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Comment You are at greater risk of polio (Score 1) 384

If you're a kid and you haven't had a polio shot, you're at greater risk of that.

Especially if you're at a school for rich kids.

If you're an adult, your best advice is to get a flu shot.

Early symptoms of flu are similar. If you get a flu shot, you won't be put in isolation until we know you don't have Ebola.

That said, you really shouldn't worry about Ebola if you live in the US. Unless you recently went to Africa.

Comment All the movies had women in business (Score 5, Insightful) 786

As I recall, it was more that, in movies and TV, women found romance working in business, and rarely in computing.

Computing meant anti-social. Business meant meeting attractive men in business suits with lots of money and power.

Geeks only had time travel in bad looking vans.

Comment Ice lines are a social good (Score 1) 342

And as the founder of the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa, who helped lead deputized hobby horse riding citizens (many kids) to defend the Ice Bank from the Ice Rustlers of the Open Playa riding their hobby animals (unicorns, giraffes, and other creatures) with their wild and crazy hats, I remember fondly the agonized death scenes (perhaps a bit too overly dramatic) as they were stopped from stealing ice.

Seriously, you guys are way too serious. Lines are part of the fun.

If you want convenience and order, what the heck are you doing in the desert, you spoiled brat?

Comment Re:Fission = bad, but not super-bad (Score 1) 218

The vast majority of cheap solar is in fact passive solar, and solar heating/coooling, not solar panels per se.

Comparing construction accidents for anything done on top of buildings we find they're no more risky than roofing in general.

Same applies to fusion reactors. The main problems are with radiation shielding, which is the part that becomes radioactive over time. Because it's doing it's job.

You still have to dispose of it the same way you do with fission reactors, and the materials used in modern fusion have some "salts" that are very unpleasant if not kept separate, and the method to create them can be a bit controversial at times. But all forms of energy creation have negative consequences.

Comment Looks like he won (Score 1) 284

If all browsers in November will have SSL3 turned off by default, then he won.

All because the NSA wanted a crypto back door.

Note: fixing SSL won't fix the other methods, which involve spoofing cell and provider feeds and using the other computing devices inside your cell and network like your printers and GPUs and (long list).

Comment He lives in a state with no income or cap gains (Score 2) 839

One should point out that Bill Gates lives in a state where we have zero state income tax, zero capital gains tax, and his dividends aren't taxed either when he donates them to his own charities.

The problem is that rich people already have massive assets that produce income - everyone else doesn't.

The median wealth of all African-Americans is about $200. Total.
The median wealth of all Hispanic-Americans is about $500. Total.
The median wealth of all rich corporate lawyer's sons whose mums served on charity boards and went to private schools and live in his house is $60 Billion.

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