(worked in a health insurance firm, not even close to touching the patients, but...) I do completely understand how it happens, and it happens on a smaller and less risky scale in many non-life crucial IT business situations.
Legacy systems so crammed with custom code that no one can even contemplate a rewrite to a modern and secure platform let alone adequately budget money and manpower for one, even when trapped on deep legacy platforms (MUMPS on DEC/Compaq/HP platforms anyone?)
Vendors that won't allow you to touch the configuration at all or support is dropped a couple years later and the risk is yours (seen any voice integration systems that still force use of NT4 with no other choices anyone?) Then the vendor stops evaluating updates and patches if they ever did do it at all, or the bean counters drop the budget for the vendor's maintenance fee in the next budget cycle leaving you holding the bag.
The only possible way to save yourself is to get the exact support agreements, documenting their "no patch or update" stance, from the vendor in big black bold type writing and make sure everyone is painfully aware of it and the risks that entails to data and other systems.
Does saving yourself do anything at all to resolve the REAL problem? Hell no. But the power position of IT within most medical organizations is so weak and the "no one touches this except the vendor" attitude with embedded devices is so pervasive that there's not much else you can do in that situation aside from leaving or not taking the position in the first place.
Get real folks, EVERYTHING that lives lives on shit, directly or indirectly. That's why cooking over fire was such a revolutionary breakthrough a couple of tens of thousands of years ago.
Ate any mushrooms lately? I have news for you....
Recently worked in a govt facility on a project, they are just as far as most everyone else from being ipv6 ready internally, perhaps a lot farther away than many.
Additionally, as you might expect, no one is budgeting for the replacement of infrastructure (like 20 year old printers for instance) that need to go to make it happen. Even though they have a mandate to be ready internally in two years. That mandate ain't gonna fly.
Been running the RTM version for over a month on reasonably current hardware machines from multiple vendors, desktop, laptop, tablet/laptop hybrids. Zero instability, zero driver issues, everything works.
You can bitch all you want about the metro UI, and the disconnected nature of dekstop to metro switching. Some or much of that bitching is completely and absolutely justified and I agree justified. But the OS is objectively better in a lot of other areas than Win7.
If you don't like it, don't buy it, the market will make it's opinion known. But younger users more accustomed to iPhone or Android when exposed to Win8 next to some of it's competitiors in my experience have 100% unamimously thought that Win8 is "cool" and expressed a real interst in running it on at least touch enabled hardware. But inflating UI bitching into some larger issue with the OS is just immature trolling. Much like what we see every time a Linux distribution switches out the default GUI.
Both coal and nuclear can be built in such a way that they can rapidly respond to load changes (naval reactors and older steam fired ships are an example). However, the utilities choose to not build them that way for various reasons. It's not a limitation of the base technology.
So you're against proper training for people to operate a device in a community setting that weighs 3000 pounds or more and can travel at over 100mph? Even at 65 or 70 that's an awful lot of kinetic energy for an untrained person to manage in sometimes questionable conditions.
This may result in a more comfortable sea going ride, but the energy requirements and therefore cost will make it economically impractical. It is MUCH more energy efficient to just ride on top of the ice to break it.
The main reason to use nuclear here is the potential for the ship to become ice locked and trapped but still be able to sustain itself to an extent for an extended period without bulk fuel supplies. The extra structural weight of nuclear ships also add to the ice breaking role. That plus less or zero bulk fuel oil is stored, so less chance of a spill should the ice not cooperate and cause minor hull breaks.
Not really an argument either way.
But Germany has shown us all that strong driver education requirements along with strong enforcement of safety rules (other than speed) and lane discipline can result in a safer highway even in the absence of speed limits.
Differential speed is what kills.
Study after study has shown that those at greatest risk of injury or death are the SLOWEST 10% of drivers not the fastest 10%
It will save nothing because of the exotic lightweight materials and processes required to make an 80mpg car (CAFE is an average!) that meets current safety standards. This will drive the cost of the car up so far that it will more than balance any savings in fuel/energy.
Not to mention that road use taxes of various sorts will have to be invented and implemented to compensate for the "loss" of fuel tax revenues by the government.
The net change in cost of driving is very unlikely to favor the consumer in this setup.
No excuses, I'm saying that given the various positive and negative aspects of the various available recreational drugs that I have made an informed decision. That's all.
Singling one out vs. the plethora of others for cause and effect politically serves little real purpose. The real question is how the damage done by a drug being studied for a typical user compares with other common drugs on various levels.
In that light, how do the most commonly abused "other" drugs, such as alchohol or tobacco compare in both health and lifestyle effects.
Nearly everyone uses some sort of recreational drug at some level. Make a good choice. I've made mine.
The current litigious nature and liability lawyer culture will never allow this to happen in the US. Even if all engineering and human factor elements are solved satifactorily the insurance cost will put it out of the range of anyone not already in the 1%, and the public relations nightmare that would result from just one flying car failing and falling on someone's house will do the rest of the damage.
Every self guided missile, drone, cruise missile, self guided torpedo, self guided air-air missile etc. has operated this way since the beginning.
The only difference now is that the tech is in reach of less financially well off entities.
Isn't this sort of activity by employers already illegal under federal law under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
If so, this is just another political point scoring sideshow, like banning guns that are already banned under a different and older law.
For the scientific process to function as desired, informed and educated opposing viewpoints are required. Politicizing those viewpoints is counterproductive to the process.
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(worked in a health insurance firm, not even close to touching the patients, but...) I do completely understand how it happens, and it happens on a smaller and less risky scale in many non-life crucial IT business situations. Legacy systems so crammed with custom code that no one can even contemplate a rewrite to a modern and secure platform let alone adequately budget money and manpower for one, even when trapped on deep legacy platforms (MUMPS on DEC/Compaq/HP platforms anyone?) Vendors that won't allow you to touch the configuration at all or support is dropped a couple years later and the risk is yours (seen any voice integration systems that still force use of NT4 with no other choices anyone?) Then the vendor stops evaluating updates and patches if they ever did do it at all, or the bean counters drop the budget for the vendor's maintenance fee in the next budget cycle leaving you holding the bag. The only possible way to save yourself is to get the exact support agreements, documenting their "no patch or update" stance, from the vendor in big black bold type writing and make sure everyone is painfully aware of it and the risks that entails to data and other systems. Does saving yourself do anything at all to resolve the REAL problem? Hell no. But the power position of IT within most medical organizations is so weak and the "no one touches this except the vendor" attitude with embedded devices is so pervasive that there's not much else you can do in that situation aside from leaving or not taking the position in the first place.
Get real folks, EVERYTHING that lives lives on shit, directly or indirectly. That's why cooking over fire was such a revolutionary breakthrough a couple of tens of thousands of years ago. Ate any mushrooms lately? I have news for you....
assuming it matters. If they don't have appropriate choices of candidates to vote for then it's a moot point
Recently worked in a govt facility on a project, they are just as far as most everyone else from being ipv6 ready internally, perhaps a lot farther away than many. Additionally, as you might expect, no one is budgeting for the replacement of infrastructure (like 20 year old printers for instance) that need to go to make it happen. Even though they have a mandate to be ready internally in two years. That mandate ain't gonna fly.
Been running the RTM version for over a month on reasonably current hardware machines from multiple vendors, desktop, laptop, tablet/laptop hybrids. Zero instability, zero driver issues, everything works. You can bitch all you want about the metro UI, and the disconnected nature of dekstop to metro switching. Some or much of that bitching is completely and absolutely justified and I agree justified. But the OS is objectively better in a lot of other areas than Win7. If you don't like it, don't buy it, the market will make it's opinion known. But younger users more accustomed to iPhone or Android when exposed to Win8 next to some of it's competitiors in my experience have 100% unamimously thought that Win8 is "cool" and expressed a real interst in running it on at least touch enabled hardware. But inflating UI bitching into some larger issue with the OS is just immature trolling. Much like what we see every time a Linux distribution switches out the default GUI.
Holy hyperbole batman!
Except that the inclusion of beryllium with the Americium makes it a neutron source, which is NOT blocked by a peice of paper.
Limitations of finance mechanism are different than limitations of technology.
Both coal and nuclear can be built in such a way that they can rapidly respond to load changes (naval reactors and older steam fired ships are an example). However, the utilities choose to not build them that way for various reasons. It's not a limitation of the base technology.
So you're against proper training for people to operate a device in a community setting that weighs 3000 pounds or more and can travel at over 100mph? Even at 65 or 70 that's an awful lot of kinetic energy for an untrained person to manage in sometimes questionable conditions.
This may result in a more comfortable sea going ride, but the energy requirements and therefore cost will make it economically impractical. It is MUCH more energy efficient to just ride on top of the ice to break it. The main reason to use nuclear here is the potential for the ship to become ice locked and trapped but still be able to sustain itself to an extent for an extended period without bulk fuel supplies. The extra structural weight of nuclear ships also add to the ice breaking role. That plus less or zero bulk fuel oil is stored, so less chance of a spill should the ice not cooperate and cause minor hull breaks.
Not really an argument either way. But Germany has shown us all that strong driver education requirements along with strong enforcement of safety rules (other than speed) and lane discipline can result in a safer highway even in the absence of speed limits.
Differential speed is what kills. Study after study has shown that those at greatest risk of injury or death are the SLOWEST 10% of drivers not the fastest 10%
EMC purchases a company then that company's licensing becomes confusing, expensive and fragmented?! No way that could happen! /sarcasm
It will save nothing because of the exotic lightweight materials and processes required to make an 80mpg car (CAFE is an average!) that meets current safety standards. This will drive the cost of the car up so far that it will more than balance any savings in fuel/energy. Not to mention that road use taxes of various sorts will have to be invented and implemented to compensate for the "loss" of fuel tax revenues by the government. The net change in cost of driving is very unlikely to favor the consumer in this setup.
No excuses, I'm saying that given the various positive and negative aspects of the various available recreational drugs that I have made an informed decision. That's all.
Singling one out vs. the plethora of others for cause and effect politically serves little real purpose. The real question is how the damage done by a drug being studied for a typical user compares with other common drugs on various levels. In that light, how do the most commonly abused "other" drugs, such as alchohol or tobacco compare in both health and lifestyle effects. Nearly everyone uses some sort of recreational drug at some level. Make a good choice. I've made mine.
The current litigious nature and liability lawyer culture will never allow this to happen in the US. Even if all engineering and human factor elements are solved satifactorily the insurance cost will put it out of the range of anyone not already in the 1%, and the public relations nightmare that would result from just one flying car failing and falling on someone's house will do the rest of the damage.
Every self guided missile, drone, cruise missile, self guided torpedo, self guided air-air missile etc. has operated this way since the beginning. The only difference now is that the tech is in reach of less financially well off entities.
I've yet to see evidence of that
"Cue the irrational fears and misunderstanding of these materials and processes while the coal fired power plant burns down the street" music
Isn't this sort of activity by employers already illegal under federal law under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act? If so, this is just another political point scoring sideshow, like banning guns that are already banned under a different and older law.
So then, what is your response to the TSA "Tiger Teams" setting up roadblocks and checkpoints on the highways then?
For the scientific process to function as desired, informed and educated opposing viewpoints are required. Politicizing those viewpoints is counterproductive to the process.
Fuel efficiency and lower operating costs are just as important as clean aerodynamics for keeping an operational force in the field!