Certainly GMOs should be labeled as such so that consumers can make an informed choice and pressing governments to introduce such legislation should be encouraged.
However, in Belgium, EU laws clearly state that products which contain GMOs must be labelled as such. In addition genetically modified crops must be handled in such a way that 'normal' crops are not affected. So in this case it would seem that these activists were not so much concerned with regulation but rather with the very existence of these GMO crops.
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/regulation/regulatory_process/156.european_regulatory_system_genetic_engineering.html
It's unlikely that these bacteria will be used for reducing greenhouse gas. Even if they could be adapted to live under more 'friendly' conditions they'll metabolise methane into... carbon dioxide. That doesn't really solve the problem.
On the other hand, methane is notoriously difficult to oxidise partially, so it might be interesting to see if and how this bacteria accomplishes this.
Exactly. Having actually performed DNA analysis in the lab, I can tell you that while very rapid temperature changes are benificial, you still need to take some time to let the new DNA strands form. In addition, there's more steps involved in actual DNA analysis (isolating the DNA, running it through a poly-acrylamide gel to get the familiar stipe patterns, etc), some of which can take far longer than the actual replication of the DNA itself. I doubt we'll be seeing machines that can perform DNA-analysis in mere minutes anytime soon.
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I don't think the important achievement is in the fact that the we now have another browser on Mac OS X, because there is enough choice out there, nor is the additional feauture set of Konqueror important to me.
What IS important is that some people have figured out how to isolate KDE from X11, which sets a precedent for porting other KDE apps to Mac OS X. Programs such as KOffice or Kopete do seems worth the bother to me.
Just because there is a different solution to the same problem doesn't say either solution is worthless.
If you're someone who's very orderly I suppose keeping your virtual desktops in order is something you don't mind. Not everyone wants to do that however, and so here's an alternative solution (that works more intuitive in my opinon). If you don't like it, no one forces you to use it.
It'd like to think so. To quote the Apple description of the Security Update:
Security Update 2003-10-28 addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
Java got a version boost in Panther, so it's not unthinkable that a little error slipped in this version; and doesn't affect the pre-Panther systems in any way.
Actually, there's some good sense in these honeypots. By redirecting the worm to fake services you make the worm waste time, which stops it from propagating, and perhaps just as important, congest network traffic (the honeypot can use vhosts to accomplish this). As an additional bonus, you'll be able to study the behaviour of the worm without actually compromising a machine. The point is not so much to find the original culprit, but preventing it from doing more damage. Also, on the subject of counter-attacks, it should be noted that article quite clearly mentions that this should only be done where the infected host is under the legal control of the administrator of the honeypot. Although this won't really help for your home computer, it may prevent spreading of the worm on business or school networks, for example.
Although the screenshot is cool, I'd like to compile some KDE apps myself. As such I downloaded the kdelibs (which is an obvious requirement for KDE apps), but the configure script will happily report that I don't have X.
Did anyone have success yet in compiling KDE stuff using Qt/Mac? And if so, can you give some directions on how to do it?:-)
Well, I took the time to install Gentoo (it being one of the few OSes actually recognizing the HD) on my G4 MDD just to have a second OS, and it works pretty good, although I'll admit that you better emerge the big things when you're not going to use the computer... XFree and KDE will take *hours*, even with 2 867Mhz G4 processors and everything optimized.
Unfortunately, there are no geForce drivers for the PPC version, which pretty much limits the system, because you're stuck with the 256 color fbdev.
Well, actually, this not the kind of lasers you're interested in if you want to shoot down rockets. A laser this strong would heat up a small patch of the rocket for only a very short time (maybe triggering some fusion reaction along the way), and would hardly result in the desired effect. You'd rather want an industrial laser which the yuse to cut metals, which would literally cut the missille, and probably ignite any flammable materials inside (i.e. the warhead or the propellant).
This is indeed true, it would be possible for terrorists to use this for planning operations and such.
You do need to realize however that strong encryption has been out on the net for quite a while now, if you take PGP/GPG for example, you can quite easily send encrypted messages that are (nearly?) impossible to crack.
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Certainly GMOs should be labeled as such so that consumers can make an informed choice and pressing governments to introduce such legislation should be encouraged. However, in Belgium, EU laws clearly state that products which contain GMOs must be labelled as such. In addition genetically modified crops must be handled in such a way that 'normal' crops are not affected. So in this case it would seem that these activists were not so much concerned with regulation but rather with the very existence of these GMO crops. http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/regulation/regulatory_process/156.european_regulatory_system_genetic_engineering.html
It's unlikely that these bacteria will be used for reducing greenhouse gas. Even if they could be adapted to live under more 'friendly' conditions they'll metabolise methane into... carbon dioxide. That doesn't really solve the problem. On the other hand, methane is notoriously difficult to oxidise partially, so it might be interesting to see if and how this bacteria accomplishes this.
minor upgrade, no digg.
Exactly. Having actually performed DNA analysis in the lab, I can tell you that while very rapid temperature changes are benificial, you still need to take some time to let the new DNA strands form. In addition, there's more steps involved in actual DNA analysis (isolating the DNA, running it through a poly-acrylamide gel to get the familiar stipe patterns, etc), some of which can take far longer than the actual replication of the DNA itself. I doubt we'll be seeing machines that can perform DNA-analysis in mere minutes anytime soon. Reblet
I don't think the important achievement is in the fact that the we now have another browser on Mac OS X, because there is enough choice out there, nor is the additional feauture set of Konqueror important to me.
What IS important is that some people have figured out how to isolate KDE from X11, which sets a precedent for porting other KDE apps to Mac OS X. Programs such as KOffice or Kopete do seems worth the bother to me.
Reblet
Just because there is a different solution to the same problem doesn't say either solution is worthless.
If you're someone who's very orderly I suppose keeping your virtual desktops in order is something you don't mind. Not everyone wants to do that however, and so here's an alternative solution (that works more intuitive in my opinon). If you don't like it, no one forces you to use it.
It'd like to think so. To quote the Apple description of the Security Update:
Security Update 2003-10-28 addresses a potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3 that could allow unauthorized access to a system.
Java got a version boost in Panther, so it's not unthinkable that a little error slipped in this version; and doesn't affect the pre-Panther systems in any way.
Actually, there's some good sense in these honeypots. By redirecting the worm to fake services you make the worm waste time, which stops it from propagating, and perhaps just as important, congest network traffic (the honeypot can use vhosts to accomplish this). As an additional bonus, you'll be able to study the behaviour of the worm without actually compromising a machine. The point is not so much to find the original culprit, but preventing it from doing more damage.
Also, on the subject of counter-attacks, it should be noted that article quite clearly mentions that this should only be done where the infected host is under the legal control of the administrator of the honeypot. Although this won't really help for your home computer, it may prevent spreading of the worm on business or school networks, for example.
Well, that's great. But does it run linux?!
SELECT * FROM `people` WERE `clue` > 0;
0 rows returned.
We're doomed.
Google may not be a god, but it is good: "Google is good" returns 1,820,000(!) hits.
Although the screenshot is cool, I'd like to compile some KDE apps myself. As such I downloaded the kdelibs (which is an obvious requirement for KDE apps), but the configure script will happily report that I don't have X.
:-)
Did anyone have success yet in compiling KDE stuff using Qt/Mac? And if so, can you give some directions on how to do it?
Well, I took the time to install Gentoo (it being one of the few OSes actually recognizing the HD) on my G4 MDD just to have a second OS, and it works pretty good, although I'll admit that you better emerge the big things when you're not going to use the computer... XFree and KDE will take *hours*, even with 2 867Mhz G4 processors and everything optimized. Unfortunately, there are no geForce drivers for the PPC version, which pretty much limits the system, because you're stuck with the 256 color fbdev.
Well, actually, this not the kind of lasers you're interested in if you want to shoot down rockets. A laser this strong would heat up a small patch of the rocket for only a very short time (maybe triggering some fusion reaction along the way), and would hardly result in the desired effect. You'd rather want an industrial laser which the yuse to cut metals, which would literally cut the missille, and probably ignite any flammable materials inside (i.e. the warhead or the propellant).
This is indeed true, it would be possible for terrorists to use this for planning operations and such. You do need to realize however that strong encryption has been out on the net for quite a while now, if you take PGP/GPG for example, you can quite easily send encrypted messages that are (nearly?) impossible to crack.
I'll bet they have some other clauses against that, though I haven't read the whole thing.