Massive immune system response to the gene tinkering leading to immediate death.
To quote the OP (MozeeToby): The absolute worst thing that could go wrong is that the people being treated die from the treatment.
Some gene gets tinkered in the wrong spot and you get cancer too.
Cancer isn't the death sentence it once was.
Go through a costly and/or miserable treatment with no effect.
Baseball analogy: If you don't swing, you will be in for somewhere between 3 and 6 pitches and might get on base if the pitcher sucks (he doesn't, in this case). If you swing at every pitch, you might strike out after 3 pitches. Or you might keep fouling out indefinitely, and get much more than 6 pitches. Or you might get a base hit.
Obviously BIOS could have been loaded with something else other than simply erased.
Such a virus is not limited by the size of the BIOS, because all it needs to do is wipe it from the outside. There is plenty of room on the HDD to hold code for wiping many different motherboards.
This virus needs to not only wipe the BIOS, but also copy itself in and replicate enough of the functionality of the original to get the system to boot.
Pfft. Even though I don't like embryonic stem cell research, I don't like your analogy. Here's a counterexample:
If adult stem cells are so much better than organ transplants, why aren't we using adult stem cells?
Mostly, the answer is time and money. Transplants have gotten more research $$$ and a lot more time to work out the details of practical application than stem cells have. Similarly, adult stem cells promise much of the benefits and carries few of the stigmas attached to embryonic, so it gets all the money and effort. And, as a result, breakthroughs.
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until enough people / scientists are SURE nothing bad will happen.
The only way to know that is if they know exactly what will happen. And if you know exactly what will happen, what's the point?
Tasnim Shamma
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* Degree: A.B. in English, IPS in Journalism...
You could have just posted a link.
* Contact Email: tasnim.shamma@gmail.com
Cue a quarter-million inquiries about Miss Quan's email address.
if it moves, it's biology.
Or gravity.
Massive immune system response to the gene tinkering leading to immediate death.
To quote the OP (MozeeToby):
The absolute worst thing that could go wrong is that the people being treated die from the treatment.
Some gene gets tinkered in the wrong spot and you get cancer too.
Cancer isn't the death sentence it once was.
Go through a costly and/or miserable treatment with no effect.
Baseball analogy: If you don't swing, you will be in for somewhere between 3 and 6 pitches and might get on base if the pitcher sucks (he doesn't, in this case). If you swing at every pitch, you might strike out after 3 pitches. Or you might keep fouling out indefinitely, and get much more than 6 pitches. Or you might get a base hit.
I'm sure a lot of people would love to fire Cox, but I don't see that that has to do with this discussion.
I guess guys with thin cocks can really spell.
I wouldn't know. That was Firefox's spellcheck.
I'd love a BMW or a office 2007, but that is not one hour overtime, it's almost half month of wage.
I presume you mean Office 2007? For me, Office 2007 Pro (or Ultimate) is slightly over half.
Your female acquaintances...
FTFY
Obviously BIOS could have been loaded with something else other than simply erased.
Such a virus is not limited by the size of the BIOS, because all it needs to do is wipe it from the outside. There is plenty of room on the HDD to hold code for wiping many different motherboards.
This virus needs to not only wipe the BIOS, but also copy itself in and replicate enough of the functionality of the original to get the system to boot.
What's so gross about hardware hacking?
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I already have my Secret Base there. Don't tell anybody.
You didn't hover over his links.
rivalry, 4nd we'll
Ignoring the fact that it's a goatse link; this seems to be a snippet from a larger text.
Do I even want to know which one?
Well, those features not sued today...
Been reading too many RIAA articles lately?
Pfft. Even though I don't like embryonic stem cell research, I don't like your analogy. Here's a counterexample:
If adult stem cells are so much better than organ transplants, why aren't we using adult stem cells?
Mostly, the answer is time and money. Transplants have gotten more research $$$ and a lot more time to work out the details of practical application than stem cells have. Similarly, adult stem cells promise much of the benefits and carries few of the stigmas attached to embryonic, so it gets all the money and effort. And, as a result, breakthroughs.
Even the guy who wasn't around till 49 days or so earlier; he's in it too.
He was a member of Congress before that....
Where the fuck was the outrage when these bailouts were first suggested?
I am not sure about outrage, but there was a lot of feedback 6 months ago.
While PDF is open, it also allows heavy DRM.
But that is entirely at the discretion of the person who made the PDF, rather than at the whim of Adobe.
And don't forget the MS Office ODF plugins.
It could just spit out an "I voted!!!1!1!!" ticket of some sort.
No, just don't melt down any more jolly snowmen.
Maybe they should split the ports...
Why? Any group is free to go and implement their own private WAN or a VPN. See: China
by getting back onto the dead-end highway for a while.
...while they wait for others to fill in the map a little better.
That's often what happens with Minefield (but not always).