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agreed
http://www.mdisc.com/what-is-mdisc/
it looks bad-ass, lasts 1000 years, can withstand extreme heat, humidity, and light, tested by the DOD, and readable by normal dvd drives.
DVD's do not have a very long shelf life, even if kept very well. Maybe they make longer lasting (more expensive?) DVDs with better dyes and materials.
if legally males stay male, and females stay female, then this article is worthless. If you work with government agencies you would have to give your legal gender anyways, not the gender you think you are or have been surgically altered to be.
for legal purposes, if someone starts off one gender are they always legally considered that gender or does gender altering surgeries change your legal gender.
gitorious has always felt a little unsecure, and it tends to be rather picky about which ruby gem versions it uses.
that aside, amazing interface.. probably one of the best
The UN has been pushing for control of the internet for some time now, but the US has managed to keep them at bay insisting that the US is open and is not doing things exactly like the NSA has been doing. Now that the US's story to the UN is complete shiet, will the UN have grounds to start taking control of some of the technologies and organizations running the internet ?
I can see this drastically reducing the cost of getting your DNA sequenced, and at the same time I can see police starting to take it anytime they would take fingerprints.
Electronics fail, things go wrong. Adding more possible points of failure to the people that depend on a single shot firing perfectly seems absurd. This technology I think is great and should be required for all consumer sold weapons. I doubt that active military weapons are frequently used against us and I'm sure that they keep much tighter control on their weapons already. Additional components will also mean retraining of the weapons so they can be properly maintained. This would cost an insane amount of money to retrain soldiers as well as replacing current weapons.