What is nice with placebo is that actual content is irrelevant, it's the patient's belief of efficiency that does the job. Hence random trash plants can be fine (provided they are not toxic and the patient does not know it is trash plants).
IIRC, homeopathy in France is officially accepted by health authorities as being a useful placebo: it cannot harm, but it can help thanks to the placebo effect, therefore its use is allowed. It is not reimbursed by socialized healthcare, though.
I note the following in the summary:
the FDA will decide to do their actual job – require testing of homeopathic products to demonstrate efficacy before allowing them on the market.
I assume it is demonstrating better efficacy than placebo, because placebo has an efficacy itself.
I understand the day quantum computing will be able to do serious stuff, then RSA based crypto will collapse because of quantum computer ability to factorize big number through the Shor algorithm.
I see progress in the quantum computing field, but I do not see RSA replacement coming in the consumer crypto field (i.e.: TLS). I understand even ECDSA relies on big number factoriation being difficult.
Intermittent faults are impossible to handle with flow-chart based level 1 support. The only way out I know it to make the problem permanent.
In the router case, make sure its power supply dies (I am sure you will figure smart ways to accomplish this),report the permanent problem, and you will have your router replaced.
John Kerry met Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin in Sotchi a few weeks ago, and since that time US and Russia seems to be able to talk together again.
What happened? Obviously the US administration realized the Ukraine government was just impossible to control, but that kind of consideration did not prevented them from supporting weird regimes in the past.
You warm it up to resume chemical and therefore biological activity. This will be required to replicate the DNA, repair it (but as it was frozen and shielded from radiation, it should not be damaged) and probably to also to read it.
On the read point: most of the method we have to read DNA are chemical or biological. There are also physical methods, which may not require a warm up: for instance you can open the DNA double helix and measure the force you need for that. Since G-C and A-T do not have the same count of hydrogen bonds, resistance to mechanical opening depends on G-C/A-T ratio in a sequence. But I do not know if such method is applicable here.
Freezing protects from chemical and biological (hint: virus) induced mutations. If you want DNA to remain unchanged, you freeze. Scientists do this routinely with -80C fridges.
Scientific theories are supposed to predict things. If they cannot (either because they deal with unobservable, like string theory, or with experiments that cannot be reproduced like big bang), they are more mythology than science.
The only difference here is that Intel is saving some money by not having a flashable ROM in the chip and instead having host OS provide the same blob on each boot.
With the new approach, it looks easier to fold malwares in unexpected places
Different country, different culture: Cuba is not the USA.
To grasp an idea on how Cuba can be suspicious about foreign influence, you have to imagine being embargoed for decades, with hundreds of assassination plots against your political leaders, and dozens of successful military coups in neighbor countries.
After looking at TFA, it looks less stupid to me than it did at once.
Indeed DNA changes very easily, mutations and viruses are common. But here they want to store DNA at temperature where biological interaction does not happen anymore. We are left with just mutations from radiation and replication errors, but that may be covered by DNA built-in repair systems. Hence perhaps it makes sense after all.
Since the application is at FCC and not FAA, I assume the permission is about using radio spectrum within US territory, rather than launching a spacecraft.
That leads me to a question: at what altitude do you get outside of a country national space (and therefore you do not have to ask a regulator for using radio spectrum)?
A sovereign state decide to spend taxpayers money to promote some activity. Someone engages in this activity and is therefore eligible to get the money. What is wrong?
The only concern we can have is whether our representants were right when they decided to spend money on something. We can ask for such a decision to be reversed, this is the democratic process.
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But we talk about paying content, right? Downloading a book costs money, and this is efficient to thwart botnets.
What is nice with placebo is that actual content is irrelevant, it's the patient's belief of efficiency that does the job. Hence random trash plants can be fine (provided they are not toxic and the patient does not know it is trash plants).
TFA is utterly void, you can skip it.
IIRC, homeopathy in France is officially accepted by health authorities as being a useful placebo: it cannot harm, but it can help thanks to the placebo effect, therefore its use is allowed. It is not reimbursed by socialized healthcare, though.
I note the following in the summary:
the FDA will decide to do their actual job – require testing of homeopathic products to demonstrate efficacy before allowing them on the market.
I assume it is demonstrating better efficacy than placebo, because placebo has an efficacy itself.
Such a scheme seems to be begging for fraud. I cannot wait to see botnets faking page being turned...
The title is wrong: It seems that North Korea do not claim Kim Jong Un himself invented it.
This is a relevant point because propaganda previously presented Kim Jong Il as a scientist, a poet, an inventor, and whatever
Man pages worked nice to describe the POSIX API and all its extensions. Old fashioned, not sexy, but we target developers, right?
But I have hope it could be seen as bankable by management.
I understand the day quantum computing will be able to do serious stuff, then RSA based crypto will collapse because of quantum computer ability to factorize big number through the Shor algorithm.
I see progress in the quantum computing field, but I do not see RSA replacement coming in the consumer crypto field (i.e.: TLS). I understand even ECDSA relies on big number factoriation being difficult.
We are heading to a difficult situation.
Could this be the reason why US changed its tone about Ukraine's government?
Where can I peek at this NSA own transparency report,
I should I red TFA to get the link: http://betanews.com/2014/06/28/nsa-under-the-microscope-agency-releases-transparency-report/
and even the NSA itself have all released transparency reports
Where can I peek at this NSA own transparency report, I am curious to learn wether it is about data they request or data thy provide.
Intermittent faults are impossible to handle with flow-chart based level 1 support. The only way out I know it to make the problem permanent.
In the router case, make sure its power supply dies (I am sure you will figure smart ways to accomplish this),report the permanent problem, and you will have your router replaced.
John Kerry met Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin in Sotchi a few weeks ago, and since that time US and Russia seems to be able to talk together again.
What happened? Obviously the US administration realized the Ukraine government was just impossible to control, but that kind of consideration did not prevented them from supporting weird regimes in the past.
Well, only three kind of mutations causes comes to my mind:
Bin Laden could tell us US drones do not ask for permission to cross borders.
You warm it up to resume chemical and therefore biological activity. This will be required to replicate the DNA, repair it (but as it was frozen and shielded from radiation, it should not be damaged) and probably to also to read it.
On the read point: most of the method we have to read DNA are chemical or biological. There are also physical methods, which may not require a warm up: for instance you can open the DNA double helix and measure the force you need for that. Since G-C and A-T do not have the same count of hydrogen bonds, resistance to mechanical opening depends on G-C/A-T ratio in a sequence. But I do not know if such method is applicable here.
Freezing protects from chemical and biological (hint: virus) induced mutations. If you want DNA to remain unchanged, you freeze. Scientists do this routinely with -80C fridges.
Scientific theories are supposed to predict things. If they cannot (either because they deal with unobservable, like string theory, or with experiments that cannot be reproduced like big bang), they are more mythology than science.
The only difference here is that Intel is saving some money by not having a flashable ROM in the chip and instead having host OS provide the same blob on each boot.
With the new approach, it looks easier to fold malwares in unexpected places
Different country, different culture: Cuba is not the USA.
To grasp an idea on how Cuba can be suspicious about foreign influence, you have to imagine being embargoed for decades, with hundreds of assassination plots against your political leaders, and dozens of successful military coups in neighbor countries.
Most users do not care about software being free as in speech. Being free as in beer is the major selling (!) point.
Most of the time they are even to surrender any privacy for free (as in beer) stuff.
You just have to warm the DNA from time to time, so that biology recovers the mutations you may have caught while frozen. And then you freeze again.
For DRAM we used to talk about refreshing the memory, here it is the samen but with warming at longer intervals
After looking at TFA, it looks less stupid to me than it did at once.
Indeed DNA changes very easily, mutations and viruses are common. But here they want to store DNA at temperature where biological interaction does not happen anymore. We are left with just mutations from radiation and replication errors, but that may be covered by DNA built-in repair systems. Hence perhaps it makes sense after all.
Since the application is at FCC and not FAA, I assume the permission is about using radio spectrum within US territory, rather than launching a spacecraft.
That leads me to a question: at what altitude do you get outside of a country national space (and therefore you do not have to ask a regulator for using radio spectrum)?
A sovereign state decide to spend taxpayers money to promote some activity. Someone engages in this activity and is therefore eligible to get the money. What is wrong?
The only concern we can have is whether our representants were right when they decided to spend money on something. We can ask for such a decision to be reversed, this is the democratic process.