Hank from SciShow on the antivax phenomenon,
as Twinbee hints at; it's all to do with bias
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

You would think a carrier could easily block VOIP originating calls to emergency services.
Unless that information is lost by the time the call arrives at the carrier.
There has to be an originating caller id - as this is who is charged for the call,
certainly if the destination is not an emergency services number.

The lesson to be learned is to keep investigative branches separate; do not have the same body responsible for investigations into issues of national security and investigations into trivial copyright infringement.

Duh.

I followed the link expecting to read about security aspects of different methods of using computer systems to send (bulk) SMS.

Would using a brain-computer interface when gaming have the potential to increase this effect?
I mean once you get used to controlling your virtual environment using nothing but your thoughts...

And you are assuming they did not intend to get caught. In a western prison they get regular meals...

Name one other profession or trade or area of expertise where expert advice is so routinely ignored for such trivial reasons.

All of them.

It doesn't happen with doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics or insurance agents. /blockquote.

You might want to talk with some doctors, lawyers, plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics or insurance agents. They'll tell you differently. It might happen a little more often to IT professionals, but, trust me, it does happen everywhere.

They actually teach this in the intro engineering classes. Ironically enough with a powerpoint presentation about the subject of make pp presentations. Unfortunately very few of the professors are required to learn this skill, often with the poor practices that you mention or worse.

Having an interest in terminal ballistics, I'd like to see some citation for that. While there may be some difference between 5.56 NATO and, say, 7.62 NATO in terms of lethality, I would be willing to bet that the primary contributing factor is shot placement.

We use small calibers because it allows the soldier to carry more ammunition into battle.

Microsoft should absoultely take none of the blame for this. PowerPoint is a tool that does have it's useful purposes sometimes. For example, it's absolutely great for printing shipping labels or making last-minute valentine's day cards.

Would something like this nose
http://www.eads.com/1024/en/eads_innovation/Innovation_Articles/security/electronic_sniffer_dog.html
work outdoors in hot dusty Afghanistan or cold mountainous Afghanistan?

Why bother? Thanks to security theatre, they can now simply blow themselves up in the scanner queue, which will kill the hundred or so people packed in there, will probably shut down the entire airport, and will cause the government to rape us even harder than before.

That's perfectly reasonable. This is a misrepresentation:

When you look at the physics, it is entirely possible, it just isn't attractive given the area used and the cost of doing it.

I quickly scanned TFA, but didn't see what the 'metal' actually was (steel? iron? titanium?). With a vastly larger amount of delicate structure potentially exposed to the environment, I think corrosion could be a significant problem.