Sorry to go off topic - but I think it would be much more interesting if we developed Rovers that could withstand the conditions on Venus. Gravity close to ours, heavy and corrosive atmosphere, volcanic activity. Might even get a new perspective on a runaway greenhouse effect, since we're worried about global warming right now.
The article does a great job of building up to... nothing. It doesn't say what Microsoft actually invented! I'm sorry but ".NET generic templates" is not an invention.
I must have missed some important news in the last few years, because I am really confused at this article. I thought Libraries weren't allowed to filter web content, because it was deemed unconstitutional somehow?
So if we could download brains into computers... we could start a new Mindnet, that grows as people are added. It would be like having an IRC chat room full of Bots... only the bots actually have real personalities and memories...
Even if you're a whitehat, there is a fine line between testing security, and breaching security.
That fine line is called "getting permission".
What the students did was just as stupid as the virus writers who think they're helping us out by sending out viruses that disable and patch for other viruses (with the added effect of Denial of Service).
There is still the problem of removing the heat. If there is enough surface area to allow the heat to be removed then you are ok, otherwise the oil (and everything else) will get too hot. Encasing everything in a metal box with fins on the outside would probably keep things even cooler.
Yea now that would be cool (literally+pun). Take a case and seal up every hole and slot there is, until it can permanently hold liquid. Then put in a fill hole in the top, and a plugged drain at the bottom of a side. Fill it up with oil. The whole side of the case could be a shallow heatsink.
Viruses are simply encapsulated DNA with simple crap - they don't manufacture anything. Instead they use other cells to manufacture more of themselves. So a Virus for a Virus would mean for every bad virus in your system, you would need one anti manufactured. Anyevent, now if u had engineered bacteria that i guess would be the equivilant of a "honeypot" in that a viral latches on, but the engineered bacteria destroys incomming DNA etc. But then that would mean the bacteria would be very resistant to various forms of genetic therapy. Just imagine what would happen if the bacteria grew out of control (they need a food source), or mutated into something rlly bad. Do i need to elaborate?
Sure, the honeypot idea is what we need. Modify a bacteria with the protein coat of a T-Helper cell. HIV will attempt to connect with it, but cannot injects it's RNA. The bacterium will act as fly tape - once it's completely enveloped in HIV, it can no longer survive, and dies. This dead bacterium with a graveyard of HIV gets flushed out of the system.
In the meantime, a 2nd genetically altered bacteria contains the instructions to create a genetically altered virus. This new virus infects the Hosts T-Helper cells with a "patch" - which stops them from creating new HIV viruses if it were to be infected by one.
To balance the count and prevent spread to another host, a control would be setup that makes these two bacteria mutually dependent on each other. They can only replicate asexually when each bacteria version (stickycell and patchcell) conjugates. The trigger for conjugation will be when an F-Factor tube is created by the stickycell only after an HIV has bonded to a receptor in it's protein coat. When the last of the HIV have been eradicated, replication stops, T-Helper cell patching stops, and everything for the most part goes back to normal.
This article doesn't even begin to hypothesize about the biggest ramifications of this expirement!
The researchers programmed E. coli bacteria to emit red or green fluorescent light in response to a signal emitted from another set of E. coli.
Think about this. Not only can they communicate via self-created signals, but they can align themselves in configurations based off the encoding of the extra dna. You combine these techniques together, and you have an organic computer!
They could symbolize an ON(1) with red emittance, and OFF(0) with green emittance. When they receive such a signal, they move to a determined angle of their neighbor's position. With enough bacteria you end up with logic gates. With enough logic gates you end up with arithmetic. With enough arithmetic you end up with routines, and so on...
And with enough bacteria altogether, you end up with one amazing light show - and Artificial Intelligence.
He should just ride a cruise ship and continuously swim on it during the trip.
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I wonder if this could be put to use in batteries and capacitors. Wihout resistance, you could a string of electrons inside the tube - the trick is sealing off the ends...
I'm not going to say I agree or disagree with the FCC, because I really don't care. But I will give this opinion - it makes sense to me, because in order to use the broadband, they have to provide the service for the phone line since the technology sits on top of it.
I have a cable modem, and in order to use it, I HAVE to also be signed up for cable television. Although I only have basic channels, it's an extra $15 per month I'd rather not spend. But I like my cable modem, so I pay it.
If you really don't want their phone service, then make a decision not to get it. Use some other broadband. Or, convince yourself that your DSL costs the total for both. Considering the low speeds and moderately high costs of ISDN we had only so many years ago as the only less expensive solution to T1s for 24/7 connectivity - I don't see why anyone is complaining.
Nope, you missed the point. If the point had been the sun, and you were a rocket ship pointed directly at it and within 100 feet of hitting the surface, you still out of some miracle would have missed it.
Take your political soapbox elsewhere. This topic is about the Internet, Microsoft, and IPv6 for crying out loud. This topic is.. is... maybe I should define is for you.
I'm glad someone is finally getting around to implementing this. It's not just saving on lighting costs, but cooling costs as well, as there won't be any extra heat generated from bulbs (while it's in full mode). Plus this would be a great advantage to our health - it's known that our bodies really do need a full spectrum of light that we just don't get with standard or flourescent lighting.
Instead, your data will be organized into more abstract libraries of data. You'd for example store your games in your Game library, whose contents wouldn't be tied to one folder on one hard drive. You'd go to your Game library, and double-click on Doom III, instead of going to C:\Games\Doom III. Actually, C: wouldn't even be a concept seen by the user anymore.
So in other words, it's a Start Menu on steroids. I can see how this works on the user side, but what about for developers? How are they going to logically access files? Maybe something like library://programid/fileid ?
My wife and I were deciding on either an Alaskan cruise or a Mexican cruise this summer. Based on this article, would it be advisable not to travel north due to the increase in unfiltered solar radiation?
Yes but when a house can generate more electricity than it consumes (while people are at work for example), the electric company actually pays you for the surplus. Now if all of the solar-efficient zones were equipped with solar technology, that surplus can be fed into non-efficient zones.
I don't have a problem with firewalls, they are great. What I do have a problem with is a company running an os monopoly (windows), then using that to monopolize their web browser (integrated IE), then "fixing" all of the problems with them by monopolizing the antispyware market (Anti-Spyware Beta), the patch management market (WUS), and the personal firewall market (SP2 Firewall).
The irony is that MS should offer all of this for free to make up for the insecurity of default Windows, but then the rest of the vendors suffer as people settle for mediocre protection. All of this free stuff is making us less secure - because the same vendor is programming these solutions.
How did this get turned into a political debate...
Conservatives are repairing the mess that the liberals left behind. The great economy we had during the Clinton administration was holographic. It's a little obvious why the average family has $8000 in credit card debt - all of the money being spent during Cliton's terms was credit, and now everyone is maxed out and paying mostly on interest.
By lowering taxes, the Bush administration has shifted the burden of debt from citizens into the deficit. When we can stop dumping so many funds into anti-terrorits efforts and disaster relief, that deficit will shrink. Economy 101, take a class.
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Sorry to go off topic - but I think it would be much more interesting if we developed Rovers that could withstand the conditions on Venus. Gravity close to ours, heavy and corrosive atmosphere, volcanic activity. Might even get a new perspective on a runaway greenhouse effect, since we're worried about global warming right now.
The article does a great job of building up to... nothing. It doesn't say what Microsoft actually invented! I'm sorry but ".NET generic templates" is not an invention.
I must have missed some important news in the last few years, because I am really confused at this article. I thought Libraries weren't allowed to filter web content, because it was deemed unconstitutional somehow?
I'm still waiting for OS/3 to come out.
I came up with this exact same theory years ago.
And it was brought up in the movie The Time Machine.
So either way, they're a little behind...
So if we could download brains into computers... we could start a new Mindnet, that grows as people are added. It would be like having an IRC chat room full of Bots... only the bots actually have real personalities and memories...
Even if you're a whitehat, there is a fine line between testing security, and breaching security.
That fine line is called "getting permission".
What the students did was just as stupid as the virus writers who think they're helping us out by sending out viruses that disable and patch for other viruses (with the added effect of Denial of Service).
Yea now that would be cool (literally+pun). Take a case and seal up every hole and slot there is, until it can permanently hold liquid. Then put in a fill hole in the top, and a plugged drain at the bottom of a side. Fill it up with oil. The whole side of the case could be a shallow heatsink.
It would be a pain to change out parts though.
I'm hoping that within my lifetime we had started colonizing Mars and begun terraforming efforts.
Viruses are simply encapsulated DNA with simple crap - they don't manufacture anything. Instead they use other cells to manufacture more of themselves. So a Virus for a Virus would mean for every bad virus in your system, you would need one anti manufactured. Anyevent, now if u had engineered bacteria that i guess would be the equivilant of a "honeypot" in that a viral latches on, but the engineered bacteria destroys incomming DNA etc. But then that would mean the bacteria would be very resistant to various forms of genetic therapy. Just imagine what would happen if the bacteria grew out of control (they need a food source), or mutated into something rlly bad. Do i need to elaborate?
Sure, the honeypot idea is what we need. Modify a bacteria with the protein coat of a T-Helper cell. HIV will attempt to connect with it, but cannot injects it's RNA. The bacterium will act as fly tape - once it's completely enveloped in HIV, it can no longer survive, and dies. This dead bacterium with a graveyard of HIV gets flushed out of the system.
In the meantime, a 2nd genetically altered bacteria contains the instructions to create a genetically altered virus. This new virus infects the Hosts T-Helper cells with a "patch" - which stops them from creating new HIV viruses if it were to be infected by one.
To balance the count and prevent spread to another host, a control would be setup that makes these two bacteria mutually dependent on each other. They can only replicate asexually when each bacteria version (stickycell and patchcell) conjugates. The trigger for conjugation will be when an F-Factor tube is created by the stickycell only after an HIV has bonded to a receptor in it's protein coat. When the last of the HIV have been eradicated, replication stops, T-Helper cell patching stops, and everything for the most part goes back to normal.
Think about this. Not only can they communicate via self-created signals, but they can align themselves in configurations based off the encoding of the extra dna. You combine these techniques together, and you have an organic computer!
They could symbolize an ON(1) with red emittance, and OFF(0) with green emittance. When they receive such a signal, they move to a determined angle of their neighbor's position. With enough bacteria you end up with logic gates. With enough logic gates you end up with arithmetic. With enough arithmetic you end up with routines, and so on...
And with enough bacteria altogether, you end up with one amazing light show - and Artificial Intelligence.
He should just ride a cruise ship and continuously swim on it during the trip.
Most definitely my favorite molecule.
I wonder if this could be put to use in batteries and capacitors. Wihout resistance, you could a string of electrons inside the tube - the trick is sealing off the ends...
I'm not going to say I agree or disagree with the FCC, because I really don't care. But I will give this opinion - it makes sense to me, because in order to use the broadband, they have to provide the service for the phone line since the technology sits on top of it.
I have a cable modem, and in order to use it, I HAVE to also be signed up for cable television. Although I only have basic channels, it's an extra $15 per month I'd rather not spend. But I like my cable modem, so I pay it.
If you really don't want their phone service, then make a decision not to get it. Use some other broadband. Or, convince yourself that your DSL costs the total for both. Considering the low speeds and moderately high costs of ISDN we had only so many years ago as the only less expensive solution to T1s for 24/7 connectivity - I don't see why anyone is complaining.
*Jumps into thread, hoping for a non-political discussion about dsl - nope - jumps back out of thread*
Really? So if you remove the phosphor coated screen from your monitor, it will light up the room?
You sound so sure of yourself.
Nope, you missed the point. If the point had been the sun, and you were a rocket ship pointed directly at it and within 100 feet of hitting the surface, you still out of some miracle would have missed it.
Take your political soapbox elsewhere. This topic is about the Internet, Microsoft, and IPv6 for crying out loud. This topic is.. is... maybe I should define is for you.
I'm glad someone is finally getting around to implementing this. It's not just saving on lighting costs, but cooling costs as well, as there won't be any extra heat generated from bulbs (while it's in full mode). Plus this would be a great advantage to our health - it's known that our bodies really do need a full spectrum of light that we just don't get with standard or flourescent lighting.
Instead, your data will be organized into more abstract libraries of data. You'd for example store your games in your Game library, whose contents wouldn't be tied to one folder on one hard drive. You'd go to your Game library, and double-click on Doom III, instead of going to C:\Games\Doom III. Actually, C: wouldn't even be a concept seen by the user anymore.
So in other words, it's a Start Menu on steroids. I can see how this works on the user side, but what about for developers? How are they going to logically access files? Maybe something like library://programid/fileid ?
My wife and I were deciding on either an Alaskan cruise or a Mexican cruise this summer. Based on this article, would it be advisable not to travel north due to the increase in unfiltered solar radiation?
Yes but when a house can generate more electricity than it consumes (while people are at work for example), the electric company actually pays you for the surplus. Now if all of the solar-efficient zones were equipped with solar technology, that surplus can be fed into non-efficient zones.
I don't have a problem with firewalls, they are great. What I do have a problem with is a company running an os monopoly (windows), then using that to monopolize their web browser (integrated IE), then "fixing" all of the problems with them by monopolizing the antispyware market (Anti-Spyware Beta), the patch management market (WUS), and the personal firewall market (SP2 Firewall). The irony is that MS should offer all of this for free to make up for the insecurity of default Windows, but then the rest of the vendors suffer as people settle for mediocre protection. All of this free stuff is making us less secure - because the same vendor is programming these solutions.
If you install SP2 but with the firewall disabled, then that is also the same as connecting your computer/network to the internet without a firewall.
Perhaps instead of focusing on free anti-spyware utilities and integrated firewalls, they should fix the holes in their operating system?
I have yet to read a slashdot article without at least 1 Bush bashing comment. Thanks for keeping it consistent, and relevant to the topic.
How did this get turned into a political debate...
Conservatives are repairing the mess that the liberals left behind. The great economy we had during the Clinton administration was holographic. It's a little obvious why the average family has $8000 in credit card debt - all of the money being spent during Cliton's terms was credit, and now everyone is maxed out and paying mostly on interest.
By lowering taxes, the Bush administration has shifted the burden of debt from citizens into the deficit. When we can stop dumping so many funds into anti-terrorits efforts and disaster relief, that deficit will shrink. Economy 101, take a class.