If your only interested in crime or going postal you really don't care about long term reliability so long as it can get you through the day. Long term reliability is only a law abiding citizen would care about. So the ATF should really be very concerned indeed.
If it can get to the point that completely plastic Saturday night special can be made and dissolved with just a few common chemicals...
Sounds to me like they don't care about crime... only weapons that can personally hurt them in their body armor.
I think what's going on here is a need for quick cash. It doesn't make sense to me otherwise.
The display looks very good. I don't think amazon is the only market. I'll easily take a slightly poorer display to fantastic battery life. It seems to me it would knock eink out of the market. I also don't see why amazon would invest in something like this. Much easier to sign an exclusive ten year deal and cheaper. I don't see them having the resources and talent to continuously perfect the display tech. It would be a bad investment that would probably kill the tech. Only thing I can imagine is they could use the tech as leverage for smart phone and tablet makers to use their store.
I think this is the mastering issue. Sound is recorded but what they are producing is the playback they hear in the studio. The playback audio in a recording studio is high end. To be fair you have to playback the recording on the original mastering equipment with the same setting to get the intended music. Analog music inherently uses analog distortion to it's benefit.
When you convert such music to digital the playback equipment is fundamentally different which is why you get a different sound. Analog systems are full of distortion which is an intentional part of the music. Digital system seek to minimize distortion. You would need to setup a playback and rerecord the music to figure out how to properly digitally distort the music.
As far as the 96khz controversy no you can't hear the difference unless your a mutant with super hearing. But where 96khz could possible play a factor is in personal digital distortion of the music, i.e. post processing on your personal audio equipment. It's the same reason that digital masters are higher fidelity, because they need to post modulate the sound. You ideally need a master to be something like 5 times greater in order to properly deal with detectable digital distortion. Think of digital distortion as a type of floating point error that is cumulative. You need more bits to do the calculation in order to get an accurate result with fewer bits. High end equipment will often try to automatically extrapolate a higher fidelity waveform before it digitally applies effects to sometimes good or bad effects. To do it properly you need a human being to do digital remastering. It's all around easier and you get a better result if you just start from a source your don't have to upsample or at least not as much.
But you need companies to comply. These companies don't need to be in the United States even if they start there. They don't need to be in countries that bow to the United States. People can mail money and gold directly to them or to each other. The harder you make it to move money the less attractive that money is to deal in at all.
Bitcoin is transient. No doubt problems with it will eventually come up but the market will transition to another virtual currency. The thing to remember is that all currently only has a virtual value, in other world valueless, unless it is a commodity like gold. It's value is in it's popularity for trade. And like all currency it's best not to keep too much of it around but rather to invest in a commodity; something that you can touch.
There is too much of a need for unregulated financial transactions that they will never be able to block it. More than likely the black markets will prop up virtual currencies. Both providing limited insurance and backing with liquid commodities.
If I live paycheck to paycheck nothing stops me from using Bitcoin; it's virtually guaranteed that if you spend it as you purchase it, it will retain it's value outside of exchange rates. Say I start a computer repair business, there is nothing preventing me from taking payment in Bitcoin. So long as the money is spent in a timely fashion I'm guaranteed to get equal value which is all I care about.
I think the case can be made that Google in all it's little projects are pushing tech by being a test bed. I do believe their thinking is to put up any service for free five years as a massive research projects. Their first question isn't if it's profitable but rather rather how useful it is. They leave thoughts of profitability to be answered further down the line. At the end of life of the project if something is just self sustaining I do believe they would rather have someone take over now that they did all the deep market analysis and research on it. If something can be massively profitable then they will maintain it. Sort of like how it's founders came up with a useful search engine.
In other words they do things just because they are interesting. No guarantee to be there in a hundred years. Their main motivation is the research. Google does massive public R&D. Not all of which would be protected by copyrights and patents. I do believe their main goal is to PUSH TECH. To do the research to the point that someone else could take over. A build the prototype and the interest and market will come attitude.
The more popular it is the more legitimate sales you have. But without a doubt it will be cracked within a week if it's popular. And never underestimate how pirates, at least in the beginning, for an unknown publisher, actually promote your game for you.
So your best bet is to update the software with token features or items every week and keep it fresh. Those that really find your software worthwhile will pony up just to have the updates ASAP.
Disrespectful to both recognize and to perpetrate a supposed Jedi religion. Not that the logic of the belief system is any less valid but rather the fact that it started by definition it was made up. I am agnostic. Atheism is a belief if not a religion in it's own way.
Who really believes these people really host these beliefs rather than being tongue and cheek believers?
I want a smart brace. A double sided or all the way around smart phone/tablet for my lower left arm/wrist. It would only be bad for playing games. Paired with a Bluetooth headset it's a perfect PIM (personal information manager) form factor. The larger surface area around your lower arm also allow for a much larger battery capacity. Sometimes I might want to access apps horizontally from the top of my wrist and other times vertically from below. Very hard to lose. I can easily see it taking 20% of the smart phone market. With possibly a phablet taking over a third of the rest.
A wrist brace would have a light weight screen and concentrate more on battery life and being a hub for the rest of your devices rather rather than a platform for high end graphics games and high frame rates. A hub both for a communications link and concentrated local data storage. A more utility oriented smart phone.
It would also pair well with the Google glass or and implanted glasses.
Pinging Google is 20ms from my home computer. I can see how it might be possible in twenty years with a fiber optic connection but not in five years. And certainly not on a cell phone network. I can imagine certain programming techniques but I'm sure most of them are already implemented just to get lag down on a standalone computer and the rest would require games to be designed and programmed for high feedback lag. Some of the techniques I can imagine would trade more bandwidth to make up for the lag.
We have all along as Americans being so overwhelmingly concerned with big brother looking over shoulder we completely forgot about "little brother" which is of course each of us spying on each other. This wasn't so much of a concerned until the internet and the information age allowed all these little pieces of information to be combined and recorded forever.
I don't see that much difference between glass and a smart phone doing videos except how it is obvious when someone is recording. Personally I find the device ugly but it is definitely a better form factor for a video camera.
But as far as privacy is concerned there is nothing preventing people from having hidden cameras on themselves and secretly recording. The glass just mass markets it.
I think it's actually a good thing. A reminder that when you are in public to not pick your nose or be an asshole to anyone since it will probably be posted and online forever. The positive things will be forgotten but the negative things will follow you the rest of your life. Right down to the breakups between boyfriend and girlfriends.
It is definitely a social game changer. Some people will moderate their behavior but with so much of their negative life history being public many will choose to give up all pretension and just be balls out rude as they feel like it. Actually less two face behavior.
The only way to stop this would take a constitutional amendment in the US which I don't see happening in this millennium. Maybe in some small countries.
What they are doing is importing cheap skilled labor willing to work for below market rates. They are trying to cheat the free market of supply and demand within the United States. The is no shortage of people able to do the job. There is a shortage of people willing to work at half the market rate in a slave type manner.
I will agree that the laws are outdated. Congress shouldn't be limiting by artificial numbers but rather by the going market rate of employees. Lets start at 25% over the market rate and have it exponentially increase from there.
We should start a web sites for tech workers looking for work and their qualifications and then the companies have to prove why there are not hiring these Americans. They should be forced to show why they let go of past employees and how they could not perform the task that some imported worker could.
I would in fact favor laws that forced companies to hire and spend money proportionately from all the countries in which they derive their income. If Facebook makes 90 million a year from France then it should be obligated to spend at least half of that in that country and have a proportionate number of workers (total salary) not only from that country but actually in that country.
I don't like the way they are arguing over just the gag order. It just means courts could cop out on the issue and the congress can rewrite the law with limits on the gag requirement.
The bigger issue is whom establishes when the executive branch has substantial real cause. Second does the legislature have the authority outside of a constitutional amendment to allow the executive branch to bypass judicial oversight.
If he's a good writer then he'll work under a pen name. Publishers will buy his work if it's good. They may not even tell the other artists involved his real name. If they were using him for a name that sell copies then he's SOL and probably all comic book reader are better for it. As a non regular comic book reader I would collect the series if there were a boycott. The fewer people that have the series the more valuable it becomes.
I personally disagree with boycotting artists because of their views. The boycott itself is not going to change his personal views. It would be the same thing a writer that came out of the closet and did gay advocacy. A boycott of either artist is lame.
You boycott to change the policy/practice of a business.
It all sound like a work cooperative. But it is a corporation so the looming question is how much do it's owner make?
Assuming a billion dollar per year revenue stream and divided that by 300 employees, that would give you the average worth of an individual as 33 million. Lets assume a $3 million working budget per individual which would be ridiculous. That means each employee is producing is at least 30 million dollars in profit per year for the average individual. I doubt even a third of them make 10 million a year.
The owner must be taking a huge chunk of the profits. The number is people making a even million dollars a year is probably less than ten percent.
So my question is what is preventing a bunch of valve employees from splintering off? They could form the same type of cooperative but with bigger pieces of the pie each since they wouldn't have the overhead of the company founders bigger slices.
I think that is the inevitable future. The company model functions almost biologically and evolutionary. When a bee or ant hive gets too large it splits. If I were the owners of valve I would jump the gun and split the organization early so as to insure an interest in each. One hive might be socially a little different than others and have different approaches and mindsets. It would certainly allow the evolution of such cultures.
The problem is that the law treats recording devices differently from your brain. Anything artificially recorded on a personal device is not sacrosanct and is subject to seizure. Who knows what will happen to privacy once machines can actually read everything in your head. And then you have "augments" that will incorporate incorporate electronic and biological enhancements to their brain. If you have a flash chip in your head the data will likely be seizable.
Taking all that even further it may become practical to rewrite memories in a brain or even bypass them to rely only on artificial memory mechanisms. Governments will then be able to outlaw thinking. Imaging being forced to sit in a chair to have your memories reviewed and if they don't like them changed. A country like Iran or North Korea would love that.
I don't necessarily agree that everyone should work at home. I think some people need a professional environment to thrive.
Therefore telecommuting centers would be a great compromise. Places to telecommute that provide some common infrastructure for people to share. Cameras to remote observe workers. Scanners to mass convert paper to digital. Places that are within a mile of where they live; someplace you could bicycle to.
The ISP is paid to provide a level of service. By reducing bandwidth they are reducing service. In conjunction prices should be reduced to match service. Seems like a clear issue for a class action.
Furthermore it seems like the copyright holders are acting in collusion to control and exert monopolistic pressure over another industry. Seems like that should be grounds to sue.
You can lay claim to anything you desire but it doesn't mean others will respect your claim. There has to be a consensus on what is needed to make a claim first and even that is blurry and will chance over time.
The main basis of a claim is having the resources and will to defend it and publicly declaring it.
From our vantage point in the universe we can only see so far. Speed is limited by the constant of light but space itself is expanding. So two objects can be moving further apart faster than light.
Any effect that propagates at the speed of light can never catch up with the entire universe.
Portsniffing is nothing new. I just looked briefly but didn't see an option for what I was expecting to exist.
Does SSHD have no option to not respond to a bad credentials?
Seems to me like it should be trivial to implement. Don't acknowledge bad connections. Don't ack anything. Be a blackhole port. Only respond if and when ssh sends correct credentials. Require the initial connection over UDP.
Ssh provides excellent security. This is just about stopping the waste in bandwidth.
Actually it's worse. You see the mutations are per cell. All individual cells throughout your body are accumulating errors. That is how cancer occurs.
If the DNA sample they have is skin then they need to separate and analyze thousands of DNA signatures from cells in the exact place the scratch occurred. If the sample they have is sperm then they need to separate and get complete genomes of each of millions of sperm hoping that they get a match from a mutation in the originating germ cell.
I doubt the test is 1 million. More like 100 million. Unless of course they are hoping to find that mutation that occurred after the twins split but before the germ cells originated. That is to say all germ cells would share a common mutation. Not sure how likely that is.
I don't really like Monsanto but it seems to me from a legal standpoint they are suing the wrong person. It sounds like a flaw in their licensing. They don't just need to get signatures from farmers but also from those they sell to such that they will not sell the product for replanting. This obviously needs to go all the way down to even customers in supermarkets. A good thing for customers that GMO labeling.
It is possible that the court could even allow continued generations of crops for future seeds so long as whomever sells the seeds in the future does not use genetic testing for seed selection. Should end up with at least 95 percent equivalent seed for farmers using roundup.
And 23 million? Seems like an awfully small number. But I really don't expect them to collect very much money as most of the farmers will likely go bankrupt just like the guy getting sued in the article. Given the solution that Monsanto just needs to get everyone in the supply chain to agree not to replant I think the US Supreme Court will let it go.
And it's wrong that if there were no genetic patents that GMO's would not be developed. I think farmer organizations as a group would invest in research and development. And McDonald's and other large commercial chains would also likely invest as it would reduce the costs of their suppliers.
The idea just struck me. If aliens didn't possess cloaking technology.. An asteroid such as this would make great cover to closely observe a species advanced enough to detect planets around other stars. You could even deploy small probes the size of a softball to fall to earth or into orbit.
Find a few pictures from security cameras. Show that the reporter lied.
If your testing maximum millage you have to follow the route. It's plain and simple that you can't race up and down hills. No different than any other vehicle be it electric, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or compressed air. And if you don't fill up the tank then your an idiot and slandering if you claim the machine didn't meet expectations.
Between this and the other incident I really wonder how many accurate these publication and reviewers are or wonder if they are being paid to lie. Being critical or saying something different certainly makes your article more likely to be read and cited even if it is being slanderous.
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If your only interested in crime or going postal you really don't care about long term reliability so long as it can get you through the day. Long term reliability is only a law abiding citizen would care about. So the ATF should really be very concerned indeed.
If it can get to the point that completely plastic Saturday night special can be made and dissolved with just a few common chemicals...
Sounds to me like they don't care about crime... only weapons that can personally hurt them in their body armor.
Too much like a watch. I want it wide and almost 360 around my arm.
I think what's going on here is a need for quick cash. It doesn't make sense to me otherwise.
The display looks very good. I don't think amazon is the only market. I'll easily take a slightly poorer display to fantastic battery life. It seems to me it would knock eink out of the market. I also don't see why amazon would invest in something like this. Much easier to sign an exclusive ten year deal and cheaper. I don't see them having the resources and talent to continuously perfect the display tech. It would be a bad investment that would probably kill the tech. Only thing I can imagine is they could use the tech as leverage for smart phone and tablet makers to use their store.
I think this is the mastering issue. Sound is recorded but what they are producing is the playback they hear in the studio. The playback audio in a recording studio is high end. To be fair you have to playback the recording on the original mastering equipment with the same setting to get the intended music. Analog music inherently uses analog distortion to it's benefit.
When you convert such music to digital the playback equipment is fundamentally different which is why you get a different sound. Analog systems are full of distortion which is an intentional part of the music. Digital system seek to minimize distortion. You would need to setup a playback and rerecord the music to figure out how to properly digitally distort the music.
As far as the 96khz controversy no you can't hear the difference unless your a mutant with super hearing. But where 96khz could possible play a factor is in personal digital distortion of the music, i.e. post processing on your personal audio equipment. It's the same reason that digital masters are higher fidelity, because they need to post modulate the sound. You ideally need a master to be something like 5 times greater in order to properly deal with detectable digital distortion. Think of digital distortion as a type of floating point error that is cumulative. You need more bits to do the calculation in order to get an accurate result with fewer bits. High end equipment will often try to automatically extrapolate a higher fidelity waveform before it digitally applies effects to sometimes good or bad effects. To do it properly you need a human being to do digital remastering. It's all around easier and you get a better result if you just start from a source your don't have to upsample or at least not as much.
Of course they are going to try.
But you need companies to comply. These companies don't need to be in the United States even if they start there. They don't need to be in countries that bow to the United States. People can mail money and gold directly to them or to each other. The harder you make it to move money the less attractive that money is to deal in at all.
Bitcoin is transient. No doubt problems with it will eventually come up but the market will transition to another virtual currency. The thing to remember is that all currently only has a virtual value, in other world valueless, unless it is a commodity like gold. It's value is in it's popularity for trade. And like all currency it's best not to keep too much of it around but rather to invest in a commodity; something that you can touch.
There is too much of a need for unregulated financial transactions that they will never be able to block it. More than likely the black markets will prop up virtual currencies. Both providing limited insurance and backing with liquid commodities.
If I live paycheck to paycheck nothing stops me from using Bitcoin; it's virtually guaranteed that if you spend it as you purchase it, it will retain it's value outside of exchange rates. Say I start a computer repair business, there is nothing preventing me from taking payment in Bitcoin. So long as the money is spent in a timely fashion I'm guaranteed to get equal value which is all I care about.
I think the case can be made that Google in all it's little projects are pushing tech by being a test bed. I do believe their thinking is to put up any service for free five years as a massive research projects. Their first question isn't if it's profitable but rather rather how useful it is. They leave thoughts of profitability to be answered further down the line. At the end of life of the project if something is just self sustaining I do believe they would rather have someone take over now that they did all the deep market analysis and research on it. If something can be massively profitable then they will maintain it. Sort of like how it's founders came up with a useful search engine.
In other words they do things just because they are interesting. No guarantee to be there in a hundred years. Their main motivation is the research. Google does massive public R&D. Not all of which would be protected by copyrights and patents. I do believe their main goal is to PUSH TECH. To do the research to the point that someone else could take over. A build the prototype and the interest and market will come attitude.
The more popular it is the more legitimate sales you have. But without a doubt it will be cracked within a week if it's popular. And never underestimate how pirates, at least in the beginning, for an unknown publisher, actually promote your game for you.
So your best bet is to update the software with token features or items every week and keep it fresh. Those that really find your software worthwhile will pony up just to have the updates ASAP.
Disrespectful to both recognize and to perpetrate a supposed Jedi religion. Not that the logic of the belief system is any less valid but rather the fact that it started by definition it was made up. I am agnostic. Atheism is a belief if not a religion in it's own way.
Who really believes these people really host these beliefs rather than being tongue and cheek believers?
I want a smart brace. A double sided or all the way around smart phone/tablet for my lower left arm/wrist. It would only be bad for playing games. Paired with a Bluetooth headset it's a perfect PIM (personal information manager) form factor. The larger surface area around your lower arm also allow for a much larger battery capacity. Sometimes I might want to access apps horizontally from the top of my wrist and other times vertically from below. Very hard to lose. I can easily see it taking 20% of the smart phone market. With possibly a phablet taking over a third of the rest.
A wrist brace would have a light weight screen and concentrate more on battery life and being a hub for the rest of your devices rather rather than a platform for high end graphics games and high frame rates. A hub both for a communications link and concentrated local data storage. A more utility oriented smart phone.
It would also pair well with the Google glass or and implanted glasses.
Pinging Google is 20ms from my home computer. I can see how it might be possible in twenty years with a fiber optic connection but not in five years. And certainly not on a cell phone network. I can imagine certain programming techniques but I'm sure most of them are already implemented just to get lag down on a standalone computer and the rest would require games to be designed and programmed for high feedback lag. Some of the techniques I can imagine would trade more bandwidth to make up for the lag.
Explain to me how they will defeat lag.
We have all along as Americans being so overwhelmingly concerned with big brother looking over shoulder we completely forgot about "little brother" which is of course each of us spying on each other. This wasn't so much of a concerned until the internet and the information age allowed all these little pieces of information to be combined and recorded forever.
I don't see that much difference between glass and a smart phone doing videos except how it is obvious when someone is recording. Personally I find the device ugly but it is definitely a better form factor for a video camera.
But as far as privacy is concerned there is nothing preventing people from having hidden cameras on themselves and secretly recording. The glass just mass markets it.
I think it's actually a good thing. A reminder that when you are in public to not pick your nose or be an asshole to anyone since it will probably be posted and online forever. The positive things will be forgotten but the negative things will follow you the rest of your life. Right down to the breakups between boyfriend and girlfriends.
It is definitely a social game changer. Some people will moderate their behavior but with so much of their negative life history being public many will choose to give up all pretension and just be balls out rude as they feel like it. Actually less two face behavior.
The only way to stop this would take a constitutional amendment in the US which I don't see happening in this millennium. Maybe in some small countries.
What they are doing is importing cheap skilled labor willing to work for below market rates. They are trying to cheat the free market of supply and demand within the United States. The is no shortage of people able to do the job. There is a shortage of people willing to work at half the market rate in a slave type manner.
I will agree that the laws are outdated. Congress shouldn't be limiting by artificial numbers but rather by the going market rate of employees. Lets start at 25% over the market rate and have it exponentially increase from there.
We should start a web sites for tech workers looking for work and their qualifications and then the companies have to prove why there are not hiring these Americans. They should be forced to show why they let go of past employees and how they could not perform the task that some imported worker could.
I would in fact favor laws that forced companies to hire and spend money proportionately from all the countries in which they derive their income. If Facebook makes 90 million a year from France then it should be obligated to spend at least half of that in that country and have a proportionate number of workers (total salary) not only from that country but actually in that country.
I don't like the way they are arguing over just the gag order. It just means courts could cop out on the issue and the congress can rewrite the law with limits on the gag requirement.
The bigger issue is whom establishes when the executive branch has substantial real cause. Second does the legislature have the authority outside of a constitutional amendment to allow the executive branch to bypass judicial oversight.
If he's a good writer then he'll work under a pen name. Publishers will buy his work if it's good. They may not even tell the other artists involved his real name. If they were using him for a name that sell copies then he's SOL and probably all comic book reader are better for it. As a non regular comic book reader I would collect the series if there were a boycott. The fewer people that have the series the more valuable it becomes.
I personally disagree with boycotting artists because of their views. The boycott itself is not going to change his personal views. It would be the same thing a writer that came out of the closet and did gay advocacy. A boycott of either artist is lame.
You boycott to change the policy/practice of a business.
It all sound like a work cooperative. But it is a corporation so the looming question is how much do it's owner make?
Assuming a billion dollar per year revenue stream and divided that by 300 employees, that would give you the average worth of an individual as 33 million. Lets assume a $3 million working budget per individual which would be ridiculous. That means each employee is producing is at least 30 million dollars in profit per year for the average individual. I doubt even a third of them make 10 million a year.
The owner must be taking a huge chunk of the profits. The number is people making a even million dollars a year is probably less than ten percent.
So my question is what is preventing a bunch of valve employees from splintering off? They could form the same type of cooperative but with bigger pieces of the pie each since they wouldn't have the overhead of the company founders bigger slices.
I think that is the inevitable future. The company model functions almost biologically and evolutionary. When a bee or ant hive gets too large it splits. If I were the owners of valve I would jump the gun and split the organization early so as to insure an interest in each. One hive might be socially a little different than others and have different approaches and mindsets. It would certainly allow the evolution of such cultures.
The problem is that the law treats recording devices differently from your brain. Anything artificially recorded on a personal device is not sacrosanct and is subject to seizure. Who knows what will happen to privacy once machines can actually read everything in your head. And then you have "augments" that will incorporate incorporate electronic and biological enhancements to their brain. If you have a flash chip in your head the data will likely be seizable.
Taking all that even further it may become practical to rewrite memories in a brain or even bypass them to rely only on artificial memory mechanisms. Governments will then be able to outlaw thinking. Imaging being forced to sit in a chair to have your memories reviewed and if they don't like them changed. A country like Iran or North Korea would love that.
I don't necessarily agree that everyone should work at home. I think some people need a professional environment to thrive.
Therefore telecommuting centers would be a great compromise. Places to telecommute that provide some common infrastructure for people to share. Cameras to remote observe workers. Scanners to mass convert paper to digital. Places that are within a mile of where they live; someplace you could bicycle to.
The ISP is paid to provide a level of service. By reducing bandwidth they are reducing service. In conjunction prices should be reduced to match service. Seems like a clear issue for a class action.
Furthermore it seems like the copyright holders are acting in collusion to control and exert monopolistic pressure over another industry. Seems like that should be grounds to sue.
You can lay claim to anything you desire but it doesn't mean others will respect your claim. There has to be a consensus on what is needed to make a claim first and even that is blurry and will chance over time.
The main basis of a claim is having the resources and will to defend it and publicly declaring it.
From our vantage point in the universe we can only see so far. Speed is limited by the constant of light but space itself is expanding. So two objects can be moving further apart faster than light.
Any effect that propagates at the speed of light can never catch up with the entire universe.
Portsniffing is nothing new. I just looked briefly but didn't see an option for what I was expecting to exist.
Does SSHD have no option to not respond to a bad credentials?
Seems to me like it should be trivial to implement. Don't acknowledge bad connections. Don't ack anything. Be a blackhole port. Only respond if and when ssh sends correct credentials. Require the initial connection over UDP.
Ssh provides excellent security. This is just about stopping the waste in bandwidth.
Actually it's worse. You see the mutations are per cell. All individual cells throughout your body are accumulating errors. That is how cancer occurs.
If the DNA sample they have is skin then they need to separate and analyze thousands of DNA signatures from cells in the exact place the scratch occurred. If the sample they have is sperm then they need to separate and get complete genomes of each of millions of sperm hoping that they get a match from a mutation in the originating germ cell.
I doubt the test is 1 million. More like 100 million. Unless of course they are hoping to find that mutation that occurred after the twins split but before the germ cells originated. That is to say all germ cells would share a common mutation. Not sure how likely that is.
I don't really like Monsanto but it seems to me from a legal standpoint they are suing the wrong person. It sounds like a flaw in their licensing. They don't just need to get signatures from farmers but also from those they sell to such that they will not sell the product for replanting. This obviously needs to go all the way down to even customers in supermarkets. A good thing for customers that GMO labeling.
It is possible that the court could even allow continued generations of crops for future seeds so long as whomever sells the seeds in the future does not use genetic testing for seed selection. Should end up with at least 95 percent equivalent seed for farmers using roundup.
And 23 million? Seems like an awfully small number. But I really don't expect them to collect very much money as most of the farmers will likely go bankrupt just like the guy getting sued in the article. Given the solution that Monsanto just needs to get everyone in the supply chain to agree not to replant I think the US Supreme Court will let it go.
And it's wrong that if there were no genetic patents that GMO's would not be developed. I think farmer organizations as a group would invest in research and development. And McDonald's and other large commercial chains would also likely invest as it would reduce the costs of their suppliers.
The idea just struck me. If aliens didn't possess cloaking technology.. An asteroid such as this would make great cover to closely observe a species advanced enough to detect planets around other stars. You could even deploy small probes the size of a softball to fall to earth or into orbit.
Find a few pictures from security cameras. Show that the reporter lied.
If your testing maximum millage you have to follow the route. It's plain and simple that you can't race up and down hills. No different than any other vehicle be it electric, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or compressed air. And if you don't fill up the tank then your an idiot and slandering if you claim the machine didn't meet expectations.
Between this and the other incident I really wonder how many accurate these publication and reviewers are or wonder if they are being paid to lie. Being critical or saying something different certainly makes your article more likely to be read and cited even if it is being slanderous.