The reason why hunkapillar (or whatever is name is) is less famous than the evil Bill is because you can't buy a sequencer in a supermarket. Since the general public has absolutely no use of a sequencer why should they care about this bloke?
What about a virus that takes some snapshots and broadcast them to all the people in your address book. Might be embarrassing for some managers who sleep after lunch!
So now I live in England, where things like pornography are thankfully not tolerated. Does buggery enters (sorry for the word) in the category of things like pornography? Because that's very popular in some schools in Britain. Having lived in several European countries, I would advice you to live in Holland. Despite all the "filth", you have some of the most radical religious nutters living in some small isolated villages. You will fit right in. Or maybe, your posts were all ironic and you are not as mad as you sound.
I think that you are looking for the easy way out (no flame intended). I also think that most people are simply not interested in politics. And if you are not interested in politics (just a little bit at least), then you will not bother going to vote. If you can't be bothered, then on which bases would you vote electronically.
At the beginning of this century, when the question of allowing women to vote arose, someone wrote in a newspaper that allowing them to vote was ridiculous because they will simply vote for the man with the best hat. Isn't that what electronic voting would be? People too lazy or uninterested to go voting would just browse the net, find the buttons for voting and will just vote for the candidate with the nicest button!
Right now people don't bother to go vote, because things are so bad they truly do not see the point. If you make voting easier, at least they may say their piece, and actually start some change. Really! If people cannot be bothered lifting their fat asses to go voting, why would making it easier be better? Would you rather have a lot of people voting randomly or for the person with the louder mouth? I don't.
Just a guess, but what about all these tax heavens? Bahamas, Virgin Islands,... Surely they allow any money in and out they could allow any packet in and out too!
...it is from France that the concept of human rights [..] comes from. Scholars would also tell you that French philosophers created racism, fascism and a lot of extremely stupid ideas. You can never win them all I suppose.
Let me tell you a little story: 2 years ago I bought a second hand Alfa Romeo. A year later, just before the car reached 5 years (which is a time when the car must be checked by law in the Netherlands), I received a little letter from a Ford dealer telling me that I could change my Alfa to a Ford. I called this dealer and asked him how on Earth did he know my name, address, type and age of car I owned. His answer was incomplete but as far as I understood, there is a database of all car owners and their car somewhere in the Netherlands that can be used by dealers to spam you. Now, I never agreed to be in this DB, in fact, I did not know about it.
How many databases like this one are we in? How many of these are legal under EU law? These are questions I want answers to!
Every government in the World does this. But I think there is more information to get from private companies databases than governemental ones. Think Visa, supermarkets, insurance companies, physicians,... What the gvt DBs don't tell you about is your life style.
It has been estimated that the average Dutch citizen has an entry in 400 databases. Makes you think.
I have the same problems as you. I work for a big company and everyone MUST use LookOut for emails and meetings. Having said that, I managed to configure my LookOut profile so that emails are sent to my linux box, but for meetings, I don't know any solution. It would be great to have a Linux version of LookOut for the meetings at least although I hate the stupid way M$ implemented their calendar.
But, I don't think that a Linux version HAS TO LOOK like the M$ version.
Typing this URL http://somewhere.com/%2ftest.php3?q=8 replaces the %2f with a / on my apache server. That's all. I guess there is a problem with your apache configuration. Since you seem to be called Jonathan Clark and the URL apache returns for you contains/jc/, I guess that you have configured apache to go to your jc directory when the URL http://somewhere.com// is used. Just a guess.
What is even more worrying is that Celera has not blasted their drosophilia sequences against their own homo sapiens sequences to find potential contaminations. Or maybe they did and did not want to tell anyone!
During the 80's natural language understanding and automatic translation was very much en vogue. But since noone was able to make anything terribly useful, much of the research has stopped and is now at a standstill. What is really missing is a theoretical breakthrough. This is obviously unpredictable, but might happen with the current progress in genetics. The more we know about the human genome, the more we will understand the human brain. And from there, the world is your oister. So be patient!
but not in the news much is
this article from Linux World.
I quote: [Incyte Genomics]
now has about 20 farms with up to 200 processors each. Each farm behaves like a supercomputer, at about one-hundredth of the price -- or less.
And I'm going elsewhere.. any suggestions? After having lived in France (born there), Britain, The Netherlands and a bit Germany, I can tell you that what you described applies perfectly well to all these countries but France. The Netherlands which is seen as a libertarian country is incredibly conservative and boring (no wonder people take drugs there), Germany is even worse. France has got different problems, but at least people are ready to get up in arms and strike for any good (or more often than not bad) reasons, which in general has got no effect what so ever. In short, there are no ideal countries. So, good luck.
According to netcraft, Microsoft web servers represented 20.93% in March. So that's not most servers as someone else said. Moreover I have found nothing yet on Microsoft web pages about this "bug". It's interesting to check Microsoft security bulletin page to see how long they will take to answer.
I agree with you. When a scientist says I cannot believe..., it usually means that he does not have any proof and proposes a wild guess. Usually, other scientists will reply: But nevertheless it is true.
I don't envy those poor scientists that have for centuries tried to demonstrate rationally something that is simply emotional. They often lose credibility when they try to mix up reasonning with vague opinions and become mistrusted by the scientific communauty as a result. It's a bit as if Linus was a Microsoft employee. Would you trust him?
AFAIK, all information relating to the human genome project is free. But this might change. More an more scientists are busy analysing the raw sequences to find the genes. Genes seem to be patentable since quite a few biotechs have already done it, as has been said in several posts here. It is possible that the Clinton Blair duo want to make it illegal to patent genes coming exclusively from human genome project data. As usual, journalists are completely clueless when it comes to scientific/computing news. There is a little bit more info on yahoo.
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The reason why hunkapillar (or whatever is name is) is less famous than the evil Bill is because you can't buy a sequencer in a supermarket. Since the general public has absolutely no use of a sequencer why should they care about this bloke?
The French name is :
Système international
What about a virus that takes some snapshots and broadcast them to all the people in your address book. Might be embarrassing for some managers who sleep after lunch!
Does buggery enters (sorry for the word) in the category of things like pornography? Because that's very popular in some schools in Britain. Having lived in several European countries, I would advice you to live in Holland. Despite all the "filth", you have some of the most radical religious nutters living in some small isolated villages. You will fit right in. Or maybe, your posts were all ironic and you are not as mad as you sound.
At the beginning of this century, when the question of allowing women to vote arose, someone wrote in a newspaper that allowing them to vote was ridiculous because they will simply vote for the man with the best hat. Isn't that what electronic voting would be? People too lazy or uninterested to go voting would just browse the net, find the buttons for voting and will just vote for the candidate with the nicest button!
Really! If people cannot be bothered lifting their fat asses to go voting, why would making it easier be better? Would you rather have a lot of people voting randomly or for the person with the louder mouth? I don't.
Better schools and teachers?
Just a guess, but what about all these tax heavens? Bahamas, Virgin Islands, ... Surely they allow any money in and out they could allow any packet in and out too!
Scholars would also tell you that French philosophers created racism, fascism and a lot of extremely stupid ideas. You can never win them all I suppose.
2 years ago I bought a second hand Alfa Romeo. A year later, just before the car reached 5 years (which is a time when the car must be checked by law in the Netherlands), I received a little letter from a Ford dealer telling me that I could change my Alfa to a Ford. I called this dealer and asked him how on Earth did he know my name, address, type and age of car I owned. His answer was incomplete but as far as I understood, there is a database of all car owners and their car somewhere in the Netherlands that can be used by dealers to spam you. Now, I never agreed to be in this DB, in fact, I did not know about it.
How many databases like this one are we in? How many of these are legal under EU law? These are questions I want answers to!
It has been estimated that the average Dutch citizen has an entry in 400 databases. Makes you think.
But, I don't think that a Linux version HAS TO LOOK like the M$ version.
http://somewhere.com/%2ftest.php3?q=8
replaces the %2f with a / on my apache server. That's all. I guess there is a problem with your apache configuration. Since you seem to be called Jonathan Clark and the URL apache returns for you contains
AFAIK, some European regions have also asked for a TLD. Why not? And who really cares!
I was just looking at the NASDAQ index while reading this from Jon Katz and boom. The NASDAQ is down almost 2%! Is Katz being read by everyone?
> Apparently it's not very effective for learning English.
Since Samsung is Korean, I assume they mean non-Korean languages. But from the appalling grammar on their website I assume they don't mean English.
I think that means 225 grammes. Don't you?
I quote:
[Incyte Genomics] now has about 20 farms with up to 200 processors each. Each farm behaves like a supercomputer, at about one-hundredth of the price -- or less.
After having lived in France (born there), Britain, The Netherlands and a bit Germany, I can tell you that what you described applies perfectly well to all these countries but France. The Netherlands which is seen as a libertarian country is incredibly conservative and boring (no wonder people take drugs there), Germany is even worse. France has got different problems, but at least people are ready to get up in arms and strike for any good (or more often than not bad) reasons, which in general has got no effect what so ever. In short, there are no ideal countries.
So, good luck.
I cannot believe
But nevertheless it is true.
I don't envy those poor scientists that have for centuries tried to demonstrate rationally something that is simply emotional. They often lose credibility when they try to mix up reasonning with vague opinions and become mistrusted by the scientific communauty as a result. It's a bit as if Linus was a Microsoft employee. Would you trust him?
There is a little bit more info on yahoo.
Do you mean no life whatsoever?