Heh. That's why I said "presume". I've never considered it before that comment.
Rare probability * rare probability = similar probability to that of all of these obscure diseases presenting to one hospital in New Jersey; the practice of one Gregory House, MD.
Presumably, increases the probability of a write operation happening when the power outage occurs; the probability of data corruption/ bricking da stick is therefore higher at that point too.
Most journalists (not all) have a MA in English Lit. To most, science and their education in it parted ways as early as possible in school.
They know what's sensational enough to sell papers, and can re-churn a press release into a story without the slightest knowledge of the science or medicine that's crucial to the story.
Unfortunately, these crusading pieces against the established medical community make the journalists feel they're doing the world some good, and they're doing one over on all of those odd medics that do this incomprehensible gobbledeygook science stuff that they hated and don't feel a part of.
More unfortunately, the few remaining scientifically trained journos are often not listened to by their editors-- never spoil a good story with disclaimers... or additional facts, eh?
Tragically, most people still think that if it's in a good newspaper, it's fact. That's no longer the case (too few journalists and sub editors to waste time on that!)
So when a juicy anti-MMR story comes along, many parents believe it. And when the retraction/ better evidence is published in a small article nowhere near the front page (or not at all)-- their opinions aren't changed.
So MMR vax'ns drop below the level where herd immunity can exist. M/M or R levels rise, and disable many. So how many die from this process.
Sometimes I think the media needs some... ass whipping over irresponsible stories.
When you're trying to reason with people spouting badscience, the username "drunkenoaf" (which some git got before me on/.) doesn't help me be taken seriously...
"Most of the molecules produced from DNA may not even be proteins, but rather RNA."
Perhaps "Almost all of the molecules produced from DNA are RNA, but not all of these RNA species are translated into protein; rather, RNA has lots of functions that we've previously not known about... etc."
Bloody hell, the statement half-implies DNA->proteins in one step-- which is nothing short of magic.
It worries the hell out of me that more and more of Americans have this attitude. It's not mainstream, so it must already been banned. And these are regular Joes! Coupled with increasingly worse schools... Gawd help anyone with an inquisitive mind.
Much like the malware that was doing the rounds when everybody used dial-up modems, where it dialled phone sex lines in small island countries thousands of miles away and racked up a massive phone bill for you (and big profits for the sex line owners [who also had the malware written])... he might have been doing that so that he could cream (poor choice of words here, but...) a large chunk of revenue from it.
I have three dead laptops, bought since 2002, all with legit copies of XP. I'm sure many other people have dead PCs that came with XP.
Since it's not illegal to install XP, with that licence on another machine (or in my case, Parallels Desktop), I ain't worried. Plenty of used licences to go round,
So the 'terrrists' will then either
1. Hijack a foreign aircraft (one that wasn't intended to go to the USA and wouldn't have the kill switch meaning the old-school shoot the plane out of the sky technique occurrs, with bonus collateral damage)
2. Get a boat without the kill switch (through similar means, or buy a small one, or a... secondhand one)
I think this is an example of poorly moderated bluesky thinking by some pentagon people. It won't make anyone safer, and if anyone thinks about it, it won't make anyone feel any safer. Well done, the US government. For that, it will cost you and the airline industry billions.
how businesses usually think. Share their stuff with others? Give other companies an advantage that WE paid for? NEVER!
So yes, it's a huge waste. But you'll have a hell of a time convincing them to change.
Um, imho.
The thing is, there are people that make a living out of propagating this nonsense, and these people are better at getting their message of mistruth than the sci/tech community. Even the good old BBC's (usually respected) Horizon programme was duped. http://www.badscience.net/?p=418
We -you, me, everybody!- need to [somehow] get the message across to people that didn't pay attention in high school physics, but are impressed at mangled scientific theories when given by slick snake oil salesmen. Otherwise we'll be getting more and more of this (agenda-driven) stupidness in the future.
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Heh. That's why I said "presume". I've never considered it before that comment. Rare probability * rare probability = similar probability to that of all of these obscure diseases presenting to one hospital in New Jersey; the practice of one Gregory House, MD.
Presumably, increases the probability of a write operation happening when the power outage occurs; the probability of data corruption/ bricking da stick is therefore higher at that point too.
Most journalists (not all) have a MA in English Lit. To most, science and their education in it parted ways as early as possible in school. They know what's sensational enough to sell papers, and can re-churn a press release into a story without the slightest knowledge of the science or medicine that's crucial to the story. Unfortunately, these crusading pieces against the established medical community make the journalists feel they're doing the world some good, and they're doing one over on all of those odd medics that do this incomprehensible gobbledeygook science stuff that they hated and don't feel a part of. More unfortunately, the few remaining scientifically trained journos are often not listened to by their editors-- never spoil a good story with disclaimers... or additional facts, eh? Tragically, most people still think that if it's in a good newspaper, it's fact. That's no longer the case (too few journalists and sub editors to waste time on that!) So when a juicy anti-MMR story comes along, many parents believe it. And when the retraction/ better evidence is published in a small article nowhere near the front page (or not at all)-- their opinions aren't changed. So MMR vax'ns drop below the level where herd immunity can exist. M/M or R levels rise, and disable many. So how many die from this process. Sometimes I think the media needs some... ass whipping over irresponsible stories.
When you're trying to reason with people spouting badscience, the username "drunkenoaf" (which some git got before me on /.) doesn't help me be taken seriously...
This is straight out of chapter one of Christopher Brookmyre's All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an eye. http://www.amazon.com/All-Games-Until-Somebody-Loses/dp/0316725234
"Most of the molecules produced from DNA may not even be proteins, but rather RNA." Perhaps "Almost all of the molecules produced from DNA are RNA, but not all of these RNA species are translated into protein; rather, RNA has lots of functions that we've previously not known about... etc." Bloody hell, the statement half-implies DNA->proteins in one step-- which is nothing short of magic.
It worries the hell out of me that more and more of Americans have this attitude. It's not mainstream, so it must already been banned. And these are regular Joes! Coupled with increasingly worse schools... Gawd help anyone with an inquisitive mind.
Much like the malware that was doing the rounds when everybody used dial-up modems, where it dialled phone sex lines in small island countries thousands of miles away and racked up a massive phone bill for you (and big profits for the sex line owners [who also had the malware written])... he might have been doing that so that he could cream (poor choice of words here, but...) a large chunk of revenue from it.
Ah sorry - my misunderstanding. I thought iPlayer was not available at all outside the UK.
Are we talking about this http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ ?
iPlayer is not available outside of the UK (unless you configure Tor nodes etc) Adverts are not shown on the BBC website within the UK, and I believe outside of the UK. For now. http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/policies/advertising.shtml However, the BBC are looking into doing that: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/oct/30/bbc.broadcasting
I have three dead laptops, bought since 2002, all with legit copies of XP. I'm sure many other people have dead PCs that came with XP. Since it's not illegal to install XP, with that licence on another machine (or in my case, Parallels Desktop), I ain't worried. Plenty of used licences to go round,
So the 'terrrists' will then either 1. Hijack a foreign aircraft (one that wasn't intended to go to the USA and wouldn't have the kill switch meaning the old-school shoot the plane out of the sky technique occurrs, with bonus collateral damage) 2. Get a boat without the kill switch (through similar means, or buy a small one, or a... secondhand one) I think this is an example of poorly moderated bluesky thinking by some pentagon people. It won't make anyone safer, and if anyone thinks about it, it won't make anyone feel any safer. Well done, the US government. For that, it will cost you and the airline industry billions.
Ha, fair point. In the utopian vision of companies sharing intellectual property for all this would rapidly = much better code. It'll never happen.
how businesses usually think. Share their stuff with others? Give other companies an advantage that WE paid for? NEVER! So yes, it's a huge waste. But you'll have a hell of a time convincing them to change. Um, imho.
The thing is, there are people that make a living out of propagating this nonsense, and these people are better at getting their message of mistruth than the sci/tech community. Even the good old BBC's (usually respected) Horizon programme was duped. http://www.badscience.net/?p=418 We -you, me, everybody!- need to [somehow] get the message across to people that didn't pay attention in high school physics, but are impressed at mangled scientific theories when given by slick snake oil salesmen. Otherwise we'll be getting more and more of this (agenda-driven) stupidness in the future.