Tinfoil hat beats EMP 9 times out of 10 according to 19 of 20 conspiracy theorists.
The trick is to electromagnetically harden your electronic against radiation. Key to this is to individually wrap electronics in tinfoil. For extra protection buy the heavy duty tinfoil.
What I don't get is that Word is a horrible spellchecker. I don't know how many time I try to respell something multiple times just to try and get word to catch it, give up, type it in Google, and have it say "Do you mean..." and get it first try.
As far as spell checking goes I think Google has Microsoft beat easy. In fact I would bet in the future (may exist now, I don't use Google Docs much) that all spell checking will be done using online search tools and not a built in stand alone dictionary... Hell there are plenty of words that just don't exist in the standard Word dictionary, and you have to learn it, unless you have a new install or a different PC, etc and then you have to start all over again.
So yeah if I was Google I would slap Microsoft across its dirty face for such a comment...
I'm from Canada and I can attest to that there are lines. They can be frustrating. Sometimes you get lucky (my last visit a few years ago, 20min in and out, was awesome, was for an xray I think). However that is not the norm. My typical visit would be in the 3-5 hour range I would suspect, most of that just siting in a waiting room.
However it is called Triage. You are served according to need, not anything else. So yes if you came in with an artery spouting blood, you would be quickly at the front of the line.
The only problem (at least from my perspective, and it isn't really a problem, its just frustrating) is that by its very nature Triage is about helping those who's illness is most serious risk to them. I got the same problem with my private airline a few years back with a canceled flight.
I'm a single male, in early 30's, with no conditions, pretty healthy, no kids, etc... So in other words, not only last, but falling fast. So not only is my number not a good one, it would get bumped by just about everyone for anything (unless I'm actually dying, which hasn't happened yet). Usually I am in there for sporting injury, and while some are very painful (particularly while sitting in a waiting room) not really life threatening. However an older person with a cold could die from it, as could a baby, etc...
The other frustrating part is because of demographics, and increased life expectancy, we have a lot of old people. Now I love old people particularly my relatives, however from a clinical view, they get sick a lot, and when they do get sick, they use up a lot of hospital time. That's just life. The other frustrating part are paranoid parents. If their kid/baby even gets a sniffle, they are in the hospital. Perhaps a LOT more so if they actually had to pay for it. Perhaps if I had kids I might feel the same way but I don't, and to be honest, when I was a kid it wasn't that way. When I went to the hospital It was because I needed A) stitches for a wound, or B) a cast for a broken appendage. I recall (sort of) having a temperature above 100 and not going to the hospital, and having ice baths at home. Now I'm sitting in a waiting room with a concussion or a broken foot, next to another guy like me with a nail through his hand, while a parade of worried mothers take their young kids with the common cold to emergency... that and a steady stream of older folks with various aliments.
Anyway the bottom line is I ain't gonna die from a broken foot, and the buddy next to me isn't gonna bleed out from a nail through the hand, so we sit patiently and wait, that's how it works. Why else do you think they are called patients?:)
So yes they could just break into someone's home if they are set on being a criminal.
However this is a service that was set up to be easy (and yes lazy) and likely to the criminal mind of low risk of getting caught. Without that, they may have decided that the risks are too great and decided to try a life of virtue. As it is, the coppers managed to arrest a bunch of the stupidest, laziest, inept criminals around, which would have likely been caught doing something else anyway without any help.
Maybe I am some poor slob, who can't get a job, I also happen to be quite stupid and uneducated (hence no job), I hear about this credit card thing and identity theft thing on the television all the time, no one gets hurt as its all insured, I think it is all anonymous because I'm an idiot, and so I Google "Credit Card profit" or some garbage like that and this site comes up. It promises me all sorts of things, all low risk, high reward. Never having committed a crime before I decide to see if I can get it to work. Bang. FBI.
Had that service not been there, they may not have ever transgressed.
Truly capturing the masterminds of the criminal world. No I don't buy that this will lead to the kingpins of crime either.
Seriously. So far he's put some electronics into a Tupperware container and bought a model boat. Seriously. Made for a good laugh!
I mean all the best luck to him, but as far as a Slashdot story, hilarious!
Were I to do it seriously I would think about making several just in case. Heck it wasn't that long ago that real ships population by real people had a hard time making it across the pond without sinking.
Also on that thought, I would through away your silly model boat, and fabricate one out of something a bit more solid.
"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid." "That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."
OK a bit of a pet peeve here. WTF is wrong with the US. Why the Frell do they have have things like SCOTUS, and POTUS, etc... it is stupid. We get it. You live in or are talking about the US. I don't need a stupid short form for that. Also it is a stupid short form, as you take "O" from "of" for %^# sakes and "T" from "the". Call it the Supreme Court or the President for the love of all that is holy like every other country in the entire world.
I don't call it SCOC or PMOC if I live in Canada. Do you know why? Because I'm not an idiot, that's why!
I am unaware of any private for profit healthcare in Canada. I was unaware that the Canada Health Act has been amended to allow for it. If there is any it is likely very small in in some fringe service that is a gray area in the act likely. Anyway if YOU read the actual articles, what little private health case that is out there is paid for by the public system in most cases. About the only thing not covered are prescription drugs, dentistry and optometry. None of which has anything to do with a liver transplant type of operation. (Though I think they should be covered, not sure why those are not really)
The third is to an actual private care referral service in Canada. If you look into their links you will see that they contract out to 22 hospitals in 8 US states...
So in closing, you sir are an idiot. Of course I should have checked your history first as I am arguing with a Troll.
Seriously? What is with the overpayment of these companies.
Is this like sports, and high priced overpaid players. Where stupid GM's pay ridiculous prices because they know other stupid GM's will also pay ridiculous prices?
i.e. we better shell out 1.2 Billion for these guys before Apple, Google, Facebook, etc... do!
Reminds me of an article that was was put on explaining this revolutionary technology where by current was applied to a wafer, making one side cold and the other hot, a remarkable achievement for cpu cooling. Peltier's having been around for ages of course.
I used to do a lot of system building and modding for fun years ago. However OC has gone mainstream and as such has become a bit pointless. With the mainstream and Intel/AMD being well aware of that fact, they price pretty accordingly. Also modern manufacturing techniques and cpu quality mean you can OC using just about stock for decent results.
There was a time where you could buy a dirt cheap chip, apply a bit of awesomesause to it, and get something remarkable that was as powerful as something much more expensive. You HAD to use peltier's, water blocks (ironically also mainstream now to little point), huge custom copper sinks, etc... Heck I remember a company that made little direct to cpu refrigeration cases (phase exchange cooling) for the really hardcore (or liquid nitrogen for those really mad). I still have about 6 Intel Celreron processors in my desk (between 433 to 500Mhz in matching pairs), from when "dual core" actually meant 2 actual physical CPU (miss 2cpu.com)... Modding BP6's and dual Golden Orbs, so the caps fit in the rad.
Anyway now you can just buy an i5k and say to your "Bios" (which is now graphical) "run it a lot faster" and it just does stock. (I still want one though:)
At some point, I realized that at a certain threshold, you are just doing it for fun, that there really are no performance gains. It is much easier to simply buy a slightly more expensive cpu than to OC it. You have to just love to do it. I mean for an i5 and a crazy 100$ heat sink, you can just buy an i7 and stock OC for better gains likely. It also doesn't help that Intel seems to like to change sockets every 3 months now, which will probably limit how many times you can reuse that "universal" non-stock heatsink.
That said, I would buy one of these if they aren't too expensive. I always thought the round heat sinks look cooler at least (if they aren't physically in reality).
Wonder what attaching a small engine to it would be like, something like a 4hp or something...
Before anyone starts whining about "rules" and no stored energy, what do you think Humans run off of? Sunshine and fairy dust? If you like for fairness make it run of ethanol or bio-diesel, both which the unprocessed ingredients could power humans.
There is also the Nook which is really the only one in Canada. My Mom got one for retirement. It was pretty disappointing. It had a lot of potential, but it was glitchy, and not as intuitive or easy as the iPad offerings. I have never tried the Fire, but have heard the same thing, that outside of the US it is pointless. My Mom didn't have the technical know how, patience to figure out the Nook and I think it eventually got returned.
Even I who am used to working with technology really wanted to smash the thing. It was also pretty sluggish as well. The thing for me was either it was so sluggish, or so glitchy that just turning the thing on or off seemed be a pretty random affair with most efforts resulting in nothing happening. It also should have a better set of tools/apps pre-installed to make the thing more useful.
Anyway it needed some polish to be sure. That said I can forgive, as it was only just released a couple of months before that, so early adopter and all that jazz. Hopefully the additional competition in Canada will improve both devices (Fire can screw off for all I care, I hate these services that are US centric).
While not a girl I had same issue. Why do universities do that anyway? Is it intentional, or do Arts professors just not like to get up early either?
I mean you could draw a line correlation between how "sciency" a course was and how early the class was (and what day it was on). Seemed like all my Maths were Monday morning, early, after the binge drinking weekend. 8am for Calc, though stats not being as serious was at 10am. Meanwhile all my arts friends were sleeping in til noon for their nice afternoon and evening classes. I think the ONLY science class I had in the evening was Astronomy, and you know that's just cause they HAD to!
I have an old 1950Pro that while might be a bit better than an x1950 shouldn't be all that different. It also should be easily powerful enough for 1080p video which is not hard at all (less resolution than normal really). So I would check your settings for your drivers for updates or whatever. Modern integrated graphics should handle basic 1080p, a dedicated gaming card, even from a number of years ago shouldn't have any problems.
Sure it matters, if you starve to death you likely won't care about the situation anymore.
One of my favorite examples of this was a Canadian I believe that got caught trafficking in cocaine I believe in Vietnam. She was sentenced to death by firing squad and fined 100,000$. A Canadian comedian commented, "If I was her I wouldn't pay the fine..."
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Am I the only one that wants to see the Stig take that thing through the hammerhead?
Tinfoil hat beats EMP 9 times out of 10 according to 19 of 20 conspiracy theorists.
The trick is to electromagnetically harden your electronic against radiation. Key to this is to individually wrap electronics in tinfoil. For extra protection buy the heavy duty tinfoil.
What I don't get is that Word is a horrible spellchecker. I don't know how many time I try to respell something multiple times just to try and get word to catch it, give up, type it in Google, and have it say "Do you mean..." and get it first try.
As far as spell checking goes I think Google has Microsoft beat easy. In fact I would bet in the future (may exist now, I don't use Google Docs much) that all spell checking will be done using online search tools and not a built in stand alone dictionary... Hell there are plenty of words that just don't exist in the standard Word dictionary, and you have to learn it, unless you have a new install or a different PC, etc and then you have to start all over again.
So yeah if I was Google I would slap Microsoft across its dirty face for such a comment...
Its just a pretense so they have an excuse to extend copyright from 150 year to an infinite amount of years based on relativity...
I'm from Canada and I can attest to that there are lines. They can be frustrating. Sometimes you get lucky (my last visit a few years ago, 20min in and out, was awesome, was for an xray I think). However that is not the norm. My typical visit would be in the 3-5 hour range I would suspect, most of that just siting in a waiting room.
However it is called Triage. You are served according to need, not anything else. So yes if you came in with an artery spouting blood, you would be quickly at the front of the line.
The only problem (at least from my perspective, and it isn't really a problem, its just frustrating) is that by its very nature Triage is about helping those who's illness is most serious risk to them. I got the same problem with my private airline a few years back with a canceled flight.
I'm a single male, in early 30's, with no conditions, pretty healthy, no kids, etc... So in other words, not only last, but falling fast. So not only is my number not a good one, it would get bumped by just about everyone for anything (unless I'm actually dying, which hasn't happened yet). Usually I am in there for sporting injury, and while some are very painful (particularly while sitting in a waiting room) not really life threatening. However an older person with a cold could die from it, as could a baby, etc...
The other frustrating part is because of demographics, and increased life expectancy, we have a lot of old people. Now I love old people particularly my relatives, however from a clinical view, they get sick a lot, and when they do get sick, they use up a lot of hospital time. That's just life. The other frustrating part are paranoid parents. If their kid/baby even gets a sniffle, they are in the hospital. Perhaps a LOT more so if they actually had to pay for it. Perhaps if I had kids I might feel the same way but I don't, and to be honest, when I was a kid it wasn't that way. When I went to the hospital It was because I needed A) stitches for a wound, or B) a cast for a broken appendage. I recall (sort of) having a temperature above 100 and not going to the hospital, and having ice baths at home. Now I'm sitting in a waiting room with a concussion or a broken foot, next to another guy like me with a nail through his hand, while a parade of worried mothers take their young kids with the common cold to emergency... that and a steady stream of older folks with various aliments.
Anyway the bottom line is I ain't gonna die from a broken foot, and the buddy next to me isn't gonna bleed out from a nail through the hand, so we sit patiently and wait, that's how it works. Why else do you think they are called patients? :)
Let me see, cosmic Japanese radiation and giant crosses in the sky?
First thing that comes to mind was the anime Evangelion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_(anime)
Did the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle look something like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eva_cross_explosion.png
Mission Accomplished!
That is why I had "(at least in this context)."
So yes they could just break into someone's home if they are set on being a criminal.
However this is a service that was set up to be easy (and yes lazy) and likely to the criminal mind of low risk of getting caught. Without that, they may have decided that the risks are too great and decided to try a life of virtue. As it is, the coppers managed to arrest a bunch of the stupidest, laziest, inept criminals around, which would have likely been caught doing something else anyway without any help.
Maybe I am some poor slob, who can't get a job, I also happen to be quite stupid and uneducated (hence no job), I hear about this credit card thing and identity theft thing on the television all the time, no one gets hurt as its all insured, I think it is all anonymous because I'm an idiot, and so I Google "Credit Card profit" or some garbage like that and this site comes up. It promises me all sorts of things, all low risk, high reward. Never having committed a crime before I decide to see if I can get it to work. Bang. FBI.
Had that service not been there, they may not have ever transgressed.
Truly capturing the masterminds of the criminal world. No I don't buy that this will lead to the kingpins of crime either.
Seriously. So far he's put some electronics into a Tupperware container and bought a model boat. Seriously. Made for a good laugh!
I mean all the best luck to him, but as far as a Slashdot story, hilarious!
Were I to do it seriously I would think about making several just in case. Heck it wasn't that long ago that real ships population by real people had a hard time making it across the pond without sinking.
Also on that thought, I would through away your silly model boat, and fabricate one out of something a bit more solid.
This could be looked at as injecting 29$ Billion into the legal economy. I mean Lawyers, Judges, Court Officials, all gotta get paid dawg!
"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."
"That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that."
OK a bit of a pet peeve here. WTF is wrong with the US. Why the Frell do they have have things like SCOTUS, and POTUS, etc... it is stupid. We get it. You live in or are talking about the US. I don't need a stupid short form for that. Also it is a stupid short form, as you take "O" from "of" for %^# sakes and "T" from "the". Call it the Supreme Court or the President for the love of all that is holy like every other country in the entire world.
I don't call it SCOC or PMOC if I live in Canada. Do you know why? Because I'm not an idiot, that's why!
Whew. OK rant done.
I'm gonna go out on a limb (sorry about the pun) and say that all they got were low hanging fruit.
I mean the criminal would have to be pretty dumb to actual use said service.
This is making criminals, if such a service wasn't available, likely these dullards wouldn't have a way to break the law (at least in this context).
Anyway I doubt this has improved the world in any appreciable way.
So you call me an idiot without a citation?
I am unaware of any private for profit healthcare in Canada. I was unaware that the Canada Health Act has been amended to allow for it. If there is any it is likely very small in in some fringe service that is a gray area in the act likely. Anyway if YOU read the actual articles, what little private health case that is out there is paid for by the public system in most cases. About the only thing not covered are prescription drugs, dentistry and optometry. None of which has anything to do with a liver transplant type of operation. (Though I think they should be covered, not sure why those are not really)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/healthcare/public_vs_private.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada#Private_sector
http://timelymedical.ca/
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20060501_125881_125881
The third is to an actual private care referral service in Canada. If you look into their links you will see that they contract out to 22 hospitals in 8 US states...
So in closing, you sir are an idiot. Of course I should have checked your history first as I am arguing with a Troll.
Well at least the Android (aptly named I guess) has Google's First Law:
1) Do no Evil.
Apple Phones has more than 3 laws, hundreds of them actually, but they mostly just make more profit for Apple
Windows Phones don't need laws, as they are mythical, like unicorns, leprechauns, and honest bankers...
RIM....
Nokia has smart phones?
Ship name: "Event Horizon" or "Elysium" or "Eden" or...
You get on a plane and fly to the US and have the procedure done there for a huge expense.
People in Canada do it all the time. If they don't want to wait, and have the money, many just go south of the border and pay for privileges.
Seriously? What is with the overpayment of these companies.
Is this like sports, and high priced overpaid players. Where stupid GM's pay ridiculous prices because they know other stupid GM's will also pay ridiculous prices?
i.e. we better shell out 1.2 Billion for these guys before Apple, Google, Facebook, etc... do!
Reminds me of an article that was was put on explaining this revolutionary technology where by current was applied to a wafer, making one side cold and the other hot, a remarkable achievement for cpu cooling. Peltier's having been around for ages of course.
I used to do a lot of system building and modding for fun years ago. However OC has gone mainstream and as such has become a bit pointless. With the mainstream and Intel/AMD being well aware of that fact, they price pretty accordingly. Also modern manufacturing techniques and cpu quality mean you can OC using just about stock for decent results.
There was a time where you could buy a dirt cheap chip, apply a bit of awesomesause to it, and get something remarkable that was as powerful as something much more expensive. You HAD to use peltier's, water blocks (ironically also mainstream now to little point), huge custom copper sinks, etc... Heck I remember a company that made little direct to cpu refrigeration cases (phase exchange cooling) for the really hardcore (or liquid nitrogen for those really mad). I still have about 6 Intel Celreron processors in my desk (between 433 to 500Mhz in matching pairs), from when "dual core" actually meant 2 actual physical CPU (miss 2cpu.com)... Modding BP6's and dual Golden Orbs, so the caps fit in the rad.
Anyway now you can just buy an i5k and say to your "Bios" (which is now graphical) "run it a lot faster" and it just does stock. (I still want one though :)
At some point, I realized that at a certain threshold, you are just doing it for fun, that there really are no performance gains. It is much easier to simply buy a slightly more expensive cpu than to OC it. You have to just love to do it. I mean for an i5 and a crazy 100$ heat sink, you can just buy an i7 and stock OC for better gains likely. It also doesn't help that Intel seems to like to change sockets every 3 months now, which will probably limit how many times you can reuse that "universal" non-stock heatsink.
That said, I would buy one of these if they aren't too expensive. I always thought the round heat sinks look cooler at least (if they aren't physically in reality).
Wonder what attaching a small engine to it would be like, something like a 4hp or something...
Before anyone starts whining about "rules" and no stored energy, what do you think Humans run off of? Sunshine and fairy dust? If you like for fairness make it run of ethanol or bio-diesel, both which the unprocessed ingredients could power humans.
There is also the Nook which is really the only one in Canada. My Mom got one for retirement. It was pretty disappointing. It had a lot of potential, but it was glitchy, and not as intuitive or easy as the iPad offerings. I have never tried the Fire, but have heard the same thing, that outside of the US it is pointless. My Mom didn't have the technical know how, patience to figure out the Nook and I think it eventually got returned.
Even I who am used to working with technology really wanted to smash the thing. It was also pretty sluggish as well. The thing for me was either it was so sluggish, or so glitchy that just turning the thing on or off seemed be a pretty random affair with most efforts resulting in nothing happening. It also should have a better set of tools/apps pre-installed to make the thing more useful.
Anyway it needed some polish to be sure. That said I can forgive, as it was only just released a couple of months before that, so early adopter and all that jazz. Hopefully the additional competition in Canada will improve both devices (Fire can screw off for all I care, I hate these services that are US centric).
While not a girl I had same issue. Why do universities do that anyway? Is it intentional, or do Arts professors just not like to get up early either?
I mean you could draw a line correlation between how "sciency" a course was and how early the class was (and what day it was on). Seemed like all my Maths were Monday morning, early, after the binge drinking weekend. 8am for Calc, though stats not being as serious was at 10am. Meanwhile all my arts friends were sleeping in til noon for their nice afternoon and evening classes. I think the ONLY science class I had in the evening was Astronomy, and you know that's just cause they HAD to!
I have an old 1950Pro that while might be a bit better than an x1950 shouldn't be all that different. It also should be easily powerful enough for 1080p video which is not hard at all (less resolution than normal really). So I would check your settings for your drivers for updates or whatever. Modern integrated graphics should handle basic 1080p, a dedicated gaming card, even from a number of years ago shouldn't have any problems.
So true it was underlined!
Sure it matters, if you starve to death you likely won't care about the situation anymore.
One of my favorite examples of this was a Canadian I believe that got caught trafficking in cocaine I believe in Vietnam. She was sentenced to death by firing squad and fined 100,000$. A Canadian comedian commented, "If I was her I wouldn't pay the fine..."