Microsoft Anti-Spam Software To Stop AIDS?
from the good-luck-with-that-plan... dept
Remember how Steve Ballmer said Microsoft has a special research department just to deal with the spam he and Bill Gates get? While he was caught exaggerating how much spam they really deal with, Microsoft's anti-spam researchers apparently think they're really on to something. In fact, Microsoft is now hoping that their anti-spam techniques may be useful in finding an AIDS vaccine. Yes, you read that right. They think that the machine learning techniques they've come up with work well against mutating threats -- which is the biggest problem with AIDS. Does this mean we should expect Microsoft AIDSstopper sometime soon? Will people know enough to at least wait until version 3.0, as it usually takes Microsoft at least three attempts to get something right?
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it occurred to me as well
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Bwa ha ha
Sure, such simple techniques will work once more useful problems are solved, such as the protein folding problem. Until the protein folding problem is understood in, say, another 20-30 years, DNA is just so many letters.
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Although it admittedly has its rough edges, what other companies compare in providing customer value, and a corporate leader willing to commit billions of dollars for humanitarian causes?
Oracle?
Sun?
IBM?
Perhaps we should save some of our sarcasm for them as well.
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And we've devleoped nukes by studying axe throwing? Biological and binary are two completely seperate fields. This will not aid (pardon the pun) any research in combatting biological viruses because we don't program bilogical viruses, while we do program digital viruses. Biological viruses have a nasty habit of "building up immunities" to our vaccines or drugs, and they will only continue to do so. Call it, the will to live, if you must, but at any rate the human race will always be sick in this world.
I don't understand why MS brings themself down by stating one specific virus, AIDS. Why AIDS? Why not the common cold, or the flu? When they don't live up to this, they're going to say, "Oh, well, we didn't really mean curing AIDS, we meant...uh...hold on a sec, I'm waiting for my queue."
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replace aids with need to get people going with th
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there is a cure
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