Seriously though, after long hauls of using the mouse too much, I have felt severe pain, and that was no figment of my imagination. This doctor obviously knew what he wanted, and made sure his research reflected that. Nothing is better than some sensational papers to bolster your carrer, and make a few extra bucks as speaker, or expert witness.
This doctor is a moron.
Of course the pain is something that shows up in the brain. That does not mean that the injury is bogus. It's because we have a central nervous system. I'd have thought that such a celebrated researcher of medicine had heard about the central nerveous system. The purpose of that is to send and receive signals to and from the brain. Damaged nerves is just as serious injury as other things. There's many documented examples of excellent piano players and golf players who get the "jips", which is a nerve injury.
I am not buying that this is hysteria. Instead I'd say that many of the common cures to the problem are bogus and snakeoil.
Hey, when Freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will have Freedom. And if that's the case,
make me an outlaw, man!
I hear you and couldn't agree more. And I agree that we will come up with methods to circumvent the freedom squashers. They won't be able to easily shut down the traffic, but they would still be able to infiltrate the networks, and come knocking on your doors.
All the trolls and the goat* bunch. Not to mention the other mysterious elements around here. Oh, and as soon as congress gets a whiff of this, it'll be a federal crime to run freenet software. And it will be fun to see what a U.S court will come up with when dealing with freenet. If nothing else, it'll be good for a slashdot story.
And the Norwegians too. The lot that emigrated to U.S. in the 1800's were poor folk with a lot of respect for their protestant gods. Generations after, based in the midwest, they're the foundation of all the hyper-conservative super-christian daftness in U.S. today.
In the meantime, the people they left behind, has evolved into a freedom-loving country, where hardly anyone cares about the gods anymore.
They are not that efficient anyway. Remember that the only plane to be shot down by Milosevic's army was a stealth aircraft. And
they don't even have mobile phones...
I'm afraid you're terribly wrong here. Mobile phones are all over the place in emerging economies. In countries where you had to wait 5 years to get a land-line, if at all, you can now pick up a cell phone cheap pretty much anywhere. Wireless technology is really cheap and is really fast to deploy.
Your landlord will have a deal with local merchants, so they can spam your head full, while you're eating dinner. Unless of course you've paid for a premium subscription, and you will be able to run Microsofts's latest Wallsaver (tm).
The clip about the guy who fell out of the canoe is hilarious.
But on a serious note though, I wonder if the judge ever contemplated what scenario would scare children the most:
1) Hearing a man swearing like a champ after falling into the water, or
2) Seeing a man being forcefully dragged away by the holy police.
Wonder if children in Michigan lie awake at night wondering if they'll be thrown in jail because of something they said the day before?
Scarier though, is how easy it is to manipulate children. Both in communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany, children were encouraged to rat on their own parents, and the kids did so with abandon. So parents in Michican, beware of the kid.
What they should of done is found a way to encode a data stream in the television channel with useful
information that people would want to see interspersed with ads - no internet connection required. This way
computers without access to the internet can get some data, sports scores, news headlines, weather, etc.
They've done that the last 20 years or so. In Europe, text-TV gives you all that. I don't know why US never managed to launch text-tv of some form. Vetoed by adverstisers? Picked the wrong testmarkets? Mainstream US consumers are hyperslow adopters? TV industry is technologically challenged? Not enough bells and whistles for the decision making executives?
it will be practical in terms of
space, cost, and power to increase processing power simply by using multiple CPUs.
Plus, more complex CPUS will be developed, with more paralell processing internally. I believe the Itanium works that way. As opposed to the x86 processors which sets up multiple execution pipses ar runtime, it has multiple execution pipes that are set up at compilation time. That requires smarter, but that's cheap since you do it only once.
I still remember the PC and the XT, and my 33/66 Mhz 486 , which I thought was pretty fast.
So where do they go next. Will they use quarks instead of electrons? Will we get biodegradeable wearable supercomputers with gigabit wireless connetions? Can 20 Ghz be dangerous? Is frequency harmless? Will you be X-rayed when seti@home is running?
Then there's all the static electricity around a CRT. This causes dust particles to attack you, and fill your pores. Combine that with hot weather and perspiration, and you understand why hax0rs have such bad skin. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
hold the phone --- They have thier power lines running all over hell and back, couldn't they just run a small
chunk of fiber optic line with it for communication and controls?
They most likely already do. In fact, they even get good enough bandwith for simple device control through th erpower lines themselves.
But that does not eliminate their need to exchange information with other computers on the outside.
Information about market prices, supply amd demand, estimated consumption, short term contracts, planned and unplanned maintenance, external capacity, metherological data, is all crucial information to the operation of a power grid.
A lot of the work that used to be done by humans, and sneakernets, now has to happen in realtime.
It is technically possible to create a proprietary network for the 100's or 1000's of companies participating in this information exchange, but a requirement like that would have delayed the deregulation efforts by many years.
I am sure most critical systems have alternative routes than internet between them, otherwise any scriptkiddie could easily shut down the grids.
Power generating companies, power distribution companies, power exchanges all need to talk to each other. In the old ages that may have been done by dedicated links, faxes, phone calls and many other ways. Standards for information exchange have existed for a long time (for example EDIFACT). The bank world has it own worldwide network for bank transactions, but that network existed before the internet tok off.
Computers at the core of the powergrid control need inputs from computers on the outside. It's not like the old days anymore, where all you needed was a control center with dials, lights and switches, and a handful of information from the outside. These days, systems are connected, and if the security job is not done well, systems will be compromised.
I don't know the network topology for CAL-ISO, but it should be possible to achieve decent security if the job is well done. I don't think the power industry is going to build their own proprietary network.
Exactly. Moderation requires a certain level of knowledge of the subject matter, or a sense of humor, or knowledge of cultural references. Maybe postings need to have check buttons for categories (only to be seen by moderators).
Subtle humor is really hard to do in writing. Everytime I think I am really clever coming up with a funny point, I never get any moderation. What usually happens:
A poster manages to connect the dots of the joke, reply his great discovery, and gets the slashdot reward.
Emoticons are no help either. They worked OK in 95 or so, until too many started to use them all the time, and they started to lose their meaning. (I didn't really mean this, hence the smiley, I never mean anything with what I'm saying so I always use a smiley. I never mean anything I ever say, so I wink all the time).
Another annoying thing is the use of quotation marks. John Irving blasted the use of quotation marks (to mean "not really, sort of") in a foreword to one of his books, saying that it not only made a mockery of the quoted word, but of the whole message, stripping the language of all power. Some people even use them when talking, putting up and bending their fingers to warn us that they are about to abuse the language. Makes me puke. Same thing can usually be said about adverbs. Adverbs are OK if you need to fill your 500 word quota, but that's their only purpose.
This of course has absolutely "nothing" to do with "apache", wink, wink;-)
If Mr. Chiu needs the money why not win Mr. Randi's Million Dollar Challenge?
Chiu has a similar but opposite challenge on his web page, offering 1 million to the first to come up with a better health device han his rings.
Probably you'll have to get in line though, since his device probably does not rank among the top 10 million devices, in which case, the check you get will not cover the money you spend on envelope and postage.
But I second your choice. James Randi for the next interview. James Randi should definately be given more air time. I think his message should be mandatory in the high school curricilum. His demontrations are so entertaining, and it would give the kids some ballast before they head out to the world of deceit.
At least it would be nice not to have watch all those TV ads with arthritis-ridden people who run the marathon and play baseball fueled by painkillers.
The old name for this law is "kvakksalverloven" (the quack law).
The modern name of the law is "Lov om innskrenking i adgang for den som ikke er norsk læge eller tannlæge til å ta syke i kur "
This means something like "Law on limitation in access for those who are not a Norwegian doctor or Dentist to take sick under their care". I much prefer the original name, which is both more accurate and to the point.
The full text of the law can be found at
http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-19360619-009.html
I'll translate it in full since it's a short and snappy law. (Be aware that this law is currently under scrutiny to make it easier to access alternative medicine, so I am not sure how long this holds up)
1. This law conserns all who are not considered health care personell.
2. Non-health care persons who care for sick can not advertise for their services without permission from the department of health. (exception is name, address, phone and description of the enterprise)
Advertisements which are exaggerated, or misleading are strictly forbidden.
3. Non-authorized health persenel can not provide prescription drugs, perform surgery, provide injections, provide local or full anesthetics, or perform any other operation that is restricted only to authorized health personel.
4. Non-autorized personell can not treat contageous diseases according to the law on contageours diseases. The same holds for cancer, diabetes, dangerous anemia, and some other stuff.
5. This paragraph void
6. Violations of paragraph 1-4 can be punished with fines or prison up to 3 months. For reapeated violations, or in grave cases, it is punishable with fines and up to 6 months of prison. Accomplices may be punished to the same extent.
Lack of knowledge about the disease being cured, does not excempt the violator from the application of the law. Violation of para. 1-4 is considered a misdemeanor.
So maybe this guy would not rot in jail, when doing his thing in Norway. Most likely para. 2 could be applied, the one about exaggerated and misleading advertising, and he'd get away with a slap on the wrist. But at least we have a law.
If this guy tried to do business in Norway, he'd be arrested and thrown in jail. We actually have a law against this kind of medicine.
I know people who are obsessed with immortality. They plan on retiring when they're 70 or so, and spend the next 100 years of their lives living in cool places and surfing. They are assuming that the world will be basically the same in the future. Personally, I think I'd end up killing myself after 130 or so years, when the brain is mush and every bone hurts, and I don't understand anything of the society around me. And when you've seen the disco revival happen for the 5th time, and William Gates IV is elected president, and the 6th world war is being sponsored by Intel Corporation, and the congress has approved RIAA's anti-piracy implant, which will blow the head off anyone who listens to non-autorized copies of music. And you can't afford to go somewhere quiet, because all the nice places are occupied by 210 year old multi-millionaires, and the Louvre is operated as a member-only museum by the scientologists. Then it's time to have a palaver with the worms.
The ultimate nightmare would be to have the planet populated with the gullible customers of this crook.
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What loon came
up with this idea?
PC manufacturers that needed to slice $2 bucks off the manufacturing of PC's. It made them richer, so it was not a loony decision, since it increased their profit. Joe Blow did not care what kind of modem the system came with, as long as it had a CPU unit, keyboard, mouse and a screen. Joe Blow might even have thunk that winmodems are better than other modems since it has a certain microsoft ring to it.
Slashdot Mirror
Is an opensource SIP stack. It's an overkill if you just want to chat during games, but it's there.
This doctor is a moron. Of course the pain is something that shows up in the brain. That does not mean that the injury is bogus. It's because we have a central nervous system. I'd have thought that such a celebrated researcher of medicine had heard about the central nerveous system. The purpose of that is to send and receive signals to and from the brain. Damaged nerves is just as serious injury as other things. There's many documented examples of excellent piano players and golf players who get the "jips", which is a nerve injury.
I am not buying that this is hysteria. Instead I'd say that many of the common cures to the problem are bogus and snakeoil.
I hear you and couldn't agree more. And I agree that we will come up with methods to circumvent the freedom squashers. They won't be able to easily shut down the traffic, but they would still be able to infiltrate the networks, and come knocking on your doors.
All the trolls and the goat* bunch. Not to mention the other mysterious elements around here. Oh, and as soon as congress gets a whiff of this, it'll be a federal crime to run freenet software. And it will be fun to see what a U.S court will come up with when dealing with freenet. If nothing else, it'll be good for a slashdot story.
In the meantime, the people they left behind, has evolved into a freedom-loving country, where hardly anyone cares about the gods anymore.
I'm afraid you're terribly wrong here. Mobile phones are all over the place in emerging economies. In countries where you had to wait 5 years to get a land-line, if at all, you can now pick up a cell phone cheap pretty much anywhere. Wireless technology is really cheap and is really fast to deploy.
Your landlord will have a deal with local merchants, so they can spam your head full, while you're eating dinner. Unless of course you've paid for a premium subscription, and you will be able to run Microsofts's latest Wallsaver (tm).
But on a serious note though, I wonder if the judge ever contemplated what scenario would scare children the most:
1) Hearing a man swearing like a champ after falling into the water, or
2) Seeing a man being forcefully dragged away by the holy police.
Wonder if children in Michigan lie awake at night wondering if they'll be thrown in jail because of something they said the day before?
Scarier though, is how easy it is to manipulate children. Both in communist Soviet Union and nazi Germany, children were encouraged to rat on their own parents, and the kids did so with abandon. So parents in Michican, beware of the kid.
No problemo. From now on, they'll charge $29 in US, $45 in Europe, while BillDaCat gets a special price of $95.
Hollywood: "Yes".
EU: "In that case, we demand that the region system is abandoned."
They've done that the last 20 years or so. In Europe, text-TV gives you all that. I don't know why US never managed to launch text-tv of some form. Vetoed by adverstisers? Picked the wrong testmarkets? Mainstream US consumers are hyperslow adopters? TV industry is technologically challenged? Not enough bells and whistles for the decision making executives?
Plus, more complex CPUS will be developed, with more paralell processing internally. I believe the Itanium works that way. As opposed to the x86 processors which sets up multiple execution pipses ar runtime, it has multiple execution pipes that are set up at compilation time. That requires smarter, but that's cheap since you do it only once.
Could also be that the moderator knows some physics, and consider my pseudo-science blabbering offensive.
So where do they go next. Will they use quarks instead of electrons? Will we get biodegradeable wearable supercomputers with gigabit wireless connetions? Can 20 Ghz be dangerous? Is frequency harmless? Will you be X-rayed when seti@home is running?
Someone mod up this guy please. He's actually providing genuine facts as opposed to me, who is assuming half and guessing the rest.
Then there's all the static electricity around a CRT. This causes dust particles to attack you, and fill your pores. Combine that with hot weather and perspiration, and you understand why hax0rs have such bad skin. It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
But that does not eliminate their need to exchange information with other computers on the outside. Information about market prices, supply amd demand, estimated consumption, short term contracts, planned and unplanned maintenance, external capacity, metherological data, is all crucial information to the operation of a power grid.
A lot of the work that used to be done by humans, and sneakernets, now has to happen in realtime. It is technically possible to create a proprietary network for the 100's or 1000's of companies participating in this information exchange, but a requirement like that would have delayed the deregulation efforts by many years.
I am sure most critical systems have alternative routes than internet between them, otherwise any scriptkiddie could easily shut down the grids.
Power generating companies, power distribution companies, power exchanges all need to talk to each other. In the old ages that may have been done by dedicated links, faxes, phone calls and many other ways. Standards for information exchange have existed for a long time (for example EDIFACT). The bank world has it own worldwide network for bank transactions, but that network existed before the internet tok off.
Computers at the core of the powergrid control need inputs from computers on the outside. It's not like the old days anymore, where all you needed was a control center with dials, lights and switches, and a handful of information from the outside. These days, systems are connected, and if the security job is not done well, systems will be compromised.
I don't know the network topology for CAL-ISO, but it should be possible to achieve decent security if the job is well done. I don't think the power industry is going to build their own proprietary network.
Subtle humor is really hard to do in writing. Everytime I think I am really clever coming up with a funny point, I never get any moderation. What usually happens: A poster manages to connect the dots of the joke, reply his great discovery, and gets the slashdot reward.
Emoticons are no help either. They worked OK in 95 or so, until too many started to use them all the time, and they started to lose their meaning. (I didn't really mean this, hence the smiley, I never mean anything with what I'm saying so I always use a smiley. I never mean anything I ever say, so I wink all the time).
Another annoying thing is the use of quotation marks. John Irving blasted the use of quotation marks (to mean "not really, sort of") in a foreword to one of his books, saying that it not only made a mockery of the quoted word, but of the whole message, stripping the language of all power. Some people even use them when talking, putting up and bending their fingers to warn us that they are about to abuse the language. Makes me puke. Same thing can usually be said about adverbs. Adverbs are OK if you need to fill your 500 word quota, but that's their only purpose.
This of course has absolutely "nothing" to do with "apache", wink, wink ;-)
Chiu has a similar but opposite challenge on his web page, offering 1 million to the first to come up with a better health device han his rings.
Probably you'll have to get in line though, since his device probably does not rank among the top 10 million devices, in which case, the check you get will not cover the money you spend on envelope and postage.
But I second your choice. James Randi for the next interview. James Randi should definately be given more air time. I think his message should be mandatory in the high school curricilum. His demontrations are so entertaining, and it would give the kids some ballast before they head out to the world of deceit.
At least it would be nice not to have watch all those TV ads with arthritis-ridden people who run the marathon and play baseball fueled by painkillers.
The modern name of the law is "Lov om innskrenking i adgang for den som ikke er norsk læge eller tannlæge til å ta syke i kur " This means something like "Law on limitation in access for those who are not a Norwegian doctor or Dentist to take sick under their care". I much prefer the original name, which is both more accurate and to the point.
The full text of the law can be found at http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-19360619-009.html
I'll translate it in full since it's a short and snappy law. (Be aware that this law is currently under scrutiny to make it easier to access alternative medicine, so I am not sure how long this holds up)
1. This law conserns all who are not considered health care personell.
2. Non-health care persons who care for sick can not advertise for their services without permission from the department of health. (exception is name, address, phone and description of the enterprise)
Advertisements which are exaggerated, or misleading are strictly forbidden.
3. Non-authorized health persenel can not provide prescription drugs, perform surgery, provide injections, provide local or full anesthetics, or perform any other operation that is restricted only to authorized health personel.
4. Non-autorized personell can not treat contageous diseases according to the law on contageours diseases. The same holds for cancer, diabetes, dangerous anemia, and some other stuff.
5. This paragraph void
6. Violations of paragraph 1-4 can be punished with fines or prison up to 3 months. For reapeated violations, or in grave cases, it is punishable with fines and up to 6 months of prison. Accomplices may be punished to the same extent.
Lack of knowledge about the disease being cured, does not excempt the violator from the application of the law. Violation of para. 1-4 is considered a misdemeanor.
So maybe this guy would not rot in jail, when doing his thing in Norway. Most likely para. 2 could be applied, the one about exaggerated and misleading advertising, and he'd get away with a slap on the wrist. But at least we have a law.
I know people who are obsessed with immortality. They plan on retiring when they're 70 or so, and spend the next 100 years of their lives living in cool places and surfing. They are assuming that the world will be basically the same in the future. Personally, I think I'd end up killing myself after 130 or so years, when the brain is mush and every bone hurts, and I don't understand anything of the society around me. And when you've seen the disco revival happen for the 5th time, and William Gates IV is elected president, and the 6th world war is being sponsored by Intel Corporation, and the congress has approved RIAA's anti-piracy implant, which will blow the head off anyone who listens to non-autorized copies of music. And you can't afford to go somewhere quiet, because all the nice places are occupied by 210 year old multi-millionaires, and the Louvre is operated as a member-only museum by the scientologists. Then it's time to have a palaver with the worms.
The ultimate nightmare would be to have the planet populated with the gullible customers of this crook.
PC manufacturers that needed to slice $2 bucks off the manufacturing of PC's. It made them richer, so it was not a loony decision, since it increased their profit. Joe Blow did not care what kind of modem the system came with, as long as it had a CPU unit, keyboard, mouse and a screen. Joe Blow might even have thunk that winmodems are better than other modems since it has a certain microsoft ring to it.