Comment Re:No worries (Score 2) 65
I was totally good with storing private customer data in Bangladesh before.
How good are you about your own private data being stored in Bangladesh?
I was totally good with storing private customer data in Bangladesh before.
How good are you about your own private data being stored in Bangladesh?
So you think without guns, there would be more liberty?
Do you think that with guns, there is more?
Other than the actual liberty to carry guns itself, such weapons don't make any difference at all in the true liberty, or lack thereof, that Americans have.
Carrying a gun does not protect you, as a US citizen, should the government suspect, even wrongly, that you are a terrorist.
Carrying a gun does not keep you from having your privacy invaded by the NSA.
Carrying a gun does not stop the TSA from groping you when you travel.
Carrying guns would not have helped the Occupy Wall Street protestors (regardless of if you believe they were right or wrong they still had the right to demonstrate peaceably which was denied them by the coordinated efforts of the Federal government and local police agencies).
Do you actually believe that the small arms you are allowed to carry would make any difference should you choose to revolt against an oppressive government?
Guns are not going to save what is left of the liberties of Americans.
"The best means of prevention are similar to those you would practice to prevent the common cold or the flu, and it starts at your bathroom sink. Thoroughly washing your hands, and practicing good hygiene with soap and water, is a good first step to preventing infection."
Yes, that's been very effective at stopping the common cold from spreading.
Do you think that the health workers that have been infected have not been washing their hands perhaps?
I'm not saying that your advice is wrong, but I don't think that it's going to stop the spread of Ebola any better than it stops the common cold from spreading.
Past Ebola incubation periods were under 3 days. This one can be dormant up to 3 weeks. That means you can be a carrier and not know until 3 weeks later. In a place where the health care system is top notch and any outbreak can be contained in a relatively short time, that doesn't mean much. But combine that with crappy health care and ignorant masses, you've got a perfect storm where people who have it don't know they have it or don't want to get treated and thus get other people infected, who then travel somewhere else before showing symptoms and getting other people infected.
This is why it's not as big a deal in the U.S. if it gets here. The people who show signs are quickly quarrantined. The people who are close to them are quarrantined. They'll quarrantine entire towns if necessary.
The only issue is if it hits a big city, and people aren't aware of their symptoms, and it starts spreading. But it's hard to not be aware of your symptoms when you're bleeding out of every orfice. And we do have experimental treatments, worst case. They've already been shown to work. We just don't know if they won't cause worse things to happen in the edge cases, like massive blood clots for certain people or some such.
Two points to consider.
1) The symptoms of Ebola are flu like and do not start with bleeding out so people will not know, or want to admit, that they are deathly ill - so no different than elsewhere.
2) Americans will try and escape any quarantine zone thinking that they know better than the authorities.
I suggest you try and get over your 'Americans are perfect and nothing can harm us' mentality.
... the presence of personal armaments everywhere
Actually personal firearms are an example of the existence of personal rights and freedoms, something that totalitarian regimes tend not to allow. The 2nd amendment is every bit as important as the other amendments.
Keep believing that. The only reasons that Americans are still allowed to carry guns is (a) to enrich those making and selling them, (b) because the police have bigger ones (which also enriches those making and selling them) and (c) because those making the laws today generally don't give a shit if average Americans kill each other.
I have a feeling any "conversion" would be about as difficult to handle as your cable company changing the channel lineup around. Perhaps a few weeks of grumbling, but eventually you get used to it.
I for one am more impressed that a country who's citizens believe they are in the greatest and best country in the world, able to put men on the moon and build up an economy and military might that rules the world, somehow figure themselves incapable to achieve what 42 other countries around the world have done in the past 300 years.
You're confusing 'incapable' with just not giving enough of a shit to bother changing.
However if space battles are fought at 10,000,0000km then you have quite a lot of notice of the missile coming as there is no horizon to hide behind and no sea to skim. If the missiles manoeuvre, you can see it and it is telegraphing its attack and movement direction with hours if not days and weeks.
Depends on the speed of your missiles relative to the speed of light (and assuming nothing is faster than light).
The time between possible notification time (speed of light through space + recognition time) and when they arrive is reduced proportionately.
If (for ease of calculation) your missiles were traveling at the speed of light then there would be no advance notice possible at all.
Bah. Just replace bash then - or upgrade it. Read about this bug today (on a linux machine), tested for it - and it was fixed already. The bug may be a bad one, but the fix is out already. Got it through a standard upgrade of arch, no specific action to fix this. Fix bash, and all that cgi/ssh is as safe as ever.
Trivial to exploit - but trivially fixed too.
The question becomes what was done to the target before it was fixed.
Locking the door after the bad guy is in the house doesn't help much.
If it pisses off some FBI Chief, you know it must be good. (Either that or it is vunerable to the FBI and the Chief is just clueless.)
Or owns stock in Apple and this is their way of promoting product
Another fucking US government agency that doesn't want any record of it's incompetence.
So, from the video you can see it clearly bend around the volume cutouts. Then even mentions that. I suspect it was engineered to survive flexing in that direction... and then later they moved/changed where the volume cutouts would be. If those buttons were on top, this wouldn't be a problem.
Form over function is always a loser.
Not if it gets you laid.
Apple's race for thinner phones bites users in the ass.
In Soviet Russia Apple Bites You
From my experience, CDC estimates should be taken with a grain of salt, as they often seem dubious at best.
Then again, I suppose that should apply to any estimate, especially when the estimator is using ceteris paribus in order to reach a certain conclusion...
So cut the number in half. Is 600,000 dead worth overlooking?
It's not even really about infrastructure, just basic sanitation.
If you have the resources to wash your hands - which much of Africa does not - then you'll probably be able to contain an Ebola outbreak without much trouble.
=Smidge=
Yes that will help you when someone coughs, sneezes or vomits blood on you...
Yay for Godwin's Law! Let's compare a religion to Nazis! And judge everyone who practices that religion for the actions of extremist believers!
I wonder what the percentage of Muslims who practice their religion and don't bother people is compared to the percentage of Muslims part of extremist groups?
Also, are there other religions where there are extremist groups? Hm...Christianity....Westboro Baptist Church sound familiar? Hm, all Christians hate gays etc etc.
The Westboro baptists are much better than Islam in many ways. How many people have they beheaded? How many sex slaves have they taken? How many bombs have they set off, or planes flown into buildings? Also where are the hundreds of Christians from Britain, France, Denmark, Australia and other countries leaving their countries to join the Westboro baptists and lay down their life?
And yet...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein
