DNA should not be patentable. It would be morally wrong, since the discovery of a gene is exactly that: nothing new and unique has been created, it's just finding something that was there already.
Patents should protect new ideas, not entities that are already present in nature and are waiting to be found.
However, when you can put a piece of DNA to use in any way, the methodology your technique follows should be patentable. A new method for application of a certain DNA sequence is something that can be new and innovative.
When the allied forces were bombing Dresden at the end of WW2, we (the Dutch) were also cheering and dancing in the street while a lot of German citizen were killed. Your point only proves that the winner is always right.
And then your language: "Israel could gas the whole lote of them". Just like they were kiled themselves in WW2 by the Germans right?
If you really feel the urge to state your opinion, do it in such a way that your discussion partner can have a normal conversation with you without bursting into flamewars. And use your account, AC. Or, if you're afraid to burn karma (...), place a link to your account at the bottom of your AC post.
I feel like getting angry, but I know it's not worth it... And BTW this is severely off-topic. Visit the guys web page and send an inflammatory email if you want to voice your opinion.
minix was not written by a finnish prof, but by a dutch professor (which doesn't pride me that much, being dutch:-| )
actually, linus only used minix to get his own "unix" developed far enough so that it could function independently of minix. linus and the writer of minix (tanenbaum, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/) were in quite a dispute over os-design (microkernel vs monolithic) in the minix-mailing list in the early days.
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, and show some respect for this black lady who's cells have made a lot of research possible, you ignorant... clueless... individual. (trying to be somewhat polite for a change;-)
The penicillin the previous poster talked about is to avoid contamination of your cell-culture with bacteria. But, in our lab, we generaly don't use it. If you handle materials correctly, you won't get infection (and hence, won't need penicillin/streptomycin/whatever).
Anyway, we're discussing cancerous cells now, a normal, dormant tissue that started to show abnormal growth. The cells discussed in the article are stem-cells, they are supposed to have the ability to divide indefinetely, since they provide the basic supply for new cells that eventualy will differentiate to their normal function.
What country do you live in that doesn't allow ADULT stem-cell research?
Which is rather strange, don't you agree? Essentially, these researchers have shown that there are "adult" stem-cells that behave identical to embryonic stem-cells. If the lawmakers would think logically, they'd apply the same regulations to research with "adult" stem-cells.
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although you're essentially saying the same as i was saying a few posts earlier, i must say i'm disappointed by the tone of your response. no wonder you don't hear any difference, you are screaming all the time.
i do learn interesting words here (as a non-native english speaker).
"fuckwit" hmmm, interesting...
"anally repressed dick" WTF is that supposed to mean !?!
AC is an appropriate word for guys like you though. post under your account and burn your karma if you dare.
Of course it's not the same, do the maths. Loss information must mean loss of sound quality (no codec is perfect). But the sound is very similar. To your ears, it's a massive difference (especially with the equipment you talk about). Maybe you'd score high in a double blind listening test, but believe me, to most people CD and MP3 sound the same at this bitrate (256k) with a modern encoder.
But then again, *ogg, *mp3, etc are not meant for users like you. For Joe average, who likes to listen to his walkman, these compressed file formats are a blessing. And, more importantly, a PC & Diamond Rio are affordable for Joe (Jane) Average, and B&W Nautilus speakers are not.
Export restrictions will not work to secure the US of A from terrorists.
I don't want to sound like I'm against the USA or anything, it's just that a lot of effort has been put into security measures (wich is perfectly understandable), but hardly any debate about the root cause of the fact that people are crazy enough to kill themselves and many others with them just because in their perception America is evil. (phew too long a sentence, I know)
Tightening security is just another step in an evolutionary arms race, and eventually the opponent (the terrorist if you wish), will find a way around it. Anyway, do you think terrorists give a damn about restictions based on US law? I wish I could be more optimistic, but I don't think so.
yeah I know how it feels... until recently when I upgraded from p166@200 to a duron900:-)
I compile everything from sources nowadays, it really makes a big difference for the graphical stuff (XFree, Gnome , KDE, etc).
You're right about the sites where there's plenty of identical machines (just clone it!), but there's also good use for your average user nowadays. Most people have sufficiently capable hardware to compile their own linux. And if you don't: just type in "make everything-as-i-want-it install" and go outside! get some fresh air, it's good for you;-)
did you notice the whole thread got modded off-topic? i gree when moderators do that, but this seems to be a case of "divine intervention" by taco and his friends
let's see how fast my karma score wil decrease after posting this
am i paranoid? look at this journal entry, it seems these things are happening more lately... slashdot karma police, very worrying...
hehe E18, as if that will happen in the forseeable future. E17 is still very much in the works, and still lacks a lot of features. it will be nice though.
maybe other goods aren't so different from software. of course the well-known "if your new car behaved like windows" parallel is sort-of correct, but it's a gliding scale. there's also things wrong with new cars very often, it's just that failures get noticed better, and usually have more severe consequences. therefore car manufacturers get more (negative) attention when they're messing things up.
let's see whether the consumer is going to be less forgiving when they find out that M$ software is buggy & insecure - time after time after time after...
What would be the purpose of attacking machines with machines when the owners of the machines try to fight each other? What would happen if one party won? Would the machines go back home and get repaired? Sounds rather useless, to me at least.
But let's be positive: It's not as useless as warfare nowadays. If this scenarion turns out to be true we would be killing money (read:machines) instead of humans, avoiding direct casualties on either side of the conflict. Less people get killed, which is nice.
However, the resources of both parties are still being depleted, probably indirectly leading to casualties (think famine-stricken populations, collapsed economies, etc).
I'm not a complete pacifist, but I do think war is mostly useless, no matter how the conflict is resolved (man-man machine-man machine-machine).
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DNA should not be patentable. It would be morally wrong, since the discovery of a gene is exactly that: nothing new and unique has been created, it's just finding something that was there already.
Patents should protect new ideas, not entities that are already present in nature and are waiting to be found.
However, when you can put a piece of DNA to use in any way, the methodology your technique follows should be patentable. A new method for application of a certain DNA sequence is something that can be new and innovative.
They don't even need to sample it:
d s/ english.au
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySoun
But anyway, this is a complete waste of time. My god, can't people find something more usefull to do with their lives...
LOL ;-)
you shameless whore!
When the allied forces were bombing Dresden at the end of WW2, we (the Dutch) were also cheering and dancing in the street while a lot of German citizen were killed. Your point only proves that the winner is always right.
And then your language: "Israel could gas the whole lote of them". Just like they were kiled themselves in WW2 by the Germans right?
If you really feel the urge to state your opinion, do it in such a way that your discussion partner can have a normal conversation with you without bursting into flamewars. And use your account, AC. Or, if you're afraid to burn karma (...), place a link to your account at the bottom of your AC post.
I feel like getting angry, but I know it's not worth it... And BTW this is severely off-topic. Visit the guys web page and send an inflammatory email if you want to voice your opinion.
it was a joke (not so funny, though). try to laugh.
indeed undeducated. get yer facts straight please
:-| )
minix was not written by a finnish prof, but by a dutch professor (which doesn't pride me that much, being dutch
actually, linus only used minix to get his own "unix" developed far enough so that it could function independently of minix. linus and the writer of minix (tanenbaum, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/) were in quite a dispute over os-design (microkernel vs monolithic) in the minix-mailing list in the early days.
read all about it in linus' book (just for fun)
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, and show some respect for this black lady who's cells have made a lot of research possible, you ignorant... clueless... individual. (trying to be somewhat polite for a change ;-)
The penicillin the previous poster talked about is to avoid contamination of your cell-culture with bacteria. But, in our lab, we generaly don't use it. If you handle materials correctly, you won't get infection (and hence, won't need penicillin/streptomycin/whatever).
Anyway, we're discussing cancerous cells now, a normal, dormant tissue that started to show abnormal growth. The cells discussed in the article are stem-cells, they are supposed to have the ability to divide indefinetely, since they provide the basic supply for new cells that eventualy will differentiate to their normal function.
Which is rather strange, don't you agree? Essentially, these researchers have shown that there are "adult" stem-cells that behave identical to embryonic stem-cells. If the lawmakers would think logically, they'd apply the same regulations to research with "adult" stem-cells.
Which is changing rapidly with the increasing amount of funding universities get from big pharmaceutical companies :-(
Academic independence is very swiftly disappearing... believe it or not.
Thanks for the information. I'll just send the email and see what happens.
I'm not from the USA. Would it make a difference if I send them a comment, or would they discard it because I'm not a US citizen?
Lawyers?
some examples:
http://www.bastille-linux.org/
http://freshmeat.net/projects/asl/
etc, etc
although you're essentially saying the same as i was saying a few posts earlier, i must say i'm disappointed by the tone of your response. no wonder you don't hear any difference, you are screaming all the time.
i do learn interesting words here (as a non-native english speaker).
"fuckwit" hmmm, interesting...
"anally repressed dick" WTF is that supposed to mean !?!
AC is an appropriate word for guys like you though. post under your account and burn your karma if you dare.
Of course it's not the same, do the maths. Loss information must mean loss of sound quality (no codec is perfect). But the sound is very similar. To your ears, it's a massive difference (especially with the equipment you talk about). Maybe you'd score high in a double blind listening test, but believe me, to most people CD and MP3 sound the same at this bitrate (256k) with a modern encoder.
But then again, *ogg, *mp3, etc are not meant for users like you. For Joe average, who likes to listen to his walkman, these compressed file formats are a blessing. And, more importantly, a PC & Diamond Rio are affordable for Joe (Jane) Average, and B&W Nautilus speakers are not.
Export restrictions will not work to secure the US of A from terrorists.
I don't want to sound like I'm against the USA or anything, it's just that a lot of effort has been put into security measures (wich is perfectly understandable), but hardly any debate about the root cause of the fact that people are crazy enough to kill themselves and many others with them just because in their perception America is evil. (phew too long a sentence, I know)
Tightening security is just another step in an evolutionary arms race, and eventually the opponent (the terrorist if you wish), will find a way around it. Anyway, do you think terrorists give a damn about restictions based on US law? I wish I could be more optimistic, but I don't think so.
I wondered also, but i noticed that the AC just before me had posted a link to a story about Gentoo on newsforge.
[paranoid mode]
But the AC post was modded down as well. Something smells funny here, and it isn't my underwear...
[/paranoid mode]
yeah I know how it feels... until recently when I upgraded from p166@200 to a duron900 :-)
;-)
I compile everything from sources nowadays, it really makes a big difference for the graphical stuff (XFree, Gnome , KDE, etc).
You're right about the sites where there's plenty of identical machines (just clone it!), but there's also good use for your average user nowadays. Most people have sufficiently capable hardware to compile their own linux. And if you don't: just type in "make everything-as-i-want-it install" and go outside! get some fresh air, it's good for you
if you find the idea of a linux-dstro optimized for your machine appealing, you should check out Gentoo Linux.
did you notice the whole thread got modded off-topic? i gree when moderators do that, but this seems to be a case of "divine intervention" by taco and his friends
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let's see how fast my karma score wil decrease after posting this
am i paranoid? look at this journal entry, it seems these things are happening more lately... slashdot karma police, very worrying...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26315&cid=2
hehe E18, as if that will happen in the forseeable future. E17 is still very much in the works, and still lacks a lot of features. it will be nice though.
:-P
mod me & parent down: off topic
well, i don't know...
maybe other goods aren't so different from software. of course the well-known "if your new car behaved like windows" parallel is sort-of correct, but it's a gliding scale. there's also things wrong with new cars very often, it's just that failures get noticed better, and usually have more severe consequences. therefore car manufacturers get more (negative) attention when they're messing things up.
let's see whether the consumer is going to be less forgiving when they find out that M$ software is buggy & insecure - time after time after time after...
excuse my horrible english, since i'm in a hurry
pentium II 100 yeah right...
maybe you would like gentoo linux ?
What would be the purpose of attacking machines with machines when the owners of the machines try to fight each other? What would happen if one party won? Would the machines go back home and get repaired? Sounds rather useless, to me at least.
But let's be positive: It's not as useless as warfare nowadays. If this scenarion turns out to be true we would be killing money (read:machines) instead of humans, avoiding direct casualties on either side of the conflict. Less people get killed, which is nice.
However, the resources of both parties are still being depleted, probably indirectly leading to casualties (think famine-stricken populations, collapsed economies, etc).
I'm not a complete pacifist, but I do think war is mostly useless, no matter how the conflict is resolved (man-man machine-man machine-machine).