You present a dichotomy here, where I'm not sure one is necessary. Also, you haven't been very clear about what your two actual opposing paths ARE. What are you suggesting an investment in exactly?
I'm a realist.
Since everyone's definition of reality is different, that remains to be seen;)
The other possibility (though admittedly, less likely) is that the star trek geeks are the ones who work in the 7-11; having a limited knowledge of other (earth) cultures' weapons, they saw something that wasn't a sword, and assumed it was a Batleth.
If it REALLY was a batleth then I suspect it wasn't a star trek fan, but just someone who got hold of a batleth and liked it's potential as a weapon. I doubt there are many geeks so oblivious to their geekiness that they don't realise robbing a store with such an exotic and rare item might help police to track them down.
Because it's a faulty/mutated gene, and not an alien organism, I imagine. I could (very easily) be wrong, but presumably the immune system doesn't deal with differences on that scale, unless they cause abnormalities further up the scale in the cell or something.
They are not actually 'clipping out' the CCR5 gene. They cause a break in the gene which gets imperfectly repaired, so that the gene becomes nonfunctional.
Indeed. They seem to be trying to modify CCR5 to be CCR5 delta 32, which is the variant which is less prone to HIV (but not immune). The nonfunctional aspect is very important, as you wouldn't want to simply engineer a foetus to have this gene instead of normal CCR5 genes. From wikipedia:
The [CCR5 delta 32] allele has a negative effect upon T cell function, but appears to protect against smallpox and HIV. Yersinia pestis was demonstrated in the laboratory to not associate with CCR5. Individuals with the d32 allele of CCR5 are healthy, suggesting that CCR5 is largely dispensable. However, CCR5 apparently plays a role in mediating resistance to West Nile virus infection in humans, as CCR5-d32 individuals have shown to be disproportionately at higher risk of West Nile virus in studies
Do we know how the human body works? No, we do not.
Do we know how diseases work? In most cases, no.
If we did - Cancer is a good example of an illness known in great detail - does that mean we know what to do about it? It does not.
If you have an idea of what to do - does that mean it'll work? It doesn't.
If it works in lab, does that mean it'll work in a live human? It does not.
Enough with the negativity. I want my monkey-man, goddamnit!
You, sir, are the reason for the screaming noises emanating from my office on a daily basis. You are correct, but you are the reason for my screaming nonetheless.
By any ethical system which includes causing humans less or no harm, this is a contradiction.
every time I try to use solar powered anything the weather turns bad.
Everyone thinks solar panels are unreliable due to bad weather. In fact, it's just a small technical issue that while installing, that beginners misinterpret. That "bad weather" on the solar panel is your shadow.
That's a pretty ridiculous assumption on the part of researchers. I mean, if you saw two people meet up and have sex, would you think they're saying "hello"? Clearly, there's more to it than that.
Idiot. The point is clear to the rest of us: you spray the solar panels on the sides of underpowered clouds, and they're then capable of producing fully fledged rainstorms. If you just want a bit of rain now and then, you can use half a spray-on panel, with dodgy spray-on wiring.
Not only that, but it's a free world, who gives them the right to tell ME what to work on?
No one. But just remember that won't remain the case, if you build that up into a (free or not) product that many people start to rely on. Do that, and you'll have a responsibility to your customers, free or not.
I suspect that $202 per record is a vast underestimate. One single record compromise could devastate someone's life, so they're obviously not factoring in the end-user cleanup effort required, or the insurance required to cover damages from a (possibly class-action) law suit based on that.
Yep, agreed. Certainly doesn't help in attracting developers who believe in Open Source (such as myself) either. I'm glad to see they've changed their tune on this (a bit at least). I only wish they'd publicised it more so I would've known things had changed without specifically checking. That policy change is worth hearing more than a hearing of a new release, to me.
I never said you needed them, I said that the decision to use copyright in this prohibitive way is deliberately making life awkward for people, so they'll just buy the CDs. As I said, I think that's fundamentally wrong.
The CDs DO meet the definition of proprietary, so I'm not the one wrong here.
While betas do help with testing, they're certainly not for such fundamental security testing. If they couldn't prove with hard math that their root access was limited properly, they should at least have had a bunch of unit tests for every variation from the tried and tested unix sudo model.
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Since everyone's definition of reality is different, that remains to be seen ;)
The other possibility (though admittedly, less likely) is that the star trek geeks are the ones who work in the 7-11; having a limited knowledge of other (earth) cultures' weapons, they saw something that wasn't a sword, and assumed it was a Batleth. If it REALLY was a batleth then I suspect it wasn't a star trek fan, but just someone who got hold of a batleth and liked it's potential as a weapon. I doubt there are many geeks so oblivious to their geekiness that they don't realise robbing a store with such an exotic and rare item might help police to track them down.
There is already the human genome project.
No, I'm pretty sure that was caused by holywood directors wanting to make a buck ;)
Because it's a faulty/mutated gene, and not an alien organism, I imagine. I could (very easily) be wrong, but presumably the immune system doesn't deal with differences on that scale, unless they cause abnormalities further up the scale in the cell or something.
Indeed. They seem to be trying to modify CCR5 to be CCR5 delta 32, which is the variant which is less prone to HIV (but not immune). The nonfunctional aspect is very important, as you wouldn't want to simply engineer a foetus to have this gene instead of normal CCR5 genes. From wikipedia:
Enough with the negativity. I want my monkey-man, goddamnit!
Like it or not, being a dumbass is part of the human condition. Compassion is recognition of that.
Which is precisely why you should encourage this, since he died anyway, but this sort of thing might have saved him.
By any ethical system which includes causing humans less or no harm, this is a contradiction.
Everyone thinks solar panels are unreliable due to bad weather. In fact, it's just a small technical issue that while installing, that beginners misinterpret. That "bad weather" on the solar panel is your shadow.
Hopefully you're not like most other managers, who'd soon be unemployed, with no staff to make them productive ;)
Actually, that's starting to sound like Gaia Theory :)
That's a pretty ridiculous assumption on the part of researchers. I mean, if you saw two people meet up and have sex, would you think they're saying "hello"? Clearly, there's more to it than that.
No they're not. They're like very naughty boys.
Because screwing with the environment is not the answer to damage being done by screwing with the environment?
Yes, but how do you KNOW the data is never used? I could receive one of those CDs, sit on it for five years, then take someone's life savings.
Idiot. The point is clear to the rest of us: you spray the solar panels on the sides of underpowered clouds, and they're then capable of producing fully fledged rainstorms. If you just want a bit of rain now and then, you can use half a spray-on panel, with dodgy spray-on wiring.
No one. But just remember that won't remain the case, if you build that up into a (free or not) product that many people start to rely on. Do that, and you'll have a responsibility to your customers, free or not.
It's called the Macbook Air. Most people can't afford it.
I really hope you mean music stars, rather than the female students in your music class ;)
I suspect that $202 per record is a vast underestimate. One single record compromise could devastate someone's life, so they're obviously not factoring in the end-user cleanup effort required, or the insurance required to cover damages from a (possibly class-action) law suit based on that.
Yep, agreed. Certainly doesn't help in attracting developers who believe in Open Source (such as myself) either. I'm glad to see they've changed their tune on this (a bit at least). I only wish they'd publicised it more so I would've known things had changed without specifically checking. That policy change is worth hearing more than a hearing of a new release, to me.
I never said you needed them, I said that the decision to use copyright in this prohibitive way is deliberately making life awkward for people, so they'll just buy the CDs. As I said, I think that's fundamentally wrong.
The CDs DO meet the definition of proprietary, so I'm not the one wrong here.
While betas do help with testing, they're certainly not for such fundamental security testing. If they couldn't prove with hard math that their root access was limited properly, they should at least have had a bunch of unit tests for every variation from the tried and tested unix sudo model.