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by toufka 13y ago
It's only 96% similar to other bacteria we know of. Which is greater than the difference of most mammals to each other. But still pretty similar and not entirely radical in its genetic makeup (in the grand scheme of things).
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by toufka 13y ago
Woah - bold plan Mr. Mega.Com: >Dotcom will launch Baboom! next year... It aims to directly reward artists by paying them when users listen to the songs for free. The price for downloading free music is that users install the "MegaK
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by toufka 13y ago
I'm not so sure it's a red herring, rather the particular herring. It's not a distraction - and technological remedies are useful. More importantly, is, I think, technological education. It is true that these power grabs
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by toufka 13y ago
A nice literal example of why the US has three separate, adversarial branches of government. When one gets a bit full of itself the other two have time to band together to put the offender in its place before it can become truly dominant.
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by toufka 13y ago
Do keep in mind that Snowden's documents have provided much more solid legal ground upon which the EFF can gain standing. The EFF has had a great deal of difficulty getting even into the courts because they couldn't show actual
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by toufka 13y ago
Some apparently already might be. Google some of the names - (syntax appears to be last initial- first name. Comments & names from some of the people re-identify them as NSA elsewhere on the internet. Some of those comments were inter
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by toufka 13y ago
I still think the answer is not in any particular standard in any particular field, rather it's outputting the final, worked datasets. Making the numbers themselves available and usable to the 'reader' or scientist following
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by toufka 13y ago
Which in the long run is a far more elegant solution. Rather than "Kill All The Things!" (including your target), it's "Kill the Bad Guy!" - but you have to know who he was.
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by toufka 13y ago
It really startled me that the comparison was the Pro vs the Ara, and not the Pro and the Ara. The Pro is very much in the spirit of modularity. True, everything written demonstrates the different level of granularity of modularity betw
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by toufka 13y ago
It's parallel construction all the way down. Discover via extralegal, point mass-capture in that direction, sniff out and send to 'legal' 702 or 215 databases, hint to FBI/DEA buddies, get normal warrant, and now you&#x
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by toufka 13y ago
Bacteriophages are very much the answer to the titular problem. Instead of finding tiny little lethal molecules, we will likely end up actually designing machine-like phages to kill the causes of our illnesses. They're easy to select
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by toufka 13y ago
It is illegal to defraud and impersonate. There's nothing illegal about using multiple names (again, so long as there is no intent to defraud or impersonate).
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by toufka 13y ago
If you actually played both the games you'd realize they are really similar. Capture the flag from the cockpit of a 'tank' with various power-ups you can run over to activate against an opposing force. Sure, in one you shoot
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by toufka 13y ago
There was Spectre VR, and Chaos VR. Chaos was an unfinished demo with no goals. There were enemies and places that spawned infinitely. You were a flying ship and could shoot and barrel roll etc. I think there were some kinds of powerups
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by toufka 13y ago
It's starting to. Having been here since ~2008 - there was literally no new construction until about last year. And now there are about a dozen high-density apartment buildings going up (on Divis, Market, Duboce, 3rd, etc.). Likel
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by toufka 13y ago
Also the posting comments become a 'place' to put suggestions, alternatives, and other measures to deal with the issue.
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by toufka 13y ago
Which is why 'nanotechnology' of the future will be (and of the past was) done with proteins & nucleic acids packed by lipids. Want to build a nanobot? Build it out of organic material. The rocks we build iPhones out of do
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by toufka 13y ago
I thought that was some kind of construction rather than a screenshot. That's actually from page 27. For those who don't want a good imgur click: [cross-out]-TOP SECRET-//-COMINT-//-ORCON,NOFORN-[&#x2
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by toufka 13y ago
If you can make bread in Ohio, but the people will only pay $1 a slice, there is no way your margins will support you buying a $100,000 oven to bake in, fresh grains to mill yourself, and a highly-educated person to reason out modern recipe
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by toufka 13y ago
>overpriced every other basic commodity of human existence. I'm a starving grad student who lives a block from the mentioned, The Mill. I can't afford anything of quality traditionally associated with prosperity (car, house, fa
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by toufka 13y ago
There are three main ways of doing this in lab now 1) letting live cells recolonize a structure that mimics a whole tissue 2) with 'many hundred cell' resolution printing cells in 'close to the right structure' and letti
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by toufka 13y ago
Give us a try? It seems this is the default line and that the users never get to piss off the support people because they're never given the chance. Let us burn ourselves and then we can learn to use the stove. If we never understand
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by toufka 13y ago
Snowden wasn't an 'analyst'. And there may only be 13 analysts with FULL access. However, there are literally thousands of IT admins with ADMIN access. Which, most of us around here know, is actually a step above full acce
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by toufka 13y ago
So long as it's a kind of adolescence period, it's not all that much of a 'waste'. Very good tools are being built to do mundane and transient things - but they are still good tools. Good ways to visualize, sort, design
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by toufka 13y ago
eh? From your own quote: >>The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now . "Defeatist" has nothing to do with no one 'getting to ask' a question.
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by toufka 13y ago
Exactly. This is what Snowden was warning about. There is a single variable (in each program) that determines this expiry date. Today it's set to '5' years. But a flip of a (few) bits and that could be 50, or 500. Much l
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by toufka 13y ago
man, every time I want to give this another try the tremendous effort involved to even begin is off-putting. Here Marge prepares her public key: [marge@apl marge]$ gpg --armor --export marge@aplawrence.com > mypk To add Marges public key
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by toufka 13y ago
Every story on this subject from the government uses very specific technical qualifiers. "Listen" in this case. Likely there is some kind of natural language processing done to each call - either to give a complete (written) tran
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by toufka 13y ago
>they can do what they please. Sell or give it away to the NSA? Well, why not? Exactly. The can do whatever they please. They have the power to tell the NSA to take a hike. And that power makes them look strong in the eyes of their cu
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by toufka 13y ago
Part of this is very true. Part of it is that science has already done this - 200 years ago with the development of scientific units. We already have a great universal format - it is just not digital in nature and doesn't exist as a

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