IBM measures force required to move a cobalt atom over a platinum (and copper) surface. I would gather that the force for different atoms is minutely different, as well as whatever friction or molecular interactions b/w the atom and surface material.
...the force required to move a cobalt atom over a smooth platinum surface is 210 piconewtons, while moving a cobalt atom over a copper surface takes only 17 piconewtons
An almost factor of 13 between the two surfaces. Maybe due to the valence electron difference between the two materials, but it is right that this is important for nano-technology, something about which I know less than physics and chemistry.
Unless the Exec branch disregards the rulings by the Judicial branch. Then who has to do it? That was what I meant by the Judicial branch enforcing laws.
I don't think that they have ignored, as much as waited for a serious usage of the law. "Their legal demand to Wikileaks, Northern Rock's well-known media lawyers, Schillings, invoke the DMCA & WIPO, claim it'll be 10 years in prison for Wikileaks operators for not following the UK injunction, but then, incredibly, refuse to hand over a copy of the order unless Wikileaks' London lawyers promise not to give it to Wikileaks. Finally they claim copyright and more -- on their demands!"
That seems more like bullying than sound legal requests.
They publish whatever they like and people seem to automatically assume that everything they say is the absolute truth, despite they having no credible track record.
The purpose of their site is not to be an encyclopedia like wikipedia, rather a muckraking site that allows whistleblowers to expose illegal behavior without worrying about exposed. I realize that there are laws, which seem pretty ineffective to me, which protect whistleblowers and that they can go to press personnel but wikileaks has no obligation to owners that may want to prevent some material surfacing.
I think WikiLeaks are manipulative and deliberately courting controversy. Dig beneath the surface and all I see is another self appointed authority with a poor regard for balance.
While that may be true, that's what gives them the notoriety that they have right now. They offer a haven of yellow-journalism that serves to monitor illegal corporate behavior. If there weren't so much going on, wikileaks wouldn't have so much notoriety now would they?
In a suit filed Tuesday in the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says Justice violated the Freedom of Information Act by withholding records it requested about Horvath and Google.
Maybe they will be blocked by the Executive department's insistence that this is necessary to National Security somehow by protecting the kiddies. The FOIA isn't just some law that you can just ignore, contrary to what has been happening in the federal govt recently. The judicial branch needs to get some balls and start enforcing the laws that have been enacted. Maybe when I don't file my taxes, I'll simply declare that it was all in National Security that my financial information wasn't supplied. Somehow I don't see that going over well.
This is just a conference to make it look like this interoperability was all their idea. From this quote:
This covenant will use the exact same terms created in October for the protocols covered by the CFI decision. This means that open source developers will be able to use the documentation to develop implementations of these protocols without paying for a patent license. Companies that subsequently engage in commercial distribution of these protocol implementations will be able to obtain a patent license from Microsoft, as will enterprises that obtain these implementations from a distributor that does not have such a patent license. So that's how we're addressing the intellectual property rights
you can see that all they are doing is simply complying with the CFI's decision about how the
Commission found that Microsoft had abused its monopoly in the market for client PC operating systems by (i) refusing to supply its competitors in the market for work group server operating systems with "interoperability information," i.e., documentation allowing server products of Microsoft's competitors to freely interoperate with the Windows environment, and (ii) tying the Windows client PC operating system and Windows Media Player.
On a broader level, attorney Thomas Burke and colleagues Handman and Kelli Sager, representing 12 media groups that filed a friend-of-the-court brief, cited the 1971 Supreme Court decision in the Pentagon Papers dispute as authority for their position.
If that is indeed the case, this judge is going to get hammered to such a blatant disregard of the Bill of.... what's that called again? Oh yeah, Bill of Rights. It's been so long. They have quite a substantial backing of groups in that amicus curiae, especially the AP and the EFF, I'm hoping that this friday will turn the tables on censorship issues a-brewing.
What did bother me was how Dynadot just rolled over and took this without batting an eye. They simply complied and let it happen without bother to contest it. Is it possible for wikileaks to get wikileaks.org changed to another domain registrar or should they just jump ship from this spineless drone?
Let's try that again with the link this time.
From this page here at ToL, you can see that there is a collaboration between efforts as to not overlap in data. It also states that the goals of each are slightly different in that EOL focuses more on specific species, whereas the ToL is more about phylogenetic classifications and evolutionary branches.
I've been looking into the National Science Foundation's AToL program recently because of an offer for grad school which is due to a grant from that specific program and I'm curious what, if any, connection there is between the two.
From this page here at ToL, you can see that there is a collaboration between efforts as to not overlap in data. It also states that the goals of each are slightly different in that EOL focuses more on specific species, whereas the ToL is more about phylogenetic classifications and evolutionary branches.
I've been looking into the National Science Foundation's AToL program recently because of an offer for grad school which is due to a grant from that specific program and I'm curious what, if any, connection there is between the two.
From reading the bill it doesn't say anywhere that it is a requirement of ISPs to become a Community Conscious Internet Provider so what is the point? The ability to market to the Utah Mormon population or parents who want the facade of protection under the guise of censorship? It will fine those CCIPs that violate their censorship but nothing about those who aren't involved. I don't see this happening, but I'm sure wilder things have happened in Utah that I'm not aware of.
The trial will evaluate ISP-level internet content filters in a controlled environment while filtering content inappropriate for children, Enex said.
So this is only a trial test, with a field test to follow, but what entity is deciding what is inappropriate. Obviously pr0n would be blocked, but what else would be blanketed? Sites that are deemed inappropriate in order to save the children which could have no bearing whatsoever in terms of being inappropriate. Plus in order to opt out you have to contact your ISP. Why the hell not make it the opposite? Contact your ISP if you want it. I would rather not be inconvenienced by some overzealous censorship in my country.
I'm also curious if this could possibly die in the process or if the govt is 100% intent on implementing this to the bitter end.
TFA didn't mention any brain monitoring. It simply observed whether a fish preferred to enter a school of 4 or 3 fish when being harassed. So it can discern the difference between those two, either because it can tell 3 from 4, or the school looked bigger. Either way, it can tell the difference between a small number of fish and a larger number of fish. Can your dog do that?
Have you seen a mosquitofish? Those things are most likely not able to discern body language and cues from humans nearby. Even if they were, I doubt that the fish had any interaction with humans during this experimentation. In TFA the females were observed being harassed by male fish and given a choice of either a 3 fish or 4 fish school, and chose 4 over 3. Those characteristic decisions were on par with human infants 6-12 months old, which is pretty impressive for a type of minnow.
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I worked as a surveyor for a private engineering firm a few years back and it isn't a simple task just to collect data and upload it. This applies for GPS data as well that you have to upload into GIS, or the like, software and manipulate it with any data-correction and overlays to aerial or satellite photography. Trust me, I spent hours cleaning up collection points and trying to get it to match up with the overlays with GPS data for invasive species management plans for a national park I worked at using ArcGIS (which is absolutely terrible to work with in comparison to ArcView). The surveying part usually requires some sort of CAD to properly map out what information you have collected during surveying and in-the-field math to figure out what goes where. It's not as simple as you think it might be.
I suppose we're two fine examples that there are stereotypes for both public/home school. But yeah I have noticed that a lot of adults of whiny little idiots who don't know the first thing about discipline. I guess we'll see what happens if I ever have kids. To each his own.
Reading the article (gasp!) left me with the impression that the Judge was ticked off because of the attorney's behavior and method of prosecuting their case and not that the Judge thought the patents were bogus. It's as if the plaintiff is getting nailed because it hired a pair of SOB's to press its case.
I believe that is partially the point. They wasted the court's time by pursuing a case that was baseless and had no grounds by simply trying to litigate the other company out of existence. The prosecuting lawyers acting like arrogant fools trying to make a buck in the world of patent trolling. But just for fun here is another link to the story and the judge's ruling (PDF).
Sure, home-schooled kids *may* be slightly less equipped to handle the "real, big bad world" than their hardened, systemically-programmed public education counterparts. However, we believe that it will be far easier for our kids to catch up on any good things they missed out on in school once they are adults than it will be for them to shed the stupid habits and conformity they would have gained there
Well I'm not prozac laden robot, but you're basically saying your kids can catch up on things they missed out on as kids when they're adults? I'm not exactly what things you are referring to but it sounds like you want 9 and 11 year old adults (I'm just guessing on ages) who have your stupid habits (if any) and conform to you. Neither side is perfect but just because you think it only happens in public schools doesn't mean it doesn't in your homeschooling either. I didn't conform to a public education drone, because I was taught by my parents to be free-thinking. Believe it or not, parents can still be involved in a child's education when they go to public school.
So great thinking is inherently associated with Christianity? There's always advantages and disadvantages to each way, so defaming one from what you learned, or just out of spite, just turns this into a flamewar. My original point was that homeschooling gives the parent total control of what goes into the child's head, and they would, I assume, trust that as infallible, no matter what. A proper education is one that involves the child, teacher, and the parent. Take one out of that equation and it weakens the education process by limiting the scope of what the child will learn, and how he/she uses that knowledge to apply it to life. I don't want a child who thinks exactly like me. I want a child who grows into an independently thinking being who can act ethically and with sound judgment, whether or not I agree with all of their choices (don't read that as I don't care if my kid chooses to rob a old lady or something along those lines). And as for the socialization aspect, I would think working in group dynamics is essential to a child's socialization with not only peers but allowing them to think independently in a group. I never mentioned anything about not having any friends. Again, like I said at the beginning of this, they each have advantages and disadvantages, but I think I turned out pretty well adjusted. You should keep an open mind as well.
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Don't worry. That's exactly what came to mind for me as well.
Unless the Exec branch disregards the rulings by the Judicial branch. Then who has to do it? That was what I meant by the Judicial branch enforcing laws.
That seems more like bullying than sound legal requests.
The purpose of their site is not to be an encyclopedia like wikipedia, rather a muckraking site that allows whistleblowers to expose illegal behavior without worrying about exposed. I realize that there are laws, which seem pretty ineffective to me, which protect whistleblowers and that they can go to press personnel but wikileaks has no obligation to owners that may want to prevent some material surfacing.
While that may be true, that's what gives them the notoriety that they have right now. They offer a haven of yellow-journalism that serves to monitor illegal corporate behavior. If there weren't so much going on, wikileaks wouldn't have so much notoriety now would they?
then color me red.
/hopes you are being sarcastic
they are referring to? I don't see anything in there about GNU or UGN or UNIX. All it is, is a tele-press-conference about interoperability.
What did bother me was how Dynadot just rolled over and took this without batting an eye. They simply complied and let it happen without bother to contest it. Is it possible for wikileaks to get wikileaks.org changed to another domain registrar or should they just jump ship from this spineless drone?
Let's try that again with the link this time.
From this page here at ToL, you can see that there is a collaboration between efforts as to not overlap in data. It also states that the goals of each are slightly different in that EOL focuses more on specific species, whereas the ToL is more about phylogenetic classifications and evolutionary branches. I've been looking into the National Science Foundation's AToL program recently because of an offer for grad school which is due to a grant from that specific program and I'm curious what, if any, connection there is between the two.
From this page here at ToL, you can see that there is a collaboration between efforts as to not overlap in data. It also states that the goals of each are slightly different in that EOL focuses more on specific species, whereas the ToL is more about phylogenetic classifications and evolutionary branches.
I've been looking into the National Science Foundation's AToL program recently because of an offer for grad school which is due to a grant from that specific program and I'm curious what, if any, connection there is between the two.
Nice HL quote. I had to think about where I had heard that before.
From reading the bill it doesn't say anywhere that it is a requirement of ISPs to become a Community Conscious Internet Provider so what is the point? The ability to market to the Utah Mormon population or parents who want the facade of protection under the guise of censorship? It will fine those CCIPs that violate their censorship but nothing about those who aren't involved. I don't see this happening, but I'm sure wilder things have happened in Utah that I'm not aware of.
That's further proof to my point. Who gets to decide what is classified as blockable?
They just throttle my connection until it fails.
I'm also curious if this could possibly die in the process or if the govt is 100% intent on implementing this to the bitter end.
Too late my friend, better keep an eye on your betta. Or sleep with one eye open.
TFA didn't mention any brain monitoring. It simply observed whether a fish preferred to enter a school of 4 or 3 fish when being harassed. So it can discern the difference between those two, either because it can tell 3 from 4, or the school looked bigger. Either way, it can tell the difference between a small number of fish and a larger number of fish. Can your dog do that?
Have you seen a mosquitofish? Those things are most likely not able to discern body language and cues from humans nearby. Even if they were, I doubt that the fish had any interaction with humans during this experimentation. In TFA the females were observed being harassed by male fish and given a choice of either a 3 fish or 4 fish school, and chose 4 over 3. Those characteristic decisions were on par with human infants 6-12 months old, which is pretty impressive for a type of minnow.
I worked as a surveyor for a private engineering firm a few years back and it isn't a simple task just to collect data and upload it. This applies for GPS data as well that you have to upload into GIS, or the like, software and manipulate it with any data-correction and overlays to aerial or satellite photography. Trust me, I spent hours cleaning up collection points and trying to get it to match up with the overlays with GPS data for invasive species management plans for a national park I worked at using ArcGIS (which is absolutely terrible to work with in comparison to ArcView). The surveying part usually requires some sort of CAD to properly map out what information you have collected during surveying and in-the-field math to figure out what goes where. It's not as simple as you think it might be.
I suppose we're two fine examples that there are stereotypes for both public/home school. But yeah I have noticed that a lot of adults of whiny little idiots who don't know the first thing about discipline. I guess we'll see what happens if I ever have kids. To each his own.
It's great! It was tied up in a patent trolling case recently and was not allowed to comment.
So great thinking is inherently associated with Christianity? There's always advantages and disadvantages to each way, so defaming one from what you learned, or just out of spite, just turns this into a flamewar. My original point was that homeschooling gives the parent total control of what goes into the child's head, and they would, I assume, trust that as infallible, no matter what. A proper education is one that involves the child, teacher, and the parent. Take one out of that equation and it weakens the education process by limiting the scope of what the child will learn, and how he/she uses that knowledge to apply it to life. I don't want a child who thinks exactly like me. I want a child who grows into an independently thinking being who can act ethically and with sound judgment, whether or not I agree with all of their choices (don't read that as I don't care if my kid chooses to rob a old lady or something along those lines).
And as for the socialization aspect, I would think working in group dynamics is essential to a child's socialization with not only peers but allowing them to think independently in a group. I never mentioned anything about not having any friends. Again, like I said at the beginning of this, they each have advantages and disadvantages, but I think I turned out pretty well adjusted. You should keep an open mind as well.