some strands of genetic material are catalytic- the point is that genetic material isn't just information encoding, it also can act as a part of the cellular machinery its self. it catalyzes its own cleaving, acts as a primitive amino acid string ribosome and catalyzes the formation of other molecules. only later do these molecular systems evolve into what we now would recognize as a functional genetic system based on DNA or RNA as the main carriers of information. is it efficient? no, not really, it is quite slow but it is an example of a very rudimentary evolutionary system that can replicate and select for DNA/RNA strands that are better than those before them. a strand of RNA that can catalyze its own replication will outcompete one that is slower- mutations happen constantly since the whole system has little in the way of genetic repair yet so things change fast. modern day ribosomes are composed of RNA and protein, this is probably an evolutionary fossil from the first "ribosomes" that strung amino acids together. for example, amino acids self assemble in the presence of higher temperature and acidity into apo-proteins which are by themselves catalytic. it is likely that these apo-proteins or any polypeptides associated with nucleic acids under conditions that later evolved into primitive ribosomes. at first these complexes probably speed up the rate and accuracy by which genetic material is replicated and further down the line had a dual purpose- to systhesize its self more efficiently and then the evolution of a genetic system with a small number of base pairs acting to encode for amino acids directly ratehr than catalyzing the synthesis and stringing together of polypeptides. specialization leads to better efficiency and eventually other components of the cell are synthesized and evolve over millions of years to form the first bacteria.
"The key observation with respect to early life is that this aggregation of nano DNA strands is possible only if they form duplexes," Clark said. "In a sample of chains in which the bases don't match and the chains can't form helical duplexes, we did not observe liquid crystal ordering."
The CU-Boulder and University of Milan team began a series of experiments to see how short the DNA segments could be and still show liquid crystal ordering, said Clark. The team found that even a DNA segment as short as six bases, when paired with a complementary segment that together measured just two nanometers long and two nanometers in diameter, could still assemble itself into the liquid crystal phases, in spite of having almost no elongation in shape.
Subsequent tests by the team involved mixed solutions of complementary and noncomplementary DNA segments, said Clark. The results indicated that essentially all of the complementary DNA bits condensed out in the form of liquid crystal droplets, physically separating them from the noncomplementary DNA segments.
"We found this to be a remarkable result," Clark said. "It means that small molecules with the ability to pair up the right way can seek each other out and collect together into drops that are internally self-organized to facilitate the growth of larger pairable molecules.
"In essence, the liquid crystal phase condensation selects the appropriate molecular components, and with the right chemistry would evolve larger molecules tuned to stabilize the liquid crystal phase. If this is correct, the linear polymer shape of DNA itself is a vestige of formation by liquid crystal order."
one of the requirements for life is that you have an environment that supports molecular self assembly and recognition, this experiment seems to show that this is the case with DNA and RNA strands as short as 6 bases and can select for more stable configurations over time. It's the beginnings of evolutionary natural selection- base pairs assemble into structures that have certain desireable characteristics.
So you're saying that the guy should force everyone to download the root-kit and install it or they can't access the website?
that isn't what I meant. I didnt; realize until later what methods he was referring. with the rootkit in mind, assuming the user isn't the brightest bulb for letting a rootkit on their system is a good bet.
The users that want secure connections are not the ones most likely to be pwned, it's the ones that couldn't care less that you should be worrying about. But really, the real problem here is the extreme laziness of this idea. If you impliment good security policy regardless of who you're connecting to you're better off than treating all of your users like complete idiots because they want a secure connection.
I bet Comcast didn't set a solid cap because it's probably based on a bell-curve of data usage. they try to keep the mean under a certain amount and so if the higher 10% or so of customers use 30% of the data for example, telling them to throttle back is an easy way to decrease Comcast's bandwidth obligations. They can't really tell anyone what the solid cap is because there'd be enough people maxing out what they can get away with under that solid cap and it wouldn't solve much under their current system. As to why they don't say you can use x gigs/month for x dollars, it's probably more profitable for them to sell "unlimited" contracts at a certain price that allows for most people's bandwidth needs and provide them with a nice cushy profit margin as well.
I don;t think that they are considered a common carrier. As far as I understand it, they're considered to be a private network by which they can pretty much decide what can and can not go through but at the same time they have found a way around any obligations implied with that kind of control.
ya, I wrote that post too soon although I still think he was being a bit of a troll here. By his logic, all large data files would be targeted not just anime. You know like youtube, metacafe, google video, WOW patches, live cds etc... but it's not, it's specific to anime, not just every other video file that probably also requires a lot of data transfer too.
-ongoing storylines
-many of the plots are based in part on japanese legend and myth
-extensive use of metaphor and symbolism
-it's not like cartoons here which are mainly for kids, a lot of anime is geared toward older age groups and tackles more difficult/mature topics
-science fiction and fantasy brought to life through animation
-a great way to test out your understanding of the japanese language if you watch the original non-fan subed versions
-anime reflects japanese culture to some extent just like our own entertainment is molded by current events/culture
-a lot of really good story lines that actually are worth watching and draw you into the story.
-there are *a lot* of different genres and stories, if you find yourself bored with a certain anime series you can switch to another easily
-there's a big community behind anime and manga- lots of fan-fiction and what not that explores the story further
Well considering a normal anime episode is over 200 megs uncompressed and that most anime isn't Hentai, you really don't have a point here other than to troll.
The camps job should be pretty easy. Just provide the internet addicts with girlfriends.
Of course once she finds a way to escape, the addiction will be back... A lot of people who are "addicted" to the internet don't really have any alternatives that they consider better than browsing the web except of course, finding people that understand them in real life. They'd do just as well fixing the problem by finding friends for addicts if nothing other than to hang out with and actually do something in real life. I mean heck, most would probably settle for other geeks like them with similar problems [internet addiction for one?] and it doesn't need to be in some technology-free camp either. All they need to do is find something new that is fun to do, there's a lot to choose from.
The next step in addressing the issue of genetic discrimination was taken by President Bill Clinton. The President had earlier supported proposed legislation that would have banned all health plans - group or individual - from denying coverage or raising premiums on the basis of genetic information. When the legislation failed to pass Congress, President Clinton issued an executive order ( Executive Order 13145 to Prohibit Discrimination in Federal Employment Based on Genetic Information) in February 2000 prohibiting agencies of the federal government from obtaining genetic information about their employees or job applicants and from using genetic information in hiring and promotion decisions.
Suppose you get a genetic test that at the time shows nothing abnormal so you get your insurance coverage, then a few years later it is shown that you do indeed have a risk for a certain disease- you could very well lose your insurance or at the least have to sell a kidney to get any insurance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_discrimination
ya.. when a war costs nearly a trillion dollars, kills 100x the people it was started over [supposedly] and considering that Iraqi people are DYING AT A RATE GREATER THAN UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN, "well-planned", "well-justified" and "well-spent" would not be the words I'd use for it. More like "TERRORISM"
What other hand? It's irrelevant who's on the tail end of this, What is relevant is how it was handled by the authoritative figures and in this case it was handled poorly.
I doubt very much AT&T is doing this service to the MPAA and RIAA out of the kindness of their hearts. Either they are doing this to avoid a war with the **IA and friends over doing nothing or they got a new shiny gift from a mysterious *cough* source. There may even be a two for one deal here, NSA gets some free data intel and the **IA's get to continue their extortion scheme. If people start encrypting their data traffic all AT&T has to do is throttle the hell out of it or drop that kind of traffic entirely while under the cover of protecting national security or whatever euphemism the NSA uses for screwing people.
You know what is next, they're going to throttle anything that is encrypted lest it have any illegal content that they can't scan. comcast was nothing just wait until the new overlords take over. Not only that but I'll bet they'll try to get the support of the legal system somehow...
you can use a mouse on a laptop if you want or even better, a touch screen. much more usable than that touch pad that is always integrated with most laptops.
indeed, my concern about the whole thing is that although we can probably stop the spread of these diseases using the same technology that created them, many people would die in the mean time. Even worse is that such a powerful technology is probably going to be abused as much as it will be for doing good which is a shame.
I understand your point but I'm curious as to what you suggest we do about it. hide under a rock? ban the technology? forbid the creation of the technology in the first place? or should we take advantage of the technology to prevent these same kind of weapons from being effective?
the tools used for terrorism are not the problem, the underlying cause of terrorism in the first place *is* the problem and its consistently ignored in favor of restricting the advances of technology for "safety" and it's absolute bs.
indeed, DRM the song/video file so you need to pay every time you want to access it. brain viruses, trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, domestic spying, advertising, crime law enforcement etc... all your memories are belong to us.
I didn't mean for it to be so bare as to be unusable, just that email actually working like I dont know, maybe email? keep things simple as a default and let those who want extra features enable them if they want. There isn;t any need to shove them down people's throats.
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some strands of genetic material are catalytic- the point is that genetic material isn't just information encoding, it also can act as a part of the cellular machinery its self. it catalyzes its own cleaving, acts as a primitive amino acid string ribosome and catalyzes the formation of other molecules. only later do these molecular systems evolve into what we now would recognize as a functional genetic system based on DNA or RNA as the main carriers of information. is it efficient? no, not really, it is quite slow but it is an example of a very rudimentary evolutionary system that can replicate and select for DNA/RNA strands that are better than those before them. a strand of RNA that can catalyze its own replication will outcompete one that is slower- mutations happen constantly since the whole system has little in the way of genetic repair yet so things change fast. modern day ribosomes are composed of RNA and protein, this is probably an evolutionary fossil from the first "ribosomes" that strung amino acids together. for example, amino acids self assemble in the presence of higher temperature and acidity into apo-proteins which are by themselves catalytic. it is likely that these apo-proteins or any polypeptides associated with nucleic acids under conditions that later evolved into primitive ribosomes. at first these complexes probably speed up the rate and accuracy by which genetic material is replicated and further down the line had a dual purpose- to systhesize its self more efficiently and then the evolution of a genetic system with a small number of base pairs acting to encode for amino acids directly ratehr than catalyzing the synthesis and stringing together of polypeptides. specialization leads to better efficiency and eventually other components of the cell are synthesized and evolve over millions of years to form the first bacteria.
The users that want secure connections are not the ones most likely to be pwned, it's the ones that couldn't care less that you should be worrying about. But really, the real problem here is the extreme laziness of this idea. If you impliment good security policy regardless of who you're connecting to you're better off than treating all of your users like complete idiots because they want a secure connection.
look up lossless compression on Wikipedia, it explians it quite nicely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_data_compression
where are these benchmarks you speak of and why did they create this processor without a motherboard that is available for actual use?
I bet Comcast didn't set a solid cap because it's probably based on a bell-curve of data usage. they try to keep the mean under a certain amount and so if the higher 10% or so of customers use 30% of the data for example, telling them to throttle back is an easy way to decrease Comcast's bandwidth obligations. They can't really tell anyone what the solid cap is because there'd be enough people maxing out what they can get away with under that solid cap and it wouldn't solve much under their current system. As to why they don't say you can use x gigs/month for x dollars, it's probably more profitable for them to sell "unlimited" contracts at a certain price that allows for most people's bandwidth needs and provide them with a nice cushy profit margin as well.
I don;t think that they are considered a common carrier. As far as I understand it, they're considered to be a private network by which they can pretty much decide what can and can not go through but at the same time they have found a way around any obligations implied with that kind of control.
ya, I wrote that post too soon although I still think he was being a bit of a troll here. By his logic, all large data files would be targeted not just anime. You know like youtube, metacafe, google video, WOW patches, live cds etc... but it's not, it's specific to anime, not just every other video file that probably also requires a lot of data transfer too.
-ongoing storylines
-many of the plots are based in part on japanese legend and myth
-extensive use of metaphor and symbolism
-it's not like cartoons here which are mainly for kids, a lot of anime is geared toward older age groups and tackles more difficult/mature topics
-science fiction and fantasy brought to life through animation
-a great way to test out your understanding of the japanese language if you watch the original non-fan subed versions
-anime reflects japanese culture to some extent just like our own entertainment is molded by current events/culture
-a lot of really good story lines that actually are worth watching and draw you into the story.
-there are *a lot* of different genres and stories, if you find yourself bored with a certain anime series you can switch to another easily
-there's a big community behind anime and manga- lots of fan-fiction and what not that explores the story further
Well considering a normal anime episode is over 200 megs uncompressed and that most anime isn't Hentai, you really don't have a point here other than to troll.
ya.. when a war costs nearly a trillion dollars, kills 100x the people it was started over [supposedly] and considering that Iraqi people are DYING AT A RATE GREATER THAN UNDER SADDAM HUSSEIN, "well-planned", "well-justified" and "well-spent" would not be the words I'd use for it. More like "TERRORISM"
What other hand? It's irrelevant who's on the tail end of this, What is relevant is how it was handled by the authoritative figures and in this case it was handled poorly.
I doubt very much AT&T is doing this service to the MPAA and RIAA out of the kindness of their hearts. Either they are doing this to avoid a war with the **IA and friends over doing nothing or they got a new shiny gift from a mysterious *cough* source. There may even be a two for one deal here, NSA gets some free data intel and the **IA's get to continue their extortion scheme. If people start encrypting their data traffic all AT&T has to do is throttle the hell out of it or drop that kind of traffic entirely while under the cover of protecting national security or whatever euphemism the NSA uses for screwing people.
You know what is next, they're going to throttle anything that is encrypted lest it have any illegal content that they can't scan. comcast was nothing just wait until the new overlords take over. Not only that but I'll bet they'll try to get the support of the legal system somehow...
you can use a mouse on a laptop if you want or even better, a touch screen. much more usable than that touch pad that is always integrated with most laptops.
indeed, my concern about the whole thing is that although we can probably stop the spread of these diseases using the same technology that created them, many people would die in the mean time. Even worse is that such a powerful technology is probably going to be abused as much as it will be for doing good which is a shame.
my bad, I get my higher dimensional math confused sometimes...
it's the largest of the common lie groups. here's some explanation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_group_E8
I understand your point but I'm curious as to what you suggest we do about it. hide under a rock? ban the technology? forbid the creation of the technology in the first place? or should we take advantage of the technology to prevent these same kind of weapons from being effective?
the tools used for terrorism are not the problem, the underlying cause of terrorism in the first place *is* the problem and its consistently ignored in favor of restricting the advances of technology for "safety" and it's absolute bs.
indeed, DRM the song/video file so you need to pay every time you want to access it. brain viruses, trojans, rootkits, buffer overflows, domestic spying, advertising, crime law enforcement etc... all your memories are belong to us.
I didn't mean for it to be so bare as to be unusable, just that email actually working like I dont know, maybe email? keep things simple as a default and let those who want extra features enable them if they want. There isn;t any need to shove them down people's throats.