Age on a C.V?! Who does that. No one.
That's true in America. But in much of the world (including most of Europe), a CV is expected to include one's age, marital status, and number of children.
A European employer may also expect to receive a photograph, from which the applicant's race, weight, and physical attractiveness can be judged.
More information here: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/cvadvice/qt/cveurope.htm
Is this for anti glare or something?
No, I think it is to extract more money from wallets.
Aside from novelty, the point of a curved display is to squeeze more screen area into the same footprint.
I've never understood curved TVs, but I can see the appeal of curved phones which need to fit comfortably into palms and pockets.
the siblings share 25% of their genetic code...
How do you figure?
On average, full siblings share 50% their chromosomes.
25% is the average for half-siblings, not full siblings.
Extensive checks and searching goes back centuries...
Checks at international borders, sure. But today's network of internal border checkpoints is new.
As recently as the 1990s, Americans could travel freely within the country. But today, I can't drive from Texas to California without passing through one of their make-believe border checkpoints. That bullshit doesn't go back centuries.
You can go damn near anywhere the hell you want in this country without the slightest threat to your rights.
It's called driving.
Over the last decade, the federal government has created "interior border checkpoints" along major highways in the United States. Try driving from Texas to California without passing through one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Border_Patrol_Interior_Checkpoints
err... that should be 1783 for Massachusetts. (apologies for typo)
Totally complete list of totally amazing freedom enhancing things done in the name of states' rights:
Sure, I'll bite:
In 1869, Wyoming granted voting rights to women. It would be 50 years before federal law caught up with them.
In 1982, Wisconsin prohibited employment discrimination against gays. 30 years later, most of the nation still hasn't caught up with Wisconsin.
In 1780, Pennsylvania voted to abolish slavery. Massachusetts followed suit in 1883. Federal law would continue to permit slavery until 1865; It was only state law which protected the freedom of black americans in the north.
These are the ones that pop into my head, but I'm sure I could list of similar examples all day long. State law has been at the forefront of just about every major civil rights issue in our nation's history.
The "PETA" vegetarians will find something wrong with whatever you try and serve them...
If you'd read the article, you'd know that PETA is actually funding this research. They've been pushing the development of lab-grown meat for years.
eg: http://science.slashdot.org/story/08/04/21/126253/peta-offers-x-prize-for-artificial-meat
If I make a copy of the password database and place it on my machine then how will an alarm reach the admins?
It won't, if all you do with the passwords is keep them on your own machine.
But if you try to use of the passwords to access the machine you took them from, that's when you risk alerting the admins.
Someone correct me. It just doesn't seem feasible.
Speech recognition is pretty good these days, and text is highly compressible. If they discard the audio, It would be quite feasible to store a transcript of every call.
...All without a single patriot in the government going public and blowing the lid off this
Thus far, we've had the same story from a number of whistleblowers:
Former NSA technical director William Binney.
Former house intelligence committee staffer Diane Roark
Former AT&T technician Mark Klein
At what point would you consider the lid blown?
Ghostery itself is a tracker: http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/
I use a combination of ABP, DNTMe, and Firefox's built-in DNT flag.
No. Ghostery is not "a tracker."
Ghostery's data collection is opt-in. To share data with them, you have to click a clearly-labeled checkbox. There doesn't appear to be anything fishy about it.
Humans are a type of ape. We only confuse ourselves if we insist on a semantic distinction.
If gibbons are in the club, then we can't justify excluding ourselves... we're much closer to the other apes than gibbons are.
...If the comment below is correct (they have links if you want more info) then it was actually just a copy of the original DNA.
It was a copy of a different species' DNA. They took a sample of m. capricolum, and replaced its DNA with a synthesized copy of m. mycoides's genome. The test organism actually changed into a different species.
... actually, here's a more informative link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium
Damned impressive stuff. They synthesized a copy of the m. mycoides genome from a computer record.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
