yet again?
Yeah, it totally does look like a rehash of the story we saw here a couple of years ago! I've also only read the first few paragraphs of this new article, too, but I also haven't found anything different from the previous one. I'm not suggesting plagiarism either, I'm just also saying it looks like the author just took the information from previous stories and rewrote it in his own words, without adding anything new. What a douche!
Ah; but you added something new.
We'll know things have really gone south when all the links on front page items on Slashdot actually link to comments in older articles....
Even the federal government is looking at tax rates and making location decisions based around them. I suppose this makes a little sense to those who understand business and how they operate, but I bet it blows the mind of those who think it is a crime to subsidies business or that government can just print money and pay out the nose for their crap.
That just gave me an idea... government has been really good at escaping blame/having consequences for its actions... maybe what's needed is to have the IRS investigate some of these branches of government; I bet they could shut down the NSA pretty quickly, or at least get them cleaned up.
This is just more mindless Google fanboy anti-Apple hate.
It's not like this a trojan you have to turn on the installation of non-market applications and go to a pirate app store to get installed. You actually have to have the device.
And this is just like a jailbreak, so it is a good thing.
Actually, this isn't mindless. This has been a known security issue in iOS since iOS 3 days, that Apple hasn't bothered to fix.
So unless you carry around a charging cable with the data pins removed or never charge at a USB port you don't own yourself, this is an issue (and has been for years).
Google (partially) fixed this on Android when noise first started being made in late 2010, but Apple didn't. Of course, due to fragmentation, that only means it's fixed if you bought your Android phone after mid-2011 or have an upgrade that implements the fix -- but Apple seems to be fragmenting within its own ecosystem, as this fix is iOS 7, and there are now a large number of iOS devices in every day use that aren't won't run iOS 7.
Interestingly, for the hack these guys created to work, the attacker must have a valid developer's license, and the target iOS device must already be jailbroken. The first bit allows them to query Apple's dev site for the debug key for your specific iOS device; the second is required to get the loaded software to actually run on the device.
HOWEVER, the same technique can be used to read all data available in userspace on the phone, so improperly stored passwords, plus all other app data and configuration data could be grabbed in this manner.
If Apple can fix this in iOS 7, I'm expecting the jailbreak community to create a fix (that will be loaded as part of the jailbreak process) in short order. Something similar to bluetooth pairing for debug and filesystem access would be an extremely good idea, plus it would close a number of outstanding attack vectors in iOS devices, not just the ones presented.
They were visited by local police, not the feds. Bit of a difference.
This is tangental to the issue though... where did the/local police/ get the information from? If any county or sheriff's office can get their hands on this information, the same guys who fund themselves via speed traps etc., then the situation is even worse. The alternative is that they were tipped off by either Google or the FBI. Both of these are almost as worrying.
The only real upside to this is that it appears the various levels of policing are now actually communicating, which I believe is a plus, even if their information gathering techniques are suspect.
Every public statement they make is a fucking lie. If they tell you it's sunny outside, you can bet that it's raining. They lie to Congress, they lie to the public, they lie to the President. When they go home at night, they lie to their wives and kids. They tell their dying grandmothers that they're fine and don't need chemo. They take down "Road Closed" signs and laugh when people wreck their cars as a result. They will climb a tree to lie when they could stand on the ground and tell the truth.
They always lie. They always WILL lie.
Not true. When you assume that they're always lying, they'll tell the truth, under the secure knowledge that you won't believe them.
For them it's not about truth/falsehood, it's about manipulation of people to achieve the desired ends. People who always assume they lie are much easier to manipulate than those who continually think critically.
Or, you can just ask those of us who wrote the software 25 years ago. We're still around, you know. I even still have some excellent HyperCard stacks I wrote (although that was more like 23 years ago). They still work just fine (the game I wrote still looks like a half-hearted precursor to Myst, and the small business billing and tracking package, well, I think I was my only customer on that one).
OK, for every symphony there were a bunch of us banging on pots and pans. But all that old software's still available, *with source code* for anyone wanting to run it on an emulator or in an interpreter. Or you could, you know, just read the source code and port it to a modern system (with the original author's permission of course).
By doing nothing, MIT implicitly condoned the prosecutor's infamous behavior. Neutrality was a pocket signature. They knew this and they persisted in their inaction.
Even after the death of a person, MIT's refusal to condemn its actions shows a lack of moral courage. They should be ashamed of themselves.
...and in politer words, this is precisely what the conclusion of the report says, and goes one further to say that this kind of situation is precisely where MIT should be a LEADER, not avoiding by refusing to step in.
In concluding this review, we recognize the desire for a simple take-away, a conclusion that “if MIT had only done this rather than that, things would have turned out OK.” We can’t offer one. There were too many choices, too many might-have-beens, too great an emotional shock, and a public response that has been supercharged by the power of the Internet, the same power that Aaron Swartz epitomized and that he helped to create. Even today, with the benefit of hindsight, we have not found a silver bullet with which MIT could have simply prevented the tragedy.
If the Review Panel is forced to highlight just one issue for reflection, we would choose to look to the MIT administration’s maintenance of a “neutral” hands-off attitude that regarded the prosecution as a legal dispute to which it was not a party. This attitude was complemented by the MIT community’s apparent lack of attention to the ruinous collision of hacker ethics, open-source ideals, questionable laws, and aggressive prosecutions that was playing out in its midst. As a case study, this is a textbook example of the very controversies where the world seeks MIT’s insight and leadership.
"Because we're not doing a review to correct any possible problems, we're doing a review so that we can tell people we did a review and didn't find any problems.
...except that the review found problems. Did you read it?
It's turtles, I mean investigations, all the way down.
Unless it was an external non-related investigating body doing the work, I sincerely doubt the veracity of their conclusions. You'd think the most scientifically advanced (okay, arguably) place of higher learning in the world would have tried to remove any perception of bias on the part of the investigating body. Hire an outside firm at the very least.
That said, have you read the findings of the report? I don't think you'd want to doubt the veracity of some of their conclusions... they actually sound a lot like what I sometimes consider "rants" on slashdot... talking about protecting the hacker community, preventing chill, encouraging freedom of academic investigation, even for people not directly related to the institution, etc.
The paper has some great recommendations, and I hope they get followed, not just by MIT, but by any other educational institution wanting to avoid this kind of situation in the future. This thing should actually be required reading for anyone dealing with policy and legal action at an educational institution; there's lots of food for thought and questions that should be answered by policy or hiring decisions.
Can there be any surprise here? An internal investigation, with nobody sworn in, and no subpoena power, finds the institution that empowers it blameless.
Lets have an investigation of why they wasted the money doing this investigation. No doubt that will find no fault either.
There's no surprise here -- you obviously didn't read the report. Just going to the findings/questions sections is very illuminating.
First off, this investigation was called by the president of MIT, but was only partly internal.
Second: MIT wasn't found blameless in the findings (it's even in TFS).
Thirdly, if you read the President's report or the prolog to the report, you'll see that the report wasn't about finding MIT guilty of anything, it was to get a third-party summary of what actually happened and who did what. I found it pretty balanced.
Fourthly, the report suggested things that not only MIT, but ALL academic institutions should form policy on NOW -- and used as one of its main areas that of biochemistry IIRC.
Fifthly, even though Swartz wasn't a student, the report faulted MIT for their treatment of him as "not a student" as well as their not waiting for this finding to kick off the external investigation -- he was obviously a member of the larger MIT community, which the report says needs to be better defined than it currently is (as currently, someone who isn't staff/student/faculty is considered "not MIT" and so gets treated less leniently).
It's too late for Aaron. However, if people in academic decision-making positions read this report and act on it, it could go a long way towards having a repeat occurrence. The report even points out that 1994 had a similar case at MIT, but that nobody in current decision positions seemed to know anything about the previous case, or even know to look for that information.
Anyone looking for this to be some sort of a fault-finding "send the president of MIT to jail for gross misconduct" thing is going to feel gypped. But as a report, I appreciated its findings and overall view of how the university setting is different from activities in the general public.
I remember a movie with Keanu Reeves where he was transporting data using his brain "Johnny Mnemonic".. something about government/big pharma not wanting certain 'cure' information to be leaked and in the end, it was the underground hackers who risked their lives getting the info to all citizens. Seems to me like we are heading up that way... Ironic that certain movies from the 80s and 90s were able to predict scenarios such as theses.
I'd bet that most policy makers in the US today watched those movies... so I don't think "irony" is the word you're looking for.
Leaving will only result in the NSA knowing *more* about your activities, of course.
Leaving will only make publicly admitting to knowing all about you easier for the NSA. Of course, by leaving, you probably end up on some watch list (why would any citizen in good standing want to leave???).
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Because part of it stems from the fat the animal grows; part from it's diet; I would even go as far as to say from the landscape the animal was grown in.
Will this meat flavor depend on the culture medium it was grown?
I seem to recall the guy did a TED talk a few months ago where he pointed out this fact -- growing muscle from stem cells has been doable for quite some time; the trick was (and is) to grow all the parts that make it tasty. He still hasn't (or at least hadn't back then) been able to reproduce marbled meat, but he's been able to grow the right proportions of meat, fat, and tissue cells to make a ground beef substitute. I presume he could do the quantities to order, for different tastes. I'd think the culture medium would also have an effect, as it would influence what extra minerals etc. were included.
Fun fact: the two major rights holders these days to the SoftKey (aka, The Learning Company) IP are Houghton Mifflin Harcort and Ubisoft. Yeah... those are some fun people to try and work with...
I must have missed the merger between Houghton Mifflin and Harcort Brace Jovanovich. I guess they didn't want to go with Houghton Mifflin Harcort Brace Jovanovich. Just shows that it's worthwhile to insist your name goes at the beginning of the merger name; Eventually when we have Houghton Bell, everyone else will have been forgotten.
Reminds me; who owns Humongous Entertainment with Atari going the way of the Dodo yet again?
Yeah, it totally does look like a rehash of the story we saw here a couple of years ago! I've also only read the first few paragraphs of this new article, too, but I also haven't found anything different from the previous one. I'm not suggesting plagiarism either, I'm just also saying it looks like the author just took the information from previous stories and rewrote it in his own words, without adding anything new. What a douche!
Ah; but you added something new.
We'll know things have really gone south when all the links on front page items on Slashdot actually link to comments in older articles....
Even the federal government is looking at tax rates and making location decisions based around them. I suppose this makes a little sense to those who understand business and how they operate, but I bet it blows the mind of those who think it is a crime to subsidies business or that government can just print money and pay out the nose for their crap.
That just gave me an idea... government has been really good at escaping blame/having consequences for its actions... maybe what's needed is to have the IRS investigate some of these branches of government; I bet they could shut down the NSA pretty quickly, or at least get them cleaned up.
My vote would go to Hugh Laurie. With House done with, what the heck else does he have to do?
But you know if they cast Hugh, his sidekick would have to be played by Stephen Fry....
I'm just waiting for the release of TOR-13 before I give it any serious consideration.
We all need our onions rotated from time to time.
This is just more mindless Google fanboy anti-Apple hate.
It's not like this a trojan you have to turn on the installation of non-market applications and go to a pirate app store to get installed. You actually have to have the device.
And this is just like a jailbreak, so it is a good thing.
Actually, this isn't mindless. This has been a known security issue in iOS since iOS 3 days, that Apple hasn't bothered to fix.
See this article coming out of DEFCON 2011:
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/19/is-juicejacking-the-new-firesheep/
So unless you carry around a charging cable with the data pins removed or never charge at a USB port you don't own yourself, this is an issue (and has been for years).
Google (partially) fixed this on Android when noise first started being made in late 2010, but Apple didn't. Of course, due to fragmentation, that only means it's fixed if you bought your Android phone after mid-2011 or have an upgrade that implements the fix -- but Apple seems to be fragmenting within its own ecosystem, as this fix is iOS 7, and there are now a large number of iOS devices in every day use that aren't won't run iOS 7.
Interestingly, for the hack these guys created to work, the attacker must have a valid developer's license, and the target iOS device must already be jailbroken. The first bit allows them to query Apple's dev site for the debug key for your specific iOS device; the second is required to get the loaded software to actually run on the device.
HOWEVER, the same technique can be used to read all data available in userspace on the phone, so improperly stored passwords, plus all other app data and configuration data could be grabbed in this manner.
If Apple can fix this in iOS 7, I'm expecting the jailbreak community to create a fix (that will be loaded as part of the jailbreak process) in short order. Something similar to bluetooth pairing for debug and filesystem access would be an extremely good idea, plus it would close a number of outstanding attack vectors in iOS devices, not just the ones presented.
Don't they know that makers equipped with the latest in 3D printers will render PCBs obsolete?
These guys are already rending PCBs, so they probably don't care....
They were visited by local police, not the feds. Bit of a difference.
This is tangental to the issue though... where did the /local police/ get the information from? If any county or sheriff's office can get their hands on this information, the same guys who fund themselves via speed traps etc., then the situation is even worse. The alternative is that they were tipped off by either Google or the FBI. Both of these are almost as worrying.
The only real upside to this is that it appears the various levels of policing are now actually communicating, which I believe is a plus, even if their information gathering techniques are suspect.
Oh, god. Now I really want to Google 'stewpit', but I'm worried it's some keyword for a terrorist cannibal org.
stewpit izahz stewpit das....
Patents should be death+1,000,000 years, just like copyright.
Mickey Mouse isn't patented... although maybe his hat and coveralls should have been. Too late for that now.
I'm with the NSA and I'm posting as AC for obvious reasons.
When you assume that they're always lying, they'll tell the truth, under the secure knowledge that you won't believe them.
We always lie and I'm lying.
Hey, it worked on Star Trek!
Unfortunately, this paradox is easy to sidestep: I reject your statement that you're with the NSA. Now the rest is irrelevant.
Should have gone with the Princess Bride instead of Star Trek.
Every public statement they make is a fucking lie. If they tell you it's sunny outside, you can bet that it's raining. They lie to Congress, they lie to the public, they lie to the President. When they go home at night, they lie to their wives and kids. They tell their dying grandmothers that they're fine and don't need chemo. They take down "Road Closed" signs and laugh when people wreck their cars as a result. They will climb a tree to lie when they could stand on the ground and tell the truth.
They always lie. They always WILL lie.
Not true. When you assume that they're always lying, they'll tell the truth, under the secure knowledge that you won't believe them.
For them it's not about truth/falsehood, it's about manipulation of people to achieve the desired ends. People who always assume they lie are much easier to manipulate than those who continually think critically.
We don't have the chance to read through 25-year-old Mac symphonies^W programs.
Sure you can. Look here and look here for examples.
Or, you can just ask those of us who wrote the software 25 years ago. We're still around, you know. I even still have some excellent HyperCard stacks I wrote (although that was more like 23 years ago). They still work just fine (the game I wrote still looks like a half-hearted precursor to Myst, and the small business billing and tracking package, well, I think I was my only customer on that one).
OK, for every symphony there were a bunch of us banging on pots and pans. But all that old software's still available, *with source code* for anyone wanting to run it on an emulator or in an interpreter. Or you could, you know, just read the source code and port it to a modern system (with the original author's permission of course).
This goo, is it grey?
Does it self-recycle?
Is it vulnerable to cold?
That's a must-see episode.
By doing nothing, MIT implicitly condoned the prosecutor's infamous behavior. Neutrality was a pocket signature. They knew this and they persisted in their inaction.
Even after the death of a person, MIT's refusal to condemn its actions shows a lack of moral courage. They should be ashamed of themselves.
...and in politer words, this is precisely what the conclusion of the report says, and goes one further to say that this kind of situation is precisely where MIT should be a LEADER, not avoiding by refusing to step in.
Near the end of the report:
"Because we're not doing a review to correct any possible problems, we're doing a review so that we can tell people we did a review and didn't find any problems.
...except that the review found problems. Did you read it?
It's turtles, I mean investigations, all the way down.
Unless it was an external non-related investigating body doing the work, I sincerely doubt the veracity of their conclusions. You'd think the most scientifically advanced (okay, arguably) place of higher learning in the world would have tried to remove any perception of bias on the part of the investigating body. Hire an outside firm at the very least.
That said, have you read the findings of the report? I don't think you'd want to doubt the veracity of some of their conclusions... they actually sound a lot like what I sometimes consider "rants" on slashdot... talking about protecting the hacker community, preventing chill, encouraging freedom of academic investigation, even for people not directly related to the institution, etc.
The paper has some great recommendations, and I hope they get followed, not just by MIT, but by any other educational institution wanting to avoid this kind of situation in the future. This thing should actually be required reading for anyone dealing with policy and legal action at an educational institution; there's lots of food for thought and questions that should be answered by policy or hiring decisions.
Can there be any surprise here?
An internal investigation, with nobody sworn in, and no subpoena power, finds the institution that empowers it blameless.
Lets have an investigation of why they wasted the money doing this investigation. No doubt that will find no fault either.
There's no surprise here -- you obviously didn't read the report. Just going to the findings/questions sections is very illuminating.
First off, this investigation was called by the president of MIT, but was only partly internal.
Second: MIT wasn't found blameless in the findings (it's even in TFS).
Thirdly, if you read the President's report or the prolog to the report, you'll see that the report wasn't about finding MIT guilty of anything, it was to get a third-party summary of what actually happened and who did what. I found it pretty balanced.
Fourthly, the report suggested things that not only MIT, but ALL academic institutions should form policy on NOW -- and used as one of its main areas that of biochemistry IIRC.
Fifthly, even though Swartz wasn't a student, the report faulted MIT for their treatment of him as "not a student" as well as their not waiting for this finding to kick off the external investigation -- he was obviously a member of the larger MIT community, which the report says needs to be better defined than it currently is (as currently, someone who isn't staff/student/faculty is considered "not MIT" and so gets treated less leniently).
It's too late for Aaron. However, if people in academic decision-making positions read this report and act on it, it could go a long way towards having a repeat occurrence. The report even points out that 1994 had a similar case at MIT, but that nobody in current decision positions seemed to know anything about the previous case, or even know to look for that information.
Anyone looking for this to be some sort of a fault-finding "send the president of MIT to jail for gross misconduct" thing is going to feel gypped. But as a report, I appreciated its findings and overall view of how the university setting is different from activities in the general public.
I remember a movie with Keanu Reeves where he was transporting data using his brain "Johnny Mnemonic".. something about government/big pharma not wanting certain 'cure' information to be leaked and in the end, it was the underground hackers who risked their lives getting the info to all citizens. Seems to me like we are heading up that way... Ironic that certain movies from the 80s and 90s were able to predict scenarios such as theses.
I'd bet that most policy makers in the US today watched those movies... so I don't think "irony" is the word you're looking for.
Leaving will only result in the NSA knowing *more* about your activities, of course.
Leaving will only make publicly admitting to knowing all about you easier for the NSA. Of course, by leaving, you probably end up on some watch list (why would any citizen in good standing want to leave???).
Tree others? Sounds like an interesting project.
Especially when you look at the Fidus Writer logo... I'm sure people will be hounding them for weeks!
Do your job or give up on it, jesus christ.
Are you calling for the apocalypse, or is there something I don't know about the Slashdot "editorial" staff?