"Many sites ban entire countries or IP blocks due to spamming and/or other malicious behavior that has come from those blocks. Is that acceptable?"
No, it's not. In fact, it's very close to racism and is certainly discrimination, but some people will do it anyway until the law notices them and tells them they can't.
Read the final FAQ here ("Do you have any mechanism for addressing potential biosecurity concerns that may arise with the genes that you synthesize?"). This one seems specific to gene synthesis, but there are similar protein synthesis services as well.
From the what I've read, re-engineering a flu virus to be deadly is only a matter of altering a few (known) genes. The difficulty is in the tools available to the common would-be virus creator, not in the know-how. You can even order proteins online, which are filtered against certain deadly combinations being requested by customers. If a home/hobbyist/cottage industry develops around this, then biothreats may well become a much serious issue that we need to face as a society. More serious than the fake terror crap we've heard in recent years, that is.
I envision a large screen - you could make it large enough to occupy a central place in the household.
Household?
I think a much better solution would involve tents (or perhaps some sort of lean-to), a campfire, and a professional story teller who roams from encampment to encampment, bartering for pottage.
Religious people usually like to explain things using their "intuition"
I used to think like you... when I was a teenager.
Religious people will say that when a person has something good happen to them God has blessed them with a gift; although, nobody saw God bless the person or experience the act. This is how many religious people think. They "think" things up. They "create" explanations.
a) No, not all religious people say that.
b) Computer people sometimes say "my computer died." But it was never alive. Clearly these people are irrational.
Grow up, learn to respect others, and realise they might know something you don't, even if they talk about it in ways that are very alien and difficult for you to relate to.
Fair point. Honestly though, as long as customers get their money back, or some part of their money back, to discourage this from happening again, I don't really care who's sued within the organisation.
EA simply cut their losses and decided to stop throwing good money after bad. The rest is just seeing what could be salvaged...
If it was launched and sold to the public under these (now documented) circumstances, with known bugs, that sounds like a pretty damning class action case right there.
The people with the authority to promote tend to lose their objective view of their subordinates, and end up promoting people that they LIKE rather than the people most suited for the job.
You mean there's a phase where they don't do that?
Being a dog owner, I think most dogs just want to hump, eat, and sleep. Some like to bark.
If you honestly don't realise that your dog has a sense of humor, needs to socialise, to challenge itself on a long run, to play in a river, then I worry you might not be qualified to own a dog.
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Surely data traffic is going to grow much faster than the grid, and so it makes more sense to separate the two?
"Paradox for DOS works quite well. I still use it on a regular basis for various tasks. I can concentrate on working with my data"
Such as which floppy disk contains which PCX file? ;)
I think the appropriate expression is "Imagine having a truckload of shares in these guys, when google buys them out."
"In any case why not just use the fucking stove."
The fucking stove is for fucking, not cooking. Eww.
"Wet with a chance of noisy lines & 24k dialup."
Oooh, Baby, that's what I like to hear.
"Many sites ban entire countries or IP blocks due to spamming and/or other malicious behavior that has come from those blocks. Is that acceptable?"
No, it's not. In fact, it's very close to racism and is certainly discrimination, but some people will do it anyway until the law notices them and tells them they can't.
Since Galileo's fleshy thumb is no longer available, we've had to find another solution.
Order an airstrike on the police station, wait for the twitter feed to go quiet? ;)
Read the final FAQ here ("Do you have any mechanism for addressing potential biosecurity concerns that may arise with the genes that you synthesize?"). This one seems specific to gene synthesis, but there are similar protein synthesis services as well.
http://www.genewiz.com/public/gene-synthesis.aspx
I've heard other people say that, before you.
From the what I've read, re-engineering a flu virus to be deadly is only a matter of altering a few (known) genes. The difficulty is in the tools available to the common would-be virus creator, not in the know-how. You can even order proteins online, which are filtered against certain deadly combinations being requested by customers. If a home/hobbyist/cottage industry develops around this, then biothreats may well become a much serious issue that we need to face as a society. More serious than the fake terror crap we've heard in recent years, that is.
I think you'll need to back that up with a lot of statistics, not just an anecdote ;)
Household?
I think a much better solution would involve tents (or perhaps some sort of lean-to), a campfire, and a professional story teller who roams from encampment to encampment, bartering for pottage.
I used to think like you... when I was a teenager.
a) No, not all religious people say that.
b) Computer people sometimes say "my computer died." But it was never alive. Clearly these people are irrational.
Grow up, learn to respect others, and realise they might know something you don't, even if they talk about it in ways that are very alien and difficult for you to relate to.
And so it begins.
Fair point. Honestly though, as long as customers get their money back, or some part of their money back, to discourage this from happening again, I don't really care who's sued within the organisation.
When they start building their homes WITH human bones, we'll have more of a problem.
If it was launched and sold to the public under these (now documented) circumstances, with known bugs, that sounds like a pretty damning class action case right there.
You mean there's a phase where they don't do that?
A woman you actually WANT to start a conversation with. Awesome. ;)
The trick is to apply enough current that the sky itself catches fire.
If you honestly don't realise that your dog has a sense of humor, needs to socialise, to challenge itself on a long run, to play in a river, then I worry you might not be qualified to own a dog.
Sure. Give me your card details and I'll set it up for you.
"Porn mode" protects you from your wife, not from the internet. Or your boss.
Because then anything with a model number might be excluded.