Comment I Need Profit for Information. Suggestions Please. (Score 1) 703
What's a guy interested in profit for information supposed to do? Any suggestions?
Comment Re:WAH! My business model sucks! Help me! (Score 1) 703
Seriously!
Advertise Murdoch, and give that shit you pedal away for free you dumb billionair!!
Oops. Maybe that doesn't work because then your big money advertisers leverage their position of supporting you against your message.
What's a guy interested in profit for information supposed to do? Any suggestions?
Comment Re:Ahh Yes the Free Market (Score 1) 703
You are right. I like what you say BUT let's allow for the fact the BBC is also interested in these corporate ideals.
And furthermore, Subjectivist's have a powerful and cold argument that leads to another dead end, no less wrong than your evil "Monopoly" or "Cartel". Just because two parties are involved, doesn't mean the two sides to the story should be given equality in reporting. BBC's agenda of "objectivity" feeds the methods of evil despots and hateful extremists with greater facility than any other way to get their message out.
Comment Re:Threatening plurality? (Score 1) 703
Subjectivism. Just because two parties are involved doesn't mean the two sides to the story should be given equality in reporting. BBC's agenda of "objectivity" feeds the methods of evil despots and hateful extremists with greater facility than FOX news ever did...
Now here's where all the people ruled by hatred (self and otherwise) go an equate Bush et. al. to Al-Qaeda. My point is that BBC's s@$t stinks too.
Comment Re:Leave Murdoch alone. (Score 1) 703
Here's my problem. Subjectivism.
Just because two parties are involved doesn't mean the two sides to the story should be given equality in reporting.
BBC's agenda of "impartial reporting" feeds the methods of evil despots and hateful extremists with greater facility than FOX news.
Comment Leave Murdoch alone. (Score 0, Flamebait) 703
Oh please, like the BBC doesn't have an agenda.
Murdoch's right, a little competition is a good thing even in the News media.
Personally I don't think it even makes sense to assume Truth in any of the drivel they feed us through the TV. The revolution will not be televised precisely because we PAY FOR IT!
James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News" 703
Hugh Pickens writes "News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. 'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch. 'The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.' In common with the public broadcasting organizations of many other European countries, the BBC is funded by a television license fee charged to all households owning a television capable of receiving broadcasts. Murdoch's News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers and pay TV provider BSkyB in the UK and the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News TV in the US." Note that James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch.
Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch Worries Researchers 296
NeverVotedBush writes with an update to a story we discussed early this month about an enormous accumulation of garbage and plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean, a thousand miles off the coast of California. The team of scientists has now returned from their expedition to examine the area and say they "found much more debris than they expected." The team will start running tests on the samples they retrieved, and they are preparing to visit another section of ocean they suspect will be full of trash.
"The Scripps team hopes the samples they gathered during the trip nail down answers to questions of the trash's environmental impact. Does eating plastic poison plankton? Is the ecosystem in trouble when new sea creatures hitchhike on the side of a water bottle? Plastics have entangled birds and turned up in the bellies of fish, and one paper cited by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration estimates 100,000 marine mammals die trash-related deaths each year. The scientists hope their data gives clues as to the density and extent of marine debris, especially since the Great Pacific Garbage Patch may have company in the Southern Hemisphere, where scientists say the gyre is four times bigger. 'We're afraid at what we're going to find in the South Gyre, but we've got to go there,' said Tony Haymet, director of the Scripps Institution."
How Much Money Do Free-To-Play MMOs Make? 157
simoniker writes "Over at Gamasutra, a new feature article discusses how much money free-to-play MMO games make, with specific real-world stats from game developers willing to discuss how they make money with microtransaction-based PC games. In particular, Puzzle Pirates co-creator Daniel James reveals that 'the average revenue per user (ARPU) is between one and two dollars a month, but only about 10% of his player base has ever paid him anything. As a result, he says, approximately 5,000 gamers are generating the $230,000 in revenue he sees each month.' It's obviously quite a different model from the regular $15/month for World Of Warcraft, but it evidently works for some companies."
Comment Re:Slashdot Science and You! (Score 1) 52
New-age hippies.....mmmmmmm, delicious.
Comment Slashdot Science and You! (Score 1) 52
Slashdot is bringing it to the people.
The unfortunate part of Slasdot's "nerd" image is that it's just preaching to the choir!
"Pure" science is altruistic. The value of science is not found in how correct it is but to what effect it has on society. The value of truth has no meaning to the universe. If our lies match observations does that make them truth? Yes.
PS.
This particular study may be flawed but the study of light and biological communication is a fascinating story. One of many interesting examples is the work of Albrecht-Buehler from Northwestern. His group published observations of 800nm (NIR) light communication in motile fibroblasts many years ago. That's a cell with no obvious light interaction structures! Mitorchondria produce 800nm light as part of their function so there is a reason why an endothelial cell might have such a function.
Comment Yes we can make a crane. (Score 2, Informative) 29
The "DNA origami" are artificial strands of DNA that are held together at specific locations by staple strands. The strands are made to order from a commercial source. Software we wrote allows us to draw arbitrary (3D and 2D) shapes and have the purchase order automatically generated! It's really a wonderful nanotechnology, ideal for aqueous based situations where specific scale and proximity is required. Drug delivery is not the ideal application but for some reason this author seemed to think so. Specific aptamers allow us to bind a variety of things to the origami including fluorescent dyes, proteins, and other nanoparticles.
Two important points:
1. Have no fear of the Grey Goo from this one. Particular DNA strands need to be added for the structures to grow. Self assembly yes but only with the added (and unnatural) building blocks.
2. Our work on DNA "origami" is funded by the NIH.
Sorry, no black helicopters. Please feel free to read to your heart's content and contribute if you are able:
http://www.biodesign.asu.edu/centers/smb/
