Normally, I wouldn't care about antivaxxers, but their evil, vile lies and willful stupidity -- all done in the name of self-aggrandisment -- is threatening the lives of innocent people who can't make informed decisions of their own.
It's worse than that, they're threatening the lives and health of people who can and did make informed decisions because they're helping to destroy herd immunity. No vaccine is 100% effective, and the more people there are who are not vaccinated, the more prevalent a disease can be, the more chance there is that even people who have been vaccinated will catch it.
Parents have the right to subject their children to the risks they want for the payoffs they want.
Actually legally-speaking we do not, at least outside of certain common-sense bounds.
For example I may want to train my child to become an Olympic-class sprinter, but if I tried to do that by forcing them to outrun attack dogs that I set on them I'd find myself in an enormous amount of trouble if caught.
Legally-speaking refusing to get her vaccinated would not have been a problem, but morally-speaking it's rather more of a grey area.
Mesh networks, everyone interconnected, no-one having an ISP. Sounds great, at least from an "extremely difficult to shut down" point of view.
But if no-one on the mesh has an ISP, how does the mesh connect to the outside world? Never mind Twitter or Facebook, how do people get to "traditional" media outlets, or even Google for that matter?
Yeah, "PC" is arguably just an abbreviation of "personal computer"
There's no "arguably" about it, it definitely is an abbreviation of "personal computer", and I for one still remember the days when IBM PCs came with something other than Windows installed (or even MS-DOS for that matter). Anyone who uses "PC" as a shortened form of "Windows PC" is lazy and wrong.
Mind you, I once heard someone at work (and I work for a web agency!) make a distinction between a PC and a laptop...
People have been saying "killer app" for decades. More recently (within the last decade or so but certainly before smartphones were around), "web app" has become an abbreviation for "web application".
Assuming he hacked/cracked into their servers (and TFA certainly implies it), that's a crime under the Computer Misuse Act here in the UK so he can potentially do gaol time just for that.
Say what? There's nothing in the GPL that prevents you from selling your software, or software written by someone else and released under the GPL (as long as you don't change the licence and make the source available).
If this master measure is changing and can no longer be relied upon, why would you rely on any of its copies? They too may well be changing - but to what do you compare them to find out? Not the master mass (as you know that's wrong), but you can't compare them to each other either as you have no way of knowing which of them is accurate, if any.
60% teach both evolution and ID and do not make claims as to their validity
That 60% are doing more than paying "a few seconds of lip service to what some other people believe", let alone the 12% that teach only creationism.
Evolution, even if it is wrong is more valid as a scientific theory than creationism. A scientific theory must make testable predictions; "God did it!" fails on that count alone.
In what sense? The site I'm working on is XHTML 1.0 strict compliant and renders properly in IE 6, 7 and 8. No, we don't use MathML, but to say simply "IE doesn't support XHTML" seems somewhat disingenuous.
The major browsers just don't give a crap what you feed them.
The same is not necessarily true of assisstive technologies such as screen readers.
Now if all you care about is the maximum return on investment that probably isn't important to you, but in that case I'd be wary of throwing the word wanker around too much...
In the sense that it can be made to work in all the major browsers, yes.
The GP is right - tables are for tables of data, not for laying out content that is not actually tabular. You wouldn't write a document in a spreadsheet just because that would mean not having to worry about tabstops, would you?
The Tea party didn't exist 3 years ago. If that particular group of people can become a political force overnight I would hope the geeks of the nation could manage as well.
Speaking as a geek who's worked in IT for 11 years, as a rule we simply don't have it in us to be politicians. We just don't think or speak the same way and are nowhere near charismatic enough.
Yeah, there are exceptions to that, but I'm not convinced that there are enough of them to get a party together that has any real chance.
More to the point, while they can't arrest everyone (although as you say if there are few enough, then they can) they certainly can pick a bunch and arrest them to make an example of them.
Others might say that doing this opens the door to doing more in the future. So it's auto-completing of "piracy-related" search terms today; perhaps next year it'll be removing search results for wikileaks-style information.
(Yeah, I know, slippery-slope fallacy, etc)
Just because the thing being searched for is arguably wrong, doesn't mean that this isn't also a worrying development.
Then what the hell are you doing with a Facebook account? That's like having a shower then complaining that you got wet - yes, that's the whole point.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE JUDGED BY EMPLOYERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN 10 YEARS FOR THINGS I DID TODAY.
Then either don't do them, or man-up and learn to not give a shit. Any prospective employer that won't hire me in 2021 because of a picture of me drunk or whatever in 2011 is an employer I wouldn't want to work for anyway. (Also, obligatory xkcd.)
Same reason the authorities tend to advise not to pay kidnappers, governments refuse to negotiate with terrorists, etc - as soon as you start doing that and word gets out, you'll opening the door to other people doing the same thing.
The skin protects the part of the onion you do want; if it didn't have skin it would have to be wrapped or encased in plastic, which would push the price even higher.
The onion skin doesn't cost $129.95 when purchased separately.
Irrelevant, unless you really believe that the big OEMs are paying the same price for their Windows licences as you and I.
except Facebook already gets people to surrender a lot of privacy before ever clicking through to the real content
Games are the real content on Faecbook? And there I was thinking it was keeping in touch with distant friends and what they're doing without having to write emails/messages to every single one of them individually...
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Normally, I wouldn't care about antivaxxers, but their evil, vile lies and willful stupidity -- all done in the name of self-aggrandisment -- is threatening the lives of innocent people who can't make informed decisions of their own.
It's worse than that, they're threatening the lives and health of people who can and did make informed decisions because they're helping to destroy herd immunity. No vaccine is 100% effective, and the more people there are who are not vaccinated, the more prevalent a disease can be, the more chance there is that even people who have been vaccinated will catch it.
Parents have the right to subject their children to the risks they want for the payoffs they want.
Actually legally-speaking we do not, at least outside of certain common-sense bounds.
For example I may want to train my child to become an Olympic-class sprinter, but if I tried to do that by forcing them to outrun attack dogs that I set on them I'd find myself in an enormous amount of trouble if caught.
Legally-speaking refusing to get her vaccinated would not have been a problem, but morally-speaking it's rather more of a grey area.
Medicine is a science, and as such would use the formal scientific definition of the word proof.
They also require time to apply dress, makeup, hair styles etc..
I don't know about you, but I get dressed, wash, dry and style my hair, and shave.
I really don't see any fundamental difference.
Mesh networks, everyone interconnected, no-one having an ISP. Sounds great, at least from an "extremely difficult to shut down" point of view.
But if no-one on the mesh has an ISP, how does the mesh connect to the outside world? Never mind Twitter or Facebook, how do people get to "traditional" media outlets, or even Google for that matter?
Yeah, "PC" is arguably just an abbreviation of "personal computer"
There's no "arguably" about it, it definitely is an abbreviation of "personal computer", and I for one still remember the days when IBM PCs came with something other than Windows installed (or even MS-DOS for that matter). Anyone who uses "PC" as a shortened form of "Windows PC" is lazy and wrong.
Mind you, I once heard someone at work (and I work for a web agency!) make a distinction between a PC and a laptop...
People have been saying "killer app" for decades. More recently (within the last decade or so but certainly before smartphones were around), "web app" has become an abbreviation for "web application".
Assuming he hacked/cracked into their servers (and TFA certainly implies it), that's a crime under the Computer Misuse Act here in the UK so he can potentially do gaol time just for that.
Say what? There's nothing in the GPL that prevents you from selling your software, or software written by someone else and released under the GPL (as long as you don't change the licence and make the source available).
Or, just stay honest. Even easier, and better for all concerned too.
If this master measure is changing and can no longer be relied upon, why would you rely on any of its copies? They too may well be changing - but to what do you compare them to find out? Not the master mass (as you know that's wrong), but you can't compare them to each other either as you have no way of knowing which of them is accurate, if any.
60% teach both evolution and ID and do not make claims as to their validity
That 60% are doing more than paying "a few seconds of lip service to what some other people believe", let alone the 12% that teach only creationism.
Evolution, even if it is wrong is more valid as a scientific theory than creationism. A scientific theory must make testable predictions; "God did it!" fails on that count alone.
but MS never bothered to support xhtml in IE
In what sense? The site I'm working on is XHTML 1.0 strict compliant and renders properly in IE 6, 7 and 8. No, we don't use MathML, but to say simply "IE doesn't support XHTML" seems somewhat disingenuous.
The major browsers just don't give a crap what you feed them.
The same is not necessarily true of assisstive technologies such as screen readers.
Now if all you care about is the maximum return on investment that probably isn't important to you, but in that case I'd be wary of throwing the word wanker around too much...
In the sense that it can be made to work in all the major browsers, yes.
The GP is right - tables are for tables of data, not for laying out content that is not actually tabular. You wouldn't write a document in a spreadsheet just because that would mean not having to worry about tabstops, would you?
What, in this context, is the difference between a company and a foundation?
The Tea party didn't exist 3 years ago. If that particular group of people can become a political force overnight I would hope the geeks of the nation could manage as well.
Speaking as a geek who's worked in IT for 11 years, as a rule we simply don't have it in us to be politicians. We just don't think or speak the same way and are nowhere near charismatic enough.
Yeah, there are exceptions to that, but I'm not convinced that there are enough of them to get a party together that has any real chance.
More to the point, while they can't arrest everyone (although as you say if there are few enough, then they can) they certainly can pick a bunch and arrest them to make an example of them.
Others might say that doing this opens the door to doing more in the future. So it's auto-completing of "piracy-related" search terms today; perhaps next year it'll be removing search results for wikileaks-style information.
(Yeah, I know, slippery-slope fallacy, etc)
Just because the thing being searched for is arguably wrong, doesn't mean that this isn't also a worrying development.
There's a difference between ignoring it and actively taking measures to thwart it; the latter sends a rather stronger signal.
I WANT MY PRIVATE LIFE PRIVATE.
Then what the hell are you doing with a Facebook account? That's like having a shower then complaining that you got wet - yes, that's the whole point.
I DO NOT WANT TO BE JUDGED BY EMPLOYERS AND OTHER PEOPLE IN 10 YEARS FOR THINGS I DID TODAY.
Then either don't do them, or man-up and learn to not give a shit. Any prospective employer that won't hire me in 2021 because of a picture of me drunk or whatever in 2011 is an employer I wouldn't want to work for anyway. (Also, obligatory xkcd.)
Same reason the authorities tend to advise not to pay kidnappers, governments refuse to negotiate with terrorists, etc - as soon as you start doing that and word gets out, you'll opening the door to other people doing the same thing.
Most likely it would have cost them enough time and money to custom-build your PC without Windows that it simply wasn't worth the hassle.
The skin protects the part of the onion you do want; if it didn't have skin it would have to be wrapped or encased in plastic, which would push the price even higher.
The onion skin doesn't cost $129.95 when purchased separately.
Irrelevant, unless you really believe that the big OEMs are paying the same price for their Windows licences as you and I.
except Facebook already gets people to surrender a lot of privacy before ever clicking through to the real content
Games are the real content on Faecbook? And there I was thinking it was keeping in touch with distant friends and what they're doing without having to write emails/messages to every single one of them individually...