The original polio vaccine was a weakened strain, and it was possible to get the disease from the vaccine. This meant that there was a time when getting polio from the wild was less likely than getting it from the vaccine.
Get your facts right if you want to be trusted.
The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. The oral polio vaccine [attenuated virus] was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961.
Soon after Salk's vaccine was licensed in 1955, children's vaccination campaigns were launched. In the U.S, following a mass immunization campaign promoted by the March of Dimes, the annual number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 by 1957.
An enhanced-potency IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) was licensed in the United States in November 1987, and is currently the vaccine of choice in the United States.
The inactivated polio vaccines are very safe. Mild redness or pain may occur at the site of injection. Oral polio vaccine results in vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in about three per million doses.
The oral vaccine is inexpensive and easy to distribute in third world environments --- where I very much doubt the risk of an encounter with the disease in the wild has ever been less than the risk of the vaccine.
The interesting thing is Apple is a hardware company (makes things) while Microsoft is a software company (prints money).
It would be more truthful to say that Apple designs products rather than manufacturing them. It would also be more truthful to say that Microsoft has had a long and productive relationship with its OEM partners. The commodity PC built from parts designed for the MSDOS and Windows eco-system.
Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system.
The OEM system install is essential to obtain measurable market share. Linus has said as much himself. Multimedia support out of the box is so essential in the consumer market space that excluding it from your OEM distribution is perfectly stupid.
Once again, those poor stupid incompetent minorities are rescued from having to better themselves in any conceivable way, thanks to us heroic progressives who are always around to babysit and control them for their own good.
These neighborhoods are poorly served and over-charged by local retailers.
It should tell the geek something when subscribing to Amazon Prime at $99/yr can save the urban poor time and money they do not have to spare. It is a revelation on the same scale as the Sears, Roebuck catalogs were to rural communities of all shapes and colors in the 1890s.
For the idiots here who have found the time to post but no time to respect talent outside their own field --- Prum's credits include some of the best work we've seen from Telltale Games. Tales from the Borderlands. The Walking Dead. The Wolf Among Us, Tales of Monkey Island, Sam and Max and so on. Jory K. Prum
He was arrested in Spain for running a business in Costa Rica. How exactly does the US have even the slightest jurisdiction to prosecute him?
The short answer is that jurisdiction lies where the body falls and not on which side of the border the gun is fired.
It is the first mistake the geek makes when he turns to crime and moves his base of operations ---- but not his customers and his marketing ----outside the US.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
Which is another way of saying that only those who play the game even know that it exists.
The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents.
Total ignorance of how the US federal system works.
Federal judges are appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate and serve for life.
Bribery as the geek's all-purpose explanation for any legal or political decision he disagrees with. In our entire history only four federal judges have been impeached and convicted on bribery-related charges. Impeachments of Federal Judges
The geek can still wonder why no one ever takes him seriously as force in politics. Donald Trump without the hair or the ability to incite the masses.
it does make you wonder what Ford was thinking selling a Focus that can go 121 MPH. Did nobody anticipate that jerks would drive at crazy speeds because of that?
Ford isn't awarding trophies for taking the car to 121 mph in city traffic.
It's time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Fine.
But someone at Snapchat programmed and approved an app that even those caught in the Mercedes c230 with this eighteen year old girl knew was an open invitation to floor it for the trophy.
Yeah, the Democratic Party will win too easily, but it's not like they've ever been able to figure out what they want to do with political power even when they have it.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. FDR seems to have accomplished rather a lot. Truman in the post-war era. Lyndon Johnson in civil rights, and so on.
in April, Chrome captured 41.66 percent of the market, surpassing Internet Explorer which now sits at 41.35 percent.
Net Applications posts disclaimers that its publicly accessible stats lack the QA expected by its paying customers. In other words, they can be a little rough around the edges and the horse race shouldn't be taken too seriously.
In January Netflix's chief product officer admitted that the company has no magic solution to subscribers who use VPNs to circumvent geoblocking.
The population of Australia is 23 million. The number of Netflix subscribers in Australia is about 1 million. Respectable. But from the studios point of view these are not big numbers and a leak here and there isn't going to matter very much.
They are big numbers to Presto and Stan, Netflix's rivals in Australia --- which means that for Netflix the Australian VPN is win-win.
It undercuts its regional rivals, before they can become too strong, at very little cost to its own bottom line and without damaging its relations with the studios.
I am hearing a lot of snark here about a problem that was fixed about seven hours after it was properly and privately disclosed early in January --- and not much said about it publicly until the last week of April.
Volvo is serious about autodrive, with full autonomy coming soon, possibly as early as 2018. But there is no question that Volvo is building some very good cars right now.
Crashworthiness:
Small overlap front G
Moderate overlap front G
Side G Roof strength G Head restraints & seats G
Crash avoidance & Mitigation
Front crash prevention Superior [6 Points]
Low speed autobrake 2 Points High speed autobrake 3 Points
I wonder if he'd be less likely to continue the work is a hacker collective attacked and destroyed his personal privacy.
I wonder how difficult it would be to penetrate a Slashdot alias to make life a little more miserable for the agent provocateur.
The "hacker collective" is, by the way, widely despised beyond the inbred circles of Slashdot. When one is torpedoed the sound you are mostly to hear is applause. I don't expect that to change no matter which way the elections go this fall.
The victim of the retaliation you suggest could be drawn into something like the witness protection program. That would set a precedent that could cost the geek dearly somewhere down the road.
Why call for a ride if you aren't ready to GO? How long does it take to get outside from inside, all of 15 seconds?
Ask your mom, or your grandmother, if she is still around.
Better still, wait under ten or twenty years or so and a day when it is wet, cold and icy, with a bitter wind, and see how long it takes you to get out that door.
when calling 911 from my phone the operator still asked me my location and city, I was calling in to report black ice on a state route in a city I'm not familiar with, I wasn't sure exactly which jurisdiction I was in, the freaking phone is REQUIRED to give them lat and longitude, it should have come up on their screen before they even picked up my call
In the real world, the dispatcher doesn't always get the information instantaneously and it isn't always that accurate. That is why she has to ask.
Wireless network operators must provide the latitude and longitude of callers within 300 meters, within six minutes of a request by a PSAP
It's small companies and universities that develop half of all new drugs in the US, despite raking in far lower profits.
Develop or bring into production? There is long way to go between success in the lab and routine therapeutic use --- meaningful sales of a genuinely useful product.
Instead of shelling out $10 for a Netflix subscription, some people now may opt to pay nothing at all to get what they want.
Some people? But how many? The Canadian market is at best about 10% that of the U.S. and 20% Francophone. These are not big numbers for Netflix or the studios, so why should they care?
But if you are looking for a movie that delivers on it promises of "visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun," what you want is Marvel and Disney. The problem, of course, is that Disney is evolving into the most liberal, subversive, and prosperous studio on the block.
Slashdot Mirror
The original polio vaccine was a weakened strain, and it was possible to get the disease from the vaccine. This meant that there was a time when getting polio from the wild was less likely than getting it from the vaccine.
Get your facts right if you want to be trusted.
The first polio vaccine was the inactivated polio vaccine. It was developed by Jonas Salk and came into use in 1955. The oral polio vaccine [attenuated virus] was developed by Albert Sabin and came into commercial use in 1961.
Soon after Salk's vaccine was licensed in 1955, children's vaccination campaigns were launched. In the U.S, following a mass immunization campaign promoted by the March of Dimes, the annual number of polio cases fell from 35,000 in 1953 to 5,600 by 1957.
An enhanced-potency IPV (inactivated polio vaccine) was licensed in the United States in November 1987, and is currently the vaccine of choice in the United States.
The inactivated polio vaccines are very safe. Mild redness or pain may occur at the site of injection. Oral polio vaccine results in vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis in about three per million doses.
Polio vaccine
The oral vaccine is inexpensive and easy to distribute in third world environments --- where I very much doubt the risk of an encounter with the disease in the wild has ever been less than the risk of the vaccine.
The interesting thing is Apple is a hardware company (makes things) while Microsoft is a software company (prints money).
It would be more truthful to say that Apple designs products rather than manufacturing them. It would also be more truthful to say that Microsoft has had a long and productive relationship with its OEM partners. The commodity PC built from parts designed for the MSDOS and Windows eco-system.
Never used Linux, eh? You expended more energy typing your complaint than it takes to get the codecs.
No media play in the store = no sale.
Disclaimers on-line that media codecs are not part of the baseline system install = no sale.
Walmart spent the better part of a decade trying to explain the ins and outs of OEM Linux to its customers before throwing in the towel.
Linux Mint 18 will no longer provide separate, codec-free installation media for OEM and magazine distribution. Instead, the distribution will ship without multimedia support while making it easy for users to acquire media codecs during the initial installation of the operating system.
The OEM system install is essential to obtain measurable market share. Linus has said as much himself. Multimedia support out of the box is so essential in the consumer market space that excluding it from your OEM distribution is perfectly stupid.
Once again, those poor stupid incompetent minorities are rescued from having to better themselves in any conceivable way, thanks to us heroic progressives who are always around to babysit and control them for their own good.
These neighborhoods are poorly served and over-charged by local retailers.
It should tell the geek something when subscribing to Amazon Prime at $99/yr can save the urban poor time and money they do not have to spare. It is a revelation on the same scale as the Sears, Roebuck catalogs were to rural communities of all shapes and colors in the 1890s.
For the idiots here who have found the time to post but no time to respect talent outside their own field --- Prum's credits include some of the best work we've seen from Telltale Games. Tales from the Borderlands. The Walking Dead. The Wolf Among Us, Tales of Monkey Island, Sam and Max and so on. Jory K. Prum
He was arrested in Spain for running a business in Costa Rica. How exactly does the US have even the slightest jurisdiction to prosecute him?
The short answer is that jurisdiction lies where the body falls and not on which side of the border the gun is fired.
It is the first mistake the geek makes when he turns to crime and moves his base of operations ---- but not his customers and his marketing ----outside the US.
I mean, really, if *any* game deserves to be in a hall of fame, it's the longest-lived and longest continually maintained game of 'em all... not to mention one of the most complex and hardcore.
Which is another way of saying that only those who play the game even know that it exists.
The main issue in this country is that judges can be bought just like any other elected official. Judges having the final say over bad laws and statutes should be held to even higher standards of electoral rules than either senators or presidents.
Total ignorance of how the US federal system works.
Federal judges are appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate and serve for life.
Bribery as the geek's all-purpose explanation for any legal or political decision he disagrees with. In our entire history only four federal judges have been impeached and convicted on bribery-related charges. Impeachments of Federal Judges
The geek can still wonder why no one ever takes him seriously as force in politics. Donald Trump without the hair or the ability to incite the masses.
it does make you wonder what Ford was thinking selling a Focus that can go 121 MPH. Did nobody anticipate that jerks would drive at crazy speeds because of that?
Ford isn't awarding trophies for taking the car to 121 mph in city traffic.
It's time for people to start taking responsibility for their own actions.
Fine.
But someone at Snapchat programmed and approved an app that even those caught in the Mercedes c230 with this eighteen year old girl knew was an open invitation to floor it for the trophy.
Yeah, the Democratic Party will win too easily, but it's not like they've ever been able to figure out what they want to do with political power even when they have it.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. FDR seems to have accomplished rather a lot. Truman in the post-war era. Lyndon Johnson in civil rights, and so on.
in April, Chrome captured 41.66 percent of the market, surpassing Internet Explorer which now sits at 41.35 percent.
Net Applications posts disclaimers that its publicly accessible stats lack the QA expected by its paying customers. In other words, they can be a little rough around the edges and the horse race shouldn't be taken too seriously.
since all the books, etc are now e-books (not necessarily a bad thing).
The geek is in denial about the limitations of e-books. They well and truly suck for anything but plain text.
The bar chart clarifies things. Windows down a tick. OSX up a tick. Linux flat-lined as always. Desktop Top Operating System Share Trend
More revealing, perhaps, are the numbers from Statcounter, which show OSX doing very well in the North American market, at 17.5%. Top 7 Desktop OSs in North America from Apr 2015 to Mar 2016
Statcounter doesn't break out stats for Linux, which is perhaps just as well.
In January Netflix's chief product officer admitted that the company has no magic solution to subscribers who use VPNs to circumvent geoblocking.
The population of Australia is 23 million. The number of Netflix subscribers in Australia is about 1 million. Respectable. But from the studios point of view these are not big numbers and a leak here and there isn't going to matter very much.
They are big numbers to Presto and Stan, Netflix's rivals in Australia --- which means that for Netflix the Australian VPN is win-win.
It undercuts its regional rivals, before they can become too strong, at very little cost to its own bottom line and without damaging its relations with the studios.
Foaming at the mouth. This is something I am supposed to take seriously as a SERVER distribution --- and as an alternative to Red Hat?
I am hearing a lot of snark here about a problem that was fixed about seven hours after it was properly and privately disclosed early in January --- and not much said about it publicly until the last week of April.
The Model S outsells every model in Volvo's lineup so clearly Tesla is doing something customers appreciate more than Volvo
Volvo's customers have fourteen models to chose from.
Volvo sold 52,279 cars in March alone, up 12% from last year. Volvo Car Group Retail Sales By Car Model - March 2016
Volvo is serious about autodrive, with full autonomy coming soon, possibly as early as 2018. But there is no question that Volvo is building some very good cars right now.
Crashworthiness:
Small overlap front G
Moderate overlap front G
Side G
Roof strength G
Head restraints & seats G
Crash avoidance & Mitigation
Front crash prevention Superior [6 Points]
Low speed autobrake 2 Points
High speed autobrake 3 Points
Child Seat Anchors (LATCH) ease of use A
2016 Top Safety Pick - 2016 Volvo XC90
I wonder if he'd be less likely to continue the work is a hacker collective attacked and destroyed his personal privacy.
I wonder how difficult it would be to penetrate a Slashdot alias to make life a little more miserable for the agent provocateur.
The "hacker collective" is, by the way, widely despised beyond the inbred circles of Slashdot. When one is torpedoed the sound you are mostly to hear is applause. I don't expect that to change no matter which way the elections go this fall.
The victim of the retaliation you suggest could be drawn into something like the witness protection program. That would set a precedent that could cost the geek dearly somewhere down the road.
Why call for a ride if you aren't ready to GO? How long does it take to get outside from inside, all of 15 seconds?
Ask your mom, or your grandmother, if she is still around.
Better still, wait under ten or twenty years or so and a day when it is wet, cold and icy, with a bitter wind, and see how long it takes you to get out that door.
when calling 911 from my phone the operator still asked me my location and city, I was calling in to report black ice on a state route in a city I'm not familiar with, I wasn't sure exactly which jurisdiction I was in, the freaking phone is REQUIRED to give them lat and longitude, it should have come up on their screen before they even picked up my call
In the real world, the dispatcher doesn't always get the information instantaneously and it isn't always that accurate. That is why she has to ask.
Wireless network operators must provide the latitude and longitude of callers within 300 meters, within six minutes of a request by a PSAP
Enhanced 9-1-1 [The law since 2012 in the US]
It's small companies and universities that develop half of all new drugs in the US, despite raking in far lower profits.
Develop or bring into production? There is long way to go between success in the lab and routine therapeutic use --- meaningful sales of a genuinely useful product.
Instead of shelling out $10 for a Netflix subscription, some people now may opt to pay nothing at all to get what they want.
Some people? But how many? The Canadian market is at best about 10% that of the U.S. and 20% Francophone. These are not big numbers for Netflix or the studios, so why should they care?
But if you are looking for a movie that delivers on it promises of "visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun," what you want is Marvel and Disney. The problem, of course, is that Disney is evolving into the most liberal, subversive, and prosperous studio on the block.