First off, lets be pedantic. RFID tags are passive (well slightly active while transponding) and don't cause problems just sitting there. It is the readers that cause the problems.
The field drops off at a square of distance, so a RFID reader at 10cm will have one hundredth the EM field of a reader at 1cm.
A huge % of medical deaths are due to human error (wrong drugs/dosage etc)and the correct use of RFID can go a long way to mitigate that. Clearly that would be offset if the RFID equipment was to interfere with equipment.
Medical devices should be designed to be highly robust to EM interference, but the flip side to that is that often the sensors need to be very sensitive to detect slight electrical signals in the body (pulse, brain activity etc). Still, it should be possible to design equipment that is not degraded by RFID readers.
In the old days the medics would have also understood poisons etc and they would have been prone to bribery or other influence to kill their patients (passively or actively).
If you put your cause first (patients or science), then those external influences lose their power.
The libertarian call of "If you disagree with us you disagree with the founding fathers" is not very much different to Bush's "If you disagree with me then you're supporting terrorists". Both are just designed to silence criticism.
Founding fathers did not intend to be interpreted the way they are interpreted now. Heck, they did not even intend "all men are create equal" to apply to blacks and women.
Fuller did contribute some interesting stuff but some of his ideas were unworkable. That's pretty common for most contributors/geniuses. Look at Einstein: some cool research, but he was highly disruptive in other areas (eg. quantum mechanics or putting religious beliefs before science).
As parent says, a company acts for itself and will happily operate to increase its profits even if that destroys competition,industries or economies ( just look at oil). The only limit is what the company can get away with..
Capitalism is presented as being a healthy economic model because it provides a fitness function that weeks out the unhealthy players. That's fine until people game the system in various ways: monopolies, no competes, undercutting....
Translations from language to language are imprecise because there are often no 1:1 translations. The classic is Dutch "gesellig" which is approximated by "cozy".
I grew up in South Africa, speaking mainly English, but also Afrikaans (a derivative of Dutch) and Zulu. My father and I would often mix all three in one sentence to get the words we wanted.
It has been used for quite a while in the service industry.
Churning means the loss of customers to other service providers. In other words, the opposite of customer retention.
Service providers can combat churn by having some sort of mechanism to make it hard to switch. For example, an email address tends to keep you using the provider of that email address because people don't want to go through the hassle of changing.
If you sell it on eBay you'll probably get $200. With the extra $125 of upgrades you'll maybe get the same.
Very few buyers will worry about how much RAM etc it has. Most won't pay more than $x unless it has a fast CPU.
If you think that it is worth spending the extra $125 to have a faster machine for yourself, that's fine, but don't try rationalize it with resale value.
You never had those "rights". Old technology just did not prevent you from recording/copying shows, music etc. That did not mean that you were allowed to do it, but many turned a blind eye to infringements.
New tech is able to prevent you doing this.
Analogy alert: Before door locks were invented, you didn't have the right to enter another's house. locks just allowed home owners to secure their homes.
Many companies only have limited IT capability and many will just hand over a computer from an ex employee to a new employee with very minor changes. Saves a bunch of work reinstalling stuff.
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The field drops off at a square of distance, so a RFID reader at 10cm will have one hundredth the EM field of a reader at 1cm.
A huge % of medical deaths are due to human error (wrong drugs/dosage etc)and the correct use of RFID can go a long way to mitigate that. Clearly that would be offset if the RFID equipment was to interfere with equipment.
Medical devices should be designed to be highly robust to EM interference, but the flip side to that is that often the sensors need to be very sensitive to detect slight electrical signals in the body (pulse, brain activity etc). Still, it should be possible to design equipment that is not degraded by RFID readers.
Old saying which still holds true. Emptying septic tanks is not a glamorous job, but the pay is really good.
From busybox.net: gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact them re suspected GPL violations.
If you put your cause first (patients or science), then those external influences lose their power.
"Similarly I will not give to a woman an abortive remedy."
Lots of words, nothing said.
Founding fathers did not intend to be interpreted the way they are interpreted now. Heck, they did not even intend "all men are create equal" to apply to blacks and women.
People still expect some support, because you need that with software.
Multi-tasking is efficient when used appropriately.
Fuller did contribute some interesting stuff but some of his ideas were unworkable. That's pretty common for most contributors/geniuses. Look at Einstein: some cool research, but he was highly disruptive in other areas (eg. quantum mechanics or putting religious beliefs before science).
Capitalism is presented as being a healthy economic model because it provides a fitness function that weeks out the unhealthy players. That's fine until people game the system in various ways: monopolies, no competes, undercutting....
I grew up in South Africa, speaking mainly English, but also Afrikaans (a derivative of Dutch) and Zulu. My father and I would often mix all three in one sentence to get the words we wanted.
Churning means the loss of customers to other service providers. In other words, the opposite of customer retention.
Service providers can combat churn by having some sort of mechanism to make it hard to switch. For example, an email address tends to keep you using the provider of that email address because people don't want to go through the hassle of changing.
nostalgia isn't as good as it used to be.
Half the point of memories is being able to improve them and embellish them - video ruins that.
There's an obsession with recording events. Too often fun times are intruded on by "smile for the camera" or worse still "tell the video".
It's just the transition time is taking a bit longer than expected.
People debugging their Linux rivers will often also be helping to debug their Windows drivers too!
Hw vendors should really use OSS more to help them get more eyeballs on the code.
Very few buyers will worry about how much RAM etc it has. Most won't pay more than $x unless it has a fast CPU.
If you think that it is worth spending the extra $125 to have a faster machine for yourself, that's fine, but don't try rationalize it with resale value.
New tech is able to prevent you doing this.
Analogy alert: Before door locks were invented, you didn't have the right to enter another's house. locks just allowed home owners to secure their homes.
I'm not saying that people are stupid to be pro-military, just that there seems to be some correlation.
No longer doing this, but there are reruns (search for "jennicam last week").
Many companies only have limited IT capability and many will just hand over a computer from an ex employee to a new employee with very minor changes. Saves a bunch of work reinstalling stuff.
Jennicam caused massive overloading the first time she had realtime sex. Likely there were other occasions before that too.
He's dead.