I don't agree with this at all! How many of these kids who may have grown up to enjoy classical music are turned off by it forever? How many children will avoid their school music programs now, which have positive effects on everything from social development to grades? This makes me so angry.
I find your comment strange.
Do you not see that this has always been happening?
The only children who learn to appreciate classical music are the "well to do" rich kids who have access to good music teachers.
The so called positive affects have less to do with the music and more do to with these children being "advantaged".
Tell me how many children do you know from poor areas go on to study classical music after leaving school?
Israel basically doesn't care about what they've done to these people because for them their war against Hamas justifies anything...........UN report on jewish terrorism in Palestine 1945-48
The reason this works with credit cards is little or no checking is done at the place of purchase. It is expected that the customer will check there monthly statement and notify the bank / credit company of any issues.
RTFA. The problem isn't that the PIN is "stored on the card", it's that the card doesn't send any unique data to the terminal when the correct PIN is entered, it just sends a "Correct PIN was entered" message instead.
So, you stick something between the card and the terminal (the laptop) that intercepts the "Wrong PIN was entered" message from the card and forwards a "Correct PIN was entered" message to the terminal instead..............
Please mod this up this is the point the article is trying to make.
All that needs to happen is the message Pin Verified or a similar message is sent to the EFTPOS terminal and the transaction goes through.
You can pretty much guarantee a 100x price premium in the former case or perhaps 10-20x in the latter case.
Of course, requiring government certification for things upon which the general public relies for life safety is not necessarily a bad thing, but the price premium that comes from the certification requirement probably is proportional to the square of the cost of doing whatever is necessary to obtain said certification.
Premium?
To me anything that keeps me healthy and assures me that the plane I am flying in will not drop out of the sky can not have a value put on it.
The cost is relevant, because we are getting ripped off by medical suppliers (even if indirectly). My girlfriend just broke her leg and here's what we saw at the medical supply store:
aluminum crutches - $150
folding wheelchair - $500
plastic arm brace - $95
compression sock $30
It's completely a case of price fixing.
Holy heck,
Shows the difference a government healthcare scheme makes I guess.
You do not get any rebates on that?
I dislocated my knee cap a few years ago and while I had to pay out about $1000 in medical fees I received about $900 back in government healthcare rebates.
The crutches I had to rent for $50 was one of the few things I could not claim.
There is no justification for an $18,000 price difference for what amounts to the same fundamental technology. I don't need a formula, or theories as to why this is. The medical industry is full of a bunch of crooked greedy bastards........
I think your missing the point here.
It's not how much it costs or if there ripping us off .
"The how much it costs" argument is irrelevant.
Its the fact that we are now getting devices, which are used to play games, in our homes which are comparable to highly sensitive medical devices.
WOW !!!
The doctors in this melbourne hospital should also be congratulated for looking at alternative ways of doing things.
You can destroy anything if you apply the right force. Making a bald statement that a phone (or anything else) is unbreakable will just prompt some folks to find the right force, even if it isn't something the phone would normally experience.
How true.
Did you notice that he hit the screen against the corner of the tank?
Now if I remember correctly from high school a force applied to a small surface area means high pressure.
Why are patents allowed on naturally occurring phenomena like genes anyway?
.......no businessperson would even think of throwing his money at that kind of research. According to them, without patents, there would be no research and progress in this field whatsoever. I'm not saying whether or not I agree with that, but that's the way it is.
The reality is business people / drug companies do not invest in drug research period.
Business investment tends to goes into marketing the drug its the university's and research institutes that do the drug research.
UUCP (unix to unix copy protocol ) has been doing this since at least the 1980's.
Admittedly its usually used to transfer files but uucp can still log in to a shell and remotely activate software. ( you usually have a script prepared to do this for you.)
It doesn't matter if Michael Atkinson wins his seat of Croydon. It has to be a Labor government in South Australia or he will no longer be Attorney General.
It will be a Liberal party member who becomes Attorney General, so I'd be lobbying them.
Oh God , Buddha various Deities etc
you think no gay marriage , lock up the boat people Liberal party (Australia's right wing version of the Torys , Republicans )
Let me emphasize that last point: the problem is not the lack of music. The problem is the noise. The solution you want is a separate room, or else a sound-proof partition in the current room. As you point out, the music is mainly to drown out the chatter. Get rid of the chatter, and the music is a non-issue.
Please mod this parent post up insightful
he/she (it?) has gotten to the core of the issue. Wish I had mod points
"I had the accident way before Star Wars came out, but what really happened has been terribly distorted. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery, and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all."
Yes I read that but he must have had some bad scars with the amount of make up he was wearing during that christmas special.
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I don't agree with this at all! How many of these kids who may have grown up to enjoy classical music are turned off by it forever? How many children will avoid their school music programs now, which have positive effects on everything from social development to grades?
This makes me so angry.
I find your comment strange.
Do you not see that this has always been happening?
The only children who learn to appreciate classical music are the "well to do" rich kids who have access to good music teachers.
The so called positive affects have less to do with the music and more do to with these children being "advantaged".
Tell me how many children do you know from poor areas go on to study classical music after leaving school?
John Saffran seems to be okay. Tell me, do Hamas fighters distribute shirts with cross hairs on pregnant women and wear them with pride?
Just to let people know John Saffran is a documentary maker who survived an upbringing as an Orthodox Jew in Melbourne.
Whatever ever happened it was traumatic and has scarred the man for life and his shows seem to always have a religious bent.
I think he is letting all his childhood frustrations out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Safran
Truth be told Israel is a state sponsor of terror and it was founded on terrorism.
-Might- want to check how Israel was founded and by whom.
My understanding of the foundation of Israel was that is was begun by the Zionist movement who wanted to return to the homeland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism
the State of Israel was proclaimed by
Ben-Gurion on the 14th May 1948 the day the British mandate expired.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Independence_(Israel)
The British left due to a Jewish terror campaign also known as the Jewish Revolt.
The Arabs/Palestinians had there own terror campaign as well it's just the Jewish were better at it.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/defense.html
Israel basically doesn't care about what they've done to these people because for them their war against Hamas justifies anything...........UN report on jewish terrorism in Palestine 1945-48
http://www.jewwatch.com/jew-terrorists-timeline-1945-1948.html.
And the fuckers try and come across holier than the terrorists. Israel is a terrorist nation of thieves.
Forgetting about the sense of anti-Zonist hated in your previous post.
Truth be told Israel is a state sponsor of terror and it was founded on terrorism.
The same can be said of the Palestinians.
What does not get mentioned is each sides, Palestinian and Israeli, views are valid and neither peoples are willing to compromise.
With compromise will come peace.
Credits cards have always had this problem.
The reason this works with credit cards is little or no checking is done at the place of purchase. It is expected that the customer will check there monthly statement and notify the bank / credit company of any issues.
RTFA. The problem isn't that the PIN is "stored on the card", it's that the card doesn't send any unique data to the terminal when the correct PIN is entered, it just sends a "Correct PIN was entered" message instead.
So, you stick something between the card and the terminal (the laptop) that intercepts the "Wrong PIN was entered" message from the card and forwards a "Correct PIN was entered" message to the terminal instead..............
Please mod this up this is the point the article is trying to make.
All that needs to happen is the message Pin Verified or a similar message is sent to the EFTPOS terminal and the transaction goes through.
This must mean that Bill O Reilly and FOX News must register now as a subversive organization.
Please mod parent up
this is insightful
Next they will make you ...........
(shock,horror) hand in your guns.
I had to say it ;-)
I do apologise for this reply avid slashdot readers but this person is just so rude.
Premium?
Yes. Look it up in the dictionary. Specifically, where it says "a sum added to an ordinary price or charge."
Thank you for the definition , oh look at that it also says
quoted from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/premium
"An unusual or high value" for example ":Employers put a premium on honesty and hard work."
who would have thought that Premium could have a meaning not related to money? That must have been the message I was trying to convey.
To me anything that keeps me healthy and assures me that the plane I am flying in will not drop out of the sky can not have a value put on it.
yes , If you read though it again I appear to be saying that not everything should carry a value.
Actually, it, like every physical object in the world and some that aren't, can, in fact, have a value put on it.
Theres a book I think you should read its called
Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Priceless-Knowing-Price-Everything-Nothing/dp/1565849817
Want to make a mint selling ordinary hardware?
All you need to do is either
A. Get it FDA certified for use in medicine.
Or
B. Get it FAA approved for use in aviation.
You can pretty much guarantee a 100x price premium in the former case or perhaps 10-20x in the latter case.
Of course, requiring government certification for things upon which the general public relies for life safety is not necessarily a bad thing, but the price premium that comes from the certification requirement probably is proportional to the square of the cost of doing whatever is necessary to obtain said certification.
Premium?
To me anything that keeps me healthy and assures me that the plane I am flying in will not drop out of the sky can not have a value put on it.
The cost is relevant, because we are getting ripped off by medical suppliers (even if indirectly). My girlfriend just broke her leg and here's what we saw at the medical supply store:
It's completely a case of price fixing.
Holy heck,
Shows the difference a government healthcare scheme makes I guess.
You do not get any rebates on that?
I dislocated my knee cap a few years ago and while I had to pay out about $1000 in medical fees I received about $900 back in government healthcare rebates.
The crutches I had to rent for $50 was one of the few things I could not claim.
There is no justification for an $18,000 price difference for what amounts to the same fundamental technology. I don't need a formula, or theories as to why this is. The medical industry is full of a bunch of crooked greedy bastards........
I think your missing the point here.
It's not how much it costs or if there ripping us off .
"The how much it costs" argument is irrelevant.
Its the fact that we are now getting devices, which are used to play games, in our homes which are comparable to highly sensitive medical devices.
WOW !!!
The doctors in this melbourne hospital should also be congratulated for looking at alternative ways of doing things.
Its Active X in internet Explorer thats usually the issue. Turn it off
I'm sure I have seen this issue before about IE and the zero day issue in a news article.
Yep found it and it has those chinese hacker type persons in it as well in 2008. ;-)
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Two-new-zero-day-exploits-dent-Microsoft-s-Patch-Tuesday-739273.html
Here is micro$oft's advice on how to disable Active content.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154036
You can destroy anything if you apply the right force. Making a bald statement that a phone (or anything else) is unbreakable will just prompt some folks to find the right force, even if it isn't something the phone would normally experience.
How true.
Did you notice that he hit the screen against the corner of the tank?
Now if I remember correctly from high school a force applied to a small surface area means high pressure.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/SCIENCE/pressure.htm
Great to see this in practice. ;-)
Pneumatic tubes are expensive to run and maintain.
However if you have something valuable like cash, drugs, blood samples then the cost is worth it.
Pneumatic tubes cant me mugged, misplaced , delayed and there fast.
Actually dog bites are usually NOT infected and one usually does not give antibiotics for them..................
no
Dog bites are usually infected and if the bite breaks the skin there is the risk of getting an infection and/ or diseases like rabies.
"....Cat and dog bites result in 334,000 emergency room visits per year, which represents approximately 1 percent of all emergency hospital visits..."
http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/animal-bite-infections
If you live in an area that has rabies than you need to go to a doctor and have rabies shots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-exposure_prophylaxis
I recently went to India with friends and was the only person not to get Sick.
Let me make a guess here - are you a vegetarian?
A friend of mine who travels to India often, tells me as long as he does not eat meat in India he does not get sick.
One thing the article fails to mention is that Norway also reduced the use of antibiotics in animal feed.
I would not be surprised if that has also had something to do with Norway having low rates of drug resistant infections.
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/43/2/243
this little graph from the article is the most telling I think.
(The graph on the right is about 1/3 less drugs then on the left)
http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/43/2/243/FIG1
Why are patents allowed on naturally occurring phenomena like genes anyway?
.......no businessperson would even think of throwing his money at that kind of research. According to them, without patents, there would be no research and progress in this field whatsoever.
I'm not saying whether or not I agree with that, but that's the way it is.
The reality is business people / drug companies do not invest in drug research period.
Business investment tends to goes into marketing the drug its the university's and research institutes that do the drug research.
http://www.uab.edu/reynolds/MajMedFigs/Index.htm
Whoops did not read the whole article.
However this is prior art this company has filed a patient for what is a common practice at software companies.
UUCP is prior art.
UUCP (unix to unix copy protocol ) has been doing this since at least the 1980's.
Admittedly its usually used to transfer files but uucp can still log in to a shell and remotely activate software.
( you usually have a script prepared to do this for you.)
It doesn't matter if Michael Atkinson wins his seat of Croydon. It has to be a Labor government in South Australia or he will no longer be Attorney General.
It will be a Liberal party member who becomes Attorney General, so I'd be lobbying them.
Oh God , Buddha various Deities etc
you think
no gay marriage , lock up the boat people Liberal party
(Australia's right wing version of the Torys , Republicans )
is going to to be any better?
Liberal party really means no to fun.
Let me emphasize that last point: the problem is not the lack of music. The problem is the noise. The solution you want is a separate room, or else a sound-proof partition in the current room. As you point out, the music is mainly to drown out the chatter. Get rid of the chatter, and the music is a non-issue.
Please mod this parent post up insightful
he/she (it?) has gotten to the core of the issue.
Wish I had mod points
Hamill had this to say about that:
"I had the accident way before Star Wars came out, but what really happened has been terribly distorted. I broke my nose, that's it! But I've read accounts about how my face has been reconstructed with plastic surgery, and how I was pulling myself along the highway with one arm looking for help. I even heard that I drove off a cliff! That's the best one of all."
Yes I read that but he must have had some bad scars with the amount of make up he was wearing during that christmas special.
Singing!!!! How can you forget the singing?!? My ears begin bleeding profusely at the mere remembrance of it!!!
I think I was a sleep - the Wookie grunting did it I tell you.