Real pirates any day

Fighting Two Pirates

A pirate is a person who buys a legal copy of a copyrighted work and who reproduces it to sell illegal copies. Artists and authors are worried as they do not get the income which is legally theirs. It has been suggested to mark every copy sold with a unique fingerprint, so that any unauthorised copy may be traced back to the source and the pirate who bought it. The fingerprint must be embedded ...

Dengue virus pirates human platelets.

In this issue of Blood, Simon and colleagues provide the first proof that dengue virus (DENV) raids platelets and steals their translational machinery to replicate and produce infectious virus.

Of pirates and pogos.

My favourite German political party is of course the APPD, the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany. Admittedly, it has never scored the resounding electoral success of its cousin the Pirate Party, which won 9% of the vote in Berlin’s regional election last year. In that same poll, the APPD did claim a plurality of the vote (39.82%), based on the fact that it instructed its supporters either to vote...

Any Fip Real Computes a 1-generic

We construct a computable sequence of computable reals 〈Xi〉 such that any real that can compute a subsequence that is maximal with respect to the finite intersection property can also compute a Cohen 1-generic. This is extended to establish the same result with 2IP in place of FIP.

UAV Pirates and SilenTrack Integration