Yes. Antibiotics often should be kept in the refrigerator to prolong their effectiveness. Same for any medication in liquid form.
The article is slim on details and admits many are "almost as effective" as when first made. Well... almost isn't necessarily good enough since medications depend on concentration. What exactly is "almost?" 85%? 90%? Taking the wrong dose thinking it's the full dose can make things worse -- especially for antibiotics or when figuring out drug interactions.
I doubt 10% or 20% really makes a difference for most drugs, the dosing guidelines are not that accurate. My wife and I each received identical antibiotic prescriptions (for unrelated reasons), and we both had the exact same dose despite me being over one foot taller and weighing nearly twice her weight. https://science.slashdot.org/s...
They can also carry 100's of kg of luggage and 4+ people.
They *can* carry 4+ people and 100's of kg of luggage, but when I look around during my commute, nearly all of them seem to carry a single person and maybe a backpack in the back seat with a laptop.
The problem is not cars, the problem is gas emissions. Once that problem is solved properly, the world of mass transit will be disrupted as things like urban sprawl will become a solution rather than a concern.
If every car had an emission free Mr Fusion reactor that consumed trash and had no emissions at all except a chunk of pure gold that you unload every year and discard, how would that make commuting from sprawling suburbs any better?
The average bus has 7 passengers. Two people in a car use less fuel per passenger-mile, and the car doesn't obstruct traffic, doesn't need a paid driver, and gets people where they need to go much sooner.
If you think cars don't obstruct traffic, you've never driven during rush hour. All of those cars on the road are obstructing traffic. Put all of those drivers in buses and there'd be much less traffic.
If self driving cars are using public internet (especially Comcast internet) for time-sensitive communication, they are doing it wrong. They should be using short-range real-time networks for fast local communication, and then when they need to talk to a server, they don't need to be in such a hurry.
What you did was not a "lesser-known role" of IT department, it was doing something completely outside of your job role.
Your employer should have asked legal department to do the legal work for dealing with defective purchase. If your employer bought an office chair that broke, would you get involved also? How about defective air conditioner? Or a defective TV? Would you get involved because the TV was "internet enabled"?
If conference phone should be supported by IT, *you* should be the one sourcing and buying it. The IT dept has no input in the purchase, then it has no role when the purchase went bad.
If the vendor claimed that the internet TV was not working due to a deficiency in the corporate network, then yeah, I'd imagine that IT would be involved in proving that the network was not the problem. Which is likely the same argument that the phone vendor is making. "Your firewall is not allowing SIP transit", or "your ISP connection is too unstable for reliable VOIP calls" or some such excuse. If the phones were completely DOA out of the box, I doubt the vendor would be putting up a fight.
In any case, if I went to my company's legal department to dispute a small $1500 purchase, they'd put it on the bottom of their pile of work and get around to looking at it in a few years.
Hyperbole much? If you can't make your case without resorting to exaggeration then perhaps your case is not so strong.
"Would kill to..." is a common figure of speech, so not really exaggeration. And the sentiment is true - in many areas of the country, working at walmart is a lucrative job and something to aspire to. Sure beats rinsing blood and guts out of the slaughterhouse (which was an actual job for unskilled laborers in the midwest town where I grew up)
Rich people have people to do their yards, clean their pool, cook their food, clean their houses and drive them where they want to go in a car that cost more than I'll make in my lifetime. That's rich. 250K is living comfortably with no worries.
You've just described a well paid techie's life in Seattle or the SF Bay Area
They buy a townhouse or highrise condo, so someone else takes care of the landscaping; the pool cleaning is included in the HOA; they get free food at work and when they are at home they get meals delivered; they have a cleaning service come once a week to clean the house; they have their Uber driver take them where they want to go.
I don't make nearly $250K but could lie such a lifestyle if I chose.
You are going to hell if you have sex with your wife. According to the Catholics, the singular purpose of sex is procreation. Any other reason is a sin. You may as well turn gay.
Fortunately, we don't don't believe in mythical magical beings.
No. I am not saying one is right or wrong... just that they are. Aside from societal pressures, it's got to suck when one is in love with someone who they cannot create biological offspring with (ie 'cis' gay/lesbian)...
My wife and I seem to get along just fine even though we are biologically unable to conceive children, even if we wanted to. It turns out that there's more to a happy relationship than conceiving children. Homosexual couples have pretty much the same options as straight couples that want a baby (adoption, artificial insemination, etc). They may need to look outside of their relationship to find a willing uterus, egg or sperm, but many straight couples face the same problem.
Incognito mode is worthless for this. Facebook will still be able to see your IP on any site that uses their resources unless you explicitly block them or use a proxy. This Edward Davila character needs to stop pretending that he knows what he's talking about.
I doubt they use IP address to track users -- too many people share the same IP (for example, everyone in a family or office), and they don't want to reduce the accuracy of their user profiles by tracking the wrong user. They can track 99.9% of their users with tracking cookies, no need to resort to much less effective IP tracking.
If employees are given 9% fewer hours and getting less overall pay and are presumably doing the same jobs they were before the wage increase, then they must be 9% more efficient and saving businesses money.
I bet businesses around the country are going to push for higher minimum wages now -- they'll save money and get more efficient workers.
I'd really like to see Slashdot readers try to defend their hypocrisy. I won't even bring up the apologists who defend Islam, which is responsible for numerous terror attacks, while slamming Christianity, which is generally not associated with violence.
That's only true if you ignore christian backed acts of terror (not to mention the whole pedophila coverup in the Catholic Church, but that only destroys lives one at a time, so probably doesn't matter to you).
Here's a few Christian groups you seem to have missed:
Let's say you want to subject Muslims to enhanced screening before they board aircraft, because Muslims have committed acts of terror on commercial aircraft in recent history. Intelligence also indicates that Muslim terror groups still want to attack commercial aircraft. Furthermore, nobody is born a Muslim; people choose to be Muslim and can change at any time. Well, that enhanced screening is racist and anyone who supports that is a racist.
That's because you can't tell if someone is a Muslim by looking at them, where they came from, or even by asking them. If a muslim intent on destroying a plane is asked his religion, he's not going to say "Muslim". And he'll likely be traveling under a sanitized passport that hides his country of origin.
So instead of screening radical Muslims intent on doing harm, enhanced Muslim screening just harasses the ones that are honest enough to admit their religion. There are 1.6B Muslims in the world, trying to intensively screen them all just dilutes efforts to find real terrorists that want to bring down a plane. And the weapons used in the next successful terror attack will not likely evade the security theater at airport checkpoints, it will likely either come through the rest of airport infrastructure which is much easier to sneak contraband through, or will come from bribing TSA staff at some small airport to let a "drug courier" through security while he's actually carrying explosives who can just continue on his journey on a larger plane at a major airport.
Let's say you don't like H-1B tech workers from India, who simply want to have a good salary and work for American companies. Let's say you want to kick them out of the United States and send of them back to India. Well, that's not racist at all. In fact, it's encouraged.
If you specifically want Indian H1-B's to be kicked out but not H1-B's from other countries, that's still racist.
My post will quickly be censored to -1 to avoid addressing this hypocrisy, but it absolutely needs to pointed out. I predict that Slashdot readers will be too cowardly to address my observation.
That's strong words coming from someone posting as an Anonymous Coward.
Isn't this old news? I thought this was always the weakness with CAPTCHA codes: present the code to real users (e.g., for access to porn) and you get someone entering the code for you.
This isn't so much about the weakness in Capcha's, which as you say is already know, but demonstrating yet another reason why "security questions" are bad for security.
Interestingly, it can also beat two-factor authentication -- since the targeted user will still input the phone code into the man-in-the-middle site.
You'd think that someone trying to sign up for AwesomePorno.com, who suddenly gets a text message from Google that says "The Gmail code you requested is 8926," when they didn't request any code from Gmail, might notice that something hinky is going on. But no, people are god damned idiots. No wonder we wound up with a failed reality show clown in the White House.
He's signing up for AwesomePorno.com despite the huge number of free no-signup-required porn sites out there, so he's already shown that he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Why in the world does a toothbrush have to have electricity, let alone bluetooth? Personally speaking, electric toothbrushes have exactly no advantages over normal ones, and have a lot of disadvantages.
It's great that you have no manual dexterity problems, but when you have a disability that means you can barely hold a toothbrush let alone effectively brush for 2 minutes, then maybe you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
...go through several Raspberry Pi computers running Linux; the computers could each use a different method of checking for malware
If you had a 100% effective way of checking for malware, then you wouldn't need to airgap your computer at all, just run this magical malware detector on the computer.
The thing about zero-day exploits is that since they are previously unknown, there's no way to catch them with any certainty.
If you want to keep your computer completely safe from network malware, keep it completely air gapped and off the network.
I had my phone stolen once (well ok, it probably fell out of my pocket). I called it repeatedly hoping that whoever answered would return it. Each time I called, I heard a different ringback tone.
By the time I called Verizon to report it stolen, they had racked up over $500 in ringback tones. It was less than 8 hours from the time I lost it until I reported it stolen, I have no idea how they ordered over 100 ringback tones in that short period, especially since it was an old-school flip phone, so they ordered them all through the tiny 4 line browser screen on the phone.
Fortunately, Verizon refunded all of the purchases, and I had them lock out the account to prevent any future online purchases.
My electric toothbrush already has bluetooth. I have no idea what the phone app does, but I'm sure some people use it and their phone sends back brushing activity and other data back to the company.
And you're happy about it and post it on Slashdot for everyone to see how clueless you are. People like you are the reason why we're in this surveillance mess.
I didn't buy the toothbrush for the bluetooth I bought it because it's the brand Costco had on sale, and I didn't install the app or pair it to my phone, so it's not surveilling me.
I use my toaster twice a year. Even if I leave it connected, the data they collect will be of little use.
But there are other products you do use every day that will also be sending data -- the value isn't in the data from one single product, it's aggregating data from your entire house.
My electric toothbrush already has bluetooth. I have no idea what the phone app does, but I'm sure some people use it and their phone sends back brushing activity and other data back to the company.
Nobody gives a shit how much toast you make, certainly not enough to go through the engineering efforts and added cost in general of sensors, controllers and backup batteries with the electronics similarly made to operate when "offline" (unplugged) for prolonged periods, whatever you say/do around the toaster on the other hand is information they can sell.
My grocery store, bread baker and bread-flour producer all have great interest in how much toast I make, how it correlates with other products/services I use, and how to get me to make more toast. And they don't care if the wifi chipset adds $3 to the price of my toaster and they'll get me to pay for it by claiming that the internet connected toaster is "cloud connected" to ensure perfect toast every time.
Why would the car continue to operate for 37.5 minutes of the trip if the driver didn't have his hands on the steering wheel? If that's a requirement, why didn't the car just pull over and shut off? It seems like Tesla failed to implement some common sense safety protocols here.
Because they trusted that the owner of an $80,000 car had at least some minimal intelligence and even if the driver had blind trust in the car, that when the car says "put your hands on the wheel and pay attention", that the driver would listen.
Yet this driver has demonstrated that people are about as dumb as you think they can be, so now they've implemented a 3 strikes policy that disabled autopilot after 3 reminders.
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And since not everyone is a top athlete, most of us would become a T-rex snack.
Not true. With those puny forelegs of his, I imagine he wouldn't be able to get at us Slashdotters - safely ensconced in our mom's basements.
Speak for yourself! Not everyone here fits that slashdot nerd, living in mom's basement stereotype.
I live over my mom's garage, a T-rex could easily reach in grab me.
Yes. Antibiotics often should be kept in the refrigerator to prolong their effectiveness. Same for any medication in liquid form.
The article is slim on details and admits many are "almost as effective" as when first made. Well... almost isn't necessarily good enough since medications depend on concentration. What exactly is "almost?" 85%? 90%? Taking the wrong dose thinking it's the full dose can make things worse -- especially for antibiotics or when figuring out drug interactions.
I doubt 10% or 20% really makes a difference for most drugs, the dosing guidelines are not that accurate. My wife and I each received identical antibiotic prescriptions (for unrelated reasons), and we both had the exact same dose despite me being over one foot taller and weighing nearly twice her weight.
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
They can also carry 100's of kg of luggage and 4+ people.
They *can* carry 4+ people and 100's of kg of luggage, but when I look around during my commute, nearly all of them seem to carry a single person and maybe a backpack in the back seat with a laptop.
The problem is not cars, the problem is gas emissions. Once that problem is solved properly, the world of mass transit will be disrupted as things like urban sprawl will become a solution rather than a concern.
If every car had an emission free Mr Fusion reactor that consumed trash and had no emissions at all except a chunk of pure gold that you unload every year and discard, how would that make commuting from sprawling suburbs any better?
The average bus has 7 passengers. Two people in a car use less fuel per passenger-mile, and the car doesn't obstruct traffic, doesn't need a paid driver, and gets people where they need to go much sooner.
If you think cars don't obstruct traffic, you've never driven during rush hour. All of those cars on the road are obstructing traffic. Put all of those drivers in buses and there'd be much less traffic.
Will $1.2M even pay for the administrative overhead for the state to collect and disburse the money?
If self driving cars are using public internet (especially Comcast internet) for time-sensitive communication, they are doing it wrong. They should be using short-range real-time networks for fast local communication, and then when they need to talk to a server, they don't need to be in such a hurry.
What you did was not a "lesser-known role" of IT department, it was doing something completely outside of your job role.
Your employer should have asked legal department to do the legal work for dealing with defective purchase. If your employer bought an office chair that broke, would you get involved also? How about defective air conditioner? Or a defective TV? Would you get involved because the TV was "internet enabled"?
If conference phone should be supported by IT, *you* should be the one sourcing and buying it. The IT dept has no input in the purchase, then it has no role when the purchase went bad.
If the vendor claimed that the internet TV was not working due to a deficiency in the corporate network, then yeah, I'd imagine that IT would be involved in proving that the network was not the problem. Which is likely the same argument that the phone vendor is making. "Your firewall is not allowing SIP transit", or "your ISP connection is too unstable for reliable VOIP calls" or some such excuse. If the phones were completely DOA out of the box, I doubt the vendor would be putting up a fight.
In any case, if I went to my company's legal department to dispute a small $1500 purchase, they'd put it on the bottom of their pile of work and get around to looking at it in a few years.
Hyperbole much? If you can't make your case without resorting to exaggeration then perhaps your case is not so strong.
"Would kill to..." is a common figure of speech, so not really exaggeration. And the sentiment is true - in many areas of the country, working at walmart is a lucrative job and something to aspire to. Sure beats rinsing blood and guts out of the slaughterhouse (which was an actual job for unskilled laborers in the midwest town where I grew up)
Rich people have people to do their yards, clean their pool, cook their food, clean their houses and drive them where they want to go in a car that cost more than I'll make in my lifetime. That's rich. 250K is living comfortably with no worries.
You've just described a well paid techie's life in Seattle or the SF Bay Area
They buy a townhouse or highrise condo, so someone else takes care of the landscaping; the pool cleaning is included in the HOA; they get free food at work and when they are at home they get meals delivered; they have a cleaning service come once a week to clean the house; they have their Uber driver take them where they want to go.
I don't make nearly $250K but could lie such a lifestyle if I chose.
You are going to hell if you have sex with your wife. According to the Catholics, the singular purpose of sex is procreation. Any other reason is a sin. You may as well turn gay.
Fortunately, we don't don't believe in mythical magical beings.
No. I am not saying one is right or wrong... just that they are. Aside from societal pressures, it's got to suck when one is in love with someone who they cannot create biological offspring with (ie 'cis' gay/lesbian)...
My wife and I seem to get along just fine even though we are biologically unable to conceive children, even if we wanted to. It turns out that there's more to a happy relationship than conceiving children. Homosexual couples have pretty much the same options as straight couples that want a baby (adoption, artificial insemination, etc). They may need to look outside of their relationship to find a willing uterus, egg or sperm, but many straight couples face the same problem.
Well, I bet it doesn't cost $400 a year!
Sure, but it costs more than $0/year, which is how much Photobucket cost before they imposted this fee.
Incognito mode is worthless for this. Facebook will still be able to see your IP on any site that uses their resources unless you explicitly block them or use a proxy. This Edward Davila character needs to stop pretending that he knows what he's talking about.
I doubt they use IP address to track users -- too many people share the same IP (for example, everyone in a family or office), and they don't want to reduce the accuracy of their user profiles by tracking the wrong user. They can track 99.9% of their users with tracking cookies, no need to resort to much less effective IP tracking.
If employees are given 9% fewer hours and getting less overall pay and are presumably doing the same jobs they were before the wage increase, then they must be 9% more efficient and saving businesses money.
I bet businesses around the country are going to push for higher minimum wages now -- they'll save money and get more efficient workers.
I'd really like to see Slashdot readers try to defend their hypocrisy. I won't even bring up the apologists who defend Islam, which is responsible for numerous terror attacks, while slamming Christianity, which is generally not associated with violence.
That's only true if you ignore christian backed acts of terror (not to mention the whole pedophila coverup in the Catholic Church, but that only destroys lives one at a time, so probably doesn't matter to you).
Here's a few Christian groups you seem to have missed:
Army of God (AOG) is a Christian terrorist organization that has engaged in the use of anti-abortion violence in the United States to fight against abortion
The Montana Freemen were an anti-government Christian Patriot movement group based outside the town of Jordan, Montana.
The Anti-balaka are a militia and terrorist group fighting in the Central African Republic composed primarily of Christians.
There are more out there, if you care to look.
Let's say you want to subject Muslims to enhanced screening before they board aircraft, because Muslims have committed acts of terror on commercial aircraft in recent history. Intelligence also indicates that Muslim terror groups still want to attack commercial aircraft. Furthermore, nobody is born a Muslim; people choose to be Muslim and can change at any time. Well, that enhanced screening is racist and anyone who supports that is a racist.
That's because you can't tell if someone is a Muslim by looking at them, where they came from, or even by asking them. If a muslim intent on destroying a plane is asked his religion, he's not going to say "Muslim". And he'll likely be traveling under a sanitized passport that hides his country of origin.
So instead of screening radical Muslims intent on doing harm, enhanced Muslim screening just harasses the ones that are honest enough to admit their religion. There are 1.6B Muslims in the world, trying to intensively screen them all just dilutes efforts to find real terrorists that want to bring down a plane. And the weapons used in the next successful terror attack will not likely evade the security theater at airport checkpoints, it will likely either come through the rest of airport infrastructure which is much easier to sneak contraband through, or will come from bribing TSA staff at some small airport to let a "drug courier" through security while he's actually carrying explosives who can just continue on his journey on a larger plane at a major airport.
Let's say you don't like H-1B tech workers from India, who simply want to have a good salary and work for American companies. Let's say you want to kick them out of the United States and send of them back to India. Well, that's not racist at all. In fact, it's encouraged.
If you specifically want Indian H1-B's to be kicked out but not H1-B's from other countries, that's still racist.
My post will quickly be censored to -1 to avoid addressing this hypocrisy, but it absolutely needs to pointed out. I predict that Slashdot readers will be too cowardly to address my observation.
That's strong words coming from someone posting as an Anonymous Coward.
Isn't this old news? I thought this was always the weakness with CAPTCHA codes: present the code to real users (e.g., for access to porn) and you get someone entering the code for you.
This isn't so much about the weakness in Capcha's, which as you say is already know, but demonstrating yet another reason why "security questions" are bad for security.
Interestingly, it can also beat two-factor authentication -- since the targeted user will still input the phone code into the man-in-the-middle site.
You'd think that someone trying to sign up for AwesomePorno.com, who suddenly gets a text message from Google that says "The Gmail code you requested is 8926," when they didn't request any code from Gmail, might notice that something hinky is going on. But no, people are god damned idiots. No wonder we wound up with a failed reality show clown in the White House.
He's signing up for AwesomePorno.com despite the huge number of free no-signup-required porn sites out there, so he's already shown that he's not the sharpest tool in the shed.
My electric toothbrush already has bluetooth.
Why in the world does a toothbrush have to have electricity, let alone bluetooth? Personally speaking, electric toothbrushes have exactly no advantages over normal ones, and have a lot of disadvantages.
It's great that you have no manual dexterity problems, but when you have a disability that means you can barely hold a toothbrush let alone effectively brush for 2 minutes, then maybe you wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
...go through several Raspberry Pi computers running Linux; the computers could each use a different method of checking for malware
If you had a 100% effective way of checking for malware, then you wouldn't need to airgap your computer at all, just run this magical malware detector on the computer.
The thing about zero-day exploits is that since they are previously unknown, there's no way to catch them with any certainty.
If you want to keep your computer completely safe from network malware, keep it completely air gapped and off the network.
I had my phone stolen once (well ok, it probably fell out of my pocket). I called it repeatedly hoping that whoever answered would return it. Each time I called, I heard a different ringback tone.
By the time I called Verizon to report it stolen, they had racked up over $500 in ringback tones. It was less than 8 hours from the time I lost it until I reported it stolen, I have no idea how they ordered over 100 ringback tones in that short period, especially since it was an old-school flip phone, so they ordered them all through the tiny 4 line browser screen on the phone.
Fortunately, Verizon refunded all of the purchases, and I had them lock out the account to prevent any future online purchases.
My electric toothbrush already has bluetooth. I have no idea what the phone app does, but I'm sure some people use it and their phone sends back brushing activity and other data back to the company.
And you're happy about it and post it on Slashdot for everyone to see how clueless you are. People like you are the reason why we're in this surveillance mess.
I didn't buy the toothbrush for the bluetooth I bought it because it's the brand Costco had on sale, and I didn't install the app or pair it to my phone, so it's not surveilling me.
I use my toaster twice a year. Even if I leave it connected, the data they collect will be of little use.
But there are other products you do use every day that will also be sending data -- the value isn't in the data from one single product, it's aggregating data from your entire house.
My electric toothbrush already has bluetooth. I have no idea what the phone app does, but I'm sure some people use it and their phone sends back brushing activity and other data back to the company.
Nobody gives a shit how much toast you make, certainly not enough to go through the engineering efforts and added cost in general of sensors, controllers and backup batteries with the electronics similarly made to operate when "offline" (unplugged) for prolonged periods, whatever you say/do around the toaster on the other hand is information they can sell.
My grocery store, bread baker and bread-flour producer all have great interest in how much toast I make, how it correlates with other products/services I use, and how to get me to make more toast. And they don't care if the wifi chipset adds $3 to the price of my toaster and they'll get me to pay for it by claiming that the internet connected toaster is "cloud connected" to ensure perfect toast every time.
Why would the car continue to operate for 37.5 minutes of the trip if the driver didn't have his hands on the steering wheel? If that's a requirement, why didn't the car just pull over and shut off? It seems like Tesla failed to implement some common sense safety protocols here.
Because they trusted that the owner of an $80,000 car had at least some minimal intelligence and even if the driver had blind trust in the car, that when the car says "put your hands on the wheel and pay attention", that the driver would listen.
Yet this driver has demonstrated that people are about as dumb as you think they can be, so now they've implemented a 3 strikes policy that disabled autopilot after 3 reminders.