Comment Not completely certain... (Score 1) 160
... but I'm pretty sure that mindless packet floods still aren't 'hacking'.
Comment IBM T220/T221 (Score 1) 179
Don't forget that IBM had a decent 3840x2400 22" IPS panel in production as early as 2001. It was rather expensive, and had to be driven as multiple sub-panels. It also had a very low refresh rate compared to what one would find normal today. Seems like mentioning numbers with more than two digits causes consumers' eyes to glaze over, hence '4K' as a blanket term for stuff with roughly 4000 pixels in width.
Comment Widescreen monitors are a scourge (Score 1) 567
...with only a few extra vertical lines over ancient 1280x1024 panels, and not greatly superior 4:3 CRTs capable of doing 1280x960. But, good luck finding good deals on monitors that aren't 1920x1080 or some smaller widescreen resolution. At the place I used to work, it got to the point where I needed to view so much information (server monitoring at a webhost) at one time that even dual widescreen monitors were not an efficient solution in landscape orientation. So I brought my own monitor stands (Dell laptop docking station bases, actually, with rotating VESA plate) and some thumbscrews almost every day for a considerable length of time, and even had management approval to do so. People thought it was weird, but being able to see several hundred lines of text at once can be very useful, and only took about 2 minutes to set up. The only 'disadvantage' I can see in it is that the light coming out of LCD is not aligned or polarized ideally for the orientation, so color/brightness response is badly broken (this doesn't likely matter much if you're just reading informational text), and (in my case) start seeing fine horizontal lines (due to the now horizontal pixels) into your vision after long viewing sessions (this goes away after a bit, and did not really bother me). Widescreen monitors have little practical advantage over, say, 1600x1200 panels in a business usage context; I have a suspicion that they were pushed by the industry as they'd be cheaper to make. Even though 1920x1080 screen size gives more total pixels than 1600x1200 by around 10%, I gain much more utility from the extra 120 lines in the latter than the 320 extra pixels of width.
Comment Broken link (Score 3, Informative) 109
it's just a simple 'a' tag...
Submission + - Lyme bacterium's possible ancestor found in ancient tick (nature.com)
Taco Cowboy writes: A few ancient ticks, some 15-million to 20-million old, were trapped inside a piece of amber
That piece of amber was bought by a researcher some 25 years ago, in Dominican Republic
Only recently that researcher took a closer look with a powerful compound microscope — magnifying the specimen up to 1,000 times — that he noticed the tiny ticks within
Upon examination, that researcher turns up some ancient bacterium in one of the ticks. The bacterium appears to be spirochetes, a group of rotini-shaped bacteria responsible for many human diseases
Although Lyme disease did not exist back then, the spirochetes in the fossil tick probably contributed to the genetic diversity of the 12 or more species of Borrelia that cause Lyme and similar diseases today, says the researcher
Like modern ticks, the ancient ones likely picked up spirochetes when they took blood meals from infected vertebrates. Which of those hosts served as a natural reservoir for the spirochetes found in the juvenile tick, however, remains unknown. Ancestors of modern-day jaguars, ancient woodpeckers and shrewlike solenodons are a few potential spirochete-harboring hosts that lived in the same hot, balmy forest as the tick. The researcher, however, thinks it is more likely that the tick inherited its spirochetes from its mother (a process called vertical transmission), rather than from an animal reservoir. He found no evidence that the young arachnid had feasted on blood prior to its fatal encounter with the amber-forming tree resin
The researcher placed the newly discovered bacterium within its own genus, naming it Palaeoborrelia dominicana. He could not attempt to analyze the ancient DNA to confirm whether or not the bacterium is related to modern Borrelia because those tests would destroy the specimen. So it is impossible to know how closely — if at all — the ancient spirochetes are related to contemporary Borrelia. But the bacteria’s morphology and its location within the tick’s alimentary tract indicate that it probably has ties to those notorious pathogens
That piece of amber was bought by a researcher some 25 years ago, in Dominican Republic
Only recently that researcher took a closer look with a powerful compound microscope — magnifying the specimen up to 1,000 times — that he noticed the tiny ticks within
Upon examination, that researcher turns up some ancient bacterium in one of the ticks. The bacterium appears to be spirochetes, a group of rotini-shaped bacteria responsible for many human diseases
Although Lyme disease did not exist back then, the spirochetes in the fossil tick probably contributed to the genetic diversity of the 12 or more species of Borrelia that cause Lyme and similar diseases today, says the researcher
Like modern ticks, the ancient ones likely picked up spirochetes when they took blood meals from infected vertebrates. Which of those hosts served as a natural reservoir for the spirochetes found in the juvenile tick, however, remains unknown. Ancestors of modern-day jaguars, ancient woodpeckers and shrewlike solenodons are a few potential spirochete-harboring hosts that lived in the same hot, balmy forest as the tick. The researcher, however, thinks it is more likely that the tick inherited its spirochetes from its mother (a process called vertical transmission), rather than from an animal reservoir. He found no evidence that the young arachnid had feasted on blood prior to its fatal encounter with the amber-forming tree resin
The researcher placed the newly discovered bacterium within its own genus, naming it Palaeoborrelia dominicana. He could not attempt to analyze the ancient DNA to confirm whether or not the bacterium is related to modern Borrelia because those tests would destroy the specimen. So it is impossible to know how closely — if at all — the ancient spirochetes are related to contemporary Borrelia. But the bacteria’s morphology and its location within the tick’s alimentary tract indicate that it probably has ties to those notorious pathogens
While on a related article on Nature — @ http://www.nature.com/news/lym... — it has been shown that Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, shows that the capacity to evolve can itself be the target of natural selection
The oldest evidence of Lyme disease dates back 5,300 years, to an ice mummy discovered to contain Borrelia’s genetic material, but the condition’s evolutionary origins are unknown. Lyme disease is only one of a number of human afflictions caused by spirochetes, however, so even if that condition arose more recently, our problems with spirochetes likely date back much further. When Homo sapiens arrived on the scene around 200,000 years ago, the researcher thinks, the ticks — and their spirochetes — were probably waiting “As long as humans have been around,” he says, “I’m sure that they suffered from ailments caused by spirochetes carried by ticks”
Comment Re:Lest we forget... (Score 0) 207
I make that mistake from time to time, probably due to 3840x2160
Comment Lest we forget... (Score 0) 207
... that IBM had a '4K' (I abhor this term as much as 'HD') monitor in production from 2001-2005. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ... 3840x2400 in a ~22 inch panel. Good luck finding a "4K" monitor of that resolution (~204 ppi) any time soon.
Comment Re:AC (Score 0) 552
This was meant to be a reply to the unfortunately socially challenged first-poster.
Comment Re:As painful as it is... (Score 0) 552
You shouldn't take AC here's comment too seriously. I now regret not posting as soon as possible. AC, you're a jackass. The question was a matter of communication.
Comment AC (Score 0) 552
I wouldn't take AC here's comment too seriously. I now regret not posting as soon as possible. AC, you're a jackass. The question was a matter of communication.
Comment I'd like to know... (Score 0) 154
... where can I buy Comcast users?
Comment Re:much industrial (Score 0) 275
I'm going to allow this...
Comment Java, not JavaScript (Score -1, Redundant) 362
This is regarding Java applets embedded on pages as opposed to JavaScript. There appears to be at least some confusion on this. If I had anything more insightful to add, I would certainly have done so.
Comment So I'm not the only one who... (Score 0) 193
...threw that hash down a sha1 database before I RTFA...
78a7ecf065324604540ad3c41c3bb8fe1d084c50 SHA1: badg3r5
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