Some interesting questions to ask your company's C-level executives: Does your company mind if every other company does the same and sniffs your own customers' passwords and whatever other info they can glean from SSH connections to your systems? Are they comfortable with the risks associated with this? Are they concerned that customers would no longer be able to trust secure connections to your website? Are they willing to disclose their covert SSH-sniffing policies in an SEC filing or NY Times story?:-)
For now, but the parents' fear is what the future will bring. Will the app be remotely revoked? Will it be compatible with future devices and versions of iOS? Will there be any support/enhancements for the app (no App Store presence presumably means no bug fixes or enhancements)? Also, while the app is there currently for Dana, it's not available any longer for others who could benefit from it.
Google Colon View: Google Research has developed a self-propelled capsule endoscope that can be inserted into the anus and driven through the colon via remote control and a magnetic field, capturing images along the way.
Convoy (1978): Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff. Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall. Trailer.
The next Japanese nuclear accident (it's inevitable) will be even worse: 'The amount of Cesium 137 in the fuel rods at Fukushima Daiichi is the equivalent of 85 Chernobyls.,,there is a 90 percent chance of a large earthquake in the minimum three years required to remove just the most unstable part of the fuel load at Fukushima Daiichi. The probability of a large earthquake in the 10+ years required to completely defuel the plant is virtually 100 percent. If a big earthquake happens before that fuel is gone there will be global environmental catastrophe with many deaths...The very logic of time and probability that scares the bejesus out of me is being completely ignored, replaced with magical thinking.'
Back in the day, Thomas Watson made the case for THINK-ing: "And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter -- thinking -- because it's hard work for people to think, And, as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler said recently, 'all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.'"
...as would other programmers who have been changed from a Perl programmer to a "Pearl" programmer, COBOL program to "COBALT" programmer, etc. by a well-meaning, but tech-inept recruiter.
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Take my organs, but how 'bout some anesthetic?
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From the article: "Even some of the sharpest critics of the brain-death criteria argue that there is no possibility that donors will be in pain during the harvesting of their organs...But BHCs[beating-heart cadavers]-who don't receive anesthetics during an organ harvest operation-react to the scalpel like inadequately anesthetized live patients, exhibiting high blood pressure and sometimes soaring heart rates. Doctors say these are simply reflexes." OK, but didn't we once say something similar about operating on babies without anesthesia?
From a commenter: "The Internet is going to change textbooks forever. When retired Ph.D.'s in physics and mathematics and chemistry and biology can write a book and publish it online - without help from today's publishers - students win, elementary schools win, middle schools win, high schools win, colleges win."
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"John has changed his hearing aid microphone setting from omni-directional to directional."
Don't you know the U.S. is the center of the Universe? :-)
Intro to Statistics: Making Decisions Based on Data
Earlier on Slashdot: Cringely Predicts IBM Will Shed 78% of US Employees By 2015
iPad2 Launch Video: Steve Jobs asks those who worked on iPad2 to stand and take a bow.
Check out the gibberish closed captions ("nexus ceo their first social streaming media player may trigger the plane home") for the How Nexus Q Works video.
Some interesting questions to ask your company's C-level executives: Does your company mind if every other company does the same and sniffs your own customers' passwords and whatever other info they can glean from SSH connections to your systems? Are they comfortable with the risks associated with this? Are they concerned that customers would no longer be able to trust secure connections to your website? Are they willing to disclose their covert SSH-sniffing policies in an SEC filing or NY Times story? :-)
I think TIME is referring to Slashdot's March story on Software Patents Not So Abstract When the Lawsuits Hit Home. The yanking of the app from the App Store is a more recent development.
For now, but the parents' fear is what the future will bring. Will the app be remotely revoked? Will it be compatible with future devices and versions of iOS? Will there be any support/enhancements for the app (no App Store presence presumably means no bug fixes or enhancements)? Also, while the app is there currently for Dana, it's not available any longer for others who could benefit from it.
Google Colon View: Google Research has developed a self-propelled capsule endoscope that can be inserted into the anus and driven through the colon via remote control and a magnetic field, capturing images along the way.
Those caravans of state highway escort trucks accompanying road work crews would only need one driver.
Convoy (1978): Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff. Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall. Trailer.
The next Japanese nuclear accident (it's inevitable) will be even worse: 'The amount of Cesium 137 in the fuel rods at Fukushima Daiichi is the equivalent of 85 Chernobyls.,,there is a 90 percent chance of a large earthquake in the minimum three years required to remove just the most unstable part of the fuel load at Fukushima Daiichi. The probability of a large earthquake in the 10+ years required to completely defuel the plant is virtually 100 percent. If a big earthquake happens before that fuel is gone there will be global environmental catastrophe with many deaths...The very logic of time and probability that scares the bejesus out of me is being completely ignored, replaced with magical thinking.'
1. Bill Gates, age 39. 2. Larry Page, age 34. 3. Sergey Brin, age 33. 4. Steve Jobs, 36. 5. Larry Ellison, 23, 33, 39, 59 (currently divorced).
Kinect's five most ridiculous moments
Back in the day, Thomas Watson made the case for THINK-ing: "And we must study through reading, listening, discussing, observing and thinking. We must not neglect any one of those ways of study. The trouble with most of us is that we fall down on the latter -- thinking -- because it's hard work for people to think, And, as Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler said recently, 'all of the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.'"
...as would other programmers who have been changed from a Perl programmer to a "Pearl" programmer, COBOL program to "COBALT" programmer, etc. by a well-meaning, but tech-inept recruiter.
Problem solved, declares DHS Chief Janet Napolitano.
Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it /.TV
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From the article: "Even some of the sharpest critics of the brain-death criteria argue that there is no possibility that donors will be in pain during the harvesting of their organs...But BHCs[beating-heart cadavers]-who don't receive anesthetics during an organ harvest operation-react to the scalpel like inadequately anesthetized live patients, exhibiting high blood pressure and sometimes soaring heart rates. Doctors say these are simply reflexes." OK, but didn't we once say something similar about operating on babies without anesthesia?
Hey, workers need a place to live, right?
From a commenter: "The Internet is going to change textbooks forever. When retired Ph.D.'s in physics and mathematics and chemistry and biology can write a book and publish it online - without help from today's publishers - students win, elementary schools win, middle schools win, high schools win, colleges win."
Investors valued Yelp restaurant and other reviews at $1.47B. How much is being spent on textbook reviews?
BusinessWeek, Jan. 10, 2011: China Could Game the U.S. in Intellectual Property: Now China may do with intellectual property what it did with capitalism: adapt our system and beat us at our own game.
Amazing how quickly the exhiliration @3:30 gives way to fear and panic @4:15!