As others have commented, I too don't like how easily they can get information that could be used to steal my identity, nor do I trust how well they would protect my information. I think all that just makes it that much easier for criminals to get the same information.
But mostly, I just feel saddened that so many resources are being used to try to separate me from $10 here or $100 there to funnel into corporate profits, rather than being used to better educate children, or help with medical research. Things which would really make this a better world for everyone.
I guess I'm just so tired of the pro-corporate mentality (seemingly at any cost of individual freedoms) here in the US.
Uh oh! They just got my location. Grab the foil hat!
The abstract seems to be for a paper on the microNMR technology. However, the article elaborates on the use of the device in combination with a smartphone:
Unfortunately, modern biopsy analysis has an 84 percent accuracy rate and can take three to four days to produce results. Furthermore, tissue can degrade during transport to an external testing site and current immunohistochemistry methods can produce false positives. In their latest report, the researchers describe how they addressed these issues by connecting the microNMR to a smartphone for data analysis. This allows a clinician to extract cells from the patient and analyze them immediately rather than sending them away for testing.
I understand that a small but growing number of people are heading toward the hills in Montana and Idaho to prepare for the human revolution against the machines.
Yeah, but they've been doing that since the horseless carriage!
Remember the Supreme Court declaring that corporations have basic rights. That corporation could be nothing more than a couple of machines combining resources with the humans spawning the self feeding corporation. Frankly I like the idea.
Fairly soon, Watson-style computers will do a bad job of service desk support for products, services, etc. Eventually, they will do a pretty good job.
I think they already can (do the bad job that is). Too often, tech support has the brain dead checklist that must be adhered to regardless of the information given. Sigh. Yes, it's plugged in... No, it's not blinking...Okay, I rebooted... SIGH.
If you've gotten this far, thanks for taking the time to read this
You're welcome. (Okay, I may have skimmed the middle part:P)
Many places in the US are beginning to prefer the nurse practitioners (advanced nursing degree allowed to prescribe), since they can perform most of the examination/diagnosis duties of the MD's, and cost less in terms of salary to insurance reimbursement ratios.
Of course, at the same time places are cutting registered nurses and using cheaper LPNs and nurses aides more also. But then this has more to do with corporate profitability, and pushing productivity to the extreme limits rather than best practices.
In the US, we still have perverse incentives to have people seen multiple times, when best practices would suggest a single visit.
Technology that lays people off is short term pain for long term gain. The more efficient it is to make more stuff, the more stuff ultimately gets made, which means the more stuff people can have.
But even Henry Ford recognized the importance of his workers being able to afford his product. With so many jobs having worldwide mobility it also levels the economic landscape between countries, and that short term pain will seem quite long term to the jobless, while other nations catch up economically.
To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, when the US workers get paid less than China, we will steal the jobs back.
Machines and now, computers, replaced manual labours one by one. Capitalism will fail.
That is the success of capitalism. A surplus of labor means cheaper labor. And as we are currently seeing in the US, the capitalists don't believe in the social welfare either. It's just an unnecessary expense for the corporations.
When the corporations advocate for government spending on social welfare...it's because they already have a plan for providing the services, usually in the form of a no-bid contract.
I may be wrong, but I believe ASCII never defined anything other than 7-bit. Of course when people began commonly using 8-bits to store a character, the ASCII was extended---incorporated as the first 128 characters of an 8-bit set.
(A quick check on wikipedia suggests ASCII only defined 128 characters.)
In TV DVRs add a lot to this, which in effect allows you to "steal" the programming (watch it without viewing advertising) which is how the programming is paid for.
I disagree. It changes the way advertising is most effective. However, I have often found myself rewinding to watch an interesting looking commercial---and then showing it to others (unless I was fooled and it was stupid).
With respect to Sci-Fi programming...I believe it is truly just a bottom line profit decision, as others have stated. Reality shows and the like can be made for next to nothing and they still draw in young teens, who seem to have a disproportionate amount of the disposable income these days.
I think the main point of TFA was that Bing is using Google results to place at the top for misspelled search terms rather than work on their own spelling corrections. They claim that Google has put a lot of resources into their spelling corrections and Bing is merely placing Google's result at the top when Bing's algorithm doesn't produce good results.
I don't see any clear-cut violations of terms or anything illegal here, but it does give me a bad feeling that they seem to be inserting
Google's result at the top without something like No results for misplled jabberish nothing...but here's what people are finding on Google.
Yeah. I tried Bing once when it was new. The results weren't even in the neighborhood of what I was searching, so I went back to Google.
On the other hand, I just tried the search results in the article and Bing was the *only* one to give me those results. Google linked to some lame articles about a software sting operation.;-)
I haven't used many Apple products...but since so many users come from a Microsoft experience, that may be the reason for the over-inflated comments about the Apple experience. I mean...Microsoft *did* set the bar *very low* for a very long time.
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... and I can count pretty high.
Maybe it has to do with my starting point...
Aleph-Null bottles of beer on the wall, aleph-null bottles of beer...
...
take one down and pass it around, Aleph-Null bottles of beer on the wall.
As others have commented, I too don't like how easily they can get information that could be used to steal my identity, nor do I trust how well they would protect my information. I think all that just makes it that much easier for criminals to get the same information.
But mostly, I just feel saddened that so many resources are being used to try to separate me from $10 here or $100 there to funnel into corporate profits, rather than being used to better educate children, or help with medical research. Things which would really make this a better world for everyone.
I guess I'm just so tired of the pro-corporate mentality (seemingly at any cost of individual freedoms) here in the US.
Uh oh! They just got my location. Grab the foil hat!
Unfortunately, modern biopsy analysis has an 84 percent accuracy rate and can take three to four days to produce results. Furthermore, tissue can degrade during transport to an external testing site and current immunohistochemistry methods can produce false positives. In their latest report, the researchers describe how they addressed these issues by connecting the microNMR to a smartphone for data analysis. This allows a clinician to extract cells from the patient and analyze them immediately rather than sending them away for testing.
I understand that a small but growing number of people are heading toward the hills in Montana and Idaho to prepare for the human revolution against the machines.
Yeah, but they've been doing that since the horseless carriage!
I'm with CrimsonAvenger. The D6 isn't going to roll itself!
...have an mSexChangeTeam ? :-)
According to a friend this works for plagiarizing papers.
I see. And how often does your friend do this?
Let's keep profits out of the organ donor process. The last thing we need are, "Need money fast? Donate a kidney! Don't worry. You have two of them!"
Does porn count as "interactive"?
Depends...are you watching it or making it?
Why are you bathing with interactive devices?
Were you using the JoyStick in your bath?
Now if it were 42, that would be the answer to all my problems.
Remember the Supreme Court declaring that corporations have basic rights. That corporation could be nothing more than a couple of machines combining resources with the humans spawning the self feeding corporation. Frankly I like the idea.
Trying to pass the Turing test, eh? Caught ya! :-)
Fairly soon, Watson-style computers will do a bad job of service desk support for products, services, etc. Eventually, they will do a pretty good job.
I think they already can (do the bad job that is). Too often, tech support has the brain dead checklist that must be adhered to regardless of the information given. Sigh. Yes, it's plugged in... No, it's not blinking...Okay, I rebooted... SIGH.
If you've gotten this far, thanks for taking the time to read this
You're welcome. (Okay, I may have skimmed the middle part :P)
Many places in the US are beginning to prefer the nurse practitioners (advanced nursing degree allowed to prescribe), since they can perform most of the examination/diagnosis duties of the MD's, and cost less in terms of salary to insurance reimbursement ratios.
Of course, at the same time places are cutting registered nurses and using cheaper LPNs and nurses aides more also. But then this has more to do with corporate profitability, and pushing productivity to the extreme limits rather than best practices.
In the US, we still have perverse incentives to have people seen multiple times, when best practices would suggest a single visit.
Technology that lays people off is short term pain for long term gain. The more efficient it is to make more stuff, the more stuff ultimately gets made, which means the more stuff people can have.
But even Henry Ford recognized the importance of his workers being able to afford his product. With so many jobs having worldwide mobility it also levels the economic landscape between countries, and that short term pain will seem quite long term to the jobless, while other nations catch up economically.
To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, when the US workers get paid less than China, we will steal the jobs back.
Machines and now, computers, replaced manual labours one by one. Capitalism will fail.
That is the success of capitalism. A surplus of labor means cheaper labor. And as we are currently seeing in the US, the capitalists don't believe in the social welfare either. It's just an unnecessary expense for the corporations.
When the corporations advocate for government spending on social welfare...it's because they already have a plan for providing the services, usually in the form of a no-bid contract.
Yeah, call me disillusioned.
I may be wrong, but I believe ASCII never defined anything other than 7-bit. Of course when people began commonly using 8-bits to store a character, the ASCII was extended---incorporated as the first 128 characters of an 8-bit set.
(A quick check on wikipedia suggests ASCII only defined 128 characters.)
Let's make a rule before the lawyers get involved. Any disputes about damages due to intoxication must be taken outside and settled with fisticuffs!
Remember, friends don't let friends dock drunk.
And here I thought a Trojan(TM) was designed to prevent popups leading to infections, pregnancies, etc. :->
In TV DVRs add a lot to this, which in effect allows you to "steal" the programming (watch it without viewing advertising) which is how the programming is paid for.
I disagree. It changes the way advertising is most effective. However, I have often found myself rewinding to watch an interesting looking commercial---and then showing it to others (unless I was fooled and it was stupid).
With respect to Sci-Fi programming...I believe it is truly just a bottom line profit decision, as others have stated. Reality shows and the like can be made for next to nothing and they still draw in young teens, who seem to have a disproportionate amount of the disposable income these days.
I think the main point of TFA was that Bing is using Google results to place at the top for misspelled search terms rather than work on their own spelling corrections. They claim that Google has put a lot of resources into their spelling corrections and Bing is merely placing Google's result at the top when Bing's algorithm doesn't produce good results.
I don't see any clear-cut violations of terms or anything illegal here, but it does give me a bad feeling that they seem to be inserting Google's result at the top without something like No results for misplled jabberish nothing...but here's what people are finding on Google.
Yeah. I tried Bing once when it was new. The results weren't even in the neighborhood of what I was searching, so I went back to Google. On the other hand, I just tried the search results in the article and Bing was the *only* one to give me those results. Google linked to some lame articles about a software sting operation. ;-)
I haven't used many Apple products...but since so many users come from a Microsoft experience, that may be the reason for the over-inflated comments about the Apple experience. I mean...Microsoft *did* set the bar *very low* for a very long time.
Spend the same $5 on a half pound of coffee beans and it will last for 2 weeks.
Was that a typo? Surely you meant 2 pounds of coffee lasts for half a week!
So this gives a whole new meaning to the phrase?