You might have had a good point in there somewhere, but I had a hard time following along because of the snark and dangling modifiers.

It's an optional, anonymous poll, you clod.

Jesus Christ you're a moron. The US used non-violent means to encourage Russia to leave the Ukraine, and we are using violent means to prevent a group of people from decapitating more people, Americans and otherwise.

:-) No points, but +1 if I had them.

No mod points but would +1.

I used to think operator overloading was unimportant, but I recently have been working with a C++ geometry library (CGAL). Having asterisk mean scalar product, plus mean vector addition (depending on arguments, etc)., as is customary in the field, has been surprisingly helpful and made the code much more readable and writable in my opinion.

No mod points, but would +1. Very good question.

Money is a necessary but insufficient condition for high quality public schools. In my area (Memphis, Tennessee, US), some of the worst school districts in the state (and the country, actually) have significantly more funding per student than the the surrounding areas where school districts win awards year after year. The parents and board members of the lousy districts constantly play the victim card, despite having considerably more money and equivalent or better facilities. Corruption among people signing the checks may explain some of the issues.

This is spot on, IMHO. I would include accountability at home for performance at school in that as well.

Boo this man!!! :-) I was happy to see something that only nerds would care about on Slashdot, rather than politics and BS about Bitcoin.

That was informative, but I would expect that to be caught at compile time. The OP mentioned that he was having runtime errors, I believe.

Every number 1 country/empire, or however one chooses to phrase it, will eventually no longer be number 1. So, saying so isn't exactly a bold prediction. And even if or when the US is no longer the most influential country in the world, it will definitely not be irrelevant. Many countries used to be more influential than they are now but are far from irrelevant. See Russia, UK, France, Germany, Turkey, Iran, Italy, Greece, Spain, Japan, China (ascending now, of course), etc.

First time I've laughed out loud at a comment in a long time.

+1 Funny if I had a mod point.

If you have a personal web site or something similar, it may be a good idea on your part to make that clear and link to the refuting paper. It would take some guts on your part, of course, because it could negatively affect your career, but it would probably be the right thing to do.

Thanks. Those are good points. I believe that integration location is a problem with a lot of viral vectors, but lentiviral vectors tend to cluster less frequently within and around growth-promoting genes. This could be due to differences in the integration mechanism or because the cell does not have to be actively dividing and therefore the growth-promoting genes may not be active. I am not sure.