I'm not an expert in vaccines so I'll ask: are you making that up? Because it certainly sounds like you are. I don't see how knowing the reservoir would help you make anything but a subunit vaccine, and despite the obvious advantages those haven't exactly taken over. Not to mention if you want one fast you're not going to screw around with subunits. If you DID want to do that for some reason, as I said before, it doesn't seem to take long to find the reservoir in most pandemic situations.
A dictionary of viruses doesn't seem like it would be useful for vaccines or treatment. It would be useful for prevention in some odd situations like a recent one in the middle east where people were getting sick from a virus carried by camels imported from Australia, likely infected from Australian bats.
$300 is cheap for a fashion watch, probably made out of precious metals or some exotic material. This thing doesn't look like it's going to displace any dress watches. It looks more like the modern incarnation of the calculator watch.
The encryption and erasing aspects of this are useless which means the entire app is useless.
Put two and two together. Presumably the erasing aspect is less for erasing the encrypted message than it is for erasing the private key. That way the NSA can get a copy of the encrypted message and a copy of the public key, but they can't get the private key unless they happen to nab you and apply phone books and rubber hoses before your phone erases it.
So when a new disease presents itself we can identify it, sequence it, compare that sequence to a library to find out what animal it probably came from, then use the sequence to make a vaccine.
OR
When a new disease presents itself we can identify it, sequence it, then use the sequence to make a vaccine. It seems like the library only helps to find the animal it originated in, and we don't really seem to have trouble doing that quickly for most of the big, pandemic-causing viruses.
It appears you're right. Neither the submitter nor the article writer understand the difference between "code written in Python" and "the CPython interpreter, which is written in C", which is what Coverity actually tested. So 90% of the comments are off topic. Mods - kudos to the parent.
I suppose some severely misguided people might be using Russia as a champion. I just think it's sad that the strongest defence of the US seems to be "yeah, but we're not as bad as Russia!"
Anarchists are more extreme right, as much as an anti-political movement can be classified on a political scale. They believe in (extremely) small government, extreme freedom from government interference and total self-reliance.
Extreme left would be the original Marxists/communists, where the government is essentially everybody, owns everything, and all decisions are collective.
Sure, but random slashdotters are... random slashdotters. Nobody expects anything from them but hopeless bias, if not complete fiction. Apparently someone pays Phil Nichols to write, and publishes it without bothering to check if it's even close to correct.
It kind of illustrates his point though. He's gone from a kid who fiddled with his calculator and figured out how to use it to do amazing things, to an engineering PhD candidate who credulously absorbs what he hears on the Internet and writes long winded essays about how the world was better in his time.
Well, you could sign into apple's developer website with your free account and read the latest ones. Or do a google search for "iOS interpreter". Or a search for "iOS python" (replacing python with anything from lua to basic). Any of those clearly demonstrate that your post is false.
Another "journalist" who can't be arsed to do a trivial google search to check the facts behind the thesis of his article. You can program in python, ruby, octave, or several other languages on an iPad. Even one of several variants of basic, if you want. If you really love the TI-83 you can even emulate that.
Plus read textbooks, scientific papers, manuals, etc.
Kudos to the slashdot editors and the submitter for their incredulity as well.
You can code in octave on an iPad (although no one should). Also python, and a bunch of other languages. Plus it has a bigger screen that's much more suitable for textbooks.
The English singular of data is datum as well (which isn't any kind of coincidence because English steals). But you sound like a dork saying it, so you rarely hear it except from professors who are past retirement age.
Think of someone taking two steps west and two steps north. If you WATCH them, you can count four steps. If you don't watch them, you count sqrt(8) steps. It's a simple example, but it applies to lots of different things. Radio transmitters, if you want another example. If I set up an amplifier and an antenna and I can talk to my friend 10 miles away but not my friend 15 miles away. If I set up another identical amplifier and antenna I can reach that 15 mile friend, right? No? Hey, wait, now I can't even talk to the 10 mile away friend! But I can talk to this other guy twenty miles in the other direction! Radios, how do they work?!
There are a great many things you simply cannot deduce from logic that is not in contact with observation, and a great many mistakes you will make trying. Never mind that the rules of logic, math, and your concept of 2 and 4 and + are a result of observation of reality to start with. If you ask someone from a culture that has only concepts of 1, 2 and many how much 2 + 2 is, he's going to say "many" and think you're a nut for insisting it's got a specific value called 4.
It appears you didn't learn them. You didn't reply to my post, you just restated your own (unsupported) thesis. It takes less energy to just repeat a talking point than think too hey?
You are repeating a ludditical refrain that is millennia old. It doesn't work that way.
Look around you. The majority of people in a modern country don't do essential jobs. Their jobs are purely about making other people's lives easier. The financial industry, retail, restaurants... the service industry is by far the largest sector of a modern economy, and also usually the most lucrative. Yet these jobs are purely the result of people NOT having to do drudge work growing food, mining, making tools, etc.
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I'm not an expert in vaccines so I'll ask: are you making that up? Because it certainly sounds like you are. I don't see how knowing the reservoir would help you make anything but a subunit vaccine, and despite the obvious advantages those haven't exactly taken over. Not to mention if you want one fast you're not going to screw around with subunits. If you DID want to do that for some reason, as I said before, it doesn't seem to take long to find the reservoir in most pandemic situations.
A dictionary of viruses doesn't seem like it would be useful for vaccines or treatment. It would be useful for prevention in some odd situations like a recent one in the middle east where people were getting sick from a virus carried by camels imported from Australia, likely infected from Australian bats.
I can't WAIT until everyone has speakerphones in public. The comedic potential is unlimited.
$300 is cheap for a fashion watch, probably made out of precious metals or some exotic material. This thing doesn't look like it's going to displace any dress watches. It looks more like the modern incarnation of the calculator watch.
Put two and two together. Presumably the erasing aspect is less for erasing the encrypted message than it is for erasing the private key. That way the NSA can get a copy of the encrypted message and a copy of the public key, but they can't get the private key unless they happen to nab you and apply phone books and rubber hoses before your phone erases it.
Zimmerman is a pretty smart guy.
So when a new disease presents itself we can identify it, sequence it, compare that sequence to a library to find out what animal it probably came from, then use the sequence to make a vaccine.
OR
When a new disease presents itself we can identify it, sequence it, then use the sequence to make a vaccine. It seems like the library only helps to find the animal it originated in, and we don't really seem to have trouble doing that quickly for most of the big, pandemic-causing viruses.
It appears you're right. Neither the submitter nor the article writer understand the difference between "code written in Python" and "the CPython interpreter, which is written in C", which is what Coverity actually tested. So 90% of the comments are off topic. Mods - kudos to the parent.
I suppose some severely misguided people might be using Russia as a champion. I just think it's sad that the strongest defence of the US seems to be "yeah, but we're not as bad as Russia!"
Like the Soviet Union?
Anarchists are more extreme right, as much as an anti-political movement can be classified on a political scale. They believe in (extremely) small government, extreme freedom from government interference and total self-reliance.
Extreme left would be the original Marxists/communists, where the government is essentially everybody, owns everything, and all decisions are collective.
Sure, but random slashdotters are... random slashdotters. Nobody expects anything from them but hopeless bias, if not complete fiction. Apparently someone pays Phil Nichols to write,
and publishes it without bothering to check if it's even close to correct.
It kind of illustrates his point though. He's gone from a kid who fiddled with his calculator and figured out how to use it to do amazing things, to an engineering PhD candidate who credulously absorbs what he hears on the Internet and writes long winded essays about how the world was better in his time.
"Toshiba Excite 13 review: a big-screened tablet with a price to match"
Yup, that's clear support for netbooks. I bow before your superior debating skills.
Well, you could sign into apple's developer website with your free account and read the latest ones. Or do a google search for "iOS interpreter". Or a search for "iOS python" (replacing python with anything from lua to basic). Any of those clearly demonstrate that your post is false.
Another "journalist" who can't be arsed to do a trivial google search to check the facts behind the thesis of his article. You can program in python, ruby, octave, or several other languages on an iPad. Even one of several variants of basic, if you want. If you really love the TI-83 you can even emulate that.
Plus read textbooks, scientific papers, manuals, etc.
Kudos to the slashdot editors and the submitter for their incredulity as well.
Clearly you did just as much trivial research as the "journalist" who wrote the article: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/basic!/id362411238?mt=8
Your information is years out of date.
You can code in octave on an iPad (although no one should). Also python, and a bunch of other languages. Plus it has a bigger screen that's much more suitable for textbooks.
The English singular of data is datum as well (which isn't any kind of coincidence because English steals). But you sound like a dork saying it, so you rarely hear it except from professors who are past retirement age.
Think of someone taking two steps west and two steps north. If you WATCH them, you can count four steps. If you don't watch them, you count sqrt(8) steps. It's a simple example, but it applies to lots of different things. Radio transmitters, if you want another example. If I set up an amplifier and an antenna and I can talk to my friend 10 miles away but not my friend 15 miles away. If I set up another identical amplifier and antenna I can reach that 15 mile friend, right? No? Hey, wait, now I can't even talk to the 10 mile away friend! But I can talk to this other guy twenty miles in the other direction! Radios, how do they work?!
There are a great many things you simply cannot deduce from logic that is not in contact with observation, and a great many mistakes you will make trying. Never mind that the rules of logic, math, and your concept of 2 and 4 and + are a result of observation of reality to start with. If you ask someone from a culture that has only concepts of 1, 2 and many how much 2 + 2 is, he's going to say "many" and think you're a nut for insisting it's got a specific value called 4.
Use a longer code. Hey, coincidentally, we already have unique codes assigned to each vehicle!
It appears you didn't learn them. You didn't reply to my post, you just restated your own (unsupported) thesis. It takes less energy to just repeat a talking point than think too hey?
Whoopsie. I always confuse that and Inferno for some reason. You are of course correct.
Data is both plural and a synonym for the singular "dataset." It acquired the second meaning decades ago.
Is that all you have to do to get excluded from reviewing? I keep rejecting papers and they keep sending me more and more to review.
You are repeating a ludditical refrain that is millennia old. It doesn't work that way.
Look around you. The majority of people in a modern country don't do essential jobs. Their jobs are purely about making other people's lives easier. The financial industry, retail, restaurants... the service industry is by far the largest sector of a modern economy, and also usually the most lucrative. Yet these jobs are purely the result of people NOT having to do drudge work growing food, mining, making tools, etc.
Most drivers would run over a baby small enough not to do any damage probably without ever noticing it until the bump. Your objection is silly.