Good god! someone on/. talking sense? Are you some sort of anarchist canadian or something!!!:)
I happen to agree with all that was said here. I'm just sad that NASA is still exclusivley American, and partially privatised. The same Private Sector that gives us such gems as disposable wipes!!! Put it under the UN, let everyone pay their back-dues (I think the US alone owes $4bn (orwas that $4trillion)) and make it an international project, where the best and brightest globally could be recruited. SO we could have Russian thoeretisicts (better, by all accounts that western ones) and western engineers (better than eastern ones) and get something that works going.
A previous/. article (that I'm too laz to reference) mentions solar powered space lasers powerful enough to vapourise metals....Imagine what that kind of power could provide in terms of energy.....
Of course, the Western world alone already produces enough food to feed everyone on the planet every day, yet thousands starve to death daily. There economics for ya!!!
The original internet protocals were developed by some "intellectial eletist (see earlier post)" to pass images to a colleague who happened to work somehwere else. Both of these people were University professors.
Huge amounts of SHITE in this previous comment. Bloddy heel, I'm Irish and I can spot all the hoes in these arguments!!!
first of all, any astronaut has to undergo special training. There is a reason that NASA traditionally selected jet pilots, y'know, and that's the 9 or so G's that astronauts experience. Training them is an expensive exercise, and should not be undertaken lightly (now the intersting research that suggestesd that women can handle more G's than men is another matter entirely)
On its own, this argument kills most of yhe previous one.
The accusation of "elitism" is spurious. You are heading for a "siumpsonesque" scenario where anyone above the average is a freak (thus lowering the average....).Anyone working on the space program is, IMO (?I don't claim it's humble) entitled to be proud of their achievements.
Also, construction methods and control methods are way too complex to allow "Joe Punter" into space. Perhaps with molecular manufacturing and AI it will be possible to allow your average person into space, but at the moment, one really does need to be useful to the mission on hand, and tourists are barely popular on the surface of the planet!!!!
And lastly, it's so damn expensive to send someone into space that sending someone without a specific purpose is stupid and wasteful.
I must admit that I feel that these opinions are very obsolete in the face of space exploration on a lrge scale.
There are a few reasons for this
1) As Iain M. Banks (try amazon.com) says, any ship put into outer space needs to be either completely or almost completely self-sufficient. Otherwise it has a hugely limited range, and is next to useless.
2) There is a need for weapons in space. For one thing, a planetary asteroid defense would not be a bad plan, for another, no-one knows what is out there
3) development of weapon systems has traditionaly led to development of defense systems, and I think that defense systems can never be a bad thing.
4) And lastly, IMHO space exploration will benefit the entire human race, not just a particular geological sub-section. As before we will adapt. And we will benefit. However, there are some things that need to be sorted out first. little things like changing the planetary governmental system... (I personally feel that the UN should be made the Planetary Authority (no vetos) and all govern,ental science should fall under that umbrella (i.e no more wasting effort on designing new disposable wipes) with the previos national governments acting as "local authorities" I also feel that free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny)
I find it extremely sad that we seem only to be able to think in terms of our (extremely limited) planet-bound conventions when considering space exploration. The major thing about space is that it is all-but-infinite, and once we learn how to exploit it, it becomes a resource for THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE not just the country that wishes to exploit it.
I think this is one of the reasons (aside from poor acting:) that Armageddon & Deep Impact pissed me off so much... THere is no way that one country on its own could solve that typre of problem...
I am sick of this.
Yes, Nike may have 3rd world "sweatshops". But, If you were starting a company and could get cheaper overall costs by using 3rd world labour, you would. You would not pay these people the average industrial wage of the western world. The Nike people get paid, get food. That's a lot more than many people in the 3rd world do. In the end, Nike is helping their economies, and thus the future of the country
And as for sweatshops, I worked on the line in Dell Europe, and I can tell you, it's not all a cakewalk on this side of the planet either.
Now I'm going to get Moded into oblivion, but just remember that just because a company uses 3rd world labour does not automatically make them the Root Of All Evil
If there was a decent offering of Linux games out there I would immediatly remove Windows from my PC, sell all my windows games, get the linux versions and live happily on in stability and peace.:)
IBM needed MS in the early years, and Bill managed to get them to sign a contract that said he could sell his OS to anyone he liked, and furthermore that it was his property (why IBM signed it is anyone's guess. Maybe they were drunk).
There followed long years of court battles and bad feeling during which IBM STILL had to use MS stuff. OS/2 was an attempt to hit MS for six, but MS had managed to dig in at this stage, and OS/2 failed.
I believe this is one of he reasons IBM supports Linux, kinda still a bit sour!
Anyways, the point of the history lesson:) was that OS/2 and any software beyond the BIOS and machine code were not IBM's thing. OS/2 was only done to try and spite Bill and Co. MS and IBM are not really competitors.
Well, in Europe, the ECDL (European Computer Drivers License, an award for basic computer usage skills) which is a certificate status program (and a minimum for any secretarial work) is conducted entirely using MS-Office.
You do a test in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access if I recall correctly.
Interestingly enough, I read that the lack of dividends is saving them somewhere in the region of $560 million/year in taxes.
I also read another analysis where it was claimed that should M$ employees stop accepting stock and look for cash instead in their bonuses that the M$ stock could crash due to the volumes moved using this method. Also, M$ would be liable for a hell of a lot more taxes, and possibly could not afford the combined bill.
Er.... I thought this article meant that it would be searching the CIA's own databases for the mounds of information that they can't quite link together to find the master plan.
Like the way the KGB could never find Bond, despite the fact that he always introduced himself as "Bond, James Bond".
If they can link all their data together (e.g searching transcripts for Osama (not Bin!) might have an interesting result).
I don't think you're right. In that case, unless SPECIFICALLY stated in VISIBLE terms all over the DVD, you have bought a physical product. Just like a tape, a VHS video or a CD. Under the 'fair use' precedent, you are even entitled to a backup copy!
The problem here is to do with the challenge to the control of the viewing. Their encryption was broken, and an unlicensed player was developed. It wuold probably be possible to buy a license for a CSS player for Linux and distribute it. They just don't like their control being removed.
It's like voting. What proportion of people regularly vote?
In answer to the other question (how could 6 million people participate) an answer is a "virtual democracy." If all information is easily available to anyone interested (and I mean ALL) people can make informed contributions. The internet has the power to help acheive this.
Although, looking around, some of the posts make me wonder.....:)
I am reminded of a quote from "Men in Black"
"A person is intelligent. People are dumb, panicky herd animals"
If every nation was neutral, they would (theoretically) ignore the actions of any body outside their border, and not intervene in any foreign disputes. Each would stand on their own, leaving the weak to be gobbled up by the strong without fear of repercussions. There are not many neutral nations.
The Swiss are one of the few neutral nations. They very rarely, if ever take sides in any argument, and can reasonably claim to be able to defend themselves in the event of an invasion (one of the prerequisates to Military Neutrality).
Of course, they benefit tremendously from having (more or less) friendly nations all around them, which is always the best defense. For instance, Eire (aka Republic of Ireland) is "politically neutral". However, they have a marked pro-European, pro-American stance, and diplomatically support most iniatives from these quarters. They could not support their claim of "Military neutrality" were the UK a hostile nation.
Neutrality is not the way forward, co-operation is. Remember this: The EU is much stronger as a whole than its participants were alone. The US is stronger as a nation than its individual states would be alone. The USSR was stronger as a whole than the mess that is now Eastern Europe.
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Does anyone read the articles?
"These lasers are capable of vapourizing metal
Vapourise adj. To change state from solid to vapour by application of extreme heat.
That clear it up? The laser hits its' target. A large hole appears in the target. Target disentegrates (in the case of missiles) or explodes (in the case of shells)
I would like to point out that that fuek used is _liquid_ hydrogen, not gaseous like the hindenburg.
It is extremely difficult to hangle due to the fact that it is stored at waaaaaaay below 0C. IIRC it isn't particularly flammable as it vapourises. Plus, the tanks it's stored in are pretty robust.
Ford are roadtesting fuel-cell cars at the moment.
The Focus version looks pretty snazzy:)
Well the point of this is that if a large scale manufacturer like ford feels that it is safe enought to drive the roads, then I can't see why it could not be made viable for planes.
ESA == European Space Agency.
Yes, europeans can do stuff in space too!
Besides, aiming at something that you know the size, speed and direction of can be nowhere near as hard as hitting something as small as an ICBM that is being tracked from space. I think
You may have decided that you need insurance, but I fail to see how, for example, life insurance is a basic human right which must be extended to all, regardless of what conditions they put on it.
Hmmm, maybe not Life assurance, but isn't 3rd party car insurance mandatory in all the western countries? Therefore, If you didn't deal with the insurance company you couldn't drive legally, and that is not an option for most people.
Believe it or not, the insurance company DOES need to know a lot of things to insure you, and most of them are personal -your address, phone number, bank a/c no., car type......I would not be comfortable giving that out if I thought that it was going to be freely available. And, because I'm in the EU (Ireland) any company which does use the information except for the specific purpose I have given it to them (i.e to insure my car) they are breaking the law.
This is not a restriction of any kind of free speech/civil liberty. It is merely extending this particular EU law to deal with the realities of a global economy. As it stands, before M$ could run this.NET thingy that they're planning in the EU, they would have to attach certain very specific privacy clauses to it.
Now this is just a cop-out - there is no "effectively forced".
Oh come on! You try living without a bank account, with your cash under the bed. No car, insurance, job (yes your employers have all your personal information. And your medical, if you had to undergo a medical). What the hell would you do? You are "effectively forced" because if you don't do it, you are excluded from the current global, digital economy, and the benifits thereof. What the EU directive is aimed at is making sure that the companies involved don't abuse the powers that thay find themselves with. That includes selling you to a junk mailing list.
Come now - isn't this a rather naked attempt to use the power of the state to coerce individuals or businesses into giving you something for nothing? You get all the benefits of giving out your personal info, but the people you give it to are saddled with all the costs and obligations and left with no way to recover those costs with one of the few things of value you have given them
You donkey! Think for a minute! I sincerely hope that you are just trolling for the hell of it, or to play devils advocate! Your personal information should NOT have any value to those companies that you give it to! They should only be able to use it to provide the service that you are undoubtedly paying them for. That's what you give them - money and business. That covers their costs. It's called running a business.
FBI rep: So, as you can see, numbers of cases solved are up, percentages of convictions are up, crime is down, and fraud is down.
Senate committee: But here there is a 1% decrease in the number of wiretaps
FBI: Yes, but...
Senate committee: But in your annual report you committed to increases of....5%, wasn't it
FBI: But....
Senate committee: No buts, your productivity is clearly down in your cybercrime division. Your request for $2.5 million extra for your cybercrime division this year is denied until you meet your targets.
FBI: But...
Chairman : Shush
FBI: B...
Chairman : I've got a whole bag of "shush's" here all with your name on them. Now go.
*FBI representative exits the room muttering "I hate you"*
The LAST thing we need is genetically engineered mutants who are MORE likely to reproduce.
This got modded as insightful? This is flamebait trolling, nothing more or less. Do you, Mr. Coward, Anonymous esq. believe that we should use genetic modification to make certain people infertile? Maybe you'd put yourself forward first, and remove yourself from the gene pool. You do know that there is already enough food produced per day to feed the worlds population, don't you?
And your use of the word mutants is disgraceful. These are people. You are obviously the type of person who naturally pronunces the word "negro" with two g's.
I would like to put MHO opinion in here. The advent of genetics is wonderful. First, genetic disorders that would have made these peoples lives less full have been corrected. They can now lead normal lives.
We have also seen blind dogs having their sight restored, and other amazing feats. The hope that this brings millions of people (excepting the anonymous troll who posted this from under their bridge) is wonderful. Congratulations to the people who made this possible.
Well, there goes some Karma...I might as well finish it altogether!
Whoever modded this up, if you seriously read this and found it insightful, I feel sorry for you. This is possibly one of the most classic examples of trolling I have seen for a bit, even surfing at +1. Xenophobia like this (and that's what it is) is not welcome.
Ha! Excuse me, but I can't really see your "genetic code compiler", where you download,./configure, and make. Remember that gene therapy is highly experimental, and genetic modification a bit of a hot potato at the moment ethically and morally. (I, by the way, believe that genetics is the way forward medically, but that's just MHO. See this story about restoration of sight to blind dogs).
We're a long way from self-modification (I 4m 3l337 with the biggest cock ever kinda thing!) if we ever get there.
But I do agree with you, information should be available. And that's what this article is about. It was an ingenious method of searching vast quantities of data to link relevant papers.
One of the best things about this is that the methodology could possibly be applied to diciplines outside genetics, speeding up research in other areas.
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He lost your vote because he put educated the trailer-trash ahead of putting a person on Mars?
Or was ot because he made more sense in one statement than in GW's entire election campaign?
curious....
Good god! someone on
I happen to agree with all that was said here. I'm just sad that NASA is still exclusivley American, and partially privatised. The same Private Sector that gives us such gems as disposable wipes!!! Put it under the UN, let everyone pay their back-dues (I think the US alone owes $4bn (orwas that $4trillion)) and make it an international project, where the best and brightest globally could be recruited. SO we could have Russian thoeretisicts (better, by all accounts that western ones) and western engineers (better than eastern ones) and get something that works going.
A previous
Of course, the Western world alone already produces enough food to feed everyone on the planet every day, yet thousands starve to death daily. There economics for ya!!!
bugshit
The original internet protocals were developed by some "intellectial eletist (see earlier post)" to pass images to a colleague who happened to work somehwere else. Both of these people were University professors.
So there!
Aaaarrrgggghhhh!!!!!
Huge amounts of SHITE in this previous comment. Bloddy heel, I'm Irish and I can spot all the hoes in these arguments!!!
first of all, any astronaut has to undergo special training. There is a reason that NASA traditionally selected jet pilots, y'know, and that's the 9 or so G's that astronauts experience. Training them is an expensive exercise, and should not be undertaken lightly (now the intersting research that suggestesd that women can handle more G's than men is another matter entirely)
On its own, this argument kills most of yhe previous one.
The accusation of "elitism" is spurious. You are heading for a "siumpsonesque" scenario where anyone above the average is a freak (thus lowering the average....)
Also, construction methods and control methods are way too complex to allow "Joe Punter" into space. Perhaps with molecular manufacturing and AI it will be possible to allow your average person into space, but at the moment, one really does need to be useful to the mission on hand, and tourists are barely popular on the surface of the planet!!!!
And lastly, it's so damn expensive to send someone into space that sending someone without a specific purpose is stupid and wasteful.
I must admit that I feel that these opinions are very obsolete in the face of space exploration on a lrge scale.
There are a few reasons for this
1) As Iain M. Banks (try amazon.com) says, any ship put into outer space needs to be either completely or almost completely self-sufficient. Otherwise it has a hugely limited range, and is next to useless.
2) There is a need for weapons in space. For one thing, a planetary asteroid defense would not be a bad plan, for another, no-one knows what is out there
3) development of weapon systems has traditionaly led to development of defense systems, and I think that defense systems can never be a bad thing.
4) And lastly, IMHO space exploration will benefit the entire human race, not just a particular geological sub-section. As before we will adapt. And we will benefit. However, there are some things that need to be sorted out first. little things like changing the planetary governmental system... (I personally feel that the UN should be made the Planetary Authority (no vetos) and all govern,ental science should fall under that umbrella (i.e no more wasting effort on designing new disposable wipes) with the previos national governments acting as "local authorities" I also feel that free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny)
I find it extremely sad that we seem only to be able to think in terms of our (extremely limited) planet-bound conventions when considering space exploration. The major thing about space is that it is all-but-infinite, and once we learn how to exploit it, it becomes a resource for THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE not just the country that wishes to exploit it.
I think this is one of the reasons (aside from poor acting
I am sick of this.
Yes, Nike may have 3rd world "sweatshops". But, If you were starting a company and could get cheaper overall costs by using 3rd world labour, you would. You would not pay these people the average industrial wage of the western world. The Nike people get paid, get food. That's a lot more than many people in the 3rd world do. In the end, Nike is helping their economies, and thus the future of the country
And as for sweatshops, I worked on the line in Dell Europe, and I can tell you, it's not all a cakewalk on this side of the planet either.
Now I'm going to get Moded into oblivion, but just remember that just because a company uses 3rd world labour does not automatically make them the Root Of All Evil
Unless you happen to live in Europe, where EULA's are worth less than the paper they are printed on (even if they're electronic)
If there was a decent offering of Linux games out there I would immediatly remove Windows from my PC, sell all my windows games, get the linux versions and live happily on in stability and peace.
It's the only reason I use windows at all.
IBM needed MS in the early years, and Bill managed to get them to sign a contract that said he could sell his OS to anyone he liked, and furthermore that it was his property (why IBM signed it is anyone's guess. Maybe they were drunk).
There followed long years of court battles and bad feeling during which IBM STILL had to use MS stuff. OS/2 was an attempt to hit MS for six, but MS had managed to dig in at this stage, and OS/2 failed.
I believe this is one of he reasons IBM supports Linux, kinda still a bit sour!
Anyways, the point of the history lesson
Well, in Europe, the ECDL (European Computer Drivers License, an award for basic computer usage skills) which is a certificate status program (and a minimum for any secretarial work) is conducted entirely using MS-Office.
You do a test in Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Access if I recall correctly.
Interestingly enough, I read that the lack of dividends is saving them somewhere in the region of $560 million
I also read another analysis where it was claimed that should M$ employees stop accepting stock and look for cash instead in their bonuses that the M$ stock could crash due to the volumes moved using this method. Also, M$ would be liable for a hell of a lot more taxes, and possibly could not afford the combined bill.
I thought it was interesting, anyways
Er.... I thought this article meant that it would be searching the CIA's own databases for the mounds of information that they can't quite link together to find the master plan.
Like the way the KGB could never find Bond, despite the fact that he always introduced himself as "Bond, James Bond".
If they can link all their data together (e.g searching transcripts for Osama (not Bin!) might have an interesting result).
Maybe that'd just make too much sense.
I don't think you're right. In that case, unless SPECIFICALLY stated in VISIBLE terms all over the DVD, you have bought a physical product. Just like a tape, a VHS video or a CD. Under the 'fair use' precedent, you are even entitled to a backup copy!
The problem here is to do with the challenge to the control of the viewing. Their encryption was broken, and an unlicensed player was developed. It wuold probably be possible to buy a license for a CSS player for Linux and distribute it. They just don't like their control being removed.
It's like voting. What proportion of people regularly vote?
In answer to the other question (how could 6 million people participate) an answer is a "virtual democracy." If all information is easily available to anyone interested (and I mean ALL) people can make informed contributions. The internet has the power to help acheive this.
Although, looking around, some of the posts make me wonder.....
I am reminded of a quote from "Men in Black"
"A person is intelligent. People are dumb, panicky herd animals"
If every nation was neutral, they would (theoretically) ignore the actions of any body outside their border, and not intervene in any foreign disputes. Each would stand on their own, leaving the weak to be gobbled up by the strong without fear of repercussions. There are not many neutral nations.
The Swiss are one of the few neutral nations. They very rarely, if ever take sides in any argument, and can reasonably claim to be able to defend themselves in the event of an invasion (one of the prerequisates to Military Neutrality).
Of course, they benefit tremendously from having (more or less) friendly nations all around them, which is always the best defense. For instance, Eire (aka Republic of Ireland) is "politically neutral". However, they have a marked pro-European, pro-American stance, and diplomatically support most iniatives from these quarters. They could not support their claim of "Military neutrality" were the UK a hostile nation.
Neutrality is not the way forward, co-operation is. Remember this: The EU is much stronger as a whole than its participants were alone. The US is stronger as a nation than its individual states would be alone. The USSR was stronger as a whole than the mess that is now Eastern Europe.
Does anyone read the articles?
"These lasers are capable of vapourizing metal
Vapourise adj. To change state from solid to vapour by application of extreme heat.
That clear it up? The laser hits its' target. A large hole appears in the target. Target disentegrates (in the case of missiles) or explodes (in the case of shells)
I would like to point out that that fuek used is _liquid_ hydrogen, not gaseous like the hindenburg.
It is extremely difficult to hangle due to the fact that it is stored at waaaaaaay below 0C. IIRC it isn't particularly flammable as it vapourises. Plus, the tanks it's stored in are pretty robust.
Ford are roadtesting fuel-cell cars at the moment. :)
The Focus version looks pretty snazzy
Well the point of this is that if a large scale manufacturer like ford feels that it is safe enought to drive the roads, then I can't see why it could not be made viable for planes.
Not NASA.
ESA == European Space Agency.
Yes, europeans can do stuff in space too!
Besides, aiming at something that you know the size, speed and direction of can be nowhere near as hard as hitting something as small as an ICBM that is being tracked from space. I think
Isn't that the whole point?
The more comvoluted the laws, the more lawyers can charge. Most politicians were at some stage involved in the law business....
I think it makes ppl lose their sense of perspective.
You may have decided that you need insurance, but I fail to see how, for example, life insurance is a basic human right which must be extended to all, regardless of what conditions they put on it.
.NET thingy that they're planning in the EU, they would have to attach certain very specific privacy clauses to it.
Hmmm, maybe not Life assurance, but isn't 3rd party car insurance mandatory in all the western countries? Therefore, If you didn't deal with the insurance company you couldn't drive legally, and that is not an option for most people.
Believe it or not, the insurance company DOES need to know a lot of things to insure you, and most of them are personal -your address, phone number, bank a/c no., car type......I would not be comfortable giving that out if I thought that it was going to be freely available. And, because I'm in the EU (Ireland) any company which does use the information except for the specific purpose I have given it to them (i.e to insure my car) they are breaking the law.
This is not a restriction of any kind of free speech/civil liberty. It is merely extending this particular EU law to deal with the realities of a global economy. As it stands, before M$ could run this
Now this is just a cop-out - there is no "effectively forced".
Oh come on! You try living without a bank account, with your cash under the bed. No car, insurance, job (yes your employers have all your personal information. And your medical, if you had to undergo a medical). What the hell would you do? You are "effectively forced" because if you don't do it, you are excluded from the current global, digital economy, and the benifits thereof. What the EU directive is aimed at is making sure that the companies involved don't abuse the powers that thay find themselves with. That includes selling you to a junk mailing list.
Come now - isn't this a rather naked attempt to use the power of the state to coerce individuals or businesses into giving you something for nothing? You get all the benefits of giving out your personal info, but the people you give it to are saddled with all the costs and obligations and left with no way to recover those costs with one of the few things of value you have given them
You donkey! Think for a minute! I sincerely hope that you are just trolling for the hell of it, or to play devils advocate! Your personal information should NOT have any value to those companies that you give it to! They should only be able to use it to provide the service that you are undoubtedly paying them for. That's what you give them - money and business. That covers their costs. It's called running a business.
in their cybercrime division?
*Scene: Budgetary meeting on Capitol Hill*
FBI rep: So, as you can see, numbers of cases solved are up, percentages of convictions are up, crime is down, and fraud is down.
Senate committee: But here there is a 1% decrease in the number of wiretaps
FBI: Yes, but...
Senate committee: But in your annual report you committed to increases of....5%, wasn't it
FBI: But....
Senate committee: No buts, your productivity is clearly down in your cybercrime division. Your request for $2.5 million extra for your cybercrime division this year is denied until you meet your targets.
FBI: But...
Chairman : Shush
FBI: B...
Chairman : I've got a whole bag of "shush's" here all with your name on them. Now go.
*FBI representative exits the room muttering "I hate you"*
The LAST thing we need is genetically engineered mutants who are MORE likely to reproduce.
This got modded as insightful? This is flamebait trolling, nothing more or less. Do you, Mr. Coward, Anonymous esq. believe that we should use genetic modification to make certain people infertile? Maybe you'd put yourself forward first, and remove yourself from the gene pool. You do know that there is already enough food produced per day to feed the worlds population, don't you?
And your use of the word mutants is disgraceful. These are people. You are obviously the type of person who naturally pronunces the word "negro" with two g's.
I would like to put MHO opinion in here. The advent of genetics is wonderful. First, genetic disorders that would have made these peoples lives less full have been corrected. They can now lead normal lives.
We have also seen blind dogs having their sight restored, and other amazing feats. The hope that this brings millions of people (excepting the anonymous troll who posted this from under their bridge) is wonderful. Congratulations to the people who made this possible.
Well, there goes some Karma...I might as well finish it altogether!
Whoever modded this up, if you seriously read this and found it insightful, I feel sorry for you. This is possibly one of the most classic examples of trolling I have seen for a bit, even surfing at +1. Xenophobia like this (and that's what it is) is not welcome.
Ha! Excuse me, but I can't really see your "genetic code compiler", where you download, ./configure, and make. Remember that gene therapy is highly experimental, and genetic modification a bit of a hot potato at the moment ethically and morally. (I, by the way, believe that genetics is the way forward medically, but that's just MHO. See this story about restoration of sight to blind dogs).
We're a long way from self-modification (I 4m 3l337 with the biggest cock ever kinda thing!) if we ever get there.
But I do agree with you, information should be available. And that's what this article is about. It was an ingenious method of searching vast quantities of data to link relevant papers.
One of the best things about this is that the methodology could possibly be applied to diciplines outside genetics, speeding up research in other areas.