I wish the article would have mentioned how related the African and Asian wheat strains were to European and American strains. Since US corn crops are about 85% genetically similar doesn't make the situation in the US good at all. If it does hit the US pretty hard we may be seeing wheat coming from Mexico most likely.
Because that is too much of a hippy attitude for this fascist type of thinking. Why bother rehabilitating when you can weed out the ones you think will do something illegal or challenge authority. Which also begs the question what other type of abuse could this DNA sampling be used for? This is one hell of a slippery slope that would be very easily abused. Just think if insurance companies ever got a chance to examine your DNA for diseases which you may be predispositioned for and charged you according to what you rank on their scale, or even refused to allow you to buy insurance. I'm just blown away that someone would even come out and say something like this, much less from someone in such a position of authority.
Pugh admitted that the deeply controversial suggestion raised issues of parental consent, potential stigmatisation and the role of teachers in identifying future offenders, but said society needed an open, mature discussion on how best to tackle crime before it took place
So this guy wants basically wants thoughtcrimes to be illegal. This completely reeks of 1984 and I would hate to see this come true and create a terrible precedent where your DNA is taken at birth and your DNA is examined for "potential markers" of a criminal. I know that is a stretch but who ever thought that this would ever happen, and much less even be suggested? I seriously hope this man gets called out for being his nefarious attitude for society and this suggestion gets tossed into the shitter.
How about all those quotes from bush about the blame being laid on the House dems for allowing the country to be left exposed to potential "terrist" plans?
The fact is that the government has done a good job of preventing terrorism over the last 6+ years.
I'll use your own words here: Never has anyone substantiated that with any facts. Just because something big hasn't happened since 9/11 doesn't mean the government has prevented it. I'll just go ahead and throw this out there, just to play devil's advocate, but under whose watch did 9/11 happen? Just because something doesn't occur by happenstance can not be attributed to what the govt does. It could be attributed to the intelligence sharing but who knows.
Back to your claim about how civil liberties have not been violated. You are familiar with how domestic spying without approved warrants is illegal, right? And on top of that the telcoms handed over private information just because the govt said so. They did not follow legal routes of obtaining that information. I'm not sure if you've been living under a rock the past 5 years but you need to look into the legality of this, not what the govt says they have authority to do.
I would think that while they may not have been actively ripping off their customers, they probably were somewhat aware of what was going on. I mean people had to have called their provider and complained before getting transferred to these billing companies. And even if they weren't aware, did they get a cut of the loot or was the billing company pocketing it all?
The three companies -- BSG Clearing Solutions North America, ACI Billing Services, and Billing Concepts -- control more than 85% of the billing aggregation market, in which aggregators contract with local telephone companies to bill on behalf of third parties, the FTC said.
How weird. Companies in a potential monopoly abuse their position? The FTC needs to decentralize this shite since corrupt individuals can't seem to keep their hands out of people's wallets. Luckily I've not been involved in fraud like this, only the random credit fraud.
But it is misleading. It offers a technology that, to the viewer, is designed to protect the content on the memory. It does nothing of the sort. It gives the facade of a deadbolted door, with a window around back that is just left open. You say it's quicker than inputting a password? I doubt people are really in that much of a hurry that 2 seconds is such a waste of time. If anything it would serve as not needing to remember a password, or multiple passwords. But I'm still wary of anything that will require any sort of biometric information of mine for me to access.
...the controller on the stick does not decide whether to provide access to the partition; the software running on Windows does.
Well there's your problem. Who in their right mind designed these? No encryption either. Or maybe it was their plan all along...No, I'd go with just stupidity.
While I think this is a pretty stupid move, I suppose I could see that they want to retain an air of elitism with the content that they publish. Scientific journals do reek of elitism but are gradually breaking away from the notion that the material is private. I know some journals are providing content free of charge, which is a great way to get more material out in the open. However long-time editors and publishers may have objections to that method since they are used to the prestige that the little private club offers, so younger authors will probably be more inclined to an open journal.
Personally as a recently graduated biologist I've had doubts of getting into graduate school simply because I don't have anything published, or original primary research. Fortunately I've been in contact with a professor who thinks I'd be a good fit for his lab, so I may eventually get a chance to get some work published, that I wouldn't mind being offered freely.
They keep touting this P2P protocol, but never actually say what it is. I'll assume it's bittorrent, unless they need to replace protocol with network. I'm guessing it's just the buzzwords that they like.
Just use RIAA radar to see if the album you want to buy is under a label associated with the RIAA. I've checked every time i've wanted to buy an album, and so far luckily they all (2) have been RIAA free. Whew, that was a lot of acronyms.
From news that I have read from Japan, most people find eating whale meat outdated and are against whaling. I'm not sure who is paying for it all, but those "scientific" companies make tons of money. The least they could do would be to stop doing whaling under the guise of scientific research and completely ignore the moratorium like norway and iceland do. I hate to say it but I have more respect for the latter countries than japan for actually acknowledging that they are doing something illegal rather than reeking of bullshit.
A bone I have to pick with that NBC guy is the complaints he has about how P2P traffic is hogging network bandwidth and transferring costs onto customers.
He goes further; P2P protocols themselves disrupt the Internet by passing bandwidth costs from content owners onto ISPs. Cotton told the FCC in a recent filing, "P2P applications shift the costs of centralized storage and distribution to end users and their broadband network providers."
But then he goes on to say that their usage of it will reduce their own bandwidth costs.
"We generally think that peer-to-peer technologies are very useful for distributing large files, they can significantly reduce bandwidth costs, and generally they are technologies today without a business model. We think the distribution of legitimate content using that technology saves us a lot of costs and we're happy to share some of that savings."
Ok so I get it, it will cost you less so you can milk more money out of consumers, while still increasing the cost of ISP service to customers. Pot, meet kettle.
As far as I know Bittorrent is an open protocol and isn't under some sort of proprietary control.
Use a P2P network that they didn't build, didn't buy or contribute to, didn't ask permission to be on, all in order to promote their content and make money.
I'm not quite sure if you actually RTFA but they will be using Pando, with whom they made a deal to supply their content. You are right they are just out to make money, and reducing the bandwidth that their servers consume since they won't be hosting all these HD videos on their servers, but rather distributing them through Pando.
They are using p2p to distribute their TV shows which are supplied on their websites now through Pando Networks.
NBC will start using P2P technology from Pando Networks to distribute its shows through NBC Direct. Using P2P allows the company to save on the massive bandwidth bills it would otherwise incur from distributing HD-quality video.
I know it was 3 pages, but it's an interesting read if you have the time to spare.
I'm all for him parading his legal use of p2p protocols, but he doesn't leave it at that. He desires ISPs to use filtering technology to weed out pirated files.
When we talk, Cotton makes clear that he's not "a technology guy" and that he doesn't much care how the filtering is accomplished. He fully grants the importance of privacy and fair use, and he's concerned about casting a net too widely. But something, anything, needs to be done.
He does however recognize that AT&T (and other ISPs who would use a similar tactic) is treading on unsafe ground if they start to police their networks. This man just confuses me about his lack of knowledge about how things work. He insists that something must be done to filter files at any cost, all while maintaining privacy, and without going out of the safe harbor that the DMCA offers to ISPs. He is living in some sort of dream world. Something may happen, but something will have to give, and I'm sadly expecting privacy (not piracy) to take the shaft.
They're against net neutrality because it doesn't give them an advantage. In the current way, they are the top dogs who get to control when and where you see a product and how much you pay for it. Under the neutrality rules they are no longer the gate-keepers per se, but have to compete with other factions that can offer more available and cheaper "products." They're using this argument because they want to tighten the strangle hold that they have, and possibly make ties with the ISPs who would control the tubes without any sort of neutrality rules. This is just another example of them treading water in an area that they can't control, yet still whine about this imaginary loss of revenue. Go to hell MAFIAA.
Exactly. If both Hotmail and Yahoo mail have taken design cues from Gmail, I doubt that Gmail is on its way out. My first choice of commercial email handlers is Gmail, then hotmail for a standard throw-away email.
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That may be true, but I think you misunderstood. 90% of humans aren't genetic copies.
Nice use of that incubus album name.
+1 witty
I wish the article would have mentioned how related the African and Asian wheat strains were to European and American strains. Since US corn crops are about 85% genetically similar doesn't make the situation in the US good at all. If it does hit the US pretty hard we may be seeing wheat coming from Mexico most likely.
Because that is too much of a hippy attitude for this fascist type of thinking. Why bother rehabilitating when you can weed out the ones you think will do something illegal or challenge authority. Which also begs the question what other type of abuse could this DNA sampling be used for? This is one hell of a slippery slope that would be very easily abused. Just think if insurance companies ever got a chance to examine your DNA for diseases which you may be predispositioned for and charged you according to what you rank on their scale, or even refused to allow you to buy insurance. I'm just blown away that someone would even come out and say something like this, much less from someone in such a position of authority.
Yes, but does it blend?
Back to your claim about how civil liberties have not been violated. You are familiar with how domestic spying without approved warrants is illegal, right? And on top of that the telcoms handed over private information just because the govt said so. They did not follow legal routes of obtaining that information. I'm not sure if you've been living under a rock the past 5 years but you need to look into the legality of this, not what the govt says they have authority to do.
I was trying to define them collectively but you're right, oligopoly is better.
I would think that while they may not have been actively ripping off their customers, they probably were somewhat aware of what was going on. I mean people had to have called their provider and complained before getting transferred to these billing companies. And even if they weren't aware, did they get a cut of the loot or was the billing company pocketing it all?
But it is misleading. It offers a technology that, to the viewer, is designed to protect the content on the memory. It does nothing of the sort. It gives the facade of a deadbolted door, with a window around back that is just left open. You say it's quicker than inputting a password? I doubt people are really in that much of a hurry that 2 seconds is such a waste of time. If anything it would serve as not needing to remember a password, or multiple passwords. But I'm still wary of anything that will require any sort of biometric information of mine for me to access.
If I had mod points I'd totally mod you up. But don't you mean it's of immeasurable quantity?
While I think this is a pretty stupid move, I suppose I could see that they want to retain an air of elitism with the content that they publish. Scientific journals do reek of elitism but are gradually breaking away from the notion that the material is private. I know some journals are providing content free of charge, which is a great way to get more material out in the open. However long-time editors and publishers may have objections to that method since they are used to the prestige that the little private club offers, so younger authors will probably be more inclined to an open journal.
Personally as a recently graduated biologist I've had doubts of getting into graduate school simply because I don't have anything published, or original primary research. Fortunately I've been in contact with a professor who thinks I'd be a good fit for his lab, so I may eventually get a chance to get some work published, that I wouldn't mind being offered freely.
They keep touting this P2P protocol, but never actually say what it is. I'll assume it's bittorrent, unless they need to replace protocol with network. I'm guessing it's just the buzzwords that they like.
Just use RIAA radar to see if the album you want to buy is under a label associated with the RIAA. I've checked every time i've wanted to buy an album, and so far luckily they all (2) have been RIAA free. Whew, that was a lot of acronyms.
It's a trap!
From news that I have read from Japan, most people find eating whale meat outdated and are against whaling. I'm not sure who is paying for it all, but those "scientific" companies make tons of money. The least they could do would be to stop doing whaling under the guise of scientific research and completely ignore the moratorium like norway and iceland do. I hate to say it but I have more respect for the latter countries than japan for actually acknowledging that they are doing something illegal rather than reeking of bullshit.
*Sorry, whalecow-bullshit.
They're against net neutrality because it doesn't give them an advantage. In the current way, they are the top dogs who get to control when and where you see a product and how much you pay for it. Under the neutrality rules they are no longer the gate-keepers per se, but have to compete with other factions that can offer more available and cheaper "products." They're using this argument because they want to tighten the strangle hold that they have, and possibly make ties with the ISPs who would control the tubes without any sort of neutrality rules. This is just another example of them treading water in an area that they can't control, yet still whine about this imaginary loss of revenue. Go to hell MAFIAA.
Exactly. If both Hotmail and Yahoo mail have taken design cues from Gmail, I doubt that Gmail is on its way out. My first choice of commercial email handlers is Gmail, then hotmail for a standard throw-away email.