early 2012: packaging of user data into securities
mid 2012: derivatives on these securities
late 2012: crash
early 2013: SEC orders Americans to stop using their names until bankruptcy courts sort out ownership issues
of the emergency call center operators job getting worse. Now *everyone* has an incentive to freak out even if they're not missing a limb or watching a loved-one choking on a hot dog.
What exactly is nuanced about this? A corrupt public servant and a private company collude to charge taxpayers $200 to view something that very clearly should be freely available. This is corrupt in a very un-nuanced way.
There is a private company called Pacific Biosciences that is doing something very similar, single DNA molecule sequencing. They managed to get reads from a single DNA molecule, and this was sort of the hot topic at a few computational biolgoy conferences I went to last year. It's not clear who is going to win this race, but I think a lot of people think this is the future of DNA sequencing.
Posting this on Slashdot is like sending Pizza Hut circulars to Ethiopia
...before they kill the entire action film genre
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
