There were no ships in the area when the cables were disrupted. Conspiracy theories are of course just theories, but you are a fool if you accept everything you hear and read at face value.
So, to clarify, the White House ordered "a ship [...] to moor off the coast of Egypt in bad weather on Wednesday"?
Here's some more conspiracy fodder for you: a third cable, Falcon, is also damaged. Must be the White House!
Oh, wait...it's just the incredible fragility of our undersea cable network finally being embarrassingly exposed. You're right, the media contradicts the idea of a military operation, but this doesn't exclude it absolutely. It's about the time of year when people have been expecting some kind of movement against Iran. Someone's special ops people could well be responsible for this amazing coincidence, and, being clever and special, why would they pass up the confusion of bad weather to get the job done?
One of the first acts of war in WWII by the Allies was the cutting of deep sea communications cables to Germany. Iran is still cut off from this service disruption, whereas Israel is not. Who knows if that has anything to do with this.
I sat here for ten minutes and couldn't work out a way to make a butt joke out of your comment. But I guess if einstein's ring had a red shift, it could be construed that his ring had some how split into two, which, painful as it must be, would also result in some red shift.
Other than the multitude of layers, this is very similar in nature to modern shark skin. A bit like the skin of a Vista versus an Expi, or a Leopard and Tiger, or a Gibbon and a Faun.
Now, all we need to figure out is how to let the constituency modify it.
Or others to modify it en-route as you download it.
I think it's a step forward. I mean, these days money is electronic, based on thin air. So is the budget. And now voting too. It's good that they have finally given up pretending.
Reversed Polarity is just change from + to - or south to north. Nothing magical about it. Reversing polarity can really break stuff, though. I hope the sun's got a diode.
Unfortunately, some religious groups feel that their beliefs about supernatural matters are on par or superior to knowledge about the physical world. [...] these groups ask their members to believe one thing and know another. This is not a healthy attitude, and causes psychological and social strife I feel pretty strongly that such religious organizations are doing their members a disservice and should be called to task for the harm they are doing.
This has more to do with defective personalities than belief systems. Cultists and others with malevolent intent deliberately contradict widely accepted fact to distinguish themselves from everyone else, backing up their stupid claims with conspiracy theories or some kind of sophistry.
Decent organized religion rarely has this problem and scientific progress continues, albeit in a shaped form (eg: ethically).
Yet amazingly, sometimes the 'kooks' are right by mistake, such as the JW's who refuse blood transfusions. Actually they end up having overall better survival rates than those that do receive blood transfusions.
Human beings are rarely aware of much of what drives them to think or act or feel what they do. Science attempts to explain it all, but its answers aren't very reassuring and when it comes to it, religion is much better at satisfying people's feelings of emptiness and lack of direction.
So it's no surprise that, given the inadequacies of the current state of science, people are still believing in the supernatural.
Also, it's not a question of logic but probability. I mean, even science has basic assumptions, mantras and anecdotes here and there which occasionally turn out to be false and lead to radical rethinking on basic ideas.
Essentially, I think we needn't care too much about whether people choose to see everything as fitting into 'God's Plan' or being just 'Stuff that happens' or whatever, as long as everybody is committed to uncovering the truth, whatever it turns out to be.
-- make the doctors and staff ALL wear anti-microbial/bacterial surgical masks EVEN FOR NON-SURGICAL visits (hey, they may be amped on anti-biotics, but aren't they still carriers?)
They don't work. Even in surgery. All the masks are doing is preventing body fluids from reaching the skin of the surgeon, and giving the surgeon bad breath from rebreathing all his own bugs.
Orthopaedic surgeons who really worry about infection wear the equivalent of a space suit.
-- improving anti-bacterial ventilation and air cleaning/recirculation equipment
We don't tend to get cross-contamination from room to room because of ventilation. There are no documented massive, instantaneous outbreaks of MRSA or VRE through a hospital vent system that I am aware of (except in bioweapons labs handling weaponized bugs). The problem is simple hand contact without handwashing, because strict handwashing and the wearing of gowns, using dedicated equipment for the room (eg: stethescopes, tourniquets) prevents spread.
-- emulate (if not doing so already) practices of the travel/cruise industry which separates various linens according to bacterial or viral risk (using color-coded collection bins) to keep certain bugs out of warm linens while keeping less contaminated items from contact. This reduces staff exposure time to numerous critters
This is not needed because hospitals practice universal precautions. That is, every linen, every piece of equipment that is cleaned is cleaned with the assumption that it contains spores, viruses and bacteria which must be eradicated. The tourism industry doesn't do this because it is too expensive.
-- installing or increasing more air-locks/decontamination/containment/quarantine areas
This is true, except that at a certain point it becomes cheaper to knock down a building, incinerate it and build a new hospital. And this is what also happens when MRSA and VRE colonization has become too widespread
Linux was my desktop for several years, after leaving Windows. But I got tired of spending evenings getting audio and video to work, Fink lets me run a good amount of open-source software under OS X (e.g. postgres), I have Linux either onboard (via Parallels) or ssh, and OS X runs X windows. And the hardware is just so gorgeous.
Really? I'd have to say that using my macbook under OS X was fun to start with - nice eye candy, smooth operation and running NeoOffice I could get some basic work done, but once it came to my first few days off work and I wanted to do some more hobby work over and above photo editing, like programming and website design, I found myself pretty quickly getting Ubuntu running on a separate partition.
After 3-4 months I am pretty much booting to Ubuntu at home and OS X at work. I must say I prefer Linux at this stage because everything is running faster, even with widespread encryption on the hard disk, plus I didn't have to pay anything to use VMware to use windows XP for the odd incompatible product.
I also found that X under OS X was painful and buggy, so I don't know how you managed to enjoy that experience.
I could've sworn there was a recent Slashdot post regarding the successful deployment of OpenVista, and Open Source EHR system, as well as EHR Adoption in the US.
The problem isn't impossibility but infancy. There are good systems around but making them work across the board has been the problem. For example, in my neck of the woods the big problem is ignorant and territorial IT departments in both the public and private health systems which do not want to do any work but see their job as shopping around for people to outsource their work to. And because they get taken to expensive dinners by big companies with crappy solutions, they create 'guidelines' which exclude everybody but the companies that pay for their dinners.
And because everybody hates the IT departments, nobody cooperates with IT and all their projects, aside from fixing broken mice and installing windows XP updates, fail.
Companies selling the systems make a killing from the converting of the old, proprietary database to the new, proprietary database that does not look that much different than the old one.
I think much of the problem has to do with legal problems on the storage of data and its dissemination (privacy laws, legal exposure etc) and that doctors have a general distrust of electronic record keeping without a paper backup. Also, arriving at an open standard on storage of health information is very very difficult as it's not a science and there are as many opinions as asses on seats at committee meetings. Everybody quotes easy stuff like pharmacy orders or pathology requests and results, but a health record can come in so many forms, (and if you look at a hospital record, there are so many types of forms in it) that it becomes difficult to come up with a database design that will cope with such diversity and still be usable. Information on a case can be a few scribbles to an exhaustive analysis.
That's not to say it won't happen, but it is taking a very long time and some expensive attempts at standardization (eg: NHS) have failed.
There is hardly a point in making lists if they are not based on something tangible, like a hitrate. Otherwise you'd get the "Youtube Arbitrary-100 of Videos of 2007".
People are voting by where they browse and, unless you're suggesting there is doctoring of numbers going on (wouldn't be surprised if it were the case), I doubt there is external interference going on eg: by multiple viewing by a single user having any significance.
Also, it's all just marketing. People who haven't visited Youtube in a while will read the reuters article and go to Youtube, regardless if it's a statistics list, a 'users voted' list or some editorialized rubbish from Youtube's staffers.
In 10 years there will be two internets. One for educated, free-minded people and one for everyone else. The educated, free-minded ones will have the ability to discuss anything openly and freely, but nothing they do can be seen by the rest of the public. That's because they will all be in special concentration camps in an unknown location, awaiting re-education or enlistment into various secret government jobs.
The rest of the internet will be limited to a relatively small list of 'allowable' applications which are run by thin clients that boot off the network - all of it controlled by megacorporations and all of the traffic and computer behaviour monitored.
This is the future of trusted computing. They know they can trust you, because you can't do anything with your computer that they didn't let you do.
Nah, what we need is a Brutha to watch over us and make sure we don't do nuffin rong. He can look like Mister T and have all sorts of gold chains around his neck with symbols and shit. He'll have a deep, friendly-like voice and every time we swap music or surf with a proxy he'll say "hey li'l brutha, don't do that, it's naughty". And we'll all feel so much better.
Why can't it be Big Brother? It's an elective free service, which is two things that the figure Big Brother in 1984 most definatelly does not represent. You are under no obligation to use it. That's all there is folks, don't like it? Don't use it, problem solved.
Now, if I remember correctly (I haven't read 1984 for a few years now), it is Big Brotherish. I mean, sure, it's not enforced, default, systematic spying by a government, but the Big Brother scenario did not get that way overnight in the book. It took many years of phasing in. I think it's discussed in the part where the main character is reading Emmanual Goldstein's highly illegal and very sensational alternative history of the world. (Even that bit is ringing true nowadays)
That's the problem with any "model" for suspicious behavior -- once its known, it's easily exploited.
You have covered a very interesting point. If one looks at it from a different angle, assuming the US govt isn't 'stupid', they probably don't care if terrorists work out the methodology. How many terrorists are there anyway, how many deaths caused? Do they put the same resources into road safety and other leading causes of unnecessary death?
One can't blame people for suspecting a government when it essentially constructs and puts in place the toos necessary for a modern totalitarian state. Who knows, one day they might be tempted to use them.
that violent games were good for my asthma. The extra adrenaline rush I get from cold-bloodedly slaying thousands of imaginary characters helps open up my airways.
Come to think of it, about 30 years ago he told my dad to smoke more cigarettes for his asthma.
And it's not non-operational because you can reinstall and still continue to use it, albeit with some hassle. That is not bricked. What part of that is so difficult to grasp?
It will continue to be an unsatisfactory situation until someone comes up with a HOWTO of how to install Ubuntu on it the place of OS X. And I do believe that it is not difficult to do anymore.
Consumers are not totally stupid and when their computer gets hosed by the guy they bought it from, they instantly smell a rat.
This PRNG vulnurability does just that. Keys derived from it can be recovered by an attacker who compromises the machine _after_ the key was used and discarded. I remember stumbling across an article by someone who claimed to be ex-IRA discussing the various problems with Windows. From his (paranoid?) point of view, Microsoft had designed the perfect OS for forensics. The thing leaves tracks of user activity everywhere. Although there is an emphasis by the company to address daily use issues (like protection from network attacks), he implied there was a bigger emphasis to make sure that in the situation of a seized PC with Windows, retrieving useful information was a trivial matter.
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There were no ships in the area when the cables were disrupted. Conspiracy theories are of course just theories, but you are a fool if you accept everything you hear and read at face value.
One of the first acts of war in WWII by the Allies was the cutting of deep sea communications cables to Germany. Iran is still cut off from this service disruption, whereas Israel is not. Who knows if that has anything to do with this.
I sat here for ten minutes and couldn't work out a way to make a butt joke out of your comment. But I guess if einstein's ring had a red shift, it could be construed that his ring had some how split into two, which, painful as it must be, would also result in some red shift.
Or others to modify it en-route as you download it.
I think it's a step forward. I mean, these days money is electronic, based on thin air. So is the budget. And now voting too. It's good that they have finally given up pretending.
This has more to do with defective personalities than belief systems. Cultists and others with malevolent intent deliberately contradict widely accepted fact to distinguish themselves from everyone else, backing up their stupid claims with conspiracy theories or some kind of sophistry.
Decent organized religion rarely has this problem and scientific progress continues, albeit in a shaped form (eg: ethically).
Yet amazingly, sometimes the 'kooks' are right by mistake, such as the JW's who refuse blood transfusions. Actually they end up having overall better survival rates than those that do receive blood transfusions.
Human beings are rarely aware of much of what drives them to think or act or feel what they do. Science attempts to explain it all, but its answers aren't very reassuring and when it comes to it, religion is much better at satisfying people's feelings of emptiness and lack of direction.
So it's no surprise that, given the inadequacies of the current state of science, people are still believing in the supernatural.
Also, it's not a question of logic but probability. I mean, even science has basic assumptions, mantras and anecdotes here and there which occasionally turn out to be false and lead to radical rethinking on basic ideas.
Essentially, I think we needn't care too much about whether people choose to see everything as fitting into 'God's Plan' or being just 'Stuff that happens' or whatever, as long as everybody is committed to uncovering the truth, whatever it turns out to be.
They don't work. Even in surgery. All the masks are doing is preventing body fluids from reaching the skin of the surgeon, and giving the surgeon bad breath from rebreathing all his own bugs.
Orthopaedic surgeons who really worry about infection wear the equivalent of a space suit.
-- improving anti-bacterial ventilation and air cleaning/recirculation equipmentWe don't tend to get cross-contamination from room to room because of ventilation. There are no documented massive, instantaneous outbreaks of MRSA or VRE through a hospital vent system that I am aware of (except in bioweapons labs handling weaponized bugs). The problem is simple hand contact without handwashing, because strict handwashing and the wearing of gowns, using dedicated equipment for the room (eg: stethescopes, tourniquets) prevents spread.
-- emulate (if not doing so already) practices of the travel/cruise industry which separates various linens according to bacterial or viral risk (using color-coded collection bins) to keep certain bugs out of warm linens while keeping less contaminated items from contact. This reduces staff exposure time to numerous crittersThis is not needed because hospitals practice universal precautions. That is, every linen, every piece of equipment that is cleaned is cleaned with the assumption that it contains spores, viruses and bacteria which must be eradicated. The tourism industry doesn't do this because it is too expensive.
-- installing or increasing more air-locks/decontamination/containment/quarantine areasThis is true, except that at a certain point it becomes cheaper to knock down a building, incinerate it and build a new hospital. And this is what also happens when MRSA and VRE colonization has become too widespread
Really? I'd have to say that using my macbook under OS X was fun to start with - nice eye candy, smooth operation and running NeoOffice I could get some basic work done, but once it came to my first few days off work and I wanted to do some more hobby work over and above photo editing, like programming and website design, I found myself pretty quickly getting Ubuntu running on a separate partition.
After 3-4 months I am pretty much booting to Ubuntu at home and OS X at work. I must say I prefer Linux at this stage because everything is running faster, even with widespread encryption on the hard disk, plus I didn't have to pay anything to use VMware to use windows XP for the odd incompatible product.
I also found that X under OS X was painful and buggy, so I don't know how you managed to enjoy that experience.
The problem isn't impossibility but infancy. There are good systems around but making them work across the board has been the problem. For example, in my neck of the woods the big problem is ignorant and territorial IT departments in both the public and private health systems which do not want to do any work but see their job as shopping around for people to outsource their work to. And because they get taken to expensive dinners by big companies with crappy solutions, they create 'guidelines' which exclude everybody but the companies that pay for their dinners.
And because everybody hates the IT departments, nobody cooperates with IT and all their projects, aside from fixing broken mice and installing windows XP updates, fail.
Nah, it won't be incinerated, but will be renamed 'Old York', probably in arabic.
Well the wife's hair is indeed a fraid knot, she should gnome better.
I think much of the problem has to do with legal problems on the storage of data and its dissemination (privacy laws, legal exposure etc) and that doctors have a general distrust of electronic record keeping without a paper backup. Also, arriving at an open standard on storage of health information is very very difficult as it's not a science and there are as many opinions as asses on seats at committee meetings. Everybody quotes easy stuff like pharmacy orders or pathology requests and results, but a health record can come in so many forms, (and if you look at a hospital record, there are so many types of forms in it) that it becomes difficult to come up with a database design that will cope with such diversity and still be usable. Information on a case can be a few scribbles to an exhaustive analysis.
That's not to say it won't happen, but it is taking a very long time and some expensive attempts at standardization (eg: NHS) have failed.
There is hardly a point in making lists if they are not based on something tangible, like a hitrate. Otherwise you'd get the "Youtube Arbitrary-100 of Videos of 2007".
People are voting by where they browse and, unless you're suggesting there is doctoring of numbers going on (wouldn't be surprised if it were the case), I doubt there is external interference going on eg: by multiple viewing by a single user having any significance.
Also, it's all just marketing. People who haven't visited Youtube in a while will read the reuters article and go to Youtube, regardless if it's a statistics list, a 'users voted' list or some editorialized rubbish from Youtube's staffers.
True. It's much easier to get for 'free' and chances are all kinds of people will be monitoring you, not just M$. ;)
In 10 years there will be two internets. One for educated, free-minded people and one for everyone else. The educated, free-minded ones will have the ability to discuss anything openly and freely, but nothing they do can be seen by the rest of the public. That's because they will all be in special concentration camps in an unknown location, awaiting re-education or enlistment into various secret government jobs.
The rest of the internet will be limited to a relatively small list of 'allowable' applications which are run by thin clients that boot off the network - all of it controlled by megacorporations and all of the traffic and computer behaviour monitored.
This is the future of trusted computing. They know they can trust you, because you can't do anything with your computer that they didn't let you do.
Nah, what we need is a Brutha to watch over us and make sure we don't do nuffin rong. He can look like Mister T and have all sorts of gold chains around his neck with symbols and shit. He'll have a deep, friendly-like voice and every time we swap music or surf with a proxy he'll say "hey li'l brutha, don't do that, it's naughty". And we'll all feel so much better.
iLove my iBig iBrother already.
Now, if I remember correctly (I haven't read 1984 for a few years now), it is Big Brotherish. I mean, sure, it's not enforced, default, systematic spying by a government, but the Big Brother scenario did not get that way overnight in the book. It took many years of phasing in. I think it's discussed in the part where the main character is reading Emmanual Goldstein's highly illegal and very sensational alternative history of the world. (Even that bit is ringing true nowadays)
You have covered a very interesting point. If one looks at it from a different angle, assuming the US govt isn't 'stupid', they probably don't care if terrorists work out the methodology. How many terrorists are there anyway, how many deaths caused? Do they put the same resources into road safety and other leading causes of unnecessary death?
One can't blame people for suspecting a government when it essentially constructs and puts in place the toos necessary for a modern totalitarian state. Who knows, one day they might be tempted to use them.
Since when has the US won the war? It's over? *slaps forehead* I better go check the newspaper.
that violent games were good for my asthma. The extra adrenaline rush I get from cold-bloodedly slaying thousands of imaginary characters helps open up my airways.
Come to think of it, about 30 years ago he told my dad to smoke more cigarettes for his asthma.
Clever doc!
It will continue to be an unsatisfactory situation until someone comes up with a HOWTO of how to install Ubuntu on it the place of OS X. And I do believe that it is not difficult to do anymore.
Consumers are not totally stupid and when their computer gets hosed by the guy they bought it from, they instantly smell a rat.