The selective pressure to gain resistance is a lot stronger than the evolutionary forces to lose it when it's no longer needed, so I'm not sure that'd work on such short timescales.
If only "pharma can't be bothered to create new antibiotics" were the issue. As it stands antibiotic development is a very active, very well funded private and public research effort. (As you'd expect from a field where whoever gets there first becomes unspeakably wealthy, there are an awful lot of startups.) It's just not turning up anything.
That attenuates the problem, but it doesn't stop it. Even those drugs that are limited to critical human medical uses are starting to run into resistance problems, and we're simply not finding new ones. The chemical space has become alarmingly barren.
You say that as though they haven't emphasised the humanitarian impact in literally the first sentence of the summary. The author's priorities are in the right place. You don't have to ignore everything but the humanitarian consequences to be showing compassion for them.
Did it occur to you that a post to a science and technology news site might be directed towards the scientific issues for reasons other than the profound inhumanity you have ascribed to the author?
If only there was some other site on the internet, where one could read about the non-scientific issues surrounding the earthquake. We could link to such a site in the summary even as we respectfully highlighted the important humanitarian issues. What a brave new world that would be.
MS lost most of that money as a write-off replacing faulty units of what was by that point a very, very successful piece of hardware. Meanwhile the Surface moulders in stock rooms, without as much as a cut in its price for the new model to get it into people's hands.
You've used a false premise there - it is possible for two individuals with different chromosome counts to interbreed, with an attenuated likelihood of success.
Aah, shit, time zones. In my haste to get this out before the mainstream coverage got any wider, I didn't consider that half of Slashdot wouldn't even be awake.
Ten seconds is the time limit given for an app to finish its business if it ceases to be in the foreground or the phone screen is locked. I don't think background services or the brief window in which a compatible app is restarted for Background App Refresh really count.
I guess I badly overestimated how much newsreading Slashdot does but it's currently the top Science story on Google News (tragically) and is getting reprinted all over the fuck.
Apple have acknowledged the issue and that they intend to fix it, however 7.0.1 is a bug fix release for the 5C and 5S to make up for the fact that their builds are older. (They had to be finished in time to get the phones into boxes and shipped to stores.) I would be surprised if 7.0.1 did anything but bring those two handsets up to date, this bug included.
My chief complaint is that it's an either-or proposition which makes it seem like we should just disregard all other security failures just because we're operating under a single massive one.
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The selective pressure to gain resistance is a lot stronger than the evolutionary forces to lose it when it's no longer needed, so I'm not sure that'd work on such short timescales.
If only "pharma can't be bothered to create new antibiotics" were the issue. As it stands antibiotic development is a very active, very well funded private and public research effort. (As you'd expect from a field where whoever gets there first becomes unspeakably wealthy, there are an awful lot of startups.) It's just not turning up anything.
That attenuates the problem, but it doesn't stop it. Even those drugs that are limited to critical human medical uses are starting to run into resistance problems, and we're simply not finding new ones. The chemical space has become alarmingly barren.
Don't make it bad. Take a sad song, and make it better.
You're suggesting that The Illusive Man was responsible?
You might want to rethink combining those two expressions in future:
stuff rammed down their throats willy
You're the guy who made the dubious rhetorical move of dubbing two entire nations "hell-holes".
You say that as though they haven't emphasised the humanitarian impact in literally the first sentence of the summary. The author's priorities are in the right place. You don't have to ignore everything but the humanitarian consequences to be showing compassion for them.
I feel sorry for your inability to get excited about geology. You know that it's a fool that plays it cool by making his world a little colder.
Did it occur to you that a post to a science and technology news site might be directed towards the scientific issues for reasons other than the profound inhumanity you have ascribed to the author?
If only there was some other site on the internet, where one could read about the non-scientific issues surrounding the earthquake. We could link to such a site in the summary even as we respectfully highlighted the important humanitarian issues. What a brave new world that would be.
For the purposes of this discussion it hardly matters how good or disappointing it is, nobody's buying them.
MS lost most of that money as a write-off replacing faulty units of what was by that point a very, very successful piece of hardware. Meanwhile the Surface moulders in stock rooms, without as much as a cut in its price for the new model to get it into people's hands.
Or in other words "nuh-uh"?
You've used a false premise there - it is possible for two individuals with different chromosome counts to interbreed, with an attenuated likelihood of success.
I am so, so sorry.
Two missions, Stardust and Genesis. Genesis is the one that famously exploited lithobraking.
Aah, shit, time zones. In my haste to get this out before the mainstream coverage got any wider, I didn't consider that half of Slashdot wouldn't even be awake.
You got me, I am actually on the Phil Plait payroll. All that sweet, sweet science blogger money.
You could access the camera from the lock screen on the iPhones for a while, is this new to the iPad?
Ten seconds is the time limit given for an app to finish its business if it ceases to be in the foreground or the phone screen is locked. I don't think background services or the brief window in which a compatible app is restarted for Background App Refresh really count.
I guess I badly overestimated how much newsreading Slashdot does but it's currently the top Science story on Google News (tragically) and is getting reprinted all over the fuck.
https://news.google.com/news/rtc?ncl=dnKMHzxjFcOnzwM_UbabG5Mw_uKHM&topic=snc&siidp=c91213d6efdc327274530d68fc4346a67566
Apple have acknowledged the issue and that they intend to fix it, however 7.0.1 is a bug fix release for the 5C and 5S to make up for the fact that their builds are older. (They had to be finished in time to get the phones into boxes and shipped to stores.) I would be surprised if 7.0.1 did anything but bring those two handsets up to date, this bug included.
My submission was only a crumb of that summary.
My chief complaint is that it's an either-or proposition which makes it seem like we should just disregard all other security failures just because we're operating under a single massive one.