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  1. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    This is one reason I'm glad that in my country, Australia, an MMR vaccination (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) is mandatory unless you have a damn good reason not to get one (and being an idiot isn't good enough).

    I think that depends on what state you're in. In NSW and Victoria, "vaccines are against my religion" seems to be enough.

    The AVN is giving it a try by setting up a fake church.

  2. Re: Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 4, Informative

    A couple of studies presented last year at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology suggest that the vast majority (361 out of 384 in one study, and 38 out of 38 in a second) of people who think they're allergic to penicillin aren't actually allergic to it.

    Granted, both are small samples and it's hardly a look at allergies in general, but it does raise questions about the actual incidence of allergies.

  3. Re:My view on Ask Slashdot: When and How Did Europe Leapfrog the US For Internet Access? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't recall quite what happened, but that arrangement didn't last very long, I don't think a year had transpired before ELN and AOL were booted back off the pipes.

    National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services happened.

  4. Re:Yep it is a scam on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 2

    2. depends on how competently the pipeline is operated. And the likely answer to that is "not very".

    Transcanada does not exactly have a stellar record. Their Keystone phase 1 pipeline sprung 14 leaks in its first two years of operation. Across their network, they average better than 70 spills per year.

    And their Bison natural gas pipeline blew the fuck up after just 6 months of operation.

    I wouldn't trust these guys to operate a garden hose, much less a pipeline carrying dibit over a major aquifer.

  5. Re: For that matter... phones. on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Sasktel.

    And pulse dialing simply doesn't work, period. You flip the switch on a phone to pulse and nothing happens when you try to dial.

  6. Re:That was quick ... on Canadian Government Steps In To Stop Misleading Infringement Notices · · Score: 1

    Assuming they follow their own law (Bill C-16, An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act, passed in 2007), the next election is on October 19, 2015, the third Monday in October, 4 years after the last election.

    Constitutionally, the latest an election could occur is in early July of 2016, as Parliament would have be dissolved by May 23rd.

  7. Re:when did that happen on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 1

    Up here, Sasktel got dropped pulse dialing support sometime in 2012.

  8. Re:For that matter... phones. on Ask Slashdot: Sounds We Don't Hear Any More? · · Score: 2

    Up here, those phones wouldn't even work anymore, at least not without a converter. The telephone company stopped supporting pulse dialing almost 3 years ago.

  9. Re:Butt Ugly on Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype · · Score: 1

    It's intended to look cute as an anti-road rage measure.

  10. Re:freedom 2 b a moron on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    Fairly sure that's the usual for Canada also. It was when I was in elementary school.

  11. Re:freedom 2 b a moron on Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? · · Score: 1

    1. No, it is not controversial. It's nonsense that is rightly rejected. 30 vaccines is a drop in the ocean compared to the onslaught of viruses and bacteria they got exposed to on their way out of the womb, much less what they deal with every day.

    2. And most people your age can enjoy having shingles later in life because of that. It really sucks, hence the desire for children to never get chickenpox.

  12. Re:Requirements didn't change though on U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession · · Score: 1

    Or they don't have a gas cap at all.

  13. Re:That's not how it works on Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications · · Score: 1

    You forgot step 1.5) Engage in "parallel construction" to conceal the warrantless communications monitoring.

  14. Re:Condirmed on Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches · · Score: 1

    As opposed to Harper who's been running up the debt (and was doing so before the economy fucked up) and is now taking an axe to everything useful in government and selling off crown assets to "balance" the budget.

  15. Or university students. I believe UCF=University of Central Florida.

  16. Dealing with uppity university students, I'd presume.

  17. First graders? Unless I'm running into a namespace collision, UCF is University of Central Florida.

  18. Re:Musk's batteries on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Going by Wikipedia's figures, 75kWh of nickel-iron batteries would be weigh about 1500kg and take up about 2.5 cubic metres of space, which is about the size and weight of two fully-loaded refrigerators. And they'd handle 150kW peak load.

  19. Re:Phew on Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Still, who orders a grenade launcher for a school?

    I believe grenade launchers can be used to fire canisters of tear gas.

  20. Re:Say "No" to electronic voting machines on Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County · · Score: 1

    Same thing can happen with paper ballot counting machines, it's all just centralized in the elections office.

    Which is why you don't bother with machines, period.

    Up here, it's paper ballots, marked with pens, counted using Mk1 eyeballs at the polling station in full view of witnesses from any candidates that wish to send one. The only machines involved in anything are the printers used to make the ballots and the telephones used to call in the stations' results to the Returning Officer.

  21. Re:Paper ballots are HORRIBLE on Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County · · Score: 2

    NO ONE counts paper ballots by hand.

    The entire nation of Canada says you're full of shit.

  22. Re:Flawed Premise on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 1

    Only if "where you want to go" is in the same city as where you are.

  23. Re:Flawed Premise on In a Self-Driving Future, We May Not Even Want To Own Cars · · Score: 2

    There is no link between autonomously driving cars and car sharing.

    Sure there is. With existing car sharing systems or rentals, you either need to go to where the car is via some other means, or someone needs to drive it to you, then drive back to the office, before you can go where you're wanting to go.

    With autonomously driving cars, the car can drive itself to you and then you go directly from where you are to where you want to go. It makes it far more practical.

  24. Excavatory cryptanalysis? on Another Hint For Kryptos · · Score: 1

    Has anyone taken a shovel to the coordinates in part 2?

  25. Re:They're bluffing on AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled · · Score: 1

    The vars. municipalities telling them to "piss off, we'll do it ourselves."

    You mean the various municipalities being told by state governments "Oh, no you won't."?