This is really nothing more than a PR stunt. What the researchers did was take a sequencing data compression program fqzcomp written for the Sequence Squeeze competition and deliberately broke it so there was a buffer overrun. What's more is that they broke it in such a way that all DNA sequences would have made the program go wrong in some way, probably by crashing it.

All they demonstrated is that if you break a program then it is broken.

All DNA sequencing machines produce well formed data files as output so you cannot cause a buffer overrun just by adding your own special DNA variant sample. It would just be treated like any normal sample data. There are vulnerabilities in sequencing data processing program code but to exploit them you would have to alter the file themselves not the DNA samples going into the machine.

Unetical -> Unethical

Not really, most developing countries bypass the entire analogue mobile stage and go straight to digital.

No they will not patent this. The work was done by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute that is funded (unsurprisingly) by the Wellcome Trust which is a big medical research charity. The Sanger Institute releases all of its research into the public domain.

Oh and another one:

I am a long time user and customer of VMWare products. But for my desktop virtualisation (and more and more non system critical servers) i am moving to virtualbox, why?

My host system is linux and Virtualbox is compiling the needed kernel modules through the package manager automagically on updates, i have to do this for vmware server by hand, every fucking time. And this is often, since i prefer patched servers so new kernels are going ins ASAP.

Cheers,
-S

As of the latest stunt, I've stopped playing MW. The problem for me, is that ... well, you have the CEO bragging about how nefarious they've been. That raised alarm bells. But ... mostly I just detest the quantity of noise they seem intent on generating. I mean, for a facebook integrated game, I know full well that most of my friends list already know I play mafia wars. They either already play themselves, or they don't give a toss about what the spam is. If they play themselves, then ... one notification a day is really all that's necessary. OK, maybe two. But ... certainly they don't need a 'feed' page filled with mafia wars spam.
And that's why I've stopped, removed the account, and blocked everything. Simply because I no longer believe that Zynga have any ethics to them whatsoever. 'Secret Stash' was the final straw - previous 'spams' have been 'giving free stuff' and as such optional. I did spam a couple a day, but no more. When they've changed a gameplay mechanic to stop working _unless_ you spam a friend, and they click on the link you send... too much.
But that was enough to make me realise that the game is actually not all that interesting anyway - it has very little depth, and is just about 'acquisition of more stuff'. And frankly, Progress Quest is better at it.

As you have to pay the bank for a draft, I don't think they will be eliminated.

You absolutely right! On an unrelated note, I've recently come into possession of an amazing tiger-repellant rock that I'd be willing to sell you...

"Just to be absolutely clear, you are doing 'Right Click, Get Info, Open With, Change All'?"

Yes, that's precisely what I did.

And, yes - I expected it to open with whatever program I specified - just as Explorer will do in Windows or Nautilus in Ubuntu. My comments resulted from my surprise that I was unable to set AVIs to open with VLC despite my numerous attempts.

And I apologize that I wasn't very clear. I was pretty limited time-wise and didn't remember the exact wording or process. However, I know I did "right click, get info, open with, change all" since that's pretty much the same way it works in Windows - and the same way I set MKVs to play in VLC earlier - on the same machine.

But I think another Slashdot reader has posted the solution:

"I believe you're running into a "feature" that's causing some confusion. If you manually change a document's open with application it segregates itself from the pool of documents that change when you hit "change all" on other documents. In case it's 12:30 and I'm not making sense I'll give an example...

You have a.tif, b.tif, and c.tif. The default program for opening .tif files is Preview and all three files in question are opening with the default. You change a.tif to open with Photoshop. You then change b.tif to open with Firefox and hit the "change all" button. You'd then be left with b and c.tif opening in Firefox, and a.tif opening in Photoshop because you changed it manually from the default. At some point in the future hitting change all on a.tif will both return it to the default pool along with b and c and change the default .tif program to whatever a.tif is set to at that moment.

I think for one reason or another these avi files think they're all out of the pool. You can change the files already on your drive to use the default quickly by using the Find command to find all files ending in .avi on the computer, then hitting select all and then command-option-i to bring up the inspector. Then change them to open with the program of your choice and hit change all.

Hope this helps, works, makes sense, and wasn't too wordy (I don't know how well you know your way around the MacOS so I explained a bit more than usual)."

Every month i transfer funds to my flatmate with reference who then transfers to the account of our real estate agent takes 10 mins

before i moved out i transferred rent and board to my parents account each month same system 1 min work

bank transfer again for situation 2 or bank cheque (quite different from norm cheque)