Many of the people they're suing never did anything- they're just believing the people they hired to fetch IP addresses of "traders". It falls under vexatious litigant at that point. They're not protecting anything other than their failing business model via lawsuits.
If you'd read the article, you'd have found out that they've figured out where most of what we call muscle fatigue comes from. It's because the muscles overheat more than anything else. I'd buy this.
Better training won't do you a lick of good if you're fatigued. Better training won't do you a lick of good if your body is overheated.
You need both things, really. Now, it remains to be seen if they're doing the training as good as they ought to (I'm of mixed opinions- some things they could be doing better, other things they're just doing fine on.) but to say that is all they need is as bad as the thing you're claiming them of doing.
The places where you describe this as being a potential problem couldn't afford Monsanto's or any other GM crop company's prices for the seed grain. Sorry you've rendered your argument kind of moot, now haven't you?
It's not reached the public eye like Vioxx or some of the others. It's almost reached the threshold, but it's not there yet. It IS a problem all the same.
I experience migraines after consumption of as little as a soda's worth. Just because you don't does not make the substance less problematic or any less toxic. Many people have a higher toxicity threshold for that substance than do others.
PKU people can have severe problems from it- there's a very real reason that they put that warning on the packaging that the stuff's in the food, a PKU person can die from much lower consumption levels. Normally they'd avoid the foods with the Phenylalanine, but they put Aspartame into the damnedst stuff these days. Sort of like all the HFCS they keep putting into things like bread, sodas, etc. High Fructose Corn Syrup's actually more problematic to humans than Sucrose because refined Fructose in the concentrations we consume makes humans fat and causes those who might have a some level of risk for Type II Diabetes to actually GET it.
While I understand your sentiments, the things we have in our food supply is disturbing. Things we really probably ought not to consider acceptable. Aspartame's one of a bunch of them that really do fall under the category of, "This is probably not a good idea in the first place..." and should be pulled off the market. I suspect Splenda may even fall under that category (Chlorinated Hydrocarbons are pesticides in most cases and if you just straight chlorinated Sucrose, you get a deadly toxin to humans...) but since it's less problematic on the surface for me, as a Type II Diabetic, I'm forced to choose either nothing at all (Other choices due to market considerations and FDA not approving some viable answers are barred to me...) or Splenda stuff.
Considering that they don't use NTFS in SD, MMC, CF, xD, etc. cards (Or ext2/ext3, etc...) and they use FAT32 for those for interoperability with everything, MS claiming they have a patent on that file format and everybody owes them royalties...
The only reason the landlines still worked had to do with what they did to get the reliability.
They've got huge banks of 48 volt lead-acid or better batteries that hold 48-72 hours of juice minimum for the entire system at "normal" usage levels. If the mobile phone towers had that level of backup, the mobiles probably would have worked as well.
Heh... I look at Metallica and think the same thing...
Doom3 not being as good as the hype they had on that game (Hell, they had all kinds of it being flung about at the two QuakeCons before release... You could've drowned in the hype it was that bad... But yet, the glimpses they handed us looked SO good, we all bought into it...) is the real reason it didn't sell as well as it could have, not piracy.
It's something that could be managed with security. It's still less desirable than other models of thin clients or doing things like OO.org on a desktop (Each item in that order has risks that can still be exploited internally, with the Google Apps and thin client plays being exploitable in the same manners as before, just with internal attackers.) It would be a tolerable thing for Google to come up with an Apps appliance like the search appliance they sell/lease- but it's not going to be without more issues than doing middle-weight desktops and OO.org on them.
Rob Enderle doesn't offer criticisms. He offers flame trolls like you accused this person of being.
Never once has Rob offered any good insight- only name flinging and transparent bullshit. It's so bad that his pet name in some circles is Pretenderle. His articles and papers aren't really very good and don't have very many of these things called "facts" behind them.
But then, so was strip mining of coal, many of the gold mines that are superfund sites, Rocky Flats, child labor, and a host of other things.
At some point the profit motive, if it's causing problems like this, should take a second seat to something a little more sustainable over the longer haul.
Fructose != Sucrose, they're chemically different with different absorbtion pathways in your body. Fructose is only processed directly by your liver. Sucrose is processed in the gut. Fructose causes massive insulin spikes and crashes, worse than sucrose does (which is one part fructose and one part glucose- HFCS is pretty much nothing but Fructose...)
I suggest doing a little reading up on your organic chemistry and biochemistry before making bold comments like your own. I know I have done my research- and it's not been the organic or health food industry for this one (The Aspartame one started there, but went to more "reputable" sources...).
Fructose makes you fat. Fructose makes you have vicious insulin spikes because your body doesn't distinguish glucose from fructose- and you end up with fructose in your blood stream until the liver can process it. Your liver can run off of either sugar- but it stores only one day's worth of energy reserve in glucogen inside it's structures and then starts converting the rest of the fructose and other sugars into FAT.
Combine the two and you end up with Type II Diabetes, heart disease, and so forth.
You see, Two years ago this week, I discovered by accident I was a Type II Diabetic, checking into the Emergency room with a blood sugar of 607. At that point, I started digging into causes with my doctor and other people.
Fructose was a major contributing factor. In and of itself, it's natural and you're supposed to be taking it in. But refined like it is in HFCS, it's more of a poison than Sucrose is. This is because while Fructose is bound up in the disaccaride Sucrose, it's got to be broken apart, and there's as little as a third as much fructose, all things being considered, if you stick with just Sucrose where it really IS a good thing in the mix.
Also worth noting is that there's very little need to be placing sugar of any kind in about 2/3 of the food we eat. The food industry currently does this to increase sales because it "tastes better" and they know you're inclined to be addicted to the sweet taste.
But hey, keep drinking that damn soda with corn syrup in it. Me, I'm trying to find answers that don't involve even Splenda if I can help it at all.
It stores for four times as long and is easer to manage in stocks than sucrose is. All of what you say might be true, but in the big picture sense, it's still cheaper.
It doesn't make security any easier or better. IF you compromise the boxes that people are using to access Google Apps, you've still got a problem. Either the workstations used, or a man-in-the-middle attack would be the way for someone to go if they wanted to make a hash of things in this situation.
It's folly to presume that this would make things "easier" security-wise.
I have a big problem with them outsourcing ANYTHING of theirs, information-wise, to ANY IT provider. That's just not something I'd have thought they'd have done. They might be closer than other branches of the government to be able to do this thing and have the least profile to risks, it still is a much higher risk of real problems occuring from them doing this over choosing OO.org and a migration to some other OS in a staged manner- anything supported would work, Solaris, Linux, MacOS, they all would work reasonably well for this situation.
Google Apps, the way they're doing it, can't be assured to be secure. It's a nifty idea, but unless you LIKE the idea of a potential information leak (including business critical and identity type information...), you probably don't want to be using their service unless you've no other choice.
An Apps appliance probably would be a way around this problem. Buy one like you buy some of their search engine cluster as an appliance for indexing your intranet and exposed Internet presence- that way you get the security and control you need (Though make no mistake, while it is more secure than what the FAA is now proposing, it's not as secure as OO.org would be on a desktop...)
Security is NOT one of the things I'd be claiming, using a third party to provide my app functionality by remote. If I were the person in charge, I'd probably nix this one about as fast as the DOT did Vista and Office 2007. Simply put, you can't guarantee anything about information leakage, snooping, and so forth with this model.
Anywhere I see "industrial" I see unsustainable practices for maximal profits being done.
Doesn't matter WHERE I see it. It just is.
Pack a bunch of dumb animals into a tight space, something that isn't natural- you're going to get problems. The industry's answer, drug them animals up to offset the problem. Which isn't really an answer.
As the Poultry industry seems to be figuring out- raising chickens and harvesting eggs more akin to the way one would do in the old days on a farm is actually better than the other way, costs only a little more to do, and produces much more desirable results (The eggs are more nutritious, as is the chicken meat- and they taste oh, so much better...) for only slightly more retail cost. The same goes for bread, etc. We've improved our ways of doing things such that doing things sustainably is more valuable than doing them for the lowest costs- and for each and every "cost saving" thing, we damage our health, etc.
High Fructose Corn Syrup - while it's cheaper than cane sugar and other sweeteners, HFCS makes type II diabetics out of people. And we've adulterated the food supply with the damn stuff.
Nutrasweet - I won't even begin to start on THAT stuff.
Antibiotics given to animals indescriminately - antibiotic resistant bacteria that cause problems worse than the the expense of food would be if you'd back off a little on production.
When will the food industry wise up? When will someone cashier the FDA as it currently is because it doesn't do ANYTHING of what it's supposed to do. It doesn't allow good drugs to be. It doesn't allow good food to happen. It doesn't prevent bad drugs from getting on the market. It doesn't prevent bad food production practices and additives from getting on the market. But it is the final arbiter on things for this country.
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I'm surprised that nobody's filed a RICO suit against them and the labels at this point...
Many of the people they're suing never did anything- they're just believing the people they hired
to fetch IP addresses of "traders". It falls under vexatious litigant at that point. They're not
protecting anything other than their failing business model via lawsuits.
If you buy an " Audio " CD-R, that statutory fee has been paid for.
If you buy a cassette, that statutory fee has been paid for.
Unfortunately for all the people file-trading out there, not a single one of the
piracy tariffs cover the act of infringement via file-swapping.
If you'd read the article, you'd have found out that they've figured out where most of what
we call muscle fatigue comes from. It's because the muscles overheat more than anything else.
I'd buy this.
Better training won't do you a lick of good if you're fatigued.
Better training won't do you a lick of good if your body is overheated.
You need both things, really. Now, it remains to be seen if they're doing the training
as good as they ought to (I'm of mixed opinions- some things they could be doing better,
other things they're just doing fine on.) but to say that is all they need is as bad as
the thing you're claiming them of doing.
The places where you describe this as being a potential problem couldn't afford Monsanto's or any other GM crop
company's prices for the seed grain. Sorry you've rendered your argument kind of moot, now haven't you?
It's not reached the public eye like Vioxx or some of the others. It's almost reached the
threshold, but it's not there yet. It IS a problem all the same.
I experience migraines after consumption of as little as a soda's worth. Just because you don't does
not make the substance less problematic or any less toxic. Many people have a higher toxicity threshold
for that substance than do others.
PKU people can have severe problems from it- there's a very real reason that they put that warning on
the packaging that the stuff's in the food, a PKU person can die from much lower consumption levels.
Normally they'd avoid the foods with the Phenylalanine, but they put Aspartame into the damnedst stuff
these days. Sort of like all the HFCS they keep putting into things like bread, sodas, etc. High
Fructose Corn Syrup's actually more problematic to humans than Sucrose because refined Fructose in the
concentrations we consume makes humans fat and causes those who might have a some level of risk for
Type II Diabetes to actually GET it.
While I understand your sentiments, the things we have in our food supply is disturbing. Things we really
probably ought not to consider acceptable. Aspartame's one of a bunch of them that really do fall under
the category of, "This is probably not a good idea in the first place..." and should be pulled off the market.
I suspect Splenda may even fall under that category (Chlorinated Hydrocarbons are pesticides in most cases
and if you just straight chlorinated Sucrose, you get a deadly toxin to humans...) but since it's less
problematic on the surface for me, as a Type II Diabetic, I'm forced to choose either nothing at all (Other
choices due to market considerations and FDA not approving some viable answers are barred to me...) or Splenda
stuff.
Nice.
Considering that they don't use NTFS in SD, MMC, CF, xD, etc. cards (Or ext2/ext3, etc...)
and they use FAT32 for those for interoperability with everything, MS claiming they have
a patent on that file format and everybody owes them royalties...
The only reason the landlines still worked had to do with what they did to get the reliability.
They've got huge banks of 48 volt lead-acid or better batteries that hold 48-72 hours of juice
minimum for the entire system at "normal" usage levels. If the mobile phone towers had that
level of backup, the mobiles probably would have worked as well.
And you only need to buy CodeBreaker or GameShark to do it. They sell this stuff in the stores, even...
Heh... I look at Metallica and think the same thing...
Doom3 not being as good as the hype they had on that game (Hell, they had all kinds of it
being flung about at the two QuakeCons before release... You could've drowned in the
hype it was that bad... But yet, the glimpses they handed us looked SO good, we all
bought into it...) is the real reason it didn't sell as well as it could have, not piracy.
Tell that to the GameShark people... :-)
Not everyone is online all the time.
A web-filing program requires this.
A native Linux program does not.
It's something that could be managed with security. It's still less desirable than other models of thin
clients or doing things like OO.org on a desktop (Each item in that order has risks that can still be
exploited internally, with the Google Apps and thin client plays being exploitable in the same manners
as before, just with internal attackers.) It would be a tolerable thing for Google to come up with an
Apps appliance like the search appliance they sell/lease- but it's not going to be without more issues
than doing middle-weight desktops and OO.org on them.
You're back to the "why do Google Apps?" comment at that point. You've got the apps you need on the secured desktops...
Rob Enderle doesn't offer criticisms. He offers flame trolls like you accused this person of being.
Never once has Rob offered any good insight- only name flinging and transparent bullshit. It's so
bad that his pet name in some circles is Pretenderle. His articles and papers aren't really very
good and don't have very many of these things called "facts" behind them.
No, it's an answer on the books .
But then, so was strip mining of coal, many of the gold mines that are superfund sites, Rocky Flats,
child labor, and a host of other things.
At some point the profit motive, if it's causing problems like this, should take a second seat
to something a little more sustainable over the longer haul.
It's NOT chemically identical to sucrose.
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Fructose != Sucrose, they're chemically different with different absorbtion pathways in your body.
Fructose is only processed directly by your liver. Sucrose is processed in the gut.
Fructose causes massive insulin spikes and crashes, worse than sucrose does (which is one part fructose
and one part glucose- HFCS is pretty much nothing but Fructose...)
I suggest doing a little reading up on your organic chemistry and biochemistry before making bold
comments like your own. I know I have done my research- and it's not been the organic or health
food industry for this one (The Aspartame one started there, but went to more "reputable" sources...).
And you've not been doing your reading...
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd
http://www.centre4activeliving.ca/publications/re
Fructose makes you fat. Fructose makes you have vicious insulin spikes because your body
doesn't distinguish glucose from fructose- and you end up with fructose in your blood stream
until the liver can process it. Your liver can run off of either sugar- but it stores only
one day's worth of energy reserve in glucogen inside it's structures and then starts converting
the rest of the fructose and other sugars into FAT.
Combine the two and you end up with Type II Diabetes, heart disease, and so forth.
You see, Two years ago this week, I discovered by accident I was a Type II Diabetic, checking
into the Emergency room with a blood sugar of 607. At that point, I started digging into causes
with my doctor and other people.
Fructose was a major contributing factor. In and of itself, it's natural and you're supposed
to be taking it in. But refined like it is in HFCS, it's more of a poison than Sucrose is.
This is because while Fructose is bound up in the disaccaride Sucrose, it's got to be broken
apart, and there's as little as a third as much fructose, all things being considered, if you
stick with just Sucrose where it really IS a good thing in the mix.
Also worth noting is that there's very little need to be placing sugar of any kind in about 2/3
of the food we eat. The food industry currently does this to increase sales because it "tastes
better" and they know you're inclined to be addicted to the sweet taste.
But hey, keep drinking that damn soda with corn syrup in it. Me, I'm trying to find answers that
don't involve even Splenda if I can help it at all.
It stores for four times as long and is easer to manage in stocks than sucrose is.
All of what you say might be true, but in the big picture sense, it's still cheaper.
It doesn't make security any easier or better. IF you compromise the boxes that people are using
to access Google Apps, you've still got a problem. Either the workstations used, or a man-in-the-middle
attack would be the way for someone to go if they wanted to make a hash of things in this situation.
It's folly to presume that this would make things "easier" security-wise.
I have a big problem with them outsourcing ANYTHING of theirs, information-wise, to ANY
IT provider. That's just not something I'd have thought they'd have done. They might
be closer than other branches of the government to be able to do this thing and have
the least profile to risks, it still is a much higher risk of real problems occuring
from them doing this over choosing OO.org and a migration to some other OS in a staged
manner- anything supported would work, Solaris, Linux, MacOS, they all would work
reasonably well for this situation.
Google Apps, the way they're doing it, can't be assured to be secure. It's a nifty idea, but
unless you LIKE the idea of a potential information leak (including business critical and identity
type information...), you probably don't want to be using their service unless you've no other
choice.
An Apps appliance probably would be a way around this problem. Buy one like you buy some of their
search engine cluster as an appliance for indexing your intranet and exposed Internet presence-
that way you get the security and control you need (Though make no mistake, while it is more secure
than what the FAA is now proposing, it's not as secure as OO.org would be on a desktop...)
Security is NOT one of the things I'd be claiming, using a third party to provide my app
functionality by remote. If I were the person in charge, I'd probably nix this one about
as fast as the DOT did Vista and Office 2007. Simply put, you can't guarantee anything
about information leakage, snooping, and so forth with this model.
I remember the Amiga. I remember how much more capable and powerful they were over the other "personal" computers of the day.
It's a damn shame that Commodore couldn't market/sell their way out of a wet paper bag.
Anywhere I see "industrial" I see unsustainable practices for maximal profits being done.
Doesn't matter WHERE I see it. It just is.
Pack a bunch of dumb animals into a tight space, something that isn't natural- you're going to get problems.
The industry's answer, drug them animals up to offset the problem. Which isn't really an answer.
As the Poultry industry seems to be figuring out- raising chickens and harvesting eggs more akin to the way
one would do in the old days on a farm is actually better than the other way, costs only a little more to
do, and produces much more desirable results (The eggs are more nutritious, as is the chicken meat- and they
taste oh, so much better...) for only slightly more retail cost. The same goes for bread, etc. We've improved
our ways of doing things such that doing things sustainably is more valuable than doing them for the lowest
costs- and for each and every "cost saving" thing, we damage our health, etc.
High Fructose Corn Syrup - while it's cheaper than cane sugar and other sweeteners, HFCS makes type II diabetics
out of people. And we've adulterated the food supply with the damn stuff.
Nutrasweet - I won't even begin to start on THAT stuff.
Antibiotics given to animals indescriminately - antibiotic resistant bacteria that cause problems worse than the
the expense of food would be if you'd back off a little on production.
When will the food industry wise up? When will someone cashier the FDA as it currently is because
it doesn't do ANYTHING of what it's supposed to do. It doesn't allow good drugs to be. It doesn't
allow good food to happen. It doesn't prevent bad drugs from getting on the market. It doesn't
prevent bad food production practices and additives from getting on the market. But it is the final
arbiter on things for this country.