Isn't this blatant wasting of tax payers money? Clearly secret service was involved because of a) pressured by Apple lobbyists, or b) their buds in Government made it to act for "the good" of their corporate overlords.
As the TFA points out, the Secret Service performed an investigation. That is, somebody thought something was weird, it got bounced up the chain to a couple of field agents who acted professionally, even displayed a teensy tiny bit of humor ("We're from the FBI, maam, we don't have a sense of humor that we are aware of.") and compassion, spent some time and in the end, decided it wasn't a big deal. Remember, these guys didn't know what goofball artiste was up to. They just got a report of somebody installing what literally amounts to spyware on private computers.
If somebody did that where I work, you can bet there would be a bunch of people both in uniform and plainclothes wandering about asking pointed questions.
If anything, this reaffirms my (very limited) faith in the system. Nobody called in the SWAT team. Nobody went to jail. Yes, people were inconvenienced, but that happens every day around rush hour. Money was spent. In retrospect they didn't really need to do that, but that is what is great about hindsight.
The article is a bit hard to follow, but what appears to have happened is this guy asked for permission from an employee at an Apple store if he could take pictures inside the store. The employee said sure, no problem. So what does he do? He installs spyware on the demo machines inside the Apple store, which uses the built in camera to take pictures of people using the computers and uploads them to a publicly viewable web site.. Now this may have been "art", but the Secret Service called it something else. This isn't much different than installing a key logger on the machines as an "art" project (yes, "scare quotes" is intentional). Not really something good.
Yes. This is 'art' like Christo's stuff is art. The main difference is that Christo has managed a reputation and hired his own lawyers to invade public and private spaces. As TFA pointed out artists often like to push the envelope to get people to notice. Well, he certainly did that..... Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Indeed. If you're terribly worried about an investigative organization politely knocking on your door, discussing your batshit insane (but nonetheless interesting) 'art' project that when, evaluated from a neutral point of view, contains enough hot button issues to get a dozen companies, agencies and lawyers all excited and you conflate this to the End of Civilization as We Know It, you, yourself, need to spend sometime in reality.
That, and try to stay away from posts with serious run on sentences.
The FDA is much stricter than other country's regulatory agencies when it comes to not approving medications. But it's easy for you to complain about recalls because the sample size is so large and you can just ignore all the drugs that are shown to be safe. Many are calling for the FDA to relax their strict guidelines for approving medications as it is a trade-off between making available potentially life-saving medicine and protecting people from medications that don't work / have unexpected side-effects.
While others are calling for increased scrutiny because a number of recent drugs that have gone through 'fast track' have turned out not to be so useful or safe. It's a very, very difficult question and while the FDA often doesn't do a good job of it, I'm not sure that any extant or mythical regulator will. It depends critically on how 'safe' something is. Nothing is perfectly safe, no action, no drug, no treatment. There is a huge body of literature devoted to reasonable levels of safety and basically, it's arbitrary and any one level is guaranteed not to please everyone.
Personally, I think that the FDA has caved to the manufacturers and Big Pharma. If you have a revolutionary new treatment that expands opportunities and actually prolongs or improves life to a significant extent, you can afford some side effects or problems. If it's just another 'me too' drug or treatment or one that cures a disease 30 minutes faster than the old one, not so much.
And the case of Quinine is interesting. The FDA never banned Quinine. They just asked that studies be done on what amounts to a significant off label use (leg cramps). That was done because of quite a bit of (bad) data indicating possible health problems with the drug and unclear benefits. Nobody took them up on it. You can still buy branded Quinine for $3.00+ dollars a pill and use it for malaria treatment. You just can't get the generics.
I'm not up on the exact level of data the FDA used, but it appears they made a reasonable (not necessarily correct) decision. Like every other Federal regulatory agency, the FDA is heavily politicized. It isn't supposed to be, but that's reality. Politics and Science make strange bedfellows. Add the Law and you have a menage-a-trios that would made the Marquis de Sade happy.
You could. Walmart has free shipping. Even to Alaska.
That's completely insane - they are undercutting local businesses by 20 - 40%. Don't know how long they're going to keep this up but watching it is entertaining.
Does anybody have a good set of instructions on how to make a Faraday Cage wallet?? (note not how to buy said wallet or something on a split between 64 pages so we can get ad income for 64 page views thing like instructables)
Just place it under your tin foil hat. You see, you've already got one....
What pisses me off is that, even if I had the cash to update my Mac Pro, firstly I don't want to, it's still a great machine and secondly, there are no new Mac Pros available anyway.
Yeah, the Mac Pro issue is pretty annoying. I have a 3,1 from 2008. It's had memory and hard drive updates and is within 30% of the speed of a new Mac Pro. It's also a pretty expensive machine. Now, I can update my graphics card and I should be 10.8 capable, but earlier versions like the 3,0 machines - which are just as fast - won't be upgradable.
So, you decide to bite the bullet and get a new Mac Pro - then you realize that they've barely been upgraded in the past 6 years and you wonder why you'd want to drop top dollar on that old of a design.
Makes you feel unloved, it does.
If Windows 7 didn't just completely annoy me, I might go back to Redmond. Except that Windows 7 is going to be the old version pretty soon and I just can't handle the Metro Interface.
And if you're using it in a business environment, it should be fully depreciated by now.
Further, 10.7 should run just fine for a number of years - it doesn't self destruct when 10.8 roles around.
And further further, anyone up upgrades at 10.8.0 is either insane, hopelessly naive, or into BDSM. Never, ever run an Apple OS until it gets to the.3 revision. So you have some time to ignore the issue and just keep working.
Even though the Romans were not an industrial society by our definition of the word, I would assume they did use quite a lot of raw materials. It probably took a lot of wood, and forges to keep the Legions armed. Not to mention all the burning of all the Christians by the Emperors. This could be one explanation of why it was hotter back then. Just brainstorming, IANAS. And I don't believe in Global Warming according to current theories.
Quantitative analysis isn't your strong suite, I take it.
You might leave big important decisions to people who can understand numbers.
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Wait. What?
Of course it is those who are afraid of reality who recoil from something like this like a Gollum from the light.
Outside.
Now.
Bet he's pretty good with an E-11 blaster.
Isn't this blatant wasting of tax payers money? Clearly secret service was involved because of a) pressured by Apple lobbyists, or b) their buds in Government made it to act for "the good" of their corporate overlords.
As the TFA points out, the Secret Service performed an investigation. That is, somebody thought something was weird, it got bounced up the chain to a couple of field agents who acted professionally, even displayed a teensy tiny bit of humor ("We're from the FBI, maam, we don't have a sense of humor that we are aware of.") and compassion, spent some time and in the end, decided it wasn't a big deal. Remember, these guys didn't know what goofball artiste was up to. They just got a report of somebody installing what literally amounts to spyware on private computers.
If somebody did that where I work, you can bet there would be a bunch of people both in uniform and plainclothes wandering about asking pointed questions.
If anything, this reaffirms my (very limited) faith in the system. Nobody called in the SWAT team. Nobody went to jail. Yes, people were inconvenienced, but that happens every day around rush hour. Money was spent. In retrospect they didn't really need to do that, but that is what is great about hindsight.
The article is a bit hard to follow, but what appears to have happened is this guy asked for permission from an employee at an Apple store if he could take pictures inside the store. The employee said sure, no problem. So what does he do? He installs spyware on the demo machines inside the Apple store, which uses the built in camera to take pictures of people using the computers and uploads them to a publicly viewable web site.. Now this may have been "art", but the Secret Service called it something else. This isn't much different than installing a key logger on the machines as an "art" project (yes, "scare quotes" is intentional). Not really something good.
Yes. This is 'art' like Christo's stuff is art. The main difference is that Christo has managed a reputation and hired his own lawyers to invade public and private spaces. As TFA pointed out artists often like to push the envelope to get people to notice. Well, he certainly did that..... Careful what you ask for, you just might get it.
Indeed. If you're terribly worried about an investigative organization politely knocking on your door, discussing your batshit insane (but nonetheless interesting) 'art' project that when, evaluated from a neutral point of view, contains enough hot button issues to get a dozen companies, agencies and lawyers all excited and you conflate this to the End of Civilization as We Know It, you, yourself, need to spend sometime in reality.
That, and try to stay away from posts with serious run on sentences.
Sorry, first cup of coffee time here.
FWIW, this is why I buy name brand drugs. The FDA's useless, and extra money I spend is money spent locking down supply chains.
Guess where they make most 'brand named drugs'.
The same factories that make the generics with the same feedstocks.
Oopsie. Good thing that the human body is pretty robust.
The FDA is much stricter than other country's regulatory agencies when it comes to not approving medications. But it's easy for you to complain about recalls because the sample size is so large and you can just ignore all the drugs that are shown to be safe. Many are calling for the FDA to relax their strict guidelines for approving medications as it is a trade-off between making available potentially life-saving medicine and protecting people from medications that don't work / have unexpected side-effects.
While others are calling for increased scrutiny because a number of recent drugs that have gone through 'fast track' have turned out not to be so useful or safe. It's a very, very difficult question and while the FDA often doesn't do a good job of it, I'm not sure that any extant or mythical regulator will. It depends critically on how 'safe' something is. Nothing is perfectly safe, no action, no drug, no treatment. There is a huge body of literature devoted to reasonable levels of safety and basically, it's arbitrary and any one level is guaranteed not to please everyone.
Personally, I think that the FDA has caved to the manufacturers and Big Pharma. If you have a revolutionary new treatment that expands opportunities and actually prolongs or improves life to a significant extent, you can afford some side effects or problems. If it's just another 'me too' drug or treatment or one that cures a disease 30 minutes faster than the old one, not so much.
And the case of Quinine is interesting. The FDA never banned Quinine. They just asked that studies be done on what amounts to a significant off label use (leg cramps). That was done because of quite a bit of (bad) data indicating possible health problems with the drug and unclear benefits. Nobody took them up on it. You can still buy branded Quinine for $3.00+ dollars a pill and use it for malaria treatment. You just can't get the generics.
I'm not up on the exact level of data the FDA used, but it appears they made a reasonable (not necessarily correct) decision. Like every other Federal regulatory agency, the FDA is heavily politicized. It isn't supposed to be, but that's reality. Politics and Science make strange bedfellows. Add the Law and you have a menage-a-trios that would made the Marquis de Sade happy.
It knows when you are sleeping,
It knows when you're awake,
It knows if you've been bad or good,
so be good for goodness sake!
I always thought that jingle was pretty creepy.
Just think of it as the big CTL-ALT-DELETE from the sky. It's not quite so anti social that way.
Huh?
Whatever the hell he's going on about, he sure is upset with it.
You could. Walmart has free shipping. Even to Alaska.
That's completely insane - they are undercutting local businesses by 20 - 40%. Don't know how long they're going to keep this up but watching it is entertaining.
I don't think that word means what you think it means, Timothy.
(What a shocking thought...)
Yes, and before anybody else brings this up, I realize the concepts of a Micheal Bay movie and a plot are somewhat orthogonal to each other.
I think you've just come up with the plot of the next Micheal Bay movie!
Does anybody have a good set of instructions on how to make a Faraday Cage wallet?? (note not how to buy said wallet or something on a split between 64 pages so we can get ad income for 64 page views thing like instructables)
Just place it under your tin foil hat. You see, you've already got one....
You're forgetting hookers and blow.
So, it's BDSM for you?
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But whips and chains excite me.
(seen on a car license plate frame, the personalized plate read "N2LTHR")
I am never ceased to be amazed at seeing Scientists make "amazing discoveries" of what should be COMMON SENSE principals.
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." Albert Einstein.
Looked at the Chameleon website, hasn't been updated since 2009. And it specifically states
Chameleon is developed to boot Darwin/Mac OS X on PCs, it doesn’t work on Macs.
Is there something else here that isn't apparent?
What pisses me off is that, even if I had the cash to update my Mac Pro, firstly I don't want to, it's still a great machine and secondly, there are no new Mac Pros available anyway.
Yeah, the Mac Pro issue is pretty annoying. I have a 3,1 from 2008. It's had memory and hard drive updates and is within 30% of the speed of a new Mac Pro. It's also a pretty expensive machine. Now, I can update my graphics card and I should be 10.8 capable, but earlier versions like the 3,0 machines - which are just as fast - won't be upgradable.
So, you decide to bite the bullet and get a new Mac Pro - then you realize that they've barely been upgraded in the past 6 years and you wonder why you'd want to drop top dollar on that old of a design.
Makes you feel unloved, it does.
If Windows 7 didn't just completely annoy me, I might go back to Redmond. Except that Windows 7 is going to be the old version pretty soon and I just can't handle the Metro Interface.
Grrrr. This Photoshop addiction can get ugly.
And if you're using it in a business environment, it should be fully depreciated by now.
Further, 10.7 should run just fine for a number of years - it doesn't self destruct when 10.8 roles around.
And further further, anyone up upgrades at 10.8.0 is either insane, hopelessly naive, or into BDSM. Never, ever run an Apple OS until it gets to the .3 revision. So you have some time to ignore the issue and just keep working.
They do have a warmer more 'natural' sound
In a vacuum, no one can hear you scream.
Even though the Romans were not an industrial society by our definition of the word, I would assume they did use quite a lot of raw materials. It probably took a lot of wood, and forges to keep the Legions armed. Not to mention all the burning of all the Christians by the Emperors. This could be one explanation of why it was hotter back then. Just brainstorming, IANAS. And I don't believe in Global Warming according to current theories.
Quantitative analysis isn't your strong suite, I take it.
You might leave big important decisions to people who can understand numbers.
Si tacuisses, philosophus fuisses
I'll make a stab at it, quoting Mark Twain:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.