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dogfuon Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5

Apple wins! Jobs always wanted developers in a "exclusivity" arrangement. Adobe busted out and supported Windows as Apple floundered. Jobs always wanted to set an example to those who leave the village. Looks like Apple's refusal to allow flash on mobile will teach all the villagers a lesson. Who is number one? Apple is!

dogfuon Gamers create recipes for protein-folding algorithms

Does more compact folding mean better? Or does faster folding mean better? What is meant by better folding? Does is look like what they can get from x-ray crystallography ?

dogfuon Programmers' salaries at Google $250k (and up)

They have to. Some really talented engineers could re-imagine google search fairly easily. At this point, they have to pay them not to jump ship and become competitors. Google was both "the search engine" and "the best search engine". They are rapidly becoming a shopping site and "karma whores" have gamed their ranking algorithms. What you are looking for is no longer in the top 3 google results. I wouldn't be surprised if facebook or Apple took a run an their core business.

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

Yeah, whole thread is going downhill fast. Sorry.

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

Excellent points. Much appreciated. My point is that just dealing with the flu, chicken pox, some transient herpesvirae infections, etc by letting the body's defences deal with it without actively vaccinating against them might be the best way to deal with problem. Often the body develops memory cells to defeat later similar infections on it's own. I am not convinced that the notion that we might over-vaccinate has been disproven.

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

How is preventing aids by not engaging in man on man encounters and shooting illegal drugs ignorant and offensive?

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

Yes. I have heard about "other infection vectors" with AIDS. I'm guessing the double entendre of "jab things into your body" escaped you.

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

Clarification: I did not take any undergraduate biology courses.

You don't need prestige academic credentials to read about it in the popular press, type in some search terms, and come up with this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis . There is no checking of your SAT scores or college GPA or anything inorder to do this, so give it a try. They may track you via cookies, but I recommend taking a chance.

dogfuon Parents coordinate trading of chicken pox-laced goods via Facebook

What do you say the relative of someone who had a vaccine and immediately became crippled and couldn't walk because the reaction damaged their inner-ear? Just co-incidence? No p-value with a sample of one? Would you make them take that vaccine? Or let 'em slide on this one? I'm not sure your government regulations would deal with this case.

The immune system is an organ like the muscles, brain and heart. Putting a little stress on these organs is actually good. Just because the autism/vaccine fiasco was fraud doesn't invalidate all concerns. For instance the school system forcing girls to get "anti-cancer" vaccines when there is an effect alternative (i.e. "dont' be a promiscuous"). The parents can make that choice ... or the kid when she becomes a teenager. If polio or small-pox are threats, certainly the good out weighs the bad. But chicken-pox? Not so clear cut. AIDS? Again, don't sleep around and dont jab things in your body and you won't get AIDS.

dogfuon Why the Mac App Sandbox makes me sad

sigh

Does that include the sandbox itself, which was written in C?