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Comment Re:Citation needed? (Score 4, Insightful) 463

Really have you read the latest from the dumbfuck running the CDC? Would you consider the Washington Post a good source of information?

“We did send some expertise in infection control,” Thomas Frieden said during a news conference Tuesday. “But I think we could, in retrospect, with 20/20 hindsight, have sent a more robust hospital infection control team and been more hands-on with the hospital from day one about exactly how this should be managed.”

Inept and incompetent and I'm sorry but a mia culpa isn't going to cut it.

You do realize that this basically translates to "Yeah, we should have known those Texan hicks couldn't handle a case of the flu, let alone Ebola."

Comment Re:Just tell me (Score 5, Insightful) 463

Only if you need to be treated at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

They've demonstrated themselves to be completely incompetent. Eric Duncan should have been transported to a hospital with the equipment and expertise to deal with quarantining highly infectious disease.

In case anyone doubts this: ratio of "normal" patients vs. infected healthworkers
third world: ~ 10:1
Texas: 1:2

Comment Re:For everything there is a season (Score 1) 228

This particular problem has a far simpler solution that actually works: Use soap and hand sanitizer, and don't touch dead people.

Tell that to the nurse in Dallas who used full biohazard protective gear and still got Ebola.

Well, if the virus can just go through full biohazard protective gear, it can also go through the air over the ocean.

Comment Re:For everything there is a season (Score 1) 228

Can we get through Ebola, first, and then worry about whether coastal military bases might need to be relocated to higher ground decades in the future?

What exactly is your point? That the Pentagon should have made their long-term plan about how to deal with the current Ebola crisis instead of Global Warming? Or that all of government should focus on short term problems only, and never make any plans for the future?

Comment Re:phase change (Score 1) 295

For comparison, it's almost easier to boil water than to melt it from 0C ice to 0C water.

* 334kJ/kg for water to melt it

* 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C

Let's re-evaluate your statement with the key information that you omitted in your post: * 334kJ/kg for water to melt it * 418kJ/kg for water to raise from 0C to 100C * 2257 J/g is the heat of vaporization of water

You'll notice that the heat of vaporization is an order of magnitude larger than your other metrics. Thus, it is much much harder to boil water than to melt it!

Oh really? Well, isn't it odd that for the first time in history a denier forgets to mention increased water vapor in the atmosphere?

Comment Re:So.. (Score 1) 208

With this revelation will the government allow phone use now?

Here's another way of asking that question:

With this revelation will the government support me putting a 17-year old idiot behind bars for killing a loved one of mine with distracted driving?

With the prevalence of cell phones today (for those counting, that would be ALL drivers on the road) and the average persons ignorance (it'll never happen to me), a deadly accident isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

Isn't it a question of "How many more?" already?

Comment Re:Pretty sure Apple already has access (Score 1) 146

Funny how many of the hacked celebs had Android devices, eh? Prove that Google is easily hackable. Funny how most of the hijacked iCloud accounts had the same credentials as their Google accounts - easy passwords even a moron like you could come up with. Not to mention that even mentions that the accounts where likely hacked by password recovery to an already hacked email account - most certainly Gmail. And coincidently, you do sound like a crazed, teenaged Miley Cyrus fan, so why don't you tell us how you did it, instead of just pretending you have a clue?

Comment Re:how I do it (Score 1) 146

Here's how I do it: http://osxdaily.com/2014/02/16...

Timtowtdi of course

Yeah, finding a way that doesn't require the user to turn on Automatic App Download and you having full access to the Apple-ID account (not to mention the user not noticing the new icon with a blue dot before the name) sure would be better than this one.

Comment Re:Tech Companies have become warring fiefdoms (Score 1) 161

Can't innovate man. The tech is covered by patents.

You're not allowed to build your own Siri from scratch.

Give me a break, "they do what they do in India Russia and China because it's the right thing to do."

They follow the law over there while trying to make a buck, same as we do here.

Don't blame our people for obeying the law.

So your only examples of "can't innovate" you could think off was doing something already existing "from scratch"? Something that others have done, supposedly better, as we are constantly told here?

Comment Re:Ridiculous sentence (Score 1) 135

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027...:

April 28, 2003 12:16 PM PDT
Apple unveils music store
...
The songs cost 99 cents each to download, with no subscription fee, and include the most liberal copying rights of any online service to date. Jobs has been an outspoken opponent of so-called digital rights management (DRM) in the past, arguing that limitations on digital music will undermine the market for legitimate content.

Comment Re: Apple did us a favor (Score 1) 135

Apple finally had to support non DRM industry compatability to stay alive.

Apple supported DRM free music before any of the other stores sold DRM free music from the major labels.

Steve Jobs wrote "Thoughts on Music" where he publicly asked the labels to let Apple and all of the other companies sell DRM free music instead of licensing FairPlay (what the industry wanted) months before music stores start selling DRM free music.

I'm not sure if this is true...IIRC I started buying music from Amazon because it's music did not carry DRM while Apple's still did.

D'uh. Amazon paid the music industry major studios so Amazon (and not Apple or anybody else) could sell DRM free music exclusively for a couple of months. Apart from EMI of course, which allowed Apple to sell their music DRM free before Amazon Music even started as a beta.

Anybody claiming Apple didn't want DRM free music is thus proven wrong. Period. The fact that the Majors delayed Apple's sale of their music DRM free was actually to spite them because they forced the change.

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