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Comment Homeopathy in France (Score 2) 668

IIRC, homeopathy in France is officially accepted by health authorities as being a useful placebo: it cannot harm, but it can help thanks to the placebo effect, therefore its use is allowed. It is not reimbursed by socialized healthcare, though.

I note the following in the summary:

the FDA will decide to do their actual job – require testing of homeopathic products to demonstrate efficacy before allowing them on the market.

I assume it is demonstrating better efficacy than placebo, because placebo has an efficacy itself.

Comment Shor algorithm (Score 1) 22

I understand the day quantum computing will be able to do serious stuff, then RSA based crypto will collapse because of quantum computer ability to factorize big number through the Shor algorithm.

I see progress in the quantum computing field, but I do not see RSA replacement coming in the consumer crypto field (i.e.: TLS). I understand even ECDSA relies on big number factoriation being difficult.

We are heading to a difficult situation.

Comment How to deal with intermittent faults (Score 1) 479

Intermittent faults are impossible to handle with flow-chart based level 1 support. The only way out I know it to make the problem permanent.

In the router case, make sure its power supply dies (I am sure you will figure smart ways to accomplish this),report the permanent problem, and you will have your router replaced.

Comment What hapened in Sotchi? (Score 1) 173

John Kerry met Sergei Lavrov and Vladimir Putin in Sotchi a few weeks ago, and since that time US and Russia seems to be able to talk together again.

What happened? Obviously the US administration realized the Ukraine government was just impossible to control, but that kind of consideration did not prevented them from supporting weird regimes in the past.

Comment Re:Not that stupid, actually (Score 1) 110

You warm it up to resume chemical and therefore biological activity. This will be required to replicate the DNA, repair it (but as it was frozen and shielded from radiation, it should not be damaged) and probably to also to read it.

On the read point: most of the method we have to read DNA are chemical or biological. There are also physical methods, which may not require a warm up: for instance you can open the DNA double helix and measure the force you need for that. Since G-C and A-T do not have the same count of hydrogen bonds, resistance to mechanical opening depends on G-C/A-T ratio in a sequence. But I do not know if such method is applicable here.

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