It would have been easier for you to just type "I don't know anything about Ebola."

"You can't get Ebola from someone sneezing in the room."
if they're 9 feet away from you.
Right next to you, and yes you can get it.unlikely but possible

"You can't get Ebola from someone showing no symptoms."
true, but bear in mind that includes running a fever. How well do you recognize someone with a slight fever? How any people at the beginning stages still continue their daily routine until the are too sick? I'ts just a cold, at first.

"You typically can't get Ebola from very short term contact."
Um..incorrect.

Look, you are right, it is highly unlikely anyone on the plane got ill. Less s for any who came in contact after the flight.
But lets stay aware that it is contagious, and all you need is some a little body fluid exchange...or a kiss on a dead persons lips.

Simple risk analysis. Risk of getting it? very low. Impact if you do get it? likely death.

"Then lets say your neighbor is full of complete fucktards that spend more money then they have, "
comparing home money and budget to government level money and budget lets us know you have no real clue, so Thanks.

No. No One deserves to be a victim.
It was unwise, but they are still victim and the people who took it are still the criminals.

They caught it when in an Ebola area, it just got diagnosed here.

Yes they are 'ready'. They will use the same brain dead excuse they did when native were found. That they are heathen and the believer mission is to convert them, then if they don't convert, use fear to create an us(we're good and right thinking!) with them (bad and wrong thinking.)

I have heard people say that find ET would end religion, and I wish they where right, but cognitive dissonance is strong in people who don't learn how to think critically.

So how many computers are fucked becasue of Bash?
I don't see a powershell hack making people do emergency patches.

"What car would he have made Windows 8 in that analogy?"
I don't know, whats a really solid car the runs really well look innovative but people hate it because they hate change?

Between January 2011 and March of this year, the four men and others allegedly hacked into the computer networks of Epic Games, Valve, Zombie Studios and the U.S. Army, as well as partners of Microsoft, using methods including SQL injection and stolen user names and passwords of company employees and software development partners.

"Oh wait, intellectual property laws are completely incompatible with the free market. "
and so are the poor and the sick. You're point?

Because you are way out of the loop?

"Download as many MP3’s as possible, and add them to the folders you’re sharing on Grooveshark."

Distributing copyrighted material without authorization is a crime.

". Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change seems pretty nerdy to me."
ANd there are a lot of site that specialize in law that are discussing it. /. is the worse place to discuss it because there are no experts here, and most people haven't even read the FCC ruling itself.

"Discussing legal ramifications of a regulatory change"
I don't think people spouting off their incorrect interpretation of the ruling and having no legal background actually count as a discussion so much as it is angry wankery

". I doubt that a sports site would be as interested in the legal aspects of the change;"
no, they have the same wankery going on on those site as slashdot does.