Larry Lessig gets TEDsters to their feet, whooping and whistling, following this elegant presentation of three stories and an argument. The Net's most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the "ASCAP cartel" to build a case for creative freedom.
Norge, Danmark och Tyskland ligger väsentligen lägre. Längre bort i världen ligger även länder som Australien och Chile lägre.
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Den här kartan visar helt andra siffror. Se denna artikel som har mycket data, och det ser inte alls längre ut som om Sverige ligger högt!
This clip was left out of the original movie because it was said to be "unbelivable" and "people wouldnt belive it" because it was too good to be true. The movie "Sicko" is know for its critque of the US healthcare system and it praised systems in Canada,Uk and France. This praise reaped a storm of protests through the media and big coorporations but as you will see in this video, those countries who were told to be "not as good as MM( michel moore) told them to be", is nothing compared to the legal system and state welfare we have in Norway.
Raytheon, the giant defense contractor, recently bought up Utah technology firm Sarcos' robotics business. And it wasn't because of Sarcos' work on the Bellagio's fountains, I suspect. For years, Sarcos has been working for the military on real-life exoskeletons, to radically boost soldiers' strength. Here's a video of a Sarcos exoskeleton in action.
The key aim of this paper is to facilitate informed debate amongst doctors, scientists, policy-makers, and members of the public about the future development and use of cognitive enhancements. Providing the facts, information and some of the arguments it signals the beginning of a debate about how, as a society, we should consider and respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by cognitive enhancements.Direkt till PDF:en
The plan has been drawn up by French retail exec Denis Olivennes. It will see signatory ISPs - including France Telecom, which owns Orange in the UK - hand over information on heavy users of file-sharing networks to a new enforcement body which will formally warn them to stop. If they persist, their connection will be cut.
The researchers found a way to transplant new blood-forming stem cells into the bone marrow of mice, effectively replacing their immune systems. Many aspects of the technique would need to be adapted before it can be tested in humans, said Irving Weissman, MD, a co-senior author of the study and director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. The work was done on a particular group of mice that are a poor mimic for the human immune system. Still, Weissman suggested the remaining hurdles could eventually be overcome.
Men rätt som det är så åker han till ett fint EU-toppmöte och berättar för den samlade världspressen att han inte alls har planerat att bli premiärminister. Nu har alla i stället börjat kalla honom för “den nationella ledaren”, däribland ordföranden i Putin-partiet Boris Gryzlov. Ingen vet visserligen exakt vad en “nationell ledare” är, men just nu är det det som är Putins finaste titel.
This is the kind of hypocrisy we've come to expect from the world's worst illiberal and backwater autocracies. But Greece is a member of NATO, the European Union, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development — and thanks in no small part to the United States. Which is why its particular breed of anti-Americanism is so scary
This system has a number of advantages, the most important being that it allows us to adhere to the most commonly-used standards for tracking research citations. This means that eventually other sites will be able to share the information in our database in many different ways, while always giving the original bloggers -- and the researchers they cite -- credit for their work.
Both GPLv3 and the GNU AGPL allow developers working on a project under one license to combine it with code released under the other. As a result, programmers who want to use the GNU AGPL for their own work can take advantage of the many libraries and other source files available under GPLv3. Developers working on GPLv3-covered projects will often be able to use modules under the GNU AGPL with minimal hassle as well, since the GNU AGPL's additional term has no requirements for software that doesn't interact with users over a network. FSF board member Benjamin Mako Hill said, “The GNU GPL has been the most successful free software license because it makes a program's source available to its users. This enables massive collaboration between developers, since everyone gets the same benefits from this rule. The GNU AGPL will enable the same kind of cooperation around web services and other networked software.”
TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment...or a Kinko's for geeks.
Det eldfarliga materialet i lastbilen, i tryckeriet, och på många andra håll i landet beslagtogs av polisen. - De har tagit 14 miljoner exemplar av vår tidning och sammanlagt ungefär lika många almanackor och flygblad. Det är i princip hela upplagan av våra almanackor och flygblad, och en stor del av vår tidnings upplaga för centrala Ryssland, berättade Boris Nadezjdin, en av ledarna för SPS, till den USA-finansierade radiostationen Svoboda.
Igår hölls de avslutande förhandlingarna inför beslutet som kan ge snart 70-årige Leif Axmyr en värdig ålderdom i frihet. Skulle hans straff bli tidsbestämt väntar både stöd och jobb hos föreningen Kris i Jönköping.(min fetstil)
A mere 5ml of menstrual blood collected from a healthy woman provided enough cells which after two weeks of culture provided beating heart cells. The results of this breakthrough research indicate that these cells could be cultured at a large scale, thereby providing an alternative to the current methods of using bone marrow and umbilical cord blood, which itself poses threats of rejection.
These pulses are so brief that they allow researchers to more accurately measure the movement of sub-atomic particles such as the electron, the tiny negatively-charged entity which moves outside the nucleus of an atom. Attosecond technology may throw light, literally, upon the strange quantum world where such particles have no definite position,only probable locations.
Tanzanian Health Minister David Mwakyusa has apologised for a surgical mix-up in which a knee patient had a complex and life-threatening brain operation. Surgeons at the country's main Muhimbili hospital opened the skull of Emmanuel Didas to remove a non-existent brain tumour, while Emmanuel Mgaya, who had the tumour, was given knee surgery. The men's names had been confused
Det är svårt att dra ner mössan över öronen, när man har ett bluetooth-headset.
Consistent with the work on international terrorist incidents, countries with fewer civil liberties and political rights were more likely to be the birthplaces of foreign insurgents. Distance also mattered, with most foreign insurgents coming from nearby nations. The model predicted that the largest number of insurgents—44 percent—would have emanated from Saudi Arabia, a nation not known for its protection of civil liberties but with a high GDP per capita. The evidence suggests that terrorists care about influencing political outcomes. They are often motivated by geopolitical grievances. To understand who joins terrorist organizations, instead of asking who has a low salary and few opportunities, we should ask: Who holds strong political views and is confident enough to try to impose an extremist vision by violent means? Most terrorists are not so desperately poor that they have nothing to live for. Instead, they are people who care so fervently about a cause that they are willing to die for it.
