Yes, it is patented. It, and the whole class of drugs in its catgeory - Cationic Steroid Antibiotics ("CSA") , has been exclusively licensed by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, inc. from Prof. Savage at Brigham Young University.
In my opinion, this is a big dog & pony show based upon very initial findings.
"Ceragenix has licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to a patented new class of small molecule compounds from its developer, Professor Paul B. Savage at Brigham Young University."
IF the claims are reproducible, this is a major medical breakthrough and will place Prof. Savage among such immortals as Jonas Salk. However, I'll wait for the independent verification before getting excited though.
AOL and Yahoo would get a cut of the fees charged by Goodmail.
What a surprise that AOL & Yahoo are doing this. They can proclaim that they are "fighting spam" and be paid for it at the same time. This does absolutely nothing to stop the zombie networks hemorrhaging spam or the bulk mailers in countries with lax - no UCE laws.
The money doesn't pass to the user receiving the 'solicited' commercial bulk mail, but rather to the email provider. This will simply create a new class of "legitimate" spam; equivalent to the "Addressed to Occupant" bulk mail that floods the snail mailbox.
Is it possible for you to move a multiton boulder along a flat stretch of land by pushing it yourself? No. However, it is possible to dislodge such a boulder from a precarious perch.
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.
The end result is an incoming bittorrent tagged stream and an outgoing line noise stream with some token placeholder tags. That prevents it from being birectional noise, but how does it achieve the stated goal of evading the ISP's bandwidth throttle?
ahhh... slashdot - where serious questions are modded as Funny.
That little bit of ineptitude is nowhere in the article; so the blame passes to the submitter.
"10 times thinner / (less in any form or fashion)" is exactly like saying "300% less". It is an ridiculous statement made by a math illiterate. It is, by definition, impossible for anything to lose more than 100% of it's value.
People see the statement "3 times larger" and, because they can barely add 2+2 without an electronic calculator, they think "3 times smaller" is a valid statement.
(This probably won't be helpful to your present problem, unless something along this line of thought already exists.)
I wonder how well a method such as bittorrent adapted to streaming data would do - i.e. decentralized streaming.
The first few viewers receive the stream directly from the source, while acting as mirrors for subsequent viewers. It would dramatically cut down on the server load & overhead for the broadcasters.
Web applications that depend on the browser enforcing much will offer many opportunities for mischief.
That is true regardless of what the exact nature of the issue is. Never trust user provided input.
Expecting, not just a specific third-party program but, an entire class of programs to maintain your data integrity & overall security is sheer laziness or plain incomptence.
I'm flummoxed as to how global warming (average surface temperature of the globe rises) leads to global cooling (average surface temperature of the globe falls).
A homeostatic system overcompensating for a perturbance is how that seemingly paradox comes about. It's not unique. Think about the human body fighting an infection, an automatic self-defense mechanism, by raising it's temperature to lethally high levels.
The global avg. temp rises, so the global weather system (water & air currents) alters itself automatically to return to "where it was" like a spring. However, like a spring, the changes won't immeadiately stop once "where it was" is reached.
Global warming does not mean that every point on the planet uniformly gets hotter. It means that more energy is added to the system. The weather patterns then spread this around. This increased energy means higher highs & lower lows as the homeostatic system that is the planet's weather system attempts to compensate and return to "where it was" just like a oscillating spring does.
We can debate until we are blue in the face whether or not Humanity is causing it, but global warming is happening.
You religiously put all your sensitive docs into the to-be-shredded container instead of the usual recycle bin (but people will still inadvertently put critical info in the regular recycle bins from time to time)?
The last financial services company I worked at didn't have a "regular recycle" bin. Everything went into the shred container - internal company docs & take-out restaurant menus alike. Posted above it was a news article about dumpster diving and company's losing invaluable data because of it.
As for the topic of the article...
If you don't trust your employees to not walk off with company data, no level of "security measures" will prevent it & give you peace of mind. If they want to, they will.
We had 2 color televisions with cable. "Why?," you ask? because there is literally NO OTHER WAY OF ESCAPE in a society that focuses around entertainment!
I call utter BS!
They're called libraries. You walk in, get a library card and walk out with a book *AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU*. After you've finished that book, return it and get another one - *still free*! Nowadays, there are almost always free internet connections available as well.
Don't give me that crap about "You just don't know what it's like." I used to have to take my showers, so I could look presentable at menial labor job interviews, at the local campground because I couldn't afford to pay the water bill - much less the cable TV bill.
Stop blaming society for not holding your hand through *every* point in your "oh, woe is me - I'm so pathetic" life.
Maybe it's time for a new moderation choice, "-1 Meta Discussion" or "-1 Slashdot Discussion"
How do those choices not fall under "-1 Offtopic"? Not trolling - honestly curious. The only benefit I can see would be for those who want to filter *in* those comments.
And precisely where you do think the oil comes from - Peanut Oil, Canola Oil, etc....
er... Yeah. However, those are quite a bit different, philosophically if not empirically, than the black stuff that bubbles out of the ground and people go to war over.
Biodiesel also produces fewer pollutants then petro-diesel, so there really isn't any "just a fancy name" about it.
Biodiesel is just a fancy name of a mixture of oil and either ethanol, kerosene, or petro-diesel.
That is just flat-out wrong.
Biodiesel >> Biodiesel is fuel made from renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. It is biodegradable and non-toxic, and has significantly fewer emissions than petroleum-based diesel when burned. >>
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have you ever tried to get DSL service without phone service?
Click that link at the top of the page that says "Broadband" and choose their, i.e. SpeakEasy's, OneLink service. It works just fine.
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The developer of the Polio vaccine.
Salk bio
Yes, it is patented. It, and the whole class of drugs in its catgeory - Cationic Steroid Antibiotics ("CSA") , has been exclusively licensed by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, inc. from Prof. Savage at Brigham Young University.
In my opinion, this is a big dog & pony show based upon very initial findings.
This is being promoted by Ceragenix Pharmaceuticals, inc.. Here is the press release behind this article - Novel Drug Compound Kills Multiple HIV Strains.
"Ceragenix has licensed the exclusive worldwide rights to a patented new class of small molecule compounds from its developer, Professor Paul B. Savage at Brigham Young University."
IF the claims are reproducible, this is a major medical breakthrough and will place Prof. Savage among such immortals as Jonas Salk. However, I'll wait for the independent verification before getting excited though.
AOL and Yahoo would get a cut of the fees charged by Goodmail.
What a surprise that AOL & Yahoo are doing this. They can proclaim that they are "fighting spam" and be paid for it at the same time. This does absolutely nothing to stop the zombie networks hemorrhaging spam or the bulk mailers in countries with lax - no UCE laws.
The money doesn't pass to the user receiving the 'solicited' commercial bulk mail, but rather to the email provider. This will simply create a new class of "legitimate" spam; equivalent to the "Addressed to Occupant" bulk mail that floods the snail mailbox.
Is it possible for you to move a multiton boulder along a flat stretch of land by pushing it yourself? No. However, it is possible to dislodge such a boulder from a precarious perch.
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
Global CO2 Emissions
Historical carbon dioxide record from the Vostok ice core
Earth's atmosphere
The end result is an incoming bittorrent tagged stream and an outgoing line noise stream with some token placeholder tags. That prevents it from being birectional noise, but how does it achieve the stated goal of evading the ISP's bandwidth throttle?
ahhh... slashdot - where serious questions are modded as Funny.
How would that prevent it from being lots of bidirectional line noise?
ten or more times thinner
That little bit of ineptitude is nowhere in the article; so the blame passes to the submitter.
"10 times thinner / (less in any form or fashion)" is exactly like saying "300% less". It is an ridiculous statement made by a math illiterate. It is, by definition, impossible for anything to lose more than 100% of it's value.
People see the statement "3 times larger" and, because they can barely add 2+2 without an electronic calculator, they think "3 times smaller" is a valid statement.
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(This probably won't be helpful to your present problem, unless something along this line of thought already exists.)
I wonder how well a method such as bittorrent adapted to streaming data would do - i.e. decentralized streaming.
The first few viewers receive the stream directly from the source, while acting as mirrors for subsequent viewers. It would dramatically cut down on the server load & overhead for the broadcasters.
Which means it will drag the entire nation down with it. It is the, well - one of the, albatross(es) around the neck of the US Gov.
If you don't know what that means - Idiom: Albatross around your neck
Another analogy would be:
It is the gold that they refuse to let go as they sink ever deeper.
Web applications that depend on the browser enforcing much will offer many opportunities for mischief.
That is true regardless of what the exact nature of the issue is. Never trust user provided input.
Expecting, not just a specific third-party program but, an entire class of programs to maintain your data integrity & overall security is sheer laziness or plain incomptence.
I'm flummoxed as to how global warming (average surface temperature of the globe rises) leads to global cooling (average surface temperature of the globe falls).
A homeostatic system overcompensating for a perturbance is how that seemingly paradox comes about. It's not unique. Think about the human body fighting an infection, an automatic self-defense mechanism, by raising it's temperature to lethally high levels.
The global avg. temp rises, so the global weather system (water & air currents) alters itself automatically to return to "where it was" like a spring. However, like a spring, the changes won't immeadiately stop once "where it was" is reached.
Global warming does not mean that every point on the planet uniformly gets hotter. It means that more energy is added to the system. The weather patterns then spread this around. This increased energy means higher highs & lower lows as the homeostatic system that is the planet's weather system attempts to compensate and return to "where it was" just like a oscillating spring does.
We can debate until we are blue in the face whether or not Humanity is causing it, but global warming is happening.
You religiously put all your sensitive docs into the to-be-shredded container instead of the usual recycle bin (but people will still inadvertently put critical info in the regular recycle bins from time to time)?
The last financial services company I worked at didn't have a "regular recycle" bin. Everything went into the shred container - internal company docs & take-out restaurant menus alike. Posted above it was a news article about dumpster diving and company's losing invaluable data because of it.
As for the topic of the article...
If you don't trust your employees to not walk off with company data, no level of "security measures" will prevent it & give you peace of mind. If they want to, they will.
We had 2 color televisions with cable. "Why?," you ask? because there is literally NO OTHER WAY OF ESCAPE in a society that focuses around entertainment!
I call utter BS!
They're called libraries. You walk in, get a library card and walk out with a book *AT NO ADDITIONAL COST TO YOU*. After you've finished that book, return it and get another one - *still free*! Nowadays, there are almost always free internet connections available as well.
Don't give me that crap about "You just don't know what it's like." I used to have to take my showers, so I could look presentable at menial labor job interviews, at the local campground because I couldn't afford to pay the water bill - much less the cable TV bill.
Stop blaming society for not holding your hand through *every* point in your "oh, woe is me - I'm so pathetic" life.
I wouldn't be too surprised if these schmucks did know that they are selling a bio-battery (lemon/potato/etc..).
It is just a scam to fleece some science-incompentent investors - like enraging city councils over the evils of dihydrogen monoxide.
Maybe it's time for a new moderation choice, "-1 Meta Discussion" or "-1 Slashdot Discussion"
How do those choices not fall under "-1 Offtopic"? Not trolling - honestly curious. The only benefit I can see would be for those who want to filter *in* those comments.
Because we know that the people in that agency, even more so their IT dept., know absolutely nothing about how computers work.
National Air & Space Administration
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NASA website (notice the
They are now, and always have been, a part of the US government.
That, or one of the other 50-300 people who applied for the job got it.
And precisely where you do think the oil comes from - Peanut Oil, Canola Oil, etc....
er... Yeah. However, those are quite a bit different, philosophically if not empirically, than the black stuff that bubbles out of the ground and people go to war over.
Biodiesel also produces fewer pollutants then petro-diesel, so there really isn't any "just a fancy name" about it.
FUD about water-powered vehicles aside ...
Biodiesel is just a fancy name of a mixture of oil and either ethanol, kerosene, or petro-diesel.
That is just flat-out wrong.
Biodiesel
>>
Biodiesel is fuel made from renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. It is biodegradable and non-toxic, and has significantly fewer emissions than petroleum-based diesel when burned.
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have you ever tried to get DSL service without phone service?
Click that link at the top of the page that says "Broadband" and choose their, i.e. SpeakEasy's, OneLink service. It works just fine.
There needs to be a simple click to select, shift+click to multiple select.
This is how it works already.
Click one box, scroll down the page, hold down the shift key and click another box. All of the rows inbetween are selected.
They know your email contents
If you're that paranoid, use PGP/GnuPG. Otherwise, don't use Gmail or any other portal or search-engine based email service (Yahoo, MSN, etc..).