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But to further the point, it is strongly suspected that SSL is already broken by the NSA, and having certificates is no longer necessary.

That is outright false. I challenge you to provide a citation to a reasonably authoritative site saying that - basically anybody who isn't a kook. You can't.

The best you can come up with is that RSA-1024 is easy enough to brute-force with modern equipment. But moving to RSA-2048, as google has already done, still provides very strong protection.

In Windows-land, we lost (unless you hack the registry) focus-follows-mouse from XP to 7

It was a registry hack in XP (of a binary flag no less, how's that for arcane configuration?). In 9x it was a PowerToy.

Just to give a little context for people who do not live around Atlanta:

Gwinnett County has been a traffic ticket mill for decades. This is not Atlanta - it is an exurb of Atlanta where all the racist, faux-Christian whitebread people moved a couple decades back. All it really has going for it is two major highways running through the county (I-85 and GA-316). Several people I know have had bad experiences there, and I literally do not stop in Gwinnett County anymore.

This is also the place where Larry Flynt was brought to court on obscenity charges, and shot by a white supremacist who confessed but never had charges brought against him (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt#Shooting).

Please don't confuse Gwinnett with Atlanta. Gwinnett is a shithole that has only strip malls, a thriving prison industry, a growing international population, and an entrenched set of racist white people who don't like the new international population and want to throw them all in jail.

Worst of all, this place tattooed "GWINNETT IS GREAT" and "SUCCESS LIVES HERE" on their ugly ass water towers. Here's a picture I found via Google, ironically on a blog called "stuff black people don't like": http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2012/09/success-used-to-live-here-what-fall-of.html (I haven't read the blog posting, but I'm white and don't like Gwinnett, either).

Make no mistake, this cop was ticketing people for texting solely so he could take all the brown ones to jail. This is the Gwinnett MO: enforce traffic violations heavily, and try to turn every traffic stop into a drug bust or driving-without-a-license bust.

Here, take a look at what Gwinnett has to offer: http://www.gwinnettmugs.com/

It does seem insane. I mean how can the court not see that this case is clearly about killing vimeo and by extension video sharing sites. How can they expect all employees to be 100% diligent. It's never going to happen. If the only option to adhere to Safe Harbor is to have google class content filter Youtube is going to be the only game in town in the US.

The legal fees alone are the killer. Veoh won every round, but had to go out of business due to the legal fees.

1. I don't have a paralegal to work on my blog. I do all this stuff myself.

2. The guiding principle of Recording Industry vs The People since its inception in 2005 has always been that it is designed for readers who are smart enough, and serious enough, to read the actual litigation document rather than let someone else tell them what it means.

3. The blog post doesn't link to Slashdot for "more details" it links to it for "Commentary & discussion".

4. Most Slashdotters, I have found, do read the story and litigation document... not every word, but enough to form their own opinions.

5. And no, thanks, I am not looking for you to explain to me what the decision says; I read it, and I know exactly what it says.

I never said it had nothing to do with performance. You can't show me where I did say it. Ever..

Here:

No, No ... NO. Making PHP a little faster is in no way comparable to using a real language.

The link is about performance full stop.

I would like to recall you that we started with this claim made by you:

No, No ... NO. Making PHP a little faster is in no way comparable to using a real language.

And I rephrased my question a little bit (but keeping the original sense), to make you actually understand it. Would you mind to answer it?

Why yes, there are a few.

No, No ... NO. Making PHP a little faster is in no way comparable to using a real language.

As a student of international relations and ardent environmentalist in the 80s, we saw then what would be labelled the curse of natural resources. But we have also grown to recognize what promotes positive social development in developing/emerging markets. Fixers, tinkerers, repairpeople, recyclers and geeks. The history of Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan - all resource poor nations - is a history of repairs, knock offs, reverse-engineering, and recycling, serving what Harvard Business Review article calls the "Good Enough Market".

The best jobs for Africans today is the collection and repair of used cell phones replaced by upgrades in wealthy countries. If you don't understand the connection between mining for new product and planned obsolescence, tinkering and repair, then you don't know how to do simple mass balance.

So who did we choose to arrest? The tantalum mining industry? No. An Interpol E-Waste crackdown, which arrested about 40 Africans (like Joseph Benson of the UK) is behaving like the fire department in Birmingham Alabama in 1960s, firehosing the geeks in bullshit accusations of primitive wire burning In a bizarre, sick and ultimately twisted take on environmental reality, Interpol and Environmentalists are arresting the tinkerers, repairers, fixers and geeks of color. Visit Resolv.org or fairtraderecycling.org for project which are trying to redirect environmentalists friendly fire off of cell phone fixers and back onto mining. The worst, worst form of recycling is less toxic than the best form of metal mining and refining. The more cell phones are fixed, the less we have to choose between providing digital access and mining rainforests for tantalum.

Ride sharing is an important social innovation for moving to a low carbon emission society.
The global warming benefit of ride sharing is when you raise the number of people riding in a conventional commuter automobile less CO2 is emitted per passenger mile. The financial aspect of ride sharing is substantial amounts of personal cash are released when cars are not driven.

I live in California and I have seen that free ride sharing services like 511.org mostly do not work. There are many reasons why these ride sharing services do not work. The Lyft business model addresses some of the social needs that must be met for ride sharing to work. The California State law echoes the Lyft safety requirements. The State law apparently formalizes some of the social and safety issues that ride sharing needs if it will be a major activity.

I have been studying and writing about the California public bus system for many years and I am absolutely delighted to see Ride Sharing beginning to get started.
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Full disk encryption isn't a fad; it's the only way to this job well. Selective encryption makes people relax because it gives a false sense of security, but there are so many holes that you're still quite vulnerable. In some ways it's worst than no encryption at all, because people at least know they have to be careful about their system then.

The first giant issue is that operating systems and programs like editors will write work in progress data to disk outside of the encrypted area, such as temporary files, swap files, hibernation files, etc. In a selective encryption system, those are going to end up with unencrypted data exposed in there eventually.

And if the OS loads without supplying a decryption key, it's trivial for anyone who gets physical access to your system for even a short length of time to add a key logger that then captures the key. Even with full disk encryption you're vulnerable to evil maid attacks, but there are ways to make those harder to execute. An unencrypted OS makes the job trivial. Leave a system with selective encryption sitting near someone who knows this area well, go to the bathroom to take a leak, and they'll have your system owned--swiping your selective encryption key the next time you type it and publishing it over the Internet when possible--before you're back.

Selective statistics. See : this for a more representative recent history of Spain's unemployment.

Some of that is the IKEv1 design issue. You had an exponentially increasing combination of hashes, authentication methods and encryption methods. Which has been fixed in IKEv2 where you only offer "suites" to the client, plus a bunch of other improvements.

So FEMA are not the ones that protest naked?

... the idea that RPG and FPS have never been "blended" is false. Borderlands 2 does it, and does it in a package that is great fun (good for 150 hours or so of gameplay if you want to reach Level 70)

Also, you know... pretty much every Bethesda game starting with Fallout 3.

There is also the Just Cause 2 Multiplayer Beta going on. That supports up to 2,000 players per server and is "FPS-like". http://www.jc-mp.com/ [jc-mp.com] What it lacks in RPG elements, it makes up for in terms of a huge map littered with vehicles you can drive, fly or float.

Well, 'right now' is a bit of a misnomer - there's an open beta once every 4-8 weeks it seems.

Regardless, I recommend anyone with a copy of JC2 to sign up, as it's fucking spectacular. No, really, you haven't had fun in a game until you've circled a gigantic yacht suspended from balloons with your military jet, while flying through a wall of 300 skydivers AND engaging in a dogfight with a tuk-tuk swinging from your tail section.

At night.

With your wings aflame.

While I do feel firearms can be works of art, this plastic piece of crap is not art. A Kentucky rifle is art(the smooth lines, the metal plates); an antique engraved firearm is art(some of those old engravings are amazing); hell, even an AK-47 is in my opinion art, in a mechanical/engineering sense(it's simplicity of use, the beatings they can take and still operate). But a plastic gun that falls apart after a few shots? They might as well include a Nambu type 94 in their exhibit. They can call it "How not to design firearms".

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When it's convenient to do so: http://things-linux.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-fine-art-of-corporate-fibbing.html

and then saying it's only open source software that's crap.

no, I said "open source that *doesn't* work is statistically more prevalent". Which you quoted. I specifically said It's certainly not "better". I in no way even implied that open source as a rule is crap. Your failure to comprehend makes it difficult for you to participate, so I'll spend some time explaining.

You want a reference? Search for *anything* on GitHub or Sourceforge, and count the number of projects that actually do anything, vs. the incomplete, half-assed garbage. That is what I'm talking about - statistics and numbers. One stand-out project in a class doesn't erase the remainder of projects which just don't work.

My perspective is on the Windows platform - I'm sure if you're a Linux user your experience is different. But that is much like a self-selected study sample, and you can't exclude parts of open source. So look for Windows only, and learn something from the experience.

20 years of following open source tells me that when I have a particular use case, I will find endless half-finished projects that do nothing, one that builds on an outdated or specific platform, and if I'm lucky I'll find abandonware that doesn't completely suck. Meanwhile, I'll find both free and paid closed source software that just works.

IrfanView is pretty much the go-to image viewer on Windows, with no real open source alternatives. Playing a DVD from the hard drive, Windows Media Player does a better job up-scaling to a 1080 display, so I use it instead of VLC.

I have written my own software for 35 years for most use cases, because I can't download and run something that works. Why would I spend the time if options were available? Sure the experience is great, but I could write something that doesn't *exist* instead of re-writing something that doesn't *work*.

Here's a stupid bug in Notepad that is still not fixed in Windows 7, meaning I can't just CTRL-S and continue typing It is not important enough to be fixed, which is completely different from the open-source experience of "can't fix" or "won't fix". And, since I know Windows programming and enjoy reverse engineering, I don't mind making a binary patch to an executable - it's generally simpler than finding the source, setting up a build environment, fixing inevitable errors like include paths, debugging, and patching. Most people couldn't do a binary patch. But, most people couldn't patch open source either, because like OP they don't program.

Do I use Notepad++ instead? No, because it sucks. I paid for UltraEdit. For hex editing, UltraEdit sometimes does internal conversions on text, meaning I can't debug UTF-8 issues. So I use XVI32, which is free but closed source.

I use FireFox and Audacity and VLC, and for the rare times I have to use it, Impress is actually better than Powerpoint for presenter view and rehearsing. But on Windows, those are exceptions and I generally can't find open source that beats closed-source freeware. I prefer Media Player, Excel, WinZip, PhotoShop, and countless other paid or free closed source software. Or I write my own, which I don't release because it works for my specific use case and I don't have any desire to fix issues for other people. Which would add to the number of half-assed, unsupported open source projects which is the whole problem.

I have adopted several open source projects. My patches weren't accepted due to 1) "not invented here" syndrome 2) cannot contact the owner to submit patches 3) no idea - never got a response. 3 projects, with submitted patches available, which are still broken. I'm not forking and becoming a maintainer, so the projects remain broken for non-developers.

Most FLOSS projects end up as "works for me, if you want to fix your problem yourself, you have the source". Which is great, if you have the knowledge. As OP demonstrates, once the developer decides to quit, if you don't have the knowledge you're stuck. This is my experience, *on Windows*.

In other word, you visit a page using http, aka hyper text transport protocol, you got served some hypertext, AND YOU COMPLAIN???

Yes. Because too many links make the article hard to read and obscure the most relevant links.

Huh? Margins are part of financial statements they are public information released under penalty of perjury. They are the easiest data by far to track.

As far as the margin decline it was well known and discussed. For example a pre Elop article:
http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2011/02/nokia-now-comes-hard-part.html

The rest seems to be you not understanding what margin means.

Some of the maniac's I see driving around here are beyond comprehension.

Some of the undeucated people at slashdot are beyond my comprehension. Shouldn't a nerd know fourth grade English??

On the other hand zebra's which are virtually undomesticatable not so much.

So are grocer's.

About 35% of billionaires in the US are Jewish, although Jews are only 2% of the population.

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-forbes-400-by-ethnic-origins.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/07/forbes-400-by-ethnicity.html

Globally speaking, about 11% of all billionaires are Jewish, almost all of them living in the US or Israel.

"Of the world's 1,426 billionaires ranked by "Forbes", 165 are Jews, who have an aggregate fortune of $812 billion, substantially more than last year. "

http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Forbes-ranking-The-worlds-richest-Jews-310104

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000837031

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/04/forbes-jewish-billionaires.html

Both chairmen of the Federal Reserve since 1987 have been Jewish (Greenspan and Bernanke) and both the people Obama is considering to replace Bernanke are Jewish (Summers and Yellen). So we will likely go 30+ years with only Jewish Federal Reserve chairs.

About 35% of billionaires in the US are Jewish, although Jews are only 2% of the population.

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-forbes-400-by-ethnic-origins.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2012/07/forbes-400-by-ethnicity.html

Globally speaking, about 11% of all billionaires are Jewish, almost all of them living in the US or Israel.

"Of the world's 1,426 billionaires ranked by "Forbes", 165 are Jews, who have an aggregate fortune of $812 billion, substantially more than last year. "

http://www.jpost.com/Business/Business-Features/Forbes-ranking-The-worlds-richest-Jews-310104

http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000837031

http://mondoweiss.net/2013/04/forbes-jewish-billionaires.html

Both chairmen of the Federal Reserve since 1987 have been Jewish (Greenspan and Bernanke) and both the people Obama is considering to replace Bernanke are Jewish (Summers and Yellen). So we will likely go 30+ years with only Jewish Federal Reserve chairs.

Random number generators cannot be verified - it's a computationally infeasible problem.

Then how do you know the software RNG in the kernel is random? By using randomness tests, that's how, like the diehard suite. Diehard has been run on RdRand; try it yourself if you want.

You know.. I've seen plenty of real security research that says that the RdRand RNG is actually very good and produces very high quality output.

Here's just one set of results showing that the output is truly random, so-called NSA "backdoors" or not:
http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2012/10/intel-rdrand-instruction-revisited.html

You know what *ISN'T* truly random? When guys just like you who are all paranoid about the NSA went and broke OpenSSL in Debian for over 2 years in the name of "fixing" code: http://research.swtch.com/openssl

Oh, and are you and the petitioners going to be intellectually honest and demand the complete removal of Via Padlock support from Linux, or is this only an anti-Intel fanboy rant thinly disguised as "sticking it to the man?"

Guess what the NSA loves: When lemmings throw away real security solutions because they think the NSA engineers every transistor in every piece of hardware. Go ahead and try to put together your own crypto solutions, the NSA *wants* you to do that, because they are a hell of a lot smarter than you are.

Not sure which is funnier; the idea that MySQL is a "rock solid databases" or that Oracle cares about validating its optimizer. I'll just point you at Top 10 Optimizer Regression Bugs in MySQL 5.6 and wander off now.

When the people make a massive mistake in democracy, it's still their decision to make. Look at the american elections for the last 20 years. Both sides will say the people made mistakes.

The American system is different in that voting is voluntary and not quite as complicated. Also there's not a whole host of parties with similar sounding names. If you wanted to vote properly in Australia on the weekend you had to number 110 boxes on a ballot paper about 1 metre wide. I WISH I WAS JOKING!

I didn't think you could get more complicated than the American system... Other than having to rank candidates for MPs/representatives (far better than first-past-the-post), what do Australians have to vote for on their federal ballots?

Here's a Canadian federal election ballot. Unfortunately it is a FPTP system, but you're literally in and out of there in minutes.

Unelected senators here is also a huge issue, but thankfully we don't waste time voting for sheriffs, judges, attorneys general, treasurer, auditor etc even at provincial or municipal levels (and they in turn focus on doing their jobs, not pandering to public opinion to win votes).

Why is everyone over reacting about this? It sounds like a bug. If Mac users knew anything about their systems, they'd know it doesn't matter if files are installed anywhere... there are no "low level" directories... in UNIX everything is a file. It just doesn't fucking matter. Stop thinking like a Windows user.

Parallels is actually kind of neat in that it will unload the daemon from the kernel when the software isn't running. I haven't seen any other developer do that with their software, usually leaving daemons running in memory even if the application isn't launched.

If you really want to know what was installed and where, learn about the system and don't blame the developer for your own ignorance.

lsbom is your friend

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This is a FIAF thing..
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2007/12/fiaf-whos-fat-is-it-anyway.html

It's not that they're better at extracting nutrients, it's that they influence the body to expend more or less enery. The nutrient extraction is a side effect.

I do wish researchers would read the relevant literature before jumping to conclusions.

If you want to try out quantum computing simulation, consider checking out QCF in the Matlab-like Octave.

Claims that galaxies, or stars, are actually powered by giant electric currents have more problems than 'dark matter' because such currents emit microwaves. We don't detect these microwave streamers passing through stars or galaxies. For stars like the Sun, such currents create all kinds of severe problems for satellites and astronauts.

For more details, see the "Death by Electric Universe" series at: Challenges for Electric Universe 'Theorists'.

And the big question is where is the battery or generator that powers all this? Where does it get its power!?

Here, http://adventuresinthebitland.blogspot.com/

They might have a point - could end up like these degenerates

(heh, captcha is 'narcotic')

Ehh, I think you may be wrong about "no limits on production" by reasoning the amount in seawater. I mean looking it up Lithium isn't listed in the top 10 salts found in ocean water. And desalinization--while it's something the world could stand to do more--is a slow or energy-demanding process. Sorting through the left over salt crystals for lithium would probably be more demanding. However lithium supplies aren't too low at any rate.

Many here have hit the nail on the head. The political right pushes issues that embed religion and patriotism. The left pushes issues that help the teachers unions. The evidence that supports change that doesn't help one side of that debate or the other gets ignored. DARE doesn't work, kids learn language like native speakers before the age of 12, high school age children do better with later school starts times. If you taught language early, started high school late, and dropped DARE you'd save money and achieve better outcomes. http://moderatelyliberal.blogspot.com/2011/05/lip-service-to-education.html

Anyone else notice the VirnetX patents in question were filed while the company was under contract to the US Government?

Just a reference to the book Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by economist A. O. Hirschman which discusses the issue of people choosing to exit a system rather than stay in it and fix it. See this blog post for a discussion of this book.

How quickly we forget 9/11. If our government had been more vigilant in who crosses our border, it would have never happened.

Yeah, if we hadn't let this guy over here, we might never have had the 9/11 attacks.

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You're right, this kid wasn't hit by a horrid chemical weapon, just a perfectly legal smoke bomb.

For firewall blocklists AND hosts files users block lists also:

http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-quick-report-on-48hours-in-battle.html

* Enjoy!

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P.S.=> It's a COMPLETE RUNDOWN of what the Kelihos botnet utilizes (and thus, what to blockout @ BOTH the firewall &/or custom hosts file levels for "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth")...

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exactly, does it mean that advance in technology should then be lowered because of that? I don't think so. Adaptability is the key thing here hightechnologies

Kevin Turner, Lisa Brummel, and Amy Hood are all despised within Microsoft... they are Ballmer yes-people and Lisa Brummel is directly responsible for destroying any shred of productive culture there. They all need to go.

The employees want Satya Nadella or maybe Tony Bates... although many say it has to come from the outside... Sinofsky ;-)

http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2013/08/steve-ballmer-is-going-to-frickin.html

"Where is the evidence for that, other than FSA claims? UN inspectors say that they can't tell who launched it."

The Brown Moses blog has a decent write up on it:

http://brown-moses.blogspot.com/

He seems to be pretty reasoned and balanced in his reporting too which is a refreshing change.

"There's no special equipment necessary for this - it's just regular artillery shells with a different filling. Some of them can be launched from mortars, even. It's all really low tech."

The imaged munitions are just too large to be fired from a mortar, they're around 1 and a half metres in length at least, possibly 2, that's a sizeable round requiring a substantial artillery piece at minimum.

"Did rebels call out for a ceasefire?"

Is there any reason to think the rebels wouldn't want investigators in ASAP to validate their claims? Has Assad even suggested that was the reason the inspectors couldn't go in? Assad was completely silent on the issue and gave no such excuse, most likely because he knew the rebels would rapidly respond with such an offer of safe passage for the inspectors, because that's what the rebels were calling for.

"Assuming a "sniper" here means a guy with an SVD, he could be anywhere within 700 meters."

700 metres and still get multiple pot shots on the tyres and engine? Seems unlikely.

I don't disagree with you that there are multiple players involved all with different agendas and few agreeing, but that doesn't change the fact that Assad still seems the most likely culprit given the evidence available. The extremists would find it just as hard to get a massive artillery piece into government held territory and launch multiple such rounds unchallenged and undetected. It seems silly to suggest that Assad's forces doing this doesn't make sense - it doesn't make sense that Assad would allow his forces to fire into Turkey and risk getting a major military power that was a former ally to turn on him, it doesn't make sense that he'd attack peaceful protests just as the likes of Gaddafi did turning them from protestors into rebels. It didn't make sense for Japan to pull the US into World War II either but that's the problem with saying it doesn't make sense - any assumption that anything a dictatorial regime does should make sense is a false assumption. Dictators and those under them aren't rational and that's what makes them so dangerous.

I'm not calling for military action at least until the UN has time to play out it's game and even then it's questionable as to what action should be taken because it's so messy but I do think the evidence is pretty strongly tilted against Assad on this.

These were not arbitrary codes of behavior, these were proven ways of keeping society working over time. That doesn't mean everything is right or that one could improve upon most of it, but there's good solid advice there that should not be lightly discarded.

Seriously?
There is ZERO problem with anything being "lightly discarded". We're talking about crap that is literally taken as "word of god" by a majority of the population. It took fucking SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND dead Americans to get rid of slavery. It countless court battles every year, and countless criminal arrests every year, eternally fighting back Biblical versions of Sharia law. We have a large minority of the population who vote for whatever politician proclaims their adherence to the Bible the loudest, and an overwhelming majority of the population who refuse to vote for any politician who doesn't make at least some statement proclaiming the Bible is the Word Of God. We have people being murdered in Exorcisms.... and before you dismiss that as merely a few rouge extremists let me point out that one of the leading contenders for the next presidential race published a description of his own participation in a partcularly abhorrent violent crime, one which not-uncommonly ends up in a murder. And think deeply on the fact that many voters take that as reason FOR electing him to the presidency, and many are be accepting/neutral about it. If you strip the Biblical/religious angle out of that story, everyone involved should obviously be in fucking PRISON for what was done to that poor woman.

Most people aren't religious fanatics, but for a large majority of the population anything related to the Bible is given at least a passive level of default acceptance... even when it's a State Governor and possible presidential candidate recounting their participation in an abhorrent violent crime, it is passively accepted as a non-story. Even when it's someone actually campaigning for presidential candidate nomination on video participating in a ritual for protection against witchcraft in the name of Jesus, it's a non-story. No reporter cites Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live and asks whether there should be capitol punishment if a witch is caught.

No, there's NOT ONE case of "good solid advice" from the Bible being "lightly discarded". What we have in anything Biblical being deeply entrenched, with literally violent force from fanatics and passive acceptance by "moderates". What we have is an almost impossible series of struggles over endless centuries trying to dislodge the most toxic bits one-by-one.

If you want to argue your case you're going to have to do better than some empty handwave that there exists some sort of "good advice" being "lightly discarded". You're going to have to have to identify one or more examples of supposed "good advice". I rather suspect that any example you try to give will fall into at least one of three categories. Either (1) it was never particularly good advice (2) maybe it was "good advice" for a primitive barbaric society but it's not very good advice today, and/or (3) maybe it is "good advice" but it's a Golden-History fantasy to believe the advice was actually applied more in the past than it is today.

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What we realized is that genome sequencing technology is plummeting in cost and increasing in speed independent of our competition. Today, companies can do this for less than $5,000 per genome, in a few days or less - and are moving quickly towards the goals we set for the prize.

If you look at the graphs at https://www.genome.gov/sequencingcosts/ what it actually shows is that after plummeting faster than Moore's Law for 3 years between 2008 and 2011, the cost has been basically flat for the past year and a half, probably due to lack of competition.

Or it could be simple supply and demand and the market, so to speak, has reached equilibrium. With cuts in federal research dollars, manufacturers of sequencers can either lower the price of their wares or leave the price alone and not sell any. It's basic econ 101.