Or you could just see your doctor, maybe manage your asthma better. Maybe have a prescription available in your wallet if you really need it. If you're running to the 24 hour pharmacy in the middle of the night chances are you're doing it wrong.
Get a peak flow meter, learn how to use it. Works great for most people and gives them a 12-24 hour window of alert time before you really get symptomatic.
In maybe. In Canada, I didn't even realize there was such a thing as an epinephrine inhaler. Yeah, nope, the Canadian Lung Association doesn't list any such thing.
Slashdot, is this some kind of made up or trivial story to drive up hits or something?
Only in America. Primatine Mist is pure epinephrine. It does have smooth muscle relaxation properties that are useful in Asthma but has the potential for significant cardiac side effects (remember that a number of asthmatics have concomitant heart disease and that uncontrolled epinephrine use isn't such a good idea). Albuterol and other prescription drugs are SAFER than Primatine Mist. But that drug has been available for decades and has been grandfathered in as an OTC drug.
Only true-believing sci fi space adventure magical religious cultists are gullible enough to swallow the "space exploration" excuse.
Boy, you are brave. Dissing 98% of the Slashdot demographic.
And while you're correct on purely rational grounds, humans aren't purely rational and canning manned flight for just robotics leaves a lot of emotion on the ground. Given that space exploration really comprises a trivial amount of human and financial capital, all things considered, the added emotional involvement of human spaceflight is more than justified.
It seems during this economic downturn companies have started throwing caution to the wind in an attempt to ravenously feed on each others still warm carcasses. What you'll end up with is a period of heavily suppressed innovation and increasingly locked down and crippled devices, software and services no one will be willing to part with money for. It's all going to shit!
Nah, just too many lawyers. Don't make it any more complicated than need be.
Corporations can't be killed. They can be consumed by another corporation but the bits and pieces (especially bits these days) never dies. New corporations feed off the rotting entrails of older ones but they grow up to be functionally all the same.
Much worse than a Zombie infection. Sort of like a rootkit. Reboot all you like, it's still there.
The only reason UEFI is overdue is not because they are slow in development. It's simply the fact that UEFI isn't an open standard. If UEFI was made an open standard every new computer in a month would all have UEFI.
It might be your long held dogma, but people in the field have long known about epigenetic changes to DNA and it's implications. We've known about mitochondrial DNA for decades, same with DNA methylation. The microRNAs are fairly new and an open field but it has been realized that the "Central Dogma" (DNA -> RNA -> Protein) has been barking up the wrong tree for some time.
TFA is interesting and rather unexpected. Small, unprotected RNA molecules aren't "supposed" to survive long outside. If this is true, if it can be repeated it might explain some of the more confusing relationships between diet, growth, cancer and other diseases. The nice thing is that this experiment should be 'relatively' easy to replicate (at least from the detail one gets in TFA - they're not using anything all that unique, weird or expensive).
Since it is such a potentially high profile experiment, the cynic in me wonders why it didn't get published in a higher profile journal. Of course, not every important discovery is published in Nature or Science, but one wonders.
Be sure to include some encrypted files with obscure names. The encrypted data can either be disinformation, or publicly available info, or random garbage, but the encryption and intriguing names will waste some of their time.
Where did the seagulls pick up the bacteria in the first place? I thought these bacteria were found only in hospitals. Maybe we should be more careful with our medical waste and not dump it unprocessed in landfills.
You know those beady eyes that you see behind the surgical masks at hospitals? You think they're human, don't you?
I thought we discussed this two weeks ago, when the New York Times published an article about how all the computers we have dumped into the school system have had negligible results in terms of improving education. Now we are trying the same strategy, but with a different form factor? Are these decision makers even bothering to give thought to how iPads are going to help kindergarden students?
The only reason the TSA are allowed to do those invasive pat downs is because they are a government agency, that practice will not continue if they get privatized.
Really? Whatever makes you (and the couple of dozen other posters with similar hallucinations) think this would be the case? If the private contractor is performing a task spelled out by a government agency, you can bet BOTH of your testicles that there will be legislation that holds the company harmless. A privatized TSA will be exactly the same useless and annoying agency as the public one. The only difference is that some shadowy company will be taking home a lot of money.
Remember - THE TRAVELING PUBLIC WILL NOT BE THE CUSTOMER. The government will be the customer. You will just be a tiny little pawn, as always.
"Voters" didn't put the TSA and their ilk into power. Voted-in politicians who promise exactly the opposite sort of behavior are the ones who did. Besides, at least if it's a truly private agency you can sue them when they get out of line and maybe actually get somewhere. Try doing that with the government.
You are nuts to think there would be even a remote chance of that happening. The enabling legislation would certainly give the 'private' companies blanket immunity from implementing the government policies.
This whole concept of privitising the TSA is ludicrous. These private companies would be following governmental policies, there would be no competition between companies. The traveling public would NOT be the customer. The government is the customer, so the public would have as much say in the matter as they do, for example, on the Internet. All it would do is give money to the same companies that have rolled up fortunes pretending they aren't the US Government. Xi / Blackwell or whatever it's called these days would make a killing. Taxpayers, not so much.
Oh, we're not exactly cowards. We just stroke our ego on manly war escapades. Keeping the world safe from (non aligned) tinpot despots by using the world's largest military industrial complex to stomp a bunch of backwards, third tier, fourth world countries into molten dust!
I need to know in case a henchman falls into the tank...
Dear Dr. Evil:
Your recent Workman's Compensation claim has been returned to your office for further processing. We need additional information before we can later reject it out of hand. The description of a coworker falling into the shark tank needs to be clarified.
Please describe whether the shark came in contact with coworker (ICD 10 CM code W56.42XA for initial contact, W56.49XD for any subsequent encounters), was actually bitten by the shark (W56.42XA initial bite, W56.41XD subsequent bites) or merely struck by the animal (W56.42XA initial, W56.42DX subsequent). If lasers were involved, please additionally code W90.2XXA (Exposure to laser radiation, initial encounter) or W90.2XXD (subsequent) as appropriate.
In reviewing previous similar claims, it appears that your employees have had similar issues with Sea Bass. Since a Sea Bass has a different code than a Shark, you would use W56.51XA (Bitten by fish, initial encounter) or W56.51DX (subsequent bites) or if the Sea Bass just hit the employee code as Other Contact with Fish (W56.59XA or XD as appropriate).
Of course, these codes exclude any poisonous Shark or Sea Bass. If this was noted, please contact the World Health Organization for further guidance.
We hope we may be of continued service to you.
Sincerely,
EvilOverlord Insurance Company "More Evil than you could ever be"
Wouldn't a tag based system be more effective than trying to exhaustively list 140,000 things? Or can each of these 140,000 be used in a combination?
What if you walked into a lamp post, fell and hit your head on a turtle, it got angry and bit your ear?
Yes, you can use them in combination.
You CAN be injured by a turtle, struck by lightening and suffer traumatic brain injury and a hernia. On a plane. On an experimental plane. On the runway.
This would engender a number of codes and would be indicative of very, very bad karma. Or perhaps God really does have a sense of humor.
Is there a drug that requires a prescription or some sort of long term "treatment" that goes along with this procedure? If not, then it probably won't catch on in our wonderful privatized health care system, sadly.
Really? Why? If you had a single dose, effective treatment for a fatal cancer, just how high do you think you could jack up the cost? People are already paying 100,000 a year for drugs that only prolong life by months. A 'cure' could be worth a million, easy. In the cold hearted world of the Medical Industrial Complex, you can bet your spreadsheet that they've already figured out exactly how much they would charge and how much they could make.
No, it's not going to be cheap - these sorts of treatments are custom builds and there is a lot of fiddly tech involved, even after they streamline the process. It probably would not be used on rarer cancers because you would have to do all that work without the possibility of a really big payoff. But all of this talk is rather premature. This is a proof of concept experiment. This lab is the first one to actually get all the pieces together and they admit they're not sure why it works when other similar attempts failed. So there is a lot of work to be done before you can get your doc to write a script for it.
By the time these treatments come out of the lab, we will either be using a different model for health care payments or most of us will be running around the woods looking for willow bark while the 500 billionaires get entire body replacements. Chiba City, anyone?
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And here I thought apps already had a way to share data.
What, you mean the file system? This is the 21st Century, buckoo. We'll have none of that old thinking around here.
Or you could just see your doctor, maybe manage your asthma better. Maybe have a prescription available in your wallet if you really need it. If you're running to the 24 hour pharmacy in the middle of the night chances are you're doing it wrong.
Get a peak flow meter, learn how to use it. Works great for most people and gives them a 12-24 hour window of alert time before you really get symptomatic.
In maybe. In Canada, I didn't even realize there was such a thing as an epinephrine inhaler. Yeah, nope, the Canadian Lung Association doesn't list any such thing.
Slashdot, is this some kind of made up or trivial story to drive up hits or something?
Only in America. Primatine Mist is pure epinephrine. It does have smooth muscle relaxation properties that are useful in Asthma but has the potential for significant cardiac side effects (remember that a number of asthmatics have concomitant heart disease and that uncontrolled epinephrine use isn't such a good idea). Albuterol and other prescription drugs are SAFER than Primatine Mist. But that drug has been available for decades and has been grandfathered in as an OTC drug.
Makes sense? No. American? Of course.
Only true-believing sci fi space adventure magical religious cultists are gullible enough to swallow the "space exploration" excuse.
Boy, you are brave. Dissing 98% of the Slashdot demographic.
And while you're correct on purely rational grounds, humans aren't purely rational and canning manned flight for just robotics leaves a lot of emotion on the ground. Given that space exploration really comprises a trivial amount of human and financial capital, all things considered, the added emotional involvement of human spaceflight is more than justified.
It seems during this economic downturn companies have started throwing caution to the wind in an attempt to ravenously feed on each others still warm carcasses. What you'll end up with is a period of heavily suppressed innovation and increasingly locked down and crippled devices, software and services no one will be willing to part with money for. It's all going to shit!
Nah, just too many lawyers. Don't make it any more complicated than need be.
Why is it then that we don't hear about crap like this from places like Japan, where internet speeds and population density are both much higher?
'Cause we can't read Japanese?
No, no it's much worse than that.
Corporations can't be killed. They can be consumed by another corporation but the bits and pieces (especially bits these days) never dies. New corporations feed off the rotting entrails of older ones but they grow up to be functionally all the same.
Much worse than a Zombie infection. Sort of like a rootkit. Reboot all you like, it's still there.
The only reason UEFI is overdue is not because they are slow in development. It's simply the fact that UEFI isn't an open standard. If UEFI was made an open standard every new computer in a month would all have UEFI.
Yep. And each implementation would be different.
It might be your long held dogma, but people in the field have long known about epigenetic changes to DNA and it's implications. We've known about mitochondrial DNA for decades, same with DNA methylation. The microRNAs are fairly new and an open field but it has been realized that the "Central Dogma" (DNA -> RNA -> Protein) has been barking up the wrong tree for some time.
TFA is interesting and rather unexpected. Small, unprotected RNA molecules aren't "supposed" to survive long outside. If this is true, if it can be repeated it might explain some of the more confusing relationships between diet, growth, cancer and other diseases. The nice thing is that this experiment should be 'relatively' easy to replicate (at least from the detail one gets in TFA - they're not using anything all that unique, weird or expensive).
Since it is such a potentially high profile experiment, the cynic in me wonders why it didn't get published in a higher profile journal. Of course, not every important discovery is published in Nature or Science, but one wonders.
Too dangerous.
I agree. I get paid to solve complex problems, not wear pants.
Your co workers might disagree with that statement.
4 out of 5 respondents to surveys on CareerBuilder lie on surveys.
OK then, lets make it a Slashdot poll.
Be sure to include some encrypted files with obscure names. The encrypted data can either be disinformation, or publicly available info, or random garbage, but the encryption and intriguing names will waste some of their time.
Kim Kardashian_nkd_wedding.zip.rar.exe.app
Where did the seagulls pick up the bacteria in the first place? I thought these bacteria were found only in hospitals. Maybe we should be more careful with our medical waste and not dump it unprocessed in landfills.
You know those beady eyes that you see behind the surgical masks at hospitals? You think they're human, don't you?
Think again.
I thought we discussed this two weeks ago, when the New York Times published an article about how all the computers we have dumped into the school system have had negligible results in terms of improving education. Now we are trying the same strategy, but with a different form factor? Are these decision makers even bothering to give thought to how iPads are going to help kindergarden students?
Those were computers, these are iPads.
Completely different.
The only reason the TSA are allowed to do those invasive pat downs is because they are a government agency, that practice will not continue if they get privatized.
Really? Whatever makes you (and the couple of dozen other posters with similar hallucinations) think this would be the case? If the private contractor is performing a task spelled out by a government agency, you can bet BOTH of your testicles that there will be legislation that holds the company harmless. A privatized TSA will be exactly the same useless and annoying agency as the public one. The only difference is that some shadowy company will be taking home a lot of money.
Remember - THE TRAVELING PUBLIC WILL NOT BE THE CUSTOMER. The government will be the customer. You will just be a tiny little pawn, as always.
"Voters" didn't put the TSA and their ilk into power. Voted-in politicians who promise exactly the opposite sort of behavior are the ones who did. Besides, at least if it's a truly private agency you can sue them when they get out of line and maybe actually get somewhere. Try doing that with the government.
You are nuts to think there would be even a remote chance of that happening. The enabling legislation would certainly give the 'private' companies blanket immunity from implementing the government policies.
This whole concept of privitising the TSA is ludicrous. These private companies would be following governmental policies, there would be no competition between companies. The traveling public would NOT be the customer. The government is the customer, so the public would have as much say in the matter as they do, for example, on the Internet. All it would do is give money to the same companies that have rolled up fortunes pretending they aren't the US Government. Xi / Blackwell or whatever it's called these days would make a killing. Taxpayers, not so much.
The "intermediate step" is user intervention, which is the whole point. At least you wouldn't get your BIOS rooted "accidentally".
Why does 'user intervention' in the context of computer security fill me with a vague sense of dread?
Oh, we're not exactly cowards. We just stroke our ego on manly war escapades. Keeping the world safe from (non aligned) tinpot despots by using the world's largest military industrial complex to stomp a bunch of backwards, third tier, fourth world countries into molten dust!
Or not.
And for only $30 billion, and with 50,000 kg LESS lift capacity than it had in 1969.
Don't worry. That's only this week's proposal. They won't build it and next week's proposal will be better. And it won't be build either.
I'm sure there is a code for that.
Can anybody tell who's been to a recent ICD-10 coding seminar?
I need to know in case a henchman falls into the tank...
Dear Dr. Evil:
Your recent Workman's Compensation claim has been returned to your office for further processing. We need additional information before we can later reject it out of hand. The description of a coworker falling into the shark tank needs to be clarified.
Please describe whether the shark came in contact with coworker (ICD 10 CM code W56.42XA for initial contact, W56.49XD for any subsequent encounters), was actually bitten by the shark (W56.42XA initial bite, W56.41XD subsequent bites) or merely struck by the animal (W56.42XA initial, W56.42DX subsequent). If lasers were involved, please additionally code W90.2XXA (Exposure to laser radiation, initial encounter) or W90.2XXD (subsequent) as appropriate.
In reviewing previous similar claims, it appears that your employees have had similar issues with Sea Bass. Since a Sea Bass has a different code than a Shark, you would use W56.51XA (Bitten by fish, initial encounter) or W56.51DX (subsequent bites) or if the Sea Bass just hit the employee code as Other Contact with Fish (W56.59XA or XD as appropriate).
Of course, these codes exclude any poisonous Shark or Sea Bass. If this was noted, please contact the World Health Organization for further guidance.
We hope we may be of continued service to you.
Sincerely,
EvilOverlord Insurance Company
"More Evil than you could ever be"
Wouldn't a tag based system be more effective than trying to exhaustively list 140,000 things?
Or can each of these 140,000 be used in a combination?
What if you walked into a lamp post, fell and hit your head on a turtle, it got angry and bit your ear?
Yes, you can use them in combination.
You CAN be injured by a turtle, struck by lightening and suffer traumatic brain injury and a hernia. On a plane. On an experimental plane. On the runway.
This would engender a number of codes and would be indicative of very, very bad karma. Or perhaps God really does have a sense of humor.
Is there a drug that requires a prescription or some sort of long term "treatment" that goes along with this procedure? If not, then it probably won't catch on in our wonderful privatized health care system, sadly.
Really? Why? If you had a single dose, effective treatment for a fatal cancer, just how high do you think you could jack up the cost? People are already paying 100,000 a year for drugs that only prolong life by months. A 'cure' could be worth a million, easy. In the cold hearted world of the Medical Industrial Complex, you can bet your spreadsheet that they've already figured out exactly how much they would charge and how much they could make.
No, it's not going to be cheap - these sorts of treatments are custom builds and there is a lot of fiddly tech involved, even after they streamline the process. It probably would not be used on rarer cancers because you would have to do all that work without the possibility of a really big payoff. But all of this talk is rather premature. This is a proof of concept experiment. This lab is the first one to actually get all the pieces together and they admit they're not sure why it works when other similar attempts failed. So there is a lot of work to be done before you can get your doc to write a script for it.
By the time these treatments come out of the lab, we will either be using a different model for health care payments or most of us will be running around the woods looking for willow bark while the 500 billionaires get entire body replacements. Chiba City, anyone?