not really, the Kanji largely retain their meaning between Japanese and Chinese and can be used to communicate to some extent.

oh well, I hope we see the original cables released in the next few days. The cables in general are quite readable and I'd much rather go back to the source than read an article.

Yes, but shouldn't the original cables be on wikileaks already? If wikileaks have only released the cable publically isn't that kind of against their mandate? I thought they were trying to usher in an age of "scientific journalism" where original sources could be cited.

So far this is the only reference I can find:

Where are the original cables? There seem to be a few talking about blocking/redirecting google in china. But I can't find those refering to "cyberattacks".

http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/05/09BEIJING1336.html

http://wikileaks.ch/cable/2009/07/09BEIJING1957.html

Or better yet could we have a like to the original cable on wikileaks?! I can't seem to find it.

Boost ( http://www.boost.org/ ) is good I also hear nice things about POCO http://pocoproject.org/

Yea. So in this case they are coming for people stealing stuff and causing damage to private property.

So erm, first they came for the people stealing peoples stuff, I did not speak because I don't like stealing other peoples stuff.

I don't see how your quote applies here.

So is this a bad idea? The usually arguments are that CCTV cameras reduce privacy and when state controlled gives more power to the state (Schneier says this is the case even if the CCTV data is generally available).

However in this case, the state isn't holding the data. It's being acquired from private sources. It doesn't appear to be aggregated. It doesn't seem like you could using it for stalking. Is there a problem here?

So it's pretty cool that ARM now have a design capable of going to 2GHz but has anyone signed up to make the silicon? The A9 design has been around for a while, but I've not seen any implementations yet.

Better:

* * * * * curl twitter.com/new299 | html2text | grep "CMD" | awk '{$1="";$0=substr($0,2)}1' | sh

I made a typo could you change it to this:

* * * * * curl twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/21852262.rss | html2text | head -n 3 | tail -n 1 | sed 's/new299://' | html2text | sh

k thxs.

Playing devil's advocate. What from the original project was useful in developing 2nd gen sequencing? Assuming that we can now assemble human genomes de novo using Illumina reads.

The raw images from the device alone can take up this much space. 8 lanes, 300 imaging regions (tiles) per lane. Each imaged 4 times (one for each base/channel). A typical run is 37 cycles (base pairs), paired end runs (now typical) double this so:

8*300*4*37*2 =710400

On a GA1 those files are 2mb each, giving you around a terabyte and a half of of primary data to process. Image analysis takes place processing those files in to "intensity files". Those are further processed in to corrected intensities, then basecalls. Each of these steps produces a similar number of files. Some details of the process here: http://sgenomics.org/mediawiki/upload/8/80/Pipeline.pdf

Those numbers are for a GA1, the current version of the instrument has less imaging regions (100). However cycle length has increased (typically now 75+ bp).
As a side note all the tools used are "shared source" and not available under an open source license. There is a project called Swift which is an open source tool to do this: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/btp383

D has bounds checking on primitives? That doesn't seem like a great idea, must have a significant performance impact. Sure it prevents buffer under/overruns, but if you want to do that use a container class which does bounds checking.