Probably more likely is that you get even worse human biting malarial mosquitos.
Because if you produce a mosquito that does not feed on humans then you are doing nothing to prevent the 'unfit' human biting (HB) mosquitos from continuing to feed on humans.
Infact you actually make likely a worse outcome, by limiting the HB mosquitos to humans, you encourage them to adapt themselves to do a better job by specialization.
As a second point the reason why the HB mosquitos are unfit in comparison to the GM mosquitos is because they remain uninfected by the common plasmodium varieties.
If this changes, via a mutated plasmodium, then the fitness of the GM mosquito is reduced to roughly the same level as the present mosquito varieties.
This leads to an interesting idea:
Each time a variety falls victim to infection and as a consequence its fitness drops versus uninfectible varieties, then a new uninfectible variety can be released, which will outcompete it in its environment.
Each release cycle should see fewer plasmodium carriers as a percentage of the overall mosquito population, it might not eradicate it, but it would reduce the number of human infections by a quite significant number.
None of this is exactly surprising as it should have occured to anyone who cared to think about the issue.
But it does leave a legitimate question. Will those bastards at Google tell my wife about my chronic pr0n addiction?
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Yes I am obviously a karma whore, having made just over 10 posts this year. Thanks also for the Ad Hominem attack, illuminating my undoubted dumbness.
But back to your point, you said 'The point, as the Constitution says, is to provide an economic incentive. That is the only defensible position regarding copyright, trademark, and patent law.'
Now wether or not I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I have to point out that it is factually incorrect, the constitution says no such thing, though it may insinuate it, to somebody who choses to read it that way.
Your original argument, which you have cleared up now I see, was a reasonable point, badly made, with a fallacious appeal to authority and hence invalid.
Now rather than take corrections and criticism with a bad temper you should see it as a method to help you refine your arguments and improve yourself. Because having been stung into actually making your point this time round, rather than as little snippet at the end of your commentary on the constitution.
You may find that that more than a few people willing to debate the other side of the idea, because I know many people who feel that owning ideas is perfectly legal and quite American and are more than willing to engage in rational debate on the issue.
By cheeking them with petty insults you only make your point more likely to be ignored.
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The point is not, as the constitution does not say 'to provide an economic incentive'
It is in fact 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,' as the constitution does say.
Truthfully I doubt that they will lose members.
And I dont think the transition is a problem, you simply create an account on the new Seti@home site and link it to your old one so that your credit is transferred over, Then download Boinc and insert your project and ID code and it does the rest.
I switched over to Boinc in March or April and since then have had no problems at all.
old Seti credit is transported across when you sign into the Boinc account version of Seti, and you can compile and run optimized clients for your architecture, something the old seti never really had.
I got a 35% performance increase by switching to an optimized client.
Boinc itself isn't really a replacement for seti though, it is simply a manager
You choose which projects you wish to subscribe to, and how long you want any particular project to hog resources for and away you go. At first i ran seti alone, but recently I have been running the Einstein@home and LHC@Home client on a 33% resource share basis with Seti.
Einstein, looks for spinning Pulsars and the LHC is a client from CERN running simulations of particles spinning around the new Six Track large hadron colider.
The LHC project has just finished sadly, but I think I'll move onto the Rosetta project, which is looking to work out various protein structures and interactions and how they can be used.
If, like me, you always fancied running a few other projects other than Seti but didnt want the hassle of manually deciding which client ot run then Boinc is a real boon and well worth the few minutes needed to set it up.
I did not say that the housing was good, or 'shangri la' style, merely very cheap. Nor did I say that the Unemployed had so much money that they 'are hand fed grapes by delightful young girls who sing them to sleep on their silk pillows that they purchace along with the casks of rich red wine and figs they have sent for from abroad with their state unemployment benefit'
I said they were paid enough to stay at home.
As the base level of Unemployment benefit in France starts at about 700 Euros (in the UK it is roughly half that figure), for many it is more, I think I can make a reasonable case that they are paid reasonably well for doing nothing.
Even if both of my points are contestable in some way, it still does not explain how these undoubtedly poor individuals are being exploited, which was the point that I took issue with.
I may be asking a silly question, but if the rioters are very poor, down to the huge economic disadvantages they have, huge numbers not having jobs, then how are they being exploited?
By being given highly subsidised housing and being paid to stay at home by the French taxpayer?
Disadvanteged yes, exploited no.
which often gets its facts wrong?
I emailed them on a couple of occasions to advise them of factual innacuracies in their stories, only to be ignored.
On one occasion when discussing a new database used by casinos in Vegas, they stated that blackjack players, who are card counters, were cheats and criminals who could be arrested.
Card counting is perfectly legal in Nevada, even if casinos dont like counters, and the Register could have checked that and then corrected it, but chose not to.
So I choose not to read their often inaccurate garbage anymore.
I doubt they were cut up, it would be much more useful to carefully observe them over a prolonged period to see any long term reactions to the treatment.
Then cut them up.
I could buy 17 Mac minis or commodity athlon XP boxes for that, and have enough change to pay for the electricity usage and a dominoes delivery or two.
Though I do expect that how much Darl paid for his license, is covered by a draconian non disclosure agreement, preventing you from ever revealing this information or any other arbitrary information that Sco may wish you to withold for the entire rest of your life.:D
When you first plug the unit it it is unresponsive and if the units are not charged for a full 14 hrs on installation, the units either lock up displaying a ! symbol or they simply refuse to power on.
Quite a problem if the owner does not know that they have to charge the unit before use.
This problem is so bad that Philips opened a unit specifically to put new batteries into the units before sending them back out.
The unit though it can be used as a removable HDD will not play mp3s that you simply drag and drop onto the drive. It requires going through Philips (Java based) DRM software, and it takes a long time to load up the device, around 50 seconds to transfer a 3 minute 128kbps mp3 via USB.
Not a product I could in all good conscience recommend.
128kbps MP3s have noticible artifacts when I play them back through my Nakamichi AV-8 amp + Mordaunt-Short speakers, that simply aren't noticible when played through an iPods headphones. Variable bit rate encoding helps a lot here.
Makes me wonder why given all the hulabuloo about 'Digital is Forever' that Valenti and his morons trumpet, they persist in offering 128kbps DRMed audio from their download sites.
I guess they simply want this distribution method to fail.
IMHO a major key in the iPods success is just how reliable these little buggers are.
I work testing and repairing all sorts of electronics for a UK Hi-Fi company and I see a fair old few MP3 players returned.
The vast majority of iPods returned have nothing wrong with them that a good RTFM loudly directed at its owner wouldn't fix.
Unlike Philips HDD060 which is a piece of garbage, it has to be charged for 14 hours out of the box or you risk fucking it's battery, and Philips don't see any need to inform customers of this with a note inside the product. Also it's DRM software is horribly slow.
The other competitor I see a lot of, is the iRiver iHP 1X0 series, damn fine players with a bag of functions, but a bit on the fragile side unfortunately.
Whilst working for a UK Hi-Fi outlet in their engineering department, I have come across a number of players, particularly Sony, which are capable of playing SACD, but I have not noticed any growth in the number of SACD discs available to purchase, it is to all intents and purposes a dead format.
MP3 on the other hand is big and getting bigger, in the past four months the number of MP3 players we see passing through our hands has quadroupled.
As the article points out, the demand for wifi connections to these devices is also increasing.
I fully expect to see the most flexible devices take the lions share of the market, but no doubt the crippled Sony player will have its share of adherents too.
The one surprise in the archive.org archives is the lack of real feature films, I mean, how many studios went bust in the 20s, 30s and 40s and did their successors in interest all renew the copyright on their backcatalogues?
There must be thousands of fims, probably a few classics included, Night of the Living Dead being a clear example in this case.
Copyrighted works are out there just waiting to be discovered as public domain, but still being used by the unscrupulous to chill the creativity of others?
Lets hope this case serves as inspiration to others to dig up other gems for the public domain.
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Because if you produce a mosquito that does not feed on humans then you are doing nothing to prevent the 'unfit' human biting (HB) mosquitos from continuing to feed on humans.
Infact you actually make likely a worse outcome, by limiting the HB mosquitos to humans, you encourage them to adapt themselves to do a better job by specialization.
As a second point the reason why the HB mosquitos are unfit in comparison to the GM mosquitos is because they remain uninfected by the common plasmodium varieties.
If this changes, via a mutated plasmodium, then the fitness of the GM mosquito is reduced to roughly the same level as the present mosquito varieties.
This leads to an interesting idea:
Each time a variety falls victim to infection and as a consequence its fitness drops versus uninfectible varieties, then a new uninfectible variety can be released, which will outcompete it in its environment.
Each release cycle should see fewer plasmodium carriers as a percentage of the overall mosquito population, it might not eradicate it, but it would reduce the number of human infections by a quite significant number.
But it does leave a legitimate question.
Will those bastards at Google tell my wife about my chronic pr0n addiction?
But back to your point, you said 'The point, as the Constitution says, is to provide an economic incentive. That is the only defensible position regarding copyright, trademark, and patent law.'
Now wether or not I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, I have to point out that it is factually incorrect, the constitution says no such thing, though it may insinuate it, to somebody who choses to read it that way.
Your original argument, which you have cleared up now I see, was a reasonable point, badly made, with a fallacious appeal to authority and hence invalid.
Now rather than take corrections and criticism with a bad temper you should see it as a method to help you refine your arguments and improve yourself.
Because having been stung into actually making your point this time round, rather than as little snippet at the end of your commentary on the constitution.
You may find that that more than a few people willing to debate the other side of the idea, because I know many people who feel that owning ideas is perfectly legal and quite American and are more than willing to engage in rational debate on the issue.
By cheeking them with petty insults you only make your point more likely to be ignored.
The point is not, as the constitution does not say 'to provide an economic incentive'
It is in fact 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts,' as the constitution does say.
And I dont think the transition is a problem, you simply create an account on the new Seti@home site and link it to your old one so that your credit is transferred over, Then download Boinc and insert your project and ID code and it does the rest.
I switched over to Boinc in March or April and since then have had no problems at all. old Seti credit is transported across when you sign into the Boinc account version of Seti, and you can compile and run optimized clients for your architecture, something the old seti never really had.
I got a 35% performance increase by switching to an optimized client.
Boinc itself isn't really a replacement for seti though, it is simply a manager
You choose which projects you wish to subscribe to, and how long you want any particular project to hog resources for and away you go.
At first i ran seti alone, but recently I have been running the Einstein@home and LHC@Home client on a 33% resource share basis with Seti.
Einstein, looks for spinning Pulsars and the LHC is a client from CERN running simulations of particles spinning around the new Six Track large hadron colider.
The LHC project has just finished sadly, but I think I'll move onto the Rosetta project, which is looking to work out various protein structures and interactions and how they can be used.
If, like me, you always fancied running a few other projects other than Seti but didnt want the hassle of manually deciding which client ot run then Boinc is a real boon and well worth the few minutes needed to set it up.
Have a go, I think you will like it!
I did not say that the housing was good, or 'shangri la' style, merely very cheap.
Nor did I say that the Unemployed had so much money that they 'are hand fed grapes by delightful young girls who sing them to sleep on their silk pillows that they purchace along with the casks of rich red wine and figs they have sent for from abroad with their state unemployment benefit' I said they were paid enough to stay at home.
As the base level of Unemployment benefit in France starts at about 700 Euros (in the UK it is roughly half that figure), for many it is more, I think I can make a reasonable case that they are paid reasonably well for doing nothing.
Even if both of my points are contestable in some way, it still does not explain how these undoubtedly poor individuals are being exploited, which was the point that I took issue with.
I may be asking a silly question, but if the rioters are very poor, down to the huge economic disadvantages they have, huge numbers not having jobs, then how are they being exploited?
By being given highly subsidised housing and being paid to stay at home by the French taxpayer?
Disadvanteged yes, exploited no.
I emailed them on a couple of occasions to advise them of factual innacuracies in their stories, only to be ignored.
On one occasion when discussing a new database used by casinos in Vegas, they stated that blackjack players, who are card counters, were cheats and criminals who could be arrested.
Card counting is perfectly legal in Nevada, even if casinos dont like counters, and the Register could have checked that and then corrected it, but chose not to.
So I choose not to read their often inaccurate garbage anymore.
I doubt they were cut up, it would be much more useful to carefully observe them over a prolonged period to see any long term reactions to the treatment.
Then cut them up.
It would produce lots of DPU, useful for AP tank rounds etc, but not any Weapons Grade stuff.
$8766 for a single CPU year?
I could buy 17 Mac minis or commodity athlon XP boxes for that, and have enough change to pay for the electricity usage and a dominoes delivery or two.
Though I do expect that how much Darl paid for his license, is covered by a draconian non disclosure agreement, preventing you from ever revealing this information or any other arbitrary information that Sco may wish you to withold for the entire rest of your life. :D
The iTrip coupled with WiFi uploading of tracks may well turn out to be the killer app for the MP3 generation, its just so damn convenient.
True sadly, you can store stuff on it but nothing more :(
Quite a problem if the owner does not know that they have to charge the unit before use.
This problem is so bad that Philips opened a unit specifically to put new batteries into the units before sending them back out.
The unit though it can be used as a removable HDD will not play mp3s that you simply drag and drop onto the drive.
It requires going through Philips (Java based) DRM software, and it takes a long time to load up the device, around 50 seconds to transfer a 3 minute 128kbps mp3 via USB.
Not a product I could in all good conscience recommend.
Hope that helps :)
128kbps MP3s have noticible artifacts when I play them back through my Nakamichi AV-8 amp + Mordaunt-Short speakers, that simply aren't noticible when played through an iPods headphones.
Variable bit rate encoding helps a lot here.
Makes me wonder why given all the hulabuloo about 'Digital is Forever' that Valenti and his morons trumpet, they persist in offering 128kbps DRMed audio from their download sites.
I guess they simply want this distribution method to fail.
I work testing and repairing all sorts of electronics for a UK Hi-Fi company and I see a fair old few MP3 players returned.
The vast majority of iPods returned have nothing wrong with them that a good RTFM loudly directed at its owner wouldn't fix.
Unlike Philips HDD060 which is a piece of garbage, it has to be charged for 14 hours out of the box or you risk fucking it's battery, and Philips don't see any need to inform customers of this with a note inside the product. Also it's DRM software is horribly slow.
The other competitor I see a lot of, is the iRiver iHP 1X0 series, damn fine players with a bag of functions, but a bit on the fragile side unfortunately.
Whilst working for a UK Hi-Fi outlet in their engineering department, I have come across a number of players, particularly Sony, which are capable of playing SACD, but I have not noticed any growth in the number of SACD discs available to purchase, it is to all intents and purposes a dead format. MP3 on the other hand is big and getting bigger, in the past four months the number of MP3 players we see passing through our hands has quadroupled. As the article points out, the demand for wifi connections to these devices is also increasing. I fully expect to see the most flexible devices take the lions share of the market, but no doubt the crippled Sony player will have its share of adherents too.
Thats right kids, you too can download an mpeg motion picture, that could save your life today!
... take a look at NASA's Blue Marble, Globe at night pictures. A picture says a thousand words so they say.
Surely you meant an Oliphaunt!!!
There must be thousands of fims, probably a few classics included, Night of the Living Dead being a clear example in this case.
Lets hope this case serves as inspiration to others to dig up other gems for the public domain.
Perhaps now the trend of ever increasing oil use in the USA and elsewhere can be reversed.
Please RTFA next time :P