Yes, this would work. The RNA that would be the target sequence for this treatment could be PART of an RNA string on HIV. We would then target the RNA molecules to bind to the receptors for helper T cells, which are the ones that HIV causes the most problems in. The CD4 receptor is one such target. This would definitely slow down the virus (although since current treatments can ALMOST eradicate HIV in a patient, it's hard to say if the treatment would be worth it)

Wrong, there is signal loss in digital. However, you are also right. Once you lose enough signal that you can no longer decode the digital data, your video becomes instantly unwatchable.

Therefore, if you needed a long enough HDMI cable, as the voltage drops enough from the transmitter to the receiver, you'd start seeing the difference between low quality and high quality cables in that the good cables would work and the others would cut out frequently or not work at all.

Not picking on you per se, but as long as we're going to educate people on why they shouldn't waste money on expensive snake oil, we should explain it correctly.

My first thought was, did they compensate for redshift? Apparently they did, the article didn't explain, but a commenter did:

30. TMB Says: March 24th, 2010 at 7:02 pm To everyone who's asking "why didn't they look at this before?" - it's a lot harder. In the rest frame, Lyman-alpha is in the far-UV and H-alpha (what physicists call Balmer-alpha) is in the optical. But out at these redshifts, Lyman-alpha is redshifted into the optical (which is easy to observe) and H-alpha is redshifted out into the infrared (which is harder to observe).

I don't think mcgrew was saying NASA was getting "huffy" about, but I think rwven thinks that is what mcgrew is saying.

In other words, y'all are saying exactly the same fucking thing, you're just sure the "other guy" is in opposition to you and your semi-ambiguous language is causing you confusion.

Removing the ambiguity, I believe the conversation is actually going like this:

Mcgrew: Either a: NASA thought the guy launched an expensive rocket to get the photos, and were curious how he managed it.
              or b: NASA is interrogating the guy about why and how he launched a rocket into space (doesn't sound likely)

Rwen: Wrong, there is no reason NASA would be upset about this, if anyone is going to be upset it's the EU agencies - implied: there is no way NASA is trying to shut him down.

Garble Snarky: Uhhh, dude NASA is just curious man.

Rwen: Exactly my point, mcgrew had it wrong.

Sir Lewk: I still don't see why you think NASA is getting all bent out of shape over this.

In other words, one guy says "This marble is azure" and another guy says "No it isn't, it's fucking sky blue dumbass" and the third guy says "Dude, it's frickin light blue" to which the second replies "That's what I just said" and the fourth guy comes along and says "I still don't see why you don't think it's blue."

All saying the same damn thing.

powerdns geo backend.

Which they're already using.... Which means it looks like the problem may be more related to automation of the testing of the sites and the subsequent automatic (vs manual) pulling of a site from the dns when it fails.
 

NetBSD goes to great pains for such portability. Java has it by default.

Well, considering most folks don't really work for IBM (most are contractors subject to dismissal at a moment's notice), I'd go with Basketball.

[John]

Actually, call me a jaded old cynic, but what makes anyone think it would be different from the other levies?

When the main medium of sharing were cassettes or CDs, did introducing those levies actually cause copying a cassette or CD to be decriminalized? Or I'm pretty sure I'm paying such an extra already both for DVD blanks and for any DVD burner I've ever bought. Does that cause them to even stop stop wasting my time with that "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy warning on DVD's.

Essentially I pay the levy _and_ get to be treated like a pirate, whether I actually pirate anything or not. And TBH it's the "or not" part that bothers me the most, but either is fundamentally wrong. We're basically taxed to pay those guys to make up for piracy, but don't actually get anything in return.

It's essentially like, say, as if everyone in town gets to pay 5 bucks to Joe Landlord, owner of a nice orchard, for the fact that (supposedly) some people trespass on it and misuse it as a picnick ground. But basically nobody gets anything in exchange for those 5 bucks. It's still forbidden to trespass there, and Joe Landlord still gets to sue anyone he catches there. Then what are we paying for? And why is the town essentially subsidizing Joe's orchard?

You can repeat it if you want, doesn't make it any less false.

For starters, you don't even get that nobody is forcing artists to provide anything for free, and in fact we're paying them even for services they don't provide. Second, you assume all artists have a choice, which tells me you don't even know how this business works.

Let's talk about some voice acting we liked.

My favorite example of voice acting is Bioshock. Withing that my favorite is Armin Shimerman.

I agree, games that have professional voice actors (or even professional actors) tend to produce good voice acting. It is a shame that this is the only good thing I can say about Bioshock, System Shocks retarded cousin.

And of course, there is absolutely zero possibility it is a software issue. http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/02/02/1458230

It's not just size and population density.

For example, consider a large North American city like New York. Very high population density, very wealthy, lots of demand. By your logic, broadband there should be cheap and fast, but it isn't (or not at Scandinavian levels anyway).

(don't worry about moral superiority, this debate is really just frustration almost everywhere that we can't get the astonishing service they have in Sweden, argh)

Totally agree. The best physics teacher I had was a trainee who was in his mid 40s, had made enough money to retire, and decided to teach as a second career (or possibly hobby). Every time he taught us a concept, he could tell you a time he'd used it in the real world, or about someone he knew who was doing research in this field and the exciting stuff they'd found. It really helps to have someone in the classroom who has used the things that you are learning in his life and been successful. It doesn't even have to be the regular teacher, which is why I think the new programs to have people from outside come into classes and teach occasional lessons are such a good idea.

It's easy to blame teachers since they're the ones who arrive to work everyday with the intent of educating children. How many of you have been confronted by the daily "train wreck" that our teachers face everyday? Government Standardized testing has placed so much emphasis on passing them that a narrow set of questions now drive curriculum itself. Students in most failing schools generally come from economically challenged areas and single parent homes where there is little support for learning. Teachers are confronted by many of them everyday doing their best to disrupt and derail a class. These same students also prevent serious students from learning, because after all if takes 20 minutes or more of class time to keep order then how much time does that leave for learning? Many of students simply don't posses the gray matter to learn the required language and math skills set by state standards. and yet all of them are placed on a college track. To place them in an algebra class would be akin to given them manuals written in Chinese just prior to testing them. You can't make a racing horse out of a donkey and sometimes we need to put aside algebra and give some students a hammer and nails. Does this mean that there are no bad teachers? Of course not because there are, but there are far more good ones who receive the same blame. Depending on the school and neighborhood many teachers are brought in under an agreement to earn and are teaching out of field simply because the demand for teachers exceeds the number of people seeking degrees in education. After all who would want an underpaid degree watching the asylums we now call classrooms only to be blamed for the failures of society?

Advertised broadband speeds vary from actual speeds. In North America, this is largely a result of "network overhead," and is quite modest. In Europe, however, the variation is often dramatic.

I live in San Francisco, where Comcast advertises 8Mbps. We actually get 1Mbps down. If you want the full 6Mbps, you have to live some place like San Mateo County, where they don't have insane oversubscription.

The Comcast drone I chatted with online asked me: "Would you like to avail the Comcast?" I don't even know what the F that means.