You've got midi-chlorians shooting out of your nose, young padawan. Don't burst.

That's what Perl and shell scripts are for.

I sure as heck wouldn't want anyone to think I was willing to spam for linkedin, which still resembles a bunch of strangers asking other strangers to recommend them to still other strangers.

The right word for that other one is "Imperial".

This exact scenario has been rehashed in more than one fiction book that I've read.

By the way, you can think even further outside the box. Rich people don't just have yachts, they also have private planes. How much screening do those go through when they enter US airspace? And how devastating would an air explosion over a populated city be?

Probably. Funerary practices in that part of the world are very home-centered, generally administered by the grieving family. That's a major current transmission route, and its emotional and traditional base gives it resistance to quarantine pressures. No one is just going to pile corpses outside waiting for the body cart, if they've spent weeks locked away caring for their dying loved one.

Dealing with the dead is a big part of epidemic management, and "doing it right" (to minimize infectiousness) is expensive, as well as insensitive to the survivors. So yeah, the dead will continue to infect the living, until it burns itself out, or until someone imposes draconian responses.

Despite the drug wars, Mexico at least has a functioning government. Sierra Leone and Liberia? They're at the bottom of the barrel. Their Human Development Index sits at 175st and 183rd> on the planet respectively. In terms of per capita income, they rank 180th and 181st.

Sierra Leone has already gone through the process of being a failed nation-state, and will be right back there if ebola continues to spread. Liberia has already admitted they could just cease to exist.

Besides, the H1N1 virus had a death rate of just 0.02 percent not the eye-popping 50% to 90% of ebola.

Tibetan monastery.

I ordered the Six Monolith, even though I am quite sure it's too large.

I write iOS applications for a living, and I need it for testing, so I will suffer the thing to have the newer form factor to test on.

The one aspect where I'm thinking I'll like the size more and not less is for photography. For a long time I've been wishing they would put larger cameras into the iPad, now they have...

Assuming that the dead are buried safely just isn't going to happen. When you have that many people dying, nobody's going to be in a rush to join them by burying them. "Let someone else do it." And eventually, there just won't be enough people to bury all the dead even if they were willing. They'd be spending way too much time meeting their own basic survival needs in countries that are falling apart.

Nobody's going to be running to the local clinic for examination when they know that they can't even be fed there if it's confirmed they have the disease - and that's already happening.

More and more, it appears the "best-case" scenario is that the disease burns itself out while being contained to only a few countries. And please keep in mind, even the UN agrees that we're going to see more of this once more diseases gain antibiotic resistance.

After switching to x86: x86 is awesome!

My feeling at the time was that it was nice to have it be faster, but I still didn't like the mess underneath that was x86 instruction sets... but since I didn't have to deal with it that was OK.

Sovereignty has to be meaningfully exercised to be considered legitimate. If you claim sovereignty over some territory, but in practice there is a hostile militant group there that's on a murderous rampage for several months now, your claim is not particularly strong.

My understanding is that "Daesh" omits the "Islamic" part of the name.

Either way, it seems to piss off the mujis when they hear themselves being referred to under that name, to the point that any local heard using it in the areas controlled by them is punished. Given that they clearly hate it, I'm all for using it on that basis alone, regardless of what it means.

However a much easier method would be to simply ship the thing in a shipping container with the latest Chinese wing dings. Shield the device perhaps to prevent detection in the off chance it is the one in 1000 that is actually checked. Then have it shipped by truck to some warehouse in the middle of a city someplace. Have it set to detonate when it reaches a certain threshold of GPS coordinates.

Why bother with GPS or shielding? Just rig the bomb to explode when the container is opened, and give the customs a tip about a drug smuggling operation. Boom, you just took out a major hub of trade, and likely a major city as a bonus.

Me, Ive always been into recycling computers. Every machine eventually gets upgraded to linux. I void the whole keypad and trackpad thing on laptops by plugging in a standard mouse and keyboard, though I admit that my current laptop has decent usability in that respect.

As for the reset button - YES. When a laptop locks up hard enough that a soft reset won't do, your only real option is to unplug the adapter and remove the battery. And when you're doing development, you know that there are going to be lock-ups, since nobody's perfect.