Exactly. I can't think of one good reason a regular consumer would want one or how they'd even use it. Far be it the day that we have to wear shades in public out of fear that kids are running amuck with these thing. Although I have a really strong urge to affix one of these on top of my pet shark...
Sure, pacemakers and insulin pumps may run closed-source software. But there have got to be countless systems running critical aspects of infrastructure or even the military using closed-source software as well. Wasn't the Navy using Windows at some point in its ships?
Seems that the stakes are much higher in the latter although given the pace of medical technology/wetware innovation, having some sort of review or 3rd party testing worked into the approval process now rather than later would be prescient.
Two problems with this. First, it's a lot of work. Second, he wanted a solution that runs on Linux.
Seriously. This is slashdot. All problems must be resolved using overly complicated technical solutions requiring minimal socialization skills. When he can interface to the PTA using SOA, THEN we might have a better solution.
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
Not only is it hard to tell, it's scary that we can't tell the difference anymore. Just looking at yesterday's news:
* Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
* Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet
Fact or fiction? Maybe for whoever submit these stories it already was April 1...
Contrast that with the quasi-religious Intelligent Design, which postulates a Designer, the existence of which is fundamentally unprovable. Not just difficult, but intrinsically impossible to either prove or disprove.
By the very standards of scientific thought, ID cannot be considered a scientific discipline.
So educate me then... aren't you saying that by defining scientific discipline as such that it is impossible for something "bigger" than us to exist?
If the "podium" that he went to belonged to AA, then the issue is as confusing to me as the poster.
I know that US Customs sometimes asks for the address you're staying at if you're entering from Canada. My friends were denied entry into New York (or maybe it was Michigan) from Ontario last year (by car no less) because they didn't know the address of the hotel they were staying at. Not sure if this is the same idea.
Nevermind that in Canada (land of free health care plagued by long wait times), people are starting to setup surgery-tourist packages to Indian hospitals, all-expenses paid including hotel, 1-month of follow up and a tour for something stupid like $5,000.
Apparently the hospitals that rich people in India go to are world-class and offer care at 1/10th the cost.
So I wouldn't rule out India's health care system so quickly.
Battery capacity is measured in milliamp hours or maH. i.e. Energizer has 1800maH AA batteries. How long a maH will last you totally depends on what you use it for, but suffice to say that a digital camera that takes 4 AA batteries (like the Canon A-series) will probably last 150-200 pictures (of course it depends on other factors).
Put those same puppies in a remote control and you'll be controlling your TV (and everyone in a 4 block radius) for about 5 years...
One other thing to keep in mind is that there are cheapo timer-based chargers and intelligent chargers. The cheapo ones simply output a given maH for a set amount of time regardless. So if your charger puts out 150maH for 10 hours, you're not going to be able to fully charge an 1800maH batter in one sitting. The intelligent ones, well, if you're intelligent you'll figure it out.
.. and conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button.
Uh... no. Who says that within the next 10 years that there will be a fast-forward button? Advertisers have a lot of clout; don't expect them to sit idle. And they've already started complaining...
Anyone else feel a bit unnerved that Microsoft is the one doing the research behind this?
Holy customer database, Batman! Apparently a bug is already out, where a compromised Microsoft signed Active-X control would be able to re-write your memories... oh wait. Wrong thread.
This is a short-sighted solution. Given that the direction of the content delivery industry is heading towards on-demand service over an increasingly broader infrastructure, self-destructing DVDs offer no added value or incentives over the current business models and are hard pressed to find a place in the near future.
Of course, the dream of ubiquitous on-demand services is only starting to take off, but then, hey, in 5 years DVDs will probably be supplanted anyhow.
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Exactly. I can't think of one good reason a regular consumer would want one or how they'd even use it. Far be it the day that we have to wear shades in public out of fear that kids are running amuck with these thing. Although I have a really strong urge to affix one of these on top of my pet shark...
Sure, pacemakers and insulin pumps may run closed-source software. But there have got to be countless systems running critical aspects of infrastructure or even the military using closed-source software as well. Wasn't the Navy using Windows at some point in its ships?
Seems that the stakes are much higher in the latter although given the pace of medical technology/wetware innovation, having some sort of review or 3rd party testing worked into the approval process now rather than later would be prescient.
Two problems with this. First, it's a lot of work. Second, he wanted a solution that runs on Linux.
Seriously. This is slashdot. All problems must be resolved using overly complicated technical solutions requiring minimal socialization skills. When he can interface to the PTA using SOA, THEN we might have a better solution.
you lost me at "Canadian researchers"
definitely tag this one "aprilfools".
It's so hard to tell which ones are too stupid to be true and so stupid they probably are true.
Not only is it hard to tell, it's scary that we can't tell the difference anymore. Just looking at yesterday's news:
* Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
* Cold War Standoff Over ISS Toilet
Fact or fiction? Maybe for whoever submit these stories it already was April 1...
I've had large 2GB+ processes (i.e. VMWware) slow down my system due to being constantly swapped out of the 2GB user memory space.
There was no obvious offensive metric that would have clued me into this. The solution was to increase the user memory space to 3GB.
So if I find out that my sister in Australia is getting married and I decide to tell my friends, do we have to invite the NSA?
Uhh.. nevermind, it's in the mail.
The parts that touch the toilet seat are mostly shielded from bacteria by two layers of cloth.
Usually I go with my pants down...!
Contrast that with the quasi-religious Intelligent Design, which postulates a Designer, the existence of which is fundamentally unprovable. Not just difficult, but intrinsically impossible to either prove or disprove.
By the very standards of scientific thought, ID cannot be considered a scientific discipline.
So educate me then... aren't you saying that by defining scientific discipline as such that it is impossible for something "bigger" than us to exist?
Sounds like a precursor to Operation: Dark Cloud...
If the "podium" that he went to belonged to AA, then the issue is as confusing to me as the poster.
I know that US Customs sometimes asks for the address you're staying at if you're entering from Canada. My friends were denied entry into New York (or maybe it was Michigan) from Ontario last year (by car no less) because they didn't know the address of the hotel they were staying at. Not sure if this is the same idea.
... slashdotters have people to call?
Nevermind that in Canada (land of free health care plagued by long wait times), people are starting to setup surgery-tourist packages to Indian hospitals, all-expenses paid including hotel, 1-month of follow up and a tour for something stupid like $5,000.
Apparently the hospitals that rich people in India go to are world-class and offer care at 1/10th the cost.
So I wouldn't rule out India's health care system so quickly.
Call me crazy, but I think I've seen THAT before too.
I for one welcome our new asteroid maste...
Ahh... forget it.
NiMH batteries rock.
Battery capacity is measured in milliamp hours or maH. i.e. Energizer has 1800maH AA batteries. How long a maH will last you totally depends on what you use it for, but suffice to say that a digital camera that takes 4 AA batteries (like the Canon A-series) will probably last 150-200 pictures (of course it depends on other factors).
Put those same puppies in a remote control and you'll be controlling your TV (and everyone in a 4 block radius) for about 5 years...
One other thing to keep in mind is that there are cheapo timer-based chargers and intelligent chargers. The cheapo ones simply output a given maH for a set amount of time regardless. So if your charger puts out 150maH for 10 hours, you're not going to be able to fully charge an 1800maH batter in one sitting. The intelligent ones, well, if you're intelligent you'll figure it out.
... do I only get to listen a 1/2,000,000th of the song? (Seriously!)
Everyone on this thread is talking about colonizing Mars.
Let's learn to live together on the same frickin' planet before we go and screw up the rest of the solar system.
.. and conventional 30-second commercials will be rare because advertisers won't pay when most viewers can hit the fast-forward button.
Uh... no. Who says that within the next 10 years that there will be a fast-forward button? Advertisers have a lot of clout; don't expect them to sit idle. And they've already started complaining...
... a duplicate post. And I'm still only on movement 1 of the 24 hour Beethoven symphony extravaganza.
Anyone else feel a bit unnerved that Microsoft is the one doing the research behind this?
Holy customer database, Batman! Apparently a bug is already out, where a compromised Microsoft signed Active-X control would be able to re-write your memories... oh wait. Wrong thread.
is this a production cut? or were they just using the orcs from the neighboring sets until the romulans got good and ready?
This is a short-sighted solution. Given that the direction of the content delivery industry is heading towards on-demand service over an increasingly broader infrastructure, self-destructing DVDs offer no added value or incentives over the current business models and are hard pressed to find a place in the near future.
Of course, the dream of ubiquitous on-demand services is only starting to take off, but then, hey, in 5 years DVDs will probably be supplanted anyhow.
http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID= 23256.