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  1. Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Not quite. The 'burn rate' is a measure of how quickly an infected person ceases to be a vector of infection (by getting better or dying). I'm talking about probability of getting infected at all. Technically, an immune individual shows a burn rate of infinity since they never carry the infection in spite of exposure.

    So mass vaccination increases the effective burn rate as measured over the population.

  2. Re:Now if only the rest of the country would follo on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Not quite. If you consider that the chance of transmission isn't 100% and that given a well vaccinated population, 61% of those transmissions are stopped, it greatly reduces the spread of the disease. Note how quickly the last measles outbreak died down, even with a depressingly low vaccination rate where it started.

  3. Re: 23 down, 77 to go on Religious Affiliation Shrinking In the US · · Score: 1

    Yet your pattern of thought still has the signature of the zealot about it.

    You might be surprised to learn that some religions consider life to begin with the first breath and so have no reason to oppose abortion. Some don't find homosexuality to be anything to worry about. Some are absolutely against war.

    There are, of course, batshit insane religions that believe anyone who believes differently is a second class citizen...

  4. Re:marketing & branding on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 1

    Personally, an aol address gives me a brief giggle but no judgement beyond that.

  5. Re:It's a demand-side problem ... on After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing · · Score: 1

    Supply-side economics

    I don't care how many tons of frosted elephant dung cereal you put on the market, demand will remain minimal.

  6. Re:I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you... on After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing · · Score: 1

    And Arizona.

  7. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    It is not a criterion that they use, I never said it was, nor did anyone in this thread. Rather I advocate it as a criterion among others.

  8. Re:marketing & branding on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 0

    If someone showed up for an interview in the tech industry wearing big floppy clown shoes, you wouldn't judge?

    How about if they show up for a cross country race wearing stiletto heels?

  9. Re: Good on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    Sure, but the best results will still come from multiple sub-queues feeding in to tailor the behavior to the service type. The fair queuing is still needed so you're neighbor the rabid downloader doesn't disrupt your VoIP call.

    Ideally, in the fair queueing, each customer will get a commit large enough to support at least VoIP and a video stream and the customer queues will allow bandwidth borrowing.

  10. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    It is A criterion. Graduation rate and the usefulness of the resulting degree also factor in. Value for money plays a role as well.

  11. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    The part where the U.S. government is on the hook for the default, not the lender. Believe it or not, the U.S. government is still AAAA rated.

  12. Re:Some 'Things' more valuable than others on Beware the Ticking Internet of Things Security Time Bomb · · Score: 1

    The parts you mention are not more reliable today because of the added complexity, it's better materials and the manufacturing tech. Transplant that to the design of a '70s car and the benefit would remain.

    That's not to say that the ECU fine tuning constantly isn't helpful, it is. It would be better still if it was as open as the mechanical design of a car from the '70s. That and if the replacement parts didn't cost a small fortune due to being harder to duplicate and easier to sue over due to copyrighted firmware.

  13. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    But considering that the loans are effectively co-signed by a AAAA organization, the interest rates are outrageous.

  14. Re:Why is ITT even eligible for federal student lo on SEC Charges ITT Educational Services With Fraud · · Score: 1

    Because Stanford, MIT, and Yale graduates are far less likely to end up in default on their loans.

  15. Re:Study could also prove effects of Drugs on Huma on Studying the Roots of Individuality · · Score: 1

    But perceptions DO alter reality, just not that overtly. We tend to see what we expect to see and our actions based on what we see affect the state of the world and what other people see.

    Consider how the perception that only an R or a D can win the election keeps people voting for an R or a D making sure that only Rs and Ds win the elections.

  16. Re:Study could also prove effects of Drugs on Huma on Studying the Roots of Individuality · · Score: 1

    Changing you, certainly. But I see no argument for why it would necessarily be for the worse in all cases.

    Also keep in mind the other things that may be changing your thinking for the worse, such as watching the news, looking at advertising, worrying about the bills, slavish adherence to a work schedule that offers little time off and subtly penalizes actually using even the little that is offered, etc.

  17. Re: Good on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    Since PIE is a queue discipline, it cannot eliminate queuing. It can help buffer bloat though.

  18. Re:honey, where'd you hide the spare key? on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    Illegal aliens, no doubt.

  19. Re:Get SpaceX crew-rated soon. on ISS Crew Stuck In Orbit While Russia Assesses Rocket · · Score: 1

    They do have a lifeboat they can use to evacuate the station. However, ISS is not really meant to be left unmanned for an extended time, so that presents it's own problems.

  20. Re:More hoops before travelling through USA on Judge: Warrantless Airport Seizure of Laptop 'Cannot Be Justified' · · Score: 1

    ...without basis or probable cause.

    Not random, but according to the judge it was without probable cause. Surely if they had probable cause, they could get a warrant.

    So what we have here is that he is suspected of involvement with criminal activity, but not with cause sufficient to get a warrant and search him properly. What should one do to not arouse the vague unfounded suspicion of a LEA?

  21. Re:Interest in computers on Recruiters Use 'Digital Native' As Code For 'No Old Folks' · · Score: 1

    And the sad attempts to make it look like a "natural" part of the game play.

  22. Re:Systemd detractors are like climate change deni on Linux Mint Will Continue To Provide Both Systemd and Upstart · · Score: 1

    Just wait till you try to boot the server with the RAID in degraded mode. Oh, the fun you'll have!

  23. Politicians on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    We should name them after politicians and ambulance chasing lawyers. It can't possibly give them a worse reputation and the confusion may result in more funding for the eradication efforts.

  24. Re:A victory on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 2

    Are you kidding? As long as there is any money at all to be made, they'll still be there. They were there way back when commercial traffic was still banned on half the links and for all but a .com domain.

  25. Re: Good on FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations · · Score: 1

    If they do it right, it should only be applied to the individual customer's share of the bandwidth under fair sharing.That is, of the packets I am transferring on the network, the ones I flag as low latency go to the head of my queue but don't go in front of the packets you are transferring.