Cancer, like it or not is a disease and I'm happy to see they've finally applied a mathematical system to it in order to improve treatments.
There's a line in Angels in America where Roy Cohn says that to beat something you have to know it. Well, this approach may open the door to all sorts of new things. Its nice to see medicine becoming a science instead of a black art.
I only wish it had been discovered 25 years ago. But it offers a glimmer of hope.
Ok, having played on many sides of the telecom fence I'll rephrase your question:
What gives corporate America the right to quash the desires of the people?
I'm sorry but if for example Verizon didn't rake everyone over the coals for wireless service maybe I'd be a little more sympathetic. But I hate monopolistic players and Verizon is monopolistic to the extreme. And while local loop might not be a true monopoly any longer, right now it's more than likely a duopoly and that can be even worse.
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to this country was giving a corporate entity a voice in politics.
What would be more interesting is if their laws were turned against them.
I love how the TSA rules are all secret. Sure, nothing like secrecy to ensure you have the worst security system you could possibly have. They've learned nothing from the I.T. world.
They are in essence, assuring a Democratic victory in 2006. I so hope that I'm right on that call.
It does rain on those islands and that moisture falls into the ground. The cold seawater flowing through the pipes will make the warmer water condense around it.
As to generating fresh water, they're sucking moisture out of the air.
Something about this bothers me though. If you suck the moisture out of the air aren't you in essence denying the atmosphere the moisture necessary to form clouds and produce the rain that runs your botanical irrigation system.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when this goes into large scale operation.
That the Star Wars saga was a trilogy of trilogies.
I remember seeing the very first while on vacation with my parents in Hampton Beach, NH. The buzz back then was that this was the culmination of defeating the Empire and that there would be six other movies exploring the historical aspects.
I just hope they aren't quite as dreadful as the first two of the middle trilogy. Those were some seriously awful movies.
We had a power outage at a site that hosts one of our major databases.
The biggest issue is the finger pointing between all the parties involved. This is why I said that we have to include all those parties in our disaster readiness planning.
But it seems to fall on deaf ears. At least I'll be able to say "I told you so." when something really bad happens.
Who owns the hardware? For example, as a parallel just look at those cryogenic storage places. First, who actually believes they'll still be in operation by the time a cure is found for whatever killed the corpsicle. I for one don't think it's viable.
So pray that the OS isn't something made by Microsoft. I can just see what happens when an Exception 0E occurs. Or little Johnny deletes Grandpa and then you have to restore him from 4mm tape.
A co-worker and I were just discussing this. Just think of the implications with regard to religion. Where exactly will the soul reside?
And of course we had a good laugh over the whole thing.
Got to see a Department of Homeland Security presentation on BotNets the other day. They estimate that a large number of systems are compromised because people don't update their machines, etc.
But anyone that has dealt with MS for any amount of time knows that they NEVER email an update. You either get them via automatic win-update, or click on Start/Windows Update.
But this exposes one cruel fact. Most people are ignorant about their own computers. I've made oodles of cash fixing computers that were overrun with adware, spyware, etc. I'm of the firm belief that we should make new computer purchasers sit through a 4 to 8 hour class that details what happens when you connect an unprotected, unpatched computer to the net. For the second part, explain common, open source solutions (Like Popfile for example.)
Then make em' go home for a couple of weeks. When they come back, test them on what they learned. If they score 70% or higher they can buy a machine. If they score lower, make them take the class again.
I hate these little tiny cell phones with all the bells and gadgets.
I'm a purist - a phone should be a phone though I do appreciate some of the value of SMS. My current phone is a rather dated Audiovox unit that has one feature that I do like, voice dialing. But other than that the buttons are too damned small.
Give me a phone like my first one, a Motorola MicroTac. That was easy to use and did exactly what I wanted it to do.
How could you not expect it to happen as fast as it did.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock we've already learned that higher order organisms (Sheep, cows, cats) have been cloned.
There is little doubt in my mind that there is an artificially created human clone contentedly sucking on his/her bottle right about now.
I see nothing wrong with it. The reason the fundies get in such a lather about it is because it brings up the issue of whose soul is it.
But nature makes clones on a fairly regular basis. Raise your hand if you don't know at least one set of twins. In my family there are twins and triplets on BOTH sides. Whoa be to me.
Indeed you would because this is not a technical impediment but a political one.
You see, the infrastructure is already in place to allow VoIP to use E-911 services. Explain why Vonage is able to connect to RI's E-911 service but yet can't do it in other states.
I'll save you the trouble. In most states, the incumbent telephone company owns the E-911 infrastructure. In Rhode Island the state owns it while Verizon only provides the connection to Intrado for the ALI data.
The second part of this is that people have to realize, that you have to set up your E-911 address when you sign up for service. I had no problem doing it. But maybe they should just use the billing address as the E-911 ALI data, just make the customer painfully aware that's the case.
This whole thing is an attempt to tank VoIP providers by the circuit switched providers. I'm hoping the folks at Vonage, Packet8 et al fight this one tooth and nail.
The files have to be served from somewhere though and that is precisely who they will go after.
If you notice, everyone that has had a suit filed against them has offered up files, not just downloaded files. It is precisely why I advised everyone to either:
a) Move their downloaded files out of their shared folder and just leave a single test file in there that says something to the effect of:
"Because of the RIAA campaign I do not share files out nor do I download them."
This is risky because you're admitting you do something just by having the application open. The second tactic is even better, shut off outbound files.
But then this evaporates the pool of reliable hosts from which to download from.
It is a win-win for the RIAA and they damned well know it.
It isn't just wireless. Even government wired isn't the most secure thing.
The problem is that that isn't funding to put BlueSocket on wireless for government networks. Nor is there money to put a proper firewall in many instances.
Exactly - and I'd be willing to bet the hole they used to penetrate the system is still open.
We'd rather litigate security than actually improve security. I have seen that time and time again when knee-jerk legislation is passed in order to allegedly secure systems through the deterrence.
In the mean time, those of us who have a meager understanding of I.T. security know that it is comprised of multiple layers, be they passwords, firewalls, IDS, etc. I'm rather surpised that No Child Left Behind didn't touch on this, especially since that other government behemoth called HIPAA does.
So what if they can ruin your life, they still can't see your health records. Not for now.
You have hit the nail on the head. What probably happened is when he pierced the battery some water came in contact with the lithium and pow!
Being that this happened in Australia I doubt there will be a lawsuit. They'll just chalk it up to the kids own stupidity and move on.
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Were this to have happened in the U.S. there would be constant media coverage, several civil lawsuits against Apple, the manufacturer of the battery, etc. But nobody would point the finger at the kid for using brute force to tear open his iPod.
Probably by doing what has been promised since Windows NT 4.0, that being:
No application other than the OS itself can EVER write to the WINNT(Or Windows) System32 directory.
All application load their DLL's from their OWN directories. That way you can lock out any changes to the operating systems.
Add to that memory management that works pretty much flawlessly and maybe they could make a comeback. But from what I've heard, Longhorn is a resource pig like no other.
All I know is I'm playing Pac Man World 2 now and loving it.
I've made it to the Entrance to the Volcano, which is only what, 40% through the game? But I'll play it to the end and then walk away from it. I'm a little obsessive like that.
Interestingly ALL the Pac Man games are available on the disc. You just have to collect enough coin in the game to play them. So that motivation to pump coins in is still there.
At this point I've gathered enough coin to go play the original Pac Man. Yes, it was primitive but it was fun.
I was the director of I.T. for a medium size retail concern. I had finally grown tired of the company president overruling my decisions, even when my decisions concurred with that of the company controller.
The SOB tried to withhold pay, I told him that state law was on my side and would he like to dance? I got the pay.
But that son of a bitch lived next door to the Speaker of the House. My new job was a state job and so when transition time came guess who was out of a job.
Payback will be a mother, I assure you. I'm just biding my time.
BTW, the son of a bitch is named David Resnik. If you ever run across the man, either run or smack the shit out of him.
Rhode Island will soon be rolling out Lobbytracker 2.0 - with it you'll be able to:
See lobbying entities and those employed by them, as well as who/what they're lobbying on and how much they're being paid to do so.
RI is also about to roll out a utility that will relate General Assembly bills to those lobby reports. The interesting thing is there is an iSearch type tool called SIFT that will let you pick out the lobbyist names in legislation, etc.
So for example, it will be difficult for Verizon to lobby without having its hand shown, which I plan to do.
Government is of, by and for the people. Therefore Verizon and other incumbents are directly opposing the will of the people.
They still don't understand that 430MHz is right int he middle of the amateur 70cm band.
That 'other stuff' they're filtering out with the pins are probably amateur transmissions, or could even be wind profiler radar because those are in teh 70cm band too.
I sent them email explaining this. They really don't want an RDF team tracking them down, reporting them to the FCC and then getting a NAL for several thousand dollars.
Um... no.
God gave mankind the gift of free will so that they could use that free will to obey him and thus show that they loved him as much as he loved them.
Ummm - why would you create creatures with free will if all you wanted was their submission to yours?
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Cancer, like it or not is a disease and I'm happy to see they've finally applied a mathematical system to it in order to improve treatments.
There's a line in Angels in America where Roy Cohn says that to beat something you have to know it. Well, this approach may open the door to all sorts of new things. Its nice to see medicine becoming a science instead of a black art.
I only wish it had been discovered 25 years ago. But it offers a glimmer of hope.
Ok, having played on many sides of the telecom fence I'll rephrase your question:
What gives corporate America the right to quash the desires of the people?
I'm sorry but if for example Verizon didn't rake everyone over the coals for wireless service maybe I'd be a little more sympathetic. But I hate monopolistic players and Verizon is monopolistic to the extreme. And while local loop might not be a true monopoly any longer, right now it's more than likely a duopoly and that can be even worse.
Probably the worst thing that ever happened to this country was giving a corporate entity a voice in politics.
What would be more interesting is if their laws were turned against them.
I love how the TSA rules are all secret. Sure, nothing like secrecy to ensure you have the worst security system you could possibly have. They've learned nothing from the I.T. world.
They are in essence, assuring a Democratic victory in 2006. I so hope that I'm right on that call.
It does rain on those islands and that moisture falls into the ground. The cold seawater flowing through the pipes will make the warmer water condense around it.
As to generating fresh water, they're sucking moisture out of the air.
Something about this bothers me though. If you suck the moisture out of the air aren't you in essence denying the atmosphere the moisture necessary to form clouds and produce the rain that runs your botanical irrigation system.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when this goes into large scale operation.
That the Star Wars saga was a trilogy of trilogies.
I remember seeing the very first while on vacation with my parents in Hampton Beach, NH. The buzz back then was that this was the culmination of defeating the Empire and that there would be six other movies exploring the historical aspects.
I just hope they aren't quite as dreadful as the first two of the middle trilogy. Those were some seriously awful movies.
We had a power outage at a site that hosts one of our major databases.
The biggest issue is the finger pointing between all the parties involved. This is why I said that we have to include all those parties in our disaster readiness planning.
But it seems to fall on deaf ears. At least I'll be able to say "I told you so." when something really bad happens.
Find yourself an HP 95LX or 200LX. The 95LX is pretty cool - it's a DOS based clam shell with full, if mini kb and a decent sized display.
The only caveat is it eats batteries. I'd strongly recommend getting ni-mh's for it.
Who owns the hardware? For example, as a parallel just look at those cryogenic storage places. First, who actually believes they'll still be in operation by the time a cure is found for whatever killed the corpsicle. I for one don't think it's viable.
So pray that the OS isn't something made by Microsoft. I can just see what happens when an Exception 0E occurs. Or little Johnny deletes Grandpa and then you have to restore him from 4mm tape.
A co-worker and I were just discussing this. Just think of the implications with regard to religion. Where exactly will the soul reside?
And of course we had a good laugh over the whole thing.
Got to see a Department of Homeland Security presentation on BotNets the other day. They estimate that a large number of systems are compromised because people don't update their machines, etc.
But anyone that has dealt with MS for any amount of time knows that they NEVER email an update. You either get them via automatic win-update, or click on Start/Windows Update.
But this exposes one cruel fact. Most people are ignorant about their own computers. I've made oodles of cash fixing computers that were overrun with adware, spyware, etc. I'm of the firm belief that we should make new computer purchasers sit through a 4 to 8 hour class that details what happens when you connect an unprotected, unpatched computer to the net. For the second part, explain common, open source solutions (Like Popfile for example.)
Then make em' go home for a couple of weeks. When they come back, test them on what they learned. If they score 70% or higher they can buy a machine. If they score lower, make them take the class again.
Hmmm.. that'd be a nice little cash cow.
I hate these little tiny cell phones with all the bells and gadgets.
I'm a purist - a phone should be a phone though I do appreciate some of the value of SMS. My current phone is a rather dated Audiovox unit that has one feature that I do like, voice dialing. But other than that the buttons are too damned small.
Give me a phone like my first one, a Motorola MicroTac. That was easy to use and did exactly what I wanted it to do.
Couple this discovery with the one about sulfur dioxide.
You could put the sick patient into suspended animation and let the organ grow.
How could you not expect it to happen as fast as it did.
Unless you've been hiding under a rock we've already learned that higher order organisms (Sheep, cows, cats) have been cloned.
There is little doubt in my mind that there is an artificially created human clone contentedly sucking on his/her bottle right about now.
I see nothing wrong with it. The reason the fundies get in such a lather about it is because it brings up the issue of whose soul is it.
But nature makes clones on a fairly regular basis. Raise your hand if you don't know at least one set of twins. In my family there are twins and triplets on BOTH sides. Whoa be to me.
Hopefully Spanish law provides for wrongful termination lawsuits.
This is ridiculous. They're moving into persecutory mode now.
Indeed you would because this is not a technical impediment but a political one.
You see, the infrastructure is already in place to allow VoIP to use E-911 services. Explain why Vonage is able to connect to RI's E-911 service but yet can't do it in other states.
I'll save you the trouble. In most states, the incumbent telephone company owns the E-911 infrastructure. In Rhode Island the state owns it while Verizon only provides the connection to Intrado for the ALI data.
The second part of this is that people have to realize, that you have to set up your E-911 address when you sign up for service. I had no problem doing it. But maybe they should just use the billing address as the E-911 ALI data, just make the customer painfully aware that's the case.
This whole thing is an attempt to tank VoIP providers by the circuit switched providers. I'm hoping the folks at Vonage, Packet8 et al fight this one tooth and nail.
I wonder about that too.
The files have to be served from somewhere though and that is precisely who they will go after.
If you notice, everyone that has had a suit filed against them has offered up files, not just downloaded files. It is precisely why I advised everyone to either:
a) Move their downloaded files out of their shared folder and just leave a single test file in there that says something to the effect of:
"Because of the RIAA campaign I do not share files out nor do I download them."
This is risky because you're admitting you do something just by having the application open. The second tactic is even better, shut off outbound files.
But then this evaporates the pool of reliable hosts from which to download from.
It is a win-win for the RIAA and they damned well know it.
But I'm happy to see that the game continues.
It isn't just wireless. Even government wired isn't the most secure thing.
The problem is that that isn't funding to put BlueSocket on wireless for government networks. Nor is there money to put a proper firewall in many instances.
Government flies by the seat of its pants.
Exactly - and I'd be willing to bet the hole they used to penetrate the system is still open.
We'd rather litigate security than actually improve security. I have seen that time and time again when knee-jerk legislation is passed in order to allegedly secure systems through the deterrence.
In the mean time, those of us who have a meager understanding of I.T. security know that it is comprised of multiple layers, be they passwords, firewalls, IDS, etc. I'm rather surpised that No Child Left Behind didn't touch on this, especially since that other government behemoth called HIPAA does.
So what if they can ruin your life, they still can't see your health records. Not for now.
You have hit the nail on the head. What probably happened is when he pierced the battery some water came in contact with the lithium and pow!
Being that this happened in Australia I doubt there will be a lawsuit. They'll just chalk it up to the kids own stupidity and move on.
>
Were this to have happened in the U.S. there would be constant media coverage, several civil lawsuits against Apple, the manufacturer of the battery, etc. But nobody would point the finger at the kid for using brute force to tear open his iPod.
Probably by doing what has been promised since Windows NT 4.0, that being:
No application other than the OS itself can EVER write to the WINNT(Or Windows) System32 directory.
All application load their DLL's from their OWN directories. That way you can lock out any changes to the operating systems.
Add to that memory management that works pretty much flawlessly and maybe they could make a comeback. But from what I've heard, Longhorn is a resource pig like no other.
It was a nice thought while it lasted.
All I know is I'm playing Pac Man World 2 now and loving it.
I've made it to the Entrance to the Volcano, which is only what, 40% through the game? But I'll play it to the end and then walk away from it. I'm a little obsessive like that.
Interestingly ALL the Pac Man games are available on the disc. You just have to collect enough coin in the game to play them. So that motivation to pump coins in is still there.
At this point I've gathered enough coin to go play the original Pac Man. Yes, it was primitive but it was fun.
I was the director of I.T. for a medium size retail concern. I had finally grown tired of the company president overruling my decisions, even when my decisions concurred with that of the company controller. The SOB tried to withhold pay, I told him that state law was on my side and would he like to dance? I got the pay. But that son of a bitch lived next door to the Speaker of the House. My new job was a state job and so when transition time came guess who was out of a job. Payback will be a mother, I assure you. I'm just biding my time. BTW, the son of a bitch is named David Resnik. If you ever run across the man, either run or smack the shit out of him.
Rhode Island will soon be rolling out Lobbytracker 2.0 - with it you'll be able to:
See lobbying entities and those employed by them, as well as who/what they're lobbying on and how much they're being paid to do so.
RI is also about to roll out a utility that will relate General Assembly bills to those lobby reports. The interesting thing is there is an iSearch type tool called SIFT that will let you pick out the lobbyist names in legislation, etc.
So for example, it will be difficult for Verizon to lobby without having its hand shown, which I plan to do.
Government is of, by and for the people. Therefore Verizon and other incumbents are directly opposing the will of the people.
They still don't understand that 430MHz is right int he middle of the amateur 70cm band.
That 'other stuff' they're filtering out with the pins are probably amateur transmissions, or could even be wind profiler radar because those are in teh 70cm band too.
I sent them email explaining this. They really don't want an RDF team tracking them down, reporting them to the FCC and then getting a NAL for several thousand dollars.
We'll see. I would have expected more of EE's.
Now that was great.
Lets hope this little flaw is built into all of these humanoid robots. That way if one is menacing you all that's necessary is to knock it down.
Um... no. God gave mankind the gift of free will so that they could use that free will to obey him and thus show that they loved him as much as he loved them.
Ummm - why would you create creatures with free will if all you wanted was their submission to yours?