"Purging selection Purging selection occurs where the phenotypes of deleterious recessive alleles are exposed through inbreeding, and thus can be selected against. This theoretically can lead to such detrimental mutations being removed from the population, and has been demonstrated to occur rapidly where the recessive alleles have a lethal effect.[12] Unfortunately, genetic drift has a strong influence on small inbred populations, which can cause the fixation of sublethal deleterious alleles where there is only a weak selective pressure against them.[12] The fixation of a single allele for a specific gene can also reduce fitness where heterozygote advantage (where heterozygous individuals have higher fitness than homozygotes of either allele) was previously present. As a result, the influence of attempting to purge deleterious mutations from a population can either increase or decrease the fitness of a population, and is not generally recommended as a technique to improve the fitness of captive bred animals."
So if you wanted to practice this in your life I would recommend selecting a mate who is not from a genetically limited community.
Inbreeding depression is the exact opposite of your statement "With inbreeding, there's strong selection to reduce the frequency of disadvantageous genes.". Inbreeding depression is when there is a strong selection to increase the frequency of disadvantageous genes.
EXAMPLE: Fumarase deficiency had only been seen in 13 people worldwide until 1990 when 20 cases all showed up among inbred Mormon (LDS) populations.
The symptoms are like I said in my original comment: "severe mental retardation, unusual facial features"
This is only one example of Inbreeding Depression but it serves to back up my point nicely.
"Inbreeding (ie., breeding between closely related individuals) may on the one hand result in more recessive deleterious traits manifesting themselves, because the genomes of pair-mates are more similar: recessive traits can only occur in offspring if present in both parents' genomes, and the more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring. Consequently, the more closely related the breeding pair is, the more homozygous deleterious genes the offspring may have, resulting in very unfit individuals. For alleles that confer an advantage in the heterozygous and/or homozygous-dominant state, the fitness of the homozygous-recessive state may even be zero (meaning sterile or unviable offspring)."
You don't need that part. Luckily you don't have to satisfy every definition of a word at the same time. English would be impossible if that were true.
Selection is outside of the scope I gave you and for good reason.
I am speaking of biological evolution with no respect to behavioral science.
It is my opinion that behavioral science is bullshit and sexual selection is arbitrary. You didn't specify what kind of selection, either. There are countless different types of selection and factors that influence which animals mate and which ones do not.
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter. Look at the biological definition of the word. Every child satisfies the definition. It doesn't matter who the parents are or why.
Genetic science didn't exist when Darwin wrote his theory so don't act like it is the only source material on the subject. Many scientific theories have changed in the last 100 years. If you still function on outdated teachings then it is you who needs to return to school to learn about new developments.
The problem with your statement is that the existence of "species" is more controversial than the theory of evolution. I would say that the word species is not well defined.
Species used to be defined by what animals are sexually compatible enough to create offspring. A more recent definition, using genetic science, could relate to the number of chromosomes. The mule is an example that shows the problem well:
Mule: "A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare).[1] Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes."
How is it possible that a horse and a donkey can have children if they are different species?
You said:
If there is real evolution, then we will end up with a new species.
The mule is a third species. It is neither horse nor donkey. So according to your requirements there is real evolution.
Maybe you don't understand the word: Evolution. Let me scope it out here for you.
You said that you believe in genes. Let's assume that you believe in the reproductive process too. When the genes of two parents combine you get all sorts of possible outcomes for the genetic result, or child. This child is then a combination of parental traits and yet not the mother nor the father. The child is new. We have also witnessed random mutation. You with me so far?
Now let's read the biological definition of the word Evolution:
"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations."
In conclusion: If you believe that you are different than your parents then you believe in evolution. If evolution did not occur then you would be an identical twin of your father or mother.
You're not asking for a VPN. You're asking for a new routing protocol.
Once you have written a new routing protocol just submit it to the IEEE. Then you have to convince the large router manufacturers to use your standard.
You might want to get a job at CISCO. You would have better luck there.
I'll bet you don't need things like the interstate highway system or railroads. The backbone of our society. The reason you have food at the supermarket.
"How it that relevant?" you might ask. Right now, Amtrak is collecting bids from manufacturers to build a high speed rail system in America. It's been talked about for decades.
How is it that we are finally getting a high speed rail project? Obama authorized funding. That's right. Taxpayers are buying a huge public works project that will benefit everyone. It will create countless jobs not only to build but to operate and maintain. In the future people will be able to look back and say "I'm sure glad we have this nice rail system". People like you will forget how it got there.
Corporations should handle 100% of tax liability. Stick with me here and I'll explain how it will be similar to what happens today. When income tax is withheld from your check what you have is the corporation paying it's money, that was set aside for wages, directly to the federal government. Except currently we have each individual do a separate tax form. Imagine there was only one tax form for the whole company. The company would still be paying it's money to the federal government instead of putting it in your paycheck except there wouldn't be this lie that it was ever owed to employees.
The result is a hyperbolic reduction in paperwork. Less paperwork, less burden on the IRS. Less overhead for the IRS would result in slightly lower taxes. Processing everything would be easier for everyone.
The amount of your take home salary could be the same but the corporation wouldn't have to lie about how much you were actually earning. There wouldn't be the silly tax bracket game for wage earners.
We could be honest about how much money it takes to run this country and we could be honest about who pays that burden.
Keep a stiff luxury tax for those who write their own paychecks.
Tax imports to encourage goods that are MADE IN THE USA. An extra tax could be applied to American companies that manufacture their goods overseas. This could lower the profit margin of outsourcing. That would create jobs and more tax money in America instead of paying the taxes of a foreign government.
You have obviously never used the Metasploit Meterpreter. It can pivot off any running process and run commands with that privilege level. It can also traverse your network creating tunnels as it goes along. This is why you want to prevent privilege escalation and the tunnel creation. If they can't escalate or create a tunnel then they are stuck on the first box that is exploited. It's damage control. It also buys you time to respond. If you can detect the activity you want to be able to stop it before the threat spreads.
In an eCommerce environment this is the difference between losing your user database and losing customer information. There have been many breaches in recent history where user data was leaked but no customer information was compromised. The bank is able to reset all passwords before damage is done. I imagine there was some form of internal security that kept the intruder away from sensitive data on another server deeper in the network.
A layered security approach has benefits. Is it overkill? That depends on a changing threat landscape. Tomorrow we may all be vulnerable again.
Check the exploit DB for APACHE exploits and come back a paranoid security advocate:
If you really want to have some fun you should try to create a Plan9 cluster. This is a transparent cluster OS that was designed for the purpose of resource sharing. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/pla...
or a centrally managed JVM. It's a little run-time environment that works on any OS. This is not a new idea but a different language. They don't specify what the app in the container is. A better platform independent solution would be very useful.
Although it is easy to prove that the Earth is older than 6,000 years I don't think we actually know how old the universe is. There is a new estimate that came out in 2013 so many people may not be aware of it. Before 2013 we estimated "that the Big Bang occurred between 12 and 14 billion years ago." that's uncertainty of over %16? Doesn't sound very confident to me. The good news is that the new measurement lands in the middle of the old estimate which is encouraging.
NASA says: "How does WMAP data enable us to determine the age of the universe is 13.77 billion years, with an uncertainty of only 0.4%? The key to this is that by knowing the composition of matter and energy density in the universe, we can use Einstein's General Relativity to compute how fast the universe has been expanding in the past. "
Unfortunately, Einstein's General Relativity is not a bulletproof model and these estimates will have to be revised as our understanding of physics changes.
From my layman understanding; I think it's safe to say that the universe is at least 13 billion years old but it could be much older. It's the best guess we have.
BitCoin, by nature, is as trustworthy as SHA256 which is used by TLS, SSL, PGP, SSH, S/MIME, and IPsec. So the math behind BitCoin is trusted by most of the world whether or not you are aware of that fact.
As a currency it is just as trustworthy as any other imaginary money system. It's value is highly speculative, like the NYSE. Nobody really trusts the NYSE just as you shouldn't trust the value of BitCoin.
That being said, cryptocurrencies have the potential to be more stable than fiat currencies. BitCoin may not be the final solution but behold as we are watching the future of money unfold. History is in the making.
No, I directly disagreed with all the points made. None of the statements made by AC have any relevance to the real world in which I live. The fact that Slashdot is moderated by a bunch of prudes who couldn't see the value in a person who is comfortable naked is shocking to me.
You could say that I missed the point but I would have to reflect that sentiment. It's fairly clear to me that AC thinks taking nude pictures of someone diminishes their self-worth and their societal value. That I can't agree with, my original stance stands.
This proves it to me. The NSA is really only concerned with collecting all the titties. They have the nude scanners at the airport to catch anyone who travels. Systematically they have infiltrated every possible way people use to share nude photos. Snapchat is a goldmine. All their dreams come true. Tits with every warrant. Now, with their unrivaled collection of nudie pictures they will rule the world with a strong masturbation hand.
Slashdot Mirror
There are some really great distros that are based on said sources:
Pale Moon is an open source alternative to FireFox:
http://www.palemoon.org/
SRWare Iron is a Chromium project:
http://www.srware.net/en/softw...
You have to install the compiler repos just like a Linux user would.
You also might be interested in Cygwin:
http://cygwin.com/
and Windows Services for UNIX:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us...
You are talking about Purging selection:
"Purging selection
Purging selection occurs where the phenotypes of deleterious recessive alleles are exposed through inbreeding, and thus can be selected against. This theoretically can lead to such detrimental mutations being removed from the population, and has been demonstrated to occur rapidly where the recessive alleles have a lethal effect.[12] Unfortunately, genetic drift has a strong influence on small inbred populations, which can cause the fixation of sublethal deleterious alleles where there is only a weak selective pressure against them.[12] The fixation of a single allele for a specific gene can also reduce fitness where heterozygote advantage (where heterozygous individuals have higher fitness than homozygotes of either allele) was previously present. As a result, the influence of attempting to purge deleterious mutations from a population can either increase or decrease the fitness of a population, and is not generally recommended as a technique to improve the fitness of captive bred animals."
So if you wanted to practice this in your life I would recommend selecting a mate who is not from a genetically limited community.
Inbreeding depression is the exact opposite of your statement "With inbreeding, there's strong selection to reduce the frequency of disadvantageous genes.". Inbreeding depression is when there is a strong selection to increase the frequency of disadvantageous genes.
EXAMPLE:
Fumarase deficiency had only been seen in 13 people worldwide until 1990 when 20 cases all showed up among inbred Mormon (LDS) populations.
The symptoms are like I said in my original comment:
"severe mental retardation, unusual facial features"
This is only one example of Inbreeding Depression but it serves to back up my point nicely.
The cure for inbreeding depression is outbreeding enhancement
I'm afraid that is just something your parents told you to make you feel better about them being cousins.
It's called Inbreeding Depression and it's not psychological.
"Inbreeding (ie., breeding between closely related individuals) may on the one hand result in more recessive deleterious traits manifesting themselves, because the genomes of pair-mates are more similar: recessive traits can only occur in offspring if present in both parents' genomes, and the more genetically similar the parents are, the more often recessive traits appear in their offspring. Consequently, the more closely related the breeding pair is, the more homozygous deleterious genes the offspring may have, resulting in very unfit individuals. For alleles that confer an advantage in the heterozygous and/or homozygous-dominant state, the fitness of the homozygous-recessive state may even be zero (meaning sterile or unviable offspring)."
Join me in class, won't you?
You don't need that part. Luckily you don't have to satisfy every definition of a word at the same time. English would be impossible if that were true.
Selection is outside of the scope I gave you and for good reason.
I am speaking of biological evolution with no respect to behavioral science.
It is my opinion that behavioral science is bullshit and sexual selection is arbitrary. You didn't specify what kind of selection, either. There are countless different types of selection and factors that influence which animals mate and which ones do not.
The bottom line is that it doesn't matter. Look at the biological definition of the word. Every child satisfies the definition. It doesn't matter who the parents are or why.
Genetic science didn't exist when Darwin wrote his theory so don't act like it is the only source material on the subject. Many scientific theories have changed in the last 100 years. If you still function on outdated teachings then it is you who needs to return to school to learn about new developments.
The problem with your statement is that the existence of "species" is more controversial than the theory of evolution. I would say that the word species is not well defined.
Species used to be defined by what animals are sexually compatible enough to create offspring. A more recent definition, using genetic science, could relate to the number of chromosomes. The mule is an example that shows the problem well:
Mule:
"A mule is the offspring of a male donkey (jack) and a female horse (mare).[1] Horses and donkeys are different species, with different numbers of chromosomes."
How is it possible that a horse and a donkey can have children if they are different species?
You said:
If there is real evolution, then we will end up with a new species.
The mule is a third species. It is neither horse nor donkey. So according to your requirements there is real evolution.
For more information, please read:
Species problem
Maybe you don't understand the word: Evolution. Let me scope it out here for you.
You said that you believe in genes. Let's assume that you believe in the reproductive process too. When the genes of two parents combine you get all sorts of possible outcomes for the genetic result, or child. This child is then a combination of parental traits and yet not the mother nor the father. The child is new. We have also witnessed random mutation. You with me so far?
Now let's read the biological definition of the word Evolution:
"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations."
In conclusion:
If you believe that you are different than your parents then you believe in evolution. If evolution did not occur then you would be an identical twin of your father or mother.
Yes, that degree of incest is unreasonable. You could repopulate the Earth with really tall, ugly retards with your plan for the future.
This is literally SkyNet
You're not asking for a VPN. You're asking for a new routing protocol.
Once you have written a new routing protocol just submit it to the IEEE. Then you have to convince the large router manufacturers to use your standard.
You might want to get a job at CISCO. You would have better luck there.
Could someone please explain this finding to me using a car analogy?
Not a fan of public works projects?
I'll bet you don't need things like the interstate highway system or railroads. The backbone of our society. The reason you have food at the supermarket.
"How it that relevant?" you might ask. Right now, Amtrak is collecting bids from manufacturers to build a high speed rail system in America. It's been talked about for decades.
How is it that we are finally getting a high speed rail project? Obama authorized funding. That's right. Taxpayers are buying a huge public works project that will benefit everyone. It will create countless jobs not only to build but to operate and maintain. In the future people will be able to look back and say "I'm sure glad we have this nice rail system". People like you will forget how it got there.
Check it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Corporations should handle 100% of tax liability. Stick with me here and I'll explain how it will be similar to what happens today. When income tax is withheld from your check what you have is the corporation paying it's money, that was set aside for wages, directly to the federal government. Except currently we have each individual do a separate tax form. Imagine there was only one tax form for the whole company. The company would still be paying it's money to the federal government instead of putting it in your paycheck except there wouldn't be this lie that it was ever owed to employees.
The result is a hyperbolic reduction in paperwork. Less paperwork, less burden on the IRS. Less overhead for the IRS would result in slightly lower taxes. Processing everything would be easier for everyone.
The amount of your take home salary could be the same but the corporation wouldn't have to lie about how much you were actually earning. There wouldn't be the silly tax bracket game for wage earners.
We could be honest about how much money it takes to run this country and we could be honest about who pays that burden.
Keep a stiff luxury tax for those who write their own paychecks.
Tax imports to encourage goods that are MADE IN THE USA. An extra tax could be applied to American companies that manufacture their goods overseas. This could lower the profit margin of outsourcing. That would create jobs and more tax money in America instead of paying the taxes of a foreign government.
You have obviously never used the Metasploit Meterpreter. It can pivot off any running process and run commands with that privilege level. It can also traverse your network creating tunnels as it goes along. This is why you want to prevent privilege escalation and the tunnel creation. If they can't escalate or create a tunnel then they are stuck on the first box that is exploited. It's damage control. It also buys you time to respond. If you can detect the activity you want to be able to stop it before the threat spreads.
In an eCommerce environment this is the difference between losing your user database and losing customer information. There have been many breaches in recent history where user data was leaked but no customer information was compromised. The bank is able to reset all passwords before damage is done. I imagine there was some form of internal security that kept the intruder away from sensitive data on another server deeper in the network.
A layered security approach has benefits. Is it overkill? That depends on a changing threat landscape. Tomorrow we may all be vulnerable again.
Check the exploit DB for APACHE exploits and come back a paranoid security advocate:
http://www.exploit-db.com/sear...
Easy solution:
Put all of your systems in to one big active/active server cluster. Then everyone is sharing all the resources evenly by default.
Here is a Fedora resource:
http://clusterlabs.org/doc/en-...
If you really want to have some fun you should try to create a Plan9 cluster. This is a transparent cluster OS that was designed for the purpose of resource sharing.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/pla...
or a centrally managed JVM. It's a little run-time environment that works on any OS. This is not a new idea but a different language. They don't specify what the app in the container is. A better platform independent solution would be very useful.
Thank you for making some sense today.
Although it is easy to prove that the Earth is older than 6,000 years I don't think we actually know how old the universe is. There is a new estimate that came out in 2013 so many people may not be aware of it. Before 2013 we estimated "that the Big Bang occurred between 12 and 14 billion years ago." that's uncertainty of over %16? Doesn't sound very confident to me. The good news is that the new measurement lands in the middle of the old estimate which is encouraging.
NASA says:
"How does WMAP data enable us to determine the age of the universe is 13.77 billion years, with an uncertainty of only 0.4%? The key to this is that by knowing the composition of matter and energy density in the universe, we can use Einstein's General Relativity to compute how fast the universe has been expanding in the past. "
Unfortunately, Einstein's General Relativity is not a bulletproof model and these estimates will have to be revised as our understanding of physics changes.
From my layman understanding; I think it's safe to say that the universe is at least 13 billion years old but it could be much older. It's the best guess we have.
SOURCE:
http://wmap.gsfc.nasa.gov/univ...
BitCoin, by nature, is as trustworthy as SHA256 which is used by TLS, SSL, PGP, SSH, S/MIME, and IPsec. So the math behind BitCoin is trusted by most of the world whether or not you are aware of that fact.
As a currency it is just as trustworthy as any other imaginary money system. It's value is highly speculative, like the NYSE. Nobody really trusts the NYSE just as you shouldn't trust the value of BitCoin.
That being said, cryptocurrencies have the potential to be more stable than fiat currencies. BitCoin may not be the final solution but behold as we are watching the future of money unfold. History is in the making.
Can I get a big "HELL YES" ?!
Says the man known as "number17"
I share my opinions and my nudity publicly. I'm not sure you have a point here.
No, I directly disagreed with all the points made. None of the statements made by AC have any relevance to the real world in which I live. The fact that Slashdot is moderated by a bunch of prudes who couldn't see the value in a person who is comfortable naked is shocking to me.
You could say that I missed the point but I would have to reflect that sentiment. It's fairly clear to me that AC thinks taking nude pictures of someone diminishes their self-worth and their societal value. That I can't agree with, my original stance stands.
This proves it to me. The NSA is really only concerned with collecting all the titties. They have the nude scanners at the airport to catch anyone who travels. Systematically they have infiltrated every possible way people use to share nude photos. Snapchat is a goldmine. All their dreams come true. Tits with every warrant. Now, with their unrivaled collection of nudie pictures they will rule the world with a strong masturbation hand.
That's actually what I put in mine
You don't know shit about USB rubber ducky.
http://hakshop.myshopify.com/products/usb-rubber-ducky
Make your time.
All your base are belong to us.