Do yourself a favor, though, and make sure you're going to a theater with a top-drawer sound system. Seeing it in IMAX 3d the first time, with a killer sound system, spoiled me.
I second this. However, I personally was a bit disappointed with the mix of the soundtrack. (Although, this is probably due to me being a bit of a Daft Punk fan and already having heard the entire soundtrack on fairly high-end phones.) I would definitely recommend listening to the soundtrack CD if you like Daft Punk in addition to seeing the movie.
No, they are shipping a Linux system that doesn't run under any recent hardware.
It runs just fine on all of the hardware that I have. It's not like you can't add non-free to your sources.list and install the non-free firmware.
Not that bad, assuming someone else will write a script that configures the system and loads all proprietary firmware.
It already exists. The whole reason that it took us so long to remove the non-free firmware is because we had to have a mechanism to allow for users who wanted to run on systems which required it to load the firmware. Of course, if the article actually bothered to link to the original blog posting or the announcement e-mail, it would have been obvious to you.
This is also a good property for remote mining: You plant your explosive charge and then bury a string of explosives 10 feet apart apart to the staging area.
Almost no one uses nitroglycerin for mining any more. The stuff is so horribly unstable that you could easily set it off just by burying it, it's expensive, and it's highly toxic. Most mining and other blasting uses ANFO coupled with a high explosive primer instead.
Personally I would assume our country is one of the countries with least corruption and things like this. I doubt the government/court would treat him different just because Team America world police says so.
I would be very surprised myself if Sweden were to bring Assange in for questioning and then extradite him to the US (or somehow make him available for extraordinary rendition), but it wouldn't be the first time that I was surprised or disgusted by the actions of a country. It would be surprising if Assange was less paranoid than I after reading some of the more lurid cables from the US.
So, while Sweden may have perfectly honorable intentions, the actions of Assange with regards to his extradition to Sweden don't have much bearing on his guilt or innocence.
If he really was innocent why wouldn't he talk to the authorities? His lawyer claims he'd talk to the authorities via skype, the Swedish Embassy in London
You're the head of an organization which has managed to seriously piss off a few dozen countries. You have personally read and dealt with many documents which indicate that the countries you have angered routinely ignore their own rules when it suits their national interests. You are now being asked to place yourself in the custody of a country which has ties to (or is one of) the countries whose secrets you have exposed, and seems to be under serious pressure to make you go away.
What would you do?
I know I'd personally try to maintain my own personal security for as long as possible, while trying to resolve the situtation through public, legal means, even if I was certain that the acts in question were consensual.
I cannot believe someone thought it was a good idea to FedEx radioactive material.
We ship radioactive material via FedEx all the time. It's properly packaged, labeled, and there's nothing particularly exciting about it. In fact, the dry ice that it is packed in is generally considered to be more dangerous than the radioactivity itself. (In this case, I'm talking about 250Ci of 32P ATP, which is laughably small, but I believe you can send milicurie amounts through FedEx when properly packaged.)
the requirement also includes the ability for network administrators to enforce S/MIME on all messages on the network, which cannot be enforced using a client side plugin.
This can be easily handled with modifications to gmail for specific users who actually need it so that messages which are not in S/MIME containers are rejected. So while it may not be something that gmail can handle right this second, it's certainly something that can be specified in the RFQ so that Google can make the business decision to meet (or not meet) that requirement.
Gmail doesn't [support S/MIME], and it's a gaping hole in their messaging offering when compared to pretty much any popular messaging application on the market.
There are various client-side plugins which support S/MIME for Gmail (which is actually the right place to do it). See Gmail S/MIME and other similar plugins.
So the price tag is about $100 billion. Will the contributions the space station makes to Science and society at large be sufficient to provide a $4 billion/year real rate of return in perpetuity, give or take? Does it even come close? If not, it's a net loss to the economy and inhibits economic growth, and there's a bunch of people who'd like to talk to their politicians about that come Tuesday.
It's a certainty that if we're ever to leave this spheroid, we need to build things like the ISS to learn how to live in microgravity environments with limited earth interaction for long periods of time. We won't know if the ISS paid off for a while, but at least it's a project which is forward looking and leads farther along the roads that we need to travel in the future.
While we certainly need to look for ROI in the projects that the government funds, the ROI for many things that the government needs to do is very difficult to measure. Consider how difficult it is to measure the relative importance and ROI of education versus infrastructure expendatures. We know for sure that they affect GDP, but it's hard to say how much, and which schools or projects do it better?
Why is the US objecting to a standard that it has not ever taken the time to actually use?
Anyone in the US who actually does quantitative research uses the metric system. I can't remember the last time I attempted to mass something in pounds.
They didn't say that you needed to speak English to be a citizen. They said for immigrants to vote, they need to learn English to pass the citizenship test.
Sure, but whether someone is an immigrant or not is orthogonal to whether or not they are a citizen, so I ignored the feeble canard entirely.
To me the only question becomes what's reasonable?
It's reasonable to have it translated into every language you reasonably expect to have people require to exercise their franchise, and to allow people to petition to have ballots in languages that they speak fluently when they aren't able to speak another translated language with enough fluency to be comfortable voting.
There's almost no problem with the voting board being primarily reactive with regards to translated ballots and election materials.
For immigrants to vote, they must be Citizens. To become one if they aren't already, they need to understand English.
You don't need to speak English to be a US Citizen, because the US allows naturalization by birth. And moreover, there are lots of people who have a working knowledge of English, but are far more comfortable with another language. it's perfectly fine to have ballots and election material printed in multiple languages to avoid disenfranchising individuals who are legitimate voters.
A flotation device would be perfect in those cases.
If the currents were faster than swimmers could swim, then I'd expect you to quickly outdistance 150m. Though even in those cases, if you got close enough into the same current, it'd probably be close enough to be useful.
Of course, people will still find all kinds of innovative ways to drown themselves...
In a MOB situation we would get into survival suits and launch immediately, while the ship turned and cut engines after doing 180 degrees, ending up in roughly the same area as the man went overboard.
Were you guys using davits or a chute? 4 minutes is very impressive with davits with any signficant freeboard.
Wouldn't this be more for beaches? 150m is about as far out as most people would go on a beach AFAIK.
In my experience, once people get into trouble on a beach, they tend to be unable to swim or be in waves, which makes lifesaving devices pretty much useless. You have to actually go out and get them by swimming or using a boat.
Assuming this is designed for use on large ships where MOB is a distinct problem (consider how difficult it is to stop and turn around an aircraft carrier or container ship), at 20 knots, you'd have to notice the man overboard and fire the device within 15 seconds. At a carrier's max speed of 35 knots, you have less than 9 seconds. While it's certainly an improvement over hand thrown projectiles, it doesn't have enough distance to handle likely scenarios.
echo -e '150 m / 20 knots\ns'|units -t1 if you want to play with the conversion yourself.
Kent State University in 1970 where US troops were prepared to use lethal force on US soil against US citizens
Kent State is an example of the Ohio National Guard being deployed, which is slightly different than the US military. (It's under the control of the governer of Ohio, not the president, after all.)
Most people aren't going to want to upgrade from residential Internet service, whose TOS bans servers, to higher-priced business-class service, whose TOS allows low-bandwidth servers, just to run Diaspora.
There's no effective difference between a server and a client when coupled with methods of penetrating NAT and firewalls. ISPs realize that enforcing their TOS is a bad business decision when a large enough group of people are using diaspora and freedom boxes and similar network devices and the impact to the network per customer is low enough. This is doubly so in areas where there is competition between residential ISPs.
And there is no environment which allows a liver cell to develop into an organism.
It is certainly possible to provide the right cocktail of epigentic reprogramming agents to turn a hepatocyte into a ESC or even a morula. We've gotten fairly close with iPS, but we're not there yet. So, in fact, there is an environment which would allow a liver cell to develop into a complete organism.
That said, if your argument is that such an environment doesn't currently exist, then granted; but there isn't a currently existing environment that'd work for any of the federally funded hESCs either.
If you'd like to discuss this further; feel free to e-mail me. Slashdot's comment mechanism is far too clunky for much discussion.
A hESC is capable of developing into an independent organism.
It's as capable of developing into an independent organization as a liver cell is without the proper environment. Its natural environment is destroyed during the process of creating an hESC from a blastocyst. Specifically, it needs a trophoblast which is gentically matched to it, which is formed from part of the blastosphere which isn't taken as an ESC. [There's a reason why we call them pluripotent stem cells, not totipotent stem cells.]
Interestingly, a single hESC wouldn't count as an organism, either... you kind of need a lot of them surrounded by a trophoblast to really be capable of growing into an organism.
Just get advocates of different belief systems together and let them logically debate and come to a mutually acceptable solution, like scientists would about any other topic.
Any scientist worthy of the title doesn't debate; they experiment. So no, it's not at all like what a real scientist would do.
the key was always to "reject the null hypothesis", which while not necessarily the same thing as "proving the hypothesis" is often times functionally equivalent.
The null hypothesis is a statistical question; you never "prove the null", you only fail to reject the null hypothesis. A real scientist (or at least a real Poperian one) never talks about proving hypotheses; we talk about providing evidence which supports, or often more correctly, evidence which fails to reject it in experiments which have the best opportunity to reject the hypothesis.
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I second this. However, I personally was a bit disappointed with the mix of the soundtrack. (Although, this is probably due to me being a bit of a Daft Punk fan and already having heard the entire soundtrack on fairly high-end phones.) I would definitely recommend listening to the soundtrack CD if you like Daft Punk in addition to seeing the movie.
It runs just fine on all of the hardware that I have. It's not like you can't add non-free to your sources.list and install the non-free firmware.
It already exists. The whole reason that it took us so long to remove the non-free firmware is because we had to have a mechanism to allow for users who wanted to run on systems which required it to load the firmware. Of course, if the article actually bothered to link to the original blog posting or the announcement e-mail, it would have been obvious to you.
Almost no one uses nitroglycerin for mining any more. The stuff is so horribly unstable that you could easily set it off just by burying it, it's expensive, and it's highly toxic. Most mining and other blasting uses ANFO coupled with a high explosive primer instead.
I would be very surprised myself if Sweden were to bring Assange in for questioning and then extradite him to the US (or somehow make him available for extraordinary rendition), but it wouldn't be the first time that I was surprised or disgusted by the actions of a country. It would be surprising if Assange was less paranoid than I after reading some of the more lurid cables from the US.
So, while Sweden may have perfectly honorable intentions, the actions of Assange with regards to his extradition to Sweden don't have much bearing on his guilt or innocence.
You're the head of an organization which has managed to seriously piss off a few dozen countries. You have personally read and dealt with many documents which indicate that the countries you have angered routinely ignore their own rules when it suits their national interests. You are now being asked to place yourself in the custody of a country which has ties to (or is one of) the countries whose secrets you have exposed, and seems to be under serious pressure to make you go away.
What would you do?
I know I'd personally try to maintain my own personal security for as long as possible, while trying to resolve the situtation through public, legal means, even if I was certain that the acts in question were consensual.
We ship radioactive material via FedEx all the time. It's properly packaged, labeled, and there's nothing particularly exciting about it. In fact, the dry ice that it is packed in is generally considered to be more dangerous than the radioactivity itself. (In this case, I'm talking about 250Ci of 32P ATP, which is laughably small, but I believe you can send milicurie amounts through FedEx when properly packaged.)
This can be easily handled with modifications to gmail for specific users who actually need it so that messages which are not in S/MIME containers are rejected. So while it may not be something that gmail can handle right this second, it's certainly something that can be specified in the RFQ so that Google can make the business decision to meet (or not meet) that requirement.
There are various client-side plugins which support S/MIME for Gmail (which is actually the right place to do it). See Gmail S/MIME and other similar plugins.
It's a certainty that if we're ever to leave this spheroid, we need to build things like the ISS to learn how to live in microgravity environments with limited earth interaction for long periods of time. We won't know if the ISS paid off for a while, but at least it's a project which is forward looking and leads farther along the roads that we need to travel in the future.
While we certainly need to look for ROI in the projects that the government funds, the ROI for many things that the government needs to do is very difficult to measure. Consider how difficult it is to measure the relative importance and ROI of education versus infrastructure expendatures. We know for sure that they affect GDP, but it's hard to say how much, and which schools or projects do it better?
Anyone in the US who actually does quantitative research uses the metric system. I can't remember the last time I attempted to mass something in pounds.
Sure, but whether someone is an immigrant or not is orthogonal to whether or not they are a citizen, so I ignored the feeble canard entirely.
It's reasonable to have it translated into every language you reasonably expect to have people require to exercise their franchise, and to allow people to petition to have ballots in languages that they speak fluently when they aren't able to speak another translated language with enough fluency to be comfortable voting.
There's almost no problem with the voting board being primarily reactive with regards to translated ballots and election materials.
You don't need to speak English to be a US Citizen, because the US allows naturalization by birth. And moreover, there are lots of people who have a working knowledge of English, but are far more comfortable with another language. it's perfectly fine to have ballots and election material printed in multiple languages to avoid disenfranchising individuals who are legitimate voters.
A flotation device would be perfect in those cases.
If the currents were faster than swimmers could swim, then I'd expect you to quickly outdistance 150m. Though even in those cases, if you got close enough into the same current, it'd probably be close enough to be useful.
Of course, people will still find all kinds of innovative ways to drown themselves...
In a MOB situation we would get into survival suits and launch immediately, while the ship turned and cut engines after doing 180 degrees, ending up in roughly the same area as the man went overboard.
Were you guys using davits or a chute? 4 minutes is very impressive with davits with any signficant freeboard.
Wouldn't this be more for beaches? 150m is about as far out as most people would go on a beach AFAIK.
In my experience, once people get into trouble on a beach, they tend to be unable to swim or be in waves, which makes lifesaving devices pretty much useless. You have to actually go out and get them by swimming or using a boat.
Assuming this is designed for use on large ships where MOB is a distinct problem (consider how difficult it is to stop and turn around an aircraft carrier or container ship), at 20 knots, you'd have to notice the man overboard and fire the device within 15 seconds. At a carrier's max speed of 35 knots, you have less than 9 seconds. While it's certainly an improvement over hand thrown projectiles, it doesn't have enough distance to handle likely scenarios.
echo -e '150 m / 20 knots\ns'|units -t1 if you want to play with the conversion yourself.
What does it matter if it's different or not? Japan's practice of coercing confessions is wrong too.
Kent State is an example of the Ohio National Guard being deployed, which is slightly different than the US military. (It's under the control of the governer of Ohio, not the president, after all.)
There's no effective difference between a server and a client when coupled with methods of penetrating NAT and firewalls. ISPs realize that enforcing their TOS is a bad business decision when a large enough group of people are using diaspora and freedom boxes and similar network devices and the impact to the network per customer is low enough. This is doubly so in areas where there is competition between residential ISPs.
It is certainly possible to provide the right cocktail of epigentic reprogramming agents to turn a hepatocyte into a ESC or even a morula. We've gotten fairly close with iPS, but we're not there yet. So, in fact, there is an environment which would allow a liver cell to develop into a complete organism.
That said, if your argument is that such an environment doesn't currently exist, then granted; but there isn't a currently existing environment that'd work for any of the federally funded hESCs either.
If you'd like to discuss this further; feel free to e-mail me. Slashdot's comment mechanism is far too clunky for much discussion.
It's as capable of developing into an independent organization as a liver cell is without the proper environment. Its natural environment is destroyed during the process of creating an hESC from a blastocyst. Specifically, it needs a trophoblast which is gentically matched to it, which is formed from part of the blastosphere which isn't taken as an ESC. [There's a reason why we call them pluripotent stem cells, not totipotent stem cells.]
Interestingly, a single hESC wouldn't count as an organism, either... you kind of need a lot of them surrounded by a trophoblast to really be capable of growing into an organism.
Any scientist worthy of the title doesn't debate; they experiment. So no, it's not at all like what a real scientist would do.
The null hypothesis is a statistical question; you never "prove the null", you only fail to reject the null hypothesis. A real scientist (or at least a real Poperian one) never talks about proving hypotheses; we talk about providing evidence which supports, or often more correctly, evidence which fails to reject it in experiments which have the best opportunity to reject the hypothesis.
Falsifiable merely means that it is possible, by experiment, to produce an outcome which contradicts the hypothesis.
Science almost works like this, but with a slight modification: Eliminate hypotheses which conflict with experiment. Continue doing so forever.