However, it should be breakable: if Yale changes their website so that the extension no longer matches it and thus cannot scrape it, it should break.
Then it just turns into a pissing contest over who's willing to update their site/extension for longer. Or maybe the extension is updated to cache the data on your computer and manipulate it there.
Cat and Mouse games will not suffice. Yale is going to have to face this head on.
On the other hand the "alarmist" logic is: "we already know the cause of the warming, it is humans saturating the atmosphere with too much CO2, we just need to gather and/or create the evidence to support this theory". That's called inductive logic, and is just as unscientific as what you describe coming from the "denialists".
You seem to be creating a strawman for the express purpose of knocking it down.
These "alarmist" scientists are the same type who told us that CFCs were creating a hole in the ozone layer. We went to great lengths to eliminate CFCs, then lo and behold, the ozone layer fixed itself.
"Real" science comes from gathering evidence and basing your theories on the evidence gathered. You then determine what it might take to falsify your theory and try as hard as possible to falsify it.
Holy shit! Just like what happened with the ozone layer! The Ozone Hole Alarmists were right!
All I see from the "alarmist" camp is people trying to support their theories at all costs, calling things causation where there is barely correlation, and making very little if any effort to falsify their theories. This behavior is more akin to religion than any sort of science.
But in 2014 we have email, Slashdot, and sites that process logic and require dynamic page generation and logic which javascript is used. It is not a simple hypertext viewer and you are clueless to say anything else otherwise as appear a luddite.
/. works just fine for me with javascript disabled. That's what Classic Mode is for. I even prefer it.
If disliking highly dynamic websites makes me a luddite, then I will proudly bear that distinction.
P.S. E-Mail doesn't need javascript. It never did and it never will.
Has your evening or weekend been disrupted by a call from a telemarketer? If so, you're not alone. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been receiving complaints in increasing numbers from consumers throughout the nation about unwanted and uninvited calls to their homes from telemarketers.
If no-phone-calls is a good public policy, then there's absolutely no reason to leave its enforcement in private hands. Make it a law and put the weight of the State behind it.
Here's some data points, and a question for the economists:
You seem to have accidentally left out all the data points relating to poverty and hunger (now known as "food insecurity").
Given this data, here's a hypothetical question: Suppose efficiency grows so that the infrastructure could produce all the needs of the population using only 90% of the current workforce.
Q: What happens to the unneeded 10% workforce?
I imagine 10% of the workforce will effectively go on an endless vacation. Or does your definition of "produce all the needs of the population" not include needs like "food" or "shelter" or "heat"?
Q2: Are we already in this "10% is unneeded" situation?
Depends on your perspective. A Fortune 500 CEO might say "yea, we're already there" A family depending on food stamps and food banks might disagree.
You're an idiot of the Prosthetic arm from Joes RepRap in his garage doesn't concern you. That doesn't mean its 'bad', but you're an idiot for not being concerned about the possible unforeseen effects.
I posted this in a previous/. story about printed limbs, so I'll just do a quick copy and paste: Prostheses are more or less exempt from any FDA regulation that would make them expensive.
(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in 890.9. The device is also exempt from the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the quality system regulation in part 820 of this chapter, with the exception of 820.180, regarding general requirements concerning records and 820.198, regarding complaint files.
Sec. 890.9 Limitations of exemptions from section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act).
The exemption from the requirement of premarket notification (section 510(k) of the act) for a generic type of class I or II device is only to the extent that the device has existing or reasonably foreseeable characteristics of commercially distributed devices within that generic type or, in the case of in vitro diagnostic devices, only to the extent that misdiagnosis as a result of using the device would not be associated with high morbidity or mortality. [...]
[A list of reasons when your product is not exempt]
There's someone, somewhere, who had to spend money for the FDA to approve the first [artificial limb], but after that, everyone gets a free ride.
They certainly caved pretty easily recently when it came to banking information
They only caved when it was shown that Swiss bankers were actively helping their clients to avoid taxes and break (inter)national laws.
But more interestingly, the nature of their caving varies from country to country. The banks agreed to remit taxes for UK-based account holders, but without disclosing the account holder's identity.
It doesn't matter what is true, only what people believe is true.
There is a lot of money at stake if anyone pokes holes in the narrative that 'green energy is a job killing boondoggle.' Even more important than money, there are ideological principles at risk if Big Government is shown to succeed at [anything].
The real tragedy of it all is that the USA needs a comprehensive and coherent energy policy. When the government tells everyone what it is focusing on and where it will be spending money, big business can follow because they know that their expenditures will not be a solo risk.
Instead we've ended up with unconnected subsidies that still get treated with aggressive hostility by conservative voices. Their solution? More fracking and more coal. Not exactly a progressive or forward looking vision of our future.
They've sold or allowed to be sold much of the tar, whoops I mean bitumen sands to China.
So? Do you have a preference as to where Canada sells its petroleum products?
Keystone XL was mostly about getting Canadian oil to the Gulf of Mexico for easier shipment to China. Canada is also looking at making deals with India for oil sales. I imagine you have and opinion on that as well?
I guess the real question is under what conditions are you able to perform well? I think you will need to identify those conditions and focus upon working in those conditions. You may need to work with teachers to develop a schedule which you can work under.
This is the best answer so far, but still incomplete. You need to talk with the school about this. And you need to see some doctors, get a full workup on your weaknesses, then with that information, you can work out an education plan with the school. It might involve extra time for tests, taking notes on your laptop, extra help with writing papers, etc etc etc.
Good teachers will help where they can and bad teachers will be inflexible, you may need to avoid those.
For the most part, this is true. But if there's a class you have to take with an inflexible teacher, keep making noise until your problems are addressed and don't be ashamed to get the school administration involved.
If you don't advocate for yourself, no one else will.
"Russian Components, American Components, all made in Taiwan!"
The difference between assembled in the USA and assembled in China is that in China, you can roust several thousand people out of bed at 2 AM and have them start assembling by 3 AM
I would disagree. You may not be able to make or source every little component here in the US, but the overall product certainly could be built here. It would cost more, that is true, but in many cases the benefits will outweigh the costs IMHO.
The benefits don't outweigh the costs, or everyone would have moved their manufacturing already. China's main benefit is a critical mass of manufacturing that's all in one place. They have industrial zones where you can find/spec almost any component you need.
But, as Chinese wages are increasing, the gap is closing with Central/South American countries like Mexico, which share a US timezone. It makes visiting the factory for quality control much easier and you don't have a 2-week lead time for shipping.
We don't need the old diseases to come back as drug resistant bacteria has the potential to kill modern medicine. Imagine getting a scratch on your hand and having to amputate because the doctors can't prevent infection..
I found this quote to be the opposite of comforting
In their paper, the Cambridge researchers asserted that, based on their conversations with bankers, "banks systematically suppress information about known vulnerabilities, with the result that fraud victims continue to be denied refunds."
"Denied refunds" seems to have been the main benefit from banks switching over to chip and pin.
The government already has access to my bank account. They don't need to break into my computer to get it.
They'd be interested in your password though. Either in case you re-use it elsewhere or to help them guess the type of passwords you'd use for other accounts.
Not hard, but the range would be pretty limited for RC.
Well... the range is mostly limited by the tiny antenna in the cell phone. You can take a bog standard bluetooth dongle and extend the range over half a mile by focusing its output with some form of waveguide.
With a bluetooth capable rc controller, you can do two things: 1. use a significantly larger antenna than anything you'll find in an iProduct 2. crank up the transmit power higher than any normal phone/computer based bluetooth transmitter.
It's the same reason the range on my 2.4ghz cordless phone doesn't compare to the range on my 2.4 ghz RC transmitter.
The iron mine is owned by the Swedish government, and it is the mining company who will be paying for the townâ(TM)s re-location. It might seem there is a pretty strong case for shutting down the mines and opting for the preservation of natural environment, and of the longstanding community. But this iron mine is far too important to Swedenâ(TM)s economy, accounting for just under one percent of the countryâ(TM)s overall GNP and a significant portion of the world's iron supply.
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However, it should be breakable: if Yale changes their website so that the extension no longer matches it and thus cannot scrape it, it should break.
Then it just turns into a pissing contest over who's willing to update their site/extension for longer.
Or maybe the extension is updated to cache the data on your computer and manipulate it there.
Cat and Mouse games will not suffice. Yale is going to have to face this head on.
How could this ever be more than a guess? How could it ever be determined, documented, or verified?
How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?
On the other hand the "alarmist" logic is: "we already know the cause of the warming, it is humans saturating the atmosphere with too much CO2, we just need to gather and/or create the evidence to support this theory". That's called inductive logic, and is just as unscientific as what you describe coming from the "denialists".
You seem to be creating a strawman for the express purpose of knocking it down.
These "alarmist" scientists are the same type who told us that CFCs were creating a hole in the ozone layer.
We went to great lengths to eliminate CFCs, then lo and behold, the ozone layer fixed itself.
"Real" science comes from gathering evidence and basing your theories on the evidence gathered. You then determine what it might take to falsify your theory and try as hard as possible to falsify it.
Holy shit! Just like what happened with the ozone layer!
The Ozone Hole Alarmists were right!
All I see from the "alarmist" camp is people trying to support their theories at all costs, calling things causation where there is barely correlation, and making very little if any effort to falsify their theories. This behavior is more akin to religion than any sort of science.
Then you haven't looked very hard.
The weight of "Real" science is behind the "alarmists" and not at all behind the "denialists".
Regardless of the predictive value of our models, let's raise some taxes.
You mean the ones that are at historical lows?
Or the other ones which account for businesses externalities and are mostly zero?
More importantly for the porn companies: no charge backs.
But in 2014 we have email, Slashdot, and sites that process logic and require dynamic page generation and logic which javascript is used. It is not a simple hypertext viewer and you are clueless to say anything else otherwise as appear a luddite.
/. works just fine for me with javascript disabled.
That's what Classic Mode is for. I even prefer it.
If disliking highly dynamic websites makes me a luddite, then I will proudly bear that distinction.
P.S. E-Mail doesn't need javascript. It never did and it never will.
Mod Parent up.
Mod the GrandParent down.
Just off the top of my head, here are two things the FCC regulates because of annoyance:
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/loud-commercials
http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/do-not-call-list
Has your evening or weekend been disrupted by a call from a telemarketer? If so, you're not alone. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been receiving complaints in increasing numbers from consumers throughout the nation about unwanted and uninvited calls to their homes from telemarketers.
If no-phone-calls is a good public policy, then there's absolutely no reason to leave its enforcement in private hands.
Make it a law and put the weight of the State behind it.
Here's some data points, and a question for the economists:
You seem to have accidentally left out all the data points relating to poverty and hunger (now known as "food insecurity").
Given this data, here's a hypothetical question: Suppose efficiency grows so that the infrastructure could produce all the needs of the population using only 90% of the current workforce.
Q: What happens to the unneeded 10% workforce?
I imagine 10% of the workforce will effectively go on an endless vacation.
Or does your definition of "produce all the needs of the population" not include needs like "food" or "shelter" or "heat"?
Q2: Are we already in this "10% is unneeded" situation?
Depends on your perspective.
A Fortune 500 CEO might say "yea, we're already there"
A family depending on food stamps and food banks might disagree.
You're an idiot of the Prosthetic arm from Joes RepRap in his garage doesn't concern you. That doesn't mean its 'bad', but you're an idiot for not being concerned about the possible unforeseen effects.
I posted this in a previous /. story about printed limbs, so I'll just do a quick copy and paste:
Prostheses are more or less exempt from any FDA regulation that would make them expensive.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=890.3420 [fda.gov]
Sec. 890.3420 External limb prosthetic component.
(b)Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter, subject to the limitations in 890.9. The device is also exempt from the current good manufacturing practice requirements of the quality system regulation in part 820 of this chapter, with the exception of 820.180, regarding general requirements concerning records and 820.198, regarding complaint files.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/cfrsearch.cfm?fr=890.9 [fda.gov]
Sec. 890.9 Limitations of exemptions from section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act).
The exemption from the requirement of premarket notification (section 510(k) of the act) for a generic type of class I or II device is only to the extent that the device has existing or reasonably foreseeable characteristics of commercially distributed devices within that generic type or, in the case of in vitro diagnostic devices, only to the extent that misdiagnosis as a result of using the device would not be associated with high morbidity or mortality. [...]
[A list of reasons when your product is not exempt]
There's someone, somewhere, who had to spend money for the FDA to approve the first [artificial limb], but after that, everyone gets a free ride.
At this point I would be more surprised if it was discovered that there was something they couldn't do.
They can't get the /. editors to stop posting about Carbon Nanotubes.
Oh the humanity!
Perhaps we should just remove the defense attorney from criminal proceedings as well. That should clear out the case backlog,
Something like 80%~97% of ALL criminal cases are settled by plea agreement.
(Depending on the jurisdiction and specific court)
Traffic and misdemeanor courts have similarly high rates of plea bargains or guilty pleas.
If there's a backlog in the court system, it's entirely because of underfunding.
They certainly caved pretty easily recently when it came to banking information
They only caved when it was shown that Swiss bankers were actively helping their clients to avoid taxes and break (inter)national laws.
But more interestingly, the nature of their caving varies from country to country.
The banks agreed to remit taxes for UK-based account holders, but without disclosing the account holder's identity.
It doesn't matter what is true, only what people believe is true.
There is a lot of money at stake if anyone pokes holes in the narrative that 'green energy is a job killing boondoggle.'
Even more important than money, there are ideological principles at risk if Big Government is shown to succeed at [anything].
The real tragedy of it all is that the USA needs a comprehensive and coherent energy policy.
When the government tells everyone what it is focusing on and where it will be spending money,
big business can follow because they know that their expenditures will not be a solo risk.
Instead we've ended up with unconnected subsidies that still get treated with aggressive hostility by conservative voices.
Their solution? More fracking and more coal. Not exactly a progressive or forward looking vision of our future.
They've sold or allowed to be sold much of the tar, whoops I mean bitumen sands to China.
So?
Do you have a preference as to where Canada sells its petroleum products?
Keystone XL was mostly about getting Canadian oil to the Gulf of Mexico for easier shipment to China.
Canada is also looking at making deals with India for oil sales.
I imagine you have and opinion on that as well?
The value of the purloined data is heading towards nil quickly.
I just got a robo call today that I'll be getting a new credit card (number) soon.
My current number will still be good till the end of the month.
So at least for my issuer, that's how long the criminals have to commit some fraud.
How are they automatically blocking malware without submitting every link you try and download from to Google's servers first?
I personally turn off all the intrusive features I find on any browser and this seems like another one.
I guess the real question is under what conditions are you able to perform well? I think you will need to identify those conditions and focus upon working in those conditions. You may need to work with teachers to develop a schedule which you can work under.
This is the best answer so far, but still incomplete.
You need to talk with the school about this.
And you need to see some doctors, get a full workup on your weaknesses,
then with that information, you can work out an education plan with the school.
It might involve extra time for tests, taking notes on your laptop, extra help with writing papers, etc etc etc.
Good teachers will help where they can and bad teachers will be inflexible, you may need to avoid those.
For the most part, this is true.
But if there's a class you have to take with an inflexible teacher, keep making noise until your problems are addressed and don't be ashamed to get the school administration involved.
If you don't advocate for yourself, no one else will.
Only if the wealth is shared.
http://jim.roepcke.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/we-grew-apart.jpg
http://tcf.org/assets/images/blog_images/20120814-graph-of-the-day-does-productivity-growth-still-benefit-the-american-worker.png
The wealth doesn't need to be shared.
Instead, the workers need be payed what they are worth.
"Russian Components, American Components, all made in Taiwan!"
The difference between assembled in the USA and assembled in China is that in China, you can roust several thousand people out of bed at 2 AM and have them start assembling by 3 AM
I would disagree. You may not be able to make or source every little component here in the US, but the overall product certainly could be built here. It would cost more, that is true, but in many cases the benefits will outweigh the costs IMHO.
The benefits don't outweigh the costs, or everyone would have moved their manufacturing already.
China's main benefit is a critical mass of manufacturing that's all in one place.
They have industrial zones where you can find/spec almost any component you need.
But, as Chinese wages are increasing, the gap is closing with Central/South American countries like Mexico, which share a US timezone.
It makes visiting the factory for quality control much easier and you don't have a 2-week lead time for shipping.
We don't need the old diseases to come back as drug resistant bacteria has the potential to kill modern medicine.
Imagine getting a scratch on your hand and having to amputate because the doctors can't prevent infection..
We've been infected SO MANY times they finally decided to setup a dedicated PC that has no other access.
I cringe whenever I see a Point of Sale or other commercial system being used to browse the web.
If you can't afford a separate computer for looking stuff up, you certainly can't afford the pain from getting your crown jewels pwned..
I find it interesting that the wiki page on chip and pin vulnerabilities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Vulnerabilities only goes up to 2011
The last news report on security vulnerabilities in chip and pin schemes (that i can find) seems to be late 2012
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49020916/ns/technology_and_science-security/t/criminals-crack-european-chip-and-pin-cash-card-security/
I found this quote to be the opposite of comforting
In their paper, the Cambridge researchers asserted that, based on their conversations with bankers, "banks systematically suppress information about known vulnerabilities, with the result that fraud victims continue to be denied refunds."
"Denied refunds" seems to have been the main benefit from banks switching over to chip and pin.
The government already has access to my bank account. They don't need to break into my computer to get it.
They'd be interested in your password though.
Either in case you re-use it elsewhere or to help them guess the type of passwords you'd use for other accounts.
Not hard, but the range would be pretty limited for RC.
Well... the range is mostly limited by the tiny antenna in the cell phone.
You can take a bog standard bluetooth dongle and extend the range over half a mile by focusing its output with some form of waveguide.
With a bluetooth capable rc controller, you can do two things:
1. use a significantly larger antenna than anything you'll find in an iProduct
2. crank up the transmit power higher than any normal phone/computer based bluetooth transmitter.
It's the same reason the range on my 2.4ghz cordless phone doesn't compare to the range on my 2.4 ghz RC transmitter.
The iron mine is owned by the Swedish government, and it is the mining company who will be paying for the townâ(TM)s re-location. It might seem there is a pretty strong case for shutting down the mines and opting for the preservation of natural environment, and of the longstanding community. But this iron mine is far too important to Swedenâ(TM)s economy, accounting for just under one percent of the countryâ(TM)s overall GNP and a significant portion of the world's iron supply.
Well that answers all my questions right there.