Comment I'm reminded of this quote (Score 1) 318
"Many names were almost as good as none, when a being wished not to be found. But some name was necessary, if a being wished to be found sometimes."
--Daniel Keys Moran, Emerald Eyes
"Many names were almost as good as none, when a being wished not to be found. But some name was necessary, if a being wished to be found sometimes."
--Daniel Keys Moran, Emerald Eyes
Why does a libertarian like Nick Gillespie want to force a market participant like Apple to carry certain types of apps in its App Store? Last time I checked, the First Amendment was about the government abridging your right to free speech.
If people want DUI checkpoint apps, they can switch to Android or some other phone platform that allows them to run the types of app they want. The market will reward or punish Apple accordingly. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
The excerpt above is from the linked article. Tekgoblin is the one that got it wrong.
I went to Papadmitriadis's Twitter feed to see if "Stemgraph" was a local nickname for Systemgraph but it was...
(wait for it...)
all Greek to me.
This is a potentially useful bit of microbiology. Eventually we're going to have to clean up landfill sites and the like, so what would be more useful than a bug that strips all the iron out of a pile of stuff and deposits it in sediment? Scoop garbage into tanks, let the bugs do their work, collect the sludge at the bottom for processing. If we could engineer these bacteria to eat other stuff like copper or various types of plastic, we could potentially reclaim a lot of what we call "garbage" on the cheap.
For reasons why this might be a horrifically bad idea, I present you with the story of Klebsiella planticola.
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity." - Oscar Wilde
