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Comment Re:Kinda Risky.... (Score 1) 680

Couple the heavy vaccination schedule with advances in food safety and constant household cleaning; these kids might have little besides flu and rhinovirus to train their immune systems, and that doesn't seem like a sustainable course.

You don't seem to understand that "training their immune systems" is exactly what immunizations do.

Comment Re:So (Score 5, Funny) 680

We are actively changing the fitness function for diseases to include "must be resistant to antibiotics, must be resistant to antivirals, must be able to infect even immunised people, etc", this will inevitably lead to bugs that fulfil these criteria... eventually.

By this logic, we should be expecting bullet-proof cattle and thresher-proof wheat any day now, not to mention hook-resistant fish and armored potatoes...

Submission + - Dennis Ritche dead at age 70 (theregister.co.uk)

pedantic bore writes: Dennis Ritchie, pioneer of C and UNIX, former leader of the Computer Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, and winner of the ACM Turing Award, is reported dead at age 70.

Dennis Ritchie was one of the inventors who, without much fanfare and almost no publicity outside of the field, revolutionized operating systems and programming languages. His influence is ubiquitious; C and POSIX are the bedrock of nearly all modern computing platforms.

Comment The first one is always free (Score 4, Insightful) 240

Anyone who thinks that Google is doing this out of the kindness of their hearts is silly.

Google doesn't care whether you have high-speed access. They want to be able to trace your browsing and other internet usage habits, and they want to make sure they can serve up their ads in a way that minimizes the requirements on their resources.

Comment Not standard, unified. (Score 3, Funny) 194

"So, everyone will use this unified query language?"

"Yes, it'll be great. No need to rewrite things when moving from one database to another."

"Sounds great. Portable apps! Hooray!"

"It amazes me that nobody has ever done anything like this before."

"Yes, in hindsight it's blindingly obvious. There should have been a single query language all along."

"A single query language--we could call it `S-QL` or something like that."

"Nah, I heard that there's already something called SQL. People would get them confused."

"Why? They're probably totally different things."

"Yeah, probably. It's better to make up new names than to risk confusion. So, what's it called?"

"Uncle."

"Isn't that what you say when you surrender?"

"Yes, but in this case there's no possibility of confusion."

Comment So many accidents... (Score 4, Insightful) 230

They sure seem to be collecting a lot of data by accident...

My friends at Google swear up and down that every line of code in the Google codebase is reviewed several times before it is signed off and released for any purpose. Some would have caught this; it's obvious from the data what is happening. So, either my friends are liars, or Google is. I trust my friends more.

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