any ideology that ties its self to government will screw the people. it doesn't matter if it is islam or christianity or batshit political ideologies... the results are generally the same.
I am agnostic, so the religious freedoms don't affect me
how so? shouldn't you have the right not to be forced to believe whatever religion is the fad? the freedom to worship also means the freedom not to be forced to do so.
can be anything we want it to be. It is, after all, open source and can be modified to suit many different purposes. Should Linux compete directly with Windows? That's a stupid question. Linux should do what the user wants and if that happens to put it on a collision course with Windows then so be it.
For RNA copying, there is no need for this sort of precision, because even if the resulting protein is useless, the cell remains alive, and a new RNA strand can easily be produced if needed.
The problem with thinking that way is that these "errors" are not random like transcriptual errors usually are.
This is the important part of the article, everything else is comparatively irrelevant:
The researchers don’t yet know how the RNA misspellings happen. They could be substitutions made while the RNA copy is being made, or the changes could happen later. The consequences of the misspellings are also unknown.
Not knowing why this is occurring so frequently is what is truly interesting about this, at least from my point of view as a biochemist.
It's more like conterfeit paper currency. The currency in of its self is damn near worthless, just like the fact that it takes nearly nothing to copy a song. Likewise, currency and these songs have a monetary value individually owing to the fact that the supply is artificially restricted. If I print a few million in counterfeit 20's, everyone still has the same dollars they had to begin with but because there's a higher supply of dollars the individual value of each is eroded. In the case of counterfeit, the fines aren't 62,000 times what the provable damages are, with filesharing it is and *that* is the real problem.
What fascinates me is why there's any directionality to this at all- unless there's some fairly long range orientation of the brain cells going on, there shouldn't be any asymmetry.
Slashdot is supposed to be news for nerds so generally even though we know better, we expect a news/discussion site aimed at the nerd demographic to not emulate the other segments of mainstream media.
As a biologist let me say that that is ridiculous. It's like creating a highly efficient piece of malware on accident. However, back to the GP's post: it doesn't need to be deadlier than nature; nature after all, has evolved organisms that are overkill- it just needs to be mildly effective to be a problem.
#1 tuning adapters take care of SDV however, the FCC is taking Tivo's idea into consideration regarding an alternative system that does away with tuning adapters (cisco adapters in particular have been a problem) #2 being as cable providers are charging people ~ 40$ to pop a card in a slot and make a 5 minute call to pair/activate the card this is a good excuse for the FCC to headshot the cable providers. #3 virtually all of the cable providers prohibit the installation of a new cable card except by the providers themselves which lead to the problem addressed by #2. #4 this is good news for premiere owners as the premiere can only use M cards. #25 was funny. All the tech does when they install the cable card is pop the card in a slot and make a 5 minute call w/ 3 pieces of information- the host id, data id and unit address. all for the low low preice of 40$. #27 Good.
consumers are told they can't get on-demand content if they don't use the cable company's device.
The problem is that to receive the cable company's VOD you do need their cable box. Cable cards at the present are not built to do this. The reason being that a cable box is a two way device whereas cable cards are implemented as one way devices at least with Tivo boxes.
not only that but leaving many existing issues unresolved. Two examples: Virtualbox and Compiz. Both of these were broken w/ the 10.04 release and have not been fixed. Once Virtualbox was installed and I was stupid enough to restart the box => it threw up an error about the kernal version Ubuntu was using; apparently they've compiled somethign rather important out of the kernal which caused my system to not boot. Not even root was available. I have two kernals installed (due to upgrading from 10.04) neither would load at all. When I tried to access root, it would only take one letter before throwing up an error about an incorrect password. With no way of accessing root to fix all of this I ended up reinstalling the system w/ out Virtualbox which worked like a charm. Compiz O.T.O.H. is another story- apparently this time the settings that control the blacklist have been compiled into the binary and are extremely difficult to access/fix. My card is blacklisted and has been since I've been using Compiz yet when I'd modified the settings for the blacklist, removing the card from the list, compiz worked just fine. So not only is it blacklisted incorrectly as far as I can tell, Ubuntu's Compiz debs have been compiled in such a way as to make correcting the issue an annoying task. I have been a Linux user for 4 years and honestly I shouldn't need to be doing any of this. I *can* fix it but god dam it I'm sick of having to hack everything back together every time Ubuntu gets an "upgrade."
shhhhh! You're ruining the part where playing a game *is* doing your homework. It also requires some problem solving skills which are quite useful in the language arts.
Their company knowingly violated over 700 safety regulations and they knowingly ignored their own engineers in order to rush the project, Why shouldn't they be held accountable? The 11 deaths that resulted from the explosion alone are a good enough reason to lock these guys in prison let alone the billions of dollars in jobs and the ecosystem they destroyed through negligence.
Considering all the PVC and other polymers used in the manufacture of various electronics (at least parts of it) dumping it all into a volcano where the PVC breaks down into some really nasty byproducts like Hydrochloric acid and various chlorinated organic chemicals, I wouldn't recommend doing that. Also just dumping all that potential raw material seems to me to be extremely wasteful.
Please tell me you're joking. Yes many games will run in WINE to some degree but more often than not, there is a fairly noticeable performance hit by doing so. Also, there's the fact that many games, Starcraft being a very good example, that run somewhat buggy. Patches have to be applied manually and menus in Bnet don't show at all as well as visual artifacts being quite common. Alpha Centauri crashes in WINE and Superpower won't even install. As long as WINE has to reverse engineer Windoze there's going to be a demand for porting various games to Linux to run them natively.
Unfortunately the idiots that think the fox was a necessary addition outnumber those of us that know better. The fox is always to blame *and* so are those who were stupid enough to let fear make the decisions for them.
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any ideology that ties its self to government will screw the people. it doesn't matter if it is islam or christianity or batshit political ideologies... the results are generally the same.
how so? shouldn't you have the right not to be forced to believe whatever religion is the fad? the freedom to worship also means the freedom not to be forced to do so.
People have no more right to make death threats than they do holding a gun to someone's head.
70% of this planet is covered in water that isn't being used for anything in particular; that is a tremendous waste.
Check your dictionary. A racket is nothing more than an illegal business. Racketeering is therefore exactly what they just did.
can be anything we want it to be. It is, after all, open source and can be modified to suit many different purposes. Should Linux compete directly with Windows? That's a stupid question. Linux should do what the user wants and if that happens to put it on a collision course with Windows then so be it.
The problem with thinking that way is that these "errors" are not random like transcriptual errors usually are.
This is the important part of the article, everything else is comparatively irrelevant:
Not knowing why this is occurring so frequently is what is truly interesting about this, at least from my point of view as a biochemist.
no where in the constitution does it give idiots like you the power to decide whom other people may marry. screw you and all those who are like you.
It's more like conterfeit paper currency. The currency in of its self is damn near worthless, just like the fact that it takes nearly nothing to copy a song. Likewise, currency and these songs have a monetary value individually owing to the fact that the supply is artificially restricted. If I print a few million in counterfeit 20's, everyone still has the same dollars they had to begin with but because there's a higher supply of dollars the individual value of each is eroded. In the case of counterfeit, the fines aren't 62,000 times what the provable damages are, with filesharing it is and *that* is the real problem.
What fascinates me is why there's any directionality to this at all- unless there's some fairly long range orientation of the brain cells going on, there shouldn't be any asymmetry.
Slashdot is supposed to be news for nerds so generally even though we know better, we expect a news/discussion site aimed at the nerd demographic to not emulate the other segments of mainstream media.
I just tried the same not very long ago, facebook blocked the link but didn't black the link to slashdot w/ the article and the link.
What will seeding this for the next month get me? *Carrier lost*
As a biologist let me say that that is ridiculous. It's like creating a highly efficient piece of malware on accident. However, back to the GP's post: it doesn't need to be deadlier than nature; nature after all, has evolved organisms that are overkill- it just needs to be mildly effective to be a problem.
#1 tuning adapters take care of SDV however, the FCC is taking Tivo's idea into consideration regarding an alternative system that does away with tuning adapters (cisco adapters in particular have been a problem)
#2 being as cable providers are charging people ~ 40$ to pop a card in a slot and make a 5 minute call to pair/activate the card this is a good excuse for the FCC to headshot the cable providers.
#3 virtually all of the cable providers prohibit the installation of a new cable card except by the providers themselves which lead to the problem addressed by #2.
#4 this is good news for premiere owners as the premiere can only use M cards. #25 was funny. All the tech does when they install the cable card is pop the card in a slot and make a 5 minute call w/ 3 pieces of information- the host id, data id and unit address. all for the low low preice of 40$.
#27 Good.
The problem is that to receive the cable company's VOD you do need their cable box. Cable cards at the present are not built to do this. The reason being that a cable box is a two way device whereas cable cards are implemented as one way devices at least with Tivo boxes.
Such limitations only exist if you purchase content legally; which is, of course, the point.
not only that but leaving many existing issues unresolved. Two examples: Virtualbox and Compiz.
Both of these were broken w/ the 10.04 release and have not been fixed. Once Virtualbox was installed and I was stupid enough to restart the box => it threw up an error about the kernal version Ubuntu was using; apparently they've compiled somethign rather important out of the kernal which caused my system to not boot. Not even root was available. I have two kernals installed (due to upgrading from 10.04) neither would load at all. When I tried to access root, it would only take one letter before throwing up an error about an incorrect password. With no way of accessing root to fix all of this I ended up reinstalling the system w/ out Virtualbox which worked like a charm. Compiz O.T.O.H. is another story- apparently this time the settings that control the blacklist have been compiled into the binary and are extremely difficult to access/fix. My card is blacklisted and has been since I've been using Compiz yet when I'd modified the settings for the blacklist, removing the card from the list, compiz worked just fine. So not only is it blacklisted incorrectly as far as I can tell, Ubuntu's Compiz debs have been compiled in such a way as to make correcting the issue an annoying task. I have been a Linux user for 4 years and honestly I shouldn't need to be doing any of this. I *can* fix it but god dam it I'm sick of having to hack everything back together every time Ubuntu gets an "upgrade."
shhhhh! You're ruining the part where playing a game *is* doing your homework. It also requires some problem solving skills which are quite useful in the language arts.
Their company knowingly violated over 700 safety regulations and they knowingly ignored their own engineers in order to rush the project, Why shouldn't they be held accountable? The 11 deaths that resulted from the explosion alone are a good enough reason to lock these guys in prison let alone the billions of dollars in jobs and the ecosystem they destroyed through negligence.
You fly cheaper in the same way that those grocery club cards save you 50% on your groceries.
Considering all the PVC and other polymers used in the manufacture of various electronics (at least parts of it) dumping it all into a volcano where the PVC breaks down into some really nasty byproducts like Hydrochloric acid and various chlorinated organic chemicals, I wouldn't recommend doing that. Also just dumping all that potential raw material seems to me to be extremely wasteful.
Please tell me you're joking. Yes many games will run in WINE to some degree but more often than not, there is a fairly noticeable performance hit by doing so. Also, there's the fact that many games, Starcraft being a very good example, that run somewhat buggy. Patches have to be applied manually and menus in Bnet don't show at all as well as visual artifacts being quite common. Alpha Centauri crashes in WINE and Superpower won't even install. As long as WINE has to reverse engineer Windoze there's going to be a demand for porting various games to Linux to run them natively.
Unfortunately the idiots that think the fox was a necessary addition outnumber those of us that know better. The fox is always to blame *and* so are those who were stupid enough to let fear make the decisions for them.