richardwigley

BBC Updated the video to the 'better video' in @spacefight's link (the original was taken from a more distant vantage point).

SpaceX Statement in full (copied from facebook page):

Earlier today, in McGregor, Texas, SpaceX conducted a test flight of a three engine version of the F9R test vehicle (successor to Grasshopper). During the flight, an anomaly was detected in the vehicle and the flight termination system automatically terminated the mission.

Throughout the test and subsequent flight termination, the vehicle remained in the designated flight area. There were no injuries or near injuries. An FAA representative was present at all times.

With research and development projects, detecting vehicle anomalies during the testing is the purpose of the program. Today’s test was particularly complex, pushing the limits of the vehicle further than any previous test. As is our practice, the company will be reviewing the flight record details to learn more about the performance of the vehicle prior to our next test.

SpaceX will provide another update when the flight data has been fully analyzed.

It depends on your market - I know some people who are very 'afraid' to program, or think it's magical, and giving them something they know will build confidence for later on.

There was a BBC video, a female reporter, went around looking at what was going on/wrong - they population didn't trust the government as they had been lied to about everything else - why should they trust the Government now?

It is difficult to educate a population in this situation about hygiene. Let alone asking them to not eat bush meat.

Searching for 'BBC Ebola' is now a thankless task - so I can't find the reference.

Why can towns afford expensively kitted SWAT Police? Firstly the US Gov bought a lot of equipment for the war on Terror and drugs and, secondly it can be profitable:

"Rules on civil asset-forfeiture allow the police to seize anything which they can plausibly claim was the proceeds of a crime. Crucially, the property-owner need not be convicted of that crime. If the police find drugs in his house, they can take his cash and possibly the house, too. He must sue to get them back."

So, you are in a situation where the Police are incentivised to use their time to serve drug warrants.

[1] http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21599349-america...

Or Flu in 2009 by Chinese - they kept people in their hotels [1]. I'm guessing the Journo wanted to 'big' the story up.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/05/02/idUSHKG2279

This title could have been written by buzzfeed. I am interested in information and not hype (unless of course it really does read your mind!).

The Spanish Priest treated with ZMapp died http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28754899

Interesting move as this is an example of a drug with unknown efficacy in humans out in the wild. The arguments are ethics of untested drugs vs 'Ebola is killing at least half the people - how bad can it be?'

Plus video of the event - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28737091

Notorious computer security pioneer John McAfee has used a surprise appearance at a hacking conference to warn of threats against "freedom" thanks to privacy issues with technology.

Speaking at Def Con in Las Vegas, Mr McAfee called on hackers to "make a stand" against companies that seek highly personal information.

He blamed laziness for the spread of apps and websites that gleam information from users.

"We'd rather be safe, secure and comfortable than actually live," he said.

In 2012 Mr McAfee was accused of murdering his neighbour while living in Belize. He fled the country soon after and denies the charges.

When I use firefox it says 'too slow? try chrome' - it is much slower on firefox - is firefox that bad or is it just optimized for Chrome?

(While we wait for expert views) I would say it was no different from any other medical trial (you would have two populations, one getting a treatment and one not getting it, and you would observe them and see if there was a statistically difference) - With a preventative drug you would be looking for people getting cancer - this is a rare event (and so need more people under observation) and would take many years before you had a marked difference in the two populations.

Compare this with late stage cancer trial where you are monitoring people dying - this is going to, unfortunately for the people under observation, give you a much quicker 'outcome'.

"A clinical trial for patients with metastatic prostate cancer lasts only three years compared to an 18-year-long trial for those suffering from a milder, localised prostate cancer. Since a typical patent is in force for 20 years, firms only have two years of effective patent length left to commercialise a new drug against localised prostate cancer.

The data paint a bleak picture. The economists find that pharmaceutical companies conduct 30 times more clinical trials for recurrent cancer drugs than for preventive drugs"

The Aberdeen Bestiary I was looking for manuscripts with pictures - but bonus get the translations as well http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

Of mice

The mouse is a puny animal; its name, mus, comes from the Greek, the Latin word deriving from it. Others say mures, mice, because they are produced ex humore, from the damp soil, of the earth; for humus means earth and from that comes mus, mouse. Their liver grows bigger at full moon, like the tides rise then fall with the waning of the moon.

Update to the story: "Meanwhile, in Nigeria, the health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said that all other passengers on board the flight with the infected man had been traced and were being monitored."

Freetown, the Sierre Leone Capital, has had it's first case and seems to be having problems controlling the movement of infected people, one (now unfortunately dead) was 'rescued' from quarantine by relatives. "The woman had been one of dozens of people who tested positive but were unaccounted for, the BBC's Umaru Fofana reports from the capital, Freetown."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-28505061

Indeed, my 'theory' comment was a response to an infected case arriving on an airplane - which this is news story is an example of.

I'm only aware of these cases (are there others?) Hence, I used theory until you've had a few more occurrences.

The first link in the previous comment documents:

1) 1996 a man in Gabon travelling to Johannesburg and he didn't infect anyone.

2) 2004, a man with Lassa fever, similar to Ebola, travelling to the US and not infecting anyone.

The alert has been caused by a patient flying to Nigeria - the theory is that it isn't easy to catch Ebola [1] so this is a test.

The disease has spread from Guinea to Liberia [2] so this would be a jump Eastward [3]

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/25/324941229/could-t...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak...

[3] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/West+Africa/@14.6336215,...

I would be interested if anyone has used this for project management?

There was an article on that very subject - in short very unlikely, but if it did Paris would be the location.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/25/324941229/could-t...

My experience was: my ISP was talktalk, under a business account run from home (SOHO?), One day, un-opted, they started censoring sites - dating sites - which would seem to be strict under the BT definition. While that might be as expected for a business it wasn't a service that was asked for.

'Porn filters' while getting your attention isn't the whole story. There's a whole list there. Very few adults would tolerate this much censorship.

Categories blocked across the major ISPs include: Dating, Drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco, File sharing, Gambling, Games, Pornography, Nudity, Social networking, Suicide and Self-harm, Weapons and violence, Obscenity, Criminal Skills, Hate, Media Streaming, Fashion and Beauty, Gore, Cyberbullying, Hacking and Web-blocking circumvention tools

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Unit...

This article has a section on Mummy - apparently it had become an accepted treatment for a wide selection of ailments. http://www.artinsociety.com/the-life-and-death-of-mummy-brow...

Mummy, or “mumia”, was typically the ground-up body, or body parts, applied topically to be rubbed on, or mixed into drinks to swallow. Its medical benefits were proclaimed in standard pharmacopoeia and extensively promoted by physicians, apothecaries and barber-surgeons [18]. By the 16th and 17th centuries it had become one of the most common drugs found in the apothecaries’ shops of Europe [19].

The Guardian has a data blog of the airliners flying over the region. Top 5 fliers were Aeroflot (86), Singapore (75), Ukraine (62), Lufthansa (56), Malaysia (48). Really could have been anyone. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/18/mh17-he...

There a smell from the explosives - it's quicker to cover an area for the smell-ee than with a metal detector. ------ "After a few months underground, almost all landmines leak vapours that betray the presence of explosives."

http://www.economist.com/news/technology-quarterly/21603239-...

I think my favourite example of a "dirty hack that gets the job done" was by the developers of the DOS game Wing Commander. The game worked fine, but when exited, it output a strange error message to the console, complaining about some virtual memory issue. They couldn't figure out the cause, and it didn't seem to be hurting anything - so they opened the executable in a hex editor and changed that message to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander".

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An anonymous comment on the Desperate Measures blog. I'm old enough to remember the message and wondered why it was so polite. ;-)

The passport will be obviously forged. A hacker won't have even done a good job it doesn't matter because people don't check. This process was described in a candid interview with a hacker that tried to take over the interviewers website - in it he points out that social engineering is the easiest way around security. http://shoptalkshow.com/episodes/special-one-one-hacker/