i am assuming you are referring to world war two, and no, we did not attack the Germans, we attacked the Nazis (Hitler's army that raped almost all of Europe, north Africa & parts of western Russia & Ukraine)...
switch carriers, dump AT&T, get a TracFone at your local dept. store along with an airtime card sign up anonymously online with the info from the card and nobody can attach your real identity to your new cellphone, only give the number to those that you approve of
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box) to page 5 (enjoy bookcase!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all.
Genetic investigators caught the first sign of the missing chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the Journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere (the central sequence). What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. We can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape.
not everybody believes in your imaginary god, life started because the chemicals to spawn life is most everywhere in the universe, the conditions/.environment favorable for the primordial soup to actually kickstart life is rare.
i side with the pragmatic, the GNU/GPL makes a great philosophy but a terrible religion, i will use GNU/GPL as much and as often as possible but when i cant i fudge a little, i have flash and Nvidia's blob video driver, when gnash and noveau mature enough to do just as good or better from a performance and technology point of view i will start using them and not a minute sooner...
does not matter what firmware brand or version is on it, if i fucking can not check for an update then i assume it is old & obsolete and should be tossed in to the trash, or should i be happy just running a mystery box router not knowing if it needs updating or replacing or not?
well, lets see, i never updated the firmware on a Linksys wrt54g version 8.2 so i go to Cisco/Linksys website to check on a firmware update since the topic of this vulnerability comes up and i find the website's pages to select the router version wont load (v.8.2) since i can not even see if i need a firmware update i consider that router no longer safe to use, is it vulnerable?, is it even still supported? maybe it is time to switch router brands to another company that that has a website where i can at least check to see if there is a firmware update.
especially since Cisco took over, before they were just cheap but usable, now you cant even navigate their crappy flash bloated website, i am going to buy a Netgear router as soon as i get my paycheck today, then post a rant on youtube why Linksys sucks to much.
you hear that Cisco, customers that just want the info and support dont want their web browsers bogged down with a bunch of stupid & useless graphics and flash animations, fire your webmasters and graphics designers and get a clean yet simple website that is easy to navigate without flash
WTF? you think microsoft deserves respect because they produce software? fuck that noise, respect is something that is earned - not given away like candy on halloween, just look at the history of microsft abusing its position as a monopoly and slandering Linux & FOSS/GNU/GPL in the past, and thats not counting how badly they treat their business parters. fuck microsoft! if Torvalds had any sense i would not let one stinking line of microsoft's code anywhere near the kernel or anything else he is in charge of...
i did not like the first transformers movie changed channels on the TV after a few minutes, and i wont bother to watch the second one either. machine technology has made some great strides but i think the transformers idea is just beyond the sci/fi to reality scope of possibilities...
nice chevy, yellow is not my favorite color for a car, i would prefer plain white for a light color or dark metallic blue for a dark colored car would suit me, and lose the stripes - stripes and other flashy crap are for teenagers and older men suffering a mid-life crisis.
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dont let it scare you, vote with your wallet and just dont buy Apple's shiney expensive crap, i dont own anything made by Apple
bleh! the iphone looks cool and does some snazzy things but it is not for everyone, i can buy any cell/smart[phone] i want but guess what i have? i have a cheap throw away tracfone because a little gadget like a mobile phone is not worth investing that much money in = too easily broken, lost or stolen, the same with laptops, i dont but high dollar laptops for the same reason, i buy used laptops off of craigslist for a 100 or 200 USD and keep any vital info on a usb thumbdrive and in my pocket when not in use...
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
i mostly agree, the wheels and cogs that get added to Linux have been reinvented so many times it is ridiculous, i can understand choice but wow the amount of window managers today is incredible just google for xwinman and you will find a website that catalogs them all (besides the main three = gnome, kde, xfce) there are over a hundred little lightweight projects. out of all of them i use 2 window managers for their various qualities and strenghths besides kde for general purpose uses...
every time some new way to apply linux to comes to fruition i find that the biggest part of it is just a reinvention of what is already available, its a waste of resources!
if microsoft can turn something in to a gold mine you can bet on it, raking in as much money as possible by milking it for all its worth is a big part of their business model
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i am assuming you are referring to world war two, and no, we did not attack the Germans, we attacked the Nazis (Hitler's army that raped almost all of Europe, north Africa & parts of western Russia & Ukraine)...
some of us read history books.
i do to most of the time, just not 100% of the time, this one of the times i don't...
until some agreement or contract with microsoft comes back to bite you on the ass later on...
switch carriers, dump AT&T, get a TracFone at your local dept. store along with an airtime card sign up anonymously online with the info from the card and nobody can attach your real identity to your new cellphone, only give the number to those that you approve of
shameless stolen and pasted for your pleasure...
So here's the thing: We have 46 chromosomes. Our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. But that's actually a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply deleted a pair of chromosomes. That's because chromosomes are to the human body what instruction sheets are to inexpensive, flat-pack furniture. If you're missing one screw, you can still put that bookcase together pretty easily. But if the how-to guide suddenly jumps from page 1 (take plywood panels out of box) to page 5 (enjoy bookcase!), you're likely to end up missing something pretty vital. All this left scientists with a thorny dilemma: How could we have a common ancestor with great apes, but fewer chromosomes?
Turns out: The chromosomes aren't missing at all. Genetic investigators caught the first sign of the missing chromosomes' scent in 1982. That year, a paper published in the Journal Science described a very funny phenomenon. Researchers knew all chromosomes had distinctive signatures; patterns of DNA sequences that can be reliably found in specific spots, including in the center and on the ends. These end-cap sequences are called telomeres. Telomeres are like the little plastic tips that keep your shoelaces from unravelling. They protect the ends of chromosomes and hold things together. Given that important function, you wouldn't expect to find telomeres hanging out on other parts of the chromosome. But that's exactly what the 1982 study reported. Looking at human chromosome 2, the scientists found telomeres snuggled up against the centromere (the central sequence). What's more, these out-of-place human telomeres were strikingly similar to telomeres that can be found, in their proper location, on two great ape chromosomes.
This evidence laid the groundwork for a brilliant discovery. Rather than falling apart, the two missing chromosomes had fused together. Their format changed, but they didn't lose any information, so the mutation wasn't deadly. Instead, scientists now think, the fusion made it difficult for our ancestors to mate with the ancestors of chimpanzees, leading our two species to strike out alone. In the two decades since the original study, more evidence has surfaced backing this up, which leads us to 2005, when the chimpanzee genome was sequenced around the same time that the National Human Genome Research Institute published a detailed survey of human chromosome 2. We can now see extra centromeres in chromosome 2 and trace how its genes neatly line up with those on chimpanzee chromosomes 12 and 13. It's a great example of evidence supporting the common descent of man and ape.
not everybody believes in your imaginary god, life started because the chemicals to spawn life is most everywhere in the universe, the conditions/.environment favorable for the primordial soup to actually kickstart life is rare.
i side with the pragmatic, the GNU/GPL makes a great philosophy but a terrible religion, i will use GNU/GPL as much and as often as possible but when i cant i fudge a little, i have flash and Nvidia's blob video driver, when gnash and noveau mature enough to do just as good or better from a performance and technology point of view i will start using them and not a minute sooner...
does not matter what firmware brand or version is on it, if i fucking can not check for an update then i assume it is old & obsolete and should be tossed in to the trash, or should i be happy just running a mystery box router not knowing if it needs updating or replacing or not?
well, lets see, i never updated the firmware on a Linksys wrt54g version 8.2 so i go to Cisco/Linksys website to check on a firmware update since the topic of this vulnerability comes up and i find the website's pages to select the router version wont load (v.8.2) since i can not even see if i need a firmware update i consider that router no longer safe to use, is it vulnerable?, is it even still supported? maybe it is time to switch router brands to another company that that has a website where i can at least check to see if there is a firmware update.
especially since Cisco took over, before they were just cheap but usable, now you cant even navigate their crappy flash bloated website, i am going to buy a Netgear router as soon as i get my paycheck today, then post a rant on youtube why Linksys sucks to much.
you hear that Cisco, customers that just want the info and support dont want their web browsers bogged down with a bunch of stupid & useless graphics and flash animations, fire your webmasters and graphics designers and get a clean yet simple website that is easy to navigate without flash
what really sucks is when you're stuck between floors
WTF? you think microsoft deserves respect because they produce software? fuck that noise, respect is something that is earned - not given away like candy on halloween, just look at the history of microsft abusing its position as a monopoly and slandering Linux & FOSS/GNU/GPL in the past, and thats not counting how badly they treat their business parters. fuck microsoft! if Torvalds had any sense i would not let one stinking line of microsoft's code anywhere near the kernel or anything else he is in charge of...
i did not like the first transformers movie changed channels on the TV after a few minutes, and i wont bother to watch the second one either. machine technology has made some great strides but i think the transformers idea is just beyond the sci/fi to reality scope of possibilities...
nice chevy, yellow is not my favorite color for a car, i would prefer plain white for a light color or dark metallic blue for a dark colored car would suit me, and lose the stripes - stripes and other flashy crap are for teenagers and older men suffering a mid-life crisis.
dont let it scare you, vote with your wallet and just dont buy Apple's shiney expensive crap, i dont own anything made by Apple
bleh! the iphone looks cool and does some snazzy things but it is not for everyone, i can buy any cell/smart[phone] i want but guess what i have? i have a cheap throw away tracfone because a little gadget like a mobile phone is not worth investing that much money in = too easily broken, lost or stolen, the same with laptops, i dont but high dollar laptops for the same reason, i buy used laptops off of craigslist for a 100 or 200 USD and keep any vital info on a usb thumbdrive and in my pocket when not in use...
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
i mostly agree, the wheels and cogs that get added to Linux have been reinvented so many times it is ridiculous, i can understand choice but wow the amount of window managers today is incredible just google for xwinman and you will find a website that catalogs them all (besides the main three = gnome, kde, xfce) there are over a hundred little lightweight projects. out of all of them i use 2 window managers for their various qualities and strenghths besides kde for general purpose uses...
every time some new way to apply linux to comes to fruition i find that the biggest part of it is just a reinvention of what is already available, its a waste of resources!
gnome and kde both, i have abandoned both, i just use lightweight window managers like a custom built & trimmed fvwm or OpenBox anymore
if microsoft can turn something in to a gold mine you can bet on it, raking in as much money as possible by milking it for all its worth is a big part of their business model
or the Boogie Woogie Bugle boys from Company "B"
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i want to see what the kernel .config and rc.xxx files that load at boot time look like
yeah! thanks, i read about this a few months back but with all the information i consume it is impossible to keep track of it all...
if they switched to ms windows we would be paying 50 bucks to mail a letter by now
you can always build an adobe mud house