I've actually taken these 911 calls at my work place, I suppose I should have said so earlier. Generally other people in the room with me are dialing the town ambulance and calling our site EMT on the radio within seconds of the phone call. After that we call security to escort the ambulance in. In other words, I've been the one and only layer of 'bureaucracy' between a patient and off site assistance. Neither I nor my peers screw around, and if our phone calls ever cost the company money, no one ever mentions it to us- and they wouldn't get a good response if they did. It's unfortunate that things are worse at your site. It baffles me that anyone at a site large enough to justify on-site EMTs would quibble about a few grand for an ambulance call. We don't.
How about "Call 911 AND Security", or is that too complicated? Call 911 and provide the nature of the emergency and facility address, then call Security and tell them the same and whatever specifics they need.
Name one large site that does it this way, and maybe we can talk. The fact is that you, at the scene, will not be in a position to escort outside EMTs to that location. Security will be the group coordinating with the outside EMTs, so let them coordinate with the outside EMTs.
You don't call 911 because at large and complex sites, other employees are required to guide emergency services in to the particular location of the injured or ill person. In addition, these sites- as the summary suggests- have their own EMTs in order to bridge the extra time required for the Ambulance to arrive.
It's not some sleazy cost saving measure. Security calls 911 right after they send the site EMT to the scene, and then they send another employee to bring the Ambulance crew to the right spot. Why would you think you could call the city EMTs and adequately describe, (for a 500,000 sq ft + facitlity), the correct location and entrance to use? And what makes you think the dispatcher could then accurately relay this information to the Ambulance EMTs/Paramedics ?
Assuming the project isn't essentially fraudulent, and is technically feasible- why? It would have worse performance than inductive charging and would require a specific alignment of an extra peripheral towards the sound source.
Anyway, there's another link in the article to a take-down of the product that goes over basic physics and sound level safety requirements that suggest this project is fraudulent. One thing you do see in there, however, is talk about Ubeam's 25 year old CEO, Meredith Perry. A google search quickly reveals she's an attractive young lady.
Quite frankly I think she's a huckster, and is using her charisma, beauty, and the latest 'women in tech' craze to bilk a few investors who have money to blow. Sure, there might be a few engineers performing 'research'- fiddling with components and actually transmitting power with ultrasound in a carefully controlled and isolated environment. Their function is to provide Ms. Perry with legal cover. They'll do work obstinately in the relevant line of investigation, while knowing full well that the final finished product can never be delivered for a variety of reasons. They'll issue reports saying 'the next obstacle to overcome is....' knowing that obstacle is insurmountable. And the entire time, Ms. Perry will be collecting an excellent salary for a 25 year old, and may even get bought out by some fool.
When I'm working around live wires I will frequently test the circuit, trip the breaker and then re-test the circuit just to be sure. And even after all that I still will occasionally brush wires to frame to make sure I haven't over looked something. I'll readily admit to a bit of irrationality where all that is concerned.
That said I can't imagine buttoning up all that Rube Goldberg contraption, transporting and then setting it to armed without a lot of trepidation that it would just go boom. Maybe the tilt mechanism got stuck in the contact position, maybe there was a short somewhere, maybe maybe maybe.
I'm really curious what his heart rate was the second he threw the switch. Did he have 100% confidence in the design or did he flinch.
He might have set up a series of latching 'fail-on' and 'fail-off' relays to ensure that the last switch could arm the bomb, but would not cause detonation. The article reports that the box made some noises; perhaps he set it up so that arming the bomb resulted in a certain noise that would confirm it would work.
He might also have performed continuity and voltage checks before screwing on the last booby-trapped panel. He certainly took some time in the hotel room to get it properly set up.
I would rather add the additional support and funding necessary to provide photo ID's necessary- including sending advanced teams necessary to help secure birth certificates and ancillary documentation- than allow continued voting without ID.
In the presence of such additional support, would you still contend that it's racist to require photo ID? And on what basis would you make that claim? "These people are too incompetent to secure a photo ID despite being offered all the documentation & processing assistance we can provide.... but we want to make sure they vote anyway."
Case in point, I just checked my own health plan's website, and if I wanted to go on Truvada, it would cost me $1762.61 for a 90-day supply.
Rounding to make the math simple... $600 a month is a car payment, for a fairly expensive car. In some places, that could be an entire rent check or even mortgage payment. That's overtly extortionate for a life-saving preventative treatment. And I, at least, would have *some* coverage for it. According to drugs.com, retail pricing runs about $1500 per 30-days. That rises up to a C. Montgomery Burns level of inhumanity.
How much did the drug cost to develop? How big is the market for this drug? And aren't those relevant questions to ask and answer before you start accusing some folks of being cartoonishly evil?
A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning, and sweet Jesus, the candidates that the Republicans are putting up are terrifying.
Have you considered that you've bought a line of bulsh*t the mostly Democratic media has been feeding you? They're not journalists, they are party operatives with bylines. Sadly for the republic, they're very effective.
This graph explains very clearly how far away we are, and why it is taking so long. The reality is, with all the cheap coal (and natural gas), it's just not a priority. Besides, environmentalists hate nuclear so it's not a political winner to fund it. This story is good, too.
That looks like a graph that says 'fusion researchers want more money.' I want more money, too. If I go to the source report, will it tell me: 1) the technical challenges they face? 2) if they're engineering problems requiring great expenditures? 3) If they're scientific research problems with uncertain outcomes? 4) If the research for a #3 problem involves a massive #2 effort?
Why not crack down on the causes of crime, rather than encouraging crime so we have excuses to throw so many in jail and run around armed for our own safety?
The root causes of crime? Poverty, misery and violence is the default human condition. You might as well crack down on the root cause of falling to the earth. What you ought to be interested in spreading is the 'root causes' of peace, prosperity and cooperation. That means spreading a constructive culture, and having pride and confidence in that culture.
There was an article about the founder's cockamamie personal habits, such as ordering new clothes from China constantly (and never washing anything) as well as other eccentric behavior. Lead poisoning might explain it.
Obesity is always caused by shoveling more food into your mouth than you can digest..
Not exactly. Generally, it's the excessive consumption of easily digested carbohydrates, which trigger an insulin response that causes and maintains the excessive accumulation of fat tissue.
I highly recommend a book by Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat (and what to do about it.)
I can't do it justice, but I'll paraphrase a point he made: We give the same advice to someone looking to work up an appetite for a sumptuous dinner as we give to someone looking to lose wait. Consequently, any diet that doesn't allow someone to eat until they're satisfied is doomed to failure. So you need to change what you eat, eat until your hunger is satisfied, and then you can lose weight.
Where in the various treaties negotiated in the recent past has a "blind trust" as you term it, been an essential part? Seriously, you'd cast out all forms of diplomacy as being too trusting, and instead prefer war? Have you ever been in a war? Have you ever seen civilians killed because they had the misfortune of living nearby a perceived threat? If you had, then I believe that you would (eventually) prefer a flawed diplomacy to what promoters of war would profess to be the perfect solution.
There are other options besides this crap deal and war. But neither Obama nor you want to talk about them, because they'd make the president look like the fool* he is.
... just don't assume the people already trying are stupid. This is a legitimately difficult issue.
A big thing that this coding concept doesn't quite grasp is that the "hackers" are sitting there f'ing with your code AS you write it.
And you can't just fork the code if you have a disagreement with them.
The trick is to think ahead 10 moves and put something in the system that will seem meaningless initially but which at a later juncture will trigger and deal a savage blow to hackers.
Clever buried tricks in the law are irrelevant when the rule of law itself is being tossed aside, as we see with the current administration. Don't try to be clever. Try to be principled, and then defend those principles.
It's single stream that's bad, not 'capitalism.' My town has a drop-off only transfer station, no pickup. Residents sort their profitable recyclables* into several large bins. The revenue from these high-quality, high-profit recyclables usually pays for the tipping fees on the trash (which includes non-profitable 'recyclables'). Town tax revenue is still required to pay for the facility upkeep and the people.
Of course, what works in a small bedroom community might not work as well in a dense metro area.
*glass (actually costs money to get rid of, but less than garbage), tin & steel cans, Aluminum cans, #2 colored plastic, #2 undyed plastic, #1 mixed plastic, newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard.)
I'm more concerned about the vessel steel problems mentioned in the article. If faulty, the vessel head could be replaced (at great expense), and the reactor vessel itself can be replaced during the construction phase (at even greater expense). I would hate to see the project put at risk over the issue.
Unfortunately, the articles are either vague or alarmist, so it's hard to be sure how serious of a problem it is. Being familiar with the nuclear industry, the 'problem' might be something like this:
1) Carbon content for the steel has been analyzed and tested as satisfactory between 0.50% and 1.25%. 2) Inspection reveals the carbon content at these two spots is 1.26%, outside the analyzed range. 3) New analysis and coupon testing is necessary to determine if 1.26% is safe.
It could even be general engineering knowledge that the steel is sufficient up to 2.00%, but since the properly documented analysis and tests haven't been done to that level, it doesn't count.
(I am not a metallurgist and my numbers are entirely made up)
Doctors don't like the move to electronic records because it threatens the medical cartel. They see only too well what the Internet has done for Fungibility Of Things.
.....because greed and racism are the only reasons someone would dare disagree with Obama and Democratic party decrees.
His message is that he wants the government to limit your ability to engage in free speech.
There's a constant and deliberate conflation of money and speech going on in this country. They are not equivalent to each other.
It's a lot easier to be heard when you have money. You know it, I know it. What Mayday pac and their friends want is to shut down voices that aren't sufficiently obedient to the left. Incidentally, you stop hearing about the evils of money in politics for a while whenever Tom Steyer or Tim Cook opens his mouth, but as soon as another two-minute hate of the Koch brothers is invented, it's all over the headlines again.
...how many systems let you try new passwords ad-infinitum, rapidly? I know back when I was in college I could brute force Windows shared folders (script kiddie style), but nowadays I'd expect any semi-serious authentication system to limit the number and frequency of login attempts.
I am not an IT professional engaging in rhetoric; I'm actually curious.
Like the operators of Enron decided it was too much trouble to keep their electric plants running in California, so they'd shut them down for spurious reasons, and then make a killing on selling outside power to the state?
Yeah, don't believe the nuclear industry BS where they whine about government oppression, the power companies would shut all the country's nuclear reactors down and extract money in other ways if they could. But see, they got caught up in their advertising about nuclear power being cheap, so their profit ratios couldn't be too high, and so they need somewhere to sink costs. Thankfully for them, blaming the government is ALWAYS popular.
The reason the FBI isn't doing more to combat revenge porn is thus: It's not illegal. I would expect Franken, or at least someone who works for him, to know this. Perhaps he just wants it declared illegal by executive fiat, as is the practice with this administration. But really, this ploy, and Slashdot's new social-justice-warrior driven coverage of it, is driven more by a desire to distract everyone from foreign events, Hillary's email server, and Obama's frequent and blatant power grabs. That's actually kind of funny, now that I think of it. There's been no story posted at all about Clinton's email shenanigans. Well, we know who Dice has thrown their lot in with.
I just hate it when U.S. companies have to barge into Canada and throw perfectly good brands in the Recycle Bin like that. Our country is too Americanized. But I too am shocked that they allowed this redundancy to last so long, plus how abrupt it was.
Thank you for perpetuating the old joke that the Canadian national identity is based on Maple Syrup, Hockey, and 'not being America.'
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I've actually taken these 911 calls at my work place, I suppose I should have said so earlier. Generally other people in the room with me are dialing the town ambulance and calling our site EMT on the radio within seconds of the phone call. After that we call security to escort the ambulance in.
In other words, I've been the one and only layer of 'bureaucracy' between a patient and off site assistance. Neither I nor my peers screw around, and if our phone calls ever cost the company money, no one ever mentions it to us- and they wouldn't get a good response if they did.
It's unfortunate that things are worse at your site. It baffles me that anyone at a site large enough to justify on-site EMTs would quibble about a few grand for an ambulance call. We don't.
How about "Call 911 AND Security", or is that too complicated? Call 911 and provide the nature of the emergency and facility address, then call Security and tell them the same and whatever specifics they need.
Name one large site that does it this way, and maybe we can talk. The fact is that you, at the scene, will not be in a position to escort outside EMTs to that location. Security will be the group coordinating with the outside EMTs, so let them coordinate with the outside EMTs.
You don't call 911 because at large and complex sites, other employees are required to guide emergency services in to the particular location of the injured or ill person. In addition, these sites- as the summary suggests- have their own EMTs in order to bridge the extra time required for the Ambulance to arrive.
It's not some sleazy cost saving measure.
Security calls 911 right after they send the site EMT to the scene, and then they send another employee to bring the Ambulance crew to the right spot. Why would you think you could call the city EMTs and adequately describe, (for a 500,000 sq ft + facitlity), the correct location and entrance to use? And what makes you think the dispatcher could then accurately relay this information to the Ambulance EMTs/Paramedics ?
I realize I used 'obstinately' when I meant 'ostensibly.' oops
Assuming the project isn't essentially fraudulent, and is technically feasible- why? It would have worse performance than inductive charging and would require a specific alignment of an extra peripheral towards the sound source.
Anyway, there's another link in the article to a take-down of the product that goes over basic physics and sound level safety requirements that suggest this project is fraudulent. One thing you do see in there, however, is talk about Ubeam's 25 year old CEO, Meredith Perry. A google search quickly reveals she's an attractive young lady.
Quite frankly I think she's a huckster, and is using her charisma, beauty, and the latest 'women in tech' craze to bilk a few investors who have money to blow. Sure, there might be a few engineers performing 'research'- fiddling with components and actually transmitting power with ultrasound in a carefully controlled and isolated environment. Their function is to provide Ms. Perry with legal cover. They'll do work obstinately in the relevant line of investigation, while knowing full well that the final finished product can never be delivered for a variety of reasons. They'll issue reports saying 'the next obstacle to overcome is....' knowing that obstacle is insurmountable. And the entire time, Ms. Perry will be collecting an excellent salary for a 25 year old, and may even get bought out by some fool.
...A box truck is it's own special kind of sad. You can get a serviceable RV for under the $10,000 he spent.
When I'm working around live wires I will frequently test the circuit, trip the breaker and then re-test the circuit just to be sure. And even after all that I still will occasionally brush wires to frame to make sure I haven't over looked something. I'll readily admit to a bit of irrationality where all that is concerned.
That said I can't imagine buttoning up all that Rube Goldberg contraption, transporting and then setting it to armed without a lot of trepidation that it would just go boom. Maybe the tilt mechanism got stuck in the contact position, maybe there was a short somewhere, maybe maybe maybe.
I'm really curious what his heart rate was the second he threw the switch. Did he have 100% confidence in the design or did he flinch.
He might have set up a series of latching 'fail-on' and 'fail-off' relays to ensure that the last switch could arm the bomb, but would not cause detonation. The article reports that the box made some noises; perhaps he set it up so that arming the bomb resulted in a certain noise that would confirm it would work.
He might also have performed continuity and voltage checks before screwing on the last booby-trapped panel. He certainly took some time in the hotel room to get it properly set up.
I would rather add the additional support and funding necessary to provide photo ID's necessary- including sending advanced teams necessary to help secure birth certificates and ancillary documentation- than allow continued voting without ID.
In the presence of such additional support, would you still contend that it's racist to require photo ID? And on what basis would you make that claim?
"These people are too incompetent to secure a photo ID despite being offered all the documentation & processing assistance we can provide.... but we want to make sure they vote anyway."
Case in point, I just checked my own health plan's website, and if I wanted to go on Truvada, it would cost me $1762.61 for a 90-day supply.
Rounding to make the math simple... $600 a month is a car payment, for a fairly expensive car. In some places, that could be an entire rent check or even mortgage payment. That's overtly extortionate for a life-saving preventative treatment. And I, at least, would have *some* coverage for it. According to drugs.com, retail pricing runs about $1500 per 30-days. That rises up to a C. Montgomery Burns level of inhumanity.
How much did the drug cost to develop? How big is the market for this drug? And aren't those relevant questions to ask and answer before you start accusing some folks of being cartoonishly evil?
A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning, and sweet Jesus, the candidates that the Republicans are putting up are terrifying.
Have you considered that you've bought a line of bulsh*t the mostly Democratic media has been feeding you? They're not journalists, they are party operatives with bylines. Sadly for the republic, they're very effective.
This graph explains very clearly how far away we are, and why it is taking so long. The reality is, with all the cheap coal (and natural gas), it's just not a priority. Besides, environmentalists hate nuclear so it's not a political winner to fund it. This story is good, too.
That looks like a graph that says 'fusion researchers want more money.' I want more money, too.
If I go to the source report, will it tell me:
1) the technical challenges they face?
2) if they're engineering problems requiring great expenditures?
3) If they're scientific research problems with uncertain outcomes?
4) If the research for a #3 problem involves a massive #2 effort?
Why not crack down on the causes of crime, rather than encouraging crime so we have excuses to throw so many in jail and run around armed for our own safety?
The root causes of crime? Poverty, misery and violence is the default human condition. You might as well crack down on the root cause of falling to the earth.
What you ought to be interested in spreading is the 'root causes' of peace, prosperity and cooperation. That means spreading a constructive culture, and having pride and confidence in that culture.
There was an article about the founder's cockamamie personal habits, such as ordering new clothes from China constantly (and never washing anything) as well as other eccentric behavior.
Lead poisoning might explain it.
Obesity is always caused by shoveling more food into your mouth than you can digest. .
Not exactly. Generally, it's the excessive consumption of easily digested carbohydrates, which trigger an insulin response that causes and maintains the excessive accumulation of fat tissue.
I highly recommend a book by Gary Taubes, Why We Get Fat (and what to do about it.)
I can't do it justice, but I'll paraphrase a point he made:
We give the same advice to someone looking to work up an appetite for a sumptuous dinner as we give to someone looking to lose wait. Consequently, any diet that doesn't allow someone to eat until they're satisfied is doomed to failure. So you need to change what you eat, eat until your hunger is satisfied, and then you can lose weight.
Where in the various treaties negotiated in the recent past has a "blind trust" as you term it, been an essential part? Seriously, you'd cast out all forms of diplomacy as being too trusting, and instead prefer war? Have you ever been in a war? Have you ever seen civilians killed because they had the misfortune of living nearby a perceived threat? If you had, then I believe that you would (eventually) prefer a flawed diplomacy to what promoters of war would profess to be the perfect solution.
There are other options besides this crap deal and war. But neither Obama nor you want to talk about them, because they'd make the president look like the fool* he is.
*and that's the most generous term applicable.
... just don't assume the people already trying are stupid. This is a legitimately difficult issue.
A big thing that this coding concept doesn't quite grasp is that the "hackers" are sitting there f'ing with your code AS you write it.
And you can't just fork the code if you have a disagreement with them.
The trick is to think ahead 10 moves and put something in the system that will seem meaningless initially but which at a later juncture will trigger and deal a savage blow to hackers.
Clever buried tricks in the law are irrelevant when the rule of law itself is being tossed aside, as we see with the current administration. Don't try to be clever. Try to be principled, and then defend those principles.
Guns do nothing on their own, so calling them 'gun deaths' is disingenuous, and allows you to ignore a multitude of other relevant factors.
It's single stream that's bad, not 'capitalism.'
My town has a drop-off only transfer station, no pickup. Residents sort their profitable recyclables* into several large bins. The revenue from these high-quality, high-profit recyclables usually pays for the tipping fees on the trash (which includes non-profitable 'recyclables'). Town tax revenue is still required to pay for the facility upkeep and the people.
Of course, what works in a small bedroom community might not work as well in a dense metro area.
*glass (actually costs money to get rid of, but less than garbage), tin & steel cans, Aluminum cans, #2 colored plastic, #2 undyed plastic, #1 mixed plastic, newspaper, mixed paper, corrugated cardboard.)
I'm more concerned about the vessel steel problems mentioned in the article. If faulty, the vessel head could be replaced (at great expense), and the reactor vessel itself can be replaced during the construction phase (at even greater expense). I would hate to see the project put at risk over the issue.
Unfortunately, the articles are either vague or alarmist, so it's hard to be sure how serious of a problem it is. Being familiar with the nuclear industry, the 'problem' might be something like this:
1) Carbon content for the steel has been analyzed and tested as satisfactory between 0.50% and 1.25%.
2) Inspection reveals the carbon content at these two spots is 1.26%, outside the analyzed range.
3) New analysis and coupon testing is necessary to determine if 1.26% is safe.
It could even be general engineering knowledge that the steel is sufficient up to 2.00%, but since the properly documented analysis and tests haven't been done to that level, it doesn't count.
(I am not a metallurgist and my numbers are entirely made up)
Doctors don't like the move to electronic records because it threatens the medical cartel. They see only too well what the Internet has done for Fungibility Of Things.
.....because greed and racism are the only reasons someone would dare disagree with Obama and Democratic party decrees.
His message is that he wants the government to limit your ability to engage in free speech.
There's a constant and deliberate conflation of money and speech going on in this country. They are not equivalent to each other.
It's a lot easier to be heard when you have money. You know it, I know it. What Mayday pac and their friends want is to shut down voices that aren't sufficiently obedient to the left.
Incidentally, you stop hearing about the evils of money in politics for a while whenever Tom Steyer or Tim Cook opens his mouth, but as soon as another two-minute hate of the Koch brothers is invented, it's all over the headlines again.
...how many systems let you try new passwords ad-infinitum, rapidly? I know back when I was in college I could brute force Windows shared folders (script kiddie style), but nowadays I'd expect any semi-serious authentication system to limit the number and frequency of login attempts.
I am not an IT professional engaging in rhetoric; I'm actually curious.
Like the operators of Enron decided it was too much trouble to keep their electric plants running in California, so they'd shut them down for spurious reasons, and then make a killing on selling outside power to the state?
Yeah, don't believe the nuclear industry BS where they whine about government oppression, the power companies would shut all the country's nuclear reactors down and extract money in other ways if they could. But see, they got caught up in their advertising about nuclear power being cheap, so their profit ratios couldn't be too high, and so they need somewhere to sink costs. Thankfully for them, blaming the government is ALWAYS popular.
Unless you're not rich and powerful, of course.
You know nothing about San Onofre.
The reason the FBI isn't doing more to combat revenge porn is thus: It's not illegal.
I would expect Franken, or at least someone who works for him, to know this. Perhaps he just wants it declared illegal by executive fiat, as is the practice with this administration.
But really, this ploy, and Slashdot's new social-justice-warrior driven coverage of it, is driven more by a desire to distract everyone from foreign events, Hillary's email server, and Obama's frequent and blatant power grabs.
That's actually kind of funny, now that I think of it. There's been no story posted at all about Clinton's email shenanigans. Well, we know who Dice has thrown their lot in with.
Actually no.
I just hate it when U.S. companies have to barge into Canada and throw perfectly good brands in the Recycle Bin like that. Our country is too Americanized. But I too am shocked that they allowed this redundancy to last so long, plus how abrupt it was.
Thank you for perpetuating the old joke that the Canadian national identity is based on Maple Syrup, Hockey, and 'not being America.'