It's best we keep moving away from the nuclear industry. In Finland two new nuclear power plants are currently being built. The French state is desperately trying to get rid of its state-controlled nuclear company Areva and it seems plausible that the remains of Areva - company may not even be able finalize building of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant.
Another (Russian) nuclear plant that is under construction is expected to produce more expensive MWh's than most of the competing energy sources. In practice, the some foolish buyers of Fennovoima nuclear power plant's energy have been committing into buying energy at a price of 50€/ MWh, while the other energy sources are clearly cheaper than that. Its quite likely that the Fennovoima's nuclear power plant never be producing any energy at a competitive price.
On the other hand, the price of solar keeps sinking 50% in a decade and it's already enough competitive with the prices of other energy sources. Development of high capacity solar energy storage solutions is much more needed than the new nuclear power plants.
Technically you're 100% right, but Scott McNealy said that quote was incorrect. After which Scott McNealy quoted Scott McNealy incorrectly.
Q: A couple of years ago you made some comments about privacy -- and the lack thereof -- that were widely printed. That was amazingly pre-Patriot Act and pre-9/11. Do you stick by that notion? Should we not be worried about having lost all our privacy?
A: I never said that, did I?
Q: You said, "You already have no privacy."
A: I said, "You have no privacy. Get over it."
While in fact on monday night 25th of january 1999 a group of reporters and analysts recorded Scott McNealy saying "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Easy. Tomorrow Assange joins a French Foreign Legion using a ("declared identity") Jacques Clouseau. A day later he gets into a fist fight with a person working for the Ecuadorian embassy. Bloody nosed "Jacques Clouseau" then applies for a French citizenship under a provision Français par le sang versé" ("French by spilled blood").
Next day "Jacques Clouseau" gets his French citizenship granted. One hour after that France announces couple of new diplomatic post opening in London. A day later "Jacques Clouseau" applies for that position and gets selected. France sends a letter to British foreign office informing of a newly selected French diplomat "Jacques Clouseau" who will be shortly arriving to French embassy in London. British Foreign Office welcomes the new French diplomat to England.
A French diplomat "Jacques Clouseau" then steps out of a Ecuadorian embassy.
Very much so. DRM for audio-visual content can and will always be circumvented - as long as humans need to be shown the content in decrypted form. Once a media file is shown in decrypted format, someone will record and convert it into non-DRM format.
If someone manages to create a really paradigm shifting and exiting media format "scent enhanced oculus-3D-hologram vibrating world with transparent multi-layering technology", then there may be temporary chance for effective DMRs - but even then only until alternative (open source) DRM-free formats are created.
Yes, I actually thought this would be the greatest weight loss game kind of system ever - "gain weight lose your Internet connection"
But no, the target customers thought removing the Internet connection or television was not a funny game at all.
instead it would be so "terrible",... and customers would happen to be forced to "disable", "remove", "destroy" etc. the thing..., because they don't need a baby sitter... because they are so damn good in losing weight. Maybe, China is arranging some kind of holiday camps to its food addicts too?
The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
Hyppönen is a Finn and Finns write natively all nationalities and languages in lower-case letters. Have some tolerance for us Foreigners occasionally making some typo or two... you uninformed and insensitive clod!
I would go as far as calling US a one party system; the party being "a rich peoples party". In order to make it look less like so, they have simply divided the party into two halves! Both party-half having half of the representatives in senate and half of the representatives in congress. And each party-half ruling the White House after the other party-half has had its turn.
The (good) effects of antipsychotic medicine are best illustrated by remembering how those resulted "an emptying of psychiatric hospitals".
From wikipedia's Chlorpromazine article...
The effect of this drug [Chlorpromazine] in emptying psychiatric hospitals has been compared to that of penicillin and infectious diseases. But the popularity of the drug fell from the late 1960s as newer drugs came on the scene. From chlorpromazine a number of other similar antipsychotics were developed. It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.
Chlorpromazine largely replaced electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, and insulin shock therapy. By 1964, about 50 million people worldwide had taken it. In 1955 there were 558,922 resident patients in American state and county psychiatric hospitals. By 1970, the number dropped to 337,619; by 1980 to 150,000, and by 1990 between 110,000 and 120,000 patients.
Anyone with a personal stake or interest in schizophrenia, should think about those numbers very carefully. A comforting thought for anyone impacted with schizophrenia is that it is mostly of biological origin and there will be improved and better targeting medicine available. A horrible horrible thing is that I may have discovered a very good target protein for designing a medicine which would fix the schizophrenia's key illness mechanism. As a newly graduated biochemist I thought pharmaceutical companies or university PhD programs would be interested about this "discovery"; as I even had a letter of recommendation from a pharmacy professor (a specialist in psychiatric medicine) certifying that I have apparently discovered a new & interesting model of schizophrenia. When applying for all relevant job positions all over the world, I soon found out exactly no one was interested. Apparently the HR departments were unprepared for this kind of "innovative" applicants.
It isn't very funny, considering I spend a year! at a university library building a disease model; read ~10,000 Medline abstracts, 100+ full articles, 10+ full books. All that just for the purpose of following all the known clues that might lead to the schizophrenia's root cause. Oh and I started that massive modeling because I knew I was very good in building abstract models; for example patent office had been kind to give me patents. And the situation isn't particularly funny for the schizophrenics and their family members eater. ~10% of schizophrenics will end up killing themselves during their lifetime. Considering the average lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia worldwide being ~0.7%, you could estimate there being 7 billion * 0.007 = 49 million schizophrenics out there and about 5 million of them will commit suicide. If we further assume a post diagnostic average lifespan being 35 years, that gives us a an estimate of 142,000 schizophrenic suicides per year - roughly 400 suicides per day. And I've been sitting for years on information that might significantly change those numbers.
So dear schizophrenics (and your beloved relatives), Yes it really is ironic that the information you need the most in this world may already have been found (who knows maybe even by other researchers) but that critical information may just have be neglected. And don't blame me for that!. I really begged a relevant job or any kind of grant money from all possibly instances - even instances which are supposed to exist just for financing making this kinds of "discoveries" starting from NARSAD and ending to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
The only one who has seen that novel schizophrenia model is that pharmacy professor - who warned me he would give the 20 page handout tough review. Couple of weeks later I called him and asked "am I barking a right tree? In short, his answer was: "YES".
Now pick your country for the next decade, Are you feeling lucky, punk? or maybe you still like the current development e.g. the great firewall of China and some high profile websites starting to use HTTPS.
I think TOR-like backbone to the future Internet is a great idea. Some tweaking, sweat, toil and tears and it will be a great system.
It works. During the WWII there were around 700,000 wood gas powered automobiles in Germany, France, Sweden and Finland. As those were back then able to power buses and trucks, it's plausible to think modern designs also producing 20kW of bio power - as advertised.
Finland's eco-mobilist association has a gallery of hobbyist build wood gas mobiles, some even with designs specs and tips. Chairman on the Finland's currently most popular party, which unfortunately isn't The Pirate Party which among others has pirate bay and privacy activist Peter Sunde as a candidate in the coming EU- parliament election, has build his own wood gas automobile - "El Kamina" which by the way is build on top Chevrolet El Camino, which...
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No, I didn't just wrote that
TFA says "This is the original Nokia modem team, it started work on LTE, a better part of a decade ago. These are some of the guys who created the LTE standard and were involved in the original algorithm work of LTE long before other companies were developing LTE, so we believe we found some really good talent here."
Most of those ex-Nokia, ex-Renesas people are located in city of Oulu in Finland, and a few months ago all of them almost went unemployed because Renesas run out of money; right when this new modem tool was ready for the markets. And miraculously their jobs were saved by the bell... by the Broadcom's offer.
Broadcom now laying off its people is just an aftershock to Nokia's and Renesas' failures to utilize their former talent pools properly. These kind's of event, once again, hi-light the fact that Nokia was once doing all kinds of right gizmos. But unfortunately its leadership has been failing the company for a full decade now. In fact, those who have been leading Nokia during the last decade should never hired for any non-gargoyle jobs. The kind of waste of human creativity and stockholders' property they caused is just sad.
There have been some really bad viruses out there. The worst ones may just have been too malicious to spread effectively; for example by killing hosts too quickly - think Marburg or Ebola.
A DNA a programming toolkit, known virus sequence and a PCR device... easy to predict that this will result lots of bad news.
Maybe UN should publish a short up-to-date list of potentially dangerous scientific pathways never to be taken, articles never to be published and things never to be done or sold. Research that might lead to an easy to use DNA programming toolkits should be right on top of that list.
Besides mad cow disease is already ancient history. What could possibly go wrong?
Uh... were you ACTUALLY asking what could possibly go wrong? Because that's usually sarcastic.
Yes, That was the sarcastic part.
Anyway, I don't understand what mad cow has to do with anything either way.
well try this,... mad cow was caused by a badly formulated protein. a prion. In order to (some) proteins to fold into properly functioning proteins, cells have developed special tools... like "chaperone proteins. So if these "computer designed proteins" are to be used inside human body, 'some' might think that these a risk that scientists 'might' not understand all the important aspects of their creature; their own Frankenstein-protein.
Yes, the sarcastic part was hidden under the layer of science... but this is slashdot and it's ok to do that here.
The potential as doping... well this is left as an exercise to the reader
I don't see this as a breakthrough. Breakthroughs are for sciences with hard walls to break.
I consider this technology opening a door to a paradigm shift in many fields. As you point out, living organisms have few / if any hard limits. However, consider that a human genome has only about 20,000 protein coding genes, so there is a certain (diffuse) limit, what those genes can naturally catalyze or achieve. Yes, there are lots of special action proteins like luciferase that are beneficial to certain specific organisms. But there are also remains a wide range of reactions which don't have a good enough or utilizable / suitable natural biological 'producer'.
For example almost all biological organisms do bad job in breaking poisons like dioxin. As this new technology advances it might be used for catalysing all kinds of specific reactions for which there's no actual need in 'traditional' living organisms.
What a clever idea! Instead of making small quite unnatural medicine molecules, how about making quite natural big medicine proteins that bind to various big and small natural targets.
Yes this may be the end of meaningful doping testing, but also the end of cancers and many auto-immune diseases.
Besides mad cow disease is already ancient history. What could possibly go wrong?
But,...journalists are the new terrorists -right! Also they also put their family to risk by publishing material that the government doesn't approve. And think about their potential children, which they endanger by not obeying the rules. If all the journalists could be regularly waterboarded, maybe they would then reveal the evil secrets they know? Journalists are also often following funerals and weddings, maybe those unmanned drones could double tap some of those know gatherings of terrorist-journalists?
Reporters without borders sure sounds like a global network of these terrorist-journalists - "douple tap" that too!
Apparently Snowden (and other heroes) had decided that any disappearing family members would trigger the tripwire that leads to releasing of insurance files. Since the journalist's spouse had suddenly gone missing (for 9 hours) and the police probably did not allow any phone calls to be made during interrogation,... Showden (and other heroes) then probably concluded they were under some kind of attack or that they were being tested. So Snowden (and other heroes) did what they had to do - what's the point of having an insurance policy that you would not use.
This is a chicken game. If many key wikileaks people would suddenly disappear, then Snowden (or other heroes) would probably release both encrypted insurance files and the encryption key to the smaller (49GB) insurance file. At least I hope that's what they are prepared to do. Then the NSA and GCHQ would probably have stopped the attack, at least for a moment, and considered the nature of payload data in the first insurance file. Based on that payload NSA might then choose to risk the release of the 349 GB file or they might stop their attack... maybe even for good. To prepare for the next attack phase Snowden (and other heroes) might again have split the remaining 349GB file into a 300GB and 49GB file - the small file being there again as a similar first response tool, but also the key to the nuclear option file (349GB) might also be released at any time.
Basically the NSA and GCHQ had to get this message.
This is so stupid, Snowden is obviously an American Patriot, who still isn't really seeking to harm his country... a country that is trying to harm him as much as it can. It is not very common that asylum seekers keep protecting the country that is doing all it can to harm the asylum seeker. Thus, the today's release of encrypted insurance files was probably just an expected reply to the earlier provocation by the NSA and GCHQ.
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It's best we keep moving away from the nuclear industry. In Finland two new nuclear power plants are currently being built. The French state is desperately trying to get rid of its state-controlled nuclear company Areva and it seems plausible that the remains of Areva - company may not even be able finalize building of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant.
Another (Russian) nuclear plant that is under construction is expected to produce more expensive MWh's than most of the competing energy sources. In practice, the some foolish buyers of Fennovoima nuclear power plant's energy have been committing into buying energy at a price of 50€/ MWh, while the other energy sources are clearly cheaper than that. Its quite likely that the Fennovoima's nuclear power plant never be producing any energy at a competitive price.
On the other hand, the price of solar keeps sinking 50% in a decade and it's already enough competitive with the prices of other energy sources. Development of high capacity solar energy storage solutions is much more needed than the new nuclear power plants.
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In other words, this is perfect for sex robot industry
Q: A couple of years ago you made some comments about privacy -- and the lack thereof -- that were widely printed. That was amazingly pre-Patriot Act and pre-9/11. Do you stick by that notion? Should we not be worried about having lost all our privacy?
A: I never said that, did I?
Q: You said, "You already have no privacy."
A: I said, "You have no privacy. Get over it."
While in fact on monday night 25th of january 1999 a group of reporters and analysts recorded Scott McNealy saying "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
Yes and I can now use your message as a lame excuse for posting these hash-strings. Thanks :)
MD5:67605fb300b7cbf964e2de91831eebb8
SHA1:8e3b0e953be18f4d7fdc8e8b33bb8b9e76521106
SHA256:f4494ce3b4267b6d5f9371188a861e95f95835db23f8038d8b40961a3ab5afc2
No, an Armenian "6". Instead of "6" they simply type Զ
MD5:67605fb300b7cbf964e2de91831eebb8 SHA1:8e3b0e953be18f4d7fdc8e8b33bb8b9e76521106 SHA256:f4494ce3b4267b6d5f9371188a861e95f95835db23f8038d8b40961a3ab5afc2
Easy. Tomorrow Assange joins a French Foreign Legion using a ("declared identity") Jacques Clouseau. A day later he gets into a fist fight with a person working for the Ecuadorian embassy. Bloody nosed "Jacques Clouseau" then applies for a French citizenship under a provision Français par le sang versé" ("French by spilled blood").
Next day "Jacques Clouseau" gets his French citizenship granted. One hour after that France announces couple of new diplomatic post opening in London. A day later "Jacques Clouseau" applies for that position and gets selected. France sends a letter to British foreign office informing of a newly selected French diplomat "Jacques Clouseau" who will be shortly arriving to French embassy in London. British Foreign Office welcomes the new French diplomat to England.
A French diplomat "Jacques Clouseau" then steps out of a Ecuadorian embassy.
Very much so. DRM for audio-visual content can and will always be circumvented - as long as humans need to be shown the content in decrypted form. Once a media file is shown in decrypted format, someone will record and convert it into non-DRM format.
If someone manages to create a really paradigm shifting and exiting media format "scent enhanced oculus-3D-hologram vibrating world with transparent multi-layering technology", then there may be temporary chance for effective DMRs - but even then only until alternative (open source) DRM-free formats are created.
Yes, I actually thought this would be the greatest weight loss game kind of system ever - "gain weight lose your Internet connection"
But no, the target customers thought removing the Internet connection or television was not a funny game at all.
instead it would be so "terrible",... and customers would happen to be forced to "disable", "remove", "destroy" etc. the thing..., because they don't need a baby sitter... because they are so damn good in losing weight. Maybe, China is arranging some kind of holiday camps to its food addicts too?
Another study suggest finns are mostly related to... finns
The magnetic north pole had moved little from the time scientists first located it in 1831. Then in 1904, the pole began shifting northeastward at a steady pace of about 9 miles (15 kilometers) a year.
In 1989 it sped up again, and in 2007 scientists confirmed that the pole is now galloping toward Siberia at 34 to 37 miles (55 to 60 kilometers) a year.
In November IETH already almost promised that. Now we are holding our breath. Please hurry. Thank you.
mobile.slashdot.org still feels "classic", try it.
And yes, I hate that Beta-thing too. (Dear Slashdot, bury it soon.)
Hyppönen is a Finn and Finns write natively all nationalities and languages in lower-case letters. Have some tolerance for us Foreigners occasionally making some typo or two... you uninformed and insensitive clod!
I would go as far as calling US a one party system; the party being "a rich peoples party". In order to make it look less like so, they have simply divided the party into two halves! Both party-half having half of the representatives in senate and half of the representatives in congress. And each party-half ruling the White House after the other party-half has had its turn.
From wikipedia's Chlorpromazine article...
The effect of this drug [Chlorpromazine] in emptying psychiatric hospitals has been compared to that of penicillin and infectious diseases. But the popularity of the drug fell from the late 1960s as newer drugs came on the scene. From chlorpromazine a number of other similar antipsychotics were developed. It also led to the discovery of antidepressants.
Chlorpromazine largely replaced electroconvulsive therapy, psychosurgery, and insulin shock therapy. By 1964, about 50 million people worldwide had taken it. In 1955 there were 558,922 resident patients in American state and county psychiatric hospitals. By 1970, the number dropped to 337,619; by 1980 to 150,000, and by 1990 between 110,000 and 120,000 patients.
Anyone with a personal stake or interest in schizophrenia, should think about those numbers very carefully. A comforting thought for anyone impacted with schizophrenia is that it is mostly of biological origin and there will be improved and better targeting medicine available. A horrible horrible thing is that I may have discovered a very good target protein for designing a medicine which would fix the schizophrenia's key illness mechanism. As a newly graduated biochemist I thought pharmaceutical companies or university PhD programs would be interested about this "discovery"; as I even had a letter of recommendation from a pharmacy professor (a specialist in psychiatric medicine) certifying that I have apparently discovered a new & interesting model of schizophrenia. When applying for all relevant job positions all over the world, I soon found out exactly no one was interested. Apparently the HR departments were unprepared for this kind of "innovative" applicants.
It isn't very funny, considering I spend a year! at a university library building a disease model; read ~10,000 Medline abstracts, 100+ full articles, 10+ full books. All that just for the purpose of following all the known clues that might lead to the schizophrenia's root cause. Oh and I started that massive modeling because I knew I was very good in building abstract models; for example patent office had been kind to give me patents. And the situation isn't particularly funny for the schizophrenics and their family members eater. ~10% of schizophrenics will end up killing themselves during their lifetime. Considering the average lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia worldwide being ~0.7%, you could estimate there being 7 billion * 0.007 = 49 million schizophrenics out there and about 5 million of them will commit suicide. If we further assume a post diagnostic average lifespan being 35 years, that gives us a an estimate of 142,000 schizophrenic suicides per year - roughly 400 suicides per day. And I've been sitting for years on information that might significantly change those numbers.
So dear schizophrenics (and your beloved relatives), Yes it really is ironic that the information you need the most in this world may already have been found (who knows maybe even by other researchers) but that critical information may just have be neglected. And don't blame me for that!. I really begged a relevant job or any kind of grant money from all possibly instances - even instances which are supposed to exist just for financing making this kinds of "discoveries" starting from NARSAD and ending to the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry.
The only one who has seen that novel schizophrenia model is that pharmacy professor - who warned me he would give the 20 page handout tough review. Couple of weeks later I called him and asked "am I barking a right tree? In short, his answer was: "YES".
That said, schizophrenics sho
Thank's fot the FUDBAR. Now tell us what is safe and what will better promote peoples privacy, democracy and the development of human rights.
> Just to remind you Mr. Anonymous Coward a hundred of million persons were killed by their own governments during the last century. What makes you think govermnents 20 years from now will not execute jews, communists, homosexuals, retards or gypsies like they did in Germany(in 1930-40's), or they will not execute people living in cities or wearing glasses, Buddhist monks, Muslims, Christians, Western-educated intellectuals or educated people in general or people who had had contact with Western countries or with Vietnam, or with any previous government, or disabled people, or the ethnic Chinese, Laotians or Vietnamese like they did in Cambodia (in 1970's), or they will not execute capitalists like they did in Soviet Union(in 1920's), or will not execute muslims like they did in Bosnia-Herzegovina (in 1990's), or will not execute Tutsies like they did in Rwanda(in 1990's), or they will not execute the well educated class like they did in China (in 1960's), or they will not randomly kill people of other religious groups like they did in Iraq (in 2000's) or they will not bomb to pieces urban areas which do appear to be supportive to a currently reigning dictator like is happening in Syria (in 2013).
Now pick your country for the next decade, Are you feeling lucky, punk? or maybe you still like the current development e.g. the great firewall of China and some high profile websites starting to use HTTPS.
I think TOR-like backbone to the future Internet is a great idea. Some tweaking, sweat, toil and tears and it will be a great system.
It works. During the WWII there were around 700,000 wood gas powered automobiles in Germany, France, Sweden and Finland. As those were back then able to power buses and trucks, it's plausible to think modern designs also producing 20kW of bio power - as advertised.
Finland's eco-mobilist association has a gallery of hobbyist build wood gas mobiles, some even with designs specs and tips. Chairman on the Finland's currently most popular party, which unfortunately isn't The Pirate Party which among others has pirate bay and privacy activist Peter Sunde as a candidate in the coming EU- parliament election, has build his own wood gas automobile - " El Kamina" which by the way is build on top Chevrolet El Camino, which...
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No, I didn't just wrote that
some websites also provide lists of seat distances. An Informed customer may then calculate the value of those available extra inches.
TFA says "This is the original Nokia modem team, it started work on LTE, a better part of a decade ago. These are some of the guys who created the LTE standard and were involved in the original algorithm work of LTE long before other companies were developing LTE, so we believe we found some really good talent here."
Most of those ex-Nokia, ex-Renesas people are located in city of Oulu in Finland, and a few months ago all of them almost went unemployed because Renesas run out of money; right when this new modem tool was ready for the markets. And miraculously their jobs were saved by the bell... by the Broadcom's offer.
Broadcom now laying off its people is just an aftershock to Nokia's and Renesas' failures to utilize their former talent pools properly. These kind's of event, once again, hi-light the fact that Nokia was once doing all kinds of right gizmos. But unfortunately its leadership has been failing the company for a full decade now. In fact, those who have been leading Nokia during the last decade should never hired for any non-gargoyle jobs. The kind of waste of human creativity and stockholders' property they caused is just sad.
There have been some really bad viruses out there. The worst ones may just have been too malicious to spread effectively; for example by killing hosts too quickly - think Marburg or Ebola.
A DNA a programming toolkit, known virus sequence and a PCR device... easy to predict that this will result lots of bad news.
Maybe UN should publish a short up-to-date list of potentially dangerous scientific pathways never to be taken, articles never to be published and things never to be done or sold. Research that might lead to an easy to use DNA programming toolkits should be right on top of that list.
Besides mad cow disease is already ancient history. What could possibly go wrong?
Uh... were you ACTUALLY asking what could possibly go wrong? Because that's usually sarcastic.
Yes, That was the sarcastic part.
Anyway, I don't understand what mad cow has to do with anything either way.
well try this, ... mad cow was caused by a badly formulated protein. a prion. In order to (some) proteins to fold into properly functioning proteins, cells have developed special tools... like "chaperone proteins. So if these "computer designed proteins" are to be used inside human body, 'some' might think that these a risk that scientists 'might' not understand all the important aspects of their creature; their own Frankenstein-protein.
... well this is left as an exercise to the reader
Yes, the sarcastic part was hidden under the layer of science... but this is slashdot and it's ok to do that here.
The potential as doping
I don't see this as a breakthrough. Breakthroughs are for sciences with hard walls to break.
I consider this technology opening a door to a paradigm shift in many fields. As you point out, living organisms have few / if any hard limits. However, consider that a human genome has only about 20,000 protein coding genes, so there is a certain (diffuse) limit, what those genes can naturally catalyze or achieve. Yes, there are lots of special action proteins like luciferase that are beneficial to certain specific organisms. But there are also remains a wide range of reactions which don't have a good enough or utilizable / suitable natural biological 'producer'.
For example almost all biological organisms do bad job in breaking poisons like dioxin. As this new technology advances it might be used for catalysing all kinds of specific reactions for which there's no actual need in 'traditional' living organisms.
What a clever idea! Instead of making small quite unnatural medicine molecules, how about making quite natural big medicine proteins that bind to various big and small natural targets.
Yes this may be the end of meaningful doping testing, but also the end of cancers and many auto-immune diseases.
Besides mad cow disease is already ancient history. What could possibly go wrong?
But,...journalists are the new terrorists -right! Also they also put their family to risk by publishing material that the government doesn't approve. And think about their potential children, which they endanger by not obeying the rules. If all the journalists could be regularly waterboarded, maybe they would then reveal the evil secrets they know? Journalists are also often following funerals and weddings, maybe those unmanned drones could double tap some of those know gatherings of terrorist-journalists?
Reporters without borders sure sounds like a global network of these terrorist-journalists - "douple tap" that too!
Apparently Snowden (and other heroes) had decided that any disappearing family members would trigger the tripwire that leads to releasing of insurance files. Since the journalist's spouse had suddenly gone missing (for 9 hours) and the police probably did not allow any phone calls to be made during interrogation,... Showden (and other heroes) then probably concluded they were under some kind of attack or that they were being tested. So Snowden (and other heroes) did what they had to do - what's the point of having an insurance policy that you would not use.
This is a chicken game. If many key wikileaks people would suddenly disappear, then Snowden (or other heroes) would probably release both encrypted insurance files and the encryption key to the smaller (49GB) insurance file. At least I hope that's what they are prepared to do. Then the NSA and GCHQ would probably have stopped the attack, at least for a moment, and considered the nature of payload data in the first insurance file. Based on that payload NSA might then choose to risk the release of the 349 GB file or they might stop their attack... maybe even for good. To prepare for the next attack phase Snowden (and other heroes) might again have split the remaining 349GB file into a 300GB and 49GB file - the small file being there again as a similar first response tool, but also the key to the nuclear option file (349GB) might also be released at any time.
Basically the NSA and GCHQ had to get this message.
This is so stupid, Snowden is obviously an American Patriot, who still isn't really seeking to harm his country... a country that is trying to harm him as much as it can. It is not very common that asylum seekers keep protecting the country that is doing all it can to harm the asylum seeker. Thus, the today's release of encrypted insurance files was probably just an expected reply to the earlier provocation by the NSA and GCHQ.