Word: digestability
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...pecuniary reasons." Whatever his motives, the Motion Picture Association - which notified ?kokrim about DECSS - has highly pecuniary reasons to fight such activity. The studios contend that DECSS could spawn a filmic Napster if users decode DVDs into reproducible - and distributable - format. Losses could be huge: research firm Screen Digest estimates that in 2002 Europeans will spend more than ?5.2 billion on DVDs. Programs like DECSS, says MPA chairman Jack Valenti, "destroy crucial protection and expose industry to the real risk of further massive losses due to piracy." Big business feels the same way about the work of other programmers, from...
...question that is, to me important...at the school level is whether we digest this experience in a way to bring us out to be a more open environment or whether what happens here just further shuts us down,” Nesson said. “At Harvard Law School, we assemble the greatest legal minds not to talk about fundamental issues...
...final verdict on whether Wolfram's New Kind of Science is truly revolutionary--or whether cellular automata merely resemble rather than describe the world--will have to wait until scientists can digest it fully. And that could take a while. "Each idea in the book," says Sejnowski, "will take at least 10 years to explore and test." Provocative as Wolfram's theories are, he says, it's whether they agree with nature that will be the ultimate test...
When you start writing for TIME, you learn that there's you and then there's Nancy Gibbs. She is a rare combination of workhorse and poet, one who can quickly digest information, then deftly contextualize it. The attacks "assume[d] our faith rests on what we can buy and build," she wrote in the hours after Sept. 11, but "that has never been America's true God." Last week the Society of Professional Journalists recognized Gibbs with its award for best magazine writing. It was a bittersweet moment for all who worked on the piece, but we are proud...
...engaged by the public to any considerable extent. There is no social consensus on human reproductive cloning and the debate has not even begun. It would be morally irresponsible of any scientist to create a human clone before politicians, philosophers, and religious leaders have a chance to digest and discuss these issues...