So I have just been reading. Still, a lot better than nothing

Since the teacher could get vaccinated, and the vaccines are effective, why would he need to hide behind plexiglass? Or do you mean the glass protects the kids from whatever pathogens the teacher might carry?

Every MD had it as a child? I am not agreeing with the parent's premise, just saying that your example doesn't contradict the statement that the MMR causes autism in a certain percentage of children.

I think that is what poster meant by "some may actually have some practical benefits for some illnesses". But when you take 'acupuncture helped me with back pain' and produce 'acupuncture cures everything!' you get the named holistic nut bar.

I would agree up to the point where the people banned from the schools are still forced at gunpoint to pay for them. Maybe a better long term solution would be to let non-vaccinators have their own schools, and then watch attendance plummet after the first disease runs through them. Or, if nothing happens, that can be a learning experience for the rest of us.

I had the same initial thought about IP laws, so I will take a stab at answering your question. Could it be that our IP laws put a large damper on cooperation and sharing libraries? I know we have open source, but those have a specific license on them because of our IP laws. Maybe the need for that license is a barrier to some resources. What if large commercial entities were free to share efforts on basic libraries without fear of a major legal train wreck? If those efforts could supplement what is already available, things would be better.

I get it confused with the old Project Orion. Plus one of my favorite novels as a kid was Poul Anderson's Orion Shall Rise which featured that propulsion technology.

I gave the same advice when I worked with doctors who had to have two dozen different passwords (Medical applications at the time could not be bothered to implement AD integration). They just carried a little notebook around with the passwords in it. Sometimes advice like 'never write your password down' is counterproductive, since the alternative was they just used as simple a password as possible for everything.

That is awful. There is a certain class of security person who should never be given any responsibility. That approach is just another reason why effective security is difficult to implement, they have burned through any capital they may have had by wasting everyone's time on a near-useless measure.

A long "password" can be achieved by using a sentence, which is typically easy to remember but also sufficiently complex. Not a jumble of words like the horse battery staple, but a real sentence. It is easy for people to use sentences that apply to their own lives but are not at all easily guessable. For instance "Fluffy eats too much bacon."
One problem with this approach though is that many apps or sites don't allow spaces, or they have the counterproductive 'policy' that forces you to use a number, a special character, blah blah blah, but only allows some small number of characters. But it works great for modern OS passwords. So go ahead and set your policy to length only and advise users to make a sentence.

What use is a link to a science article on Business Insider? Here is the EHT project home page It seems the goals of the project are a lot more interesting than simply proving black holes exist.

It annoys me that the journalists didn't include this aspect in their story. It is easy to understand, interesting, and relevant.

Even some thirty years ago my experience was that journalists would write the story first, then try to find sound bytes etc. that supported the pre-written story. I never knew a journalist to investigate first, then figure out a good story to write from it. Not that that doesn't ever happen, but why waste time investigating first when you run the risk of finding out there was no story? Time is money,

I don't know about angels, but it is fear that gives men wings.

I was just grousing the other day about commercials for games. Who cares about the cutscenes? Why would anyone make a purchase decision based on how cool the cutscene looked?