The JAMA study measured urinary levels of BPA in 1455 adults aged 18-74 years, in relation to 8 conditions: arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, respiratory disease (eg asthma, bronchitis, emphysema), stroke, thyroid disease. Higher BPA concentrations were found only in association with heart disease, diabetes and liver damage. This is a preliminary study, and “association” is not proof of causation but it does give grounds for concern. Bottom line: The significance, if any, of high urinary levels of BPA is not yet known, but long-term studies are certainly needed.
Personally I think it's a bad idea to cook food in plastic containers, or store things in plastic that can act as a solvent. The fact that you can taste the plastic container in the food is something I find disturbing and we primarily use glass and stainless, if only for that issue.
Except that speeding, unless we're talking about misdemeanor or felony speeding, isn't a crime. It's a civil matter, at least everyplace I've ever lived. That means there is no right or wrong, just who has the best evidence which is usually the cops. Let's be clear, setting up a speed camera is for the most part, a revenue generator, not a safter issue, regardless of what the spokesholes from the police department / city council says.
I could describe multiple examples as my city / county is clogged with red-light / speed cameras, but this one should make the point.
On a major street (3 lanes each direction, divided, 50 MPH speed limit) near my house there is a mid-block speed camera (no schools or anything like that anywhere close). The behavior that I've witnessed on a daily basis for the last three years is that people, on average drive 60 to 65, slow down right before the camera, then speed back up to 65. I do it, and so do most of the other drivers. Yes this is anecdotal, but I've been seeing this behavior for years, so it seems to me to be a good generalization of behavior at that particular camera installation. Now, since this is a mid block camera, people are still going through the intersections at 60+ MPH. How, exactly, does this particular camera increase safety? The short answer is that is doesn't.
There have been a few fatal accidents at intersections.4 and 1.6 miles from the camera, and have been since the installation. No one on the city council will admit to it, but the purpose of the camer was and is revenue, because if it's for safety, it's in the wrong spot and not helping. Of course, this is a local government we're talking about - competence is not apparently a requirement for being on the city council.
And yet every time I've seen them raise the speed limit on a road to what drivers were doing, drivers responded by raising their speeds by the same amount.
The reason why they have speed cameras is to generate revenue just like every other municipality that has them.
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I just ran some tests on my Mac using latest Chrome / Safari 5. Loading my Google homepage is noticeably faster in Safari 5 vs. Chrome. The average speed after 5 repetitions for loading in Chrome is just under 3 seconds, while in Safari it's about 2.5 seconds. Nonetheless, Chrome remains my browser of choice for many reasons; I prefer the tabs in Chrome to Safari, I think the address text box being included in the active tab makes more sense, I like the 4 nav buttons all together on the left as opposed to having the refresh button at the end of the address text box, I like that the address box is also the search box, and I like how the home/end keys work in Chrome vs. Safari.
Having said that I do prefer Safari to Firefox - Firefox just seems so bloated and crashy these days.
Why would they do that when the express purpose of the page is to sell Apple products. It isn't in Apple's best interest to push Chrome (my browser of choice) or Firefox... Are you going to start demanding that Microsoft post code examples in Objective C on MSDN?
And as usual the editors are censoring comments they don't like:
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Edited by Jason Chen at 06/04/10 6:44 PM
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xsbs promoted this comment Edited by Jason Chen at 06/04/10 4:53 PM
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I was kind of on Gizmodo's side about this initially, but as more facts came out and they outed the guy who lost the phone (NOT their source, BTW) I lost what little respect I had left for them. The fact that they are censoring comments that they don't like just adds to my disgust. I actually am now hoping that these guys get prosecuted and see some jail time, and perhaps a big damages suit that puts them out of business...
Not at all. The purpose of the page is to, and I quote:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.
This is NOT a showcase for HTML 5, this is to show that their products render HTML5/CSS3 today. There is no intellectual dishonesty there at all, especially since once I changed the agent string the pages didn't render completely in Chrome, Opera or FIrefox. Didn't try IE8, but then again I don't feel it worth the effort...
Standards aren't standards if they're not standard.
Not sure what your point is. Apple's point at face value is that you can start using their products to start browsing HTML5/CSS3 sites today. If one company implements the agreed to standard and other companies don't that doesn't make the standard a non-standard...
I opened the page in Chrome and it didn't work 100%. Now, if you want to analyze Apple's source and point out where their site breaks standards, that would be something more interesting
You might have missed this bit as well:
Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards
Really? I'm not sure why I'm replying to an AC, but really? You think that after the shit that Gizmodo pulled that Apple should invite them to WWDC, and that if they don't it's somehow going to hurt Apple? If you left an upper decker at my place I wouldn't invite you to any more parties either.
It's a showcase for HTML5, meant to look good, to show what HTML5 is capable of
Not quite, but close:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.
You'll need to explain that in more detail. If my employer tells me that they can and might monitor my system and I go to youporn.com on the company computer while on my "daily constitution" and I get canned, how exactly would I have a hell of a lawsuit against my employer?
I ran the entire demo in Chrome and I had issues with the video, which is to be expected at this point, because they still can't pick a standard, and the CSS3 3-D transforms which I don't understand because Chrome supports 3-D transforms.
open/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7"
In this case I think Apple is right to limit the demo to Safari, because at this point not even Chrome works for all the demos. I don't like everything that Apple does, but in this case what are they supposed to do? Due to no standard being set on video, no other browser will properly render the demos. I do question what the deal with the CSS is.
Remember, this page is a showcase of Apple's products based on the not completely baked HTML 5 standard - it is not a general HTML 5 showcase:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
I think the submitter is twisting the purpose of the html5 page on apple.com, and there is a whole lot of piling on Apple in this discussion without any real basis. Again, right there on the page it says this that it shows how Apple's latest products support HTML 5. It doesn't say that apple.com supports the latest version of Firefox or IE.
That's a bit of a red herring. For example, a company that handles personal customer info has a duty to ensure that that information is handled properly, and closely monitoring employee's handling of that data is completely legitimate as is making sure that the employee isn't spending all day playing Farmville. This is a very poor slippery slope argument - it is NOT easy to extend that logic to to video surveillance of a bathroom stall.
Well, yes, they do, but this is not an example of that. If I own a small company I can install whatever I want on my systems to monitor what my employees are doing for various reasons. I know of one specific case where a property management company does this to ensure that a disgruntled employee doesn't improperly handle a tenant's personal information - it is there for CYA reasons. I would also imagine that some parents would want to monitor their kids. I can see a lot of legitimate uses for this, and the ruling specifies that you cannot disguise the package as something else. I don't see or have a problem with this. Having said that, people will undoubtedly abuse the software, but that is true of most anything.
I don't think this is a good example of the authorities eroding the rights of the people - there are plenty of examples of that to be had.
Regardless, he sounds like an ignorant ass. I really do hate both political parties. They are both filled with buffoons, just left buffoons and right buffoons.
part of the reason not to gamble in the first place
It's one reason not to play slots, I'll give you that. It has nothing to do with playing games like craps or blackjack. I usually do OK playing craps... OK as in I break even or win more than I lose, but I'm very small stakes when I play, and I don't make sucker bets.
First of all, nothing really makes you smarter or dumber. While your capability to learn may change over time, in general a specific type of media will not impact this ability, unless we're talking about parking young children in front of a TV and ignoring them, which is another issue.
The internet, like TV, books and magazines, radio, etc does not affect your intelligence. What you get out if it is based on how you decide to use it. Spending hours on Facebook playing farmville is a huge waste of time, just like watching American idol, etc.
Using the internet for other things such as looking up how to do something or a particular fact can increase your knowledge, as can watching a show about history or science on TV.
Personally I think the WSJ has gone significantly down hill since News Corp bought it...
Personally I keep most of my validation and formatting functions in a single class, and about a year ago I spent 4 or 5 hours and replaced all the ereg with preg. It wasn't that big of a deal and the fact that ereg is going away as been, apparently, known for a long time. I've known about it for over a year personally. Besides preg is perl / mod_rewrite compatible so the expressions are more universal. I don't see the problem here - it's not like all web hosts are going to force upgrading to PHP 6 anytime soon. Hell, most hosts still make PHP 4 available...
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Apparently we don't really know:
The JAMA study measured urinary levels of BPA in 1455 adults aged 18-74 years, in relation to 8 conditions: arthritis, cancer, heart disease, diabetes, liver disease, respiratory disease (eg asthma, bronchitis, emphysema), stroke, thyroid disease. Higher BPA concentrations were found only in association with heart disease, diabetes and liver damage. This is a preliminary study, and “association” is not proof of causation but it does give grounds for concern. Bottom line: The significance, if any, of high urinary levels of BPA is not yet known, but long-term studies are certainly needed.
http://envirolaw.com/how-dangerous-is-bpa/
Personally I think it's a bad idea to cook food in plastic containers, or store things in plastic that can act as a solvent. The fact that you can taste the plastic container in the food is something I find disturbing and we primarily use glass and stainless, if only for that issue.
Except that speeding, unless we're talking about misdemeanor or felony speeding, isn't a crime. It's a civil matter, at least everyplace I've ever lived. That means there is no right or wrong, just who has the best evidence which is usually the cops. Let's be clear, setting up a speed camera is for the most part, a revenue generator, not a safter issue, regardless of what the spokesholes from the police department / city council says.
I could describe multiple examples as my city / county is clogged with red-light / speed cameras, but this one should make the point.
On a major street (3 lanes each direction, divided, 50 MPH speed limit) near my house there is a mid-block speed camera (no schools or anything like that anywhere close). The behavior that I've witnessed on a daily basis for the last three years is that people, on average drive 60 to 65, slow down right before the camera, then speed back up to 65. I do it, and so do most of the other drivers. Yes this is anecdotal, but I've been seeing this behavior for years, so it seems to me to be a good generalization of behavior at that particular camera installation. Now, since this is a mid block camera, people are still going through the intersections at 60+ MPH. How, exactly, does this particular camera increase safety? The short answer is that is doesn't.
There have been a few fatal accidents at intersections .4 and 1.6 miles from the camera, and have been since the installation. No one on the city council will admit to it, but the purpose of the camer was and is revenue, because if it's for safety, it's in the wrong spot and not helping. Of course, this is a local government we're talking about - competence is not apparently a requirement for being on the city council.
And yet every time I've seen them raise the speed limit on a road to what drivers were doing, drivers responded by raising their speeds by the same amount.
Citation needed.
The reason why they have speed cameras is to generate revenue just like every other municipality that has them.
Fixed.
I just ran some tests on my Mac using latest Chrome / Safari 5. Loading my Google homepage is noticeably faster in Safari 5 vs. Chrome. The average speed after 5 repetitions for loading in Chrome is just under 3 seconds, while in Safari it's about 2.5 seconds. Nonetheless, Chrome remains my browser of choice for many reasons; I prefer the tabs in Chrome to Safari, I think the address text box being included in the active tab makes more sense, I like the 4 nav buttons all together on the left as opposed to having the refresh button at the end of the address text box, I like that the address box is also the search box, and I like how the home/end keys work in Chrome vs. Safari.
Having said that I do prefer Safari to Firefox - Firefox just seems so bloated and crashy these days.
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-04/u-s-s-13-trillion-debt-poised-to-overtake-weigh-down-gdp-chart-of-day.html
Yeah. Why not give them weapons and put them on planes? An officer a the back of the plane with a Glock would be a better use of resources.
Why would they do that when the express purpose of the page is to sell Apple products. It isn't in Apple's best interest to push Chrome (my browser of choice) or Firefox... Are you going to start demanding that Microsoft post code examples in Objective C on MSDN?
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Edited by Jason Chen at 06/04/10 6:44 PM
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I particullarly like this one:
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I was kind of on Gizmodo's side about this initially, but as more facts came out and they outed the guy who lost the phone (NOT their source, BTW) I lost what little respect I had left for them. The fact that they are censoring comments that they don't like just adds to my disgust. I actually am now hoping that these guys get prosecuted and see some jail time, and perhaps a big damages suit that puts them out of business...
Not at all. The purpose of the page is to, and I quote:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.
This is NOT a showcase for HTML 5, this is to show that their products render HTML5/CSS3 today. There is no intellectual dishonesty there at all, especially since once I changed the agent string the pages didn't render completely in Chrome, Opera or FIrefox. Didn't try IE8, but then again I don't feel it worth the effort...
Standards aren't standards if they're not standard.
Not sure what your point is. Apple's point at face value is that you can start using their products to start browsing HTML5/CSS3 sites today. If one company implements the agreed to standard and other companies don't that doesn't make the standard a non-standard...
I opened the page in Chrome and it didn't work 100%. Now, if you want to analyze Apple's source and point out where their site breaks standards, that would be something more interesting
You might have missed this bit as well:
Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards
Really? I'm not sure why I'm replying to an AC, but really? You think that after the shit that Gizmodo pulled that Apple should invite them to WWDC, and that if they don't it's somehow going to hurt Apple? If you left an upper decker at my place I wouldn't invite you to any more parties either.
I'm pretty sure Fox didn't steal Obama's Blackberry...
It's a showcase for HTML5, meant to look good, to show what HTML5 is capable of
Not quite, but close:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do.
Exactly. This submission is basically a troll.
You'll need to explain that in more detail. If my employer tells me that they can and might monitor my system and I go to youporn.com on the company computer while on my "daily constitution" and I get canned, how exactly would I have a hell of a lawsuit against my employer?
I ran the entire demo in Chrome and I had issues with the video, which is to be expected at this point, because they still can't pick a standard, and the CSS3 3-D transforms which I don't understand because Chrome supports 3-D transforms.
open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7"
In this case I think Apple is right to limit the demo to Safari, because at this point not even Chrome works for all the demos. I don't like everything that Apple does, but in this case what are they supposed to do? Due to no standard being set on video, no other browser will properly render the demos. I do question what the deal with the CSS is.
Remember, this page is a showcase of Apple's products based on the not completely baked HTML 5 standard - it is not a general HTML 5 showcase:
The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
I think the submitter is twisting the purpose of the html5 page on apple.com, and there is a whole lot of piling on Apple in this discussion without any real basis. Again, right there on the page it says this that it shows how Apple's latest products support HTML 5. It doesn't say that apple.com supports the latest version of Firefox or IE.
That's a bit of a red herring. For example, a company that handles personal customer info has a duty to ensure that that information is handled properly, and closely monitoring employee's handling of that data is completely legitimate as is making sure that the employee isn't spending all day playing Farmville. This is a very poor slippery slope argument - it is NOT easy to extend that logic to to video surveillance of a bathroom stall.
Well, yes, they do, but this is not an example of that. If I own a small company I can install whatever I want on my systems to monitor what my employees are doing for various reasons. I know of one specific case where a property management company does this to ensure that a disgruntled employee doesn't improperly handle a tenant's personal information - it is there for CYA reasons. I would also imagine that some parents would want to monitor their kids. I can see a lot of legitimate uses for this, and the ruling specifies that you cannot disguise the package as something else. I don't see or have a problem with this. Having said that, people will undoubtedly abuse the software, but that is true of most anything.
I don't think this is a good example of the authorities eroding the rights of the people - there are plenty of examples of that to be had.
Regardless, he sounds like an ignorant ass. I really do hate both political parties. They are both filled with buffoons, just left buffoons and right buffoons.
part of the reason not to gamble in the first place
It's one reason not to play slots, I'll give you that. It has nothing to do with playing games like craps or blackjack. I usually do OK playing craps... OK as in I break even or win more than I lose, but I'm very small stakes when I play, and I don't make sucker bets.
You keep using these words. I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
from UFO Research NSW Oh. That explains it...
First of all, nothing really makes you smarter or dumber. While your capability to learn may change over time, in general a specific type of media will not impact this ability, unless we're talking about parking young children in front of a TV and ignoring them, which is another issue.
The internet, like TV, books and magazines, radio, etc does not affect your intelligence. What you get out if it is based on how you decide to use it. Spending hours on Facebook playing farmville is a huge waste of time, just like watching American idol, etc.
Using the internet for other things such as looking up how to do something or a particular fact can increase your knowledge, as can watching a show about history or science on TV.
Personally I think the WSJ has gone significantly down hill since News Corp bought it...
FYI, heat attacks generally cause left arm pain, not right arm pain...
Personally I keep most of my validation and formatting functions in a single class, and about a year ago I spent 4 or 5 hours and replaced all the ereg with preg. It wasn't that big of a deal and the fact that ereg is going away as been, apparently, known for a long time. I've known about it for over a year personally. Besides preg is perl / mod_rewrite compatible so the expressions are more universal. I don't see the problem here - it's not like all web hosts are going to force upgrading to PHP 6 anytime soon. Hell, most hosts still make PHP 4 available...