The DEA jumped the shark a while back. If marijuana is a Schedule I drug (no accepted medical use, high probability of harm) and Marinol (concentrated, synthetic THC, the active ingredient in marijuana) is a Schedule III (Like low dose hydrocodone - Vicodin) then something's pretty wacky.
They have no interest in doing anything but increasing their fiefdom. Which is a shame. There is a complex interplay between useful and dangerous drugs and uncontrolled drug abuse is dangerous (witness the bath salts issue). But no one wants to work the with the DEA since administratively they're still mired in the Reefer Madness mindset.
The executive branch, ie. Obama, needs to slap on some testosterone patches (a Schedule III drug) and knock some upper level bureaucrats silly. There really is no possible law enforcement reason for this. If you are looking for the few doctors that really are the bad apples, the pill mill guys, then all you need to do is track the docs prescription volumes. Start looking at the folks, say two standard deviations from the mean. That should give you enough homework. You don't need to drill down to the individual patient level - that's not where the public health issue is.
You guys should reinvent it as a UN agency so that you're not the only ones paying for it.
Are you kidding? If that happened, then the small fraction of the US that doesn't think the FDA is a Big Pharma plant will get all riled up because the AYERABS and COMMIES will control their meds.
Which, on reflection, might not be such a bad thing...
So you want an app that's controlling an IV pump to be written to the same standards as your average fart app?
That's what this is about. The FDA neither has the time nor energy to look at every stupid 'medical' app in the store. They're only going to deal with ones that have an interaction to hardware that can cause problems or if the app is really, egregariously touting some medical benefit that it can't possibly provide.
Wikipedia? Are you really trying to make people believe that those who use Wikipedia are of some monolithic ideology? What?
Not to mention that just about anything that gets any real attention within the Slashdot community is normally from one of the same 300 or so users. There may be a larger user base here but most of it goes unheard and the inner circle of mods and posters is established to the point that if you're not in it you won't be taken seriously no matter how factual or insightful you really are.
Here is a protip from an experienced traveler: If the cabin starts rotating past 30 degrees, or if it pitches or yaws significantly, stop whatever you're doing and look up.
The typing based systems, as haruchai has pointed out, are actually OK. Not for complex stuff as they're still usually running off scripts, but if you need an activation code or something similar it's much easier to understand. Bandwidth is much lower so connection issues are less apparent.
It might be worth setting up lots of $PowerStorageStations if there were ways to do that.
If we had a reliable, scalable, generally applicable (ort two out of three) method of storing instantaneous power generation from a variety of natural or man made resources, wind and solar power would completely stomp fossil fuels for baseline power use.
TFA talks about Apple''s desire not to have it's customers electrocute themselves with dodgy, cheap chargers.
TFA (and TFS) talk about the evils of unlicensed cables.
I can get where Apple might come down on the dodgy chargers. At least some had clearances that allowed mains voltages to jump to the charging cable and thence to the unfortunate Apple Fritter. I don't see where the cable itself is involved. I'm thinking that if you put mains voltage on the Official Lightning Cable (TM) it's going to happily conduct the electricity to whatever it's connected to. Or do official cables have a ground fault interrupt circuit in them?
China needs someone in their corner with nuclear weapons
Are you forgetting Dennis Rodman's batshit insane friend? North Korea's existence depends entirely on being China's delightfully-insane-but-moderately-dangerous second cousin who is locked in the basement and only let out to amuse the neighborhood kids.
Yes. Go look at some of the other titles. TFA is one of the more approachable ones . Your head will aslpode.
"Inflationary Instabilities of Einstein-Aether Cosmology " "Simulation of homologous and cannibalistic CMEs produced by the emergence of a twisted flux rope into the Corona" "ORIGAMI: Delineating Cosmic Structures with Phase-Space Folds" "X-Shooter GTO: evidence for a population of extremely metal-poor, alpha-poor stars"
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The DEA jumped the shark a while back. If marijuana is a Schedule I drug (no accepted medical use, high probability of harm) and Marinol (concentrated, synthetic THC, the active ingredient in marijuana) is a Schedule III (Like low dose hydrocodone - Vicodin) then something's pretty wacky.
They have no interest in doing anything but increasing their fiefdom. Which is a shame. There is a complex interplay between useful and dangerous drugs and uncontrolled drug abuse is dangerous (witness the bath salts issue). But no one wants to work the with the DEA since administratively they're still mired in the Reefer Madness mindset.
The executive branch, ie. Obama, needs to slap on some testosterone patches (a Schedule III drug) and knock some upper level bureaucrats silly. There really is no possible law enforcement reason for this. If you are looking for the few doctors that really are the bad apples, the pill mill guys, then all you need to do is track the docs prescription volumes. Start looking at the folks, say two standard deviations from the mean. That should give you enough homework. You don't need to drill down to the individual patient level - that's not where the public health issue is.
You guys should reinvent it as a UN agency so that you're not the only ones paying for it.
Are you kidding? If that happened, then the small fraction of the US that doesn't think the FDA is a Big Pharma plant will get all riled up because the AYERABS and COMMIES will control their meds.
Which, on reflection, might not be such a bad thing ...
From the Countermeasures Department, Evil Dictator Removal Group:
We find your remote jammers, land some special ops troops and jack into your control systems.
Have a nice day. What's left of it, anyway.
So you want an app that's controlling an IV pump to be written to the same standards as your average fart app?
That's what this is about. The FDA neither has the time nor energy to look at every stupid 'medical' app in the store. They're only going to deal with ones that have an interaction to hardware that can cause problems or if the app is really, egregariously touting some medical benefit that it can't possibly provide.
Wikipedia? Are you really trying to make people believe that those who use Wikipedia are of some monolithic ideology? What?
Not to mention that just about anything that gets any real attention within the Slashdot community is normally from one of the same 300 or so users. There may be a larger user base here but most of it goes unheard and the inner circle of mods and posters is established to the point that if you're not in it you won't be taken seriously no matter how factual or insightful you really are.
Try logging in. Then we'll talk.
Here is a protip from an experienced traveler: If the cabin starts rotating past 30 degrees, or if it pitches or yaws significantly, stop whatever you're doing and look up.
Why should the FAA care what the TSA is doing?
(Two different federal agencies with little overlap. I'm sure the FAA is jealous of the TSA's budget but other than that not much interaction.)
The typing based systems, as haruchai has pointed out, are actually OK. Not for complex stuff as they're still usually running off scripts, but if you need an activation code or something similar it's much easier to understand. Bandwidth is much lower so connection issues are less apparent.
Hardware from China and software from India.
MBA's from the US
Judges from Italy
Maple Syrup from Canada
and
Putin from Russia to oversee the project on horseback.
It's a small world, after all....
Or maybe they are just going to concatenate the numbers:
2 + 2 = 4 but
2 ++ 2 = 22 much better.
Now show this to an MBA and see which one they'll go for.
Why don't we take it to the logical extreme... "an infinite number of totally uninformed lawyers".
Would we get Shakespeare out of that if we gave them a bunch of typewriters?
It might be worth setting up lots of $PowerStorageStations if there were ways to do that.
If we had a reliable, scalable, generally applicable (ort two out of three) method of storing instantaneous power generation from a variety of natural or man made resources, wind and solar power would completely stomp fossil fuels for baseline power use.
We don't and it doesn't. Yet.
How do you know it was the Chaos Computer Club, eh?
Not much else to add except that the linked WSJ article seemed rather... well... brief (available to subscribers only)
Yes, this 'article' and the comments stemming from it represent a new low here. Which is took some doing.
Come on folks, THINK just a bit. Work on that old reading comprehension. English can't be everybody's fifth language.
If you can't clear a dialog box, then you really are disabled. How do you manage to post here?
The #1 reason I don't use Apple products summed up in one article.
That is incorrect and doesn't make any logical sense?
Sucks to be you, I suppose. But, hey, run with it.
And here, sports fans, is exactly why we need better controls on firearms and video games in the US.
TFA talks about Apple''s desire not to have it's customers electrocute themselves with dodgy, cheap chargers.
TFA (and TFS) talk about the evils of unlicensed cables.
I can get where Apple might come down on the dodgy chargers. At least some had clearances that allowed mains voltages to jump to the charging cable and thence to the unfortunate Apple Fritter. I don't see where the cable itself is involved. I'm thinking that if you put mains voltage on the Official Lightning Cable (TM) it's going to happily conduct the electricity to whatever it's connected to. Or do official cables have a ground fault interrupt circuit in them?
Are you referring to the US Congress or the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
China needs someone in their corner with nuclear weapons
Are you forgetting Dennis Rodman's batshit insane friend? North Korea's existence depends entirely on being China's delightfully-insane-but-moderately-dangerous second cousin who is locked in the basement and only let out to amuse the neighborhood kids.
Nah, the Illuminati coordinates this sort off thing all the time.
Maybe an Electric Universe disciple.
Yes. Go look at some of the other titles. TFA is one of the more approachable ones . Your head will aslpode.
"Inflationary Instabilities of Einstein-Aether Cosmology "
"Simulation of homologous and cannibalistic CMEs produced by the emergence of a twisted flux rope into the Corona"
"ORIGAMI: Delineating Cosmic Structures with Phase-Space Folds"
"X-Shooter GTO: evidence for a population of extremely metal-poor, alpha-poor stars"
and of course, my favorite:
"The peculiar Raychaudhuri equation"
I'm getting worried here.
Spiral galaxy arm transits.
Cosmic ray fluctuations.
Killer Asteroids.
I think somebody out there doesn't like us much (not that I blame them).