If narcotic delivery were possible and caught on it would be a big win for everyone - the addicts wouldn't be tempted to reuse needles, and the rest of us wouldn't have to worry about used needles being improperly disposed of.
Morphine and fentanyl patches have been around for years. The problem is that addicts would rather eat/snort/inject the contents instead of using them as intended (time released). I can't imagine that junkies couldn't figure out how to abuse this new polymer patch in the same way.
I just want to post in this thread before all the free marketeers try to talk up the joys of unregulated capitalism.
The USA has a 140 year history of regular banking panics and collapses, inspite of the institution of regulations. And there are those who would still insist that the industry is over regulated, in the face of flagrant and widespread fraud during the last 6 years.
"Free" markets do not lead to competition. They consistently and repeatedly lead to fraud and monopolies.
This legal pressure was the reason that the Pirate Bay switched from serving BitTorrent files to serving magnet links, which enable users to download content purely from each other, without the Pirate Bay ever actually serving the content themselves.
The Pirate Bay still serves torrents.
For a file with few seeders, the torrent is linked on the website. Once the # of seeders reaches a certain threshold, the torrent link is removed. BUT, the torrent is still on the server and can still be accessed if you take 30 seconds to figure out the formatting of the torrent names.
It is not sane to assume that everyone is running a packet analyzer and inspecting all the traffic across their system. And without knowledge, you cannot complete the necessary elements to convict.
Throw in some encryption for the proxied contents and the case against the proxy owner will never reach a jury.
Building a large space station (say, 100x bigger than the ISS) would cost a silly amount of money if everything was lifted from Earth into orbit, but if you can get the raw materials into place from another source then some of the basics, like water and metals, become far, far cheaper, regardless of the Earthbound costs of these materials.
The space shuttle threw away every single external tank (the big rust colored one) even though they were brought to the point we more or less consider 'outer space'. Each main tank weighed from 55,000 to 77,000 (the oldest version) and was destined to splash down somewhere unrecoverable, in the ocean.
We could have built something 100x bigger than the ISS. What a waste.
Almost everything in the retail channels are smart phones. I still have a feature phone and it saddens me that almost no one manufactures them anymore.
It's gotten to the point where low-end smart phones are being pushed hard into Africa, which has generally been a stronghold for the dumb phone.
Tech could just as easily extend middle class jobs, if we chose productivity over cost efficiency.
I'm going to need you to explain this.
Middle class jobs have been disappearing because technology has allowed workers to become more efficient, thus allowing less workers to do the same or more work.
Some economists say it is wrong to look at just wages because other aspects of employee compensation, notably health costs, have risen. But overall employee compensation -- including health and retirement benefits -- has also slipped badly, falling to its lowest share of national income in more than 50 years while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share over that time.
Conservative and liberal economists agree on many of the forces that have driven the wage share down. Corporate America's push to outsource jobs -- whether call-center jobs to India or factory jobs to China -- has fattened corporate earnings, while holding down wages at home. New technologies have raised productivity and profits, while enabling companies to shed workers and slice payroll. Computers have replaced workers who tabulated numbers; robots have pushed aside many factory workers.
From 1973 to 2011, worker productivity grew 80 percent, while median hourly compensation, after inflation, grew by just one-eighth that amount, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group. And since 2000, productivity has risen 23 percent while real hourly pay has essentially stagnated.
We wouldn't need a more progressive tax structure if middle class wages were increasing alongside corporate profits.
Do you realize how easy it is to design nuclear weapons? I suppose you'd like to think it's a big, carefully guarded secret. It's not. Why else would a backward nation like North Korea be able to build them?
North Korea learned how to build nukes from Pakistan. The Iranians and Libyans bought technology from Pakistan (not from Doc Brown). It's also been suggested that Pakistan has transfered nuclear know how to Saudi Arabia.
How easy would it be to duplicate the ideas, if not the exact code? Pretty easy.
"How easy would it be to duplicate Facebook, if not the exact code? Pretty easy." Yea, it's not actually that easy. For every big idea, there's a half dozen notable failed attempts.
Note that all Islamist groups have the same goals, they just believe in different means to achieve this goal.
Just so that everyone is clear: "all Islamist groups" != all Muslims
Speaking the truth always offends Muslims because they don't want the Free World to discover the truth about their evil ideology.
FFS, they aren't Scientology. They will give you their religious text for free and preach to you until you've learned everything you want to know.
The AC you responded to makes this same mistake and is equally as wrong. Lumping in mainstream Muslims with their crazy right-wingers is like confusing San Francisco liberals with the Westboro Baptist Church. Yea they are both Christian, but their differences suggest that you have some serious biases you need to overcome if you ever want to look at the world as it is.
Therefore: Al Qaeda == Hamas == Hezbollah == Muslim Brotherhood == Salafis == Wahabbis == Boko Haram == Abu Sayyaf etc etc in ideological end-game goals. So when you hear Muslim Brotherhood you are correct in instantly translating that as "Al Qaeda" as they are ideologically end-goal equivalent.
The Muslim Brotherhood & Hamas are not related to Al Qaeda, Hezbollah is Shia to everyone else's Sunni Islam, and those other groups you quoted are all offshoots of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis.
The second largest political party in Egypt is made up of Salafis, who have been saying they want to destroy the Pyramids and blow up the Sphinx. They are most likely behind the hackers that did this and there is a serious risk that they will pull Egypt far far to the right and into crazy land.
The right to speak and offend others *is* the core of Free Speech.
"Fuck you" doesn't make for good foreign policy. Just something to think about.
For example, the staff at the Congressional Budget Office who actually do the math do not directly report to any politician.
The CBO frequently has to write reports based on (bad) assumptions that are baked into proposals or laws. Example:
[Former VP candidate Paul] Ryan isn't alone in directing the CBO to assume some level of success for his policies. Politicians from both parties routinely specify spending limits and then brag about the results. But Ryan's budget is unusual in the numbers of rules it specifies, and the level of success it assumes for its policies.
But it gets much more complicated when we're all connected. Suppose a European creates a Facebook account (hosted in the US) and later wants some information removed. Which country's laws should prevail?
Facebook has a HQ in Ireland, so the EU laws would apply The only out for Facebook is if the European citizen was in the USA when they created and updated the account... That's likely to be a vanishingly small percentage of facebook users.
It gets even more interesting if it isn't a big international company like Facebook, but a small US-based blog site, that someone in a foreign nation chooses to participate in. Whose laws prevail then?
That's not at all interesting. The European courts have no jurisdiction. End of conversation. Finer legal minds than ours have parsed issues like this for a couple decades now.
The Mega business plan will be a distributed model, with hundreds of companies large and small, around the world, hosting files. A hosting company can be huge or it can own just two or three servers Dotcom says--just as long as it's located outside the US.
"Each file will be kept with at least two different hosters, [in] at least two different locations," said Dotcom. "That's a great added benefit for us because you can work with the smallest, most unreliable [hosting] companies. It doesn't matter because they can't do anything with that data."
More than 1000 hosts answered a request for expressions of interest on the Mega home page. Dotcom says several hundred will be active partners within months. Successful hosts will get paid E500 per month per server; each server needs to supply 24 hard drives with 72 terabytes of storage and one gigabit of bandwidth, among other requirements.
That's all down the road, however. For now, Mega is launching with just one, professional, hosting operator--a subsidiary of Cogent, based in Dotcom's home country of Germany.
According to other articles, he has a (maxed out) 10Gbit pipe from this Cogent subsidiary And FYI - Cogent was the US host for megaupload.com, so they believe in his business plan enough to host for him again.
If he can get Mega back into the big leagues again, it's going to put some serious strain the undersea fiber that feeds the USA. That's the most expensive wired bandwidth around and he's planning to host nothing in the USA.
Uh, Eric, you know what you should have told them the path to prosperity was; the North Korean government should completely and radically change from a multi-generational dictatorship to a representative Democracy and Capitalistic System,
Uh, Mullen, most of the Capitalistic Systems in the world have been in a state of massive crisis for the last few years. A crisis that was self-inflicted, has been self-inflicted before and, because proper regulation never seems to last, will undoubtedly be self-inflicted again.
"turns out that mCrossDomain was of value 127": For some reason reminds me of the time Linus blew up at Mauro a little while ago also for returning a value that makes no sense (made worse by dancing around the issue).
Haven't most of the recent & large internet infrastructure failures been centered in Northern Virginia? Amazon in particular has been repeatedly bitten by outages in VA.
Already done, the previous u10 added options on the Java control panel (Windows) to disable all Java feature on the browser, so if you need Java for desktop applications, you don't need expose it to the browser.
Thanks! I just did this. Control Panel --> Java --> Security --> uncheck the box at the top
Socialism requires government have this information.
1. Why does socialism require the government to have your DNA? 2. Is the lack of DNA the reason that previous attempts at socialism have been less than fully successful?
But without a viable second ammendment, good luck protecting the rights enumerated under any of the others.
Has the soap box or ballot box failed your country yet in 200+ years? I'm not against gun rights, but I am against the mentality that only guns can protect your rights.
Nothing about this technology is new. Professional and rich college sports teams have been using it since the early 2000s to monitor potential heatstroke in players during summer practice and the pills cost $30~$40 each.
I believe it all started with NASA wanting a good way to get actual body temperatures of astronauts. At the time, the only accurate measurement technique was a thermometer in the butt... And that isn't a method that allows you to gather long term data.
FYI - Those in-ear thermometers and IR skin thermometers are only useful as indicators. Their readings cannot be considered representive of your core temperature.
1. They aren't allowed to advertise prescription medicine. 2. They aren't allowed to offer payola to doctors for using their drugs. Both the doctor and the company get busted if they get caught.
You've just described the developed world... except for the USA and New Zealand. Everyone else has strong limitations on direct-to-consumer-advertising, or an outright ban.
3. Generics are readily available. Instead of buying Panadol (Tylanol) I can get Brand X paracetamol/codeine which is the same recipe but 1/4 the price. The same is true for most prescription drugs.
As it turns out, generics aren't necessarily equivalent to the original perscription drug. Since it's late, you get the first article I found on Google It's a fair representation of the other articles I've read on the subject.
The TLDR version is that generics don't always make the same amount of drug available to the patient and even if they do, the drug may not be released in the same fashion, leading to early or late peaks of the drug.
I'd probably draw a distinction between when [...], and [...]
Then narrow the law. Far too many of our laws are written with the broadest possible application, even if the legislative intent is narrow and focused on a specific problem.
Like how the anti-terrorist Patriot Act is mostly being used to go after drug dealers, money laundering, and organized crime.
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If he keeps rolling, maybe we can tap him as a source of unlimited energy!
If narcotic delivery were possible and caught on it would be a big win for everyone - the addicts wouldn't be tempted to reuse needles, and the rest of us wouldn't have to worry about used needles being improperly disposed of.
Morphine and fentanyl patches have been around for years.
The problem is that addicts would rather eat/snort/inject the contents instead of using them as intended (time released).
I can't imagine that junkies couldn't figure out how to abuse this new polymer patch in the same way.
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I just want to post in this thread before all the free marketeers try to talk up the joys of unregulated capitalism.
The USA has a 140 year history of regular banking panics and collapses, inspite of the institution of regulations.
And there are those who would still insist that the industry is over regulated, in the face of flagrant and widespread fraud during the last 6 years.
"Free" markets do not lead to competition.
They consistently and repeatedly lead to fraud and monopolies.
This legal pressure was the reason that the Pirate Bay switched from serving BitTorrent files to serving magnet links, which enable users to download content purely from each other, without the Pirate Bay ever actually serving the content themselves.
The Pirate Bay still serves torrents.
For a file with few seeders, the torrent is linked on the website.
Once the # of seeders reaches a certain threshold, the torrent link is removed.
BUT, the torrent is still on the server and can still be accessed if you take 30 seconds to figure out the formatting of the torrent names.
The top 200 torrents on TPB: https://thepiratebay.se/top/all .torrent for the most popular file. It has 15,093 seeders and 22,038 leechers.
Here's the the TPB
https://torrents.thepiratebay.se/8074715/WWE_Royal_Rumble_2013_PPV_HDTV_x264-FreaK.8074715.TPB.torrent
Seems like lazy coding on TPB's part.
It is not sane to assume that everyone is running a packet analyzer and inspecting all the traffic across their system.
And without knowledge, you cannot complete the necessary elements to convict.
Throw in some encryption for the proxied contents and the case against the proxy owner will never reach a jury.
Building a large space station (say, 100x bigger than the ISS) would cost a silly amount of money if everything was lifted from Earth into orbit, but if you can get the raw materials into place from another source then some of the basics, like water and metals, become far, far cheaper, regardless of the Earthbound costs of these materials.
The space shuttle threw away every single external tank (the big rust colored one) even though they were brought to the point we more or less consider 'outer space'.
Each main tank weighed from 55,000 to 77,000 (the oldest version) and was destined to splash down somewhere unrecoverable, in the ocean.
We could have built something 100x bigger than the ISS.
What a waste.
Almost everything in the retail channels are smart phones.
I still have a feature phone and it saddens me that almost no one manufactures them anymore.
It's gotten to the point where low-end smart phones are being pushed hard into Africa, which has generally been a stronghold for the dumb phone.
Why do they need to be recharged in a year?
Your worst case scenarios for a battery are:
really high temperatures
really low temperatures
cycling between really high and really low temperatures.
The Amazon rainforest happens to be one of those three worst case scenarios.
Tech could just as easily extend middle class jobs, if we chose productivity over cost efficiency.
I'm going to need you to explain this.
Middle class jobs have been disappearing because technology has allowed workers to become more efficient, thus allowing less workers to do the same or more work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html
Here's a lovely graph courtesy of the NY Times
Some economists say it is wrong to look at just wages because other aspects of employee compensation, notably health costs, have risen. But overall employee compensation -- including health and retirement benefits -- has also slipped badly, falling to its lowest share of national income in more than 50 years while corporate profits have climbed to their highest share over that time.
Conservative and liberal economists agree on many of the forces that have driven the wage share down. Corporate America's push to outsource jobs -- whether call-center jobs to India or factory jobs to China -- has fattened corporate earnings, while holding down wages at home. New technologies have raised productivity and profits, while enabling companies to shed workers and slice payroll. Computers have replaced workers who tabulated numbers; robots have pushed aside many factory workers.
From 1973 to 2011, worker productivity grew 80 percent, while median hourly compensation, after inflation, grew by just one-eighth that amount, according to the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group. And since 2000, productivity has risen 23 percent while real hourly pay has essentially stagnated.
We wouldn't need a more progressive tax structure if middle class wages were increasing alongside corporate profits.
Do you realize how easy it is to design nuclear weapons? I suppose you'd like to think it's a big, carefully guarded secret. It's not. Why else would a backward nation like North Korea be able to build them?
North Korea learned how to build nukes from Pakistan.
The Iranians and Libyans bought technology from Pakistan (not from Doc Brown).
It's also been suggested that Pakistan has transfered nuclear know how to Saudi Arabia.
How easy would it be to duplicate the ideas, if not the exact code? Pretty easy.
"How easy would it be to duplicate Facebook, if not the exact code? Pretty easy."
Yea, it's not actually that easy. For every big idea, there's a half dozen notable failed attempts.
Note that all Islamist groups have the same goals, they just believe in different means to achieve this goal.
Just so that everyone is clear: "all Islamist groups" != all Muslims
Speaking the truth always offends Muslims because they don't want the Free World to discover the truth about their evil ideology.
FFS, they aren't Scientology.
They will give you their religious text for free and preach to you until you've learned everything you want to know.
The AC you responded to makes this same mistake and is equally as wrong.
Lumping in mainstream Muslims with their crazy right-wingers is like confusing San Francisco liberals with the Westboro Baptist Church.
Yea they are both Christian, but their differences suggest that you have some serious biases you need to overcome if you ever want to look at the world as it is.
Therefore: Al Qaeda == Hamas == Hezbollah == Muslim Brotherhood == Salafis == Wahabbis == Boko Haram == Abu Sayyaf etc etc in ideological end-game goals. So when you hear Muslim Brotherhood you are correct in instantly translating that as "Al Qaeda" as they are ideologically end-goal equivalent.
The Muslim Brotherhood & Hamas are not related to Al Qaeda,
Hezbollah is Shia to everyone else's Sunni Islam,
and those other groups you quoted are all offshoots of Saudi Arabia's Wahhabis.
The second largest political party in Egypt is made up of Salafis, who have been saying they want to destroy the Pyramids and blow up the Sphinx.
They are most likely behind the hackers that did this and there is a serious risk that they will pull Egypt far far to the right and into crazy land.
The right to speak and offend others *is* the core of Free Speech.
"Fuck you" doesn't make for good foreign policy.
Just something to think about.
For example, the staff at the Congressional Budget Office who actually do the math do not directly report to any politician.
The CBO frequently has to write reports based on (bad) assumptions that are baked into proposals or laws.
Example:
[Former VP candidate Paul] Ryan isn't alone in directing the CBO to assume some level of success for his policies. Politicians from both parties routinely specify spending limits and then brag about the results. But Ryan's budget is unusual in the numbers of rules it specifies, and the level of success it assumes for its policies.
But it gets much more complicated when we're all connected. Suppose a European creates a Facebook account (hosted in the US) and later wants some information removed. Which country's laws should prevail?
Facebook has a HQ in Ireland, so the EU laws would apply
The only out for Facebook is if the European citizen was in the USA when they created and updated the account...
That's likely to be a vanishingly small percentage of facebook users.
It gets even more interesting if it isn't a big international company like Facebook, but a small US-based blog site, that someone in a foreign nation chooses to participate in. Whose laws prevail then?
That's not at all interesting.
The European courts have no jurisdiction. End of conversation.
Finer legal minds than ours have parsed issues like this for a couple decades now.
Does that work when you eat beans and shove the can up your ass as a plug?
No, but it's cheaper than a potato gun and just as exciting when it goes off!
If we just plug up the volcanos, everything will be fine!
2. He has lots of money.
3. He is investing in a new enterprise and knows that he has to spend money first in order to make money in the future.
I assumed all that was fairly obvious. What's your theory, by the way?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/building-mega-ars-pre-launch-interview-with-kim-dotcom/
The Mega business plan will be a distributed model, with hundreds of companies large and small, around the world, hosting files. A hosting company can be huge or it can own just two or three servers Dotcom says--just as long as it's located outside the US.
"Each file will be kept with at least two different hosters, [in] at least two different locations," said Dotcom. "That's a great added benefit for us because you can work with the smallest, most unreliable [hosting] companies. It doesn't matter because they can't do anything with that data."
More than 1000 hosts answered a request for expressions of interest on the Mega home page. Dotcom says several hundred will be active partners within months. Successful hosts will get paid E500 per month per server; each server needs to supply 24 hard drives with 72 terabytes of storage and one gigabit of bandwidth, among other requirements.
That's all down the road, however. For now, Mega is launching with just one, professional, hosting operator--a subsidiary of Cogent, based in Dotcom's home country of Germany.
According to other articles, he has a (maxed out) 10Gbit pipe from this Cogent subsidiary
And FYI - Cogent was the US host for megaupload.com, so they believe in his business plan enough to host for him again.
If he can get Mega back into the big leagues again, it's going to put some serious strain the undersea fiber that feeds the USA.
That's the most expensive wired bandwidth around and he's planning to host nothing in the USA.
Uh, Eric, you know what you should have told them the path to prosperity was; the North Korean government should completely and radically change from a multi-generational dictatorship to a representative Democracy and Capitalistic System,
Uh, Mullen, most of the Capitalistic Systems in the world have been in a state of massive crisis for the last few years.
A crisis that was self-inflicted, has been self-inflicted before and, because proper regulation never seems to last, will undoubtedly be self-inflicted again.
The USA has just wrangled an agreement from China to allow the UN Security Council to expand existing sanctions.
The international sanctions might have something to do with the lack of prosperity in North Korea.
"turns out that mCrossDomain was of value 127": For some reason reminds me of the time Linus blew up at Mauro a little while ago also for returning a value that makes no sense (made worse by dancing around the issue).
So what should the value have been?
Haven't most of the recent & large internet infrastructure failures been centered in Northern Virginia?
Amazon in particular has been repeatedly bitten by outages in VA.
Already done, the previous u10 added options on the Java control panel (Windows) to disable all Java feature on the browser, so if you need Java for desktop applications, you don't need expose it to the browser.
Thanks! I just did this.
Control Panel --> Java --> Security --> uncheck the box at the top
Socialism requires government have this information.
1. Why does socialism require the government to have your DNA?
2. Is the lack of DNA the reason that previous attempts at socialism have been less than fully successful?
But without a viable second ammendment, good luck protecting the rights enumerated under any of the others.
Has the soap box or ballot box failed your country yet in 200+ years?
I'm not against gun rights, but I am against the mentality that only guns can protect your rights.
Nothing about this technology is new.
Professional and rich college sports teams have been using it since the early 2000s to monitor potential heatstroke in players during summer practice and the pills cost $30~$40 each.
I believe it all started with NASA wanting a good way to get actual body temperatures of astronauts.
At the time, the only accurate measurement technique was a thermometer in the butt...
And that isn't a method that allows you to gather long term data.
FYI - Those in-ear thermometers and IR skin thermometers are only useful as indicators. Their readings cannot be considered representive of your core temperature.
1. They aren't allowed to advertise prescription medicine.
2. They aren't allowed to offer payola to doctors for using their drugs. Both the doctor and the company get busted if they get caught.
You've just described the developed world... except for the USA and New Zealand.
Everyone else has strong limitations on direct-to-consumer-advertising, or an outright ban.
3. Generics are readily available. Instead of buying Panadol (Tylanol) I can get Brand X paracetamol/codeine which is the same recipe but 1/4 the price. The same is true for most prescription drugs.
As it turns out, generics aren't necessarily equivalent to the original perscription drug.
Since it's late, you get the first article I found on Google
It's a fair representation of the other articles I've read on the subject.
The TLDR version is that generics don't always make the same amount of drug available to the patient
and even if they do, the drug may not be released in the same fashion, leading to early or late peaks of the drug.
I'd probably draw a distinction between when [...], and [...]
Then narrow the law.
Far too many of our laws are written with the broadest possible application,
even if the legislative intent is narrow and focused on a specific problem.
Like how the anti-terrorist Patriot Act is mostly being used to go after drug dealers, money laundering, and organized crime.