If this had been discovered 20 years ago then MAYBE we would have a cure. 99% of these "miracle" cures never work out. With any luck though it will help another scientist come up with something that will work.
In all honesty, they may be beneficial in some way that we have not thought of, but they are far to dangerous to work with without expensive containment. If a biologist slips and gives himself the common cold, at least it probably wont kill him.
Mark my words, having a dual degree can hurt you at least in the short term. I have a dual degree in microbiology and computer science. Most of my initial interview consisted of "why does he want this job when he has that second degree and can use that". It may be different for you because what the hell can you do with a philosophy degree anyway:)
There is new technology involving microfluidics that looks "promising". The whole lab on a chip thing. There are companies out there that are trying to develop technology to sequence someones genome for a thousand dollars. By the time we can sequence an individuals genome, processing power will be cheaper. There are too many IF's in all of this anyway.
On 97.4 in Detroit they did a radio segment of RIAA and P2P networks. Unfortunately I didnt get the chance to call in yesterday but I sent them an email today. The entire show missed the point. They spent the entire time arguing over whether or not pirating songs was legal or not. I did not listen to the entire show, but I never heard them bring up legitimate uses of the networks, or the tactics of the RIAA. It was pretty much(I am paraphrasing here) "P2P = Piracy = Bad". Hope they actually read my email because I told them to come read/.
I think we will have AI before we have to worry about a crop of GM humans popping up. I dont care how smart a human is, any AI would beat the hell out of them. That is my personal opinion.
I work as a microbiologist, and I occasionally do bioinformatics work. I can tell you that the real driving force behind most new biology is the microchip. I am very thankful that intel is putting that much money into R&D otherwise my data mining software might take 10 hours to run rather than 10 minutes.
You need look no further than lottery winners to understand the situation. They say that lottery winners often end up having budget problems after they win. Since most people that play the lottery are poor to begin with.... You draw your own conclusion.
Only if you mean the chair that is set in front of a tribual for prosecuting cyber war criminals.
"There are questions about collateral damage," Clarke said. As an example, he cited the possibility that a computer attack on an electric power grid, intended to pull the plug on military facilities, might end up turning off electricity to hospitals on the same network.
I HAVE a degree in microbiology and computer science. Keep in mind that you need experience in both to get a bioinformatics job. There is no such thing as an entry level bioinformatics job.
The amount of real science that could have been gotten out of 40 billion dollars is phenomenal. Instead, we spend it on "the real world" space station. 390 million for an I beam!?! You have to be kidding me. I would rather fund poultry research.
The only time I ever tweaked my system was when I was in college. I had time to tweak but not the money to buy better hardware. These days the opposite is true. I have the money to buy better hardware but not the time to tweak. I prefer the latter. Now if only I still played computer games.
I am still pissed off at congress for giving the international space the money to run and letting the collider in Texas go to waste. One of the problems with letting uninformed politician make scientific decisions based not on science, but on their re-election strategy. At this point though, I would hate to see the iss program dropped.
A friend of mine is going to law school at DePaul. He graduated with a dual degree in ee and cs. Going into patent law isnt the most exciting field around, but they pay you in cubic foot blocks of cash.
If you knew your biology well enough, you would realize that people are nothing more than a series of extremly complex chemical reactions set into motion by enzymes, unless by some chance we all have a "soul". This can and will be modeled by software someday.
He secretly sequenced his own dna during the human genome project. That is the scientific equivalent of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon and saying "HI MOM!"
These people are not suckers. Saying these people are suckers is like saying you were a sucker to buy a computer this year, when next year they will be cheaper and faster. In the end, everyone will get their genome sequenced if they want. It will at ther VERY LEAST help predict what diseases you might end up with. I work in a genomics lab where we are trying to figure out which genes are responsible for protecting you from oxidative stress. If I knew that I had mutations in some of the genes that we were studying, I would be A HELL of a lot more careful about exposing myself to carcinogens that I knew I was not as sufficiently protected against as a wild-type person. As soon as we finish the genomics work, and annotating the genome, then the information will really be useful.
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If this had been discovered 20 years ago then MAYBE we would have a cure. 99% of these "miracle" cures never work out. With any luck though it will help another scientist come up with something that will work.
One can only hope people smarter than you will set the standards.
In all honesty, they may be beneficial in some way that we have not thought of, but they are far to dangerous to work with without expensive containment. If a biologist slips and gives himself the common cold, at least it probably wont kill him.
Mark my words, having a dual degree can hurt you at least in the short term. I have a dual degree in microbiology and computer science. Most of my initial interview consisted of "why does he want this job when he has that second degree and can use that". It may be different for you because what the hell can you do with a philosophy degree anyway :)
There is new technology involving microfluidics that looks "promising". The whole lab on a chip thing. There are companies out there that are trying to develop technology to sequence someones genome for a thousand dollars. By the time we can sequence an individuals genome, processing power will be cheaper. There are too many IF's in all of this anyway.
On 97.4 in Detroit they did a radio segment of RIAA and P2P networks. Unfortunately I didnt get the chance to call in yesterday but I sent them an email today. The entire show missed the point. They spent the entire time arguing over whether or not pirating songs was legal or not. I did not listen to the entire show, but I never heard them bring up legitimate uses of the networks, or the tactics of the RIAA. It was pretty much(I am paraphrasing here) "P2P = Piracy = Bad". Hope they actually read my email because I told them to come read /.
I think we will have AI before we have to worry about a crop of GM humans popping up. I dont care how smart a human is, any AI would beat the hell out of them. That is my personal opinion.
I work as a microbiologist, and I occasionally do bioinformatics work. I can tell you that the real driving force behind most new biology is the microchip. I am very thankful that intel is putting that much money into R&D otherwise my data mining software might take 10 hours to run rather than 10 minutes.
You need look no further than lottery winners to understand the situation. They say that lottery winners often end up having budget problems after they win. Since most people that play the lottery are poor to begin with.... You draw your own conclusion.
You are completely right. In this day and age, Security lies in having more objects to throw at your assailant.
"Is Kevin Mitnick getting one of those chairs ?"
Only if you mean the chair that is set in front of a tribual for prosecuting cyber war criminals.
"There are questions about collateral damage," Clarke said. As an example, he cited the possibility that a computer attack on an electric power grid, intended to pull the plug on military facilities, might end up turning off electricity to hospitals on the same network.
Who knows, the government might need a scapegoat.
I have never read the neuromancer, but the begining of johnny neumonic says that it is based on the neuromancer.
I HAVE a degree in microbiology and computer science. Keep in mind that you need experience in both to get a bioinformatics job. There is no such thing as an entry level bioinformatics job.
The amount of real science that could have been gotten out of 40 billion dollars is phenomenal. Instead, we spend it on "the real world" space station. 390 million for an I beam!?! You have to be kidding me. I would rather fund poultry research.
The only time I ever tweaked my system was when I was in college. I had time to tweak but not the money to buy better hardware. These days the opposite is true. I have the money to buy better hardware but not the time to tweak. I prefer the latter. Now if only I still played computer games.
if I had any karma points to give, I would give them to you :)
I guess hunters will have to start hunting other non-human species like lawyers, politicians and financial advisors.
This has been going on for years.m l
http://anomalies-unlimited.com/Jackson.ht
I am still pissed off at congress for giving the international space the money to run and letting the collider in Texas go to waste. One of the problems with letting uninformed politician make scientific decisions based not on science, but on their re-election strategy. At this point though, I would hate to see the iss program dropped.
Are there any developmental disorders that have been tracked to a mutation in an intron in any animal models?
Chess will be to a computer as tic tac toe is to
to anyone over the age of 8 and Cowboy neal.
A friend of mine is going to law school at DePaul. He graduated with a dual degree in ee and cs. Going into patent law isnt the most exciting field around, but they pay you in cubic foot blocks of cash.
If you knew your biology well enough, you would realize that people are nothing more than a series of extremly complex chemical reactions set into motion by enzymes, unless by some chance we all have a "soul". This can and will be modeled by software someday.
He secretly sequenced his own dna during the human genome project. That is the scientific equivalent of Neil Armstrong stepping onto the moon and saying "HI MOM!"
These people are not suckers. Saying these people are suckers is like saying you were a sucker to buy a computer this year, when next year they will be cheaper and faster. In the end, everyone will get their genome sequenced if they want. It will at ther VERY LEAST help predict what diseases you might end up with. I work in a genomics lab where we are trying to figure out which genes are responsible for protecting you from oxidative stress. If I knew that I had mutations in some of the genes that we were studying, I would be A HELL of a lot more careful about exposing myself to carcinogens that I knew I was not as sufficiently protected against as a wild-type person. As soon as we finish the genomics work, and annotating the genome, then the information will really be useful.