Even if that's completely true, a vaccine typically isn't much use after you are already infected, so I don't know what that has to do with flying these two people into the US.

The point of a vaccine is to teach your immune system what the bad thing "looks" like before you get infected, so that it will be ready when the infection starts.

Too bad reality can't be that awesome. In reality, ebola will spread worldwide and depopulate the Earth for the purpose of finally finding a use for a really cool isolation lab that's been collecting dust at Emory for decades.

Once I got a call from a recruiter for a circuit board assembly job... because I had "assembly language" in my resume. (And another time I got a call for an IBM 370 Assembler position because of course that's the only assembly language that has ever been invented, but at least that was somewhat less off-target.)

Anyhow, most code monkeys out there are not "software engineers", regardless of what HR calls them. They don't engineer their code so much as poop it out and throw it at each other through the bars of the cage.

I'll just wait for them to replace php_specification() with real_php_specification() ... or is it php_real_specification() ?

I was a member for a couple of years back in my college days in the '80s. And what I got out of it was nothing but a pile of magazines that weren't interesting to me. So I dropped ACM and kept the subscription to Byte.

At least your local Mensa usually has a monthly games night.

I had recently upgraded the CPU in my living-room MythTV PC to an i7, using the standard Intel fan cooler from the retail box CPU. (It originally had the lowest i3 Celeron I could get, because I wasn't sure I would finish it.) The PC itself was in an Antec quiet case which generated little noise.

Upon waking from a nap on the couch, I heard the sound of a fan and thought that it was coming from the PC. Once I had fully awakened, I realized that the noise was actually coming from the main air intake to the central air-conditioning.

The worst part is that they filmed it with vertical video! Lock up those punks!

Look for the appropriate iFixit teardown page, then open it up! If the glass isn't obviously cracked, maybe something inside just came loose. You didn't say what model you have, but the first comment on the Asus Transformer Infinity TF700 teardown mentions an internal power switch next to the battery connector (step 15 picture 2), maybe that could have bumped itself off.

A base pair is 2 bits of information. So it's actually around 24KB of information. And a reading frame is just a valid start point in the DNA. Codons are 3 base pairs, but only a couple of combinations start a reading frame.

"Phage" means it eats something. So it sounds more like a virus that eats your ass.

A tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can't, not without your help, but you're not helping. Why is that?