These synthetic base pairs are not found in nature, and need to be synthesized.
DNA molecules altered to include these synthetic base pairs can only be replicated if you supply these synthetic base pairs, it doesn't suddenly start producing these base pairs all by itself. That would require another few dozen revolutionary breakthroughs in cellular biology.
It's not even clear from the article whether these artificial base pair molecules could even be synthesized under the conditions inside a cell. It's not unlikely it requires synthetic precursors and a high temperature.
That's great isn't it? It costs money to receive spam. If the cost of sending SMS is lowered, I'll start receiving more SMS spam.
Today I receive an occasional spam message via SMS, probably because it's so expensive. If they lower the price to 1 cent, I'm sure I'll start receiving thousands of such messages every day, rendering mobile phones as useless as e-mail has already become, and bankrupting me in the process through the fee for receiving the messages.
If it were up to me, SMS would cost nothing to receive, and $100,00 to send.
The "warmer, more nuanced sound" can be reproduced
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The "warmer, more nuanced sound" can be reproduced with your own CD player. Just use an equalizer and turn the top- and bottom frequencies way down, as the LP never managed to reproduce those properly. You can also slowly crumple up some paper for that added soft cracking sound in the background.
The LP was just never a very good reproduction of the sound in the studio.
But ok, some people prefer the sound the way it is distorted by reproduction via LP/record player, a matter of taste.
A remarkable fossil fetches the finder many times the average annual income of that region, while a 'common' fossil isn't worth all that much. The temptation is just too great for an artist to resist 'improving' a common fossil.
It's an ancient tradition too, in the colonial age, traders sometimes brought back stuffed unicorns and mermaids bought in China. For this reason, when the first stuffed Platypus was sent back to Europe, the sample was first assumed to be a Chinese fake.
It costs very little. The entire NASA funding is less than half of a percent of the government budget, it really is a pittance. Only a very small percentage of the NASA budget is used for space exploration.
One Iraq war for example costs (so far) about a thousand times as much as putting robots on mars.
Spending a very small amount of money on building a legacy isn't useless.
Dog semen is the best solution. Not only does it make your fingerprints unreadable, but it also obscures any DNA traces you might be leaving. Make sure your fingers are always dripping with the stuff.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is different from US policy. EVERYONE who wants to enter the US legally with something other than a US passport is fingerprinted and photographed. There is no separate line for people with spousal visas or long term residents with a green card.
The US has been taking finger prints and pictures of all foreigners entering the US since 2001 or 2002.
For the Visa waiver program, I also need to fill out a form every time asking whether I am a nazi, have any infectious diseases or have the intention to commit terrorist acts.
It also warns you that 1f you check 'yes' to any of those questions, you may be denied entry to the united states:)
All people interested in Linux on a PC (no proof, just a guess:) ) will install their own operating system over the one their PC came with!
For a store like Walmart (or Dell or almost any other general consumer brand), selling PC's pre-installed with Linux has nothing to do with a demand for linux, but for PC's without a windows licence fee.
I you already have a pile of unused legal windows licences, you don't really need another one.
Selling PCs without an operating system would not make sense, and might even get them into legal trouble as it could be seen (by Microsoft) as a blatant invitation to pirate software, so they are trying linux instead.
Lastly, the Dutch are world-renowned for their extreme tolerance. There is no way a Dutch person would be deeply offended over something like this.
They are also world renowned for wearing clogs and living in windmills, and when you take a look you find out that that stereotype has no base in reality either.
But seriously, the most likely way in which an email like this could cause an incident, would be a "ha ha, lol, your mail was gibberish, you idiot" reply to the email, causing the Israeli side to explode with rage.
All evidence is circumstantial, except eye witness reports and perhaps video footage.
'Circumstantial' doesn't mean 'unreliable' or 'worthless', it just means it links the suspect to the crime when combined with other facts. The murderer's DNA on a murder victim's body is circumstantial evidence for example. The murder weapon being found in the murderer's house is another example.
My grandmother lived for another decade after altzheimers disease had destroyed her ability to speak or to recognise her family. A wonderful, sweet and graceful lady reduced to a frightened, screaming animal.
I was weak and useless kid and couldn't bear visiting her anymore during the last few years of her life.
When I'm diagnosed with altzheimers, I will take up skydiving.
Indicator tests are nothing new by the way, and they're not inherently useless, as long as you realize that they tend to be non-specific, and usually react with a whole range of compounds. If you have a sample that you know may contain either substance A or B, and you know only substance B reacts with your color spray, then the reagent is a quick and reliable way to tell the difference.
If on the other hand you start spraying it on people who may have been in contact with any number of substances, and then accuse anyone with a positive reaction of terrorism, innocent people are going to end up in jail.
Do you really want a website, not under your own control, to have the following:
Your real name, hobbies, interests, spending patterns, perhaps your work experience etc etc.
Potential employers will be able to google you, and once your stuff in there, it never goes completely away, even if you edit or delete the page. So the law forbids them to ask for your age, gender, sexual preference, political affiliation, drinking habits etc etc, they won't have to, they can just google for it. You'll never know.
It is also an advertiser's wet dream. Targetted advertisements can be tailor made to suit your profile. Such an asset is worth a fortune to advertisers. Do you really believe this potential fortune will not be tapped? Your profile will be indexed, you can count on that.
A security breach will inevitably will happen one day - if not on the social site itself, then perhaps on the server of one of their advertisers, or a trojan on the PC of one of your friends, who can see your profile. This will put your profile into the hands of a spammer, who will sell it to other spammers.
"By that I mean that a wide array of causes, behavioral, social, or chemical, are causing a problem, and instead of resolving it (through behavioral therapy or psychological analysis) the doc is just writing for the same treatment."
Psychoanalysis has been as thoroughly discredited as homeopathy. Not only was it not based on proper science, but it actually did far more harm than good by teaching people that if you have a problem now, it's your mother's fault, or maybe uncle Kevin abused you as a child, without you ever having realized it.
This article is obviously bogus; it is physiologically impossible. If there were a visible wavelength that made everyone puke, everyone would already be puking all day.
Obviously shining a very bright light into someone's eyes can blind- and disorient them. The rest of the story was obviously invented by a Fox news editor, to make the story sound a little sexier.
Ease of installation and use is great these days, but that's not the issue.
With a large number CPU and I/O intensive jobs running concurrently, you get good performance, but the lack of responsiveness of the UI, not just the GUI but also of the command line, makes a Linux desktop 'feel' slow.
Choppy window rendering, a brief, but noticeable delay before the system responds to user input, especially poor responsiveness and battery life with powersaving settings on laptops, these are things where Linux lags further and further behind the two major commercial desktop OS-es.
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These synthetic base pairs are not found in nature, and need to be synthesized.
DNA molecules altered to include these synthetic base pairs can only be replicated if you supply these synthetic base pairs, it doesn't suddenly start producing these base pairs all by itself. That would require another few dozen revolutionary breakthroughs in cellular biology.
It's not even clear from the article whether these artificial base pair molecules could even be synthesized under the conditions inside a cell. It's not unlikely it requires synthetic precursors and a high temperature.
What could possibly go wrong?
"since Slashdot members tend to represent the more educated and successful members to begin with?"
The above statement deserves a +1 funny
"also they advertise through sms"
That's great isn't it? It costs money to receive spam. If the cost of sending SMS is lowered, I'll start receiving more SMS spam.
Today I receive an occasional spam message via SMS, probably because it's so expensive. If they lower the price to 1 cent, I'm sure I'll start receiving thousands of such messages every day, rendering mobile phones as useless as e-mail has already become, and bankrupting me in the process through the fee for receiving the messages.
If it were up to me, SMS would cost nothing to receive, and $100,00 to send.
The "warmer, more nuanced sound" can be reproduced with your own CD player. Just use an equalizer and turn the top- and bottom frequencies way down, as the LP never managed to reproduce those properly. You can also slowly crumple up some paper for that added soft cracking sound in the background.
The LP was just never a very good reproduction of the sound in the studio.
But ok, some people prefer the sound the way it is distorted by reproduction via LP/record player, a matter of taste.
Exactly my thought.
A remarkable fossil fetches the finder many times the average annual income of that region, while a 'common' fossil isn't worth all that much. The temptation is just too great for an artist to resist 'improving' a common fossil.
It's an ancient tradition too, in the colonial age, traders sometimes brought back stuffed unicorns and mermaids bought in China. For this reason, when the first stuffed Platypus was sent back to Europe, the sample was first assumed to be a Chinese fake.
It costs very little. The entire NASA funding is less than half of a percent of the government budget, it really is a pittance. Only a very small percentage of the NASA budget is used for space exploration.
One Iraq war for example costs (so far) about a thousand times as much as putting robots on mars.
Spending a very small amount of money on building a legacy isn't useless.
and then Idiot Iguana
I was fingerprinted and photographed again upon re-entering the US after a 2 hour stay in Canada.
The questionnaire is for the Visa waiver program.
It is incredibly unwise to try to joke around with these people!
A guy I know gave a silly answer to the question 'what is the reason for your visit?', and was held up for interrogation for several hours.
Dog semen is the best solution. Not only does it make your fingerprints unreadable, but it also obscures any DNA traces you might be leaving. Make sure your fingers are always dripping with the stuff.
I'm sorry, but I don't see how this is different from US policy. EVERYONE who wants to enter the US legally with something other than a US passport is fingerprinted and photographed. There is no separate line for people with spousal visas or long term residents with a green card.
The US has been taking finger prints and pictures of all foreigners entering the US since 2001 or 2002.
:)
For the Visa waiver program, I also need to fill out a form every time asking whether I am a nazi, have any infectious diseases or have the intention to commit terrorist acts.
It also warns you that 1f you check 'yes' to any of those questions, you may be denied entry to the united states
All people interested in Linux on a PC (no proof, just a guess :) ) will install their own operating system over the one their PC came with!
For a store like Walmart (or Dell or almost any other general consumer brand), selling PC's pre-installed with Linux has nothing to do with a demand for linux, but for PC's without a windows licence fee.
I you already have a pile of unused legal windows licences, you don't really need another one.
Selling PCs without an operating system would not make sense, and might even get them into legal trouble as it could be seen (by Microsoft) as a blatant invitation to pirate software, so they are trying linux instead.
Lastly, the Dutch are world-renowned for their extreme tolerance. There is no way a Dutch person would be deeply offended over something like this.
They are also world renowned for wearing clogs and living in windmills, and when you take a look you find out that that stereotype has no base in reality either.
But seriously, the most likely way in which an email like this could cause an incident, would be a "ha ha, lol, your mail was gibberish, you idiot" reply to the email, causing the Israeli side to explode with rage.
All evidence is circumstantial, except eye witness reports and perhaps video footage.
'Circumstantial' doesn't mean 'unreliable' or 'worthless', it just means it links the suspect to the crime when combined with other facts. The murderer's DNA on a murder victim's body is circumstantial evidence for example. The murder weapon being found in the murderer's house is another example.
My grandmother lived for another decade after altzheimers disease had destroyed her ability to speak or to recognise her family. A wonderful, sweet and graceful lady reduced to a frightened, screaming animal.
I was weak and useless kid and couldn't bear visiting her anymore during the last few years of her life.
When I'm diagnosed with altzheimers, I will take up skydiving.
The Birmingham six were convicted largely based on the result of such a test.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six/
Indicator tests are nothing new by the way, and they're not inherently useless, as long as you realize that they tend to be non-specific, and usually react with a whole range of compounds. If you have a sample that you know may contain either substance A or B, and you know only substance B reacts with your color spray, then the reagent is a quick and reliable way to tell the difference.
If on the other hand you start spraying it on people who may have been in contact with any number of substances, and then accuse anyone with a positive reaction of terrorism, innocent people are going to end up in jail.
Do you really want a website, not under your own control, to have the following:
Your real name, hobbies, interests, spending patterns, perhaps your work experience etc etc.
Potential employers will be able to google you, and once your stuff in there, it never goes completely away, even if you edit or delete the page. So the law forbids them to ask for your age, gender, sexual preference, political affiliation, drinking habits etc etc, they won't have to, they can just google for it. You'll never know.
It is also an advertiser's wet dream. Targetted advertisements can be tailor made to suit your profile. Such an asset is worth a fortune to advertisers. Do you really believe this potential fortune will not be tapped? Your profile will be indexed, you can count on that.
A security breach will inevitably will happen one day - if not on the social site itself, then perhaps on the server of one of their advertisers, or a trojan on the PC of one of your friends, who can see your profile. This will put your profile into the hands of a spammer, who will sell it to other spammers.
"By that I mean that a wide array of causes, behavioral, social, or chemical, are causing a problem, and instead of resolving it (through behavioral therapy or psychological analysis) the doc is just writing for the same treatment."
Psychoanalysis has been as thoroughly discredited as homeopathy. Not only was it not based on proper science, but it actually did far more harm than good by teaching people that if you have a problem now, it's your mother's fault, or maybe uncle Kevin abused you as a child, without you ever having realized it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_ironing/
ISO doesn't need to choose one of two document standards, there is nothing preventing the existence of multiple standards for documents.
"We're not interested in suing people over Unix," Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry said. "We're not even in the Unix business any more."
Does that mean Unix is effectively in the public domain now?
The website of the manufacturer only mentions the 'Blind and disorient' part.
I'm telling you, the whole puke-ray angle is a Fox News invention
The source of this article: Fox news.
This article is obviously bogus; it is physiologically impossible. If there were a visible wavelength that made everyone puke, everyone would already be puking all day.
Obviously shining a very bright light into someone's eyes can blind- and disorient them. The rest of the story was obviously invented by a Fox news editor, to make the story sound a little sexier.
Ease of installation and use is great these days, but that's not the issue.
With a large number CPU and I/O intensive jobs running concurrently, you get good performance, but the lack of responsiveness of the UI, not just the GUI but also of the command line, makes a Linux desktop 'feel' slow.
Choppy window rendering, a brief, but noticeable delay before the system responds to user input, especially poor responsiveness and battery life with powersaving settings on laptops, these are things where Linux lags further and further behind the two major commercial desktop OS-es.