Our results support that human ectoparasites were primary vectors for plague [...]ultimately challenging the assumption that plague in Europe was predominantly spread by rats.
Basically, once there is an outbreak the speed of the outbreak can best be explained by a human-human parasite transfer. Human to rat to human would be too slow for the disease to have spread that quickly.
- But that's only half the story and the rats still play an important role:
They are the slow transfer and form the reservoir for the disease. Without a second, much slower transfer method, the plaque wouldn't have been able to cross oceans and jump from continent to continent.
People don't sleep with rats in the same bed, they don't cuddle them, share their icecream cone with them or kiss them, like I've seen them doing with dogs. Rats are therefor the perfect low infection risk reservoir. But once the number of humans increases, the total risk increases and an infection will occur and spread quickly through the faster method. Once the majority of the population is wiped out, the disease can travel with rats to a new place or stay in the rat reservoir till the population has rebound.
"The BART system was state of the art when it was built, and now it's technologically obsolete and coming to the end of its useful life.
That's about the only useful sentence in the entire article. They complain about the non-standard width, the parts, the custom controllers, the space-age light weight design, all mixed together. Most of it is however just old, obsolete technology and lack of funding. And it is not true that the light weight design was a wrong move. Europe is trying to go towards lighter subway cars. The track width? Paris had at some point three different subway systems coexisting. Other cities have wide and narrow gauge with a dual-track system for the parts of the city where the lines intersect. The voltage isn't a problem, several European manufacturers build engines that can run on different voltage systems.
If there was appropriate funding, BART could update their control system and order new light weight cars with modern electronics either by (a) getting new cars from (probably) a European company offering to make their existing design a foot wider, or (b) switch some lines to standard gauge, with some lines being dual gauge.
By keeping its developers busy and away from other projects.
For years people have been complaining about some opensource developers and their attitude. Often a fork wasn't motivated by technical issues but by the lack of social skills of some of the key developers. (I can think of at least four major projects.)
Finally we have the answer: Start a honeypot project that attracts all the uber- egos and under-socials. - Thanks.
True. That's one aspect. Privacy is always a balance between self and community. But what do you reveal, to whom, and who has the power to decide... Your point is made by Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
That's the book PJ recommended when she stopped Groklaw, I picked it up because of that, and wasn't disappointed. Very readable, well argued, and a couple good thoughts on private vs. public
The underside might be coated with anti-gravitons and the wheels are just there as decoys, so the physicist establishment doesn't get upset and burn down the factory.
In the last few years this asteroid-doomsday-talk really took off.
Sure there is a risk, but maybe not higher than a worldwide pandemic, a nuclear war, or Odin sending a flood.
- Or do THEY know something? Like, that the risk suddenly got higher by something WE did...??!!
That's when it dawned on me:
It is the outer planets that protect us from space debris. And Neil DegrasseTyson removed Pluto!
In the past it was access to waterways, trade routes, location relative to other important places, etc.
While these fixed factors are still a part of what makes and brakes a city, the tech factor is variable and can be artificially increased.
How "cool" a city is, livability, determines whether it can keep recent grads even if some other place offers a slightly higher salary.
Algorithms may be racist, depends on the sample data you feed it. If the dataset is biased, the result will be biased.
Math may be racist, Statistics, Surveys, Engineering, Business. Because the problem design, layout, definition is done by people.
- Oh, and don't even get me started with the Humanities...
But if you are in a place that has a couple shorter power outages every year and where thinking of getting a few more UPS-s and a standby generator, a large battery suddenly could be economical.
Big deal. I'm sure the ones soon to be used by businesses and local law enforcement will be much more safe & reliable, because they will be produced in a competitive market environment (instead of by government contract) by 3D printers.
Oh gosh, it took me a second to detect the sarcasm in that statement. At first I thought, "no way - local law enforcement and safe. - LAPD drones???" But then there was that bold marker for pure sarcasm: competitive market environment hehehehe
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From their abstract:
Our results support that human ectoparasites were primary vectors for plague [...]ultimately challenging the assumption that plague in Europe was predominantly spread by rats.
Basically, once there is an outbreak the speed of the outbreak can best be explained by a human-human parasite transfer. Human to rat to human would be too slow for the disease to have spread that quickly.
- But that's only half the story and the rats still play an important role:
They are the slow transfer and form the reservoir for the disease. Without a second, much slower transfer method, the plaque wouldn't have been able to cross oceans and jump from continent to continent.
People don't sleep with rats in the same bed, they don't cuddle them, share their icecream cone with them or kiss them, like I've seen them doing with dogs. Rats are therefor the perfect low infection risk reservoir. But once the number of humans increases, the total risk increases and an infection will occur and spread quickly through the faster method. Once the majority of the population is wiped out, the disease can travel with rats to a new place or stay in the rat reservoir till the population has rebound.
The USA seems to be surrounded by these failing island nations like Puerto Rico and Hawaii. They just can't get their act together. Very sad.
Reading the FDA document, they only plan to ban soaps with :
Phenol (greater than 1.5 percent)
Phenol (less than 1.5 percent)
Because google even pretending to fight for privacy would be hilariously hypocritical.
Of course they fight for privacy.
Except that they call it "mining rights".
One word: preinstall. If people would be able to buy a device that has another OS installed, they would be buying it
Rrright....
And after buying it, they would complain about it:
http://www.geek.com/news/dell-...
"The BART system was state of the art when it was built, and now it's technologically obsolete and coming to the end of its useful life.
That's about the only useful sentence in the entire article. They complain about the non-standard width, the parts, the custom controllers, the space-age light weight design, all mixed together. Most of it is however just old, obsolete technology and lack of funding. And it is not true that the light weight design was a wrong move. Europe is trying to go towards lighter subway cars. The track width? Paris had at some point three different subway systems coexisting. Other cities have wide and narrow gauge with a dual-track system for the parts of the city where the lines intersect. The voltage isn't a problem, several European manufacturers build engines that can run on different voltage systems.
If there was appropriate funding, BART could update their control system and order new light weight cars with modern electronics either by (a) getting new cars from (probably) a European company offering to make their existing design a foot wider, or (b) switch some lines to standard gauge, with some lines being dual gauge.
By keeping its developers busy and away from other projects.
For years people have been complaining about some opensource developers and their attitude. Often a fork wasn't motivated by technical issues but by the lack of social skills of some of the key developers. (I can think of at least four major projects.)
Finally we have the answer:
Start a honeypot project that attracts all the uber- egos and under-socials.
- Thanks.
True. That's one aspect. Privacy is always a balance between self and community. But what do you reveal, to whom, and who has the power to decide...
Your point is made by Janna Malamud Smith, Private Matters: In Defense of the Personal Life
That's the book PJ recommended when she stopped Groklaw, I picked it up because of that, and wasn't disappointed. Very readable, well argued, and a couple good thoughts on private vs. public
"Mozilla decided to ask due to buggy code."? I think /.'s editors got their lingo wrong.
You better axe somebody!
Yes, they're head's should roll
-but let me beg the question:
To what affect ?
At least timothy didn't get arrested after announcing
he had an ex to grind
.. A wind turbine would have probably chopped him to pieces.
More importantly, they don't actually hover.
Or do they?
The underside might be coated with anti-gravitons and the wheels are just there as decoys, so the physicist establishment doesn't get upset and burn down the factory.
In the last few years this asteroid-doomsday-talk really took off.
Sure there is a risk, but maybe not higher than a worldwide pandemic, a nuclear war, or Odin sending a flood.
- Or do THEY know something? Like, that the risk suddenly got higher by something WE did...??!!
That's when it dawned on me:
It is the outer planets that protect us from space debris. And Neil DegrasseTyson removed Pluto!
In the past it was access to waterways, trade routes, location relative to other important places, etc. While these fixed factors are still a part of what makes and brakes a city, the tech factor is variable and can be artificially increased.
How "cool" a city is, livability, determines whether it can keep recent grads even if some other place offers a slightly higher salary.
Let me do to the US what I did to HP
- That was a really bad choice for a campaign slogan.
Especially if you can get the print version for $5 a year through some discount program. - And that includes the free "skip ad & flush" option.
Why?
Algorithms may be racist, depends on the sample data you feed it. If the dataset is biased, the result will be biased.
Math may be racist, Statistics, Surveys, Engineering, Business. Because the problem design, layout, definition is done by people.
- Oh, and don't even get me started with the Humanities...
... the ideal of non-conformity is inconsistent with the idea of fashion
That would make a great fashionable T-Shirt.
The .gov says it won't be used against researchers.... until it is.
They wont. They will only use it against cyber-terrorists.
If you have pen testing tools and they come after you, you are a cyber-terrorist. If they don't, you are a researcher.
An English primer was not among them, it would seem.
The English Prime Minister never made it to Montecello's Pyramids, it was the Spanish under Francesco Bizarro that discovered them.
You have the pod attached to your ship. Then, when Darth Vader boards your ship you use it to send your roomba to safety.
Scenario A: Google back when they initially developed Android ran into a design roadblock. ...
Scenario B: Google developed Android without ever having heard of any MS patents.....
Have you heard of my "method to present alternative possibiliies in a 'Scenario A: Scenario B: - structure" ??
But if you are in a place that has a couple shorter power outages every year and where thinking of getting a few more UPS-s and a standby generator, a large battery suddenly could be economical.
Big deal. I'm sure the ones soon to be used by businesses and local law enforcement will be much more safe & reliable, because they will be produced in a competitive market environment (instead of by government contract) by 3D printers.
Oh gosh, it took me a second to detect the sarcasm in that statement. At first I thought, "no way - local law enforcement and safe. - LAPD drones???" But then there was that bold marker for pure sarcasm: competitive market environment hehehehe