No specific model or date mentioned. Car makers have been "promising" many interesting new technologies and features for a while now. Why exactly is this bullshit article considered "news for nerds" again?
Versus the "standard of care", which in this case was Lipitor. Ethics committees don't let you use "control" groups anymore in medicine. Your "control group" has to consist of the best available alternative drug, if one exists. If you think about it, it makes sense. You can't really give coronary patients sugar pills and tell them they're still receiving treatment. However giving them the best available treatment means they have nothing to lose if the test drug turns out to be no better than what is currently available.
Here you go.
Crestor will decrease your relative risk by 44-53% of an adverse cardiovascular event, depending on the study. Impressive (it cuts your risk in half!), until you find out that your absolute risk was around 1% to begin with. For this you are shelling out $200/month, every month. Is it better? Yes. Undoubtedly Crestor is better than Lipitor. Now let's talk a moment about actual disease prevention... does it make much more difference versus lipitor? Not really. 0.5% a year compared to 1% a year, hmm, I guess it only makes a difference if you are the rare person actually having a heart attack which could have been prevented by "upgrading" the drug. The other 99 people, however, are paying through the nose.
Right, and suddenly as Lipitor's (atorvastatin) patent expires, every single patient is being switched to Crestor (rosuvastatin), a much newer and better (patented) drug.
Actually this is an argument I used to try to demonstrate how Europe will be more prepared for a future without cheap/abundant crude oil than the US. Europe has an extensive canal and rail network, where as the vast majority of the growth in the US happened in the motor vehicle age. Europe will still be able to transport goods and people over large distances far more than the US will. Off topic, I know, but since you brought it up...
Hah, my wife was just applying for a non-immigrant visa today because her old one expired. Now you have to submit an online application. There are about a million questions, all the buttons are counter-intuitive (usually continue goes on the right and back goes on the left), and the website says it will log you out after 20 minutes of inactivity, which is false. It logs you out after 15 minutes - activity or no. Considering that these forms take far more than 20 minutes to fill out (list the exact dates of your last 5 visits to the US please, never mind that US immigration likes to stamp wherever the hell they feel like it in your passport), it's a major hassle. We were logged out no less than three times during this process.
And don't forget, you need to give travel dates (even if we're not sure when we plan on going to the US in the next 10 years) and name/address of a contact person in the US (I'm sure I have the name and address of the guy who works at the hotel I'll be staying at...). Oh and of course the "trick" questions where they try to "catch you out". My favorite was "have you ever participated in torture/extrajudicial killing". I wonder how many American government employees actually would not be allowed a visa... but I digress.
Put it this way - I'm glad I'm Canadian and don't have to do this crap every few years but America - if you don't want tourists why don't you just say so? I mean, the Mexicans will still keep jumping the border fence anyway no matter how many questions you put on that form, but we law abiding people can take a hint.
Microsoft calculated the infection rates using its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) by detecting and deleting selected malware such as fake antivirus programs, worms, viruses, and trojans.
One VERY important point is that Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool considers certain programs which can be used to bypass Windows Activation as "malware", which is probably skewing the results.
Anonymous is like a one time pad in cryptography. Even if you manage to find a key that decodes the message into something legible, you will never know if you have the right key because in theory, any given message can be reproduced. Anonymous is like that. The minute you think you have it pinned down you realize that in fact it was something else - because it is not an "organization". Rather it is a "disorganization".
You would think that with the profits from a successful grow op, someone would be able to invest in solar panels, a wind turbine, or even just a battery pack that gets charged slowly during the day and kicks in during peak power to prevent the electric company from ever seeing a "spike". This would be a much wiser investment than, say, bling bling.
Smart metering should reduce power costs and consumption, not increase it.
Welcome to the exponential part of the population growth curve, where it doesn't matter what you do, there are no longer enough resources to go around.
Go after their logistics. It takes a support network to keep a "mothership" fed, manned, fueled and armed at sea for any length of time. Find out where those support vessels are and sink/capture them. Strength vs weakness - something the US military never seems to remember.
That's what they currently try to do but the pirates move too fast
Faster than a helicopter? Faster than a destroyer that can do almost 40 kts (or probably better than 40 kts, although classified)? Yeah it's a big ocean, which is why there are satellites and airborne/over the horizon radars and other little tricks. If a major power wanted to eradicate piracy it could easily do so. What is lacking is the political will. It's just not that big of a deal, especially when corporations are rolling over and paying ransom.
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Fine, but I didn't understand your post at all.
No specific model or date mentioned. Car makers have been "promising" many interesting new technologies and features for a while now. Why exactly is this bullshit article considered "news for nerds" again?
Osama bin Laden's share of this fortune is estimated at almost $300 million.
from Forbes. Yeah, $300 million is virtually chump change. Not much you can do with that.
Versus the "standard of care", which in this case was Lipitor. Ethics committees don't let you use "control" groups anymore in medicine. Your "control group" has to consist of the best available alternative drug, if one exists. If you think about it, it makes sense. You can't really give coronary patients sugar pills and tell them they're still receiving treatment. However giving them the best available treatment means they have nothing to lose if the test drug turns out to be no better than what is currently available.
Here you go. Crestor will decrease your relative risk by 44-53% of an adverse cardiovascular event, depending on the study. Impressive (it cuts your risk in half!), until you find out that your absolute risk was around 1% to begin with. For this you are shelling out $200/month, every month. Is it better? Yes. Undoubtedly Crestor is better than Lipitor. Now let's talk a moment about actual disease prevention... does it make much more difference versus lipitor? Not really. 0.5% a year compared to 1% a year, hmm, I guess it only makes a difference if you are the rare person actually having a heart attack which could have been prevented by "upgrading" the drug. The other 99 people, however, are paying through the nose.
Right, and suddenly as Lipitor's (atorvastatin) patent expires, every single patient is being switched to Crestor (rosuvastatin), a much newer and better (patented) drug.
He showed how to cause great damage to super-powers (first USSR, after that the US) with relatively tiny resources.
"Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future." --Adolf Hitler
Osama didn't "show" anyone anything they didn't already know.
Actually this is an argument I used to try to demonstrate how Europe will be more prepared for a future without cheap/abundant crude oil than the US. Europe has an extensive canal and rail network, where as the vast majority of the growth in the US happened in the motor vehicle age. Europe will still be able to transport goods and people over large distances far more than the US will. Off topic, I know, but since you brought it up...
Hah, my wife was just applying for a non-immigrant visa today because her old one expired. Now you have to submit an online application. There are about a million questions, all the buttons are counter-intuitive (usually continue goes on the right and back goes on the left), and the website says it will log you out after 20 minutes of inactivity, which is false. It logs you out after 15 minutes - activity or no. Considering that these forms take far more than 20 minutes to fill out (list the exact dates of your last 5 visits to the US please, never mind that US immigration likes to stamp wherever the hell they feel like it in your passport), it's a major hassle. We were logged out no less than three times during this process.
And don't forget, you need to give travel dates (even if we're not sure when we plan on going to the US in the next 10 years) and name/address of a contact person in the US (I'm sure I have the name and address of the guy who works at the hotel I'll be staying at...). Oh and of course the "trick" questions where they try to "catch you out". My favorite was "have you ever participated in torture/extrajudicial killing". I wonder how many American government employees actually would not be allowed a visa... but I digress.
Put it this way - I'm glad I'm Canadian and don't have to do this crap every few years but America - if you don't want tourists why don't you just say so? I mean, the Mexicans will still keep jumping the border fence anyway no matter how many questions you put on that form, but we law abiding people can take a hint.
It's like putting TSA employees in front of a gate.
Which would explain why the rate is so low, lol...
I coded a flight simulator does that count?
It goes fast. You'll see. And soon you'll have little punks telling you how old you are. I forgot the point I was trying to make...
Not only that but the video has been on liveleak for a few days now.
Microsoft calculated the infection rates using its Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) by detecting and deleting selected malware such as fake antivirus programs, worms, viruses, and trojans.
One VERY important point is that Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool considers certain programs which can be used to bypass Windows Activation as "malware", which is probably skewing the results.
Would you consider it wrong to replicate a loaf of bread?
I am sure he would if (and only if) he owned the bakery.
There is already a better word for that: plagiarism.
Anonymous is like a one time pad in cryptography. Even if you manage to find a key that decodes the message into something legible, you will never know if you have the right key because in theory, any given message can be reproduced. Anonymous is like that. The minute you think you have it pinned down you realize that in fact it was something else - because it is not an "organization". Rather it is a "disorganization".
It's a pretty crappy computer, too.
You would think that with the profits from a successful grow op, someone would be able to invest in solar panels, a wind turbine, or even just a battery pack that gets charged slowly during the day and kicks in during peak power to prevent the electric company from ever seeing a "spike". This would be a much wiser investment than, say, bling bling.
Smart metering should reduce power costs and consumption, not increase it.
Welcome to the exponential part of the population growth curve, where it doesn't matter what you do, there are no longer enough resources to go around.
Technically if he just showered, he'd be a clean pirate, no?
Go after their logistics. It takes a support network to keep a "mothership" fed, manned, fueled and armed at sea for any length of time. Find out where those support vessels are and sink/capture them. Strength vs weakness - something the US military never seems to remember.
That's what they currently try to do but the pirates move too fast
Faster than a helicopter? Faster than a destroyer that can do almost 40 kts (or probably better than 40 kts, although classified)? Yeah it's a big ocean, which is why there are satellites and airborne/over the horizon radars and other little tricks. If a major power wanted to eradicate piracy it could easily do so. What is lacking is the political will. It's just not that big of a deal, especially when corporations are rolling over and paying ransom.
Yup. They had no trouble sinking Osama, but some pirates are giving them headaches?