There are uses for RFID that need to be shielded until I say that I want them scanned
What exactly are those uses that can only use RFID? If you don't want it read remotely, don't put it on RFID. Just put the info on a mag stripe. Different tools have different benefits and drawbacks. There are alternatives.
Well they've blocked new downloads of the software from Australia, but I'm sure there's thousands of installed copies still merrily downloading as we speak.
Capitalism is providing no regulation or public funding for a market
So I take it you'll be moving to the capitalist wonderland of Somalia any day now?
Yes that's a troll, but come on man! It takes too much money to build and maintain the infrastructure for a communications system like we have. Only governments and big boys like AT&T can play in that arena. If governments don't intervene for consumers then "capitalists" would make 911 calls cost $100 bucks because the demand is pretty damn high. And nobody would compete with them to lower prices cause who can string wire to every damn house in the nation? And don't respond with "WiMax." In your pure capitalism governments wouldn't regulate spectrum so capitalists would just jam each other.
Okay, I hate SBC with a passion matched only by my loathing of the post office, but I have to say that they deserve some protection. When McDonalds goes under you can still call an ambulance. Think for a second about how important the phone system is to society. Hell, I don't even mind paying a few bucks a month for the Universal Service Fee, so even the poorest can call 911. Competition is good, but until someone decides to build a completely parallel communications infrastructure, I think we're forced to protect the current maintainer of the system.
Another cost you might want to consider is a security audit. Some article I read once by a guy at Digital said that they had to go over every line of the VAX/VMS source after he accessed it to make sure nothing was altered. Yeah, maybe he was curious and just looked at the source, but as a company how can you know? All development has to stop (expensive!) and a massive security audit has to be conducted.
B. Place the U.S. on probation to end its imperial ambitions or be removed from the security council
"U.N., you got a problem with that, know what you should do? You should sanction me. Sanction me with your army. OH! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARMY! I guess that means you need to shut the fuck up! That's what I'd do if I didn't have no army, I would shut the fuck up. Shut - the - FUCK - UP! That's right!"
Wow, what a troll! And moderated at a 4 no less. Hey I ain't no huge fan of marketing but to make such a blanket statement is moronic.
I happen to work in a bio lab and actually like it when the sales reps come by. I need their stuff and they're constantly filling me in on their new products. The new RNAi stuff that these companies are coming up with make my life a hundred times easier. The sales reps are knowledgeable about them and don't feed me bull about what they can do, but give me the facts.
There are also tons of moral ad guys who do pro bono work for good causes. I know a marketing guy who does pro bono work for a local wild-life rehabilitation center. That's a pretty sweet deal for the non-profit conservancy.
So stop being so fucking ignorant and realize that not all marketers are out to dupe and harass people.
UC Berkeley student modders do your worst, I'm wearing my flamesuit.
Ouch! Looks like I got served (GO Bears!). Hey, if you need a nice shiny bar graph to tell you which way the political winds on Slashdot are blowing, then maybe I don't care what opinion you have of the site.
I know the word gets overused and is getting fuzzier by the day but/. is a community and ain't no news organization. If someone walks into a sports bar and takes everyones rants on why this is the year for the Cubs to be some sort of sports journalism, they're an idiot. Just like this isn't the year for the Linux desktop. If they actually hung around and listened for a while then they'd recognize the bias and take everything with a grain of salt.
And as for the specific bias of/. I'd agree with another poster who pegged it as libertarian rather than liberal. People around here tend to have a deep mistrust of Uncle Sam. All that demographics would do is help people form premature reactions, much like those who never read the linked articles, instead of considering the ideas presented.
I remember reading an interesting essay by Stephen Jay Gould on why these species that only emerge periodically do it at prime number intervals. The problem is that they have to swarm in such huge numbers to overwhelm any predators and multiply rapidly. To prevent a predator from evolving to depend on their "blooms" and wipe them out when they emerge, they only do it at prime number intervals. That way a predator would have to multiply in the same time interval and not some fraction of it. If it was 12 years a predator could multiply every 2,3,4, or 6 years and have a chance of feeding just when the cicadas were blooming. It's a lot less likely that a predator will multiply at only 17 years at the same time as the cicadas.
There are also species of bamboo that periodically produce tons of seeds to reproduce, but on the order of every 70 years. These too only do it on prime number years.
Who knows if he was right, but it is a cool theory.
There always seem to be people on Slashdot who ask why so much work is "wasted" on two projects to solve the same problem. The most notable example is KDE vs. Gnome. Well, I think this is a perfect example of why that's a great thing. The XFree guys haven't had serious competition in years and now we're all begging for the freedesktop.org guys to come to the rescue. All of the "wasted" effort does have a purpose, it keeps people from trying these kinds of shenanigans.
This sounds like the kind of bar trick that you could use to win a free round in a bet. Saying to your friend that you could produce an antibubble would sound interesting. So my question is how would you do it? The article mentions using a squeeze bottle, but that's too complicated for the pub. Just squirt beer out of your mouth? I haven't tried it using either method, so I have no idea how hard it is.
Under medicare rules a doctor can't charge less than they charge medicare for a procedure. So even if it's logical that such a short consultation should only cost a fraction of the normal cost, it would be considered fraud.
Besides that, I think the parent is probably correct that the fee was for reading the results of the EKG, not explaining it to you.
Why is everyone here going nuts on the possibility of MS skewing the results? They've shown for years that they can co-run a news site that has plenty of room for anti-Microsoft and pro-linux stories. Has anyone made a serious claim about MSNBC not being impartial?
cost-saving advances are routinely blocked by doctors when they're not busy blocking liability
I think you brushed up against a very important point there. If you do happen to go down to Mexico and they screw up, you're fucked. In the U.S. however, you've hit the lottery. In the U.S. you could never have a nurse or a machine do certain diagnoses, not because it's a racket like you suggest, but because if it turns out wrong people are going to sue the doctor in charge for millions. That means that a highly trained specialist will take a close look at your test results, not some flunky. What all of you people are forgetting is the massive amounts of dollars that have to go towards malpractice insurance in the U.S. and how that affects our standards of care.
Not that I think all this that's a bad thing. It keeps docs on their toes and makes sure that you're not left holding the bag when the doc screws up. Don't underestimate the value of knowing that your kids will be taken care of if something freakish happens.
Um, I don't think you get the joke. He was being sarcastic at the Hyperphase guys for throwing a hissy fit over Microsoft being four minutes late.
Wounded though this court may be by Microsoft's four minute and twenty-seven second dereliction of duty, it will transcend the affront and forgive the tardiness. Indeed, to demonstrate the even-handedness of its magnanimity, the court will allow Hyperphrase on some future occasion in this case to e-file a motion four minutes and thirty seconds late, with supporting documents to follow up to seventy-two minutes later.
Having spent more than that amount of time on Hyperphrase's motion, it is now time to move on to the other Gordian problems confronting this court. Plaintiff's motion to strike is denied.
The speed limit isn't just for traffic control, there are also good environmental reasons for keeping speed under control. This report http://www.epa.gov/otaq/reports/envspoms.htm by the EPA found a 153% increase in carbon monoxide emissions at 65 mph versus 55 mph.
"It doesn't matter if you're happy or not"? What kind of attitude is that on Slashdot of all places? If you do see the job as a "glorified McDonalds" then do whatever is in your power to make it a better place to work at. I've had to work at too many of those kinds of crap jobs and the only way to keep your sanity during a ten hour shift is to find some escape. If it's music that doesn't suck, more power to you. Yeah you might get fired but at least you'll have a shread of human dignity. If you follow kootch's advice you'll probably end up as bitter as he sounds in his post.
I just installed Debian PPC 8.0 last weekend on my TiBook and it works like a charm. As a linux newbie who wants to learn a new system it's great. I also tried to install YDL 2.1 and Suse but couldn't get either to install. LinuxPPC hasn't had an upgrade in quite some time. To all those wondering why to choose Linux, all this poor student can say is free applications (as in free beer).
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What exactly are those uses that can only use RFID? If you don't want it read remotely, don't put it on RFID. Just put the info on a mag stripe. Different tools have different benefits and drawbacks. There are alternatives.
Well they've blocked new downloads of the software from Australia, but I'm sure there's thousands of installed copies still merrily downloading as we speak.
So I take it you'll be moving to the capitalist wonderland of Somalia any day now?
Yes that's a troll, but come on man! It takes too much money to build and maintain the infrastructure for a communications system like we have. Only governments and big boys like AT&T can play in that arena. If governments don't intervene for consumers then "capitalists" would make 911 calls cost $100 bucks because the demand is pretty damn high. And nobody would compete with them to lower prices cause who can string wire to every damn house in the nation? And don't respond with "WiMax." In your pure capitalism governments wouldn't regulate spectrum so capitalists would just jam each other.
Okay, I hate SBC with a passion matched only by my loathing of the post office, but I have to say that they deserve some protection. When McDonalds goes under you can still call an ambulance. Think for a second about how important the phone system is to society. Hell, I don't even mind paying a few bucks a month for the Universal Service Fee, so even the poorest can call 911. Competition is good, but until someone decides to build a completely parallel communications infrastructure, I think we're forced to protect the current maintainer of the system.
Another cost you might want to consider is a security audit. Some article I read once by a guy at Digital said that they had to go over every line of the VAX/VMS source after he accessed it to make sure nothing was altered. Yeah, maybe he was curious and just looked at the source, but as a company how can you know? All development has to stop (expensive!) and a massive security audit has to be conducted.
Obviously you've never been to Chicago
"U.N., you got a problem with that, know what you should do? You should sanction me. Sanction me with your army. OH! WAIT A MINUTE! YOU DON'T HAVE AN ARMY! I guess that means you need to shut the fuck up! That's what I'd do if I didn't have no army, I would shut the fuck up. Shut - the - FUCK - UP! That's right!"
Chappelle's Show - Black Bush
I happen to work in a bio lab and actually like it when the sales reps come by. I need their stuff and they're constantly filling me in on their new products. The new RNAi stuff that these companies are coming up with make my life a hundred times easier. The sales reps are knowledgeable about them and don't feed me bull about what they can do, but give me the facts.
There are also tons of moral ad guys who do pro bono work for good causes. I know a marketing guy who does pro bono work for a local wild-life rehabilitation center. That's a pretty sweet deal for the non-profit conservancy.
So stop being so fucking ignorant and realize that not all marketers are out to dupe and harass people.
Ouch! Looks like I got served (GO Bears!). Hey, if you need a nice shiny bar graph to tell you which way the political winds on Slashdot are blowing, then maybe I don't care what opinion you have of the site.
I know the word gets overused and is getting fuzzier by the day but /. is a community and ain't no news organization. If someone walks into a sports bar and takes everyones rants on why this is the year for the Cubs to be some sort of sports journalism, they're an idiot. Just like this isn't the year for the Linux desktop. If they actually hung around and listened for a while then they'd recognize the bias and take everything with a grain of salt.
And as for the specific bias of /. I'd agree with another poster who pegged it as libertarian rather than liberal. People around here tend to have a deep mistrust of Uncle Sam. All that demographics would do is help people form premature reactions, much like those who never read the linked articles, instead of considering the ideas presented.
There are also species of bamboo that periodically produce tons of seeds to reproduce, but on the order of every 70 years. These too only do it on prime number years.
Who knows if he was right, but it is a cool theory.
There always seem to be people on Slashdot who ask why so much work is "wasted" on two projects to solve the same problem. The most notable example is KDE vs. Gnome. Well, I think this is a perfect example of why that's a great thing. The XFree guys haven't had serious competition in years and now we're all begging for the freedesktop.org guys to come to the rescue. All of the "wasted" effort does have a purpose, it keeps people from trying these kinds of shenanigans.
This sounds like the kind of bar trick that you could use to win a free round in a bet. Saying to your friend that you could produce an antibubble would sound interesting. So my question is how would you do it? The article mentions using a squeeze bottle, but that's too complicated for the pub. Just squirt beer out of your mouth? I haven't tried it using either method, so I have no idea how hard it is.
Besides that, I think the parent is probably correct that the fee was for reading the results of the EKG, not explaining it to you.
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I think you brushed up against a very important point there. If you do happen to go down to Mexico and they screw up, you're fucked. In the U.S. however, you've hit the lottery. In the U.S. you could never have a nurse or a machine do certain diagnoses, not because it's a racket like you suggest, but because if it turns out wrong people are going to sue the doctor in charge for millions. That means that a highly trained specialist will take a close look at your test results, not some flunky. What all of you people are forgetting is the massive amounts of dollars that have to go towards malpractice insurance in the U.S. and how that affects our standards of care.
Not that I think all this that's a bad thing. It keeps docs on their toes and makes sure that you're not left holding the bag when the doc screws up. Don't underestimate the value of knowing that your kids will be taken care of if something freakish happens.
Wounded though this court may be by Microsoft's four minute and twenty-seven second dereliction of duty, it will transcend the affront and forgive the tardiness. Indeed, to demonstrate the even-handedness of its magnanimity, the court will allow Hyperphrase on some future occasion in this case to e-file a motion four minutes and thirty seconds late, with supporting documents to follow up to seventy-two minutes later.
Having spent more than that amount of time on Hyperphrase's motion, it is now time to move on to the other Gordian problems confronting this court. Plaintiff's motion to strike is denied.
The speed limit isn't just for traffic control, there are also good environmental reasons for keeping speed under control. This report http://www.epa.gov/otaq/reports/envspoms.htm by the EPA found a 153% increase in carbon monoxide emissions at 65 mph versus 55 mph.
"It doesn't matter if you're happy or not"? What kind of attitude is that on Slashdot of all places? If you do see the job as a "glorified McDonalds" then do whatever is in your power to make it a better place to work at. I've had to work at too many of those kinds of crap jobs and the only way to keep your sanity during a ten hour shift is to find some escape. If it's music that doesn't suck, more power to you. Yeah you might get fired but at least you'll have a shread of human dignity. If you follow kootch's advice you'll probably end up as bitter as he sounds in his post.
The last release was, strangly enough, known to freeze up AOL Instant Messenger. Does this new version fix that bug?
I just installed Debian PPC 8.0 last weekend on my TiBook and it works like a charm. As a linux newbie who wants to learn a new system it's great. I also tried to install YDL 2.1 and Suse but couldn't get either to install. LinuxPPC hasn't had an upgrade in quite some time. To all those wondering why to choose Linux, all this poor student can say is free applications (as in free beer).