Dunno about there, but adopting babies almost impossible in US. There simply is not enough to fulfill the need.
I have some relatives that tried to "save the world" as they put it, and adopt kids (not babies). These are very intelligent parents, one has masters in nursing, the second a masters in mathematics and education. The kids were not emotionally stable when they got them at ages from about 8-10 years old. 30 years later one killed himself after losing total visitation rights to his kids, a second has also lost total visitation rights and pretty much hangs with teenagers doing drugs, a third has never been able to keep stable relationships and therefore has never had a family. As a control, their own biological kids turned out great. They also say with hindsight they would not do it again.
Aye, correct. In the US, there would be many Americans who would gladly adopt from within the US if they could adopt a BABY. The problem is that couples seeking to adopt are hard pressed to find BABIES to adopt, the demand far exceeds the supply, as you have stated. This is largely due to the fact that the vast majority of children in the US foster care system were no longer babies by the time they entered the foster care system. As you pointed out, those big hearted couples who do adopt these older children often end up with a lot of extra emotional and legal baggage that comes with the children, especially if the adoption is not a CLOSED adoption... all in addition to the other risks that come with adopting any child (disabilities, mental illness, birth defects, etc.). This is why you find couples going outside the foster care system to adopt within the US, like in the movie Juno.
I am a product of a foreign adoption by American parents back in the 80s. I was only an infant when I was adopted from Korea. My adoptive parents, the only parents I have ever known and care to ever know, largely decided to adopt from Korea because of the ease of adopting a BABY from there. Back then, there were a lot of stigmas and prejudices (and probably still are to a lesser degree) because of a historical emphasis on blood lineage in Korean society, making it difficult to find even Koreans willing to adopt other Korean babies.
I am grateful every day of my life for the opportunities I have been afforded because my birth mother had the strength to put me up for adoption. Sometimes I ponder what my life would have been like had my birth mother kept me... I for sure know that I would not have the education, financial stability, career, etc. etc. that I have today.
Or their research is funded by the developers or tech companies indirectly. Academia receives a lot of support and funds from private industry. Intel, IBM, you name it, throws money at research institutions all the time. It may not be a direct tit for tat kind of transaction, but yes, many commercial products benefit from the publicly available research papers published by graduate and post-graduate research.
BOSS is not really new. Yahoo already had the Yahoo Search API, which does essentially the same thing. BOSS is essentially the Yahoo Search API with different terms of service. In particular, BOSS will, in future, allow "monetization". BOSS also allows users to intersperse their own search results with Yahoo's and run ads.
Google used to have a SOAP-based API, but they stopped allowing new users in 2006. It didn't force the caller to display ads. There's still a Google search API, but it's tied to their widgets and has restrictive terms of service.
It's not about technology. It's about what you're allowed to do with the data:
The Yahoo search API terms of service have a rate limit, don't allow you to add ads, but do allow reordering of results.
The Google AJAX API terms of service don't have a rate limit, restrict presentation to Google's format, and don't allow reordering of results.
The first rule of the BOSS Terms of Use is that you don't talk about the BOSS terms of use.
"You shall not issue a press release or other written public statement regarding this TOU without Yahoo!'s written approval."
The second rule of the BOSS Terms of Use [yahoo.com] is that you don't talk about the BOSS terms of use.
The third rule of the BOSS Terms of Use [yahoo.com] is that you don't talk about the BOSS terms of use.
Seriously... I am entering my senior year of undergraduate studies in CS at mediocre at best institution (no where near as well-known and of the quality as Tufts)... and seeing as how I intend on graduate school after I graduate and have experience in undergraduate research, I'm shocked at even the idea of asking Slashdot specifically for LINKS. You stole the keystrokes right from my fingers with your Literature Review linkage.
You have to give them some credit though. Despite the truth in what you've said, if there was indeed a social engineering aspect to this, it doesn't just take anyone to be able to pull off such a task.
I know I probably couldn't or at least wouldn't want to, simply because of my personality and hatred for talking on the phone.
From a technical perspective though, you're probably right. They're likely just script kiddies who at most can add 2 + 2 together.
2. If you offer hosting, over sell your server capacity by at least a 1000% or you will never attract customers. They hardly ever use more than 1% of what they sign up for and won't sign up unless your storage/bandwidth offer is as ridiculous as everybody else. This is so true. I'm guilty of having done this in the past, but I've learned the hard way having changed hosting companies several times that despite their advertised bandwidth/diskspace capacity, there usually is a catch or they're lacking in some other department which you won't find out until you fork over the cash. i.e. connection speed and load times suck.
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If only the rich would get malaria. That's killed more people in history than any other cause, and there's very little research.
Malaria is a top priority of the The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in both funding R&D and practical prevention.
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Malaria#OurStrategy
Dunno about there, but adopting babies almost impossible in US. There simply is not enough to fulfill the need.
I have some relatives that tried to "save the world" as they put it, and adopt kids (not babies). These are very intelligent parents, one has masters in nursing, the second a masters in mathematics and education. The kids were not emotionally stable when they got them at ages from about 8-10 years old. 30 years later one killed himself after losing total visitation rights to his kids, a second has also lost total visitation rights and pretty much hangs with teenagers doing drugs, a third has never been able to keep stable relationships and therefore has never had a family. As a control, their own biological kids turned out great. They also say with hindsight they would not do it again.
Aye, correct. In the US, there would be many Americans who would gladly adopt from within the US if they could adopt a BABY. The problem is that couples seeking to adopt are hard pressed to find BABIES to adopt, the demand far exceeds the supply, as you have stated. This is largely due to the fact that the vast majority of children in the US foster care system were no longer babies by the time they entered the foster care system. As you pointed out, those big hearted couples who do adopt these older children often end up with a lot of extra emotional and legal baggage that comes with the children, especially if the adoption is not a CLOSED adoption... all in addition to the other risks that come with adopting any child (disabilities, mental illness, birth defects, etc.). This is why you find couples going outside the foster care system to adopt within the US, like in the movie Juno.
I am a product of a foreign adoption by American parents back in the 80s. I was only an infant when I was adopted from Korea. My adoptive parents, the only parents I have ever known and care to ever know, largely decided to adopt from Korea because of the ease of adopting a BABY from there. Back then, there were a lot of stigmas and prejudices (and probably still are to a lesser degree) because of a historical emphasis on blood lineage in Korean society, making it difficult to find even Koreans willing to adopt other Korean babies.
I am grateful every day of my life for the opportunities I have been afforded because my birth mother had the strength to put me up for adoption. Sometimes I ponder what my life would have been like had my birth mother kept me... I for sure know that I would not have the education, financial stability, career, etc. etc. that I have today.
I totally misread that as "Subversion groups..."
Academia takes care of the R in R&D. Not necessarily the D.
Or their research is funded by the developers or tech companies indirectly. Academia receives a lot of support and funds from private industry. Intel, IBM, you name it, throws money at research institutions all the time. It may not be a direct tit for tat kind of transaction, but yes, many commercial products benefit from the publicly available research papers published by graduate and post-graduate research.
Ahah! Methinks pigs got sick being disproportionately consumed by fatties and this is their revenge. The fatty always dies.
Thanks.
Studies of 10 year old boys and girls have shown equal rates of pregnancy.
Now it all makes sense. That's what happened to me when I was 10.
BOSS is not really new. Yahoo already had the Yahoo Search API, which does essentially the same thing. BOSS is essentially the Yahoo Search API with different terms of service. In particular, BOSS will, in future, allow "monetization". BOSS also allows users to intersperse their own search results with Yahoo's and run ads.
Google used to have a SOAP-based API, but they stopped allowing new users in 2006. It didn't force the caller to display ads. There's still a Google search API, but it's tied to their widgets and has restrictive terms of service.
We support both with SiteTruth. Yahoo search API version Google AJAX search version. The interface code is quite different but the end results are similar.
It's not about technology. It's about what you're allowed to do with the data:
Seriously... I am entering my senior year of undergraduate studies in CS at mediocre at best institution (no where near as well-known and of the quality as Tufts)... and seeing as how I intend on graduate school after I graduate and have experience in undergraduate research, I'm shocked at even the idea of asking Slashdot specifically for LINKS. You stole the keystrokes right from my fingers with your Literature Review linkage.
You expect me to read that? Give me a/>
You have to give them some credit though. Despite the truth in what you've said, if there was indeed a social engineering aspect to this, it doesn't just take anyone to be able to pull off such a task.
I know I probably couldn't or at least wouldn't want to, simply because of my personality and hatred for talking on the phone.
From a technical perspective though, you're probably right. They're likely just script kiddies who at most can add 2 + 2 together.
seconded
Kinda like what slashdot members are doing during the late hours of the night...
... that the $100 laptop looks like something made by Fischer Price?