The expected dose for their treatment was 50 rads, and they received 300-400. http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm185898.htm.
Trying to downplay their dose by comparing it to the therac-25 is a little bit like comparing virtue among whores. They were burned by their dose.
The chance of any one failing is the same as 1 - the chance of none failing. If you have n gadgets with a risk of failure of m, the risk of any one or more failing is 1-((1-m)^n). For 0.01% (0.0001) and 7, that puts your risk of any disk failing at about 0.07%. 1 - (1 - 0.0001 ) ^ 7) = 0.0006997901... or about 0.07%.
The idea is the chance of any one or more failing is really the flip side of the chance of none failing. If any item has a p chance of happening, then the chance of them all happening is p1 * p2 *... pn. So, if we have a chance of one drives survival at.9999, the likelyhood that all will survive is that 0.9999 ** 7.
Some might argue that the security is greater because a theif can't remove it the implanted RFID. Violence and robbery go hand in hand, theives already stab and shoot on occation for the contents of your wallet. I recall reading an incident in my local paper years ago where a mugger used a steak knife to torture an ATM card pin number from a person. Already, theives have removed finger tips to obtain the goods they want.
While such a device, barring electronic exploits, will increase the security of your possessions, they decrease your corporeal security. Robbery depends on personal intimidation, the victim is being offered a choice between the loss of a possession or the loss of their physical well being. An external device, be it a traditional metal key, an RFID wrist watch, sticker, nose ring or whatever leaves this choice intact... you can surrender your RFID nose ring, and control of your possession or take your chances with offered violent confrontation
An implantable device differs only in that it can't be readily removed. Totiltarian state slippery slope type arguements aside, when confronted with the choice "your money of your life" what are you going to say... "nope, you can't have it, its buried in my forearm!" Somebody who wishes you enough malice to point a weapon at you and actively consider taking your life in exchange for your possession might not see this obsticle in the same light as you.
Cutting out an implant, or amputating the attached limb might seem to be excessive escalation to you and I. A person who considers taking your life a realistic option might consider walking off with your forearm a more paletable alternative. Even if they just cut it out, do you really want the disfigurment, injury, the risk of catching whatever diseases the knifes last victim had, the pain?
In short, the point of security isn't to be ultimately secure. I don't want my car to be 100% impossiable to drive away without my involvement, I only want it to be hard enough that it might not be worth the effort. The old fashioned metal key in my pocket is the ultimate security measure for me... its possession secures my car when I'm away and its surrenderability secures my person when I'm near it.
Pushing aside claims of censorship, market forces, extortion, there is a more fundamental issue behind this. Its about the commoditation of you the internet user.
Historically how have you purchased internet services? If you are seeking to operate a server you might pay per kilobyte, if you are a residential user its flat per month. Whatever the specifc arrangement, the ISP provides a utility, access to the "NET."
This is similar to how your water, electric or phone service works. Your price per gallon is independent of who drinks the water; your electric bill is independent of who uses the electricity, and your telephone fee is a product of distance and duration independent of who you are calling. Access to "the internet" is the same.
Let us consider how residental access is provided. Traditionally, residential services are grossly overcommited. This is for a good reason, home users are much more tolerant of fuctuations in available bandwidth and latency than, say, teleoperated surgery might be. Likewise, home users are more cost sensitive. The cheapest way to provide such service is to just let people pile on your fixed capacity pipe until it fills. The natural model for any link on the internet is an M/1/Q queing model (forgive, I've forgotten the nomenclature.) Ironically, the $/bit model that many hosting services use isn't as close a match of what is really happening.
The single drain is set to be considered "enough" on the basis of the subject experience for the typical user; when it isn't more fiber is laid.
I'm taking this two places at the same time. If you look at it as a que, any prioritization automatically means that non-prioritized traffic is inpeded. Perhaps they will argue that they are providing a special dedicated channel; again, that's an artifical distinction, ISP's routinely add capacity as Moore's observation makes it economical for their clients to demand it, and for them to provide it. Spliting your channel in two now, or with the next upgrade is only a shell game.
The second direction to examine this from is that of their relationship with you. Telecos frequenctly make the claim "Google steals access to our customers." I disagree. First of all, I am not the teleco's possession. I use google , instead of my ISP's favorite engine because like every human, my thoughts, opinions and prefereces are sovergn. Google gets my traffic because I choose to type "google.com" in my browser, not because I am a mindless consumer waiting for the television advertisement to tell me what to type.
This claim is ethically the same as trying to claim "Dominoes Pizza uses our network to steal pizza sales from Ma Bell Pizza." Again, each and every indivdual is soverign in their pizza preference. My hometown's "Denville Pizza" gets my bussiness for reasons that are personal and specific to me: their pizza is good and cheap. My telephone company has no title to my preference because I use their proprietary and expensive investment to contact my pizza dealer. And, I'm already paying for my access.
I propose a hypothetical feature for telephone networks called "Priority Circuit." For an extra $100 per line per month, your customers, friends, family, whomever, move to the front of the line for routing and circuit selection.
Now, what is the value I ask? Currently, our phone network has 5 9's of reliability. The only time in my life I've regualrly received an "all circuits busy" message was the afternoon of 9/11/2001. Aside from that, its so rare that its memorable, I count only 3 or 4 times in my life.
What is the value added to this? Why would I bother paying for more reliability beyond what I have? The telephone company, like your ISP or any other bussiness can only sell a product if there is a compelling arguement to be made for its sale. The only detail that makes this bussiness model, or rather racket, financially sound is the unwritten promise that I'll have troble placing orders to my pizza joint really soon.
Not true at all. The difference between full and empty isn't that much... IIRC the (original) Civic and Prius are 100 watt/hr and 300 watt/hr respectively. The battery isn't big because it has to hold a lot of power, it is big to reduce the cycle depth.
Say 10 hours parked outside and a short commute, yeah, even a modest cell would help a lot. Now if you park in a garage and have a long commute, then the extra weight is going to outweigh any benefit
As for any benefit while sitting in traffic, well, not much, the power output of the cell is likely less than your cars "hotel load." While actually driving the weight of the cell will increase your marginal fuel use more than any power benefit it offers.
Basically, the question you have to ask is: Does the cell over the course of the day provide more power than it takes to carry it around.
For a short commute, and a light weight cell, the answer is probally yes, but you might not want to bother taking it on a cross country trip
Carry off any job with the 6x4 Diesel. Low-pressure, high-flotation tires combined with differential lock ensure this model goes where you need to.
Designed exclusively for military use, the M-Gator is only available to military organizations.
The TX Turf's quiet foot-pedal operation meets the requirements of golf course superintendents and turf care professionals by providing an off-cart-path vehicle that won't leave marks on the turf.
>> And driving cheap ghetto cars allows me to avoid having to pay for expensive collision coverage.
>On behalf of those of us who have to pay inflated insurance rates to cover your accidents, eat cock and die.
Now calm down. Collision is the part of your policy that covers *your* car when *you* drop a hot tofu veggie poop nugget in your lap. Look at your policy... it is broken down by category, and for each you can pick and choose. All you must do is maintain the minimum coverage requirements of your state... those states with mandatory coverage only care that you have coverage for the people you run over when reaching to the floor to pick up your nugget.
Whether your unwashed hippie friend has collision only affects if he gets paid by his company for the damage to his car times his proportion of fault.
There is no great Ayn Rand objectiveist "see I told you what happens when you don't vote libertarian" miscarriage of common sense occuring here. Move along now.
Breaking/forming chemical bonds -- which is what happens when you burn things like kerosene and oxygen, or oxygen and hydrogen -- is an extremely inefficient way to convert mass into energy, with much less than 1% of the mass being so converted.
Whoa, where do you get that new fangled atomic kerosene from? Sure a steal at $3.00/gallon -- c^2 * 5.5 pounds per gallon / 100 = ?? BTU's
And you think this will work in Longhorn? My guess is the picture would be whited out.
Yes, time for the the obligatory "analog hole" reference. Point your camera at it.
The tinfoil hat crowd will be pleased to note that the picture would be blacked out, not whited out, as a sort of on-the-spot fine for attempted copyright infringement in the most valuable and costly currency of all... ink!
<smirk>White lists are a great idea. If you only allow approved software to download to trusted approved computers owned by licensed operators over an approved network connection from an approved site that wrote software using only approved and corporate HR vetted software development professionals operating within the restiction of approved IP collections you can be entirely safe from anything every happening on your computer! </smirk>
Home made endoscope - $1000
Locally made PC - $250
Giving your patient aids because your endoscope can't go in the autoclave - Priceless
This little pesky thing called safety is what makes medical devices so expensive. One good, FDA approved, commerically made autoclave compatable endoscope is a lot less expensive than a year of AIDS drugs for a single victim.
- Adam
Well, there was this one time when I spilled an entire cup of coffee on my laptop. When will manufactures learn to make the integrated cup holders strong enough to hold a Starbuck's Venti? The worst offenders are those cup holders that go back in all by themselves if you push too hard.
I wonder if you wiggle it around a bit you can get it to stimulate the inner ear's other parts too? Perhaps a non-invasive alternative to a cochlear implant?
Last month, a Massport attorney warned the airline that its antenna "presents an unacceptable potential risk" to Logan's safety and security systems, including its keycard access system and state police communications
Stop and think about this statement for a moment. The lives of you and your family depend on a communication system that is suspectable to interference from a wifi card. A device designed specifically to snuggle in the EM noise created by a common kitchen appliance. If their radio system is this poorly (dare I suggest negligently) implemented, I shudder to consider the rest of their security.
Does Masspass's radio vendor know how they are being berated? Can you reheat lunch in the Continental President's Club's microwave oven?
In all honestly, when I look at my fellow human beings, I don't see the work of skillful craftsman or ingenious engineer. I see a set of cruddy compromises, each hatched out of random chance and accepted in the final design by virtue of simply working.
Let up examine a few of the slashdot crowd's favorite examples.
Male nipples. A perfect god would have engineered them away. Don't claim God left them them purposefully, the only legitimate purpose they have is sexual gratification, and any God worthy of my worship would have made them a lot larger.
The clitoris. Developmentally it is nothing more than a left over penis; not a lot different from male nipples. An intelligent creator would have placed it a bit closer the action, and probably made it look a little like a penis, at least to reduce incidences of savagery by his perfect little creatures.
The appendix.
Sufficient torture or payment might permit me to agree that the creation of the universe was purposeful, but I'd never call it intelligent, at least without a little more compensation.
The Darwinian model of programming should be familiar with all experienced programmers. Toss together a few thousand lines of code, make semi-random changes until it works well enough and deliver. Examine the quality of the result and you will that it quite similar to your own body. Core dumps - heart attacks; memory leaks - obesity... you get the idea.
When battling the scourge of intelligent creation, it is important to remember that the debate of those who believe is not based in reason, or even religious faith. Its basis lies in fear and ego. The fear of death as it really is, indifferent from anesthesia except without the waking up bit. The ego trip of believing that you are somehow special because you are a precision machine designed by an brilliant creator. It's far easier to convince yourself that following a few nonsensical rules will keep you from really dieing when you die. And it makes you feel better when you contemplate your life and your relative lack of control over it to remember that you are a finely tuned machine constructed by an engineer of unprecedented skill.
The truth is simpler. You are a bag of compromises that is only here because by accident you and your family line didn't die a long time ago. Think about it for a moment, your entire existence is owed to the fact that each ancestor was able to find somebody sufficently pathetic to be willing to copulate with them.
The problem with vigilantism is that every once in a while the middled aged man dragging the pre-teen girl into a car is Dad. Or the mugger is a family member dragging an Alzheimer's suffering parent home. Or the door kicker.... you get the point.
Sometimes things that look like crimes are rather legitimate. This is one reason why proper police are always better than vigilantes, because getting between Dad and his baby's temper-tantrum makes you the criminal.
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The expected dose for their treatment was 50 rads, and they received 300-400. http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/Safety/AlertsandNotices/ucm185898.htm. Trying to downplay their dose by comparing it to the therac-25 is a little bit like comparing virtue among whores. They were burned by their dose.
Now be nice. He is right, 0.07% is correct.
The chance of any one failing is the same as 1 - the chance of none failing. If you have n gadgets with a risk of failure of m, the risk of any one or more failing is 1-((1-m)^n). For 0.01% (0.0001) and 7, that puts your risk of any disk failing at about 0.07%. 1 - (1 - 0.0001 ) ^ 7) = 0.0006997901 ... or about 0.07%.
The idea is the chance of any one or more failing is really the flip side of the chance of none failing. If any item has a p chance of happening, then the chance of them all happening is p1 * p2 * ... pn. So, if we have a chance of one drives survival at .9999, the likelyhood that all will survive is that 0.9999 ** 7.
Why not dilute the O2 with nothing -- 100% O2 at 0.28 atmosphere as about the same partial pressure as the O2 I'm breathing right here at sea level ...
Pour them into the same pitcher and drink one glass of the remaining mixture
The solution to pollution is dilution!
Some might argue that the security is greater because a theif can't remove it the implanted RFID. Violence and robbery go hand in hand, theives already stab and shoot on occation for the contents of your wallet. I recall reading an incident in my local paper years ago where a mugger used a steak knife to torture an ATM card pin number from a person. Already, theives have removed finger tips to obtain the goods they want.
While such a device, barring electronic exploits, will increase the security of your possessions, they decrease your corporeal security. Robbery depends on personal intimidation, the victim is being offered a choice between the loss of a possession or the loss of their physical well being. An external device, be it a traditional metal key, an RFID wrist watch, sticker, nose ring or whatever leaves this choice intact ... you can surrender your RFID nose ring, and control of your possession or take your chances with offered violent confrontation
An implantable device differs only in that it can't be readily removed. Totiltarian state slippery slope type arguements aside, when confronted with the choice "your money of your life" what are you going to say ... "nope, you can't have it, its buried in my forearm!" Somebody who wishes you enough malice to point a weapon at you and actively consider taking your life in exchange for your possession might not see this obsticle in the same light as you.
Cutting out an implant, or amputating the attached limb might seem to be excessive escalation to you and I. A person who considers taking your life a realistic option might consider walking off with your forearm a more paletable alternative. Even if they just cut it out, do you really want the disfigurment, injury, the risk of catching whatever diseases the knifes last victim had, the pain?
In short, the point of security isn't to be ultimately secure. I don't want my car to be 100% impossiable to drive away without my involvement, I only want it to be hard enough that it might not be worth the effort. The old fashioned metal key in my pocket is the ultimate security measure for me ... its possession secures my car when I'm away and its surrenderability secures my person when I'm near it.
You forgot ...
... ... ... ...
The Anarchists
The Communists
The Hippies
The Drug Dealers
This has been going on for a while.
Pushing aside claims of censorship, market forces, extortion, there is a more fundamental issue behind this. Its about the commoditation of you the internet user.
Historically how have you purchased internet services? If you are seeking to operate a server you might pay per kilobyte, if you are a residential user its flat per month. Whatever the specifc arrangement, the ISP provides a utility, access to the "NET."
This is similar to how your water, electric or phone service works. Your price per gallon is independent of who drinks the water; your electric bill is independent of who uses the electricity, and your telephone fee is a product of distance and duration independent of who you are calling. Access to "the internet" is the same.
Let us consider how residental access is provided. Traditionally, residential services are grossly overcommited. This is for a good reason, home users are much more tolerant of fuctuations in available bandwidth and latency than, say, teleoperated surgery might be. Likewise, home users are more cost sensitive. The cheapest way to provide such service is to just let people pile on your fixed capacity pipe until it fills. The natural model for any link on the internet is an M/1/Q queing model (forgive, I've forgotten the nomenclature.) Ironically, the $/bit model that many hosting services use isn't as close a match of what is really happening.
The single drain is set to be considered "enough" on the basis of the subject experience for the typical user; when it isn't more fiber is laid.
I'm taking this two places at the same time. If you look at it as a que, any prioritization automatically means that non-prioritized traffic is inpeded. Perhaps they will argue that they are providing a special dedicated channel; again, that's an artifical distinction, ISP's routinely add capacity as Moore's observation makes it economical for their clients to demand it, and for them to provide it. Spliting your channel in two now, or with the next upgrade is only a shell game.
The second direction to examine this from is that of their relationship with you. Telecos frequenctly make the claim "Google steals access to our customers." I disagree. First of all, I am not the teleco's possession. I use google , instead of my ISP's favorite engine because like every human, my thoughts, opinions and prefereces are sovergn. Google gets my traffic because I choose to type "google.com" in my browser, not because I am a mindless consumer waiting for the television advertisement to tell me what to type.
This claim is ethically the same as trying to claim "Dominoes Pizza uses our network to steal pizza sales from Ma Bell Pizza." Again, each and every indivdual is soverign in their pizza preference. My hometown's "Denville Pizza" gets my bussiness for reasons that are personal and specific to me: their pizza is good and cheap. My telephone company has no title to my preference because I use their proprietary and expensive investment to contact my pizza dealer. And, I'm already paying for my access.
I propose a hypothetical feature for telephone networks called "Priority Circuit." For an extra $100 per line per month, your customers, friends, family, whomever, move to the front of the line for routing and circuit selection.
Now, what is the value I ask? Currently, our phone network has 5 9's of reliability. The only time in my life I've regualrly received an "all circuits busy" message was the afternoon of 9/11/2001. Aside from that, its so rare that its memorable, I count only 3 or 4 times in my life.
What is the value added to this? Why would I bother paying for more reliability beyond what I have? The telephone company, like your ISP or any other bussiness can only sell a product if there is a compelling arguement to be made for its sale. The only detail that makes this bussiness model, or rather racket, financially sound is the unwritten promise that I'll have troble placing orders to my pizza joint really soon.
Not true at all. The difference between full and empty isn't that much ... IIRC the (original) Civic and Prius are 100 watt/hr and 300 watt/hr respectively. The battery isn't big because it has to hold a lot of power, it is big to reduce the cycle depth.
Say 10 hours parked outside and a short commute, yeah, even a modest cell would help a lot. Now if you park in a garage and have a long commute, then the extra weight is going to outweigh any benefit
As for any benefit while sitting in traffic, well, not much, the power output of the cell is likely less than your cars "hotel load." While actually driving the weight of the cell will increase your marginal fuel use more than any power benefit it offers.
Basically, the question you have to ask is: Does the cell over the course of the day provide more power than it takes to carry it around.
For a short commute, and a light weight cell, the answer is probally yes, but you might not want to bother taking it on a cross country trip
Incorrect. This version is only available to "military organizations." Gator special application series ...
Carry off any job with the 6x4 Diesel. Low-pressure, high-flotation tires combined with differential lock ensure this model goes where you need to.
Designed exclusively for military use, the M-Gator is only available to military organizations.
The TX Turf's quiet foot-pedal operation meets the requirements of golf course superintendents and turf care professionals by providing an off-cart-path vehicle that won't leave marks on the turf.
>> And driving cheap ghetto cars allows me to avoid having to pay for expensive collision coverage. >On behalf of those of us who have to pay inflated insurance rates to cover your accidents, eat cock and die. Now calm down. Collision is the part of your policy that covers *your* car when *you* drop a hot tofu veggie poop nugget in your lap. Look at your policy ... it is broken down by category, and for each you can pick and choose. All you must do is maintain the minimum coverage requirements of your state ... those states with mandatory coverage only care that you have coverage for the people you run over when reaching to the floor to pick up your nugget.
Whether your unwashed hippie friend has collision only affects if he gets paid by his company for the damage to his car times his proportion of fault.
There is no great Ayn Rand objectiveist "see I told you what happens when you don't vote libertarian" miscarriage of common sense occuring here. Move along now.
The CDC shouldn't worry. Local hospitals will know soon enough who your wearly slightly contagious traveler has come in contact with.
And at the top of your google query: "Results 1 - 10 of about ... (0.59 picotrees)"
Breaking/forming chemical bonds -- which is what happens when you burn things like kerosene and oxygen, or oxygen and hydrogen -- is an extremely inefficient way to convert mass into energy, with much less than 1% of the mass being so converted.
Whoa, where do you get that new fangled atomic kerosene from? Sure a steal at $3.00/gallon -- c^2 * 5.5 pounds per gallon / 100 = ?? BTU's
Windows 3.1 doesn't have a "safe mode."
I've found this list of subnets works pretty well at getting rid of spam.
The only downside is my friends accuse me of spending too much time talking to myself.
And you think this will work in Longhorn? My guess is the picture would be whited out.
Yes, time for the the obligatory "analog hole" reference. Point your camera at it.
The tinfoil hat crowd will be pleased to note that the picture would be blacked out, not whited out, as a sort of on-the-spot fine for attempted copyright infringement in the most valuable and costly currency of all ... ink!
<smirk>White lists are a great idea. If you only allow approved software to download to trusted approved computers owned by licensed operators over an approved network connection from an approved site that wrote software using only approved and corporate HR vetted software development professionals operating within the restiction of approved IP collections you can be entirely safe from anything every happening on your computer! </smirk>
And the target would change from the vehcile to the infrastructure. Think suspension bridges.
Home made endoscope - $1000 Locally made PC - $250 Giving your patient aids because your endoscope can't go in the autoclave - Priceless This little pesky thing called safety is what makes medical devices so expensive. One good, FDA approved, commerically made autoclave compatable endoscope is a lot less expensive than a year of AIDS drugs for a single victim. - Adam
Well, there was this one time when I spilled an entire cup of coffee on my laptop. When will manufactures learn to make the integrated cup holders strong enough to hold a Starbuck's Venti? The worst offenders are those cup holders that go back in all by themselves if you push too hard.
I tried to read it, but I could find neither banner ads nor pictures. Perhaps the web server is down. Where did I put my TV remote?
I wonder if you wiggle it around a bit you can get it to stimulate the inner ear's other parts too? Perhaps a non-invasive alternative to a cochlear implant?
Last month, a Massport attorney warned the airline that its antenna "presents an unacceptable potential risk" to Logan's safety and security systems, including its keycard access system and state police communications
Stop and think about this statement for a moment. The lives of you and your family depend on a communication system that is suspectable to interference from a wifi card. A device designed specifically to snuggle in the EM noise created by a common kitchen appliance. If their radio system is this poorly (dare I suggest negligently) implemented, I shudder to consider the rest of their security.
Does Masspass's radio vendor know how they are being berated? Can you reheat lunch in the Continental President's Club's microwave oven?
In all honestly, when I look at my fellow human beings, I don't see the work of skillful craftsman or ingenious engineer. I see a set of cruddy compromises, each hatched out of random chance and accepted in the final design by virtue of simply working.
Let up examine a few of the slashdot crowd's favorite examples.
Sufficient torture or payment might permit me to agree that the creation of the universe was purposeful, but I'd never call it intelligent, at least without a little more compensation.
The Darwinian model of programming should be familiar with all experienced programmers. Toss together a few thousand lines of code, make semi-random changes until it works well enough and deliver. Examine the quality of the result and you will that it quite similar to your own body. Core dumps - heart attacks; memory leaks - obesity ... you get the idea.
When battling the scourge of intelligent creation, it is important to remember that the debate of those who believe is not based in reason, or even religious faith. Its basis lies in fear and ego. The fear of death as it really is, indifferent from anesthesia except without the waking up bit. The ego trip of believing that you are somehow special because you are a precision machine designed by an brilliant creator. It's far easier to convince yourself that following a few nonsensical rules will keep you from really dieing when you die. And it makes you feel better when you contemplate your life and your relative lack of control over it to remember that you are a finely tuned machine constructed by an engineer of unprecedented skill.
The truth is simpler. You are a bag of compromises that is only here because by accident you and your family line didn't die a long time ago. Think about it for a moment, your entire existence is owed to the fact that each ancestor was able to find somebody sufficently pathetic to be willing to copulate with them.
The problem with vigilantism is that every once in a while the middled aged man dragging the pre-teen girl into a car is Dad. Or the mugger is a family member dragging an Alzheimer's suffering parent home. Or the door kicker .... you get the point.
Sometimes things that look like crimes are rather legitimate. This is one reason why proper police are always better than vigilantes, because getting between Dad and his baby's temper-tantrum makes you the criminal.