The downfall of all of this is that there is no physical link between the tag and any human being. This is just stupid. Tracking people will not work, and will ONLY inconvenience the stupid criminals and honest people. When will governments learn?
So do the obvious thing and require that everyone in the UK (including those changing planes at Heathrow) get an RFID implant. Problem solved, identity theft a thing of the past [1]
[1] At least as long as the Forces of Evil don't figure out how to remove/transplant the suckers. Don't worry, they're not smart enough to figure that out.
That would be my guess. There's a good bit of research where they tinkered with mouse genes to accelerate or slow telomere erosion, and found that the natural mouse is pretty close to the maximum lifespan possible. Faster erosion causes the mice die of old age sooner, but slower erosion results in more cancer deaths.
Regeneration may well have similar costs. Since all of the natural regenerators are poikilotherms, I would speculate that their overall lower metabolic rate has less risk of cancer. Giving up regeneration may well be the price we pay for warm blood.
... what is the evolutionary benefit that mammals get from not regenerating?
I'm reminded of a story from Analog in the 60s, where they figure out how to stimulate toot regeneration. Except that, once the technique has been in use for a while, they find out that it doesn't stop producing new teeth...
You obviously haven't gotten out of your parents basement, so we know you haven't gotten laid. Therefore, we know you don't have any kids. As such, you have no idea what its like to be at your wits end in the grocery store with your children.
Well, if you say so. Although I'm pretty sure that the two grad students and the junior engineer are all mine. That includes twins.
And, in the face of assurances similar to yours, I managed to avoid buying the crap when we went shopping. Despite ADHD. Twins.
Not that this says anything good about me as a parent -- I suspect it's more "when you got luck, shit'll do for brains."
What makes OLED's 'green' is that they don't require back lighting like LCD displays. Which means you can generate images for a fraction of the electrical draw.
Well, that and they're pretty danged efficient light emitters. As in, finally, efficient and long-lasting solid-state room lighting.
THAT is going to save more than a few barrels of oil. After all, even/. posters burn more power on lighting than on backlighting, monitor tans notwithstanding.
I think Bill has gotten too used to thinking in terms of his own bank account. He should be able to retain some pretty impressive headhunters for a lot less than $20 million per engineer. He might even be able to hold aside some money to keep his $40 billion from leaving to work for Google the next week.
With all the efforts to fix the patent system lately, it appears that the court that originally made that decision may be regretting it, and has agreed to hear a new case that could overturn that ruling and restore some sanity to the patent system.
The CAFC may not be regretting its decisions, but it's been getting some pretty blunt signals from the USSC that they are not totally pleased with what the CAFC has done while on a long break from supervision. This is one of two things:
A rethink to head off not only having their wrists smacked but having the USSC start reviewing their cases much more often (complete with reversals) or
A chance to put together a really solid and detailed ruling to give the USSC a reason to agree with them.
Tor has had quite a few titles on WebScription for some time now. Since those are all DRMless, it's not unreasonable to expect that they're over the wibbles.
The telemarketers have had the time now to engineer systems around the loopholes built into the law, so that we're pretty much back where we were before.
Don't think so? How many prosecutions have there been under the law in the last year?
I think it would take an unsympathetic view to your not providing your own identification, proper identification of course.
Thank you. You have now established that all residents of the United States are legally required to possess Federally-approved identification and that they can go to jail for nothing more than not having it.
This was a big issue during Vietnam. This changes the long-standing principle that American citizens aren't, in general, required to have ID. You might want to read some of the precedents to the Hiibel case.
Unfortunately, more and more of the west is becoming more and more like VA in terms of its (un)livability.
I think you have that backwards. As with many trends, this one seems to be proceeding from the Left Coast eastward. In other words, VA is becoming LA, not vice versa.
I am fairly certain that it is not merely the geographical isolation of southwest vs northeast, but perhaps the psychological difference of growing up in these disparate environments that alters the way tech networking impacts your life.
It's not the distances between towns in the West that makes the difference, it's the distances in the towns. Western cities were, in general, pretty small before the automobile and once cars became available they were adopted rapidly because of the distances outside of towns. Meanwhile, land around the towns was cheap so it was easy to build out rather than up.
Arizona is arguably the worst case, but there's basically nothing left of Phoenix or Tucson from before the auto took over. Prescott has Whiskey Row and Courthouse Square, but that's about it. As the towns get smaller, more remains.
Thus, sprawl.
Me, I'm outa here. New Mexico has some delightful small towns that still only have one or two stoplights and the original Territorial buildings are still in use.
I too choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a large town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
Most reasonably livable cities predate zoning. Once the idea of limiting what was allowed to be where came in, the inevitable end was the Southern California bedroom community, where it's illegal to have anything but residential property -- for miles in all directions. If you want to drop in for a pint, the nearest tap is ten miles away.
I'll class San Francisco as partly livable; Pacific Heights being a powerful counterexample. The older parts of Portland are still OK, but the burbs are a disaster. Seattle was all right until the Microsoft Millionaires bought up so much of the in-town real estate for game nights. Most other Western cities are a joke.
The East is a lot more complicated, but what bright spots I've seen are specs in a sea of creeping unlivability. I haven't seen that much of Europe from ground level but what I have seen isn't encouraging.
Paradoxically, your cell phone, email, and Facebook networks are making it more attractive to meet people in the flesh."
And as a result, I choose to live in a place where I don't have to drive to go everywhere: a small town where walking actually gets me places instead of an endless sea of other residences.
No, your steps are out of order. Spinal stabilization comes before ABCD in suspected trauma.
Let's just say that I'm having a problem with the idea of stabilizing the spine of someone who doesn't have a patent airway. It's certainly not what my medical direction requires.
I'm guessing that's not a situation that occurs very often on the ski slopes.;)
Don't be so sure -- we get to haul them out of the rocks and trees on 30-degree slopes with (you might say) marginal traction.
However, we do have the advantage of (usually) being able to throw a larger team at the problem. Where an ambulance crew has to get by with three total rescuers, we usually go for a team of four even in uncomplicated situations. It's just smoother.
In the event of a car accident, the first thing the professionals do (and I am one, and you are not), is to stabalize the spinal cord. The first thing an untrained person would probably try to do is drag the person from the car, possibly killing them in the process.
Actually, the first thing that professionals do is ensure scene safety. Skip that step in EMT-B and you flunk, then and there. After that,
Apply bodily substance isolation,
Assess probable mechanisms of injury,
Determine whether your patient(s) have a patent Airway,
Determine whether your patient(s) are Breathing,
Determine whether your patient(s) have a threat to blood Circulation,
Assess patient(s) level of responsiveness,
Then maybe, assuming nothing of greater priority sidetracked you first, then you start to consider spinal immobilization for those most likely in need.
Except that our rule is manual stabilization of the cervical spine until the patient is completely secured to a backboard. Those collars aren't all that.
I thought this was about CableCard, which was the last plan that would have rendered company-specific set-top boxes obsolete and brought universal interoperability.
Microsoft has grown too big. They should refocus their resources on their core products: Windows, Office and their flagship server products (Exchange Server, SQL Server, etc) and stop trying to have a hand in everything else.
Nope. Any base that they don't cover, such as search, could offer the opening wedge to someone who might someday compete with them.
Like Pharaoh, they have to kill a lot of babies to make sure that they get the one that might grow up to become a threat.
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So do the obvious thing and require that everyone in the UK (including those changing planes at Heathrow) get an RFID implant. Problem solved, identity theft a thing of the past [1]
[1] At least as long as the Forces of Evil don't figure out how to remove/transplant the suckers. Don't worry, they're not smart enough to figure that out.
That would be my guess. There's a good bit of research where they tinkered with mouse genes to accelerate or slow telomere erosion, and found that the natural mouse is pretty close to the maximum lifespan possible. Faster erosion causes the mice die of old age sooner, but slower erosion results in more cancer deaths.
Regeneration may well have similar costs. Since all of the natural regenerators are poikilotherms, I would speculate that their overall lower metabolic rate has less risk of cancer. Giving up regeneration may well be the price we pay for warm blood.
I'm reminded of a story from Analog in the 60s, where they figure out how to stimulate toot regeneration. Except that, once the technique has been in use for a while, they find out that it doesn't stop producing new teeth ...
And, in the face of assurances similar to yours, I managed to avoid buying the crap when we went shopping. Despite ADHD. Twins.
Not that this says anything good about me as a parent -- I suspect it's more "when you got luck, shit'll do for brains."
THAT is going to save more than a few barrels of oil. After all, even /. posters burn more power on lighting than on backlighting, monitor tans notwithstanding.
I think Bill has gotten too used to thinking in terms of his own bank account. He should be able to retain some pretty impressive headhunters for a lot less than $20 million per engineer. He might even be able to hold aside some money to keep his $40 billion from leaving to work for Google the next week.
Hate to break the news to you, child, but Shrub isn't that innovative.
- A rethink to head off not only having their wrists smacked but having the USSC start reviewing their cases much more often (complete with reversals) or
- A chance to put together a really solid and detailed ruling to give the USSC a reason to agree with them.
We won't know which they pick until this summer.Tor has had quite a few titles on WebScription for some time now. Since those are all DRMless, it's not unreasonable to expect that they're over the wibbles.
Don't think so? How many prosecutions have there been under the law in the last year?
This was a big issue during Vietnam. This changes the long-standing principle that American citizens aren't, in general, required to have ID. You might want to read some of the precedents to the Hiibel case.
What happens if I'm summoned to a Federal Court appearance and don't have the required ID? Do I:
Arizona is arguably the worst case, but there's basically nothing left of Phoenix or Tucson from before the auto took over. Prescott has Whiskey Row and Courthouse Square, but that's about it. As the towns get smaller, more remains.
Thus, sprawl.
Me, I'm outa here. New Mexico has some delightful small towns that still only have one or two stoplights and the original Territorial buildings are still in use.
I'll class San Francisco as partly livable; Pacific Heights being a powerful counterexample. The older parts of Portland are still OK, but the burbs are a disaster. Seattle was all right until the Microsoft Millionaires bought up so much of the in-town real estate for game nights. Most other Western cities are a joke.
The East is a lot more complicated, but what bright spots I've seen are specs in a sea of creeping unlivability. I haven't seen that much of Europe from ground level but what I have seen isn't encouraging.
However, I'm willing to be convinced.
However, we do have the advantage of (usually) being able to throw a larger team at the problem. Where an ambulance crew has to get by with three total rescuers, we usually go for a team of four even in uncomplicated situations. It's just smoother.
- Apply bodily substance isolation,
- Assess probable mechanisms of injury,
- Determine whether your patient(s) have a patent Airway,
- Determine whether your patient(s) are Breathing,
- Determine whether your patient(s) have a threat to blood Circulation,
- Assess patient(s) level of responsiveness,
- Then maybe, assuming nothing of greater priority sidetracked you first, then you start to consider spinal immobilization for those most likely in need.
Triage is another matter entirely, of course.Except that our rule is manual stabilization of the cervical spine until the patient is completely secured to a backboard. Those collars aren't all that.
I would suggest that anyone with the remotest tendency to help in an emergency do one of two things:
- Stick to things that you can prove you were trained to do, or
- Get some really good legal advice first.
You may think that someone is going to die unless you do an emergency cricothyrotomy, but the Good Samaritan laws aren't going to help you if you try.Now remind me how that turned out.
Like Pharaoh, they have to kill a lot of babies to make sure that they get the one that might grow up to become a threat.