Damn it. Stupid new AJAXy moderation system...get your focus in the wrong place, press an arrow key, and BAM! Instant stupid moderation. I apologise to the OP, if anyone ever sees it before this message wipes out the mod...
However, a lot of tests for viral infection is based on the presence of the antibodies in blood. So, if the person has been immunized using the vaccine, the person will have those antibodies in blood, and it becomes difficult to tell whether the antibodies came as a result of vaccination or infection.
There are quite a few different tests for HIV - you're right, the primary test is antibody-related (a quick-n-dirty relative of the Western blot, followed up by an actual high-precision blot if the initial screening turns up positive), but there are alternatives based on testing for the actual genes.
In a nutshell, the sample is combined with a set of enzymes and primers that will replicate only a specific stretch of DNA (in this case, the HIV genome). If there is HIV in the blood, you'll end up with a lot of HIV DNA around the place, which you can then test for with fluorescent probes or something similar.
This type of method would not be affected by anything your immune system does, as it tests directly for the presence of the virus.
There's a list of the available tests, and a bunch of other information - mostly aimed at patients - here.
In the first case where you don't know if the boy is the first child or not there are four possibilites BB, BG, GB and GG. We can eliminate GG since that's now impossible. From the remaining 3 cases only BB would allow the second child to be a boy so the chance
that the other child is a girl is 2/3.
You make the assumption that each of these possibilities [BB, BG, GB] is equally likely, but it's not - if a boy answers the door, it's more likely to be a BB family than BG or GB. From school:
P(A given B) = P(A and B) / P(B)
So:
P("other child is boy" given "randomly selected child is boy") = P("both children are boys") / P("randomly selected child is a boy")
P("both children are boys")
is, obviously, 0.25. However,
P("randomly selected child is a boy")
is 0.5 (remember, we knew nothing about the family until a child was randomly selected to greet us at the door), so the probability of the second child being male is 0.25/0.5, or one half - exactly as common sense says it would be.
The body would attack those things because they are foreign
Read the article, my friend - they're coated so they don't get recognised as antigens. Nor will they get stuck (they took care over this one, designed wuith reference to pore sizes), and in any case are biodegradable.
You know, if I hadn't seen this one so many times before now, I'd have given you quite a bit of credit for the reference to the fact that the original film (of which this is a remake) was in fact made in Soviet Russia.
...even if it is one with good Karma like nintendo.
"Good karma"? Come off it! These are the people using the DMCA to slap down transfer-pack manufacturers (sorry, don't have the link, but there was a/. story on it recently). The fact that they price fix has (as has already been mentioned) been shown repeatedly in the past, and is blindingly obvious to anyone who's actually bought one of their consoles at full price. They're generally antisocial, really, and I have pretty little sympathy with them.
the predomicance of the state, in a good way, as evident throughout western europe, is manifest in exhaustive, reliable, high-quality public transportation
No one is in Guantanamo who didn't take up arms against the US, whether they got the chance to fire a shot or not, and for that matter, no one is in there who is a US citizen or who was apprehended in the US.
Erm, while I agree with a lot of what you're saying, just because no US citizen was put in there doesn't make it more humane, indeed it makes it less fair - there are still a couple of Britons in there that the US government is point-blank refusing to give the same treatment it gave to its own citizens.
The censorship your parent has referred to is mostly self-censorship, which. while I regard it as a bit of a problem, is nothing on what happens in China.
BTW - 1989, if I remember rightly, was when the Soviet bloc collapsed, and we got a proper view of what life under the USSR was actually like. Most people who had previously contended that the regime wasn't that much worse than western democracies realised how bad it was, and therefore changed their minds when that happened.
Re:My community service for the day.
on
World Cup Final
·
· Score: 2
Which brings us to the whole point of this conspiracy. After Christ died, the Church of Christ faced a dilemma. To survive it could NOT go on with a military Messianic message of rebellion against Rome. If it did it would have been mercilessly quashed by the authorities, even more than it was already. And so it had to change it's central dogma from war and hatred to peace and love for pragmatic reasons.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to translate to "Well, originally they were horrible terrorist-type bastards, but there was a conspiracy to change it all before they wrote down any of the evidence we have. But before that they were all nasty, honest!"
It has to do with primary colors, and how they mix together. With the three primary colors, you should be able to make any other color, with the right mix.
The only reason they are called primary colours is that they are the ones we can detect! Quick rundown: We have 2 types of retinal sensing cells, rods and cones:
Rods detect light intensity and sod all else - if all we had were rods, we could only see black-and-white (like dogs).
Cones are our colour-sensing cells. There are 3 types of cones - "red", "green", and "blue". Each colour of cone can see light at the precise frequency of that colour, and that around it. So, for example, my green cones register a high value in response to pure green light, and a lower response to turquoise or yellow light (which are a little further away in the spectrum). When we see yellow light (with a frequency between that of green and that of red light), the red and green cones are stimulated the same amount, so the brain guesses that the actual frequency of that light was yellow. The way TV works is by tricking the brain - it sends pure red and pure green light at the same time, so our brain thinks "red and green stimulated together - the light must be yellow!", so we experience the same effect as pure yellow light.
In fact, as far as Tech's who will recommend purchasing of UL, I think those are pretty few and far between as well.
I'm still not sure you get it - this is not aimed at us! By the time you've got your average Slashdotter on your staff (and certainly by the time you've got someone sure on their feet enough to raise a ruckus at something like this) with enough influence over the purchase, you've got someone who won't mind maintaining a Debian/Slak/Pink Tie/whatever install for you, and is trusted enough to do so. This is aimed at corporations where managers are making the purchasing decisions.
CFCs are chlorofluorocarbons - chlorine and fluorine bonded to organic compounds. Not every chlorine- or fluorine- based compound is a CFC! CFCs are a very specific family of compounds that it's actually quite hard to make - requires bombardment with EM radiation (UV light I think) in rather controlled conditions if I remember correctly.
the pinatubo plume went up to 35 km, that sounds like that would be way above the troposphere where the precipitation would be effective at cleaning out chlorine based materials.
The plume != The ozone-depleting chemicals - molecules such as HCl dissolve damn readily in any water present, and will have been washed out by rain or indeed any water vapour it finds on the way. The plume that extended that far up will have been other, non-water-soluble stuff.
If your GB compiler is the one I think it is (the one I used, the one that comes with that IDE), then I don't think it does support standard ANSI C - it's bitched at me for not putting a \n after my closing brace before now - that's a K&R-ism unless I'm gravely mistaken...
However, the GBA compiler, like the N64 one, is a GCC port, so as always you can get away with murder:-)
The link now points at a different MS article (relating to RealNetworks). Where's the original? I wanna get my hands on some of those quotes first-hand:-)
If it's serial port, the driver is done in userland. Duh.
Not necessarily. Just to name the first example I can think of, the parallel-port printer driver (lp) is in kernel-space. It just uses the low-level parport hooks. I would guess that this would be kernel-level too, as that would also be more expandable (other things, like CPU temp, etc, that it's easier to get from inside the kernel, unless you want to mess with/proc, but by that time it's a userland daemon, not a driver).
they are not braking the law, they are breaking the license.
First, learn to spell. Secondly, if you break a legal licence, you're not breaking the licence, you're breaking copyright law. Under normal copyright law, you have no right to redistribute the code. The GPL is an exception to ordinary copyright law - "I waive these bits of copyright law only if you fulfil these conditions". If you don't fulfil those conditions, copyright law is in full effect, and you're breaking it.
Screw ICANN. DNS itself is a bad idea, anyway, recentralising a decentralised network...
Hmm...and how exactly would you look up a web server's address? I know, remember an IP for each host you'll ever visit, and get that IP in the first place from...well...good question, isn't it? Even the old HOSTS.TXT file was centralised, and, by your logic, a Bad Thing.
I suspect that you do not know what the expression fair use means.
Guess again.
My, that's a full answer, isn't it? Would you care to explain how your definition of Fair Use is in fact the correct one, whereas the version quoted directly from the relevant law is not?
In papers I have written, I have quoted documents in whole, nearly as legenthy [sic] as the GPL itself.
In which case, unless you have gained permission (directly or indirectly) from the copyright holder, you are breaking copyright law. Just because you do it doesn't make it right.
Fair use is far more complex than you take into account. By using it I am not devaluing the copyrighted work, my use would be non-commercial, etc. There are many ways such use would qualify
No there aren't. Go check up the law (follow the link he suggested, chillingeffects.org). There are only a few ways in which something can count as fair use, and the ones you give above are not among them.
No, the court doesn't just say "sorry, the GPL is declared invalid". They will say something such as: "the GPL clause of requiring derivitive works is not legal". Which would make GPLed software approximately on the same ground as the BSD license.
Bull. The GPL states, effectively, "You may make derivative works of this as long as you GPL them." If one part of that demand becomes legally untenable, that does not immediately void all copyright law. If a commercial licence is declared void, it doesn't default to BSD, does it? The "ground state" of a copyrighted work is one of "no distribution, no derivatives, copies for fair use (which is strictly defined) only."
Yes, IANAL, but I can recognise a false syllogism when I see one...
If you readf the article, you see N zillion references to "last year" or "a little later" - this is just additions. Stories change over time, and jsut cause some of it is old doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.
Yes, I'm sorry, I mean backspace, yes I have tried it, I killed my machine again doing it right after I posted that comment, just to prove to myself that I wasn't talking bollocks.
If applet class implements Runnable, the above code will start a thread with minimum priority, so it will nice itself downwards. If I recall correctly, even secure systems allow you to renice yourself *downwards*. I used to even be able to get IE to let me run at max priority!
So to summarize - yes, it can be done, and rather easily at that.
Maybe not XP solid, but much better than Linux, no doubt about it.
Troll alarm bells are ringing here, so I'll cut short my response, as I don't have any mod points at the moment to slap this one with.
Suffice to say, try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad then tell me it's stable. After you've rebooted and reconnected to the internet that is...
Slashdot Mirror
Damn it. Stupid new AJAXy moderation system...get your focus in the wrong place, press an arrow key, and BAM! Instant stupid moderation. I apologise to the OP, if anyone ever sees it before this message wipes out the mod...
However, a lot of tests for viral infection is based on the presence of the antibodies in blood. So, if the person has been immunized using the vaccine, the person will have those antibodies in blood, and it becomes difficult to tell whether the antibodies came as a result of vaccination or infection.
There are quite a few different tests for HIV - you're right, the primary test is antibody-related (a quick-n-dirty relative of the Western blot, followed up by an actual high-precision blot if the initial screening turns up positive), but there are alternatives based on testing for the actual genes.
In a nutshell, the sample is combined with a set of enzymes and primers that will replicate only a specific stretch of DNA (in this case, the HIV genome). If there is HIV in the blood, you'll end up with a lot of HIV DNA around the place, which you can then test for with fluorescent probes or something similar.
This type of method would not be affected by anything your immune system does, as it tests directly for the presence of the virus.
There's a list of the available tests, and a bunch of other information - mostly aimed at patients - here.
You make the assumption that each of these possibilities [BB, BG, GB] is equally likely, but it's not - if a boy answers the door, it's more likely to be a BB family than BG or GB. From school:So: is, obviously, 0.25. However, is 0.5 (remember, we knew nothing about the family until a child was randomly selected to greet us at the door), so the probability of the second child being male is 0.25/0.5, or one half - exactly as common sense says it would be.
The body would attack those things because they are foreign
Read the article, my friend - they're coated so they don't get recognised as antigens. Nor will they get stuck (they took care over this one, designed wuith reference to pore sizes), and in any case are biodegradable.
Solaris takes another look at you.
You know, if I hadn't seen this one so many times before now, I'd have given you quite a bit of credit for the reference to the fact that the original film (of which this is a remake) was in fact made in Soviet Russia.
I have to say my Eeyore voice sounds a little like Marvin (the paranoid android).
:-)
Yeah - my father also uses the same one for Death in the Discworld books, which is quite entertaining
...even if it is one with good Karma like nintendo.
/. story on it recently). The fact that they price fix has (as has already been mentioned) been shown repeatedly in the past, and is blindingly obvious to anyone who's actually bought one of their consoles at full price. They're generally antisocial, really, and I have pretty little sympathy with them.
"Good karma"? Come off it! These are the people using the DMCA to slap down transfer-pack manufacturers (sorry, don't have the link, but there was a
the predomicance of the state, in a good way, as evident throughout western europe, is manifest in exhaustive, reliable, high-quality public transportation
Let me guess, never been to Britain?
No one is in Guantanamo who didn't take up arms against the US, whether they got the chance to fire a shot or not, and for that matter, no one is in there who is a US citizen or who was apprehended in the US.
Erm, while I agree with a lot of what you're saying, just because no US citizen was put in there doesn't make it more humane, indeed it makes it less fair - there are still a couple of Britons in there that the US government is point-blank refusing to give the same treatment it gave to its own citizens.
The censorship your parent has referred to is mostly self-censorship, which. while I regard it as a bit of a problem, is nothing on what happens in China.
BTW - 1989, if I remember rightly, was when the Soviet bloc collapsed, and we got a proper view of what life under the USSR was actually like. Most people who had previously contended that the regime wasn't that much worse than western democracies realised how bad it was, and therefore changed their minds when that happened.
Which brings us to the whole point of this conspiracy. After Christ died, the Church of Christ faced a dilemma. To survive it could NOT go on with a military Messianic message of rebellion against Rome. If it did it would have been mercilessly quashed by the authorities, even more than it was already. And so it had to change it's central dogma from war and hatred to peace and love for pragmatic reasons.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to translate to "Well, originally they were horrible terrorist-type bastards, but there was a conspiracy to change it all before they wrote down any of the evidence we have. But before that they were all nasty, honest!"
The only reason they are called primary colours is that they are the ones we can detect! Quick rundown: We have 2 types of retinal sensing cells, rods and cones:
I hope that made sense
In fact, as far as Tech's who will recommend purchasing of UL, I think those are pretty few and far between as well.
I'm still not sure you get it - this is not aimed at us! By the time you've got your average Slashdotter on your staff (and certainly by the time you've got someone sure on their feet enough to raise a ruckus at something like this) with enough influence over the purchase, you've got someone who won't mind maintaining a Debian/Slak/Pink Tie/whatever install for you, and is trusted enough to do so. This is aimed at corporations where managers are making the purchasing decisions.
CFCs are chlorofluorocarbons - chlorine and fluorine bonded to organic compounds. Not every chlorine- or fluorine- based compound is a CFC! CFCs are a very specific family of compounds that it's actually quite hard to make - requires bombardment with EM radiation (UV light I think) in rather controlled conditions if I remember correctly.
the pinatubo plume went up to 35 km, that sounds
like that would be way above the troposphere where
the precipitation would be effective at cleaning
out chlorine based materials.
The plume != The ozone-depleting chemicals - molecules such as HCl dissolve damn readily in any water present, and will have been washed out by rain or indeed any water vapour it finds on the way. The plume that extended that far up will have been other, non-water-soluble stuff.
If your GB compiler is the one I think it is (the one I used, the one that comes with that IDE), then I don't think it does support standard ANSI C - it's bitched at me for not putting a \n after my closing brace before now - that's a K&R-ism unless I'm gravely mistaken...
:-)
However, the GBA compiler, like the N64 one, is a GCC port, so as always you can get away with murder
The link now points at a different MS article (relating to RealNetworks). Where's the original? I wanna get my hands on some of those quotes first-hand :-)
Touché! OK, conceded!
If it's serial port, the driver is done in userland. Duh.
/proc, but by that time it's a userland daemon, not a driver).
Not necessarily. Just to name the first example I can think of, the parallel-port printer driver (lp) is in kernel-space. It just uses the low-level parport hooks. I would guess that this would be kernel-level too, as that would also be more expandable (other things, like CPU temp, etc, that it's easier to get from inside the kernel, unless you want to mess with
they are not braking the law, they are breaking the license.
First, learn to spell. Secondly, if you break a legal licence, you're not breaking the licence, you're breaking copyright law. Under normal copyright law, you have no right to redistribute the code. The GPL is an exception to ordinary copyright law - "I waive these bits of copyright law only if you fulfil these conditions". If you don't fulfil those conditions, copyright law is in full effect, and you're breaking it.
Screw ICANN. DNS itself is a bad idea, anyway, recentralising a decentralised network...
Hmm...and how exactly would you look up a web server's address? I know, remember an IP for each host you'll ever visit, and get that IP in the first place from...well...good question, isn't it? Even the old HOSTS.TXT file was centralised, and, by your logic, a Bad Thing.
Guess again.
My, that's a full answer, isn't it? Would you care to explain how your definition of Fair Use is in fact the correct one, whereas the version quoted directly from the relevant law is not?
In papers I have written, I have quoted documents in whole, nearly as legenthy [sic] as the GPL itself.
In which case, unless you have gained permission (directly or indirectly) from the copyright holder, you are breaking copyright law. Just because you do it doesn't make it right.
Fair use is far more complex than you take into account. By using it I am not devaluing the copyrighted work, my use would be non-commercial, etc. There are many ways such use would qualify
No there aren't. Go check up the law (follow the link he suggested, chillingeffects.org). There are only a few ways in which something can count as fair use, and the ones you give above are not among them.
No, the court doesn't just say "sorry, the GPL is declared invalid". They will say something such as: "the GPL clause of requiring derivitive works is not legal". Which would make GPLed software approximately on the same ground as the BSD license.
Bull. The GPL states, effectively, "You may make derivative works of this as long as you GPL them." If one part of that demand becomes legally untenable, that does not immediately void all copyright law. If a commercial licence is declared void, it doesn't default to BSD, does it? The "ground state" of a copyrighted work is one of "no distribution, no derivatives, copies for fair use (which is strictly defined) only."
Yes, IANAL, but I can recognise a false syllogism when I see one...
Well, the story is years old
If you readf the article, you see N zillion references to "last year" or "a little later" - this is just additions. Stories change over time, and jsut cause some of it is old doesn't mean it's not worthwhile.
Meredydd
Yes, I'm sorry, I mean backspace, yes I have tried it, I killed my machine again doing it right after I posted that comment, just to prove to myself that I wasn't talking bollocks.
as far as I know there is no real way in Javascript (or Java applets) to make the program run only when it isn't competing with other applications.
;
Java can do it easily. Something like (warning-untested code):
Thread t=new Thread(this);
t.setPriority(Thread.MIN_PRIORITY)
t.start();
If applet class implements Runnable, the above code will start a thread with minimum priority, so it will nice itself downwards. If I recall correctly, even secure systems allow you to renice yourself *downwards*. I used to even be able to get IE to let me run at max priority!
So to summarize - yes, it can be done, and rather easily at that.
Maybe not XP solid, but much better than Linux, no doubt about it.
Troll alarm bells are ringing here, so I'll cut short my response, as I don't have any mod points at the moment to slap this one with.
Suffice to say, try printf()ing a few tabs and backslashes in quick succession under 200 or XP ad then tell me it's stable. After you've rebooted and reconnected to the internet that is...