Yeah, but will these cars be allowed on the road without full safety and emissions tests and certification? Certainly not in my country. Will they be able to be insured?
Waiting for the protests from the folks who believe Sunscreen actually causes cancer (chemicals in the lotion vs the sun's rays).
[John]
But it used to: "When exposed to light, aminobenzoic acid (para-aminobenzoic acid or PABA) absorbs UV light and emits excess energy via a photochemical reaction that may cause damage to DNA. Because DNA defects contribute to skin cancer, aminobenzoic acid is no longer widely used in sunscreen formulations."
She/He is an idiot because she/he used CC instead of BCC. Something that riles me in general.
This is also a fault of the particular implementation of the CC function. When selected it should put up a warning that all the addressees details will be included in every email sent and ask "Are you sure?" before it goes ahead and sends.
I think you'd have a pareto-style 80/20 split between "patients with HIV" and "other parties", and that's good enough for strong inference to be drawn. HIV is the poster child for sensitive data, so yeah, it does matter.
It's trivially easy to do, and trivially easy to screw up: a classic infosec trap.
I believe this clinic deals mostly with sexually transmitted diseases, so being revealed having some variety of the clap won't be much of an improvement in many people's eyes.
Yea, he can totally go to one or 2-3 identical companies with identical products that do the exact same thing.
Except that NO other companies do this. And if people actually abandon Xerox, and HP, Epson, etc. see Xerox losing customers, they will not adopt the same policies, and Xerox is likely to reverse their decision to adopt regional encoding.
There is no need for government regulation here. The market will fix this.
Until they end their customer hostile policies, I will not buy from Xerox. But I have never bought anything from Xerox anyway, so that isn't saying much.
Except HP did this probably 10 years ago. A genuine HP cartridge bought in Asia refused to work in a HP inkjet printer in Australia. I don't know if that still happens as I refuse to go near HP and I bought a B&W laser printer instead.
But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.”
. . . but probably best to do so anonymously, or with someone else's email account. We all know how large companies love whistle blowers.
You're an experienced test pilot of a rocket powered ship and you have to be specifically trained to anticipate the effects of slamming on the brakes while traveling at supersonic speed?
I suspect he knew full well the likely outcome but just had a brain fade. Probably what was missing was some kind of hardware interlock so that this couldn't have happened, or else it required both pilots acting at once to enable it.
KeepassX which is the cross platform version, is derived from Keepass 1.0 which doesn't use NET/Mono (instead uses Qt Libraries). Version 2.0 beta has recently been released for KeepassX.
The article also fails to mention how economically feasible the use of MRI would be for biopsy, given the high cost of MR in general (perhaps 10x more than CT, which is perhaps 5X the cost of ultrasound, which is what's used now). In practice, it's more likely that advances in ultrasound (like doppler) will prove more useful and feasible for biopsy than will MR.
The extra cost may be worth it if the results are good enough. Here is a radio interview (with transcript) from an Australian doctor using MRIs for prostate exams, claiming fewer false positives resulting in unnecessary procedures, and better diagnosis of real prostate cancers.
From first link: "Hacking Team's Christian Pozzi was personally exposed by the incident, as the security engineer's [poor quality, easily guessed] password store from Firefox was published as part of the massive data dump. The websites indexed include social media (Live, Facebook, LinkedIn), financial (banks, PayPal), and network related (routers with default credentials)."
What kind of security conscious person uses Firefox for storing important passwords, let alone someone calling themselves a security engineer? I hope the hackers had fun accessing his bank accounts.:-)
Forget all the other stuff, and bring back the 4:3 aspect ratio screen!!! The current screens aren't really wide, they are just shortened. They are definitely NOT better! This whole "wide screen" crap got foisted off on us because manufacturers found out that by making the screens shorter, they are cheaper to make. Then the marketing f**ks managed to convince some folks that "wider" (actually shorter) is better so that they could raise prices for what is actually an inferior and cheaper product, increasing profits at the expense of those buying computers.
Years of research went into finding the most comfortable aspect ratio for TV viewing, which turned out to be 4:3. The same applies to computer monitors. 4:3 is the best aspect ratio. Don't believe me? Then do some research and you will find that there are many that want to see the return of the 4:3 aspect ratio computer screen both on the desktop and laptop computer platforms.
I'd settle for a 16:10 ratio for a computer monitor, comfortable or not.
This situation is not quite the same, because the Apple site is streaming, not downloading, its content. Users can't just grab all the music they can during the trial period and then keep it.
I don't stream or download music, but a search for "record streaming audio" brings up a lot of results. I'd be surprised if at least a few of them didn't work.
The difference is that humans can't live forever due to medical/technical realities (as yet), whereas a robot theoretically could.
At the moment this is just another case of a supplier refusing to supply proper maintenance support and spare parts when it suits them (bastards), but if robots ever become sentient then it could be akin to murder, by denying the "necessities of life"
Parliamentarians will have to decide if they want to call in the help of counterintelligence experts from the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the domestic intelligence service of Germany.
Some members of parliament have expressed concerns about the involvement of the BfV, Der Spiegel reported. Some are also refusing help from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process.
Armin Schuster, a member of parliament for the CDU, criticized those concerns.
Schuster told Der Spiegel that he thinks it is “crazy” that some would rather be spied upon by a foreign intelligence agency then letting their own agencies help.
Heh, they're afraid that one set of taps would probably be replaced with another, which would probably be cc'ed to the CIA.
FTA:"In April 2014, Viktor Tarasov wrote to the head of Ruselectronics, a Russian state-owned holding company, about a critical shortage of military equipment. The Russian military lacked thermal imaging systems — devices commonly used to detect people and vehicles — and Tarasov believed that technology might be needed soon because of the “increasingly complex situation in the southeast of Ukraine and the possible participation of Russian forces” to stabilize the region."
Are they saying for the last 30 years they have had "zero" military thermal imaging capabilities? Couldn't they have just bought a few off e-bay? Something doesn't fit here...
If you'd read TFA you'd see that they have been doing that as well.
Fire the geneticist. Your genes can't tell if you're at risk for any cancer. They can only tell if you'll have a greater risk than the average human. Acting on anything found by your genes at this point is just stupid at best.
The major breast cancer genes give the patient somewhere around an 80% chance of getting breast cancer, which in my book is close enough to certainty when death is a possible outcome.
However the associated chance of ovarian cancer is only around 50% which makes for a much harder choice for a younger woman, as having your ovaries removed would cause immediate menopause, with its own serious life changing effects.
Cameron is staunchly anti-freedom. What's tragic is a majority of British liked this and voted for the man and those that didn't are forced at gunpoint to come along for the ride.
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy... wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
“Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.” —James Madison
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and... breaks up the foundations of society.” —Thomas Jefferson
http://democracyisnotfreedom.c...https://encyclopediadramatica....
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament." — Vladimir Lenin
tolls need infrastructure which costs money to run
Disadvantages of toll booths:
1. Require lots of new and expensive infrastructure.
2. Slows down traffic and creates congestion
3. Encourages people to drive on local streets, winding through neighborhoods, rather than on highways.
4. Doesn't discriminate on size, weight, efficiency of the vehicle, or number of passengers.
Advantages of toll booths:
1. Creates jobs for glaziers that are unemployed due to insufficient amounts of broken windows.
In my city in Australia tolls are collected by pre-purchased RFID tags and enforced by number plate cameras. If you're from out of town or only an occasional toll road user then you can pay by phone or on-line within the 24 hours following your journey.
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I find their full bodied and unrestrained support for open source commendable.
Yeah, but will these cars be allowed on the road without full safety and emissions tests and certification? Certainly not in my country. Will they be able to be insured?
Waiting for the protests from the folks who believe Sunscreen actually causes cancer (chemicals in the lotion vs the sun's rays).
[John]
But it used to: "When exposed to light, aminobenzoic acid (para-aminobenzoic acid or PABA) absorbs UV light and emits excess energy via a photochemical reaction that may cause damage to DNA. Because DNA defects contribute to skin cancer, aminobenzoic acid is no longer widely used in sunscreen formulations."
http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/978#section=Top
She/He is an idiot because she/he used CC instead of BCC. Something that riles me in general.
This is also a fault of the particular implementation of the CC function. When selected it should put up a warning that all the addressees details will be included in every email sent and ask "Are you sure?" before it goes ahead and sends.
I think you'd have a pareto-style 80/20 split between "patients with HIV" and "other parties", and that's good enough for strong inference to be drawn. HIV is the poster child for sensitive data, so yeah, it does matter.
It's trivially easy to do, and trivially easy to screw up: a classic infosec trap.
I believe this clinic deals mostly with sexually transmitted diseases, so being revealed having some variety of the clap won't be much of an improvement in many people's eyes.
If anything, it takes less time now so overall he's probably getting even less money!
No, they increased the size of his run, and laid off another driver who is no longer required.
Yea, he can totally go to one or 2-3 identical companies with identical products that do the exact same thing.
Except that NO other companies do this. And if people actually abandon Xerox, and HP, Epson, etc. see Xerox losing customers, they will not adopt the same policies, and Xerox is likely to reverse their decision to adopt regional encoding.
There is no need for government regulation here. The market will fix this.
Until they end their customer hostile policies, I will not buy from Xerox. But I have never bought anything from Xerox anyway, so that isn't saying much.
Except HP did this probably 10 years ago. A genuine HP cartridge bought in Asia refused to work in a HP inkjet printer in Australia. I don't know if that still happens as I refuse to go near HP and I bought a B&W laser printer instead.
But if you know of any stories like those reported, I want you to escalate to HR. You can also email me directly at jeff@amazon.com. Even if it’s rare or isolated, our tolerance for any such lack of empathy needs to be zero.”
. . . but probably best to do so anonymously, or with someone else's email account. We all know how large companies love whistle blowers.
i was looking at the options awhile ago, it's actually a pretty cool list of symbols:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But disappointingly, no raised middle finger.
With all due respect, I'd rather eat Ramen and take a vitamin pill than consume the current Soylent formulations and fart all night long.
According to an Ars Technica review the extreme farts are gone with the latest versions.
If you don't like the real thing, there are a bunch of DIY recipes that you can try for yourself.
You're an experienced test pilot of a rocket powered ship and you have to be specifically trained to anticipate the effects of slamming on the brakes while traveling at supersonic speed?
I suspect he knew full well the likely outcome but just had a brain fade. Probably what was missing was some kind of hardware interlock so that this couldn't have happened, or else it required both pilots acting at once to enable it.
KeepassX which is the cross platform version, is derived from Keepass 1.0 which doesn't use NET/Mono (instead uses Qt Libraries). Version 2.0 beta has recently been released for KeepassX.
The article also fails to mention how economically feasible the use of MRI would be for biopsy, given the high cost of MR in general (perhaps 10x more than CT, which is perhaps 5X the cost of ultrasound, which is what's used now). In practice, it's more likely that advances in ultrasound (like doppler) will prove more useful and feasible for biopsy than will MR.
The extra cost may be worth it if the results are good enough. Here is a radio interview (with transcript) from an Australian doctor using MRIs for prostate exams, claiming fewer false positives resulting in unnecessary procedures, and better diagnosis of real prostate cancers.
From first link: "Hacking Team's Christian Pozzi was personally exposed by the incident, as the security engineer's [poor quality, easily guessed] password store from Firefox was published as part of the massive data dump. The websites indexed include social media (Live, Facebook, LinkedIn), financial (banks, PayPal), and network related (routers with default credentials)."
What kind of security conscious person uses Firefox for storing important passwords, let alone someone calling themselves a security engineer? I hope the hackers had fun accessing his bank accounts. :-)
Forget all the other stuff, and bring back the 4:3 aspect ratio screen!!! The current screens aren't really wide, they are just shortened. They are definitely NOT better! This whole "wide screen" crap got foisted off on us because manufacturers found out that by making the screens shorter, they are cheaper to make. Then the marketing f**ks managed to convince some folks that "wider" (actually shorter) is better so that they could raise prices for what is actually an inferior and cheaper product, increasing profits at the expense of those buying computers.
Years of research went into finding the most comfortable aspect ratio for TV viewing, which turned out to be 4:3. The same applies to computer monitors. 4:3 is the best aspect ratio. Don't believe me? Then do some research and you will find that there are many that want to see the return of the 4:3 aspect ratio computer screen both on the desktop and laptop computer platforms.
I'd settle for a 16:10 ratio for a computer monitor, comfortable or not.
This situation is not quite the same, because the Apple site is streaming, not downloading, its content. Users can't just grab all the music they can during the trial period and then keep it.
I don't stream or download music, but a search for "record streaming audio" brings up a lot of results. I'd be surprised if at least a few of them didn't work.
The difference is that humans can't live forever due to medical/technical realities (as yet), whereas a robot theoretically could.
At the moment this is just another case of a supplier refusing to supply proper maintenance support and spare parts when it suits them (bastards), but if robots ever become sentient then it could be akin to murder, by denying the "necessities of life"
Posting to cancel incorrect moderation.
I just got this picture of a queue of T101s getting caught in the metal detector at LAX.
. . . with a bottle of water!
Parliamentarians will have to decide if they want to call in the help of counterintelligence experts from the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the domestic intelligence service of Germany.
Some members of parliament have expressed concerns about the involvement of the BfV, Der Spiegel reported. Some are also refusing help from the foreign intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, because the agency would gain access to the legislative process. Armin Schuster, a member of parliament for the CDU, criticized those concerns.
Schuster told Der Spiegel that he thinks it is “crazy” that some would rather be spied upon by a foreign intelligence agency then letting their own agencies help.
Heh, they're afraid that one set of taps would probably be replaced with another, which would probably be cc'ed to the CIA.
FTA:"In April 2014, Viktor Tarasov wrote to the head of Ruselectronics, a Russian state-owned holding company, about a critical shortage of military equipment. The Russian military lacked thermal imaging systems — devices commonly used to detect people and vehicles — and Tarasov believed that technology might be needed soon because of the “increasingly complex situation in the southeast of Ukraine and the possible participation of Russian forces” to stabilize the region."
Are they saying for the last 30 years they have had "zero" military thermal imaging capabilities? Couldn't they have just bought a few off e-bay? Something doesn't fit here...
If you'd read TFA you'd see that they have been doing that as well.
Fire the geneticist. Your genes can't tell if you're at risk for any cancer. They can only tell if you'll have a greater risk than the average human. Acting on anything found by your genes at this point is just stupid at best.
The major breast cancer genes give the patient somewhere around an 80% chance of getting breast cancer, which in my book is close enough to certainty when death is a possible outcome.
However the associated chance of ovarian cancer is only around 50% which makes for a much harder choice for a younger woman, as having your ovaries removed would cause immediate menopause, with its own serious life changing effects.
Cameron is staunchly anti-freedom. What's tragic is a majority of British liked this and voted for the man and those that didn't are forced at gunpoint to come along for the ride. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin “The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” —Thomas Jefferson “Democracy ... wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
“Democracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.” —James Madison
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and ... breaks up the foundations of society.” —Thomas Jefferson
http://democracyisnotfreedom.c... https://encyclopediadramatica....
"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament." — Vladimir Lenin
Unfortunately Iinet is in the process of being sold, so they'll probably turn into assholes as soon as the new buyer takes over.
tolls need infrastructure which costs money to run
Disadvantages of toll booths: 1. Require lots of new and expensive infrastructure. 2. Slows down traffic and creates congestion 3. Encourages people to drive on local streets, winding through neighborhoods, rather than on highways. 4. Doesn't discriminate on size, weight, efficiency of the vehicle, or number of passengers.
Advantages of toll booths: 1. Creates jobs for glaziers that are unemployed due to insufficient amounts of broken windows.
In my city in Australia tolls are collected by pre-purchased RFID tags and enforced by number plate cameras. If you're from out of town or only an occasional toll road user then you can pay by phone or on-line within the 24 hours following your journey.