It never ceases to amaze me how much we still don't know about biology and life. You'd have thought that all cellular processes would be fully understood by now, but since we still don't even know the functions of all proteins (let alone "junk" DNA that has been found to have important functions as well), I guess that's obviously not the case.
From a technical standpoint, what is stopping manufacturers from creating Micro-USB or USB-C headphones now? Nothing. So why aren't there many to choose from? There is no incentive because there is no market. That's what I'm talking about, is Samsung creating a market for those devices. Unless the market is forced, it will not exist, and Samsung phones will not have a vibrant market of digital audio peripherals for their customers, yet Apple will. It's an arms race that Apple is winning, and that Samsung must play if they want to stay in the game.
Samsung has no choice here. As the only real competitor to Apple, they can't be left with 40 year old analog technology while the rest of the industry is tripping over themselves to make audio hardware that supports the Lightning connector, which Apple exclusively controls all the licensing for. If Samsung does not remove the analog audio jack, then there will not be a large enough market for a micro-USB digital audio competitor to Apple's Lightning. The only way to get manufacturers to produce enough USB audio devices is to create a large market (and thus a low enough price point to compete with Lightning audio devices), only Samsung moves enough Android handsets to do that, and it has to be done by removing the analog audio jack. Apple has already caught Samsung flat-footed here, and there is going to be a significant delay until companies start producing micro-USB audio hardware. The Lightening audio market will be flourishing (if it isn't already) before Samsung even gets the devices to market.
Android devices will also face an issue with compatibility. Micro-USB does not by default support powering peripherals. That is what USB On-The-Go (OTG) is for. What this means is that micro-USB headphones will not work on all Android devices, because not all devices support OTG. Especially older ones and the cheap tablet market. That fragmentation will result in a negative impression of Android for some people (these new micro-USB headphones work with my wife's Android phone, but not my tablet - how come?).
It is an open investigation, and Snopes provides no evidence that the claim is false. There is no way Snopes can say that "DNC staffer Seth Rich was gunned down to prevent him from meeting with the FBI over plans to testify against Hillary Clinton." is FALSE. In fact, they don't have the ability to form an opinion one way or another. If you read the entire "debunking" you'll see they just talk about stuff and offer opinions, but no facts whatsoever. That was really one of the first things that turned me off to Snopes.
Finally, regarding the "problem" being on my end, I'm not the one making claims that I should be trusted and the authority on whether or not statements are true or not. What I see is Snopes making black and white judgements without any backing evidence at all in some cases. Snopes is the one with a burden to bear, not me. Nice try trying to make this about me though.
Exactly, and say what you want, but the USA is, for the most part, good. If either of these individuals (Assange, Castro) would have crossed Russia like they did the US, you'd better believe they would have been assassinated by now. Especially Snowden, without any doubt whatsoever. Russia would have had the mentality that he was one of their own, he was a traitor, and thus he would be killed regardless of where he was hiding out. Snowden would probably have gotten a nice dose of polonium like Litvinenko, as that's a particularly nasty way to kill off a trusted intelligence worker who has become a traitor. The bad thing about that is you're lying there for several days knowing and contemplating you'll be dead very soon, after lots of pain and suffering.
I haven't noticed a pro-Trump stance from Slashdot stories (and commentors). However I have definitely noticed a very strong anti-Hillary tone here at Slashdot, which at first was very surprising. However, I think that stems from the fact that the typical Slashdotter better understands the ramifications and details of the whole email server thing than the general populace. Most of the strong political opinions I'm seeing here are in that regard, and seem to originate from the private email server.
So any pro-Trump leaning is really anti-Hillary. Which is pretty much how this election is working out in general - who hates which candidate the least.
Regarding Snopes, I now only trust them for debunking trivial, stupid internet meme type things, and not at all when it comes to politics (or much of anything serious for that matter). They are extremely biased in favor of Clinton and "debunk" things without any actual proof or showing contradictory evidence whatsoever. It is totally meaningless that Snopes can't happen to find evidence portraying Clinton negatively.
While not conclusive, he pretty much debunks this conspiracy theory of launchpad sabotage.
I assume you're saying that he tries to identify and explain the anomalies seen in the videos we have access to. That certainly does not debunk theories of launchpad sabotage, but only applies to those oddities in the video that apparently had nothing to do with the explosion.
This sounds like a data capture initiative. Aetna has access to full medical records of those they insure. The Apple Watch captures enough health data continuously for them to be able to correlate a person's behavior with the amount of money it costs to cover their healthcare needs. This could be used to filter out who NOT to insure or how much more to charge a customer based on their lifestyle. It also could potentially decrease costs by helping people live healthier lives as well, but knowing insurance companies, data is more important to them than anything, and this is a tremendous source of it.
While out hiking in dense old-growth forests, I was curious if there was more oxygen there from being surrounded by so many trees. I wondered if, perhaps, there was enough additional oxygen in the air to have a clinical affect on my metabolism (perhaps I didn't breath quite as fast because of all that extra O2 generated by the forest). Some very quick research revealed that is definitely not the case, because there is simply already such a massive amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. If you took 100% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, which is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, and converted every bit of it to O2, you still would not raise the level of oxygen by 1/10th of a percent. So that should give an idea of what a minuscule percentage of the Earth's oxygen is being cycled in organic processes.
Undoing accidental moderation, cause Slashdot expects all users to be infallible and never accidentally select the wrong option from a drop-list which immediately moderates without any confirmation step whatsoever, which is an *absolutely* brilliant UI design.
I don't think any of the problems you state are legitimate.
The autoinjector he uses is a medically approved device used by many diabetics that can't bring themselves to casual stick a needle into their body and then inject the insulin.
1) Dosing is a big issue. Huge. Not just determining the correct dose but mechanically and reliably administering the correct dose. This is NOT a trivial concern. Both under and overdosing with epinephrine can be a very serious matter.
For dosing, it cannot administer more than was loaded into the syringe. Those with severe allergies can get approval and training from their physician to use a regular syringe and ampule to administer epinephrine to themselves (or a parent to a child). If dosing isn't a concern there, then it isn't a concern with preloading a syringe. Whether or not it injects the full amount is a factor of whether the device has been medically approved, and this autoinjector has been. If it is not killing patients by not injecting the full amount of insulin, then we shouldn't have to worry about its efficacy to deliver some other drug. So dosing is not a "big issue". As for the depth setting, that can simply be set ahead of time and glued in place.
2) Quality control in a device like this is essentially nonexistent. It might work but you can virtually guarantee that it won't always work. If it doesn't then that will very likely result in serious injury or possibly death. I work in a company that makes components for medical devices. The quality control standards are VERY stringent for very good reasons.
Quality control, as stated, isn't an issue, as the whole concept of using this device to operate a syringe that was loaded by the patient has been approved by the FDA and is in use.
3) Sourcing the medication. Sure you might be able to buy it but there are VERY good reasons why we have a controlled supply chain in the pharmaceutical industry. You are seriously rolling the dice if you buy outside the normal supply chain.
This is an alternative for people who can already legitimately get an EpiPen. If someone can get a prescription for an EpiPen then there are legitimate ways they can get prescriptions for ampules of epinephrine too. I already stated that physicians will write prescriptions for epinephrine for patients who will self-administer via a standard syringe.
4) The person who administers the injection is quite likely to not be the person who built the device. This raises a whole host of problems.
And? How is that any different than the person using an EpiPenis not the machine that made the device? You push the button and push it against the thigh, or vice versa. With an epipen you have to remove the safety from the back. Both require the same amount of steps and are obvious enough to use.
My concerns are more practical I do believe.
1) Sterility is a big concern. Any time you remove something from packaging it is no longer sterile. Medically that needle cannot be considered sterile. Further, I doubt the device he uses protects the needle from contamination in any way. It is designed to load and use immediately. Throwing the thing in a purse or backpack is a sure way to let dirt enter through the opening and get on the needle, etc.
2) Safety. The device appears easier to 'misfire" than an EpiPen, which has a cap that must be removed from the back of the device. With this, just through handling, I can see a person accidentally setting it off by pushing the button and bumping the bottom at the same time.
3) Size. This thing is bigger and bulkier than an EpiPenby quite a bit - across every axis it is larger.
4) Loss of medication. Prefilling a syringe and then storing it without an airtight cap could lead to a loss of medication. I suppose things like barometric changes in pressure could cause some medication to come out. I just don't know that surface tension is enough to keep all the liquid in the syringe indefinitely when the tip of the needle is open to the atmosphere, especially when it's being bounced around and vibrated, like riding in a car, etc.
The entire website is of course not implemented using client side technology of that sort. Only the interactive bits for cognitive training that children interact with.
Our dev team recently spent an entire iteration enhancing the performance of our online products. They involve lots of resource loading, WebGL rendering, HTML5 canvas rendering, etc. Our benchmarks showed Edge was far and away the best performer of our supported browsers (Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox, OSX Safari), particularly when it came to loading time. We develop using Chrome and only do compatibility testing on Edge, but all the times I've used it I was impressed.
Obviously you're being facetious, as the Leaf uses tires like any other car. It also has regular pneumatic brakes too, although with regenerative braking you shouldn't go through pads very fast unless you brake really hard a lot.
Juno will zoom within 2,600 miles (4,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops -- closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission
Which makes it sound like it's not supposed to come that close to Jupiter. Obviously it is scheduled to come that close to Jupiter - the actual article says it's the "closest" it will come, not "closer" than it is scheduled to.
This is very much the case, given the fact that all Android devices run on the same family of processor. One of the key points of Java, the VM, is binary executable portability, which isn't even an issue for Android at all. Google could have just created a standard compiler for Java (the language) to produce ARM assembly if they were so in love with that particular language. Or pulled an Apple and used some obscure (at the time) language like Objective-C. Or they could have just used... gasp... C++. Or pulled another Apple and created a new language like Swift.
So if I understand this correctly, this simply means that *if* an attacker can brute-force a key and decrypt messages between two individuals, then they can also go back and decrypt past messages further back than the author of this article thinks they should be able to? If that's the case, then if an entity has the processing power and skill to brute force the key in the first place, the fact that they have to be bothered to do it again X number of times isn't exactly reassuring. If they want to access your messages bad enough to spend the computational resources and they can brute force them at all, having to do it several more times to access historical data is pretty trivial.
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It never ceases to amaze me how much we still don't know about biology and life. You'd have thought that all cellular processes would be fully understood by now, but since we still don't even know the functions of all proteins (let alone "junk" DNA that has been found to have important functions as well), I guess that's obviously not the case.
From a technical standpoint, what is stopping manufacturers from creating Micro-USB or USB-C headphones now? Nothing. So why aren't there many to choose from? There is no incentive because there is no market. That's what I'm talking about, is Samsung creating a market for those devices. Unless the market is forced, it will not exist, and Samsung phones will not have a vibrant market of digital audio peripherals for their customers, yet Apple will. It's an arms race that Apple is winning, and that Samsung must play if they want to stay in the game.
Samsung has no choice here. As the only real competitor to Apple, they can't be left with 40 year old analog technology while the rest of the industry is tripping over themselves to make audio hardware that supports the Lightning connector, which Apple exclusively controls all the licensing for. If Samsung does not remove the analog audio jack, then there will not be a large enough market for a micro-USB digital audio competitor to Apple's Lightning. The only way to get manufacturers to produce enough USB audio devices is to create a large market (and thus a low enough price point to compete with Lightning audio devices), only Samsung moves enough Android handsets to do that, and it has to be done by removing the analog audio jack. Apple has already caught Samsung flat-footed here, and there is going to be a significant delay until companies start producing micro-USB audio hardware. The Lightening audio market will be flourishing (if it isn't already) before Samsung even gets the devices to market.
Android devices will also face an issue with compatibility. Micro-USB does not by default support powering peripherals. That is what USB On-The-Go (OTG) is for. What this means is that micro-USB headphones will not work on all Android devices, because not all devices support OTG. Especially older ones and the cheap tablet market. That fragmentation will result in a negative impression of Android for some people (these new micro-USB headphones work with my wife's Android phone, but not my tablet - how come?).
Here's an example:
http://www.snopes.com/seth-con...
It is an open investigation, and Snopes provides no evidence that the claim is false. There is no way Snopes can say that "DNC staffer Seth Rich was gunned down to prevent him from meeting with the FBI over plans to testify against Hillary Clinton." is FALSE. In fact, they don't have the ability to form an opinion one way or another. If you read the entire "debunking" you'll see they just talk about stuff and offer opinions, but no facts whatsoever. That was really one of the first things that turned me off to Snopes.
Finally, regarding the "problem" being on my end, I'm not the one making claims that I should be trusted and the authority on whether or not statements are true or not. What I see is Snopes making black and white judgements without any backing evidence at all in some cases. Snopes is the one with a burden to bear, not me. Nice try trying to make this about me though.
Exactly, and say what you want, but the USA is, for the most part, good. If either of these individuals (Assange, Castro) would have crossed Russia like they did the US, you'd better believe they would have been assassinated by now. Especially Snowden, without any doubt whatsoever. Russia would have had the mentality that he was one of their own, he was a traitor, and thus he would be killed regardless of where he was hiding out. Snowden would probably have gotten a nice dose of polonium like Litvinenko, as that's a particularly nasty way to kill off a trusted intelligence worker who has become a traitor. The bad thing about that is you're lying there for several days knowing and contemplating you'll be dead very soon, after lots of pain and suffering.
I haven't noticed a pro-Trump stance from Slashdot stories (and commentors). However I have definitely noticed a very strong anti-Hillary tone here at Slashdot, which at first was very surprising. However, I think that stems from the fact that the typical Slashdotter better understands the ramifications and details of the whole email server thing than the general populace. Most of the strong political opinions I'm seeing here are in that regard, and seem to originate from the private email server.
So any pro-Trump leaning is really anti-Hillary. Which is pretty much how this election is working out in general - who hates which candidate the least.
Regarding Snopes, I now only trust them for debunking trivial, stupid internet meme type things, and not at all when it comes to politics (or much of anything serious for that matter). They are extremely biased in favor of Clinton and "debunk" things without any actual proof or showing contradictory evidence whatsoever. It is totally meaningless that Snopes can't happen to find evidence portraying Clinton negatively.
While not conclusive, he pretty much debunks this conspiracy theory of launchpad sabotage.
I assume you're saying that he tries to identify and explain the anomalies seen in the videos we have access to. That certainly does not debunk theories of launchpad sabotage, but only applies to those oddities in the video that apparently had nothing to do with the explosion.
First we have
New California Law Allows Test of Autonomous Shuttle With No Driver
Followed by
Print-On-Demand Bone Could Quickly Mend Major Injuries
I think I sense a theme.
This sounds like a data capture initiative. Aetna has access to full medical records of those they insure. The Apple Watch captures enough health data continuously for them to be able to correlate a person's behavior with the amount of money it costs to cover their healthcare needs. This could be used to filter out who NOT to insure or how much more to charge a customer based on their lifestyle. It also could potentially decrease costs by helping people live healthier lives as well, but knowing insurance companies, data is more important to them than anything, and this is a tremendous source of it.
"Sometimes I start to think California is not such a bad place..."
Well there's your mistake right there.
While out hiking in dense old-growth forests, I was curious if there was more oxygen there from being surrounded by so many trees. I wondered if, perhaps, there was enough additional oxygen in the air to have a clinical affect on my metabolism (perhaps I didn't breath quite as fast because of all that extra O2 generated by the forest). Some very quick research revealed that is definitely not the case, because there is simply already such a massive amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. If you took 100% of the CO2 in the atmosphere, which is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, and converted every bit of it to O2, you still would not raise the level of oxygen by 1/10th of a percent. So that should give an idea of what a minuscule percentage of the Earth's oxygen is being cycled in organic processes.
Undoing accidental moderation, cause Slashdot expects all users to be infallible and never accidentally select the wrong option from a drop-list which immediately moderates without any confirmation step whatsoever, which is an *absolutely* brilliant UI design.
I don't think any of the problems you state are legitimate.
The autoinjector he uses is a medically approved device used by many diabetics that can't bring themselves to casual stick a needle into their body and then inject the insulin.
1) Dosing is a big issue. Huge. Not just determining the correct dose but mechanically and reliably administering the correct dose. This is NOT a trivial concern. Both under and overdosing with epinephrine can be a very serious matter.
For dosing, it cannot administer more than was loaded into the syringe. Those with severe allergies can get approval and training from their physician to use a regular syringe and ampule to administer epinephrine to themselves (or a parent to a child). If dosing isn't a concern there, then it isn't a concern with preloading a syringe. Whether or not it injects the full amount is a factor of whether the device has been medically approved, and this autoinjector has been. If it is not killing patients by not injecting the full amount of insulin, then we shouldn't have to worry about its efficacy to deliver some other drug. So dosing is not a "big issue". As for the depth setting, that can simply be set ahead of time and glued in place.
2) Quality control in a device like this is essentially nonexistent. It might work but you can virtually guarantee that it won't always work. If it doesn't then that will very likely result in serious injury or possibly death. I work in a company that makes components for medical devices. The quality control standards are VERY stringent for very good reasons.
Quality control, as stated, isn't an issue, as the whole concept of using this device to operate a syringe that was loaded by the patient has been approved by the FDA and is in use.
3) Sourcing the medication. Sure you might be able to buy it but there are VERY good reasons why we have a controlled supply chain in the pharmaceutical industry. You are seriously rolling the dice if you buy outside the normal supply chain.
This is an alternative for people who can already legitimately get an EpiPen. If someone can get a prescription for an EpiPen then there are legitimate ways they can get prescriptions for ampules of epinephrine too. I already stated that physicians will write prescriptions for epinephrine for patients who will self-administer via a standard syringe.
4) The person who administers the injection is quite likely to not be the person who built the device. This raises a whole host of problems.
And? How is that any different than the person using an EpiPenis not the machine that made the device? You push the button and push it against the thigh, or vice versa. With an epipen you have to remove the safety from the back. Both require the same amount of steps and are obvious enough to use.
My concerns are more practical I do believe.
1) Sterility is a big concern. Any time you remove something from packaging it is no longer sterile. Medically that needle cannot be considered sterile. Further, I doubt the device he uses protects the needle from contamination in any way. It is designed to load and use immediately. Throwing the thing in a purse or backpack is a sure way to let dirt enter through the opening and get on the needle, etc.
2) Safety. The device appears easier to 'misfire" than an EpiPen, which has a cap that must be removed from the back of the device. With this, just through handling, I can see a person accidentally setting it off by pushing the button and bumping the bottom at the same time.
3) Size. This thing is bigger and bulkier than an EpiPenby quite a bit - across every axis it is larger.
4) Loss of medication. Prefilling a syringe and then storing it without an airtight cap could lead to a loss of medication. I suppose things like barometric changes in pressure could cause some medication to come out. I just don't know that surface tension is enough to keep all the liquid in the syringe indefinitely when the tip of the needle is open to the atmosphere, especially when it's being bounced around and vibrated, like riding in a car, etc.
Will Oracle Surrender NetBeans to Apache?
Why is this posed as a question? The articles say Oracle has already turned it over to Apache.
Also, when I see stuff like this:
The finest IDE in existence
My attention immediately shuts off any I have no respect for what that person is saying. Sounds like marketing drivel.
If one considers "eliminating the pull of Earth's gravity" also as being weightless, then being in orbit makes this an accurate statement.
The entire website is of course not implemented using client side technology of that sort. Only the interactive bits for cognitive training that children interact with.
Our dev team recently spent an entire iteration enhancing the performance of our online products. They involve lots of resource loading, WebGL rendering, HTML5 canvas rendering, etc. Our benchmarks showed Edge was far and away the best performer of our supported browsers (Chrome, IE, Edge, Firefox, OSX Safari), particularly when it came to loading time. We develop using Chrome and only do compatibility testing on Edge, but all the times I've used it I was impressed.
Obviously you're being facetious, as the Leaf uses tires like any other car. It also has regular pneumatic brakes too, although with regenerative braking you shouldn't go through pads very fast unless you brake really hard a lot.
Apple's SOCs ... simply do more with less resources
That's because the tagline for Java could be:
simply do less with more resources
Sometimes we make noises that will attract animals so that we can study them.
On occasion, but the vast majority of time that we make noises to attract animals is so we can shoot them.
Juno will zoom within 2,600 miles (4,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops -- closer than the probe is scheduled to come during its entire mission
Which makes it sound like it's not supposed to come that close to Jupiter. Obviously it is scheduled to come that close to Jupiter - the actual article says it's the "closest" it will come, not "closer" than it is scheduled to.
This is very much the case, given the fact that all Android devices run on the same family of processor. One of the key points of Java, the VM, is binary executable portability, which isn't even an issue for Android at all. Google could have just created a standard compiler for Java (the language) to produce ARM assembly if they were so in love with that particular language. Or pulled an Apple and used some obscure (at the time) language like Objective-C. Or they could have just used... gasp... C++. Or pulled another Apple and created a new language like Swift.
Hmm Yellow pages doesn't require you to sign off on T's & C's before you use it
I don't think the data-scraping bot that agreed to the terms and conditions gives that much thought.
So if I understand this correctly, this simply means that *if* an attacker can brute-force a key and decrypt messages between two individuals, then they can also go back and decrypt past messages further back than the author of this article thinks they should be able to? If that's the case, then if an entity has the processing power and skill to brute force the key in the first place, the fact that they have to be bothered to do it again X number of times isn't exactly reassuring. If they want to access your messages bad enough to spend the computational resources and they can brute force them at all, having to do it several more times to access historical data is pretty trivial.