They were thinking something along the lines of "the Guardian already gave the bad guys our secrets, so let's make sure the people at risk have a chance to look through the cables, see if they're mentioned, and take appropriate self-defensive measures, since we don't have the resources to approach them all privately."
That's not it at all. The documents were already in enemy hands because the file was shared over BitTorrent. The password was already in enemy hands because the Guardian published it. All WikiLeaks is doing at this point is evening the playing field by letting those interested parties who didn't get a chance have an opportunity to dig through them. This mostly means the people without the resources to have put things together already—i.e., the informants at risk, whose names were redacted in the first place.
As you've already been informed, Explorer is equivalent to Gnome's Nautilus + panels. It does the desktop, file-managing, and the task bar (though it can do additional bars, as of Windows 98 and NT4 SP3.) Actual window management (the part that draws borders) is done by GDI and its manifold successors, directly by the system, though if you minimize windows while explorer isn't running, they'll stack up in the bottom-left corner as compact titlebars, in a way that behaves like Windows 3.1's iconification.
Fun fact: So does Windows Explorer, which is responsible for generating the desktop, all "My Computer" windows (which are just Explorer windows without the sidebar), and the task bar.
But that being said, I think this is a little less like quitting Explorer and a bit closer to quitting one's entire window manager.
If I've learned anything from how the CIA operates, you don't "buy your WMDs" from the US; the US picks you to sell WMDs to. We only hear about these things when they mess up.
I would probably vote for obsolescence. If the bacteria aren't being picked up en masse by silly humans who don't clean their food properly when they pull it from the fields, then the pressure for maintaining the human-killing equipment is pretty mediocre. It simply falls into disrepair and mutates into pseudogenes and non-functional gene products.
Venter didn't create life from scratch. His team rebuilt a bacterial genome out of pre-existing parts and threw them into a pre-existing chassis. To provide out an ever-faithful computer analogy, he basically installed Gentoo on some Mycoplasma genitalium. It wasn't that exciting, just more laborious.
Which brings me to the second point: that much DNA synthesis and construct assembly is absurdly expensive. Even to transfer the dangerous parts into another bacterium via a plasmid vector would be unwieldly labourious, mostly because you'd have to figure out what the parts are, first.
Which brings me to the third point: it is infinitely cheaper just to buy more traditional forms of weaponry than to swallow the startup cost for biological warfare. Even to poison an entire town's drinking water with lethal amounts of Brevetoxin would be cheaper. You can basically chill out now.
P.S., Caucasians probably have serious herd immunity against the most famous strains by now and don't even know it. Even if you get the work perfect, its reliability would still be a bad gamble.
As long as there are stupid or vulnerable people in the world, someone, somewhere will continue preying on them. (These are generally the sort of people who don't mind the title "prophet.") While these insane attacks on the medical profession are obviously a big issue, it would really be nice if we could circumvent the problem at the source.
P.S. it is way too early in the morning for the above to be coherent or have a point
Yep. And we did it by letting ourselves be taxed. (And bumming off the Yanks, when circumstances necessitated it. But it's mostly about not hating strangers.)
I'm afraid you've missed the boat on this one. "UAV" is a widely-recognized algorithm at this point. (And yes, it's about unmanned aerial vehicles. Which should just be called "flying robots" at this point.)
I'll admit, the car analogy part hasn't worked out too well. It's mostly been computer analogies. I wonder if removing the mention of cars would get me enough room to link to a Slashdot journal article for question-asking-at... Hmm...
Lacking a link is typical of "Ask Slashdot" stories. I'd offer you coffee, but it's a bit late in the day in ${TIMEZONE} to be using the "just woke up" excuse, even for Slashdotters.
Wait. Does that include the mail-in registration card? Also, does that mean there are game collectors who compare different registration cards sent out by companies and look for little differences, in the manner of these guys? Is that healthy? And couldn't you just view these as a "special GameStop edition"?
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They were thinking something along the lines of "the Guardian already gave the bad guys our secrets, so let's make sure the people at risk have a chance to look through the cables, see if they're mentioned, and take appropriate self-defensive measures, since we don't have the resources to approach them all privately."
That's not it at all. The documents were already in enemy hands because the file was shared over BitTorrent. The password was already in enemy hands because the Guardian published it. All WikiLeaks is doing at this point is evening the playing field by letting those interested parties who didn't get a chance have an opportunity to dig through them. This mostly means the people without the resources to have put things together already—i.e., the informants at risk, whose names were redacted in the first place.
As you've already been informed, Explorer is equivalent to Gnome's Nautilus + panels. It does the desktop, file-managing, and the task bar (though it can do additional bars, as of Windows 98 and NT4 SP3.) Actual window management (the part that draws borders) is done by GDI and its manifold successors, directly by the system, though if you minimize windows while explorer isn't running, they'll stack up in the bottom-left corner as compact titlebars, in a way that behaves like Windows 3.1's iconification.
Fun fact: So does Windows Explorer, which is responsible for generating the desktop, all "My Computer" windows (which are just Explorer windows without the sidebar), and the task bar.
But that being said, I think this is a little less like quitting Explorer and a bit closer to quitting one's entire window manager.
If I've learned anything from how the CIA operates, you don't "buy your WMDs" from the US; the US picks you to sell WMDs to. We only hear about these things when they mess up.
I would probably vote for obsolescence. If the bacteria aren't being picked up en masse by silly humans who don't clean their food properly when they pull it from the fields, then the pressure for maintaining the human-killing equipment is pretty mediocre. It simply falls into disrepair and mutates into pseudogenes and non-functional gene products.
Venter didn't create life from scratch. His team rebuilt a bacterial genome out of pre-existing parts and threw them into a pre-existing chassis. To provide out an ever-faithful computer analogy, he basically installed Gentoo on some Mycoplasma genitalium. It wasn't that exciting, just more laborious.
Which brings me to the second point: that much DNA synthesis and construct assembly is absurdly expensive. Even to transfer the dangerous parts into another bacterium via a plasmid vector would be unwieldly labourious, mostly because you'd have to figure out what the parts are, first.
Which brings me to the third point: it is infinitely cheaper just to buy more traditional forms of weaponry than to swallow the startup cost for biological warfare. Even to poison an entire town's drinking water with lethal amounts of Brevetoxin would be cheaper. You can basically chill out now.
P.S., Caucasians probably have serious herd immunity against the most famous strains by now and don't even know it. Even if you get the work perfect, its reliability would still be a bad gamble.
I'm sorry, it's hypochondria.
There's no known cure, and most patients diagnosed with hypochondria have only about ten to twenty thousand days left to live.
You had me up until "unburnt". My god I have never laughed so hard at work. Well done.
As long as there are stupid or vulnerable people in the world, someone, somewhere will continue preying on them. (These are generally the sort of people who don't mind the title "prophet.") While these insane attacks on the medical profession are obviously a big issue, it would really be nice if we could circumvent the problem at the source.
P.S. it is way too early in the morning for the above to be coherent or have a point
Excuse (if applicable): it was before noon.
Hey, look at that. You're right.
To defend an already-ridiculous position for the sake of logical rigour: technically, Slashdot accepted it.
Yep. And we did it by letting ourselves be taxed. (And bumming off the Yanks, when circumstances necessitated it. But it's mostly about not hating strangers.)
Of course it can: laughter is the best medicine.
I'm afraid you've missed the boat on this one. "UAV" is a widely-recognized algorithm at this point. (And yes, it's about unmanned aerial vehicles. Which should just be called "flying robots" at this point.)
I think step 3 is "lose money."
I think both of those points are obvious, and we were just being Romanticist, mildly off-topic dreamers.
Incidentally, I'm pretty sure everyone's still fairly gung ho about terraforming Mars.
Magnifique. To the (.)sig editor!
I'll admit, the car analogy part hasn't worked out too well. It's mostly been computer analogies. I wonder if removing the mention of cars would get me enough room to link to a Slashdot journal article for question-asking-at... Hmm...
Lacking a link is typical of "Ask Slashdot" stories. I'd offer you coffee, but it's a bit late in the day in ${TIMEZONE} to be using the "just woke up" excuse, even for Slashdotters.
Yeah, I mean... what kind of normal, peaceful politician is under any significant form of stress?
Wait. Does that include the mail-in registration card? Also, does that mean there are game collectors who compare different registration cards sent out by companies and look for little differences, in the manner of these guys? Is that healthy? And couldn't you just view these as a "special GameStop edition"?
In another leaked memo, it was found that GameStop had instructed employees to deny that this "was part of the plan all along."