Chernobyl was not localized.
In south germany and south sweden you still can not eat mushrooms harvested from the woods and game is unsafe to eat.
Ugh, technically the winds have carried a bit of radiation from Chernobyl/Fukushima all over the world so if you want to split hairs you could call them Global Disasters but compared to the Civilizations level dangers posed by the rise in sea levels, droughts and extreme weather phenomena one could hardly put them on the same scale Globally
If Climate Change was not a concern I would say shut down all Nuclear Plants, but it is not only a concern it is a HUGE one. Compared to the global catastrophe that will be brought on by Rising sea levels, droughts and extreme weather phenomena, the Localized Chernobys/Fukushima Nuclear disasters seem like Small Fries
In actual fact, the most frequently stolen vehicle is the Honda Accord. The Camry is #5.
3600,000 honda accords are sold each year. Even if you went out and stole every Model S in the world (all 125,000 sold so far) you still wouldn't budge it from the most stolen list
Most media is Centrist. The outlets not targeting a specific audience, like Fox News and the Huntington Post, have nothing to gain by straying far from the center. The "under siege" mentality that has permeated the Conservative camp has lead to a "you are with us or against us" mentality and anything and anyone that even dares question their orthodoxy is immediately discredited as "Liberal Media". During the Primeries Terd Cruize even accused Fox News of making "Liberal Media attacks against him" when one of its reporters dared ask uncomfortable questions
This is something that can be easily figured out with statistics. Accident rates and serious injuries per miles driven in autopilot vs human. Unfortunately most people make decisions with gut feelings not detailed statistical analysis and politicians take advantage are very eager to score easy points with the mindless masses
I guess the only group that doesn't want money and has no political influence is the 1 Trillion a year fossil fuels Industry. If researchers were after money you would think they would go asking the deep pockets for it, not the tree-huggers. But than again if they were smart they would have picked a more lucrative career path to begin with
A few months ago I read an article where a 100 year old women claimed that the secret to longevity was smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day. Just because you can consume 80+ grams of sugar a day without negative consequences doesn't mean that everyone can. In fact research has pretty much conclusively shown that for most people smoking and excessive sugar intake is quite detrimental to health and longevity
The problem is that Americans categorize their meals as either "healthy" (skinless chicken breast with lightly steamed vegetables or "indulging" (cheeseburger with fries). The Mediterranean diet is so successful because most dishes tend to be stews mixing fats with vegetables , giving you healthy, tasty dishes that you can eat without having to keep telling yourself you are doing it for your health until inevitable getting tired and frustrated and "indulging"
If there is a shortage of qualified American IT personnel (and it is very doubtful there actually is any), it is at the very top of the scale. A very simple fix to the abuse is to set the minimum salary at $165K. Get rid of the rest of the requirements altogether, they are just too easy to abuse
Actually you might see pressure to raise wages for low skill work now that people can choose to drop out of the labor force (without the bureaucratic issues and social stigma of being on Welfare) if the wages offered are not attractive enough. If someone just wants to make some pocket money its probably more attractive to participate in the "at-will gig" economy instead of accepting the constraints of a traditional job. Of course higher wages also means more automation resulting in fewer jobs which would pressure wages lower. I All we can be sure of at this point is that this is going to be a very interesting experiment
They mounted a very large tablet on a Refrigarator. The really crazy part is that because of "innovative features " like ice dispensers and water chillers the 1940's refrigerators were actually more energy efficent then the modern ones. Putting a power hungry giant screen on it is one way to continue driving down energy efficency
Basically when China and Russia gave up on socialism, they created a version of capitalism in the image of what they imagined capitalism to be; not the kind of liberal society you find in advanced Western democracies with their regulated market economies and worker's rights guarantees.
Actually the Chineese Capitalist system looks remarkably similar to the American "Gilded Age." The horrible exploitation of labor during this period is what gave rise to Unions and the "Progressive Era." How things are going to play out with China's single party system is anybody's guess but so far the Ruling party has shown little tolerance for Organized labor. Russia is a very different story, their economy is based largely on exploitation of natural resources, mostly oil. As John McCain put it "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country". They have little on the way of private Capital investment, the linchpin of a Capitalist system
The biggest problem is that Medicare the largest insurer in the country is bared from both negotiating prices with Drug manufacturers as well as weighing its cost when considering approval of medication
It would be nice if the conservatives started admitting that birth control is effective birth control.
That will never happen: for too many of them, birth control is merely an excuse for their real motive: control of the bodies of young people. The real goal is not to prevent birth, but to prevent sex taking place.
Actually it is about control over morality. The Religious Conservatives view sex outside marriage as Sin and unwanted pregnancies as a (Gods) punishing consequence for immorality. The also see the sacrifices required to raise that child as the path to Salvation and God's good graces. They very much fear that sexual immorality leads not only to the degradation of society, but to the physical destruction of the U.S at the hands of GOD ala "Sodom and Gomorrah."
Stock prices don't affect the bottom line (other than on a IPO of course)
Please, don't do any investments in stocks: you clearly don't understand this well enough.
The question you have to ask is: why did the stock price go down? The answer to which is that investors in the stock market expect that future profits (the bottom line) will be lower. In other words, no, stock prices don't affect the bottom line (but see note), instead, the expected future of the bottom line affects the stock price.
Pray do tell how Investors "expecting" lower earnings actually affect earnings.
Note: a high stock price can improve a company's ability to raise capital for investment, so in this way a high stock price can affect the bottom line.
Agreed that in the an embattled company would have more difficulties (at least have to pay higher rates) getting loans or selling bonds. However this is a function of the Company facing uncertainties about its future rather the "stock price" per se. A private company in a similar situation would face the same difficulties raising captial
Lots of stocks go down 5% in one day, especially medical stocks. Hardly steep.
Yes, it's a shame it didn't go down more. Until lack of security affects the bottom line, companies won't make secure devices.
Stock prices don't affect the bottom line (other than on a IPO of course) however a bunch of pissed off investors looking at their portfolio charts shooting straight-down would likely demand the heads of the CEO and the CTO. If the Board of Trustees doesn't deliver you might see a direct share-holder vote being called. That's when you would see some real change in the Industry. Nothing greases the wheels quite like the blood of executives
How would you prove it? Would it require assistance from the company to show that that was what happened?
If the Coroner found the device not functioning during the autopsy and implicate it as the cause of death he could rule the death suspicious (if he were smart) and start the boll rolling for the device to end up at FBI crimes lab directly. Otherwise he would (hopefully) file a report with the FDA or the Manufacturer (which is required to report it to the FDA). Eventually a FDA inspector would get around to reading the report and hopefully be alarmed enough to ask the company to check on the cause of the malfunction. If the company experts found the device is functioning properly and it simply had been turned off somehow or that device's firmware checksum doesn't match the deployed image, the Case would be reopened and the device would end up at FBI labs. It is unlikely that the Company experts would lie to the FDA, for one they would have to explain to them what went wrong which means making up some other defect on the device and second they would be committing multiple felonies and infractions. PS: This scenario assumes a not very sophisticated hacker (which would still be quite capable of penetrating the pathetic security on most medical devices). Someone dedicated to the craft would probably write a in-runtime-memory only exploit that after the deed would restore the device to proper function and wipe itself off without leaving any traces
A voluntary or a FDA ordered full recall one are unlikely or you would have seen the stock price come crashing down and trading halted . Device security is just not taken seriously in the industry. Practically the only invulnerable devices are the ones with network-stack implementations so broken as to render networking functions pretty usless. The Industry benefits from there not being any cases of harm to patients. Few people outside of research would target medical devices given the risk of causing physical harm to innocent people. Of course this could change in an instant were someone to off their rich-uncle for the inheritance by hacking into his pacemaker. The scandal would cause a tsunami that would come crashing down on the Biotech industry
Most people are so used to Internet Service being the Monopoly of the Cable provider that they are not aware of alternaties in the few areas where Fiber is available. Not to mention that Cable actually does compete in those few areas where there is legitimate competition from Fiber
Slashdot Mirror
25 years to de-carbonize the Global Economy and we are wasting resources on rooftop panels. UGH
Chernobyl was not localized. In south germany and south sweden you still can not eat mushrooms harvested from the woods and game is unsafe to eat.
Ugh, technically the winds have carried a bit of radiation from Chernobyl/Fukushima all over the world so if you want to split hairs you could call them Global Disasters but compared to the Civilizations level dangers posed by the rise in sea levels, droughts and extreme weather phenomena one could hardly put them on the same scale Globally
If Climate Change was not a concern I would say shut down all Nuclear Plants, but it is not only a concern it is a HUGE one. Compared to the global catastrophe that will be brought on by Rising sea levels, droughts and extreme weather phenomena, the Localized Chernobys/Fukushima Nuclear disasters seem like Small Fries
Hopefully humanity is just as lucky as Hawkin's and outlives its extintion-expectancy by X10 and counting
How long is this thing supposed to run? Most smartphones only run like 3 hours tops if your actively using the screen.
screens and LTE radio's are the 2 biggest drains on battery life in mobile devices. A more efficient SOC is not going to do anything to change that
In actual fact, the most frequently stolen vehicle is the Honda Accord. The Camry is #5.
3600,000 honda accords are sold each year. Even if you went out and stole every Model S in the world (all 125,000 sold so far) you still wouldn't budge it from the most stolen list
Most media is Centrist. The outlets not targeting a specific audience, like Fox News and the Huntington Post, have nothing to gain by straying far from the center. The "under siege" mentality that has permeated the Conservative camp has lead to a "you are with us or against us" mentality and anything and anyone that even dares question their orthodoxy is immediately discredited as "Liberal Media". During the Primeries Terd Cruize even accused Fox News of making "Liberal Media attacks against him" when one of its reporters dared ask uncomfortable questions
If you are going to sue a party let it be one that can afford a stockpile of 3,500 single use $1.41 million a piece,Tomahawk cruise missiles
This is something that can be easily figured out with statistics. Accident rates and serious injuries per miles driven in autopilot vs human. Unfortunately most people make decisions with gut feelings not detailed statistical analysis and politicians take advantage are very eager to score easy points with the mindless masses
I guess the only group that doesn't want money and has no political influence is the 1 Trillion a year fossil fuels Industry. If researchers were after money you would think they would go asking the deep pockets for it, not the tree-huggers. But than again if they were smart they would have picked a more lucrative career path to begin with
A few months ago I read an article where a 100 year old women claimed that the secret to longevity was smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day. Just because you can consume 80+ grams of sugar a day without negative consequences doesn't mean that everyone can. In fact research has pretty much conclusively shown that for most people smoking and excessive sugar intake is quite detrimental to health and longevity
The problem is that Americans categorize their meals as either "healthy" (skinless chicken breast with lightly steamed vegetables or "indulging" (cheeseburger with fries). The Mediterranean diet is so successful because most dishes tend to be stews mixing fats with vegetables , giving you healthy, tasty dishes that you can eat without having to keep telling yourself you are doing it for your health until inevitable getting tired and frustrated and "indulging"
If there is a shortage of qualified American IT personnel (and it is very doubtful there actually is any), it is at the very top of the scale. A very simple fix to the abuse is to set the minimum salary at $165K. Get rid of the rest of the requirements altogether, they are just too easy to abuse
Actually you might see pressure to raise wages for low skill work now that people can choose to drop out of the labor force (without the bureaucratic issues and social stigma of being on Welfare) if the wages offered are not attractive enough. If someone just wants to make some pocket money its probably more attractive to participate in the "at-will gig" economy instead of accepting the constraints of a traditional job. Of course higher wages also means more automation resulting in fewer jobs which would pressure wages lower. I All we can be sure of at this point is that this is going to be a very interesting experiment
They mounted a very large tablet on a Refrigarator. The really crazy part is that because of "innovative features " like ice dispensers and water chillers the 1940's refrigerators were actually more energy efficent then the modern ones. Putting a power hungry giant screen on it is one way to continue driving down energy efficency
You can't lock people in "hardware specs" the way Apple locks people to its IOS platform
Where independent unions are banned.
Basically when China and Russia gave up on socialism, they created a version of capitalism in the image of what they imagined capitalism to be; not the kind of liberal society you find in advanced Western democracies with their regulated market economies and worker's rights guarantees.
Actually the Chineese Capitalist system looks remarkably similar to the American "Gilded Age." The horrible exploitation of labor during this period is what gave rise to Unions and the "Progressive Era." How things are going to play out with China's single party system is anybody's guess but so far the Ruling party has shown little tolerance for Organized labor. Russia is a very different story, their economy is based largely on exploitation of natural resources, mostly oil. As John McCain put it "Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country". They have little on the way of private Capital investment, the linchpin of a Capitalist system
The biggest problem is that Medicare the largest insurer in the country is bared from both negotiating prices with Drug manufacturers as well as weighing its cost when considering approval of medication
That will never happen: for too many of them, birth control is merely an excuse for their real motive: control of the bodies of young people. The real goal is not to prevent birth, but to prevent sex taking place.
Actually it is about control over morality. The Religious Conservatives view sex outside marriage as Sin and unwanted pregnancies as a (Gods) punishing consequence for immorality. The also see the sacrifices required to raise that child as the path to Salvation and God's good graces. They very much fear that sexual immorality leads not only to the degradation of society, but to the physical destruction of the U.S at the hands of GOD ala "Sodom and Gomorrah."
Please, don't do any investments in stocks: you clearly don't understand this well enough.
The question you have to ask is: why did the stock price go down? The answer to which is that investors in the stock market expect that future profits (the bottom line) will be lower. In other words, no, stock prices don't affect the bottom line (but see note), instead, the expected future of the bottom line affects the stock price.
Pray do tell how Investors "expecting" lower earnings actually affect earnings.
Note: a high stock price can improve a company's ability to raise capital for investment, so in this way a high stock price can affect the bottom line.
Agreed that in the an embattled company would have more difficulties (at least have to pay higher rates) getting loans or selling bonds. However this is a function of the Company facing uncertainties about its future rather the "stock price" per se. A private company in a similar situation would face the same difficulties raising captial
Yes, it's a shame it didn't go down more. Until lack of security affects the bottom line, companies won't make secure devices.
Stock prices don't affect the bottom line (other than on a IPO of course) however a bunch of pissed off investors looking at their portfolio charts shooting straight-down would likely demand the heads of the CEO and the CTO. If the Board of Trustees doesn't deliver you might see a direct share-holder vote being called. That's when you would see some real change in the Industry. Nothing greases the wheels quite like the blood of executives
How would you prove it? Would it require assistance from the company to show that that was what happened?
If the Coroner found the device not functioning during the autopsy and implicate it as the cause of death he could rule the death suspicious (if he were smart) and start the boll rolling for the device to end up at FBI crimes lab directly. Otherwise he would (hopefully) file a report with the FDA or the Manufacturer (which is required to report it to the FDA). Eventually a FDA inspector would get around to reading the report and hopefully be alarmed enough to ask the company to check on the cause of the malfunction. If the company experts found the device is functioning properly and it simply had been turned off somehow or that device's firmware checksum doesn't match the deployed image, the Case would be reopened and the device would end up at FBI labs. It is unlikely that the Company experts would lie to the FDA, for one they would have to explain to them what went wrong which means making up some other defect on the device and second they would be committing multiple felonies and infractions. PS: This scenario assumes a not very sophisticated hacker (which would still be quite capable of penetrating the pathetic security on most medical devices). Someone dedicated to the craft would probably write a in-runtime-memory only exploit that after the deed would restore the device to proper function and wipe itself off without leaving any traces
A voluntary or a FDA ordered full recall one are unlikely or you would have seen the stock price come crashing down and trading halted . Device security is just not taken seriously in the industry. Practically the only invulnerable devices are the ones with network-stack implementations so broken as to render networking functions pretty usless. The Industry benefits from there not being any cases of harm to patients. Few people outside of research would target medical devices given the risk of causing physical harm to innocent people. Of course this could change in an instant were someone to off their rich-uncle for the inheritance by hacking into his pacemaker. The scandal would cause a tsunami that would come crashing down on the Biotech industry
Most people are so used to Internet Service being the Monopoly of the Cable provider that they are not aware of alternaties in the few areas where Fiber is available. Not to mention that Cable actually does compete in those few areas where there is legitimate competition from Fiber
Bush Jr Tax Cuts. The gift that keeps on giving