Aren't you forgetting a small detail? Using a dead person's credentials is fraud / computer hacking / some other legal issue. Just because you have the passwords and relevant data, you don't have the legal right to use them. You at least need Power of Attorney. The safe deposit box is a good idea, but it isn't sufficient.
You may be able to access it but you are likely not able to legally access it.
The passwords are necessary, but not sufficient.
Short answer, seek appropriate legal advice. Laws change from place to place and time to time. Your specific requirements may not be generalizable. It might cost you a couple of hundred dollars and might save you thousands.
Couldn't they just include a dummy extra chromosome that does nothing but make the GM variety incompatible with reproducing with the natural crop, or some other genetic incompatibility, preventing cross pollination entirely
Certainly. Except for the little detail that such an extra chromosome might well make it incompatible with living and the annoying little fact that even if the GMO was viable, it could drop the chromosome, no problem.
Most biological kill switches tend to need some genetic WD-40 from time to time.
Ugh. Double-ugh. More useless desktop eye-candy you can't turn off. More network load for push apps we didn't want 10 years ago. More blink-on-mouseover crap in business apps. And now you have to wave your arms like Neo in the Matrix in order to alt-tab between apps... Win 8's Metro IF+ Kinect for PC....
The MSFT Clown School of Interface Design (tm) is coming like a tidal wave.
It might not be all bad. Imagine having a Millennium Falcon like gun turret and going Pew! Pew! Pew! at your boss when she pops up on the screen.
My house has plenty of places for a humanoid robot to plug itself into. We have also been know to use extension cords, so that doesn't seem to be too much of a stretch. In fact, the building codes in my area say that you cannot build a house with the electrical outlets more than 12 feet apart.
Unfortunately and teenagers notwithstanding, houses are not typical warzones.
Patent thickets are common occurrences. Here's a nice post from a law-professor's blog on how industry has historically resolved them: http://volokh.com/posts/1241493210.shtml. No reason to think this is any different.
That looks more like a webmaster oops than a "DENIED" message . Even so, I doubt the iPhone assessment would be very interesting. I mean, seriously, I cannot picture the prospect of involving iTunes making anybody's eyes light up.
Apples, certainly. Have a few DOD iTunes account would be just swell.....
The problem with super sensitive tests like that is we have a poor understanding of how, for example, erythropoetin, varies in health and disease. We know the broad strokes, but checking it routinely among healthy subjects doesn't offer much utility. We have a few limited studies of a couple of markers amongst various healthy populations (astronauts, athletes, military). AFAIK, there hasn't been much that has come out in these studies in terms of helping screen for diseases.
Remember, the God of Statistics says that if you do enough tests, some of them will be positive because you ran enough tests. Then you have to track down those false positives. That's often hard (both on pocketbooks and people).
Your correct. The scary thing about heart disease is how much we really don't know about it even if it is relatively 'simple'.
Good medical research is very, very hard to do. Humans are just absolutely horrid research subjects. They live too long, they are expensive to keep, they are genetically and environmentally diverse and the every time you get an Institutional Review Board involved you are in for years of meetings and paperwork.
That's actually a subset of #3 from the point of view of a screening test. The test was a "false positive" because although the cancer was detected, the screening didn't help you as a patient.
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
We look for cholesterol because heart disease is one of the major killers of society. Testicular cancer isn't. It is also not terribly sensitive, not very specific and it isn't clear that early treatment helps. You need various qualities of all three aspects for something to be a good screening test.
OK, here are the things that can happen in a cancer screening:
1. You find a cancer that will eventually kill you AND that particular cancer has a treatment that works better when started earlier. (True Positive result) 2. You don't find a cancer that you don't have. (True Negative result) 3. You find a cancer or something that looks like a cancer however it will grow so slowly or regress so it won't cause any harm, but then you don't really know which is which so you elect to be treated for same with some morbidity or mortality. (False Positive result) 4. You don't find the cancer that existed and goes off to knock you off just before you design the next iPad killer. (False negative result).
Only #1 and #2 are unequivocally good. #3 might be a bit of a problem - say a lumpectomy for Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) - which is painful and maybe slightly disfiguring but doesn't really change your overall health or it might be a radical prostatectomy for an indolent prostate cancer that would never kill you but now your are incontinent and impotent (a relatively common outcome). #4 is only bad if you would have been helped by earlier detection which is a theory often proposed but often doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Right now the biggest noise is around breast cancer which unfortunately has problems with all four potential outcomes. You can miss aggressive cancers on mammography. It is not at all clear that getting aggressive cancers early affects any change in outcome. There are many, many false positives. There are a number of breast cancers (DCIS for example) that left alone, typically don't do anything.
So the 'preventative medicine' bandwagon needs to be taken down a notch or two. It is not helped at all that most of the bigger players in cancer research and therapy stand to gain by aggressive detection treatment strategies.
Big deal they have instant coffee in MRE's. I used to gather up all of these from the non coffee drinkers. When I needed a shot of energy from say a long forced march rip open the packet and down the hatch.
No wonder the Veteran's Administration has such problems. There is NOTHING so rancid, so hopeless, so depraved in this world as an instant coffee mainliner. Nothing at all.
China has now become an enormous market in and of itself. Reference China being Apple's #2 market (not Europe, not India, not Canada). Those companies that you complain about may have simply seen into the future, realized that manufacturing in the US wasn't an economically viable proposition in the near term and then found that, as the "Western" marketplace slowed down, China and the rest of the developing world can help to pick up the slack.
It's the ebb and flow of Empire. Has happened ever since humans grouped into tribes. There will be relative winners and losers and for US centric folks, it rather looks like we're on the shorter, blunter end of the stick economically. The Chinese have a ways to go before they are completely dominant in the world economy - they're making some smart moves - and dumb ones.
The problem is that the US (and the West) seems to be mostly making dumb moves so it looks bad.
And then there are some issues that will effect us all (Climate Change, resource allocation and other effects of 7 billion humans) so, as the old Chinese curse goes "May you live in interesting times".
Really? Are you THAT out of it? Or do you simply not care? What happens when virtually the entire population of Bangladesh decides that it wants to move? Does that strike you as something that the current politco economic environment can handle with grace and aplomb?
Do you really think that what amounts to multiple, simultaneous natural and man made disasters won't affect you? Got your bunker done yet?
If you are really emotionally disconnected from the rest of humanity, no, it really doesn't make a difference. For the rest of the planet, it does.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly there. That's the big difference. They're competing mainly with Apple/Google, and I think they can take them on.
You might be right, but Apple has proved to be as unscrupulous as Microsoft. Expect all the ridiculous patents (e.g looks like a tablet) that they have used against Android to be used against Ubuntu.
Do you think we can let this meme just drop off into the sludge pit of dumb rants? Apple is going after Samsung using design patents this is a slightly different concept that the 'standard' patent for an 'invention'. The Apple / Samsung case is about quite a bit more than a rounded rectangle. It IS a dumb thing, rather like Pepsi making a glass bottle that looked like the canonical (and patented) Coke Bottle but with sharper flutes or whatever but Apple DIDN'T patent rounded rectangles. Apple didn't patent tablets.
(I define evolution as change going up hill, or as to quote a catch parse, "goo to you via zoo". I do not defined it as "things changes", as Natural Selection & Mutations cover that area already.)
Too bad your definition isn't the same one as the rest of the world's. YOU don't get to create definitions that suite your limited understanding of the world.
Go do some reading and then come back and talk at the next thread.
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Aren't you forgetting a small detail? Using a dead person's credentials is fraud / computer hacking / some other legal issue. Just because you have the passwords and relevant data, you don't have the legal right to use them. You at least need Power of Attorney. The safe deposit box is a good idea, but it isn't sufficient.
In short, consult a lawyer. Not Slashdot.
You may be able to access it but you are likely not able to legally access it.
The passwords are necessary, but not sufficient.
Short answer, seek appropriate legal advice. Laws change from place to place and time to time. Your specific requirements may not be generalizable. It might cost you a couple of hundred dollars and might save you thousands.
Or just maybe "power users" bitch about every tiny change. That's why Slashdot still looks just like it did 10 years ago.
Slashdot had a major overhaul in '06.
You mean this one
Couldn't they just include a dummy extra chromosome that does nothing but make the GM variety incompatible with reproducing with the natural crop, or some other genetic incompatibility, preventing cross pollination entirely
Certainly. Except for the little detail that such an extra chromosome might well make it incompatible with living and the annoying little fact that even if the GMO was viable, it could drop the chromosome, no problem.
Most biological kill switches tend to need some genetic WD-40 from time to time.
Ugh. Double-ugh. More useless desktop eye-candy you can't turn off. More network load for push apps we didn't want 10 years ago. More blink-on-mouseover crap in business apps. And now you have to wave your arms like Neo in the Matrix in order to alt-tab between apps... Win 8's Metro IF+ Kinect for PC....
The MSFT Clown School of Interface Design (tm) is coming like a tidal wave.
It might not be all bad. Imagine having a Millennium Falcon like gun turret and going Pew! Pew! Pew! at your boss when she pops up on the screen.
My house has plenty of places for a humanoid robot to plug itself into. We have also been know to use extension cords, so that doesn't seem to be too much of a stretch. In fact, the building codes in my area say that you cannot build a house with the electrical outlets more than 12 feet apart.
Unfortunately and teenagers notwithstanding, houses are not typical warzones.
Patent thickets are common occurrences. Here's a nice post from a law-professor's blog on how industry has historically resolved them: http://volokh.com/posts/1241493210.shtml. No reason to think this is any different.
The link in glorious HTML
What I'd really like to know is when can we get something like this secure phone at Verizon?
Of course, then we would need a secure Market..
Why do you want a secure phone? What are you hiding, citizen?
That looks more like a webmaster oops than a "DENIED" message . Even so, I doubt the iPhone assessment would be very interesting. I mean, seriously, I cannot picture the prospect of involving iTunes making anybody's eyes light up.
Apples, certainly. Have a few DOD iTunes account would be just swell.....
The problem with super sensitive tests like that is we have a poor understanding of how, for example, erythropoetin, varies in health and disease. We know the broad strokes, but checking it routinely among healthy subjects doesn't offer much utility. We have a few limited studies of a couple of markers amongst various healthy populations (astronauts, athletes, military). AFAIK, there hasn't been much that has come out in these studies in terms of helping screen for diseases.
Remember, the God of Statistics says that if you do enough tests, some of them will be positive because you ran enough tests. Then you have to track down those false positives. That's often hard (both on pocketbooks and people).
Thanks. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother trying to explain things.
Maybe we should just go back to trolling about Apple vs. Android or whatever is the current two minute hate around here.
Sigh.
Your correct. The scary thing about heart disease is how much we really don't know about it even if it is relatively 'simple'.
Good medical research is very, very hard to do. Humans are just absolutely horrid research subjects. They live too long, they are expensive to keep, they are genetically and environmentally diverse and the every time you get an Institutional Review Board involved you are in for years of meetings and paperwork.
Better for us if we were hamsters. Or Paramecium.
That's actually a subset of #3 from the point of view of a screening test. The test was a "false positive" because although the cancer was detected, the screening didn't help you as a patient.
Seems like we have our tin foil hat on just a little too tight.
Not everything is an Illuminati conspiracy.
I'm curious why blood tests aren't peformed regularly. You can certainly request Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) any time you like, but it is not commonly recommended on a regular basis. AFP can indicate tumors growing in the body. Very high levels of AFP can indicate advanced cancer. In the case of a co-worker who was found to have advanced cancer, on first diagnosis, why not have this marker checked every 6 months?
I've been told a normal reading is about 100-120. Values over 10,000 should be investigated. Lance Armstrong, had levels of over 100,000 when he was diagnosed, with tumors spread throughout his body.
It seems a low impact test, why is it not advised as part of a standard checkup? We'll look for chelesterol, why not Alpha-fetoprotein?
Because, AFP is a crummy screening test.
We look for cholesterol because heart disease is one of the major killers of society. Testicular cancer isn't. It is also not terribly sensitive, not very specific and it isn't clear that early treatment helps. You need various qualities of all three aspects for something to be a good screening test.
I thought that was insolent.
OK, here are the things that can happen in a cancer screening:
1. You find a cancer that will eventually kill you AND that particular cancer has a treatment that works better when started earlier. (True Positive result)
2. You don't find a cancer that you don't have. (True Negative result)
3. You find a cancer or something that looks like a cancer however it will grow so slowly or regress so it won't cause any harm, but then you don't really know which is which so you elect to be treated for same with some morbidity or mortality. (False Positive result)
4. You don't find the cancer that existed and goes off to knock you off just before you design the next iPad killer. (False negative result).
Only #1 and #2 are unequivocally good. #3 might be a bit of a problem - say a lumpectomy for Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) - which is painful and maybe slightly disfiguring but doesn't really change your overall health or it might be a radical prostatectomy for an indolent prostate cancer that would never kill you but now your are incontinent and impotent (a relatively common outcome). #4 is only bad if you would have been helped by earlier detection which is a theory often proposed but often doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Right now the biggest noise is around breast cancer which unfortunately has problems with all four potential outcomes. You can miss aggressive cancers on mammography. It is not at all clear that getting aggressive cancers early affects any change in outcome. There are many, many false positives. There are a number of breast cancers (DCIS for example) that left alone, typically don't do anything.
So the 'preventative medicine' bandwagon needs to be taken down a notch or two. It is not helped at all that most of the bigger players in cancer research and therapy stand to gain by aggressive detection treatment strategies.
Patients, not so much.
Big deal they have instant coffee in MRE's. I used to gather up all of these from the non coffee drinkers. When I needed a shot of energy from say a long forced march rip open the packet and down the hatch.
No wonder the Veteran's Administration has such problems. There is NOTHING so rancid, so hopeless, so depraved in this world as an instant coffee mainliner. Nothing at all.
Coffine is one of the most addicted substances known to man.
Cool, where can I get it? Caffeine is so twentieth century anyway. And tobacco is nasty stuff.
Any side effects we should know about?
Oops. A small flaw in your argument:
China has now become an enormous market in and of itself. Reference China being Apple's #2 market (not Europe, not India, not Canada). Those companies that you complain about may have simply seen into the future, realized that manufacturing in the US wasn't an economically viable proposition in the near term and then found that, as the "Western" marketplace slowed down, China and the rest of the developing world can help to pick up the slack.
It's the ebb and flow of Empire. Has happened ever since humans grouped into tribes. There will be relative winners and losers and for US centric folks, it rather looks like we're on the shorter, blunter end of the stick economically. The Chinese have a ways to go before they are completely dominant in the world economy - they're making some smart moves - and dumb ones.
The problem is that the US (and the West) seems to be mostly making dumb moves so it looks bad.
And then there are some issues that will effect us all (Climate Change, resource allocation and other effects of 7 billion humans) so, as the old Chinese curse goes "May you live in interesting times".
He said "subtly defective" not "Batshit insane"
Really? Are you THAT out of it? Or do you simply not care? What happens when virtually the entire population of Bangladesh decides that it wants to move? Does that strike you as something that the current politco economic environment can handle with grace and aplomb?
Do you really think that what amounts to multiple, simultaneous natural and man made disasters won't affect you? Got your bunker done yet?
If you are really emotionally disconnected from the rest of humanity, no, it really doesn't make a difference. For the rest of the planet, it does.
Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly there. That's the big difference. They're competing mainly with Apple/Google, and I think they can take them on.
You might be right, but Apple has proved to be as unscrupulous as Microsoft. Expect all the ridiculous patents (e.g looks like a tablet) that they have used against Android to be used against Ubuntu.
Do you think we can let this meme just drop off into the sludge pit of dumb rants? Apple is going after Samsung using design patents this is a slightly different concept that the 'standard' patent for an 'invention'. The Apple / Samsung case is about quite a bit more than a rounded rectangle. It IS a dumb thing, rather like Pepsi making a glass bottle that looked like the canonical (and patented) Coke Bottle but with sharper flutes or whatever but Apple DIDN'T patent rounded rectangles. Apple didn't patent tablets.
Channel your AppleHate(TM) somewhere else. /end rant
Oh, this is better. The first link actually doesn't have any information at all. Just a nice picture of an iPhone.
So, Siri it is.
(Come on Slashdot, this is pretty bad, even for a Sunday).
I'm confused. Are we supposed to complain about having to jailbreak the 4S or whine about how dumb Siri is?
You shouldn't make these threads so complicated.
(I define evolution as change going up hill, or as to quote a catch parse, "goo to you via zoo". I do not defined it as "things changes", as Natural Selection & Mutations cover that area already.)
Too bad your definition isn't the same one as the rest of the world's. YOU don't get to create definitions that suite your limited understanding of the world.
Go do some reading and then come back and talk at the next thread.