We took a wait and see approach.

When the first study came up saying there was a link, we did a risk/reward scenario. If we vaccinated, there was an increased chance of autism. If we didn't vaccinated, there was very little increased risk (herd immunity hadn't been compromised yet). Neither one of us is a biologist, so we were in no position to evaluate the study. We talked to several doctors, half of which also choose not to vaccinate their children. As a bonus, this path gave us more options: we could always change our mind later, but you can't un-vaccinate.

Several new study come out saying that the first study was full of shite. The risk is much lower, because the current known side effects all have a much lower probability. At this point, we had all of our children vaccinated.

Isn't that what critical thinking is? Evaluating information, making the best decisions you can, and re-evaluating things when the information changes?

He's drwho. He was new here last week, but this week he has a 4 digit UID.

That's not entirely true. The US's laws are based on the English Legal system, and include precedents set in England before the US seceded.

From Wikipedia

I interpret that to mean that the Magna Carta itself is not US law, but the judical decisions that resulted from the document are. But then, I don't even qualify as an armchair lawyer, so consult your own legal representative before oppressing the serfs.

I see no reason why HTTP can't be a high level URN, ala urn:http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3032489&cid=40907233
Whatever URN lookup happens, it will probably resolve to URLs anyway. urn:isbn:0451450523 resolves to urn:http://www.loc.gov/isbn/0451450523, then a list of alternates like urn:http://www.amazon.com/isbn/0451450523

I could accept "What's a memristor?" from a newbie, but a mid-6digit UID? There have been a plenty of memristor articles on /., going back to 2008.

If I can MITM the HTTPS connection, I can MITM the DNS query. Or just target users that already have DNSChanger.

I don't think they can completely get rid of DVD-by-mail. It's a "competitor" to streaming. If the price of streaming is too high, NetFlix can just fall back to DVD-by-mail for the same content. Without that competition, content providers are free to charge whatever they want.

I've always heard discer in rural Indiana. The discer has discs to disc the field.

Email has never been secure. It is very similar to postal mail; you can write whatever return address on the envelop that you want.

Yes, there have been some suggestions lately to improve this. The postal equivalent of comparing the return address's zipcode and the originating post fffice's zipcode, and marking that ones that don't match as "likely spam". It's not ubiquitous, and it's just extra points in the spam scoring.

InnoDB is the default engine, as of version 5.5. Oracle fixed enough performance problems that InnoDB is faster than MyISAM.

One of the base tenants of relational theory is that a view is indistinguishable from a base table. You can take 2 tables and make a view using them. Or you can flip it around, have a single base table and 2 views that resemble the original tables. Both methods are equally valid, and a user querying the data can't tell the difference.

Until you outlaw NULLs in base tables. Now base tables and views are not interchangable.

I agree that NULLs shouldn't be stored in a table, but I also believe that I should be allowed to hurt myself if I really want to. I don't want to do it, but it's just too slow to do it the correct way. So I compromise now, submit a bug report, and revisit when performance improves. And future-me swears at past-me for doing it.

Kids these days don't have to memorize their ASCII tables.

Most cable companies are required to carry the Over The Air channels on the same channel numbers. It's generally part of the local monopoly contract the municipality negotiates with the cable company. If his contract says he can't watch those channels, it's probably unenforcable. A fine example of clauses companies put in contracts, assuming you don't know your legal rights.