This is precisely what I was thinking at an initial read. However, I am not too sure that there are "100% certain" effective ways to cause cancer to produce. This method of creating cancer cells is much more efficient and in a controlled manor. Having this enormous power of creating cancer can be deadly for the weak minds as they will use it for evil than good. There is definitely a "good" that can come out of it as when there are abundant amount of resources to be tested with, the researchers will try every possible combination of alterations which will eventually find a way to suppress the cancer cells. Thus curing cancer forever (as optimistic as that sounds).
I must Say Wow. Such a big security hole. I had a couple of spare Solaris 10 servers that I tried this out on and to my surprise wow. Its a good thing that I don't enable telnet on any machines. Thanks for the post though.
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
Wow this is quite the interesting decision that this private sector company has decided to do. This could truly help us in the battle of deciphering the human genome. So far what it has been is that the public sectors as soon as they get a new finding need to publish them asap. Where as the private sectors can make use of these public sector's findings to make it more profitable to them by combining it with their own research. Now that everyone is in the same boat and we have combined forces, we can surely understand ourselves better and perhaps find cures to diseases such as Diabetes or any other diseases that are caused at the genetic level. Can't wait to see what this will lead to.
That is true. That giving a PC without an OS is not opensource. However, on the positive side if a user buys a machine without an OS on it, he/she is not going to spend the retail value to buy the Windows operating system (hopefully). Instead they will either choose to use one of the free operating systems Or... they will tap into the pirated market and install a pirated version of Windows. This will ofcourse increase the current 22% of North America having pirated copy.
I feel that dell is a powerful seller of PC's. This move will give room for the Linux market (hopefully). Thus back to the original posting, it could lead to increase in opensource product use.
When I did my B.Sc, I found those dreaded math courses to be rather "non" useful. Specially abstract algebra and graph theory. However, once one gets into the industry and really programs live applications, it is almost mandatory to know the essential calculus, algebra and most importantly graph theory. I mean without graph theory could you really have Google give out search results within a matter of seconds? I think not. Also could the problem P = NP Complete be ever solved? (hopefully it is not solved anytime soon) Many other mission critical applications in computer science are back boned on the knowledge of mathematics. Thus, I must say the more math you take, the better your reasoning and logical arguments will be.
Lets not take for granted that 1+1 = 2, but now can you prove why that is so?
This is a very good analysis. I think Red Hat MUST join forces with IBM else they will go under for sure. I mean with the recent events with Oracle and them providing enterprise support for linux, Red Hat is headed towards doom. If they only partner up with the next GIANT a.k.a IBM, then they will surely have a shell under their head. Hmm.. Interesting...Unless Oracle just goes out on a limb and buy's out Red Hat, which is ok as well. I think...
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
Now really, this was my morning joke. Is Microsoft trying to tap into google's world now? They come no where "close" to how Google maps is. I looked at their 3D, in what way is a bunch of blurry images 3-D view of buildings and houses. I think Microsoft should take this product down.
Another rant that I have is http://live.com/:| hmmm "can you say Google wannabe?". I thought this was rather amusing.
Thanks for making my day.
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
There isn't much news about this. The field of Bioinformatics has been around for quite sometime now. Where the analysis of genomes of bacteria such as the E.Coli or C.elegans has been done quite extensively. I believe every week a new species genome is published on the NCBI site. This can than be used to understand their homology between other species and than perhaps identify why humans can't fly yet or fight of disease or grow limbs back. Even though the field of Bioinformatics is rather developing rapidly, I feel that already alot of information has been gathered. Now its all about analysing the tons and tons of nucleotides and protein sequences.
My take on this is that Oracle is trying to reach out to every possible thing that it can devour. Last I heard that it was looking at Business Objects as its next victim. However, on the bright side, I think this will give some headlines to the Linux distro as more and more companies will start using linux as their main OS as appose to Windows. Would be perhaps a step in the direction of taking down the Microsoft giant. I see this to be a positive news (remember: look on the bright side of things:))
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
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This is precisely what I was thinking at an initial read. However, I am not too sure that there are "100% certain" effective ways to cause cancer to produce. This method of creating cancer cells is much more efficient and in a controlled manor. Having this enormous power of creating cancer can be deadly for the weak minds as they will use it for evil than good. There is definitely a "good" that can come out of it as when there are abundant amount of resources to be tested with, the researchers will try every possible combination of alterations which will eventually find a way to suppress the cancer cells. Thus curing cancer forever (as optimistic as that sounds).
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan.
I must Say Wow. Such a big security hole. I had a couple of spare Solaris 10 servers that I tried this out on and to my surprise wow. Its a good thing that I don't enable telnet on any machines. Thanks for the post though. Cheers, Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
Wow this is quite the interesting decision that this private sector company has decided to do. This could truly help us in the battle of deciphering the human genome. So far what it has been is that the public sectors as soon as they get a new finding need to publish them asap. Where as the private sectors can make use of these public sector's findings to make it more profitable to them by combining it with their own research. Now that everyone is in the same boat and we have combined forces, we can surely understand ourselves better and perhaps find cures to diseases such as Diabetes or any other diseases that are caused at the genetic level. Can't wait to see what this will lead to.
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
That is true. That giving a PC without an OS is not opensource. However, on the positive side if a user buys a machine without an OS on it, he/she is not going to spend the retail value to buy the Windows operating system (hopefully). Instead they will either choose to use one of the free operating systems Or... they will tap into the pirated market and install a pirated version of Windows. This will ofcourse increase the current 22% of North America having pirated copy.
I feel that dell is a powerful seller of PC's. This move will give room for the Linux market (hopefully). Thus back to the original posting, it could lead to increase in opensource product use.
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
When I did my B.Sc, I found those dreaded math courses to be rather "non" useful. Specially abstract algebra and graph theory. However, once one gets into the industry and really programs live applications, it is almost mandatory to know the essential calculus, algebra and most importantly graph theory. I mean without graph theory could you really have Google give out search results within a matter of seconds? I think not. Also could the problem P = NP Complete be ever solved? (hopefully it is not solved anytime soon) Many other mission critical applications in computer science are back boned on the knowledge of mathematics. Thus, I must say the more math you take, the better your reasoning and logical arguments will be.
Lets not take for granted that 1+1 = 2, but now can you prove why that is so?
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
This is a very good analysis. I think Red Hat MUST join forces with IBM else they will go under for sure. I mean with the recent events with Oracle and them providing enterprise support for linux, Red Hat is headed towards doom. If they only partner up with the next GIANT a.k.a IBM, then they will surely have a shell under their head. Hmm.. Interesting...Unless Oracle just goes out on a limb and buy's out Red Hat, which is ok as well. I think... Cheers, Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
Now really, this was my morning joke. Is Microsoft trying to tap into google's world now? They come no where "close" to how Google maps is. I looked at their 3D, in what way is a bunch of blurry images 3-D view of buildings and houses. I think Microsoft should take this product down. Another rant that I have is http://live.com/ :| hmmm "can you say Google wannabe?". I thought this was rather amusing.
Thanks for making my day.
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
There isn't much news about this. The field of Bioinformatics has been around for quite sometime now. Where the analysis of genomes of bacteria such as the E.Coli or C.elegans has been done quite extensively. I believe every week a new species genome is published on the NCBI site. This can than be used to understand their homology between other species and than perhaps identify why humans can't fly yet or fight of disease or grow limbs back. Even though the field of Bioinformatics is rather developing rapidly, I feel that already alot of information has been gathered. Now its all about analysing the tons and tons of nucleotides and protein sequences.
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan
My take on this is that Oracle is trying to reach out to every possible thing that it can devour. Last I heard that it was looking at Business Objects as its next victim. However, on the bright side, I think this will give some headlines to the Linux distro as more and more companies will start using linux as their main OS as appose to Windows. Would be perhaps a step in the direction of taking down the Microsoft giant. I see this to be a positive news (remember: look on the bright side of things :))
Cheers,
Thusjanthan Kubendranathan