Some Omnipotent Beings!

Jails : Confining the omnipotent root

The traditional UNIX security model is simple but inexpressive. Adding fine-grained access control improvest he expressiveness, but often dramatically increases both the cost of system management and implementation complexity.I nenvironments with a more complexman-agement model, with delegation of some management functions to parties under varying degrees of trust, the base UNIX model and most ...

Ethics in research with human beings: some issues about psychology.

This paper examines some ethical issues in research with human beings, especially addressing the area of Psychology, such as the use of ethical codes; minimum risk; informed consent; debriefing; confidentiality; and ethical committees. It suggests ways for researchers to increase understanding and the proper use of the ethical codes, to guarantee their own protection, and to avoid abuses of pow...

What an Omnipotent Agent Can Do

ludging from the recent literature, the problem of defining or analyzing the concept of omnipotence is a formidable one. One author has claimed to have proved the impossibility of defining omnipotencer and of those who have recently made the attempt, none has succeeded in providing a definition which is not subject to refutation by counter-example.' The leading and novel idea of our paper is th...

Characteristics of Living Beings

Interaction of UAG suppressors and omnipotent suppressors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Haploids bearing the dominant UAG suppressor, SUP7-a, and various alleles of the omnipotent suppressor sup35 were examined. The presence of the UAG suppressor reduced the efficiency of some alleles of sup35, and caused other sup35 alleles to be lethal. A nonclassical interaction of the dominant suppressor tRNA and the ribosome is proposed to explain these observations.