US standards are PM2.5 of 15ppm annually and 35ppm over 24 hour average, and regions are considered "non-compliant" and have to take corrective action if they don't meet that. China hit 800ppm on 1/12/13. And you know who's fault that is? China's. Don't even pretend their government is somehow owned by US interests. It's getting closer to the other way around.
So, yes, the US is a HELL of a lot better environmentally. Please do the tiny bit of research it takes before saying stupid shit like that.
Yeah, it would be about as likely as you being able to download a photo from the Washington Post and use it just because they had a license to it from the original photographer.
A contract is a contract. People can claim otherwise on slashdot, but in the vast majority of cases the courts interpret the law correctly and don't make arbitrary decisions against clearly written agreements.
Which is *incredibly useful* now that the US has a huge professional standing army, twice as many reserves, and literally trillions of dollars of state of the art military hardware at their disposal...
If you look it up, he used 15 round magazines with the a Glock 19 (which is stock for most states). But those are actually currently illegal under the new CA law, and would be illegal under several of the new ones.
I'm not arguing with the *principle* that non-medically trained people putting a tube down their throats is dangerous, but a naso-gastric (or oro-gastric) tube is, in essence, "swallowed" - it does not touch your larynx
If done perfectly every time, maybe. But done by yourself with "hardware store tubing"? Yeah, I'm sure there would never be any mistakes or accidents with that, especially when done 2-3 times a day. Probably the same thing heroin addicts think when they are poking needles in their veins, because they never miss, either.
I assume you have never been intubated (even by a real doctor) before? They do it for most surgeries (to the trachea, not stomach) and most people have a minor sore throat afterwards. Do that yourself (all the way down to your stomach, even worse) every day and you will mess up your esophagus, larynx, of some other structure in your throat a lot faster than gastric acids would.
Yes, that is SO worth anyone's time. Make the post office line even slower and more painful than it already is, that will show the MAN! Most effective form of protest I have ever seen! Next I am going to go out and put pennies on the train track to try to destabilize the US currency!
Problem with this approach is that it requires a near 1:1 effort in terms of the resources used to people inconvenienced. AND you are mostly just inconveniencing the same people you want to convince to support your cause, which is usually counterproductive.
Reminds me of Critical Mass in SF - 1000 cyclists ride recklessly around the city once a month and clog up all of the traffic to try to raise awareness of cycling. Usually they just convince most of the people they inconvenience that cyclists are largely a bunch of arrogant self-important pricks. Which is unfortunate as I like cycling and prefer not to be lumped in with a few jackasses who think they are above the rules of the road just because their vehicle is self powered.
Yeah, I'd think of it more like: it's legal to walk into an office lobby and talk to the receptionist. But it's not legal to stay in the office lobby harassing the receptionist after they have asked you to leave. That becomes trespassing an/or harassment.
Not sure how effective that is in many big cities... try it in downtown Manhattan and no one would even notice because there are ALWAYS people crossing the street.
He didn't point out anything anyone in the industry didn't already know. This was an intentional implementation more than a decade old, not some obscure security hole. Go look up "mobile web proxy", "mobile proxy browser", etc. (has also been used for many years on old set-top boxes).
And Nokia's TOS says they don't collect any information. You could choose not to believe that, but if you don't believe any TOS from any company who's services you use, you don't need a web browser anyway.
HTTP and HTTPS are just protocols to retrieve data. Usually the same HTML data. It's about time, it's about capability. The tiny crappy phones (or really most phones with browsers more than 6-7 years ago) just couldn't render the average web site at ALL, let alone slowly.
The point is this is NOT an insidious secret plot, this is a well established mechanism more than a decade old. The linked article did a bunch of useless work to "discover" something anyone who cared already knew.
I hate to say it since it's a paraphrase of the usual trite anti-gun regulation argument, but.. if we put computer controlled gun locks on all of the legal guns then only criminals will be able to shoot back.
Which is pretty much guaranteed, as most of the 300M+ existing guns in the US are trivially simple mechanical devices that can probably remain functional for the next century or more...
No it's not. This has been done on older and/or low end cell phone browsers for years. This "security researcher" mentioned must be completely clueless if he didn't know that...
Think of it this way - the *browser* it really on their server, and the app on the phone just displays simplified/pre-rendered content. This is the only way you are going to get a decent web browser on low end phones without enough memory or CPU power to handle all of the HTML/JS that can be thrown at it.
GI contrast, yes, should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron. Seriously asking for suggestions of a replacement would have been pretty stupid, but he was being facetious, which again should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron (or AC troll, I suppose).
And even if you are somehow not a moron, but just an extremely sheltered, naive Internet user - well, there's this site called Google...
Now you're just trading for an inaccuracy of linear measure. With a KG weight it's impossible (under any current technology) to create a perfectly geometric crystal. And with the scale needed to guarantee it's a perfectly geometric crystal it's impossible to accurately sum enough of them to make exactly a KG.
Like I said, I question the value, but the cost just isn't that much. People seem to think 300TB is a big number to store or manage, but it's really not any more.
And honestly, I relish the day when all of the teens and twentysomethings get older and start running companies or running for political office and rather than guess at their *real* past lives we can just search for all of the idiotic/offensive/racist comments they made over the years...
I completely agree - and "the customer is always right" is an adage that's been around as long as there have been customers. Would be nice if more companies heeded to it, but plenty do any they don't need "trendy models" like Agile to do it...
Though when you think about it... one of the biggest tenets of Agile is "iterative design" - which means get a solid base set of features and then add new ones as customers use the product and figure out what else they want. If you think of it that way, Apple may be one of the most "Agile" hardware companies around. The original iPhone may have been somewhat revolutionary, but now they just like to *pretend* they are dictating smartphone features by telling customers they don't need what what's missing - until the next model, when it somehow becomes an essential feature;)
Well... 3D printers have been used for a while for this sort of thing already. On one project I worked on that used them for prototypes, the cost for a few prototypes of a STB remote control was something like $5000 per unit. In the end the fit wasn't that great, and it was a lot more fragile than the final product (which means there's no way you give it to customers for real world use - just for flashy demos;) Of course the printed part was just covered the plastic case, not any of the electronics inside, which also adds to the cost and isn't solved by printing...
But anyway - I should focus my previous statement - Agile really isn't a viable model right now for mass-market hardware in terms of rapid *release* and customer feedback. But like anything, there could always be elements of it that can help the development process. Then again, that's my same opinion for Agile in a lot of *software* development... parts of it are great ideas/rules of thumb, but (somewhat appropriately) agility in development methodologies is probably better than a strict Agile methodology;)
*Internally* or for individual parts of the design (like motherboard layout and prototype manufacturing) it may be a good idea to follow some agile techniques, definitely. I have been involved in the design of several hardware products, and there were definitely 3-4 iterations of the mainboard (then again, that's really the case whether you go agile or not, but it's entirely possible applying some agile principles can speed up the process).
I guess it's more the "customer feedback" part I was really disagreeing with to any real extent. For example, one project I was on we had a remote control custom designed from scratch. The first few prototypes (which were rushed to get ready for CES demos, etc, of course) cost a ton in NRE plus about $5000 each as they were made to order with a 3D printer, etc. Needless to say they didn't put them in many "customers'" hands;) It's definitely useful in that case to do some focus groups, etc, but that's hardly new to "agile", that's been around for a long time...
Agile is a horrible model for hardware design. The whole point is a rapid release cycle to get that constant feedback from users. That only works if you can update your product rapidly, which is a bit hard when it's a complex and highly integrated piece of hardware. Redesigning even a small custom piece of plastic has a huge pipeline to get it designed, prototyped, final mold made, tooled, and built.
The only way hardware like this is remotely affordable or profitable is giant economy of scale (manufacturers routinely spend hundreds of thousands to redesign motherboards just to save a couple dollars each), so making custom batches of 100 laptops would be insanely expensive.
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US standards are PM2.5 of 15ppm annually and 35ppm over 24 hour average, and regions are considered "non-compliant" and have to take corrective action if they don't meet that. China hit 800ppm on 1/12/13. And you know who's fault that is? China's. Don't even pretend their government is somehow owned by US interests. It's getting closer to the other way around.
So, yes, the US is a HELL of a lot better environmentally. Please do the tiny bit of research it takes before saying stupid shit like that.
Yeah, it would be about as likely as you being able to download a photo from the Washington Post and use it just because they had a license to it from the original photographer.
A contract is a contract. People can claim otherwise on slashdot, but in the vast majority of cases the courts interpret the law correctly and don't make arbitrary decisions against clearly written agreements.
It may be spelled out for *Twitter's* commercial use, but not for any company that wants to take your image and use it for themselves.
Which is *incredibly useful* now that the US has a huge professional standing army, twice as many reserves, and literally trillions of dollars of state of the art military hardware at their disposal...
If you look it up, he used 15 round magazines with the a Glock 19 (which is stock for most states). But those are actually currently illegal under the new CA law, and would be illegal under several of the new ones.
That, and apply a filter so you can make a perfectly good digital photograph look like an old Polaroid from the 60's after someone's cat peed on it.
I'm not arguing with the *principle* that non-medically trained people putting a tube down their throats is dangerous, but a naso-gastric (or oro-gastric) tube is, in essence, "swallowed" - it does not touch your larynx
If done perfectly every time, maybe. But done by yourself with "hardware store tubing"? Yeah, I'm sure there would never be any mistakes or accidents with that, especially when done 2-3 times a day. Probably the same thing heroin addicts think when they are poking needles in their veins, because they never miss, either.
...is called Vaseline.
I assume you have never been intubated (even by a real doctor) before? They do it for most surgeries (to the trachea, not stomach) and most people have a minor sore throat afterwards. Do that yourself (all the way down to your stomach, even worse) every day and you will mess up your esophagus, larynx, of some other structure in your throat a lot faster than gastric acids would.
Yes, that is SO worth anyone's time. Make the post office line even slower and more painful than it already is, that will show the MAN! Most effective form of protest I have ever seen! Next I am going to go out and put pennies on the train track to try to destabilize the US currency!
Problem with this approach is that it requires a near 1:1 effort in terms of the resources used to people inconvenienced. AND you are mostly just inconveniencing the same people you want to convince to support your cause, which is usually counterproductive.
Reminds me of Critical Mass in SF - 1000 cyclists ride recklessly around the city once a month and clog up all of the traffic to try to raise awareness of cycling. Usually they just convince most of the people they inconvenience that cyclists are largely a bunch of arrogant self-important pricks. Which is unfortunate as I like cycling and prefer not to be lumped in with a few jackasses who think they are above the rules of the road just because their vehicle is self powered.
Yeah, I'd think of it more like: it's legal to walk into an office lobby and talk to the receptionist. But it's not legal to stay in the office lobby harassing the receptionist after they have asked you to leave. That becomes trespassing an/or harassment.
Not sure how effective that is in many big cities... try it in downtown Manhattan and no one would even notice because there are ALWAYS people crossing the street.
"Hey, can I trade in my digital downloaded? I *promise* not to make a copy first..."
He didn't point out anything anyone in the industry didn't already know. This was an intentional implementation more than a decade old, not some obscure security hole. Go look up "mobile web proxy", "mobile proxy browser", etc. (has also been used for many years on old set-top boxes).
And Nokia's TOS says they don't collect any information. You could choose not to believe that, but if you don't believe any TOS from any company who's services you use, you don't need a web browser anyway.
Where is the exploit here again?
HTTP and HTTPS are just protocols to retrieve data. Usually the same HTML data. It's about time, it's about capability. The tiny crappy phones (or really most phones with browsers more than 6-7 years ago) just couldn't render the average web site at ALL, let alone slowly.
The point is this is NOT an insidious secret plot, this is a well established mechanism more than a decade old. The linked article did a bunch of useless work to "discover" something anyone who cared already knew.
I hate to say it since it's a paraphrase of the usual trite anti-gun regulation argument, but.. if we put computer controlled gun locks on all of the legal guns then only criminals will be able to shoot back.
Which is pretty much guaranteed, as most of the 300M+ existing guns in the US are trivially simple mechanical devices that can probably remain functional for the next century or more...
No it's not. This has been done on older and/or low end cell phone browsers for years. This "security researcher" mentioned must be completely clueless if he didn't know that...
Think of it this way - the *browser* it really on their server, and the app on the phone just displays simplified/pre-rendered content. This is the only way you are going to get a decent web browser on low end phones without enough memory or CPU power to handle all of the HTML/JS that can be thrown at it.
GI contrast, yes, should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron. Seriously asking for suggestions of a replacement would have been pretty stupid, but he was being facetious, which again should be familiar to anyone who isn't a moron (or AC troll, I suppose).
And even if you are somehow not a moron, but just an extremely sheltered, naive Internet user - well, there's this site called Google...
Now you're just trading for an inaccuracy of linear measure. With a KG weight it's impossible (under any current technology) to create a perfectly geometric crystal. And with the scale needed to guarantee it's a perfectly geometric crystal it's impossible to accurately sum enough of them to make exactly a KG.
As long as you can exactly count all of the atoms in a weight. Otherwise it's more useless for comparative measurement than a king's foot.
Like I said, I question the value, but the cost just isn't that much. People seem to think 300TB is a big number to store or manage, but it's really not any more.
And honestly, I relish the day when all of the teens and twentysomethings get older and start running companies or running for political office and rather than guess at their *real* past lives we can just search for all of the idiotic/offensive/racist comments they made over the years...
I completely agree - and "the customer is always right" is an adage that's been around as long as there have been customers. Would be nice if more companies heeded to it, but plenty do any they don't need "trendy models" like Agile to do it...
Though when you think about it... one of the biggest tenets of Agile is "iterative design" - which means get a solid base set of features and then add new ones as customers use the product and figure out what else they want. If you think of it that way, Apple may be one of the most "Agile" hardware companies around. The original iPhone may have been somewhat revolutionary, but now they just like to *pretend* they are dictating smartphone features by telling customers they don't need what what's missing - until the next model, when it somehow becomes an essential feature ;)
Well... 3D printers have been used for a while for this sort of thing already. On one project I worked on that used them for prototypes, the cost for a few prototypes of a STB remote control was something like $5000 per unit. In the end the fit wasn't that great, and it was a lot more fragile than the final product (which means there's no way you give it to customers for real world use - just for flashy demos ;) Of course the printed part was just covered the plastic case, not any of the electronics inside, which also adds to the cost and isn't solved by printing...
But anyway - I should focus my previous statement - Agile really isn't a viable model right now for mass-market hardware in terms of rapid *release* and customer feedback. But like anything, there could always be elements of it that can help the development process. Then again, that's my same opinion for Agile in a lot of *software* development... parts of it are great ideas/rules of thumb, but (somewhat appropriately) agility in development methodologies is probably better than a strict Agile methodology ;)
*Internally* or for individual parts of the design (like motherboard layout and prototype manufacturing) it may be a good idea to follow some agile techniques, definitely. I have been involved in the design of several hardware products, and there were definitely 3-4 iterations of the mainboard (then again, that's really the case whether you go agile or not, but it's entirely possible applying some agile principles can speed up the process).
I guess it's more the "customer feedback" part I was really disagreeing with to any real extent. For example, one project I was on we had a remote control custom designed from scratch. The first few prototypes (which were rushed to get ready for CES demos, etc, of course) cost a ton in NRE plus about $5000 each as they were made to order with a 3D printer, etc. Needless to say they didn't put them in many "customers'" hands ;) It's definitely useful in that case to do some focus groups, etc, but that's hardly new to "agile", that's been around for a long time...
Agile is a horrible model for hardware design. The whole point is a rapid release cycle to get that constant feedback from users. That only works if you can update your product rapidly, which is a bit hard when it's a complex and highly integrated piece of hardware. Redesigning even a small custom piece of plastic has a huge pipeline to get it designed, prototyped, final mold made, tooled, and built.
The only way hardware like this is remotely affordable or profitable is giant economy of scale (manufacturers routinely spend hundreds of thousands to redesign motherboards just to save a couple dollars each), so making custom batches of 100 laptops would be insanely expensive.