For email - web based ssl email. That only leaves RIPA.
Open two accounts at each web site - the innocent spam bucket , and the 'plot to overthrow the world' account. Visit the latter via a sandboxed browser that trashes it's cookies?
but stereoscopy without headtraking may confuse the brain more than enlighten it. Current 3D tech rules for 1st person gaming, I imagine. For movies, I'm not so convinced, its definitely the wrong side of the 'diminishing returns' curve.
Mistress Beverly "whiplash" Stayart should sue Google/Yahoo because first SERP is a bunch of Lawyers diminishing her reputation and frightening away clients
Well the study did consider the difference, but it didnt leap to the same conclusion as you.
London has a great degree of diversity, and still comes out almost 1% lower a decade in the past.
I personally think the Socio-Economic factor is amplified by the nature of the US health care system. But that's just me pissing in the wind and not trying to sound like I know any more than anyone else.
"I bring it up because there is a tremendous degree of diversity: racially, economically, culturally, etc that most european nations simply do not have to contend with."
Does London's SocioEconomic and Cultural diversity measure up for you consideration? (Ignoring that fact that the London figures are from last century.)
Still think it's because black babies have some kind of genetic thing going on?
"Part of that is socio-economic, and part of it appears to be genetics."
Er will the report you are quoting mentions the socio-economic but there wasnt anyting about genetics. Are you qualified to make such an assertion. Are there any papers or reports anywhere that correlate infant mortality to a particular genome (as genetics != race).
I guess a lot of things you are saying are just annoying me 1. making the mistake of looking at a story that *made the UK papers* and then wondering if that is normal (an oxymoron) 2. using that particular isolated incident (of all things) to somehow fuel a US vs UK medicine debate. - like shit never happens in the US 3. Quoting from a report ("sociao-economics) and then added your own "unfounded" conclusions? (maybe its genetics that black babies die more than white ones - to paraphrase).
I am intrigued to understand your underlying motivation for your posts.
I'm a bit confused about the motivation of your response. You say
"he oft-cited report about infant mortality in the US leaves out some important factors -- namely that socio-economic diversity in the US, and racial heterogenoy correlate with and explain some of our increased infant mortality."
Can you provide any *evidence* that this is contributing significantly to the US relatively high figure? ie do the maths and see how much difference it makes. Or are you just grasping at straws.
You say "Finally, we measure mortality much differently here than do most other places."
But the report you mention says , explicitly ,
"However, it appears unlikely that differences in reporting are the primary explanation for the United States†relatively low international ranking."
I'm pretty sure similar things have happened in the US in hospitals. Where some quick-wittedness has saved the day when some particular item of equipment was not to hand - yet I would not use *that* as a way to disparage the US health service. Especially as pointed out to you, it was simply that the hospital with the right equipment could not be reached in time. But you seem to thing that this one story is grounds enough to do the reverse - whilst trying to sound very intelligent about it.
I like to think I'm in the upper percentiles of geekness.
I ran without AV on windows, and I got owned - took about 2 weeks, and I didnt even know it. I suspected something when the blue screens started happening . but it wasnt until I tried to put one of my USB sticks in another PC (with AV) that the horrible truth dawned on me..
Now I previously tried to run as a limited user, but my work involves a lot of stopping and starting services and switching to 'Admin' is just too much hassle in windows. I had a few 'run as' scripts... my browser is launched via psexec -l -d, but I still got infected, with a keylogger. I had to change my entire password scheme.
Anyway, I personally think, for Windows, Windows firewall + AV is enough. Software firewalls are useless for non-technical users, as they keep asking questions they cannot answer. For technical people, then they are a distraction/PITA if you do a lot of networky stuff.
I now run with No-script (used to be just AdBlock - I had removed No-script during the great Adblock vs NoScript war - more fool me), but I still am forced to launch IE regularly, and I still need to find a comfortable way of working as a limited user when I need to do a lot of Admin things.
PS The irony with no-script - if I'm about to do a big transaction - i tend to switch it off because I dont want it to accidentally re-submit a purchase as it encounters some new domain in the checkout app or cc validation step. Maybe it needs a mode, allow everything for next two minutes and remember it for next time...
Exactly - ultimately that is the only place for the technology to end up. Everyone has VR googles with their own personal view of the movie. This will use accelerometers for head-tracking, then either everyone watches the same movie and listen to same THX Audio , OR everyone has headphones (in which case they dont have to watch the same movie - or be in the same place). See the head tracking links I posted earlier.
Also spectacle wearers should be able to input their vision "parameters" - or whatever it is called - my hearing is bad but my vision good but my so I dont know about that stuff. Shame that hearing-aids are not seen as either fashion accessories or a sign of intelligence. lose - lose scenario!
Sorry to spam this link twice but 3d will arrive when the screen is IN the glasses. Just like those old stereoscope toys. Each person in the "cinema" will have their own headtracking view of the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Of course this may need a bit of processing power.. and then if everyone has their own view - then why bother with the cinema at all:)
Forgot to add, just ramping up the photo-realism together with the size of the screen will get us closer to the one-eyed look around the room. 3d at present is just an odd gimmick used in strange zoom shots, rather than any significant advance in PQ or experience.
Look around the room with one eye closed, then open both eyes. The difference is BETTER than the best that 3d tv has to offer. And its not really that much. The brain is great at converting 2d information to 3d. Now if you had some kind of monochrome-glasses and suddenly took them off - well now THAT is a big difference.
The devices are good. The documentation is bad. I have 3 generations - The UI could be faster but video playback is great. For more info head on over to the active user forums http://networkedmediatank.com/ The interface is a basic file browser , although there are some net applications - the new Youtube app is quite nice.
You can load data on an optional internal hard drive, OR you can use it purely as a streaming front end.
It also has usenet and torrent clients , but the network stack is a bit flaky for torrents IMO,
They have great video playback chips but the main 'cpu' handles all other tasks, and sometimes it struggles a little of you are doing anything besides basic playback. But for the price, they are great.
Im not sure if English is the first language of most nit-pickers here, but most of the time saying "entity X will do anything to accomplish Y" is not to be taken as absolute truth, but as a general position. Arguing over the finer points of what entails "anything" is indeed to miss any point the speaker is trying to make, and just being argumentative for its own sake.
But continuing on that diversion, for example fixing bugs in the short term is usually either,
1. Part of a contract obligation - which were terms of the original sale. Buy this AND this support.. OR 2. Enhance long term sales (imagine turnover if Microsoft never fixed bugs)
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>get all their OS updates automatically from one place
>Linux vendors are not able to do this too.
Huh? This is standard Linux Distro 101 stuff.
Phone calls and texts are already logged by service providers and are often cited in courts on both sides of the pond.
For Web access - here's a good starting point that will now become my new home page
https://encrypted.google.com/
For email - web based ssl email. That only leaves RIPA.
Open two accounts at each web site - the innocent spam bucket , and the 'plot to overthrow the world' account. Visit the latter via a sandboxed browser that trashes it's cookies?
Surely a fire department knows how much it costs (all inclusive) to put out a fire.
"Hey pigs, you cant make me tell, but I'll give you a clue... it's 50 characters long. You can quote me on that."
"Off to the clinker with you m'lad."
but stereoscopy without headtraking may confuse the brain more than enlighten it. Current 3D tech rules for 1st person gaming, I imagine. For movies, I'm not so convinced, its definitely the wrong side of the 'diminishing returns' curve.
Mistress Beverly "whiplash" Stayart should sue Google/Yahoo because first SERP is a bunch of Lawyers diminishing her reputation and frightening away clients
Well the study did consider the difference, but it didnt leap to the same conclusion as you.
London has a great degree of diversity, and still comes out almost 1% lower a decade in the past.
I personally think the Socio-Economic factor is amplified by the nature of the US health care system.
But that's just me pissing in the wind and not trying to sound like I know any more than anyone else.
> this is an accurate portrayal of medicine in the UK
It was a national UK newspaper *story*. What do you think?
"I bring it up because there is a tremendous degree of diversity: racially, economically, culturally, etc that most european nations simply do not have to contend with."
So London 1993-1997 - Infant Mortality rate 6.0 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/DS16/DS16_cap07.pdf
US 2004 Infanct Mortality rate 6.8 ? http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db09.htm
Does London's SocioEconomic and Cultural diversity measure up for you consideration?
(Ignoring that fact that the London figures are from last century.)
Still think it's because black babies have some kind of genetic thing going on?
"Part of that is socio-economic, and part of it appears to be genetics."
Er will the report you are quoting mentions the socio-economic but there wasnt anyting about genetics. Are you qualified to make such an assertion. Are there any papers or reports anywhere that correlate infant mortality to a particular genome (as genetics != race).
I guess a lot of things you are saying are just annoying me
1. making the mistake of looking at a story that *made the UK papers* and then wondering if that is normal (an oxymoron)
2. using that particular isolated incident (of all things) to somehow fuel a US vs UK medicine debate. - like shit never happens in the US
3. Quoting from a report ("sociao-economics) and then added your own "unfounded" conclusions? (maybe its genetics that black babies die more than white ones - to paraphrase).
I am intrigued to understand your underlying motivation for your posts.
I'm a bit confused about the motivation of your response.
You say
"he oft-cited report about infant mortality in the US leaves out some important factors -- namely that socio-economic diversity in the US, and racial heterogenoy correlate with and explain some of our increased infant mortality."
Can you provide any *evidence* that this is contributing significantly to the US relatively high figure? ie do the maths and see how much difference it makes. Or are you just grasping at straws.
You say "Finally, we measure mortality much differently here than do most other places."
But the report you mention says , explicitly ,
"However, it appears unlikely that differences in reporting are the primary explanation for the United States†relatively low international ranking."
I'm pretty sure similar things have happened in the US in hospitals. Where some quick-wittedness has saved the day when some particular item of equipment was not to hand - yet I would not use *that* as a way to disparage the US health service. Especially as pointed out to you, it was simply that the hospital with the right equipment could not be reached in time.
But you seem to thing that this one story is grounds enough to do the reverse - whilst trying to sound very intelligent about it.
http://idle.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1802026&cid=33724900
I like to think I'm in the upper percentiles of geekness.
I ran without AV on windows, and I got owned - took about 2 weeks, and I didnt even know it. I suspected something when the blue screens started happening . but it wasnt until I tried to put one of my USB sticks in another PC (with AV) that the horrible truth dawned on me..
Now I previously tried to run as a limited user, but my work involves a lot of stopping and starting services and switching to 'Admin' is just too much hassle in windows. I had a few 'run as' scripts... my browser is launched via psexec -l -d, but I still got infected, with a keylogger.
I had to change my entire password scheme.
Anyway, I personally think, for Windows, Windows firewall + AV is enough. Software firewalls are useless for non-technical users, as they keep asking questions they cannot answer. For technical people, then they are a distraction/PITA if you do a lot of networky stuff.
I now run with No-script (used to be just AdBlock - I had removed No-script during the great Adblock vs NoScript war - more fool me), but I still am forced to launch IE regularly, and I still need to find a comfortable way of working as a limited user when I need to do a lot of Admin things.
PS The irony with no-script - if I'm about to do a big transaction - i tend to switch it off because I dont want it to accidentally re-submit a purchase as it encounters some new domain in the checkout app or cc validation step. Maybe it needs a mode, allow everything for next two minutes and remember it for next time...
They should prevent "typing 'Google' into Google" denial of service attack for starters.
Exactly - ultimately that is the only place for the technology to end up. Everyone has VR googles with their own personal view of the movie. This will use accelerometers for head-tracking, then either everyone watches the same movie and listen to same THX Audio , OR everyone has headphones (in which case they dont have to watch the same movie - or be in the same place).
See the head tracking links I posted earlier.
Also spectacle wearers should be able to input their vision "parameters" - or whatever it is called - my hearing is bad but my vision good but my so I dont know about that stuff. Shame that hearing-aids are not seen as either fashion accessories or a sign of intelligence. lose - lose scenario!
Sorry to spam this link twice but 3d will arrive when the screen is IN the glasses. Just like those old stereoscope toys. :)
Each person in the "cinema" will have their own headtracking view of the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
Of course this may need a bit of processing power.. and then if everyone has their own view - then why bother with the cinema at all
3d should also incorporate this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw personal perspective!
Forgot to add, just ramping up the photo-realism together with the size of the screen will get us closer to the one-eyed look around the room. 3d at present is just an odd gimmick used in strange zoom shots, rather than any significant advance in PQ or experience.
Look around the room with one eye closed, then open both eyes. The difference is BETTER than the best that 3d tv has to offer. And its not really that much. The brain is great at converting 2d information to 3d.
Now if you had some kind of monochrome-glasses and suddenly took them off - well now THAT is a big difference.
WD HD Live is good for the price. It has some issues with HD Audio that you may want to research to decide if it meets your requirements.
The devices are good. The documentation is bad.
I have 3 generations - The UI could be faster but video playback is great.
For more info head on over to the active user forums http://networkedmediatank.com/
The interface is a basic file browser , although there are some net applications - the new Youtube app is quite nice.
There is also a new offical interface in development for the latest generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRvlvPKmOs
I maintain a PVR/jukebox application that runs on them that catalogs content that is automatically downloaded from "the internet". http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/index.php/Oversight
Although many enthusiasts install YAMJ a highly configurable/skinnable jukebox.
Some more demos here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PRjJcspgjI
You can load data on an optional internal hard drive, OR you can use it purely as a streaming front end.
It also has usenet and torrent clients , but the network stack is a bit flaky for torrents IMO,
They have great video playback chips but the main 'cpu' handles all other tasks, and sometimes it struggles a little of you are doing anything besides basic playback. But for the price, they are great.
Im not sure if English is the first language of most nit-pickers here, but most of the time saying "entity X will do anything to accomplish Y" is not to be taken as absolute truth, but as a general position. Arguing over the finer points of what entails "anything" is indeed to miss any point the speaker is trying to make, and just being argumentative for its own sake.
But continuing on that diversion, for example fixing bugs in the short term is usually either,
1. Part of a contract obligation - which were terms of the original sale. Buy this AND this support.. OR
2. Enhance long term sales (imagine turnover if Microsoft never fixed bugs)
as opposed to rev.eng. ones? Then I'd believe. Too many NTFS removable drives floating around, and FAT barfs on 4G files.
It presumably contains a lot of copyrighted images. Maybe its under fair-use/research?