But it could be (then you would patent it, I suppose.)
While this is interesting and all and potentially could be used at a high value directed target, as a general problem it's pretty limited. There aren't many insulin pumps out there, there are several manufacturers and I would imagine the exploit is device specific.
I'm not sure just why the manufacturer thinks the pump needs to have a wireless function though. If it needs to talk to another device, I would have used a small magnetic cable (so it doesn't get pulled out). Easy peasy as opposed to convincing a wireless device to talk to something else.
They were all soldiers so you might have more baseline data than you would for a member of the general population. But the specific questions you are answering are really not germane to the study. This is a first, low resolution look at general areas involved in fairly general mental processes. It hasn't been clear that there were specific regions of the brain involved in specific higher process functions.
Yes, there are likely to be differences between men and woman, Caucasians and Asians, old and young. And if they can get around the obvious social and political biases this sort of experiment would entail, they may be able to get more detailed information. Unfortunately, unless you're in Syria, it's not likely you can replicate this exact experiment since most cultures don't go forcing shrapnel through people's heads on a regular basis.
I tried Tax Act and they said I had to pay $200 to the Feds. Went to HR Block and I'm getting a $900 refund.
How is that possible?
1. You gave each company different info or answered a question differently (easy to do). 2. One company may have screwed up (you don't know which one). 3. One company may be more aggressive at determining deductions or credits which might increase or decrease your chance at being audited.
I would hazard a guess that if you gave your returns to 10 different tax preparers you'd get 8 different answers. In fact, that's been done by some news organization in the past ?NPR or somesuch and that's what happened.
I think you have to give some kudos to the IRS. I've been dealing with them concerning my parent's taxes (my dad died, left an unholy mess). Yes, I have an accountant (and a lawyer) involved but they've been polite, helpful and reasonable in terms of time frames.
They've done a pretty good job of cleaning up their act in terms of their public face. I'm sure it's not perfect, I'm sure there are horror stories out there. But they've improved and they seem to keep trying pretty hard.
The big issue with a lot of tax advice is that it isn't black or white. There are some ways to take deductions and credits that could trigger an audit or have some chance of being rejected by the IRS. In essence, you get to choose your tax payment strategy - either conservative and unlikely to get bothered by the IRS or risky, likely to give you a better yield (less taxes) but has more chance of being questioned.
The full analysis of this requires specific facts of your situation and the law. It ain't easy. Its' a professional service.
To paraphrase an old quote - He who uses himself as their own tax accountant has a fool for a client.
(YMMV, probably overkill in simple cases but that's what a 1040 EZ is for.)
Macs don't get viruses, tardo. This is a trojan. This guy claims to be a 'security researcher' but doesn't know the difference?
I think we might as well get over having lost this battle. All of the major media outlets (and thus the vast majority of Mindless Media consumers) are calling it a 'virus'.
But not to worry, we've got lots of other technological windmills to tilt at.
Exactly. These sorts of 'memory recall' studies usually never pan out. I don't remember what x-rays I got 10 years ago. I can't even remember the details of my last series (did we do a bite wing? an apical? was that the time I was dealing with the root canal?).
But now you've got enough data to go and scrounge for money for a prospective study. This is all well and good, I can't come up with a better way to do science in our current environment. But don't stop the presses just yet.
Don't have time to post it all out, put it's easy to compare energies of photons at various frequencies at Wolfram-Alpha. Very instructive exercise left to the student.
Hate to burst a bubble but pretty much all 'medical' practitioners from acupuncturists to neurosurgeons have limited oversight and do things that, in retrospect, seem batshit insane.
Health care can be a big gamble, some things work, a lot don't. In general, I think we're improving all of the time (Big Pharma being a notable exception) but it's not easy, inexpensive or guaranteed.
McCoy: [McCoy, masked and in surgical garb, passes an elderly woman groaning on a gurney in the hallway] What's the matter with you? Elderly patient: [weakly] Kidney [pause] Elderly patient: dialysis. McCoy: [geniunely surprised] Dialysis? [musing to himself] McCoy: What is this, the Dark Ages? [He turns back to the patient and hands her a large white pill] McCoy: Here, [pause] McCoy: you swallow that, and if you have any more problems, just call me! [He pats her cheek and leaves]
That's a novel concept. No, I don't think I'm going to RTFA. I'm just going to let this vision percolate in my brain for awhile, unaided by facts. It's much more amusing this way.
What about thieves who regularly intercept wireless signals from the meters to determine occupancy patterns, then come back and break in when no one's home?
Do these meters have end-to-end encryption?
Just take one of your spare tin foil hats and wrap it around the meter. That way the black helicopters can't sneak up on you.
How am I or anyone else supposed to "shift energy use to non-peak hours" when our working schedules are determined by our employers?
For somebody with "Do It Yourself' in your nic, you seem kinda stuck.
May I introduce you to the concept of a timer? Something that might turn your hot water heater or your clothes dryer on at night? Although not common as of yet, you can likely see that such a technology isn't exactly cutting edge. It would not be difficult to design newer clothes dryers and dishwashers to go on at night when the power is cheaper. One could even cobble up an aftermarket gizmo to do that. Obviously won't work for everything in the house, but even a 10% reduction in peak load is a considerable savings to a power company.
So you're saying that instead of a team of skilled individuals doing careful, painstaking work that requires talent, dedication and training, it would be better if you could just load the ripped DVD onto your computer, run it through "3D Mechanic Pro" and grab your glasses?
Also ALL of the things you list are nationally beloved monuments to the respective countries they are in, meaning there is money from a whole nation to take care of each of those national treasures. Can you honestly say with a straight face that a crumbling Enterprise in Vegas would draw the nation in to repair it as was done with the Statue of Liberty?
Why not? We did it for the Washington Monument which is nothing but a giant rock dildo.
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It's a funny. Laugh.
It isn't connected.
But it could be (then you would patent it, I suppose.)
While this is interesting and all and potentially could be used at a high value directed target, as a general problem it's pretty limited. There aren't many insulin pumps out there, there are several manufacturers and I would imagine the exploit is device specific.
I'm not sure just why the manufacturer thinks the pump needs to have a wireless function though. If it needs to talk to another device, I would have used a small magnetic cable (so it doesn't get pulled out). Easy peasy as opposed to convincing a wireless device to talk to something else.
I'm not one to believe this sort of conspiracy theory
Says 'the eric conspiracy'.
Sometimes it is best to post as AC.
They were all soldiers so you might have more baseline data than you would for a member of the general population. But the specific questions you are answering are really not germane to the study. This is a first, low resolution look at general areas involved in fairly general mental processes. It hasn't been clear that there were specific regions of the brain involved in specific higher process functions.
Yes, there are likely to be differences between men and woman, Caucasians and Asians, old and young. And if they can get around the obvious social and political biases this sort of experiment would entail, they may be able to get more detailed information. Unfortunately, unless you're in Syria, it's not likely you can replicate this exact experiment since most cultures don't go forcing shrapnel through people's heads on a regular basis.
Hell, we don't need the government for adventurous, useless robotic machines.
Purdue University runs a contest every year.
I tried Tax Act and they said I had to pay $200 to the Feds. Went to HR Block and I'm getting a $900 refund.
How is that possible?
1. You gave each company different info or answered a question differently (easy to do).
2. One company may have screwed up (you don't know which one).
3. One company may be more aggressive at determining deductions or credits which might increase or decrease your chance at being audited.
I would hazard a guess that if you gave your returns to 10 different tax preparers you'd get 8 different answers. In fact, that's been done by some news organization in the past ?NPR or somesuch and that's what happened.
There is no black or white, there is only grey!
I think you have to give some kudos to the IRS. I've been dealing with them concerning my parent's taxes (my dad died, left an unholy mess). Yes, I have an accountant (and a lawyer) involved but they've been polite, helpful and reasonable in terms of time frames.
They've done a pretty good job of cleaning up their act in terms of their public face. I'm sure it's not perfect, I'm sure there are horror stories out there. But they've improved and they seem to keep trying pretty hard.
The big issue with a lot of tax advice is that it isn't black or white. There are some ways to take deductions and credits that could trigger an audit or have some chance of being rejected by the IRS. In essence, you get to choose your tax payment strategy - either conservative and unlikely to get bothered by the IRS or risky, likely to give you a better yield (less taxes) but has more chance of being questioned.
The full analysis of this requires specific facts of your situation and the law. It ain't easy. Its' a professional service.
To paraphrase an old quote - He who uses himself as their own tax accountant has a fool for a client.
(YMMV, probably overkill in simple cases but that's what a 1040 EZ is for.)
Macs don't get viruses, tardo. This is a trojan. This guy claims to be a 'security researcher' but doesn't know the difference?
I think we might as well get over having lost this battle. All of the major media outlets (and thus the vast majority of Mindless Media consumers) are calling it a 'virus'.
But not to worry, we've got lots of other technological windmills to tilt at.
Ah, but you're right. This isn't a virus. It's a trojan. And we all know that Trojan's protect dicks.
(sorry Apple fans, that one hung out there just a wee too much).
Exactly. These sorts of 'memory recall' studies usually never pan out. I don't remember what x-rays I got 10 years ago. I can't even remember the details of my last series (did we do a bite wing? an apical? was that the time I was dealing with the root canal?).
But now you've got enough data to go and scrounge for money for a prospective study. This is all well and good, I can't come up with a better way to do science in our current environment. But don't stop the presses just yet.
Good. At the rate this society is going we'll have completely cured brain cancer in a decade or so.
Don't have time to post it all out, put it's easy to compare energies of photons at various frequencies at Wolfram-Alpha. Very instructive exercise left to the student.
Yep. No more mercury poisoning. Now we'll get UV radiation induced skin cancers inside our mouths.
Science marches on!
(Only half kidding.)
Hate to burst a bubble but pretty much all 'medical' practitioners from acupuncturists to neurosurgeons have limited oversight and do things that, in retrospect, seem batshit insane.
Health care can be a big gamble, some things work, a lot don't. In general, I think we're improving all of the time (Big Pharma being a notable exception) but it's not easy, inexpensive or guaranteed.
McCoy: [McCoy, masked and in surgical garb, passes an elderly woman groaning on a gurney in the hallway] What's the matter with you?
Elderly patient: [weakly] Kidney
[pause]
Elderly patient: dialysis.
McCoy: [geniunely surprised] Dialysis?
[musing to himself]
McCoy: What is this, the Dark Ages?
[He turns back to the patient and hands her a large white pill]
McCoy: Here,
[pause]
McCoy: you swallow that, and if you have any more problems, just call me!
[He pats her cheek and leaves]
A valid reason to avoid the dentist
Here is a better reason.
Underground touch screens?
That's a novel concept. No, I don't think I'm going to RTFA. I'm just going to let this vision percolate in my brain for awhile, unaided by facts. It's much more amusing this way.
What about thieves who regularly intercept wireless signals from the meters to determine occupancy patterns, then come back and break in when no one's home?
Do these meters have end-to-end encryption?
Just take one of your spare tin foil hats and wrap it around the meter. That way the black helicopters can't sneak up on you.
Paid xyz price before smart meters, after smart meters it nearly doubled. Same with the smart meters for water. Just want to make more $$
Complaining that they caught your basement pot farm, are you? Sad Panda!
How am I or anyone else supposed to "shift energy use to non-peak hours" when our working schedules are determined by our employers?
For somebody with "Do It Yourself' in your nic, you seem kinda stuck.
May I introduce you to the concept of a timer? Something that might turn your hot water heater or your clothes dryer on at night? Although not common as of yet, you can likely see that such a technology isn't exactly cutting edge. It would not be difficult to design newer clothes dryers and dishwashers to go on at night when the power is cheaper. One could even cobble up an aftermarket gizmo to do that. Obviously won't work for everything in the house, but even a 10% reduction in peak load is a considerable savings to a power company.
Well they make some of them across the street from where I work, outside Chicago, Illinois.
OMG! The Chinese have invaded Chicago!
Maybe they can straighten out the politics there.
'No officer, I did not put that old hard drive on the power meter. I really don't have any idea why it's there.'
So you're saying that instead of a team of skilled individuals doing careful, painstaking work that requires talent, dedication and training, it would be better if you could just load the ripped DVD onto your computer, run it through "3D Mechanic Pro" and grab your glasses?
Have you no decency? No human compassion?
Does your mother know you've turned out this way?
Also ALL of the things you list are nationally beloved monuments to the respective countries they are in, meaning there is money from a whole nation to take care of each of those national treasures. Can you honestly say with a straight face that a crumbling Enterprise in Vegas would draw the nation in to repair it as was done with the Statue of Liberty?
Why not? We did it for the Washington Monument which is nothing but a giant rock dildo.
Perchance is there a volcano spewing lava with a big round eye at the top anywhere in the vicinity?