Truckers who drive semis and other large vehicles already have to have a medical certificate part of which is to not have high blood pressure over certain limits. This is to avoid strokes and heart attacks causing them to lose control of their vehicles. This is probably a reasonable precaution.
The allowable levels currently set by regulation rather than the AHA guidelines, but there may be pressure from this to tighten those limits. Personally, I don't see this as needed.
Are truckers who have 130/80 BP really a serious threat to our safety?
(Full disclosure: I have a Class A CDL, but don't currently work as a trucker.)
Yup. No possible tie in of tech with energy use or the environment because all those server farms use no electricity and result in no greenhouse gases.
"Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House"
My front porch and living room floor aren't built to support the weight of most vehicles and my front door is only wide enough for a motorcycle.
Either that, or this story is about yet another security problem with the internet of things and smart doorbells updating their own software without permission.
The subject immediately became a flame war about the current administration. A similar thing happened here when the Obama administration announced their program of visiting an asteroid (or whatever, it morphed a few times).
Personally, I favor return to the moon for a number of reasons. Others prefer Mars or other programs.
That said my main preference is: Choose a mission. Stay with it for long enough to get it done. Fund the damn thing on a consistent basis.
If you do these, you will have a successful program. If you underfund chronically, change the mission requirements repeatedly and try to undermine the program because it's a "Democrat" or "Republican" program, I can nearly guarantee the program will fail.
Well, I'm sure the policy is designed very carefully. Not for preventing anything objectionable, but so Google can't possibly suffer any legal problems due to it.
If I ever decided to own such a beast for some mad reason (and believe me, I've proved I can get into all the trouble I can handle with even a Chevy Vega), the first thing I'd want is training at any one of several professional race driving schools around the country. That way I'd be able to drive it to its limits and not needlessly endanger myself and others.
With that kind of power and torque, things can get out of control in a hell of a hurry.
My second thought is: what kind of/size of tires and what sort of suspension does it have. Raw power is completely useless unless it can be efficiently transferred to the road and kept in control.
That applies to your response, too. Are you saying you're more concerned about assigning blame someplace you'd prefer it? Great. Blame me. That evil Hartree is the source of all our problems. Now, we've solved that issue.;)
Yes, widespread air conditioning would increase energy usage in in India. And? I'm hardly going to worry that some of the Indians might be more comfortable. Do you propose that we tell them that they somehow don't "deserve" air conditioning? Well, good luck with that. I think they'll quite reasonably tell you to go fly a kite.
We already did clean up our act on many things. I remember the air in Gary Indiana in the early 70s. It was orange. And there was the lovely LA smog in 1974 or so when I visited there. I also remember the larger amount of litter on our highways in the 60s/early 70s.
The problems were highly visible and you could smell them. We dealt with those to a large extent. Now, it's CO2, methane, etc. Invisible, don't smell, don't undergo photochemical reactions to make a haze. It's a much less visible problem. Are you terribly surprised it's harder to get people moving on it?
"China and India to lead efforts to slow climate change "
We've sure seen the results of China's forward looking environmental policies. Especially in scenic untouched places like Baotou, and in the pristine air of Beijing.
" Telemetry.. the feature you are yelling to turn off.:/"
Odd. I don't think I mentioned that in my comment.
But what the hey, obviously in your view it would be impossible for them to issue unbundled patches the way they did for a couple of decades before this change.
It's sad that MS has fallen so far that they no longer have the ability to do that. I guess Nadella et al just aren't up to the standard of the Gates/Balmer years.
"The bundling of updates into a single entity so that we don't have control over what gets installed on our systems"
This! Abso-fracking-lutely this!
Give me the info on what the update is, and I can decide whether it's worth the risk to install immediately or if I need to run it on a non-important machine first to vet it. Yes, theoretically I can drill down on MSDN and the knowledge base but with some much redirection and info hiding in the documentation, in truth it takes too much time. Exactly as Microsoft intended it.
When your state makes the BBC news about its corruption, you know you're world class.
One of my current patients is a laser micromachining system that runs Win2K. The company that made it got out of the business, and when was the last time you saw an AGP video capture card? All with software that talks directly to the hardware. And, of course, no money to replace it.
I haven't had to deal with true S100 on an instrument. Yet.
One of the things I saved from being trashed was an Osbourne 1 that's now part of our display of old computer gear.
It's a matter of convenience more than absolute necessity. You have to have a way of controlling the machine and getting the data the devices take off of them. There are several ways this can be done without putting the machine directly on the internet. In some cases thumb drives are adequate. In other cases the controls of the machine are largely web based and then you have to a separate network connection to a multi-homed machine on the wider network that acts as a firewall and usually will only let one or two other computers connect to the older machine. It's not ideal, and can conceivably be subverted, but it mostly works. IMHO, one of the best defences against malware is regular tested backups at a frequent enough interval that file encryptors and the like can't make the loss of data too damaging.
It also lives on in many scientific instruments. An old mass spec that runs XP (or even older. I regularly maintain X Ray diffraction machines that still run DOS) usually can still do the day to day job just fine. The software usually hasn't been supported for many years and won't run on anything newer. But replacing the instrument could cost a large amount of money (250K or up in many cases).
Research budgets aren't growing and I work for a university in a state that can't pass a budget. We just don't have the money to throw out older systems that work well just because the software is outdated. We just take them off the network and use other means to get the data transferred off of them.
Indeed. But, you miss the really important stakeholder here. Pearson, Wiley, Cengage, etc.
A lecture is created and delivered by the professor. Thus, it can be used in any way they see fit (modulo blanking any copyrighted material in the slides they project and whatnot.)
But, a slick commercial video. Now that can be copyrighted by Pearson or whichever publishing giant. They can charge for it repeatedly, have it play only on a locked down DRM filled player and revoke the student's access at the end of the semester. Why, it's almost like the German book I bought that has much of the content and all of the exercises online behind paywalls and will likely expire before I get the chance to take the second semester that it covers. This is enough to make a marketer drool.
This seems to me to be opening the door to even more of the monetization of teaching at the college level by book/info dealers. This has become a game for the publishers to extract yet more dollars from our students.
I'm a fan of the traditional lecture. I tend to learn well in them. Obviously, YMMV, but anyone who tries to foist off a series called "The Quantum Field Theory Universe" in the style of "The Mechanical Universe" should be beaten mercilessly with chalkboard erasers!
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If not that, there's always the billboards.
Truckers who drive semis and other large vehicles already have to have a medical certificate part of which is to not have high blood pressure over certain limits. This is to avoid strokes and heart attacks causing them to lose control of their vehicles. This is probably a reasonable precaution.
The allowable levels currently set by regulation rather than the AHA guidelines, but there may be pressure from this to tighten those limits. Personally, I don't see this as needed.
Are truckers who have 130/80 BP really a serious threat to our safety?
(Full disclosure: I have a Class A CDL, but don't currently work as a trucker.)
Yup. No possible tie in of tech with energy use or the environment because all those server farms use no electricity and result in no greenhouse gases.
Kudos!
I suspect the submitter meant "rife" rather than "ripe".
Of course, since "ripe" can mean "stinky", maybe it fits.
"The one with the ever widening hole in it!"
"Amazon Is Reportedly Building a Doorbell That Lets Drivers Into Your House"
My front porch and living room floor aren't built to support the weight of most vehicles and my front door is only wide enough for a motorcycle.
Either that, or this story is about yet another security problem with the internet of things and smart doorbells updating their own software without permission.
The subject immediately became a flame war about the current administration. A similar thing happened here when the Obama administration announced their program of visiting an asteroid (or whatever, it morphed a few times).
Personally, I favor return to the moon for a number of reasons. Others prefer Mars or other programs.
That said my main preference is: Choose a mission. Stay with it for long enough to get it done. Fund the damn thing on a consistent basis.
If you do these, you will have a successful program. If you underfund chronically, change the mission requirements repeatedly and try to undermine the program because it's a "Democrat" or "Republican" program, I can nearly guarantee the program will fail.
"Have you ever heard of this ship?"
Yes. The grandfather of my teacher for German class was a survivor of it. (He was a German medic who was one of the passengers.)
He never got back on another ship for the rest of his life.
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
"Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!""
Well, I'm sure the policy is designed very carefully. Not for preventing anything objectionable, but so Google can't possibly suffer any legal problems due to it.
"It's called American excpetionalism."
Are you sure it's not just dyslexia?
Usenet, Plato Talkomatic and Notesfiles, and many others just called and want their due. IRC is a relative newcomer from the late 1980s.
If I ever decided to own such a beast for some mad reason (and believe me, I've proved I can get into all the trouble I can handle with even a Chevy Vega), the first thing I'd want is training at any one of several professional race driving schools around the country. That way I'd be able to drive it to its limits and not needlessly endanger myself and others.
With that kind of power and torque, things can get out of control in a hell of a hurry.
My second thought is: what kind of/size of tires and what sort of suspension does it have. Raw power is completely useless unless it can be efficiently transferred to the road and kept in control.
Decatur calls itself the commodore city. Given the smell, you can drop the "or".
"Its hard to see the point you're trying to make"
That applies to your response, too. Are you saying you're more concerned about assigning blame someplace you'd prefer it? Great. Blame me. That evil Hartree is the source of all our problems. Now, we've solved that issue. ;)
Yes, widespread air conditioning would increase energy usage in in India. And? I'm hardly going to worry that some of the Indians might be more comfortable.
Do you propose that we tell them that they somehow don't "deserve" air conditioning? Well, good luck with that. I think they'll quite reasonably tell you to go fly a kite.
We already did clean up our act on many things. I remember the air in Gary Indiana in the early 70s. It was orange. And there was the lovely LA smog in 1974 or so when I visited there. I also remember the larger amount of litter on our highways in the 60s/early 70s.
The problems were highly visible and you could smell them. We dealt with those to a large extent. Now, it's CO2, methane, etc. Invisible, don't smell, don't undergo photochemical reactions to make a haze. It's a much less visible problem. Are you terribly surprised it's harder to get people moving on it?
"China and India to lead efforts to slow climate change "
We've sure seen the results of China's forward looking environmental policies. Especially in scenic untouched places like Baotou, and in the pristine air of Beijing.
So, good luck with that.
" Telemetry.. the feature you are yelling to turn off. :/"
Odd. I don't think I mentioned that in my comment.
But what the hey, obviously in your view it would be impossible for them to issue unbundled patches the way they did for a couple of decades before this change.
It's sad that MS has fallen so far that they no longer have the ability to do that. I guess Nadella et al just aren't up to the standard of the Gates/Balmer years.
"The bundling of updates into a single entity so that we don't have control over what gets installed on our systems"
This! Abso-fracking-lutely this!
Give me the info on what the update is, and I can decide whether it's worth the risk to install immediately or if I need to run it on a non-important machine first to vet it. Yes, theoretically I can drill down on MSDN and the knowledge base but with some much redirection and info hiding in the documentation, in truth it takes too much time. Exactly as Microsoft intended it.
When your state makes the BBC news about its corruption, you know you're world class.
One of my current patients is a laser micromachining system that runs Win2K. The company that made it got out of the business, and when was the last time you saw an AGP video capture card? All with software that talks directly to the hardware. And, of course, no money to replace it.
I haven't had to deal with true S100 on an instrument. Yet.
One of the things I saved from being trashed was an Osbourne 1 that's now part of our display of old computer gear.
It's a matter of convenience more than absolute necessity. You have to have a way of controlling the machine and getting the data the devices take off of them. There are several ways this can be done without putting the machine directly on the internet. In some cases thumb drives are adequate. In other cases the controls of the machine are largely web based and then you have to a separate network connection to a multi-homed machine on the wider network that acts as a firewall and usually will only let one or two other computers connect to the older machine.
It's not ideal, and can conceivably be subverted, but it mostly works.
IMHO, one of the best defences against malware is regular tested backups at a frequent enough interval that file encryptors and the like can't make the loss of data too damaging.
It also lives on in many scientific instruments. An old mass spec that runs XP (or even older. I regularly maintain X Ray diffraction machines that still run DOS) usually can still do the day to day job just fine. The software usually hasn't been supported for many years and won't run on anything newer. But replacing the instrument could cost a large amount of money (250K or up in many cases).
Research budgets aren't growing and I work for a university in a state that can't pass a budget. We just don't have the money to throw out older systems that work well just because the software is outdated. We just take them off the network and use other means to get the data transferred off of them.
Indeed. But, you miss the really important stakeholder here. Pearson, Wiley, Cengage, etc.
A lecture is created and delivered by the professor. Thus, it can be used in any way they see fit (modulo blanking any copyrighted material in the slides they project and whatnot.)
But, a slick commercial video. Now that can be copyrighted by Pearson or whichever publishing giant. They can charge for it repeatedly, have it play only on a locked down DRM filled player and revoke the student's access at the end of the semester. Why, it's almost like the German book I bought that has much of the content and all of the exercises online behind paywalls and will likely expire before I get the chance to take the second semester that it covers. This is enough to make a marketer drool.
This seems to me to be opening the door to even more of the monetization of teaching at the college level by book/info dealers. This has become a game for the publishers to extract yet more dollars from our students.
I'm a fan of the traditional lecture. I tend to learn well in them. Obviously, YMMV, but anyone who tries to foist off a series called "The Quantum Field Theory Universe" in the style of "The Mechanical Universe" should be beaten mercilessly with chalkboard erasers!