http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/science/24cnd-genome.html?ei=5087&em=&en=2da45a7dc351c849&ex=1201323600&pagewanted=print """ The team also added some DNA segments to the genome to serve as "watermarks," allowing scientists to distinguish the synthetic genome from the natural one. That raises new possibilities of using microbes as a method of communication. Dr. Venter said the watermarks contain coded messages. Sleuths will have to determine the amino acid sequence coded for by the watermarks, in order to decipher the message. "It's a fun thing that has a practical application," he said. """ i await the paper, "low latency signalling via coded influenza medium: bandwidth estimates and congestion avoidance"
As I remember, Jaron Lanier released a batch of roaches into the wild of Boston with something like a time capsule spliced into their junk DNA. -TD> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:03:37 -0800> From: coderman@gmail.com> To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> Subject: visions of drummers> > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/science/24cnd-genome.html?ei=5087&em=&en=2d a45a7dc351c849&ex=1201323600&pagewanted=print> """> The team also added some DNA segments to the genome to serve as> "watermarks," allowing scientists to distinguish the synthetic genome> from the natural one.> > That raises new possibilities of using microbes as a method of> communication. Dr. Venter said the watermarks contain coded messages.> Sleuths will have to determine the amino acid sequence coded for by> the watermarks, in order to decipher the message. "It's a fun thing> that has a practical application," he said.> """>
i await the paper, "low latency signalling via coded influenza medium:> bandwidth estimates and congestion avoidance"
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On Jan 26, 2008 4:10 AM, Tyler Durden <camera_lumina@hotmail.com> wrote:
As I remember, Jaron Lanier released a batch of roaches into the wild of Boston with something like a time capsule spliced into their junk DNA.
it was a proposal for encoding into a seed population coupled with interbreeding a large group over 14 years to ensure propagation indefinitely (of at least some of it). [0] a bidirectional communication protocol via infectious vector is much more fun ;P best regards, 0. DESIGNS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM - Jaron Lanier http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/millennium/m6/design-lanier.html
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