. . . and patients must make three requests, two verbal and one written. They must self-administer the drug, which would be ingested. The patients must be deemed capable of making an informed decision.
I can think of a lot of critically ill patients who would be incapable of meeting these criteria. What if you've had your vocal cords removed due to throat cancer, or if you have locked in syndrome or are otherwise paralyzed?
Where's the option of making a living will where you can lodge a request to be euthanized before your physical faculties fail you? What about the comatose patients who have no hope of cure but are bankrupting their families by massive medical bills while they're taking up a hospital bed?
If I had the time and inclination, I'd patch through the line, then claim that I'd have to send them a check to pay for it. They give me the address, then I'd try to do unto them what Slashdot once did to that fuckhead Ralsky. The USPS could use the boost anyway.
(Speaking of which, I wonder if Ralsky still gets mail... *snicker*)
According to Wikipedia, Ralsky got out about 7 weeks ago. I wonder where he's living now?;)
International contracts involving two currencies are usually written to cover one year at a fixed exchange rate. Consequently there's a large lag between when a currency goes up, and when prices go down (time constant is on the order of a year). Especially if the seller is a large manufacturer (like Apple), while the buyer represents a small market (Australia). They may not have enough negotiating leverage to get next year's contract changed to better reflect the high rate of currency appreciation. (To be fair, the manufacturer may also be worried that a currency rapidly rising in a few years is a sign that it'll also rapidly fall in coming years. And they don't want to get stuck holding the bag if that happens.)
Then you have the same thing going on at the retail level, where the retailer (who got ripped off by the manufacturer) now realizes the shoe's on the other foot, and they now have the upper hand in negotiating prices with the individual buyer. So you end up seeing retail prices which reflect the exchange rate 5 years ago, with half the excess going into the pockets of retailers, the other half going into the pockets of the overseas manufacturer.
The suggestion to buy from overseas is a good one. Typically the currency exchange fees and overseas shipping fees will more than offset any advantage you gain from lower pricing from buying overseas. But when the disparity is this pronounced, its sufficient to exert downward pressure on prices. The last thing you want to be doing in this sort of situation is grudgingly pay the higher prices.
This sounds like BS. For starters these price differences also apply to DOWNLOADABLE software from the original manufacturer.
I've even been able to achieve a 30% discount in one case by simply choosing to pay in a different currency on the site, not even using a proxy. Your comment on contracts is bogus as many of the companies overcharging are big enough to have their own local distribution arms in Australia.
Currency conversion charges usually total about 2% - 2.5% just using a credit card.
Note to US eBay sellers: you'd get a lot more Aussie customers if you's offer some cheaper mailing/freight options on what you're selling. I've seen many cases of small, non-delicate items that might cost $15 having a mailing cost of $35 when they could just be thrown in the post for a much cheaper price, if slower delivery.
Email wasn't broken. DKIM was. Or rather DKIM wasn't really broken, just being misused by Google.
Misused implies some sort of dishonest intent, whereas they were actually just negligent in using a really weak key that the researcher could break on his laptop.
Not only Google but a bunch of other important web sites as well, such as Yahoo, eBay, major banks etc.
Most of them are campy but not ridiculous. Quantal? Really? Not only is that silly sounding, but it doesn't even follow along the kind of names they have been using.
quantal, adj.
1. Physics
a. Of or relating to a quantum or a quantized system.
b. Existing in only one of two possible states.
2. Biology Of or designating an all-or-none response or effect: a quantal reaction.
Also, Quetzal should be pronounced as starting with a K, but there probably not too many animals starting with Q to choose from.
If you don't want to be tracked, you want to be 1 in a million, not one in 100.
I got: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,452,130 tested so far.
Meaning if anyone sees my browser fingerprint at one place and then again at another place, they know it was the same browser.
My fingerprint showed up as unique both with and without NoScript.:(
I run the Zemana anti-logger program and it was somehow able to see that, which surprised me. With JS on, it's the huge numbers of fonts that give you away, especially if you have any kind of desk top publishing program or strange word processor installed.
If the sign acts as a deterrent, problem solved. And if it doesn't, you then have footage. What's the problem?
You could also post the sign AFTER you get the video, but before you report them to the cops. Let them prove the signs weren't there before they were filmed.;)
I've heard of some cases where the mitochondrial DNA is defective, so the only way to produce a healthy child is by slapping 3rd-party mitochondria into the maternal egg cell before fertilization, and lots of cases where sperm defects end up requiring IVF, sometimes with donor sperm. Are there also a fairly large number of cases where defective eggs are the cause of infertility that just can't be addressed at present by anything other than using donor gametes?
What about the cases of premature menopause where the woman loses all her eggs at an young age, sometimes as early as 25? These families only option would to have a baby by donor egg, which means the child is not the mother's genetic offspring.
Look, LightSquared. You should've just paid for actual spectrum you could use before. You acted like a cheap bastard and tried to use the wrong parts because it was cheaper, and then you cried when it didn't work.
You don't have to pay for spectrum, just pay for congressmen. It's much cheaper and more effective.
I'll bet that's what LightSquared are doing right now, behind the scenes.
Actually, the House scenario I mention above is a VERY simple and a very typical case.
A kid swallowing a coin. Two doctors suspecting just that.
They do an ultrasound - and they can't agree if what they are seeing is a coin or a pocket of gas.
It is a diagnostic method highly dependent on subjective interpretation. I.e. Trained intuition based on expert training and experience.
Even if you as an attacker know that the user chose 2 arbitrary words out of the English language as their password (or that only two mattered), and you knew there was a space between them, and you knew the login was case-insensitive, you still have to deal with the (minimum) 29,403,847,100 possible password phrases (171,476 common-use words times 171,475 unique second words, if we ignore word duplication and obsolete words). This also assumes, of course, that the password used correct spelling and did not in any way try to obfuscate the words with replacement schemes like l33t speak.
Tell me again why it is terrible advice to use phrases?
And at 100 billion guesses a second, using multiple GPU cards in a custom setup, you can test all those password in about 0.3 seconds.
There is no such thing. In fact, most anonymizing and/or VPN services flat out state in their TOS that they will respond accordingly to all legal requests for information.
Some VPNs claim there IS NO information if the authorities come calling
Sigh, if only there were other ways to control peaceful pro... ah mobs of anarchists.
Like pepper spray, water cannons, clubs, horses, dogs, sonic weapons, machine guns, truncheons, whips, tear gas.....
There are some excellent non-lethal possibilities that the authorities are not using, such as laser dazzlers.
My favorite unused method is the foam generator. You cover the entire ravening mob in a layer of soapy foam about 3 meters thick, so they stumble around saying "where'd every body go?", and the cops pluck them out from the front end of the mob at their leisure. You can also include orange or green skin dyes or capsaicin in the foam if you're feeling nasty.
Sounds like a good reason to continue my practice of having four separate browsers (Firefox, Chromium Portable, Opera, and IE). Google has a detailed record of four separate IDs and purchase histories.
Or just use Ixquick as your search engine; no records kept and a HTTPS browsing option. I understand Google records searches against your IP address, so changing browser might not be enough to ensure your privacy.
The early Stylewriters and the Canon Bubblejets they were based on, were great printers. They usually worked right, and the ink wasn't expensive. A friend used a Canon BJ-200e for years until they needed to print in color.
I had a Canon BJ200 and it was goddamn awful. The ink was so water soluble that it would almost run in high humidity. Certainly the merest perspiration on your hands or if you'd washed your hands and hadn't managed to dry them completely, would result in ink being smeared all over the page. Business documents had to be printed out then photo-copied before being sent off.
It was the crappy quality of the BJ200 that finally moved me to lasers, even though they were expensive at the time.
This is only one of many similar add-ons to a smart phone, where a small investment in extra hardware turns a smart phone into some piece of lab or medical equipment. I can recall seeing articles about dermascopes and microscopes as just two examples.
So with just one smart phone and maybe $150 a rural doctor could have a small portable laboratory. It is curious that they've chosen a Windows phone to work on. You'd think Android phones would be much more common in isolated areas.
Here's one for the self diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections by analyzing a urine sample:
With regard to the story, we should be discussing the efficiency of the markets. Are US prices lower because of hidden subsidies, or are Australian prices higher because of hidden taxes? Do Americans enjoying lower prices because they have a larger population and market, which empowers US distributors to negotiate better wholesale prices from their Asian suppliers?
With downloaded software there is no tax, and higher local prices are often just about screwing over the locals, because they can.
This does not explain why it's often 30-50% cheaper to buy from a foreign source and pay individual shipping from overseas. Even taking into account the 10% GST it's obvious Australians are being charged more because people think they can get away with it.
These same people are now kicking and screaming because the internet destroys their easy scam.
Exactly, and it definitely doesn't explain why the SAME downloaded software should be more expensive for an Australian than for an American. In one case I got a 33% discount simply by selecting payment in US dollars instead of AUD, on the same web page.
BTW, for Aussies buying downloadable software from the US, a proxy is your friend. I use the free Hotspot Shield for my occasional forays, and disable it with Autoruns when I don't need it. It's not just electronics and software; a recent TV piece on IKEA showed some prices double the rest of the world, for items made in Indonesia just north of Australia.
Replace the forum's captcha with one of a higher grade, e.g. Recaptcha
ReCaptcha has become so difficult recently that I can't guess half of them. As well as being horribly distorted, many of the newer unknowns seem to be in foreign (non-english) languages, so you can't even guess them from context.
What gets me is, everybody bitches that Fukushima 'failed'. Yeah, after taking an earthquake and a tsunami. What were they expecting, the Japanese to armor it against a direct impact from an asteroid the size of Texas or something? It was what, a 1 in a billion chance they took? The gods of statistics hated them that day.
If you read the the official Japanese report, it clearly says that the Fukushima disaster was a man made failure. Such as putting all the backup generators and their controls (all but one) on the ground floor, and not having filters for radioactive materials on the outlet vents.
While giving lip service to a policy of “safety first,” in actuality, safety suffered at
the expense of other management priorities. An emblematic example is the fact that TEP-CO did not have the proper diagrams of piping and other instruments at the Daiichi plant.
The absence of the proper diagrams was one of the factors that led to a delay in venting at a
crucial time during the accident.
I moved to the San Francisco bay area last year and I'm loving it. Things to add to what AC said:
Don't forget about "The Big One". The entire US west coast is due for some serious, industrial-strength natural disasters in the first half of this century.
Normally "the end is nigh" pronouncements are just scare mongering, but in this case they have a real basis of fact.
Third, I really dislike needing to remember the hundreds of variations of stupid personal trivia that comprise my "answer". "In what city did you first drive a car?" How the hell should I know, I barely remember my name anymore!
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From TFA:
. . . and patients must make three requests, two verbal and one written. They must self-administer the drug, which would be ingested. The patients must be deemed capable of making an informed decision.
I can think of a lot of critically ill patients who would be incapable of meeting these criteria. What if you've had your vocal cords removed due to throat cancer, or if you have locked in syndrome or are otherwise paralyzed?
Where's the option of making a living will where you can lodge a request to be euthanized before your physical faculties fail you? What about the comatose patients who have no hope of cure but are bankrupting their families by massive medical bills while they're taking up a hospital bed?
If I had the time and inclination, I'd patch through the line, then claim that I'd have to send them a check to pay for it. They give me the address, then I'd try to do unto them what Slashdot once did to that fuckhead Ralsky. The USPS could use the boost anyway.
(Speaking of which, I wonder if Ralsky still gets mail... *snicker*)
According to Wikipedia, Ralsky got out about 7 weeks ago. I wonder where he's living now? ;)
"Bearded man found shot dead in Russian apartment, found hunched over keyboard."
The Georgians don't mess around, any more than the Russkies do.
He'd better watch his back.
".
http://www.blameysaunders.com.au/our-story Roughly $1300 to $2100 AUD including a software programmer.
International contracts involving two currencies are usually written to cover one year at a fixed exchange rate. Consequently there's a large lag between when a currency goes up, and when prices go down (time constant is on the order of a year). Especially if the seller is a large manufacturer (like Apple), while the buyer represents a small market (Australia). They may not have enough negotiating leverage to get next year's contract changed to better reflect the high rate of currency appreciation. (To be fair, the manufacturer may also be worried that a currency rapidly rising in a few years is a sign that it'll also rapidly fall in coming years. And they don't want to get stuck holding the bag if that happens.) Then you have the same thing going on at the retail level, where the retailer (who got ripped off by the manufacturer) now realizes the shoe's on the other foot, and they now have the upper hand in negotiating prices with the individual buyer. So you end up seeing retail prices which reflect the exchange rate 5 years ago, with half the excess going into the pockets of retailers, the other half going into the pockets of the overseas manufacturer. The suggestion to buy from overseas is a good one. Typically the currency exchange fees and overseas shipping fees will more than offset any advantage you gain from lower pricing from buying overseas. But when the disparity is this pronounced, its sufficient to exert downward pressure on prices. The last thing you want to be doing in this sort of situation is grudgingly pay the higher prices.
This sounds like BS. For starters these price differences also apply to DOWNLOADABLE software from the original manufacturer.
I've even been able to achieve a 30% discount in one case by simply choosing to pay in a different currency on the site, not even using a proxy. Your comment on contracts is bogus as many of the companies overcharging are big enough to have their own local distribution arms in Australia.
Currency conversion charges usually total about 2% - 2.5% just using a credit card.
Note to US eBay sellers: you'd get a lot more Aussie customers if you's offer some cheaper mailing/freight options on what you're selling. I've seen many cases of small, non-delicate items that might cost $15 having a mailing cost of $35 when they could just be thrown in the post for a much cheaper price, if slower delivery.
Email wasn't broken. DKIM was. Or rather DKIM wasn't really broken, just being misused by Google.
Misused implies some sort of dishonest intent, whereas they were actually just negligent in using a really weak key that the researcher could break on his laptop.
Not only Google but a bunch of other important web sites as well, such as Yahoo, eBay, major banks etc.
Most of them are campy but not ridiculous. Quantal? Really? Not only is that silly sounding, but it doesn't even follow along the kind of names they have been using.
quantal, adj. 1. Physics a. Of or relating to a quantum or a quantized system. b. Existing in only one of two possible states. 2. Biology Of or designating an all-or-none response or effect: a quantal reaction.
Also, Quetzal should be pronounced as starting with a K, but there probably not too many animals starting with Q to choose from.
Just taken the EFF test.
With JS enabled: 1 in 2 500 000 browsers have a similar configuration :(
With JS disabled: 1 in 70 000 :)
Thank you, NoScript ;) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
If you don't want to be tracked, you want to be 1 in a million, not one in 100.
I got: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 2,452,130 tested so far. Meaning if anyone sees my browser fingerprint at one place and then again at another place, they know it was the same browser.
My fingerprint showed up as unique both with and without NoScript. :(
I run the Zemana anti-logger program and it was somehow able to see that, which surprised me. With JS on, it's the huge numbers of fonts that give you away, especially if you have any kind of desk top publishing program or strange word processor installed.
If the sign acts as a deterrent, problem solved. And if it doesn't, you then have footage. What's the problem?
You could also post the sign AFTER you get the video, but before you report them to the cops. Let them prove the signs weren't there before they were filmed. ;)
I've heard of some cases where the mitochondrial DNA is defective, so the only way to produce a healthy child is by slapping 3rd-party mitochondria into the maternal egg cell before fertilization, and lots of cases where sperm defects end up requiring IVF, sometimes with donor sperm. Are there also a fairly large number of cases where defective eggs are the cause of infertility that just can't be addressed at present by anything other than using donor gametes?
What about the cases of premature menopause where the woman loses all her eggs at an young age, sometimes as early as 25? These families only option would to have a baby by donor egg, which means the child is not the mother's genetic offspring.
Being able to make new eggs would fix that.
I ain't gonna even look at these damn articles anymore. I'm gonna stick with cigarettes and chocolate cake.
And coffee.
And bacon. mmmmmm bacon.
"Elizabeth...I'm coming to join ya!"
No, sorry. Coffee is off the menu. I guess that just leaves bacon, cigarettes and chocolate cake.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/251093.php
Coffee consumption can lead to a greater risk of developing exfoliation glaucoma, the primary cause of secondary glaucoma, all over the world.
Look, LightSquared. You should've just paid for actual spectrum you could use before. You acted like a cheap bastard and tried to use the wrong parts because it was cheaper, and then you cried when it didn't work.
You don't have to pay for spectrum, just pay for congressmen. It's much cheaper and more effective.
I'll bet that's what LightSquared are doing right now, behind the scenes.
Actually, the House scenario I mention above is a VERY simple and a very typical case. A kid swallowing a coin. Two doctors suspecting just that. They do an ultrasound - and they can't agree if what they are seeing is a coin or a pocket of gas.
It is a diagnostic method highly dependent on subjective interpretation. I.e. Trained intuition based on expert training and experience.
Metal detector? :)
Even if you as an attacker know that the user chose 2 arbitrary words out of the English language as their password (or that only two mattered), and you knew there was a space between them, and you knew the login was case-insensitive, you still have to deal with the (minimum) 29,403,847,100 possible password phrases (171,476 common-use words times 171,475 unique second words, if we ignore word duplication and obsolete words). This also assumes, of course, that the password used correct spelling and did not in any way try to obfuscate the words with replacement schemes like l33t speak.
Tell me again why it is terrible advice to use phrases?
And at 100 billion guesses a second, using multiple GPU cards in a custom setup, you can test all those password in about 0.3 seconds.
There is no such thing. In fact, most anonymizing and/or VPN services flat out state in their TOS that they will respond accordingly to all legal requests for information.
Some VPNs claim there IS NO information if the authorities come calling
http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anonymity-seriously-111007/
Sigh, if only there were other ways to control peaceful pro... ah mobs of anarchists. Like pepper spray, water cannons, clubs, horses, dogs, sonic weapons, machine guns, truncheons, whips, tear gas.....
There are some excellent non-lethal possibilities that the authorities are not using, such as laser dazzlers. My favorite unused method is the foam generator. You cover the entire ravening mob in a layer of soapy foam about 3 meters thick, so they stumble around saying "where'd every body go?", and the cops pluck them out from the front end of the mob at their leisure. You can also include orange or green skin dyes or capsaicin in the foam if you're feeling nasty.
Sounds like a good reason to continue my practice of having four separate browsers (Firefox, Chromium Portable, Opera, and IE). Google has a detailed record of four separate IDs and purchase histories.
Or just use Ixquick as your search engine; no records kept and a HTTPS browsing option. I understand Google records searches against your IP address, so changing browser might not be enough to ensure your privacy.
The early Stylewriters and the Canon Bubblejets they were based on, were great printers. They usually worked right, and the ink wasn't expensive. A friend used a Canon BJ-200e for years until they needed to print in color.
I had a Canon BJ200 and it was goddamn awful. The ink was so water soluble that it would almost run in high humidity. Certainly the merest perspiration on your hands or if you'd washed your hands and hadn't managed to dry them completely, would result in ink being smeared all over the page. Business documents had to be printed out then photo-copied before being sent off.
It was the crappy quality of the BJ200 that finally moved me to lasers, even though they were expensive at the time.
This is only one of many similar add-ons to a smart phone, where a small investment in extra hardware turns a smart phone into some piece of lab or medical equipment. I can recall seeing articles about dermascopes and microscopes as just two examples.
So with just one smart phone and maybe $150 a rural doctor could have a small portable laboratory. It is curious that they've chosen a Windows phone to work on. You'd think Android phones would be much more common in isolated areas.
Here's one for the self diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections by analyzing a urine sample:
http://www.gizmag.com/self-diagnosis-sti-system-via-mobile-phone-being-developed/16873/
With regard to the story, we should be discussing the efficiency of the markets. Are US prices lower because of hidden subsidies, or are Australian prices higher because of hidden taxes? Do Americans enjoying lower prices because they have a larger population and market, which empowers US distributors to negotiate better wholesale prices from their Asian suppliers?
With downloaded software there is no tax, and higher local prices are often just about screwing over the locals, because they can.
This does not explain why it's often 30-50% cheaper to buy from a foreign source and pay individual shipping from overseas. Even taking into account the 10% GST it's obvious Australians are being charged more because people think they can get away with it.
These same people are now kicking and screaming because the internet destroys their easy scam.
Exactly, and it definitely doesn't explain why the SAME downloaded software should be more expensive for an Australian than for an American. In one case I got a 33% discount simply by selecting payment in US dollars instead of AUD, on the same web page.
BTW, for Aussies buying downloadable software from the US, a proxy is your friend. I use the free Hotspot Shield for my occasional forays, and disable it with Autoruns when I don't need it. It's not just electronics and software; a recent TV piece on IKEA showed some prices double the rest of the world, for items made in Indonesia just north of Australia.
Some ways to reduce spam.
ReCaptcha has become so difficult recently that I can't guess half of them. As well as being horribly distorted, many of the newer unknowns seem to be in foreign (non-english) languages, so you can't even guess them from context.
What gets me is, everybody bitches that Fukushima 'failed'. Yeah, after taking an earthquake and a tsunami. What were they expecting, the Japanese to armor it against a direct impact from an asteroid the size of Texas or something? It was what, a 1 in a billion chance they took? The gods of statistics hated them that day.
If you read the the official Japanese report, it clearly says that the Fukushima disaster was a man made failure. Such as putting all the backup generators and their controls (all but one) on the ground floor, and not having filters for radioactive materials on the outlet vents.
While giving lip service to a policy of “safety first,” in actuality, safety suffered at the expense of other management priorities. An emblematic example is the fact that TEP-CO did not have the proper diagrams of piping and other instruments at the Daiichi plant. The absence of the proper diagrams was one of the factors that led to a delay in venting at a crucial time during the accident.
A nuke plant without equipment diagrams?
I moved to the San Francisco bay area last year and I'm loving it. Things to add to what AC said:
Don't forget about "The Big One". The entire US west coast is due for some serious, industrial-strength natural disasters in the first half of this century.
Normally "the end is nigh" pronouncements are just scare mongering, but in this case they have a real basis of fact.
Third, I really dislike needing to remember the hundreds of variations of stupid personal trivia that comprise my "answer". "In what city did you first drive a car?" How the hell should I know, I barely remember my name anymore!
"This is your brain on drugs"