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  1. Re:"forced" on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    Please going out of your house in endangering yourself.

    I'll simplify which vaccines, measles high fatality, and transmission rate pretty fsking deadly. HPV might be deadly low risk of transmission through casual contact. Mumps very treatable. Rotavirus a bout of diarrhea, vaccine side effects 1 in 20k-100k (cdc numbers) require hospitalization and possibly surgery, little risk of transmission as it's fecal to mouth.

    Now measles is a are you a fsking idiot the vaccination downsides are nowhere near as bad as not getting it. While Rotavirus is a vaccine looking for a problem, a bout of diarrhea that might need iv fluids vs possibly needing an infant to get sedated and have surgery. Requiring everybody get vaccinated for everything that comes down the pike is a drug makers dream. By that logic teen pregnancy is a medical issue will we vaccinate against it? We have permanent mood altering treatments now, will agression be the next disease? As I said the government has no business requiring people to get a specific medical procedure or discriminating against those that refuse to.

  2. Re:HDCP 2.2 or later display also needed on Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs · · Score: 1

    I'll pass, my first 1080 tv was so early no HDCP at all, I allready have 4k and again they wont support it. Oddly my plex now, xbmc before that, hd tivo's with pytivo before that all worked without hdcp.. I'm ok with paying for content once. I'm not going to buy it if I can not use it.

  3. Re:Training thats the ticket on Good: Companies Care About Data Privacy Bad: No Idea How To Protect It · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the government tends to require that it's used. The credit industry got allowed to use it as an identifier. At this point it's out of industry's hands it would require an act of congress to change things.

  4. Training thats the ticket on Good: Companies Care About Data Privacy Bad: No Idea How To Protect It · · Score: 1

    Big companies spend time training so they can point to it when something happens? Training is mostly a CYA not a real protection.

    Firing that helps a lot you would be amassed at the amount of stupid and lazy, implemented simple ssn email filters. Watch how many people send things with full ssn's outside the company (something that should never happen) everything from not redacting after idiot customer puts full ssn in an email to automated reports getting sent to outside vendors without so much as requiring TLS. It's not a one time thing they will continue to do so after being trained retrained.

    Something like a SSN should be sitting in a well secure table that only verifies if it's a match since no human should ever need to do a customer to SSN lookup. You can catch a lot of secondary exposures through good filtering and auditing.

  5. BNC are only for analog you say? SDI disagree's with you, as does CXP. Hell 4x CXP6 which goes over 4 BNC terminated coax cables is pretty close bandwidth wise to display port but over a far greater distance.

  6. Re:"forced" on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    Your still having government say it's ok that little Johny gives you measles since his doctor says he might be allergic to the vaccine, but little Jannie is not because she is a hasidic jew. You have the same/similar chance to have either of them infect their classmates. The government has no business forcing people to get any medical treatment or discriminating against those who do not.

  7. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    So your saying that politicians should force us to do what they think we need to do rather than what we want? You seem to have a funny version of democracy.

    A gas tax is the third rail as it's regressive and people see that it's the government taking their money. CAFE was pretty much invisible to the people. We end up with taxes because the SCOTUS gave them carte blanche to tax anything for any reason with any special circumstances instead of having to specifically been given the power to regulate it via constitutional amendment.

    Thats all the stick options oddly the people don't like those, we have tried the carrots but failed.

    Commuter lanes, we let busses in, the speed limit was the same an busses slow everything down to a speed limit crawl. Do it right make them go faster (an enforced minimum), sure gas efficiency goes down but time efficiency is more important and still save gas over single riders even at 110mph.

    Busses, well they are effectively the slowest way to get anywhere that involves an engine.

    Commuter rail, could be good the NIMBLY's block any speed increase, we should have 500kph along major corridors. Stations that are where commuters are not city centers compiling traffic and parking issues.

    Per car registration insurance etc. I would love an EV adding another car in taxes and insurance makes it more prohibitive. A put put scooter even for around town errands costs me more per day than it saves in gas and wear and tear than it is to register insure and taxes. The fallacy that you can rent a ICE or hybrid when you need more range or capacity, renting a truck for a couple days a month for dump runs is more than leasing one and insuring it.

    We give away money to the wealthy with tax incentives for EV's. Altering it to only apply to cars under a certain amount that meet other criteria that gets stricter each year seems more reasonable, short term incentive to make them and long term to continually improve.

  8. Re:Darwin by proxy on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    And that turns the bill into the state compelling parents to vaccinate, Those medical exemptions are just as dangerous as the antivax kids.

    As to medical exemptions I've gotten paperwork from doctors stating a kid had this or that food allergy, the epi pens etc just in case. Only to find the kid eating said allergen. This is not a one time thing but over and over again and were talking in a scout troop, 60 ish kids and one ever other year or so. Oddly these severely allergic kids tend to go yea my parents are crazy by the numbers thats one kid in about 14.

    As a parent it's a numbers game chance of bad outcome from vaccine vs chance of bad outcome coupled with chance of getting disease. Measles is an are you fsking stupid, vacinate my kid do it now do it often hey can I get a booster. Rotavirus 1 in 20-100k side effect requires surgery, the disease requires no treatment 1 in 70 might need iv fluids, why the hell would I give my kid this? Now thats two rather extremely different scenarios, should a parent be forced to vaccinate for the rotavirus the same as measles one kills 1-2 in 1000 the other kills nobody thats otherwise healthy and is a hard transmission path (fecal oral).

  9. Re:"forced" on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    If they wanted to mitigate the risk of disease the medical exception would not be in there. They are just as dangerous if not more so (often it's compromised immune system as the medical reason so they pick up things easily). This bill is coercion by the state for parents to comply, it has no apparent medical effect if it leaves one class of unvaccinated children in school but not others.

    The bill also breaks the basic compact of required education that will be provided for free, remove the medical exemption and include school vouchers but it's still a bad bill.

  10. Re:This is a fundamental violation.... on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    While I may not agree with your reasoning, the fact is vaccines kill and seriously injure people thats the nature of things. The CDC's own paperwork is clear pick any vaccine and has a change of serious injury and death. The MMRV is rated at fewer than 4 per million, deafness, long term seizures/coma, and brain damage, do the math 300m people or about 1200 people in the us with those issues. That is balanced against a 1-2 in 1k chance of death from getting measles (hard to get exposure rate numbers). In effect yes some people will have there lives adversely affected by these vaccines, the gamble is less people have bad outcomes not that nobody gets hurt.

  11. Re:Oliver Wendell Holmes on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    Forcing people by law to have any medical procedure is broken period. While I like vaccines but the state should never be requiring medical procedures or medications. This is not better than the broken we think your kid has adhd they have to take these meds to stay in school, sure they are mind altering but they make the test scores better. Mandatory implants for the deaf? Have we forgotten the medical intervention that effectively killed Allen Turning, gotta fix that gay. Were still having courts order ECT treatments, with fun circular logic that ETC treatments means they are not competent to choose whether or not to get more ECT treatments. The state has no business making medical decisions unless it's the absolutely last possible choice.

    This bill would be better if gave them school vouchers, it's still a bad bill though. The deal with compulsory education was that the state would offer a "free" option, it's already turned that free option into an indoctrination camp now it wants to exclude people? Why should medical exempt kids still go to public schools by this logic they should be forced home school just like everybody else, they are just as dangerous after all the reason they did not vaccinate does not alter the danger to the herd after all.

  12. Re:Too expensive. on Google Launches Project Fi Mobile Phone Service · · Score: 1

    3 Lines moderate to heavy usage under 70 bucks.

  13. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    Thats the ticket artificially punish car manufactures for giving people what they want. The CAFE standards are broken for sure but sin taxes are never fair. Shift it to a purchase tax, that is transparent to the buying they know that their government is taken their money and for what supposed reason. See how long before people call for it's repeal vs these invisible taxes on companies.

  14. Re:They should be doing the opposite on The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Copyright Extension For Sound Recordings · · Score: 1

    5 Years from public performance, sale or distribution. Think thats a bit better let somebody hoard up a lifetime of work with the timer starting when they sell/show or otherwise make it public.

  15. Sure you can record things just fine and home. The production quality tends to suck, the lack of recording engineers with a clue is obvious even to my tin ear. Yes there are the odd gems in the rough but very very few and far between.

  16. By that definition on UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists' · · Score: 1

    Newspapers are friendly to terrorists, basic spycraft has been passing messages via advertisements forever. It uses advanced encryption that if done right can not be broken. Tagging buildings, the daily special at a diner, notes taped under park benches, etc etc have all been used to let people communicate in a clandestine manner should be ban all of those?

  17. Re:Define 'Terrorists' on UK Police Chief: Some Tech Companies Are 'Friendly To Terrorists' · · Score: 2

    Israel and The Saudies are not terrorists, they are nation states. There leadership does not hide, they have been recognized as nation states by the other nation states.

  18. Re:Varies, I suppose on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Well Tesla considers a battery pack expired when it's down to 70% of original capacity, battery wear is not the same for every kwh used. They only point of using EV batteries is they are already there a sunk cost, connected to the grid and have computing power. Using them to give time for NG peeking to spool up and/or a cloud to pass a pew % of the individual battery capacity either way while they are connected to chargers int eh parking lot. Pulling them out of the cars and attaching to the grid would only ever seem to make sense if they were getting a lot of them at scrap price (pulling those 8+ year old 70% or less capacity) to throw them in a warehouse connected to the grid until they went to the recyclers.

    As a homeowner I would love a big battery in my basement, the problem is cost if it can run my house thats either a very big set of hardware to carry 200a or big loads have to get smarter. Around where I live I pay nearly as much for transmission as I do for the power itself.

    Industrial scale batteries don't make much sense NG peeking plants are cheap, solar power is worth about 6c a kwh at wholesale. Adding battery plants to shift production to meet demand is expensive. Having idle peeking plants that are only needed on cloudy days also is expensive. This is the price you pay for using an unreliable power source.

  19. Re:Really on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 1

    Oh they seem to be doing just to stick it to the US, that describes most political asylum anyways.

  20. Re:Varies, I suppose on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Charge inefficiencies, ac/dc, and dc/ac conversions.

    EV batteries only make "sense" if it's a sunk cost since people already have them and can make some money in the exchange for the wear. I cant find numbers for Aquion's tech but your going to end up loosing energy in charging them, self discharge, going back to AC and probably doing DC/AC at/near the panels and back to DC to charge them. It's a few % here a few % there it quickly adds up. We have 253m cars and 318m people in the US your average ev has a 30kWh batter that's 30 hours powering my house. I'm also nearly doubling my household electricity use.

    Adding a big storage battery to every solar install is a pretty big chunk of cash especially if you want several days of capacity at that point your pretty close to getting a bit more battery and go completely off grid.

  21. Re:Varies, I suppose on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    You do realize that batteries whose sole use as a grid buffer is extremely inefficient. Using an EV battery something thats already smart and connected to the grid often could be a good fit.

    There are a lot of issues, the NEC is pretty much killing the usefulness of solar in emergencies due to concerns of linemen and firemen primarily.

    The tax incentives are just federal pork for "certified" solar installers (they paid a bribe to the manufacturer/importer).

    The smartgrid is trending to be the NSA's dream, let's put a network that goes into everybodys home that they have no control over. Sure I want my hot water heater (if it was electric) to shift around it's consumption but I don't want a black box from the power company to do it. At this point it's looking at best like cablecard. We need to isure that open hardware and code can run this. We need an application specific gateway tier thats also open. We need protection from sin pricing, I should not pay a different rate for my hot tub or ac vs my refrigerator. We need protection of all this data being used against us, it's than just power consumption data. Today it's big draws were looking to make smarter once it's standardized it moves lower in the food chain. These devices have uuid's of some sort, maybe it's great that you can find out where a stolen tv gets plugged in but it's awful if your freespace wireless charging now reports everytime your cell phone is in range.

  22. Re:Really on Assange Talk Spurs UK Judges To Boycott Legal Conference · · Score: 1, Insightful

    He is a political refugee, he has sought and been granted political asylum by Ecuador. So at least one sovereign nation has called BS on the political witch hunt.

  23. Re:Varies, I suppose on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Grid scale power buffers??? We do not have any tech that scales well and is efficient. If there was we could put them into peoples homes with solar and avoid the whole the grid is a battery BS.

    Yes there are devices that are balancing power to demand they tend to be expensive and inefficient. This is where things like using EV batteries could be a great thing. The logistics of it is a nightmare though.

  24. Re:Students + Anonimity on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    Yup and when it was not a completely unprovable he said she said they did. A friend was the only female officer so pretty much had to show up at every domestic dispute and rape allegation while on duty. The vast majority were unprovable two people in the room no evidence of force, often the women were questionable witnesses being drunk or high at the time. Plenty of cases where when there were witnesses that were impartial the drunk/stoned girl was willing and eager to take on drunk/stoned guy before they found someplace private. I'm not saying that some of these were not rape, but if your standard is merely accusation it's broken and lets not start of the two drunks raped each other idiocy.

    It boils down to needing some physical evidence, without it cops will go yea thats nice lets go fill out useless paperwork.

  25. Re:So if your network is also from 1997 on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Why on earth would any competent IT staff have SMB open outbound? If at all possible desktops should not be allowed to make direct connections to anything outside in a corp network.