You've apparently never driven on U.S. 101 in the SF Bay Area; the primary reasons for traffic slowdowns are:

(1) Auuuuuuuugh! There's a huge ball of light up in the sky! We fears it, my precious!

(2) Look! An accident! Is there blood? Hey, Bill, can you see any blood?!?!

(3) I must get in the fast lane because it is the "fast" lane, even though I'm coming up on my exit!

(4) I must get from the fast lane all the way over to the exit lane, but it's OK if this takes forever, I was in the fast lane for 50 feet, dammit!

(5) Yes, I know it's after 3 PM and before 7PM! What do you mean, the lane to the left of mine is "The Car Pool Lane"? I'm driving slow in the middle lane; if you want to pass, you should get into the car pool lane and pass, then get back into this lane; you probably won't get a ticket anyway...

(6) Let me race up in this lane that I need to be out of before too long, rather than getting over now, even though I see barricades ahead, because I know some dumbass will let me in, right? Right? Hey, dumbass, I'm talking to you!

(7) I want to get on one of the bridges, but I don't want to wait behind all the people who also want to get on one of these bridges, so I'm going to block the next lane over until someone lets me in just to punish everyone else... if I have to wait, then everybody else damn well has to wait, too.

That probably should have been a countdown; fast lane discipline while car pool hours are in effect is probably the number one cause of traffic slowdowns, followed by "I'm too stupid to get over ahead of time", with "Auuuugh! Ball of fire!" in third place...

Nah, Plus Photos needs an insane frenetic unusable landing page like Hangouts and then only ten percent of the features of Picasa, so they can go ahead and kill Picasa and then kill Plus Photos in two years when nobody uses it.

It's not particularly race that decides this as much as national origin. American's or Europeans start dieing and real resources will be poured into the research. As long as it's an "African" disease no one really cares in the west enough to pour real resources into a vaccine.

A Africa could be a major world power because of it's resources, that is if every tribal group wasn't trying to kill every other tribal group and every religion wasn't trying to kill every other religion. There is one simple fact of life, money gets things done and when poor people are dieing and the rich aren't, the problem won't be solved because the poor people don't have the resources to solve it and the rich don't care.

Your wrong on this. If Ebola has gone airborne (it kills more than 2/3rd of infected and it's got a 21 day incubation) we could be in for the worst pandemic the world has seen since the black death in Europe. The typical response to that statement is an eyeroll and a "they've said that before". Yes they did, and then they did what they always do, massive massive research to understand the virus so they could develop a vaccine before it got to the kill everyone stage. The end goal of bringing these people home is a vaccine for the rest of us before Ebola comes here for real (and it will come here if it goes airborne). The secondary goal is to save their life. But if they die they have direct access to the live virus and a corpse killed by it. The research value is immeasurable for those two things.

Please understand without a threat of this coming to the west there is almost no chance whatsoever that a vaccine will be developed. West Nile Virus has been around for hundreds or thousands of years. It's arrival in the US triggered real research that is probably going to result in a vaccine next year. The same is true of Ebola, bringing an infected American home is going to result in fast tracking the research on this virus.

A pandemic like this is incredibly scary. In every major city in the US we have enough medical beds to support about 1/4 of 1% of the population being sick enough to require hospitalization. If 20% of the population needed medical attention about 19.75% probably wouldn't get any. There is a movie that I think accurately displays this. It's called Contagion, they show the CDC and FEMA building basically large warehouse facilities to hold the sick and dieing (with very little care) and they even show the massive central disposal systems that would need to be in place to handle that number of bodies. The other nice thing is they show the breakdown in society including uncontrolled rioting and all the bad stuff humans will do to survive.

Yes, you should object.

Voters can't be sure that there's any evidence of their vote entering the system accurately reflecting their vote without a voter-verified paper ballot. Electronic ballots are easily lost, misrepresented, and useless in a recount. Electronic voting doesn't improve on the problems with voter-verified paper ballots and electronic ballots introduce problems all their own. So this is an area where traditional voter-verified paper ballots are better for the voter and well worth fighting for.

Braille printed ballots are extra nice to have (the braille can co-exist with the ink print on the same voter-verified paper ballot). But voters who can't read ink printed text without braille (illiterate and blind voters, to name a couple of examples) can get help from a computer to help them prepare a voter-verified paper ballot. These voters can feed in a voter-verified paper ballot into a machine that is essentially a scanner/printer combo that prints marks on a traditional voter-verified paper ballot filling in the blanks in accordance with user input to the computer. The user can get the voter-verified paper ballot out of the machine and check out its accuracy, either submit it to be counted or spoil it to get a new voter-verified paper ballot and mark it themselves, Such voters can also bring someone they trust to help them vote but this is obviously less preferred as this means divulging one's vote to someone else.

I think this is great news as this offers a huge incentive for other countries to stand up competing infrastructure to the US and decimate US domination over the Internet.

The Internet I signed up for was never intended to be controlled by a handful of global, massive content companies.

One advantage of vote-by-mail is that any large-scale fraud (enough to tip an election) takes quite a bit resources and people
One advantage of on-line voting is that minimal resource and people (e.g., as small as one person) can likely perpetrate such an action.

Two people can keep a secret (if one of them is dead). This is the difference.

Yes, you're the only one. Many of us don't call it anything at all.

I learned that you're either successful or work 45 hours a week.

Success can be measured by more than just money. I measure it by the metric "quality of life". And that requires me to have a life besides working when I can actually spend the money I earn.

I mean, why bother earning it if you have no time to spend it?

...fifty pounds each didn't seem to help with the cornering, so I went back a few hours later and told him I wanted to try seventy-five. He shook his head nervously. "Not me," he said, handing me the air-hose. Here. They're your tires, you do it."

"What's wrong?" I asked. "You think they can't take seventy-five?"

He nodded, moving away as I stooped to deal with the left front. "You're damn right," he said. "Those tires want twenty-eight in the front and thirty-two in the rear. Fifty's dangerous, but seventy-five is crazy. They'll explode!"

"I told you," I said, "Sandoz laboratories designed those tires. They're special. I could load them up to a hundred."

"God almighty!" he groaned. "Don't do that here."

"Not today," I replied, "I want to see how they corner at seventy-five."

He chuckled. "You won't even get to the corner, Mister."

"We'll see," I said, moving around to the rear with the air-hose. In truth, I was nervous. The two front ones were tighter than snare-drums; they felt like teak wood when I tapped on them with the rod. But what the hell? I thought. If they explode, so what? It's not often a man gets a chance to run terminal experiments on a virgin Cadillac and four brand-new $80 tires.

--Hunter S Thompson, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', 1971

Can't we somehow speed up ... hmm...

Why am I suddenly against general health care?

When was that? I know exactly NOBODY who can in this economy get fresh out of college and expect more than a temp job, payment optional.

I vote for the go-poorly-more-or-less-forever...

The current state-of-the-art hotel security fail has pretty much flew under the public radar after a brief buzz, and apparently was so forgettable that it was even forgotten by many of the readers of slashdot...

Does it matter? Show me the Millennial who has money. Even if they earn big they blow it instantly on their toys.

You'd be surprised just how many people claim they have the president's suite... And who have the access to it to prove it!