The machine code of life is the same, wherever we look.
Not exact matches
«The ultimate computer virus would be one that did not just eat
code but the components
of machines,» says Eileen Choffnes, study director for the National Research Council and the Institute
of Medicine's recent report, «Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future
of the
Life Sciences.»
At the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, CA, huge rooms full
of genome sequencing
machines work 24/7 to crunch the
codes that create
life.
Personally, being able to rent a server, install the LAMP stack and make a
living out
of it, being free to use GNU tools for the job with the only rule that I have to give away the
code if I install my utilities on a client's
machine strikes me as somewhat different than being unable to give a book I just bought to my girlfriend so she can read it on her favourite reading device.