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> Every organisms interacts with other organisms. When first two organisms meet, the interaction is usually rather messy.

But you also seem to assume that all such interaction are taking place under natural conditions (humans are just a passive agent, one of the mammalian species, like a cow perhaps). In reality though humans are actively manipulating this virus in a laboratory environment and are able to select strains that are deadly enough, but not too deadly, also transmittable enough. That is the real danger I think.

> Why? Well, certainly a large portion of the human population that had become exposed but had not died were now immune.

What if you or your family isn't. Are you willing to brave on a new hardened strain of avian flu just to find out. Would you soldier on with a stoic face? Nobody would right? Therefore the panic. So this is another side of the issue. Humans are going to react to the disease not just in a sort of automatic biological way but in a proactive way. Close borders if they can, quarantine and so on.

> Viruses that kill quickly and efficiently do not spread as well as those that cause some disease but allow their host to continue functioning more or less normally

I think again, you are assuming a naturally evolving environment outside of human activity. With plane travel for example, and ever larger densities of population centers, the same assumptions about the rate of spreading of a virus cannot be made as they would have been 100 years ago. (On the other side there is the pro-active element of having access to quicker and better information, so which one will win -- quick information that could be used to establish quarantine zones for example or the disease carried by fast traveling passengers? But that is a whole other discussion).

> bioweapons are only ever considered as denial-of-area or knock-down agents.

I don't think that angle was assumed as much as some ideological angle of depopulating the planet, by a lone extremist, for example. Here is an example profile: a virologist at some research facility who has strong beliefs about the world reaching a tipping point as far as natural resources are concerned vis-a-vis he accelerating increase in population, becomes obsessed with the idea, that de-population has to take place and they are willing to actively encourage it. They start the process of cultivating a strain of flu. When finished they travel to another continent and try to find ways to spread it.
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Maybe it doesn't draw that connection because not everything in this world is about business success? You're probably right that the author believes that "being interesting" is a marketable quality yet doesn't really explain why that would be, but I really like this piece much more as a guide to personal development. You know, to help us be a nice and fun and interesting human beings.
By ensuring that your pages are valid, you make it ever so much more likely that you will not have to scramble around wasting time at a most inopportune time when the new version of a browser comes out which handles your non-standards compliant tag soup differently than the current version of the browser.

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So surely the most effective disease would be highly contagious and lethal, but with a high incubation period of maybe a year? That way, everyone becomes infected then we all just start dropping.
Surprise! I did WHOIS lookups on some of the domains, and ALL were from China. Sometimes there is no name or address data but a phone number, and that is Chinese of course (+86...).
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A silly question: could one craft a virus that would change its reproduction rate profile after so many generations. Say a virus that spreads quickly but is asymptomatic however in X # of generations there is a high probability that it would become very deadly. In way it would have a pre-programmed mutation scheduled in it.
I don't know you, but I imagine lots of people who could use a bunch of these for a summer home or winter cottage. Temperature, did someone enter the door, is it dry... Good things to be notified about.
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BoF follows a long tradition of our local digital civil rights movement itself being formed by a closed and not particularly transparent "elite". This stems from the failure of the first movement (DB.NL) in the 90's which was killed by infighting (and what some may consider agent provocateurs).

BoF has no grass roots support, no transparency, no members, no accountability, no checks an balances. And they like it that way because in the short term it allows them to be highly effective, so they'll never partner up with anything as messy and risky as a democratic movement.

The problem is, they also soak up the support, experience and expertise something like a Dutch Pirate Party or any other democratic alternative would need to get off the ground.
This isn't the FBI, it's customs enforcement (which was moved under DHS).
The people are in China, while their domains are purchased and controlled in the US.
Riak Search is built on top of Solr, if i'm not mistaken.
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The DNS has to stay being controled by one or more democratic countries. As much as I like international organizations within the UN framework, but giving control of the DNS to a UN committee would make it too easy for China to just give a number of poor countries some more money to by their votes for whatever China wants to see banned from the net. Not paranoia, that is common practice, Western countries are doing it too. But at least Western governments are controlled by their populations to some extent.
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That may be true to some degree but I think for younger people especially piracy is a simple act of frugality. A crime with no perceivable victim that saves you a fair amount of money. Kind of a twisted over entertained version of stealing bread to feed your family. It's not so much that they don't want to pay. They simply don't have the money for all the things they want so they prioritize. The old MPAA tagline of 'Would you download a car?' always made me think about having a free downloaded car and a wallet full of non-car-payment money to go with it. Put into that context it's very alluring. For some people who really likes music, movies and games the money saved via piracy could actually be most of a monthly car-payment. In that sense you can indirectly download a car by saving money.
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"View All" only give me the titles, I still need to look at each individually. It's a bit like a FAQ that doesn't put multiple Qs and As on the same page; a pain. Part of the benefit would be scrolling through at speed, no comments interspersed, learning quickly, skipping already-known at a glance. Could be N per page to handle when total number is large as long as N >= 20. I'm looking at View All thinking some look interesting but I haven't the time to click round it all.
Thanks for the Magnatune tip!

From their site:

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They have free downloadable one-hour example podcasts at http://magnatune.com/podcasts/ for all genres.

Right now I'm expanding my musical horizons by listening to a diversity of internet radios, using streamripper to save the songs in mp3 format with the correct title so that I can look up the artist name when I hear a song I like. I can then hunt for other songs from the same artist. Also see the small python program at http://www.michielovertoom.com/hobby/somafm-playlists which I wrote to download some playlists. I prefer raw stream URLs over obscure webbrowser-based radio players.
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So this is not the incident that pr0f confessed to being involved in?

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Thanks for sharing. We have been using Riak for the last year and have had lots of fun learning a few lessons the hard way. Now we have learnt it though, everything seems to be fine - apart from when nodes stop responding when they start merging Bitcask data.

I think one of the biggest issues we had was that we saw it as a kind of drop in replacement for MySQL. We originally used the Ripple library (protip: don't) which talked to Riak over the HTTP interface (it now supports Protobuffs, but still don't) and plonked loads of data in, then wrote some lovely MapReduces to get it out. It worked fine, except it was slow. Dog slow.

The issue is that to do a MapReduce you need to get a list of keys to process. However in Riak listing the keys of a bucket is slow as it has to walk the whole keyspace (even other buckets) to find the matching keys. I'm guessing this is why Riak Search is slow for you as well. We didn't try it, but if you kept track of the keys and fed these to a MapReduce I suspect it would be a lot faster.

Now we are using it as in your epiphany as a persistent distributed version of memcached. We use predictable keys for everything, so just need to do gets and puts. We also found that trying to deal with siblings is a pain, so we turned them off (allow_mult=false, last_write_wins=true). For any important documents that need to be updated, where we can't afford to lose data due to race conditions, we just write a new version with a different predictable key (kind of like a linked list). It works lovely now :)

As stated in the article, enterprise support is good, however we have had most of our questions answered rather quickly in IRC or the mailing list. There is usually always somebody around from Basho to help you out. The Riak Recaps are also a great way to keep up to date with what is going on in the community.
I can't see the situation improving. Governments are in a weak position due to globalisation. If they increase regulation and improve conditions then those businesses (especially the ones with poor ethical standards) will just move on to a more desperate country.
First off, way to sensationalize. Due to the writing style and title I don't think this should be e number one story right now.

But anyway, published or not "bio terrorists" are not the kind of people the article wants you to picture. The only likely way such an attack could be carried out would be with massive support of some unfriendly government.

There's no bio-weapon Al Quaeda working group or anything like that and if there were the worst they could do is try to infect us by releasing some infected animal loose somewhere in the hopes it would infect someone.

I wish this post didn't have "fluff piece" written all over it and focused in a far more detailed way about the merits of publishing scientific studies that could be used for nefarious purposes. Unfortunately, the post gives us so little facts on that subject that none of us could really build a good argument for or against it without doing a fair amount of research first or resorting to uneducated guesses and opinions. It's too bad, really.
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> Wrapping old stoff up in a new packaging and then printing some expensive brand onto it is actually common in China.

I wonder whether they don't distinguish the fake from original or are fakes considered "cool" despite known to be fakes?
You linked obviously the much later code than what can be anything relevant for the first Javascript implementation in Netscape in nineties.

If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade.

The keyword to search for can be Epimetheus, it appears in the sources you linked:

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html

http://discerning.com/burstproject.org/build/doc/constructs....

'Mozilla's implementation ("JavaScript 2.0", or "Epimetheus"): http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/Epimetheus.html http://www.mozilla.org/js/language/js20/ It (of course) has all features of Draft ECMAScript 4, and a few additions. It is not (to our knowledge) shipping in any product.'
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Okay, let's suppose one manages to be "interesting". How does one translate that to a fatter bank account?

I liked the article but I'm wondering if anyone knows of resources (or has opinions) that address the next step.
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The idtech4 source code release does not include any game data whatsoever (only the game engine source code), so the short answer to your question is "no".
Because s3 has latencies an order of magnitude higher than a local riak. This is especially important if you have many unparallizable requests.
As the author mentioned- the main problem is spoon feeding. This should be checked in early childhood and school education.
Moreover a professor won't waste his time if students are not ready for learning.
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that is offcourse very cool and encouraging. Will anyone guide me to this kind of stuff, like computer hardware assembling and making. and also where can i found these parts from internet
ID has released the source code to idtech1-3 and it has done wonderful things for the open source company. Take a look at warsow, which is based on the idtech2 engine (engine used for quake II): http://www.warsow.net/

There are also a variety of games using idtech3 (quake 3 engine) such as UrbanTerror, OpenArena, and Nexuiz (http://www.urbanterror.info/home/ http://openarena.ws/smfnews.php http://www.nexuiz.com/).

I'm not sure idtech4 is as suited for fast multiplayer gaming like the idtech2/3 engines were, but who knows what the open source community will come up with.
> I vote for taking it out of the hands of people and debugging Skynet for longer than they did in the movie. Then stop competing and enjoy the flowers.

Watch "Colossus: The Forbin Project".
It just shows that people hype on everything and follow like sheep - doesn't matter if they need particular project or not. Developers are no exception it seems...
Looking forward to read your 'Super 4dv4nc3d 1337 Emacs User' article. I bet it doesn't have half the insight from this one.
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I wonder if there is a place to report such sites.
Better discussion:
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What about 3) those that actually matter but don't know how to appear like they matter, and thus are perceived as if they don't matter?
then why are professors taking full salaries. For sitting idle?? It is their duty to make interest of the students. If a student have chosen Computer course. This means at some level he likes it. Then a professor can make that student to think more about it and learn whys and whats of computers
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A fatter bank account its not 'a next step' from "interesting". Its almost entirely separate....

Making money from real creativity is usually pretty hard - those that are creative tend to break the barriers whilst others make the money....
Enslaved? This word reminds me of C, C++, Java, C#, ... :-)

It's funny that all these modern languages have copied - and are still copying - features which Lisp had for decades.

I know really many programming languages but the power of Lisp is still superior. I can express myself in much less code than in all other modern languages. Python is an exception but that's no surprise because Python is just a subset of Lisp with a modern syntax and clean API.

Regarding Javascript, I think it will be the top language of the coming decade because it offers everything the average programmer needs: easy syntax, many APIs and even speed (Google V8 etc.). Even Microsoft supports Javascript. I also believe that many of the other languages will provide backends for Javascript soon.
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Yeah, aware of most of that, just querying the headline more than anything. Isn't this just fishing as much as it is deep-sea fishing? I mean, it's likely to have been a hook or harpoon more than long lines or anything like that.
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"Mr. Bo went to Oxford University... The current cost of that is about £26,000 a
year. His current studies at Harvard's Kennedy School cost about $70,000 a year... A question raised by this prestigious overseas education... is how it was paid for."

I agree with the article's sentiment. That said, would the Wall Street Journal express similar outrage at the son of an American senator attending Oxford? What about the daughter of a German finance minister? Is it really surprising that a wealthy, well-connected Chinese kid went to school at Oxford? I have to wonder just how unbiased the author is.
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Moderators (or perhaps some automated system) seem to be quite trigger-happy on the hellbannings. That is the kind of ban where you disappear for everybody else (unless they got `showdead` enabled), but the person themselves has no idea what's going on, or why.

I even saw a guy here get hellbanned for a rather tasteless joke. It certainly deserved all the downvotes it must have gotten and was sufficiently inappropriate to at least warrant a warning, suspension or perhaps even an actual ban. But hellbanning is completely counterproductive in these situations. The guy just continued posting for weeks, completely oblivious to the fact that nobody was replying to him, or upvoting him! Let alone that he had any idea he did something wrong. (IMO a warning would have sufficed on first offence since the rest of his comments were constructive enough, he was no troll)

This is a very good essay on the pros, cons and uses of hellbans (and other sneaky+unusual sanctions such as slowbans and errorbans): http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...

In summary: hellbans are only useful against repeatedly banned disruptive trolls that won't listen to reason and will just proxy back in with a new account after you IP-ban them because it delays them and they may get bored give up and go away. A temporary hellban is the most useless thing ever, it just wastes people's time and if they are bad enough they deserved that, you probably didn't want to let them back in later. A hellban can be mildly effective to spammers but not much since they expect or detect it sooner.

Personally I've found the slowban to be most effective against the most stubborn and disruptive return trolls (and only those). There's even science to point out that pageload delays directly reduce participation, which is exactly what you want. But the forum I admin attracts those types by its very nature, while in the 1.5yr I've been on HN, I actually haven't seen any of such trolls. The up/downvote system works too well for that (to the point that it sometimes tips the balance the other way into circlejerk territory, but that's another discussion).

This IMO not-always-correct-or-effective moderating is why I have `show dead` turned on, and sometimes when I'm paranoid, check from a different IP if my comments are still visible :-)
I find people most interesting when their jobs involve observing the state of the world and then drawing big conclusions.. Bankers etc.
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