Comment Re:Trump 2016! (Score 2) 656
Donald Trump had his kids vaccinated: https://www.quora.com/Has-Dona...
Comment Slapping time (Score 4, Insightful) 656
The move followed outbreaks of measles in Europe and parts of the United States, and local whooping cough and measles cases in Australia.
There was actual harm done because of the sticky stupid of antivaccine activists, so of course their Board will purge in response. People who make themselves allies of the first Horseman of the Apocalypse (Pestilence/plague) do not belong in the healthcare business.
Comment What's in a name (Score 1) 124
Early tests seemed to indicate the program's original name of "Youtube Snitches" was not very enticing.
YouTube Is Looking for Volunteers To Improve Its Site (fortune.com) 124
The video-sharing site is looking for "heroes." YouTube is looking for a few good users who want to be "Heroes." Google's video-sharing site wants volunteers to help moderate its content by flagging inappropriate content, fielding questions in YouTube Help forums, and contributing video captions and subtitles, reports Reuters. From the report:Performing those types of tasks will help users earn points in the site's new crowdsourcing program, called "YouTube Heroes." YouTube announced the "Heroes" program in a post on the site's help channel on Wednesday that included a video showing prospective volunteers how they can participate and the perks they can earn. "You work hard to make YouTube better for everyone and, like all heroes, you deserve a place to call home," YouTube says in the video.
Comment Re:Misunderstood notions (Score 1) 527
There is no such thing as "The paleo-diet".
Comment Re:No jail? (Score 1) 341
Bathory-style, is a fitting punishment for d'em blood-suckers.
Comment Sombrero party time (Score 3, Funny) 242
it's frighteningly easy to imagine how cameras with a slightly improved zoom resolution and face recognition technology could
Comment Re:Sounds like bullshit to me. (Score 1) 373
How does one go get tested for CMV ? Do I just ask my GP, or directly at the blood bank ?
Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy (nydailynews.com) 138
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New York Daily News: Gawker's founder Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy Monday after a Florida appeals court refused to give him an emergency order that would block wrestler Hulk Hogan from collecting on a $140 million jury verdict. The District Court of Appeal in Lakeland, Fla., denied a request by Gawker and Denton to stay a ruling by lower court judge Pamela Campbell -- who said Hogan could start collecting on his award immediately. But declaring bankruptcy will give Denton protection from collectors including Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea. In the filing, Denton says he has assets of $10 to $50 million and liabilities of $100 to $500 million. His debts includes $125 million that he owes to Hogan, an $11.5 million loan that he took out on June 10 from Silicon Valley Bank, a $50,000 loan he took from his 401(k) at Gawker and his Time Warner Cable bill for $120.88. The jury's March verdict was the result of Gawker's decision to publish a tape on the internet of Hogan having sex with a friend's wife. The former WWF star said it was an invasion of his privacy. Gawker filed for bankruptcy shortly after the jury's verdict, but Denton resisted, asking the bankruptcy court to protect him as part of the process. The federal court refused. Now that the Florida courts have opened the door for Hogan to start collecting from Denton, he is expected to follow Gawker into federal bankruptcy court in lower Manhattan.
Comment Re:Still voting for Bernie. (Score 1) 993
Watching Bernie bring his own political career to the DNC altar and slaughter it as a sacrifice for Hilary must have been painful. Condolences.
Comment Meaningless (Score 1) 519
"Solving" the problem centrally is meaningless, because you cannot know, for example, how much more I would enjoy an extra set of forks than you would enjoy a spare bicycle tire. Only the people involved in the outcomes can negotiate this directly, as peers, to determine a mutually-agreeable answer. An algorithm cannot do it in their place.
Comment Re:Bullshit. Read Ludwig Von Mises. (Score 1) 519
I see your Turing, and raise you multi-agent approaches.
TL;DR: if you *can* solve the economic organisation problem centrally, then you can also solve it MUCH more efficiently using a distributed, multi-agent method. The free market is one such distributed approach.
Safari 10 In macOS Sierra Deactivates Flash, Silverlight and Other Plug-Ins by Default (webkit.org) 114
Apple's web browser Safari 10, which will ship with macOS Sierra, will disable Flash, Java, Silverlight, QuickTime and other plug-ins by default. The move will help the company improve the overall web browsing experience by focusing on HTML5 content. From a post on WebKit blog, authored by Apple's Safari team: When a website directly embeds a visible plug-in object, Safari instead presents a placeholder element with a "Click to use" button. When that's clicked, Safari offers the user the options of activating the plug-in just one time or every time the user visits that website. Here too, the default option is to activate the plug-in only once.
Comment Re:Technology can't stop these (Score 1) 1144
Can confirm. Here in France gun control started during Nazi occupation. In fact quite a lot of Vichy-era disruptive measures (urban code, nationalized retirement funds, corporative orders, etc.) were kept as they were or expanded upon after WW2.
Comment We're winning the War on Cholesterol (Score 1) 607
35 years of widespread use of statins are showing their results. Depression, Alzheimer's, and generally worse health in old age.
