Without support, T-Mobile probably won't be entitled to patch any of the inevitable future critical security vulnerabilities found in VMware's software.

Indeed, a reasonable hypothesis is that ribosome-type life evolved first, and the the DNA mechanism evolved later, pushing out all the ribosome-style life except the traces of it that remain in our cells.

Francis Crick calculated how long it would take for life to evolve from scratch, and concluded it would take longer than the earth has existed. In response, he developed the hypothesis of panspermia, that life evolved elsewhere and somehow landed here (maybe just a few cells on an astroid). I don't have the ability to check his math on that hypothesis, so I don't have an opinion either way.

An enzyme is just a biological macro-molecule that catalyzes reactions. It doesn't need to be a protein.

The innovation seems to be having built a long chain of DNA from scratch that won't self-destruct instantly when put into a lipid envelope.

Genesis 7:29:

Sometimes called the 11th commandment. It's not widely reported because nobody knew what it meant. Now we do.

The copyright statute of Slashdot's home country defines a "copy" as a physical object in which a work is embodied, such as a book, ROM cartridge, or optical disc. The statutory license associated with ownership of a copy of a computer program includes making intermediate copies "as an essential step" in the use of the program. Title 17, United States Code, section 117. Historically, console makers and game publishers have lacked power to revoke this license with respect to a particular copy of a game that isn't online-only. With the end of video game distribution on optical disc, this license becomes revocable, and that's the problem.

I will never make an account, so I guess they want me to only access Reddit-posted content through LLMs.

Got it.

Given the recent track record of lunar probes crashing and/or landing ass side up, the odds of success for this rush job are not good.

Are you sure about that "biological" thing? Most of them look like Stepford Wives.

Oh yeah, that reminds me why I like Bern.

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

It's important to distinguish, it may or may not benefit the country overall, but what matters is whether it benefits the person/people who decided to go to war. It's not always the same.

That's not a gendered problem. It's an uneducated problem.

Smile more. Only be positive, only say positive things. Learn to insult someone devastatingly while smiling and being positive.

And then management will listen to you.

Now there's a blast from the past.

Those shitweasels caused a lot of pain and cost a lot of money. Darl's reward was picking scraps from the SCO trash heap, bankruptcy and then croaking of ALS.

I wonder what PJ is up to.

Often it is.