The MP's will move onto the WIFI protected with client certificates that the EU IT infrastructure will be deploying. For the public, indefinitely probably means permanently.
It's the wet dream of a very small minority. The vast majority of internet do not want TOR baked into their internet enabled devices. The Internet is much more than a bunch of guys at educational facilities with little/no restrictions on their use vast amounts of bandwidth and very little idea of how much it costs.
TOR does not pass the sniff test at any business I have ever worked with and almost all home users balk at having the uplink that they are paying for monopolized by traffic from around the globe.
No, they never said that their tests were validated by a doctor, that's a red herring the FDA & you are attempting to throw in. At the price point they were selling it at, no-one with half a brain could conclude that results were validated by a doctor. To further your analogy, the FDA just outlawed a kit car because they concluded that no-one is capable of understanding that some assembly is required and that there is no legal market because no one beyond it's licensed practitioners knows how to do so correctly anyway.
As I have said otherwhere, Ars tech's take on the affair is more understandable: They were asked repeatedly for reliability stats on their tests & never answered. I would not buy a kit car unless I knew that one had been assembled according to the instructions & had been judged road worthy.
Riiiight, and we al think that the cheap test bought off the internet is a complete replacement for doctor ordered tests... The thing is that nobody would be able to self chemo or perform surgery on themselves so people, would need to go through an MD who would indeed screen using other tests which renders TFA's justifications ridiculous.
Having a cheap multi-target test would be good even if it does have a higher false positive/negative rate -- if, as an Ars technical article makes clearer, the company explains just what their error rates are.
My main point was that from the story & linked article, the FDA banned this inexpensive direct to consumers test for reasons that they do not use to ban existing, more expensive tests. An article at Ars states that the ban is because of a total lack of feedback by the company on the accuracy of their tests, something that isn't clear from either the story or TFA & could have been addressed by even a relatively small clinical trial.
The FDA states that false positives & false negatives are a major part of the reason that they are outlawing direct sales of these tests to consumers. Because a false positive on the breast cancer gene could lead to "prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, intensive screening, or other morbidity-inducing actions". Yeah, because Physicians using the existing tests never have false positives & even were there to be one, malpractice suits always punish doctors guilty of errors of interpretation...
Because you see, people would be performing surgery, chemo, etc all by themselves without the assistance of healthcare professionals alerted to the possible presence of a problem by one of these simple tests...
To my eyes, outlawing these tests is above all a defense of the existing expensive testing industry. We cannot have people having simple inexpensive tests. That would undercut profit margins.
There is truth in what you say but part of Putin's success is that among those who have abandoned socialism as the one true faith, he has convinced enough of them that only voting for him & eliminating all opposition is democracy.
You so insular that you do not see that your viewpoint is not universal. Seriously, go travel around the world. Spend some time in Russia (with an open mind & not just in the international hotels). You'll discover that for most russians honestly do see Putin as "the good guy" & the US as the bad guy internationally. I could take your post, replace all the US references with Russian ones & vice-versa and it would be exactly what I've heard from many in Russia.
Now this doesn't mean that I hold their viewpoint, only that they do.
Argue all you want about how much an elephant resembles a tree trunk, you clearly haven't seen enough of it to notice that other parts are different.
Putin, most Russian citizens & apparently Snowden maintain that he is the nec plus ultra in Democracy. See, he respects their constitution by not being President more than twice in a row & by continuing to follow all the parts of their constitution (that didn't bother him enough to have them removed by the rubber stamp Duma). Putin works hard to be seen as the "Good Guy", see? he even shelters that tireless worker for Democracy, Snowden.
Your original assertion re losing credibility is still bunk.
Really? They were tried? In which alternate reality? The USG may have decided that some of the Yemeni's are no longer dangerous enough to merit continued incarceration in Gitmo, but that's no trial & no "not guilty" verdict. They are still in Gitmo because we know that right after releasing them to Yemen they'd be sent to a firing squad (after a fair Yemeni trial) & Obama prefers keeping them to seeing them executed. If it was an easy problem to solve, Obama would have lived up his campaign promise & found a way to empty Gitmo.
So you're trying to say that Assange has abandoned what little credibility he has left by taking up literal arms & declaring that he will kill US citizens wherever/whenever he can? Good to know...
So-called freedom fighter Snowden goes willingly a country where reporters and others are assassinated for questioning president/prime minister/president/... Putin? This in a country where the there cannot be a scandal on how the government spies on its citizens/neighbors/allies because it's legal & considered normal?
You need a really perverted definition of liberty to be able to hold that opinion, coward.
So, Putin's assassination of Litvinenko (& Russia's subsequent loss of credibility) explains why Snowden couldn't possibly be hiding in Moscow? Oh, wait...
Yeah, loosing credibility was the reason Stalin refused to have Trotsky killed once he killed off all his sons & chased him from Russia. It's also the reason that Putin refused to have Litvinenko poisoned with Polonium. Because, you know if either of these had occurred (but especially the second) that would have precluded anyone supposedly working for freedom to request asylum there...
I'm not calling for snowden's assassination but "loosing credibility" is a farcical reason for not doing it.
It's not theft until it is an act defined as theft in the lawbooks! It's not a crime to follow the laws as they are written. If you want to outlaw the practice, then change the law.
If it is your position that you get to define what is & what isn't legal without using the law well then so does everyone else. It becomes normal for me to call you a rapist whether or not you have committed acts prohibited by law for example.
I'd be extremely surprised if it was Tax Evasion as Apple has very competent lawyers and accountants and the methods employed are clearly legal according to the laws as they stand. If Italy changes their laws to make the Double Irish illegal & Apple still tried to tunnel their profits out of Italy using it, then it would be illegal.
Every single state in the EU has refused to outlaw the strategy Apple, Google, Starbucks, etc are using because unless they all change at the same time, the countries that outlaw it would be at a competitive disadvantage. EU politicians need to grow some stones and work out a plan for outlawing the practice globally in the EU or stop whining when the laws they write are followed as they are written.
Really? FLOATING wind turbines are a proven technology? Well then, I suppose that given that this is the first floating deep water wind turbine that your assurances are all we need to know that all the major bugs have been worked out.
Riiighht. The Internet will be balkanised because the US is only govt doing this & there is no cooperation between the intelligence agencies. Hey, it's not like the Communications that the French govt was complaining about was collected by the DGSE & then passed onto the NSA as the price for the USA deploying drone assets to Mali, or that the Germans perform "legal" surveillance of their population secretly or that the Brazilians spy on diplomats or...
Government heads are protesting much too loudly about NSA practices that they already knew about & that they themselves indulge in. I smell grandstanding to internal audiences & my prediction is that will be little long term effect.
Excuse me, I have asthma. And this bullshit about "particulate" count is just that, bullshit. The reason wood burning stoves are being banned in municipalities is because some people don't like the smell of burning wood, or the lingering smoke
Your whole post is complete and utter bullshit. Wood smoke is the single largest source of PM air pollution in the Bay Area in the winter, and had been for decades (yes, more than cars). You didn't cite a single source in your post because you can't.
For someone complaining about bullshit & lack of references, you are remarkably full of the former and totally empty of the latter. Which Bay Area are you talking about? San Francisco? Green Bay? Hudson Bay? Clearly the impact of wood stoves & importing fossil fuels is going to be different as the GOP stated.
At an eco-system level, burning wood is better for the environment than the total pollution from extraction,refining, and transport, of natural gas and propane.
Holy shit, that's so untrue it's mind boggling. If you want to compare current gas use vs current wood use, sure, but if you were to replace gas with wood YOU SAID SO YOURSELF we'd look like a polluted Chinese city (probably worse). So, what a horrible false analogy!
My you boggle easily... Tell me mr energy company shill, how can gas/oil which need hundreds of people & needs to be transported from (generally) thousands of miles away with a commensurately enormous footprint compare to me getting a cord from a local wood lot? Note that you cannot even assume that I am using fossil fuels to either cut down or transport the wood. Some of us enjoy the effort in doing these tasks manually and do not have to go more than a few hundred feet to go from home to wood lot.
The air quality in many cities is already too low; So ostensibly, we have to reduce it any way we can, not for environmental reasons per-se, but quality of life. Cars stink. And burning wood would just make the cities stink that much more.
Another awful misconception! You think the only problem with air quality is the smell? Seriously?? How on earth is "quality of life" from *breathing* not an environmental issue? As an anecdote (that I mentioned in another thread) about 5 years ago there were major fires south of the Bay Area, CA that resulted in some horrible air quality (sort of like a lot of people burning wood). It's the first time in my life I had asthma, and I was freaked out and went to the doctor. She said she had seen a bunch of cases of people who had it for the first time because of massive amount of wood smoke coming from the fires that year. Not surprisingly, I have never had it again.
So, yeah, sure, replace all of the natural gas heat with wood stoves, and see what that does for "quality of life"...
Why don't we wait until gas companies gets around to adding service to every community before outlawing the wood stoves that have been used for generations. What, you never actually thought about these people because you, in your urban cocoon consider that what is best for you in your situation applies globally? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
Your problems with asthma are more related to the fact that you were brought up in an ascepticized environment (as an article in today's NYT details comparing Amish with urban dwellers details). You would have been been better off if you mother had dipped you in bullshit. It might even have cured you of your tendency to over generalize & exaggerate.
Please go read TFA. Congestion control is part of the proposed protocol & not all transport needs the dual three way handshake and round trip latency that TCP imposes - sequence numbers & congestion control look to be more than enough for some.
to the twit moderator who labeled my post overrated: Really? Actually wanting to remunerate the artists better & not the record companies is overrated? Are you a record company exec or do you just DL Miley Cyrus & Selena Gomez from the Pirate bay?
He has a better chance of getting elected the President of Russia than either the US or the EU parliament. He's not enough of a politician for the latter two but the Russians seem to appreciate ex spooks.
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The MP's will move onto the WIFI protected with client certificates that the EU IT infrastructure will be deploying. For the public, indefinitely probably means permanently.
It's the wet dream of a very small minority. The vast majority of internet do not want TOR baked into their internet enabled devices. The Internet is much more than a bunch of guys at educational facilities with little/no restrictions on their use vast amounts of bandwidth and very little idea of how much it costs.
TOR does not pass the sniff test at any business I have ever worked with and almost all home users balk at having the uplink that they are paying for monopolized by traffic from around the globe.
No, they never said that their tests were validated by a doctor, that's a red herring the FDA & you are attempting to throw in.
At the price point they were selling it at, no-one with half a brain could conclude that results were validated by a doctor. To further your analogy, the FDA just outlawed a kit car because they concluded that no-one is capable of understanding that some assembly is required and that there is no legal market because no one beyond it's licensed practitioners knows how to do so correctly anyway.
As I have said otherwhere, Ars tech's take on the affair is more understandable: They were asked repeatedly for reliability stats on their tests & never answered. I would not buy a kit car unless I knew that one had been assembled according to the instructions & had been judged road worthy.
Riiiight, and we al think that the cheap test bought off the internet is a complete replacement for doctor ordered tests... The thing is that nobody would be able to self chemo or perform surgery on themselves so people, would need to go through an MD who would indeed screen using other tests which renders TFA's justifications ridiculous.
Having a cheap multi-target test would be good even if it does have a higher false positive/negative rate -- if, as an Ars technical article makes clearer, the company explains just what their error rates are.
My main point was that from the story & linked article, the FDA banned this inexpensive direct to consumers test for reasons that they do not use to ban existing, more expensive tests. An article at Ars states that the ban is because of a total lack of feedback by the company on the accuracy of their tests, something that isn't clear from either the story or TFA & could have been addressed by even a relatively small clinical trial.
The FDA states that false positives & false negatives are a major part of the reason that they are outlawing direct sales of these tests to consumers. Because a false positive on the breast cancer gene could lead to "prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, intensive screening, or other morbidity-inducing actions". Yeah, because Physicians using the existing tests never have false positives & even were there to be one, malpractice suits always punish doctors guilty of errors of interpretation...
Because you see, people would be performing surgery, chemo, etc all by themselves without the assistance of healthcare professionals alerted to the possible presence of a problem by one of these simple tests...
To my eyes, outlawing these tests is above all a defense of the existing expensive testing industry. We cannot have people having simple inexpensive tests. That would undercut profit margins.
Isn't hindsight wonderful that way?
I'm more convinced by my conversations with Russians, in Russia, than I am by what you think they think.
There is truth in what you say but part of Putin's success is that among those who have abandoned socialism as the one true faith, he has convinced enough of them that only voting for him & eliminating all opposition is democracy.
You so insular that you do not see that your viewpoint is not universal. Seriously, go travel around the world. Spend some time in Russia (with an open mind & not just in the international hotels). You'll discover that for most russians honestly do see Putin as "the good guy" & the US as the bad guy internationally. I could take your post, replace all the US references with Russian ones & vice-versa and it would be exactly what I've heard from many in Russia.
Now this doesn't mean that I hold their viewpoint, only that they do.
Argue all you want about how much an elephant resembles a tree trunk, you clearly haven't seen enough of it to notice that other parts are different.
Putin, most Russian citizens & apparently Snowden maintain that he is the nec plus ultra in Democracy. See, he respects their constitution by not being President more than twice in a row & by continuing to follow all the parts of their constitution (that didn't bother him enough to have them removed by the rubber stamp Duma). Putin works hard to be seen as the "Good Guy", see? he even shelters that tireless worker for Democracy, Snowden.
Your original assertion re losing credibility is still bunk.
Really? They were tried? In which alternate reality? The USG may have decided that some of the Yemeni's are no longer dangerous enough to merit continued incarceration in Gitmo, but that's no trial & no "not guilty" verdict. They are still in Gitmo because we know that right after releasing them to Yemen they'd be sent to a firing squad (after a fair Yemeni trial) & Obama prefers keeping them to seeing them executed. If it was an easy problem to solve, Obama would have lived up his campaign promise & found a way to empty Gitmo.
So you're trying to say that Assange has abandoned what little credibility he has left by taking up literal arms & declaring that he will kill US citizens wherever/whenever he can? Good to know...
So-called freedom fighter Snowden goes willingly a country where reporters and others are assassinated for questioning president/prime minister/president/... Putin? This in a country where the there cannot be a scandal on how the government spies on its citizens/neighbors/allies because it's legal & considered normal?
You need a really perverted definition of liberty to be able to hold that opinion, coward.
So, Putin's assassination of Litvinenko (& Russia's subsequent loss of credibility) explains why Snowden couldn't possibly be hiding in Moscow? Oh, wait...
Give it a week or two & it'll show up on /.
Yeah, loosing credibility was the reason Stalin refused to have Trotsky killed once he killed off all his sons & chased him from Russia. It's also the reason that Putin refused to have Litvinenko poisoned with Polonium. Because, you know if either of these had occurred (but especially the second) that would have precluded anyone supposedly working for freedom to request asylum there...
I'm not calling for snowden's assassination but "loosing credibility" is a farcical reason for not doing it.
It's not theft until it is an act defined as theft in the lawbooks! It's not a crime to follow the laws as they are written. If you want to outlaw the practice, then change the law.
If it is your position that you get to define what is & what isn't legal without using the law well then so does everyone else. It becomes normal for me to call you a rapist whether or not you have committed acts prohibited by law for example.
I'd be extremely surprised if it was Tax Evasion as Apple has very competent lawyers and accountants and the methods employed are clearly legal according to the laws as they stand. If Italy changes their laws to make the Double Irish illegal & Apple still tried to tunnel their profits out of Italy using it, then it would be illegal.
Every single state in the EU has refused to outlaw the strategy Apple, Google, Starbucks, etc are using because unless they all change at the same time, the countries that outlaw it would be at a competitive disadvantage. EU politicians need to grow some stones and work out a plan for outlawing the practice globally in the EU or stop whining when the laws they write are followed as they are written.
Really? FLOATING wind turbines are a proven technology? Well then, I suppose that given that this is the first floating deep water wind turbine that your assurances are all we need to know that all the major bugs have been worked out.
Riiighht. The Internet will be balkanised because the US is only govt doing this & there is no cooperation between the intelligence agencies. Hey, it's not like the Communications that the French govt was complaining about was collected by the DGSE & then passed onto the NSA as the price for the USA deploying drone assets to Mali, or that the Germans perform "legal" surveillance of their population secretly or that the Brazilians spy on diplomats or ...
Government heads are protesting much too loudly about NSA practices that they already knew about & that they themselves indulge in. I smell grandstanding to internal audiences & my prediction is that will be little long term effect.
Excuse me, I have asthma. And this bullshit about "particulate" count is just that, bullshit. The reason wood burning stoves are being banned in municipalities is because some people don't like the smell of burning wood, or the lingering smoke
Your whole post is complete and utter bullshit. Wood smoke is the single largest source of PM air pollution in the Bay Area in the winter, and had been for decades (yes, more than cars). You didn't cite a single source in your post because you can't.
For someone complaining about bullshit & lack of references, you are remarkably full of the former and totally empty of the latter. Which Bay Area are you talking about? San Francisco? Green Bay? Hudson Bay? Clearly the impact of wood stoves & importing fossil fuels is going to be different as the GOP stated.
At an eco-system level, burning wood is better for the environment than the total pollution from extraction,refining, and transport, of natural gas and propane.
Holy shit, that's so untrue it's mind boggling. If you want to compare current gas use vs current wood use, sure, but if you were to replace gas with wood YOU SAID SO YOURSELF we'd look like a polluted Chinese city (probably worse). So, what a horrible false analogy!
My you boggle easily... Tell me mr energy company shill, how can gas/oil which need hundreds of people & needs to be transported from (generally) thousands of miles away with a commensurately enormous footprint compare to me getting a cord from a local wood lot? Note that you cannot even assume that I am using fossil fuels to either cut down or transport the wood. Some of us enjoy the effort in doing these tasks manually and do not have to go more than a few hundred feet to go from home to wood lot.
The air quality in many cities is already too low; So ostensibly, we have to reduce it any way we can, not for environmental reasons per-se, but quality of life. Cars stink. And burning wood would just make the cities stink that much more.
Another awful misconception! You think the only problem with air quality is the smell? Seriously?? How on earth is "quality of life" from *breathing* not an environmental issue? As an anecdote (that I mentioned in another thread) about 5 years ago there were major fires south of the Bay Area, CA that resulted in some horrible air quality (sort of like a lot of people burning wood). It's the first time in my life I had asthma, and I was freaked out and went to the doctor. She said she had seen a bunch of cases of people who had it for the first time because of massive amount of wood smoke coming from the fires that year. Not surprisingly, I have never had it again.
So, yeah, sure, replace all of the natural gas heat with wood stoves, and see what that does for "quality of life"...
Why don't we wait until gas companies gets around to adding service to every community before outlawing the wood stoves that have been used for generations. What, you never actually thought about these people because you, in your urban cocoon consider that what is best for you in your situation applies globally? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
Your problems with asthma are more related to the fact that you were brought up in an ascepticized environment (as an article in today's NYT details comparing Amish with urban dwellers details). You would have been been better off if you mother had dipped you in bullshit. It might even have cured you of your tendency to over generalize & exaggerate.
Please go read TFA. Congestion control is part of the proposed protocol & not all transport needs the dual three way handshake and round trip latency that TCP imposes - sequence numbers & congestion control look to be more than enough for some.
to the twit moderator who labeled my post overrated: Really? Actually wanting to remunerate the artists better & not the record companies is overrated? Are you a record company exec or do you just DL Miley Cyrus & Selena Gomez from the Pirate bay?
He has a better chance of getting elected the President of Russia than either the US or the EU parliament. He's not enough of a politician for the latter two but the Russians seem to appreciate ex spooks.