When you choose to not vaccinate a three year old and he dies of measles

Why this obsession with measles? Even unvaccinated children are at much higher risk of dying from many other preventable causes besides measles.

So where do you set the threshold? Do you want to hold parents responsible for preventing all 1:1000 risks? All 1:10000 risks?

Luckily, that doesn't apply to measles since measles is not a fatal disease in otherwise healthy individuals.

Of course, a woman who chooses to get pregnant without having been vaccinated against measles should face the consequences of her choice.

You'd have a case if someone carelessly spreads Ebola or HIV. In developed countries, however, measles is just not a fatal disease. We vaccinate against measles not to save the lives of children, but in order to prevent birth defects resulting from mothers getting infected during pregnancy.

Unfortunately it's the kids that suffer, not the parents that make the decisions.

You don't understand the purpose of the measles vaccine. It's not to spare children one of the many febrile illnesses they will experience. Those are a normal part of growing up and being human.

Measles vaccination was instituted primarily to prevent serious birth defects in pregnant mothers.

ALL current Measles vaccine are attenuated live virus. THIS VIRUS will be incorporated into our cells and will continue to live. I simply said that they continue to live in us forever, which they will do in just about everybody

There are viruses like that; EBV (mono) and the Herpes virus are common ones. The measles virus, however, is not normally a persistent virus; in almost all infected individuals, measles RNA is eliminated completely within 3 months.

uh no. I got my first degree in Micro-bio/Genetic engineering in the 80s and then worked at CDC sequencing Dengue, VEE, WEE, West Nile amongst other arthropod-borne diseases (all were retrovirus)

Your mistake is one that someone with basic knowledge of medicine or biology should not make. So, if true, your biography would merely be a testament to the low quality of your alma mater and CDC employees.

The primary purpose of the measles vaccine isn't to keep people from getting sick, it's to prevent birth defects.

If you have a compromised immune system, it is foolish to rely on other people's vaccinations to protect you, for the simple reason that there are far too many viruses that we don't have vaccines against.

Furthermore, based on what ethical theory do you have a right to force someone else to undergo a medical procedure for your benefit?

There was no reason to continue the Apple II line at that point. Computing had moved forward and it was time to use a new CPU.

The Apple IIgs had a new CPU, plus up to 8M of RAM, a 15 voice sound card, and color graphics.

I don't know about that. Apple DOS was very well designed considering the fact that most of the disk control was done in software instead of hardware. Apple formatted disks had significantly more data on them than standard MFM formatted disks, and the date was more reliably stored--most Apple II disks still work today after decades of age.

I.e., it had a clever disk device driver.

The one big flaw of Apple DOS was that the interface was through BASIC instead of a standalone shell, and the +D escape kludge to have programs access DOS commands was pretty clunky, but the underlying system code was very well implemented.

I.e. the actual OS other than the disk driver was not so good.

I believe Intel had shortages of the 8086, and the 8 bit bus kept costs down.

If you read carefully, what they want to get is hired into tech companies to "help" engineers "understand" the consequence of their creations

True. What they don't seem to understand is that (1) engineers generally understand the consequences of their creations, whether it's a social media website or a nuclear bomb, and (2) when we don't like the consequences of our creations, we just change jobs.

A lot of people want to get into these companies because there is a lot of money to be made

Journalists are even more desperate, with the number of jobs decreasing several percent every year.

Oh, okay, that' s pretty much how social media companies operate.

It is, but it isn't what programmers are paid for. Programmers are paid for delivering correct, robust, scalable, secure code, and the better ones generally do that.

Let's turn that around and see what that disrespect feels like pointed at us

Journalists frequently disrespect programmers. But why would I care? It's not about anybody's "feelings", it's about objective facts: the profession of journalism is disappearing because their "skills" aren't needed anymore.

If you hate and revile the press indiscriminately, though, you run the danger of destroying one of the pillars of liberty.

The "pillars of liberty" is free speech and an informed populace. Those are two concepts that have been anathema to corporate media and the journalists they employ for more than a century. What newspapers care about is profits, and what journalists care about is personal advancement at any cost.

Android is Linux, C, and Java, with software architectures from the 1980's, and ARM is proprietary and low end.

There were much better alternatives, from a technical perspective, at a similar low price point, like Z80, M68000, CPM, AmigaOS, etc.

The IBM PC came out in 1981, when the dominant personal computers were the Apple II+, the Atari, and the TRS-80. The 8088 actually was a significant improvement over the 6502 or the Z80-with-bank-switching. IBM wanted to go with CP/M but Kildall blew the negotiations and ended up with MS-DOS. For all its faults, MS-DOS was still a better disk operating system than Apple DOS.

The 68000 looks nice, but AmigaOS and MacOS had a tough time dealing with its large flat address space without an MMU. And its architecture wasn't future proof anyway.

IBM tried to design an Apple II replacement shortly after the Apple II came out, and they succeeded spectacularly at that; the rest is just the burden of backwards compatibility. Apple blew it when they threw their Apple IIgs line into the trash and started over, largely because of Steve Jobs and his office politics.

We probably should start over at some point soon, not so much because of the x86 instruction set, but because the architecture of modern PCs is convoluted, hard to support, and insecure due to layers and layers of backwards compatibility.

Are there legal problems with open sourcing 3.3? Is there any third party code? Maybe that could be removed prior to open sourcing.

Why team with journalists? Journalists don't know anything, can't do anything, and don't bring anything useful to the table. In fact, if anything, they taint your work and your message with their biases and ideologies. Journalists used to be a necessary evil as gatekeepers to a costly, limited bandwidth distribution medium (paper, TV), but that function has been made obsolete. And journalists work for for profit corporations that turn your knowledge into their profits. They get something out of teaming with you, you don't get anything out of teaming with them.

If you have something to say or contribute, skip the middleman and publish it and distribute it yourself. If you develop tools for detecting bias or censorship in Google, put them in a Github repository, publish a couple of papers on it, and record YouTube videos.

And if journalists want to take advantage of your expertise as a programmer, make them pay consulting fees. After all, it is their corporate masters that make money from your skills and expertise and they should pay for it.