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  1. Re:The answer is straightforward on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It does answer the question. The court does. And why is it criminal responsibility?

  2. Re:The answer is straightforward on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't. It's called a court. Most countries have coroners and inquests where the causes of death can be established and findings made.

  3. Re:The answer is straightforward on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The same way you do when a car air bag kills somebody, or somebody gets entangled in their parachute, or slips out of their life jacket and drowns. By examining the circumstances of the case and apportioning blame according to its findings. What you don't do is ask questions that somehow implies air bags, parachutes and life jackets are unnecessary because occasionally they might cause harm instead of prevent it.

  4. Re:The answer is straightforward on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That's for a prosecutor to do and in some cases I expect the answer is very clear cut.

  5. The answer is straightforward on US Is Slipping Toward Measles Being Endemic Once Again, Says Study (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mandate which vaccinations children are required to have to avail of private / public daycare and schools. And make the parents criminally liable if the child or someone he/she comes into contact with contracts a preventable disease because of their negligence.

  6. That's easy enough to do on Upcoming USB 3.2 Specification Will Double Data Rates Using Existing Cables (macrumors.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just stop transmitting the 0s. The data rate is instantly doubled.

  7. The Prius has been on sale for 20 years so culmulative sales aren't exactly instructive. I bet Prius sales are falling off a cliff of late because people inclined to buy a Prius have many better vehicles to choose from these days.

  8. Sadly they sat on their asses while the electric vehicle market coasted by. Hybrids are obsolete these days. At the very least they should be PHEVs.

    Lately Toyota (and Honda) have been trying to promote harebrained schemes like hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which nobody thinks as a viable or especially green way of propulsion.

  9. Re:Another ZEBRA battery? on Toyota's New Solid-State Battery Could Make Its Way To Cars By 2020 (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    And molten salt is used extremely successfully in numerous solar power plants.

  10. Yes and in part that's because of Scotland putting some close to his golf course. Think on that for a moment - this asshole forms a longlasting opinion about a major source of renewable energy because he doesn't what they look like from the links.

  11. Re: Amazon better do something about the cold pack on Trademarks Shows Amazon Has Sights On Meal-Kits, 'Single Cow Burgers' and Other Fast Food Options (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    List these dozens of reasons please. Obviously exclude any reason where laziness is a motivation or any where you'd have still have to visit a grocery / supermarket *anyway* given that these services only ship a fraction of the meals a single person let alone a family would need in a week.

    I doubt you can.

  12. Re: Good on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No dipshit, you're cherry picking to support of a kook belief. A common practice amongst idiots - creationists, anti-vaxxers, 9/11 truthers, holocaust deniers etc. That's all there is to it.

  13. Re:Responsibility? on Michigan Will Build 25 Self-Driving Trolleys In 2017 (observer.com) · · Score: 1

    More to the point, humans are extremely adept at modifying their behavior to nullify safety and exploit weaknesses in systems. Unless the system accounts for that, it will fail.

  14. Re: Good on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Pertussis isn't measles dipshit, and isolated cases is not the same as a blanket statement that vaccination turns someone into a "carrier". You're cherry picking to support kook beliefs.

  15. Re: Good on Vaccines May Soon Be Mandatory For Children In France (theverge.com) · · Score: 1
    There are numerous public health sites that explain how the immune response functions, how vaccines trigger it using attenuated or fragments of bacteria / virii, and how it trains the body to respond against live infections. Stating it turns people into symptomless carriers is grade A derp. It is not supported by any science, utterly disregards all evidence to the contrary and clearly stems from a subtle blend of paranoia, credulity and stupidity.

    Seriously it's such a dumb belief that you should share the gift of your "theory" with your coworkers. It's not often one gets to hear such pure refined kookery first hand.

  16. Re:Amazon better do something about the cold packs on Trademarks Shows Amazon Has Sights On Meal-Kits, 'Single Cow Burgers' and Other Fast Food Options (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Some of us". By which you mean a small fraction of people using this service. Secondly, why not just order groceries delivered to your door when you want them, as you need them instead of subscribing to an expensive service.

  17. Utterly and completely wrong. Vaccination allows your body to recognize and attack an infection before it has a chance to replicate and spread to others. I don't know where you got the ludicrous idea it makes you a symptomless carrier, but I suggest you should be reading from a reputable source instead of whatever brain damage site you get your information from.

  18. Re:Bullshit slashvertisement on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    The problem is that to become a competent C or C++ programmer you must write a lot of C and C++. And by implication you make a LOT of mistakes in the course of writing that code. What happens to that code? If you work for a company then it goes into production and is out there. Even companies that mitigate the risk with code reviews, pair programming or whatever still aren't going to catch all issues. Even some of the most heavily reviewed code in the world like openssl has contained serious problems.

    Therefore it's not a good argument to say competent programmers. Besides, even competent programmers make mistakes whether they mean to or not.

    The argument for the likes of Rust is that it stops entire classes of problem happening by design. During normal programming forget to deallocate memory, or buffer overflow, or call a NULL / dangling pointer because the language stops those things from happening. You can't have two pointers modifying the same data, or have threads sharing an unprotected datastructure because the language stops those things from happening. Things that commonly blow up in C/C++ simply can't happen in Rust without enormous effort, such as throwing the safe checks.

    Rust is no panacea since you can still write broken application logic, or cause a panic (a managed termination), but it's very hard to actually cause a segfault or suchlike. The result is better quality code with less bugs and consequently less support, bugfixing later on. Companies should consider this a good thing.

  19. "I'll have a large pizza and a diet coke please. I've got to think of my weight"

  20. Re: Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1
    Car brands usually go through multiple design platforms in their lifetime and it is very rare that there is anything common between platforms aside from their name. The Clio would be a case in point - my first car was a Clio and the brand bears absolutely no similarity to the new Clio or even the one before that.

    The Zoe shares much of its design with the previous Clio platform, but it has nothing to do with the latest. Chances are when the new Nissan Leaf comes out, that we'll see a new Zoe or other EV from Renault that shares the design with it. Renault and Nissan are in an alliance and have already done this with the 2017 Clio / Micra and the Kadjar / Qashqai. Aside from the trim, logos and entertainment systems, they're virtually the same vehicle.

  21. Amazon better do something about the cold packs on Trademarks Shows Amazon Has Sights On Meal-Kits, 'Single Cow Burgers' and Other Fast Food Options (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1
    Read this about Blue Apron's service. They ship their kits with cold packs which are sodium polyacrylate, a hazardous non biodegradable material produced from hydrocarbons. Amazon had better do something better than this or the problem will get MUCH worse. Even if Amazon / Blue Apron offer a recycling scheme, the majority of it is still going to end up as landfill or down the drain, polluting water tables for decades.

    Aside from that, I seriously question people so fucking lazy that they would avail of these services. Is it really hard to go to a supermarket and just buy the stuff to make a meal? What the hell is the difference? Aside from the freedom to eat what you like, when you like for less money.

  22. Re: Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    How many people have rear wheel drive any more? No one has a transmission running the length of the car unless it's an all wheel drive version. Even electric all wheel drive vehicles will have a drive shaft running the length of the car to the rear wheels. If in-wheel motors become a thing then this might be true but there are a lot of reasons why we don't see them in production cars.

    Lots of cars have RWD. Not to mention fuel tanks, clutch, transmission, exhaust etc. And no, EVs don't have a drive shaft at least not running down the car. If there is a shaft at all it is a differential between pairs of wheels. An EV can hide the batteries in places in places that impinge far less on cabin or trunk space than a combustion engine. Tesla puts them under the floor pan making it virtually flat. Other EVs put them under the rear seats. Practically the first thing everyone notes about EVs is how much extra space there is for the middle rear passenger and center console.

    I was being generous by saying it's a wash. I'm sure some early EVs were bulky and not too smart at hiding their batteries. That is no longer the case.

  23. Re: Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1
    What's with this with an "existing design"? New vehicles don't use existing designs. It's not a constraint. If a vehicle is intended to be an EV / PHEV the design will reflect it.

    In some cases the chassis might even be designed to support different configurations such as happened for the Hyundai Ioniq where the same base supports hybrid, PHEV and EV models. Range in EVs is obviously behind most ICEs but it's clearly improving thanks to higher battery density so I don't even see the purpose of the argument.

  24. Re: Why am I not surprised? on Automakers Are Asking China To Slow Down Electric Car Quotas (electrek.co) · · Score: 1
    Batteries are less energy dense than petroleum but EVs don't need a transmission running up the length of the car, or a fuel tank, or large motor compartment. So it's a wash. Tesla, the Bolt and other vehicles demonstrate that the range is attainable too, especially as battery density goes up and price comes down.

    So bollocks in other words.

  25. Within Europe 35 people have died and countless more infected from measles in the last year. One child with leukemia died because he was infected by an unvaccinated sibling.

    Vaccination should be compulsory unless there is an medical reason not to. And parents who do not vaccinate should be charged with anything from child endangerment all the way up to involuntary manslaughter.