Actually believe it or not I’m less scared of a syringe than an autoinjector. Why? Because in the Army we were issued an autoinjector in case of exposure to some kind of gas (I don’t remember which one) which you were supposed to inject into the muscle in your butt cheek. The scary part was how I saw one of these stick right through a 2x4 piece of wood. Imagine if you accidentally stuck your hip bone or your handowwI’ll stick with the syringe, thanks.
A single autoinjector? It was probably the ATNAA (Antidote Treatment Nerve Agent Auto-Injector). If it was a pair of them in a black sleeve, it was the Mk.1 NAAK (Nerve Agent Antidote Kit). You may have gotten a third, with diazepam, to be used to treat seizures long enough to stick the atropine and pralidoxime chloride into the victim, if they were convulsing.
The reason they give you autoinjectors, though, is because under stress fine motor skills evaporate, leaving you with gross motor skills. Using a syringe is a fine motor skill, and trying to do that while your adrenaline is spiked, you’re starting to convulse, and you’ve got a needle phobia? Sorry, you’re going to die. The military spends money on kit when the cheap gear doesn’t cut the mustard, so I’m inclined to think they switched to autoinjectors for a reason.
I applaud you for not wasting the environment, but it is certainly not thanks to Apple. Credit where credit is due, and here it is to you. I also believe on average, iphone users keep their phones for a shorter time as they see their phones as fashion accessories (this is only a feeling of mine, I have no hard data supporting it).
In my experience, most people I know tend to use their iPhones into the ground, often ending up 3 or 4 generations behind. Except for the one guy who attends WWDC every year, and makes a good living as an IT contractor, and also has to be able to test his code against new hardware. Everyone else uses it until it breaks, or they pass on their old one to someone else when theirs breaks, and use the excuse to upgrade.
Palo Alto's "Cubik" series is a good example. I use them because they're beautiful, well-designed, and sound _very_ good for what I paid for them. They hide the screws as part of a mid century modern aesthetic, and because they don't want to pay to fix speakers that you fucked up. Relying on USB-only audio devices is a questionable decision, but my headset is like that, too - a Logitech G35. Unlike newer modules, the DAC isn't even in the cord, it's inside the tamper-evident screws. Why? Because after passing through the rat's nest of cable behind my desk, analog audio sounds like crap. With digital signaling, either there's enough signal, or there isn't, and I can imagine no circumstances where, with this cable length, the audio won't be bit-perfect when it hits the speakers.
These replaced the very-much-analog Klipsch speakers which were fiddly, fragile, and prone to loose connections because "clip a wire to it" has some downsides to match its advantages.
I always thought it should be feasible to get "dead or alive" warrants by bench-trial-in-absentia in the time it took SWAT to kit up, in order to provide legal oversight of such decisions. I'm disappointed that nobody with power shares my idea.
Still, any and every time SWAT is brought in to neutralize a threat before bystanders get dead, that's exactly what police have been asked to do. The only difference is that this time an improvised guided missile was used, instead of a hit-squad with submachine guns and hollowpoint bullets.
Strictly speaking, you may be right - they probably re-purposed a breaching charge, maybe with some nails or BBs taped on for good measure. They also have larger charges used to destroy large bombs without triggering their explosives (in theory).
Strictly speaking, it will probably end up more accurately described as a guided missile strike - they probably need a new robot now.
As for tomorrow, I suspect the future includes anti-personnel guided missiles - the moral equivalent of an offensive hand grenade or breaching charge, delivered from up to 2 km away. Alternately, they could be purely kinetic energy weapons like the EXACTO laser-guided.50 bullet. Consider a thermos full of cement hitting someone faster than a.45 ACP slug - there will be quite a mess.
Such mini-missiles are designed for operating in urban terrain with minimal collateral damage, and low prices - the DRS Spike is designed to cost only $4000 a missile and $6000 for the command launch unit. Other missiles in the class are designed to be extremely inexpensive, as well.
I can practically guarantee these will make their way to future war-zone hellholes because the price is right, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised to see these stay out of SWAT arsenals until they have a legitimate need to crack open combat cyborgs. I'd be shocked if police snipers didn't end up using EXACTO bullets, though - it's a lot like what they already do, but more precise.
They actually interviewed him for like four hours with a hostage negotiator, and knew who he was working with (alone) and his motives (he wanted to kill white cops to avenge the guys who got dead over the last two days, and everyone else who was "lynched."
I know, right? That constant cavalcade of intractable security breaches requiring the replacement of perfectly good hardware, since either it’s a hardware bug (cough Qualcom cough) or just because promised software updates to patch things like Heartbleed never materialize, and with, at last estimate, thousands of malicious Google Play apps spreading rootkits, I can see how easy it is to get raped. I mean, if my alternative is paying $2/GB for flash memory, well, it’s cheaper than even the least expensive of identity fraud.
Hang on, you were talking about getting raped by Apple.
Apple are explicitly willing to cannibalize their own business - because if they don't, somebody else will. I forget if Tim Cook or Steve Jobs said that, but it's the principle that gave us the iPhone at the expense of the iPod.
In a nuclear rocket, the fuel and the reaction mass are two different components, and the fuel is likely to outlast the reaction mass by a massive margin, due to the nature of criticality - without enough fuel, the engine won’t work at all, so we tend to massively overfuel nuclear anything compared to the mission’s actual energy needs.
The Airprint Express didn't support AirPrint translation to conventional printers last time I checked. However, StarTech and Lantronix both offer print servers that adapt existing printers to AirPrint and/or Google Cloud Print.
Waitwaitwait. They want me to use iCloud to store files to save hard drive space?
Really?
I use my hard drive (and a couple of prodigious USB flash drives) to save iCloud space, which is currently at a premium. Seriously - the free tier is still 5 GB, and currently 90% of that is backups for just my iPhone. I had to disable backup of my iPad because neither one was backing up any more. Immediately, my iPhone unloaded another two gigs into iCloud.
Right now, I’m afraid to use iCloud, for fear of my backups stopping. Either let me sync through Box, who gave me 50 underutilized gigs, or match their offer. Now that iCloud is multipurpose, and only has room for a single purpose, I fear that none of the features announced will actually work.
Sorry, I wrote that for a comment on a thing a few posts higher, but for people who hate smart TVs and love Rokus, well... there's actually a good solution, and you may find you don't hate smart TVs as much any more. Primarily, because their software stack's been hammered on for years, and secondarily, by not overpromising and underdelivering. The software is more responsive than my old Roku, and when they EOL this thing and the software updates stop flowing, I'm no worse off than when I had a dumb TV - I'll plug in the latest Streaming Stick or Fire Stick or whatever, and hope that it supports HDMI CEC so I can one-remote the whole show again. I mean the stick supports it, since the TV sure does.
Seriously, why do people buy software solutions from Samsung? It's like their record with Android updates isn't pervasive yet, or people hold out hope...
Seriously, why? That's not a rhetorical question, or ragging on you. I actually want to know the answer, so I can better handle family members who don't have the vocabulary to discuss electronics purchases.
You mean a Roku like this? I have one, and it rocks. It rocks the socks off my old Roku. And the new ones have all the "enhanced remote" shit that I shrugged and figured I wouldn't miss when I picked out my cheapest-1080p-tv-on-the-market (really good sale) but kind of do. Still, the old Insignia Roku TVs hit way above their weight class.
The new TCL UP130 series have all the niceties of the Roku 4 remote - voice search across ALL OF THE CHANNELS, remote finder, and a headphone jack. Mine’s the old Insignia 32” model, which was cheaper than dumb TVs of crappier spec; the cheapest small 1080p screen in sizes where others only make 720p sets.
It’s here, it doesn’t suck, and it works better than my old Roku.
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A single autoinjector? It was probably the ATNAA (Antidote Treatment Nerve Agent Auto-Injector). If it was a pair of them in a black sleeve, it was the Mk.1 NAAK (Nerve Agent Antidote Kit). You may have gotten a third, with diazepam, to be used to treat seizures long enough to stick the atropine and pralidoxime chloride into the victim, if they were convulsing.
The reason they give you autoinjectors, though, is because under stress fine motor skills evaporate, leaving you with gross motor skills. Using a syringe is a fine motor skill, and trying to do that while your adrenaline is spiked, you’re starting to convulse, and you’ve got a needle phobia? Sorry, you’re going to die. The military spends money on kit when the cheap gear doesn’t cut the mustard, so I’m inclined to think they switched to autoinjectors for a reason.
In my experience, most people I know tend to use their iPhones into the ground, often ending up 3 or 4 generations behind. Except for the one guy who attends WWDC every year, and makes a good living as an IT contractor, and also has to be able to test his code against new hardware. Everyone else uses it until it breaks, or they pass on their old one to someone else when theirs breaks, and use the excuse to upgrade.
Palo Alto's "Cubik" series is a good example. I use them because they're beautiful, well-designed, and sound _very_ good for what I paid for them. They hide the screws as part of a mid century modern aesthetic, and because they don't want to pay to fix speakers that you fucked up. Relying on USB-only audio devices is a questionable decision, but my headset is like that, too - a Logitech G35. Unlike newer modules, the DAC isn't even in the cord, it's inside the tamper-evident screws. Why? Because after passing through the rat's nest of cable behind my desk, analog audio sounds like crap. With digital signaling, either there's enough signal, or there isn't, and I can imagine no circumstances where, with this cable length, the audio won't be bit-perfect when it hits the speakers.
These replaced the very-much-analog Klipsch speakers which were fiddly, fragile, and prone to loose connections because "clip a wire to it" has some downsides to match its advantages.
The radio program on NPR today said it was more like six months of no sex. Did you know the inside of the testicle is "immunologically privileged?"
I always thought it should be feasible to get "dead or alive" warrants by bench-trial-in-absentia in the time it took SWAT to kit up, in order to provide legal oversight of such decisions. I'm disappointed that nobody with power shares my idea.
Still, any and every time SWAT is brought in to neutralize a threat before bystanders get dead, that's exactly what police have been asked to do. The only difference is that this time an improvised guided missile was used, instead of a hit-squad with submachine guns and hollowpoint bullets.
Strictly speaking, you may be right - they probably re-purposed a breaching charge, maybe with some nails or BBs taped on for good measure. They also have larger charges used to destroy large bombs without triggering their explosives (in theory).
Strictly speaking, it will probably end up more accurately described as a guided missile strike - they probably need a new robot now.
As for tomorrow, I suspect the future includes anti-personnel guided missiles - the moral equivalent of an offensive hand grenade or breaching charge, delivered from up to 2 km away. Alternately, they could be purely kinetic energy weapons like the EXACTO laser-guided .50 bullet. Consider a thermos full of cement hitting someone faster than a .45 ACP slug - there will be quite a mess.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/spike.html
http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/pike/
http://defense-update.com/photos/mini_spike.html
Such mini-missiles are designed for operating in urban terrain with minimal collateral damage, and low prices - the DRS Spike is designed to cost only $4000 a missile and $6000 for the command launch unit. Other missiles in the class are designed to be extremely inexpensive, as well.
I can practically guarantee these will make their way to future war-zone hellholes because the price is right, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised to see these stay out of SWAT arsenals until they have a legitimate need to crack open combat cyborgs. I'd be shocked if police snipers didn't end up using EXACTO bullets, though - it's a lot like what they already do, but more precise.
They actually interviewed him for like four hours with a hostage negotiator, and knew who he was working with (alone) and his motives (he wanted to kill white cops to avenge the guys who got dead over the last two days, and everyone else who was "lynched."
Chuck it in an envelope and send it over here. I can still make good use of it. :p
I know, right? That constant cavalcade of intractable security breaches requiring the replacement of perfectly good hardware, since either it’s a hardware bug (cough Qualcom cough) or just because promised software updates to patch things like Heartbleed never materialize, and with, at last estimate, thousands of malicious Google Play apps spreading rootkits, I can see how easy it is to get raped. I mean, if my alternative is paying $2/GB for flash memory, well, it’s cheaper than even the least expensive of identity fraud.
Hang on, you were talking about getting raped by Apple.
On the contrary, for people who just want a lightweight Facebook-machine, the Macbook is a boon.
You may not be in the market for one, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a market for one.
If you want a Macbook Pro, get a Macbook Pro.
Apple are explicitly willing to cannibalize their own business - because if they don't, somebody else will. I forget if Tim Cook or Steve Jobs said that, but it's the principle that gave us the iPhone at the expense of the iPod.
It’s not like it’s rocket science, or anything.
Oh, wait...
In a nuclear rocket, the fuel and the reaction mass are two different components, and the fuel is likely to outlast the reaction mass by a massive margin, due to the nature of criticality - without enough fuel, the engine won’t work at all, so we tend to massively overfuel nuclear anything compared to the mission’s actual energy needs.
The Airprint Express didn't support AirPrint translation to conventional printers last time I checked. However, StarTech and Lantronix both offer print servers that adapt existing printers to AirPrint and/or Google Cloud Print.
Anonymous delivers. Please have exact change.
If you quit watching the keynote before the end, Cook was careful to point out that they’re using on-device intelligence.
Win-win: They don’t have to build out more servers, and we don’t have to upload our data to the butt.
ZFS requires an absurd amount of RAM dedicated to managing storage.
Waitwaitwait. They want me to use iCloud to store files to save hard drive space?
Really?
I use my hard drive (and a couple of prodigious USB flash drives) to save iCloud space, which is currently at a premium. Seriously - the free tier is still 5 GB, and currently 90% of that is backups for just my iPhone. I had to disable backup of my iPad because neither one was backing up any more. Immediately, my iPhone unloaded another two gigs into iCloud.
Right now, I’m afraid to use iCloud, for fear of my backups stopping. Either let me sync through Box, who gave me 50 underutilized gigs, or match their offer. Now that iCloud is multipurpose, and only has room for a single purpose, I fear that none of the features announced will actually work.
This guy also points out that the internet connection is the slowest connection in the house. He has an excellent point.
While exceedingly cool on paper, I fear that this is gonna suck
... Not lately. The only 1080p set I found in 32" or smaller was a $200 smart TV.
On the contrary, Roku TVs are apparently a thing that nobody but me has heard of, and have - so far - none of the issues that LG and especially Samsung TVs have.
You mean a Roku like this?
Sorry, I wrote that for a comment on a thing a few posts higher, but for people who hate smart TVs and love Rokus, well... there's actually a good solution, and you may find you don't hate smart TVs as much any more. Primarily, because their software stack's been hammered on for years, and secondarily, by not overpromising and underdelivering. The software is more responsive than my old Roku, and when they EOL this thing and the software updates stop flowing, I'm no worse off than when I had a dumb TV - I'll plug in the latest Streaming Stick or Fire Stick or whatever, and hope that it supports HDMI CEC so I can one-remote the whole show again. I mean the stick supports it, since the TV sure does.
Seriously, why do people buy software solutions from Samsung? It's like their record with Android updates isn't pervasive yet, or people hold out hope...
Seriously, why? That's not a rhetorical question, or ragging on you. I actually want to know the answer, so I can better handle family members who don't have the vocabulary to discuss electronics purchases.
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You mean a Roku like this? I have one, and it rocks. It rocks the socks off my old Roku. And the new ones have all the "enhanced remote" shit that I shrugged and figured I wouldn't miss when I picked out my cheapest-1080p-tv-on-the-market (really good sale) but kind of do. Still, the old Insignia Roku TVs hit way above their weight class.
Not a shill, just a happy customer.
You mean a Roku like this?
I hate this fucking conversation. I have one of these on my desk.
The new TCL UP130 series have all the niceties of the Roku 4 remote - voice search across ALL OF THE CHANNELS, remote finder, and a headphone jack. Mine’s the old Insignia 32” model, which was cheaper than dumb TVs of crappier spec; the cheapest small 1080p screen in sizes where others only make 720p sets.
It’s here, it doesn’t suck, and it works better than my old Roku.