I still wear a watch, but mine is a little different than others: it buzzes. I need a hearing aid, but don't always wear it - like when I'm sleeping - so my buzz watch acts as my alarm clock. If Apple's purported watch has a buzz mode, particularly in response to iDevice alerts, I could see it being very useful to folks like me who don't always hear the alarms or alerts going off on their iPod Touches. iPhones can buzz, but I don't have an iPhone.
Hating haters does not make you a bigot. If they weren't haters to begin with, I wouldn't have a problem with them. The problem is, as always, you can't have rational discussions with irrational people. Their beliefs are stupid. They're based on sky-daddies and faeries. I'm supposed to respect that? If they believed in unicorns that farted rainbows, would I be a bigot to call them stupid? Well, then, fuck it - I'm a bigot. And you know what? I don't care.
"Boulderdash" - sounds like an awesome game for which we should volunteer these manager types. You mean "balderdash" methinks. Close enough. Still, "boulder dash" leaves a nice visual impression.
I'm surprised yours is the only mention of "low hanging fruit" in this thread. When we didn't have engines, coming up with steam, stirling, and internal combustion, among others, was relatively easy because the goal was simple and the field wide open. Now, we have a number of engines: can we come up with something completely new and unforeseen? Or will it just be refinements and efficiency improvements on the existing models?
Does that mean that such agents are free to shoot us, at will, or that they're able to confine us until order has been restored, so to speak, so they can then apply the laws as intended?
Doesn't the burden fall on the government? If they want to press a case against this guy, they are required to grab him, present the evidence against him in a court of law, and let the laws as we've established them do their job. When we accept that the government can kill us, rather than give us a trial, because it's more expedient to just kill us, instead, we're all in trouble.
Trust me - it's a power thing. I served on a BOE and saw it first-hand. Bunch of nobodys in Podunk, but they get elected to the board, and they think they can do whatever they like. Of course, the standard distribution curve applies, so you'll have some that take it to ridiculous extremes.
Um, no. Those three people you know are anomalies. Try hanging out on an actual reservation. There are two here in western NY. You'll see some "albino Indians," as they're euphemistically termed, but the vast majority look like the pictures of Geronimo and other Natives of old.
Technically, Europeans were an infection on the continent: smallpox and other European diseases literally decimated the native populace. See Charles Mann, 1491.
If only. It doesn't make the news as much, but this shit still happens. See Kinzua Dam in the 1960s: my wife's family was booted out of their house by the Army Corp of Engineers, and before they could even take all of their stuff out, the Corp torched it. Not recent enough? See Idle No More, which is currently happening.
If you drive through western NY on I-86, you'll notice a distinct change in the road surface on the Seneca reservation: it's almost un-drivable. NY state got into a pissing match with the Senecas because NY decided to breach their end of the casino gaming contract - NY want to open casinos in areas where they agreed they would not - and the Senecas withheld gaming monies promised to the state. So, in retaliation, the state has ignored, for a good couple of years, badly needed improvements to the roads that they are contractually obligated to maintain. As if punishing all travelers, not just Seneca travelers, will help their cause.
Like others have said, "It depends." But, having plunked $50-ish for an mbed - https://mbed.org/ - I'm having a blast with it. It even has usable threads so you can do a form of *nix-like parent-child intercommunication and multi-processing. Like the Arduino, there are a lot of libraries available so you can just drop in a module and off you go. The LPC1768 is powerful enough that when you find you want to do a "real" project, you don't have to change MCUs.
It's a matter of proportion. I drink a shot and a half, give or take, of Cruzan 151 every night before bed and it knocks me out but it's not so much that I'm hungover the next day. Before I learned the correct proportion, however, there were some mornings where I woke up with a headache.
Similarly to Tha_Big_Guy23, elsewhere in this thread, I worked (past tense) for a health care company - Siemens - on a blood analysis unit that had Internet connectivity for support reasons. These units run 24/7 and any downtime is huge. In many cases, the volume of diagnostic information would take too long to send over a dial-up connection, if it was even available. Software updates were supposed to be "push capable." Also, the software provided VNC - desktop sharing - so one operator could keep track of multiple units from a single control console. VNC was supposed to be available back in the global support office, but I'm not sure if they got that working or thought better of it.
Having said that, I often warned that these machines should not be blithely connected to the Internet without some pressing underlying reason, because I knew how vulnerable they were. Security on any level - OS, database, application - was practically non-existent. Worse, very few cared, and certainly no one in management. For support, and only for some customers, it was pre-arranged that the customer would connect the network cable to the appropriate RJ-45 port - these devices had more than one - and that after we got the information we needed, they'd disconnect it.
As it's inevitable that more and more health-care products will contain electronics of sorts, shouldn't HHS or FDA acquire some expertise in this field? If it were a "one off" situation, yeah, I'd agree with you.
Then why do soldiers and elected officials pledge to defend the Constitution from enemies, "foreign and domestic"? Our own government is probably the biggest threat to our Constitution.
Maybe you're just being butt-hurt and rejecting him out of hand. niko9 makes a lot of sense and provides some eye-opening information. I wasn't aware that NYC could repeatedly tax the mere ownership of a weapon. How is it sensible to make one model out of 4 otherwise identical units illegal, simply for a handle grip? "Fine, I won't buy that model; I'll buy the other three and have the same capabilities." And that's "common sense"?
The king of England was the legitimate ruler of the Colonies, at the time, and look how well that worked out. Ever notice that oaths to office first specify allegiance to the Constitution, pledging to protect same from all enemies, "foreign and domestic"? There isn't as much concern for elected leaders. Enemies can be domestic, and they can be democratically elected leaders.
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I still wear a watch, but mine is a little different than others: it buzzes. I need a hearing aid, but don't always wear it - like when I'm sleeping - so my buzz watch acts as my alarm clock. If Apple's purported watch has a buzz mode, particularly in response to iDevice alerts, I could see it being very useful to folks like me who don't always hear the alarms or alerts going off on their iPod Touches. iPhones can buzz, but I don't have an iPhone.
Once more: "News for nerds. Stuff that matters. " If this doesn't matter to you, then why read it?
Hating haters does not make you a bigot. If they weren't haters to begin with, I wouldn't have a problem with them. The problem is, as always, you can't have rational discussions with irrational people. Their beliefs are stupid. They're based on sky-daddies and faeries. I'm supposed to respect that? If they believed in unicorns that farted rainbows, would I be a bigot to call them stupid? Well, then, fuck it - I'm a bigot. And you know what? I don't care.
He's a geek. Chances are very good that he doesn't have a female. Unless you mean his mother. He very likely has one of those.
"Boulderdash" - sounds like an awesome game for which we should volunteer these manager types. You mean "balderdash" methinks. Close enough. Still, "boulder dash" leaves a nice visual impression.
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.” Edward Abbey
I'm surprised yours is the only mention of "low hanging fruit" in this thread. When we didn't have engines, coming up with steam, stirling, and internal combustion, among others, was relatively easy because the goal was simple and the field wide open. Now, we have a number of engines: can we come up with something completely new and unforeseen? Or will it just be refinements and efficiency improvements on the existing models?
Does that mean that such agents are free to shoot us, at will, or that they're able to confine us until order has been restored, so to speak, so they can then apply the laws as intended?
It's only "leftists" that care about the Constitution? Why do you right-wingers hate America?
Doesn't the burden fall on the government? If they want to press a case against this guy, they are required to grab him, present the evidence against him in a court of law, and let the laws as we've established them do their job. When we accept that the government can kill us, rather than give us a trial, because it's more expedient to just kill us, instead, we're all in trouble.
Trust me - it's a power thing. I served on a BOE and saw it first-hand. Bunch of nobodys in Podunk, but they get elected to the board, and they think they can do whatever they like. Of course, the standard distribution curve applies, so you'll have some that take it to ridiculous extremes.
Um, no. Those three people you know are anomalies. Try hanging out on an actual reservation. There are two here in western NY. You'll see some "albino Indians," as they're euphemistically termed, but the vast majority look like the pictures of Geronimo and other Natives of old.
Technically, Europeans were an infection on the continent: smallpox and other European diseases literally decimated the native populace. See Charles Mann, 1491.
If only. It doesn't make the news as much, but this shit still happens. See Kinzua Dam in the 1960s: my wife's family was booted out of their house by the Army Corp of Engineers, and before they could even take all of their stuff out, the Corp torched it. Not recent enough? See Idle No More, which is currently happening.
If you drive through western NY on I-86, you'll notice a distinct change in the road surface on the Seneca reservation: it's almost un-drivable. NY state got into a pissing match with the Senecas because NY decided to breach their end of the casino gaming contract - NY want to open casinos in areas where they agreed they would not - and the Senecas withheld gaming monies promised to the state. So, in retaliation, the state has ignored, for a good couple of years, badly needed improvements to the roads that they are contractually obligated to maintain. As if punishing all travelers, not just Seneca travelers, will help their cause.
If only it were 100 years ago.
Like others have said, "It depends." But, having plunked $50-ish for an mbed - https://mbed.org/ - I'm having a blast with it. It even has usable threads so you can do a form of *nix-like parent-child intercommunication and multi-processing. Like the Arduino, there are a lot of libraries available so you can just drop in a module and off you go. The LPC1768 is powerful enough that when you find you want to do a "real" project, you don't have to change MCUs.
It's a matter of proportion. I drink a shot and a half, give or take, of Cruzan 151 every night before bed and it knocks me out but it's not so much that I'm hungover the next day. Before I learned the correct proportion, however, there were some mornings where I woke up with a headache.
Try either Bacardi or Cruzan 151 and you need only a shot and a half. Probably only a single shot if you haven't had anything to eat in a bit.
http://www.medical.siemens.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay~q_catalogId~e_-101~a_catTree~e_100001,1023065,1015817~a_langId~e_-101~a_productId~e_172960~a_storeId~e_10001.htm
This thing has:
You can bet that on a product of this complexity, there will be updates.
Similarly to Tha_Big_Guy23, elsewhere in this thread, I worked (past tense) for a health care company - Siemens - on a blood analysis unit that had Internet connectivity for support reasons. These units run 24/7 and any downtime is huge. In many cases, the volume of diagnostic information would take too long to send over a dial-up connection, if it was even available. Software updates were supposed to be "push capable." Also, the software provided VNC - desktop sharing - so one operator could keep track of multiple units from a single control console. VNC was supposed to be available back in the global support office, but I'm not sure if they got that working or thought better of it.
Having said that, I often warned that these machines should not be blithely connected to the Internet without some pressing underlying reason, because I knew how vulnerable they were. Security on any level - OS, database, application - was practically non-existent. Worse, very few cared, and certainly no one in management. For support, and only for some customers, it was pre-arranged that the customer would connect the network cable to the appropriate RJ-45 port - these devices had more than one - and that after we got the information we needed, they'd disconnect it.
As it's inevitable that more and more health-care products will contain electronics of sorts, shouldn't HHS or FDA acquire some expertise in this field? If it were a "one off" situation, yeah, I'd agree with you.
Heck, at those rates, I'd pop across the border to PA and buy a few just to "turn them in."
Then why do soldiers and elected officials pledge to defend the Constitution from enemies, "foreign and domestic"? Our own government is probably the biggest threat to our Constitution.
Maybe you're just being butt-hurt and rejecting him out of hand. niko9 makes a lot of sense and provides some eye-opening information. I wasn't aware that NYC could repeatedly tax the mere ownership of a weapon. How is it sensible to make one model out of 4 otherwise identical units illegal, simply for a handle grip? "Fine, I won't buy that model; I'll buy the other three and have the same capabilities." And that's "common sense"?
The king of England was the legitimate ruler of the Colonies, at the time, and look how well that worked out. Ever notice that oaths to office first specify allegiance to the Constitution, pledging to protect same from all enemies, "foreign and domestic"? There isn't as much concern for elected leaders. Enemies can be domestic, and they can be democratically elected leaders.
So do "hacker" and "cracker," yet most of us seem to know what is meant when someone mistakenly says, "My machine was hacked last night!"