Maybe I'll feel dumb tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure physics blogs would be exploring right now if this were even remotely true.
also, this is just a blog post...
You've underestimated the speed of news on SlashDOT. It's much slower than the rest of the universe. Those events you mention should have already happened and you should feel stupid yesterday!
Unless the NSA is already involved and forcing them to keep quiet about it...
Why would the NSA bother with these when they pretty much own the telcos? They would just use the regular towers to track you. Now the Chicago PD, well that's a different story...
I think it will. Reading it, it seems to at the very least (IANAL so I have no idea how far it goes) it will nuke all of the "...with a computer!!" bullshit patents. I hope it goes much farther than that, but even if it doesn't it's a win.
I wouldn't have normally bothered, but the distinction is relevant given TFA. The switch to an acellular version of the pertussis inoculation is what reduced the duration and efficacy of protection. It's not that the old pertussis vaccine was ineffective, it's that we've been using a different vaccine for the last 20 years, give or take, and the new vaccine ended up losing a lot more efficacy than they expected.
All true, and yes very relevant to TFA. However I wasn't trying to name the vaccine, just the conditions it covered. Thus the "and" since pertussis was at the end of the list. I'm familiar with the history of the vaccine but I honestly wasn't trying to get that specific. And I apologize if I took it as a nit-pick correction instead of as a contribution to the conversation. The internet tends to turn us cynical after a while:)
I have taken to switching the power off at the power strip when I'm not watching. The only downside to that is there is a bit of a lag in my trip into the land of mindnumbing entertainment as the box has to boot up and figure out who it is each time.
I actually bought a power strip that does this for me. When the TV (or whatever is plugged into the designated outlet) turns off, 30 seconds later it turns off all but two of the rest of the outlets. I use it for the sound bar, sub, and some LED bias lighting.
The "ap" part of "Tdap" stands for "acellular pertussis", not just "and pertussis". The acellular variant of the vaccine has fewer side-effects, but also provides less protection, and less long lasting protection.
Thanks for the correction. Now what is the name of the vaccine for overly-pedantic commenter?
Having had had family members with whooping cough I looked into this. Adults are believed to be carrier's with silent symptoms. This year (2014) when adults get their physical they will very likely be offered an immunization for whooping cough. I just got mine since I was exposed to it. Although vaccines after the fact may not be useful for protection, the wisdom apparently is that the vaccine helps your body supress the silent infection. Not sure I understand why.
This. The immunity imparted by the pertussis vaccine was not as long lived as previously thought. Combine that with a larger community of unvaccinated children (some due to medical reasons but many due to parents choosing not to) and we get a resurgence of whooping cough. This problem has been know and building for quite a while now but the other problem is that adults tend to not keep up on their tetanus boosters. I know back in 2007 when I got my last booster they had already started giving adults Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis), as opposed to the Td vaccine that used to be the norm for adults.
I think there's enough creditable evidence out there to suggest that young children under the age of 3 shouldn't have any immunization because thier systems aren't developed enough to deal with the shots. But by 3 they should be required to be immunized before attending and public school. Also I this there should be mandated boosters in public middle and highschool. You don't want to follow the rules then you don't get the free education.
Care to post some links to this "creditable evidence"?
I heard the USA will finally get proper Chip & Pin cards next year ?
I visited the US recently and discovered the joy of swipe & signature on paper receipts... It really feels like 3rd world technology.
Chip yes, PIN... maybe. PIN is not going to be a requirement from the credit card companies in the US, it will be left up to the individual issuing banks whether to include it or not. Supposedly it's to do with "customer acceptance" but really it's some BS around PIN payment processing vs regular CC processing networks and fees and how the new Chip & PIN transactions would be handled.
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch.
Uhmmm, my credit union prints their own cards right in the branch and hands them to you when you open an account. With raised numbers like a normal card. The card printers for making properly-embossed cards are not that expensive.
Those raised numbers are going away. My credit union recently switched to flat cards from raised cards (raised cards were available instantly as well). Visa/MC wants to do away with imprints because they are a security risk (since they expose the entire card number on the receipt) so they dropped the embossing requirement a while back.
The Titan shouldn't be considered a top-end gaming card. It should be treated as a budget Tesla card - even at $3k, it's the cheapest card in Nvidia's lineup with full double-precision floating point performance (which no game uses, but is common for scientific computing, Tesla's market).
This. For gaming there is virtually no difference between a 780 Ti (~$700) and a Titan Black (~$1000). They look identical on gaming benchmarks. I imagine that a pair of 780Ti's in SLI would outperform the Titan Z when it comes to gaming (the Titan Z is underclocked compared to the Titan Black) and for less than half the price.
The difference is the unlocked floating point capability and added vram. The Titans are for number crunching. The TitanZ Crushes the AMD R9 295x2. Well, that and gamers looking for epeen cred.
Definitely a click-bait headline. They have enough trouble getting the accuracy and resolution required to tell those sorts of things with medical grade EEGs, let alone a consumer grade headset.
While I agree that it's an inflammatory article now it may not always be that way and "not always" may be sooner rather than later. Using EEGs outside of medicine is in it's infancy but there is huge interest in it from a number of different fields from consumer products to defense. I have no doubt it's going to heat up in the next decade. The more adoption and the wider the markets, the faster it will evolve. So while it's not likely to be an issue today, it's probably best to start acting to head it off now.
What an ugly world some have turned this beautiful place into. Is there a ship leaving for another possibly peaceful planet? A world without all the governments, spies and terrorists would be nice.
So a world without humans? I'm sure there are plenty but why would we send an empty ship there?
Which if it follows the support for multiple monitors means that windows 14 and Ubuntu 24 should have good support for it. ETA for Mac is unknown.
I have a 4K monitor and Windows 8.1 handles it just fine. The only problem I have is that I have on 4K and one 1080p and Windows seems to have issues getting the dpi correct. 8.1 supports per-monitor DPI but it won't let you set the DPI manually for each monitor, it tries to figure it out and fails. It will either get the 1080p right, and the 4K will make me feel like I need to get my eyes examined, or the 4K looks perfect and the 1080p looks like I already had my eyes examined and was found legally blind.
But it stopped. And depending on the thickness of the wall and size of the subsequent debris field, it probably stopped it the quickest compared to other methods. Subsequent runs became much more difficult though.
Yes, the problem was cost. Using the brick wall meant that all parts of the car, including the driver, were single use only. They at least need the car to be reusable. Driver optionally so.
You might be surprised. I also have a LG and it started popping up some extra content prompts when I was watching pre-air, "unoffically aquired", re-encoded episodes of "Episodes" playing through my XBMC this year. LG was doing some kind of promotion with Showtime to show you extra content and do polls and stuff.
I imagine most shows have some sort of hidden info identifying them for devices like Nelson meters and such that the TV may be able to pickup on.
By the way, get a Harmony or other universal programmable remote. The TV probably has remote codes for direct access to all of the individual inputs (my 2012 model does) but the POS stock remote doesn't offer them up.
The answer is never buy a smart TV. They offer no advantages over a dumb TV and a Roku box and only offer disadvantages.
Or just don't use the features. It's hard to find a "dumb" TV these days when you get past the low end sets. I have an Smart TV and I don't think I've ever used the smart features. It's a monitor for my XBMC and occasionally I will swap over to antenna if something is happening (crazy weather for example) for the local news.
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Does FB's TOS say that you might be randomly placed in a A/B test used for academic research purposes? .
Actually, it does.
Only because we believe "incentivize" is a verb, when "incentive" is a noun from the original verb, "incite".
We believe it's a verb because it is a verb. What do you believe it is, a suspension bridge? It's in the OED so I'm pretty much OK with it.
VERB
[WITH OBJECT]
Provide (someone) with an incentive for doing something:
this is likely to incentivize management to find savings
Maybe I'll feel dumb tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure physics blogs would be exploring right now if this were even remotely true.
also, this is just a blog post...
You've underestimated the speed of news on SlashDOT. It's much slower than the rest of the universe. Those events you mention should have already happened and you should feel stupid yesterday!
Unless the NSA is already involved and forcing them to keep quiet about it...
Why would the NSA bother with these when they pretty much own the telcos? They would just use the regular towers to track you. Now the Chicago PD, well that's a different story...
Please let this lead somewhere good.
I think it will. Reading it, it seems to at the very least (IANAL so I have no idea how far it goes) it will nuke all of the "...with a computer!!" bullshit patents. I hope it goes much farther than that, but even if it doesn't it's a win.
I wouldn't have normally bothered, but the distinction is relevant given TFA. The switch to an acellular version of the pertussis inoculation is what reduced the duration and efficacy of protection. It's not that the old pertussis vaccine was ineffective, it's that we've been using a different vaccine for the last 20 years, give or take, and the new vaccine ended up losing a lot more efficacy than they expected.
All true, and yes very relevant to TFA. However I wasn't trying to name the vaccine, just the conditions it covered. Thus the "and" since pertussis was at the end of the list. I'm familiar with the history of the vaccine but I honestly wasn't trying to get that specific. And I apologize if I took it as a nit-pick correction instead of as a contribution to the conversation. The internet tends to turn us cynical after a while :)
I have taken to switching the power off at the power strip when I'm not watching. The only downside to that is there is a bit of a lag in my trip into the land of mindnumbing entertainment as the box has to boot up and figure out who it is each time.
I actually bought a power strip that does this for me. When the TV (or whatever is plugged into the designated outlet) turns off, 30 seconds later it turns off all but two of the rest of the outlets. I use it for the sound bar, sub, and some LED bias lighting.
is hackoverpricedswedishflatpackfurniture.com already taken?
If it is maybe IkeaGoFuckYourself.com is available....
The "ap" part of "Tdap" stands for "acellular pertussis", not just "and pertussis". The acellular variant of the vaccine has fewer side-effects, but also provides less protection, and less long lasting protection.
Thanks for the correction. Now what is the name of the vaccine for overly-pedantic commenter?
It's much safer. Stock up on Doritos and Dr. Pepper and wait the epidemic out.
That may actually be MORE dangerous to your health! :)
Having had had family members with whooping cough I looked into this. Adults are believed to be carrier's with silent symptoms. This year (2014) when adults get their physical they will very likely be offered an immunization for whooping cough. I just got mine since I was exposed to it. Although vaccines after the fact may not be useful for protection, the wisdom apparently is that the vaccine helps your body supress the silent infection. Not sure I understand why.
This. The immunity imparted by the pertussis vaccine was not as long lived as previously thought. Combine that with a larger community of unvaccinated children (some due to medical reasons but many due to parents choosing not to) and we get a resurgence of whooping cough. This problem has been know and building for quite a while now but the other problem is that adults tend to not keep up on their tetanus boosters. I know back in 2007 when I got my last booster they had already started giving adults Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis), as opposed to the Td vaccine that used to be the norm for adults.
I think there's enough creditable evidence out there to suggest that young children under the age of 3 shouldn't have any immunization because thier systems aren't developed enough to deal with the shots. But by 3 they should be required to be immunized before attending and public school. Also I this there should be mandated boosters in public middle and highschool. You don't want to follow the rules then you don't get the free education.
Care to post some links to this "creditable evidence"?
I heard the USA will finally get proper Chip & Pin cards next year ?
I visited the US recently and discovered the joy of swipe & signature on paper receipts... It really feels like 3rd world technology.
Chip yes, PIN... maybe. PIN is not going to be a requirement from the credit card companies in the US, it will be left up to the individual issuing banks whether to include it or not. Supposedly it's to do with "customer acceptance" but really it's some BS around PIN payment processing vs regular CC processing networks and fees and how the new Chip & PIN transactions would be handled.
My credit union prints their own cards... which don't have a relief on the printed data... so they can issue them directly from the branch.
Uhmmm, my credit union prints their own cards right in the branch and hands them to you when you open an account. With raised numbers like a normal card. The card printers for making properly-embossed cards are not that expensive.
Those raised numbers are going away. My credit union recently switched to flat cards from raised cards (raised cards were available instantly as well). Visa/MC wants to do away with imprints because they are a security risk (since they expose the entire card number on the receipt) so they dropped the embossing requirement a while back.
The Titan shouldn't be considered a top-end gaming card. It should be treated as a budget Tesla card - even at $3k, it's the cheapest card in Nvidia's lineup with full double-precision floating point performance (which no game uses, but is common for scientific computing, Tesla's market).
This. For gaming there is virtually no difference between a 780 Ti (~$700) and a Titan Black (~$1000). They look identical on gaming benchmarks. I imagine that a pair of 780Ti's in SLI would outperform the Titan Z when it comes to gaming (the Titan Z is underclocked compared to the Titan Black) and for less than half the price.
The difference is the unlocked floating point capability and added vram. The Titans are for number crunching. The TitanZ Crushes the AMD R9 295x2. Well, that and gamers looking for epeen cred.
Definitely a click-bait headline. They have enough trouble getting the accuracy and resolution required to tell those sorts of things with medical grade EEGs, let alone a consumer grade headset.
While I agree that it's an inflammatory article now it may not always be that way and "not always" may be sooner rather than later. Using EEGs outside of medicine is in it's infancy but there is huge interest in it from a number of different fields from consumer products to defense. I have no doubt it's going to heat up in the next decade. The more adoption and the wider the markets, the faster it will evolve. So while it's not likely to be an issue today, it's probably best to start acting to head it off now.
What an ugly world some have turned this beautiful place into. Is there a ship leaving for another possibly peaceful planet? A world without all the governments, spies and terrorists would be nice.
So a world without humans? I'm sure there are plenty but why would we send an empty ship there?
All that aside, seems like it would make for a really nice PC monitor.
It probably seems that way because it is a PC monitor.
Which if it follows the support for multiple monitors means that windows 14 and Ubuntu 24 should have good support for it. ETA for Mac is unknown.
I have a 4K monitor and Windows 8.1 handles it just fine. The only problem I have is that I have on 4K and one 1080p and Windows seems to have issues getting the dpi correct. 8.1 supports per-monitor DPI but it won't let you set the DPI manually for each monitor, it tries to figure it out and fails. It will either get the 1080p right, and the 4K will make me feel like I need to get my eyes examined, or the 4K looks perfect and the 1080p looks like I already had my eyes examined and was found legally blind.
Just replace with: The cloud is down.
My favorite thing about the Bloodhound SSC is that it uses a 4.2L V12 engine producing 750bhp...to run its fuel pump.
Even with the subsequent corrections, that actually is very cool.
But it stopped. And depending on the thickness of the wall and size of the subsequent debris field, it probably stopped it the quickest compared to other methods. Subsequent runs became much more difficult though.
Yes, the problem was cost. Using the brick wall meant that all parts of the car, including the driver, were single use only. They at least need the car to be reusable. Driver optionally so.
You might be surprised. I also have a LG and it started popping up some extra content prompts when I was watching pre-air, "unoffically aquired", re-encoded episodes of "Episodes" playing through my XBMC this year. LG was doing some kind of promotion with Showtime to show you extra content and do polls and stuff.
I imagine most shows have some sort of hidden info identifying them for devices like Nelson meters and such that the TV may be able to pickup on.
By the way, get a Harmony or other universal programmable remote. The TV probably has remote codes for direct access to all of the individual inputs (my 2012 model does) but the POS stock remote doesn't offer them up.
The answer is never buy a smart TV. They offer no advantages over a dumb TV and a Roku box and only offer disadvantages.
Or just don't use the features. It's hard to find a "dumb" TV these days when you get past the low end sets. I have an Smart TV and I don't think I've ever used the smart features. It's a monitor for my XBMC and occasionally I will swap over to antenna if something is happening (crazy weather for example) for the local news.
Said no organization ever.