Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26111 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
>In recent history the main danger for catching smalpox was from a research facility that held stores of smallpox.virus
So far that hasn't happened - although given the people who run the labs it may well not be reported!
Not wishing to give any ammunition to the nutters, but I think the last "death due to smallpox" was the wife of an army guy who was vaccinated. She was on chemotherapy or had some immune disease IIRC and had a reaction to his contact
So you would be good with a vaccine developed in secret in Russia?
Imported solely by TrumpDrug Corp?
Approved in 24hours by the FDA, under its new boss Trump Jnr ?
Not an anti-vaxxer by any means but I'm not planning to be first in the queue to inject bleach and sunshine
You can always caption them and send them to the original creator to upload.
The trouble with blocking users who spam is that they can create a billion new accounts. You could limit uploads to only accounts that have previously uploaded highly rated captions but there is a bit of a logical problem
Used to be that EWR was the only one with communist transit into NYC. Monorail to train station and a train straight into Penn st.
Have they finally built a way to get to jfk without a national debt taxi fare and a trip through a Mad Max set?
Different science goals.
VLBI lets you get incredible resolution of very bright objects at the expense of a lot of observing time.
This is about studying a lot of faint distant objects in lots of wavelengths simultaneously to study lots of different physics. You can still get pretty good resolution across the size of the sites but I don't think there are plans to do VLBI.
That's the whole point. If Eu data is being harvested in the UK, where do you sue ?
Sue the UK govt in UK courts where they can just write a new law, or declare it national security, or tack it onto the end of an enabling act or emergency powers bill
Or in Europe where the UK government can just ignore it
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Although anonymous collected data is sometimes a good-thing (tm)
Track every cell phone's movement through a city and you have a good map of users and can decide who is driving, cycling, walking from their speed - so you know where to build infrastructure.
The alternative is you do traffic surveys, so you have a couple of retired people sitting on lawn chairs doing counts on one morning.
But it is biased toward road cyclists doing long flat loops for race training.
Suppose strava was big among mountain bikers, the city would start routing all bike lanes up and down the steepest hills. It would be like putting cross-walks where there is the highest density of rock climbers.
>Microsoft could be making more money from Office than from Windows
And they make more money from the cloud than anything.
Imagine if there was no windows desktop and the only way to run your windows apps was on Microsoft cloud then not only do Microsoft get to tie all their users into the cloud, all the publishers of Windows(tm) software become app-store victims just like on iPhone
But they don't want Kent to become a lorry park
So we have a permit to enter Kent
So lorries have to queue up on the M25 to enter Kent
But we don't want the M25 to be a lorry park
So they have to queue up on the M1 with a permit to enter the M25
Ultimate solution is to have them queue up in Norther Ireland and make the Irish sea the border. Everything is clear, Boris and The Cummings were playing 4D chess
Just enter your 20digit UK issued exportor ID where it says exporter (except where you need to enter your different 20digit EU issued ID) and the 18digit tarrif code for each item in the load in the single box provided and the government will write to you with 28days with an error message
>Give me a good English major over 100 kids forced to sit through STEM classes.
You get an population that think both sides of the "is the Earth flat?" 'debate' are equally valid.
With a set of politicians that know that making the cleverest debating points and the wittiest sound-bites make you correct
>too cynical here and when you say teachers "aren't up to the job".
Or you have a civil service system where the job of physics teacher goes to the person who best memorises an essay on the Chinese equivalent of Jane Austen
Make teaching increasingly poorly paid, while tech jobs get better. See the quality of teachers fall. Decide to raise standards by demanding a teaching degree. Find people with useless degrees all get teaching degrees as a back up. Teachers unions insist on strict seniority rules to make sure these people get the jobs. Find that you have no teachers with high schools maths to teach STEM. So dumb down the curriculum and rig the standards so PE and cooking count as STEM - you meet the government targets.
Of course this could only happen in a communist failed state - capitalism would naturally solve such a problem.
>You drive on the appropriate side of the road
I most certainly do - just because some treasonous colonials chose to disregard ancient laws and drive on the 'French' side of the road, I see no reason to give up my sovereign rights as an Englishman.
You wouldn't believe the fuss these excitable foreigners make about.
