If they don't want to continually be blamed for attacking various web properties, then maybe they should... I dunno.... stop attacking various web properties?

Keep hoping. >_

What's the demographic of the people running these startups? People who have grown up in the Web 2.0 age that think they know better than older folk that have already run into these situations and come up with means to mitigate them. Because it's "old" it's bad and has to be thrown away and discarded.

Having worked with some of these people first hand, my level of contempt for these webscale "developers" knows no bounds. It's like working with 15 year olds who think they know how the world works and complain bitterly that their parents are holding them back. Their a testament to Dunning and Kruger.

I've been pushing back at our company against using all these saas because this sort of situation is just going to keep happening, and undoubtedly escalate, all because webscale developers arrogantly dismiss the lessons of the past.

(eg: I actually had someone tell me that they refused to use port 80 because it was "against modern development practises". I'm pretty sure I physically felt several brain cells shrivel up and die when I heard that. They also refuse to use version control and branching because merges are "too problematic".)

https://youtu.be/i5tWT6I1GvY?t...

Assuming they can even afford to do such a thing, what idiot in their right mind would willingly travel through Russia when it's run by psycho madmen?

So apparently BGM has decided that it's time to bankrupt themselves, cause I can't imagine that *anyone* would want to work with them after this kind of idiotic stunt.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rct+mmr

Anything else, smartass?

What citations could you possibly need? Haven't you read the news at any point in the past several years?

Large swaths of North America have had almost zero cases for a couple of decades. And in the course of the last decade or so, we've gone from that to vilifying disneyland for being a disease vector, and clumps of outbreaks have been appearing in various major population centres, especially around those where the anti-vaxxer movements have been highest.

I'm not going to waste my time spoonfeeding you information when you're literally one google search away from finding it yourself.

Actually, there IS a very good reason. It's called insurance, because shit happens. There will be a small segment of people who react badly to vaccines, because there are small segments of people who react badly to all sorts of ridiculous things, from onions to sunlight.

Unfortunately, a majority of these people don't even know until AFTER they've already been exposed and go into anaphylactic shock or worse.

But the benefit to getting the entire population vaccinated is so overwhelmingly great that the idea of NOT vaccinating people is just ludicrously irresponsible, so this little insurance fund was set up to help those that draw the short stick.

We will never be prepared for a global epidemic as long as anti-scientific morons are able to influence and/or dictate policy.

For example: The vaccination efforts of the last century have effectively been wiped out thanks to the idiotic anti-vaxxer movement, causing measles cases to surge, and are continuing to increase. I'm planning on talking to my doctor about the possibility of a measles booster just to keep my family safe.

And then there's the whole Thimerosol thing, which single-handedly destroyed our ability to easily distribute vaccines en masse. All because some assholes with zero chemistry knowledge freaked out because there was a mercury atom in the molecule. It doesn't occur to these people that if they took common table salt and consumed their component elements, your body would dissolve, punctuated by explosions.

So no, I expect that we are going to see more and more small epidemics of various diseases, and it's probably going to get significantly worse, all thanks to uneducated morons who think their ignorance has the same weight as hard-won knowledge.

What do you mean 'at one point'? People still call it that. :)

Or, you know, I could RTFA and find out that it's actually an effort to create a FILE FORMAT for sharing 3d spatial audio data. Dunno if there's already such a thing, but if there isn't then it definitely makes sense to have one.

What's wrong with OpenAL?

I love standards! There are so many to choose from!

If the knock offs have better battery than the original, I'll take the knock offs any day.

I saw this article first on IFLScience, and wowee... the comments were the equivalent of repeatedly thwacking multiple hornets nests with sticks. The sheer number of people up in arms about this study is jawdropping.

While not really surprising, it is depressing. Especially when you consider the fact that the majority of people who were outraged had no idea what homeopathy actually was. Countless comments about how willow bark, st. johns wort, etc worked for them and therefore the study was just a big conspiracy by big pharma, etc. They were completely oblivious to the fact that what they were talking about wasn't even homeopathy.

I'm torn between wanting to try to educate these people, or just declaring it a lost cause and troll them until they burst a blood vessel or something.