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You are thinking of codeine which is a morphine, i.e. opium, derivative.
Currently, the medicinal use of cocaine is limited to topical anesthesia of the upper respiratory tract and eye because the vasoconstrictive properties of cocaine are desirable during procedures. Ref
The probability of occurrence of words or other items starts high and tapers off. Thus, a few occur very often while many others occur rarely.
Note: In the English language words like "and," "the," "to," and "of" occur often while words like "undeniable" are rare. This law applies to words in human or computer languages, operating system calls, colors in images, etc., and is the basis of many (if not, all!) compression approaches.
More precisely it is the observation that frequency of occurrence of some event (P), as a function of the rank (i) when the rank is determined by the above frequency of occurrence, is a power-law function P(i) ~ 1/i^a with the exponent a close to unity (1).
Named for Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf.
There is a slight difference between Bonded Sender and Goodmail; with Bonded Sender, the sender is bonded. That is the simple truth rather than an attempt at slight of tongue humor.
Bonded Sender: Post a cash bond and be charged against that bond for any complaints over 1 per million emails sent. Goodmail: Pay for every single email sent regardless of complaints received.
Slashdot would be full of people interested in innovation
This article isn't about innovation. It's about buzzword fanaticism and marketers having wet dreams over The Next Big Thing without realizing that those techniques have been around for years.
Does a boring, old "Web 1.0" site become an Exciting, Hip, New & Improved Web 2.0 site just by using a little CSS & the XMLHttpRequest, er... sorry..., AJAX?
The rallying cry of the ignorant. There is a dramatic & distinct difference between indirect correlation, i.e. synchronicity, and direct correlation, i.e. causation.
Every day I get up when it's dark outside and scratch my arse. Shortly thereafter the sun rises in the sky. However, correlation != causation so I know that scratching my arse does not cause the sun to rise.
After scratching myself, I slam my head into a brick wall. Shortly thereafter I have an intense headache. However, correlation != causation so I know that slamming my head into a brick wall does not cause the headache.
I whole-heartedly agree with you. I was a physics major too; long long ago.
"Remember all that stuff we told about undetectable eavesdropping on a quantum transmission being impossible by definition, well... uhhm... we just did it."
The cable will be "grounded" to the... well... ground. The NASA experiment wasn't grounded - it was just hanging out of the ship; also not grounded.
The charge isn't generated by atmospheric friction, but rather by a electrically-conductive wire passing through a magnetic field; i.e., orbiting shuttle dragging long stretch of wire through the planet's magnetic field.
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland all tied for 1st place.
The USA ranked 44th. (Fell more than 20 places)
China ranked 159th.
The Index also refutes the theory frequently advanced by leaders of poor and repressive countries that economic development is a vital prerequisite for democracy and the respect for human rights. The top portion of the Index is heavily dominated not only by rich, but also by very poor, countries (the latter having a per capita GDP of less than $1,000 in 2003).
When I worked at a gov. office, and every one of my co-workers took smoke breaks, I very insistently took reading breaks. Whenever a manager tried to call me on it, I asked why the smokers could wander off whenever they wanted to.
I do believe I had one boss try to claim that was different because "smoking is an addiction". My response was on the order of "well... reading is my addiction."
'Correlation does not imply causality' seems to be a rallying call. Everybody who says it is giving indirect correlation examples as "proof". I scratch my arse, and the Sun rises in the sky - does that prove I am causing the Sun to rise?
I slam my head into a brick wall and I get a headache. However, 'correlation does not imply causality' so I have yet to figure out why I keep get headaches. [/sarcastic retort]
There is a difference between direct correlation and synchronicity.
I know this is slashdot, and nobody RTFA, but damn...
The article did not say that it was warmer than today 1200 years ago. It said the reliable historic data goes back 1200 years, and the current readings exceed it all in terms of magnitude and extremes.
There has been a 19.4% increase in the mean annual concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from 1959 to 2004.
During the 1959-2002 period, the total CO2 emissions equaled ~220 gigatons; ~14% of the atmospheric CO2 in 1959.
In 2002, Humanity pumped 7 gigatons (6975 megatons) of CO2 into the atmosphere. That is almost 4 times the emissions from 50 years ago (1952: 1795 megatons), and is more than was released from 1751-1886 (136 years: 6732 megatons).
There is a close correlation between Antarctic temperature and atmospheric concentrations of CO2. The extension of the Vostok [antarctic ice core] CO2 record shows the present-day levels of CO2 are unprecedented during the past 420 thousand years.
At least two persons have been arrested for allegedly assaulting a Hindu woman and setting her house on fire in Orissa after she refused to change her religion
International general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad Pravin Togadia and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi received a combined death threat Tuesday... The death threat claiming to be from the "Christian community"
How about the Klu Klux Klan? "Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!"
Want more examples? How about repeated calls for political assasination for religious reasons from Pat Robertson?
Are you going to reply that Christianity as a whole shouldn't be judged by a few extremists who aren't "real" christians? Then why are you condeming the Muslim whole because of a few extremists?
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You are thinking of codeine which is a morphine, i.e. opium, derivative.
Currently, the medicinal use of cocaine is limited to topical anesthesia of the upper respiratory tract and eye because the vasoconstrictive properties of cocaine are desirable during procedures.
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What is not otherwise obvious about using tried & true business methods over a new communication medium?
Would that be the War on Drugs? ... or the War on Poverty? ... or the War on Terrorism? ... or the War on any other abstract concept?
q .bush.speech/index.html
Maybe you're talking about the pre-emptive military occupation of Iraq, otherwise known as Operation Iraqi Freedom.
The United States never declared war on Iraq. Besides, the conflict ended almost 3 years ago.
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended." - George W. Bush (May 2, 2003)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/05/01/sprj.ir
For those as clueless as I was...
Zipf's law
The probability of occurrence of words or other items starts high and tapers off. Thus, a few occur very often while many others occur rarely.
Note: In the English language words like "and," "the," "to," and "of" occur often while words like "undeniable" are rare. This law applies to words in human or computer languages, operating system calls, colors in images, etc., and is the basis of many (if not, all!) compression approaches.
More precisely it is the observation that frequency of occurrence of some event (P), as a function of the rank (i) when the rank is determined by the above frequency of occurrence, is a power-law function P(i) ~ 1/i^a with the exponent a close to unity (1).
Named for Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf.
http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/zipfslaw.html
http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/ZipfsLaw.html
http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/zipf/
At a buck a download... wouldn't they make more off of the album than at the 8 dollars they are selling the thing at Target for?
Not if there is really only one song worth purchasing on the whole album. I've purchased several albums like that.
If it was properly done, the worm would automatically delete itself after x days or after receiving a ping from another white worm
It did delete itself like that according to the virus detail sheet, but it can still easily overwhelm a system.
Whitehat viruses do exist in the wild. However, they too can bring down networks in a DDoS style; even while cleansing the system.
Computer virus infects Air Canada check-in system
W32/Nachi.worm
Spells an English word and uses a .us domain name - check.
Would you care to define similicious? I can't seem to find a definition for it in any dictionary.
"of, relating to, or containing similica or a similicate" doesn't count unless you also define what similica is.
sounds a lot like Bonded Sender
There is a slight difference between Bonded Sender and Goodmail; with Bonded Sender, the sender is bonded. That is the simple truth rather than an attempt at slight of tongue humor.
Bonded Sender: Post a cash bond and be charged against that bond for any complaints over 1 per million emails sent.
Goodmail: Pay for every single email sent regardless of complaints received.
Slashdot would be full of people interested in innovation
This article isn't about innovation. It's about buzzword fanaticism and marketers having wet dreams over The Next Big Thing without realizing that those techniques have been around for years.
Does a boring, old "Web 1.0" site become an Exciting, Hip, New & Improved Web 2.0 site just by using a little CSS & the XMLHttpRequest, er... sorry..., AJAX?
Than he should have lucidly explained his point rather than parroting an inane quip.
Oh, yeah... Slashdot. Never mind.
Correlation != causation.
The rallying cry of the ignorant. There is a dramatic & distinct difference between indirect correlation, i.e. synchronicity, and direct correlation, i.e. causation.
Every day I get up when it's dark outside and scratch my arse. Shortly thereafter the sun rises in the sky. However, correlation != causation so I know that scratching my arse does not cause the sun to rise.
After scratching myself, I slam my head into a brick wall. Shortly thereafter I have an intense headache. However, correlation != causation so I know that slamming my head into a brick wall does not cause the headache.
That is still more physical, and requiring of muscle control, than sitting in a comfy chair tapping keys & moving a mouse.
How many of those who claim that tapping on a keyboard is physical exertion get winded walking up a single flight of stairs?
Thank you for forcing me to go back and re-read the article. I misread it, as did the submitter, and was extremely confused.
The eavesdropper is still detected. The blurb is wrong.
eavesdropping on a quantum encrypted link can now be done without [detection (wrong)] being located
I whole-heartedly agree with you. I was a physics major too; long long ago.
"Remember all that stuff we told about undetectable eavesdropping on a quantum transmission being impossible by definition, well... uhhm... we just did it."
Whatthafu?
The google part is simply hyperbole thrown in by some journalist.
Krugle (created by Ken Krugler - notice the name?) is in no way, shape or form affiliated with Google.
The cable will be "grounded" to the... well... ground. The NASA experiment wasn't grounded - it was just hanging out of the ship; also not grounded.
The charge isn't generated by atmospheric friction, but rather by a electrically-conductive wire passing through a magnetic field; i.e., orbiting shuttle dragging long stretch of wire through the planet's magnetic field.
The Space Tether Experiment
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland all tied for 1st place.
The USA ranked 44th. (Fell more than 20 places)
China ranked 159th.
When I worked at a gov. office, and every one of my co-workers took smoke breaks, I very insistently took reading breaks. Whenever a manager tried to call me on it, I asked why the smokers could wander off whenever they wanted to.
I do believe I had one boss try to claim that was different because "smoking is an addiction". My response was on the order of "well... reading is my addiction."
'Correlation does not imply causality' seems to be a rallying call. Everybody who says it is giving indirect correlation examples as "proof". I scratch my arse, and the Sun rises in the sky - does that prove I am causing the Sun to rise?
I slam my head into a brick wall and I get a headache. However, 'correlation does not imply causality' so I have yet to figure out why I keep get headaches.
[/sarcastic retort]
There is a difference between direct correlation and synchronicity.
I know this is slashdot, and nobody RTFA, but damn...
The article did not say that it was warmer than today 1200 years ago. It said the reliable historic data goes back 1200 years, and the current readings exceed it all in terms of magnitude and extremes.
There has been a 19.4% increase in the mean annual concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere from 1959 to 2004.
During the 1959-2002 period, the total CO2 emissions equaled ~220 gigatons; ~14% of the atmospheric CO2 in 1959.
In 2002, Humanity pumped 7 gigatons (6975 megatons) of CO2 into the atmosphere. That is almost 4 times the emissions from 50 years ago (1952: 1795 megatons), and is more than was released from 1751-1886 (136 years: 6732 megatons).
There is a close correlation between Antarctic temperature and atmospheric concentrations of CO2. The extension of the Vostok [antarctic ice core] CO2 record shows the present-day levels of CO2 are unprecedented during the past 420 thousand years.
Cites:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide record from Mauna Loa [ornl.gov]
Global CO2 Emissions [ornl.gov]
Historical carbon dioxide record from the Vostok ice core [ornl.gov]
Earth's atmosphere [wikipedia.org]
Yes. Notice the foot?
Its Alt text is "It's funny. Laugh."
Do you think that might be a clue?
Wiki article
But, it's alright, because those weren't "real" chrisitans. Ref
50 - 100,000 burned to death or hung Ref
Want recent atrocities?
Two arrested for forcing woman to convert
Togadia, Modi get death threat
Too small of a scale?
Lord's Resistance Army
How about the Klu Klux Klan?
"Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America!"
Want more examples? How about repeated calls for political assasination for religious reasons from Pat Robertson?
Are you going to reply that Christianity as a whole shouldn't be judged by a few extremists who aren't "real" christians? Then why are you condeming the Muslim whole because of a few extremists?