Those excuses only hold up (very tenuously) when there's one officer. When multiple officers have the same malfunction it starts to look like conspiracy. That's enough to get a case thrown out of court.
At which point the PD scraps the whole project, and goes back to the status quo.
Police Dash-Cams aren't always on. Only when stopping a car, and not always when stopping a car. Further, they serve mostly to protect the officer, and only secondarily as evidence.
The fact that your tail light was out at the time you were stopped does not magically change to some other state simply because the camera was on or off. They are cops. Not Professor Schrodinger.
EEGs are just sensitive amplifiers. They aren't hard to make, lots of engineering classes have made them in one form or another.
Data collection and interpretation are other matters entirely.
That information is implicit in this thread.
But you are not going to bring home brew medical devices into a hospital in anything but the most backward of third world countries. Certifying such a device for hospital use will take years and money. Just ask the people who already supply these things to hospitals.
This subthread is about making a life-support decision based on such a tool.
75K seems a good amount for taking something that could be done in Open Source and making it safe, reliable, and repeatably measurable for use in a hospital.
Sure, we can get these things to cost $5000 like a good hearing aid. But I'm not sure that version is going to be used to make the final assessment of whether there is a living person in a locked-in patient or not.
Developmental costs of 75,000 seem unlikely to suffice. Factor of 10, maybe, but most likely to get such a device certified you are talking 7.5 million.
After that, per unit cost depends solely on the parts involved, and these are pretty cheap. Knocking them out for 5grand seems entirely possible.
You can buy a Defibrillator on Amazon.com for a thousand bucks, with no license, training, or certification for use. And it is designed to generate potentially life ending voltages.
There is nothing unsafe about EEG electrodes, some of which can be totally passive, that could not be solved with an optical signal linkage (air gap). Even Active electrodes can be battery powered. Such would preclude even the most dunderhead-ed wiring job from turning an inert pickup into a shock inducing short circuit. Five volts and tiny amperage's are routinely popped into our ears every time we put in ear buds, without a thought.
I'm not sure why such a cheap device couldn't be used to make such an assessment, at least as a preliminary diagnostic tool. We make life and death assessments with Sub $100 stethoscopes every day.
Until that time when it is trusted enough to justify pulling the plug on a warn body, it can be used bedside to communicate at some level with the patient on an ongoing basis. 5K is not all that expensive compared to what is already wheeled into hospital rooms every day in any modern country.
Your "faltering sales" link is from September and says the iPhone 4s sold 4 million in it's first week, and the iPhone 5 sold 5 million in its first week,
Android is replacing iPhones, not dumb phones. The overall handset market is SHRINKING, not growing any longer. 5 million iPhone 5's sold in about the same time that Samsung sold 30 million Galaxy S3 phones.
That you can't see a trend right before your very eyes
Take some of your wisdom. If you think in any way that iPhone 5 sales are somehow faltering, when they are selling every single one they can build, and have a waiting list for those not yet built, you are delusional.
It's Android that's in trouble.
Look son, I understand the medicine tastes bad, but you have to take it for your own good.
Android accounted for 72.4% of mobile sales worldwide, which is up from 52.5% at the same time last year.
By comparison, iOS is down to 13.9% from 15%, RIM is down 5.3% from 11%, and Microsoft is up a smidge to 2.4% from 1.5%, though Bada is hilariously beating it with a 3% share. The overall mobile market declined 3.1%, but smartphone growth increased 46.9% year over year.
Five million means nothing, Samsung sold 30 million units of the GS3 is a roughly the same period, and they are just one manufacturer.
Apple Stock has dropped 150 points in the last couple weeks. Its OVER. The market knows its OVER. The innovation has stopped. Maps doesn't work. New phones released don't even the latest technology on board. The screen is pathetic next to top Android models. And the OS is the the same old warmed over childish garbage it was back on the first iphone.
If Android is in trouble, I'll have a double helping of that trouble.
Easier sentence for murder? You realize that Federal punishment for second-degree murder is mandatory life imprisonment and first-degree is the death penalty or life imprisonment? Exaggerate much?
Federal penalties for murder seldom apply unless you cross a state line to commit same, or kill a mailman, and not even then in most cases. Its a state charge, and many liberal states have you out on the street in less than 20 years, much less if their prisons are overcrowded. (Don't even get me started on time off fir good behavior).
New York, Albany EDU did a study(pdf-2006) and found that 20 years (244 months) is the Average maximum sentence imposed by state courts in the US for Murder and Non-Negligent manslaughter.
Federal District courts in 2004 sentenced people to an average maximum of 111.2 months. Post sentence guideline reform the federal average has increased to the state average, and then some. Figures for 2010 show an average of 23 years handed down by federal district courts.
So I don't know where you get that mandatory Life death penalty nonsense.
I said BEGINNING its death spiral. That you can't see a trend right before your very eyes says more about you than Apple.
Top Execs fired at apple for major maps failures. Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out. Iphone 5 sales faltering. 3 out of 4 smartphones purchases are Android.
Apple needs a refresh. Their initial sale clime with every new release is merely eating their own young, reselling to the same customer base while quietly running buy-back programs to take their old units off the street.
You are confusing deployed numbers with new new purchases which blinds you to trends. With a 3 year head start, Apple has a lot of faithful, who re-buy Apple each time. But New (first time) smartphone phone buyers are going 54% to Android and a distant 36% to Apple. The irresistible lure of Apple has worn off.
HTC recorded net income of $137 million so burning millions on unnecessary lawyer fees is in the 1-10% range of their net income.
He said revenue. You counter with net income. He's talking Yearly. You counter with Quarterly.
Lets keep the discussion about the same thing, mkay?
HTC still has revenue of 2,339.2 million/quarter or 9.3 Billion yearly. Source.
HTCs problems stems from Management's batshit crazy investment pattern in technologies and partnerships that drain cash and return nothing. (Beets Audio). The 13 million (USD) they lost on that stuff plus the 41 million lost fighting Apple patent suits are significant, and bring down earnings from 189.6 million to 134.4. (Quarterly numbers)
They should be plowing that money into sales efforts even if it means "bribing" the purchasing agents and management of the major carriers like some of the manufacturers do. (You didn't for a minute assume carriers choose phones based on specs/looks/price alone did you?). Even with the fanciest gear, if a Carrier won't feature your phone because you didn't fly them to some exotic vacation resort you can't make any headway.
They just got access to all the patents of some of the slickest phone designers with the best screens, more memory, and better performance, experienced in two different Operating Systems. You said so yourself, and then turned around an awarded the score to HTC. What kind of reasoning is that?
Apple is the clear winner here. HTC gains only legal relief. Nothing Apple has patented is of value, except as a club to beat others with.
The HTC ONE line of phones puts Apple to shame. Whether its the Windows Phone version or the Android version, HTC designs are top notch, even better than Samsung. HTCs problem is they have spent so much time and money fighting Apple they have nothing left to bribe the purchasing agents for the big carriers into accepting their phones (unlike Samsung).
Apple could use HTC's expertise. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple purchase them outright or at least gain a majority stock position. If they did that, they would have a beachhead into both Windows Phone and Android, because its easy to see that IOS is beginning its death spiral, and Apple has to do something.
Our govt has a very tight relationship with Microsoft, Symantec and McAfee.
Given the impossibility of keeping ANYTHING secret in this country, how can you make such statements without a shred of proof? If such existed, someone would have spilled the beans long before now.
There are other anti-virus products produced in Russia and Germany. These too totally missed Stuxnet. Are these companies compromised by the US government as well?
Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
It seems far more likely to me that McAfee and Symantec are just not very good at their job, or that they spend far more time figuring how many hooks they can embed in windows than they do perfecting their database of signatures.
It also seems quite likely that Stuxnet deactivated itself so completely when Seimens software was not found on the machine that it presented no more risk than a simple text file. Something that does nothing never gets reported to any of these anti-virus vendors.
Every new construction area in the country must be daft then, because that's how it's done these days. You should get out more often.
Road repair seldom penetrates more than 3 feet. Lines sre overlaid wit plastic warning webs that stops excavation workers in their tracks. Call before you dig is the norm everywhere in North America. There are already water, gas, telephone, and cable trenches everywhere.
It's the norm. Its not any different than business as usual for the construction crews.
It costs more to get the permits, easements, and document it, than it costs to actually lay the cables. With armored cable (eliminating the need for conduit) you can trench a mile in a few days with a crew of 6. I've seen it done. I know what those guys get paid and the cost of the spools. The legal bill and permitting process took way more time. Years in all.
So much of the infrastructure in NYC (and the rest of the East Coast) is so ancient that it is a wonder it functions from day to day in perfect weather, let alone a storm.
Where newer cities have buried virtually all electrical distribution, huge segments of it are hanging from polls, bridges, buildings, etc. The push to get this stuff buried in waterproof pipe and tunnels has largely gone un-heeded, due to the sheer volume of the work to be done.
The local distribution systems are old, exposed, and vulnerable. Power lines run through trees, right-of-ways are unmaintained, and faults are fixed as fast as possible with little thought toward prevention.
Residential systems are deemed not critical. But when they short out, they trip other systems off line. When storms hit wide areas it is precisely these so called "non critical" residential feeders that cause the most problems. Large high-voltage lines are designed to handle severe weather, and their breaks or failures are easy to spot, quick to fix. But thousands of downed power lines in neighborhoods take excessive manpower, and a long time to fix.
I suspect that a cost-benefit analysis would not support a wholesale project to bury everything everywhere. After all, the humongous cost numbers of the lack of power are merely bean-counters adding up payroll numbers, speculating about lost business, and guessing.
Still, if every neighborhood that needed a major repair had its power system immediately trenched and buried the most vulnerable segments would be taken care of. Its a lot harder to trench in power in a populated place than it is when building a new subdivision, but its far from impossible. The convoys of mutual-aid power company vehicles rushing into the teeth of Sandy that I passes while I was driving west out of the path are testimony to the fact that the power companies do have a plan. But its the wrong plan. Its still focused on tacking the patchwork quilt back together AFTER the storm. Those trucks should each be pulling a Ditch Witch in fine weather, BEFORE of the storm.
Even if that Siemens motor controller was common, its use case in Iran was rather specific, and chances are the payload was pretty specific to exact firmware levels. From Wiki:
While the worm is promiscuous, it makes itself inert if Siemens software is not found on infected computers, and contains safeguards to prevent each infected computer from spreading the worm to more than three others, and to erase itself on 24 June 2012.
Had it been given a shorter life span than two years, chances are it would never have been discovered.
The real risk here is that others have climbed on board this train and are using essentially the same engine for other purposes.
Acting helpless is the new(er) status symbol. Handholding you didn't need makes a statement. It says you deserve to be served - you have people for that. Of course intellectual laziness is also a popular development, which oddly seems to get worse and worse as information becomes more and more instantly available.
Look, the guy asked:
"I am getting ready to start learning the use of virtual machines. What VM software would you recommend?"
You then dump on him with a great deal of pontification simply because he asked for opinions. What the hell is wrong with you?
What, pray tell, is the purpose of education if each person has to find out everything by themselves, and no one can take advantage of the collective wisdom of society, and the accumulated learning built up over history?
Is each child destined to be run over by the first car they see, or burned by the first fire, cut by the first knife they encounter simply because asking for advise, and by extension, giving any, is somehow a shameful act?
Asking questions and collecting opinions is how humans learn. Since you apparently woke up one morning and found yourself an infant laying in the weeds, and proceeded to educate, cloth, feed, and raise yourself alone, with no help from society, I'm left with one question: What species are you?
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Those excuses only hold up (very tenuously) when there's one officer. When multiple officers have the same malfunction it starts to look like conspiracy. That's enough to get a case thrown out of court.
At which point the PD scraps the whole project, and goes back to the status quo.
Police Dash-Cams aren't always on. Only when stopping a car, and not always when stopping a car.
Further, they serve mostly to protect the officer, and only secondarily as evidence.
The fact that your tail light was out at the time you were stopped does not magically change to some other state simply because the camera was on or off. They are cops. Not Professor Schrodinger.
EEGs are just sensitive amplifiers. They aren't hard to make, lots of engineering classes have made them in one form or another.
Data collection and interpretation are other matters entirely.
That information is implicit in this thread.
But you are not going to bring home brew medical devices into a hospital in anything but the most backward of third world countries.
Certifying such a device for hospital use will take years and money. Just ask the people who already supply these things to hospitals.
This subthread is about making a life-support decision based on such a tool.
75K seems a good amount for taking something that could be done in Open Source and making it safe, reliable, and repeatably measurable for use in a hospital.
Sure, we can get these things to cost $5000 like a good hearing aid. But I'm not sure that version is going to be used to make the final assessment of whether there is a living person in a locked-in patient or not.
Developmental costs of 75,000 seem unlikely to suffice. Factor of 10, maybe, but most likely to get such a device
certified you are talking 7.5 million.
After that, per unit cost depends solely on the parts involved, and these are pretty cheap. Knocking them
out for 5grand seems entirely possible.
You can buy a Defibrillator on Amazon.com for a thousand bucks, with no license, training, or certification for use. And it is designed to generate potentially life ending voltages.
There is nothing unsafe about EEG electrodes, some of which can be totally passive, that could not be solved with an optical signal linkage (air gap). Even Active electrodes can be battery powered.
Such would preclude even the most dunderhead-ed wiring job from turning an inert pickup into a shock inducing short circuit.
Five volts and tiny amperage's are routinely popped into our ears every time we put in ear buds, without a thought.
I'm not sure why such a cheap device couldn't be used to make such an assessment, at least as a preliminary diagnostic tool.
We make life and death assessments with Sub $100 stethoscopes every day.
Until that time when it is trusted enough to justify pulling the plug on a warn body, it can be used bedside to communicate at some level
with the patient on an ongoing basis. 5K is not all that expensive compared to what is already wheeled into hospital rooms
every day in any modern country.
And how do you determine the age of some random rocky mass that you can't even image?
Your "faltering sales" link is from September and says the iPhone 4s sold 4 million in it's first week, and the iPhone 5 sold 5 million in its first week,
Here, have some more recent figures. http://www.androidcentral.com/android-claims-72-mobile-market-sales-q3-2012
Android is replacing iPhones, not dumb phones. The overall handset market is SHRINKING, not growing any longer. 5 million iPhone 5's sold in about the same time that Samsung sold 30 million Galaxy S3 phones.
The market figures disagree.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-claims-72-mobile-market-sales-q3-2012
Take some of your wisdom. If you think in any way that iPhone 5 sales are somehow faltering, when they are selling every single one they can build, and have a waiting list for those not yet built, you are delusional.
It's Android that's in trouble.
Look son, I understand the medicine tastes bad, but you have to take it for your own good.
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-claims-72-mobile-market-sales-q3-2012
Android accounted for 72.4% of mobile sales worldwide, which is up from 52.5% at the same time last year.
By comparison, iOS is down to 13.9% from 15%, RIM is down 5.3% from 11%, and Microsoft is up a smidge to 2.4% from 1.5%, though Bada is hilariously beating it with a 3% share. The overall mobile market declined 3.1%, but smartphone growth increased 46.9% year over year.
Five million means nothing, Samsung sold 30 million units of the GS3 is a roughly the same period, and they are just one manufacturer.
Apple Stock has dropped 150 points in the last couple weeks. Its OVER. The market knows its OVER. The innovation has stopped. Maps doesn't work. New phones released don't even the latest technology on board. The screen is pathetic next to top Android models. And the OS is the the same old warmed over childish garbage it was back on the first iphone.
If Android is in trouble, I'll have a double helping of that trouble.
Easier sentence for murder? You realize that Federal punishment for second-degree murder is mandatory life imprisonment and first-degree is the death penalty or life imprisonment? Exaggerate much?
Federal penalties for murder seldom apply unless you cross a state line to commit same, or kill a mailman, and not even then in most cases.
Its a state charge, and many liberal states have you out on the street in less than 20 years, much less if their prisons are overcrowded.
(Don't even get me started on time off fir good behavior).
New York, Albany EDU did a study(pdf-2006) and found that 20 years (244 months) is the Average maximum sentence imposed by state courts in the US for Murder and Non-Negligent manslaughter.
Federal District courts in 2004 sentenced people to an average maximum of 111.2 months.
Post sentence guideline reform the federal average has increased to the state average, and then some. Figures for 2010 show an average of 23 years handed down by federal district courts.
So I don't know where you get that mandatory Life death penalty nonsense.
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Its as authoritative as you, fella.
Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out.
Citation, please. Provide it or shut the fuck up.
http://news.techeye.net/mobile/apple-pulls-out-all-the-marketing-stops
There you go.
I here it helps if you put your hand over your ears and sing LA LALA LA real loud.
Never had a problem with their radios. (Presumably you mean the radios in their phones, which of course, they don't make).
I said BEGINNING its death spiral. That you can't see a trend right before your very eyes says more about you than Apple.
Top Execs fired at apple for major maps failures.
Deliberate production caps on new releases just so they can say they sold out.
Iphone 5 sales faltering.
3 out of 4 smartphones purchases are Android.
Apple needs a refresh. Their initial sale clime with every new release is merely eating their own young, reselling to the same customer base while quietly running buy-back programs to take their old units off the street.
You are confusing deployed numbers with new new purchases which blinds you to trends. With a 3 year head start, Apple has a lot of faithful, who re-buy Apple each time. But New (first time) smartphone phone buyers are going 54% to Android and a distant 36% to Apple. The irresistible lure of Apple has worn off.
The market is calling TOP for Apple right now.
HTC recorded net income of $137 million so burning millions on unnecessary lawyer fees is in the 1-10% range of their net income.
He said revenue.
You counter with net income.
He's talking Yearly.
You counter with Quarterly.
Lets keep the discussion about the same thing, mkay?
HTC still has revenue of 2,339.2 million /quarter or 9.3 Billion yearly. Source.
HTCs problems stems from Management's batshit crazy investment pattern in technologies and partnerships that drain cash and return nothing. (Beets Audio). The 13 million (USD) they lost on that stuff plus the 41 million lost fighting Apple patent suits are significant, and bring down earnings from 189.6 million to 134.4. (Quarterly numbers)
They should be plowing that money into sales efforts even if it means "bribing" the purchasing agents and management of the major carriers like some of the manufacturers do. (You didn't for a minute assume carriers choose phones based on specs/looks/price alone did you?). Even with the fanciest gear, if a Carrier won't feature your phone because you didn't fly them to some exotic vacation resort you can't make any headway.
Apple didn't make a mistake.
They just got access to all the patents of some of the slickest phone designers with the best screens, more memory, and better performance, experienced in two different Operating Systems. You said so yourself, and then turned around an awarded the score to HTC. What kind of reasoning is that?
Apple is the clear winner here. HTC gains only legal relief. Nothing Apple has patented is of value, except as a club to beat others with.
The HTC ONE line of phones puts Apple to shame. Whether its the Windows Phone version or the Android version, HTC designs are top notch, even better than Samsung. HTCs problem is they have spent so much time and money fighting Apple they have nothing left to bribe the purchasing agents for the big carriers into accepting their phones (unlike Samsung).
Apple could use HTC's expertise. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple purchase them outright or at least gain a majority stock position. If they did that, they would have a beachhead into both Windows Phone and Android, because its easy to see that IOS is beginning its death spiral, and Apple has to do something.
LOL
Posting this the day after the head of the CIA is forced to resign. Priceless
http://m.voanews.com/1543302.html
Our govt has a very tight relationship with Microsoft, Symantec and McAfee.
Given the impossibility of keeping ANYTHING secret in this country, how can you make such statements without a shred of proof? If such existed, someone would have spilled the beans long before now.
There are other anti-virus products produced in Russia and Germany. These too totally missed Stuxnet.
Are these companies compromised by the US government as well?
Hanlon's Razor:
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
It seems far more likely to me that McAfee and Symantec are just not very good at their job, or that they spend far more time figuring how many hooks they can embed in windows than they do perfecting their database of signatures.
It also seems quite likely that Stuxnet deactivated itself so completely when Seimens software was not found on the machine that it presented no more risk than a simple text file. Something that does nothing never gets reported to any of these anti-virus vendors.
Every new construction area in the country must be daft then, because that's how it's done these days. You should get out more often.
Road repair seldom penetrates more than 3 feet. Lines sre overlaid wit plastic warning webs that stops excavation workers in their tracks. Call before you dig is the norm everywhere in North America. There are already water, gas, telephone, and cable trenches everywhere.
It's the norm. Its not any different than business as usual for the construction crews.
That sounds about right.
It costs more to get the permits, easements, and document it, than it costs to actually lay the cables.
With armored cable (eliminating the need for conduit) you can trench a mile in a few days with a crew of 6. I've seen it done. I know what those guys get paid and the cost of the spools. The legal bill and permitting process took way more time. Years in all.
So much of the infrastructure in NYC (and the rest of the East Coast) is so ancient that it is a wonder it functions from day to day in perfect weather, let alone a storm.
Where newer cities have buried virtually all electrical distribution, huge segments of it are hanging from polls, bridges, buildings, etc.
The push to get this stuff buried in waterproof pipe and tunnels has largely gone un-heeded, due to the sheer volume of the work to be done.
The local distribution systems are old, exposed, and vulnerable. Power lines run through trees, right-of-ways are unmaintained, and faults are fixed as fast as possible with little thought toward prevention.
Residential systems are deemed not critical. But when they short out, they trip other systems off line. When storms hit wide areas it is precisely these so called "non critical" residential feeders that cause the most problems. Large high-voltage lines are designed to handle severe weather, and their breaks or failures are easy to spot, quick to fix. But thousands of downed power lines in neighborhoods take excessive manpower, and a long time to fix.
I suspect that a cost-benefit analysis would not support a wholesale project to bury everything everywhere. After all, the humongous cost numbers of the lack of power are merely bean-counters adding up payroll numbers, speculating about lost business, and guessing.
Still, if every neighborhood that needed a major repair had its power system immediately trenched and buried the most vulnerable segments would be taken care of. Its a lot harder to trench in power in a populated place than it is when building a new subdivision, but its far from impossible. The convoys of mutual-aid power company vehicles rushing into the teeth of Sandy that I passes while I was driving west out of the path are testimony to the fact that the power companies do have a plan. But its the wrong plan. Its still focused on tacking the patchwork quilt back together AFTER the storm. Those trucks should each be pulling a Ditch Witch in fine weather, BEFORE of the storm.
The transport used was fairly generic in nature, but since the payload was aimed at a specific controller used on centrifuges its not surprising that it had little effect elsewhere.
Even if that Siemens motor controller was common, its use case in Iran was rather specific, and chances are the payload was pretty specific to exact firmware levels. From Wiki:
While the worm is promiscuous, it makes itself inert if Siemens software is not found on infected computers, and contains safeguards to prevent each infected computer from spreading the worm to more than three others, and to erase itself on 24 June 2012.
Had it been given a shorter life span than two years, chances are it would never have been discovered.
The real risk here is that others have climbed on board this train and are using essentially the same engine for other purposes.
Acting helpless is the new(er) status symbol. Handholding you didn't need makes a statement. It says you deserve to be served - you have people for that. Of course intellectual laziness is also a popular development, which oddly seems to get worse and worse as information becomes more and more instantly available.
Look, the guy asked:
"I am getting ready to start learning the use of virtual machines. What VM software would you recommend?"
You then dump on him with a great deal of pontification simply because he asked for opinions. What the hell is wrong with you?
What, pray tell, is the purpose of education if each person has to find out everything by themselves, and no one can take advantage of the collective wisdom of society, and the accumulated learning built up over history?
Is each child destined to be run over by the first car they see, or burned by the first fire, cut by the first knife they encounter simply because asking for advise, and by extension, giving any, is somehow a shameful act?
Asking questions and collecting opinions is how humans learn. Since you apparently woke up one morning and found yourself an infant laying in the weeds, and proceeded to educate, cloth, feed, and raise yourself alone, with no help from society, I'm left with one question: What species are you?
Government agreeing that someone is wrong is generally a good indication that said someone was right all along.
There is no such thing as "use it incorrectly".
You use it as the price allows.
Dude, what the hell are you talking about here? Where did I mention anything about posting early?