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"The palm-sized sequencer gives researchers the power to analyse DNA almost anywhere, and could help track disease outbreaks, run checks on food, and combat the trafficking of endangered animals.
The gadget marks a major step towards what Mark Akeson, a co-inventor at the University of California Santa Cruz, called "the democratisation of sequencing", where anyone can gather and process DNA samples for themselves.
... The 10cm-long, 90g device, named MinION by its British developers, Oxford Nanopore, has already been used by some scientists. In April, a team in Guinea read the genomes of 14 Ebola samples within 48 hours of them being taken from patients. Early next year, astronauts are due to use gadget to read DNA for the first time on the International Space Station." [^]
"Are you sure you can hack it ?"
"Sure."
"She'll never know ?"
"Not unless she gets another Minion."
"Okay, I've got the cash."
"Small bills, like I asked ?"
"Yeah."
"Just kick the bag over to me under the table."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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This reminds me the film "Gattaca"
M.D.V. 
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We've all become used to the idea of ads online -- it's something that has become part and parcel of using the internet -- but in Windows? If you've updated to build 10565 of Windows 10, you're in for something of a surprise: the Start menu is now being used to display ads. Oh, great... ಠ_ಠ
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I'm on that release and don't see any adverts. Do you think the author has the "Windows Store" live tile showing..?
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Upon closer inspection of the article I found this line. Looks like you're safe (for now).
Quote: This is a 'feature' that's currently only being shown to Windows Insiders, but it could spread to everyone else.
Kevin Priddle
Editor and Special Projects Manager - CodeProject
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Reason #1 to not install W10. What bullshit. So, besides all the other things it does consuming bandwidth, it now also downloads ads. 
Marc
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That's it: I'll download it only after is has been thoroughly cracked, AND I'll set up an external firewall.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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OK, everyone using an insider build you know what you need to do. DON'T turn off the suggested app feature like the article is suggesting. 99.9% of sheeple won't bother if it's released; and MS will eventually use the 99.9% acceptance rate to justify removing the disable feature to shrink the code base. Instead what you need to do is to bomb every app that is advertised using it with 1 star reviews because the developer is a scumbag who is perfectly happy to violate your computer by taking a dump all over your start menu. IF every app that shows up in the program is nuked into 1.1 star oblivion the program will be ended because developers will refuse to participate.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Making people regret asking for the Start menu back. 
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It has been called the most bizarre star in our galaxy and some think it just might be home to high-tech aliens.
The unlikely suggestion that aliens live in this star system is being taken so seriously that a team of astrophysicists wants to train a radio telescope in its direction to determine if any signals could indicate advanced extraterrestrial life. Step right up and place your bets!
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I think you'll find this to be a repost of the thread just below...
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You're right! Thanks for catching that. We've posted a new news item to replace it.
Kevin Priddle
Editor and Special Projects Manager - CodeProject
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Kevin Priddle wrote: scientists baffled by WTF 001, our galaxy's strangest star
If they really find aliens one day, that it is going to be a very big  WTF
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: If they really find aliens one day, that it is going to be a very big WTF
Why? What is it that you think makes our nondescript little planet so special that it's the only place in the entire vastness of the universe where so-called "intelligent" life could evolve?
The real "WTF" would be if we examined every part of the universe and didn't find any evidence of alien life.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I don't think we are alone in the universe. I agree with you.
But I think if we find another civilization, that will end in the extintion of one of us.
M.D.V.
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Star is not named WTF 001 but KIC 8462852.. Some moron ( fourth element of the universe ) renamed it just to make news line looks more appealing !!!
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are renewing their warning that a serious flaw in the way the key exchange is implemented is allowing the NSA to break and eavesdrop on trillions of encrypted connections. Researchers show how mass decryption is well within the NSA's $11 billion budget.
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A paper by a team of astronomers is getting some notice because of aliens. Astronomers are looking into the idea that what they’ve found might be due to aliens.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Heretofore undocumented aliens?
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Weird. Very weird.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Sold!
When is the US Air force gonna invade?! 
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The Air Force doesn't invade until the Marines have deemed it safe for them.
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Two military guys go into a restroom. One is in the Air Force and the other is a Marine. When they are done, the Air Force guy goes to the sink and starts to wash his hands, while the Marine starts to leave.
The Air Force guy yells to the Marine, “The Air Force teaches us to wash our hands.”
The Marine yells back, “The Marines teach us not to piss on ours!”
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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I've heard that one as Harvard and Yale before.
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Aren't there aliens here itself? For example, me - if I come over to the US, I'm termed an alien. And, I've borne that nomenclature several times in my life.
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