Again, you are looking at worst-case scenarios when there is no indication that such is the case. To the contrary, there is no tone of urgency or immanent danger, and she has been well controlled for quite a time. So are the kids in danger now? Not really.
Diabetic people (your next example) can be auto-monitored and auto-medicated. The most frightening thing about epilepsy is that it's completely unpredictable and seizures do not require warnings.
Not all the time - mistakes happen. I've passed out a few times, and the last time I tried to stand up in the kitchen, and BANG. No warning whatsoever, due to interference with another medication. Must have tried to get up again, because both sides of my body had bruises. Also, the kitchen floor is tile, so I had a nice concussion for a few weeks. And I hit the chair seat with my head on the way down, so a really, really sore sore neck. I was out for a bit more than an hour, and when I woke up I went to bed to sleep it all off. That's not the only time I've ended up with a concussion - so I guess it's a good thing I've got something of a hard head:-)
Like most ask slashdots, the user didn't post enough info, and isn't posting responses to provide that info, possibly because of all the crazies saying they are unfit parents. They aren't. If anything, cameras all over the place is overkill. A seizure alert dog can signal for help in less time than it takes for him to get the alarm, log into his video server, check the web cams, and then call for help. Also the seizure alert dog will prevent the kids from getting too close and maybe getting a good whack. No electronic solution can do that, and doesn't require action from the kids, who will probably be freaking out.
The key word in your argument is "potential." There are many different types of seizures, and most don't require hospitalization - the person will have come out of it well before an ambulance can get there and fully recover in between 10 minutes to a half hour. It's most likely that the next seizure (if it happens) will be like the previous ones, so they know what to expect.
So you think that a person who might pass out from hypoglycemia due to an insulin miscalculation isn't capable of providing supervision for an infant and a two-year-old? News flash - diabetics do it all the time.
So what are you saying -- epileptic people are broken subhumans and it's irresponsible for them to try to live independently? It's one thing to ban them from driving or operating heavy machinery, it's another to suggest that they can't bring up their own children.
What do you expect from a bunch of people who have a distorted view of the real world because they spend so much time away from it that every problem needs to absolutely have a 100% perfect technical solution? According to their world view, the mother is a bug. Bugs must be eliminated. Ergo...
All I can say is it must be nice in that world, where every people problem has a 100% solution rate and nobody is competent if they have a physical or mental illness... of course, their black or white distorted thinking would also disqualify them as they probably have borderline personality disorder, since they can't recognize that life has at least 50 shades of grey.
That's ignorant. Most seizures are under a minute to a minute and a half. Parents with insulin-dependent diabetes can pass out for a LOT longer than that due to hypoglycemia, but nobody's saying "OMG Here's what can happen. Bad parent!"
And most parents are smart enough to have made the wall sockets child-resistant.
There is no blatent lie. Who is looking after the two year old and infant if the mother is having a seizure? Clearly the seizures are enough of a problem that he wants to put a panic button in the house for a 2 year old child to operate! It's a shitty situation to be in for sure, but there simply needs to be another adult in the house.
Gee whiz - so the next time you're stuck on the toilet with gastro several times a day you can't supervise your kids, and you need to have another adult in the house. Totally absurd when you consider most seizures last less then a minute and a half.
Your plan is unworkable because nobody meets the definition of being able to supervise their kids 100% of the time. Your position would indicate that when a parent is having gastroenteritis and is stuck in the bathroom for 5 minutes several times a day with explosive diarrhea and the heaves that she is unduly endangering the kids and another adult should be present.
Or that someone who is taking insulin can't perform as a parent because they may pass out for up to an hour from hypoglycemia. It happens, people deal with it. A properly-trained service dog can provide early detection to help the person avoid fainting, as well as push an alarm button if necessary.
Contrast those scenarios with the current one: most seizures last a minute or a minute and a half. A seizure dog can keep the kids away from her during this time period so that they don't get hurt.
Life cannot be made 100% safe, and we have to deal with it however we can. In the meantime, since her medication isn't doing the complete job, I'm sure she'll see her specialist to see what can be don.
Service dogs cost a lot of money, which is why volunteer associations and service dog organizations do fund-raising - so that they can provide a trained dog for free. You would have known that if you had followed the link I posted when I made the suggestion.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to get karma (I'm pretty much always at the cap:-) It's just that we always try to find technical solutions to problems in the same sense that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Going the technical route is going to result in a "solution" with more and more points of failure as we try to build in more safeguards for false alarms, or no alarm (for example, who's going to push the button when the toddler is taking a nap? Install cameras everywhere and have someone monitor it? There's not always going to be a monitor available, so write up some software that can send an alarm if the cameras see a problem. Power failure? UPS. Internet down? Fallback to cellular network.) A dog is so much simpler and better, and as you point out, gives her a level of autonomy that isn't possible with a button in the home that a toddler has to push.
Dogs are life savers. It's like I told my therapist (for PTSD), I'd be dead by now if it weren't for mine. It's an unpleasant truth (to be even partially dependent on a dog), but it's also a wonderful truth (that it's even possible). Just depends on how you look at it. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Well, cats are like dogs in many ways. For example, just like dogs, if you want them to come running just run the an opener for a couple of seconds. Or if you want them to rub up against you just get dressed for an important meeting and they'll quickly make sure you're covered in fur. And they'll hork up a furball at 3am to get you out of bed. About the only diff is that dogs don't occasionally sleep on your head at night.
There are organizations that pay for the service dog and its' training (and training the owner), and, unlike a cobbled-together alarm, the batteries don't run out.
Day care not so much, because then we're treating the mother as if she's disabled, rather than helping her overcome the problem and lead a normal life. If there's one thing that people with disabilities hate, it's not being permitted to live a normal life.
Thanks. Just ask anyone who's seriously vision-impaired or has a therapy dog how effective they are. Plus the toddler will get a real kick out of the dog.
If you're gonna stop people from freely communicating, why have internet connections at all? Why not simply ban sales of all cables and telecom equipment?
Because the object is to keep tabs on what's going on, not push it underground.
An epilepsy service dog can be trained to activate an alarm, such as LifeLine. It will also position itself between her and the toddler so the toddler doesn't get hurt. Just the knowledge that the dog CAN do this for her will lower everyone's stress levels.
A lot more dependable than some cobbled-together system that relies on a toddler, and that could lead to ugly questions about negligence. While the dogs are expensive, there are organizations that pay for the training.
Next time, why not ask her doctor or the doctor's secretary?
Better to put them into daycare, or find someone else with similar-age kids and both people baby-sit all the kids at the same time. Also, you really don't want to put that sort of responsibility on a two-year-old. Better to get a service dog that can alert others by doing exactly what you want.
Service Dogs
They make great pets and loyal companions, but did you know dogs can also be trained to help people with epilepsy? While service dogs are often associated with people who have visual impairments, seizure alert dogs are becoming more and more popular around the world. Their calm demeanour and safety training gives people the confidence to live independently.
Some common tasks that trainers can teach the dog include:
staying close to the person with epilepsy to prevent injury
fetching medication or a telephone
alerting a caretaker
activating an emergency call system (e.g. pushing a Lifeline button)
“blocking” a wandering person (usually during absence seizures and complex partial seizures) from walking into dangerous areas (Keep in mind that dogs cannot tell whether an action, like walking onto a street or down the stairs, is intentional or not.)
Why is it "bound" to have bugs? I've used my own versions in one multi-threaded server that's been running for more than half a decade with zero memory leaks.Got rid of the STL and rolled my own classes (actually, mostly just got rid of classes and used straight C). And yes, it included an XML parser. And don't get me started on templates.
Well, maybe you want to make a version that can also use a terminating character other than 0x00 (say 0x0d or 0x0a, or 0xff or whatever arbitrary value you are using). And you're too lazy to remember the difference between strlen and strnlen (or you want to avoid someone mistakenly using one for the other), so you make your own strlen that takes a pointer to the buffer, maxlen spec and parameter for the terminator.
Or you could go crazy with c++ and use default arguments for greater flexibility.
int strlen(char* str, int len = DEF_STRLEN_MAX, char ch = DEF_STR_TERMINAL)
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Again, you are looking at worst-case scenarios when there is no indication that such is the case. To the contrary, there is no tone of urgency or immanent danger, and she has been well controlled for quite a time. So are the kids in danger now? Not really.
Diabetic people (your next example) can be auto-monitored and auto-medicated. The most frightening thing about epilepsy is that it's completely unpredictable and seizures do not require warnings.
Not all the time - mistakes happen. I've passed out a few times, and the last time I tried to stand up in the kitchen, and BANG. No warning whatsoever, due to interference with another medication. Must have tried to get up again, because both sides of my body had bruises. Also, the kitchen floor is tile, so I had a nice concussion for a few weeks. And I hit the chair seat with my head on the way down, so a really, really sore sore neck. I was out for a bit more than an hour, and when I woke up I went to bed to sleep it all off. That's not the only time I've ended up with a concussion - so I guess it's a good thing I've got something of a hard head :-)
Like most ask slashdots, the user didn't post enough info, and isn't posting responses to provide that info, possibly because of all the crazies saying they are unfit parents. They aren't. If anything, cameras all over the place is overkill. A seizure alert dog can signal for help in less time than it takes for him to get the alarm, log into his video server, check the web cams, and then call for help. Also the seizure alert dog will prevent the kids from getting too close and maybe getting a good whack. No electronic solution can do that, and doesn't require action from the kids, who will probably be freaking out.
Why a time machine? Plenty of places sell them, though they might be marketed under different names than "fanny pack."
The key word in your argument is "potential." There are many different types of seizures, and most don't require hospitalization - the person will have come out of it well before an ambulance can get there and fully recover in between 10 minutes to a half hour. It's most likely that the next seizure (if it happens) will be like the previous ones, so they know what to expect.
So you think that a person who might pass out from hypoglycemia due to an insulin miscalculation isn't capable of providing supervision for an infant and a two-year-old? News flash - diabetics do it all the time.
So what are you saying -- epileptic people are broken subhumans and it's irresponsible for them to try to live independently? It's one thing to ban them from driving or operating heavy machinery, it's another to suggest that they can't bring up their own children.
What do you expect from a bunch of people who have a distorted view of the real world because they spend so much time away from it that every problem needs to absolutely have a 100% perfect technical solution? According to their world view, the mother is a bug. Bugs must be eliminated. Ergo ...
All I can say is it must be nice in that world, where every people problem has a 100% solution rate and nobody is competent if they have a physical or mental illness ... of course, their black or white distorted thinking would also disqualify them as they probably have borderline personality disorder, since they can't recognize that life has at least 50 shades of grey.
And most parents are smart enough to have made the wall sockets child-resistant.
There is no blatent lie. Who is looking after the two year old and infant if the mother is having a seizure? Clearly the seizures are enough of a problem that he wants to put a panic button in the house for a 2 year old child to operate! It's a shitty situation to be in for sure, but there simply needs to be another adult in the house.
Gee whiz - so the next time you're stuck on the toilet with gastro several times a day you can't supervise your kids, and you need to have another adult in the house. Totally absurd when you consider most seizures last less then a minute and a half.
Your plan is unworkable because nobody meets the definition of being able to supervise their kids 100% of the time. Your position would indicate that when a parent is having gastroenteritis and is stuck in the bathroom for 5 minutes several times a day with explosive diarrhea and the heaves that she is unduly endangering the kids and another adult should be present.
Or that someone who is taking insulin can't perform as a parent because they may pass out for up to an hour from hypoglycemia. It happens, people deal with it. A properly-trained service dog can provide early detection to help the person avoid fainting, as well as push an alarm button if necessary.
Contrast those scenarios with the current one: most seizures last a minute or a minute and a half. A seizure dog can keep the kids away from her during this time period so that they don't get hurt.
Life cannot be made 100% safe, and we have to deal with it however we can. In the meantime, since her medication isn't doing the complete job, I'm sure she'll see her specialist to see what can be don.
Service dogs cost a lot of money, which is why volunteer associations and service dog organizations do fund-raising - so that they can provide a trained dog for free. You would have known that if you had followed the link I posted when I made the suggestion.
Just put it in a fanny pack, along with your id, some money, your phone's headphones, keys, and anything else you might need.
Sorry, I wasn't trying to get karma (I'm pretty much always at the cap :-) It's just that we always try to find technical solutions to problems in the same sense that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Going the technical route is going to result in a "solution" with more and more points of failure as we try to build in more safeguards for false alarms, or no alarm (for example, who's going to push the button when the toddler is taking a nap? Install cameras everywhere and have someone monitor it? There's not always going to be a monitor available, so write up some software that can send an alarm if the cameras see a problem. Power failure? UPS. Internet down? Fallback to cellular network.) A dog is so much simpler and better, and as you point out, gives her a level of autonomy that isn't possible with a button in the home that a toddler has to push.
Dogs are life savers. It's like I told my therapist (for PTSD), I'd be dead by now if it weren't for mine. It's an unpleasant truth (to be even partially dependent on a dog), but it's also a wonderful truth (that it's even possible). Just depends on how you look at it. Nothing to be ashamed of.
Well, cats are like dogs in many ways. For example, just like dogs, if you want them to come running just run the an opener for a couple of seconds. Or if you want them to rub up against you just get dressed for an important meeting and they'll quickly make sure you're covered in fur. And they'll hork up a furball at 3am to get you out of bed. About the only diff is that dogs don't occasionally sleep on your head at night.
There are organizations that pay for the service dog and its' training (and training the owner), and, unlike a cobbled-together alarm, the batteries don't run out.
Day care not so much, because then we're treating the mother as if she's disabled, rather than helping her overcome the problem and lead a normal life. If there's one thing that people with disabilities hate, it's not being permitted to live a normal life.
Thanks. Just ask anyone who's seriously vision-impaired or has a therapy dog how effective they are. Plus the toddler will get a real kick out of the dog.
Next time, why not ask her doctor or the doctor's secretary?
And failing that, the doctor's secretary's husband's tennis partner.
You obviously have no idea what the job of a medical secretary entails.
If you're gonna stop people from freely communicating, why have internet connections at all? Why not simply ban sales of all cables and telecom equipment?
Because the object is to keep tabs on what's going on, not push it underground.
In $INSERT_COUNTRY Tor watches YOU!
$9k in 40 years will be worth what, $500 bucks in today's money before taxes?
An epilepsy service dog can be trained to activate an alarm, such as LifeLine. It will also position itself between her and the toddler so the toddler doesn't get hurt. Just the knowledge that the dog CAN do this for her will lower everyone's stress levels.
A lot more dependable than some cobbled-together system that relies on a toddler, and that could lead to ugly questions about negligence. While the dogs are expensive, there are organizations that pay for the training.
Next time, why not ask her doctor or the doctor's secretary?
Service Dogs
They make great pets and loyal companions, but did you know dogs can also be trained to help people with epilepsy? While service dogs are often associated with people who have visual impairments, seizure alert dogs are becoming more and more popular around the world. Their calm demeanour and safety training gives people the confidence to live independently.
Some common tasks that trainers can teach the dog include:
staying close to the person with epilepsy to prevent injury
fetching medication or a telephone
alerting a caretaker
activating an emergency call system (e.g. pushing a Lifeline button)
“blocking” a wandering person (usually during absence seizures and complex partial seizures) from walking into dangerous areas (Keep in mind that dogs cannot tell whether an action, like walking onto a street or down the stairs, is intentional or not.)
Why is it "bound" to have bugs? I've used my own versions in one multi-threaded server that's been running for more than half a decade with zero memory leaks.Got rid of the STL and rolled my own classes (actually, mostly just got rid of classes and used straight C). And yes, it included an XML parser. And don't get me started on templates.
As I originally wrote, I was definitely NOT talking about a general-purpose OS. Everyone wants to include everything including the kitchen sink.
Well, maybe you want to make a version that can also use a terminating character other than 0x00 (say 0x0d or 0x0a, or 0xff or whatever arbitrary value you are using). And you're too lazy to remember the difference between strlen and strnlen (or you want to avoid someone mistakenly using one for the other), so you make your own strlen that takes a pointer to the buffer, maxlen spec and parameter for the terminator.
Or you could go crazy with c++ and use default arguments for greater flexibility.
int strlen(char* str, int len = DEF_STRLEN_MAX, char ch = DEF_STR_TERMINAL)
But I shoot to make 100% of the code I write fluff.
Can you explain that some more?
He probably could, but then he'd be taking away from the fluff in his code to add it to here.
That is both disgusting and oh-too-accurate at the same time.