Signs are there will be some impressive milestones in this decade. Technically one extinction has already been partially reversed. The last Pyrenean ibex (also called a bucardo) died in 2000. A Spanish team used frozen tissue to clone a living twin in 2003, birthed by a goat. The baby ibex died of respiratory failure after ten minutes (a common problem in early cloning efforts). Funding dried up, so no further work has been done on this species as yet. As George Church reminds people, the first airplane flight in 1903 lasted 12 seconds."
Further down it says you can save the game by reconnecting at the end of your offline session and it will save all the progress from when you were offline.
I find it interesting he was initially trained as a chemist. "Bergoglio taught literature, psychology, philosophy and theology before taking over as Buenos Aires archbishop in 1998."
"Bergoglio often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes."
In the summary it says: "They're looking for $50,000 and as of 13 March 2013 it looks like they've raised $88,548 of it." On kickstart, it shows the same. So if you hit your goal, you can still collect additional money? I don't understand how this works.
In addition, government sanctioned organizations do not get raided the way loners would. For example, the U.S. traced major hacking events back to China's People's Liberation Army. What happened? The U.S. made public angry comments.
"His service maintains a public, real-time list of freely available VPN servers for users to choose from" - What's to stop a country (say Iran) from blacklisting the public list of VPNs?
I like how Bruce points out that most governments are more interested in espionage than 'cyberwar'. Spying on their own citizens seems to be a popular hobby of governments. Hopefully more people will become familiar with encryption and proxies.
"But remember: none of this is cyberwar. It’s all espionage, something that’s been going on between countries ever since countries were invented. What moves public opinion is less the facts and more the rhetoric, and the rhetoric of war is what we’re hearing.
The result of all this saber-rattling is a severe loss of trust, not just amongst nation-states but between people and nation-states."
Call me hypocritical, but preventing Iran from having a nuclear bomb for the safety of the middle eastern region (and global security) is definitely worthwhile.
What is the purpose of China's hacks? Mostly economical, not exactly an apples to apples comparison here.
"The moves followed concerns raised by the company’s auditors over more than $1.5 million payments to Intrade’s founder, John Delaney, and other unnamed third parties. The transactions, according Intrade’s auditors, were not sufficiently documented."
" With sincere regret we must inform you that due to circumstances recently discovered we must immediately cease trading activity on www.intrade.com.
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Cease exchange trading on the website immediately.
Settle all open positions and calculate the settled account value of all Member accounts immediately.
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At this time and until further notice, it is not possible to make any payments to members in accordance with their settled account balance until the investigations have concluded.
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"Mateevitsi presented the suit just last week at the 4th Augmented Human International Conference in Stuttgart, Germany." Wow, this is the first I've heard of this conference. I had to look it up, http://www.augmented-human.com/
In my opinion, SEO is just one form of advertising, just like buying an ad in a phone book. I have done "SEO" professionally many times, but in my mind assume my employer wants more than just search engine optimization. It really comes down to being an online advertising expert, which is a real job. For example, determining the ROI (return on investment) on advertisements has real value for any business.
The problem is that the employers do not understand what SEO really means. If you are spending money on SEO, maybe you should spend money on advertisements as well and track everything to see what pays off. Run a small marketing experiment, find ads that make you money and then focus all your money into those ads.
In reality, SEO is usually just a one time short job of renaming directories,images & files, adding alt tags, and generally cleaning up HTML code to follow standards. Some companies charge monthly fees to post blog comments and other content regularly, which may actually help your site gain rank, but rarely is worth the monthly fee.
I want to print custom chess pieces, and am more interested in the finished product, than tinkering around with getting the printer to work. I am willing to pay more for a working usable printer right out of the box. Do you have any recommendations based on those requirements?
Thank you for the recommendation. I looked it up and it seems that solidoodle is still cheaper. For $500, you get 6"x6"x6" and a power supply, versus printrbot which is 4"x4"x4", does not include a power supply but does come with 1lb of filament.
I am interested in buying a 3D printer. Does anyone have experience / recommendations? The cheapest I have seen is $500 at http://store.solidoodle.com/ but I'm curious if it is worth spending more for a 'higher quality' printer.
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Saber-tooth cats (incorrectly referred to as tigers) are on the list.
http://longnow.org/revive/candidates/
Actually on the list of candidates they list the Smilodon (saber-toothed cat).
"How soon will some extinct creature live again?
Signs are there will be some impressive milestones in this decade. Technically one extinction has already been partially reversed. The last Pyrenean ibex (also called a bucardo) died in 2000. A Spanish team used frozen tissue to clone a living twin in 2003, birthed by a goat. The baby ibex died of respiratory failure after ten minutes (a common problem in early cloning efforts). Funding dried up, so no further work has been done on this species as yet. As George Church reminds people, the first airplane flight in 1903 lasted 12 seconds."
From the FAQ - http://longnow.org/revive/faq-recommended-reading/
It is being replicated at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Further down it says you can save the game by reconnecting at the end of your offline session and it will save all the progress from when you were offline.
I read the article and don't see any source code, just a screen shot. Anyone have additional info?
I find it interesting he was initially trained as a chemist. "Bergoglio taught literature, psychology, philosophy and theology before taking over as Buenos Aires archbishop in 1998."
http://news.yahoo.com/francis-first-pope-americas-193844474.html
"Bergoglio often rode the bus to work, cooked his own meals and regularly visited the slums that ring Argentina's capital. He considers social outreach, rather than doctrinal battles, to be the essential business of the church.
He accused fellow church leaders of hypocrisy and forgetting that Jesus Christ bathed lepers and ate with prostitutes."
http://news.yahoo.com/francis-first-pope-americas-193844474.html
Why kickstart allows people to pledge more than the goal.
In the summary it says: "They're looking for $50,000 and as of 13 March 2013 it looks like they've raised $88,548 of it." On kickstart, it shows the same. So if you hit your goal, you can still collect additional money? I don't understand how this works.
In addition, government sanctioned organizations do not get raided the way loners would. For example, the U.S. traced major hacking events back to China's People's Liberation Army. What happened? The U.S. made public angry comments.
"His service maintains a public, real-time list of freely available VPN servers for users to choose from" - What's to stop a country (say Iran) from blacklisting the public list of VPNs?
Maybe it was called the 'grand chessboard' in the 18th century. I've been curious where the title of this book came from: http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Chessboard-American-Geostrategic-Imperatives/dp/0465027261
I like how Bruce points out that most governments are more interested in espionage than 'cyberwar'. Spying on their own citizens seems to be a popular hobby of governments. Hopefully more people will become familiar with encryption and proxies.
"But remember: none of this is cyberwar. It’s all espionage, something that’s been going on between countries ever since countries were invented. What moves public opinion is less the facts and more the rhetoric, and the rhetoric of war is what we’re hearing.
The result of all this saber-rattling is a severe loss of trust, not just amongst nation-states but between people and nation-states."
This is from october of last year: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/10/dolphins/?fb_action_ids=10151480427414906&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582
Call me hypocritical, but preventing Iran from having a nuclear bomb for the safety of the middle eastern region (and global security) is definitely worthwhile.
What is the purpose of China's hacks? Mostly economical, not exactly an apples to apples comparison here.
"The moves followed concerns raised by the company’s auditors over more than $1.5 million payments to Intrade’s founder, John Delaney, and other unnamed third parties. The transactions, according Intrade’s auditors, were not sufficiently documented."
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/online-betting-site-intrade-halts-operations/
You're better off going to intrade's website here for information: http://www.intrade.com/
" With sincere regret we must inform you that due to circumstances recently discovered we must immediately cease trading activity on www.intrade.com.
These circumstances require immediate further investigation, and may include financial irregularities which in accordance with Irish law oblige the directors to take the following actions:
Cease exchange trading on the website immediately.
Settle all open positions and calculate the settled account value of all Member accounts immediately.
Cease all banking transactions for all existing Company accounts immediately.
During the upcoming weeks, we will investigate these circumstances further and determine the necessary course of action.
To mitigate any further risk to members’ accounts, we have closed and settled all open contracts at fair market value as of the close of business on March 10, 2013, in accordance with the Terms and Conditions of our customers’ use of the website. You may view your account details and settled account balances by logging into the website.
At this time and until further notice, it is not possible to make any payments to members in accordance with their settled account balance until the investigations have concluded.
The Company will continue the maintenance and technology operations of the exchange system so that all information is preserved properly.
We are not able to provide telephone support or live help services at this time, please contact the company by email at: accountservices@intrade.com
We appreciate your custom and support over the years. We are committed to reporting faithfully the status of things as they are clarified and hope you will bear with us as we do all we can to resume operations as promptly as possible.
Sincerely,
The Board of Directors of Intrade the Prediction Market Limited "
"Mateevitsi presented the suit just last week at the 4th Augmented Human International Conference in Stuttgart, Germany." Wow, this is the first I've heard of this conference. I had to look it up, http://www.augmented-human.com/
In my opinion, SEO is just one form of advertising, just like buying an ad in a phone book. I have done "SEO" professionally many times, but in my mind assume my employer wants more than just search engine optimization. It really comes down to being an online advertising expert, which is a real job. For example, determining the ROI (return on investment) on advertisements has real value for any business.
The problem is that the employers do not understand what SEO really means. If you are spending money on SEO, maybe you should spend money on advertisements as well and track everything to see what pays off. Run a small marketing experiment, find ads that make you money and then focus all your money into those ads.
In reality, SEO is usually just a one time short job of renaming directories,images & files, adding alt tags, and generally cleaning up HTML code to follow standards. Some companies charge monthly fees to post blog comments and other content regularly, which may actually help your site gain rank, but rarely is worth the monthly fee.
Google is a public company. How do they justify spending $20 million for this project to share holders?
I want to print custom chess pieces, and am more interested in the finished product, than tinkering around with getting the printer to work. I am willing to pay more for a working usable printer right out of the box. Do you have any recommendations based on those requirements?
Thank you for the recommendation. I looked it up and it seems that solidoodle is still cheaper. For $500, you get 6"x6"x6" and a power supply, versus printrbot which is 4"x4"x4", does not include a power supply but does come with 1lb of filament.
I am interested in buying a 3D printer. Does anyone have experience / recommendations? The cheapest I have seen is $500 at http://store.solidoodle.com/ but I'm curious if it is worth spending more for a 'higher quality' printer.
You just gave me a flashback of the demo scene back in the 90s. I was blown away by future crew