At least in the UK, the discrediting of Andrew Wakefield does seem to have worked. MMR vaccination rates have recovered, and are now at their highest ever level. Of course some people still believe him or have other reasons to continue the fraud, but the decisive judgments and associated publicity have changed public opinion back.
According to the article, the comment was added in revisions after peer review. It should have been caught before publication, but it's not the reviewers' fault.
One other thing: to catch this reliably, you need to have someone read through it who knows that it's the final version. Otherwise they may well assume that it's still an active question, waiting for views. And of course, you should always word your notes more politely!
The whole idea of inspecting the contents of arbitrary variables is a bug. Variables can contain any data the user chooses, and the fact that it happens to look like a function definition is none of the shell's business. Bash should have defined a single variable for the purpose in which all the function definitions are packaged up, or at least have defined a class of variables (e.g. BASH_FUNCTION_*) for the purpose.
There has never been a referendum on independence in Scotland before. There were two referendums on devolution: the one in 1979 was narrowly in favour but failed because it did not reach the required 40% of the electorate, and the one in 1997 succeeded, establishing the Scottish Parliament.
"Ireland" can mean either the island or the country called the Republic of Ireland, which is about 80% of the island. The Republic is not part of the UK, it is a completely independent country. Northern Ireland (the northern 20%) is part of the UK. The "Irish Free State" was the name of what is now the Republic of Ireland in the 1920s and 30s and is not a term used any more.
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When I go to a restaurant I want food, not music.
Most of the world calls this drug paracetamol.
My personal opinion is that business should pay absolutely no tax whatsoever. All tax should happen when people extract money from a business.
And which country should they then pay it to?
This is often asserted, and it would be nice if it were true, but is there any actual evidence for it?
... if symptoms persist, take one.
At least in the UK, the discrediting of Andrew Wakefield does seem to have worked. MMR vaccination rates have recovered, and are now at their highest ever level. Of course some people still believe him or have other reasons to continue the fraud, but the decisive judgments and associated publicity have changed public opinion back.
Yes, it's stupid, but it's optional and only exists for some ISPs. Hardly the great firewall of China.
According to the article, the comment was added in revisions after peer review. It should have been caught before publication, but it's not the reviewers' fault.
One other thing: to catch this reliably, you need to have someone read through it who knows that it's the final version. Otherwise they may well assume that it's still an active question, waiting for views. And of course, you should always word your notes more politely!
We don't need social networks at all.
... there won't be any more camels.
The whole idea of inspecting the contents of arbitrary variables is a bug. Variables can contain any data the user chooses, and the fact that it happens to look like a function definition is none of the shell's business. Bash should have defined a single variable for the purpose in which all the function definitions are packaged up, or at least have defined a class of variables (e.g. BASH_FUNCTION_*) for the purpose.
There has never been a referendum on independence in Scotland before. There were two referendums on devolution: the one in 1979 was narrowly in favour but failed because it did not reach the required 40% of the electorate, and the one in 1997 succeeded, establishing the Scottish Parliament.
I predict a great increase in users' blood pressure due to constantly checking their heart rate.
They are not "dodecadrons", nor are they dodecahedral. They have a cross-section which is a dodecagon.
There are ads on Slashdot???
"Ireland" can mean either the island or the country called the Republic of Ireland, which is about 80% of the island. The Republic is not part of the UK, it is a completely independent country. Northern Ireland (the northern 20%) is part of the UK. The "Irish Free State" was the name of what is now the Republic of Ireland in the 1920s and 30s and is not a term used any more.
... if I'd ever heard of MetaFilter.
If you were the maker of Bitcoin, you could afford it.
Usenet is much harder to control than web forums, so making it useless by posting endless rubbish would be attractive.
I know it will affect my future buying decisions.
But if you don't buy GM products, they will need another bailout. You have to pay them whether you like it or not.
Why does chess need a "clear and predictable yardstick for greatness"? It's a game, not engineering.
... is when we pass through the next one!
Given a random source, you can produce another source correlated with it.
*Unless* the other source is correlated with the random one.
I had assumed that "Man of Steel" was a film about Stalin.