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Comment Re:Why do people listen to her? (Score 1) 588

by jerryz51 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @01:54PM (#46759021) Attached to: Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'"

Great questions. McCarthy's attempt to rewrite her past is purely amazing. As David Brooks of the NYTimes would say, she is living in epistemic closure, a severe information cocoon. To the max and then some. People like her hate science, hate inconvenient truth. They just want to be patted on the head, lied to and told that their worldview, as deluded as it is, is just fine. Ain't biased assimilation great. Just get rid of the facts you do not like.

Most of the studies which the anti-vaccination crowd quote are hideous, gross, and false. They are pseudo-studies from pseudo-scientists who want to discredit vaccinations for whatever personal reasons. Hey, if you don't like vaccinations, that is great. Just don't lie about it. And don't put the rest of the population at risk.

Jenny, if you want to "stand in line for the f--king measles", that can be arranged. Hey, polio or Ebola can be arranged, too. :D

Oh well, as the Austin Lounge Lizards sang, Jenny and her kind swim in "the shallow end of the gene pool." Ugh!

Fatal System Error 104

Posted by samzenpus on Friday April 23, 2010 @11:09AM from the read-all-about-it dept.

brothke writes "As computing and technology has evolved, so too have the security threats correspondingly evolved. The classic Yankee Doodle virus of 1989 did minimal damage, all while playing a patriotic, albeit monotone song. In 2010, aggressive malware now executes in stealth mode, running in the background with an oblivious end-user, and antivirus software that can’t detect it." Read on for the rest of Ben's review.

US Gov't. Ending Its Hands-Off-the-Internet Stance 452

Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 28, 2010 @09:17AM from the that-was-then-and-this-is-now dept.

Taco Cowboy writes in with a report from The Register about a US policy shift away from keeping hands off the Internet. "According to Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, Obama's top official at the Department of Commerce, the US government's policy of leaving the Internet alone is over. Instead, an 'Internet Policy 3.0' approach will see policy discussions between government agencies, foreign governments, and key Internet constituencies, with those discussions covering issues such as privacy, child protection, cybersecurity, copyright protection, and Internet governance." Here is the presentation in which Strickling enunciated these changes.

PA School Defends Web-Cam Spying As Security Measure, Denies Misuse 364

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 21, 2010 @04:27PM from the great-and-powerful-oz's-big-lie-technique dept.

tekgoblin writes "The Lower Merion School District of Pennsylvania was recently accused of privacy invasion. Now the school has released an official response to the allegations. According to the school, the security feature was installed in the laptops as an anti-theft device and was not intended to invade privacy. The software that was installed would take a photo of the person using the laptop after it was stolen to give to the authorities. Now this may be what it was intended for, but it seems that someone didn't get the memo." The district's claim that it "has not used the tracking feature or web cam for any other purpose or in any other manner whatsoever" doesn't square with the allegations which set off this whole storm. And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?

PA School Spied On Students Via School-Issued Laptop Webcams 941

Posted by timothy on Thursday February 18, 2010 @02:52PM from the wait-for-your-health-insurance-computer dept.

jargon82 writes "A Pennsylvania high school is using laptops they issued to students to spy on them in homes and outside of school. According to a class action filling the webcams and microphones in these laptops could be remotely activated by school officials, and have been used in this role. One student was accused of 'improper behavior in his home' and the school provided a photo taken via his laptop as proof."

The Wi-Fi On the Bus 241

Posted by kdawson on Saturday February 13, 2010 @09:57AM from the opiate-of-the-masses dept.

theodp writes "For students who endure hundreds of hours on a school bus each year in a desert exurb of Tucson, the Wi-Fi on the bus improves the ride. Last fall, school officials mounted a $200 mobile Internet router from Autonet Mobile to bus No. 92's sheet-metal frame, enabling students to surf the Web. What began as a hi-tech experiment has had an unexpected result — Wi-Fi has transformed the formerly boisterous bus rides into a rolling study hall, and behavioral problems have virtually disappeared. 'Boys aren't hitting each other, girls are busy, and there's not so much jumping around,' said J. J. Johnson, the Internet Bus driver."

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