...deserve neither. The majority of Americans were not bothered by the butchering of Natives, the interment of Japanese citizens during WWII, slavery either... at the time. All government sanctioned actions that turned out to be morally wrong or flat out illegal. I hope we have learned our lessons from the past -- not every majority opinion is correct, or constitutional. One thing I learned way back in the elementary school seemed like a simple lesson, but is still quite profound: A democracy is based on majority rules with minority rights. This internal spying program is illegal regardless of what the majority opinion is. And for what? Security from terrorism? The terrorists' primary weapon is fear, which causes us to react in way that we shoot ourselves in the foot with BS like the Patriot Act and domestic spying. It's not worth it.
This is a rather remarkable finding, though very fortuitous (as many great discoveries are). The "cancer resistance" trait is heritable, so it can ultimately be mapped to specific gene(s) -- that is the most exciting finding, along with the fact that the physiological effect has already been mapped to white blood cells. This way, when the gene is discovered, both the mechanism of cancer resistance and the genetic basis for it will be readily discernable.
Your statements smack of racism and arrogance. The "tradition" in India you speak of is a matter lore more than a matter of reality. Of course it happened, but it was not the general way of the land as you imply, waiting to be rescued by reasonable British invaders. Your spelling of Chinese as "Chineese" also smacks of racism, with the elongated "ee" sound commonly used when speaking in a derrogatory manner. The sheer arrogance of thinking its your duty to tell people what to do needs no explanation or interpretation by me. I think you would represent the same people here in the US that would ban abortion, gay rights, freedom of speech (unless it's absolutely patriotic). You would welcome state sponsered religion, take from the poor and give to the rich. Spying on our own citizens is OK as long as it's in the name of "fighting terrorism". You smell like a Republican. I say lets promote freedom and liberty here in our own country before we try and shove it down the throats of every other nation in the name of "human rights".
I honestly didn't think I would dislike the PS3 launch as much as I did. Really wanted a console and thought these next-gen consoles would be the ones that would take me from PC to console. 360 vs PS3. Which one to get? Thought the PS3 would be awesome. The crappy launch today and the awful price tag clinched it for me. 360 it is. Sad to say it, but I have to. If you're going to plan an awesome product, why not think about the price tag BEFOREhand? Simply awful.
I think that's what he wanted to say. Man, someone with such disdain for fans should not be supported. Therefore I will only buy Indiana Jones trilogy and Star Wars (ORIGINAL) trilogy DVDs. And nothing else by him. Yeah.
No, brainiac, the server was down, so I couldn't read the second line of the title. From my point of view, at slashdirt, all I could read was a headline that says how IBM out-foxed Intel with the Xbox 360, and a summary that had no mention of IBM or Intel, but instead some life story of a failure prone engineer. Not exactly easy to put 2 and 2 together. But thanks for modding me down... I'm glad Shitdot is so open to criticism.
I find it remarkable that so many replies here in the slashdot community are along the lines of "oh no! you're just showing the spammers/terrorists how to do it better!"
And yet, if you look at any posts about how Microsoft or Sony or whatever are trying to keep their software's flaws obscure so they don't get exploited, the Slashdot community generally rails on them like there's no tommorow. So hypocritical.
I thought people here were generally smart enough to know that security by obscurity doesn't work. Just because Joe Spammer doesn't care to tinker around to make his spam more devious doesn't mean Joe Hacker isn't gonna do it just for the hell of it and pass it along to Joe Spammer somehow.
I came to this post expecting to read something about IBM and Intel and XBOX 360s. The blurb makes mention only of the XBOX 360. Maybe it's in TFA, if I could read it. Poorly done Slashdust, poorly done.
1) The pyramid is an obvious structure. It is more "boob" like than a cube. It is more "phallic" than a tent-like structure, culminating in a single point.
2) Humans tend to think in the "bigger is better" camp.
These are not intented to be jokes, but simply some observations that could lead one to believe that many independent civilizations could have come to build pyramids without having common anscestry or knowledge of each other. Even a child who has never seen the great pyramids could arrive at one by playing in the sand: it is one of the few stable structures that is easy to build. I think the central american pyramids and egyptian pyramids were imagined and built completely independently. This new bosnian pyramid... well the jury is out on whether that is even real.
My first reaction was that it reminded me of Viiv. Since the "feel" of the name Wii... the branding, the "x-factor" of that name... seems a lot like what Intel may have also been going for. Which would have been OK if Viiv had been successful. But it's not. No one really knows what the hell is so special about Viiv, and aren't likely to be manipulated into it by the nifty new name. So... gosh... if the only think Nintendo had going for it in the console was was the Revolution name, I'm sad for them that they switched to Wii. Honestly, this is something only an old-fashioned Japanese company would do. Every other highly sucessful modern Japanese company knows that although they have the very best technology, people still want to see it slathered in American culture. The sleek PS3, the cars, the consumer electronics, mostly have a nice style to them. Wii won't settle for something that gets lost in translation here.
It's not like having an imbedded eyesight camera in powerbooks or iMacs is that different. There's still a camera pointed at you. I remember back when those old Sony compact laptops had the camera included too. Honestly. What's with all the clandestine spying/big brother hype? How bout we stick to the technology.
With that in mind, I'd be interested in knowing how such a microsensor would work without a focusing element...
I have high hopes for the upcoming Halo movie. I know I may be dissapointed, but in Halo I see a genuinely immersive storyline, not just with great plot elements, but decent personalities around which to build well rounded characters (of course in the games, we get little or no indication of MC's character, but that could be something the movie fills in).
Wouldn't it be simple to set the system to automatically request a password change from the user at manageable intervals? I know it's a "shove it down their throat" approach to security, but if it works...
Then again, changing passes too frequently causes people to forget them and the end up writing them down, which might be worse. I dunno, it's a tough nut to crack. Need something unique to the person... biometric, RFID, retinal scan, brain wave scan, etc.
I agree. That was a really dumb way to post this. Makes it sound like Lego invented biochemistry, when it's more like nature had the concept of building blocks down way before we even appeared on the planet. Not sure why this particular bit of research made it to the headlines when there are countless others that are also just as interesting and technically innovative. Oh wait, I know, it was the use of the "Lego" simile that catches the attention of those gullibles.
The basic premise of the research is very simple. Create an immobilized synthetic binding site for the toxin so you can essentially titrate it out of solution so it is no longer free to do its toxic thing.
I fully agree. For those who can invest the time to keep things updated at those social networking sites, I feel something has to give from their "real" lives. Not necessarily just the time, but the way of thinking about interactions with other people.
On a more critical note, let's face it, those people who are obsessed with myspace and facebook and make those sites what they are... well, it says something who's being targeted by all that venture capital.
On an even more critical note, jesus fucking christ -- has no one learned anything from the last burst bubble?
...whereas us, with all our "freedom", find out that our government is spying on us only when some whistleblower exposes it. What, we've just learned that at AT&T, NSA has the potential to spy on ANY communications that go through the switches there. Does anyone really feel 100% shielded from our own government here in the US? Atleast it's all out in the open there, pretty much. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
The title drew me into this posting. This kind of bullshit needs to stop -- it really dilutes the credibility of Slashdot. I fully understand that TFA used the term force field, but obviously someone wrote out the term "mysterious force field" with the intent of deceiving people.
How was than an "informative" comment? RTFA: "To mimic the fly's vision, the researchers installed two tiny, low-resolution cameras, one over each wing. A microchip-sized gyroscope keeps the microflyer stable. Onboard signal processing and control software give the autonomous vehicle its insect-like behavior."
That's almost like your balsa wood kit;)
Difference is, this research project sounds like its well on its way to being autonomous.
I tend to agree. NASA's obsession with the manned space program is political -- stemming back to Kennedy. It was worth the symbolism then. I'm not sure it is now. People are not ready for interplanetary missions, even the moon. We have to build solid, reliable, and affordable technology and that is not there yet. If this means starting from orbital missions and ISS, fine. The whole "Back to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond" BS by the current administration is nothing more than hot air and smoke (which, incidentally, is what happens when a space shuttle explodes).
NASA's science has been advanced far more by its unmanned missions than by its manned endeavors. They should continue with the manned program, but take it slowly (a good way of doing that would be to reduce its funding and stop cutting science missions instead).
I'm not sure, but what we do know is that he liked to keep secret files on anybody who was anybody. Such files having been obtained through generally illegal eavesdropping and spying on citizens. The law specifically forbids the CIA from operating within the US and so he turned the FBI on us. Now it's the NSA. Welcome to the new age, same as the old age. This was what FISA was specifically meant to protect against. I guess our leaker-in-chief really is just Judge Dredd in disguise..."I AM the law!!!" Grr. Argh.
Those terms are not "owned" by ID proponents. The language is very common in biology. We often say the "cell" reuses this and modifies that. Or that a certain protein can modify another protein by attaching a tag to it. Whole classes of enzymes may be termed "modifying enzymes". The point is that these are models for what is essentially a chemistry reaction (which itself is essential a problem in physics). One should not have to describe every atomic configuration every time one wants to discuss an enzymatic reaction, for example. We use language such as what you mentioned to describe many aspects of biology. We don't claim to "own" those terms and frankly, I don't think anyone does. Just because we anthropomorphize "things", it doesn't mean we intend to give them an intelligence parameter or neccessarily imply that they were designed, unless you consider evolution a designing force.
The study is a fascinating one. If you have a subscription to Science, I suggest reading the summary of the research by Cristoph Adami termed "Reducible Complexity." I'm sorry I don't know how to get that article to those without a subscription but I can give a lay-man's summary here. Although the original research did not specifically mention evolution vs. intelligent design, they essentially disproved the central tenet of ID, that of "irreducible complexity." IC states that some things are so complex, they look like a "lock and key" mechanism -- one could not have be made without the other "in mind" -- thus they must both have been designed. The research that is the focus of this article described two different hormones with two different receptors. Both look like lock and key systems. By tracing evolutionary lineages, the authors of the study showed how a series of mutations, as little as 2, occuring sequentially by random could have led to the two divergent lock and key systems from a single precursor. As an academic biologist, I really think this elegant study is one of the nicest pieces of evolution research to come out recently. It truly addresses a problem even Darwin admitted was a caveat (though Darwin also offered the solution, which was indeed confirmed here).
The solution is that the original precursor gained the ability to bind a new hormone by a single point mutation, and this did not disrupt the ability of it to bind its old hormone. The new receptor then diverged and through a well known process of gene duplication, begat multiple and independently evolving molecules. One retained the function of binding the old hormone, whereas another mutated further to lose the ability to bind the old hormone and could now only bind the new hormone. Viola -- two seemingly "designed" systems out of one precursor -- evolution at its finest, and IMHO, damning evidence against the basic principle of Intelligent Design.
On a personal note, it never fails to amaze me how much people deny the intelligence of humans to figure things out... the old "just because we can't explain it now, it must have be an unexplicable force, like God." I'm sure lightning and earthquakes seemed supernatural too. Evolution is no different -- it can be dissected and explained.
Yet another apologist. Clearly, a "make lemonade" positive attitude is good general advice, but it does not excuse this invasion of privacy with the intent of humiliation. You need to put yourself in the victem shoes.
Can't RTFA since the server is a little sluggish. But if I remember correctly, back when I used pine (~10 years ago)... it was pretty much just plain text. Has something changed since then? I don't think it compares at all to recent e-mail clients, or web-based clients like gmail. Also, you can't necessarily get ssh access everywhere to be able to use pine.
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...deserve neither. The majority of Americans were not bothered by the butchering of Natives, the interment of Japanese citizens during WWII, slavery either... at the time. All government sanctioned actions that turned out to be morally wrong or flat out illegal. I hope we have learned our lessons from the past -- not every majority opinion is correct, or constitutional. One thing I learned way back in the elementary school seemed like a simple lesson, but is still quite profound: A democracy is based on majority rules with minority rights. This internal spying program is illegal regardless of what the majority opinion is. And for what? Security from terrorism? The terrorists' primary weapon is fear, which causes us to react in way that we shoot ourselves in the foot with BS like the Patriot Act and domestic spying. It's not worth it.
This is a rather remarkable finding, though very fortuitous (as many great discoveries are). The "cancer resistance" trait is heritable, so it can ultimately be mapped to specific gene(s) -- that is the most exciting finding, along with the fact that the physiological effect has already been mapped to white blood cells. This way, when the gene is discovered, both the mechanism of cancer resistance and the genetic basis for it will be readily discernable.
Your statements smack of racism and arrogance. The "tradition" in India you speak of is a matter lore more than a matter of reality. Of course it happened, but it was not the general way of the land as you imply, waiting to be rescued by reasonable British invaders. Your spelling of Chinese as "Chineese" also smacks of racism, with the elongated "ee" sound commonly used when speaking in a derrogatory manner. The sheer arrogance of thinking its your duty to tell people what to do needs no explanation or interpretation by me. I think you would represent the same people here in the US that would ban abortion, gay rights, freedom of speech (unless it's absolutely patriotic). You would welcome state sponsered religion, take from the poor and give to the rich. Spying on our own citizens is OK as long as it's in the name of "fighting terrorism". You smell like a Republican. I say lets promote freedom and liberty here in our own country before we try and shove it down the throats of every other nation in the name of "human rights".
I honestly didn't think I would dislike the PS3 launch as much as I did. Really wanted a console and thought these next-gen consoles would be the ones that would take me from PC to console. 360 vs PS3. Which one to get? Thought the PS3 would be awesome. The crappy launch today and the awful price tag clinched it for me. 360 it is. Sad to say it, but I have to. If you're going to plan an awesome product, why not think about the price tag BEFOREhand? Simply awful.
What will they call it upon retail? Core Quado? Core Duo-Duo?
I think that's what he wanted to say. Man, someone with such disdain for fans should not be supported. Therefore I will only buy Indiana Jones trilogy and Star Wars (ORIGINAL) trilogy DVDs. And nothing else by him. Yeah.
No, brainiac, the server was down, so I couldn't read the second line of the title. From my point of view, at slashdirt, all I could read was a headline that says how IBM out-foxed Intel with the Xbox 360, and a summary that had no mention of IBM or Intel, but instead some life story of a failure prone engineer. Not exactly easy to put 2 and 2 together. But thanks for modding me down... I'm glad Shitdot is so open to criticism.
And yet, if you look at any posts about how Microsoft or Sony or whatever are trying to keep their software's flaws obscure so they don't get exploited, the Slashdot community generally rails on them like there's no tommorow. So hypocritical.
I thought people here were generally smart enough to know that security by obscurity doesn't work. Just because Joe Spammer doesn't care to tinker around to make his spam more devious doesn't mean Joe Hacker isn't gonna do it just for the hell of it and pass it along to Joe Spammer somehow.
I came to this post expecting to read something about IBM and Intel and XBOX 360s. The blurb makes mention only of the XBOX 360. Maybe it's in TFA, if I could read it. Poorly done Slashdust, poorly done.
1) The pyramid is an obvious structure. It is more "boob" like than a cube. It is more "phallic" than a tent-like structure, culminating in a single point.
2) Humans tend to think in the "bigger is better" camp.
These are not intented to be jokes, but simply some observations that could lead one to believe that many independent civilizations could have come to build pyramids without having common anscestry or knowledge of each other. Even a child who has never seen the great pyramids could arrive at one by playing in the sand: it is one of the few stable structures that is easy to build. I think the central american pyramids and egyptian pyramids were imagined and built completely independently. This new bosnian pyramid... well the jury is out on whether that is even real.
My first reaction was that it reminded me of Viiv. Since the "feel" of the name Wii... the branding, the "x-factor" of that name... seems a lot like what Intel may have also been going for. Which would have been OK if Viiv had been successful. But it's not. No one really knows what the hell is so special about Viiv, and aren't likely to be manipulated into it by the nifty new name. So... gosh... if the only think Nintendo had going for it in the console was was the Revolution name, I'm sad for them that they switched to Wii. Honestly, this is something only an old-fashioned Japanese company would do. Every other highly sucessful modern Japanese company knows that although they have the very best technology, people still want to see it slathered in American culture. The sleek PS3, the cars, the consumer electronics, mostly have a nice style to them. Wii won't settle for something that gets lost in translation here.
With that in mind, I'd be interested in knowing how such a microsensor would work without a focusing element...
I have high hopes for the upcoming Halo movie. I know I may be dissapointed, but in Halo I see a genuinely immersive storyline, not just with great plot elements, but decent personalities around which to build well rounded characters (of course in the games, we get little or no indication of MC's character, but that could be something the movie fills in).
Then again, changing passes too frequently causes people to forget them and the end up writing them down, which might be worse. I dunno, it's a tough nut to crack. Need something unique to the person... biometric, RFID, retinal scan, brain wave scan, etc.
The basic premise of the research is very simple. Create an immobilized synthetic binding site for the toxin so you can essentially titrate it out of solution so it is no longer free to do its toxic thing.
On a more critical note, let's face it, those people who are obsessed with myspace and facebook and make those sites what they are... well, it says something who's being targeted by all that venture capital.
On an even more critical note, jesus fucking christ -- has no one learned anything from the last burst bubble?
...whereas us, with all our "freedom", find out that our government is spying on us only when some whistleblower exposes it. What, we've just learned that at AT&T, NSA has the potential to spy on ANY communications that go through the switches there. Does anyone really feel 100% shielded from our own government here in the US? Atleast it's all out in the open there, pretty much. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
The title drew me into this posting. This kind of bullshit needs to stop -- it really dilutes the credibility of Slashdot. I fully understand that TFA used the term force field, but obviously someone wrote out the term "mysterious force field" with the intent of deceiving people.
That's almost like your balsa wood kit ;)
Difference is, this research project sounds like its well on its way to being autonomous.
NASA's science has been advanced far more by its unmanned missions than by its manned endeavors. They should continue with the manned program, but take it slowly (a good way of doing that would be to reduce its funding and stop cutting science missions instead).
I'm not sure, but what we do know is that he liked to keep secret files on anybody who was anybody. Such files having been obtained through generally illegal eavesdropping and spying on citizens. The law specifically forbids the CIA from operating within the US and so he turned the FBI on us. Now it's the NSA. Welcome to the new age, same as the old age. This was what FISA was specifically meant to protect against. I guess our leaker-in-chief really is just Judge Dredd in disguise..."I AM the law!!!" Grr. Argh.
Those terms are not "owned" by ID proponents. The language is very common in biology. We often say the "cell" reuses this and modifies that. Or that a certain protein can modify another protein by attaching a tag to it. Whole classes of enzymes may be termed "modifying enzymes". The point is that these are models for what is essentially a chemistry reaction (which itself is essential a problem in physics). One should not have to describe every atomic configuration every time one wants to discuss an enzymatic reaction, for example. We use language such as what you mentioned to describe many aspects of biology. We don't claim to "own" those terms and frankly, I don't think anyone does. Just because we anthropomorphize "things", it doesn't mean we intend to give them an intelligence parameter or neccessarily imply that they were designed, unless you consider evolution a designing force.
The solution is that the original precursor gained the ability to bind a new hormone by a single point mutation, and this did not disrupt the ability of it to bind its old hormone. The new receptor then diverged and through a well known process of gene duplication, begat multiple and independently evolving molecules. One retained the function of binding the old hormone, whereas another mutated further to lose the ability to bind the old hormone and could now only bind the new hormone. Viola -- two seemingly "designed" systems out of one precursor -- evolution at its finest, and IMHO, damning evidence against the basic principle of Intelligent Design.
On a personal note, it never fails to amaze me how much people deny the intelligence of humans to figure things out... the old "just because we can't explain it now, it must have be an unexplicable force, like God." I'm sure lightning and earthquakes seemed supernatural too. Evolution is no different -- it can be dissected and explained.
Yet another apologist. Clearly, a "make lemonade" positive attitude is good general advice, but it does not excuse this invasion of privacy with the intent of humiliation. You need to put yourself in the victem shoes.
Can't RTFA since the server is a little sluggish. But if I remember correctly, back when I used pine (~10 years ago)... it was pretty much just plain text. Has something changed since then? I don't think it compares at all to recent e-mail clients, or web-based clients like gmail. Also, you can't necessarily get ssh access everywhere to be able to use pine.