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Comment Can he? Yes. Will he? No. (Score 1) 150

If the concern is *ACTUALLY* that there are back doors then he can't trust any existing product our there, proprietary or open source binaries. So everyone that's suggesting existing products wasn't paying attention.

A person *COULD* use an open source product. But again, if the concern is back doors then they need to download and inspect the code and then compile from the inspected code. Or a person could build from the ground up.

But if a person's concern is that their firewall has back doors, then are they also concerned about their OS and other products having back doors? If not, why? If so, what are they willing to do about that?

Comment "falls" LOL, BS... (Score 1) 214

prices went UIP, again.

but keep being a shill and the whole "but they didn't go up as much"

That's like saying the government cut costs when in reality they cut the amount that it went up. They're still spending more...and spending a lot more than they bring in.

Comment Re:Ideaology over science (Score 2) 219

Even if you believe that Solar, Wind and storage tech X can solve the problems in the longer term, any sane person would keep as many nuclear facilities running as possible until these technologies become mainstream.

And there's the problem. We don't have sane people making these decisions. We are shooting ourselves in the foot. We are cutting off our nose to spite our face. What is happening world-wide in regards to energy generation and it's policy is madness. The cart is being put before the horse. It will be disastrous and the policy makers will have blood on their hands.

Comment Re:Sounds like a good bill for both political side (Score 1) 406

Healthier how?

Every law that was passed to disclose lobbying has only made lobbying easier to hide.

Free speech should not be impeded, even if someone wants to yell fire in a theater.

I agree completely. And per usual the public is misled to think that a law does one thing when in reality it has a completely different effect.

Also, a case could be made that many of the press/journalists out there are just as much of a paid shrill as the lobbyists and bloggers out there. I'm *not* suggesting that they pay too. Not at all. Free speech is free speech. Having to register is a clear violation of the 1st amendment.

Comment Re:Things I worry about (Score 1) 408

>If you're fully vaccinated, you shouldn't have anything to worry about since the vaccine is designed to lessen the severity of the disease instead of outright stopping it. You won't die from it, but you can still pass it along to someone else.

To me, the risk of passing it along to someone else, for example my friend with the organ transplant whose vaccination may not have worked because of the immunosuppression drugs, is something to worry about.

Being vaccinated doesn't stop you from:

1) Being a carrier
2) Infecting another person
3) Becoming infected

Comment Re:Asymptomatic vs. Pre-symptomatic (Score 2) 274

Where do you get that only 20% are asymptomatic? All studies I've seen suggest half or more infections are asymptomatic. You can still have largely presymptomatic spread with largely asymptomatic infection.

Correct. Many serology studies are showing asymptomatic rates approaching 80%. USC's study was very interesting.

Comment Noise pollution? (Score 4, Interesting) 50

Wouldn't this qualify as noise pollution? I mean, if this wasn't something that was naturally occurring and then this man made structure started making a noise that can be heard miles away then I can see people getting upset. Just like an airport, racetrack, etc.

I'm 1,800 miles away so I really don't care. But it will be interesting to see if there's a big fuss made.

Comment Re:Not expensive at all (Score 1) 69

I would imagine that what, 99% of all school age children in the US already have cell phones. And considering that there are only two platforms, it's trivial to just tell kids to install an "app" and use that for tracking and surveillance. Most "apps" already do that, so it can't be difficult to do. I would think that using phones for surveillance would be extremely inexpensive, in fact.

99%? No way. Hell, 64% of the public school families in my town are free or reduced cost lunches. If those families can't afford lunch, there's no way that most of those kids have smart phones, or home Internet, or a home computer.

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