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Comment: Re:Consider me fired. (Score 1) 1263

by Thuktun (#39052503) Attached to: Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers

My mom is a nurse, and her best friend was paralyzed from the flu shot. How's that instead of a @#$@ three days of down time?

Tens of thousands of people die in the USA every year due to influenza. I doubt any of their relatives would find your argument convincing.

If I remember the numbers correctly, the mortality rate of influenza (0.1%) is at least an order of magnitude larger than the rate of adverse events due to influenza infections (tens to hundreds per million).

Comment: Using or making FOSS? (Score 1) 506

by Thuktun (#38987759) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs?

Some of the comments appear to assume that by "open source jobs", you mean "making FOSS". (c.f. "oh, wait, you mean the PAYING ones", etc.) Did you instead mean "using FOSS"? One can be paid well to implement closed-source with FOSS[1], but the jobs being paid to *make* FOSS aren't nearly as common.

The best I've been able to do on the latter is contribute to FOSS projects as part of my jobs writing closed-source software that use open source libraries and tools.

[1] Greater GPL excluded, obviously.

Comment: Re:"cannot pin down what data was stolen" (Score 1) 85

by Thuktun (#38909439) Attached to: Verisign Admits Company Was Hacked In 2010, Not Sure What Was Stolen

Clearly, it's high time to finally develop a method that would allow us to detect that we're not the only ones who have some piece of information.

If such a technology ever arrives, you can bet that either the RIAA/MPAA invented it or they'll be on it like flies on sewage.

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