First Contagious WiFi Computer Virus Goes Airborne

[ZortMcGort11]

I take it they didn't find Bigfoot then? If any sort of pre-historic creatures actually exists, I'm hoping that it's Mokele-mbembe ;-)

[jaclaz]

Huge bump, I know , but happened by pure chance (thanks to Marc Abrahams  and Sally Shelton):

http://www.improbable.com/2014/06/08/an-academic-squint-at-mermaids/

to find a nice explanation about mermaids, how they possibly existed but probably became extinct in recent times, direct link to the .pdf of the article by Prof. Karl Banse:

http://www.aslo.org/lo/toc/vol_35/issue_1/0148.pdf

published in 1990 on the journal Limnology and Oceanography.

 

jaclaz

[Monroe]

Well ... fool me once, fool me twice, fool me six times or however that little verse goes !!!

 

The picture in the article reminds me of something I once saw at a traveling carnival ... I paid my dollar to see something described as "not from this world" ... the carnival barker had the last laugh as usual when I and the other people came out the side exit of the tent !!!

 

Pretty much the same thing I got from the Discovery Channel in reference to the Mermaid broadcast ... I just didn't have to walk into a tent.

 

[jaclaz]

Well ... fool me once, fool me twice, fool me six times or however that little verse goes !!!

 

The picture in the article reminds me of something I once saw at a traveling carnival ... I paid my dollar to see something described as "not from this world" ... the carnival barker had the last laugh as usual when I and the other people came out the side exit of the tent !!!

 

Pretty much the same thing I got from the Discovery Channel in reference to the Mermaid broadcast ... I just didn't have to walk into a tent.

 

Yep, the not-so-slight difference is the source, I would guess that should be a different level of reliability attributed to a carnival barker (or to a tv show producer) and to a reknown University Professor.

 

Of course academic people are reknown for their jokes , and from time to time it is fun to go through the editor and "peers" review and get an "absurd" paper actually published by , but usually when this happens the joke is publicly exposed soon after, in this case this one went seemingly unnoticed....

 

A couple fun (or sad) reports on scientific papers and the level of some conferences/publications:

http://smritiweb.com/navin/education-2/how-i-published-a-fake-paper-and-why-it-is-the-fault-of-our-education-system

http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full

a bit extreme, but I believe that these are the point of the iceberg, as I expect that most people would be much better at faking (or plagiarize) than what the good ol' scigen can do.

 

jaclaz

[larryb123456]

I have 2 very, very serious questions:

#1 - Once Ebola finally goes airborne, won't the Ebola virus infect and kill the WiFi airborne virus?

#2 - Once everyone is forced by the government to get the Ebola vaccine, won't the 60% of the U.S population that isn't killed by the vaccine -- (after they bury the 40% of the U.S. population that is killed by the Ebola vaccine) -- then be protected from the WiFi virus, as well?

 

just thinking,

wondering,

and

questioning

 

gotta go now

 

every time I think,

I always get a headache

 

Larry

 

P.S. (lol)

Edited October 13, 2014 by larryb123456

[larryb123456]

If interested, please see the results of my additional neuronal firings concerning the Ebola virus at http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/152748-custom-avatars-and-signatures/?p=1087207