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Comment Re:Do some research first please? (Score 5, Informative) 258

Saying that something is more lethal doesn't mean the same as saying it kills more people. What it means is that it is more "sufficient to cause death". So, while it's very true that more people have died from H1N1 than from EBOV, EBOV is still far more lethal.

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/est... says that between April 2009 and April 2010 there were 61M cases of H1N1 resulting in 12.5K deaths. WHO says that, so far, there are 7192 cases of EBOV in the West African outbreak, and 3286 deaths.

I'll let you do the math.

Comment Re:Knowledge (Score 1) 1037

So I guess we agree on the fact that there are atheist zealots.

But we disagree on whether or not atheism is a faith.

I can go with that.

So my original comment was: "False. Every "faith" will eventually have it's zealots. Even if that "faith" is atheism."

And if I change that to: "False. Every set of beliefs (or "everything" or "anything" will eventually have it's zealots. Even if that set of beliefs is athiesm." You'd agree?

Comment And the next big scam... (Score 2) 48

To me this sounds like some guys thinking "Hey - that Mt. Gox Guy set up an exchange and almost got away with bajillions. I bet we can do the same thing without his mistakes..."

Or - they are dumb enough to want to become a Big Fish in a Small Pond with Poisoned Waters.

(I'm sure there's some Poison/Poisson joke in there somewhere)

Submission + - Connecting to unsecured Bluetooth car systems to monitor traffic flow.

TheTerseOne writes: The Columbian, the local newspaper of Vancouver (not BC), Washington (not DC) is reporting that local country traffic officials plan on spending $540k of government money to monitor traffic by connecting to vehicles whose owners/drivers have left their Bluetooth car systems 'discoverable.' The county claims that, although this sounds "creepy" and "like big brother" there is no cause for concern. The specific brand of the system is not mentioned, but similar systems have already been the subject of security alerts.

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