I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization
--- Gaius Petronius Arbiter, ca. 60AD. And if not him then someone who sounds a lot like him.
As with almost all mainstream reporting of a medical result, they've mischaracterised the findings. What the study says is that breathing polluted air is a bad thing. One source of pollution is heavy traffic. Other sources of pollution are... well, just about anything related to commerce and industry, Also, pollution causes a lot more than dementia, Parkinson's and MS. However, if it were to be reported as "pollution is bad for you", it wouldn't make the mainstream media.
As an aside, the study is pretty well done, a cohort study of several million people over a ten-year period, nothing to fault there. It's the way it's being reported in the media that's the problem.
Interesting given that most mining is done in China with subsidized electricity.
Not to mention China's fairly lax environmental laws, so you can dump your mine tailings and spoil wherever you like without having to worry about the consequences.
Were early 3D TV sets too highly priced? Were there too few 3D films and 3D TV stations available to watch (aka "The Content Problem")? Did people hate wearing active/passive plastic 3D glasses in the living room? Was the price of Blu-ray 3D films and Blu-ray 3D players set too high? Was there something wrong with the stereo 3D effect the industry tried to popularize? Did too many people suffer 3D viewing related "headaches," "dizzyness," "eyesight problems," and similar? Was the then -- still quite new -- 1080p HD 2D television simply "good enough" for the average TV viewer?
Why They Bricked Clone Chips that used their drivers?
An Little Dickish.
The Clone companies could have written their own, but then they could not undercut FTDI prices.
They Make Good well supported Products.
It's not necessarily NIMBY, it's just going with the default. When this was introduced in other countries, organ-donorship went from large-majority-don't to large-majority-do, with no change in people's attitudes. People just went with whatever was the default, so you may as well make the default option the better one.
I rode the bus a good 20 times and only had one issue where there was a guy who smelled.
I rode the bus once. It smelled like a locker room, there was junk all over the floor. We were already packed in like sardines, and then they stopped to pick up more! There was a suitcase poking me in the ribs, and an elbow in my ear, and at one point I had a smelly old bum standing next to me who hadn't showered in a year. The window wouldn't open and the fan was broke, my face was turning blue. I don't think I'd been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
The test data has last names that start with 'ZZ', duh.
Great, so it's not OK to say that all Asians are bad drivers and all Mexicans are lazy, but it is OK to say that all people whose last names start with ZZ are test data.
Remember how the United States imported German scientists to develop nuclear weapons and other such gizmos?
Why do I get the feeling that China brought in North Korean scientists?
The failure wasn't because of that, it was because they used guaranteed 100% genuine components from Aliexpress.
They're also using unmanned equipment for drilling in the Antarctic after that unpleasant business with the Pabodie Expedition to the Gamburtsev Mountains. Arkham Robotics is one of the major suppliers for the venture.
Note that Panzer Leader has the problem that many, many military memoirs have, they present events from the point of view of the author, often in an attempt to retroactively justify decisions and behaviour in combat. So do take it with a grain of salt.
One of the best books on WWII I've ever read is Adam Tooze's "Wages of Destruction". You'll never look at WWII the same again after reading this. And, following on from your last comment, it's also going to be appropriate to the upcoming presidency since it documents just how long you can run an economy on empty before things come to a head.
Yeah, that's a situation where we're probably arguing over semantics, does overloading an existing device with smart card functionality really count as a successful smart card deployment? The poster child for this is (e-)passports, you have to get a passport to travel, there's no choice, so it falls into the "ordered to use it" category of the CAC. Same with the example I gave, payment cards (credit/ATM cards), when you get a new card it has a chip in it, you can't opt out.
What I'm looking for is examples of smart card deployment where people have looked at it and said "this is cool/useful, I need to go out and get this", rather than "I'm required/forced to use this whether I want to or not". I'm not aware of any significant cases of this. I am aware of many, many attempts to do so, all of which have failed.
It's not new. Organisations and governments have resorted to giving them away in an attempt to get people to use them, and they still didn't see any uptake. People don't even want them for nothing.
The government has tried to do this already in the form of the CAC. Military personnel are ordered to use them or face disciplinary action. That's a pretty dire model for smart card deployment.
So, this will fail just like every other attempt to deploy smart cards has failed (outside of things like replacing existing mag-stripe cards, or deployment models where you're forced to use them or face disciplinary action). It's an inherently non-viable technology, it's had over thirty years and endless attempts to get it going in some form or other, that's not going to change now just because Google wants it to.
In further news, classified portions of the report also conclude that Snowden killed Jimmy Hoffa, was the fifth gunman at the Kennedy Assasination, and, heck, killed Silas Deane during the War of Independence. May as well nail that on him as well while we're at it.
The only concern I have is that all this is, is a hacked-up smart card. "Next year will be the year of the smart card" is a joke so worn out that's about 15 years older than the same comment about desktop Linux, and yet it looks like someone at Google still thinks that smart cards (under another name) will take off real soon now.
So any time now we'll all be using our PS/2s to acess our Orange-Book secure OSI network using U2F tokens.
Yup. This is exactly my experience with the ribbon-interfaced Word (and others), I need to resort to Google to figure out how to perform basic ops that used to be a hotkey or single click in the past.
That was my immediate response as well. It seems like it's a pre-announcement that they've now also succumbed to the monumental brain-rot that is flat UIs, with the ugly, unusable new look to land presently. The problem here is that most "UI" isn't done by UX people, it's done by failed hipster artist wannabes who couldn't get work anywhere else but have somehow wormed their way into a position where they have control over how people see an app. Asa Dotzler is a prime example.
The headline, as is far too comon for/., is incorrect/misleading/clickbait. If it was corrected to read:
Is overprescription of psychiatric medication as is done in the US harmful?
then the answer is a pretty obvious "yes". Many (most?) other countries use therapy first and medication only as a last resort. In the US its medication, medication, money, medication, money... sorry, got the two a bit mixed up there.
What I don't get is that if they want encryption that works, why are they asking Sony, Nikon, and Canon for it? That lot combined would struggle to come up with rot13 as an encryption algorithm.
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I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization
--- Gaius Petronius Arbiter, ca. 60AD. And if not him then someone who sounds a lot like him.
As with almost all mainstream reporting of a medical result, they've mischaracterised the findings. What the study says is that breathing polluted air is a bad thing. One source of pollution is heavy traffic. Other sources of pollution are... well, just about anything related to commerce and industry, Also, pollution causes a lot more than dementia, Parkinson's and MS. However, if it were to be reported as "pollution is bad for you", it wouldn't make the mainstream media.
As an aside, the study is pretty well done, a cohort study of several million people over a ten-year period, nothing to fault there. It's the way it's being reported in the media that's the problem.
Interesting given that most mining is done in China with subsidized electricity.
Not to mention China's fairly lax environmental laws, so you can dump your mine tailings and spoil wherever you like without having to worry about the consequences.
Were early 3D TV sets too highly priced? Were there too few 3D films and 3D TV stations available to watch (aka "The Content Problem")? Did people hate wearing active/passive plastic 3D glasses in the living room? Was the price of Blu-ray 3D films and Blu-ray 3D players set too high? Was there something wrong with the stereo 3D effect the industry tried to popularize? Did too many people suffer 3D viewing related "headaches," "dizzyness," "eyesight problems," and similar? Was the then -- still quite new -- 1080p HD 2D television simply "good enough" for the average TV viewer?
Yes.
Why They Bricked Clone Chips that used their drivers?
An Little Dickish.
The Clone companies could have written their own, but then they could not undercut FTDI prices.
They Make Good well supported Products.
Burma Shave.
apologies to Boy George, and to those of you who will now have this stuck in your head all day...
Never 'eard of 'im mate.
The computer fletely, mouse and all!
The genericised form of the headline is actually:
$vendor announces $newthing for TV, better than $oldthing
with a subhead of:
Everyone throw away your six-month old $5,000 TV and buy a new $5,000 TV that's exactly the same, only different.
It's not necessarily NIMBY, it's just going with the default. When this was introduced in other countries, organ-donorship went from large-majority-don't to large-majority-do, with no change in people's attitudes. People just went with whatever was the default, so you may as well make the default option the better one.
I rode the bus a good 20 times and only had one issue where there was a guy who smelled.
I rode the bus once. It smelled like a locker room, there was junk all over the floor. We were already packed in like sardines, and then they stopped to pick up more! There was a suitcase poking me in the ribs, and an elbow in my ear, and at one point I had a smelly old bum standing next to me who hadn't showered in a year. The window wouldn't open and the fan was broke, my face was turning blue. I don't think I'd been in a crowd like this since I went to see the Who.
The test data has last names that start with 'ZZ', duh.
Great, so it's not OK to say that all Asians are bad drivers and all Mexicans are lazy, but it is OK to say that all people whose last names start with ZZ are test data.
Signed, Zebediah Zzymurgy.
Quite a few furries were influenced by Watership Down, though it's not clear how many actually read the book vs. how many watched the animation.
Watership Down: Read the book, missed the film, but really enjoyed the pie.
I told my daughter God would let me in on everything I needed to know.
Why would Lemmy care what your daughter does?
That's the p ice you pay for making your corporation public.
It was the US that forced the breakup of the zaibatsus at the end of WWII, it wasn't any part of their own business plan to go public.
Remember how the United States imported German scientists to develop nuclear weapons and other such gizmos?
Why do I get the feeling that China brought in North Korean scientists?
The failure wasn't because of that, it was because they used guaranteed 100% genuine components from Aliexpress.
They're also using unmanned equipment for drilling in the Antarctic after that unpleasant business with the Pabodie Expedition to the Gamburtsev Mountains. Arkham Robotics is one of the major suppliers for the venture.
Note that Panzer Leader has the problem that many, many military memoirs have, they present events from the point of view of the author, often in an attempt to retroactively justify decisions and behaviour in combat. So do take it with a grain of salt.
One of the best books on WWII I've ever read is Adam Tooze's "Wages of Destruction". You'll never look at WWII the same again after reading this. And, following on from your last comment, it's also going to be appropriate to the upcoming presidency since it documents just how long you can run an economy on empty before things come to a head.
Yeah, that's a situation where we're probably arguing over semantics, does overloading an existing device with smart card functionality really count as a successful smart card deployment? The poster child for this is (e-)passports, you have to get a passport to travel, there's no choice, so it falls into the "ordered to use it" category of the CAC. Same with the example I gave, payment cards (credit/ATM cards), when you get a new card it has a chip in it, you can't opt out.
What I'm looking for is examples of smart card deployment where people have looked at it and said "this is cool/useful, I need to go out and get this", rather than "I'm required/forced to use this whether I want to or not". I'm not aware of any significant cases of this. I am aware of many, many attempts to do so, all of which have failed.
It's not new. Organisations and governments have resorted to giving them away in an attempt to get people to use them, and they still didn't see any uptake. People don't even want them for nothing.
The government has tried to do this already in the form of the CAC. Military personnel are ordered to use them or face disciplinary action. That's a pretty dire model for smart card deployment.
So, this will fail just like every other attempt to deploy smart cards has failed (outside of things like replacing existing mag-stripe cards, or deployment models where you're forced to use them or face disciplinary action). It's an inherently non-viable technology, it's had over thirty years and endless attempts to get it going in some form or other, that's not going to change now just because Google wants it to.
In further news, classified portions of the report also conclude that Snowden killed Jimmy Hoffa, was the fifth gunman at the Kennedy Assasination, and, heck, killed Silas Deane during the War of Independence. May as well nail that on him as well while we're at it.
The only concern I have is that all this is, is a hacked-up smart card. "Next year will be the year of the smart card" is a joke so worn out that's about 15 years older than the same comment about desktop Linux, and yet it looks like someone at Google still thinks that smart cards (under another name) will take off real soon now.
So any time now we'll all be using our PS/2s to acess our Orange-Book secure OSI network using U2F tokens.
Yup. This is exactly my experience with the ribbon-interfaced Word (and others), I need to resort to Google to figure out how to perform basic ops that used to be a hotkey or single click in the past.
That was my immediate response as well. It seems like it's a pre-announcement that they've now also succumbed to the monumental brain-rot that is flat UIs, with the ugly, unusable new look to land presently. The problem here is that most "UI" isn't done by UX people, it's done by failed hipster artist wannabes who couldn't get work anywhere else but have somehow wormed their way into a position where they have control over how people see an app. Asa Dotzler is a prime example.
The headline, as is far too comon for /., is incorrect/misleading/clickbait. If it was corrected to read:
Is overprescription of psychiatric medication as is done in the US harmful?
then the answer is a pretty obvious "yes". Many (most?) other countries use therapy first and medication only as a last resort. In the US its medication, medication, money, medication, money... sorry, got the two a bit mixed up there.
What I don't get is that if they want encryption that works, why are they asking Sony, Nikon, and Canon for it? That lot combined would struggle to come up with rot13 as an encryption algorithm.