"Scientists have recovered the RNA of the virus that caused the plague by digging through an English mass grave, and compiling [from several partial examples] the genetics of the virus. Though the plague still persists, scientists have believe the ancient strain was different due to a different onset of symptoms."
You want to correct that, it is a bacteria and not a virus (you can find this in the very article you mention).
As a matter of fact it was close to that in Far Cry 2, which featured the Massive technology:
"This game incorporates technology of Massive Incorporated ("Massive") that, when activated, enable the presentation of in-game advertisements and other in-game objects which are uploaded temporarily to your personal computer or game console and changed during online game play. As part of this process, when Massive technology is activated, Massive may have access to your Internet Protocol address. Your Internet Protocol address, and other basic anonymous information, available to Massive are temporarily used by Massive for the general purposes of transmitting and measuring in-game advertising."
Not really a violation of privacy, yet...
So Ubisoft (especially Montreal): face it, if your games were not so flawed, or if at least you had some kind of support and not only a farce of it, and if you were not abusing your customers' rights, then maybe your sales wouldn't drop as much.
Deja vu?
Not quite, they cite his paper in the references and acknowledge Adleman's work as "seminal" (pp. 4-5). But where he used PCR to replicate DNA fragments (where nucleotides coded for data of the mathematical problem instead of actual amino acids), they use a living organism - the E. coli bacteria.
The problem they claim to solve is the Hamiltonian path problem, so I'm not sure what you mean by "identify the shortest one". But clearly they left the problem of false positives out for a later study. As they say, DNA sequencing could be acceptable given the low rate of false positives, you need to do it to read the solution anyway (but yes... at what cost?).
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Nor is it an RNA, by the way...
"Scientists have recovered the RNA of the virus that caused the plague by digging through an English mass grave, and compiling [from several partial examples] the genetics of the virus. Though the plague still persists, scientists have believe the ancient strain was different due to a different onset of symptoms."
You want to correct that, it is a bacteria and not a virus (you can find this in the very article you mention).
I'm just curious... so, is MA15+ a vaporware index?
As a matter of fact it was close to that in Far Cry 2, which featured the Massive technology:
"This game incorporates technology of Massive Incorporated ("Massive") that, when activated, enable the presentation of in-game advertisements and other in-game objects which are uploaded temporarily to your personal computer or game console and changed during online game play. As part of this process, when Massive technology is activated, Massive may have access to your Internet Protocol address. Your Internet Protocol address, and other basic anonymous information, available to Massive are temporarily used by Massive for the general purposes of transmitting and measuring in-game advertising."
Not really a violation of privacy, yet...
So Ubisoft (especially Montreal): face it, if your games were not so flawed, or if at least you had some kind of support and not only a farce of it, and if you were not abusing your customers' rights, then maybe your sales wouldn't drop as much.
Deja vu?
Not quite, they cite his paper in the references and acknowledge Adleman's work as "seminal" (pp. 4-5). But where he used PCR to replicate DNA fragments (where nucleotides coded for data of the mathematical problem instead of actual amino acids), they use a living organism - the E. coli bacteria.
The problem they claim to solve is the Hamiltonian path problem, so I'm not sure what you mean by "identify the shortest one". But clearly they left the problem of false positives out for a later study. As they say, DNA sequencing could be acceptable given the low rate of false positives, you need to do it to read the solution anyway (but yes... at what cost?).