Here's a very interesting excerpt, for all those who can't figure out why this might actually work:
Tsetse life-cycle.
The tsetse is a unique insect. It gives birth every 9-10 days to a full-grown larva, which immediately burrows into the soil andforms a pupa. Thus the egg and larval stages of tsetse are notsubject to the usual hazards and losses experienced by otherinsects.Female tsetse produce at most nine larvae. Tsetse fliesunquestionably have the lowest reproduction potential of anyinsect, and this fact makes them a good target for SIT. A single mating provides sufficient sperm for fertilizationthrough the female's 90-100-day lifespan. Since females usuallymate only once, if they are mated by a sterile male they will notproduce any offspring.
Here's another paper in PDF format (or you can use Google to view as html).
Here's a very interesting excerpt, for all those who can't figure out why this might actually work:
Tsetse life-cycle.
The tsetse is a unique insect. It gives birth every 910 days to a full-grown larva, which immediately burrows into the soil andforms a pupa. Thus the egg and larval stages of tsetse are notsubject to the usual hazards and losses experienced by otherinsects.Female tsetse produce at most nine larvae. Tsetse fliesunquestionably have the lowest reproduction potential of anyinsect, and this fact makes them a good target for SIT. A single mating provides sufficient sperm for fertilizationthrough the female's 90100-day lifespan. Since females usuallymate only once, if they are mated by a sterile male they will notproduce any offspring.
I saw Toy Story 2 in an AMC theater in Burbank with a digital display. The clarity is phenominal - it's not necessarily something you can put your finger on (although there are no hairs or specks of dust) but it just LOOKS BETTER.
Simply put, the reason Windows systems seem more vulnerable is because SO MANY MORE people use them, and don't keep them patched. As a rule of thumb, someone running Linux at home knows what the term "security vulnerability" means and keeps his system up to date, where someone running Windows whatever doesn't.
Of course, that's not the case in the server market. If you want to talk about worms, remember one thing - the ONLY reason Code Red and other such worms exist is because of the popularity if the windows platform, on desktops and servers. Don't kid yourself for a second into thinking that the reason there aren't any widespread worms for *nix systems is because it's more secure. br
-Berj
It'd be nice to think the reason noone uses your own emails or backups against you is because you haven't done anything illegal, not because you've destroyed all the evidence.
One of the advantages of public transportation is that it's a CLEANER form of transportation - 25 people on a bus produces less pollution than 20 cars on the road. Put everyone back in their own car and you lose this advantage.
I just finished CS161 (Artificial Intelligence) at UCLA last quarter.... nice to see some applications for the stuff they teach us here, as most of it seems like garbage.-Berj
Computer games are the ONLY applications that tax a home-users cutting-edge machine... At the moment, systems are a little ahead of gaming technology, but in a few months that won't be the case. Just because your parents don't play Dark Age of Camelot or AquaNox, don't assume Joe User doesn't want to.
A fun new type of game out by EA deals heavily with MEMS, and actually has a lot of relavent info (along with a lot of stuff created for the game.) Check it out at Majestic's website.
Hey, can someone explain the second half of the article to me? What the hell does Heidi Roizen dressing up as a cheerleader or nurse (sketchy) have to do with the employee transfer???????
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Here's another paper in PDF format.
Here's a very interesting excerpt, for all those who can't figure out why this might actually work:
Tsetse life-cycle. The tsetse is a unique insect. It gives birth every 9-10 days to a full-grown larva, which immediately burrows into the soil andforms a pupa. Thus the egg and larval stages of tsetse are notsubject to the usual hazards and losses experienced by otherinsects.Female tsetse produce at most nine larvae. Tsetse fliesunquestionably have the lowest reproduction potential of anyinsect, and this fact makes them a good target for SIT. A single mating provides sufficient sperm for fertilizationthrough the female's 90-100-day lifespan. Since females usuallymate only once, if they are mated by a sterile male they will notproduce any offspring.
Here's another paper in PDF format (or you can use Google to view as html).
Here's a very interesting excerpt, for all those who can't figure out why this might actually work:
Tsetse life-cycle.
The tsetse is a unique insect. It gives birth every 910 days to a full-grown larva, which immediately burrows into the soil andforms a pupa. Thus the egg and larval stages of tsetse are notsubject to the usual hazards and losses experienced by otherinsects.Female tsetse produce at most nine larvae. Tsetse fliesunquestionably have the lowest reproduction potential of anyinsect, and this fact makes them a good target for SIT. A single mating provides sufficient sperm for fertilizationthrough the female's 90100-day lifespan. Since females usuallymate only once, if they are mated by a sterile male they will notproduce any offspring.
I saw Toy Story 2 in an AMC theater in Burbank with a digital display. The clarity is phenominal - it's not necessarily something you can put your finger on (although there are no hairs or specks of dust) but it just LOOKS BETTER.
-Berj
Simply put, the reason Windows systems seem more vulnerable is because SO MANY MORE people use them, and don't keep them patched. As a rule of thumb, someone running Linux at home knows what the term "security vulnerability" means and keeps his system up to date, where someone running Windows whatever doesn't.
Of course, that's not the case in the server market. If you want to talk about worms, remember one thing - the ONLY reason Code Red and other such worms exist is because of the popularity if the windows platform, on desktops and servers. Don't kid yourself for a second into thinking that the reason there aren't any widespread worms for *nix systems is because it's more secure.
br -Berj
Will it play Dark Age of Camelot or Everquest? =)
-Berj
It'd be nice to think the reason noone uses your own emails or backups against you is because you haven't done anything illegal, not because you've destroyed all the evidence.
Hello, corporate America.
-Berj
Scratch that, reverse it.
Where's my edit button? =(
-berj
One of the advantages of public transportation is that it's a CLEANER form of transportation - 25 people on a bus produces less pollution than 20 cars on the road. Put everyone back in their own car and you lose this advantage.
-Berj
I just finished CS161 (Artificial Intelligence) at UCLA last quarter.... nice to see some applications for the stuff they teach us here, as most of it seems like garbage. -Berj
RIP Douglas Adams.
Toshiba didn't have much going on in the ram market for a while now...
Check out the toshiba pieces up on pricewatch to see what I mean.
Wonder when we're going to see the DRAM market bottom out.... soon as enough people drop out of it I guess.
-Berj
Since when does McAfee produce hardware?
Computer games are the ONLY applications that tax a home-users cutting-edge machine... At the moment, systems are a little ahead of gaming technology, but in a few months that won't be the case. Just because your parents don't play Dark Age of Camelot or AquaNox, don't assume Joe User doesn't want to.
-Berj
A 1.5 GHz athlon based on old 0.18 micon technology.... That thing must REALLY cook.
Just don't let the heatsink get loose, we know what happens then...
-Berj
Now those little blinking lights on my cool Nike shoes can go on forever!!
-Berj
A fun new type of game out by EA deals heavily with MEMS, and actually has a lot of relavent info (along with a lot of stuff created for the game.) Check it out at Majestic's website.
-Berj
Hey, can someone explain the second half of the article to me? What the hell does Heidi Roizen dressing up as a cheerleader or nurse (sketchy) have to do with the employee transfer???????
-Berj
(NT)
"National Emergency Technology Guard"
That's better =)
The name "Geek Guard" has to go... there's a negative stigma associated with it.
-Berj
"has hired three companies to create Free Software email options"
??
-Berj
I assumed it was a convention, not automatically added. I gave too much credit to the posters I guess.
-Berj
I didn't realize /. automatically put the [destination] in the post, sorry for the repeat =)
-Berj
Here's a link to the original [sciencenews.org] publishing of the article.
-Berj
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... erm... clusters?
-Berj