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Web Game Helps Predict Spread of Epidemics
An anonymous reader writes "Using data from the web game wheresgeorge.com, which traces the travels of dollar bills, scientists have unveiled statistical laws of human travel and developed a mathematical description that can be used to model the spread of infectious disease."
The only dollar bill I remember possessing with the "Where's George" stamp on it came from a man working at a pizza shop with gigantic cold sores.
now i'm gonna sanitize all my money, and i'm kinda concerned about things i buy from overseas. The bird flu is pretty nasty!
Good call! Maybe they should set up a Foundation to reduce the duration of the impending dark age. :)
Zombie Infection Simulation Machine!
Brians! Must eat brains!
Software Wars
...thus proving that Intelligent Design is real.
I'm glad we got that over with. Who wants to call the school board?
This way, you can legally launder your money ...
Yeah, that's me. Unfortunately for you, I stuffed all of my 'WheresGeorge' dollars--deep--into the g-string of a 45 year-old, questionable tooth-count, over-weight stripper.....Sorry.
Bird Flu? I'm thinking chicken-head....hehhehe....
Now where's my Nobel Prize for mdicine?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
I think fast food restaraunts are pretty darn unsanitary. I was in line behind a guy last summer who looked like he was a landscape worker or something. He was dirty as all get out and covered in perspiration. He paid for his meal with several dollar bills pulled out of a grimy wallet that was wet with his sweat. The bills looked like they had floated in a sewer for a couple weeks before he fished them out and put them in his pocket and of course when I paid with a ten a few seconds later what do you think I got in change? His nasty, oh god do I have to touch them, ones. I considered for a second asking for my change in quarters but he was still standing right there waiting on his food, so I felt forced by politeness to pretend that there was nothing wrong and touch those putrid, falling-apart bills and put them in my wallet. Then the woman behind the counter who had three inch, curved, fingernails started to put my order in a take-out bag so her hands were all over my fries. And nobody with three inch nails can wash their hands very well because they are too afraid of breaking one. Then when I told her it was for dining in, she pulled everything out and tossed it on a tray so that the fries were strewn all over and touched the plastic of the tray. Now maybe its different in other states but here they are not required to wash the trays between uses. They only wipe them off with a greasy towel to get the ketchup and mayonnaise smeared into a thin enough film that the next customer won't notice it. I was so grossed out from touching the bills that I went to wash my hands before I unwrapped the sandwich. That's when I noticed that the restroom door only opened inward. So I had to grab the handle to get out, the same handle touched by the half of all men (and probably 99% of all kids) who don't wash their hands after wiping their bottoms or holding their penises. I've tried lots of different foods but that's one flavor I'll pass on! Anywho, fast food establishments have got to be one of the worst disease vectors.
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Using games to track people is tricky though. I did a lot of research on this, and my findings showed that 80% of the population of the world are Night Elf females who just turned 18 and want to chat.
/syle
I'm not. That's what makes me so special. And unique. Oh...
Justin.
You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
So the healthiest place to be is in the printshop where they make the notes and the worst spot is where they destroy the notes. I would alarm the union if I worked in that building. Can't be that they do not have some laundries at strategic spots like Las Vegas. The mob understands the problem.
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
2) Get every
3) Profit
Brilliant!