Cloning whole human bodies isn't really the point. Being able to grow organs and limbs is the point.
Exactly. Many are confusing the both and some are spreading the confusion on purpose. In fact research has already some interesting results (detection of stem cells in adults,...) and there is probably no need for human cloning at all.
The goal doesn't justify the means. I'm opposed to life creation for utility purposes and to any kind of death legalization. For curing these illnesses, you need to cultivate stem cells. But human cloning is not the only way to get them. There is a lot of research about "extracting" the stem cells directly from the sick one (we all have some) and to cultivate them. I hope these researchers will succeed and that human cloning will never be used. I have kids.
I never had a post marked as troll or flamebait before. I try to make my posts insightfull or funny, and in general they are perceived as such. They may be troll-like but the slashdoters are able to make the difference... until now.
Modded as flamebait and troll... Sorry but my post was very serious (but maybe not expressed correctly). I'm quite proud that this kind of research is forbidden in France. Not definitively, just for a few years until a consensus can be reached. Until the whole society agrees/disagrees about it. This exact story shows that some scientists won't follow ethics but you let them free to do human cloning. IMHO, this is a very dangerous step.
Exactly. No ones knows exactly where we're going, there is no consensus and every one agrees that it may be *potentialy* dangerous. And this has nothing to do with religion, every one should be concerned. If you don't know if something is dangerous, you don't do it.
Fabulous strategy. Every one is focused on the behavior of Professor Hwang Woo-suk. Media talk about ethics in research, etc. but completely hide the main point: Cloning of human embryos. This is unethical but they try to do it, not only Korea but in the US too. Let's avoid the debate by reporting a minor story. IMHO, the governments that allow such research are much more unethical than the professor. A scientist does research and should not care (as a scientist) about ethics (but he should as a human), he should just not break the law. OTOH, governements are fully responsible by not setting laws that limit such research. And media are responsible for not making the debate public. So don't be fooled. Forget about Mr Woo-suk and think what the world will be if cloning is allowed.
I didn't follow all the details of this story but I would be very interested to get away from my current vendor lock-in. So where can I get one of these open-source pajamas?
But I'm sure you will have the answer.
(btw, I will have more info in 2006, the migration of 70000 desktop computers is decided and will be done during the two next years. Not 6 but 70000 users.)
If you could upgrade the code, it means the original coder wasn't good enough. Writing unmaintainable code is not given to every one. Unmaintainable code is code you can only delete, not upgrade.
There is no moral here, people go for what works.
For the webmasters (hosting the ads), AdSense text ads means more money because these ads are targeted and received more clicks. They are also less annoying.
For the advertisers, text ads means less money because these ads are targeted and received only valuable clicks. They are also quite well perceived.
So I would say the decline of popups is not due to text ads but to *targeted* and *less* intrusive ads. BTW, popups (being for ads or not) are considered something bad (in terms of ergonomy).
The EU wants to spend millions of dollars to light up a few percent of a town of only 400 people?
I guess they are more interested by the experience itself and all the potential benefits. I have no doubt it was reviewed by quite a lot of people. If they got the money, there was probably an agreement on the usefullness of the project (but that already happens a few times they put money on dumb projects).
I guess they can't laugh at our bridge to nowhere anymore . . .
Simple.
1) You go to the appropriate grousp (*.comp.virus, *.comp.anti-virus,...)
2) You post your request for a virus (don't forget to give enough info)
3) Someone will answer your request, often accurately
4) You uudecode the included data
5) You save it
6) You chmod it (or you set the.exe extension)
7) You run it as root (or admin)
If you follow all these steps, chances are you will be successfull. Thanks to Usenet.
Thanks for the answer. I'm going to use SHA-512+LEN. AFAIK, an URL is limited to 1024 chars, so it is ok. I prefer to use hex encoding (instead of base64). Looks cleaner. The CPU time is important but much less than avoiding collisions.
How long can you accept the hash to be?
About 600 chars for the encoded form. The whole URL is: yak:///SHA512-LEN/filename.ext
While I agree with the meaning of your post, I think interaction outside of the school (lessons) is an essential part of the success. Who would use a computer if it is just to write boring reports or to compute some math formulas? OTOH, who will exchange software, write games, share news/music, patch the kernel? It will take off only if they can use it for other purposes, if there is some kind of user groups, some helpfull adults, etc.
we should be equally as pissed (or moreso) at First 4 Internet for their GPL violations
This one is not proven that F4I didn't give the source code and the license to Sony. In fact, I can't imagine that Sony doesn't have the source code (but who knows?). So the violation by Sony is proven, the one by F4I is not. OTOH, if F4I didn't inform Sony, Sony is still responsibable but not so guilty. I will read Slashdot tomorrow for more news;)
You don't need to hit an American DNS server today, certainly not a root server.
By "an American DNS server", I mean a DNS root server run by a company/organization subject to US regulation. AFAIK, this is the case today.
If the website is hosted in Germany but the domain owner bought it through a US registrar or uses a US management company then there's a good chance that lookups for that specific site will go through a server in the US, but that's not unreasonable, right?
For me, it is unreasonable. Verisign, for example, should not have rights on the data. Having them to update the database is fine, needing them to query it is not. I should not need to query Verisign servers to reach a german.com website from Spain. I should be able to use a spanish one (but also an american one). Same for the root servers. I don't see any technical issue but I'm not a DNS specialist.
Slashdot Mirror
In fact the sentence is not yet general enough. I'm suggesting:
"Increasingly, revenue is generated."
And don't come to disagree!
Cloning whole human bodies isn't really the point. Being able to grow organs and limbs is the point.
...) and there is probably no need for human cloning at all.
Exactly. Many are confusing the both and some are spreading the confusion on purpose. In fact research has already some interesting results (detection of stem cells in adults,
The goal doesn't justify the means. I'm opposed to life creation for utility purposes and to any kind of death legalization. For curing these illnesses, you need to cultivate stem cells. But human cloning is not the only way to get them. There is a lot of research about "extracting" the stem cells directly from the sick one (we all have some) and to cultivate them. I hope these researchers will succeed and that human cloning will never be used. I have kids.
No ;)
I never had a post marked as troll or flamebait before. I try to make my posts insightfull or funny, and in general they are perceived as such. They may be troll-like but the slashdoters are able to make the difference... until now.
Modded as flamebait and troll... Sorry but my post was very serious (but maybe not expressed correctly). I'm quite proud that this kind of research is forbidden in France. Not definitively, just for a few years until a consensus can be reached. Until the whole society agrees/disagrees about it. This exact story shows that some scientists won't follow ethics but you let them free to do human cloning. IMHO, this is a very dangerous step.
What's so unethical about it? It's not like human life is precious or anything. It is THE cheapest thing on planet Earth.
Please suicide. I will send you one buck. Post your email address here for PayPal.
Exactly. No ones knows exactly where we're going, there is no consensus and every one agrees that it may be *potentialy* dangerous. And this has nothing to do with religion, every one should be concerned. If you don't know if something is dangerous, you don't do it.
Fabulous strategy. Every one is focused on the behavior of Professor Hwang Woo-suk. Media talk about ethics in research, etc. but completely hide the main point: Cloning of human embryos. This is unethical but they try to do it, not only Korea but in the US too. Let's avoid the debate by reporting a minor story. IMHO, the governments that allow such research are much more unethical than the professor. A scientist does research and should not care (as a scientist) about ethics (but he should as a human), he should just not break the law. OTOH, governements are fully responsible by not setting laws that limit such research. And media are responsible for not making the debate public. So don't be fooled. Forget about Mr Woo-suk and think what the world will be if cloning is allowed.
Impossible. All PowerPC chips are today built by Big Blue.
Com'on, this is a bad hoax against Micro$oft. The screenshots are not even blue!
I didn't follow all the details of this story but I would be very interested to get away from my current vendor lock-in. So where can I get one of these open-source pajamas?
But I'm sure you will have the answer. (btw, I will have more info in 2006, the migration of 70000 desktop computers is decided and will be done during the two next years. Not 6 but 70000 users.)
That makes about as much sense as running a non-gpl binary under Linux, and forcing Linus to close the kernel source. WTF?
But this is the case. You're allowed to run proprietary software on Linux because the glibc is not GPL'ed. It is GPL+exception.
If you could upgrade the code, it means the original coder wasn't good enough. Writing unmaintainable code is not given to every one. Unmaintainable code is code you can only delete, not upgrade.
There is no moral here, people go for what works. For the webmasters (hosting the ads), AdSense text ads means more money because these ads are targeted and received more clicks. They are also less annoying. For the advertisers, text ads means less money because these ads are targeted and received only valuable clicks. They are also quite well perceived. So I would say the decline of popups is not due to text ads but to *targeted* and *less* intrusive ads. BTW, popups (being for ads or not) are considered something bad (in terms of ergonomy).
The EU wants to spend millions of dollars to light up a few percent of a town of only 400 people?
I guess they are more interested by the experience itself and all the potential benefits. I have no doubt it was reviewed by quite a lot of people. If they got the money, there was probably an agreement on the usefullness of the project (but that already happens a few times they put money on dumb projects).
I guess they can't laugh at our bridge to nowhere anymore . . .
Comparable?
What was his level? Because, even in WoW, you die when you jump from a 60m-high tower. Sad anyway.
Ads is not a bug, it is a feature.
How the heck do you get a virus from usenet?
...) .exe extension)
Simple. 1) You go to the appropriate grousp (*.comp.virus, *.comp.anti-virus,
2) You post your request for a virus (don't forget to give enough info)
3) Someone will answer your request, often accurately
4) You uudecode the included data
5) You save it
6) You chmod it (or you set the
7) You run it as root (or admin)
If you follow all these steps, chances are you will be successfull. Thanks to Usenet.
dress-code really doesn't matter.
I disagree.
Dress-code must be robust, readable and maintainable. Period.
Thanks for the answer. I'm going to use SHA-512+LEN. AFAIK, an URL is limited to 1024 chars, so it is ok. I prefer to use hex encoding (instead of base64). Looks cleaner. The CPU time is important but much less than avoiding collisions.
How long can you accept the hash to be?
About 600 chars for the encoded form. The whole URL is:
yak:///SHA512-LEN/filename.ext
This is great to have every 20 years a new, fresh, cluttered, hard-to-navigate interface.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't tested it so I don't know if it is new and fresh.
While I agree with the meaning of your post, I think interaction outside of the school (lessons) is an essential part of the success. Who would use a computer if it is just to write boring reports or to compute some math formulas? OTOH, who will exchange software, write games, share news/music, patch the kernel? It will take off only if they can use it for other purposes, if there is some kind of user groups, some helpfull adults, etc.
we should be equally as pissed (or moreso) at First 4 Internet for their GPL violations
;)
This one is not proven that F4I didn't give the source code and the license to Sony. In fact, I can't imagine that Sony doesn't have the source code (but who knows?). So the violation by Sony is proven, the one by F4I is not. OTOH, if F4I didn't inform Sony, Sony is still responsibable but not so guilty. I will read Slashdot tomorrow for more news
You don't need to hit an American DNS server today, certainly not a root server.
.com website from Spain. I should be able to use a spanish one (but also an american one). Same for the root servers. I don't see any technical issue but I'm not a DNS specialist.
By "an American DNS server", I mean a DNS root server run by a company/organization subject to US regulation. AFAIK, this is the case today.
If the website is hosted in Germany but the domain owner bought it through a US registrar or uses a US management company then there's a good chance that lookups for that specific site will go through a server in the US, but that's not unreasonable, right?
For me, it is unreasonable. Verisign, for example, should not have rights on the data. Having them to update the database is fine, needing them to query it is not. I should not need to query Verisign servers to reach a german