That quotation smacks of pure nihilism. Unsure then (in the sense of a thought experiment) why people who TRULY think that way don't just off themselves. How is death different that hanging around for a good meal?
For the truly dedicated to the kind of piffle you quote, the two ideas should seem indistinguishable.

You seem to have distorted the argument of Inventing Freedom.

Is that like saying that the initial conditions of a function are not the same as the inductive proof of the rest of it? I'm going to have to chew on this a while.

Can you point to where you thought a legitimate question was a denial, when I didn't espouse any alternatives?
Remember back in the day when reasoned debate was kinda vogue?

India was not a third world country since minimum 40 years.

Ebola is (according to the summary) completely contained in Nigeria and Senegal. This 2014 outbreak is all over West Africa, and according to TFA (I know, I know) the patient had just returned from Liberia, a West African country where the current outbreak has (obviously) not been contained.

Someone bringing this virus back is not so surprising. The big deal will be when we have our first case of endemic transmission -- when someone *catches* the virus here.

Enola can not be transmitted by touching someone.
You need contact/exchange of body fluids.
That is the main reason we have this pandemic. Relatives treat ill relatives and because nothing is happening they believe the Ebola thread is an invention of the west ... 3 weeks after their relative died they start showing symptomes ...

There is no 'airborn' Ebola strain.
It is completely impossible that a virus based on Enola or related to it will ever be airborn.
Nice try, though.

Hint: read at least wikipedia and get a basic understanding about "Filoviridae" ...

WTF, the world has a serious problem and idiots like you spread utter nonsense. Frankly I hope karma takes care of you.

Contact != transmission of an illness, aka infection.

Go back to school, or if you are that paranoid consult a psychologist. That is much more helpfull than being vaccined ... imho.

Or eat a brain to gain some IQ ... yes that was low, but people tell me I should stop insulting compltete idiots on /. ... seems it is not good for my reputation in RL.

Well, and what woukd that be good for?

We all know Ebola is not spread in such ways, well ... all but you, obviously.

Thanx fear monger!

As far as I undestood your posts, you repeated the myth, we have not enough lead to make lead batteries.
Claiming that they where "rare earth" and such either rare and also of a pretty delicate chemical composition.

Lithium btw, is a rare earth metal.

Now you are attacking me, for what exactly?

If you believe that lead acid is a good solution for going 'off grid' I suggest you ask around your friends. There certainly is one who has a sailing ship with solar/wind or simply generator/on shore loaded batteries. And they certainly are not lead/acid (that is more than 20 years off topic, but what do you expect from people who live in a country with a first world army and a third world infrastructure ... wow, lead acid is so cool ... (* facepalm *) )

No, the point of being a telecom company is to connect your customers together, move their data where they want it efficiently, and get them to pay you for it. Telecom workloads not only include digging ditches for your access line and running wavelength division multiplexors across them, they also include things like routing IPv4/IPv6, firewalls, load balancing, intrusion detection, preventing and mitigating DDOS, hosting CDNs, routing lots of private networks that all run RFC1918 addresses and maybe VLANs, MPLS, maintaining really large BGP tables, fast rerouting around failures, etc.

We're virtualizing that stuff instead of buying big expensive custom-built routers for the same reasons you're virtualizing your compute loads instead of stacking up lots of 1U machines. Internet-scale routers are blazingly expensive, and we want to use Moore's Law to do the compute-bound parts of the workload cheaply and efficiently and let us build new services quickly because we only have to upgrade the software, while using expensive custom hardware only for the things that really need it, plus a lot of that hardware is getting replaced by things like Openflow switches and SDN, which we'd like to take advantage of, and buying expensive dedicated-purpose hardware means you're often stuck overbuilding because the scale of your different types of workloads changes faster than you can redesign hardware.

Also, the transition of lots of enterprise corporate computing from traditional data center structures to clouds means that the communication patterns change a lot faster, and we need to keep up with them. This stuff does seem to be driven a lot more by the needs of the users (telecom and data center) than by the manufacturers of virtualization software or traditional hardware.

And yes, every bit of business buzzword bingo does flow across our desks.

The difference is that with OSS, they all will eventually get found and fixed. The same can't be said of closed source software.

That is nonsense. As soon as closed source software has a bug professionals are looking for the source of the bug and hence it gets finally fixed.
There is bottom line no difference ... as long as the bug is unknown, no one will find it. Or is it your hobby to read OOS C code and "grasp it" and figure potential and true bugs, and on top of that: fix them?

Which makes a perfect farce of the notion that many eyes make all bugs shallow.

That always was a myth invented be ERS.

Erm, you talk about Macs? No?
Yes, they are distributed with an Apache web server and SSH.
If you consider "manually enabling" similar to clicking the check box in the "sharing" section of "system preferences" then it is indeed a hard job for the typical Mac user! (* facepalm *)
And you are an admin for macs and don't know they come with Apache httpd and SSH preinstalled?

Did anyone try to understand how this "bug" works?

Unless you have any service running, connected to the internet, that starts "bash scripts", nothing can happen to your computer.

Or how exactly do you think angel'o'sphere has any way (not chance! WAY!) at all to start a bash script on your computer, exploit the weakness and on top of that gain "super user" privileges?

That is not going to happen for any private mac user who has not running an Apache etc. and has not activated CGI scripts (and a router configured to route port 80 traffic to your Mac).

Sorry, this "Apple is late" mantras are simply bullshit.