BT isn't far off—but not just BitTorrent, more like BitTorrent with an extensible torrent, and everyone only seeds some fraction (let's call it n%) of the whole data set. That way you don't have to mirror everything, but unpopular files will always be protected. The key thing is that the chunk distribution is random, and there's enough redundancy in the system to make sure a file is always represented at least x times, and that the copies are geographically isolated to make the whole thing highly fault tolerant; ideally no data should be lost if, say, an entire country (or US state) suddenly goes dark.
It sounds hauntingly familiar to what happens when a DRM licensing server goes down. (And also due to a company folding/retiring the service.)
Clearly, we need a magical, distributed, self-healing data storage system. I think I've heard of one or two of these (can anyone provide links, if they exist?) but I guess they haven't been popular enough to be remembered. (And I'm not talking about mere P2P; I'm thinking something more like distributed, redundant storage with the structural resilience of BitCoin.)
Nah, Kim Dotcom was a rich white guy too. He just wasn't as good at getting in people's pockets. I mean, pfft, he spent $500,000 on a fireworks display in New Zealand, but that's not nearly enough to make them "lose" his extradition papers.
There is still quite a distinction between an unnecessary comment made by someone not involved in the conversation (what I thought I saw) and a comment criticising such an unnecessary comment. Have you not heard of the Eternal September? An excess of "me too" comments can seriously degrade the quality of conversation on a message board. Because of the way Slashdot's karma system works, furthermore, there's quite a bit of slosh room for reputable posters to flood the site with very visible "me too" comments, which are a waste of energy to mod down (especially in very large threads like this one), as long as the posters occasionally make an insightful comment to top up their karma. Hence, it very much is necessary to point them out and actively dissuade people from making them. The error I made was in calling out someone who was part of the conversation; the comment was not frivolous.
Also? I am the comment police. We are all the comment police. That is how Slashdot's moderation system is engineered, and with a UID and post history as lengthy as yours, you are fully aware of that. I realise that my initial post was rude, but your response is now disproportionate. Please stop being so upset. This is not that big of a slight.
"Me too" is a non sequitur, as I imagine you know, posted only because I felt that "Very good points" is an unnecessary comment, and so I could berate you about it. These are not the same thing! That being said, you should be annoyed that I didn't bother to check whether or not the previous poster was replying to you or someone else, and in fact what you were doing was good etiquette, so that's egg on my face. Be happy.
Technically it's dimes a day, and in some cases even whole dollars! (Actually, I looked it up, and it's about $5.80. Woo-hoo. Extra 'hoo.')
My comment was merely pointing out that it was Widowwolf's interpretation that created the association, and that no one else cared or was overtly looking for it. Most people might pass over it with a "Heh, mild jab, that resembles an Apple 'i-' prefix" but they certainly wouldn't suddenly ricochet into busting out gang signs and making accusations of hate (which, I agree, is a rather strong word.) It's all very silly. Widowwolf is silly.
I apologise for being overly broad, and I most certainly did not mean to attack physicians as a group; I was merely commenting on one way in which a very vague-sounding term might be abused. I'm currently working with a lab conducting just such a study on two very specific antidepressants, but I'm under an NDA.
This field is for dealing with the little ugly gaps that neither broad pharmacology nor lifestyle adjustment can correct. Take the case of antidepressants, for example: they're extremely finicky (not all work in all people) and have a huge cost in side-effects before the benefits arise. It is an extremely high cost to both the patient's health and the support system to cope with a bad choice of antidepressant. The basis of this fickleness is genetic, and running the right test in advance can prevent bad combinations.
Personalized medicine is not a cure-all, it's a very precise tool in drug design and selection. I'm sure that won't stop lazy physicians and marketers from calling the regular diagnostic process "personalized," though.
One of the nice things they teach you when you learn about how human SNP linkage analyses (for those of you following along at home: a different test performed on the same data, when it's available for a whole family) are done is that the SNPs are often linked with a whole-gene allele. It's true that there might be more out there, but it's not going to be some surprisingly huge number like 50%. A significant portion of SNPs can be inferred from each other with extremely high reliability, suggesting they're inherited as sets. No, they don't know the exact nucleotide sequences responsible, but they can get a decent idea, especially with this many markers. Hopefully in the near future we'll see SNP surveys completely displaced by whole-exome sequencing.
Nah. I have the luxury of being in Canada, where we can afford to talk about two closely-related concepts without frothing at the mouth. But there are ways to address the situation that are much more constructive than preaching to the choir. Why don't you start a constitutional convention collaboration site or something?
I think I kinda want to punch you in the face right now. What you're saying has a point, but this is the wrong story. The scanner being presented is an infrared camera, nothing more.
Well, one ugly thing about drift in this case is that the Democrats are far more socially conservative than their core voting base. (I'd say "and fiscally conservative" too, but who are we kidding: American politics is a thinly-veiled pork-eating contest.) It's too bad Occupy Wallstreet wasn't started by grown-ups; there might then be a hope to reform the donkey party, just as Gingrich appears to be carrying the Tea Party flag.
Still, I view it as only a matter of time that such a thing will occur for the Democrats. I really think the voter base in the US is going to become drastically more liberal in the next ten to twenty years. I just hope the candidates that end up being tendered are a little more mature than the average OWSer—but then again, this happened in the sixties, too.
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Not every substance has this property, but yes: the field is called pharmacogenetics/genomics.
BT isn't far off—but not just BitTorrent, more like BitTorrent with an extensible torrent, and everyone only seeds some fraction (let's call it n%) of the whole data set. That way you don't have to mirror everything, but unpopular files will always be protected. The key thing is that the chunk distribution is random, and there's enough redundancy in the system to make sure a file is always represented at least x times, and that the copies are geographically isolated to make the whole thing highly fault tolerant; ideally no data should be lost if, say, an entire country (or US state) suddenly goes dark.
It sounds hauntingly familiar to what happens when a DRM licensing server goes down. (And also due to a company folding/retiring the service.)
Clearly, we need a magical, distributed, self-healing data storage system. I think I've heard of one or two of these (can anyone provide links, if they exist?) but I guess they haven't been popular enough to be remembered. (And I'm not talking about mere P2P; I'm thinking something more like distributed, redundant storage with the structural resilience of BitCoin.)
Nah, Kim Dotcom was a rich white guy too. He just wasn't as good at getting in people's pockets. I mean, pfft, he spent $500,000 on a fireworks display in New Zealand, but that's not nearly enough to make them "lose" his extradition papers.
There is still quite a distinction between an unnecessary comment made by someone not involved in the conversation (what I thought I saw) and a comment criticising such an unnecessary comment. Have you not heard of the Eternal September? An excess of "me too" comments can seriously degrade the quality of conversation on a message board. Because of the way Slashdot's karma system works, furthermore, there's quite a bit of slosh room for reputable posters to flood the site with very visible "me too" comments, which are a waste of energy to mod down (especially in very large threads like this one), as long as the posters occasionally make an insightful comment to top up their karma. Hence, it very much is necessary to point them out and actively dissuade people from making them. The error I made was in calling out someone who was part of the conversation; the comment was not frivolous.
Also? I am the comment police. We are all the comment police. That is how Slashdot's moderation system is engineered, and with a UID and post history as lengthy as yours, you are fully aware of that. I realise that my initial post was rude, but your response is now disproportionate. Please stop being so upset. This is not that big of a slight.
And now I understand. I had indeed assumed that there was a South Zaire and that the list was being collated by noun, somehow. Thanks.
"Me too" is a non sequitur, as I imagine you know, posted only because I felt that "Very good points" is an unnecessary comment, and so I could berate you about it. These are not the same thing! That being said, you should be annoyed that I didn't bother to check whether or not the previous poster was replying to you or someone else, and in fact what you were doing was good etiquette, so that's egg on my face. Be happy.
Either my humour is not understood (oi moi) or you have just made a very cruel assessment of Intel's products, in which case I salute you.
Me too!
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(Seriously. Don't make comments like that.)
Technically it's dimes a day, and in some cases even whole dollars! (Actually, I looked it up, and it's about $5.80. Woo-hoo. Extra 'hoo.')
My comment was merely pointing out that it was Widowwolf's interpretation that created the association, and that no one else cared or was overtly looking for it. Most people might pass over it with a "Heh, mild jab, that resembles an Apple 'i-' prefix" but they certainly wouldn't suddenly ricochet into busting out gang signs and making accusations of hate (which, I agree, is a rather strong word.) It's all very silly. Widowwolf is silly.
I apologise for being overly broad, and I most certainly did not mean to attack physicians as a group; I was merely commenting on one way in which a very vague-sounding term might be abused. I'm currently working with a lab conducting just such a study on two very specific antidepressants, but I'm under an NDA.
...Emanuel seems to be missing it by a mile.
This field is for dealing with the little ugly gaps that neither broad pharmacology nor lifestyle adjustment can correct. Take the case of antidepressants, for example: they're extremely finicky (not all work in all people) and have a huge cost in side-effects before the benefits arise. It is an extremely high cost to both the patient's health and the support system to cope with a bad choice of antidepressant. The basis of this fickleness is genetic, and running the right test in advance can prevent bad combinations.
Personalized medicine is not a cure-all, it's a very precise tool in drug design and selection. I'm sure that won't stop lazy physicians and marketers from calling the regular diagnostic process "personalized," though.
You may find this amusing.
Nah; you're looking too hard. The Maritime Port Authority is the first Google hit for "MPA", a typo in the submission title. :)
The war against the enemy: our true enemy, of which we have been ignorant for too long! Behold, the face of ultimate evil, the MPA!
This troll brought to you by Scotiabank. You're lazier than you think!
Iran is. Remaining under debate is how many Yemens there are.
Nowhere! The survivors are still alive!
Wait, what was the joke?
Your logic is interesting. Since when has associating Apple with internationalism been hateful?
One of the nice things they teach you when you learn about how human SNP linkage analyses (for those of you following along at home: a different test performed on the same data, when it's available for a whole family) are done is that the SNPs are often linked with a whole-gene allele. It's true that there might be more out there, but it's not going to be some surprisingly huge number like 50%. A significant portion of SNPs can be inferred from each other with extremely high reliability, suggesting they're inherited as sets. No, they don't know the exact nucleotide sequences responsible, but they can get a decent idea, especially with this many markers. Hopefully in the near future we'll see SNP surveys completely displaced by whole-exome sequencing.
Think of it like Huffman coding, except with spam.
Nah. I have the luxury of being in Canada, where we can afford to talk about two closely-related concepts without frothing at the mouth. But there are ways to address the situation that are much more constructive than preaching to the choir. Why don't you start a constitutional convention collaboration site or something?
In all seriousness, they belong to the bears.
I think I kinda want to punch you in the face right now. What you're saying has a point, but this is the wrong story. The scanner being presented is an infrared camera, nothing more.
Well, one ugly thing about drift in this case is that the Democrats are far more socially conservative than their core voting base. (I'd say "and fiscally conservative" too, but who are we kidding: American politics is a thinly-veiled pork-eating contest.) It's too bad Occupy Wallstreet wasn't started by grown-ups; there might then be a hope to reform the donkey party, just as Gingrich appears to be carrying the Tea Party flag.
Still, I view it as only a matter of time that such a thing will occur for the Democrats. I really think the voter base in the US is going to become drastically more liberal in the next ten to twenty years. I just hope the candidates that end up being tendered are a little more mature than the average OWSer—but then again, this happened in the sixties, too.