They didn't call it junk DNA for nothing. Most genetic scientists didn't think anything of the other 95% of the DNA because the coding part made up 5%. The rest must be junk, right? Wrong. Simons saw patterns in the non coding DNA and decided to prove to himself and others that nature could be so wasteful.
The non coding DNA often referred to as `junk DNA` was discovered by a maverick Kiwi Immunologist to perform a function (junk DNA provided markers to indicate abnormalities). Dr Malcolm Simons (I love it when Australians claim successful Kiwis for their own). Recognised as a world class leader in Immunology, Simons although untrained in genetics made a unique set of discoveries from 1987 onwards. He recognised that...
'... Junk DNA was serving a vital function; it provided markers that indicated susceptibility to disease...' [ABC TV Catalyst, Genius of Junk (DNA), aired 10 July 2003 on Australian television]
This has immense implications for the diagnosis of human disease. What happened after the discovery, the taking on of a (ruthless) business partner, the awarding of patents on the subsequent business fallout, the ill health of Dr Simons (Multiple Myeloma a fatal cancer) and the IP enforcement by Genetic Technologies is documented in the ABC TV Catalyst, Genius of Junk (DNA), aired 10 July 2003 on Australian television.
'... Linus speaking out against Tridge, is simply that of someone backing up his friend... '
No I see it a bit differently - I think its more than justa about friends its a philosophical clash. I came to this conclusion reading about samba on the samba website and the following statement hit me...
'... Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients....' (the emphasis is mine)
This contrasts with Torvalds more pragmatic approach in getting things done. Which is more correct is a matter of personal opinion. Pragamatism vs strict GNU adherance.
I can take a virgin PC, connect it to my network, boot with a Knoppix CD, start OpenOffice.org and all my printers are there and ready to use.
I can report mandrake 10.1 is pretty much the same, auto detected and I could use the printer HP1100 pretty much straight away. Thought the output print capability (ability to control printer - say 6 pages compressed into 1) was way inferior.
'... We do not rent or sell your personally identifying information to other companies or individuals, unless we have your consent....'[0]
mod cookie, still use google Its well and good to add cynical `people are paranoid` posts. How about a technical solution to side step google cookies? Here is one reference from www.google-watch.org where you can disable the cookie tracking ID , google [1] inserts in your cookies.
'...
Google's expiration date is a barometer of its insensitivity to privacy issues....' [2]
are cookies & uniqueIDs evil?
The simple url *hack* allows users to maintain their preferences via a modified url rather than the cookie. At the same time google doesnt get to use its unique id with your search patterns.
'...
My Search History saves information about
your activity on Google, including your search
queries, the results you click on,
and the date and time of your searches....' [3]
an experiment to try
As the original author(s) noted this is an more of an experiment to see how much google value their uniqueID by noting how long it takes for them to notice and rectify the cookie beahaviour. You can read more about the steps needed to do this at http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/cookie.htm
'...
Google does not collect any unique information
about you (such as your name, email address, etc.)
except when you specifically and knowingly provide
such information. Google notes and saves information
such as time of day, browser type, browser language,
and IP address with each query. That information is
used to verify our records and to provide more
relevant services to users. For example, Google may
use your IP address or browser language to determine
which language to use when showing search results or
advertisements....' [4]
It is timely that Paul Graham has just written an article (The Submarine) about PR companies doing precisly this. One of the standout lines is...
...
If anyone is dishonest, it's the reporters. The main reason PR firms exist is that reporters are lazy. Or, to put it more nicely, overworked.... [Paul Graham, The Submarine, APR2005].
'... This is the way Microsoft works: they have a product team for each product, and every year or two, that team ships a new version of their software. That's all. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, is a pure marketing team that looked around at all the upcoming releases, decided they need a "theme" to make Microsoft look like Big Revolutionary Innovators, and ordering everyone to call their next thing ".NET"....' [Microsoft Goes bonkers - JOS, July 22, 2000].
This reminds me of a JOS article, Microsoft Goes Bonkers by Joel. Do some substitution for.Net and no wonder your cynicism is piqued.
Bit surprised nobody has mentioned Tor.[0] Tor is a way for individuals, groups to source and share information but avoid some of the pitfalls. Tor is a useful tool for making your data (somewhat more) anonymous. Tor allows users to better hide the source or destination of their activities on-line. Tor unlike conventional encryption focuses on the header component of TCP packets so it makes it harder to determine the source or destination of your packets and ultimately your data. You can read more about how it works [1] and the Tor Protocol Specification here [2] and how it works here [3]. Tor should be another essential tool in your security kit.
ill-informed. Do you read any of the slashcode lists? (slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net)
From: Rob Malda To: slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Wes Moran Subject: [Slashcode-general] CSS Slashdot/Slashcode mockups Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:09:13 -0500 (Tue, 09:09 EST) Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2)
... OSTGs resident HTML uber geek has finally been freed up to spend some time working on bringing Slashdot's HTML into this century. He gave me permission to share where he is with you guys....
What about installing slash?. If you did you would see that improvements are being made though slashcode.
keep track of items together so they dont get lost
check your media as it decays - especially transitional new media that has yet to reach stability
you may only have one chance to re-record, transcribe the originals so get good technical advise
have a continuity plan for resurecting the data as it was originally intended
The reason I've bothered to highlight this restoration is so you can see what happens with information stored on old media over period 20 years. In both cases, Goat Island & The Capital, the original data had been collected but only the prior data had been kept in a professional archival environment.
I keep a port version but just upgraded to a desktop verison again. I have yet to check for a new version. This is problem as the port version is always behind the official release.
I stumbled on squeak looking for some smalltalk tools.
squeak + kid = squeakland
From there I found squeakland ~ a media authoring tool with browser front end.
'... Math and Science literacy has been devalued in our schools, or at best inappropriately taught. And yet it's vital, not just for vocational reasons, but to develop critical thinking skills needed by all world citizens. Based on a constructivist learning model, Squeak school examples show surprising ways of reaching math and science resistance and helping children develop powerful thinking skills....' Alan Keys, BACKGROUND ON HOW CHILDREN LEARN
Now I've just got to model the experiment I conducted with the young ones on the speed of maggots wriggling and their weird behaviour when you rotate the surface they are crawling on (they instantly seem to know which way is facing down).
Mac fans and students of product development should bookmark www.folklore.org. It is a valuable resouce for understanding *creativity*, software, hardware and other esoteric themes at Apple around the time the Mac was created.
Slashdot Mirror
Dont sweat about it. Its something I think NZ'rs would recognise as not getting credit for producing top minds.
it's my understanding that not everybody in the genetics world accepts his accounts of things, to say the least.
History will bear this one out. How many times do we get leaps in knowledge by the *experts* as opposed to out of field empiricists?
They didn't call it junk DNA for nothing. Most genetic scientists didn't think anything of the other 95% of the DNA because the coding part made up 5%. The rest must be junk, right? Wrong. Simons saw patterns in the non coding DNA and decided to prove to himself and others that nature could be so wasteful.
The non coding DNA often referred to as `junk DNA` was discovered by a maverick Kiwi Immunologist to perform a function (junk DNA provided markers to indicate abnormalities). Dr Malcolm Simons (I love it when Australians claim successful Kiwis for their own). Recognised as a world class leader in Immunology, Simons although untrained in genetics made a unique set of discoveries from 1987 onwards. He recognised that ...
This has immense implications for the diagnosis of human disease. What happened after the discovery, the taking on of a (ruthless) business partner, the awarding of patents on the subsequent business fallout, the ill health of Dr Simons (Multiple Myeloma a fatal cancer) and the IP enforcement by Genetic Technologies is documented in the ABC TV Catalyst, Genius of Junk (DNA), aired 10 July 2003 on Australian television.
Some interesting references:
It only takes, 1 cookie that does not expire until 2038. Do you want to know more? - Its all a matter of trust #14.
Wired has an article on Drew Endy and Tom Knight: Life Reinvented (Issue 13.01 - January 2005). For those interested the article also illustrates how the parts can be assembled as bio bricks.
doesn't stop the google cache of the article though. Ive added the google cache of the article at (http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alph a.asp ) - http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Xs-TRcuf8L8J:ww w.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alpha.asp++win supersite+reviews+longhorn&hl=en.
View the page before the cache updates. Still visible at 28APR2005 @ 1200Hrs AEST.
No I see it a bit differently - I think its more than justa about friends its a philosophical clash. I came to this conclusion reading about samba on the samba website and the following statement hit me ...
This contrasts with Torvalds more pragmatic approach in getting things done. Which is more correct is a matter of personal opinion. Pragamatism vs strict GNU adherance.
I can report mandrake 10.1 is pretty much the same, auto detected and I could use the printer HP1100 pretty much straight away. Thought the output print capability (ability to control printer - say 6 pages compressed into 1) was way inferior.
mod cookie, still use google
Its well and good to add cynical `people are paranoid` posts. How about a technical solution to side step google cookies? Here is one reference from www.google-watch.org where you can disable the cookie tracking ID , google [1] inserts in your cookies.
are cookies & uniqueIDs evil?
The simple url *hack* allows users to maintain their preferences via a modified url rather than the cookie. At the same time google doesnt get to use its unique id with your search patterns.
an experiment to try
As the original author(s) noted this is an more of an experiment to see how much google value their uniqueID by noting how long it takes for them to notice and rectify the cookie beahaviour. You can read more about the steps needed to do this at http://www.google-watch.org/cgi-bin/cookie.htm
references
[0] Snippet of current google privacy policy on information sharing
- http://www.google.com/privacy.html
[1] Explains about googles use of cookies and possible intention[2] Read here about the implications of googles privacy policy on data collection
[3] Snippets from Privacy FAQ for My Search
[4] Snippet from current google policy on data collection
[Microsoft Goes bonkers - JOS, July 22, 2000].
This reminds me of a JOS article, Microsoft Goes Bonkers by Joel. Do some substitution for .Net and no wonder your cynicism is piqued.
wannabes - its really called 'ed'.
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann/
http://wearcam.org/research.htm
Bit surprised nobody has mentioned Tor.[0] Tor is a way for individuals, groups to source and share information but avoid some of the pitfalls. Tor is a useful tool for making your data (somewhat more) anonymous. Tor allows users to better hide the source or destination of their activities on-line. Tor unlike conventional encryption focuses on the header component of TCP packets so it makes it harder to determine the source or destination of your packets and ultimately your data. You can read more about how it works [1] and the Tor Protocol Specification here [2] and how it works here [3]. Tor should be another essential tool in your security kit.
Reference
[0] Tor, EFF Overview: http://tor.eff.org/overview.html
[1] Tor, How it works: http://tor.eff.org/howitworks.html
[2] Tor Protocol Specification: http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/tor-spec.txt
[3] Tor: How it Works: http://tor.eff.org/howitworks.html
ill-informed. Do you read any of the slashcode lists? (slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net)
From: Rob Malda
To: slashcode-general@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Wes Moran
Subject: [Slashcode-general] CSS Slashdot/Slashcode mockups
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:09:13 -0500 (Tue, 09:09 EST)
Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2)
spend some time working on bringing Slashdot's HTML into this century.
He gave me permission to share where he is with you guys.
What about installing slash?. If you did you would see that improvements are being made though slashcode.
I'm a bit of a midnight oil fan and have been since I was at Uni. so Imagine my suprise when JJJ re-release a concert televised back in '85 - Oils on the Water. The concert was recorded in 1" broadcast video, 4:3 & digital stereo tapes for the Goat Island Sydney Harbour concert. On the same release is a Super 16 mm film and analog multitrack recordings of the Capitol Theatre concerts back in '82.
Exhumation, resurrection and final product
I guess some of the key lessons to learn can be read in the detailed discussion of how they re-mastered the images & sound to produce a DVD and CD of the original concerts. Some of the key takeways are:
The reason I've bothered to highlight this restoration is so you can see what happens with information stored on old media over period 20 years. In both cases, Goat Island & The Capital, the original data had been collected but only the prior data had been kept in a professional archival environment.
Is your data as future proof ?
Why do I need the layout if I have the data? There is nothing stopping the receiving device using its own software to display & manipulate data.
here's a link to the google *text cache* of the blog (www.nanocrew.net/blog/ ). Yeah even the normal google cache is slow.
Awsome stuff John. I should have recognised the name (doh). I'll try it. Keep up the coding it's much appreciated.
Obviously you have not seen the Snake on Acid?/p
how do you go with upgrading ?
I keep a port version but just upgraded to a desktop verison again. I have yet to check for a new version. This is problem as the port version is always behind the official release.
I stumbled on squeak looking for some smalltalk tools.
squeak + kid = squeakland
From there I found squeakland ~ a media authoring tool with browser front end.
The people behind squeak are impressive. What is more impressive is the ideas behind how kids learn.
Modelling the spped of a maggot
Now I've just got to model the experiment I conducted with the young ones on the speed of maggots wriggling and their weird behaviour when you rotate the surface they are crawling on (they instantly seem to know which way is facing down).
beagle , lucene or swishe for *nix, MS-Land etc.
An "I'm Feeling Lucky" search means less time searching for web pages and more time looking at them.
from the "I'm Feeling LuckyTM" button. Guess they changed it.
Jef Raskins work at Apple, with the Mac is well documented at www.folklore.org. The site created by Andy Hertzfeld has now been made into a book called Revolution in The Valley - a collection of esoteric stories that chronical the birth and development the Mac.
maybe you ought to read descriptions about the Reality Distortion Field that surrounds Jobs.
Mac fans and students of product development should bookmark www.folklore.org. It is a valuable resouce for understanding *creativity*, software, hardware and other esoteric themes at Apple around the time the Mac was created.