I followed a previous comment's link to the MIT library services' page about owning the entire 18.*.*.* A block, then went poking around the American Registry of Internet Numbers website and, on their transfers page, found the following text:

"There is also a Transfers to Specified Recipients Policy to allow entities to monetize transfers of extra address space to specified recipients who qualify for the space."

"Monitization" of transfers? Sounds like the sale of IPV4 addresses is okay, at least those administered by the ARIN.

I don't argue that the cost-per-base of sequence is dropping dramatically - but comparing the output of an Illumina sequencer (the tens-of-thousands of dollars pricepoint) to the Human Genome Project is misleading. The reason the HGP cost so much is the quality of the reference sequence they produced - the so-called Bermuda standard, of one error in 10,000 bases. The HGP researchers assembled all those individual sequence reads into an almost unbroken reference of astounding quality and utility.

In comparison, the sequence data people are producing today is crap. The individual reads are 30-80 base pairs and get put together into contiguous runs of only several thousand bases of length, on average. This is good for some kinds of work, but it doesn't give nearly the same picture of the genome that made the original human genome sequence such a masterpiece.

(I'm a genomics grad student. Can you tell?)

It's a constant old-media gripe of mine. They linked back to the Nano Letters front page - how much harder would it have been to link straight to the article?

Yeah, the article just talks about the fabrication and characterization of the nanopores, and demonstrates that they can detect the translocation of single nucleotide pairs. If they had actually been able to identify the nucleotides, it would published somewhere bigger than Nano Letters.

It drives me nuts when the popular media article doesn't include a citation back to the original research. Here's a link to the article on the Nano Letters website: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/nl103873a

If there was a "standard" eBook format, then I would agree with you. As much as there is one, though, it seems to be the .mobi / mobipocket format - which the DX reads as well. Actually, the Amazon .azw format is just the the mobipocket format with a different extension and a single bit flipped in the header. And then there's PDF support for full-page formatted documents, which works well (if subject to a few limitations as noted further up in the thread.) Frankly, I love my DX - it was expensive but I fully intend to get $500 of use out of it.

I use OpenDX regularly. I like how easy it is to implement arbitrary data manipulations without "programming", per se, and the graphics are pretty. I'm a big fan of R for serious statistics, but I think complex visualizations are easier to implement with OpenDX. On the downside, you're stuck importing flat files (no DB access), and the interface is rather dated (Motif? Ugh.)

Well, it seems to me that this is an obvious pressure for residential routers to allow traffic prioritization using standard QoS protocols. I don't know about you, but my P2P traffic should always be low priority. What I'm saying is that I'd love to be able to specify that preference.