Thanks to the young people of Europe for reminding us that we have to fight for democracy over and over again. The thieves will always try to take it back unless we stand up to them, and the politicians will often be looking the other way.
Many thousands of people took to the streets of Berlin to march against ACTA Saturday. I was in town for a different purpose, and the march passed my location. People walked at a modest pace, filling the whole width of a two-lane street, marching and chanting, and there were so many people it took 15 minutes for the whole group to pass. The march was accompanied by a van with a sound-system, playing suitably energising sounds, and the event was followed the next day by a carnval of resistance. This was all despite temperatures well below zero. The event received subsequent television coverage on news and science shows. The government is 'thinking again' about ACTA.
The east europeans are showing how it is done. ACTA can be beaten by determined resistance.
The other angle I have heard on biomarkers for cancers is not to look for individual ones, but to look at hundreds or thousands at once, and relate 'biomarker configurations' with disease. Genome sequencing will help this approach a lot too.
I'm not sure what country you are in but this is not necessarily the case in the UK. Here, the government is closing down the police science service, and outsourcing everything to the private sector. Be careful what you wish for.
Clever assembly can only bridge repeats shorter than the fragment lengths. Coverage is not enough, you need fragments longer than the longest repeat unit, however long the reads are. MiSeq are quoting paired end reads in the 250bp per end class now, so as long as you can get them to sequence both ends of a long enough fragment then, yes, coverage can solve it, but I think the bottleneck might be in getting the fragments long enough while still being able to pair the ends.
So I see that you are advocating that various governmental and commercial agencies should deliberately interfere with the software running on many people's private computers, without their knowledge, and with no recourse for any damage caused. No thanks.
Translate your invitation into ASCII, then transcode it into base 4. Interpret the base4 as DNA bases, and have the message synthesised into a DNA oligo. Splice the oligo into the flu virus, inhale, and sneeze your invitation on your future parents in law. Track the spread of your invitation through your family, friends, and the population at large.
Does trusted partners include every internet link and server between them and their trusted partners? The main problem seems to be that they are sharing people's private information in an insecure, unencrypted format (plain text), using an insecure, unencrypted mechanism (http headers) with the internet at large. Isn't this a dereliction of their duty to protect the privacy of their customers' information?
In the linked article the Sophos 'expert' Grham Cluley said the problem had been known for around two years. On the BBC news site, however, an O2 spokesperson was reported as saying that the fault had only been happening since 10th January (i.e. the Twitter user who caught them red-handed was lucky to have spotted the problem as soon as it happened).
If supply of coders is too low, COMPANIES IMPORT MORE CODERS, price of coders goes DOWN, LESS people learn coding.
Fixed that for you. This is how the real market operates. Are you sure it's what you want?
To say nothing of the carbon captured by the seaweed as it grows, and sequestered on the seabed. This sounds like a recipe for making climate change worse faster.
I see that MegaUpload's PayPal account had around $110,000,000 flow through it. Will PayPal be prosecuted under proceeds of crime legislation, or are they allowed to earn money from criminal activity with impunity?
Poster is correct. Taking a DNA sample of an existing bacode, determining the sequence, and generating new DNA is trivially easy and cheap. There is an even quicker and cheaper way though - take a sample of the DNA in the barcode, and amplify it to make more. DNA has this remarkable ability to self-replicate. All you need to do is put the sample of the barcode in a PCR machine (pro hint - many labs are junking their 'old' PCR machines as new better one come out, so you can do this for next to nothing in your basement if you spend a little on reagents). The PCR machine cycles the temperature of the sample, causing the DNA sample to replicate exponentially - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 copies - doubling every cycle approximately. In no time at all you have more copies than you can shake a stick at. It's almost as easy as copying bits.
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Iceland is another option with a civilised legal framework around data.
Why is the e-crime unit investigating file sharers when file sharing is not a criminal matter?
and organised!
Thanks to the young people of Europe for reminding us that we have to fight for democracy over and over again. The thieves will always try to take it back unless we stand up to them, and the politicians will often be looking the other way.
The east europeans are showing how it is done. ACTA can be beaten by determined resistance.
'We' wouldn't want to shield those at the top, but 'They' would.
No, but script kiddies have exposed the game and made some very rich people look silly, careless and incompetent.
The other angle I have heard on biomarkers for cancers is not to look for individual ones, but to look at hundreds or thousands at once, and relate 'biomarker configurations' with disease. Genome sequencing will help this approach a lot too.
I'm not sure what country you are in but this is not necessarily the case in the UK. Here, the government is closing down the police science service, and outsourcing everything to the private sector. Be careful what you wish for.
Clever assembly can only bridge repeats shorter than the fragment lengths. Coverage is not enough, you need fragments longer than the longest repeat unit, however long the reads are. MiSeq are quoting paired end reads in the 250bp per end class now, so as long as you can get them to sequence both ends of a long enough fragment then, yes, coverage can solve it, but I think the bottleneck might be in getting the fragments long enough while still being able to pair the ends.
So I see that you are advocating that various governmental and commercial agencies should deliberately interfere with the software running on many people's private computers, without their knowledge, and with no recourse for any damage caused. No thanks.
Kinda the opposite of the old days then
Open the case and you void the warranty.
The machines already solved this problem in the fictional world.
I see China is part of the TPPA group. I can't see them going along with that.
I thought the content 'owners' were in the business of suing search engines for linking to their content?
Translate your invitation into ASCII, then transcode it into base 4. Interpret the base4 as DNA bases, and have the message synthesised into a DNA oligo. Splice the oligo into the flu virus, inhale, and sneeze your invitation on your future parents in law. Track the spread of your invitation through your family, friends, and the population at large.
Does trusted partners include every internet link and server between them and their trusted partners? The main problem seems to be that they are sharing people's private information in an insecure, unencrypted format (plain text), using an insecure, unencrypted mechanism (http headers) with the internet at large. Isn't this a dereliction of their duty to protect the privacy of their customers' information?
Not really. They are still sharing people's phone numbers with anyone they decide they want to.
I wonder where the truth lies?
If supply of coders is too low, COMPANIES IMPORT MORE CODERS, price of coders goes DOWN, LESS people learn coding. Fixed that for you. This is how the real market operates. Are you sure it's what you want?
To say nothing of the carbon captured by the seaweed as it grows, and sequestered on the seabed. This sounds like a recipe for making climate change worse faster.
I see that MegaUpload's PayPal account had around $110,000,000 flow through it. Will PayPal be prosecuted under proceeds of crime legislation, or are they allowed to earn money from criminal activity with impunity?
Poster is correct. Taking a DNA sample of an existing bacode, determining the sequence, and generating new DNA is trivially easy and cheap. There is an even quicker and cheaper way though - take a sample of the DNA in the barcode, and amplify it to make more. DNA has this remarkable ability to self-replicate. All you need to do is put the sample of the barcode in a PCR machine (pro hint - many labs are junking their 'old' PCR machines as new better one come out, so you can do this for next to nothing in your basement if you spend a little on reagents). The PCR machine cycles the temperature of the sample, causing the DNA sample to replicate exponentially - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 copies - doubling every cycle approximately. In no time at all you have more copies than you can shake a stick at. It's almost as easy as copying bits.
An even better question would be who has the dirt on which politicians to coerce them into doing this. Sticks work better than carrots.