yes, there was a law that went thru Congress just this summer. But, you raise a good point, I don't know for certain that it also went thru the Senate nor that it was signed by the Kaiser, so I can't for certain say that it is provably illegal to install spyware, intentionally or (hah!) unintentionally.
Unlike some people, IANAL. But I fantasize about them on occassion, provided they're female...
Seriously. Corps here in the USA are constantly allowed to "push the bar" as far as they can. Consumer opinion need not apply. Why is is OK for a "capitalistic" company to personally allowed to cost you money/time, yet if a private person does it, it is a "crime"?
Last time I checked it was illegal to create spyware.
Sadly, you do point out that the execs at the corporation don't go to jail.
Clearly we must ban this "money" immediately if it encourages criminal behavior.
Exactly, if in fact it is the root of all worm designs, then we should make it worthless.
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I for one welcome our new overpaying tech overlords, even if they they make us create worms for fun and profit... um, are you sure that's not "eat" worms?
Roll your own, this is a no brainer for anyone with a food processor. With a mixer or blender it is slightly tricker but can still be done - and even if it fails, it still tastes great.
Yes, but what about the seven year lifespan of the "food"? Can an olive oil mixture operate that long, are there any conditions that need to be present - or not present - for it to be "stable"? And will it taste "better"? Will it taste "better" now - in a week - in a month - in a year - in X years?
Will it break down in such a way that it creates mutagens or other substances which can be harmful - or harmful to certain individuals [such as peanut oils - perhaps there are people alergic to olive oil - or to the byproducts of olive oil after five years in a "sandwich"?
In truth, it is likely that the probe will never return to Earth, unless it has some means of propulsion and control to bring it back.
More likely to turn into a small comet or somesuch.
Now, if we pack it's small nuclear reactor with enough plutonium and time it right, we can have a definite timeline for when the comet crashed into earth and destroyed all of humanity....
> I can see it now, it's been 20,000 years and someone actually intercepts it, decodes it, and due to all the errors introduced the message comes out "We the following hostile lifeforms wish to destroy your race: [list of names] All Your Base Are Belong to US.A."
Well, to be honest, 20,000 (assume US meaning of comma) years from now, I doubt I'll be particularly concerned about anything.
True. But it will give Captain Kirk a chance to get his shirt ripped and wave the flag in a combat scene... or his android...
Um, am I the only one wondering what the point of sending a CD is? Apart from the "prestiege" for the people on said CD, if any intelligent life picks it up, they're not exactly going to be able to read it are they?
Good point - as recordable media, CDs are notorious for flaking and losing data when exposed to sunlight and temperature extremes.
Now, the sunlight won't be a problem on Pluto, but how the heck are they going to pack a temperature-controlled space heater along for the ride - not to mention have it work for 50,000 years?
Drawing big pictures makes a lot more sense....
I can see it now, it's been 20,000 years and someone actually intercepts it, decodes it, and due to all the errors introduced the message comes out "We the following hostile lifeforms wish to destroy your race: [list of names] All Your Base Are Belong to US.A."
Either that or it says "the following people have signed up to become Soylent Green: [list of names]"
Not only is Pluto not a planet - in fact, it's smaller and has fewer planetary characteristics than a couple of other bodies orbiting the sun which aren't planets - it's also less likely to be visited than, say, Haley's Comet.
Now, if you wanted to send the latest Nintendo DS version of Nintendogs to Pluto - that might be interesting.... and just about as useful.
Me, I'm sticking with my Chinese land grant on the Moon - more likely to be useful when I become a space farmer, before the rise of the Emperor Karl.
> You give humanity more food, you get more humans.
You didn't pay very close attention in sex ed class, did you?
But seriously, you are wrong anyhow. It's easily observed and well-established that well-fed people have fewer offspring than hungry ones.
Dude, Firegal does the BioNet website, I think she knows about that.
And what you're claiming to be well-fed people versus hungry ones is an observation that is impacted by:
1. education of women/girls in well-fed families is higher than in hungry families - the highest statistical correlation between family size is education of girls/women - more education leads to smaller family size - due to many factors;
2. well-fed people have extra resources for proper sanitation (less disease), proper medical care (less disease), and other resources - whereas hungry people not only don't, they also are at increased risk (if children) from catching communicable/infectious disesases and dying off at a higher rate. So the social structure/family adapts by having more kids, since fewer will tend to survive. Part of why recent immigrant families tend to have larger family sizes - it was a survival characteristic.
and the practical implications of biochemical studies due to having a diet rich in olive oil, or one that replaces other fats with olive oil at an equal or lesser rate.
Now that would be interesting to see - instead of mayo that's chemically processed, perhaps one could have a better oil used in the first place...
> You can't "solve" the world's food problem. You give humanity more food, you get more humans. And these supplementary humans need more food.
The problem is that policy makers tend to be like CEOs - they see only the next quarter (or at most year). They don't understand that "curing" a disease means that the infectious parasite - which probably has more than one host - will just reroute and evolve to find another pathway - which means cures only last 20-30 years on average before they start gaining resistances.
And when they hear about people starving due to food spoilage, they try to make food that never goes bad, without asking why the population is increasing in the first place, and what will happen if instead of 50 percent death rates a society with large families suddenly has 0.5 percent death rates. They fail to understand the burden on a typical family skyrockets, as the number of surviving children increases beyond the capacity of the family adults to feed them.
It's all connected. You mess with something, you need to understand what else impacts the system.
I have a 45 watt CPU. I'm going to assume for simplicity's sake that all other power drain is roughly equal and they only burning CPU time. We'll say, for the ease of the numbers, it burns 4 watts idle, so the ramp up to full cpu is 41 watts. That gives me 1 Kilowatt-hour per day. I pay about 8 cents a kilowatt-hour. So the way I figure it, for my two computers, I'm donating about $2.40 a month to cancer research with folding@home.
So long as you keep your monitor turned off, your power drain should be reasonable, although you might want to factor in any power used to cool your place if it makes it warm. On the other hand, during the winter, this should reduce your heating needs, so it may be a wash or net benefit.
Don't forget to deduct it as a charitable donation to research...
Folding@home is hosted by Stanford University and studies protein folding, a biochemical process with implications for fighting disease.)
Amusingly, our structural predictions based on protein folding are just down the hallway from me, in the Baker Labs, which uses a lot of cheap Linux computers to get even better results.
I think Baker's predictions rank usually 2nd to 5th, and the Stanford predictions are below that rank.
It's great to see everyone trying to get all this done!
it's all the buzz at primary, middle, and high school.
A lot of kids can't have - or aren't allowed to - raise puppies/dogs, so my guess is this one is going to really do well - to the point where people will sign up for "dog-walks" and "puppy training".
iPod is the walkman of the '00s. Other players will catch up by the end of the decade though, and then it will turn into a market like '90s walkman clones. The marketplace will still be defined by the term iPod though.
Um, what's a walkman? Is that some kind of pedometer?
My point is that my Rio works fine after that many years, and I used it a lot for the first year that I had it.
The power usage is minimal, it hasn't stopped working due to some design flaw, and the only thing I might want to do is get a fresh battery at some point.
They built well.
But disposable electronics is something that all advanced societies need to deal with, as we see in that recent Robots! movie. Disposable societies without recycling and reuse inherently are unstable and run up against a brick wall - sometimes literally.
Doing a case mod of an old MacSE is better than tossing it in the river - those things have mercury and other heavy metals in them.
seriously, it's like half my bandwidth is going to some moronic animated ad or a video ad, and all it makes me want to do is avoid that company forever.
and then throw sound in and I get really miffed.
whoever thought it was a good idea obviously has never watched pop-up videos on MTV2 - the only reason it's funny is they keep popping up and getting in the way and it reminds you of how you hate that kind of thing.
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most of the lawyers i know are female, so that probably has something to do with it. plus last night was a steamy episode on that lawyer show ...
Yes, it does appear to be a case of prior art in some ways, but that never stopped a patent in this country.
.... muh hah hah hah hah ....
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I for one welcome our ancient insane patent overlords
yes, there was a law that went thru Congress just this summer. But, you raise a good point, I don't know for certain that it also went thru the Senate nor that it was signed by the Kaiser, so I can't for certain say that it is provably illegal to install spyware, intentionally or (hah!) unintentionally.
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Unlike some people, IANAL. But I fantasize about them on occassion, provided they're female
Seriously. Corps here in the USA are constantly allowed to "push the bar" as far as they can. Consumer opinion need not apply. Why is is OK for a "capitalistic" company to personally allowed to cost you money/time, yet if a private person does it, it is a "crime"?
Last time I checked it was illegal to create spyware.
Sadly, you do point out that the execs at the corporation don't go to jail.
If it's the source of worms, we should hunt down and capture them.
Not the worms, the worm creators.
Um, we're not on Arakeen, are we?-)
Clearly we must ban this "money" immediately if it encourages criminal behavior.
... um, are you sure that's not "eat" worms?
Exactly, if in fact it is the root of all worm designs, then we should make it worthless.
.
.
I for one welcome our new overpaying tech overlords, even if they they make us create worms for fun and profit
Roll your own, this is a no brainer for anyone with a food processor. With a mixer or blender it is slightly tricker but can still be done - and even if it fails, it still tastes great.
Yes, but what about the seven year lifespan of the "food"? Can an olive oil mixture operate that long, are there any conditions that need to be present - or not present - for it to be "stable"? And will it taste "better"? Will it taste "better" now - in a week - in a month - in a year - in X years?
Will it break down in such a way that it creates mutagens or other substances which can be harmful - or harmful to certain individuals [such as peanut oils - perhaps there are people alergic to olive oil - or to the byproducts of olive oil after five years in a "sandwich"?
I don't know.
In truth, it is likely that the probe will never return to Earth, unless it has some means of propulsion and control to bring it back.
....
More likely to turn into a small comet or somesuch.
Now, if we pack it's small nuclear reactor with enough plutonium and time it right, we can have a definite timeline for when the comet crashed into earth and destroyed all of humanity
> I can see it now, it's been 20,000 years and someone actually intercepts it, decodes it, and due to all the errors introduced the message comes out "We the following hostile lifeforms wish to destroy your race: [list of names] All Your Base Are Belong to US.A."
... or his android ...
Well, to be honest, 20,000 (assume US meaning of comma) years from now, I doubt I'll be particularly concerned about anything.
True. But it will give Captain Kirk a chance to get his shirt ripped and wave the flag in a combat scene
Um, am I the only one wondering what the point of sending a CD is? Apart from the "prestiege" for the people on said CD, if any intelligent life picks it up, they're not exactly going to be able to read it are they?
...
Good point - as recordable media, CDs are notorious for flaking and losing data when exposed to sunlight and temperature extremes.
Now, the sunlight won't be a problem on Pluto, but how the heck are they going to pack a temperature-controlled space heater along for the ride - not to mention have it work for 50,000 years?
Drawing big pictures makes a lot more sense.
I can see it now, it's been 20,000 years and someone actually intercepts it, decodes it, and due to all the errors introduced the message comes out "We the following hostile lifeforms wish to destroy your race: [list of names] All Your Base Are Belong to US.A."
Either that or it says "the following people have signed up to become Soylent Green: [list of names]"
Not only is Pluto not a planet - in fact, it's smaller and has fewer planetary characteristics than a couple of other bodies orbiting the sun which aren't planets - it's also less likely to be visited than, say, Haley's Comet.
.... and just about as useful.
Now, if you wanted to send the latest Nintendo DS version of Nintendogs to Pluto - that might be interesting
Me, I'm sticking with my Chinese land grant on the Moon - more likely to be useful when I become a space farmer, before the rise of the Emperor Karl.
> You give humanity more food, you get more humans.
You didn't pay very close attention in sex ed class, did you?
But seriously, you are wrong anyhow. It's easily observed and well-established that well-fed people have fewer offspring than hungry ones.
Dude, Firegal does the BioNet website, I think she knows about that.
And what you're claiming to be well-fed people versus hungry ones is an observation that is impacted by:
1. education of women/girls in well-fed families is higher than in hungry families - the highest statistical correlation between family size is education of girls/women - more education leads to smaller family size - due to many factors;
2. well-fed people have extra resources for proper sanitation (less disease), proper medical care (less disease), and other resources - whereas hungry people not only don't, they also are at increased risk (if children) from catching communicable/infectious disesases and dying off at a higher rate. So the social structure/family adapts by having more kids, since fewer will tend to survive. Part of why recent immigrant families tend to have larger family sizes - it was a survival characteristic.
3. oh, forget it, that's enough for now.
and the practical implications of biochemical studies due to having a diet rich in olive oil, or one that replaces other fats with olive oil at an equal or lesser rate.
...
Now that would be interesting to see - instead of mayo that's chemically processed, perhaps one could have a better oil used in the first place
> You can't "solve" the world's food problem. You give humanity more food, you get more humans. And these supplementary humans need more food.
The problem is that policy makers tend to be like CEOs - they see only the next quarter (or at most year). They don't understand that "curing" a disease means that the infectious parasite - which probably has more than one host - will just reroute and evolve to find another pathway - which means cures only last 20-30 years on average before they start gaining resistances.
And when they hear about people starving due to food spoilage, they try to make food that never goes bad, without asking why the population is increasing in the first place, and what will happen if instead of 50 percent death rates a society with large families suddenly has 0.5 percent death rates. They fail to understand the burden on a typical family skyrockets, as the number of surviving children increases beyond the capacity of the family adults to feed them.
It's all connected. You mess with something, you need to understand what else impacts the system.
I have a 45 watt CPU. I'm going to assume for simplicity's sake that all other power drain is roughly equal and they only burning CPU time. We'll say, for the ease of the numbers, it burns 4 watts idle, so the ramp up to full cpu is 41 watts. That gives me 1 Kilowatt-hour per day. I pay about 8 cents a kilowatt-hour. So the way I figure it, for my two computers, I'm donating about $2.40 a month to cancer research with folding@home.
...
So long as you keep your monitor turned off, your power drain should be reasonable, although you might want to factor in any power used to cool your place if it makes it warm. On the other hand, during the winter, this should reduce your heating needs, so it may be a wash or net benefit.
Don't forget to deduct it as a charitable donation to research
Folding@home is hosted by Stanford University and studies protein folding, a biochemical process with implications for fighting disease.)
Amusingly, our structural predictions based on protein folding are just down the hallway from me, in the Baker Labs, which uses a lot of cheap Linux computers to get even better results.
I think Baker's predictions rank usually 2nd to 5th, and the Stanford predictions are below that rank.
It's great to see everyone trying to get all this done!
it's all the buzz at primary, middle, and high school.
A lot of kids can't have - or aren't allowed to - raise puppies/dogs, so my guess is this one is going to really do well - to the point where people will sign up for "dog-walks" and "puppy training".
Hot cocoa has three times more antioxidants than coffee or tea and doesn't taste like a cup of ass juice.
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I think you mean Hot cocoa, rich in sugar and milk solids
The optimal drink would be a steaming hot cup of drinking chocolate, using dark chocolate (not milk chocolate), and perhaps mixed with coffee.
As to taste - you do know that there are many types of coffee blends, right? Heck, my local grocery store carries about 26 major blends/beans.
It's up to you what it tastes like. You can even add sugar-free syrups to it, if you don't want to much sugar (generally a bad idea) in your diet.
have to agree, i tend to turn the sound off too, for a lot of reasons.
can you imagine a coffee shop full of people with voice-enabled ads?
sounds like a good excuse to spill coffee on their keyboards.
ones where, should they use voice, we can use voice and it sounds in our chosen executive's office or boardroom.
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Hey, two can play at this game
There's a reason it isn't called Riocasting ...
iPod is the walkman of the '00s. Other players will catch up by the end of the decade though, and then it will turn into a market like '90s walkman clones. The marketplace will still be defined by the term iPod though.
Um, what's a walkman? Is that some kind of pedometer?
The... trash can? Boo hoo environment.
My point is that my Rio works fine after that many years, and I used it a lot for the first year that I had it.
The power usage is minimal, it hasn't stopped working due to some design flaw, and the only thing I might want to do is get a fresh battery at some point.
They built well.
But disposable electronics is something that all advanced societies need to deal with, as we see in that recent Robots! movie. Disposable societies without recycling and reuse inherently are unstable and run up against a brick wall - sometimes literally.
Doing a case mod of an old MacSE is better than tossing it in the river - those things have mercury and other heavy metals in them.
since they can't justify it any other way.
sad, very sad.
Commander: I have to go to the bathroom now.
Squadron Leader1: Me too
Squadron Leader2: OMFG! We're under attack you newbs!
by the by, do you live in Fremont? just wondering cause of your sig ...
seriously, it's like half my bandwidth is going to some moronic animated ad or a video ad, and all it makes me want to do is avoid that company forever.
and then throw sound in and I get really miffed.
whoever thought it was a good idea obviously has never watched pop-up videos on MTV2 - the only reason it's funny is they keep popping up and getting in the way and it reminds you of how you hate that kind of thing.