I'm not worried about the dangers of eating GM foods, but I am very concerned about genetic pollution. GM crops inevitably cross-pollinate with other crops nearby, and with wild grasses and plants. It's a bit like someone smoking in a crowded restaurant, everyone else is forced to breathe the smoke whether they like it or not. I don't want to live in a world where natural organisms are a fading memory. GM (Genetic Mutilation) is very different from normal breeding. You can breed a horse with a donkey, but you can never breed a pig with an avocado. Those crazy GM companies can do stupid things like that, combining DNA from totally different organisms. Some scientists seem to think they have the right or obligation to do anything they like in the name of science, however obscene or morally offensive it might be. Monsanto can go to hell. We can send them out of business by lobbying for labeling of all products (not just food) containing GM products.
This patent is nonsense because children's books have been doing things like this forever. Animation is an obvious extension which has no-doubt been done in many, many children's multimedia products.
Patents should be for completely non-obvious things and mechanisms, that would be very unlikely to be rediscovered by someone else. You shouldn't be allowed to patent a discovery. Something like fonts that change colour / size / are animated / morph has been done already, it is fairly obvious, and it's not patent worthy.
The Nokia n900 comes with a mobile browser based on mozilla. It is very responsive and works well on the 600Mhz ARM device. Firefox is still my preferred browser. I found that chrome does not perform so well under heavy load (many tabs open) although this may have changed. And firefox is vastly more configurable and has many more plugins.
Go mozilla, go firefox! Yay for the best browser out there!:)
All the games are fraeking awesome, award winners. Gish has brilliant physics it is addictive and challenging, perhaps the most fun for me. Aquaria is a beautiful adventure. Penumbra is widely regarded as the scariest game ever, and has the most realistic physics I have ever seen in a game. Lugaru is a great martial arts game. Perhaps if you didn't donate much, you deserve not to enjoy the games. I bought it for myself at an average price, and after playing the games for a while I got 4 copies for friends at a more generous price. I haven't seen any open source / Linux games that I like better than these games.
The cryptanalytic techniques used to decrypt this video might be another useful thing to "leak", however that might lead to less vulnerable military cryptography in future. I am surprised that it would be so easy to break (presumably) military-grade crypto. This suggests that the normal crypto we use would last less than 5 minutes under expert attack.
As for the content of the video, I have not watched it, but is it really a surprise that the US military slaughtered civillians wholesale in these wars? do you remember the phrase "shock and awe"? as in, "let's slaughter X thousands of civillians in a surprise attack".
I hope they would include depleted uranium weapons as nuclear weapons, and forbid using this weapons except in the context of a nuclear war against another nuclear power. These hardened shell weapons do not cause nuclear explosions but they do cause nuclear pollution, being made of radioactive waste. They were widely used by the USA and Britain in the Gulf "wars" and elsewhere. If you want to know about the consequences, google "extreme birth defects".
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I'm not worried about the dangers of eating GM foods, but I am very concerned about genetic pollution. GM crops inevitably cross-pollinate with other crops nearby, and with wild grasses and plants. It's a bit like someone smoking in a crowded restaurant, everyone else is forced to breathe the smoke whether they like it or not. I don't want to live in a world where natural organisms are a fading memory. GM (Genetic Mutilation) is very different from normal breeding. You can breed a horse with a donkey, but you can never breed a pig with an avocado. Those crazy GM companies can do stupid things like that, combining DNA from totally different organisms. Some scientists seem to think they have the right or obligation to do anything they like in the name of science, however obscene or morally offensive it might be. Monsanto can go to hell. We can send them out of business by lobbying for labeling of all products (not just food) containing GM products.
This patent is nonsense because children's books have been doing things like this forever. Animation is an obvious extension which has no-doubt been done in many, many children's multimedia products. Patents should be for completely non-obvious things and mechanisms, that would be very unlikely to be rediscovered by someone else. You shouldn't be allowed to patent a discovery. Something like fonts that change colour / size / are animated / morph has been done already, it is fairly obvious, and it's not patent worthy.
The Nokia n900 comes with a mobile browser based on mozilla. It is very responsive and works well on the 600Mhz ARM device. Firefox is still my preferred browser. I found that chrome does not perform so well under heavy load (many tabs open) although this may have changed. And firefox is vastly more configurable and has many more plugins. Go mozilla, go firefox! Yay for the best browser out there! :)
All the games are fraeking awesome, award winners. Gish has brilliant physics it is addictive and challenging, perhaps the most fun for me. Aquaria is a beautiful adventure. Penumbra is widely regarded as the scariest game ever, and has the most realistic physics I have ever seen in a game. Lugaru is a great martial arts game. Perhaps if you didn't donate much, you deserve not to enjoy the games. I bought it for myself at an average price, and after playing the games for a while I got 4 copies for friends at a more generous price. I haven't seen any open source / Linux games that I like better than these games.
The cryptanalytic techniques used to decrypt this video might be another useful thing to "leak", however that might lead to less vulnerable military cryptography in future. I am surprised that it would be so easy to break (presumably) military-grade crypto. This suggests that the normal crypto we use would last less than 5 minutes under expert attack. As for the content of the video, I have not watched it, but is it really a surprise that the US military slaughtered civillians wholesale in these wars? do you remember the phrase "shock and awe"? as in, "let's slaughter X thousands of civillians in a surprise attack".
I hope they would include depleted uranium weapons as nuclear weapons, and forbid using this weapons except in the context of a nuclear war against another nuclear power. These hardened shell weapons do not cause nuclear explosions but they do cause nuclear pollution, being made of radioactive waste. They were widely used by the USA and Britain in the Gulf "wars" and elsewhere. If you want to know about the consequences, google "extreme birth defects".