I'd like to see a court case. Wouldn't this be thrown out as an obvious violation of free speech?
Perhaps you haven't been watching too closely but this 'take your customer to court & try and destroy him' approach to doing business in the tech world has been going on since at least the '80s to my knowledge. It occurs because the US justice system has been whored out to the john packing the biggest wallet. It's not about justice, it's about money - that's the American Way.
Somebody who can take considerable credit for the 'sue 'em if they benchmark it & realise it's overpriced shit' subgenre as demonstrated by Intel in this case, is the verminous, coiffed poltroon and great helmsman (who shat himself on the Sydney/Hobart one memorable year - what a complete & total helm'): Larry Ellison.
Trying to get a prof fired for doing benchmarks? Threatening to sue security researchers reporting bugs in contradiction to Oracle's EULA? Yep, the maggot Larry.
This won't stop happening until enough people stop buying their stuff, and stop buying from people who buy their stuff.
It's happening to Oracle and it's going to be happening to Intel too. You can pass the odd cockup off as an aberration but a veritable blizzard of them?
It's not like they're the only game in town, let alone the best game.
Intel shareholders must be wondering why their shiney new CEO resembles the old one in every respect: a completely clueless horse's cock.
Time to fire the board, folks, or your business is toast. Actually, I think a rebrand might be in order.
Give the name: IG Farben a go perhaps? Memories are short and they had a better reputation back then than you have now with "Intel".
So Intel, as a condition of using your patch to fix the broken shit you sold us, you don't want us to use the patch to empirically determine just how broken your shit was, or else you'll sue us?
I've got the message loud and clear: you're crooked dirtbags.
I don't think I'll be sending any money your way in future.
This is pure speculation. You don't know there was a bug. The difference could be explained entirely by tuning.
You've been posting to/. for a long time but I don't ever remember you declaring your expertise at dancing on the head of a pin before. Thanks also for sharing that you are a committed Tesla/Musk fanbois and are prepared to suspend any grasp of logic when it comes to defending that crooked outfit.
You might want to consider that when the 'House of Musk' comes tumbling down within the next year, your name is now forever associated with defending them and their criminal behavior. I hope it was worth it.
If they make it to Slashdot, the fanboys will explain how it's actually a feature and how every other car brand will copy it.
I'm not sure how the fanbois managed to explain away Tesla's recent problem with the software for the braking system on the model 3 as a feature.
Oh yes, now I remember:
They focused on how "brilliant" it was that Tesla could write a patch for the faulty software and apply it 'over the air' in a couple of days.
They ignored the fact that Tesla had managed to release software for a critical subsystem of their cars, the brakes, into production which had bugs which significantly impaired it's performance. Seemingly, a fairly trivial bug as they managed to test and apply the patch in a couple of days.
I suspect that if that happened with any other car maker, the NTSB would have instructed that their cars be removed from the road immediately and not allowed back on the road until the maker (or subcontractor) had demonstrated the safety of their software and it's development.
BCG is hard to find in the US. Vaccination with it will cause a person to have a positive PPD (tuberculosis test), and the rate of TB is low enough that public health policymakers would rather have a very accurate and simple test than vaccinate everyone. The only use for it in the US that I’m aware of is in treatment of bladder cancer.
When I was a kid in the UK in the '60s I was vaccinated with BCG. TB was still common enough then, that even though I lived in a 'well-to-do' town, you'd see these large white vans parked up on occasion which contained an X-ray machine. The idea was to X-ray people's chests and look for TB lesions. I last saw one of those vans in the mid-70s.
TB is still diagnosed over here but mainly in immigrants from 3rd world countries. I've no idea if kids still routinely get BCG (it used to be done at school).
Unfortunately, the whole business of diabetes, it's diagnosis and it's management is a complete shambles. That wouldn't be so bad if it was an uncommon disease.
In the old days, type 1 & 2 were essentially known as 'juvenile onset' and 'age onset' respectively and you were chucked in to one or the other category.
The great & the good decided that those 2 categories didn't quite correlate with the true picture and in their wisdom they decided "Type 1 & 2" was so much better. Of course, it wasn't; it's still just 2 categories and it doesn't represent the true picture much better at all. It's just misleading instead of entirely misleading.
If I had it in my power, I would go completely mad and categorize diabetes into a WHOLE 3 CATEGORIES! 'Dog', 'Cat' and 'Cow'.
By doing that, I would have immediately improved the categorization (and hence treatment) significantly and surely I will be remembered in history and get my well-deserved Nobel as a matter of course.
This sort of idiocy is an ongoing problem and nor is it the only one.
For instance, diabetics who required insulin used to be given animal insulins, namely cow or pig, extracted from the animals' pancreases after slaughter.
The problem with those insulins is that they are not quite as efficacious as human insulin. Why? Other mammalian insulins are not quite the same as human. So IIRC human insulin is a protein consisting of some 40+ amino acids strung together - some of those amino acids being the same. Pig insulin is the same but with 1 or 2 of the amino acids being different, in either position on the protein or chemically. Cow insulin, it's 3 or 4 that are changed because in evolutionary terms, our common ancestor with a cow is further away from us than that of a pig.
Remember your high school biology? What happens if you introduce foreign proteins into a human body? You get an immune response from the body and it attacks the foreign protein. That's why organ transplant patients are given immunosuppresants: so the transplanted organ doesn't get destroyed by the response from the host.
The same thing happens with the animal insulins; being foreign proteins means that they're attacked and the longer you take animal insulin, the more you have to take in order to get your blood glucose down to the same levels that you got when you first started taking it. After decades on it, patients ended up having to take huge doses which comes with it's own associated problems.
In the '80s with the advance of genetics and being able to engineer and grow yeasts that produced human insulin, everybody became significantly happier.....except the drug companies. "How can we make any money on this human insulin shit? We can't patent it!" they howled....quietly to themselves.
Enter 'insulin analogs'. These are insulins in which the amino acids of human insulin have been fucked around with. Whoopee! Patentable! Let the big bucks roll in!
These 'analog insulins' should remind you of something: animal insulins.
Drug trials don't last decades though, so the problems as evidenced with animal insulins to treat diabetes in humans haven't shown up yet and certainly didn't during the trials.
The drug companies of course have convinced the medical profession on the basis of entirely bogus data, that these analogs are so much better then that God-given human insulin shit. They modeled them to be quicker acting, they say, hence less long-term damage from hyperglycaemia, they say. Horseshit, I say. You've got fuck all worthwhile evidence and what's more, you never will have.
Am I right in thinking that some 25 year ago, before 'folding@home' and such like existed, modeling how a protein, say like a fucked around piece of insulin folded wasn't doable? So if you don't know how it's going to fold, how the hell are you going to have any idea how effective it is going to be at it's job ie. metabolising glucose?
We had this come up some weeks back, when some Scandinavian doctors came up with the conclusion that the several thousand diabetics they studied did not fall neatly into 2 groups ie. Type 1 & 2. Instead they identified some half a dozen groups.
I angrily posted about this at the time because this was known over 20 years ago. What was worse is that I (a diabetic who needs insulin) wasn't covered in their groupings and neither was somebody with gestational diabetes or....etc.
There's also the problem of what an American doctor diagnoses as a "Type 1" might be somewhat different to what a British or Japanese or Ugandan doctor does. It may even subtly vary among the doctors in just one hospital.
Treatment regimens will vary also: human or analog insulin? Which analog? Short acting, long acting, mix? Pump, pen, syringe? Which pump running what software?
The authors of this paper obviously start with the assumption that all the "Type 1 diabetics" they studied were as a result of this mysterious auto-immune disease, a disease whose pathology or very existence is entirely unclear.
They say in the paper that their cohort had all been diagnosed as "Type 1" as if it's a choice between black or white. It's not, because that term is undefined and in clinical practice covers a significant spectrum of people.
For years they poison the namespace for a piece of free software (I wonder why?) and then only relent when they decide they need the developers & users of said software onside....after pissing away $7.5 billion in an effort to coral them.
Their complete lack of clue knows no bounds. Let me have a guess, I'm not the only one to have dumped Github in the past few days & they're getting a bit nervous?
The funniest thing about it is that before git came along, I read that the code monkeys in Redmond had to make do without a versioning system. Apparently, they used a system which largely consisted of xcopy & symlinks tied together with batch scripts!
I can't imagine how they managed to produce such fine quality software like Windows ME;)
I've got an idea how Elon can keep his by now somewhat disgruntled customers hanging on for their cars made of the very finest unobtainium, namely a 2 for 1 deal:
Get your brand new Tesla for only twice what you bargained for and receive a nice shiney Darwin Award ABSOLUTELY FREE!
OPNsense, a fork of pfSense, which is a fork of m0n0wall. It is based on Hardended BSD, with a ton of additional security extensions not available in normal FreeBSD or pfSense.
I'd concur with that. Go with a pf based solution if you can. You can search on Amazon or Ebay for "pfsense" and any number of cheap mini boxes will turn up.
What sort of CPU/RAM etc. you want is dependent on how many packets you are pushing in and out. You might want to buy with an eye to any possible increases in the number of those packets that you see coming in the not too distant future.
If you're on ADSL you might want to employ this nice little hack in order to improve things. For those who use vanilla FreeBSD, you need to rebuild your kernel with the altq(4) knobs turned on. OpenBSD it's not necessary.
You obviously want to set the speed to whatever you've got and you'll want to replace "any" in those rules with something like "! 192.168.1.0/24" or internal traffic on your LAN could end up running like molasses. Been there, done that.
I have to ask this, though I fear you won't tell me.
Of course, you're wrong on that count AC like you are on everything else.
When people say things that stupid, is it just an act or are they truly that retarded? It's so weird, because you're able to put complete sentences together, you figured out how to login to a website, you probably know how to tie your shoes, and you might even be able to name 2 or 3 presidents who served more than 14 years ago.
2 or 3 presidents? Of Uganda? Or do you mean the office in your shithole country? As currently occupied by a large, orange sack of shit who currently holds the world 'holding your breath whilst underwater' record....according to my mate, Vladimir. I can tell by your tone, that you must be enormously proud of him and his charming wife with her, somewhat interesting, former "professional" life in Eastern Europe.
The pair of them only increase the high regard that us dodgy, clearly inferior, foreigners hold your nation in.
Let me fill you in on a few facts AC. There are some folks in this world, quite unlike you, who are known as "grown-ups". They can be recognised because they are quite prepared to go head-to-head with anyone and they don't need to abuse the cloak of anonymity that/. provides to do so.
Unfortunately for you, you are quite obviously doomed to never grow a pair or even have sex with anything other than your own right hand.
Slashdot Editors: You need to fix this shit. I regularly get marked "troll" when I post logged-in with opinions and facts, just because people don't like my opinions. Mods who do that, need to be kicked into touch. Ditto, merkins like the one I've just replied to. I'm pretty sure he's got an account, so just close it and firewall the muppet off.
Otherwise, I'm just going to be another one who can't be bothered posting at all. I don't need you but you need me, at the end of the day. Whatever you may think of my opinions, they're a fucksight more substantial than the thin gruel provided by a bunch of ACs lacking gonads.
The basic premise is sound, though.
Humans have only inferences for temperature data going back through Earth's history with ever-greater margins of error the further back one goes, and only roughly 200 years of somewhat-accurate temperature data measurements.
200 years of somewhat-accurate data but where from? Of course, we have somewhat-accurate data from the middle of a large continent like Africa, don't we? Oh shit, we don't, so let's use some kind of analogue instead and massage those figures into shape. Rinse & repeat for huge areas of the planet.
Then tell me, from your absurdly inadequate models, that you know what the climate is going to be like in a 100 years time because 95% of "climate scientists" (whatever the hell one of those is) agree on it.
95% of computer users think that Windows is a good OS. That doesn't make that true either.
Such "climate heresy" doesn't fly in universities though just through pure social pressure; your academic career will be toast if you don't go with the orthodoxy and you will also be a social pariah, for good measure. Every reason to go with the flow, even though that impulse may likely be subconscious.
The only part I dispute is that they can reliably tell what aspects of that may be genuinely attributable to "climate change".
I dispute it too. They've got the grand total of 14 years data and they're drawing possible conclusions about "climate change"?
I'll clue the folks in at NASA: the Earth has been around for ~4 billion years. When your satellite has been up there for a billion years or 2, then get back to me with your analysis.
Until then, your analysis has little more credibility than me sticking my head outside tomorrow morning and saying: "The climate is changing & we're all doomed! Oh, BTW, about that research money..."
The scam artist has been building electric cars and rockets for years. The real things. Do you know any other scam artists doing that?
He has built less cars than Ferrari have in the same time and his production line is always just "...6 months away from producing <insert ludicrous figure> cars". The other differences between Tesla and Ferrari is that the cars Ferrari build is not done at a thundering loss and nor are they dishonestly pitched to customers so that they think they're self-driving with the inevitable tragic results.
As for the rockets, they are cross-subsidised and he has entirely failed to address the Arianespace CEO's pertinent observations:
"challenges of reusability... have not disappeared.... The stress on stage or engine structures of high-speed passage through the atmosphere, the performance penalty of reserving fuel for the return flight instead of maximizing rocket lift capacity, the need for many annual launches to make the economics work – all remain issues."
The Falcon 9 engine is supposed to be re-usable but only half a dozen or so have been re-used so far and then only once.
The fact of the matter is that with rocket engines you design them with a very small safety factor & hence the materials are at their limits. To do otherwise means excess material and more weight. To do otherwise and use fuel (which itself needs carrying aloft) to land the now shagged engine is absurd.
To top things off, last week in a conference call with financial types, he basically tells them to go and boil their heads when they ask him tricky finance type questions and then even more insultingly only responds to the "When are you going to build a space elevator out of unobtainium, Elon?" type questions from fanbois.
By doing that, he just pissed over any chance of getting further investment from the big players and has just hastened the demise of his shonky companies.
The tragedy is not only the lives he has taken in order to satisfy his ego but the chilling effect it will have on future investment for people who aren't charlatans.
I had a look at the pictures and they've clearly just been knocked up in photoshop.
If his bogus company truly was putting the "finishing touches" to a tunnel, then he wouldn't have to do that or put another 'imagineered' video up on Instagram because a real video would be impressive enough!
He would also tell us where exactly the tunnel goes from and to.
I've had enough of this scam artists bollocks. He should be thrown in prison; which I think he will be in the not too distant future.
Exactly how is giving money for direct efforts going to help in any way at all?
How's it going to help? It's going to help Mr.Turnbull get re-elected along with his interesting ideas about how Australian law trumps mathematical law, of course.
Actually, I don't think it will help him in that regard. I suspect this is just some largesse for 'mates' before he gets booted out of office.
When I was hitchhiking in Queensland for a few months over 30 years ago, corruption was rife within the state government and pretty much on open display with a streak of shit named Joh Bjelke-Petersen perched at the top of the pile. In that respect, I doubt if things have changed much. Although 'Uncle Joh' is well dead, I'm sure his 'inheritance' lives on.
Despite that, tropical Queensland, on and next to the reef (ie. Rockhampton & north), was a pretty good place to be for a young man. That was a time before tourism had really taken off but there were some ominous signs. I wouldn't want to go back now as I'd probably just end up seriously depressed about what it's turned in to.
I would recommend the tried and true industrial production method: Locate and hire a guy who's been a keystone at a competitor's assembly line.
That's where one of his major problems is. He might have been able to tempt top mech/man engineers who can set up a production line and make it sing when he started out years ago. Not any longer.
Any he did have, will have long left the sinking ship. They will have kept quiet publicly due to their NDAs but the word will have got around the industry by word of mouth.
Engineers don't like working for people who don't know what they are doing and have a somewhat strained relationship with the truth.
He's blamed his suppliers, he's blamed his robots....when is he going to throw his remaining engineers under the bus? Before the company goes titsup? Or do they get to hang on until it goes titsup?
Has anyone ever said that? Everyone I've seen points out that the issue is Tesla has no experience building at scale and has had issues with QA / consistency on their existing lines.
You've largely hit the nail on the head. This is just another example of Musk talking Grade 'A' horseshit.
Nowadays, to produce cars cheaply, at scale and acceptable quality, you have to use automation wherever you can. Musk has failed on all 3 of those counts:
* Not cheaply. Regularly running through half a billion bucks a quarter or thereabouts.
* As you say, the quality of the cars has reportedly been shite. Ask matey who crashed into a barrier just how good the softs for his Autopilot are....oh yeah, you can't because he's dead.
* As for the numbers, it very much sounds like he has been selling pre-production units to inflate his already dire production numbers. Tesla reported their quarterly production numbers to the SEC. Unfortunately, the folks on the Street don't seem to be as highly educated as me and obviously missed out on their primary school basic arithmetic. From the numbers given:
$ echo "(9766 - 2020)/11" | bc -e "scale=0"
704
So ignoring the last week of that quarter & it's heavily massaged & spun figure, they're struggling to knock out under 800 cars of shitty quality a week.
He wouldn't be trying to mislead investors with his filing would he? I thought that was some sort of criminal offence.
There are of course small features I would like to see added to Windows Mail, like being able to set formatted signatures (as opposed to just plain text), but that's hardly a priority.
If it's not plain text then it doesn't belong in the body of an email. That's what attachments are for.
He doesn't do his credibility as a sensible and informed critic of MUAs any good with that statement. Although, to be fair, he's probably correct in saying that the current Windows mail client is a POS; they always have been.
MS, along with most of the other software vendors, are trying to force their victims^H^Hcustomers to their 'cloud' offerings and potentially never ending huge revenue stream. It may work for a few years but eventually businesses might just wise-up to the fact that running your apps on Azure, which has a tendency to go up and down with the regularity of a whore's drawers, is probably not the best way to run your business.
If the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is interested in it, then I'm not.
His track record is not good:
Building new city in Saudi at vast expense to attract businesses and tourists. Pitch: "If getting hanged and flogged is your bag then you're coming to the right place!"
Started never ending war in Yemen with resulting starvation, huge cholera epidemic and attendant death and destruction from high explosive supplied by US and UK.
Kidnapped Lebanon's leader and made him resign on Saudi TV.
Kidnapped 300 of the wealthiest and most powerful in the country and shook them down. Result: turned them into 300 slightly poorer but still powerful enemies.
Came to London and spunked a million quid on adverts featuring his gurning face and telling us British peasants how wonderful Saudi now is thanks to him. We may be fucking stupid but please...
Has invested 750 million in Virgin Galactica (aka virgin on the ridiculous) Branson's doomed "space" effort that isn't close to orbital.
Opening dozens of cinemas in Saudi although 'Snow White' likely to be banned. Some tart without a burkha sleeping with 7 dwarves? Are you sure?
Tl;Dr: MbS is a moron and bellend. Hence, Virgin Hyperloop must be doomed.
So after decades of treating diabetics as either type 1 or 2, they wake up to the idea that things might be a little bit more complicated than that.
Yet, I an insulin-dependent diabetic am still nowhere to be found in their expanded categorisation.
I was ~35 when I was diagnosed with diabetes. This was well over a year after almost dying from acute pancreatitis.
It's well known in the literature (if not by common sense) that if the pancreas goes bonkers then there is a reasonable chance that the patient will probably become diabetic to some extent, since the pancreas is where insulin is produced. It was seemingly unknown to the cock holsters who treated me, though.
So another set of overpaid cock holsters come up with this staggering finding./s
When I was diagnosed ~20 years ago, I grovelled around the 'net via Excite! and found a paper where the author identified maybe a dozen different types of diabetes including mine. Some 20 yrs later, they produce a considerably crappier paper and are lauded like they've split the fucking atom...
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Perhaps you haven't been watching too closely but this 'take your customer to court & try and destroy him' approach to doing business in the tech world has been going on since at least the '80s to my knowledge. It occurs because the US justice system has been whored out to the john packing the biggest wallet. It's not about justice, it's about money - that's the American Way.
Somebody who can take considerable credit for the 'sue 'em if they benchmark it & realise it's overpriced shit' subgenre as demonstrated by Intel in this case, is the verminous, coiffed poltroon and great helmsman (who shat himself on the Sydney/Hobart one memorable year - what a complete & total helm'): Larry Ellison.
Trying to get a prof fired for doing benchmarks? Threatening to sue security researchers reporting bugs in contradiction to Oracle's EULA? Yep, the maggot Larry.
This won't stop happening until enough people stop buying their stuff, and stop buying from people who buy their stuff.
It's happening to Oracle and it's going to be happening to Intel too. You can pass the odd cockup off as an aberration but a veritable blizzard of them?
It's not like they're the only game in town, let alone the best game.
Intel shareholders must be wondering why their shiney new CEO resembles the old one in every respect: a completely clueless horse's cock.
Time to fire the board, folks, or your business is toast. Actually, I think a rebrand might be in order.
Give the name: IG Farben a go perhaps? Memories are short and they had a better reputation back then than you have now with "Intel".
So Intel, as a condition of using your patch to fix the broken shit you sold us, you don't want us to use the patch to empirically determine just how broken your shit was, or else you'll sue us?
I've got the message loud and clear: you're crooked dirtbags.
I don't think I'll be sending any money your way in future.
I feel so sorry for the poor boy.
You've been posting to /. for a long time but I don't ever remember you declaring your expertise at dancing on the head of a pin before. Thanks also for sharing that you are a committed Tesla/Musk fanbois and are prepared to suspend any grasp of logic when it comes to defending that crooked outfit.
You might want to consider that when the 'House of Musk' comes tumbling down within the next year, your name is now forever associated with defending them and their criminal behavior. I hope it was worth it.
I'm not sure how the fanbois managed to explain away Tesla's recent problem with the software for the braking system on the model 3 as a feature.
Oh yes, now I remember:
They focused on how "brilliant" it was that Tesla could write a patch for the faulty software and apply it 'over the air' in a couple of days.
They ignored the fact that Tesla had managed to release software for a critical subsystem of their cars, the brakes, into production which had bugs which significantly impaired it's performance. Seemingly, a fairly trivial bug as they managed to test and apply the patch in a couple of days.
I suspect that if that happened with any other car maker, the NTSB would have instructed that their cars be removed from the road immediately and not allowed back on the road until the maker (or subcontractor) had demonstrated the safety of their software and it's development.
When I was a kid in the UK in the '60s I was vaccinated with BCG. TB was still common enough then, that even though I lived in a 'well-to-do' town, you'd see these large white vans parked up on occasion which contained an X-ray machine. The idea was to X-ray people's chests and look for TB lesions. I last saw one of those vans in the mid-70s.
TB is still diagnosed over here but mainly in immigrants from 3rd world countries. I've no idea if kids still routinely get BCG (it used to be done at school).
Unfortunately, the whole business of diabetes, it's diagnosis and it's management is a complete shambles. That wouldn't be so bad if it was an uncommon disease.
In the old days, type 1 & 2 were essentially known as 'juvenile onset' and 'age onset' respectively and you were chucked in to one or the other category.
The great & the good decided that those 2 categories didn't quite correlate with the true picture and in their wisdom they decided "Type 1 & 2" was so much better. Of course, it wasn't; it's still just 2 categories and it doesn't represent the true picture much better at all. It's just misleading instead of entirely misleading.
If I had it in my power, I would go completely mad and categorize diabetes into a WHOLE 3 CATEGORIES! 'Dog', 'Cat' and 'Cow'.
By doing that, I would have immediately improved the categorization (and hence treatment) significantly and surely I will be remembered in history and get my well-deserved Nobel as a matter of course.
This sort of idiocy is an ongoing problem and nor is it the only one.
For instance, diabetics who required insulin used to be given animal insulins, namely cow or pig, extracted from the animals' pancreases after slaughter.
The problem with those insulins is that they are not quite as efficacious as human insulin. Why? Other mammalian insulins are not quite the same as human. So IIRC human insulin is a protein consisting of some 40+ amino acids strung together - some of those amino acids being the same. Pig insulin is the same but with 1 or 2 of the amino acids being different, in either position on the protein or chemically. Cow insulin, it's 3 or 4 that are changed because in evolutionary terms, our common ancestor with a cow is further away from us than that of a pig.
Remember your high school biology? What happens if you introduce foreign proteins into a human body? You get an immune response from the body and it attacks the foreign protein. That's why organ transplant patients are given immunosuppresants: so the transplanted organ doesn't get destroyed by the response from the host.
The same thing happens with the animal insulins; being foreign proteins means that they're attacked and the longer you take animal insulin, the more you have to take in order to get your blood glucose down to the same levels that you got when you first started taking it. After decades on it, patients ended up having to take huge doses which comes with it's own associated problems.
In the '80s with the advance of genetics and being able to engineer and grow yeasts that produced human insulin, everybody became significantly happier.....except the drug companies. "How can we make any money on this human insulin shit? We can't patent it!" they howled....quietly to themselves.
Enter 'insulin analogs'. These are insulins in which the amino acids of human insulin have been fucked around with. Whoopee! Patentable! Let the big bucks roll in!
These 'analog insulins' should remind you of something: animal insulins.
Drug trials don't last decades though, so the problems as evidenced with animal insulins to treat diabetes in humans haven't shown up yet and certainly didn't during the trials.
The drug companies of course have convinced the medical profession on the basis of entirely bogus data, that these analogs are so much better then that God-given human insulin shit. They modeled them to be quicker acting, they say, hence less long-term damage from hyperglycaemia, they say. Horseshit, I say. You've got fuck all worthwhile evidence and what's more, you never will have.
Am I right in thinking that some 25 year ago, before 'folding@home' and such like existed, modeling how a protein, say like a fucked around piece of insulin folded wasn't doable? So if you don't know how it's going to fold, how the hell are you going to have any idea how effective it is going to be at it's job ie. metabolising glucose?
For 20 years I've managed to avoid the a
I'll try and identify a few of them.
First up: define what a Type 1 diabetic is.
We had this come up some weeks back, when some Scandinavian doctors came up with the conclusion that the several thousand diabetics they studied did not fall neatly into 2 groups ie. Type 1 & 2. Instead they identified some half a dozen groups.
I angrily posted about this at the time because this was known over 20 years ago. What was worse is that I (a diabetic who needs insulin) wasn't covered in their groupings and neither was somebody with gestational diabetes or ....etc.
There's also the problem of what an American doctor diagnoses as a "Type 1" might be somewhat different to what a British or Japanese or Ugandan doctor does. It may even subtly vary among the doctors in just one hospital.
Treatment regimens will vary also: human or analog insulin? Which analog? Short acting, long acting, mix? Pump, pen, syringe? Which pump running what software?
The authors of this paper obviously start with the assumption that all the "Type 1 diabetics" they studied were as a result of this mysterious auto-immune disease, a disease whose pathology or very existence is entirely unclear.
They say in the paper that their cohort had all been diagnosed as "Type 1" as if it's a choice between black or white. It's not, because that term is undefined and in clinical practice covers a significant spectrum of people.
Also, to add insult to injury, TFS includes this nugget:
That makes 0 Ohms sense.
Clue for submitter & editor: the SI unit for time is the second, last time I looked.
What a truly shitty company MS still remain.
For years they poison the namespace for a piece of free software (I wonder why?) and then only relent when they decide they need the developers & users of said software onside....after pissing away $7.5 billion in an effort to coral them.
Their complete lack of clue knows no bounds. Let me have a guess, I'm not the only one to have dumped Github in the past few days & they're getting a bit nervous?
The funniest thing about it is that before git came along, I read that the code monkeys in Redmond had to make do without a versioning system. Apparently, they used a system which largely consisted of xcopy & symlinks tied together with batch scripts!
I can't imagine how they managed to produce such fine quality software like Windows ME ;)
I've got an idea how Elon can keep his by now somewhat disgruntled customers hanging on for their cars made of the very finest unobtainium, namely a 2 for 1 deal:
$ units
You have: 21 degC
You want: degF
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Good grief, looks like I am!
Apparently, Facebook are now saying that the message is clearly a bug. It was meant to say:
"Do you want to continue to be anally raped by a multi-billion spying operation run by a dwarf with no moral compass?{Y/n]"
For those with a room temperature IQ (in celsius) you want to hit "Yes". Everybody else wants to hit "No".
I'd concur with that. Go with a pf based solution if you can. You can search on Amazon or Ebay for "pfsense" and any number of cheap mini boxes will turn up.
What sort of CPU/RAM etc. you want is dependent on how many packets you are pushing in and out. You might want to buy with an eye to any possible increases in the number of those packets that you see coming in the not too distant future.
If you're on ADSL you might want to employ this nice little hack in order to improve things. For those who use vanilla FreeBSD, you need to rebuild your kernel with the altq(4) knobs turned on. OpenBSD it's not necessary.
You obviously want to set the speed to whatever you've got and you'll want to replace "any" in those rules with something like "! 192.168.1.0/24" or internal traffic on your LAN could end up running like molasses. Been there, done that.
Of course, you're wrong on that count AC like you are on everything else.
2 or 3 presidents? Of Uganda? Or do you mean the office in your shithole country? As currently occupied by a large, orange sack of shit who currently holds the world 'holding your breath whilst underwater' record....according to my mate, Vladimir. I can tell by your tone, that you must be enormously proud of him and his charming wife with her, somewhat interesting, former "professional" life in Eastern Europe.
The pair of them only increase the high regard that us dodgy, clearly inferior, foreigners hold your nation in.
Let me fill you in on a few facts AC. There are some folks in this world, quite unlike you, who are known as "grown-ups". They can be recognised because they are quite prepared to go head-to-head with anyone and they don't need to abuse the cloak of anonymity that /. provides to do so.
Unfortunately for you, you are quite obviously doomed to never grow a pair or even have sex with anything other than your own right hand.
Slashdot Editors: You need to fix this shit. I regularly get marked "troll" when I post logged-in with opinions and facts, just because people don't like my opinions. Mods who do that, need to be kicked into touch. Ditto, merkins like the one I've just replied to. I'm pretty sure he's got an account, so just close it and firewall the muppet off.
Otherwise, I'm just going to be another one who can't be bothered posting at all. I don't need you but you need me, at the end of the day. Whatever you may think of my opinions, they're a fucksight more substantial than the thin gruel provided by a bunch of ACs lacking gonads.
200 years of somewhat-accurate data but where from? Of course, we have somewhat-accurate data from the middle of a large continent like Africa, don't we? Oh shit, we don't, so let's use some kind of analogue instead and massage those figures into shape. Rinse & repeat for huge areas of the planet.
Then tell me, from your absurdly inadequate models, that you know what the climate is going to be like in a 100 years time because 95% of "climate scientists" (whatever the hell one of those is) agree on it.
95% of computer users think that Windows is a good OS. That doesn't make that true either.
Such "climate heresy" doesn't fly in universities though just through pure social pressure; your academic career will be toast if you don't go with the orthodoxy and you will also be a social pariah, for good measure. Every reason to go with the flow, even though that impulse may likely be subconscious.
I dispute it too. They've got the grand total of 14 years data and they're drawing possible conclusions about "climate change"?
I'll clue the folks in at NASA: the Earth has been around for ~4 billion years. When your satellite has been up there for a billion years or 2, then get back to me with your analysis.
Until then, your analysis has little more credibility than me sticking my head outside tomorrow morning and saying: "The climate is changing & we're all doomed! Oh, BTW, about that research money..."
He has built less cars than Ferrari have in the same time and his production line is always just "...6 months away from producing <insert ludicrous figure> cars". The other differences between Tesla and Ferrari is that the cars Ferrari build is not done at a thundering loss and nor are they dishonestly pitched to customers so that they think they're self-driving with the inevitable tragic results.
As for the rockets, they are cross-subsidised and he has entirely failed to address the Arianespace CEO's pertinent observations:
"challenges of reusability ... have not disappeared. ... The stress on stage or engine structures of high-speed passage through the atmosphere, the performance penalty of reserving fuel for the return flight instead of maximizing rocket lift capacity, the need for many annual launches to make the economics work – all remain issues."
The Falcon 9 engine is supposed to be re-usable but only half a dozen or so have been re-used so far and then only once.
The fact of the matter is that with rocket engines you design them with a very small safety factor & hence the materials are at their limits. To do otherwise means excess material and more weight. To do otherwise and use fuel (which itself needs carrying aloft) to land the now shagged engine is absurd.
To top things off, last week in a conference call with financial types, he basically tells them to go and boil their heads when they ask him tricky finance type questions and then even more insultingly only responds to the "When are you going to build a space elevator out of unobtainium, Elon?" type questions from fanbois.
By doing that, he just pissed over any chance of getting further investment from the big players and has just hastened the demise of his shonky companies.
The tragedy is not only the lives he has taken in order to satisfy his ego but the chilling effect it will have on future investment for people who aren't charlatans.
I had a look at the pictures and they've clearly just been knocked up in photoshop.
If his bogus company truly was putting the "finishing touches" to a tunnel, then he wouldn't have to do that or put another 'imagineered' video up on Instagram because a real video would be impressive enough!
He would also tell us where exactly the tunnel goes from and to.
I've had enough of this scam artists bollocks. He should be thrown in prison; which I think he will be in the not too distant future.
How's it going to help? It's going to help Mr.Turnbull get re-elected along with his interesting ideas about how Australian law trumps mathematical law, of course.
Actually, I don't think it will help him in that regard. I suspect this is just some largesse for 'mates' before he gets booted out of office.
When I was hitchhiking in Queensland for a few months over 30 years ago, corruption was rife within the state government and pretty much on open display with a streak of shit named Joh Bjelke-Petersen perched at the top of the pile. In that respect, I doubt if things have changed much. Although 'Uncle Joh' is well dead, I'm sure his 'inheritance' lives on.
Despite that, tropical Queensland, on and next to the reef (ie. Rockhampton & north), was a pretty good place to be for a young man. That was a time before tourism had really taken off but there were some ominous signs. I wouldn't want to go back now as I'd probably just end up seriously depressed about what it's turned in to.
That's where one of his major problems is. He might have been able to tempt top mech/man engineers who can set up a production line and make it sing when he started out years ago. Not any longer.
Any he did have, will have long left the sinking ship. They will have kept quiet publicly due to their NDAs but the word will have got around the industry by word of mouth.
Engineers don't like working for people who don't know what they are doing and have a somewhat strained relationship with the truth.
He's blamed his suppliers, he's blamed his robots....when is he going to throw his remaining engineers under the bus? Before the company goes titsup? Or do they get to hang on until it goes titsup?
You've largely hit the nail on the head. This is just another example of Musk talking Grade 'A' horseshit.
Nowadays, to produce cars cheaply, at scale and acceptable quality, you have to use automation wherever you can. Musk has failed on all 3 of those counts:
* Not cheaply. Regularly running through half a billion bucks a quarter or thereabouts.
* As you say, the quality of the cars has reportedly been shite. Ask matey who crashed into a barrier just how good the softs for his Autopilot are....oh yeah, you can't because he's dead.
* As for the numbers, it very much sounds like he has been selling pre-production units to inflate his already dire production numbers. Tesla reported their quarterly production numbers to the SEC. Unfortunately, the folks on the Street don't seem to be as highly educated as me and obviously missed out on their primary school basic arithmetic. From the numbers given:
$ echo "(9766 - 2020)/11" | bc -e "scale=0"
704
So ignoring the last week of that quarter & it's heavily massaged & spun figure, they're struggling to knock out under 800 cars of shitty quality a week.
He wouldn't be trying to mislead investors with his filing would he? I thought that was some sort of criminal offence.
From TFA:
If it's not plain text then it doesn't belong in the body of an email. That's what attachments are for.
He doesn't do his credibility as a sensible and informed critic of MUAs any good with that statement. Although, to be fair, he's probably correct in saying that the current Windows mail client is a POS; they always have been.
MS, along with most of the other software vendors, are trying to force their victims^H^Hcustomers to their 'cloud' offerings and potentially never ending huge revenue stream. It may work for a few years but eventually businesses might just wise-up to the fact that running your apps on Azure, which has a tendency to go up and down with the regularity of a whore's drawers, is probably not the best way to run your business.
postfix, procmail and mutt for the win.
If the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia is interested in it, then I'm not.
His track record is not good:
Tl;Dr: MbS is a moron and bellend. Hence, Virgin Hyperloop must be doomed.
So after decades of treating diabetics as either type 1 or 2, they wake up to the idea that things might be a little bit more complicated than that.
Yet, I an insulin-dependent diabetic am still nowhere to be found in their expanded categorisation.
I was ~35 when I was diagnosed with diabetes. This was well over a year after almost dying from acute pancreatitis.
It's well known in the literature (if not by common sense) that if the pancreas goes bonkers then there is a reasonable chance that the patient will probably become diabetic to some extent, since the pancreas is where insulin is produced. It was seemingly unknown to the cock holsters who treated me, though.
So another set of overpaid cock holsters come up with this staggering finding. /s
When I was diagnosed ~20 years ago, I grovelled around the 'net via Excite! and found a paper where the author identified maybe a dozen different types of diabetes including mine. Some 20 yrs later, they produce a considerably crappier paper and are lauded like they've split the fucking atom...
WTF? Read my sig.