You're putting the blame on the wrong people. Like in America with small scale cattle farms, small scale fishermen go quickly out of business. The "fishermen" using the satellites and five mile nets are the huge corporations. Blame the governments for bending over and biting the pillow rather than hold them to acceptable standards for exploitation of a natural resource.
Hmmm...I'd read this as being more useful for scientific studies of fish stocks, rather than for the fishing industry. I mean, I'm sure both would find it useful, but the cost and reliability issues would rule it out for the majority of fishermen, as a few other posters have already said.
Good technology for scientists, especially if they are keen on returning live fish to the sea as far as is possible. Fish stock estimation is pretty unreliable as is, at least in the UK. Maybe something like this would help.
The light Hubble is picking up was created 750M years ago by this far galaxy. It has taken 750M years to travel to where we are now. That takes into account the expansion of the universe, and the distance change between source and detector during the lights travel.
The galaxy has already shined light on us, but this is irrelevant as it is different photons, not the same light. So that light has passed by, but because the galaxy is still emitting light, we still detect it, 750 million years later. If it exploded now , then it would take 750M years (give or take) before we'd see it exploding.
I think that answers your question, though I'm not totally sure what your question was.
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I know I'm going to get modded down for this, for going against the conventional Slashdot groupthink, but I think the SCO company have a good case. Now let me qualify that statement before you jump down my throat.
If you look at the facts of the case, sure, it looks like SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. They continue to sell a version of an operating system they claim infringes their code. They try to extort money via lawsuits. There is some doubt whether they even own what they claim to own. But put that all from your mind for a minute, and listen to this great analogy I thought up.
You see, Linux is like a cake, with lots of ingredients contributed by different people. The SCO group claim that some of their butter was used to make the cake, perhaps to grease the baking tray the cake was baked on, perhaps it was ground into the flour mix by hand. Without the butter, the cake could not have been made. And it isn't possible to take the butter out of the cake now, the damage has been done. Q.E.D. the SCO company are perfectly justified in demanding recompense for their stolen butter.
Your stem cells can be collected and stored at birth, from the cord blood that is thrown away anyway when they tie the knot to make your belly button.
It should be standard practice to store them now from newborns for when stem cell technology matures in the future.
When I was at Uni, they told us a US company held a patent on the harvesting(?) of cord blood stem cells, and demanded a license fee which is hampering the introduction of this. Don't know how true that is.
Nevertheless, this bypasses peoples squemishness on the use of embryos for this type of thing, though I don't have a problem with it myself. I can see why this work has been done, but there are a number of ways to generate this material that isn't morally suspect.
You're confusing having excellent karma with having anything interesting to say. Stop that. There is no obvious relationship between ones karma rating and ones worth to slashdot.
The karma system is eating slashdot from the inside like a bad sandwich.
I felt compelled to write to you regarding this mornings rather bizarre column from your North American business correspondent Stephen Evans titled "Linux cyber battle turns nasty". The article contains so many factual errors and biased reporting that it's difficult to know just where to begin.
Suffice to say, the picture your correspondent paints of a community in which individuals are willing to break the law due to their "zealotry" does not tally at all with my own experience. I have followed the SCO case from the beginning due to my interest in technology news. I do not use Linux at either home or work, but I was interested in learning more about it. So I would say I can approach questions about Linux and the SCO case with an open mind, sadly unlike your correspondent seems able to do.
A few pertinent facts: the MyDoom virus has a number of effects. Firstly, as your reporter indicates, it bombards the SCO company website in a DDOS attack. It also sets up infected computers to act as relays for spam, and thirdly contains a key-logging software for the capture of passwords and other sensitive data.
Can this really be summed up as "damage for damage's sake."? Rather, it would seem two thirds of MyDoom was especially written to aid criminals in their illegal and lucrative quest for passwords, credit card information, and relay machines for spam operations. Is it balanced reporting to give any naive readers the idea that the sole purpose of MyDoom was to bombard one companies website? And to point the finger, in absence of any evidence, that it is an act "waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system."
Do you not agree this may leave the unaware reader with misplaced anger at the open source community, especially if they have suffered as a result of being infected with the virus, and had to give up their own leisure time to clean their computer?
May I suggest the SCO attack is acting as a wonderful smokescreen, in that it seems to provoke exactly this sort of mindless finger pointing your reporter is engaging in. Could this not be a more likely purpose for the inclusion of the DDoS attack, one your reporter seems unable to comprehend?
A cursory skim of the article also reveals numerous factual errors. It is untrue to say that DDoS via virus is "A new level of sophistication". It is untrue to say Linux is available "for free": there are set terms for its use that carry the weight of law behind them. It is in effect a swap deal: we'll give you our code if you give us any improvements you make to it in turn. I trust your correspondent understands that items in this world have tradable value beyond monetary value? But this is a mere nitpick (though a common misconception and one you would hope someone writing on technology would not repeat) compared to the analysis of the SCO case and the lawsuits involved. As far as I know, SCO is suing IBM ( and by now probably Novell) not "users". A SCO victory would not result in "the death of Linux" and to say so reveals a depth of ignorance of Linux, of SCO, of copyright law and of technology in general that is breath taking. Finally, a DDoS attack is easily circumvented by a competent network administrator via DNS switching. It is not "wickedly ingenious", "a new degree of viciousness" or, my personal favourite "clever evil".
Let's look at this wonderful example of BBC journalism: "If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source)." To correct it for bias: "If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of [computer programmers] who believe that [the code they created and own] should be [theirs to do with as they please].
Please, in future, would it be too much to ask for articles such as this to be written by someone with a competent grasp of what they are actually writing about?
Interesting article, but why write "let me remind you of something called the food chain?"
The article describes a risk from the industry that grows up around the extremophiles, with exploitation of a natural resource that should be available to all. The submitter seems to confuse this with a risk to the organisms themselves.
I'm not arguing that harming the extremophiles wouldn't have knock on effects eventually for humans, but in terms of the article, it is beside the point. Reading some of the posts above seems to show people have confused this, or haven't actually bothered to read the article.
I guess now the trilogy is over, we can look back over the wreckage of the
destruction of a great piece of literature and ask ourselves: just why did the Lord of
the Rings trilogy suck so much?
Allow me to sum it up for the hard of thinking...
1) Miscasting of Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
Let's face it: even a false nose couldn't save Magneto from FAILING IT. He's too
old. He exuded about as much power as a limp dishrag. His fight scenes were woeful,
he had to be saved by Pippin for fucks sake. Now if they had Shatner in as Gandalf,
can you imagine how much better that would be? "DID YOU keepitsecret?" "YOU....SHALL...NOTPASS."
2) Overstrong homosexual subtext.
OK, Tolkien, as an Oxford Don with an interest in ancient languages, was certainly
gay. But it doesn't come out in his writing - it stays fully hetero. Luckily for us viewers "Brain
Dead" Jackson decided to make all the main characters gay, probably for some
mystifying artistic reason. Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Sam, Frodo, Merry and Pippin.
Hell, even Arwen was probably a rug muncher in the extended edition.
3) Too much singing
It's all right in the book, you can just rip those pages out and burn them. But
having to sit in the cinema and watch some woman having a bit of a sing song at a
funeral is not my idea of entertainment. Next funeral I go to, I'm breaking into
"Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" halfway through the service, and if any
fucker takes exception, I'll direct them to the Two Towers.
4) Special effects- shit
OK, granted, the battles were reasonably well down. But those Ents were ripped
straight out of the Magic Tree by Enid Blyton. And the Crack of Doom looked more
like my electric fireplace, than some kick ass volcano / evil workshop.
5) Gollum
HOLLYWOOD: PAY ATTENTION. Special effects characters with baby voices are not
working. STOP INCLUDING THEM IN YOUR FILMS. NOT EVEN KIDS LIKE THEM. DOES
ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD UNDERSTAND ENGLISH?
6) Elves = Gay
I don't recall Tolkien writing "By the way, all the male elves looked gay." I don't
recall that at all. Why, "Brain Dead", why?
7) "Brain Dead" Jackson: lose two stamina points.
The direction throughout was woeful. I remember clearly listening to the audio
commentry when the actors were excitedly describing Brain Dead's direction when
Aragorn was tracking Merry and Pippin into Fangorn from the battle. THAT'S AVERAGE
DIRECTION. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL. The only way you could think that was good direction is to have low expectations to begin with..."Wow, he's directing in an average, obvious way...that's BRILLIANT. +2 Luck"
8) Hatred of cinema icon, Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee. Huge Fan. Let's give him a meaty part...jeez Farmer Maggot's
already taken...Tom Bombadil? Naw, Saruman. Then let's just cut him completely out
of the film in every way. Exit Lee stage left, crushed in spirit and bearing a
noose.
9) Too many American actors
Can't act for shit. Sound stupid. Also, the Eagles were clearly meant to represent
the Americans in both the Hobbit and LotR. Arriving at the end, taking all the
credit. Accepting plaudits for finally getting their heads out of their arses 10
minutes before the end.
Beware mods - the parent "Anonymous Coward" is a known troll with many years of trolling under his belt. Take all his posts with a pinch of your usual crack.
Over there, isn't leaking government documents to journalists some kind of crime? To say the documents were disclosed inadvertantly is to avoid the issue: when it was found that the documents could be read, why weren't the democrats notified?
If you leave something unlocked and it gets broken into by theives, it's no less of a crime.
It's clear to anyone who has bothered to read the article, and more importantly
looked at the accompanying pictures, that this so-called "Aerogel"is nothing more than a
hastily contrived liberal smokescreen. I've seen more convincing effects on
Blake's Seven.
Aerogel doesn't exist. Aerogel has never existed. Aerogel, with its many wacky
and ill thought out supposed properties, breaks the law of
thermodynamics as we scientists understand them today. Why has this "Hot
Aerogel" been created by liberals for widespread news dissemination?
Well, I might sound paranoid, but there was a little thing called "The State of
the Union" speech last night, where King Bush outlined his masterplan to
continue making America kick-ass on all frontiers. The liberals know that
watching The Man lay it out is going to convince anyone to vote for him. Hell, even
reading the speech is going to make the most die hard committed liberal start
destroying condoms and bombing abortionists, that's how good it was. So
this Aerogel suddenly appears - Whoa: control the front page.
I can't believe what I'm reading on this site today! Targetted advertising or so called "Spam" is a commercial venture that goes to the very heart of a great American capitalist tradition. IT IS YOUR DUTY AS A GOOD CITIZEN TO READ ALL THE SPAM IN YOUR INBOX.
The cold war may be over, but does the term "Economic downturn" mean anything to you? We need Americans to buy herbal remedies (many of which are extraordinarily effective) and penis extenders, to consume, consume, consume before our great country becomes yet another footnote in some future history book, PROBABLY SCRAWLED IN SOME CHINESE PICTOGRAM. Is that what you want? DO YOU? ANSWER ME??
Support your country. Reject communism. Read spam.
The robot scientist will have its work checked over by real people anyway, prior to any publication.
It is likely to ignore any interesting, but narrowly irrelevant data and so could miss important discoveries.
It can only work in fields where any underlying biological phenomenon is simple eg biochemical metabolic pathways. Many experiments contradict each other, where the underlying biology is extremely complex, with a host of competing factors and extremely sensitive to slight changes in experimental reagents.
I'm a scientist, and I'm not too worried. Modern maths uses number crunchers too, like with the 3 colour map problem, but the proofs are always checked over. I guess the difference is these maths problems would take so long in human hours as the dissuade anyone from starting. This isn't the case in most of biology so I reckon the robot will not be useful in most disciplines.
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I find your views fascinating, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It's no surprise to me that this comes in for the lowest paid and most exploited workers who can't really complain, and likely aren't too concerned about this invasion of privacy.
You can't honestly say there aren't ways of accomplishing the accurate signing in of employees without the need to resort to taking biometric data. I have a basic philosophical problem with corporate entities taking information they don't need, nor have any entitlement too.
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Can you actually write with them?
He wanted the cop to say he wasn't parked illegally, i.e. admit that there was no way he was breaking the law.
Insightful?
You're putting the blame on the wrong people. Like in America with small scale cattle farms, small scale fishermen go quickly out of business. The "fishermen" using the satellites and five mile nets are the huge corporations. Blame the governments for bending over and biting the pillow rather than hold them to acceptable standards for exploitation of a natural resource.
If only we could train fish to mod slashdot posts.
Hmmm...I'd read this as being more useful for scientific studies of fish stocks, rather than for the fishing industry. I mean, I'm sure both would find it useful, but the cost and reliability issues would rule it out for the majority of fishermen, as a few other posters have already said.
Good technology for scientists, especially if they are keen on returning live fish to the sea as far as is possible. Fish stock estimation is pretty unreliable as is, at least in the UK. Maybe something like this would help.
The light Hubble is picking up was created 750M years ago by this far galaxy. It has taken 750M years to travel to where we are now. That takes into account the expansion of the universe, and the distance change between source and detector during the lights travel.
The galaxy has already shined light on us, but this is irrelevant as it is different photons, not the same light. So that light has passed by, but because the galaxy is still emitting light, we still detect it, 750 million years later. If it exploded now , then it would take 750M years (give or take) before we'd see it exploding.
I think that answers your question, though I'm not totally sure what your question was.
I know I'm going to get modded down for this, for going against the conventional Slashdot groupthink, but I think the SCO company have a good case. Now let me qualify that statement before you jump down my throat.
If you look at the facts of the case, sure, it looks like SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on. They continue to sell a version of an operating system they claim infringes their code. They try to extort money via lawsuits. There is some doubt whether they even own what they claim to own. But put that all from your mind for a minute, and listen to this great analogy I thought up.
You see, Linux is like a cake, with lots of ingredients contributed by different people. The SCO group claim that some of their butter was used to make the cake, perhaps to grease the baking tray the cake was baked on, perhaps it was ground into the flour mix by hand. Without the butter, the cake could not have been made. And it isn't possible to take the butter out of the cake now, the damage has been done. Q.E.D. the SCO company are perfectly justified in demanding recompense for their stolen butter.
Open your mind, and think about the butter.
Unlikely, as the idea is that you use self derived stem cells to avoid immune rejection.
Your stem cells can be collected and stored at birth, from the cord blood that is thrown away anyway when they tie the knot to make your belly button. It should be standard practice to store them now from newborns for when stem cell technology matures in the future.
When I was at Uni, they told us a US company held a patent on the harvesting(?) of cord blood stem cells, and demanded a license fee which is hampering the introduction of this. Don't know how true that is.
Nevertheless, this bypasses peoples squemishness on the use of embryos for this type of thing, though I don't have a problem with it myself. I can see why this work has been done, but there are a number of ways to generate this material that isn't morally suspect.
I agree, and would like to add the article had something of a "clever evil" about it.
You're confusing having excellent karma with having anything interesting to say. Stop that. There is no obvious relationship between ones karma rating and ones worth to slashdot.
The karma system is eating slashdot from the inside like a bad sandwich.
Perhaps you should post anonymously.
Hello,
I felt compelled to write to you regarding this mornings rather bizarre column from your North American business correspondent Stephen Evans titled "Linux cyber battle turns nasty". The article contains so many factual errors and biased reporting that it's difficult to know just where to begin.
Suffice to say, the picture your correspondent paints of a community in which individuals are willing to break the law due to their "zealotry" does not tally at all with my own experience. I have followed the SCO case from the beginning due to my interest in technology news. I do not use Linux at either home or work, but I was interested in learning more about it. So I would say I can approach questions about Linux and the SCO case with an open mind, sadly unlike your correspondent seems able to do.
A few pertinent facts: the MyDoom virus has a number of effects. Firstly, as your reporter indicates, it bombards the SCO company website in a DDOS attack. It also sets up infected computers to act as relays for spam, and thirdly contains a key-logging software for the capture of passwords and other sensitive data.
Can this really be summed up as "damage for damage's sake."? Rather, it would seem two thirds of MyDoom was especially written to aid criminals in their illegal and lucrative quest for passwords, credit card information, and relay machines for spam operations. Is it balanced reporting to give any naive readers the idea that the sole purpose of MyDoom was to bombard one companies website? And to point the finger, in absence of any evidence, that it is an act "waged by those who want to preserve the open-source Linux operating system."
Do you not agree this may leave the unaware reader with misplaced anger at the open source community, especially if they have suffered as a result of being infected with the virus, and had to give up their own leisure time to clean their computer?
May I suggest the SCO attack is acting as a wonderful smokescreen, in that it seems to provoke exactly this sort of mindless finger pointing your reporter is engaging in. Could this not be a more likely purpose for the inclusion of the DDoS attack, one your reporter seems unable to comprehend?
A cursory skim of the article also reveals numerous factual errors. It is untrue to say that DDoS via virus is "A new level of sophistication". It is untrue to say Linux is available "for free": there are set terms for its use that carry the weight of law behind them. It is in effect a swap deal: we'll give you our code if you give us any improvements you make to it in turn. I trust your correspondent understands that items in this world have tradable value beyond monetary value? But this is a mere nitpick (though a common misconception and one you would hope someone writing on technology would not repeat) compared to the analysis of the SCO case and the lawsuits involved. As far as I know, SCO is suing IBM ( and by now probably Novell) not "users". A SCO victory would not result in "the death of Linux" and to say so reveals a depth of ignorance of Linux, of SCO, of copyright law and of technology in general that is breath taking. Finally, a DDoS attack is easily circumvented by a competent network administrator via DNS switching. It is not "wickedly ingenious", "a new degree of viciousness" or, my personal favourite "clever evil".
Let's look at this wonderful example of BBC journalism: "If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of internet zealots who believe that code should be free to all (open source)." To correct it for bias: "If anyone's anger has no measure, it is the wrath of [computer programmers] who believe that [the code they created and own] should be [theirs to do with as they please].
Please, in future, would it be too much to ask for articles such as this to be written by someone with a competent grasp of what they are actually writing about?
Yours hopefully
etc.
Interesting article, but why write "let me remind you of something called the food chain?"
The article describes a risk from the industry that grows up around the extremophiles, with exploitation of a natural resource that should be available to all. The submitter seems to confuse this with a risk to the organisms themselves.
I'm not arguing that harming the extremophiles wouldn't have knock on effects eventually for humans, but in terms of the article, it is beside the point. Reading some of the posts above seems to show people have confused this, or haven't actually bothered to read the article.
I guess now the trilogy is over, we can look back over the wreckage of the destruction of a great piece of literature and ask ourselves: just why did the Lord of the Rings trilogy suck so much?
Allow me to sum it up for the hard of thinking...
1) Miscasting of Ian McKellen as Gandalf.
Let's face it: even a false nose couldn't save Magneto from FAILING IT. He's too old. He exuded about as much power as a limp dishrag. His fight scenes were woeful, he had to be saved by Pippin for fucks sake. Now if they had Shatner in as Gandalf, can you imagine how much better that would be? "DID YOU keepitsecret?" "YOU....SHALL...NOTPASS."
2) Overstrong homosexual subtext.
OK, Tolkien, as an Oxford Don with an interest in ancient languages, was certainly gay. But it doesn't come out in his writing - it stays fully hetero. Luckily for us viewers "Brain Dead" Jackson decided to make all the main characters gay, probably for some mystifying artistic reason. Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Sam, Frodo, Merry and Pippin. Hell, even Arwen was probably a rug muncher in the extended edition.
3) Too much singing
It's all right in the book, you can just rip those pages out and burn them. But having to sit in the cinema and watch some woman having a bit of a sing song at a funeral is not my idea of entertainment. Next funeral I go to, I'm breaking into "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" halfway through the service, and if any fucker takes exception, I'll direct them to the Two Towers.
4) Special effects- shit
OK, granted, the battles were reasonably well down. But those Ents were ripped straight out of the Magic Tree by Enid Blyton. And the Crack of Doom looked more like my electric fireplace, than some kick ass volcano / evil workshop.
5) Gollum
HOLLYWOOD: PAY ATTENTION. Special effects characters with baby voices are not working. STOP INCLUDING THEM IN YOUR FILMS. NOT EVEN KIDS LIKE THEM. DOES ANYONE IN HOLLYWOOD UNDERSTAND ENGLISH?
6) Elves = Gay
I don't recall Tolkien writing "By the way, all the male elves looked gay." I don't recall that at all. Why, "Brain Dead", why?
7) "Brain Dead" Jackson: lose two stamina points.
The direction throughout was woeful. I remember clearly listening to the audio commentry when the actors were excitedly describing Brain Dead's direction when Aragorn was tracking Merry and Pippin into Fangorn from the battle. THAT'S AVERAGE DIRECTION. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL. The only way you could think that was good direction is to have low expectations to begin with..."Wow, he's directing in an average, obvious way...that's BRILLIANT. +2 Luck"
8) Hatred of cinema icon, Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee. Huge Fan. Let's give him a meaty part...jeez Farmer Maggot's already taken...Tom Bombadil? Naw, Saruman. Then let's just cut him completely out of the film in every way. Exit Lee stage left, crushed in spirit and bearing a noose.
9) Too many American actors
Can't act for shit. Sound stupid. Also, the Eagles were clearly meant to represent the Americans in both the Hobbit and LotR. Arriving at the end, taking all the credit. Accepting plaudits for finally getting their heads out of their arses 10 minutes before the end.
Beware mods - the parent "Anonymous Coward" is a known troll with many years of trolling under his belt. Take all his posts with a pinch of your usual crack.
I'm UK, so don't know.
Over there, isn't leaking government documents to journalists some kind of crime? To say the documents were disclosed inadvertantly is to avoid the issue: when it was found that the documents could be read, why weren't the democrats notified?
If you leave something unlocked and it gets broken into by theives, it's no less of a crime.
You can visit the British Phonographic Institutes homepage (obviously) here.
But if you'd rather not be annoyed by the overly gratuitous flash webmash, just send them an e-mail, on general@bpi.co.uk.
I'm disgusted this is spun as a "copyright" issue.
Re: Kubla Khan.
Never managed to finish, though, did he? Maybe a good nights rest, and then some opium...
What if the problem you need to solve is "What the hell do I do with this plague-ridden, poisonous and syringe filled mattress?"
I'd say 'sleep on it' is definitely the wrong option. Think before you come up with these stupid answers, scientists. Stupid scientists.
It's clear to anyone who has bothered to read the article, and more importantly looked at the accompanying pictures, that this so-called "Aerogel"is nothing more than a hastily contrived liberal smokescreen. I've seen more convincing effects on Blake's Seven.
Aerogel doesn't exist. Aerogel has never existed. Aerogel, with its many wacky and ill thought out supposed properties, breaks the law of thermodynamics as we scientists understand them today. Why has this "Hot Aerogel" been created by liberals for widespread news dissemination?
Well, I might sound paranoid, but there was a little thing called "The State of the Union" speech last night, where King Bush outlined his masterplan to continue making America kick-ass on all frontiers. The liberals know that watching The Man lay it out is going to convince anyone to vote for him. Hell, even reading the speech is going to make the most die hard committed liberal start destroying condoms and bombing abortionists, that's how good it was. So this Aerogel suddenly appears - Whoa: control the front page.
And you guys fell for it. Pathetic.
I can't believe what I'm reading on this site today! Targetted advertising or so called "Spam" is a commercial venture that goes to the very heart of a great American capitalist tradition. IT IS YOUR DUTY AS A GOOD CITIZEN TO READ ALL THE SPAM IN YOUR INBOX.
The cold war may be over, but does the term "Economic downturn" mean anything to you? We need Americans to buy herbal remedies (many of which are extraordinarily effective) and penis extenders, to consume, consume, consume before our great country becomes yet another footnote in some future history book, PROBABLY SCRAWLED IN SOME CHINESE PICTOGRAM. Is that what you want? DO YOU? ANSWER ME??
Support your country. Reject communism. Read spam.
I like playing computer games. You should try it some time, they're neat.
The robot scientist will have its work checked over by real people anyway, prior to any publication. It is likely to ignore any interesting, but narrowly irrelevant data and so could miss important discoveries. It can only work in fields where any underlying biological phenomenon is simple eg biochemical metabolic pathways. Many experiments contradict each other, where the underlying biology is extremely complex, with a host of competing factors and extremely sensitive to slight changes in experimental reagents. I'm a scientist, and I'm not too worried. Modern maths uses number crunchers too, like with the 3 colour map problem, but the proofs are always checked over. I guess the difference is these maths problems would take so long in human hours as the dissuade anyone from starting. This isn't the case in most of biology so I reckon the robot will not be useful in most disciplines.
I find your views fascinating, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
It's no surprise to me that this comes in for the lowest paid and most exploited workers who can't really complain, and likely aren't too concerned about this invasion of privacy. You can't honestly say there aren't ways of accomplishing the accurate signing in of employees without the need to resort to taking biometric data. I have a basic philosophical problem with corporate entities taking information they don't need, nor have any entitlement too.