A huge chunk of a pediatrician's patients are dependent on herd immunity. Every kid waiting for their first round of a vaccine relies on it.

Concerns of the levels of radiation being safe or unsafe doesn't matter to me. What matters is the fact that numerous experts have proven the scanners to be completely ineffective at stopping threats and that is what people should care about.

Why expose yourself to the radiation in the first place? I refuse these machines every time I travel domestically and if they are required by some other country I'm not going to go there just wish everyone else did the same.

They don't need to be competent, just dedicated and willing to use resources. Nothing will bring out those traits like embarrassing government agents.

The problem with PGP/signed-emails is that you're putting the burden on the user. I'm a pretty technical guy, and I don't even want to bother with it. There's no way that the average person it going to take the time to understand and implement PGP.

The proposed solution puts the burden entirely on the system and the providers, so is more likely to be adopted and actually used (and therefore, successful in its end-purpose of stopping phishing attacks).

The Dimora trial has been great fun. Nothing reminds you of how silly news coverage is as much as watching a puppet discuss bribery through prostitution.

Because they don't mention pay just miserable working conditions.

I could be wrong but did you mean to say "they're anarchists, internet tough guys, script kiddies on Code Red Mt. Dew. it's a swarm of locusts."?

I can't say there aren't a few individuals with some talent amongst Anonymous since they have done some fairly sophisticated stuff but all I ever see in my head when Anonymous is in the news is a few reasonably skilled hackers leading whole bunch of weird, 4chan dwelling script kiddies running LOIC as Pawns.

Or maybe it is just me.

A private university that receives about a half billion in annual NIH grants. http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/FindOrg_Detail.cfm?OrgID=4134401

21,000 out 20,000 in. They lost 1,000 domains for basically shitting on their customers. Yet their support for SOPA stands, despite the half assed mea culpa. Every person who voted with their wallet against SOPA still has to live with the outcomes in the political realm and Godaddy loses almost nothing.

Or perhaps people people on high doses of opiates. My wife was on a very heavy dose of Oxycontin for a long time and there were more than a few occasions wherre she wasn't sure if she taken her pills yet. We always played it safe and held off when there was doubt, but there were a few occasions where I had to stop her because she was sure she hadn't taken it. Large doses of these rugs don't exactly leave you clear headed.

Robin Sage

Are you out of your mind? The nonprofit space is highly competitive. There are finite amounts of money for donations, just like for purchases, and they still have to convince the public that they are the ones who should get the money.

How often is there a rolling gun battle down State street in Chicago over moonshine? Legalizing marijuana and maybe a few other common drugs wouldn't kill organized crime. That is here to stay, probably forever. It would slash a huge source of funds and incentive to engage in the really destructive behavior we see. Cigarette and alcohol taxes are high, but nothing compared to the black market mark up and any illicit operation would have to undercut the legal one on price.

Public high school STEM classes are nowhere near sufficient as far as preparing students for a university-level STEM courseload is concerned.

Maybe if we made public education more about actually teaching and challenging students, rather than a game to see how you can bend the rules to pass the most students, then the first year of college wouldn't be such a difficult experience.

Instead it is a nasty creationist who feels his public debates at an academic institution should be kept secret.