The "safe vaccine" thing is just an excuse to hide behind. Nothing in this life can be proven safe. People die from drinking water. People get deathly sick from eating various foods. Even the antivaxxer hammering out his / her screed on the computer could get thrombosis and die from it, or electrocuted, or trip over the computer cable and split their skull. Yet they still do it.
The risks of vaccines are well documented and so are the benefits. And the benefits of vaccination massively outweigh the risks of not doing so.
Because some vaccines are not 100% effective, or lose their efficacy and require boosters, or only offer partial protection against particular strains. So person A standing next to person B could potentially become infected. Aside from that person A might also have a baby at home too young to receive their shots, or a sick who is on immunosuppressants and thanks to dumbass B, there is a risk that they might be infected too indirectly.
I could potentially see people dousing an old board with distilled water, or gently removing grime with a swab and alcohol / water. Maybe some specialists even have industrial washers that spray the board in a controlled way with a closed water system. I'm having a hard time believing many people would want to put a board into a dishwasher even on the lowest setting, even without a tablet, unless they wanted to totally ruin it.
Dishwashers involve powerful jets of water which would have no trouble breaking off bits of solder or loose connections, or getting inside microswitches. Even if the board wasn't damaged it would have to be dried for days at low humidity to ensure all the moisture was gone. Also it can't be good for the water waste treatment system if all that shit from pcbs ends up there.
Operators are imposing ludicrous download limits on their networks that a 4G device could probably burn through it's entire monthly allowance in about 10 minutes flat. What the hell is the point of that?
If phone operators really want people to adopt 4G they'd better ensure that the broadband limits are high enough that they allow for reasonable usage and the price is low enough to be attractive. By reasonable I mean within the context of a device equipped with high speed internet and capable of delivering HD streaming video. That means at least 50GB a month and preferably more if they expect to steal business from landline / fibre providers.
Replace the forum's captcha with one of a higher grade, e.g. Recaptcha
Requiring new users to be registered and await activation before being able to post.
Use an extension that taps into NoSpam or similar to so that registrants can be flagged by their ipaddress or email address if they are known spammers.
Use the forum's tools to limit the damage newbies they can do even if they slip through this.
Add a simple challenge to the registration page which is necessary for registration to succeed
For extra points you could probably modify the registration process in all kinds of manners which would confound an automated and replay attacks. Chances are that for the average forum it would be sufficient that no script would even bother to defeat it and would simply move onto softer targets.
Why on earth would MS destroy a simple, well known behavior that users might indeed have reason to want to use? Why 'fix' something that isn't broken? Why break something that wasn't hurting anything else on the OS?
I expect primarily to stop malware using hosts as an easy way to reroute calls or block AV requests or whatever. They probably think it's better to deprecate this file completely and rely on a proper firewall infrastructure. Of course it might also stop users from blocking ads, but I think that is more of a concern for Windows RT since Windows 8 will presumably benefit from any number of 3rd party firewalls where blocking could be achieved.
It wouldn't be hard to buy a router with a firewall too which could do this. Or hackers could knock one together using some old hardware they have knocking around. There is custom firmwares for a lot of Netgear kit.
The trick then would be to not completely turn off. Modern vehicles are never completely off to offer stuff like remote central locking. I assume the model S would be no different. Linux could reside in standby or the engine management system could boot it up amongst all its other tasks when it detects someone unlocking the vehicle or starting the engine.
I wonder what the safety implications are of packing a 17 inch tablet into a vehicle for people to play with when their eyes are supposed to be on the road. Even if Tesla were to disable stuff like the browser, twitter, facebook, videos etc while the car is in motion, what impact does it have on safety if the driver still has to screw around with a large flat glass screen to find the AC control, or to change radio stations, or look down for other reasons? In most vehicles they'd have a physical dial or switch in a fixed position which they could locate without taking their eyes off the road. Here there is no tactile feedback - just glass, no certainty of where buttons are since the screens change or move around. It sounds pretty dangerous really.
200 miles probably represents several weeks of driving for a typical person who commutes to work and probably a month's worth for people out of work / home keepers.
Octogenarians don't tend to have smart phones or install apps for insurance quotes. Also, even if it could be gamed, the basic question from the insurer's point of view is do they make more money from providing the app or not? Even if we assume x% of people somehow manage to con the app, does the remainder who use it in good faith allow the insurer to more accurately calculate risk and therefore the quotes it offers? If the answer is yes then it's clear why they may do it. The easiest way to game the app of course would be to stick to the speed limits which isn't necessarily a bad idea in the first place and cheaters might inadvertently save a life or two.
I also don't believe that a 20% discount is a huge risk anyway. Ring up an insurer and say you got price X off another insurer and mysteriously they'll lower their own quote by a large margin to get your business. Since we have no idea of knowing how Aviva produce their quote in the first place, or how they determine the "discount", or what % fees they save by not selling a policy through a broker, I don't think the app is exposing them to much risk even if a person was cheating.
The Pi is 700Mhz ARM processor with 256MB total memory (some reserved for GPU) and some hardware for OpenGL and MP4. The more you can push onto the GPU the better because the CPU is designed to power set top boxes and the like where the CPU should marshal the hardware and do as little as possible otherwise.
So Raspbmc works okay for the most part because mp4 content is being powered by the hardware and there is only one main process running. But Raspbian demonstrates that a desktop performance is awful even with the lightest of configurations.
I don't expect the performance of Firefox OS to be earthshattering. Even budget phones would have a faster CPU and more RAM than the Pi. It might run and be interesting for that, but I think performance will be poor especially on heavy content. So calling the Pi "capable" is reaching a bit.
Putting a UI into a vehicle which requires the user to take their eyes off the road to locate and touch a virtual button on a smooth surface is a car crash waiting to happen. IMO the pinnacle of this insanity has to be the Tesla Model S which sticks a 17" tablet in the middle of the dash. It might look great on paper but I wonder how many accidents will be caused by people fiddling with the screen and it's functions when their eyes should be on the road.
Have you ever downloaded a PDF produced from scanned documents and been surprised that you can hilight and copy the text even though clearly it's a scanned image? That's because the scanner software has OCR'd the thing and produced a layer of text which corresponds with the raw text in the scan. There is no mystery to this and no reason to believe the birth cert didn't get scanned in a similar fashion.
But stacking him up against an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy is a pretty fucking great way to motivate them.
I don't know. I'd vote for someone who is building an under sea city to harvest ADAM into gene altering plasmids. This is the Ryan we're talking about isn't it?
Sorry but no. No amount of evidence would convince them that he was born in Hawaii. Not in 2008 and not now. Obama had already released information about his birth and there was plenty of circumstantial evidence that he was born in Hawaii such as an announcement in the births column of a local newspaper. Was that enough? No the birthers proclaimed, it was all forgeries! So they shifted the goalposts and demanded the long form cert. When that was delivered eventually (probably by an exasperated Obama) that too was decried as a forgery.
The problem here is that birthers are conspiracy kooks. No amount of evidence will change their minds. Evidence is not something to be taken at face value. Instead it must be demanded, and if by chance it is supplied it must be marginalised and denied and new evidence demanded. It's a tactic common with other denialist causes - 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, creationists etc.
What Kinect promised vs what Kinect delivered were night and day. Go watch the Milo promos if you don't believe me. MS were promising motion recognition, mood recognition, voice recognition, natural language processing, basically AI in a camera. What they delivered was a box that struggles to know how many people are standing in front of it or what limb they're moving.
And it wasn't the first at all. The eyetoy preceded it by a substantial amount of years and in practice offered a similar experience - flail your arms or legs in some simplistic way and the software finally reacts. While it's entirely possible that some people were happy with their glorified Eyetoy experience, anyone expecting to see emotion recognition, or indeed precision recognition would be sorely disappointed. Microsoft promise the moon and delivered a heap of manure.
Maybe Kinect 2 will be a different story, but I'm just pointing out that they didn't exactly deliver on their promises this time around.
Nothing to stop you using X11 over the top of Wayland for your atypical scenario. Most people *do* use their desktop locally. It's also likely in time that a network transport will turn up which offers similar remote functionality in Wayland.
X11 is a dinosaur. It's already worked around for the most part (e.g. cairo, freetype etc.) meaning it's largely obsolete. I don't see the harm with doing away with it entirely given that it is a performance bottleneck.
even able to see individual fingers, read lips, and gauge moods
Kinect / Natal had promised to do all that. Remember Milo? Instead MS delivered a system where most games mapped exaggerated spastic motions onto a few basic actions and had trouble doing even that. No reason to be cynical about the claims of Kinect 2 at all.
I still don't see why you believe this system would help you in the slightest.
Even if you need made to measure clothing this system will not and could not provide those measurements unless you stripped off in front of it so it could accurately measure your shape. Even then it just uses them to look up a database for a matching size of jeans. Anyone who has put on two different brands could tell you that the same measurements could yield totally different fits so it doesn't save you any effort at all.
In fact all the system does IMO is provide the show of personalized service without actually adding anything useful to the equation. A customer should already know what their dimensions are and would know what sizes to try on. Whatever the machine says is not going to add anything useful to the equation.
I'm not sure how you think standing in front of a Kinect will help unless you're required to strip first so it can measure the size of your wedding tackle.
Most people already know their size, or could find it easily and then try the jeans on in a changing room.
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The risks of vaccines are well documented and so are the benefits. And the benefits of vaccination massively outweigh the risks of not doing so.
Because some vaccines are not 100% effective, or lose their efficacy and require boosters, or only offer partial protection against particular strains. So person A standing next to person B could potentially become infected. Aside from that person A might also have a baby at home too young to receive their shots, or a sick who is on immunosuppressants and thanks to dumbass B, there is a risk that they might be infected too indirectly.
Maybe they should accept plans for entirely printable coffins while they're at it.
Dishwashers involve powerful jets of water which would have no trouble breaking off bits of solder or loose connections, or getting inside microswitches. Even if the board wasn't damaged it would have to be dried for days at low humidity to ensure all the moisture was gone. Also it can't be good for the water waste treatment system if all that shit from pcbs ends up there.
If phone operators really want people to adopt 4G they'd better ensure that the broadband limits are high enough that they allow for reasonable usage and the price is low enough to be attractive. By reasonable I mean within the context of a device equipped with high speed internet and capable of delivering HD streaming video. That means at least 50GB a month and preferably more if they expect to steal business from landline / fibre providers.
For extra points you could probably modify the registration process in all kinds of manners which would confound an automated and replay attacks. Chances are that for the average forum it would be sufficient that no script would even bother to defeat it and would simply move onto softer targets.
Why on earth would MS destroy a simple, well known behavior that users might indeed have reason to want to use? Why 'fix' something that isn't broken? Why break something that wasn't hurting anything else on the OS?
I expect primarily to stop malware using hosts as an easy way to reroute calls or block AV requests or whatever. They probably think it's better to deprecate this file completely and rely on a proper firewall infrastructure. Of course it might also stop users from blocking ads, but I think that is more of a concern for Windows RT since Windows 8 will presumably benefit from any number of 3rd party firewalls where blocking could be achieved.
It wouldn't be hard to buy a router with a firewall too which could do this. Or hackers could knock one together using some old hardware they have knocking around. There is custom firmwares for a lot of Netgear kit.
The trick then would be to not completely turn off. Modern vehicles are never completely off to offer stuff like remote central locking. I assume the model S would be no different. Linux could reside in standby or the engine management system could boot it up amongst all its other tasks when it detects someone unlocking the vehicle or starting the engine.
I wonder what the safety implications are of packing a 17 inch tablet into a vehicle for people to play with when their eyes are supposed to be on the road. Even if Tesla were to disable stuff like the browser, twitter, facebook, videos etc while the car is in motion, what impact does it have on safety if the driver still has to screw around with a large flat glass screen to find the AC control, or to change radio stations, or look down for other reasons? In most vehicles they'd have a physical dial or switch in a fixed position which they could locate without taking their eyes off the road. Here there is no tactile feedback - just glass, no certainty of where buttons are since the screens change or move around. It sounds pretty dangerous really.
200 miles probably represents several weeks of driving for a typical person who commutes to work and probably a month's worth for people out of work / home keepers.
I also don't believe that a 20% discount is a huge risk anyway. Ring up an insurer and say you got price X off another insurer and mysteriously they'll lower their own quote by a large margin to get your business. Since we have no idea of knowing how Aviva produce their quote in the first place, or how they determine the "discount", or what % fees they save by not selling a policy through a broker, I don't think the app is exposing them to much risk even if a person was cheating.
The Pi is 700Mhz ARM processor with 256MB total memory (some reserved for GPU) and some hardware for OpenGL and MP4. The more you can push onto the GPU the better because the CPU is designed to power set top boxes and the like where the CPU should marshal the hardware and do as little as possible otherwise. So Raspbmc works okay for the most part because mp4 content is being powered by the hardware and there is only one main process running. But Raspbian demonstrates that a desktop performance is awful even with the lightest of configurations. I don't expect the performance of Firefox OS to be earthshattering. Even budget phones would have a faster CPU and more RAM than the Pi. It might run and be interesting for that, but I think performance will be poor especially on heavy content. So calling the Pi "capable" is reaching a bit.
Putting a UI into a vehicle which requires the user to take their eyes off the road to locate and touch a virtual button on a smooth surface is a car crash waiting to happen. IMO the pinnacle of this insanity has to be the Tesla Model S which sticks a 17" tablet in the middle of the dash. It might look great on paper but I wonder how many accidents will be caused by people fiddling with the screen and it's functions when their eyes should be on the road.
Have you ever downloaded a PDF produced from scanned documents and been surprised that you can hilight and copy the text even though clearly it's a scanned image? That's because the scanner software has OCR'd the thing and produced a layer of text which corresponds with the raw text in the scan. There is no mystery to this and no reason to believe the birth cert didn't get scanned in a similar fashion.
But stacking him up against an insane-right-wing Ayn Rand ideologue who wants to abolish Medicare and Social Security to give tax cuts to the wealthy is a pretty fucking great way to motivate them.
I don't know. I'd vote for someone who is building an under sea city to harvest ADAM into gene altering plasmids. This is the Ryan we're talking about isn't it?
The problem here is that birthers are conspiracy kooks. No amount of evidence will change their minds. Evidence is not something to be taken at face value. Instead it must be demanded, and if by chance it is supplied it must be marginalised and denied and new evidence demanded. It's a tactic common with other denialist causes - 9/11 truthers, anti-vaxxers, creationists etc.
They can sue. Doesn't mean they're going to win.
And it wasn't the first at all. The eyetoy preceded it by a substantial amount of years and in practice offered a similar experience - flail your arms or legs in some simplistic way and the software finally reacts. While it's entirely possible that some people were happy with their glorified Eyetoy experience, anyone expecting to see emotion recognition, or indeed precision recognition would be sorely disappointed. Microsoft promise the moon and delivered a heap of manure.
Maybe Kinect 2 will be a different story, but I'm just pointing out that they didn't exactly deliver on their promises this time around.
X11 is a dinosaur. It's already worked around for the most part (e.g. cairo, freetype etc.) meaning it's largely obsolete. I don't see the harm with doing away with it entirely given that it is a performance bottleneck.
even able to see individual fingers, read lips, and gauge moods
Kinect / Natal had promised to do all that. Remember Milo? Instead MS delivered a system where most games mapped exaggerated spastic motions onto a few basic actions and had trouble doing even that. No reason to be cynical about the claims of Kinect 2 at all.
They didn't account for the upgrade putting AOL icons all over their desktop.
Similar to some devices here on Earth, the rover should have an automatic revert solution.
It does. Scientists put a small switch in at the back which you hold down while powering it up and it will reset itself.
Even if you need made to measure clothing this system will not and could not provide those measurements unless you stripped off in front of it so it could accurately measure your shape. Even then it just uses them to look up a database for a matching size of jeans. Anyone who has put on two different brands could tell you that the same measurements could yield totally different fits so it doesn't save you any effort at all.
In fact all the system does IMO is provide the show of personalized service without actually adding anything useful to the equation. A customer should already know what their dimensions are and would know what sizes to try on. Whatever the machine says is not going to add anything useful to the equation.
Most people already know their size, or could find it easily and then try the jeans on in a changing room.