Hypertension has always been associated with a higer risk for Ischemic Stroke (CVA). Whereas high cholesterol has been associated with corornary infarctions (because of artherscelerosis).
This article suggests that the underlying principle underlying both, is the same (clogging of arteries). Which for me as a med-student is pretty damn cool to read, since the hypertension-CVA connection is pretty poorly understood.
P.S. Artherosclerosis is caused by white bloodcells being absorbed into the blood wall and consequently absorbing cholesterol (thereby getting trapped). So it's actually very similar.
If you have the misfortune of owning a passport from a non-EU county other than Canada, The USA, New Zealand, Australia or Japan, then you MUST learn Dutch before you enter the country
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Alyhough the way you tell it, the immigration-zourse does sound lame (it was supposed to convey our values of emancipation and equality).
Oh, and yes you can apply for citizenship in the Netherlands but ONLY if you agree to give up your other citizenship. Anyone who tells you otherwise (that it's possible to keep your birth country citizenship) hasn't actually tried to do it recently.
Dual citizenship isn't possible for any combination. A combination of Dutch and German citizenship hasn't been possible since WWII. Several political parties are advocating completely removing the dual citizenship system for the upcoming election.
I'm leaving here as soon as I can
It sounds like you just made a bad choice in coming here, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. However, if you retain this negative attitude how could things ever work out for you here?
I was born in Portugal, I've been a Dutchman for about 20 years now and I love my country. I too am frustrated with its people sometimes, but I can't really think of a better place for me.
I think your exaggerating the situation here just a little. I know for a fact that it is unconstitutional for the geovernment to take away someones passport if that leaves them without a country. The only exception I know of is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who now has her passport back (which was taken away on a technicality, because she lied about her name).
For $100 million dollars, a lot of people have talked about buying existing textbooks for education, but what about using the money to start the creation of new ones that are designed from the ground up in the wiki format.
I agree, it seems a much better idea, to 'hire' several experts to make good edits (and pay them on dollar for byte basis).
Isn't it a much better idea to add to what's out there instead of just making one version of the truth a whole lot cheaper?
Plus if there is good free information out there, that you can study from, and pass a test with. Publishers will have to drop their prices.
Having said that, I think that this (still hypothetical) donation has a political motivation. So they'll probably go with 'freeing' something (and so only rewarding, and putting more money into the copyright monster).
If this is true then this is madness, and needs to be challenged before it spreads.
Too late, In my country (the Netherlands) we allready have this silly little law, and many other contries do too.
The foundation that's supposed redistribute the funds to artists is under alot of fire though. They lost about 30% playing on the stock-market, and it's unclear how it's determined who gets what.
Meanwhile I just choose to import levy-free dvd's from Germany. Shipping isn't even a factor, I can buy the same quantities I buy in a normal store, and it'll still be half the price.
Many people in my country don't even know this levy exists though, they just except the price, and since that's what everybody's charging, it's completely acceptable to them.
Also, the ad isn't going to resonate with anybody. 99.95% of the population doesn't believe that all software needs to be free, and certainly even less understand what that means, since most people who discuss the matter and clamor to the call don't actually understand what it means.
The ad just isn't going to work on the general public, and it's too soon, there isn't the grassroots support for it. They should wait a year or two until they have their own head of steam, and don't have to ride FireFox's coattails.
Well ads actually work, because they make you look serious, professional and like a big corporation.
The largest problem FOSS is strugling with is its image that it's all made by amateurs, which make it seem unreliable. When it comes to things like this, a big corporate image will do good, and people will remember it. Plus when you do something like this people will write stories and talk about it.
The add seems to be in the wrong place though. Plus it look horrendous, if I were OO.o I would veto this, since it will only end up hurting them.
how many ways can these pictures be hidden?
zip, rar, and other compression formats
encrpyted
hidden inside other files (stenography)
the list goes on...
these people should learn, you cant fight the internet
Plus, aren't these people all using Freenet? Or won't they all just start using it when this happens?
The Dutch police has allready admitted that they can't do anything about what happens on freenet. Which is really what free-speech is all about I guess.
Unfortunately, this particular lab was working with curly-wing and wingless mutants, so the freed flies took a few tottering steps, then fell out of their open tubes and collected on the floor.
Lab animals being set free often end up like that. They've been in labs for their entire lifespan (which is required, because all the variables need to be known and controllable), and they don't know how to fend for them selves. All those mice being set free usually just curl up somewhere and die. They don't really know how to look for food (they just nibble everything), and they don't know to run from predators.
Animal rights activists don't usually know anything about animals/nature. Animal rights acivists got egg collecting (from a rare species of bird, that lays it's eggs in fields) banned here last year. What they didn't know was, that when the colletors collected the first batch (which usually freezes to death) they put a flag near the nests so the farmer wouldn't drive over it. So all those years it was the egg collecting sustaining their existance (farmers don't go around putting flags near nests just for the heck of it, they've go 'better' things to do.
Helps explain OpenBSD's stance on not having blobs, they'd have been able to audit the driver code, and fix it quicker to boot.
My thoughts exactly. Even if this exploit creeped in to the drivers, it'll be fixed byt tomorrow (or as soon as the ppl explain how the exploit works). Others will be waiting for weeks for a binary release from wifi vendors. And the vendors'll keep quiet about it, because they don't want to lose face.
People call Theo de Raadt a hardass for his stance on blobs. Torvalds calls him "difficult", but in the end he's right.
An OS that wants to be secure can't include code or grant rights to code, of whcih it doesn't know the source. How can you call something secure, if you've got a large piece of code with lots of rights and you don't know what the hell it does?
The concern on X-Ray radiation is not the radiation the patient gets, but the one the radiologist is exposed to on a daily basis
Very little radiation can still be damaging (like one fiber of asbestos can get you cancer (of the plura, not the lung). It's a cost benefit thing.
You can't set a leg without taking an x-ray. The radiation exposure is small cost compared to walking around with a broken leg for the rest of your life. Minimizing exposure to radiation is still a good thing, and worthwhile. Especially since some patients have very complicated fractures that heal very difficultly, so they have to take many many many x-rays.
Data on Flash memory (e.g. usb drives) has a tendancy to burn in. The longer it's in there the more it burns in. There's no real way to counter this. The only way to theoretically wipe it is to do several passes each a few weeks apart.
So you'd have to really completeley destroy the drive. which basically means something like thermite, which, as the submitter mentioned, is unsuitable for aircrafts.
Everytime I hear of the milatary using these (and losing them, which they seem to do regularly), it pisses me off. They must have had an IT guy telling to never use that stuff, and to encrypt their data. For some reason the higher ups just seem to not get the point, and they still use it, and leave them behind in their rented cars.
sickle-cell anemia True... (black) people who are suffering from this dicease
probably won't be able to be the next Michael Johnson
but iirc sickle-cell anemia is a mutation that protected them against malaria
Sickle cell anemia doesn't protect anybody against malaria.
Sickle cell anemia is caused by a recessive mutation in one of the genes that encodes a particular globine proteïne.
When it occurs homozygotically, the allel causes sickle cell amenia. Red blood cells are sickle shaped, and can't bind oxygen as well. Results in short breath, higher bp, and basically an earlyer death (your hart has to work harder).
When this allel occurs heterozygotically (one mutation in one chromosome, the other chromosome still caries the dominant wild-type verson of the gene), it causes more resistance to malaria. But the red blood cells (hemoglobine) still binds oxygen as it would in anybody else.
Sickle cell anemia doens't have anything to do with malaria. Increased resistance just explains its prevalance.
... the new debian project leader acepts a legal arangement with Sun, without running it by their legal consultants. And when their legal consultants complain that they would like to have been consulted. The new Debian project leader says something like if you don't like it, you an pack up your sh*t and leave.
SPI is right to be pissed. They're Debians legal representation, and if some guy makes a stupid decission, without consulting them, it'll look baad for THEM (and not Debian). The legal implications of this thing could be huge.And as the guy said, you can't trust Sun to look iut for Debians best interests.
Absolutely true, the Wii doesn't have HD, and most people at home don't have HD. So X360 and PS3 need to precess about four times the pixels the Wii has to, and most people won't even see the difference (since they don't have HD sets).
I don't know if 4 times more pixels means you need 4 time the power, but you definately need more power. So the Wii just might push out graphics (nearly) as nice as the X360, at a much lower price tag, and with awesome innovative gameplay.
If you shop around, Lenovo still ships laptops without a windows license, they just stopped loading linux.
Some countries don't allow pc's to be shipped without an OS though (to parry infringement)h so IBM used to ship them with the good ol' IBM dos (or something else that as its copyright expired).
Copyright protection isn't a major political issue in the Netherlands. We've got two detectives (yes really, two) doing research on kiddie porn. So I doubt they will send fifty detectives them to one of the biggest providers in our country.
I also think the people will be more concerned with other things that are happening on our country right now (e.g. perverts establishing their own political party). So there won't be any support for raids in our country either (and we've got elections in a year, and the minister of justice's part isn't doing well at all). Anti-americanism is probably just as wide-spread here as it is in Sweden.
I doubt what thepiratebay is doing is illegal in our country, downloading is legal, uploading isn't. I don't know how torrents fit into that, but it isn't uploading, so...
And several other big torrent sites (mininova, torrentspy) and non-torrent piracy sites (nforce.nl) are based here, and have been for a long time.
Exactley, searching through two years of (pgp encoded) data is impossible. Especially if people make sure there's a lot of it (by seeding linux iso's for instance). And stopping terrorism (which I'm presuming this bill is being 'marketed' with) is even more impossible.
This does nothing, the criminals will start using encryption, and we'll have to start paying our ISP's for all that storage. It will only make the internet more expensive and Western Digital a lot richer.
Near light speed travel is a prett cool achievement, but it's completeley useless, here's why:
We can't go faster than light (the speed of light is the maximum speed of "things in the universe" light just happens to travel that fast, simply because it can't go any faster). But even at light speed th closest galaxies are still years away, so we really can't 'go anywhere'
Even at short range this is still probablamatic. A ship can't accelerate to the speed of light too quickly otherwise all of its passengers (and equipment that's not bolted down) will crash into the rear bulkhead (because of your momentum, you won't accelerate as fast as the ship. Even if you're strapped in, accelerating too fast will cause MAJOR dammage to your internal organs.). You'd have to spend several hours accellerating, and then decellerating, so a trip to mars would still take a long time.
Some years ago (may have even been 2000) I was testing beta's (bug tracking) for a fan mod of StarGate SG1 for HalfLife, it was to have a story-mode as well as a multiplayer-mode (but focussing on the story mode).
It was pretty far along when it was shut down, because the rights to make the game had been sold.
If this game is as far along as eveybody says it was, it might still have a chance. I would porbably still get it, even if it wasn't really good. I would just love to fire one of them staff-weapons...
The Current US GPS system only allows hardware to use the signals from GPS sattelites to triangulate it's own position.
Galileo, however, also allows for hardware to send data to the sattelites, and this opens up a number of possibilities.
Distress signals
looking up free parking spaces in a city (this is said to be one of the possibilities, howerver I don't see it working in a city like Manhattan)
looking up the nearest KFC's, yes advertising, that's a good way to get your 4 billion dollar missile guidance system paid for, Europeans understand kapitalism too you know.
hacking attempts, however if you're not carefull it will allow ESA admins to triangilate your position as well
Being a Dutchman, maybe I can shed some light on this.
The reason this system was thought up, is to prevent goverment agencies, like social services, from losing sight of children that are in trouble. Too often families which need serious supervision and help, don't get it. Simply because they moved to a different city, and the approiate agencies are completely unaware that there is a problem.
Not too recently some psycho mom killed her childeren (I forgot the specifics), eventhough authoroties were aware that she needed help, but the people who could do something about it all, didn't have the right information.
I seriously doubt that this system could be exploited to cause harm, but I don't think anybody should be able to view all information except for that persons/family case worker. Schools and police could quite easily add flags without getting to know anything else about a child.
Besides, I can't really think of a system that would be able to do the same job, and not have any of the cons. Child abuse is a serious problem, and it still happens a lot more than any of us realise (and how lucky we are).
I don't think the citizen's service number could cause any difficoulties, I've had a social seceruty number since I was about ten, so this isn't such a strech.
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This article suggests that the underlying principle underlying both, is the same (clogging of arteries). Which for me as a med-student is pretty damn cool to read, since the hypertension-CVA connection is pretty poorly understood.
P.S. Artherosclerosis is caused by white bloodcells being absorbed into the blood wall and consequently absorbing cholesterol (thereby getting trapped). So it's actually very similar.
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. Alyhough the way you tell it, the immigration-zourse does sound lame (it was supposed to convey our values of emancipation and equality).
Dual citizenship isn't possible for any combination. A combination of Dutch and German citizenship hasn't been possible since WWII. Several political parties are advocating completely removing the dual citizenship system for the upcoming election.It sounds like you just made a bad choice in coming here, I'm sorry it didn't work out for you. However, if you retain this negative attitude how could things ever work out for you here?
I was born in Portugal, I've been a Dutchman for about 20 years now and I love my country. I too am frustrated with its people sometimes, but I can't really think of a better place for me.
I think your exaggerating the situation here just a little. I know for a fact that it is unconstitutional for the geovernment to take away someones passport if that leaves them without a country. The only exception I know of is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who now has her passport back (which was taken away on a technicality, because she lied about her name).
I agree, it seems a much better idea, to 'hire' several experts to make good edits (and pay them on dollar for byte basis).
Isn't it a much better idea to add to what's out there instead of just making one version of the truth a whole lot cheaper?
Plus if there is good free information out there, that you can study from, and pass a test with. Publishers will have to drop their prices.
Having said that, I think that this (still hypothetical) donation has a political motivation. So they'll probably go with 'freeing' something (and so only rewarding, and putting more money into the copyright monster).
Too late, In my country (the Netherlands) we allready have this silly little law, and many other contries do too.
The foundation that's supposed redistribute the funds to artists is under alot of fire though. They lost about 30% playing on the stock-market, and it's unclear how it's determined who gets what.
Meanwhile I just choose to import levy-free dvd's from Germany. Shipping isn't even a factor, I can buy the same quantities I buy in a normal store, and it'll still be half the price.
Many people in my country don't even know this levy exists though, they just except the price, and since that's what everybody's charging, it's completely acceptable to them.
For a machine that's more expensive and has less flash and RAM, is there even a reason to pick up a WRT54G?
Well ads actually work, because they make you look serious, professional and like a big corporation.
The largest problem FOSS is strugling with is its image that it's all made by amateurs, which make it seem unreliable. When it comes to things like this, a big corporate image will do good, and people will remember it. Plus when you do something like this people will write stories and talk about it.
The add seems to be in the wrong place though. Plus it look horrendous, if I were OO.o I would veto this, since it will only end up hurting them.
Plus, aren't these people all using Freenet? Or won't they all just start using it when this happens?
The Dutch police has allready admitted that they can't do anything about what happens on freenet. Which is really what free-speech is all about I guess.
Lab animals being set free often end up like that. They've been in labs for their entire lifespan (which is required, because all the variables need to be known and controllable), and they don't know how to fend for them selves. All those mice being set free usually just curl up somewhere and die. They don't really know how to look for food (they just nibble everything), and they don't know to run from predators.
Animal rights activists don't usually know anything about animals/nature. Animal rights acivists got egg collecting (from a rare species of bird, that lays it's eggs in fields) banned here last year. What they didn't know was, that when the colletors collected the first batch (which usually freezes to death) they put a flag near the nests so the farmer wouldn't drive over it. So all those years it was the egg collecting sustaining their existance (farmers don't go around putting flags near nests just for the heck of it, they've go 'better' things to do.
My thoughts exactly. Even if this exploit creeped in to the drivers, it'll be fixed byt tomorrow (or as soon as the ppl explain how the exploit works). Others will be waiting for weeks for a binary release from wifi vendors. And the vendors'll keep quiet about it, because they don't want to lose face.
People call Theo de Raadt a hardass for his stance on blobs. Torvalds calls him "difficult", but in the end he's right.
An OS that wants to be secure can't include code or grant rights to code, of whcih it doesn't know the source. How can you call something secure, if you've got a large piece of code with lots of rights and you don't know what the hell it does?
Very little radiation can still be damaging (like one fiber of asbestos can get you cancer (of the plura, not the lung). It's a cost benefit thing.
You can't set a leg without taking an x-ray. The radiation exposure is small cost compared to walking around with a broken leg for the rest of your life. Minimizing exposure to radiation is still a good thing, and worthwhile. Especially since some patients have very complicated fractures that heal very difficultly, so they have to take many many many x-rays.
Shades of grey, I guess...
Anyway, Brazil seems to be most people's faverote for this cup, so I guess the Aussies did relatively well.
Googleing "flash memory data remanence" brings up many a reference.
I can see how that one would have been too much work for anybody, so I'm glad to hereby provide said references.
Data on Flash memory (e.g. usb drives) has a tendancy to burn in. The longer it's in there the more it burns in. There's no real way to counter this. The only way to theoretically wipe it is to do several passes each a few weeks apart.
So you'd have to really completeley destroy the drive. which basically means something like thermite, which, as the submitter mentioned, is unsuitable for aircrafts.
Everytime I hear of the milatary using these (and losing them, which they seem to do regularly), it pisses me off. They must have had an IT guy telling to never use that stuff, and to encrypt their data. For some reason the higher ups just seem to not get the point, and they still use it, and leave them behind in their rented cars.
I'm too scared it'll be the Goatse man...
Sickle cell anemia doesn't protect anybody against malaria.
Sickle cell anemia is caused by a recessive mutation in one of the genes that encodes a particular globine proteïne.
When it occurs homozygotically, the allel causes sickle cell amenia. Red blood cells are sickle shaped, and can't bind oxygen as well. Results in short breath, higher bp, and basically an earlyer death (your hart has to work harder).
When this allel occurs heterozygotically (one mutation in one chromosome, the other chromosome still caries the dominant wild-type verson of the gene), it causes more resistance to malaria. But the red blood cells (hemoglobine) still binds oxygen as it would in anybody else.
Sickle cell anemia doens't have anything to do with malaria. Increased resistance just explains its prevalance.
SPI is right to be pissed. They're Debians legal representation, and if some guy makes a stupid decission, without consulting them, it'll look baad for THEM (and not Debian). The legal implications of this thing could be huge.And as the guy said, you can't trust Sun to look iut for Debians best interests.
Absolutely true, the Wii doesn't have HD, and most people at home don't have HD. So X360 and PS3 need to precess about four times the pixels the Wii has to, and most people won't even see the difference (since they don't have HD sets).
I don't know if 4 times more pixels means you need 4 time the power, but you definately need more power. So the Wii just might push out graphics (nearly) as nice as the X360, at a much lower price tag, and with awesome innovative gameplay.
I've sure as heck picked my winner.
Some countries don't allow pc's to be shipped without an OS though (to parry infringement)h so IBM used to ship them with the good ol' IBM dos (or something else that as its copyright expired).
I also think the people will be more concerned with other things that are happening on our country right now (e.g. perverts establishing their own political party). So there won't be any support for raids in our country either (and we've got elections in a year, and the minister of justice's part isn't doing well at all). Anti-americanism is probably just as wide-spread here as it is in Sweden.
I doubt what thepiratebay is doing is illegal in our country, downloading is legal, uploading isn't. I don't know how torrents fit into that, but it isn't uploading, so...
And several other big torrent sites (mininova, torrentspy) and non-torrent piracy sites (nforce.nl) are based here, and have been for a long time.
So I doubt they will get raided anytime soon.
This does nothing, the criminals will start using encryption, and we'll have to start paying our ISP's for all that storage. It will only make the internet more expensive and Western Digital a lot richer.
We can't go faster than light (the speed of light is the maximum speed of "things in the universe" light just happens to travel that fast, simply because it can't go any faster). But even at light speed th closest galaxies are still years away, so we really can't 'go anywhere'
Even at short range this is still probablamatic. A ship can't accelerate to the speed of light too quickly otherwise all of its passengers (and equipment that's not bolted down) will crash into the rear bulkhead (because of your momentum, you won't accelerate as fast as the ship. Even if you're strapped in, accelerating too fast will cause MAJOR dammage to your internal organs.). You'd have to spend several hours accellerating, and then decellerating, so a trip to mars would still take a long time.
It was pretty far along when it was shut down, because the rights to make the game had been sold.
If this game is as far along as eveybody says it was, it might still have a chance. I would porbably still get it, even if it wasn't really good. I would just love to fire one of them staff-weapons...
Galileo, however, also allows for hardware to send data to the sattelites, and this opens up a number of possibilities.
The reason this system was thought up, is to prevent goverment agencies, like social services, from losing sight of children that are in trouble. Too often families which need serious supervision and help, don't get it. Simply because they moved to a different city, and the approiate agencies are completely unaware that there is a problem.
Not too recently some psycho mom killed her childeren (I forgot the specifics), eventhough authoroties were aware that she needed help, but the people who could do something about it all, didn't have the right information.
I seriously doubt that this system could be exploited to cause harm, but I don't think anybody should be able to view all information except for that persons/family case worker. Schools and police could quite easily add flags without getting to know anything else about a child.
Besides, I can't really think of a system that would be able to do the same job, and not have any of the cons. Child abuse is a serious problem, and it still happens a lot more than any of us realise (and how lucky we are).
I don't think the citizen's service number could cause any difficoulties, I've had a social seceruty number since I was about ten, so this isn't such a strech.
Or maybe Rosie O'Donnell (Mark 2) has whiped them out by now, I'm not sure...