Feed FBI's Operation Bot Roast announces three arrests (com.com)
Blog: The bureau's anti-botnet operation is ongoing.
Submission + - Human genome more like a functional network (nature.com)
bshell writes: An article in science blog says we may have to rethink how genes work. So called "junk DNA" actually appears to be functional. What's more it works in a mysterious way involving multiple overlaps that seems to be connected in some sort of network. From the article:
The ENCODE consortium's major findings include the discovery that the majority of DNA in the human genome is transcribed into functional molecules, called RNA, and that these transcripts extensively overlap one another. This broad pattern of transcription challenges the long-standing view that the human genome consists of a relatively small set of discrete genes, along with a vast amount of so-called junk DNA that is not biologically active.
The new data indicate the genome contains very little unused sequences and, in fact, is a complex, interwoven network. In this network, genes are just one of many types of DNA sequences that have a functional impact. "Our perspective of transcription and genes may have to evolve," the researchers state in their Nature paper, noting the network model of the genome "poses some interesting mechanistic questions" that have yet to be answered.
The Nature article is here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v447/n7146/fu ll/447760a.html
Feed Torvalds slams Sun over Linux intentions (theregister.com)
Hey, let's meet up, says Sun's Schwartz
You can almost hear the ebb of conversation on everything from Linux drivers to closing the information gap over the crackle of a roaring log fire and playful popping of wine corks.
Feed News: EBay courts developers to bring in buyers (macworld.com)
Feed Scientists Unearth 3,000-Pound Gigantoraptor in Mongolia (wired.com)
Comment Dayton's Folly (Score 1) 561
We in Minnesota are used to our polticians purposing grand plans without a clue as to the underlying problem or how to implement the plan. Sen. Dayton is following in this tradition.
How would such a tax be determined and collected?
Who would get the money? The government.
What would they do with the money? Heaven only knows.
Who ends up paying for this? Lawabiding users of the internet.
There is no place for the government in the spam fight. They6 have already passed laws that do not get enforced or are enforced loosely.
Let the internet find a tech solution.
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