If you seriously think that software that makes medical diagnostic claims is not regulated, you're not living in the same world as the rest of us does.
You don't have to use software that 'makes medical diagnostic claims'. You can simply used software designed for research purposes. Everything required to analyse genomic sequences, from alignment of the raw data to detection and annotation of variants of interest, is already freely available under open source or non-commercial academic licences, without regulation by the FDA or anyone else. There's nothing to stop you taking the output of this analysis and comparing it against large databases of disease-associated variants, several of which are also publicly available. All this requires a certain level of technical knowledge (the software and databases are designed for working scientists, and may not be terribly user-friendly), but there's certainly no legal barrier in your way.
"The MATE Team is very happy to say hello to the new Debian MATE Packaging Team, that is working hard to get MATE included into the next release of Debian...First packages are already in the repositories and there are many others in ftp-master NEW queue."
"The plan is to provide MATE inside the Debian archive before the end of the year (if the FTP master time will find enough time to review our uploads)."
Of course if you don't mind using the upstream repository, you can install it right now:
That's a pretty sophisticated hack. Looks like they've gone as far as setting up an entire site that looks superficially like Slashdot, but is full of grotesquely dull stories apparently designed to warp the minds of unsuspecting IT professionals - obviously some sort of psyop strategy, but to what purpose?:
The Quest of Erebor is a short piece, presented with additional material from a second version, in Unfinished Tales. It was edited, but not 'completed', by Christopher Tolkien, was apparently originally intended for the LOTR Appendix, and is written in a style appropriate for that work (in the event an even shorter description covering these events was included in the section on the Dwarves in Appendix A). It was never intended as the basis for a complete rewrite of the Hobbit, and even if Jackson had access to the UT material, there's hardly enough there to justify Jackson's bloated 3 movie version, nor would the film(s) necessarily be 'improved' by it:
"The canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration and the intrusion of unwanted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies" - JRRT.
And of course:
'Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right.' - B Baggins.
``No,'' said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, ``nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards role the people.''
``Odd,'' said Arthur, ``I thought you said it was a democracy.''
``I did,'' said Ford. ``It is.''
``So,'' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, ``why don't people get rid of the lizards?''
``It honestly doesn't occur to them,'' said Ford. ``They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.''
``You mean they actually vote for the lizards?''
``Oh yes,'' said Ford with a shrug, ``of course.''
``But,'' said Arthur, going for the big one again, ``why?''
``Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,'' said Ford, ``the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?''
He didn't set subtle traps that somehow slipped past vigilant reviewers. He included deliberate, very basic, glaring errors that showed no meaningful peer review had ever taken place. It's more like being fleeced by a con artist with 'This is a Con!' tattooed on his forehead - if you're taken in, you really only have yourself to blame.
I can (partially) forgive The Guardian for taking this story at face value, but Slashdot ought to be a bit more selective. Looks like this guy got kicked out of WJunction, set up his own site (which failed to attract much traffic), and is now claiming it was all part of a Cunning Plan to join the antipiracy industry (working for a company nobody has ever heard of, with a website that must have taken all of 15 minutes to set up). He can probably be reached for comment at his Top Model girlfriend's Manhattan penthouse (or more likely, in his mom's basement).
On one today, for only the second time. Still had that 'new train' smell. Definitely nicer, though probably even more popular with buskers, pickpockets and street preachers.
I have a friend who works for a company that does gene sequencing and other genetic research and, from what he's told me, the whole industry uses mostly python.
I think your friend is mistaken. Though it's essential to know a scripting language, most of the computationally expensive stuff in sequence analysis is done with code written in, as you might expect, C, C++, or Java. Perl and Python are used more for glue code, building analysis pipelines, and processing the output of the heavy duty tools for various downstream applications. R is used heavily for statistics, and especially for anything involving microarrays.
The remark: "I couldn't imagine filling the void in my life if I didn't have Linux." is Linus telling us: "They threatened to take Linux away from me so I complied with their demands."?
"They also claim to have found a "master amplituhedron" with infinitely many faces in infinitely many dimensions which should now be as important as the circle in two dimensions.;-) Its volume counts the "total amplitude" (?) of all processes; faces of this master jewel harbor the amplitudes for processes with finite collections of particles."
Slashdot Mirror
Very well designed until you step on one in bare feet, anway.
Finally a method of DVD piracy that the DMCA can't touch!
If you seriously think that software that makes medical diagnostic claims is not regulated, you're not living in the same world as the rest of us does.
You don't have to use software that 'makes medical diagnostic claims'. You can simply used software designed for research purposes. Everything required to analyse genomic sequences, from alignment of the raw data to detection and annotation of variants of interest, is already freely available under open source or non-commercial academic licences, without regulation by the FDA or anyone else. There's nothing to stop you taking the output of this analysis and comparing it against large databases of disease-associated variants, several of which are also publicly available. All this requires a certain level of technical knowledge (the software and databases are designed for working scientists, and may not be terribly user-friendly), but there's certainly no legal barrier in your way.
Yes, it's like being stranded in 2015 with a Blackberry, the last of your kind.
The original article seems to be Slashdotted (hey, can we still do that?!), but from the MATE blog:
http://mate-desktop.org/blog/2013-11-08-debian-mate-packaging-team/
"The MATE Team is very happy to say hello to the new Debian MATE Packaging Team, that is working hard to get MATE included into the next release of Debian...First packages are already in the repositories and there are many others in ftp-master NEW queue."
which links to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708385#31
"The plan is to provide MATE inside the Debian archive before the end of the year (if the FTP master time will find enough time to review our uploads)."
Of course if you don't mind using the upstream repository, you can install it right now:
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download
Here in the UK we cut out the middleman, and just buy these flying saucer tech headquarters directly from taxpayers' money:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters
Then they spy on us.
Having more languages is better than having fewer.
Tell that to the guys who were trying to build that great big tower in the land of Shinar! Enki might agree, though.
That's a pretty sophisticated hack. Looks like they've gone as far as setting up an entire site that looks superficially like Slashdot, but is full of grotesquely dull stories apparently designed to warp the minds of unsuspecting IT professionals - obviously some sort of psyop strategy, but to what purpose?:
http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/
Turns out i am a computer. Couldn't have figured it out myself!
Eliza> How does that make you feel?
No, it's the real thing (So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish).
The Quest of Erebor is a short piece, presented with additional material from a second version, in Unfinished Tales. It was edited, but not 'completed', by Christopher Tolkien, was apparently originally intended for the LOTR Appendix, and is written in a style appropriate for that work (in the event an even shorter description covering these events was included in the section on the Dwarves in Appendix A). It was never intended as the basis for a complete rewrite of the Hobbit, and even if Jackson had access to the UT material, there's hardly enough there to justify Jackson's bloated 3 movie version, nor would the film(s) necessarily be 'improved' by it:
"The canons of narrative art in any medium cannot be wholly different; and the failure of poor films is often precisely in exaggeration and the intrusion of unwanted matter owing to not perceiving where the core of the original lies" - JRRT.
And of course:
'Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right.' - B Baggins.
``No,'' said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, ``nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards role the people.''
``Odd,'' said Arthur, ``I thought you said it was a democracy.''
``I did,'' said Ford. ``It is.''
``So,'' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, ``why don't people get rid of the lizards?''
``It honestly doesn't occur to them,'' said Ford. ``They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.''
``You mean they actually vote for the lizards?''
``Oh yes,'' said Ford with a shrug, ``of course.''
``But,'' said Arthur, going for the big one again, ``why?''
``Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,'' said Ford, ``the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?''
He didn't set subtle traps that somehow slipped past vigilant reviewers. He included deliberate, very basic, glaring errors that showed no meaningful peer review had ever taken place. It's more like being fleeced by a con artist with 'This is a Con!' tattooed on his forehead - if you're taken in, you really only have yourself to blame.
Seaworm haem is people!!
There is a niche for a small, fast, deadly predator. Snakes happen to have won the fight for that niche
Honey Badger don't care: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
With all those mysterious shipping containers and the Bay Bridge, this looks much more William Gibson than Neal Stephenson.
I can (partially) forgive The Guardian for taking this story at face value, but Slashdot ought to be a bit more selective. Looks like this guy got kicked out of WJunction, set up his own site (which failed to attract much traffic), and is now claiming it was all part of a Cunning Plan to join the antipiracy industry (working for a company nobody has ever heard of, with a website that must have taken all of 15 minutes to set up). He can probably be reached for comment at his Top Model girlfriend's Manhattan penthouse (or more likely, in his mom's basement).
This is England, so it was probably tea. It's an easy mistake to make:
http://www.whittard.co.uk/tea/type/green-tea/gunpowder-tea
On one today, for only the second time. Still had that 'new train' smell. Definitely nicer, though probably even more popular with buskers, pickpockets and street preachers.
I have a friend who works for a company that does gene sequencing and other genetic research and, from what he's told me, the whole industry uses mostly python.
I think your friend is mistaken. Though it's essential to know a scripting language, most of the computationally expensive stuff in sequence analysis is done with code written in, as you might expect, C, C++, or Java. Perl and Python are used more for glue code, building analysis pipelines, and processing the output of the heavy duty tools for various downstream applications. R is used heavily for statistics, and especially for anything involving microarrays.
Not necessarily, see e.g.:
http://openbiblio.net/copyright/copyright-faq/
The Computer History Museum wants an XBOX 360:
http://www.computerhistory.org/artifactdonation/#stepOne
Whether this is for display, or just for the staff to play Halo in their lunch hour, isn't stated. Cheaper than buying one on Amazon, I suppose.
The remark: "I couldn't imagine filling the void in my life if I didn't have Linux." is Linus telling us: "They threatened to take Linux away from me so I complied with their demands."?
No, he compiled without their demands.
"They also claim to have found a "master amplituhedron" with infinitely many faces in infinitely many dimensions which should now be as important as the circle in two dimensions. ;-) Its volume counts the "total amplitude" (?) of all processes; faces of this master jewel harbor the amplitudes for processes with finite collections of particles."
http://motls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/amplituhedron-wonderful-pr-on-new.html
No idea what that means, but doesn't it sound cool?
12.04 is maintained until 2017. There won't be new hardware support for 12.04 after 14.04 is out, but this initiative is targeted at old PCs anyway.