I'm sure the creators loved all the press attention they have been recieving lately... additionally, I bet Hasbro regrets not giving these guys job offers rather than legal complaints.
I would hate this. I already feel "bleh" from sitting at a desk for 40+ hours a week. As much as I'd like to lay around and play video games, I know my body would hate it.
Just because it does happen doesn't mean that every cop is a bad officer. Saying that you need cameras to film police officers so they don't mistreat you is the same discrimination that is imposed upon minorities from the authorities. It is a two way street.
Oh..that's simple...camera mysteriously gets dropped and smashed on the ground (probably while you are being slammed against the car), and you get charged first with obstructing justice...with more charges to follow later as they have time to think them up.
What country are you from? I've had many encounters with the police before here in America and I have yet to experience any "excessive" force. I've seen it on TV with drug users and people who commit crimes, but I've never personally experienced anything negative other than a "hard ass" who gave me a speeding ticket even though I deserved it.
Most large scale projects go over budget... with that said, a budget of $350 million to rebuild the internet from scratch is most likely to be no exception. I can understand the $12 million for the connection between the two facilities, but I believe that the $350 figure is just a number that it may have been pulled from someone's ass. From TFA, it sounds like its still up in the air - and even if it does get approved - it will be years, if at all, before it catches on publically.
I agree. If anything, I would remotely connect to a home pc or something and handle P2P there. I'm never really in that much of a bind to have to use a 3G device for rather large downloads then and there.
Sure its wasteful if the goal is to actually retrieve the fuels, however, to have private investors beginning to put money forth in the name of science will far exceed the possibilities of government funds. America, for example, was explored and found by government funding, but the reason why it grew is because of private investments seeking profit. So what would be the purpose to explore Titan? Probably the same reason NASA is doing it - to find out more about it. It's not about retrieving the fuels, but rather why the fuels are there. I would love to see Exxon give NASA a check to think about sending a rover there or something.
They are enjoying their perks.. sure... but meanwhile their resumes are probably already submitted to other companies. These guys are either the most optimistic crew in the world (to be confidently contesting Google with a subpar engine) or they are just enjoying their time while it lasts.
As much as you are joking - it would be nice if they actually did take initiative to set up some sort of operation... even if it was something as simple as further exploration of the surface. The oil companies are rolling in dough - enough to make NASA look like a poor family owned toy store - and this is something that would benefit science... perhaps I wouldn't feel as guilty paying so much at the pump.
And if you are wondering, he is a level 27 gnome Frost Mage on the Anetheron server. His account was banned after some in game threats to a Blizzard dev.
So you post an equally if not more "-1 Retarded" reply under Anonymous Coward? Oh wow, thank you for enlightening me.
If you want my opinion, the whole statement was not very applicable at all. In order to detect rogue cancer cells, the system would have to be much more complex, making the whole concept behind the idea redundant.
While I think the device is neat and probably useful - detecting cancer cells is not one of them.
"Yang thinks devices containing the microscope could even be implanted directly into the human body. Such a device, he suggests, could autonomously screen for and isolate rogue cancer cells in blood circulation"
While it is comforting to think that everything is locked down tight, a lot of government systems are outdated. In conjunction with increasingly skilled criminals (not saying he is skilled, just the fact that as time increases, the levels rise - for example, at one point in time, passwords were considered top notch security), the probability of threat versus mitigation rises to critical levels.
While it is a shame the system isn't entirely secured, it doesn't give people a right to access the private data.
And you think UK citizens will give him a fair trial? He accessed American computers/property that had American data on them that were all paid for by the American taxpayers. Please, if you can tell me how any UK citizens are affected by compromised American systems, feel free to share.
I'm not a crazy right wing conservative, but I would feel safer if those who hack into my government computers would at least get more than a smack on the wrist. And yeah, I hope he doesn't get a terrorist-type punishment, but he did hack into U.S. Federal gov computers - anyone with common sense can say that there would be reprocutions.
From TFA: "Prosecutors allege that McKinnon hacked into than 90 computer systems belonging to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA between February 2001 and March 2002, causing $900,000 worth of damage.
McKinnon has acknowledged accessing the computers, but he disputes the reported damage and said he did it because he wanted to find evidence that America was concealing the existence of aliens."
Duh. The only reason this topic may recieve negative attention is because its the United States. Truth be told, that if this was ANY country, the same thing would have happened. What did he expect? We are talking about highly classified stuff. He may have not caused as much as the claimed damage, but he DID access them. In some countries, he would be executed...
My grandma was a renown heart surgeon who gave many conference speeches (or so I'm told). She was a really intelligent person... and the only "imperfection" she had was a slight case of OCD (which I believe could be reasonable - being a germophobe - if you are in medicine). I'm afraid she now suffers from schizophrenia WITH alzheimers (or at least, thats what the doctor's say) which is quite the brutal combination.
Its terrible of how little grasp she has on the present let alone reality. There are times she recognizes me, there are times she confuses me with someone else, there are times she doesn't know me at all, and there are times she is completely out in lala land. The terrible thing is, you could think its a good day and she is completely with it, then she suddenly makes a turn for the worst by leaning over and whispering religious mumbo jumbo in your ear about your grandpa being some sort of demon and passing you junk mail she recieved with certain words highlighted in yellow, notes written all over it, and it being "proof" of some sort of conspiracy against her. Then she acts like it never happened and becomes normal again. The fascinating thing is, despite her dementia and retrograde amnesia, she is capable of watching all 3 Lord of the Rings in one sitting and completely knows exactly what is going on because she read all of the books when she was younger.
From TFA (because I know some of you may not read it or at least not all of it:
"...users with Nvidia graphics cards and proprietary drivers may notice slowdown when resizing windows or moving plasma widgets, although I did not experienced this during tests with my Nvidia hardware."
Closer, but not quite there yet. Small problems like this are what is holding it back. However, with that said, I, for one, can't wait to get my hands on this.
Well, consider me wrong. I took some Health Policy courses a few years ago and we discussed medicine prices for a while (W.H.O. H.A.I.). I remember the professor telling us about the R&D prices of the individual countries/regions. Here is an article that clarifies that there isn't significant differences in contributions to R&D.
"The campaign, strongly backed by the pharmaceutical industry, seems to have started in the late 1990s as a response to a grass roots movement started by senior citizens against the high prices of essential prescription drugs.4 This issue was the most prominent one for both parties in the 2000 elections and has since been fuelled by a series of independent reports documenting that US drug prices are much higher than those in other affluent countries.5-7 The idea that other countries are exploiting the US has led to a hearing of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and was behind a Department of Commerce report that strongly advocated that other developed countries raise prices on patented medicines.8 But are higher prices really necessary?"
"The US accounts for just under 48% of world sales and spent 49% of the global total on research and development to discover 45% of the new molecular entities... European countries account for 28% of world sales, 36% of total research and development spending, and 32% of new molecular entities..."
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I'm sure the creators loved all the press attention they have been recieving lately... additionally, I bet Hasbro regrets not giving these guys job offers rather than legal complaints.
I would hate this. I already feel "bleh" from sitting at a desk for 40+ hours a week. As much as I'd like to lay around and play video games, I know my body would hate it.
I live in DC.
So you are saying that since there are accounts of injustice, police in general cannot be trusted?
Just because it does happen doesn't mean that every cop is a bad officer. Saying that you need cameras to film police officers so they don't mistreat you is the same discrimination that is imposed upon minorities from the authorities. It is a two way street.
Oh..that's simple...camera mysteriously gets dropped and smashed on the ground (probably while you are being slammed against the car), and you get charged first with obstructing justice...with more charges to follow later as they have time to think them up.
What country are you from? I've had many encounters with the police before here in America and I have yet to experience any "excessive" force. I've seen it on TV with drug users and people who commit crimes, but I've never personally experienced anything negative other than a "hard ass" who gave me a speeding ticket even though I deserved it.
Most large scale projects go over budget... with that said, a budget of $350 million to rebuild the internet from scratch is most likely to be no exception. I can understand the $12 million for the connection between the two facilities, but I believe that the $350 figure is just a number that it may have been pulled from someone's ass. From TFA, it sounds like its still up in the air - and even if it does get approved - it will be years, if at all, before it catches on publically.
I agree. If anything, I would remotely connect to a home pc or something and handle P2P there. I'm never really in that much of a bind to have to use a 3G device for rather large downloads then and there.
Sure its wasteful if the goal is to actually retrieve the fuels, however, to have private investors beginning to put money forth in the name of science will far exceed the possibilities of government funds. America, for example, was explored and found by government funding, but the reason why it grew is because of private investments seeking profit. So what would be the purpose to explore Titan? Probably the same reason NASA is doing it - to find out more about it. It's not about retrieving the fuels, but rather why the fuels are there. I would love to see Exxon give NASA a check to think about sending a rover there or something.
They are enjoying their perks.. sure... but meanwhile their resumes are probably already submitted to other companies. These guys are either the most optimistic crew in the world (to be confidently contesting Google with a subpar engine) or they are just enjoying their time while it lasts.
As much as you are joking - it would be nice if they actually did take initiative to set up some sort of operation... even if it was something as simple as further exploration of the surface. The oil companies are rolling in dough - enough to make NASA look like a poor family owned toy store - and this is something that would benefit science... perhaps I wouldn't feel as guilty paying so much at the pump.
And if you are wondering, he is a level 27 gnome Frost Mage on the Anetheron server. His account was banned after some in game threats to a Blizzard dev.
So you post an equally if not more "-1 Retarded" reply under Anonymous Coward? Oh wow, thank you for enlightening me.
If you want my opinion, the whole statement was not very applicable at all. In order to detect rogue cancer cells, the system would have to be much more complex, making the whole concept behind the idea redundant.
While I think the device is neat and probably useful - detecting cancer cells is not one of them.
Practical aplication from TFA:
"Yang thinks devices containing the microscope could even be implanted directly into the human body. Such a device, he suggests, could autonomously screen for and isolate rogue cancer cells in blood circulation"
Discuss!
They named it after a porn star because of its gaping (security) holes and abundance of viruses.
VPNs and proxies both work through China's firewall.
repercussions*
While it is comforting to think that everything is locked down tight, a lot of government systems are outdated. In conjunction with increasingly skilled criminals (not saying he is skilled, just the fact that as time increases, the levels rise - for example, at one point in time, passwords were considered top notch security), the probability of threat versus mitigation rises to critical levels.
While it is a shame the system isn't entirely secured, it doesn't give people a right to access the private data.
And you think UK citizens will give him a fair trial? He accessed American computers/property that had American data on them that were all paid for by the American taxpayers. Please, if you can tell me how any UK citizens are affected by compromised American systems, feel free to share.
I'm not a crazy right wing conservative, but I would feel safer if those who hack into my government computers would at least get more than a smack on the wrist. And yeah, I hope he doesn't get a terrorist-type punishment, but he did hack into U.S. Federal gov computers - anyone with common sense can say that there would be reprocutions.
From TFA: "Prosecutors allege that McKinnon hacked into than 90 computer systems belonging to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense and NASA between February 2001 and March 2002, causing $900,000 worth of damage.
McKinnon has acknowledged accessing the computers, but he disputes the reported damage and said he did it because he wanted to find evidence that America was concealing the existence of aliens."
Duh. The only reason this topic may recieve negative attention is because its the United States. Truth be told, that if this was ANY country, the same thing would have happened. What did he expect? We are talking about highly classified stuff. He may have not caused as much as the claimed damage, but he DID access them. In some countries, he would be executed...
My grandma was a renown heart surgeon who gave many conference speeches (or so I'm told). She was a really intelligent person... and the only "imperfection" she had was a slight case of OCD (which I believe could be reasonable - being a germophobe - if you are in medicine). I'm afraid she now suffers from schizophrenia WITH alzheimers (or at least, thats what the doctor's say) which is quite the brutal combination.
Its terrible of how little grasp she has on the present let alone reality. There are times she recognizes me, there are times she confuses me with someone else, there are times she doesn't know me at all, and there are times she is completely out in lala land. The terrible thing is, you could think its a good day and she is completely with it, then she suddenly makes a turn for the worst by leaning over and whispering religious mumbo jumbo in your ear about your grandpa being some sort of demon and passing you junk mail she recieved with certain words highlighted in yellow, notes written all over it, and it being "proof" of some sort of conspiracy against her. Then she acts like it never happened and becomes normal again. The fascinating thing is, despite her dementia and retrograde amnesia, she is capable of watching all 3 Lord of the Rings in one sitting and completely knows exactly what is going on because she read all of the books when she was younger.
From TFA (because I know some of you may not read it or at least not all of it:
"...users with Nvidia graphics cards and proprietary drivers may notice slowdown when resizing windows or moving plasma widgets, although I did not experienced this during tests with my Nvidia hardware."
Closer, but not quite there yet. Small problems like this are what is holding it back. However, with that said, I, for one, can't wait to get my hands on this.
If the business model sucks, how can they ever expect to produce anything of quality? ...especially in a supposedly creative environment.
I'm suprised that it took this long to be honest.
Well, consider me wrong. I took some Health Policy courses a few years ago and we discussed medicine prices for a while (W.H.O. H.A.I.). I remember the professor telling us about the R&D prices of the individual countries/regions. Here is an article that clarifies that there isn't significant differences in contributions to R&D.
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/331/7522/958/
However, some quotes fom TFA:
"The campaign, strongly backed by the pharmaceutical industry, seems to have started in the late 1990s as a response to a grass roots movement started by senior citizens against the high prices of essential prescription drugs.4 This issue was the most prominent one for both parties in the 2000 elections and has since been fuelled by a series of independent reports documenting that US drug prices are much higher than those in other affluent countries.5-7 The idea that other countries are exploiting the US has led to a hearing of the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and was behind a Department of Commerce report that strongly advocated that other developed countries raise prices on patented medicines.8 But are higher prices really necessary?"
"The US accounts for just under 48% of world sales and spent 49% of the global total on research and development to discover 45% of the new molecular entities... European countries account for 28% of world sales, 36% of total research and development spending, and 32% of new molecular entities..."