From the level of paranoia he and his supporters are publicly showing, he's never going to be "safe", someone will always be out to get him...
For example, the huge fuss made over "number plate recognition cameras" that his supporters claim were "recently installed" near his bail address. Turns out that not only are they bog standard excessive speed warning cameras (which don't even record vehicles breaking the speed limit), but they had been there since 2002 and 2003.
You are assuming that *every* radar site needs to be repositioned, and that *every* radar site was exposed in the first overflight - most militaries double up on the coverage ability so there are no gaps while equipment is redeployed.
The only way to sort it is to send in SEAD strike forces in the first wave - once the shooting war starts, pretty much everything lights up and thats when you hit it.
Thats a little different - if you are coming into the medical profession as a medical student in the UK, you have to spend your first two years at least in the NHS to complete your Foundation 1 & 2 years, and even if you are a foreign licensed doctor, in most cases you will be required to complete the equivalent of your F2 year in the NHS before being able to carry on with your career in the UK. My wife is working alongside several doctors doing that right now.
The entire UK medical scene is set up with bullshit things like that - all NHS training posts have a significant percentage of hospital rotations. For example, the GP training scheme is a three year course, one of those years is filling hospital posts - ostensibly because it gives doctors a good grounding in hospital work, which ignores the fact that the work is no different to the F2 year (my wife is in her first year of GP training, and literally her hospital work is exactly the same as she did in her F2 - shes not got any more responsibility, cant make any more decisions and is no more senior than the F2 she works with in the role).
Another bullshit thing that tripped a lot of people up this year, and is only now becoming widely publicised, is that the GMC, NHS and the medical colleges will not accept exit exam results for a seniority position (so, Pediatrics Consultant for example) unless you are in a training role for that position already - you can take the exam (paying several thousand to do so), but they won't tell you it doesn't count until after you receive your results.
Thats more misrepresentation of credentials than anything to do with the acquisition of the degree - and the best defence to that is to ask for proof. If they are presenting their argument from the corner of a "valued professional", using their degree to prop that up, then they should be able to back their argument with evidence.
What you describe is more of a general problem than anything specific to having a degree or not.
In the UK you don't get a medical license when you get a degree - you get your license from the General Medical Council. Having a degree in no way guarantees you getting your license.
Plus you have to complete two years of work in the NHS before you can practice privately - there is no other way to get a full license in the UK.
"fake"? I'm not disagreeing with your statements sentiment, but I have yet to see a degree course which has the requirement to take on a religious style belief of the subject...
The students fulfilled the course requirements - what more is required of them? They did the work to get the degree.
Just because an English Lit degree requires me to state that Keates was a literary god doesn't mean that I have to rate him personally or even read his works for personal enjoyment.
While the UK is particularly bad, I have yet to see any case of the type you are describing here - I have seen religious discrimination claims on other grounds, but never one against a failed medical finals...
It sounds like a lot of the UK things are myths as well - the CCTV figures for instance were extrapolated from one street, and counted private cameras as well.
What I want to know is just what idiot signed up to an agreement like that? "We want to merge with you, but if we get told no then we will pay you a fucktonne load of money and hand over a ransom in spectrum licenses and roaming agreements, just because."
I can understand agreeing something similar for a party that walks away from the deal, but agreeing to that sort of thing when there's a large chance that the deal will get blocked, just screams of idiocy to me.
Talking as someone who was heavily into amateur photography until a year or so ago, the main reason you see Canon and Nikon "worship" is because they are the only two manufacturers where you can start out with a very cheap DSLR at the low end, and migrate your way right up to the top levels in equipment without ever having to dump your current kit and replace it - you can achieve that steady progression by buying lenses and bodies individually, there is no point to reach where the previous level of kit won't work with the next.
Wireless doesn't need to be the future for hospitals, where each patient is already at a station where all instruments can be connected - the beds are already getting smarter than my dog (although no one has taught a bed to fetch yet), it's only a matter of time before all SATs and monitoring instruments are built in.
I do find the many conflicting faces of slashdot amusing - on one hand, apparently connecting to an unsecured wifi network is perfectly acceptable because it's publicly broadcasting a signal, but on the other hand tracking a publicly broadcasted signal from a mobile phone is a big no-no.
See, your style of post seems to be more and more common on Slashdot - you obviously don't like that I disliked your pet product, so you must attack me for it with insults and ridicule.
I also have come across capacitive screens that I dislike, but I have never come across a resistive screen that I liked using - even when they were the only offering on the market (I have had many Palm and Pocket PC handhelds before switching to the original iPhone - never liked the screens on any of them, and it was the screen on the iPod Touch that actually made me seriously consider the iPhone).
As for the keyboard on the N900 - its pathetically awful. My wife got an N900 at the same time as me, but continued using it after I ditched mine and her keyboard is pretty much stripped bare, with the backlight showing through completely. Its not durable, its not rugged, and its a pain in the arse to use.
I'd love to know how you have used your N900s keyboard for "about 3 years", since the N900 was only released on the 11th November 2009 - just over 2 years ago...
Regarding speakers - Im not an audiophile, the iPhones speaker is perfectly fine for me when I use it - more often than not Im using headphones anyway, but during calls the sound quality is fine to the point where I've not once wished for better.
So yes, I did go "back" to my iPhone - I'm so sorry that you consider my entire lifes experience to now be completely biased because I've used one. I guess that must mean I'm not allowed any sort of opinion on anything smartphone related ever again.
I've never seen an N900 which was any different to mine - the main issue was the resistive screen, rather than a capacitive (brain fails - is that the right term?) screen. That right there, after using a capacitive screen, resistive screens just don't cut it in any way - they are slow and imprecise to input.
You AF447 example is stupid - the computer makes decisions based on known values. When those known values become unknown values, the computer rightly decides it cannot make decisions. In the case of autonomous vehicles, the car would simply stop - you dont have that option in an aircraft.
In AF447s case, the plane was not in a dangerous situation when the autopilot disconnected - it was the pilot flying which put the aircraft into the position which caused the crash. If the PF had followed the basic procedures for flying in an instrument disagree situation, that plane would have landed as normal a few hours later - he didn't, and instead did something which shocked most other experienced pilots.
I have to really disagree with your claim that the N900 is on par hardware wise. I had an N900 for several months last year and I have to say that the screen was utter shite, the sound was utter shite, the wifi was spotty, the keyboard was shite, and loads of other things. I went back to my iPhone 3G and dumped the N900 because, while an interesting concept, it wasn't worth using as an actual phone.
In the UK it's been law for some time that all new number plates have to be stuck to the vehicle, and not be able to be removed in one piece (actually, they have to break into many pieces if removed) - this has gone a long way to preventing number plate theft.
Also, to get a new number plate made, you have to supply the vehicles documents to the garage, ad they inform the DVLA.
Just incase you didn't know, in the UK a vehicle is registered at first sale, and then retains that registration for it's entire life (there are of course special cases).
We also have places like Bath and Bristol where all entrances and exits have ANPR. If you drive in one of these cities, make sure you are fully legal. If the camera spots you, you'll get pulled over further down the road.
The main routes perhaps, but take it from a local - there are thousands of roads into both of those cities, country lanes into the suburbs and then wind your way into central Bath or Bristol. You can't have cameras on all of them, and certainly not all of the routes from the outskirts into the centres.
The back routes are great for escaping the rush hour traffic.
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From the level of paranoia he and his supporters are publicly showing, he's never going to be "safe", someone will always be out to get him...
For example, the huge fuss made over "number plate recognition cameras" that his supporters claim were "recently installed" near his bail address. Turns out that not only are they bog standard excessive speed warning cameras (which don't even record vehicles breaking the speed limit), but they had been there since 2002 and 2003.
What sort of argument is that? If the lawyers hadn't run the case, no one would have got anything. This case didn't magically happen.
Oh, and you are more than welcome to opt out of the class and bring your own case against Ticket Master.
You are assuming that *every* radar site needs to be repositioned, and that *every* radar site was exposed in the first overflight - most militaries double up on the coverage ability so there are no gaps while equipment is redeployed.
The only way to sort it is to send in SEAD strike forces in the first wave - once the shooting war starts, pretty much everything lights up and thats when you hit it.
Sort of like wack-a-mole.
They did the hard work...
Because it's not reliable information once the mission is over - radar sites can and do move, switch frequencies and even power levels.
Would you fly on a "Boeing"?
Thats a little different - if you are coming into the medical profession as a medical student in the UK, you have to spend your first two years at least in the NHS to complete your Foundation 1 & 2 years, and even if you are a foreign licensed doctor, in most cases you will be required to complete the equivalent of your F2 year in the NHS before being able to carry on with your career in the UK. My wife is working alongside several doctors doing that right now.
The entire UK medical scene is set up with bullshit things like that - all NHS training posts have a significant percentage of hospital rotations. For example, the GP training scheme is a three year course, one of those years is filling hospital posts - ostensibly because it gives doctors a good grounding in hospital work, which ignores the fact that the work is no different to the F2 year (my wife is in her first year of GP training, and literally her hospital work is exactly the same as she did in her F2 - shes not got any more responsibility, cant make any more decisions and is no more senior than the F2 she works with in the role).
Another bullshit thing that tripped a lot of people up this year, and is only now becoming widely publicised, is that the GMC, NHS and the medical colleges will not accept exit exam results for a seniority position (so, Pediatrics Consultant for example) unless you are in a training role for that position already - you can take the exam (paying several thousand to do so), but they won't tell you it doesn't count until after you receive your results.
Thats more misrepresentation of credentials than anything to do with the acquisition of the degree - and the best defence to that is to ask for proof. If they are presenting their argument from the corner of a "valued professional", using their degree to prop that up, then they should be able to back their argument with evidence.
What you describe is more of a general problem than anything specific to having a degree or not.
In the UK you don't get a medical license when you get a degree - you get your license from the General Medical Council. Having a degree in no way guarantees you getting your license.
Plus you have to complete two years of work in the NHS before you can practice privately - there is no other way to get a full license in the UK.
"fake"? I'm not disagreeing with your statements sentiment, but I have yet to see a degree course which has the requirement to take on a religious style belief of the subject...
The students fulfilled the course requirements - what more is required of them? They did the work to get the degree.
Just because an English Lit degree requires me to state that Keates was a literary god doesn't mean that I have to rate him personally or even read his works for personal enjoyment.
While the UK is particularly bad, I have yet to see any case of the type you are describing here - I have seen religious discrimination claims on other grounds, but never one against a failed medical finals...
It sounds like a lot of the UK things are myths as well - the CCTV figures for instance were extrapolated from one street, and counted private cameras as well.
What I want to know is just what idiot signed up to an agreement like that? "We want to merge with you, but if we get told no then we will pay you a fucktonne load of money and hand over a ransom in spectrum licenses and roaming agreements, just because."
I can understand agreeing something similar for a party that walks away from the deal, but agreeing to that sort of thing when there's a large chance that the deal will get blocked, just screams of idiocy to me.
Talking as someone who was heavily into amateur photography until a year or so ago, the main reason you see Canon and Nikon "worship" is because they are the only two manufacturers where you can start out with a very cheap DSLR at the low end, and migrate your way right up to the top levels in equipment without ever having to dump your current kit and replace it - you can achieve that steady progression by buying lenses and bodies individually, there is no point to reach where the previous level of kit won't work with the next.
It's really quite a nice position to be in.
The N900, and the N9 after it, is my job.
And there is why you are being so much of an ass - I'm so sorry that I hate your product, but that's my right.
Wireless doesn't need to be the future for hospitals, where each patient is already at a station where all instruments can be connected - the beds are already getting smarter than my dog (although no one has taught a bed to fetch yet), it's only a matter of time before all SATs and monitoring instruments are built in.
I thought I made it clear that I understood precisely that by commenting about the many conflicting faces...
I do find the many conflicting faces of slashdot amusing - on one hand, apparently connecting to an unsecured wifi network is perfectly acceptable because it's publicly broadcasting a signal, but on the other hand tracking a publicly broadcasted signal from a mobile phone is a big no-no.
See, your style of post seems to be more and more common on Slashdot - you obviously don't like that I disliked your pet product, so you must attack me for it with insults and ridicule.
I also have come across capacitive screens that I dislike, but I have never come across a resistive screen that I liked using - even when they were the only offering on the market (I have had many Palm and Pocket PC handhelds before switching to the original iPhone - never liked the screens on any of them, and it was the screen on the iPod Touch that actually made me seriously consider the iPhone).
As for the keyboard on the N900 - its pathetically awful. My wife got an N900 at the same time as me, but continued using it after I ditched mine and her keyboard is pretty much stripped bare, with the backlight showing through completely. Its not durable, its not rugged, and its a pain in the arse to use.
I'd love to know how you have used your N900s keyboard for "about 3 years", since the N900 was only released on the 11th November 2009 - just over 2 years ago...
Regarding speakers - Im not an audiophile, the iPhones speaker is perfectly fine for me when I use it - more often than not Im using headphones anyway, but during calls the sound quality is fine to the point where I've not once wished for better.
So yes, I did go "back" to my iPhone - I'm so sorry that you consider my entire lifes experience to now be completely biased because I've used one. I guess that must mean I'm not allowed any sort of opinion on anything smartphone related ever again.
I've never seen an N900 which was any different to mine - the main issue was the resistive screen, rather than a capacitive (brain fails - is that the right term?) screen. That right there, after using a capacitive screen, resistive screens just don't cut it in any way - they are slow and imprecise to input.
You AF447 example is stupid - the computer makes decisions based on known values. When those known values become unknown values, the computer rightly decides it cannot make decisions. In the case of autonomous vehicles, the car would simply stop - you dont have that option in an aircraft.
In AF447s case, the plane was not in a dangerous situation when the autopilot disconnected - it was the pilot flying which put the aircraft into the position which caused the crash. If the PF had followed the basic procedures for flying in an instrument disagree situation, that plane would have landed as normal a few hours later - he didn't, and instead did something which shocked most other experienced pilots.
I have to really disagree with your claim that the N900 is on par hardware wise. I had an N900 for several months last year and I have to say that the screen was utter shite, the sound was utter shite, the wifi was spotty, the keyboard was shite, and loads of other things. I went back to my iPhone 3G and dumped the N900 because, while an interesting concept, it wasn't worth using as an actual phone.
C# and VB.net may have differences, but they both compile down to the same Intermediate Language.
In the UK it's been law for some time that all new number plates have to be stuck to the vehicle, and not be able to be removed in one piece (actually, they have to break into many pieces if removed) - this has gone a long way to preventing number plate theft.
Also, to get a new number plate made, you have to supply the vehicles documents to the garage, ad they inform the DVLA.
Just incase you didn't know, in the UK a vehicle is registered at first sale, and then retains that registration for it's entire life (there are of course special cases).
We also have places like Bath and Bristol where all entrances and exits have ANPR. If you drive in one of these cities, make sure you are fully legal. If the camera spots you, you'll get pulled over further down the road.
The main routes perhaps, but take it from a local - there are thousands of roads into both of those cities, country lanes into the suburbs and then wind your way into central Bath or Bristol. You can't have cameras on all of them, and certainly not all of the routes from the outskirts into the centres.
The back routes are great for escaping the rush hour traffic.
Now go run a marathon and follow your own advice.