Comment Re:Incredible! (Score 1) 204
30GB
- Boy are YOU an optimist...
New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild 130
BarbaraHudson (3785311) writes In Jurassic Park, scientists tweak dinosaur DNA so that the dinosaurs were lysine-deficient in order to keep them from spreading in the wild. Scientists have taken this one step further as a way to keep genetically modified E. coli from surviving outside the lab.
In modifying the bacteria's DNA to thwart escape, two teams altered the genetic code to require amino acids not found in nature. One team modified the genes that coded for proteins crucial to cell functions so that that produced proteins required the presence of the synthetic amino acid in the protein itself. The other team focused on 22 genes deemed essential to a bacterial cell's functions and tied the genes' expression to the presence of synthetic amino acids.
For the bacteria to survive, these synthetic amino acids had to be present in the medium on which the bacteria fed. In both cases, the number of escapees was so small as to be undetectable."
Comment First day of *nix training... (Score 3, Informative) 329
Okay children, I'm going to teach you this command explicitly so that you know what you never, ever, EVER - wake up little Johnny - what was I saying? Oh yeah, ever, ever use it.
Seriously. Don't use it.
Comment Re:Just keep it away from Gentoo and I'm good (Score 1) 551
No he doesn't. He addresses a specific negative attribution about systemd in that it is anti-UNIX because it keeps everything in one repository. He doesn't claim that this is the only reason anyone states it is anti-UNIX.
He's certainly being selective in what he is addressing, but surely he can't be expected to discuss everything anyone ever complained about involving systemd in this interview...?
Comment Re:Fork it all (Score 3, Insightful) 551
Your 'logic' implies that any distribution that uses systemd has rewritten the entire operating system.
Do you still think that's true? LOL.
Comment Re:Fork it all (Score 1) 551
+1
Comment Re:Just keep it away from Gentoo and I'm good (Score 2) 551
Your apparent definition of
the UNIX philosophy
would seem to suggest that the Linux kernel violates it as well because it's monolithic... Yes, that's absurd, but so - it appears - is your claim.
Why do you think it TOTALLY violates the UNIX philosophy?
Comment they won't block stackoverflow though because... (Score 1) 78
Their out-sourcing industry would go under...
Comment Re:you need to kill the botnets (Score 0) 312
Gods no, I like *nix the way it is. Windows IS the honeypot.
Comment Re:Well That About Wraps It Up For God (Score 2) 755
I don't know... Spaghetti is pretty good.
Comment Re: Well That About Wraps It Up For God (Score 1) 755
Indeed.
A zealot in any shape or form is narrow minded.
"A zealot is someone who won't change their mind, or change the subject..."
Comment Re: This is why we need a war (Score 1) 279
Sorry, the radar was in operational service, and was also fitted to the F-15 which was flying, but not deployed to combat units yet.
Comment Re: This is why we need a war (Score 0) 279
I think you mean at least *2 years AFTER NATO fighters*, lol.
In 1973 F-15s had it in operational use.
Comment Re:Huh (Score 1) 279
The Air Superiority mission will retain a pilot for a long time. Recon/Air-to-Ground/Resupply - these will all be primarily remote operated (they're often automated now.)
Comment Re:Huh (Score 2) 279
Why aren't weapon systems modular allowing for easy upgrade? No money in that?
They are modular, and explicitly intended for upgrades. Easy? That depends upon your definition of 'easy' - if you don't mind spending money, it's easy.
And why use human pilots for combat craft, a drone could accelerate and turn under massive G forces and still function where a human would black out.
Response time, situational awareness, the difficulty is maintaining a connection during electronic warfare, et cetera, ad nauseum. I think that there are quite a few mission profiles that would suite remote operation, but air superiority isn't one of them (not yet.)
1st: make a fast, sturdy air frame with a reliable engine, 2nd make all electronics and weapons modular easy to replace and upgrade, 3rd get rid of the human.
Like the WOPR?
