It isn't a vaccine. It's just taking drugs that stop you actually developing malaria, then getting bitten. Regular unmodified malaria parasite is the "vaccine".
Well, I read the article (sorry) and it's actually nothing to do with causing mosquitoes to spread a vaccine: the "vaccine" is regular malaria, and the treatment consists of letting people get bitten (and therefore exposed to the parasite) while giving them a drug which stops them actually getting malaria.
Am I the only person reminded of the debate over whether it was OK to exploit holes in a botnet to disinfect other people's computers without their permission/knowledge?
Not to mention that cooling of parts of the atmosphere, if it was real, would still be evidence of climate change. No one is claiming that the whole earth is going to smoothly warm up in step.
Engines designed to take advantage of ethanol can perform very well indeed on it (not that this makes bioethanol a good idea, considering land use and all).
Well, either they'd put their own API or window system or something over it (think MacOS X or Chrome OS), in which case it wouldn't compete with proper Linux any differently than Windows already does, or they'd make a real distro, in which case they'd suddenly be much more compatible with the competition, lowering the barrier for people wanting to switch.
I don't think there would be anything too bad about a world with a set of different vendors making mostly compatible operating systems/distributions, even if one of them is Microsoft.
You're installing a closed-source OS anyway. What makes you think that Microsoft and the OEM that customises the disks are more trustworthy than a torrent site?
Or did you want the MD5 for checking that the torrent downloaded properly? Bittorrent does that itself.
Information will get from anywhere to anywhere unless Iran completely disconnects itself from the rest of the 'net. There are as many ways to hide "communications" as there are protocols and servers out there, and no one can do a bloody thing about it. Even a "whitelist" style system would have holes in.
It is measured in Amps or Milliamps usually in the case of cell phone batteries. Once the juice is gone its gone you can't magically make more through software.
Power isn't measured in amps, and also isn't the same thing as battery capacity.
Battery capacity is measured in milliamp-hours (even though does not allow direct comparison, in terms of stored energy, between batteries of different voltages), where 1 mAh would allow one milliamp to be drawn for one hour before the battery dies. If you can draw less current (fewer milliamps), you can get more running time (more hours, making up the same number of mAh), and this is how the software "makes more juice": it turns off various non-vital hardware, and presumably turns off non-vital software, meaning the processor is in power-save mode more of the time.
It's not about getting more power from the battery so much as reducing the amount of power you get from the battery.
Why the hell do you think that's a system requirements issue, not bad packaging (or installing it wrong/unmet dependencies, if you did it yourself for some reason)? A file is missing because you don't have 4GB of RAM?
There were some people who built an autonomous glider which could perform many of the things you mention (with the notable exception of powered flight), including flying pre-programmed routes while taking photos (as well as navigating to specified coordinates autonomously). The process of building and testing it is documented in a fair amount of detail, including information on choices made for the on board electronics.
I have no particular interest in building aircraft, and still thought that page was a good read.
It exists. It's called libwine. It's among others how Picasa and Google Earth work on Linux.
Google Earth has been a natively cross-platform Qt application for a while now. If it sometimes looks like a Wine app, it's because they insist on using a static compiled-jn Qt with a stupid looking theme. I know it's a small thing, but Linux users (at least the ones with KDE) would instantly think much better of the application if it used the system's theme (and didn't load duplicate libraries).
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't a vaccine. It's just taking drugs that stop you actually developing malaria, then getting bitten. Regular unmodified malaria parasite is the "vaccine".
Well, I read the article (sorry) and it's actually nothing to do with causing mosquitoes to spread a vaccine: the "vaccine" is regular malaria, and the treatment consists of letting people get bitten (and therefore exposed to the parasite) while giving them a drug which stops them actually getting malaria.
Am I the only person reminded of the debate over whether it was OK to exploit holes in a botnet to disinfect other people's computers without their permission/knowledge?
That's not the point. The point is that making things properly often makes them nicer.
While there are some organic products which aren't noticeably different, there are also some vegetables which benifit significantly.
I'm pretty sure temperatures at 80km up have been cold enough for ice for several million years at least.
Wikipedia says that the mesosphere extends from 50 to 80-85 km up, and the thermosphere from 80-85 to over 640km, and that the mesopause (the boundary between the two layers, at 80-85km) "is the coldest place on Earth, with a temperature of 100C". The really hot bit is well above the mesopause.
Not to mention that cooling of parts of the atmosphere, if it was real, would still be evidence of climate change. No one is claiming that the whole earth is going to smoothly warm up in step.
That is true for engine tuned for gasoline.
Engines designed to take advantage of ethanol can perform very well indeed on it (not that this makes bioethanol a good idea, considering land use and all).
Everybody knows you rushed your post because you thought you'd be first.
Just sayin'.
You had a top-end XP machine in the 80s?
Seriously though, most machines sold right up until Vista shipped (and arguably just after) run Vista very sluggishly, if at all.
There must be someone who would want to use them under certain circumstances, or they wouldn't be there in the first place.
So I suppose it depends on whether "super-villain cyber hacker" are as crazy as the US government...
Well, either they'd put their own API or window system or something over it (think MacOS X or Chrome OS), in which case it wouldn't compete with proper Linux any differently than Windows already does, or they'd make a real distro, in which case they'd suddenly be much more compatible with the competition, lowering the barrier for people wanting to switch.
I don't think there would be anything too bad about a world with a set of different vendors making mostly compatible operating systems/distributions, even if one of them is Microsoft.
I meant it verifies the downloaded data for you, not it MD5s for you, but thanks for the clarification.
You're installing a closed-source OS anyway. What makes you think that Microsoft and the OEM that customises the disks are more trustworthy than a torrent site?
Or did you want the MD5 for checking that the torrent downloaded properly? Bittorrent does that itself.
Same applies to nuclear?
The Internet is The Internet.
Information will get from anywhere to anywhere unless Iran completely disconnects itself from the rest of the 'net. There are as many ways to hide "communications" as there are protocols and servers out there, and no one can do a bloody thing about it. Even a "whitelist" style system would have holes in.
Power isn't measured in amps, and also isn't the same thing as battery capacity.
Battery capacity is measured in milliamp-hours (even though does not allow direct comparison, in terms of stored energy, between batteries of different voltages), where 1 mAh would allow one milliamp to be drawn for one hour before the battery dies. If you can draw less current (fewer milliamps), you can get more running time (more hours, making up the same number of mAh), and this is how the software "makes more juice": it turns off various non-vital hardware, and presumably turns off non-vital software, meaning the processor is in power-save mode more of the time.
It's not about getting more power from the battery so much as reducing the amount of power you get from the battery.
For a better idea of how much flamey stuff that is, that's about 30 megatons of TNT, or a bit bigger than the largest H-bomb the US ever built.
The US Government doesn't like it.
What did you think think terrorism meant?
What the hell is "Internet Explorer"?
Why the hell do you think that's a system requirements issue, not bad packaging (or installing it wrong/unmet dependencies, if you did it yourself for some reason)? A file is missing because you don't have 4GB of RAM?
Never mind, those seem to be fairly high-latency.
Dial-up modem connected to a gutted iridium phone? Is that technically workable?
Iridium modem?
There were some people who built an autonomous glider which could perform many of the things you mention (with the notable exception of powered flight), including flying pre-programmed routes while taking photos (as well as navigating to specified coordinates autonomously). The process of building and testing it is documented in a fair amount of detail, including information on choices made for the on board electronics.
I have no particular interest in building aircraft, and still thought that page was a good read.
Did you mean to put quotes on "organic", not on "compounds"?
Google Earth has been a natively cross-platform Qt application for a while now. If it sometimes looks like a Wine app, it's because they insist on using a static compiled-jn Qt with a stupid looking theme. I know it's a small thing, but Linux users (at least the ones with KDE) would instantly think much better of the application if it used the system's theme (and didn't load duplicate libraries).