Wednesday, October 21, 2009

"Fast" Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu

So the new windows is getting rave reviews for being "fast".  Mostly cause it's better than Vista.  But that's like beating a 93 year old man at a race and claming to be "fast".  From what I understand it's still not as fast as XP.

But let's compare "new" Windows 7 vs the last Ubuntu edition on the same hardware.

Not even close.

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Sunday, October 11, 2009

the solution to a controversy

so, I've never really understood the scientific communities uproar over use of embryonic stem cells.  Besides the debatable ethical concerns, I always thought there were some real physiological ones.  Specifically, yes embryonic stem cells are the "most" undifferentiated (in layman's it means that they have the "best" potential to develop into "anything").  But their genetics was also going to be the problem.  They would face the same rejection issue as donated organs.  Different DNA does that.

The other thing I knew is that their are many other kinds of stem cells, placental stem cells (can easily be retreaved at birth with little time and cost), as well as various adult stem cells.  Finally, we have progress in this new development.

A jaw bone grown from adult stem cells.  A solution for all.

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Spammer, Scammers & War

I write this in hopes of helping the was against spammers, scammers and the like.*  This one person, send me an email telling me that he needed to "make sure" no one was pulling a "fast one" over "us".  Oh, and I had family inheritance coming and it was important that I contact him privately.  He let that little detail slip out.  It was such a feeble attempt, I was tempted to just ignore it.

But then I realized that he gave me his real email address.  The one from Honk Kong (it's ending giving it away) and not from Italy like he claimed (.it for italy not ,hk).  So I thought I'd use his stupidity against him.  You see, everytime someone posts an email online, people find it and start spamming it.   Machines just crawl the internet and find anything that resembles an email address and start spamming like crazy. 

Then they sell it to other spammers and so on and so forth. 

So here goes:

macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk
macinipedro@yahoo.com.hk

It is my hope this works, though I'll never know.

Btw, if you need to put your address online, you should always write it out.  E.g. email dot address [at] host dot com.  This way the crawling machines which apparently look for the "@" symbol, wont find it.  Hence those emails above. :)

Have a good day spammer. :) He he he.



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*btw, why can't we wage war on these mutually hated things instead of other ridiculousness.