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Man goes on subway to get lunch/groceries/whatever... another man passes him in close proximity, takes reading, privacy invaded.
The smart sick person goes get lunch/groceries/whatever..., saves the tinfoil wrapping, puts it on head immediately, another man passes him in close proximity, takes no reading, privacy maintained!
I sometimes see a half-dozen patients a day who present because they got a "high" number on their blood pressure machine. These people are asymptomatic, have no signs of end-organ damage, but are concerned enough about the number to come to the ER.
Those patients you mention *are* sick, they suffer from hypochondry. Yes, they do tend to clog up ERs, but on the other end, after one or two thorough physical examinations, they can be properly diagnosed and directed to a psychologist for treatment earlier than they would normally have, which one may argue is a benefit for them.
I remember seeing the movie Apollo 13, where they had something similar to this. They had the full heart monitor, resperator meter, etc
But but.. will the patient have to rig together an air scrubber with square bits that don't fit in round ones, held together with space duct-tape, on the doctor's instrusctions by telephone in case of respiratory problems?
Oh and he forgot: 4 - Get DMCA C&D notice from printer manufacturer 5 - Hire a lawyer to fight ludicrous claim in court 6 - Realize they have more money than you to throw at lawyers and give up the fight
and Canon, Epson, Oki, Brother,... They all slowly render my printers unusable by selling me ink at $38000/gal, which slowly makes my wallet thinner and thinner until eventually I have no money left, I have to sell my home, put my wife on the street, dress my kids in rags and send them to beg at street corners, and get me a cardboard box to sleep in at night, and protect my (now useless) printer during the day...
Wouldn't it be truly ironic if the medical waste was liposuction fat (think Fight Club)? Then, the clinical obesity afflicting one in three Americans would itself be powering the automobiles that are, in part, responsible for the obesity.
So what you mean is, we should power our vehicles with our own body fat?
I know a more efficient way: it's called "cycling".
Changing World Tech's opening of a plant that converts agricultural waste to oil.
You mean like what you get when you stuff dead trees and foliage in mud, burry it deep underground under billions of tons of rocks, and wait a few million years?
Of course there is a lot of paperwork. What good is a framework for govt use if it doesn't document everything in triplicate.... which prompts the question: why the heck is anything like this posted on Slashdot? That's hardly news for nerds, it's news for pen-pushing paperwork addicts.
the authors simply keep presenting OCTAVE for what it is, which makes me question the value of this book beyond someone who has already decided to implement OCTAVE
Title of the book:
Managing Information Security Risks: The OCTAVE Approach
If we focussed on human intelligence we would perhaps be able to avert more catastrophes, such as the series of missteps that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to get on board their planes despite some rather suspicious behavior.
Well, the whole point is to avoid using humans. If I may remind you, 9/11 terrorists boarded the planes under the nose of the "watchful" security guys, some of them were even scanned and let go. Besides, biosensing machines don't have vested interests in the persian gulf or whatever, to slant their judgement on what needs to be done to whom.
What I mean is, the point of this is to eliminate the human factor from the loop. Whenever someone tries to achieve this, it's to prevent unpredictability from human behaviours.
I find it easier to print stereograms like these. Perhaps even re-position them really close to each other in GIMP before printing it out. they seem to be easier to "lock on" on paper than on screen. There's just no way I can see them on screen.
Anyone remember the Orson Scott Card novels where the planet of Path is ruled by a class of people genetically engineered for superintelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorder, although the one could be separated from the other?
iirc, in the novel, the obsessive-compulsive folks were the religious caste, and were genetically engineered that way to be controllable or something.
Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.
So presumably 69 is Jenifer Lopez, and 303 is the goatse guy?
Slashdot Mirror
Oh come on, give the guys a break. They already disclosed the *WHOLE FRIGGIN' API* for their sql server. You know, SELECT, INSERT and all...
As part of our Shared-Source[tm] initiative, you have requested to see the main SQL server[tm] source code.
We at Microsoft[tm] strive to meet customer demands. As part of the Shared-Source[tm] initiative, we are happy to disclose parts of our source code, in stages, after approval of our Customer's requests.
Your request has been approved. Please find attached to this email the main SQL server[tm] source code.
We hope this source code disclosure meets your requirements. The next scheduled disclosure will happen in 450 days.
Regards,
Joe Blow, Customers Satisfaction Manager, Microsoft Corp.
PROJECT: SQL_SERVER
FILE: main.c
*/
#include <common.h>
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
start_sqlserver(argc,argv);
}
Man goes on subway to get lunch/groceries/whatever...
another man passes him in close proximity, takes reading, privacy invaded.
The smart sick person goes get lunch/groceries/whatever..., saves the tinfoil wrapping, puts it on head immediately, another man passes him in close proximity, takes no reading, privacy maintained!
Okay, I've been waiting a while to see the Microsoft jokes come up, but none yet. Someone's gotta do it I guess:
It gives a whole new meaning to "blue screen of death"
Sorry...
I sometimes see a half-dozen patients a day who present because they got a "high" number on their blood pressure machine. These people are asymptomatic, have no signs of end-organ damage, but are concerned enough about the number to come to the ER.
Those patients you mention *are* sick, they suffer from hypochondry. Yes, they do tend to clog up ERs, but on the other end, after one or two thorough physical examinations, they can be properly diagnosed and directed to a psychologist for treatment earlier than they would normally have, which one may argue is a benefit for them.
I remember seeing the movie Apollo 13, where they had something similar to this. They had the full heart monitor, resperator meter, etc
But but.. will the patient have to rig together an air scrubber with square bits that don't fit in round ones, held together with space duct-tape, on the doctor's instrusctions by telephone in case of respiratory problems?
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Oh and he forgot:
4 - Get DMCA C&D notice from printer manufacturer
5 - Hire a lawyer to fight ludicrous claim in court
6 - Realize they have more money than you to throw at lawyers and give up the fight
HP Secretly Rendering Printer Cartridges Unusable
and Canon, Epson, Oki, Brother,... They all slowly render my printers unusable by selling me ink at $38000/gal, which slowly makes my wallet thinner and thinner until eventually I have no money left, I have to sell my home, put my wife on the street, dress my kids in rags and send them to beg at street corners, and get me a cardboard box to sleep in at night, and protect my (now useless) printer during the day...
Wouldn't it be truly ironic if the medical waste was liposuction fat (think Fight Club)? Then, the clinical obesity afflicting one in three Americans would itself be powering the automobiles that are, in part, responsible for the obesity.
So what you mean is, we should power our vehicles with our own body fat?
I know a more efficient way: it's called "cycling".
at least we know there will be a cap of $80 usd for the barrel of oil.
You forget inflation: when the barrel reaches 80 of today's greenbacks, it'll already cost like 100 of tomorrow's dollars or something.
Then again, another conflict against the Axis of Evil[tm] and the barrel could reach 80 of today's dollars very quickly anyway...
Changing World Tech's opening of a plant that converts agricultural waste to oil.
You mean like what you get when you stuff dead trees and foliage in mud, burry it deep underground under billions of tons of rocks, and wait a few million years?
Of course there is a lot of paperwork. What good is a framework for govt use if it doesn't document everything in triplicate. ... which prompts the question: why the heck is anything like this posted on Slashdot? That's hardly news for nerds, it's news for pen-pushing paperwork addicts.
100% of information theft can be summed up thusly:
DON'T GET CAUGHT
Hmm, the warning was quite inappropriate actually :-)
That's laissez-faire...
From TFA:
the authors simply keep presenting OCTAVE for what it is, which makes me question the value of this book beyond someone who has already decided to implement OCTAVE
Title of the book:
Managing Information Security Risks: The OCTAVE Approach
So, like, duh...
Zonk can console himself
Nice pun in an otherwise thoroughly offtopic comment...
The original Halo was a seminal moment in console gaming.
Given that "seminal" has another meaning, I wonder if Zonk means Halo 2 is a game to drop your pants and jerk off about...
I want a hologram that shows me whether I have bad breath
That's called a "girlfriend" and the display consists of her face pulling back with a funny face when you kiss her.
and another that shows my blood-alcohol content - privately
The "girlfriend" device above can detect that too. You may not count upon the privacy of the display though...
If we focussed on human intelligence we would perhaps be able to avert more catastrophes, such as the series of missteps that allowed the 9/11 hijackers to get on board their planes despite some rather suspicious behavior.
Well, the whole point is to avoid using humans. If I may remind you, 9/11 terrorists boarded the planes under the nose of the "watchful" security guys, some of them were even scanned and let go. Besides, biosensing machines don't have vested interests in the persian gulf or whatever, to slant their judgement on what needs to be done to whom.
What I mean is, the point of this is to eliminate the human factor from the loop. Whenever someone tries to achieve this, it's to prevent unpredictability from human behaviours.
Where will the revenue, and further, the return on the investment, come from?
I don't know, let's ask him. He seems to be doing okay...
I find it easier to print stereograms like these. Perhaps even re-position them really close to each other in GIMP before printing it out. they seem to be easier to "lock on" on paper than on screen. There's just no way I can see them on screen.
Anyone remember the Orson Scott Card novels where the planet of Path is ruled by a class of people genetically engineered for superintelligence and obsessive-compulsive disorder, although the one could be separated from the other?
iirc, in the novel, the obsessive-compulsive folks were the religious caste, and were genetically engineered that way to be controllable or something.
Since his epileptic fit, he has been able to see numbers as shapes, colours and textures. The number two, for instance, is a motion, and five is a clap of thunder. "When I multiply numbers together, I see two shapes. The image starts to change and evolve, and a third shape emerges. That's the answer. It's mental imagery. It's like maths without having to think.
So presumably 69 is Jenifer Lopez, and 303 is the goatse guy?
Of the few hundred autistic savants in the world, none have been able to explain their incredible mental abilities.
They're too busy counting...