Now that genetic engineering and gene treatment has come to it's current state would it be possible to create virus, that doesn't cause disease, but instead injects the host with replacement DNA and is contagious? I thought I read that virii were used to help transfer DNA to gene therapy patients. If a virus, such as chicken pox could be used as a carrier, then one could consider tampering with the DNA of any one who caught the virus.
Something like this could be used either as a bioweapon, or as a technique to mass distribute say a vaccine. So rather than having to distribute injections of vaccine for Anthrax (6 injections over 100 weeks), some theraputic virus could be created to modify the populations DNA to protect against Anthrax.
There's already a vaccine for bubonic plague bacterium, but the vaccine doesn't work for BW strain plague.
Doesn't having the genome also mean that genetic modifications are also easier? So for every vaccine, a new strain can be developed to defeat such vaccine....
I had the fan fail several times on a 1.2 GHz Athlon, but didn't suffer any damage. Apparently AMD design engieers considere the heatsink, but not the fan, as an integrated part of the CPU.
Unless he stole enough to be grand thief you're wasting your time with the police. Find who he is and visit him with your friend. If he wouldn't return your stuff via negotiation then hire a lawyer and take him to civil court.
In this country Justice is for those who can afford it.
It's too bad that the conversion utility to change from Excel to StarOffice and back is so bad. Half of my group uses windows/MSOffice and I use GNULinux/StarOffice but because we can't easily interchange spreadsheets I typically wind up having to complete my cooperative projects with vmware/windows/MSOffice.
I'm guessing that Open Office would work better in the long run, but because it's not offered by a big name company such as SUN it's not yet ready for DoD...
Companies such as PolyPlus, PolyStor, Moltech, and other have been working on this for years. In theory the patten used by PolyPlus and Moltech have the highest theoretical energy density of any Li based battery. I can't find anything in the electrofuel release with technical merit.
Is this PR piece really worthy of publication on/. ?
Good heavens, this is little more than a bad spoof of the current anti-realist philosophies. It unfortunate enough that anti-realism has become the pop philosophy of the self declared intellectual community, but to have this on/. is really too much.
We're in the dark ages of philosophy... With any luck, in the next 20 years people will wake up and realize that the waste generated by the english and social studies departments of the local university is baseless and the center for intelligent though will return to it's rightful place in reality, logic, and mathematics.
Here's the press release... check out the first paragraph
"Athens, GA - Razor-sharp coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign from an unlikely
source, a freshman comedy focusing on a loving but quirky American family, and an
invaluable public service effort on colon cancer are among the 34 winners of the 60th
annual Peabody Awards. Comedy Central?s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
Indecision 2000" joined FOX?s "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Confronting Colon Cancer"
reported by "NBC Today" co-anchor Katie Couric - along with repeat winners "The
West Wing" and "The Sopranos" - on the list of this year?s Peabody recipients.
"
Just listen to the tone of the article. ABC is just jealous that the media's still inferior to the gov't in regards to there methods for privacy intrusion.
The difference from my perspecive is the difference between being in the college of engineering v. the college of LAS.
As a computer engineer you'll be required to understand basic engineering/science principles including design, econimics, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The college of LAS is more relaxed. The only real requirement is to understand how to program and have sufficient credits.
That being said, I wouldn't say that a CE is necessarily better than a CS just because more fundamentals are required. A CS could take all the mathematics and design courses taught to CE's, but there is no requirement to do so. It's more of a matter that hiring a CE you're assuming a minimum level of ability which is greater than the minimum level required for CS.
Of course a good hiring manager would look beyond the title on the degree and hire based upon the individual's experiance and abilities...
It looks like it's not a bad system if you're only interested in low atomic number materal (Z>15). It should be quite sufficient for bio. samples.
One major improvement would be to eliminate the need for film (which can be extreemly expensive). One could use a phosphorus screen with a camera behind it to capture the images. I'd probably use digial as I'm uncertain what x-rays do to the magnetic films in VCR tapes.
I worked at a research center which had a setup like this. Using an automated stage, digital video, and basic image analysis (simple averaging) we were able to make some very nice movies.
So what if Yahoo disappears. It's not the end or life as we know it, only of Yahoo. Yahoo offers excatly what can be gathered elsewhere.
me@yahoo.com -> me@otherportal.com (www.hotmail.com)
yahoo search -> google search (www.google.com)
yahoo directory listing -> Open directory project (dmoz.org)
In terms of the politics, I can't see any significant difference between yahoo and hotmail. Both are services offered for the purpose of making cash off of advertising. Sure Yahoo doesn't exist to destroy the little guy (yet) as MSN and AOL are, but it certaily doesn't have altruistic motives in offering services. If Yahoo were to become unprofitable it would close, or sell out, just a quickly as any other business. And when that happens we'll all pause for a moment to say that's too bad, and then get back to life.
I'm told by my father that @Home is puting fiber optic lines in Omaha as a test market.
I've not seen the docmentation myself, but I do notice that when I visit the connection is significantly faster than what I get in Berkeley.
Also, unlike in Berkeley, he does not seem to be affected by the time of day. In the SFBA most of the people I know with @Home find a significant lag increase during prime time 5pm and 11pm.
So we should take the advice of a conviced cracker and create a national database of everyone's DNA and put it on some computer system for the Fed to use.
Is it just me or does this sound like he's asking us to create largest target for the Black Hat community since the Pentagon.
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Perhaps medical databases, or other massive datasets upon which lives are dependent.
Linux for servers, high performace computing and any application requiring security (inclusing e-mail) .
MS for games and cutting edge multi-media.
Duel boot machines were developed for this purpose.
;)
Off-topic for the overall subject area; however, as a responce to the initial post "Let me get this straight..." it was very on topic.
Can you moderators actually follow the thread before you submit your actions!
P.S. Not everyone here is a mindless gamer who lives in a cubical of toys...
...within rule bending that many CS and /. people apply their view of the world...
Now that genetic engineering and gene treatment has come to it's current state would it be possible to create virus, that doesn't cause disease, but instead injects the host with replacement DNA and is contagious? I thought I read that virii were used to help transfer DNA to gene therapy patients. If a virus, such as chicken pox could be used as a carrier, then one could consider tampering with the DNA of any one who caught the virus.
Something like this could be used either as a bioweapon, or as a technique to mass distribute say a vaccine. So rather than having to distribute injections of vaccine for Anthrax (6 injections over 100 weeks), some theraputic virus could be created to modify the populations DNA to protect against Anthrax.
Doesn't having the genome also mean that genetic modifications are also easier? So for every vaccine, a new strain can be developed to defeat such vaccine....
I had the fan fail several times on a 1.2 GHz Athlon, but didn't suffer any damage. Apparently AMD design engieers considere the heatsink, but not the fan, as an integrated part of the CPU.
Your'll need the time too. Most of the ISP's are working via DHCP, but should have a record of which MAC goes to which IP at a given time.
In this country Justice is for those who can afford it.
I'm guessing that Open Office would work better in the long run, but because it's not offered by a big name company such as SUN it's not yet ready for DoD...
StarOffice has become OpenOffice... www.openoffice.org
Companies such as PolyPlus, PolyStor, Moltech, and other have been working on this for years. In theory the patten used by PolyPlus and Moltech have the highest theoretical energy density of any Li based battery. I can't find anything in the electrofuel release with technical merit.
Is this PR piece really worthy of publication on /. ?
We're in the dark ages of philosophy... With any luck, in the next 20 years people will wake up and realize that the waste generated by the english and social studies departments of the local university is baseless and the center for intelligent though will return to it's rightful place in reality, logic, and mathematics.
"Athens, GA - Razor-sharp coverage of the 2000 presidential campaign from an unlikely source, a freshman comedy focusing on a loving but quirky American family, and an invaluable public service effort on colon cancer are among the 34 winners of the 60th annual Peabody Awards. Comedy Central?s "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000" joined FOX?s "Malcolm in the Middle" and "Confronting Colon Cancer" reported by "NBC Today" co-anchor Katie Couric - along with repeat winners "The West Wing" and "The Sopranos" - on the list of this year?s Peabody recipients. "
press release
Just listen to the tone of the article. ABC is just jealous that the media's still inferior to the gov't in regards to there methods for privacy intrusion.
As a computer engineer you'll be required to understand basic engineering/science principles including design, econimics, physics, chemistry, and mathematics. The college of LAS is more relaxed. The only real requirement is to understand how to program and have sufficient credits.
That being said, I wouldn't say that a CE is necessarily better than a CS just because more fundamentals are required. A CS could take all the mathematics and design courses taught to CE's, but there is no requirement to do so. It's more of a matter that hiring a CE you're assuming a minimum level of ability which is greater than the minimum level required for CS.
Of course a good hiring manager would look beyond the title on the degree and hire based upon the individual's experiance and abilities...
Is $16 cheap for a film ring? Probably cheaper than long term, low dose exposure.
One major improvement would be to eliminate the need for film (which can be extreemly expensive). One could use a phosphorus screen with a camera behind it to capture the images. I'd probably use digial as I'm uncertain what x-rays do to the magnetic films in VCR tapes.
I worked at a research center which had a setup like this. Using an automated stage, digital video, and basic image analysis (simple averaging) we were able to make some very nice movies.
Libraries are different in that borrowing a book does not require reproducing it. Copyright is still enforced.
me@yahoo.com -> me@otherportal.com (www.hotmail.com) yahoo search -> google search (www.google.com) yahoo directory listing -> Open directory project (dmoz.org)
In terms of the politics, I can't see any significant difference between yahoo and hotmail. Both are services offered for the purpose of making cash off of advertising. Sure Yahoo doesn't exist to destroy the little guy (yet) as MSN and AOL are, but it certaily doesn't have altruistic motives in offering services. If Yahoo were to become unprofitable it would close, or sell out, just a quickly as any other business. And when that happens we'll all pause for a moment to say that's too bad, and then get back to life.
I've not seen the docmentation myself, but I do notice that when I visit the connection is significantly faster than what I get in Berkeley.
Also, unlike in Berkeley, he does not seem to be affected by the time of day. In the SFBA most of the people I know with @Home find a significant lag increase during prime time 5pm and 11pm.
Is it just me or does this sound like he's asking us to create largest target for the Black Hat community since the Pentagon.