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Comment Re:You're right, I'm not a hypocrite! (Score 1) 116

Ransomeware was disabling hospital Windows machines; it wasn't making things like MRIs, X Ray systems and blood processing equipment permanently inoperable.

Actually, a lot of devices that you mention run on a Windows software substrate. Many of them have older versions of the underlying OS for which Microsoft and their manufacturers have not made updates. The selection of Windows was done to make data interchange with Windows EMR systems easier. Ransomware did not differentiate between embedded and online systems. It spread through the health system networks and disabled Windows machines regardless. If you think otherwise, I would suggest that you educate yourself before spouting again.

Comment Re: Did you even read the summary? (Score 4, Interesting) 243

All humans, male and female have both male and female hormones, though in different quantities. Female sexual drive is correlated with the amounts of testosterone in their systems. So a problem that leads to lower testosterone in males, leading to lowered sexual desire could also impact females in a similar manner.

Comment Re:and how is this bad? (Score 1) 97

This is bad because its still a sign of climate change - as the atmosphere, oceans, and land masses heat up, more energy moves into the atmosphere, creating more and more violent wind flows. Some of these winds will tend to flow north to south in winter, making winter storms harsher than they used to be. Others will move from south to north, making expected winter snows less harsh than usual, but also removing another source of water from already parched land. Other places will have a combination of the two, with fronts coming together to form rain storms of higher intensity than would be usual for this time of year, or actually form tornadoes which would have been unthinkable for this time of year previously.

The bottom line is you're adding energy to the system, letting the air flow faster and with more intensity than it used to. There will be a lot of infrastructure rendered unusable and a lot of people suffering as a result of higher intensity weather events.

But that's OK, because you'll have plenty of runoff to make floods in the Spring. Stop being an idiot and actually look at what's happening.

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 338

At at college level, there was no time because I had to fill those spots with stupid, required stuff like foreign language and art appreciation. Classes in logic/reason/debate/etc were not part of a BS requirement in computer science, engineering, or MIS and did not satisfy the "general education requirement."

I don't know about you, but I took extra courses in humanities and social sciences because I was interested in those things. I also managed to take at least one additional engineering class each semester because, again, I was interested in things beyond what was in my core curriculum. I managed classes in mechanics, advanced quantum mechanics, nuclear engineering, philosophy, and economics, not to mention a hell of a lot of mathematics and comp sci all of which were outside my core curriculum in electrical engineering. I learned a lot about critical thinking in all of these classes. I also had plenty of times for my music avocation, playing in three or four amateur rock bands during this time. I don't remember drinking less or using less drugs than my compatriots during this time, so I can't think of what you were doing with your time at University, other than slacking. But then I always was a bit of an overachiever.

Comment Please no... (Score 1) 44

Jackson would also like to release an expanded director's cut sometime in the future...

I hope not. And I speak as someone who has the utmost musical respect for the Beatles and their contribution to the world of rock. Even though the movie exposed the methodology behind their creativity, most of the time it was like sitting through a group's most aimless and boring band practice. Expanding the experience would not add to it.

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