That's always the question. WHO sees the petitions, the signature counts, the comments, etc. and evaluates them.
I once read a story which said that experienced people in Washington, when they're told "White House calling," know to ask "WHO at the White House is calling?"
This is inverse of the same question, on a MUCH bigger scale.
The point of my question was: THINK this one THROUGH before using it.
Everybody's raising good comments about backup power supplies, alert monitors if the BG falls, etc. etc. But anything that runs on a life-critical system (and blood BG and O2 are surely life-critical) had darned well better be approached with caution, some well-validated simulations prior to usage, and lots and lots of after-checks to ensure the Demon Murphy doesn't get an opening.
I can see the military and police going ape over this. Toss a ball, get a quick survey of hostile territory BEFORE going in. Even with distortion, it will be very useful without needing VR glasses.
It's also cheap(comparatively speaking) and light, so several can be carried.
For civilians, just think what it will do for paintball! Just make sure the lenses are easy to clean.:)
You cannot be accused of trademark, copyright, or patent infringement on something that you created yourself, for your own enjoyment, even if what you made was protected by IP law.
For now. See Wikipedia in re: DMCA(1996), Copyright Term Extension Act(1998), ACTA(2011)
Laws are code, and code can always be changed, not necessarily for the better.
When kids start making little plastic replicas of their favorite cartoon heroes, the copyright and trademark thugs will be all over this thing. I can already see Disney's lawyers salivating.
On the first day of the European outage, I was leaving my office and a student got on at the second floor. She was texting on her phone and I asked her about that, since it was a Blackberry and, as she commented still working in the US. Her reply was illuminating.
The company books ONLY show how expensive providing good service is. They don't show the enormous losses when inadequate investment in support infrastructure collapses.
We use Selenium IDE for test scripts. Every new release# kills Selenium. My boss has canceled several projects that were intended to use this for regression and other testing while we try to find something that's not going to die on us every few weeks.
Sooner or later, high-gain audio sensors and computer voice processing will be added, and then you can be prosecuted for "cursing in public."
And if they add environmental chemical monitoring, since methane is classed as a "greenhouse gas," we will have the delights of getting tickets in the mail for "farting in public."
John Scalzi praised it highly, and I was interested, right up until the fine print swam into view.
IMO, the killer was the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned "Real Name" requirement. I have a google account I use for my Reader, Mail, Calendar, and Docs/Notepad the last three of which are also synchronized on my phone for mobile access. There was and is simply NO way in hell I would risk losing those under google's draconian "Right name or die!" policy, and I rather suspect an awful lot of people just walked away from the threat.
Insurance doesn't "buy them" and much depends on what your plan is and/or covers.
In my own case, I needed one hearing aid. Total price $4k. My insurance covered exactly half of that. I'm glad to have it, but what we still have here is an FDA-controlled cartel. There is the "Why not jack up the price."
No product on any scale from chips to countries is good unless the infrastructure supports it properly. Glue is "infrastructure," not sexy, but utterly vital. A glue that permits building a Borg Cube in microchip form will permit the firm with the technology to say "Resistance is futile." and mean it.
Just went over to the site in Safari on my iPhone 4 and downloaded "Cydia". I've now got a trial copy of Insomnia running on my phone. Service just doesn't get better than this. And if it tests out, I won't have to re-logon to my employer's wi-fi network every fifteen minutes to keep the connection live.
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Treeware is (obviously) DRM-free. I'm curious as to how sales would like when controlled not just for price but for DRM-free versus DRM-infested.
I know for a fact that I buy or read a lot more stuff from DRM-free places *cough*Baen*cough* than I do from places that insist on DRM.
There is only Xul.
Should be the "All Your Data Are Belong To Us" department.
That's always the question. WHO sees the petitions, the signature counts, the comments, etc. and evaluates them.
I once read a story which said that experienced people in Washington, when they're told "White House calling," know to ask "WHO at the White House is calling?"
This is inverse of the same question, on a MUCH bigger scale.
The point of my question was: THINK this one THROUGH before using it.
Everybody's raising good comments about backup power supplies, alert monitors if the BG falls, etc. etc. But anything that runs on a life-critical system (and blood BG and O2 are surely life-critical) had darned well better be approached with caution, some well-validated simulations prior to usage, and lots and lots of after-checks to ensure the Demon Murphy doesn't get an opening.
Uses blood glucose(BG) and oxygen to run? Fine.
What about diabetics, particularly those who are prone to sudden blood sugar drops? Or get sick and need all their energy to survive.
I can see adding a sensor to shut it down if the BG drops below, say 80, BUT
1. Add a secure, remotely-controlled STFU switch for medical emergencies
and
2. Do NOT use it at all for life-critical medical add-ons.
I can see the military and police going ape over this. Toss a ball, get a quick survey of hostile territory BEFORE going in. Even with distortion, it will be very useful without needing VR glasses.
It's also cheap(comparatively speaking) and light, so several can be carried.
For civilians, just think what it will do for paintball! Just make sure the lenses are easy to clean. :)
e-ink and 3D are both VERY good at inducing migraine headaches, in my experience. Researchers interested in finding a cure please take note.
You cannot be accused of trademark, copyright, or patent infringement on something that you created yourself, for your own enjoyment, even if what you made was protected by IP law.
For now. See Wikipedia in re: DMCA(1996), Copyright Term Extension Act(1998), ACTA(2011)
Laws are code, and code can always be changed, not necessarily for the better.
When kids start making little plastic replicas of their favorite cartoon heroes, the copyright and trademark thugs will be all over this thing. I can already see Disney's lawyers salivating.
On the first day of the European outage, I was leaving my office and a student got on at the second floor. She was texting on her phone and I asked her about that, since it was a Blackberry and, as she commented still working in the US. Her reply was illuminating.
"Yes, but they're on the way out."
If you can't catch 'em young, you're toast.
The company books ONLY show how expensive providing good service is. They don't show the enormous losses when inadequate investment in support infrastructure collapses.
Not the first time MSFT has flagged competing products as viruses.
Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
And one more reason not to trust Microsoft's "security."
People are becoming increasingly irrelevant. The machines can just fight each other, while we get fat and die.
So one day, we can tell the robots "You've come up in the world. Learned to kill your own kind." (From the movie "Screamers")
Or we'd be looking at the Mad Cowchip.
We use Selenium IDE for test scripts. Every new release# kills Selenium. My boss has canceled several projects that were intended to use this for regression and other testing while we try to find something that's not going to die on us every few weeks.
Beware of "Mission Creep"
Littering and peeing are trivial.
Sooner or later, high-gain audio sensors and computer voice processing will be added, and then you can be prosecuted for "cursing in public."
And if they add environmental chemical monitoring, since methane is classed as a "greenhouse gas," we will have the delights of getting tickets in the mail for "farting in public."
John Scalzi praised it highly, and I was interested, right up until the fine print swam into view.
IMO, the killer was the never-to-be-sufficiently-damned "Real Name" requirement. I have a google account I use for my Reader, Mail, Calendar, and Docs/Notepad the last three of which are also synchronized on my phone for mobile access. There was and is simply NO way in hell I would risk losing those under google's draconian "Right name or die!" policy, and I rather suspect an awful lot of people just walked away from the threat.
Insurance doesn't "buy them" and much depends on what your plan is and/or covers.
In my own case, I needed one hearing aid. Total price $4k. My insurance covered exactly half of that. I'm glad to have it, but what we still have here is an FDA-controlled cartel. There is the "Why not jack up the price."
No product on any scale from chips to countries is good unless the infrastructure supports it properly. Glue is "infrastructure," not sexy, but utterly vital. A glue that permits building a Borg Cube in microchip form will permit the firm with the technology to say "Resistance is futile." and mean it.
That's not the Droid I was looking for.
See "Battle: Los Angeles," and "Skyline."
Is there any way we could just convince some aliens that Hollywood is our planetary capital....?
Just went over to the site in Safari on my iPhone 4 and downloaded "Cydia". I've now got a trial copy of Insomnia running on my phone. Service just doesn't get better than this. And if it tests out, I won't have to re-logon to my employer's wi-fi network every fifteen minutes to keep the connection live.
China is working on a blue water navy. Article is dated Sunday, April 18, 2010
Namely, plug-in compatibility still sucks. Plugins that do really really useful things, such as email redirect, have quit working.
A system of happy volunteers sounds like a great idea until you find out that the volunteers stop maintaining things for whatever reason.