Interesting. So these sensors must be embedded with the DNA of the offending microorganism? Doesn't sound terribly useful to me if you have to make a new sensor every time somebody comes out with a biological weapon. Today's worst-case scenario will be no different with these sensors: an enemy develops a superbug, and delivers it to the country. If they bring it on an airplane, the sensors won't detect it because we don't know what it is.
Waitaminute. The chip is embedded with ssDNA? How does the ssDNA interact with dsDNA? Damn. I feel like an idiot when it comes to biological chemistry... how the hell would ssDNA bind to dsDNA?
That article was extremely lacking in details, says nothing about how it works; especially how it should be able to tell the difference between a biological weapon and a natural virus/bacteria/fungus...
Um, why would security gurus rejoice about this book being published? By definition, a guru knows just about everything to know about his art... and wouldn't need no steenking book. And no guru got where (s)he is from reading a book... they got it from experience. If anything, gurus would be annoyed that the distance between them, and the average joe, grows thin.
'Recently Janeane Garofalo said it best "It wasn't hip to protest during the Clinton administration"... but it is now.'
It wasn't "hip" because we elected Clinton, and regardless of who sucked his dick, he was a good president.
Should be? Who said should? The politicians don't want to be so restricted! They have all the political sway, and all the power to make laws without ever consulting the general public about them.
Wouldn't be hard to cheat some false-positives, either, with current video editing technology. With only a few intentional false-positives turned into slander suits, a mediocre team of lawyers could scare the press from ever trying to use the technology like that.
"Clever use of your new vocabulary"
Some days, ya just gotta troll. Muscle/Fat ratio, no, the average american fatass is nothing like a cow. In size, intelligence, and odor, however, they're disturbingly similar
Uhm... if my DNS server returned errors because it assumed a domain on my LAN didn't exist, I'd break somebody's head. My DNS server manages domain for seven boxen that make up a network of web services I'm developing. Since cleetus.renderweb is handled by my DNS, which runs essentially the same code as almost every other DNS in the world, there isn't a problem.
Betcha think that your browser should complain if you don't give it domain that begins with www. and ends with.com, or.net, too, don'cha?
Competition in the Open Source world? Microsoft gripes about not owning 100% of the market, too, guys. Competing projects are good. They promote diversity, and since we're all Open Source people, and we all use the same open protocols, its all interoperable.
Good to see KHTML in the commercial spotlight, and not just Mozilla. I'm typing this in Mozilla, which I sear by and tell all my friends about, but KHTML is good, too.
I live just about the most spartan life you could imagine. I don't have a car, I don't have a cell phone, or a TV. I buy my clothes at surplus stores. This is not because I am poor; I make good money as a programmer. The money that I make and don't need (about 50%) goes to support the homeless. Whenever I can, I buy my groceries at farmers' markets. My computer is made of recycled parts. I'm not the whiney liberal you think. The rest of the country is what I was talking about. They are the ones who can't do without.
" Is it just me, or is our country no longer free?......Is it just me, or is it time for more civil disobedience, protests, marches, and the like?"
Yes, and yes. Unfortunately, civil disobedience, protests, etc., work against the government, but corporations don't seem to care. The problem is that the people in control are the corrupt and greedy businessmen that are willing to kill their own companies for their personal benefit. Politicians and corporate execs are more than willing to give themselves raises at the expense of the country/company they are supposed to be improving/maintaining. Therefore, most corporations couldn't give a second shit about their customers.
This is the time for boycotts... but there are too many companies to boycott. You can't hardly live without paying a major corporation for SOMETHING. Try to buy a computer, or a car, or gas, or get power to your house... there aren't good alternatives for a great many things we rely upon in life. Besides, the common man is completely blind to all of this. Most people think that walmart and mcdonalds are gifts from god, and will laugh at you if you suggest a boycott. The educated minority is getting smaller and smaller, and the ignorant majority, who live for laziness and fear of that which they don't know, is getting bigger and bigger. They hold all the sway. This country is fucked. By the time it gets bad enough for the unwashed masses to start noticing, it'll be too late to change.
If the holes are cleaner, they can be be packed MUCH closer together. Slower lasers leave slaggy burns around the cuts they make. If you remove those slaggy burns, you can move the holes closer together.
True, true. But how many Linux classes do you see now, in comparisson to Minix? At the schools I've attended recently (two community colleges and a university), I've seen dozens of Linux classes... and I think a professor mentioned Minix once...
Linux may not be as good of a teaching tool (debatable -- source code is an excellent teacher), but it is certainly a much more popular one now, by a landslide. So while Minix might not be dead, its almost there.
Uh, whats wrong with selling guns? Posession of firearms is our constitutional right. Wal-Mart sells guns for hunting and personal protection. I'm happy to find guns available where they still can be. They have a valid purpose. Pornography, though, is understandably considered vulgar.
But in all honesty, I'd probably play the game long before going to Wal-Mart for a gun. (hell, I'm downloading it off Kazaa right now) I mean, jesus... everything else in the store is shit; how could I trust my life to a gun from there?
Believe me... I try -- its the only pleasure I get out of my job anymore. Just got into a fight with my co-workers about just that, actually. They know that simpler is better, but somehow won't accept that abstraction can mean simplicity. I abstract small things and they're happy. I want to abstract the entire database and all the pages built from it, and they bitch. I see a tiny little kernel of code that can build and run almost any complex website in a speedy, secure way (static files from templates)... but they don't like the idea of making the modularity so fine-grained.
My office uses this method...
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We didn't get it from any book. My boss is just a laid-back guy. Hell, until business was picking up to the point that it is, people were drinking every day... he offered me a beer at 3:00 on my second day!
Now, business has picked up, and before our last two large projects, he's hired somebody to help me with them. Now, I've got a close-knit team of 3, and I'm still doing the same amount of work as always. I get a little stresed about busy weeks, but a "busy" week usually means cutting the hour of Unreal Tournament, coming early and leaving a little late -- not working 80 hours a week. As a result, I'm always "on". I don't feel burnt out. I even enjoy my work most of the time, though it can be monotonous. (web scripts are all the same after you've written too many)
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That is what this attack does, minus all the complicated details. Wow. So... none of the complicated details are used in the attack? So it uses magic?
Don't you know? Humor is not accepted here on Slashdot. Off topic AND redundant. My anus.
Well, i hope that answers you questions
Perfectly, thanks.
Interesting. So these sensors must be embedded with the DNA of the offending microorganism? Doesn't sound terribly useful to me if you have to make a new sensor every time somebody comes out with a biological weapon. Today's worst-case scenario will be no different with these sensors: an enemy develops a superbug, and delivers it to the country. If they bring it on an airplane, the sensors won't detect it because we don't know what it is.
Waitaminute. The chip is embedded with ssDNA? How does the ssDNA interact with dsDNA? Damn. I feel like an idiot when it comes to biological chemistry... how the hell would ssDNA bind to dsDNA?
That article was extremely lacking in details, says nothing about how it works; especially how it should be able to tell the difference between a biological weapon and a natural virus/bacteria/fungus...
Um, why would security gurus rejoice about this book being published? By definition, a guru knows just about everything to know about his art... and wouldn't need no steenking book. And no guru got where (s)he is from reading a book... they got it from experience. If anything, gurus would be annoyed that the distance between them, and the average joe, grows thin.
'Recently Janeane Garofalo said it best "It wasn't hip to protest during the Clinton administration" ... but it is now.'
It wasn't "hip" because we elected Clinton, and regardless of who sucked his dick, he was a good president.
Like... what happens when you add droplets of water to the membrane? How thick could it get? Can you blow bubbles out of straight water?
Please be gentle...
Sure, we'll be gentle. Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot of room for "gentle" when you're swinging a sledge hammer.
Ummm... I've seen a bunch of "you could just get a dell" posts like this... is somebody paying you, or are you a bot?
Should be? Who said should? The politicians don't want to be so restricted! They have all the political sway, and all the power to make laws without ever consulting the general public about them.
Wouldn't be hard to cheat some false-positives, either, with current video editing technology. With only a few intentional false-positives turned into slander suits, a mediocre team of lawyers could scare the press from ever trying to use the technology like that.
How was that comment insightful? I thought it was a lame attempt at humor... you moderators can be wierd.
"He would also like to see it used during TV interviews with politicians, so audiences could tell whether they were being spun a yarn."
That would be illegal within a month.
"Clever use of your new vocabulary"
Some days, ya just gotta troll. Muscle/Fat ratio, no, the average american fatass is nothing like a cow. In size, intelligence, and odor, however, they're disturbingly similar
You people are fucking COWS, do you hear me?
Uhm... if my DNS server returned errors because it assumed a domain on my LAN didn't exist, I'd break somebody's head. My DNS server manages domain for seven boxen that make up a network of web services I'm developing. Since cleetus.renderweb is handled by my DNS, which runs essentially the same code as almost every other DNS in the world, there isn't a problem.
.com, or .net, too, don'cha?
Betcha think that your browser should complain if you don't give it domain that begins with www. and ends with
Competition in the Open Source world? Microsoft gripes about not owning 100% of the market, too, guys. Competing projects are good. They promote diversity, and since we're all Open Source people, and we all use the same open protocols, its all interoperable.
Good to see KHTML in the commercial spotlight, and not just Mozilla. I'm typing this in Mozilla, which I sear by and tell all my friends about, but KHTML is good, too.
I live just about the most spartan life you could imagine. I don't have a car, I don't have a cell phone, or a TV. I buy my clothes at surplus stores. This is not because I am poor; I make good money as a programmer. The money that I make and don't need (about 50%) goes to support the homeless. Whenever I can, I buy my groceries at farmers' markets. My computer is made of recycled parts. I'm not the whiney liberal you think. The rest of the country is what I was talking about. They are the ones who can't do without.
" Is it just me, or is our country no longer free? ... ...Is it just me, or is it time for more civil disobedience, protests, marches, and the like?"
Yes, and yes. Unfortunately, civil disobedience, protests, etc., work against the government, but corporations don't seem to care. The problem is that the people in control are the corrupt and greedy businessmen that are willing to kill their own companies for their personal benefit. Politicians and corporate execs are more than willing to give themselves raises at the expense of the country/company they are supposed to be improving/maintaining. Therefore, most corporations couldn't give a second shit about their customers.
This is the time for boycotts... but there are too many companies to boycott. You can't hardly live without paying a major corporation for SOMETHING. Try to buy a computer, or a car, or gas, or get power to your house... there aren't good alternatives for a great many things we rely upon in life. Besides, the common man is completely blind to all of this. Most people think that walmart and mcdonalds are gifts from god, and will laugh at you if you suggest a boycott. The educated minority is getting smaller and smaller, and the ignorant majority, who live for laziness and fear of that which they don't know, is getting bigger and bigger. They hold all the sway. This country is fucked. By the time it gets bad enough for the unwashed masses to start noticing, it'll be too late to change.
If the holes are cleaner, they can be be packed MUCH closer together. Slower lasers leave slaggy burns around the cuts they make. If you remove those slaggy burns, you can move the holes closer together.
True, true. But how many Linux classes do you see now, in comparisson to Minix? At the schools I've attended recently (two community colleges and a university), I've seen dozens of Linux classes... and I think a professor mentioned Minix once...
Linux may not be as good of a teaching tool (debatable -- source code is an excellent teacher), but it is certainly a much more popular one now, by a landslide. So while Minix might not be dead, its almost there.
A few professors speak Latin, too, does that mean the language isn't dead?
Uh, whats wrong with selling guns? Posession of firearms is our constitutional right. Wal-Mart sells guns for hunting and personal protection. I'm happy to find guns available where they still can be. They have a valid purpose. Pornography, though, is understandably considered vulgar.
But in all honesty, I'd probably play the game long before going to Wal-Mart for a gun. (hell, I'm downloading it off Kazaa right now) I mean, jesus... everything else in the store is shit; how could I trust my life to a gun from there?
Believe me... I try -- its the only pleasure I get out of my job anymore. Just got into a fight with my co-workers about just that, actually. They know that simpler is better, but somehow won't accept that abstraction can mean simplicity. I abstract small things and they're happy. I want to abstract the entire database and all the pages built from it, and they bitch. I see a tiny little kernel of code that can build and run almost any complex website in a speedy, secure way (static files from templates)... but they don't like the idea of making the modularity so fine-grained.
We didn't get it from any book. My boss is just a laid-back guy. Hell, until business was picking up to the point that it is, people were drinking every day... he offered me a beer at 3:00 on my second day!
Now, business has picked up, and before our last two large projects, he's hired somebody to help me with them. Now, I've got a close-knit team of 3, and I'm still doing the same amount of work as always. I get a little stresed about busy weeks, but a "busy" week usually means cutting the hour of Unreal Tournament, coming early and leaving a little late -- not working 80 hours a week. As a result, I'm always "on". I don't feel burnt out. I even enjoy my work most of the time, though it can be monotonous. (web scripts are all the same after you've written too many)