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thanks for the link, it's the first time I see a reputable source with hard data. If true, the outlook looks more optimistic than I thought.

you need a differential equation system with delay. The big issue are the one or two weeks where an infected individual remains asymptomatic but already infectious. Solving DEs with delay is hard, and chaotic solutions are quite common. A more common modeling technique is a complex network statistical approach, such as when they modeled the whole city of Portland http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=if-smallpox-strikes-portl

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With a grain of rice and a pin, I can store 1 LOC and it kicks ass.(heard it in Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland...). Append everything in one LOC to form a somewhat longish binary fractional number. Use a pin to carefully (as in atomically) mark the grain of rice in the exact place that corresponds to the LOC fraction. Voila.

Out of curiosity I looked at War and Peace in google books, and every page of the >2000 page book has a "copyrighted material" watermark in the lower right hand corner. Not too sure what they mean by that.

For whatever reason it seems like girls didn't attend slashdot today, either.

In my hometown, whenever a girl becomes pregnant, the question everybody ask, aside from what name, is would you like a boy or a girl. And given the choice and not just the wish, why not take it? And while your at it, why not add straight teeth, decent ass, hairless armpits, etc. In wishing the best for him, you are providing a competitive advantage to your child in today's society, shallow as it may be. Then again, if by going the way of Fertility Institute ends producing a freaky mutant, well, don't be an early adopter.

He most definitely uses a blackberry 8830. A sectera is not a blackberry, not in the usability sense. I wouldn't even want to see the operating system of that thing. That doesn't mean that the NSA didn't go through the internals and added some of their black magic

You could always try using magnetic triodes: plus, minus, zero.

this sounds almost as bad as the new Neuromancer movie, which is supposed to starr none other than Hayden "Anakin" Christensen.

Headlamps, as in the type that you wear on your head when you go hiking/climbing/biking, are now pretty much 100% LED lit. And it's not only about the order of magnitude gain in battery life, lamps can now reach over 300 feet at 300 lumens (Petzl Ultra, Princeton Tech Apex).

It is now Nvidia that wins the crappy-linux-drivers crown. Aside from the fact that they are closed binaries, among other things you can now do hardware accelerated H264 on AMD supported cards in Linux. In the meantime, if you own a newish Nvidia card, it only exists on their Windows driver.

What do you mean by genuine Apple hardware? As in Intel processors, Nvidia cards,...?