Probably more of a sampling bias. You're more likely to know that someone had it if they got seriously sick. Otherwise, most people aren't going to tell you. First-person to get it here didn't want her name put out because she didn't want to be treated like a Typhoid Marry.

Desktops work, but it's more of an IT support issue. My kids are doing Online School right now through the local school district. Chromebooks have been at the HS level for a while, but they hadn't gotten to elementary yet. Just imagine the level of IT support the teachers would need to have to support every home computer setup. I couldn't guarantee that the schools would supply hardware or not so I got them "desktops", monitors and keyboards running on VirtualBox through USB hardware. That allowed us to opt to receive the Chromebooks last to allow others who needed them the chance. However, they insisted on supplying the Chromebooks. They're in the end better. All the software works with how the schools have trained the teachers, and it's overall better. I'm sure the schools IT wouldn't want to try to troubleshoot any of my home equipment, and, frankly, I don't want them remoting into any of my devices.

This is why we don't do professional analysis in excel for anything of any significant size. Excel is nice for a nice tinny dataset, but after that, R, SPSS, or writing actual code is required.

They're pricing out people who don't want subscription services. I'd hope that this would kill the games that do this, but what is happening is there is a solid push to subscription games. If you want a game outside of the subscription then you'll have to pay a premium. If 60 bucks or less was your price point you're going to have to go to a subscription. Subscriptions will replace many of the cheaper options until buying cheap games will no longer be practical.

There's a bit of a difference between mandatory Vaccines that have been though proper Human Testing, and Mandatory Vaccines as a part of Human Testing.

Places like Italy and the whole of Europe? I'm sure a functional WHO would be great, but to them China is world and no one else matters.

Sanity? The WHO was put in charge of fixing the issues that made SARS worse then it needed. China hid the issues with SARS, and this time the WHO helped them hide things until it was too late. No evidence of human to human transfer when Taiwan has given them that very information, but no upsetting China's feelings is totally worth letting a disease go unchecked. Most country's behavior with this has been due to that initial miss information that the WHO purposefully put out. Pull all the money out of the WHO and give it to the CDC. I'd sooner trust the CIA to tell us that a disease outbreak is happening in China, and to smuggle out the samples then I trust the WHO with one more dime.

If you say so. Everything I've read from a trustworthy source infection comes from bodily fluid. Perhaps you're confusing the respiratory symptoms with its infection vector.

Coronavirus Endoribonuclease Activity in Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus Suppresses Type I and Type III Interferon Responses. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

Human to Human is a bit early to panic. It's only healthcare workers so far. Most news reports that it's a bodily fluid transmission, but I suspect from what I can see on reports on the family of viruses that it's probably transmitted via excrement/diarrhea. If it stays that way then only people in poor living conditions, or who are providing direct health care to infected individuals are at the most risk.

Not to rain on your "parade" but from the article.

Remember Italy was an Inquisition system up until not too long ago, and still has its finger prints. Judges and courts play a far more active role then they do in systems like the US.

We all know that it's wrong and that we should probably have a method to our madness. But writing down the madness and calling it a methodology doesn't change a thing.

This is why my old job used Tape backups. Nothing short of magic is going to encrypt a tape after it's been backed up. Someone even encrypted a large portion of the shared network drive once. We were back up by the end of the day once we isolated the machine that did it. A little bit of data was lost from the morning, but no Raid, Mirror, or Real-Time backup would have stopped the encryption. Had they even got to the nightly backup there was the previous weeks tape in the safe if need be.

Banks used to have to process all the checks in the State that they received it in. It was a basic security measure before tech caught up, and it was meant to reduce the odds of a transaction going missing. The farther a check goes the more likely it is to get lost. I'm more concerned about my data being stored in a different country that opens it up to their laws and not the laws in which I live. Store the data in the US and I'm sure there are spooks all over it, and I'm just as certain that every country does that the moment they get the chance. A regime that wants my call metadata doesn't need access to the data center. They just tap into the infrastructure and capture it as it's transmitted. A government if far more capable of pulling off a MITM attack, but if the data is stored outside of a country of origin then that's one more government that has been added to my concerns. Zuck just wants his cut of the pie.

I believe they purchased Sun because they used Java for interacting with their Database, and the last thing they wanted was someone buying Sun and hitting them as they hit their customers. Once they had it they tried to do exactly what they thought others would have done had they got the asset. Had Sun been healthy I don't see Oracle being interested in it at all.