Whether a patient's results from a BRCA test are negative or positive, the patient is left with information that does little to dispel fear and instill hope.
See Marketing Fear in this month's Z Magazine.
What struck me most while reading this is just how much of the same sort of logic is used to analyze the affairs of our own planet, with similar conclusions as to what is "good" and "evil".
Back about when 2.0 first came out, I set up a firewall for my dad's small office. He didn't have any UPSes, and I didn't want to bother going in to poke the machine if it ever lost power for some reason.
So I rigged it to boot up with a small root partition on a RAMdisk, (~1MB - this was a rather old machine even back then) then mounted everything but/tmp and/var read-only.
It worked like a charm. I could power off the thing without running shutdown and not corrupt any critical files. A LILO switch let me boot up in "regular" r/w mode so I could maintain the system.
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Whether a patient's results from a BRCA test are negative or positive, the patient is left with information that does little to dispel fear and instill hope. See Marketing Fear in this month's Z Magazine.
Quoth startrek.com:
"online debut at 7:30 p.m. PDT/10:30 p.m. EDT"
Especially if you consider how much they pay to protect them...
What struck me most while reading this is just how much of the same sort of logic is used to analyze the affairs of our own planet, with similar conclusions as to what is "good" and "evil".
Back about when 2.0 first came out, I set up a firewall for my dad's small office. He didn't have any UPSes, and I didn't want to bother going in to poke the machine if it ever lost power for some reason.
So I rigged it to boot up with a small root partition on a RAMdisk, (~1MB - this was a rather old machine even back then) then mounted everything but /tmp and /var read-only.
It worked like a charm. I could power off the thing without running shutdown and not corrupt any critical files. A LILO switch let me boot up in "regular" r/w mode so I could maintain the system.