Comment related research predates this (Score 1) 382
Published in June 2011: A Vaccine Strategy that Induces Protective Immunity against Heroin.
And a subsequent press release entitled Successful lab tests on a potential vaccine for heroin addiction
Comment Re:harassment or protest? (Score 1) 1127
Just to clarify, what would constitute "non-violent protest" to you, yet not constitute "harassment"?
When I think of nonviolent protest, I think first of convincing the broad public and getting the weight of public opinion on your side. Second, I think about refusing to do something which the law requires you to do, but which you believe is immoral. Third, I think about directly disobeying laws which restrict you from doing something which you believe is your moral right. I think about Gandhi making salt or the freedom riders as an example of the latter and conscientious objectors or tax protestors as an example of the former.
I think that collecting video could help the group convince the broad public and could be a tool in non-violent protest, but it is not clear to me from their video that their target is changing the law. Instead, their target seems to be "those people" at Broxton.
Comment harassment or protest? (Score 5, Insightful) 1127
Context: Personally, I fully support regulated hunting for food, don't like hunting for trophy, and don't like the use of raised birds in a pigeon shoot (which seems to be the practice under scrutiny here).
After watching the video, I think there are two main issues - one (dealt with at length here) is about whether or not it was right and/or legal to shoot down the drone. The second one is whether or not it is right and/or legal for Hindi's group to be harassing the Broxton Bridge Plantation. His tone throughout and his words at the end of the video are clearly harassment - "we have a lot of plans for those people, that much I can guarantee."
If the shoot is legal, then the harassment should be illegal and the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the law through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video).
If the shoot is illegal, then law enforcement should handle it. If they do not, the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the actions of law enforcement officials through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video). The harassment should still be illegal.
I think this group has confused non violent protest against immoral laws with harassment of groups doing things you don't like.
Submission + - Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom (nytimes.com)
stupendou writes: Australian and American physicists have built a working transistor from a single phosphorus atom embedded in a silicon crystal. The group of physicists, based at the University of New South Wales and Purdue University, said they had laid the groundwork for a futuristic quantum computer that might one day function in a nanoscale world and would be orders of magnitude smaller and quicker than today’s silicon-based machines.
Comment Re:OPT OUT (Score 2) 572
for those that don't realize that this is a joke...
this is fake news
Comment which sites did Google India remove? (Score 1) 477
Please Mod this up so that the question can get some international exposure. Perhaps we can get a list of links to the sites in question?
Comment good thing he's not retired... (Score 2) 237
we need an engineer who will stop ships from sailing into islands.
Comment "Free Trade" is a marketing slogan (Score 3, Insightful) 237
Yes, it it "free trade". "Free", doesn't means free for everyone, or equal for everyone. "Free trade" just means "no rules trade" or "self-regulating trade".
Oh boy, are you ever wrong. At the time of the free trade talks, I obtained a copy of the agreement. It is a fairly hefty book.
"Free Trade" is a marketing slogan to sell a trade agreement to liberty loving people. In reality, it is a set of rules that groups try to influence to their advantage.
Your post only points out how effective that marketing has been.
Comment Re:MP3 Players... (Score 1) 179
or you could choose an "mp3 player" over a phone just because you'd rather not jump on a bandwagon filled with people playing "angry birds".
(If you actually like music, you might even choose a flac player)
Comment Re:gives everyone a supercomputer... right (Score 1) 167
damn it... posting to burn a misplaced mod point.
Submission + - Microsoft can remotely delete Windows 8 apps (itnews.com) 3
tripleevenfall writes: Microsoft will be able to throw a "kill switch" to disable or even remove an app from users' Windows 8 devices, the company revealed in documentation released earlier this week for its upcoming Windows Store.
"In cases where your security is at risk, or where we're required to do so for legal reasons, you may not be able to run apps or access content that you previously acquired or purchased a license for," said Microsoft in the Windows Store terms."If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored," Microsoft said.
Both Apple and Google can flip such a switch for apps distributed by the iOS App Store and Android Market, respectively.
"In cases where your security is at risk, or where we're required to do so for legal reasons, you may not be able to run apps or access content that you previously acquired or purchased a license for," said Microsoft in the Windows Store terms."If the Windows Store, an app, or any content is changed or discontinued, your data could be deleted or you may not be able to retrieve data you have stored," Microsoft said.
Both Apple and Google can flip such a switch for apps distributed by the iOS App Store and Android Market, respectively.
Submission + - SOPA author Lamar Smith infringes copyright on his (google.com)
Craefter writes: On an earlier version of Lamar Smith's campaign website Lamar himself wasn't too clever by pulling a background image from Flickr without asking or mentioning the original photographer, DJ Schulte.
Vice magazine did a research into any copyright infringement Lamar could have made on his website and found one in violation of the Creative Commons.
Vice magazine did a research into any copyright infringement Lamar could have made on his website and found one in violation of the Creative Commons.
Submission + - New species-jumping infection discovered. (sciencemag.org)
RockDoctor writes: Diseases caused by organisms moving from one host to another host, and then becoming more virulent in the process, or starting to spread even further, are well known and a cause of real concern to doctors — of both humans and animals. For example, Anthrax has long been known as an annoying disease of cattle, but when humans become infected with the spores it can become both dangerous and be transmitted human-to-human. The haemmoragic fevers (examples : Ebola and Marburg viruses) are more nasty examples. In the 1970s, 1980s, and into the 1990s, barbaric and cannibalistic livestock management practices led to the movement of the disease scrapie from sheep (where it has been known for centuries) into cattle and then into humans with a human death toll likely to reach the thousands.
Veterinary scientists in Belgium, German and the Netherlands are concerned about a new disease emerging in their cattle, sheep and goat herds. While the associated fever and loss of milk production are economically concerning, the disease also leads to many still births and developmental disorders in the foetuses such as hydraencephaly ("water on the brain") and scoliosis (curvature of the spine). Which are frequently disabling if not lethal.
The causative organism has been identified as a virus in a family transmitted by mosquitoes and midges. Related viruses are known to infect cattle, sheep, buffalo, camels, dogs and (ominously) "other species". That is a fairly wide spread of target organisms, which would mean that animal-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out on principle.
"[These]viruses have been neglected for a long time, and we just don't know a lot about them," says a researcher, than adding "The problem with [them] is that their segmented genome makes the emergence of new combinations very easy, just like with influenza viruses,"
In a dig at the insanity of patent systems, the article adds "In order not to lose time and to answer the most pressing questions fast, [a research centre] has decided not to file for any patents on [this virus]-related discoveries. "Our resources are limited," [another researcher] says, "and we are happy to share our knowledge and materials with anyone interested in it for noncommercial or commercial reasons."
My joy at hearing this news is immeasurable, since getting bitten by midges is a normal part of my summer hill-walking. Just what the world needs ; another novel disease coming out of the unknown!
Veterinary scientists in Belgium, German and the Netherlands are concerned about a new disease emerging in their cattle, sheep and goat herds. While the associated fever and loss of milk production are economically concerning, the disease also leads to many still births and developmental disorders in the foetuses such as hydraencephaly ("water on the brain") and scoliosis (curvature of the spine). Which are frequently disabling if not lethal.
The causative organism has been identified as a virus in a family transmitted by mosquitoes and midges. Related viruses are known to infect cattle, sheep, buffalo, camels, dogs and (ominously) "other species". That is a fairly wide spread of target organisms, which would mean that animal-to-human transmission cannot be ruled out on principle.
"[These]viruses have been neglected for a long time, and we just don't know a lot about them," says a researcher, than adding "The problem with [them] is that their segmented genome makes the emergence of new combinations very easy, just like with influenza viruses,"
In a dig at the insanity of patent systems, the article adds "In order not to lose time and to answer the most pressing questions fast, [a research centre] has decided not to file for any patents on [this virus]-related discoveries. "Our resources are limited," [another researcher] says, "and we are happy to share our knowledge and materials with anyone interested in it for noncommercial or commercial reasons."
My joy at hearing this news is immeasurable, since getting bitten by midges is a normal part of my summer hill-walking. Just what the world needs ; another novel disease coming out of the unknown!
Comment crowdsource it (Score 1) 82
I've got it! Instead of paying a large number of people to censor the internet, just let people create links to the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff - soon the whole world will be acting as your censors and only the good stuff will be easy to find!
Now to let Minister Sibal know that I will implement this system for only 1.5 million USD.
Comment Re:Priorities (Score 2) 393
A nation... and that was the eventual goal of the whole EU dream... has to have something in common other than the currency. You were never going to erase the French from a Frenchman in an effort to make him some generic "European".
A friend of mine (a mathematics professor in Bremen, Germany) once told me to remember that although there have been many different motivations behind the EU, the common thread was always to forge ties that would prevent another world war. Some believed the ties had to be military, others political, economic, or currency based, but the common origin was to institutionally and structurally need each other and work with each other in a way that would make it difficult to even imagine another European war, or another world war in which there is a waring Europe.
This is a very different goal from "erasing the French from a Frenchman to make a generic European", and I hope the historical perspective is not lost in the current discourse.
