I imagine that in the not too distant future some perfectly healthy geek will have one of these implanted. I'd seriously consider it when resolution gets to about 24 bit SVGA ( It will have to have fast PGP on the wireless connection so that I control what I am seeing. I do not want my optical nerve spammed directly ).
I hope there is a 'turn-off-and-see-through' option that lets you use the original organic hardware when you want.
It works even better if it is implanted in an infant, so that the brain can adapt to it as it grows. This will, of course, be considered child abuse when it is first done. In a century or two it will be considered abuse NOT to have it done for your kid.
Actually, Flemming's contribution was not that he saw something. Several other scientists - even back in the 1800s - had observed that one form of microbe killed off another. Flemming was apparently the first one to realize what this meant, and to follow through on it. He is more a parallel of the researcher's colleague than of the researcher in TFA.
Wouldn't it just be faster these days to indicate who isn't running for President? Nice idea, but sorry to say, it won't work, because almost all of them are running for re-election if they are not running for president. So almost all of them will be doing something stupid like this.
I'll offer my 'well thought out plan': Real security only happens when there is a button ( with a missle-launch-type cover ) on the side of my computer, so that some tracks of disk and some banks of memory cannot be written to unless that button is pushed.
Sorry, but this is not a valid argument for socialized medicine.
Cancer is very costly disease which costs the government, and as a result Canadian citizens a lot of money. If there was something that could cure cancer at a very minimal cost, it could save the government millions (possibly billions) in health care dollars every year. Not only that, many other countries which also have socialized medicine, such as all of the EU, would benefit from something like this in a similar way. I can see government funding filling the role that pharmeceutical companies normally play in this simply because it could save them billions. Substitute 'HMO' for 'government' in the above paragraph. All it demonstrates is that making someone responsible lowers costs. It does not demonstrate that government does it better.
I run a business which deals with customers. In my 20+ years experience, 99% of customers are decent people. The other 1% are assholes. Unfortunately the good customers will do their business and leave, whereas the assholes seem to hang around. So at least 10% of your time is spent dealing with the assholes.
These assholes will make your employee's life a living hell if you don't allow your employee to protect himself. ( look at customerssuck.com for examples ) No employee will work for your company very long if you tell him that he must take shit from anybody 8 hours a day.
But a good customer service manager - and I mean the real boss, not the arrogant guy who claims to be the head of customer service - will train his people how to tell a customer to go away without getting embroiled in a pissing contest. ( Saying "I'm sorry that this happened..." is a good start. It's possible to empathize with a customer without admitting that the company is at fault. )
Yes, the customer was naive and foolish. Yes, the customer service rep was an asshole. But the real person to blame here is an unnamed manager who put this guy in customer service without proper training.
"Romania passed anti-piracy laws nearly 10 years ago, but nearly 70 percent of software used in the country continues to be of an illicit nature."
"See any serious problems with this story? Email our on-duty editor. "
No problem here...business as usual... How can a socialist government pass laws against piracy?
I'm a lookin for this kids web site (if he has one) and I think i'll paypal him a couple of bucks. Here is his mother's site ( or so I believe - I can't guarantee you that it is not a scam )
Only here? Huh? You're rather well protected here from much of the world's madness. It's a lot worse in some other places, like Isreal and surrounding areas and some parts of Europe, where leaving anything in a public place results in bomb concerns.
Sorry, but I think you are confusing lies with abstractions. The 'free market' is a theorerical abstraction for economists like a black body is a theoretical abstraction for physicists. Calling economists liars because the free market doesn't match your day-to-day economic experiences is like calling a paint manufacturer a liar because his black paint does not emit perfect black body radiation.
In the real world, the free market is gummed up by many things, such as collusion, friction, well-meaning government interference, and bribery-motivated government interference. What is truly remarkable is how well it works in spite of such problems.
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I imagine that in the not too distant future some perfectly healthy geek will have one of these implanted. I'd seriously consider it when resolution gets to about 24 bit SVGA ( It will have to have fast PGP on the wireless connection so that I control what I am seeing. I do not want my optical nerve spammed directly ).
I hope there is a 'turn-off-and-see-through' option that lets you use the original organic hardware when you want.
It works even better if it is implanted in an infant, so that the brain can adapt to it as it grows. This will, of course, be considered child abuse when it is first done. In a century or two it will be considered abuse NOT to have it done for your kid.
Put the bit bucket under it!
Someone please mod parent up
Actually, Flemming's contribution was not that he saw something. Several other scientists - even back in the 1800s - had observed that one form of microbe killed off another. Flemming was apparently the first one to realize what this meant, and to follow through on it. He is more a parallel of the researcher's colleague than of the researcher in TFA.
I was wondering that myself; don't small ones have square/cube problems? Anyone here know about this?
If there is a cure for autism - and it's close cousin, aspergers - then most of us on slashdot will get a life.
...and then erase windows and install a real OS for free.
I'll offer my 'well thought out plan': Real security only happens when there is a button ( with a missle-launch-type cover ) on the side of my computer, so that some tracks of disk and some banks of memory cannot be written to unless that button is pushed.
It's just a coincidence. In Texas, competion is done with guns.
Yep, 'fraid I do; my heroes are people like Sokol, Solzhenitsyn, Phil Zimmerman, Bertrand Russell, Patrick Henry, etc. Criminals, all of them!
As best I can tell from reading the link in parent post, he appears to be the first person on record to pirate MS software.
Two of us typed this. We thought it might be faster.
On the basis of that post, I'd offer you a job if I had an opening.
I run a business which deals with customers. In my 20+ years experience, 99% of customers are decent people. The other 1% are assholes. Unfortunately the good customers will do their business and leave, whereas the assholes seem to hang around. So at least 10% of your time is spent dealing with the assholes.
These assholes will make your employee's life a living hell if you don't allow your employee to protect himself. ( look at customerssuck.com for examples ) No employee will work for your company very long if you tell him that he must take shit from anybody 8 hours a day.
But a good customer service manager - and I mean the real boss, not the arrogant guy who claims to be the head of customer service - will train his people how to tell a customer to go away without getting embroiled in a pissing contest. ( Saying "I'm sorry that this happened..." is a good start. It's possible to empathize with a customer without admitting that the company is at fault. )
Yes, the customer was naive and foolish. Yes, the customer service rep was an asshole. But the real person to blame here is an unnamed manager who put this guy in customer service without proper training.
Or the candidate in office?
...because I know it when I see it.
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Only here? Huh? You're rather well protected here from much of the world's madness. It's a lot worse in some other places, like Isreal and surrounding areas and some parts of Europe, where leaving anything in a public place results in bomb concerns.
Sorry, but I think you are confusing lies with abstractions. The 'free market' is a theorerical abstraction for economists like a black body is a theoretical abstraction for physicists. Calling economists liars because the free market doesn't match your day-to-day economic experiences is like calling a paint manufacturer a liar because his black paint does not emit perfect black body radiation.
In the real world, the free market is gummed up by many things, such as collusion, friction, well-meaning government interference, and bribery-motivated government interference. What is truly remarkable is how well it works in spite of such problems.
Which moron modded parent redundant?? After all the lame 'in Solviet Russia' jokes, finally one is done right.