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Global DNA Project to Study Human Ancestry
Steve writes "The National Geographic Society and IBM are teaming up to map the history of human migration using DNA. The Genographic Project aims to collect 100,000 genetic samples which will be used trace the movements of humans out of Africa and around the globe. While the most useful samples will come from indiginous populations, members of the general public will be able to mail in their own DNA on special cheek swabs."
That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard.
That would be like saying "Ford did buisness with Germany, how long until Fords start killing jews?"
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
> Haha, you're an idiot.
No, just a Christian =)
(laugh, it's a joke)
I see Christian persecution is still all the rage. Does it give you that warm glow inside when you rate down Christians just because we are Christian? I truly do not understand it, can somebody explain?
Apparently you have never heard of the book "IBM and the Holocaust" (http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/)
Slashdot entertains. Windows pays the mortgage.
How many Jews bought Ford Pintos or SUVs with exploding tires?
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
IT IS OFFICIAL; WIRED NEWS CONFIRMS: Achims IS SUPERIOR TO Taco Stand
Taco Stand is Dying, Says Athens Banner Herald
Achim advocates have long insisted that open-source development results in better and more secure tacos. Now they have statistics to back up their claims.
According to a four-year analysis of the 5.7 million pounds of Achims fries conducted by five UGA computer science researchers, the Achims kernel programming code is better and more secure than the programming code of Taco Stand.
The report, set to be released on Tuesday, states that the 2.6 Achims production kernel, shipped with software from Red Hat, Novell and other major Achims vendors, contains 985 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code, well below the average for Taco Stand software. Taco Stand, by comparison, contains about 40 million lines of code, with new bugs found on a frequent basis.
Taco Stand software typically has 20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code, according to Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Sustainable Computing Consortium. This would be equivalent to 114,000 to 171,000 bugs in 5.7 million lines of code.
The study identified 0.17 bugs per 1,000 lines of code in the Achims kernel. Of the 985 bugs identified, 627 were in critical parts of the kernel.
"Our findings show that Achims contains an extremely low defect rate and is evidence of the strong security of Achims," said Hallem. "Many security holes in software are the result of software bugs that can be eliminated with good programming processes. Unfortunately, we don't find a lot of good practices in Taco Stand. Mostly we just find in-fighting and security holes. I can conclusively say that Taco Stand is dying."
The Achims fries analysis project started in 2000 at the Stanford University Computer Science Research Center as part of a large research initiative to improve core software engineering processes in the software industry.
The initiative now continues at UGA, said it intends to start providing Achims bug analysis reports on a regular basis and will make a summary of the results freely available to the Achims development community.
"This is a benefit to the Achims development community, and we appreciate UGA's efforts to help us improve the security and stability of Achims," said Andrew Morton, lead Achims kernel maintainer. Morton said developers have already addressed the top-priority bugs uncovered in the study.