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Investigative journalism is the right way to make public information that you think the should be known. Being a smart ass at a grand jury investigation is the wrong way.
They did the right thing by raising concerns about the devices' safety. But there are two problems with some of their other actions.
First, just because they disagreed with the conclusions about the safety of the devices doesn't mean the FDA was wrong a they were right. Apparently there were plenty of studies and the conclusion was that the risk posed by the devices was small enough. But this group didn't want to accept that answer. Which leads to...
Second, a federal employee is protected by whistle-blower laws. But there's a proper way to pursue that option, these scientists went about it the wrong way and got in trouble.
Last I checked the NSA wasn't bidding on contracts to build telecommunication infrastructure. Of course they might have shell companies that do, kind of like China has Huawei and ZTE
So what you are trying to say is that the chickens that refused immunization caused the outbreak?
Farmers that didn't use the vaccine correctly caused a new strain of the virus to emerge. It isn't any worse than the old strains, except that it can infect birds that are immune to the older strains.
Pretty interesting (but not totally surprising) that viruses can combine and recombine like this. They're remarkably good at changing to defeat a host's defenses.
The two main parts of this patent seem to be that it's over a wireless network and that it handles what we used to call "occasionally connected" devices. Since you can't assume the device will be turned on or available when you need to communicate with it you stage the data and send it when you do get a connection. We did that 20 years ago with dial-up devices. But I guess wireless connections are more special than dial-up.
Then it doesn't matter that everyone skilled in this field would solve the problem similarly
Yes, it absolutely does matter. If the solution is obvious to "a person having ordinary skill in the art" then it's not patentable. I'm pretty sure that any reasonably skilled engineer who needs a way to manage wireless devices would manage them over a wireless network.
Anyone who has been forced to work with certified Project Management Professional project managers will understand why organizations have looked at agile. PMP is the worse of waterfall with a bunch of useless buzzwords. Agile breaks that cycle but does introduce some other problems.
The biggest problem with developing software is that any non-trivial system takes time to deliver regardless of the methodology, You can take time to properly spec out and design a bridge over a river because it'll be good for 50 years. But the world of software changes so fast that any system is obsolescent by the time it's done, and if you spend a few months specing/designing it's time for a redesign before you even start writing the code.
Couldn't they have learned the exact same things using more modern and better understood strains?
As I read the article, that's what they did. The 500 million year old part appears to be hype; apparently they calculated what the genes would've looked like early in the evolution of the species and recreated part of it to watch it evolve again. But I might be wrong there, but I don't think they did it just because it seemed COOL to grow E. coli bacteria (we all do that already).
Not just the highest bidder. It will be sold to everyone.
Privacy aside, the idea of my phone being spammed every time I get near a store or restaurant is a big concern. This should really be an op-in feature. But that'll never happen.
It actually is a very good idea. They learned a lot about how bacteria evolve and adapt, which is critical to our understanding of disease and how new diseases emerge.
3. Should the politicians who closed the TB hospital and then buried the TB outbreak for political reasons be held accountable?
The outbreak happened before it was announced that the hospital would be closed, so the answer to the first half is obviously "No".
There's no evidence of any coverup, for political reasons or otherwise. The Raw Story author claims there was one because the requests by the Palm Beach Post took a few weeks to be filled. I wouldn't call that a coverup, especially without know how long it normally takes.
The fact that we've given them tax cuts for 30 years and they haven't created any jobs in a meaningful sense
Yea, the US only added about 40,000,000 jobs in the past thirty years; should be a few million more than that but the number has shrunk during the current administration.
There's a different between not-publicizing an outbreak and actively-keeping-it-secret
What is the typical turn-around time for a request? Without knowing that it's impossible to say if this was "actively-keeping_it-secret" or getting hysterical at normal bureaucracy. My guess is the latter.
Bottom line is 1) the outbreak occurred at roughly the time of the announcement to downsize the Health department and close the TB hospital, so it's not at all clear if those changes will make any difference (obviously the old system didn't prevent the outbreak); and 2) The headline says Florida is accused of concealing the outbreak - but the accuser is the author of the article, a misleading headline at best.
Yea, but most Chinese are far better off now than they were just a generation ago. A woman I worked with returned to her grandparents' village in China a few years ago; she thought it was unbelievably primitive - but they told her of all the improvements: a road to the village that you could ride a bicycle on instead of walking. Good water in the community well, etc. etc. Their biggest complaint was that all the younger generation had left the village for the cities to work; nobody wanted to work in the rice paddies anymore.
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The headline and blog entry are wrong.
Investigative journalism is the right way to make public information that you think the should be known. Being a smart ass at a grand jury investigation is the wrong way.
I've heard truck drivers complaining about systems like this. Apparently it has more control over the engine speed than the driver.
They were doing the right thing.
They did the right thing by raising concerns about the devices' safety. But there are two problems with some of their other actions.
First, just because they disagreed with the conclusions about the safety of the devices doesn't mean the FDA was wrong a they were right. Apparently there were plenty of studies and the conclusion was that the risk posed by the devices was small enough. But this group didn't want to accept that answer. Which leads to...
Second, a federal employee is protected by whistle-blower laws. But there's a proper way to pursue that option, these scientists went about it the wrong way and got in trouble.
Last I checked the NSA wasn't bidding on contracts to build telecommunication infrastructure. Of course they might have shell companies that do, kind of like China has Huawei and ZTE
Here are the two patents. Read them (as I did). There is nothing creative about either of them.
So what you are trying to say is that the chickens that refused immunization caused the outbreak?
Farmers that didn't use the vaccine correctly caused a new strain of the virus to emerge. It isn't any worse than the old strains, except that it can infect birds that are immune to the older strains.
Antivirals do.
Pretty interesting (but not totally surprising) that viruses can combine and recombine like this. They're remarkably good at changing to defeat a host's defenses.
The two main parts of this patent seem to be that it's over a wireless network and that it handles what we used to call "occasionally connected" devices. Since you can't assume the device will be turned on or available when you need to communicate with it you stage the data and send it when you do get a connection. We did that 20 years ago with dial-up devices. But I guess wireless connections are more special than dial-up.
Then it doesn't matter that everyone skilled in this field would solve the problem similarly
Yes, it absolutely does matter. If the solution is obvious to "a person having ordinary skill in the art" then it's not patentable. I'm pretty sure that any reasonably skilled engineer who needs a way to manage wireless devices would manage them over a wireless network.
claims on a patent for a process that remotely manages a wireless device over a wireless network
How else are you going to manage a wireless device? If this isn't a ridiculous patent there is none.
Anyone who has been forced to work with certified Project Management Professional project managers will understand why organizations have looked at agile. PMP is the worse of waterfall with a bunch of useless buzzwords. Agile breaks that cycle but does introduce some other problems.
The biggest problem with developing software is that any non-trivial system takes time to deliver regardless of the methodology, You can take time to properly spec out and design a bridge over a river because it'll be good for 50 years. But the world of software changes so fast that any system is obsolescent by the time it's done, and if you spend a few months specing/designing it's time for a redesign before you even start writing the code.
Couldn't they have learned the exact same things using more modern and better understood strains?
As I read the article, that's what they did. The 500 million year old part appears to be hype; apparently they calculated what the genes would've looked like early in the evolution of the species and recreated part of it to watch it evolve again. But I might be wrong there, but I don't think they did it just because it seemed COOL to grow E. coli bacteria (we all do that already).
Not just the highest bidder. It will be sold to everyone.
Privacy aside, the idea of my phone being spammed every time I get near a store or restaurant is a big concern. This should really be an op-in feature. But that'll never happen.
It actually is a very good idea. They learned a lot about how bacteria evolve and adapt, which is critical to our understanding of disease and how new diseases emerge.
3. Should the politicians who closed the TB hospital and then buried the TB outbreak for political reasons be held accountable?
The outbreak happened before it was announced that the hospital would be closed, so the answer to the first half is obviously "No".
There's no evidence of any coverup, for political reasons or otherwise. The Raw Story author claims there was one because the requests by the Palm Beach Post took a few weeks to be filled. I wouldn't call that a coverup, especially without know how long it normally takes.
At least one person kind of got the joke.
This is a cool idea. But it kind of only goes half way. Now they need a Thing that can translate spoken speech into glove movements. Oh, yea, baby!
The fact that we've given them tax cuts for 30 years and they haven't created any jobs in a meaningful sense
Yea, the US only added about 40,000,000 jobs in the past thirty years; should be a few million more than that but the number has shrunk during the current administration.
There's a different between not-publicizing an outbreak and actively-keeping-it-secret
What is the typical turn-around time for a request? Without knowing that it's impossible to say if this was "actively-keeping_it-secret" or getting hysterical at normal bureaucracy. My guess is the latter.
Bottom line is 1) the outbreak occurred at roughly the time of the announcement to downsize the Health department and close the TB hospital, so it's not at all clear if those changes will make any difference (obviously the old system didn't prevent the outbreak); and 2) The headline says Florida is accused of concealing the outbreak - but the accuser is the author of the article, a misleading headline at best.
average temperature US cities" turns up one table showing a 5.8 degree difference between average July temp in Washington D.C. vs. Dallas TX
Texas is hotter than Maryland? Who knew?
Our infrastructure was built 40 years ago and had a 25 year life expectancy
Citation needed.
If they uploaded to a site like that and threw away their only backup they're idiots.
Yea, but most Chinese are far better off now than they were just a generation ago. A woman I worked with returned to her grandparents' village in China a few years ago; she thought it was unbelievably primitive - but they told her of all the improvements: a road to the village that you could ride a bicycle on instead of walking. Good water in the community well, etc. etc. Their biggest complaint was that all the younger generation had left the village for the cities to work; nobody wanted to work in the rice paddies anymore.