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  1. Re:The herd's moving on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    In the Army, they told us we could refuse a vaccine, however if we got the illness that the refused vaccine prevented, we earned ourselves a Court martial. I have no problems with charging Parents with Child Endangerment if their child contracts a preventable disease and they weren't vaccinated. It's against your religion, well if God didn't want you to go to Prison, He wouldn't have infected your child with a preventable disease.

  2. Re:Better safe than sorry on Gardasil Cleared of Anti-Vax Nonsense (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    How are you going to know someone is clean unless you do a blood test, a lot of people carry the viruses without having hat any outbreaks. HPV is commonly considered a sexually transmitted disease but;

    However, the high prevalence of the infection among the virginal women indicated that transmission of HPV by nonsexual modes was common. Genital HPV infection is ubiquitous and in women is not exclusively a venereal disease. Is genital human papillomavirus infection always sexually transmitted?

    Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are estimated to be the most common sexually transmitted virus in humans. The virus is of great interest as it is the etiological agent of cervical cancer. Sexual transmission of HPV is generally accepted, however, non-sexual transmission of the virus is often debated. Here, we review the evidence from basic research and clinical studies that show HPV can survive well outside of its host to potentially be transmitted by non-sexual means. In doing so, we hope to discover problems in current prevention practices and show a need for better disinfectants to combat the spread of HPV. A risk for non-sexual transmission of human papillomavirus?

    some research indicates abstinence isn't a slam-dunk for prevention.

    When you come back around and rant about how "Big Pharma" is suppressing a cancer cure or vaccine, all
    I'm going to hear is "Blah blah blah" because we have a cancer vaccine and the same whackos will not let their kids have it.

  3. Re:distribution of wealth and_______ on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 2

    What your referring to is called the Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule, "roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes", described by Vilfredo Pareto arround 1900.

    At the bottom of the Wealth curve, he wrote, Men and Women starve and children die young. In the broad middle of the curve all is turmoil and motion: people rising and falling, climbing by talent or luck and falling by alcoholism, tuberculosis and other kinds of unfitness. At the very top sit the elite of the elite, who control wealth and power for a time – until they are unseated through revolution or upheaval by a new aristocratic class. There is no progress in human history. Democracy is a fraud. Human nature is primitive, emotional, unyielding. The smarter, abler, stronger, and shrewder take the lion's share. The weak starve, lest society become degenerate: One can, Pareto wrote, 'compare the social body to the human body, which will promptly perish if prevented from eliminating toxins.' Inflammatory stuff – and it burned Pareto's reputation. Benoît Mandelbrot

    It's pretty much the way the world works, if 20% had 80% of the wealth and power, then 5% has 64% and 1% has 49%; the numbers are fuzzy as well.

    Most wealthy 1%er Families tend to crap-out after 3 generations, so who is in the first percentille tends to change; even the Kenedys have a lot of family members in the 20th now.

  4. Re:Yeah, I got one on Why Do Americans Work So Much? · · Score: 1

    An oversupply of labor lowers it's value like anything else. It's one of the funny things in American capitalism: We just can't imagine a downside to supply and demand. I think it's because when we were kids we were taught it like it was religion...

    I'm not sure about you but when I took Economics the whole course was about Supply and Demand, there was no value system attached to it, the domain of politics. The only problem with American capitalism is Six-pack thinks the barriers of entry are too high for him to participate, but in reality his 401K is heavy in stocks.

  5. Re:not scarequotes needed on FTC Fines Software Vendor Over False Data Encryption Claims (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You have to read the FTC complaint and have experience dealing with Schein to understand what's really going on. It's my opinion that the use of encryption was not for the purpose of protecting patient information from unauthorized release to ne'er–do–wells, but to make the difficulty of migrating Our data to a new vendor's Dental Practice Management System unnecessarily difficult.

    Schien as a company is like a stereotype of all the worst qualities of Microsoft, Oracle and SAP.; they are my company of last resort.

  6. Re:Mudslinging?! on SpaceX Plans Drone Ship Landing On January 17th (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that the second stage could be returned, first it's single Merlin vacuum engine only has 934kN thrust which I don't think would be enough to de-orbit without burning up. Now what might be really interesting is just parking them in orbit, 8 or 9 vacuum rated engines with fuel and oxidiser tanks might be handy. The Merlin vacuum is rated for multiple restarts, refuel enough of them and a Lunar, Martian or L5 mission get a leg up without too much added cost.

  7. Re:confusing title on The Mystery of the Naked Black Hole (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I always suspected that the concept of a singularity was a psychological crutch that made the mathematics easier to visualize for us mere mortals; anything on the other side of an event horizon is undefined, and anything real becoming undefined is psychologically difficult.

  8. Re:There's a reason those Republicans... on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 2

    They have destroyed so many cities in this country with their attacks on minority areas. Just look at Chicago and Detroit to see the results.

    Detroit's problems are all on a couple race riots and Colman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick. Your going to see the same thing in Ferguson and Baltimore over the next few decades.

  9. Re:Classic! on How an IRS Agent Stole $1M From Taxpayers (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Well "more than $1 million.", if the USG admits it was take for a million, you can be sure that is the minimum that they know about. The big bucks are probably in the Grand Cayman already.

  10. Re:Europe on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Ethernet over AC gets blocked by the pole transformer, but I would be happy if it got to my detached pole barn-garage/woodworking shop, I suspect that would be my use for the HaLo WiFi. The Router we have now just will not reach that far.

  11. Re:This is just crazy on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody can crack your WiFi credentials, if they can't pick up the signals, even at 5GHz, a 15 element yagi, or a 8 lambda diameter parabolic reflector is pretty obvious.

  12. Re:Europe on 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Ethernet over AC anyone, should be good enough for a frig. I did have a 900MHz spread-spectrum phone set that had a range of about 800m after going through a brick veneered cinder block wall, so it looks like this HaLow technology will allow me to have WiFi out to the garage and barn.

  13. Re:Eyes on Hillarious Clinton on 18 Million Targeted Voter Records Exposed By Database Error (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    My understanding is they were exposed to it through a miss-configure web-page, and one of his staffers looked at it, probably thinking that "that can't really be what I think it is" then realizing "that something I shouldn't be looking at". I dearly love to rake a Democrat over the coals, but this is a non-issue.

  14. Re:AT&T DSL fired up IPv6 on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Comcast says their traffic is 15% IPv6, I think more people are in a similar situation, they don't know they are using IPv6 until they look. A lot of equipment is set up to use IPv6 but there are one or two bottlenecks blocking the traffic along the way, that equipment gets changed and your using IPv6 without knowing it. Sooner or later the kids are going to find some new uber-cool thing that's only on IPv6, then all hell is going to break loose in the IT departments.

  15. Re:What was the brake becomes the gas pedal on IPv6 Turns 20, Reaches 10 Percent Deployment (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    IPv6 took a long time to get to 10% because it's a pain in the ass to support two things. .

    I think it took a long time because certain organisations realized that selling their unused IPv4 addresses blocks was extremely profitable and IPv6 would just make those assets worthless. Having to buy new routers didn't help either. As IPv6 equipment becomes ubiquitous, it will become an effort to keep it out.

  16. Re:Trees in desert die? on New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Mojave Desert (pronounced: /mhvi/ mo-HAH-vee) is a rain-shadow, mostly high desert area, that occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona in the United States. The Mojave Desert's boundaries are generally defined by the presence of Yucca brevifolia (Joshua trees), considered an indicator species for this desert. It is the driest of the North American deserts.[5] The desert is believed to support between 1,750 and 2,000 species of plants.[6]

    It is roughly rectangular in shape,[5] bounded by the Great Basin Desert to the north,[5] and the Sonoran Desert to the south[5] and east[citation needed]. The topographical boundaries include the Tehachapi Mountains to the west, and the San Gabriel Mountains and San Bernardino Mountains to the south. The mountain boundaries are quite distinct since they are outlined by the two largest faults in California, the San Andreas and Garlock faults. The Mojave Desert displays typical basin and range topography. Higher elevations above 2,000 feet (610 m) in the Mojave are commonly referred to as the High Desert; however, Death Valley is the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet (86 m) below sea level and is one of the Mojave Desert's more notorious places. It occupies less than 50,000 square miles, making it the smallest of the North American deserts.[5] Mojave Desert

    Sadly, the history of California Droughts is that they last for a century or two.

  17. Re:Trees in desert die? on New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can say that at 30 degrees latitude land tends is either desert or arid except for a small area known as the gulf coast.

  18. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A Defense Attorney has no need to see the content of classified document, even if they are contesting whether the contents are classified, the government will be glad to provide that information. If that is insufficient the government will provide you with an attorney.

  19. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Over and over and over again, we see she was receiving documents on her personal email. How is that breaking the law?

    Do you agree that if someone emails you some child porno, you have broken the law and should go to prison? Or is it the sender who has broken the law?

    At the least after swearing an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and to uphold the laws of the United States without mental reservations, she had knowledge of the senders having committed a serious felony of failing to protect classified information by sending it through unprotected channels and failing to report it. She further exacerbated the situation by improperly storing the classified information.

  20. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I've come to the realization after following current events for a while, that no federal agency, department or employee should be entrusted with the management of their own email systems, nor should they be entrusted with complying with their own FOIA requests. Conducting Official Business through a private email service should be a Felony.

  21. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    That's no longer a safe assumption, especially when your Secratary of State.

  22. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Whether some is or should have been classified is a completely separate issue from whether it was "out in the wild" or not. The classification is based on whether the release would harm the National Interest and how much. Sometime it's classified retroactively because an analyst recognised how several seemingly unrelated events were related and the relationship was damaging.

  23. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Rarely or not, she should have had annual training, and to dodge this is to say that a person who reaches that level of government has no responsibility to uphold the more "mundane" things of their job

    Bwahahaha, She had the training, see where the instructor signed off on it; The only way you get people like these to physically attend training is for their Boss to be there and insist on attendance.

  24. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    She get any emails from that Ben Gozzi guy?!

    She got 600 emails that last night from "Ben Gozzi"; she never replied to them.

  25. Re:State doing the CYA thing on State Dept. Releases 5,500 Hillary Clinton Emails, 275 Retroactively Classified (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was once reprimanded by my Plt Sgt for not finding any security violations. He made me read AR 380-5 cover to cover because there is always something wrong, always. Running a private Email server as SOS is just insane, even if Clinton never sent anything Classified, you had no control over what others send you. Clinton's response to this situation shows her first priority is to place or avoid blame, not the National Security.