Beam therapy, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy are all nothing more than stone-age attempts at medicine. They are essentially high-tech versions of "Let's beat it with a big stick until it goes away". Their success rates are not great. Since they don't address the fundamental problem, there's no guarantee that the cancer won't recur. I have much more hope for genetic and other biologic treatments that are upcoming.
Fermilab has had a neutron beam therapy very similar to the CERN anti-proton therapy since 1976. Neutrons are radioactive by themselves with a half life of about 14 minutes. Once deposited in some tissue they will either decay or combine with an atom to form a radioactive isotope (which then decays).
There are other unique radio therapies including Brachytherapy (place radioactive isotopes in the tumor) and Radioimmunotherapy (attach a radioactive isotope to a nonoclonal antibody). The latter sounds very neat and targeted. But none address the fundamental problem -- why do cells turn cancerous.
Why should I trust a scantron machine any more than I trust a touch-screen terminal? Why should I trust that the numbers spit out of the scantron machine correspond to the scantron card that was fed in?
The voting system must be provably fraud proof, as David Chaum is trying to do. Just because we all have used scantrons does not make them immune to fraud.
Well I wish you luck. I don't like this nasty business any more than you, but I think that if they do own the acronym, you're up shit creek. There should definitely be legal precedent on this so maybe you can look it up. I can't believe this has never come up in the courts before.
If you can change your name it might be worth it just to avoid the hassle. You can have a "subtitle" that mentions the university, apparently.
According to the US Patent & Trademark Office, the mark "UCSD" is not trademarked. Interestingly, it seems neither is "University of California, San Diego". Even more curious that they do seem to have trademarks on the names of most other UC system schools. But IANAPA.
But even if you own the trademark, do you own its acronym too?
Bars have a very short lifetime. Any bar if it is around long enough will be raided by the local Alcohol nazis or the ATF or have some 18 year old kill someone with his car. Then they get shut down. If new bars have a >50% probability of using Orwellian tactics (pressured perhaps by insurance companies), there will be no non-Orwellian bars in any area in a finite amount of time.
Either case, a corporation is trying to sell you something. Individuals almost never call you cold for any reason. That the law does not recognize the difference between an individual and a corporation is the problem. If it did, it would be easy to separately regulate individual commerce vs. corporate commerce. There is almost none of the former, and frankly if a guy in my neighborhood wants to cold-call all his neighbors trying to sell his '87 Caprice, I don't really care. It's a self-regulating situation because he'll piss off all his neighbors, and can only impact a small number of people anyway.
This whole thing is a clear violation of the first ammendment. We are attempting to legislate that some groups may express their views by calling you and others may not. That we like one group and not the other does not matter, it is a clear violation of the first ammendment. That our representatives don't understand this is a sad, sad statement about how well they understand the constitution.
The correct way to solve this is to de-classify corporations as individuals, and create a new category for "corporate speech". This may very well require a consitutional ammendment. There are clear distinctions between the things an individual says and the things a corporation says and the law needs to reflect that.
"Corporate speech" laws could easily cover telemarketing as well. The same issue is closely tied to issues of campaign finance as well. Corporations simply should not have equal rights with citizens because they do not have equal responsibilities or abilities.
The solution to telemarketing is to remove first ammendment protection for corporations.
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With the drives off and parked I'd think that any drive would work. Zero g shouldn't be a problem since any drive I've seen can work upside-down or on its side.
The shock tolerances for the drive should be available on the technical data sheets, and I'm guessing that for off-and-parked it's in the 100's of g's or more. You probably want to consider building a custom RAID mount for it with lots of rubber grommets. I know here at WI some of our rocket guys have vibration mounts whose sole purpose is to shake the shit out of electronics and make sure it survives. Glue in and zip-tie all the connectors. All in all, it shouldn't require an engineering miracle to survive launch...
Shrink-wrap licenses, no. There is major precedent for unsigned contracts being upheld. If you say you will do something, and you don't do it you violated contract law. Just as long as there is evidence enough to support the claim.
As a matter of principle, whenever I install software I go out of my way to avoid having to click "accept". Often this means hand-unpacking the contents of the CD, or using a no-CD patch.
Presumably (assuming I haven't violated the DMCA in the process), I am then bound by copyright law with respect to the software. But then the vast majority of software I use is free, so I'm not affected very much by piles of shrink-wrap licenses.
Point being, proving that you clicked accept might be very difficult in a court of law.
Well, if both parties do not agree to the contract it is not valid. If, in bold letters, I put "By opening this package you agree to the following license." it would be reasonable to assume that you agreed. Not all contracts require a signature.
As far as I know, this has not yet been upheld by any court as a valid means of establishing a contract. (And I hope that we can get "shrink wrap" contracts invalidated) If you have a counter-example, I'd be interested to hear.
You are agreeing to a contract in regards to the content on whatever media you are purchasing.
Wrong.
Music is governed by copyright law, not contract law. Copyright law gives you the right to do many things that the media conglomorates don't want you to know about (like making backups, i.e. "fair use"). There is no contract involved when purchasing a CD. The media conglomorates attempts to keep you from playing a CD on a PC is false advertising, fraud, and a violation of the CD Red Book specification. They should be sued for fraud on every single of these crippled CD's they sell.
The attempt to subsume copyright law into contract law is at the heart of all these DRM attempts. However, if you do not agree to the contract, have no opportunity to negotiate the contract, or both parties do not sign the contract, it is not valid. Furthermore copyright law cannot be violated by contract. Contracts which violate other rights are simply illegal contracts. (You cannot, for instance, sign a contract allowing someone to kill you -- it's still murder and they will still go to jail)
Any real lawyers want to clarify further?
If you don't like it, don't buy it. If you do buy it, don't bitch.
The other reply to your post has a good review. There are ways around it however, such as imposing B-L as a discrete or broken gauge symmetry, or (in the context of extra dimensions), separating fermions in the extra dimension (a subject I have written about). But even this requires the gravity scale to be ~100 TeV, out of reach of the LHC. Frankly, the extra-D crowd are largely ignoring proton decay because it makes their lives very hard and I think it's wishful thinking. With a gravity scale at ~1 TeV you can write down the gravity-induced proton decay operator, and it gives rise to proton lifetime of ~minutes, where in reality it is > 10^32 years.
There are many extra-dimension models that place the gravity scale back up where it belongs (> 10^16 GeV or so) and they do not face this problem, but we also will not be creating black holes at colliders this aeon...
So yeah, as a physicist, who has written papers on this subject, I would place an extremely large wager that we will not be discovering black holes at colliders. Take that to mean what you will...
Wrong. In fixed target mode, the center of mass energy is sqrt(2*m_p*E), assuming the primary is a proton and m_p is the mass of the proton (1 GeV). So the center of mass energy is upwards of 100 TeV, much greater than the 14 TeV available at the LHC.
Furthermore, I think the scenario in which this happens is pretty far fetched. More realistic models (which can avoid proton decay, for instance) usually have to put the scale at which black holes form much higher (100 TeV or higher).
Further furthermore, Hawking Evaporation is on a very sound theoretical footing. Hawking isn't famous for nuthin, ya know. With Hawking evaporation, these things will decay so quickly that they cannot pull in more matter.
If you intend to run linux (and only linux) on this laptop, I strongly encourage you to buy from a vendor that will sell you and support linux on it. Do not send any of your hard-earned money to the monopoly in Redmond for a product you will not use. Vote with your dollar or there will be no linux laptop vendors.
I have collected a list of vendors and some other information on the subject. Unfortunately this information is rather difficult to find. If you know of other vendors not on my list, please reply!
You know, it might be useful to start a database of instructions to install software WITHOUT agreeing to the EULA. Often there is some click-through thing on the CD, but who is to say you're prohibited from extracting the zip or cab files by hand and installing it?
Presumably under such circumstances you would be bound by regular copyright law, rather than contract law, and therefore would actually have fair-use rights. Of course, you'd probably be in violation of the DMCA...
As I've heard my lawyer friends tell it, a contract required the ability to negotiate by both parties, and the signature of both parties. Both elements are lacking or very questionable with EULA's. We need to see them challenged in court. As I understand it you can, for instance, cross out a portion of the contract before signing it. The company doesn't have to accept that contract, but you're within your rights to do so. You have no option to edit the EULA before clicking...
Why go to Mars? Colonization. It would be a tremendous loss if humanity were born and died on this one lonely rock. I don't want to bring back any damn samples. I want to go to stay.
The guy on 32nd and Main doesn't have anything to do with going to Mars. You cannot arbitrarily link any two items in the gov't's budget and call it a causal effect. I'm sick of hearing this specious argument. Besides, I think the most promising way to get to Mars is in the private sector. NASA just makes a gigantic sucking noise.
-- Bob
Terms of service for beer?
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Don't bother kids. Only 56 people worldwide have signed up, and you have to agree to a 30-odd page "Terms of Service" to figure out where and when. That's just fucking ridiculous. I don't need a stupid terms of service to buy a beer with some crypto geeks.
You'd think with all the talent out there someone would have written a quick CGI to do this, rather than using a commercial service (meetup.com).
And a few of us out there who build our own systems hate buying crap and watching it break (especially since if you build it, getting repairs on parts is a pain in the ass). So we buy the high-end stuff less often. I do not need support, I need hardware that isn't crap.
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Fermilab has had a neutron beam therapy very similar to the CERN anti-proton therapy since 1976. Neutrons are radioactive by themselves with a half life of about 14 minutes. Once deposited in some tissue they will either decay or combine with an atom to form a radioactive isotope (which then decays).
There are other unique radio therapies including Brachytherapy (place radioactive isotopes in the tumor) and Radioimmunotherapy (attach a radioactive isotope to a nonoclonal antibody). The latter sounds very neat and targeted. But none address the fundamental problem -- why do cells turn cancerous.
-- Bob
The voting system must be provably fraud proof, as David Chaum is trying to do. Just because we all have used scantrons does not make them immune to fraud.
-- Bob
If you can change your name it might be worth it just to avoid the hassle. You can have a "subtitle" that mentions the university, apparently.
-- Bob
But even if you own the trademark, do you own its acronym too?
-- Bob
You are arguing semantics.
I intend commercial = corporate.
Either case, a corporation is trying to sell you something. Individuals almost never call you cold for any reason. That the law does not recognize the difference between an individual and a corporation is the problem. If it did, it would be easy to separately regulate individual commerce vs. corporate commerce. There is almost none of the former, and frankly if a guy in my neighborhood wants to cold-call all his neighbors trying to sell his '87 Caprice, I don't really care. It's a self-regulating situation because he'll piss off all his neighbors, and can only impact a small number of people anyway.
-- Bob
The correct way to solve this is to de-classify corporations as individuals, and create a new category for "corporate speech". This may very well require a consitutional ammendment. There are clear distinctions between the things an individual says and the things a corporation says and the law needs to reflect that.
"Corporate speech" laws could easily cover telemarketing as well. The same issue is closely tied to issues of campaign finance as well. Corporations simply should not have equal rights with citizens because they do not have equal responsibilities or abilities.
The solution to telemarketing is to remove first ammendment protection for corporations.
-- Bob
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etc.
-- Bob
And whoever modded me offtopic, go suck it. That's totally on topic.
-- Bob
-- Bob
The shock tolerances for the drive should be available on the technical data sheets, and I'm guessing that for off-and-parked it's in the 100's of g's or more. You probably want to consider building a custom RAID mount for it with lots of rubber grommets. I know here at WI some of our rocket guys have vibration mounts whose sole purpose is to shake the shit out of electronics and make sure it survives. Glue in and zip-tie all the connectors. All in all, it shouldn't require an engineering miracle to survive launch...
And hey, what's your experiment? :)
-- Bob
Point being, proving that you clicked accept might be very difficult in a court of law.
-- Bob
-- Bob
Music is governed by copyright law, not contract law. Copyright law gives you the right to do many things that the media conglomorates don't want you to know about (like making backups, i.e. "fair use"). There is no contract involved when purchasing a CD. The media conglomorates attempts to keep you from playing a CD on a PC is false advertising, fraud, and a violation of the CD Red Book specification. They should be sued for fraud on every single of these crippled CD's they sell.
The attempt to subsume copyright law into contract law is at the heart of all these DRM attempts. However, if you do not agree to the contract, have no opportunity to negotiate the contract, or both parties do not sign the contract, it is not valid. Furthermore copyright law cannot be violated by contract. Contracts which violate other rights are simply illegal contracts. (You cannot, for instance, sign a contract allowing someone to kill you -- it's still murder and they will still go to jail)
Any real lawyers want to clarify further?
I agree completely.-- Bob
It's as bad as Microsoft giving away copies of windows, and getting a tax break on an arbitrary dollar amount.
-- Bob
There are many extra-dimension models that place the gravity scale back up where it belongs (> 10^16 GeV or so) and they do not face this problem, but we also will not be creating black holes at colliders this aeon...
So yeah, as a physicist, who has written papers on this subject, I would place an extremely large wager that we will not be discovering black holes at colliders. Take that to mean what you will...
-- Bob
Furthermore, I think the scenario in which this happens is pretty far fetched. More realistic models (which can avoid proton decay, for instance) usually have to put the scale at which black holes form much higher (100 TeV or higher).
Further furthermore, Hawking Evaporation is on a very sound theoretical footing. Hawking isn't famous for nuthin, ya know. With Hawking evaporation, these things will decay so quickly that they cannot pull in more matter.
Nothing to see here, move along...
-- Bob
-- Bob
I have collected a list of vendors and some other information on the subject. Unfortunately this information is rather difficult to find. If you know of other vendors not on my list, please reply!
-- Bob
Electronic or paper not, a ballot also conceals the source.
-- Bob
Presumably under such circumstances you would be bound by regular copyright law, rather than contract law, and therefore would actually have fair-use rights. Of course, you'd probably be in violation of the DMCA...
As I've heard my lawyer friends tell it, a contract required the ability to negotiate by both parties, and the signature of both parties. Both elements are lacking or very questionable with EULA's. We need to see them challenged in court. As I understand it you can, for instance, cross out a portion of the contract before signing it. The company doesn't have to accept that contract, but you're within your rights to do so. You have no option to edit the EULA before clicking...
-- Bob
Robert Zubrin sums this up better than I can in his essay, The Significance of the Martian Frontier .
The guy on 32nd and Main doesn't have anything to do with going to Mars. You cannot arbitrarily link any two items in the gov't's budget and call it a causal effect. I'm sick of hearing this specious argument. Besides, I think the most promising way to get to Mars is in the private sector. NASA just makes a gigantic sucking noise.
-- Bob
You'd think with all the talent out there someone would have written a quick CGI to do this, rather than using a commercial service (meetup.com).
-- Bob
-- Bob