Also, adult stem cell research has led to over seventy approved treatments being used today. The number from embryonic research? Zero.
I dunno if your numbers are true, but your reasoning is terrible.
It's like the anti-drug guys saying basically the same thing when its been essentially impossible to get funding or even legal permission to do studies of potential beneficial uses of pot and lsd for the last 40 years. When it is practically impossible to do significant research on a topic it should be no surprise that there are no results. And no, those ~8 lines of stem cells that have been around for a billion generations now are inadequate for much research - and the article you linked to is far from a done deal it's "early stage of development" and since there hasn't been much talk in the intervening half decade its reasonable to assume it was a dead-end or at best just one step of many on the road.
Unlike the pure, upstanding people from every other country on earth, who would never dream of doing such things? It's not just Americans who suck, it's people in general.
But we Americans lay claim to being pure, upstanding people.
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
It is the freakin' Middle East, everybody has guns
I *SERIOUSLY* doubt that.
According to Spiegel the gun ownership rate in Iraq is 39 guns for every 100 people. When you factor in kids as presumably unarmed, I think saying that "Everybody has guns" is probably close to the truth.
PDF gets used for all kinds of wrong reasons - I freaking loathe web designers who think a PDF is an appropriate substitute for a web page - but printing is the one place that PDF shines. Just make sure the user can easily and intuitively specify the paper size and you should be good to go.
However this was not a case like that, it was a case of ego.
However, the one person who has suggested that it was a case of ego and not patriotism is Lamo himself and if these allegations about Lamo are correct, then that really casts doubt on the whole idea.
Any arse hole that lets tens of thousands of web sites be shut down in their name in order to preserve the bull shit public relations image, well guess what, they are arse holes.
Last I heard, he was near death and in the hospital - been there for 9 months or so.
Your second example is still only talk, so it doesn't count.
Yeah, except the talk started soon after the regulations were relaxed in 2005. Why should we wait for them to make good on their threats? What was the problem with the regulations before 2005? What benefit have we seen from those regulations being dropped?
The law gives the FCC several categories to put things in, and gives them different powers over each category. That ruling said they were trying to use powers from category A on ISPs while ISPs were in category B. So now they're trying to move ISPs into category A.
More to the point - in the early 2000s the FCC moved ISPs from Category A to Category B, now they are trying to move them back to where they were originally.
The first (erroneous IMNHO) move to category B (aka 'information service providers') was finalized by the NCTA v Brand X scotus ruling that said the FCC has the authority to determine which category an ISP falls into.
Couldn't an employee just use their own phone to send private texts?
His department head made a verbal promise (in contradiction to written policy) that said it was OK to use the department equipment if the employee paid any overage fees. Since the costs were flat rate, use-it-or-lose-it, that policy seemed entirely reasonable to me.
I've only read a summary of the decision - that the court ruled the department had an interest in controlling costs so they were free to do whatever they wanted - but it sure sounds like a bullshit ruling to me.
Also there are countless guides on the internet covering how to jailbreak, and YouTube video. If it were illegal why have those not been taken down by Apple? Why have the websites still got these articles up? Why is Cydia still around and run by someone who lives in the U.S.?
Because it's generally not illegal to talk about how to do something illegal. For example - the DMCA prohibits the distribution of tools to circumvent copy prevention - but it does not try to prohibit talking about using those tools.
So, as soon as someone releases a tool designed to crack open an ipad, you can bet your ass Apple will be all over them. Just like they have been all over the people writing software tools to remove the DRM from itunes media.
Microsoft will not fix obscure problems even if you report it to them - they must be living on a huge database of reported issues that could potentially ruin their customers. That's both the benefit and the drawbacks of closed source - nobody will know the problem exists but nobody will be around to fix it either.
I'm a cynic, but I think we can count on there being at least a few three letter agencies that are aware of all these reported but unfixed problems. Given the way espionage works, I doubt they are all US agencies, or even just western ones - after all, since MS is not a government agency that database ain't classified so giving a copy to some foreign government is probably at worst a firing offense.
you can play bootleg versions of PS3 games without paying for them. Which is basically what everyone I know who cracks their systems uses it for. Playing free games for that system on that system.
This. PS3 is cracked sufficiently to cover 99% of the reason people crack systems. So what if it isn't completely opened up? Its open enough to pirate with which is Sony main reason for trying to lock it down in the first place.
You don't need hardware support for paravirtualization and paravirtualization will handle everything you listed. It won't let you run different OSes but there are plenty, potentially even a majority, of cases where that's not necessary.
there is a small problem with the current aproach: until "every" car gets the system installed, it's nearly useless. The protocol need to "know" that every other vehicle is going to act accordingly its specification.
That's far from true. For one thing, even if every car were to have the system installed, that's no protection against bad actors.
If the developers have even half a brain they are designing the system to operate defensively rather than trustingly. That principle will limit what the system can achieve, but it also means that it will be resistant to deliberate attacks as well as accidents and non-participating vehicles. Considering that failures in the system will result in lives lost, I'd say that there is no other way to design it but defensively.
A large quotient of luck. Bill Gates had average business savvy, but happened to be in the right time at the right place.
Bill's family was rich. His mother was on the national board of the United Way - as was IBM's CEO. She put the two together. So, yes Bill was "in the right place at the right time" - but the only reason he arrived at the right place was because his parents were loaded.
The rest of your post - about being polite is irrelevant, you have not cited one thing to show that you were stopped for anything reasonable. All you've done is say that just because the cop didn't know you personally you gave him a pass.
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Lets just say that 1 quarter of thos people own two guns.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Also, adult stem cell research has led to over seventy approved treatments being used today. The number from embryonic research? Zero.
I dunno if your numbers are true, but your reasoning is terrible.
It's like the anti-drug guys saying basically the same thing when its been essentially impossible to get funding or even legal permission to do studies of potential beneficial uses of pot and lsd for the last 40 years. When it is practically impossible to do significant research on a topic it should be no surprise that there are no results. And no, those ~8 lines of stem cells that have been around for a billion generations now are inadequate for much research - and the article you linked to is far from a done deal it's "early stage of development" and since there hasn't been much talk in the intervening half decade its reasonable to assume it was a dead-end or at best just one step of many on the road.
See the words "close to the truth" for further instructions.
Unlike the pure, upstanding people from every other country on earth, who would never dream of doing such things? It's not just Americans who suck, it's people in general.
But we Americans lay claim to being pure, upstanding people.
My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
It is the freakin' Middle East, everybody has guns
I *SERIOUSLY* doubt that.
According to Spiegel the gun ownership rate in Iraq is 39 guns for every 100 people. When you factor in kids as presumably unarmed, I think saying that "Everybody has guns" is probably close to the truth.
If the user is printing out standard forms to be used in shipping the last thing you want to do is let the user change the paper size.
The user already gets to decide what paper is in the printer.
PDF gets used for all kinds of wrong reasons - I freaking loathe web designers who think a PDF is an appropriate substitute for a web page - but printing is the one place that PDF shines. Just make sure the user can easily and intuitively specify the paper size and you should be good to go.
However this was not a case like that, it was a case of ego.
However, the one person who has suggested that it was a case of ego and not patriotism is Lamo himself and if these allegations about Lamo are correct, then that really casts doubt on the whole idea.
Any arse hole that lets tens of thousands of web sites be shut down in their name in order to preserve the bull shit public relations image, well guess what, they are arse holes.
Last I heard, he was near death and in the hospital - been there for 9 months or so.
Your second example is still only talk, so it doesn't count.
Yeah, except the talk started soon after the regulations were relaxed in 2005.
Why should we wait for them to make good on their threats?
What was the problem with the regulations before 2005?
What benefit have we seen from those regulations being dropped?
The law gives the FCC several categories to put things in, and gives them different powers over each category. That ruling said they were trying to use powers from category A on ISPs while ISPs were in category B. So now they're trying to move ISPs into category A.
More to the point - in the early 2000s the FCC moved ISPs from Category A to Category B, now they are trying to move them back to where they were originally.
The first (erroneous IMNHO) move to category B (aka 'information service providers') was finalized by the NCTA v Brand X scotus ruling that said the FCC has the authority to determine which category an ISP falls into.
Couldn't an employee just use their own phone to send private texts?
His department head made a verbal promise (in contradiction to written policy) that said it was OK to use the department equipment if the employee paid any overage fees.
Since the costs were flat rate, use-it-or-lose-it, that policy seemed entirely reasonable to me.
I've only read a summary of the decision - that the court ruled the department had an interest in controlling costs so they were free to do whatever they wanted - but it sure sounds like a bullshit ruling to me.
Also there are countless guides on the internet covering how to jailbreak, and YouTube video. If it were illegal why have those not been taken down by Apple? Why have the websites still got these articles up? Why is Cydia still around and run by someone who lives in the U.S.?
Because it's generally not illegal to talk about how to do something illegal.
For example - the DMCA prohibits the distribution of tools to circumvent copy prevention - but it does not try to prohibit talking about using those tools.
So, as soon as someone releases a tool designed to crack open an ipad, you can bet your ass Apple will be all over them. Just like they have been all over the people writing software tools to remove the DRM from itunes media.
Microsoft will not fix obscure problems even if you report it to them - they must be living on a huge database of reported issues that could potentially ruin their customers. That's both the benefit and the drawbacks of closed source - nobody will know the problem exists but nobody will be around to fix it either.
I'm a cynic, but I think we can count on there being at least a few three letter agencies that are aware of all these reported but unfixed problems. Given the way espionage works, I doubt they are all US agencies, or even just western ones - after all, since MS is not a government agency that database ain't classified so giving a copy to some foreign government is probably at worst a firing offense.
you can play bootleg versions of PS3 games without paying for them. Which is basically what everyone I know who cracks their systems uses it for. Playing free games for that system on that system.
This. PS3 is cracked sufficiently to cover 99% of the reason people crack systems. So what if it isn't completely opened up? Its open enough to pirate with which is Sony main reason for trying to lock it down in the first place.
Sure fire 100% guaranteed way to not get sued for pirating movies.
Don't pirate movies.
Hhhm, tell that to the printer at UW that got literally hundreds of DMCA notices.
You don't need hardware support for paravirtualization and paravirtualization will handle everything you listed. It won't let you run different OSes but there are plenty, potentially even a majority, of cases where that's not necessary.
Shouldn't it then be named G-spot? If a program of such a name were to exist, would any male users be able to find it, let alone use it?
G-spot
*(Before you freak out, I have a concealed carry permit issued by the government.)
No you don't. If you did, you would know that brandishing a firearm is illegal.
oooh, flaming a missing word, you are so cool and meaningful
So in other words you are proposing an efficient public transport system.
If you had stopped right there you would have been insightful. Instead, the majority of your post nothing more than inciteful and irrelevant.
there is a small problem with the current aproach: until "every" car gets the system installed, it's nearly useless. The protocol need to "know" that every other vehicle is going to act accordingly its specification.
That's far from true. For one thing, even if every car were to have the system installed, that's no protection against bad actors.
If the developers have even half a brain they are designing the system to operate defensively rather than trustingly. That principle will limit what the system can achieve, but it also means that it will be resistant to deliberate attacks as well as accidents and non-participating vehicles. Considering that failures in the system will result in lives lost, I'd say that there is no other way to design it but defensively.
A large quotient of luck. Bill Gates had average business savvy, but happened to be in the right time at the right place.
Bill's family was rich. His mother was on the national board of the United Way - as was IBM's CEO. She put the two together.
So, yes Bill was "in the right place at the right time" - but the only reason he arrived at the right place was because his parents were loaded.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/07/911_caller_in_g.html
The rest of your post - about being polite is irrelevant, you have not cited one thing to show that you were stopped for anything reasonable. All you've done is say that just because the cop didn't know you personally you gave him a pass.
Whatever dude. For someone who started off accusing other people of being a fanatic you have demonstrated a remarkable affinity for a single track.