Well, it gets the reading remotely from the blood glucose meter and calculates the dose. It then displays the amount of insulin for the bolus delivery. You look at it and generally, if you've been using a pump or doing injections you know about what range you usually end up taking. If it's off a lot it should be obvious as long as you're actually alert. When it comes to things like that being observant is important.
Using the bolus wizard is one path through the menus but is not the only one. If you have remotely connected to the pump you can tell it to deliver without requiring the user to press any buttons.
Medtronic have turned off some of the remote ability with the firmware in their later pumps, unfortunately that has also denied access to projects such as OpenAPS. I would like to see some ability to pair known devices together rather than cutting off all access completely.
And what happens when they mandate that the software for your printer must detect these copies like they currently do with Photocopies and currency? Are you planning to not buy a new printer/not update your code?
Rolling your own OS for the printer will not necessarily be possible.
about 6 years ago I did the hike on the friday night - the season officially started on the Saturday. Virtually no one on the path and got there in 2.5 hours and then spent 3 hours at the top trying to keep warm in all my clothes until the sunrise. Was spectacular.
A couple of years later I did it again a few weeks into the season - it was a pilgrim trail to the top and took 5.5 hours. ended up sleeping in the 2nd to top hut because it was so frustrating doing the walk.
A wise man climbs Fuji-san once. A foolish man climbs Fuji-san twice.
In my book Sony is irrelevant and I will continue to dissuade everyone I know from purchasing any of their products.
Fine, don't buy it, there are other choices out there that may suit you better.
For me, I have always been happy with my Sony products, from Cameras, Palm OS devices, Playstation and laptops. They have been good for me and I am happy to continue the relationship. My HP and Lenovo laptop experiences haven't been so good, but then YMMV.
Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).
That's rubbish. Type 1 Diabetics can easily eat the local cuisine. All we need to do is to take a smaller dose before the meal, then test soon after the meal and add a corrective bolus. I eat different food every day and travel extensively and have no problem. You don't need to restrict yourself to a limited range of food unless you want to - and if so, don't blame the diabetes for that.
Many of the issues with sugar management are somewhat-alleviated by a pump, which I imagine most Type 1's use these days. Continuous glucose monitors also help out. If you plan for exercise and then skip it, you just reset your basal rate to normal (instead of dropping it), or whatever (I'm not actually a diabetic - I'm sure anyone who is could tell you exactly how they handle it).
Being on the pump does make it much easier to exercise without having to plan too far in advance, and both the pump and CGM make it much easier to do long duration activities like Ultra marathons.
Most people are NOT on the pump though - they are still using multiple daily injections of long acting and short acting insulin.
you may not have a choice to shop round to select your ICD, but choice of model for insulin pumps is definitely available to the end user.
I don't have a general problem with my pump performance, but I would like to be able to make the delivery rate a bit more complex than the three options I currently have.
Cut out the middle man send Attorney-General Nicola Roxon every thing right now. CC him on every email and photo upload and send him your daily web browsing histories, if he has twitter the update him on what your are doing.
This is what they did in Canada and they crashed the Parliamentary mail and web servers. After a few days of this the bill was effectively withdrawn.
Her. Send *her* everything right now. Surely the name and the photo were reasonable clues to the gender?
your social behavior is monitored for the severely unlikely event your in a emergency situation 24/7 instead of requesting for help
anyone see an issue with this?
If you read the article, you would note that this is specifically for Natural disasters, ie widespread events like earthquake or tsunami. It is not for your small-scale emergencies.
even the ITWorld article put 911 in the title despite correctly noting in the text that it is 119 in Japan.
The most important part of this is how to treat reports of survivors. After 9/11 many people from my company called in to report that they were ok and that they had seen other survivors. Because of many false reports, we would only record someone as definitely alive if they personally contacted us.
In theory using twitter would help with this but how do you verify that it is the real person and not someone setting up a fake account?
If you really think there is a 'tiny' amount of radiation being leaked, why don't you go live there?
My aunt-in law lives in the 80km exclusion zone - along with thousands of other people, my wife will be there later this week and I will be there the next time I am in Japan.
The problem isn't from the nuclear power station, it's from all the services being destroyed by the tsunami. Christchurch had an earthquake just prior to the Japan earthquake and they are also having massive rebuilding work going on. There are no nuclear power stations in NZ.
yes there is such a beast as an implanted pump, but in practice, the things are very, very rare and you are unlikely to meet any diabetic who is even aware that the device exists, let along find someone who has one.
The version that is out there is 20 years old and is basically being maintained, there isn't new models coming out all the time. Common approaches to security 20 years ago is not the same as we would view them now.
Yes, it is something that should be addressed in future models (if they ever appear) but the GP points about pumps are much more relevant when there are thousands more external pumps than there are implantable ones.
And conversely, I get pain in my fingers and wrist if I use a standard shaped mouse for any length of time, and the Logitech MX1000 is my mouse of choice which I use 8-10 hours per day for several years without any pain.
Horses for Courses - what is a bad design for you is not necessarily a bad design for others. Ain't choices great!
Never gonna happen. There are too many politically conservative idiots, like my mom, who believe attempts at converting to metric represent a "socialist" conspiracy, and almost literally scream at any attempt to remove Imperial units in favor of metric.
Socialist? The fucking metric system? Seriously?
How about approaching it by telling those same people that using Imperial units is propagating the British rule over America and until it is dropped, the US will never be truely free?
Won't affect me - I never click on any shortened link. If I can't see if it goes to the site that I am intending to go to, I won't click it.
Unfortunately lots of people do click on these links and then wonder why they get virus and malware.
If google can make the links safer that would be good but I still plan to avoid them.
We use salesforce all day long and yet none of us at work use "chatter". It's almost as if it's a clunky, superfluous facebook-alike shoehorned into what's otherwise a good CRM system.
Does anyone here on/. actually use chatter?
First thing I did when it was enabled on my account was to find the settings to turn it off - have no desire to use it.
You would be amazed how well many diabetics can tell their sugar level at any given moment. It doesn't take more than a month of measuring to learn that.
And you would also be amazed at how often people whose life depends on knowing their glucose levels get it wrong. I'm pretty good at estimating mine on the low (immediate danger) side, but not so good as estimating when my blood glucose is high (long term danger)side.
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention continous blood glucose monitors which are already readily available - ok, you only implant them for 3-7 days at a time but that will get better. So instead of all the vapourware being mentioned in the article they could have talked about a product which is already here.
If you're not very adventurous: Any computer. Any video conferencing software (such as Skype). VPN software (such as OpenVPN). VNC software (such as RealVNC). The best is if you get a computer where the screen and computer are in the same enclosure. You don't even hook up a keyboard or a rat. If something happens, you lgo on their desktop thru the VPN and VNC and click on Skype again or whatever.
This is pretty close to what we do. We have a mac mini hooked up to my inlaw's TV with a webcam on top. Skype and VNCServer is running on the mac (skype since we have a PC at our end). Whenever we want to talk we can VNC to the mac and start the conversation. My wife does it all the time and also uses it to show the inlaws photos from webalbums.
We also have a skype phone setup for those times that you just want to talk and can't be bother with the video link.
Question for the slashdot masses: What I really would like for a portable laptop is a serial port (for console connections to devices). Do any of these portables actually have such a thing? I'm not too keen on the USB to serial adapters...
I haven't been able to find one either so I have been using a USB-Serial adaptor. Apart from the occasional need to reboot if I forget to unplug before the machine goes to sleep, it has been working fine, much better than I expected.
I am thinking about getting one of the bluetooth serial adaptors to try out so that I don't need to be tethered to the server though.
An e-book reader is not really any more convenient to carry around than a paperback book, and is less durable. The only real advantage is the ability to carry around your entire library with you, but so far that hasn't been enough to overcome the disadvantages inherent in reading for extended periods of time from a small electronic device
I already carry my Sony Clie around for other purposes and don't want to have to carry one or two books as well. Having ebooks is great and enables me to read on a crowded train where is it not easy to get a book out (and it is a lot easier to turn pages on the eReader!).
I don't read for hours with the eReader - that is when I reach for the regular paperback - but for commuting or downtime between appointments it is a godsend.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, it gets the reading remotely from the blood glucose meter and calculates the dose. It then displays the amount of insulin for the bolus delivery. You look at it and generally, if you've been using a pump or doing injections you know about what range you usually end up taking. If it's off a lot it should be obvious as long as you're actually alert. When it comes to things like that being observant is important.
Using the bolus wizard is one path through the menus but is not the only one. If you have remotely connected to the pump you can tell it to deliver without requiring the user to press any buttons. Medtronic have turned off some of the remote ability with the firmware in their later pumps, unfortunately that has also denied access to projects such as OpenAPS. I would like to see some ability to pair known devices together rather than cutting off all access completely.
If I owned a 3D printer, I would ignore this law.
And what happens when they mandate that the software for your printer must detect these copies like they currently do with Photocopies and currency? Are you planning to not buy a new printer/not update your code? Rolling your own OS for the printer will not necessarily be possible.
A couple of years later I did it again a few weeks into the season - it was a pilgrim trail to the top and took 5.5 hours. ended up sleeping in the 2nd to top hut because it was so frustrating doing the walk.
A wise man climbs Fuji-san once. A foolish man climbs Fuji-san twice.
In my book Sony is irrelevant and I will continue to dissuade everyone I know from purchasing any of their products.
Fine, don't buy it, there are other choices out there that may suit you better. For me, I have always been happy with my Sony products, from Cameras, Palm OS devices, Playstation and laptops. They have been good for me and I am happy to continue the relationship. My HP and Lenovo laptop experiences haven't been so good, but then YMMV.
Not only that, but there's a lot of other problems with quality of life when you're a diabetic. Scott Hanselman (has a podcast, works for Microsoft) has mentioned a few times that when he travels the world he ends up eating at Subway all the time, because it's the only place you have a really good idea of how the meal is going to affect your blood sugar. Imagine going to a foreign country and not being able to eat any of the local cuisine because you don't know if it's going to send you into a coma. It's like being a vegan, except that breaking the rules means that you end up getting sick. Vegans can usually find something to eat at almost any restaurant. But for people with diabetes, it can be quite difficult to eat at a lot of restaurants, especially non-chain restaurants as they usually don't have any nutritional information (nor are they required to).
That's rubbish. Type 1 Diabetics can easily eat the local cuisine. All we need to do is to take a smaller dose before the meal, then test soon after the meal and add a corrective bolus. I eat different food every day and travel extensively and have no problem. You don't need to restrict yourself to a limited range of food unless you want to - and if so, don't blame the diabetes for that.
Many of the issues with sugar management are somewhat-alleviated by a pump, which I imagine most Type 1's use these days. Continuous glucose monitors also help out. If you plan for exercise and then skip it, you just reset your basal rate to normal (instead of dropping it), or whatever (I'm not actually a diabetic - I'm sure anyone who is could tell you exactly how they handle it).
Being on the pump does make it much easier to exercise without having to plan too far in advance, and both the pump and CGM make it much easier to do long duration activities like Ultra marathons. Most people are NOT on the pump though - they are still using multiple daily injections of long acting and short acting insulin.
So what happens once Project Gutenberg has finished releasing all notable books in the English language that were first published on or before 1922?
Since lots of things are in the public domain in other countries that are not in the PD in the US, maybe there could be a Project Gutenberg.uk ?
you may not have a choice to shop round to select your ICD, but choice of model for insulin pumps is definitely available to the end user. I don't have a general problem with my pump performance, but I would like to be able to make the delivery rate a bit more complex than the three options I currently have.
Cut out the middle man send Attorney-General Nicola Roxon every thing right now. CC him on every email and photo upload and send him your daily web browsing histories, if he has twitter the update him on what your are doing.
This is what they did in Canada and they crashed the Parliamentary mail and web servers. After a few days of this the bill was effectively withdrawn.
Her. Send *her* everything right now. Surely the name and the photo were reasonable clues to the gender?
Yeah, but it's worth putting up with so we can be entertained by foreign-number-nazis (like, did you even know we had those?).
Yeah, if those foreign countries want us Americans to visit, they better support 911 if we need to call for assistance.
your social behavior is monitored for the severely unlikely event your in a emergency situation 24/7 instead of requesting for help
anyone see an issue with this?
If you read the article, you would note that this is specifically for Natural disasters, ie widespread events like earthquake or tsunami. It is not for your small-scale emergencies.
The most important part of this is how to treat reports of survivors. After 9/11 many people from my company called in to report that they were ok and that they had seen other survivors. Because of many false reports, we would only record someone as definitely alive if they personally contacted us.
In theory using twitter would help with this but how do you verify that it is the real person and not someone setting up a fake account?
If you really think there is a 'tiny' amount of radiation being leaked, why don't you go live there?
My aunt-in law lives in the 80km exclusion zone - along with thousands of other people, my wife will be there later this week and I will be there the next time I am in Japan.
The problem isn't from the nuclear power station, it's from all the services being destroyed by the tsunami. Christchurch had an earthquake just prior to the Japan earthquake and they are also having massive rebuilding work going on. There are no nuclear power stations in NZ.
The version that is out there is 20 years old and is basically being maintained, there isn't new models coming out all the time. Common approaches to security 20 years ago is not the same as we would view them now.
Yes, it is something that should be addressed in future models (if they ever appear) but the GP points about pumps are much more relevant when there are thousands more external pumps than there are implantable ones.
Horses for Courses - what is a bad design for you is not necessarily a bad design for others. Ain't choices great!
Never gonna happen. There are too many politically conservative idiots, like my mom, who believe attempts at converting to metric represent a "socialist" conspiracy, and almost literally scream at any attempt to remove Imperial units in favor of metric. Socialist? The fucking metric system? Seriously?
How about approaching it by telling those same people that using Imperial units is propagating the British rule over America and until it is dropped, the US will never be truely free?
Since this is the BBC, they shot *none* of them in color but many of them in *colour*....
Won't affect me - I never click on any shortened link. If I can't see if it goes to the site that I am intending to go to, I won't click it. Unfortunately lots of people do click on these links and then wonder why they get virus and malware. If google can make the links safer that would be good but I still plan to avoid them.
We use salesforce all day long and yet none of us at work use "chatter". It's almost as if it's a clunky, superfluous facebook-alike shoehorned into what's otherwise a good CRM system.
Does anyone here on /. actually use chatter?
First thing I did when it was enabled on my account was to find the settings to turn it off - have no desire to use it.
A lot of Koreans, Chinese and Brazilians have Japanese passports. Even a few 'westerners' do too.
You would be amazed how well many diabetics can tell their sugar level at any given moment. It doesn't take more than a month of measuring to learn that.
And you would also be amazed at how often people whose life depends on knowing their glucose levels get it wrong. I'm pretty good at estimating mine on the low (immediate danger) side, but not so good as estimating when my blood glucose is high (long term danger)side.
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention continous blood glucose monitors which are already readily available - ok, you only implant them for 3-7 days at a time but that will get better. So instead of all the vapourware being mentioned in the article they could have talked about a product which is already here.
This is pretty close to what we do. We have a mac mini hooked up to my inlaw's TV with a webcam on top. Skype and VNCServer is running on the mac (skype since we have a PC at our end). Whenever we want to talk we can VNC to the mac and start the conversation. My wife does it all the time and also uses it to show the inlaws photos from webalbums.
We also have a skype phone setup for those times that you just want to talk and can't be bother with the video link.
I haven't been able to find one either so I have been using a USB-Serial adaptor. Apart from the occasional need to reboot if I forget to unplug before the machine goes to sleep, it has been working fine, much better than I expected.
I am thinking about getting one of the bluetooth serial adaptors to try out so that I don't need to be tethered to the server though.
I think that is supposed to be 90% of all emails are spam, not 90% of all traffic.
I already carry my Sony Clie around for other purposes and don't want to have to carry one or two books as well. Having ebooks is great and enables me to read on a crowded train where is it not easy to get a book out (and it is a lot easier to turn pages on the eReader!).
I don't read for hours with the eReader - that is when I reach for the regular paperback - but for commuting or downtime between appointments it is a godsend.