A best selling author is apparently equal in credentials to a phd in Neurology? Really, slashdot? Where's the evidence? Brain scans? Double blind tests? Who was the control? What's the confidence rating? He's practicing pop psychology -- and he's even less credible than Dr. Phil. No evidence of any kind and he's making extraordinary claims about a field he has no formal training in. If this was a story about someone's evidence disproving evolution, Slashdot readers would be tearing the author limb from limb -- this guy's making claims that belong in the same bucket. Why are you wasting your time with this crackpot theory? You're supposed to be scientists, technology experts, and engineers -- act like one. Demand proof.
When cable TV was originally created, it was promoted as an advertisement-free alternative to regular TV. The subscription fee was the replacement to advertising revenue. Many people seem to have forgotten that -- today, it's just a foregone conclusion that you have to suffer advertising on everything. But it's a lie; And if there's millions of viewers on DishTV's network, then it doesn't matter how loudly advertisers scream... Dish can just pay the content producers directly and tell them to suck dick. The only one that loses here are advertisers who have to suck dick instead of forcing theirs down their subscriber's throats.:O
Well...that is true...but forcing them to use more expensive treatments would make it go up even more.
Not true. Every law that has increased your safety came on the cries of "It'll ruin us!" by the businesses who were tasked with improving safety. Air bags, antilock brakes, refridgeration of food, OSHA... every last one of them had a business using that argument. I have yet to see a case of an industry winking out of existance because the government demanded a more stringent safety standard.
I won't deny that... but our roads are well-maintained, solid industrial development, people are generally polite, it doesn't cost you your first born to park downtown, not much politics, and nobody here is stupid enough to build or live in a poorly-insulated building despite at the same latitude. New Yorkers must be a special kind of stupid.
They'd go up anyway. They've been rising at about 1,200% of the inflation rate since... well, the day they went into business. And it has nothing to do with the costs of medicine and more to do with shitty management and administration.
If 100 buildings with 10+ floors were suddenly without heat or elevators in the middle of a cold winter storm, don't you think that is a little more inconvenient than just cold showers?
I know what a boiler is, and I live in Minnesota. The lowest temperature recorded in New York during the winter is about -20. That's about the temperature where it starts to get cold enough that I'd think about keeping my pants on under the covers. Also, it takes days for a building to cool to freezing after a heating system fails; Just like a refrigerator doesn't immediately warm up to room temperature when you pull the plug. I've been in an apartment building when the boiler failed and was used as the primary heat for the building, and it was in the middle of January, during a -40 cold snap up here. You know what I did?
Why the hell should the parents have to request a less invasive and safer alternative? If the doctor doesn't need to do an x-ray, then performing one is negligent. If this is a question of cost (ultrasounds may cost more money), then the problem is the insurance companies... and we should pass a law at once telling them to eat a bag of dicks and that patient safety comes first.
"Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems."
Some people would have to take the stairs and others would take cold showers. A truly terrifying prospect. Elevators and hot water are conveniences; People don't die from the lack of them.
I've never understood why people think that just because something is newer makes it better. We may mostly be on high speed internet connections running through cable, or xDSL, wireless, or other technologies, but that doesn't mean the forerunner to those technologies are without purpose anymore. Modems are still used in ATMs because landlines are incredibly cheap to install and not a lot of data needs to be exchanged. Same thing with fax machines; Despite scanners and e-mail, many courthouses won't accept scanned documents -- but they will accept faxed documents. Amusingly, most of those fax machines are paired to document management systems that convert them back into digital files (ie, PDFs) for processing. The reason for this is not immediately obvious: Many jurisdictions have laws stating a faxed copy of a document is legally the same as the original, but lack similar laws saying a digitally signed or submitted document is valid.
The list goes on. So don't just assume a technology should be sunset because of technical reasons -- there are often human factors to consider as well.
It would be hard to get passed in the US because we care more about a corporation's health than a citizen's. No other explanation is needed. In Israel, there is more respect for their citizens, probably due to the fact that every border they share is with a country that currently, or recently, has wanted them wiped off the face of the Earth.
Every time a task like this is mastered it's suddenly not considered human level intelligence anymore. I can't believe it's long now...
Oh please. It's better than human intelligence. A computer will recognize "Man, that's the bomb!" in the context of a conversation as a statement of approval or respect. A person would dial 911, then shoot the guy 16 times for waving a suspicious looking bag of candy. -_-
They use a lot of electricity. Unless Microsoft is planning to buy "carbon offset" credits, so they can pollute and yet just handwave it away.
They can also claim their Microsoft-branded hardware like the XBox, keyboards, mice, etc., are all made by other companies, so they're not responsible for anything but the ink used to print "Microsoft" on it. And having dug into their statement... it appears they've done exactly that. They appear to be claiming only their offices and data centers towards the "carbon neutral" claim. It's not hard to claim you're "carbon neutral" when all you do is lease office space and consume electricity. -_- I'll believe in a "carbon neutral" statement when they adjust for the cost of manufacture and disposal of their computers, office equipment, company vehicles, as well as the total lifecycle of all the products that carry the Microsoft brand name.
This has the potential to replace chemo therapies with an antibiotic. No more poisoning people to try to make them better. Not to mention the potential to treat stokes and heart disease. Well done!
First, they only hand out Nobels to famous people these days, not people who should be famous because of their work. Al Gore won one for giving a powerpoint about Global Warming... the hundred plus scientists who have dedicated their lives to collecting, analyzing, and releasing the data haven't gotten anything. I can provide many more examples of how much fail there is in the Nobel prize world... Winning one is no longer any great achievement... you can just buy one these days.
Second.. it's a bit early to congratulate them... they've published a paper, not cured a patient.
And then when something bad happens they'll blame it on incompetence and say they need better tools to prevent attacks like this and roll out the next round of cyber laws they have sitting in the drawer targeted at domestic citizens.
The government controls the media, and the media is the only way the citizens can keep tabs on the government, then they don't really even have to lie; They can do whatever they want, right out in the open, and anyone who provides evidence can simply be arrested for 'homeland security'.
Realworld equivalent: "Terrorist shows up at airport with bomb strapped to chest. Security waves him through, asks only that he not threaten anyone prior to detonation."
Until about a year ago when my mom placed a mackaw in the house that regularly screeches at 140 dBA, I could hear up to 21.5Khz without difficulty. Now, I don't know... I've suffered a lot of hearing damage, thanks to her.
Pardon my lack of complete knowledge here. I'm just IT for a cancer genomics group that just picks up stuff here and there. So I'm a bit aware that there's several points in a pathway that can be blocked, with each causing its own share of symptoms. Just simply blocking the entire "off" switch - which I would assume is a pretty deep pathway - would probably cause as much harm as it would help, wouldn't it?
Well, the prions don't stop being manufactured... so basically, those proteins continue to be generated until the person dies, and possibly beyond then. They can't be sterilized by any method known short of nuking them... prions are damn near indestructible. And we're tinkering with inactivating the only biological mechanism to halt their spread in the population.
The world today is very different than the world millions of years ago. There were a lot more trees back then, which provided more shade for the ground and more oxygen in the air. It's not Methane alone that is affecting the planet, it's ALL of the ABOVE!
The same can be said for any particular point in this planet's history. The author's contention is not that methane was the sole reason for global warming during that era, only that it was the dominant one. Please read the articles more carefully in the future and use common sense.
I'm nto going to read the article. This is just another tree hugger trying to prove global warming is caused by people by showing it has been done before. I'm fine with being modded down.
For a guy who picks a nickname of 'SensitiveMale', you really like getting kicked in the balls, huh.
Now, instead of getting multiple phone calls about a traffic accident, the dispatcher can much more quickly ignore the duplicates.
The average person talks faster than he or she can read. What's more... most of the time when I call a traffic accident in, it goes something like this:
"911 dispatch, what's your emergency?"
"Yeah, got a car accident at highway 35 just south of the 17th avenue offramp."
"Yup, we know about it, Thanks."
*click*
Total call time: 15 seconds.
And my eyes don't leave the road while I'm making that call. On the other hand, having a bunch of people texting while on top of an accident scene is a recipe for disaster... gawkerjams frequently cause additional accidents near the site of the original accident, especially during periods of heavy congestion. People distractedly trying to thumb a message to 911 and then reply when they inevitably make a typo or clarification is requested... is just a public safety nightmare. Texting to 911 may have its uses... for example, during a kidnapping or hostage scenario... but on the road, it's universally stupid.
Hey now, heroin and cocaine are not dangerous. I take great offense to your post. Alcohol is far more dangerous than both heroin and cocaine combined, and there are so many deaths caused by alcohol it's not even funny.
A third of the population abuses alcohol, and most everyone has used it. If heroin and cocaine enjoyed the same level of use... let's just say population control wouldn't be an issue. The danger of a drug isn't based on how many people die from using it, but how many people per capita
They are not "harmful" like you've been brainwashed to think.
I've known people who have overdosed on cocaine and heroin. Known is the operative word here. I've known people who have used painkillers as well, myself included: We're all still alive. It isn't to say they aren't addictive, and they can't destroy a person's life -- but its toxicity and death rates simply aren't in the same league. I don't care to get into why this happens, or if drug A is stronger than drug B -- empirically, heroin and cocaine eventually kill most of its 'patients'... the legal stuff doesn't.
et, millions of people are legally taking prescription meds that act very similarly to cocaine, and no one even cares.
Do you know what the difference is between LSD and Strychnine? Nothing; They're chemically identical, save that one is left-handed and the other right-handed. One will kill you in minutes... the other is a hallucinogen that (by itself) is relatively safe. The difference between MDA and MDMA is another very minor chemical difference -- they both feel the same, but one gives you a heart attack and you die, and the other gives you a euphoric high. The fact that drugs are "similar" to one another doesn't mean they are similarily dangerous... You're engaging in a logical fallacy there with potentially lethal consequences for anyone who you convince of that.
So, we have the general population like you who are brainwashed into thinking drugs are bad because the media/government told you so. It's sad that we legally prescribe essentially the same thing that you consider a "harmful drug"
I don't consider something harmful because I heard about it on the evening news: I consider it harmful because medical experts, who have published peer-reviewed papers on it, and who's clinical expertise mirrors my personal experience, say that the above-mentioned drugs are dangerous. You will not find anyone with a license to practice medicine that will agree with you.
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A best selling author is apparently equal in credentials to a phd in Neurology? Really, slashdot? Where's the evidence? Brain scans? Double blind tests? Who was the control? What's the confidence rating? He's practicing pop psychology -- and he's even less credible than Dr. Phil. No evidence of any kind and he's making extraordinary claims about a field he has no formal training in. If this was a story about someone's evidence disproving evolution, Slashdot readers would be tearing the author limb from limb -- this guy's making claims that belong in the same bucket. Why are you wasting your time with this crackpot theory? You're supposed to be scientists, technology experts, and engineers -- act like one. Demand proof.
When cable TV was originally created, it was promoted as an advertisement-free alternative to regular TV. The subscription fee was the replacement to advertising revenue. Many people seem to have forgotten that -- today, it's just a foregone conclusion that you have to suffer advertising on everything. But it's a lie; And if there's millions of viewers on DishTV's network, then it doesn't matter how loudly advertisers scream... Dish can just pay the content producers directly and tell them to suck dick. The only one that loses here are advertisers who have to suck dick instead of forcing theirs down their subscriber's throats. :O
Well...that is true...but forcing them to use more expensive treatments would make it go up even more.
Not true. Every law that has increased your safety came on the cries of "It'll ruin us!" by the businesses who were tasked with improving safety. Air bags, antilock brakes, refridgeration of food, OSHA... every last one of them had a business using that argument. I have yet to see a case of an industry winking out of existance because the government demanded a more stringent safety standard.
You've obviously not lived in New York
I won't deny that... but our roads are well-maintained, solid industrial development, people are generally polite, it doesn't cost you your first born to park downtown, not much politics, and nobody here is stupid enough to build or live in a poorly-insulated building despite at the same latitude. New Yorkers must be a special kind of stupid.
see your monthly premiums go up in response.
They'd go up anyway. They've been rising at about 1,200% of the inflation rate since... well, the day they went into business. And it has nothing to do with the costs of medicine and more to do with shitty management and administration.
If 100 buildings with 10+ floors were suddenly without heat or elevators in the middle of a cold winter storm, don't you think that is a little more inconvenient than just cold showers?
I know what a boiler is, and I live in Minnesota. The lowest temperature recorded in New York during the winter is about -20. That's about the temperature where it starts to get cold enough that I'd think about keeping my pants on under the covers. Also, it takes days for a building to cool to freezing after a heating system fails; Just like a refrigerator doesn't immediately warm up to room temperature when you pull the plug. I've been in an apartment building when the boiler failed and was used as the primary heat for the building, and it was in the middle of January, during a -40 cold snap up here. You know what I did?
I turned on the stove.
Why the hell should the parents have to request a less invasive and safer alternative? If the doctor doesn't need to do an x-ray, then performing one is negligent. If this is a question of cost (ultrasounds may cost more money), then the problem is the insurance companies... and we should pass a law at once telling them to eat a bag of dicks and that patient safety comes first.
"Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems."
Some people would have to take the stairs and others would take cold showers. A truly terrifying prospect. Elevators and hot water are conveniences; People don't die from the lack of them.
I've never understood why people think that just because something is newer makes it better. We may mostly be on high speed internet connections running through cable, or xDSL, wireless, or other technologies, but that doesn't mean the forerunner to those technologies are without purpose anymore. Modems are still used in ATMs because landlines are incredibly cheap to install and not a lot of data needs to be exchanged. Same thing with fax machines; Despite scanners and e-mail, many courthouses won't accept scanned documents -- but they will accept faxed documents. Amusingly, most of those fax machines are paired to document management systems that convert them back into digital files (ie, PDFs) for processing. The reason for this is not immediately obvious: Many jurisdictions have laws stating a faxed copy of a document is legally the same as the original, but lack similar laws saying a digitally signed or submitted document is valid.
The list goes on. So don't just assume a technology should be sunset because of technical reasons -- there are often human factors to consider as well.
It would be hard to get passed in the US because we care more about a corporation's health than a citizen's. No other explanation is needed. In Israel, there is more respect for their citizens, probably due to the fact that every border they share is with a country that currently, or recently, has wanted them wiped off the face of the Earth.
Every time a task like this is mastered it's suddenly not considered human level intelligence anymore. I can't believe it's long now...
Oh please. It's better than human intelligence. A computer will recognize "Man, that's the bomb!" in the context of a conversation as a statement of approval or respect. A person would dial 911, then shoot the guy 16 times for waving a suspicious looking bag of candy. -_-
Before it doesn't emit infrared radiation?
Absolute zero. All objects emit infrared. Better question: What's the sensitivity of the equipment measuring this?
They use a lot of electricity. Unless Microsoft is planning to buy "carbon offset" credits, so they can pollute and yet just handwave it away.
They can also claim their Microsoft-branded hardware like the XBox, keyboards, mice, etc., are all made by other companies, so they're not responsible for anything but the ink used to print "Microsoft" on it. And having dug into their statement... it appears they've done exactly that. They appear to be claiming only their offices and data centers towards the "carbon neutral" claim. It's not hard to claim you're "carbon neutral" when all you do is lease office space and consume electricity. -_- I'll believe in a "carbon neutral" statement when they adjust for the cost of manufacture and disposal of their computers, office equipment, company vehicles, as well as the total lifecycle of all the products that carry the Microsoft brand name.
This has the potential to replace chemo therapies with an antibiotic. No more poisoning people to try to make them better. Not to mention the potential to treat stokes and heart disease. Well done!
First, they only hand out Nobels to famous people these days, not people who should be famous because of their work. Al Gore won one for giving a powerpoint about Global Warming... the hundred plus scientists who have dedicated their lives to collecting, analyzing, and releasing the data haven't gotten anything. I can provide many more examples of how much fail there is in the Nobel prize world... Winning one is no longer any great achievement... you can just buy one these days.
Second.. it's a bit early to congratulate them... they've published a paper, not cured a patient.
Sorry chickenhawks, but America and China won't go to war. Our economies are far too interdependent.
We nuked Japan. Twice. Don't assume anything.
And then when something bad happens they'll blame it on incompetence and say they need better tools to prevent attacks like this and roll out the next round of cyber laws they have sitting in the drawer targeted at domestic citizens.
The government controls the media, and the media is the only way the citizens can keep tabs on the government, then they don't really even have to lie; They can do whatever they want, right out in the open, and anyone who provides evidence can simply be arrested for 'homeland security'.
The reason for the "no business" part is pretty simple: Hubble's optics would burn out if exposed to direct sunlight.
Realworld equivalent: "Terrorist shows up at airport with bomb strapped to chest. Security waves him through, asks only that he not threaten anyone prior to detonation."
Until about a year ago when my mom placed a mackaw in the house that regularly screeches at 140 dBA, I could hear up to 21.5Khz without difficulty. Now, I don't know... I've suffered a lot of hearing damage, thanks to her.
Pardon my lack of complete knowledge here. I'm just IT for a cancer genomics group that just picks up stuff here and there. So I'm a bit aware that there's several points in a pathway that can be blocked, with each causing its own share of symptoms. Just simply blocking the entire "off" switch - which I would assume is a pretty deep pathway - would probably cause as much harm as it would help, wouldn't it?
Well, the prions don't stop being manufactured... so basically, those proteins continue to be generated until the person dies, and possibly beyond then. They can't be sterilized by any method known short of nuking them... prions are damn near indestructible. And we're tinkering with inactivating the only biological mechanism to halt their spread in the population.
The world today is very different than the world millions of years ago. There were a lot more trees back then, which provided more shade for the ground and more oxygen in the air. It's not Methane alone that is affecting the planet, it's ALL of the ABOVE!
The same can be said for any particular point in this planet's history. The author's contention is not that methane was the sole reason for global warming during that era, only that it was the dominant one. Please read the articles more carefully in the future and use common sense.
I'm nto going to read the article. This is just another tree hugger trying to prove global warming is caused by people by showing it has been done before. I'm fine with being modded down.
For a guy who picks a nickname of 'SensitiveMale', you really like getting kicked in the balls, huh.
We've got politicians doing the same thing. Tell me something new.
Wrong hole.
Now, instead of getting multiple phone calls about a traffic accident, the dispatcher can much more quickly ignore the duplicates.
The average person talks faster than he or she can read. What's more... most of the time when I call a traffic accident in, it goes something like this:
"911 dispatch, what's your emergency?"
"Yeah, got a car accident at highway 35 just south of the 17th avenue offramp."
"Yup, we know about it, Thanks."
*click*
Total call time: 15 seconds.
And my eyes don't leave the road while I'm making that call. On the other hand, having a bunch of people texting while on top of an accident scene is a recipe for disaster... gawkerjams frequently cause additional accidents near the site of the original accident, especially during periods of heavy congestion. People distractedly trying to thumb a message to 911 and then reply when they inevitably make a typo or clarification is requested... is just a public safety nightmare. Texting to 911 may have its uses... for example, during a kidnapping or hostage scenario... but on the road, it's universally stupid.
Hey now, heroin and cocaine are not dangerous. I take great offense to your post. Alcohol is far more dangerous than both heroin and cocaine combined, and there are so many deaths caused by alcohol it's not even funny.
A third of the population abuses alcohol, and most everyone has used it. If heroin and cocaine enjoyed the same level of use... let's just say population control wouldn't be an issue. The danger of a drug isn't based on how many people die from using it, but how many people per capita
They are not "harmful" like you've been brainwashed to think.
I've known people who have overdosed on cocaine and heroin. Known is the operative word here. I've known people who have used painkillers as well, myself included: We're all still alive. It isn't to say they aren't addictive, and they can't destroy a person's life -- but its toxicity and death rates simply aren't in the same league. I don't care to get into why this happens, or if drug A is stronger than drug B -- empirically, heroin and cocaine eventually kill most of its 'patients'... the legal stuff doesn't.
et, millions of people are legally taking prescription meds that act very similarly to cocaine, and no one even cares.
Do you know what the difference is between LSD and Strychnine? Nothing; They're chemically identical, save that one is left-handed and the other right-handed. One will kill you in minutes... the other is a hallucinogen that (by itself) is relatively safe. The difference between MDA and MDMA is another very minor chemical difference -- they both feel the same, but one gives you a heart attack and you die, and the other gives you a euphoric high. The fact that drugs are "similar" to one another doesn't mean they are similarily dangerous... You're engaging in a logical fallacy there with potentially lethal consequences for anyone who you convince of that.
So, we have the general population like you who are brainwashed into thinking drugs are bad because the media/government told you so. It's sad that we legally prescribe essentially the same thing that you consider a "harmful drug"
I don't consider something harmful because I heard about it on the evening news: I consider it harmful because medical experts, who have published peer-reviewed papers on it, and who's clinical expertise mirrors my personal experience, say that the above-mentioned drugs are dangerous. You will not find anyone with a license to practice medicine that will agree with you.