You are an idiot that is upvoted by 4 idiots. Seriously, it's like am on reddit.
". The internet is a mechanism for exchanging data and messages between computers" moron
WHat did I write about, moron? Did I write a technical post, shithead? Or I wrote about a business model - the ultimate thing that matters for sustainability?
And thing about private nets is that one cannot facebook them - convert them yet to another advertising media.
Darknet is the opposite of the main commercial function of Internet - advertisement. The main reason why we are getting so much freebies on any media nowadays, it's because the media is advertisement media.
Darknets is the end of internet. I am surprised ADB and NoScript survived for so long.
The most important right of all that is holy and dear for the progressive Western heart is the right to behave stupid, irresponsible, antisocial, self-destructive and plain vanilla irrational.
Whenever somebody treads even close to that holy right, the Wise Pastor of the Past arguments are invoked, Godwin law is suspended and burning coal-hot aforementioned individualistic heart reaches the gaping heights of dignified eloquence.
Oxford definitely would have been better off without him
Or. May be:
Wiles would have been better off without Oxford, who knows.
This does not prove anything. It's an example of the situation when I would finally hit a ball with a ballbase stick.
I am all for support of people like Wiles, but not at the government expense. Philantropy and industry should take care of people like Wiles. Worked pretty well in the past.
I find it rather suspicious that the search for "rotting Y chromosome" leads only to news about this "Rotting Y chromosome" theory being debunked. Usually it indicates a non issue.
I lot of science section readers of slashdot have institutional access behind the paywall from their work. A lot of them telecommute (remote desktop) and can access behind the paywall 24/7.
Article is much more interesting than top voted comments. Summary makes a cheap shot by omitting six-word definition:
Life is self-reproduction with variations.
My question is why do you want to define what life is?
It is only practical if one selects subsystems and try to define whether they belong to life or not. They doubt subsystem of viruses for example. The latter provides excellent example of how the life should be defined.
Everything that relates to life that we are sure about: plants, animals, humans, everything that part of it, is related to life.
It's not important whether you define viruses as life or not. It's important that viruses are very important at influencing life as we know it.
That's why when you study life you can study all the factors that influence it: solar radiation, geothermal source, etc.
Defining life is a futile attempt to mirror human MO of finding subsystems, of analyzing, of modeling.
Viruses can live in a crystallized form for a long time without metabolism and variations and reproduction. So do sugar cubes in my cupboard.
Both are important to study when you study life that is important to us - human life, for example.
>If you have that level of resources, you can bribe people, infiltrate, recreate the research from scratch, etc.
You omitted a very important "if": "...and if you care"
Bioweapons are hugely exaggerated as a viable source of terror. Nobody ever used it with results even remotely close to the terror induced by conventional explosives.
>Estimates of the impact—including the death toll—of a possible future H5N1 virus pandemic for use in (inter)national pandemic preparedness plans do not generally exceed those of the H1N1 Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
This is like saying, "Mom, why do you worry? I can't get less than F for this test."
>followed by consultation with local biosafety officers and facility managers
As I suspected this is about US enforcing on other countries their own fear of terrorists as the result of their aggressive external policy
>We consulted with NIAID NIH staff, collaborators within our CEIRS center, and organizers of the ESWI meeting about the decision to make our results available to the public.
smmry:
Restricted Data on Influenza H5N1 Virus Transmission Since its first detection in 1997, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus has devastated the poultry industry of numerous countries of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Estimates of the impact-including the death toll-of a possible future H5N1 virus pandemic for use innational pandemic preparedness plans do not generally exceed those of the H1N1 Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
Our research program on H5N1 virus transmission, which led to submission of one of the papers that has stirred up so much recent controversy, aimed to investigate whether and how HPAI H5N1 virus can acquire the ability to be transmitted via aerosols among mammals and whether it would retain its virulence.
If we knew which mutations and biological traits can change the zoonotic H5N1 virus into a virus with major public health impact, detection of specific mutations in circulating avian viruses should trigger more aggressive control programs than those employed currently.
Finally, research laboratories that study H5N1 virus host adaptation, H5N1 virus in mammalian model systems, or use the virus lineage that was the subject of our studies have a need to know because they may unknowingly develop high-risk variants.
Viruses emerging from animal reservoirs have killed many millions of people around the globe without the help of direct human interference, and we need to be prepared for other naturally occurring events similar to those caused by influenza A virus, HIV, SARS-coronavirus, West Nile virus, filoviruses, and henipaviruses.
Reading comments to this article today feels like reading reddit.com/r/science: people saying banalities or not understanding elementary English or simple logic get moderated over the board.
Slashdot Mirror
You are an idiot that is upvoted by 4 idiots. Seriously, it's like am on reddit.
". The internet is a mechanism for exchanging data and messages between computers" moron
WHat did I write about, moron? Did I write a technical post, shithead? Or I wrote about a business model - the ultimate thing that matters for sustainability?
Get lost, idiots.
Why don't you learn first a difference between darknet and social network?
> The internet arose and thrived before the corporate world learned how to make money with it
Now look who is trolling...
Arose - yes. Thrived? Are you seriously comparing Internet in 1988 when I sent my first email with what it is now?
Do you really think it will become this way only on NSF and DOE grants? Without advertising power of the companies?
You don't get it.
And to the other guy who alluded that Internets are ISPs: you are an idiot.
Two largest companies are advertising company (Google) and the company that is founded by the all time record genius of marketing (Apple).
Nobody will do that on a private net of 100 people.
You can have the dumbest phone in the Kenyan village, but it will leave tower logs as tower loggy as your iPad.
Coincidentally, I saw this today (old, but new for me)
China’s economy will surpass the U.S. in 2016
And thing about private nets is that one cannot facebook them - convert them yet to another advertising media.
Darknet is the opposite of the main commercial function of Internet - advertisement. The main reason why we are getting so much freebies on any media nowadays, it's because the media is advertisement media.
Darknets is the end of internet. I am surprised ADB and NoScript survived for so long.
The most important right of all that is holy and dear for the progressive Western heart is the right to behave stupid, irresponsible, antisocial, self-destructive and plain vanilla irrational.
Whenever somebody treads even close to that holy right, the Wise Pastor of the Past arguments are invoked, Godwin law is suspended and burning coal-hot aforementioned individualistic heart reaches the gaping heights of dignified eloquence.
Or. May be:
Wiles would have been better off without Oxford, who knows.
This does not prove anything. It's an example of the situation when I would finally hit a ball with a ballbase stick.
I am all for support of people like Wiles, but not at the government expense. Philantropy and industry should take care of people like Wiles. Worked pretty well in the past.
Har. Har. You just got a perspective, bird's view, on your problem. You are welcome
Here is a link to the article in Nature that is supposed to claim rotting Y chromosome theory.
Yep. Religious fundamentalists like myself. The only thing needed is right social structure that protects family, not individuals in the family.
I find it rather suspicious that the search for "rotting Y chromosome" leads only to news about this "Rotting Y chromosome" theory being debunked. Usually it indicates a non issue.
I lot of science section readers of slashdot have institutional access behind the paywall from their work. A lot of them telecommute (remote desktop) and can access behind the paywall 24/7.
I don't have a 4G phone.
Or a TV.
What is GM?
My 2010 lease of Accord is worse than the same model from 2007 in terms of problems. Granted that they are very minor it's still very annoying.
Can it be both?
"Really? With the train station in Kyoto? "
Especially when there are other things that can ruin Tokyo skyline.
Cold war did not have a common sovereign on both sides, so the technology developed unhindered.
Before SOPA (that is now) government does not interfere in technology itself - torrents are still legal.
Government always interferes, catching what it thinks illegal use of technology. What I meant is outright ban on technology.
Commies vs West
MPAA vs sharers
coders vs decoders (that includes captcha vs decaptcha)
It's fun to observe it when government does not interfere.
Article is much more interesting than top voted comments. Summary makes a cheap shot by omitting six-word definition:
Life is self-reproduction with variations.
My question is why do you want to define what life is?
It is only practical if one selects subsystems and try to define whether they belong to life or not. They doubt subsystem of viruses for example. The latter provides excellent example of how the life should be defined.
Everything that relates to life that we are sure about: plants, animals, humans, everything that part of it, is related to life.
It's not important whether you define viruses as life or not. It's important that viruses are very important at influencing life as we know it.
That's why when you study life you can study all the factors that influence it: solar radiation, geothermal source, etc.
Defining life is a futile attempt to mirror human MO of finding subsystems, of analyzing, of modeling.
Viruses can live in a crystallized form for a long time without metabolism and variations and reproduction. So do sugar cubes in my cupboard.
Both are important to study when you study life that is important to us - human life, for example.
>If you have that level of resources, you can bribe people, infiltrate, recreate the research from scratch, etc.
You omitted a very important "if": "...and if you care"
Bioweapons are hugely exaggerated as a viable source of terror. Nobody ever used it with results even remotely close to the terror induced by conventional explosives.
>Estimates of the impact—including the death toll—of a possible future H5N1 virus pandemic for use in (inter)national pandemic preparedness plans do not generally exceed those of the H1N1 Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
This is like saying, "Mom, why do you worry? I can't get less than F for this test."
>followed by consultation with local biosafety officers and facility managers
As I suspected this is about US enforcing on other countries their own fear of terrorists as the result of their aggressive external policy
>We consulted with NIAID NIH staff, collaborators within our CEIRS center, and organizers of the ESWI meeting about the decision to make our results available to the public.
smmry:
Restricted Data on Influenza H5N1 Virus Transmission
Since its first detection in 1997, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus has devastated the poultry industry of numerous countries of the Eastern Hemisphere.
Estimates of the impact-including the death toll-of a possible future H5N1 virus pandemic for use innational pandemic preparedness plans do not generally exceed those of the H1N1 Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918.
Our research program on H5N1 virus transmission, which led to submission of one of the papers that has stirred up so much recent controversy, aimed to investigate whether and how HPAI H5N1 virus can acquire the ability to be transmitted via aerosols among mammals and whether it would retain its virulence.
If we knew which mutations and biological traits can change the zoonotic H5N1 virus into a virus with major public health impact, detection of specific mutations in circulating avian viruses should trigger more aggressive control programs than those employed currently.
Finally, research laboratories that study H5N1 virus host adaptation, H5N1 virus in mammalian model systems, or use the virus lineage that was the subject of our studies have a need to know because they may unknowingly develop high-risk variants.
Viruses emerging from animal reservoirs have killed many millions of people around the globe without the help of direct human interference, and we need to be prepared for other naturally occurring events similar to those caused by influenza A virus, HIV, SARS-coronavirus, West Nile virus, filoviruses, and henipaviruses.
What on earth this puff piece doing in Science section?
Reading comments to this article today feels like reading reddit.com/r/science: people saying banalities or not understanding elementary English or simple logic get moderated over the board.
Tfu.