In Turkey it is prevalent. Pregnant women who tested negative are discouraged from eating raw fruits or vegetables unless they know that the food was properly sanitized. Catching it during pregnancy might cause disfigurement of fetus.
You can treat it with some antibiotics, but this is not needed normally because the immune system of a normal adult can deal with it. It needs to be treated in two special cases: HIV positive people and pregnant women suffering a primary infection during pregnancy.
Pregnant women have to be tested for toxoplasm. If they have developped antibodies they had the infection in the past and unless the mother have other health issues or immune system problems, all should be ok (follow the advice of your doctor). If not and still negative, she should take some safety measures and carefully check for low-grade fever and other symptoms of acute infection during pregnancy; the infection can be and must be treated; as soon as possible. For the pregnancy period and until the first year of life of the baby.
It is estimated among 500 and 5000 cases of newborns having congenital Toxoplasmosis in USA each year (Boyer et al. 2005, American journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 192). The prognosis is good if treated early.
What makes a programmer different than any other person who needs to ask the same question to himself/herself? What about unethical weapons, medicine, sales practices?
That's what the article is saying, but in last sentence. According to author we should have associations like doctors, IEEE and Association for Computer Machinery is already starting to do this.
Everybody should ask these questions but in reality most people don't and go along with their leaders. Standing up for your values is inconvenient and often comes at a high cost if you are not independently wealthy.
Exactly. The problem is that everyone is beholden to money. If you do the right thing, you lose your job. And maybe even get blacklisted so you don't work again. Stuff like this is stuff of nightmares but it happens over and over again. Enough to make people think twice or thrice about going against the status quo.
It's not difficult to do at least some research of a company before you accept a job. Take the extra month to find a job with a company that's never had any scandals that you're uncomfortable with, one whose business model isn't built on violating their customer's privacies or being otherwise ethically dubious, and one who emphasizes ethical responsibility in their code of conduct. In other words, pay the cost upfront.
It's not a sure way to ensure you never encounter these problems, but it will reduce the likelihood.
The market is either a supply market or a demand market. If you are in a job supply market, where there is more supply than demand, perhaps you can do that. If you are in a job demand market you can not do that. And sure this should be how a person exercises his morality. But I think most ethically dubious situations are not evident outright. Big companies spend a lot of money through P/R department to keep their images clean.
Nothing really. I think that providing a general ethics lesson then combining it with industry specific examples helps give people a more complete understanding of what these conflicts look like.
Pretty much the whole Military Industrial Complex is unethical and I have avoided them in my career. But here's the thing I realized: There isn't a single industry out there that isn't getting some kind of government subsidy, tax break, or major handout. So we're all ethically compromised! But I still won't work for the war machine directly. I'd rather go hungry.
Immoral yes. Unethical no. They do horrible things, but they do abide the rules placed upon them. Those rules are scant and toothless but that is a different question.
Most cellular networks run behind symmetric carrier grade NATs. Even when you have two mobile devices behind the same NAT their traffic will not flow P2P. All traffic has to be routed to the public net (and then back in if you can figure out IP:Port which is usually not possible with symmetric NATs). They will never be hair-pinned on the NAT either... True P2P is only possible when at least one mobile device is on a public network or behind a more permissive NAT device.
I think @telesilla's point is that a Skype call would be going through all the cellular network's infrastructure, and then off to Microsoft, before coming back.
It's an extra link in the chain, meaning another potential bottleneck and added latency.
In Turkey it is prevalent. Pregnant women who tested negative are discouraged from eating raw fruits or vegetables unless they know that the food was properly sanitized. Catching it during pregnancy might cause disfigurement of fetus.