Comment Re:completely new variants (Score 1) 77
It's a completely new definition of the word "variant."
It's a completely new definition of the word "variant."
Disney princesses (mindless bimbos
Which, if any, particular Disney princesses do you rate as "mindless bimbos"?
Diamond is characterized by each carbon bonding with 4 other carbons. You can't get a thread out of it.
Not that this is a diamond - the paper doesn't use the word, apparently - but doesn't that depend how you define "thread"? I don't see anything in the summary about the size of these things, so what if they're 100 atoms thick? At what thickness could they no longer be diamond?
sysadmins could emulate inoculation by handing specific details of threats directly to A3
Sounds a bit like... well, like practically all other AV software, doesn't it?
So, basically you welcome viruses and malware
No, of course not. Why would you think that?
In reality, it is far better to vaccinate and never get sick, than it is to self-repair after you get a virus.
Nice soundbite, until you remember that there aren't vaccines for every single disease (or even better, when you remember the analogy between the immune system and a server is a tenuous one at best)
The only winning move is not to boot.
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands
You know, you could've squeezed "his" into the title. It's not like you have to pay per character.
I thought he was either selling this as a service or going around at night injecting unsuspecting passers-by.
How To Mathematically Predict Frequency of Lightning Strikes Over A Large Area
FTFY. Also, "mathematically"? Well, yes, some rather simple multiplication is involved, but you're also going to have to go out measure precipitation and CAPE.
No, the design and planning were rigorously thought out - certainly rigorously enough to withstand five minutes of bewildered pondering from a Slashdotter after the fact.
The actual problem here is that landing on a comet is really hard.
Why can't it back off and take another run at it?
Ask the guys at ESA. They could probably explain in great detail exactly what the probe is and isn't capable of and why they took the decisions they did after years of planning and cost-benefit analyses. They probably even have graphs.
Whoever it is - if there is anyone - they'll be relying on people having exactly that attitude to get away with it.
Your Incompetent Boss Is Making You Unhappy
No he isn't. Who started this stupid trend of headlines that think they know you?
How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music
The answer, of course, is "not at all."
What a bloody stupid headline.
and outdrew Sarah Bernhardt!
Wow. Life was tough in frontier fin-de-siècle Paris, huh?
Lets use some German numbers
Nein!
Now I don't have to read the books.
With your bare hands?!?
