I do notice that I'm developing a tendency to think 'where have you been?' lately when I see a question like yours. I try not to actually voice that thought, as I realise that I have been off work recovering from surgery for a while(way too long!), and forget I spend far too much time here.:-)
Please accept my apologies if I started off as being harsh.
It's not so much the fox guarding the hen-house as it is the fox being awarded an exclusive construction contract for every hen-house in the country.
That is one of the better analogies I've seen here. Very well done! Who cares 'who' is guarding the hen-house when you design/control/manage all of the 'secret/hidden passage ways'.
While I admire your helpfull attitude, and well crafted post, I regret to inform you: 'whoosh'.
*note the distinct lack of all caps, and no exclamation marks*
He has commented on Phorm articles before. He knows what Phorm is, but I think he was just using some form of sarcasm or something to point out bad form in the summary.
Again, no sarcasm, derision, or other negative agendas were implied, nor designed against you here. I just 'know' this character and his sometimes 'dry wit' from past comments.:-)
BTW, welcome to/., but beware the trolls and pseudo-trolls....(he generally means well, but I am suspect of his sense of humor!-)
I may be channeling Niccolo Machiavelli here... stupid cheap acid I bought back in my sophomore year.
No, it's a very old concept: 'Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.' by some old Chinese guy, many centuries ago...yeah, I had one of 'those' Sophomore years too....
Exactly. The hard-core zealots from both sides seem to be overlooking this important point.
Did not even need to RTFA to have a clue. [from the summary]:
...and Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive has been stopped from jumping on board Google's settlement as a party defendant and receiving the same legal protections that Google will get.
I wonder if the US infection vector being (allegedly) young college kids on 'Spring Break' had something to do with it? Young healthy people would shrug off desease better than a more homogeneous population.
*on a lighter note* Besides, trying to gain a 'foothold' and survive the toxic environment inside a college kid on 'Spring Break' in Mexico? That must be one tough virus to survive long enough to back 'home'.;-)
There was an interesting and informative link in a story here on/. on Saturday.
Several Doctors from the CDC participated in the briefing. Here is a direct link to the briefing transcripts.
They talk about the genetics, and their testing results in the briefing:[from CDC link above] "ANNE SCHUCHAT, MD, Interim Deputy Director for Science:[...]
I want to tell you a little bit about what the laboratory ahs found from exploring this particular strain. CDC has conducted testing on all seven samples and we've determined that they are swine influenza A, H1N1. These are human infections with swine influenza viruses. These are viruses that usually infect pigs but in this case we're finding the illness in people.
Preliminary testing of viruses from the first two patients shows that they are very similar. Additional testing is ongoing with the newer isolettes. We know so far that the viruses contain genetic pieces from four different virus sources. This is unusual. The first is our North American swine influenza viruses. North American avian influenza viruses, human influenza viruses and swine influenza viruses found in Asia and Europe.
That particular genetic combination of swine influenza virus segments has not been recognized before in the U.S. or elsewhere. Of course, we are doing more testing now and looking more aggressively for unusual influenza strains. So we haven't seen this strain before but we haven't been looking as intensively as we are these days.
The viruses are resistant to amantadine and rimantadine anti-viral drugs but they are sensitive or susceptible to oseltamivir and zanamivir, the newer anti-viral drugs for flu. And at this time we don't know exactly how people got the virus. None of the patients have had direct contact with pigs."
[my emphasis]
Your earlier comment referring to the briefing started me looking for this...I had remembered reading about it this past weekend. The briefing transcripts are an interesting read.
The CDC seems to be in fairly good form with this incident.
This all takes me back to a conversation I had with my wife in the 1980's. There were a multitude of 'Psychic Hotlines' scams being advertised on TV, and my wife asked what I thought about them. My reply? "Well, if they are really 'pysichic', them why should I have to call them? Wouldn't they 'know' to call me?"
People often look for something that will fill an 'empty spot' in themselves. The uneducated/unimaginative frequently turn to some form of mysticism to try and fill that void. This has been happening since mankind started documenting history.
Make sure you loudly and frequently explain your 'not-quite live, from the coffin' webcam feature, that when you click the link, just shows an empty coffin interior with a note: "I'll be back...soon" or something.
rational risk assessment would suggest evacuating tall buildings in such an event.
Since there was one isolated event, that constitutes 'rational risk assessment'?
That's plain nuts!
Far more airplanes crash in the process of landing or taking off...regularly. Most airports are near or surrounded by heavily populated ares. So, yuor reasoning for 'rational risk assessment' should also have us evacuating areas around airports for every take off and landing.
I don't think you actually grasp the concept of 'rational risk assessment' in the slightest degree. 'Rational' being the key word you're missing here.
Quit jumping at your shadow. It's people like you that enabled the losses of rights and freedoms we've grievously suffered from.
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Well, not the only one. You may be in the minority, though.
It has appeared as article material here on /. before.
I do notice that I'm developing a tendency to think 'where have you been?' lately when I see a question like yours. :-)
I try not to actually voice that thought, as I realise that I have been off work recovering from surgery for a while(way too long!), and forget I spend far too much time here.
Please accept my apologies if I started off as being harsh.
It's not so much the fox guarding the hen-house as it is the fox being awarded an exclusive construction contract for every hen-house in the country.
That is one of the better analogies I've seen here. Very well done!
Who cares 'who' is guarding the hen-house when you design/control/manage all of the 'secret/hidden passage ways'.
Indeed.
While I admire your helpfull attitude, and well crafted post, I regret to inform you: 'whoosh'.
*note the distinct lack of all caps, and no exclamation marks*
He has commented on Phorm articles before. He knows what Phorm is, but I think he was just using some form of sarcasm or something to point out bad form in the summary.
Again, no sarcasm, derision, or other negative agendas were implied, nor designed against you here. :-)
I just 'know' this character and his sometimes 'dry wit' from past comments.
BTW, welcome to /., but beware the trolls and pseudo-trolls....(he generally means well, but I am suspect of his sense of humor!-)
The Dynamic Duo!
*pictures RMS and KM in 'caped crusader' tights*
AHHHRRRGGGHHH!!!!!
Damn! I think I may have offended myself with your help!
*goes to scrub brain out with bleach*
Hell yes!
Anoint/Appoint Richard M. Stallman as Cyberwarfare Czar/Emperor.
Need US to be more offensive than that? *ducks*
I may be channeling Niccolo Machiavelli here... stupid cheap acid I bought back in my sophomore year.
No, it's a very old concept:
'Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.' by some old Chinese guy, many centuries ago...yeah, I had one of 'those' Sophomore years too....
Exactly.
The hard-core zealots from both sides seem to be overlooking this important point.
Did not even need to RTFA to have a clue. [from the summary]:
...and Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive has been stopped from jumping on board Google's settlement as a party defendant and receiving the same legal protections that Google will get.
[my emphasis]
Get a grip on what little is left of your sense of humor...it's escaping fast.
Moron?
Hah! Take a good look in your mirror when you use that word next time...it wasn't me that got 'whooshed'.
English is not my native language, moron...
So, when posting on an English speaking, USA based website, you want to get insulting and resort to name-calling over a mis-understanding?
I had assumed you just made a typo, and was making a joke out of it-about your typing skills-not your command of a foreign language.
You take yourself too seriously, dude.
Take this into consideration before another useless post like that...
Indeed...
Your attitude and myopic view are why I am now marking you as 'foe'.
Now I won't see your posts to comment on and offend you anymore.
Have a good life, in spite of your attitude.
Or like me and most of my friends, that use OOo, having downloaded and installed from our distro repository.
Probably because they have a Post Office there.
13 people? That's over twice the population of 'in-town residents' of the town I moved from in PA.(six persons)
So, if we take this to it's rogical concrusion:
"Obligatory:
It's a tlap!!!!"
Or:
"Look out Scooby-doo!"
(for what it's worth, it's actually a good razor)
I'll second that, in spite of my hilarity on seeing the first time. (immediately thought of the SNL skit)
No! /. to not want to jump into a deep sea of it.
To both...
I see enough of the 'Inane Improv Theater' here on
I have never visited either site.
It's only a bad thing if either the cliff is not tall enough for 100% kills, or if you don't get all of the twits over the edge of said cliff.
If it's not sensationalized, it's not news, it seems.
Mundane does not sell newspapers or advert slots on TV. This is not a new phenomenon just because it's the internet.
I wonder if the US infection vector being (allegedly) young college kids on 'Spring Break' had something to do with it? Young healthy people would shrug off desease better than a more homogeneous population.
*on a lighter note* ;-)
Besides, trying to gain a 'foothold' and survive the toxic environment inside a college kid on 'Spring Break' in Mexico? That must be one tough virus to survive long enough to back 'home'.
There was an interesting and informative link in a story here on /. on Saturday.
Several Doctors from the CDC participated in the briefing. Here is a direct link to the briefing transcripts.
They talk about the genetics, and their testing results in the briefing:[from CDC link above]
"ANNE SCHUCHAT, MD, Interim Deputy Director for Science:[...]
[my emphasis]
Your earlier comment referring to the briefing started me looking for this...I had remembered reading about it this past weekend.
The briefing transcripts are an interesting read.
The CDC seems to be in fairly good form with this incident.
This all takes me back to a conversation I had with my wife in the 1980's.
There were a multitude of 'Psychic Hotlines' scams being advertised on TV, and my wife asked what I thought about them.
My reply? "Well, if they are really 'pysichic', them why should I have to call them? Wouldn't they 'know' to call me?"
People often look for something that will fill an 'empty spot' in themselves.
The uneducated/unimaginative frequently turn to some form of mysticism to try and fill that void.
This has been happening since mankind started documenting history.
1. Have service so pitiful, your customers have to support themselves
2. ???
3. Profit!!
Then brag about your mad PHB skills!
Only in Corporate America...*sigh*
Why these customers are not getting their torches and pitchforks and mobbing them, is beyond me.
Yeah, botnets full of zombie PC's.
Already have them.
Make sure you loudly and frequently explain your 'not-quite live, from the coffin' webcam feature, that when you click the link, just shows an empty coffin interior with a note:
"I'll be back...soon" or something.
Well, after you have achieved sufficient velocity to 'jump up' that far, you still need to decelerate?
rational risk assessment would suggest evacuating tall buildings in such an event.
Since there was one isolated event, that constitutes 'rational risk assessment'?
That's plain nuts!
Far more airplanes crash in the process of landing or taking off...regularly.
Most airports are near or surrounded by heavily populated ares.
So, yuor reasoning for 'rational risk assessment' should also have us evacuating areas around airports for every take off and landing.
I don't think you actually grasp the concept of 'rational risk assessment' in the slightest degree. 'Rational' being the key word you're missing here.
Quit jumping at your shadow.
It's people like you that enabled the losses of rights and freedoms we've grievously suffered from.
You can't make your T1 any faster by having "good" cables.....
Yes, but if you add in Wooden Knobs, you can turn it up to eleven!
Did not 'Scotty' wear a 'red shirt' uniform in the original series?
He not only, had a name, but lasted a long time in the 'Trek World'.