Also totally useless for the requirement of restarting an industrial civilization.

I don't think that women necessarily object more to abuse, but that our culture tends to give them more freedom to leave their jobs.

Our society tends to regard a working wife as a bit of a luxury. It certainly encourages women to work, but there is also nothing wrong if a woman just stays at home and raises kids, or if a woman is out of work for a while.

Our society tends to regard a working husband as more of a necessity. There is a stigma on a married man who is out of work. Families with a stay at home father and a working mother are very rare.

I think that there is also far less pressure for a young woman to move out of the parent's house/etc than there is for a young man to do the same.

So, a married man in particular is under a lot of pressure to simply not lose a job under any circumstances, while a woman often feels much more free to do so.

I'm speaking broadly, and I'm certainly interested if others feel differently. From my standpoint the women really are the ones with the right attitude here, but the problem is that the US in particular is very cruel to anybody who is out of work. There is very little government support available for anybody who is "picky" about working conditions, and social acceptance may have a big impact on somebody's ability to find support in other ways if they lose their job. Until men are as free to quit their job as women are, I doubt you'll find the same kind of parity in the workplace.

Look at it another way. Suppose you take two groups of runners and put them in races. The one group is competing such that the #1 runner gets a prize. For the second group after each race the last-place runner is shot and replaced with a new runner for the next race. After a number of races, which group do you think is going to end up having the faster average time?

Then quarantine anybody who is coming from West Africa, or from any country that doesn't also quarantine anybody coming from West Africa. Problem solved.

Or, forcibly quarantine anybody who self-identifies as being at risk and give them a check for $1M for their inconvenience at the same time. Now there isn't incentive to avoid detection. Obviously that amount can be adjusted to whatever amount is effective.

If Ebola gets loose the costs will be astronomical. It doesn't make sense to make saving money a priority when preventing it from breaking out. That means R&D into a vaccine, treatments, as well as caring for people who are potential carriers. They shouldn't be treated as if they're being punished for something, but that doesn't mean that it is wise to just trust everybody to not ride the subway.

Maybe in your country credit card security is an illusion, but in the United States (where this battle is currently set to take place), it is not. If I use my ATM card at a store and my account gets stolen, I'm screwed. The bank does not have to give me back my money until after it concludes its investigation. With a credit card, the bank has to credit my account the disputed amount. All of the consumer protections are geared towards credit cards. CurrentC wants you to use your bank account in an EFT so that the retailers do not have to pay the credit card transaction fees. CurrentC provides zero advantage to consumers, and nothing but disadvantages over CC and Apple Pay. CurrentC will lose because it only benefits retailers. Unless they completely stop accepting credit card, no one will bother with CurrentC. And if they stopped accepting cards, then Amazon would be quite happy to take even more market share from brick and mortar retailers.

The difference is, when Apple and Google and Mozilla do something, they are seldom working in a vaccum. They work together for the most part on emerging web technologies and push them forward. There are a few outliers like HTML5 video where there is a lot of vested interest, but if you look at it objectively, this is nowhere near the EEE mantra of Microsoft.

I know of no jurisdiction in the US that requires you to physically change license plates every year. In Florida, the license plate is owned by a person and can be registered with another car when the plate owner sells or transfers a car. In California, the plate is tied to the car and they will not issue you a new plate unless you buy a car that has been taken by lien, drug forfeiture, etc. We just have stickers that you put on the plate to show you've paid the fees for the year.

Perhaps because, in the USA, don't you physically change the licence plate every year? In the UK the licence plate is permanent and is all that the police nornally need to know. You could physically and illegally change the number plate for a false one, but so you could change my VIN in the windscreen - only looks like a strip of metal stamped with the characters.

It would make more sense to have different divisions/etc for different purposes. You can't pilot a fighter jet safely in combat without excellent vision, but that doesn't mean that you can't refuel one without excellent vision, or plan a mission back at the Pentagon, or maybe even ferry one across the ocean. The solution to that isn't to insist that air force members steadily improve their vision either. You just don't let people without good vision become combat fighter pilots.

By all means have squads that are intended for infiltration, and they should have strict requirements, of which fitness is just one. The guys who set up their laptops don't need to meet the same requirements, and they're probably even more important to the mission since I doubt that the infiltrators are going to write their software from scratch while in the middle of an enemy facility. They may very well have to improvise, but if they don't have the right equipment they'll do as well as a special forces soldier with a gun that doesn't work.

Oh, and for the record, lava and snow are IMHO a beautiful reaction. :) Fire and ice, baby!

I just typed it. But Slashdot simply "disappears" thorn characters, which is annoying.

Bárðarbunga is full of eye candy. I can point to abundant examples including no shortage of videos on Youtube / Vimeo.

As for pronunciation: Á is said "ow". BOWR-dthar-BOON-ka. The R is an alveolar tap or trill. If that's too hard for you, you can also call it Holuhraun (HOLE-ih-HROYN), Nornahraun (NORDN-uh-HROYN), THorbjargarhraun (THOR-Byardg-ar-HROYN), or a bunch of other names (the TH should really be a thorn, but again, Slashdot silently eats thorns). Among the many proposals for names was Holuhraunshraunshraunshraun, which was suggested because it would be fun watching foreigners try to pronounce it ;) It was never actually a serious contender, but I wrote an article poking fun at the concept on Uncyclopedia at one point ;)

That makes zero sense.

Publish the books hard-bound on acid-free paper and then you've got something useful!!

2600 has always painted hackers as martyrs. It's kind of their thing. Draper got busted, Mitnick got busted, they get harassed by Feds, therefore "we poor persecuted hackers just want freedom for all." You even see it in the 199x movie Hackers.

The magazine is still interesting as long as you overlook the crazy self-pitying editorials.

Meh.

If you want a flaming hellscape, Kilauea is a little candle compared to Bárðarbunga in Iceland. Kilauea erupts a couple cubic meters per second. Bárðarbunga erupts a couple hundred. Kilauea's gas emissions barely show up on satellite images. Bárðarbunga's just last night caused levels so high in a town a hundred kilometers away that it went off the top of the safety scale (which they got from Hawaii ;) ). Bárðarbunga has already erupted more lava than of Mauna Loa's multi-year eruptions in modern history, in under two months, and is up to about 1/6th the volume emitted by Kilauea in the entire 31 years of its eruption, with no signs of stopping. And it's doing all of this through a dike dozens of kilometers long. The magma chamber itself may still actually go off, mind you. An area the size of Manhattan is currently dropping by about a foot per day into the caldera, and has been doing so for months, causing one in every five powerful earthquakes on Earth. The caldera has released the largest lava eruptions on Earth since the last Ice Age, as well as floods several times larger than all of Earth's major rivers combined.

But nobody cares about Icelandic volcanoes unless they take out European air travel ;)