I think the issue is that if your line of understand is correct, quantum information would be destroyed; either when matter crosses the event horizon or when the anti-particle does. We believe this to be impossible, quantum information should never be created or destroyed. If that's true, there must be some interaction between the contents of a black hole and the virtual pairs produced at the horizon.

That's disingenuous at best and outright dishonest at worst. Yes, someone with hep C will, on average infect just as many people as someone with Ebola, but people with Hep C live for decades, Ebola victims recover or die within a couple months. Total new infections per patient might be the same, but the rate of new infections per patient is different by orders of magnitude.

Yes, I'm sure 1.4 million west African's (CDC's current estimate of infections by end of January) are running around licking the bodily fluids of critically ill people.

This has got to stop. There are reasons the CDC requires bio-hazard level 4 containment to research Ebola. There are reasons this disease continues to spread even though many of the risky cultural behaviors have been changed.

At some point, statements like this ignore the reality on the ground: More people have died from this outbreak than died from SARS. Unless something changes drastically more will die than died from H1N1. If things continue on as they are you will see infection rates hit double digit percentages in several African countries by spring time.

If you work in an ER and someone comes in sweating and vomiting with a history of travel to Liberia... yes? Is that too much to ask? We just had medical professionals send someone home with classic Ebola symptoms and a history of travel in highly infected regions because of a total lack of vigilance.

We do know how to put a stop to it, it's quite easy, all it takes is bio-containment level 4 procedures, that should be easy to slap together in every international airport, seaport, and border crossing to the US. Look, I'm not going to fear monger here, but the fact is that if significant numbers of infected individuals start traveling around the globe we will not be able to maintain containment for long, even with all the resources that ultra-rich 1st world countries have at their disposal. How many beds do you think there are in the entire US that can safely treat Ebola ? I'd be shocked if it's over 1,000 and if the situation in western Africa doesn't change we will very soon see Ebola victims numbering in the millions (by the CDC's own estimates, 1.4 million by the end of January).

We need to stop pretending that Ebola is no easier to catch than HIV or other pathogens that are carried by the same bodily fluids, those diseases don't typically cause you to leak and eject the infected material all over yourself and the room you are in. A nurse in Spain got sick after possibly touching her face while removing her hazmat suit, when was the last time you heard about someone catching HIV the same way? This whole idea that Ebola is so hard to spread you'd have to be stupid to catch it needs to stop; it's wrong and it's dangerous and it leads to wonderful things like people not bothering to put on gloves and mask to go into a confirmed Ebola patient's apartment (thankfully that deputies tests have come back negative).

If this guy was the admin of the public wifi spot I'd be all for it. Of course, if he's the admin there are probably better ways to deal with the situation. At best he's gray hatting a solution to a problem that isn't his problem to solve.

Current estimates say that upwards of 700,000 Liberians will die of Ebola before this outbreak is contained, out of a population of 4.5 million. If, as some research has suggested, survivors can become reservoirs for the disease, you'll have an additional 700,000 mostly health and mobile disease carriers for at least a few months afterward. The odds of a full blown outbreak in a major western country are slim, because it's hard to spread and relatively easily contained. But we will not be returning to the old status quo of Ebola being a disease only of isolated villages in West Africa.

It's well known that he told the hospital staff that he had recently traveled from Liberia, hospital staff didn't act appropriately with this information.

To be fair, it's also well known that he denied having contact with anyone ill before he boarded his flight to the US.

Only if they want to be shut down in short order. Contacting your employer is one of the few things that collection agencies cannot do without landing in hot water.

The real problem isn't sequentially or simultaneously, the problem is that the "experiment" isn't blinded in any direction. Witnesses will assume that if they've been called in for a line up, a suspect must be present, making them more likely to identify someone, anyone, as the perpatrator. Meanwhile the very cops that are trying to build their case are usually in the viewing room with them, consciously or unconsciously they're going to affect who gets identified.

You're giving them too much credit. Yes, these ideas have been used to great effect in emergency rooms around the world: chilling someone for a few hours, even days in extreme cases can do wonders depending on the situation. Chilling someone for a few months? 18 months? I think I'll pass on that one, at the very least I'll wait a good long time while a few 10s of thousands of others try it first.

If you can afford a decent hotel, you're less likely to balk at $20 wifi. If, on the other hand, you're looking to spend $50 a night for a hotel room, getting cheap entertainment is probably just as much a priority.

This is like complaining that professional food critics have personal relationships with many high profile chefs, it's true but it misses the point. Reviewers who make bad (as in, inaccurate) reviews lose readers, no one wants to waste money on a lemon.

I'm much more concerned about AAA publishers leaning on reviewers for good reviews or outright buying them, as has been shown in the past, than I am concerned about some shadowy conspiracy to... promote games by indie developers who happen to be minorities or women? I guess...?

And finally, in today's world of aggregated reviews, it's incredibly difficult to game the system in the way you are describing. It wouldn't be enough to convince one or two or even a dozen reviewers to give you good review. Even if you managed good pre-release coverage the user reviews would sink you after the fact (see the latest SimCity for an example).

(And finally again, there's no evidence, at all that any of the accusations that started this mess are even true. The only thing known for sure is that she had a relationship months in the past with one person who worked at a website which reviewed her game. Jesus H Christ, can we please just let this die already!?)

Ok, I'll bite. I have a laptop in the living room that can, and occassionally still does get plugged into the TV for multimedia use; yet the chromecaste gets several orders of magnitude more use.

Form factor. I don't need or want another box sitting in front of my TV.
Quiteness. I am well aware that a PC can be silent, but it costs money and effort to accomplish. Less so these days with low power micro boards granted.
Power draw. To get into entertainment of choice is significantly faster with the chromecast unless you leave the PC always on.
Phone vs physical keyboard and mouse. Maybe it's just me but I've never liked using a keyboard/mouse on the couch. With a laptop sure, but even a wireless keyboard is a literal balancing act. Even if you have a nice setup with a remote, I can honestly say I know where my phone is more often than I know where the living room remote is.
Portability. The small advantage of being able to take a show with you when you leave the house, I don't use it much, but my kid sure does. If we need to leave they can pull the show at it's exact current point in playback to the phone in a matter of seconds.

Many of those advantages similarly carry over to consoles and smart TVs, but by far the largest is the user interface. Netflix, Hulu, Youtube... they've all put far, far more effort into their mobile offerings than they have their console and smart TV apps and it shows. It is much faster and easier to find and pick a show with your phone than the laggy, disjointed messes that some of those console apps are. Add in the fact that multiple people can be looking for something to watch at once, including across multiple services and it can make a big difference.

Aw crap, all that and I forgot the obvious one.
Price! You can get 4 of these for less than even a cheap HTPC.

Resistant would probably be a more accurate description than immune, with significant exposure even people with the mutation would still get infected eventually. Originally it was speculated that the mutation could have been selected for during the black death, but I believe that turned out to be largely bogus.