Comment and 62% of Americans don't agree (Score 1, Insightful) 79
So, the lions share of Americans think Netflix isn't the best.
Comment Re:MyGov takeover bid? (Score 1) 47
They could add blockchain to MyGov and fix it's woes. /s
Comment Microsoft bit themselves. (Score 2) 148
Mostly I run Linux, but a do play a few games that can't be put under Wine. When I got this nag a few days ago and finally worked out how to escape it (that's what annoyed me most, now there was no skip/ignore), I then spent time looking for the instructions on how to remove Edge completely. A few powershell commands and my gaming install is now Edge free.
Comment Re:Now what about foreigners ...? (Score 1) 220
Do they have closed borders for people from infected countries?
Outside of returning residents, people from New Zealand, and a few exemptions around compassionate reasons, residents of all other countries are banned from entry into Australia. Numbers are capped to a few hundred and they must enter quarantine for 14 days, including returning 2 negative tests. Refusal of a test extends the quarantine period.
Submission + - Folding@Home users find 50 potential drug targets in Covid virus (networkworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: From Network World:
In its SARS-CoV-2 simulations, F@h first targeted the spike, the cone-shaped appendages on the surface of the virus consisting of three proteins. The spike must open to attach itself to a human cell to infiltrate and replicate. F@h's mission was to simulate this opening process to gain unique insight into what the open state looks like and find a way to inhibit the connection between the spike and human cells.
In a newly published paper, the Folding@home team said it was able to simulate an "unprecedented" 0.1 seconds of the viral proteome. They captured dramatic opening of the spike complex, as well as shape-shifting in other proteins that revealed more than 50 "cryptic" pockets that expand targeting options for the design of antivirals.
And the tech sector played a big role in helping the find.
Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, AWS, Oracle, and Cisco all helped with hardware and cloud services. Pure Storage donated a one petabyte all-flash storage array. Linus Tech Tips, a hobbyist YouTube channel for home system builders with 12 million followers, set up a 100TB server to take the load off.
"We're extremely grateful for all the help," Bowman said. "The massive outpouring of support from citizen scientists and the help from the tech industry opened up scientific opportunities we wouldn't have had otherwise."
In its SARS-CoV-2 simulations, F@h first targeted the spike, the cone-shaped appendages on the surface of the virus consisting of three proteins. The spike must open to attach itself to a human cell to infiltrate and replicate. F@h's mission was to simulate this opening process to gain unique insight into what the open state looks like and find a way to inhibit the connection between the spike and human cells.
In a newly published paper, the Folding@home team said it was able to simulate an "unprecedented" 0.1 seconds of the viral proteome. They captured dramatic opening of the spike complex, as well as shape-shifting in other proteins that revealed more than 50 "cryptic" pockets that expand targeting options for the design of antivirals.
And the tech sector played a big role in helping the find.
Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Intel, AWS, Oracle, and Cisco all helped with hardware and cloud services. Pure Storage donated a one petabyte all-flash storage array. Linus Tech Tips, a hobbyist YouTube channel for home system builders with 12 million followers, set up a 100TB server to take the load off.
"We're extremely grateful for all the help," Bowman said. "The massive outpouring of support from citizen scientists and the help from the tech industry opened up scientific opportunities we wouldn't have had otherwise."
Comment Re: Someone desperately needs their morning coffee (Score 1) 181
Also, who the hell asks just plain "What time is it?", when the damn phone they are asking it, already displays the time, as do probably half a dozen displays around them.
All the time. Wake up, phone on the bedside table, it's dark, cold, I don't want to reach over.
Phone on the kitchen table, me at the bench. My hands are busy (and messy) preparing food.
In the bathroom, the bath to be precise, phone is up on the bench, about 2 meters away, I don't want to stand and drip water everywhere.
Driving, in a place it's illegal to touch a phone while moving.
And a lot of other places.
Comment Re:Just this time (Score 1) 127
Legislation draft is here: https://www.ag.gov.au/RightsAn...
Comment Re:LOL yeah sure (Score 1) 66
ECig activation is via a one time code on sleect PornHub videos.
Comment New "Find My..." (Score 3, Interesting) 74
Before the Pro was released there was a lot of talk about how the new "Find My..." would work with crowdsourcing, transmitting encrypted location and macs so one could better find a lost device.
https://www.wired.com/story/ap...
One could guess the periodic updates are this happening.
Comment Compose (Score 1) 658
I remap my caps lock to compose.
Then CapsLock u" = ü and CapsLock e= = €, amongst others.
Comment Re:Flu vaccine trial information. (Score 1) 61
Those suggest this is just "yet another vaccine + MF59 adjuvant".
meh.
Comment Re:Yes, and what an honest guy he is (Score 2) 196
About half a page.
Google relies on your previous searches. As a gay male, it knows I am less likely to want to see naked females then hot, sweaty, muscled, naked men.
Comment Re:India (Score 1) 355
10 CLS
20 If stall = Y goto 40
30 If stall = N goto 40
40 Nose down
You forgot
50 GOTO 10
Comment Ark Fleet Ship B (Score 1) 228
What a wonderful idea.
Vim and Neo Editors Vulnerable To High-Severity Bug (threatpost.com) 76
JustAnotherOldGuy quotes Threatpost:
A high-severity bug impacting two popular command-line text editing applications, Vim and Neovim, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands. Security researcher Armin Razmjou warned that exploiting the bug is as easy as tricking a target into clicking on a specially crafted text file in either editor. Razmjou outlined his research and created a proof-of-concept (PoC) attack demonstrating how an adversary can compromise a Linux system via Vim or Neowim. He said Vim versions before 8.1.1365 and Neovim before 0.3.6 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution...
Vim and Neovim have both released patches for the bug (CVE-2019-12735) that the National Institute of Standards and Technology warns, "allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the :source! command in a modeline."
"Beyond patching, it's recommended to disable modelines in the vimrc (set nomodeline), to use the securemodelinesplugin, or to disable modelineexpr (since patch 8.1.1366, Vim-only) to disallow expressions in modelines," the researcher said.
Vim and Neovim have both released patches for the bug (CVE-2019-12735) that the National Institute of Standards and Technology warns, "allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via the :source! command in a modeline."
"Beyond patching, it's recommended to disable modelines in the vimrc (set nomodeline), to use the securemodelinesplugin, or to disable modelineexpr (since patch 8.1.1366, Vim-only) to disallow expressions in modelines," the researcher said.
