The bit they are triggering is responsible for changing the color of fluorescence. From TFA:
They used RAD to modify a particular section of DNA within microbes that determines how the one-celled organisms will fluoresce under ultraviolet light. The microbes glow red or green depending upon the orientation of the section of DNA.
Bonnet has now tested RAD modules in single microbes that have doubled more than 100 times and the switch has held. He has likewise switched the latch and watched a cell double 90 times, and set it back. The latch will even store information when the enzymes are not present. In short, RAD works. It is reliable and it is rewritable.
When the microbes double, the bit is copied. Just wait until the RIAA finds out!
The odds are 10,000 to 1 against this unexpected link between cosmic rays and the variable state of the biosphere being just a coincidence, and it offers a new perspective on the connection between the evolution of the Milky Way and the entire history of life over the last 4 billion years,’ Dr Svensmark comments.
So I Googled it and found this article containing a refutation and further examples of over-reaching.
I leave it to/. to comment on the accuracy of these links.
I'm so glad someone mentioned the OED. For an understanding of the history of English dictionaries read about Samuel Johnson and his "A Dictionary of the English Language". He began/entrenched the process of basing word definitions upon usage patterns.
Personally, I'd be tempted to find out everything I could about who hacked into my system and how they did it.
Would that be wise? I'm not sure. My guess is that you couldn't do such investigative work after calling the police, that it might help if you did it before calling the police, and that if you were in the middle of doing it and the police came knocking, you'd be in even more trouble.
I couldn't just delete it and not try to help - I'd feel guilty the rest of my life and wonder if I could have made a difference for some child. I'd have to call the police.
Normally/. is up in arms over any attempt to censor developers. Now somebody is saying "we won't censor developers, but we will make it easy for users to self-select" and they're getting trashed for it.
Just to clarify, what would constitute "non-violent protest" to you, yet not constitute "harassment"?
When I think of nonviolent protest, I think first of convincing the broad public and getting the weight of public opinion on your side. Second, I think about refusing to do something which the law requires you to do, but which you believe is immoral. Third, I think about directly disobeying laws which restrict you from doing something which you believe is your moral right. I think about Gandhi making salt or the freedom riders as an example of the latter and conscientious objectors or tax protestors as an example of the former.
I think that collecting video could help the group convince the broad public and could be a tool in non-violent protest, but it is not clear to me from their video that their target is changing the law. Instead, their target seems to be "those people" at Broxton.
Context: Personally, I fully support regulated hunting for food, don't like hunting for trophy, and don't like the use of raised birds in a pigeon shoot (which seems to be the practice under scrutiny here).
After watching the video, I think there are two main issues - one (dealt with at length here) is about whether or not it was right and/or legal to shoot down the drone. The second one is whether or not it is right and/or legal for Hindi's group to be harassing the Broxton Bridge Plantation. His tone throughout and his words at the end of the video are clearly harassment - "we have a lot of plans for those people, that much I can guarantee."
If the shoot is legal, then the harassment should be illegal and the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the law through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video).
If the shoot is illegal, then law enforcement should handle it. If they do not, the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the actions of law enforcement officials through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video). The harassment should still be illegal.
I think this group has confused non violent protest against immoral laws with harassment of groups doing things you don't like.
Yes, it it "free trade". "Free", doesn't means free for everyone, or equal for everyone. "Free trade" just means "no rules trade" or "self-regulating trade".
Oh boy, are you ever wrong. At the time of the free trade talks, I obtained a copy of the agreement. It is a fairly hefty book.
"Free Trade" is a marketing slogan to sell a trade agreement to liberty loving people. In reality, it is a set of rules that groups try to influence to their advantage.
Your post only points out how effective that marketing has been.
or you could choose an "mp3 player" over a phone just because you'd rather not jump on a bandwagon filled with people playing "angry birds".
(If you actually like music, you might even choose a flac player)
I've got it! Instead of paying a large number of people to censor the internet, just let people create links to the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff - soon the whole world will be acting as your censors and only the good stuff will be easy to find!
Now to let Minister Sibal know that I will implement this system for only 1.5 million USD.
A nation... and that was the eventual goal of the whole EU dream... has to have something in common other than the currency. You were never going to erase the French from a Frenchman in an effort to make him some generic "European".
A friend of mine (a mathematics professor in Bremen, Germany) once told me to remember that although there have been many different motivations behind the EU, the common thread was always to forge ties that would prevent another world war. Some believed the ties had to be military, others political, economic, or currency based, but the common origin was to institutionally and structurally need each other and work with each other in a way that would make it difficult to even imagine another European war, or another world war in which there is a waring Europe.
This is a very different goal from "erasing the French from a Frenchman to make a generic European", and I hope the historical perspective is not lost in the current discourse.
oooo I resent that. If I hadn't stopped using slashdot for years and could still remember my original creds, I'd say something biting about people with UIDs over 900000. Because 900000 is obviously the right number for criticism.
Sorry for replying to my own comment... I should have put some context into that previous comment. I was responding to the implication that friedmud was hoping for a generalization to sphere packing in cylinders with a less restrictive constraint on the ratio of the diameters. I gave my naive guess as to how that generalization might be found.
(I felt compelled to clarify despite that this comment is buried so low no-one will ever see it:) )
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please mod up Jah-Wren Ryel's post and mod down the AC's post on Trabe and Lyme. What good is a mod system if it can't promote truth over myth?
I ask because I'm interested and I'd like to know if your comment is an informed observation or merely an opinion.
true, now we just need a way to order the microbes
They used RAD to modify a particular section of DNA within microbes that determines how the one-celled organisms will fluoresce under ultraviolet light. The microbes glow red or green depending upon the orientation of the section of DNA.
So far they can only write one bit eight times.
Bonnet has now tested RAD modules in single microbes that have doubled more than 100 times and the switch has held. He has likewise switched the latch and watched a cell double 90 times, and set it back. The latch will even store information when the enzymes are not present. In short, RAD works. It is reliable and it is rewritable.
When the microbes double, the bit is copied. Just wait until the RIAA finds out!
Can we shutdown the defense mechanism, clear out the prions, and turn back on the defense mechanism before the brain cells die?
The odds are 10,000 to 1 against this unexpected link between cosmic rays and the variable state of the biosphere being just a coincidence, and it offers a new perspective on the connection between the evolution of the Milky Way and the entire history of life over the last 4 billion years,’ Dr Svensmark comments.
So I Googled it and found this article containing a refutation and further examples of over-reaching. I leave it to /. to comment on the accuracy of these links.
I'm so glad someone mentioned the OED. For an understanding of the history of English dictionaries read about Samuel Johnson and his "A Dictionary of the English Language". He began/entrenched the process of basing word definitions upon usage patterns.
(re-posting because I accidentally posted as AC)
Personally, I'd be tempted to find out everything I could about who hacked into my system and how they did it.
Would that be wise? I'm not sure. My guess is that you couldn't do such investigative work after calling the police, that it might help if you did it before calling the police, and that if you were in the middle of doing it and the police came knocking, you'd be in even more trouble.
I couldn't just delete it and not try to help - I'd feel guilty the rest of my life and wonder if I could have made a difference for some child. I'd have to call the police.
What would you do?
Normally /. is up in arms over any attempt to censor developers. Now somebody is saying "we won't censor developers, but we will make it easy for users to self-select" and they're getting trashed for it.
Seems a little hypocritical.
Published in June 2011: A Vaccine Strategy that Induces Protective Immunity against Heroin.
And a subsequent press release entitled Successful lab tests on a potential vaccine for heroin addiction
Just to clarify, what would constitute "non-violent protest" to you, yet not constitute "harassment"?
When I think of nonviolent protest, I think first of convincing the broad public and getting the weight of public opinion on your side. Second, I think about refusing to do something which the law requires you to do, but which you believe is immoral. Third, I think about directly disobeying laws which restrict you from doing something which you believe is your moral right. I think about Gandhi making salt or the freedom riders as an example of the latter and conscientious objectors or tax protestors as an example of the former.
I think that collecting video could help the group convince the broad public and could be a tool in non-violent protest, but it is not clear to me from their video that their target is changing the law. Instead, their target seems to be "those people" at Broxton.
Context: Personally, I fully support regulated hunting for food, don't like hunting for trophy, and don't like the use of raised birds in a pigeon shoot (which seems to be the practice under scrutiny here).
After watching the video, I think there are two main issues - one (dealt with at length here) is about whether or not it was right and/or legal to shoot down the drone. The second one is whether or not it is right and/or legal for Hindi's group to be harassing the Broxton Bridge Plantation. His tone throughout and his words at the end of the video are clearly harassment - "we have a lot of plans for those people, that much I can guarantee."
If the shoot is legal, then the harassment should be illegal and the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the law through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video).
If the shoot is illegal, then law enforcement should handle it. If they do not, the goal of Hindi's group should be to change the actions of law enforcement officials through non violent protest and engaging the public (potentially with video). The harassment should still be illegal.
I think this group has confused non violent protest against immoral laws with harassment of groups doing things you don't like.
for those that don't realize that this is a joke... this is fake news
Please Mod this up so that the question can get some international exposure. Perhaps we can get a list of links to the sites in question?
we need an engineer who will stop ships from sailing into islands.
Yes, it it "free trade". "Free", doesn't means free for everyone, or equal for everyone. "Free trade" just means "no rules trade" or "self-regulating trade".
Oh boy, are you ever wrong. At the time of the free trade talks, I obtained a copy of the agreement. It is a fairly hefty book.
"Free Trade" is a marketing slogan to sell a trade agreement to liberty loving people. In reality, it is a set of rules that groups try to influence to their advantage.
Your post only points out how effective that marketing has been.
or you could choose an "mp3 player" over a phone just because you'd rather not jump on a bandwagon filled with people playing "angry birds". (If you actually like music, you might even choose a flac player)
damn it... posting to burn a misplaced mod point.
I've got it! Instead of paying a large number of people to censor the internet, just let people create links to the good stuff and ignore the bad stuff - soon the whole world will be acting as your censors and only the good stuff will be easy to find!
Now to let Minister Sibal know that I will implement this system for only 1.5 million USD.
A nation... and that was the eventual goal of the whole EU dream... has to have something in common other than the currency. You were never going to erase the French from a Frenchman in an effort to make him some generic "European".
A friend of mine (a mathematics professor in Bremen, Germany) once told me to remember that although there have been many different motivations behind the EU, the common thread was always to forge ties that would prevent another world war. Some believed the ties had to be military, others political, economic, or currency based, but the common origin was to institutionally and structurally need each other and work with each other in a way that would make it difficult to even imagine another European war, or another world war in which there is a waring Europe.
This is a very different goal from "erasing the French from a Frenchman to make a generic European", and I hope the historical perspective is not lost in the current discourse.
Subject says it all (again) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roads_Must_Roll
oooo I resent that. If I hadn't stopped using slashdot for years and could still remember my original creds, I'd say something biting about people with UIDs over 900000. Because 900000 is obviously the right number for criticism.
Sorry for replying to my own comment... I should have put some context into that previous comment. I was responding to the implication that friedmud was hoping for a generalization to sphere packing in cylinders with a less restrictive constraint on the ratio of the diameters. I gave my naive guess as to how that generalization might be found. (I felt compelled to clarify despite that this comment is buried so low no-one will ever see it :) )