Certainly the U.S. knows if it was a nuke thanks to our satellite systems; but the current regime may not wish to publicise such a failure of their anti-proliferation policy just before an election.
I think it depends on your perspective on how this will be interpreted politically. I think people that lean right will see this as a reason to vote republican as they traditionally are for big military and such and thus would be more likely to keep us safe. I think those that lean left will want to blame Bush for this happening during his administration so obviously we need a new leader. The question in my mind is how the swing voters would react. If this was really a nuclear bomb, I would guess it would overall be to Bush's advantage. Then again, I'm no expert and usually avoid talking politics whenever possible..
I thought Canada's health care was socialized also. If you were paralyzed or incurred any other health care expenses for an accident, isn't that already covered by the government? From a health care point of view I would think one would be covered. I guess you'd be screwed, though, from missed work and salery point of view. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
They've already made it plain they don't want third-party email account checkers
Could someone please show me where Google made it clear they specifically don't want 3rd party email account checkers? Did they announce this and I've missed it? Certainly a slashdot story yesterday claimed Google doesn't want them. Except for the person who submited the story, I have not seen any other proof to back this claim up.
First, I saw no other accounts of this happening to other people in any of the threads. I did read quite a few threads that said they had no such problem. GTray continues to work for me.
Second, assume this does happen, maybe its not intended to specifically block 3rd party apps. Perhaps its a side effect of them checking too frequently. It is known that the word verification check comes up after entering the wrong password about 5 times. Are these people using the wrong password?
Perhaps, Google doesn't like the way the 3rd party apps are interfacing with their system. Obviously, gmail's beta check has its own method to get email, it is likely more effcient than pulling down the html with each check. If this is the case, it may just be a matter of time before they give the specs on how they would prefer it done.
Anyway, my point is just because a word verification scheme is popping up for some users doesn't mean it is an attack on 3rd party apps like slashdot seems to say it is. There are many other possiblitites. Ever since Google announced it was going public, it's almost like people expect google to start going bad.
Amen, how difficult is it for people to think for themselves? Anyone here with a gmail account, probably most, can log in right now and see there is no word-identification script. Yet almost everyone in this story is focused on this very premis. My guess goes right along with yours. People using these 3rd party apps are checking so often, they're triggering a verification script of some sort. Perhaps because of a wrong password as you suggest.
Sure, it goes without saying, MS screwed up. The6y do all the time. No news there. Doesn't matter who's bug/fault it is, though. All that matters is there is a hole, the deveolpers knew of it, and they did nothing about it despite the fact they could if they chose to do so.
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Since the OS guys believe the OS solution is superior, would this not have been a good time to show it rather than sit on it for 2 years?
Who cares where the problem is, they knew for two years there was a hole - end of story. At this point, as a user, I'm expecting a secure browser, so fix it. Its tough to encourage people to use Mozilla saying its more secure, when a bug like this has been **known** for 2 years. This is nothing short of embarrassing and to argue otherwise is hiding your head in the sand. If the Mozilla guys knew about this all this time and decided to sit on it just because technically it was a problems with the OS, shame on them. They need to step up to the plate and watch out for their users (and their own reputation).
So we banish the "shell" protocol today. Who's to say Windows won't have another flaw in another protocol tomorrow?
Since the 'shell' protocol flaw has apparently been known for 2 years, it should have been 'banished' then. Same for any other protocol, if its known to be a security risk, work around it or banish it when its found to be flawed....not 2 years later.
Who cares if the API worked as advertised, they knew for two years there was a hole - end of story. Who cares who's fault it is. Fix it. Its tough encouraging people to use Mozilla because its more secure, when a bug like this has been **known** for 2 years. This is nothing short of embarrassing and to argue otherwise is hiding your head in the sand. If the Mozilla guys knew about this all this time and decided to sit on it just because technically it was a problems with the OS, shame on them. They need to step up to the plate and watch out for their users (and their own reputation).
Personally, I write opiates whenever I feel the situation is warrented and never give a thought to any sort of oversight or possible legal ramifications. If someone needes them, they need them. However, I do know a number of docs who are very concerned about this. I can't explain why, but its a real fear on their part.
Um, I'm not sure why this would be modded offtopic. I'm a doctor and work in hospitals quite a bit. This is a real problem. The human couriers are often paid little so competence is not the norm for many of these workers. There are often long delays gettin meds up to the floors as a result. Also, drug abuse or selling does occur among the staff and MDs despite many obsticals. Obviously, a robot has no interest in taking drugs for its own purposes so this is clearly a real advantange.
We have one of these things in one of the hospitals I work in routinely. So far its done a good job. I haven't heard any complaints yet. Plus, its surprisingly entertaining to jump back and forth in its path forcing it to try and find a route around you. this doesn't help expediency however:)
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I need pop too. I'm sure its only a matter of time before google either offers it or good programs evolve to pull mail off gmail like pop, such as the one below:
http://jaybe.org/info.htm
I've tried it. It works. Not as great as one I used for yahoo in the past, but well enough for now. My big problem with it right now, is it will only download the emails i've not read yet. The 'old' messages I read thru the web interface won't download, which won't work if I want to archive all my messages on my own computer too.
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My experience has been similar. For the most part, I've received 3 invites a week. This week I've received a total of nine to give away (all in the last 3 days), and I still have plently of people waiting at the doorstep for more. I'm half expecting to get somemore tonight....time will tell
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Correction:
I meant firefox 0.9!
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Perhaps because there is still interest in Mozilla? I continue to use it on my home computer because I personally like the integration. Everywhere else I use Firefox.
I just upgrade to 1.7 from 1.5 and I have to say I'm very impressed with the difference. This version is much more responsive and very quick in comparsion to 1.5. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between Mozilla 1.7 and firefox 1.9 on this computer if I was blinded, and I never thought I'd be saying that
As someone who uses yahoo mail occasionally (mostly for throw away email addresses) and now uses gmail, I think google's email will be considered far better than yahoo's once it is publically available. I'm curious to know if you've had a chance to use gmail and still feel yahoo is better.
I'm with you. I almost exclusively use firefox or mozilla, but practically speaking IE works well enough so there is little incentive to switch. Firefox/mozilla indeed has some nifty features IE sorely lacks, but most people don't know the difference because they're not aware of the other options. Again, IE works, perhaps not the best, but well enough to keep most people searching for other options.
One other reason IE necessary on windows, the last time I checked anyway, it is the only browser that works with microsoft update. Try making your default browser mozilla and then going to windows update. Last time I did, it didn't work. It is for this reason, that I will not make mozilla or firebird the default browser on any windows machine. This would end up frustating most of the people I'm try to help/convert.
Please, people, read the comment you are replying to before responding.
Sure photovoltiacs are more efficient in raw conversion of solar energy. What about in their entire lifecycle? What about storage? I haven't seen an entire lifecycle analysis on either biodiesel or photovoltiacs, and we can't argue either way until one is done.
I believe I was wondering this same thing when I said the following:
perhaps the cost of maintaining an algae farm would be so much cheaper it could be worth it
Obviously efficiency is only one factor. An important factor but the big picture (mostly economics) is really all that ends up mattering.
As for infection, certainly, there would be a large number of farms which would have a sort of protective effect. However, once such an infectious agent would come about (nature or designed), I would imagine it would be extremely difficult to protect farms from intentional infection (ie. sabatoge/terrorism type of stuff).
I have to say, I was about to reply and ask where you came up with that number. I thought the efficiency was much higher than that in plants. Fortunately, I took time to check into it before I opened my big mouth, and you're right. Turns out sugar cane is about the most efficient plant at converting solar energy into chemical energy, and that is at 1% efficiency.
Having a major in biochem, I wanted to say the effiency is closer to 90%. Turns out I was thinking of the Calvin cycle.
So, I have to agree with your main point, solar cells would seem to make more sense. Perhaps algae are more efficient than plants? Or perhaps the cost of maintaining an algae farm would be so much cheaper it could be worth it?
In any case, my main concern about a biological solution is infection and poisoning. I would think algea, just like most other living organisms are sususptable to both. If we truely became dependent on these farms for energy, one bad algea virus or bacteria (natural or designed by man) could be a catastrophe.
The scammer (buyer) faked an escrow service that disappeared shortly after the "item" was shipped. The escrow service was the way both parties agreed to send payment. Since this agreement was obviously violated on several levels, I cannot see how the "buyer" has a leg to stand on.
If my memory is correct, this has been addressed by the synthetic diamond makers. They've developed techniques to introduce similar imperfections into their diamonds as well.
One correction, $50 is average follow up visit provided by medicare. If it was your first visit to this particular MD, medicare would pay somewhere in the 100's.
You can call all doctors greedy because one probably overcharged you, i'd call that a erroneous thought based on a single experience. You are scientist, right? You realize how valuable one data point is right? You probably didn't even think to call and protest the charge. Since most docs do not get paid for self pay visits at all, you most likely could have easily negotiated to pay a lessor fee. Oh yeah, I'll repeat, most of the time we get no money from self pay vistors. Did you get that? We see and provide services and medications for free all the time to people that more than likely will not pay.
You can twist it however you'd like, though. fine, I'll keep doing my best at my job and making differnces in lives all the time. I'm done wasting my time acheiving nothing.
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Certainly the U.S. knows if it was a nuke thanks to our satellite systems; but the current regime may not wish to publicise such a failure of their anti-proliferation policy just before an election.
I think it depends on your perspective on how this will be interpreted politically. I think people that lean right will see this as a reason to vote republican as they traditionally are for big military and such and thus would be more likely to keep us safe. I think those that lean left will want to blame Bush for this happening during his administration so obviously we need a new leader. The question in my mind is how the swing voters would react. If this was really a nuclear bomb, I would guess it would overall be to Bush's advantage. Then again, I'm no expert and usually avoid talking politics whenever possible..
I thought Canada's health care was socialized also. If you were paralyzed or incurred any other health care expenses for an accident, isn't that already covered by the government? From a health care point of view I would think one would be covered. I guess you'd be screwed, though, from missed work and salery point of view. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
They've already made it plain they don't want third-party email account checkers
Could someone please show me where Google made it clear they specifically don't want 3rd party email account checkers? Did they announce this and I've missed it? Certainly a slashdot story yesterday claimed Google doesn't want them. Except for the person who submited the story, I have not seen any other proof to back this claim up.
First, I saw no other accounts of this happening to other people in any of the threads. I did read quite a few threads that said they had no such problem. GTray continues to work for me.
Second, assume this does happen, maybe its not intended to specifically block 3rd party apps. Perhaps its a side effect of them checking too frequently. It is known that the word verification check comes up after entering the wrong password about 5 times. Are these people using the wrong password?
Perhaps, Google doesn't like the way the 3rd party apps are interfacing with their system. Obviously, gmail's beta check has its own method to get email, it is likely more effcient than pulling down the html with each check. If this is the case, it may just be a matter of time before they give the specs on how they would prefer it done.
Anyway, my point is just because a word verification scheme is popping up for some users doesn't mean it is an attack on 3rd party apps like slashdot seems to say it is. There are many other possiblitites. Ever since Google announced it was going public, it's almost like people expect google to start going bad.
Amen, how difficult is it for people to think for themselves? Anyone here with a gmail account, probably most, can log in right now and see there is no word-identification script. Yet almost everyone in this story is focused on this very premis. My guess goes right along with yours. People using these 3rd party apps are checking so often, they're triggering a verification script of some sort. Perhaps because of a wrong password as you suggest.
Don't for get the third option, which I use. The Alternative Quicktime player. No nagging, just plays movies. A good option for windows users.
Sure, it goes without saying, MS screwed up. The6y do all the time. No news there. Doesn't matter who's bug/fault it is, though. All that matters is there is a hole, the deveolpers knew of it, and they did nothing about it despite the fact they could if they chose to do so.
.
Since the OS guys believe the OS solution is superior, would this not have been a good time to show it rather than sit on it for 2 years?
Who cares where the problem is, they knew for two years there was a hole - end of story. At this point, as a user, I'm expecting a secure browser, so fix it. Its tough to encourage people to use Mozilla saying its more secure, when a bug like this has been **known** for 2 years. This is nothing short of embarrassing and to argue otherwise is hiding your head in the sand. If the Mozilla guys knew about this all this time and decided to sit on it just because technically it was a problems with the OS, shame on them. They need to step up to the plate and watch out for their users (and their own reputation).
So we banish the "shell" protocol today. Who's to say Windows won't have another flaw in another protocol tomorrow?
Since the 'shell' protocol flaw has apparently been known for 2 years, it should have been 'banished' then. Same for any other protocol, if its known to be a security risk, work around it or banish it when its found to be flawed....not 2 years later.
Who cares if the API worked as advertised, they knew for two years there was a hole - end of story. Who cares who's fault it is. Fix it. Its tough encouraging people to use Mozilla because its more secure, when a bug like this has been **known** for 2 years. This is nothing short of embarrassing and to argue otherwise is hiding your head in the sand. If the Mozilla guys knew about this all this time and decided to sit on it just because technically it was a problems with the OS, shame on them. They need to step up to the plate and watch out for their users (and their own reputation).
Personally, I write opiates whenever I feel the situation is warrented and never give a thought to any sort of oversight or possible legal ramifications. If someone needes them, they need them. However, I do know a number of docs who are very concerned about this. I can't explain why, but its a real fear on their part.
Um, I'm not sure why this would be modded offtopic. I'm a doctor and work in hospitals quite a bit. This is a real problem. The human couriers are often paid little so competence is not the norm for many of these workers. There are often long delays gettin meds up to the floors as a result. Also, drug abuse or selling does occur among the staff and MDs despite many obsticals. Obviously, a robot has no interest in taking drugs for its own purposes so this is clearly a real advantange.
:)
We have one of these things in one of the hospitals I work in routinely. So far its done a good job. I haven't heard any complaints yet. Plus, its surprisingly entertaining to jump back and forth in its path forcing it to try and find a route around you. this doesn't help expediency however
i'll let you know if i get extras.
I need pop too. I'm sure its only a matter of time before google either offers it or good programs evolve to pull mail off gmail like pop, such as the one below:
http://jaybe.org/info.htm
I've tried it. It works. Not as great as one I used for yahoo in the past, but well enough for now. My big problem with it right now, is it will only download the emails i've not read yet. The 'old' messages I read thru the web interface won't download, which won't work if I want to archive all my messages on my own computer too.
My experience has been similar. For the most part, I've received 3 invites a week. This week I've received a total of nine to give away (all in the last 3 days), and I still have plently of people waiting at the doorstep for more. I'm half expecting to get somemore tonight....time will tell
Correction:
I meant firefox 0.9!
Perhaps because there is still interest in Mozilla? I continue to use it on my home computer because I personally like the integration. Everywhere else I use Firefox.
I just upgrade to 1.7 from 1.5 and I have to say I'm very impressed with the difference. This version is much more responsive and very quick in comparsion to 1.5. I'm not sure I could tell the difference between Mozilla 1.7 and firefox 1.9 on this computer if I was blinded, and I never thought I'd be saying that
puck
actually...i've been getting so many lately i'm not sure what to do with them....
Someone else mentioned this idea above. I think its a great idea, but I know of no extention for mozilla or firefox that does this. do you?
their webmail is the best I've ever used
As someone who uses yahoo mail occasionally (mostly for throw away email addresses) and now uses gmail, I think google's email will be considered far better than yahoo's once it is publically available. I'm curious to know if you've had a chance to use gmail and still feel yahoo is better.
puck
I'm with you. I almost exclusively use firefox or mozilla, but practically speaking IE works well enough so there is little incentive to switch. Firefox/mozilla indeed has some nifty features IE sorely lacks, but most people don't know the difference because they're not aware of the other options. Again, IE works, perhaps not the best, but well enough to keep most people searching for other options.
One other reason IE necessary on windows, the last time I checked anyway, it is the only browser that works with microsoft update. Try making your default browser mozilla and then going to windows update. Last time I did, it didn't work. It is for this reason, that I will not make mozilla or firebird the default browser on any windows machine. This would end up frustating most of the people I'm try to help/convert.
puck
Please, people, read the comment you are replying to before responding.
Sure photovoltiacs are more efficient in raw conversion of solar energy. What about in their entire lifecycle? What about storage? I haven't seen an entire lifecycle analysis on either biodiesel or photovoltiacs, and we can't argue either way until one is done.
I believe I was wondering this same thing when I said the following:
perhaps the cost of maintaining an algae farm would be so much cheaper it could be worth it
Obviously efficiency is only one factor. An important factor but the big picture (mostly economics) is really all that ends up mattering.
As for infection, certainly, there would be a large number of farms which would have a sort of protective effect. However, once such an infectious agent would come about (nature or designed), I would imagine it would be extremely difficult to protect farms from intentional infection (ie. sabatoge/terrorism type of stuff).
I have to say, I was about to reply and ask where you came up with that number. I thought the efficiency was much higher than that in plants. Fortunately, I took time to check into it before I opened my big mouth, and you're right. Turns out sugar cane is about the most efficient plant at converting solar energy into chemical energy, and that is at 1% efficiency.
Having a major in biochem, I wanted to say the effiency is closer to 90%. Turns out I was thinking of the Calvin cycle.
So, I have to agree with your main point, solar cells would seem to make more sense. Perhaps algae are more efficient than plants? Or perhaps the cost of maintaining an algae farm would be so much cheaper it could be worth it?
In any case, my main concern about a biological solution is infection and poisoning. I would think algea, just like most other living organisms are sususptable to both. If we truely became dependent on these farms for energy, one bad algea virus or bacteria (natural or designed by man) could be a catastrophe.
just some thoughts,
puck
The scammer (buyer) faked an escrow service that disappeared shortly after the "item" was shipped. The escrow service was the way both parties agreed to send payment. Since this agreement was obviously violated on several levels, I cannot see how the "buyer" has a leg to stand on.
If my memory is correct, this has been addressed by the synthetic diamond makers. They've developed techniques to introduce similar imperfections into their diamonds as well.
Only for the audio on the music stations
One correction, $50 is average follow up visit provided by medicare. If it was your first visit to this particular MD, medicare would pay somewhere in the 100's.
You can call all doctors greedy because one probably overcharged you, i'd call that a erroneous thought based on a single experience. You are scientist, right? You realize how valuable one data point is right? You probably didn't even think to call and protest the charge. Since most docs do not get paid for self pay visits at all, you most likely could have easily negotiated to pay a lessor fee. Oh yeah, I'll repeat, most of the time we get no money from self pay vistors. Did you get that? We see and provide services and medications for free all the time to people that more than likely will not pay.
You can twist it however you'd like, though. fine, I'll keep doing my best at my job and making differnces in lives all the time. I'm done wasting my time acheiving nothing.