This looks to me like a preview of good things to come after Masayoshi Son and Softbank acquire a controlling stake in Sprint, which will also buy out Clearwire. T-Mobile better grab some market share before Softbank arrives. (Son was the upstart in Japan in the early 2000's who make things there very competitive.)
Actually I don't think headers on either side get compressed.. so I'm probably totally wrong on this.
Fair enough. But then you turn on gzip compression and it drops to 1/7th of that...
If you look at what he's saying, you'll see that the javascript only gets downloaded once for all the domains. For each domain you need an html page that just has a script link to the fixed js file (that your browser already has cached). So, think maybe 100 bytes per 5-10MB.
A per mile tax is very likely to have unintended negative environmental consequences. Drivers of low mileage vehicles that would otherwise pay a lot of gas tax will certainly opt for the per mileage tax instead. The lower their gas mileage, the more incentive a driver will have to pay per mile rather than per gallon. So this tax will make it cheaper to drive inefficient cars. The driver can then afford to buy more gas and drive more miles than they could with a per gallon gas tax, with the concomitant negative effects on the environment, green house gasses, etc. Oregon will blaze a new trail in anti-environmental tax policy.
Linking to "Canada's Best Satirical Newspaper". Really sir, an article stating "Cucumbers Cause Genital Baldness" didn't trigger your skepticism?
>Sisko hit Q
He did? Man, that must've been right before Q's shift directing air traffic over ABQ.
It's been 14 years since I did any graphics programming, and I was thinking back, "Yeah, I remember this being an issue back then."
It will take time, but if the trend continues, the children of the the vaccine refusers will be in the majority when the disease reappears. They will eventually be left with a choice of risking the disease or "risking" the vaccine. As long as we keep our own children vaccinated, the vaccine refusers are the ones who will suffer in the end. A sad but highly likely result.
If my kids were allergic to vaccinations I would be forming groups with parents of other similar kids to investigate lawsuits against the vaccine refusers. A few of these, reported widely, might help turn the tide.
I am also heartened by the act that some doctors are refusing to treat patients who do not vaccinate their children. There was a good WSJ article in Feb 2012: "More Doctors 'Fire' Vaccine Refusers" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203315804577209230884246636.html
Pediatricians fed up with parents who refuse to vaccinate their children out of concern it can cause autism or other problems increasingly are "firing" such families from their practices, raising questions about a doctor's responsibility to these patients. Medical associations don't recommend such patient bans, but the practice appears to be growing, according to vaccine researchers.....
I think the answer is, that the payload is a command and control utility.
That way, the people who deployed it can use it at any / from any location, which is infected.
It could be used to escalate privileges on the local computer or many more useful things, and would reduce the need to be tied.
Sure similar things have been achieved in different ways, this is just speculation
Driving will essentially become free time where I can read, study, listen to music, surf the internet or for those so inclined, even watch movies or television. We wont care so much about speed limits anymore.
Every time I see the gene patent debate now, I think about how my wife spent five years of 60 hour weeks (grad school, she just got her PhD) discovering that some genes from Castor Beans have no effect on the lipids that they produce.
Gene patents get us all backed up in a corner mostly because of the medical tests that can save lives. What people fail to consider is that gene research is not very well-understood yet. Individual researchers fumble around for decades before they get results worth sharing, if ever.
Last time this debate came around, I pointed to Myriad Genetic's financials. They constantly lose money, and rely upon investors to keep them afloat. The research that they do is extremely expensive. They're not some greedy corporation making money hand-over-fist. (My wife, btw, is highly likely to carry the BRCA1 gene that Myriad holds a patent on...three women in her family have been tested and all have it...but until recently we haven't had the financial security to consider getting her tested for it).
I guess my point in all of this is that if gene patents go away, expect genetic research to come to a grinding halt, at least in the private sector. Currently, the private sector is where most of the research is happening. There is some funding by NIH and DoA, but it's on the decline since some kind of financial crisis hit the US.
Since slashdot loves carrying a debate into another field: Imagine if, say, electronic patents were ruled invalid? I mean, electrical doodads are just really following the laws of physics, and processors and logic gates are following the rules of logic. These are concepts that are at their most fundamental mathematics. What would happen to the computer industry if such patents were ruled invalid?
The world is unfair in so many ways. I suppose it's not surprising that people forget that we can strive to make it better.
Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to work.
