Meh. I wouldn't have posted that, but my dad would have found that funny if it were about him. I'd call it at worst insensitive for not considering that it might greatly upset the OP.
Firefighters also have hazardous materials training, and often have to clean up what happens when hazardous materials are not handled properly. They saw something that concerned them, and they reported their concerns to someone who overreacted, but the overreaction is the sole responsibility of the State agency(s) involved, and in no way the firefighters' responsibility. There's plenty of blame to go around, let's not start flinging it indiscriminately.
Who is Jack Thompson? A man who knows no restraint to further a cause that has religious roots
Hmm, Wikipedia says "Thompson then expanded his comments in the same interview by saying, 'Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed.... That's a core essence of the religion.... Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels - not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition".
That's the only occurance in the wikipedia article where the word "religion" is used. Could you expound on this thought further? What are these "religious roots" you speak of, and which religion?
Or do you just hate religion in general? Why not ask if he's stopped beating his wife while you're at it?
If you SFTFA (searched for TFA), you could have easily found this on Ars Technica (emphasis mine):
GamePolitics was able to get Thompson's closing statement, and the man spoke like a captain straightening his coat as the ship goes down. "I'm simply making the argument, Judge, that my motivations - which I have tried to make clear, maybe to the point of nausea - are religious and that my efforts against the distribution of adult material, pornographic material, violent material, adult rated material to children is violative of the law as well as violative of Scripture. I quoted the biblical passage where Jesus says, reportedly: 'If any one of you should cause one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better that a millstone be tied around your neck and that you be cast in the uttermost depths of the sea.'" Yeah, nothing about religion in there.
The Netflix advantage is that they have a larger catalog of content and they are actually willing to distribute it.
That's always been their advantage. Yes, but the digital distribution rights are completely separate from the rental rights, hence the writers' strike. They're going to run into the same barriers that VUDU is running into, although with their established relationships, they might have an easier time of it. But they can't just rip their whole rental catalog. (At least, not legally.)
They don't want someone wearing the shirt to enter the store to pretend to be an employee. The customer might think they're getting excellent customer service from an imposter. [obvious mode=on] Well, if they're getting excellent customer service at BEST BUY, then it has to be an impostor! [obvious mode=off]
Right, those would be nice if this test helped with those three aspects, but with all the "developments" that haven't panned out in AD research, I do not make a fuss about this (or anything else) until it's actually proven to be useful. And the fact is, nothing has really supplanted the basic screening yet. But of course, just like in screenings, you need to test out things in order to eliminate them and learn more about what needs to be done.
So, it's been a couple of years since I've been really up to date on the research, but it sounds like you're researching gamma secretase? I think everything's worth exploring, and this may be one of the more promising research avenues.
Currently, nothing has been scientifically proven to reverse, stop, or even slow the progression of the disease in the brain. Keeping your brain active and using your neural pathways rigorously may help you cope better with the damage that the disease progression does, so if I have X amount of damage but watch Jerry Springer all day, and you have X amount of damage but do crosswords all day, you'll probably be able to work your way around that damage better by finding other ways to say or process or otherwise deal with a certain problem, whereas I'll seem to be much more impaired with exactly the same amount of disease damage, because I won't be able to solve the cognitive issue that wouldn't give pause to someone who is cognitively healthy. The same goes for exercising and eating right; it won't affect the disease process for many diseases (although it may for some, it wouldn't for Alzheimer's), but it means you may be able to cope with some diseases better and may suffer fewer limitations due to your being healthier.
So keeping mentally and socially active won't affect the development or progression of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, but it will help you cope with them better. The more robust your system, the less it suffers from the same amount of damage or limitation.
OK, there have been other tests (including one involving spinal fluid, ouch) that have been 90+% accurate (or were initially purported to be in manufacturer-sponsored studies).
It doesn't matter.
Dementia has lots of possible causes, and there's really no way to tell most of them apart from just seeing the symptoms. That means that a dementia screening is required, and when done by an appropriate specialist (usually a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, or geriatric psychiatrist), it's roughly 90% accurate, PLUS you have either ruled out or discovered other more easily identifiable and sometimes reversible causes of dementia, which is important for what should be obvious reasons. That is why none of these tests have replaced the standard screening, although the companies that have produced them have spent millions trying to market them as suitable replacements. The accepted diagnostic standards haven't changed much in 20 years, really, the link given is still the gold standard or still a large part of the basis for more current standards for specialists or generalists.
The only big revolution is that some progress is being made on the metabolic processes that cause the plaques and tangles to appear in the brain, which might allow for preventative treatment, but it would probably need to begin in your 20's. Elan Pharmaceuticals was working on an antibody that could clear plaques from the brain, but it was unclear how much this would help those who were already suffering from AD, as brain cells will eventually start dying, although if this approach proves successful the disease may certainly be stopped and the damage kept from progressing, but it can't reverse existing damage.
And yes, this is my field. Here's some recommendedreading for those looking for more info.
I know this is/., but RTFA: "[i]t does it by simply measuring the reflectivity of human skin", and later, "[h]uman skin reacts like nothing else when hit with two frequencies of infrared light". Unless they're talking out their ass (completely possible, I know, this is DC), it's not just detecting heat.
Now if you were to coat your dummy in hot grits, maybe that would change the reflectivity?
What's bothered me the most about the inkjet printers I've had is that, since I don't print at home very often, they often dry out. That was addressed in the article, but unfortunately it didn't go into whether any printers might have a "parking mode" for their print heads that would protect the nozzles. Most seem to move the heads off to one side when turned off, but I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Also, while I prefer to leave my shared printer on so that it can be accessed across the LAN, I am concerned about doing so because while it does have a "sleep mode", when it enters sleep mode the print heads don't appear to move, they only move off to one side when I turn it off. I assume if I left it on, they are more likely to dry out...but we know what happens when you assume.
Anyone know of any studies or even anecdotal stories about print head "parking"?
Note that they mention specifically how to stop crawling, but as has been pointed out before, what's important is what's NOT there, which is a direct reference to removing anything ALREADY in the archives. What seems to be implied is, "If you didn't want your content archived, you should have used a robots.txt file, moron!"
If you can't be bothered to spend the time on creating a disposable Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or whatever then you should get caught. That is like robbing a liquor store with your name and address printed on the back of your shirt. Even the dateline predators created new accounts like "analrapist69@yahoo.com" or whatever. Tobias: No, no, it's pronounced 'a-NAL-ra-pist'. Buster: It wasn't really the pronunciation that bothered me.
FINALLY! People are talking about "FF" and "skip" like they're interchangeable, but they're not. I've used both, including the ReplayTV auto-skip feature mentioned above, and I could not STAND using a Comco$t/Motorola DVR without the 30-second skip. I did quickly find a way to program the 30-second skip into my Harmony programmable remote, which I can't recommend highly enough, but even then, it only made it barely tolerable. Compared to the ReplayTV's auto-skip being right a large majority of the time, and the rest of the time hitting 3+Skip to skip ahead 3 minutes at the start of a break, even the Comco$t DVR with 30-second skip became a drag, and I returned it well before I kicked Comco$t to the curb.
As for those who actually find commercial breaks useful for the break (as opposed to the entertainment value of some commercials), you're missing the point of owning a DVR. You make your own breaks whenever you want. We pause most shows multiple times in our household, to talk about the show, to talk about unrelated things, for ingestion/excretion, etc.
Someone mentioned before that it may take people a while to catch on to the fact that they can skip or FF commercials. However, many content providers like Comco$t are promoting intentionally crippled or less user-friendly show navigation on purpose. The commercial DVR market hasn't taken off as fast as many people thought it would because of this, and now with ReplayTV dead and TiVo on life support, I think we're going to see a growing dichotomy between the DRM'ed DVRs provided by content-providers and the geeks building their own HTPCs.
OK, OK, so you caught me, I've been using the same old broke-down laptop since 2002, and I didn't realize that most will connect to any open access point...but saying it's not your fault that your computer does this is wrong. If your computer comes preloaded with a REALLY loud, obnoxious, 2-minute startup sound, you'd change it, certainly before using it in the library, I'd hope, and that's not nearly as important a behavior, even though it's more overt. Well, just because the "any open access point" is convenient and transparent doesn't mean you shouldn't be aware of what your computer's doing. I can't believe someone who reads/. also logs on to their e-mail or anything else using someone else's AP. You do realize that if your accounts haven't been hacked yet, you've just been lucky, right? I would only use an unknown, unsecured access point for browsing, and only because I run a decent firewall.
But yes, as others have said, re: TFA, I'm not sure this was a felony, or even a crime of any kind, but IMO it was wrong.
Um, no, it's supposed to be for CUSTOMERS. I think that was the whole point of the case. If he sat down and didn't buy anything, they could have asked him to leave, both the premises and the network.
Actually, as analogies go, the light from your neighbor's window (or music from their stereo) is a perfect example of why this is NOT the same as accessing someone else's Wi-fi connection. If you cannot be legally prevented from reading a book or sitting in a spot where you are using your neighbor's light or listening to their music, then you have a right to use those resources, as you cannot "turn them off" or otherwise avoid them, and it does not impact your neighbor any more than if you could not hear their music or read by their light.
However, piggybacking is different and philosophically wrong for two reasons. First, Wi-fi use DOES impact other users, as bandwidth is finite and allowed users may theoretically wind up having diminished use of the service due to piggybacking. But more importantly, you CANNOT just sit in a parking lot and use Wi-fi without deciding to ACTIVELY log on to the access point. While you may have a right to sit in the parking lot and use your computer, you are actively deciding to use someone else's resources when you log on, and doing so certainly is not unavoidable while using your laptop in that parking lot.
I'm not saying I like the law, because if they're too dumb to require a login, they will have issues bigger than this fellow who was quite up-front about what he was doing. But the previous analogy is a good example of why it is not quite as harmless as it seems.
Is that really how it works, updating over the Internet? It should be easy enough to proxy DNS requests, as WiRNS does for ReplayTVs. We even use it to block crippleware updates, so I don't see why it couldn't be done for HD-DVD players.
The cover supposedly has some shielding, but apparently not enough to foil a high-gain antenna, as I suspected. I'm ordering a Faraday wallet for my daughter's passport.
Unrelated but interesting: my wife sent in her renewal at the same time we applied for my daughter's first passport, in Nov. 2006, and the renewal arrived sooner but without an RFID chip, only the new passport had one, although they both should have been manufactured at the same time, so you would think using the same methods and materials. My WASG is: certain offices/facilities handle new orders, and others handle renewals.
I leased a Motorola DCT-6412 from Comco$t for a while, and while the remote they supplied did not have a 30-second skip button, I found that Logitech (I have their Harmony 676 remote) had a codeset with a 30-second skip code that worked. (The Harmony line allows you to load codesets from their web site, and also lets you move any function to any button.) As a ReplayTV DVR owner, it was bad enough not being able to jump to a specific time or jump forward or back X minutes, but the skip forward/back made it tolerable.
If this comes up again and you get a programmable remote, check www.avsforum.com or www.remotecentral.com for additional codes.
Well, if you're scanning objects in your home, you might as well use a stationary device connected to a computer, since there's little point in putting RFID tags in furniture or other normally non-mobile objects. Also, I would think a mobile power source and even basic processing would drive up the price.
I haven't tried them yet, but if you are interested in PC-based RFID readers, some friends recommended these:
...and so the hole-punching gives you a way to scam the blind based on the old joke "Do you have two tens for a five?"
No, the "marking" will have to be something much harder to fake, so it can't be done casually or quickly.
I'm thinking bumps in the paper; not raised, like Braille, but extra paper pulp pressed into bumps, ridges...actually, the more complex the better. The extra paper will not wear down easily. Maybe even plastic pressed into the paper, like the current plastic strips, but thick enough to cause "speed bumps" on the paper. That might be harder to fake.
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She's a MILF (Mother I'd Like to Friend).
What, what did you think I meant?
Regarding the iBaby popup... Check carefully next time... there should be a "don't remind me again" checkbox..
I tried that...I got an "invalid argument error" from Wife 1.0.
-1. Inappropriate and rude humor.
Meh. I wouldn't have posted that, but my dad would have found that funny if it were about him. I'd call it at worst insensitive for not considering that it might greatly upset the OP.
I suppose if "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense" is not considered too long for a tag, then "justifiableschadenfreude" is slightly shorter...
Firefighters also have hazardous materials training, and often have to clean up what happens when hazardous materials are not handled properly. They saw something that concerned them, and they reported their concerns to someone who overreacted, but the overreaction is the sole responsibility of the State agency(s) involved, and in no way the firefighters' responsibility. There's plenty of blame to go around, let's not start flinging it indiscriminately.
A man who knows no restraint to further a cause that has religious roots
Hmm, Wikipedia says "Thompson then expanded his comments in the same interview by saying, 'Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed.
That's the only occurance in the wikipedia article where the word "religion" is used. Could you expound on this thought further? What are these "religious roots" you speak of, and which religion?
Or do you just hate religion in general? Why not ask if he's stopped beating his wife while you're at it?
If you SFTFA (searched for TFA), you could have easily found this on Ars Technica (emphasis mine): GamePolitics was able to get Thompson's closing statement, and the man spoke like a captain straightening his coat as the ship goes down. "I'm simply making the argument, Judge, that my motivations - which I have tried to make clear, maybe to the point of nausea - are religious and that my efforts against the distribution of adult material, pornographic material, violent material, adult rated material to children is violative of the law as well as violative of Scripture . I quoted the biblical passage where Jesus says , reportedly: 'If any one of you should cause one of these little ones to stumble, it would be better that a millstone be tied around your neck and that you be cast in the uttermost depths of the sea.'" Yeah, nothing about religion in there.
That's always been their advantage. Yes, but the digital distribution rights are completely separate from the rental rights, hence the writers' strike. They're going to run into the same barriers that VUDU is running into, although with their established relationships, they might have an easier time of it. But they can't just rip their whole rental catalog. (At least, not legally.)
Right, those would be nice if this test helped with those three aspects, but with all the "developments" that haven't panned out in AD research, I do not make a fuss about this (or anything else) until it's actually proven to be useful. And the fact is, nothing has really supplanted the basic screening yet. But of course, just like in screenings, you need to test out things in order to eliminate them and learn more about what needs to be done.
So, it's been a couple of years since I've been really up to date on the research, but it sounds like you're researching gamma secretase? I think everything's worth exploring, and this may be one of the more promising research avenues.
Currently, nothing has been scientifically proven to reverse, stop, or even slow the progression of the disease in the brain. Keeping your brain active and using your neural pathways rigorously may help you cope better with the damage that the disease progression does, so if I have X amount of damage but watch Jerry Springer all day, and you have X amount of damage but do crosswords all day, you'll probably be able to work your way around that damage better by finding other ways to say or process or otherwise deal with a certain problem, whereas I'll seem to be much more impaired with exactly the same amount of disease damage, because I won't be able to solve the cognitive issue that wouldn't give pause to someone who is cognitively healthy. The same goes for exercising and eating right; it won't affect the disease process for many diseases (although it may for some, it wouldn't for Alzheimer's), but it means you may be able to cope with some diseases better and may suffer fewer limitations due to your being healthier.
So keeping mentally and socially active won't affect the development or progression of neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary tangles, but it will help you cope with them better. The more robust your system, the less it suffers from the same amount of damage or limitation.
OK, there have been other tests (including one involving spinal fluid, ouch) that have been 90+% accurate (or were initially purported to be in manufacturer-sponsored studies).
It doesn't matter.
Dementia has lots of possible causes, and there's really no way to tell most of them apart from just seeing the symptoms. That means that a dementia screening is required, and when done by an appropriate specialist (usually a neurologist, neuropsychiatrist, or geriatric psychiatrist), it's roughly 90% accurate, PLUS you have either ruled out or discovered other more easily identifiable and sometimes reversible causes of dementia, which is important for what should be obvious reasons. That is why none of these tests have replaced the standard screening, although the companies that have produced them have spent millions trying to market them as suitable replacements. The accepted diagnostic standards haven't changed much in 20 years, really, the link given is still the gold standard or still a large part of the basis for more current standards for specialists or generalists.
The only big revolution is that some progress is being made on the metabolic processes that cause the plaques and tangles to appear in the brain, which might allow for preventative treatment, but it would probably need to begin in your 20's. Elan Pharmaceuticals was working on an antibody that could clear plaques from the brain, but it was unclear how much this would help those who were already suffering from AD, as brain cells will eventually start dying, although if this approach proves successful the disease may certainly be stopped and the damage kept from progressing, but it can't reverse existing damage.
And yes, this is my field. Here's some recommended reading for those looking for more info.
I know this is /., but RTFA: "[i]t does it by simply measuring the reflectivity of human skin", and later, "[h]uman skin reacts like nothing else when hit with two frequencies of infrared light". Unless they're talking out their ass (completely possible, I know, this is DC), it's not just detecting heat.
Now if you were to coat your dummy in hot grits, maybe that would change the reflectivity?
What's bothered me the most about the inkjet printers I've had is that, since I don't print at home very often, they often dry out. That was addressed in the article, but unfortunately it didn't go into whether any printers might have a "parking mode" for their print heads that would protect the nozzles. Most seem to move the heads off to one side when turned off, but I don't know if that makes a difference or not.
Also, while I prefer to leave my shared printer on so that it can be accessed across the LAN, I am concerned about doing so because while it does have a "sleep mode", when it enters sleep mode the print heads don't appear to move, they only move off to one side when I turn it off. I assume if I left it on, they are more likely to dry out...but we know what happens when you assume.
Anyone know of any studies or even anecdotal stories about print head "parking"?
Note that they mention specifically how to stop crawling, but as has been pointed out before, what's important is what's NOT there, which is a direct reference to removing anything ALREADY in the archives. What seems to be implied is, "If you didn't want your content archived, you should have used a robots.txt file, moron!"
Buster: It wasn't really the pronunciation that bothered me.
FINALLY! People are talking about "FF" and "skip" like they're interchangeable, but they're not. I've used both, including the ReplayTV auto-skip feature mentioned above, and I could not STAND using a Comco$t/Motorola DVR without the 30-second skip. I did quickly find a way to program the 30-second skip into my Harmony programmable remote, which I can't recommend highly enough, but even then, it only made it barely tolerable. Compared to the ReplayTV's auto-skip being right a large majority of the time, and the rest of the time hitting 3+Skip to skip ahead 3 minutes at the start of a break, even the Comco$t DVR with 30-second skip became a drag, and I returned it well before I kicked Comco$t to the curb.
As for those who actually find commercial breaks useful for the break (as opposed to the entertainment value of some commercials), you're missing the point of owning a DVR. You make your own breaks whenever you want. We pause most shows multiple times in our household, to talk about the show, to talk about unrelated things, for ingestion/excretion, etc.
Someone mentioned before that it may take people a while to catch on to the fact that they can skip or FF commercials. However, many content providers like Comco$t are promoting intentionally crippled or less user-friendly show navigation on purpose. The commercial DVR market hasn't taken off as fast as many people thought it would because of this, and now with ReplayTV dead and TiVo on life support, I think we're going to see a growing dichotomy between the DRM'ed DVRs provided by content-providers and the geeks building their own HTPCs.
OK, OK, so you caught me, I've been using the same old broke-down laptop since 2002, and I didn't realize that most will connect to any open access point...but saying it's not your fault that your computer does this is wrong. If your computer comes preloaded with a REALLY loud, obnoxious, 2-minute startup sound, you'd change it, certainly before using it in the library, I'd hope, and that's not nearly as important a behavior, even though it's more overt. Well, just because the "any open access point" is convenient and transparent doesn't mean you shouldn't be aware of what your computer's doing. I can't believe someone who reads /. also logs on to their e-mail or anything else using someone else's AP. You do realize that if your accounts haven't been hacked yet, you've just been lucky, right? I would only use an unknown, unsecured access point for browsing, and only because I run a decent firewall.
But yes, as others have said, re: TFA, I'm not sure this was a felony, or even a crime of any kind, but IMO it was wrong.
Um, no, it's supposed to be for CUSTOMERS. I think that was the whole point of the case. If he sat down and didn't buy anything, they could have asked him to leave, both the premises and the network.
Actually, as analogies go, the light from your neighbor's window (or music from their stereo) is a perfect example of why this is NOT the same as accessing someone else's Wi-fi connection. If you cannot be legally prevented from reading a book or sitting in a spot where you are using your neighbor's light or listening to their music, then you have a right to use those resources, as you cannot "turn them off" or otherwise avoid them, and it does not impact your neighbor any more than if you could not hear their music or read by their light.
However, piggybacking is different and philosophically wrong for two reasons. First, Wi-fi use DOES impact other users, as bandwidth is finite and allowed users may theoretically wind up having diminished use of the service due to piggybacking. But more importantly, you CANNOT just sit in a parking lot and use Wi-fi without deciding to ACTIVELY log on to the access point. While you may have a right to sit in the parking lot and use your computer, you are actively deciding to use someone else's resources when you log on, and doing so certainly is not unavoidable while using your laptop in that parking lot.
I'm not saying I like the law, because if they're too dumb to require a login, they will have issues bigger than this fellow who was quite up-front about what he was doing. But the previous analogy is a good example of why it is not quite as harmless as it seems.
Is that really how it works, updating over the Internet? It should be easy enough to proxy DNS requests, as WiRNS does for ReplayTVs. We even use it to block crippleware updates, so I don't see why it couldn't be done for HD-DVD players.
Vonage should have offered to settle for 0.055 cents per customer; Verizon would have jumped at it!
The cover supposedly has some shielding, but apparently not enough to foil a high-gain antenna, as I suspected. I'm ordering a Faraday wallet for my daughter's passport.
Unrelated but interesting: my wife sent in her renewal at the same time we applied for my daughter's first passport, in Nov. 2006, and the renewal arrived sooner but without an RFID chip, only the new passport had one, although they both should have been manufactured at the same time, so you would think using the same methods and materials. My WASG is: certain offices/facilities handle new orders, and others handle renewals.
I leased a Motorola DCT-6412 from Comco$t for a while, and while the remote they supplied did not have a 30-second skip button, I found that Logitech (I have their Harmony 676 remote) had a codeset with a 30-second skip code that worked. (The Harmony line allows you to load codesets from their web site, and also lets you move any function to any button.) As a ReplayTV DVR owner, it was bad enough not being able to jump to a specific time or jump forward or back X minutes, but the skip forward/back made it tolerable.
If this comes up again and you get a programmable remote, check www.avsforum.com or www.remotecentral.com for additional codes.
Well, if you're scanning objects in your home, you might as well use a stationary device connected to a computer, since there's little point in putting RFID tags in furniture or other normally non-mobile objects. Also, I would think a mobile power source and even basic processing would drive up the price.
I haven't tried them yet, but if you are interested in PC-based RFID readers, some friends recommended these:
http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H2177.html
http://www.phidgets.com/index.php
...and so the hole-punching gives you a way to scam the blind based on the old joke "Do you have two tens for a five?"
No, the "marking" will have to be something much harder to fake, so it can't be done casually or quickly.
I'm thinking bumps in the paper; not raised, like Braille, but extra paper pulp pressed into bumps, ridges...actually, the more complex the better. The extra paper will not wear down easily. Maybe even plastic pressed into the paper, like the current plastic strips, but thick enough to cause "speed bumps" on the paper. That might be harder to fake.