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And a bad reality TV show is much cheaper, safer and offers at least theoretical returns on investments. Bad reality TV shows don't need rocket scientists either.
The payoff isn't immense, however. If they do blow up a mall, then you risk getting the Wrath of the Great Military Industrial Complex upon your head. We can stomp ISIS into the ground should we be so inclined - but we're not so inclined.
If ISIS just rattles scimitars it's a no-cost way to get effective propaganda. Blowing things up entails real risks of escalations. Just ask Japan how well Pearl Harbor worked out for them in the long run.
There's more than a few people who don't code or develop for iOS or OS X, but ponied up the $99 a year to get a developer account, just to have access to betas.
Today's qotd is strangely relevant:
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -- William E. Davidsen
Good. Get enough anecdotes and you might make a data out it. Or not.
For better 'data' - look at the Apple forums. Even given the constant Sturm und Drang of your typical forum flora, 10.10 has been right up there with Apple's worst. Like SeaFox mentioned, open betas haven't appreciably improved the end user experience - at least as far as anyone this side of Apple can tell. Perhaps they did find a lot of issues, it's unlikely we will ever know.
But it hasn't stopped Apple (or anyone else for that matter) from sending really buggy software into production. Probably never will.
Don't eat at restaurant named 'Mom's" Don't play cards with a guy named 'Doc'. Don't run any Apple software or hardware before the x.3 revision level.
Where do you come up with this silly stuff? Sure, you could 'print' a boat. A 3D printer capable of printing a, say 22 foot sport boat would likely be 15 feet tall, 30 feet long and take spools of material that have to be trucked in. As opposed to a fiberglass layup mold that's 10 feet tall and 25 feet long (and can be built using a bunch of plywood, a pencil and a decent CAD-CAM program). Neither is going to be put together by the folks down the street trying to make a 'cheap' boat.
Nobody is going to print out BMWs carbon fiber chassis for the same reason.
Maybe little stuff, maybe something as complex as a shoe (although not for a while, your typical plastic shoe has dozens of different types of materials in it). Further, the world of manufacturing is quite a bit more complex than the actual production of the widget. You have to put the widget into a form that is useful (add the engine, the windows, the electronics, etc for the boat, the rest of the car. You cannot and will not be able to print everything.
3D printing for the vast majority of applications will be evolutionary - where it fits, it will be used. But it isn't going to be a revolution in how we obtain stuff.
Unless, of course, your life revolves around Star Wars figurines or anatomically correct models of Bruce Jenner (however that's supposed to work out).
Do you have any concept of what the case is about here?
Standing requires you to have: 1) actual injury (or imminent injury); 2) The injury must be caused by the defendants' actions or negligence; 3) The injury must be redressable - e.g., it must be likely that court action will remedy the situation and make the plaintiff "whole" again;
What is alleged by the plaintiff in this case is that "I'm at heightened risk of identity theft because of this, therefore St. Joseph's is in violation of the law and should be punished for the leak." Except every injury she claims is theoretical - not imminent, and there is no way of telling from ONLY her claims whether or not these claimed injuries were caused by the St. Joseph's leak. My medical records have never been breached, but somebody's stolen my credit card number before... so there are, clearly, other ways for a credit card number to be stolen. My medical records have never been breached, but I've received spam mail that appears to be from my own email address - so again, clearly there's other ways for this to happen. My medical records have never been breached, but I've received numerous and frequent calls from telemarketers - again, if all they have is her claim, then the preponderance of the evidence doesn't show that St Joseph's is the CAUSE of her woes.
What's more, the only *actual injury* she's sustained has been fixed already - Discover declined the charge & issued her a new account.
What's left is big scary sounding ghost stories that "someday some hacker might use my stuff to do scary stuff, and the only way that could have happened is through St. Joseph's negligence."
So... yeah, she doesn't have standing to file a class action suit. In making this judgement, the government *is* following the law. Of course, if you'd like to revise the rules for Standing, then I'll go file a federal case against you because I'm afraid that something I've said here might make you punch me in the mouth someday. Because you know, punching someone in the mouth is against the law, and you MIGHT do it to me someday, so it never hurts to get you thrown in jail ahead of time - right?
Your points seem reasonable, but I don't recall seeing that the plaintiff had tried to set up a class action suit. That would be pushing the issue really hard.
""This cost a lot," she said, extending her right hand as though it held an invisible fruit. The five blades slid out, then retracted smoothly. "Costs to go to Chiba, costs to get the surgery, costs to have them jack your nervous system up so you'll have the reflexes to go with the gear..."
You probably own a cell phone. All modern cell phones have a feature that allows the government to enable the mic and listen to your conversation even if the cell phone is turned off.
Right. Look, there are serious issues here but you're not supposed to chew on the tin foil. We've gone through this dozens of times and you, Mr. AC, of all people should have recalled the conversation. No, I'm not going to Google it for you.
Take some Xanax, smoke a joint, have a beer. But whatever you do mellow out.
SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "Hi neighbor, I'm a geek and I'd like to help you configure your router so you aren't at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and other security risks." NEIGHBOR: "Wut? A guy called on the phone from Microsoft the other day and helped me through all of that." SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "No no no. That's one of the problems I need to help you with." NEIGHBOR: "But he already fixed it. Besides, you're weird looking and I don't want you messing with my computer." SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "It's OK, I just have to work with your router." NEIGHBOR: "That's in the garage - I still don't want you messing with my tools." SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "This is really important!" NEIGHBOR: "Go away or I'm calling the Police."
IMHO, we're trying to be optimistic that no one would be interested in our computing resources.
I think in general, most computer users think that if they can drive a car, they should be able to use a computer. I've been starting to wonder if we shouldn't have a similar licensing program for users? I know, computer users can't physically damage anyone until you take into account cyber bullying and those help desk calls that seem so idiotic, you wonder where their head is. Tech Support probably wouldn't get nearly as much volume if there was enough testing to say, sure this person has a fundamental grasp of technology.
This works out so well for driving. No, the cat is out of the bag. If it is a 'utility' then it has to be so simple that anything with opposable thumbs can use it.
OK, so when Earth is attacked by giant aptosauruses (? sp) and we don't know whether or not they came from Earth, the moon or Mars are your grandkids going to be happy with you, hidden in your cloak of Randian ignorance?
I suspect not. They will spit on your cheap ass grave, assuming that the apto doesn't squash them like bugs first.
But, in fact, the system works. Nothing is going to be foolproof or fail safe. There will always be screw ups or just procedures that don't fix everything. However, it is telling that the hospital's surveillance systems figured out what the problem was, identified the patients at risk and presumably stopped the 'outbreak'. 32 patients, although it sounds like a lot, is probably just a couple of days worth of scopes at a big institution.
Although not clearly delineated in TFA, it appears that the problematic instruments were endoscopes used in ERCP procedures. These particular devices are at high risk of contamination due to their complex design.
As always, it depends on your point of view. Are you a freedom fighter or a terrorist? A bacterium or some undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum that is destroying the planet?
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That's not the sky. That's their teeth.
Because the keys would be the same as the lock on their luggage.
Is that recursion?
Or will it be?
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where as an online station could be streaming the latest hit from Lady Gaga in theory all the time for months on end,
Now I'm all queasy even thinking about that. Thanks, you've ruined my morning.
And a bad reality TV show is much cheaper, safer and offers at least theoretical returns on investments. Bad reality TV shows don't need rocket scientists either.
3. Profit !
The payoff isn't immense, however. If they do blow up a mall, then you risk getting the Wrath of the Great Military Industrial Complex upon your head. We can stomp ISIS into the ground should we be so inclined - but we're not so inclined.
If ISIS just rattles scimitars it's a no-cost way to get effective propaganda. Blowing things up entails real risks of escalations. Just ask Japan how well Pearl Harbor worked out for them in the long run.
There's more than a few people who don't code or develop for iOS or OS X, but ponied up the $99 a year to get a developer account, just to have access to betas.
Today's qotd is strangely relevant:
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -- William E. Davidsen
Good. Get enough anecdotes and you might make a data out it. Or not.
For better 'data' - look at the Apple forums. Even given the constant Sturm und Drang of your typical forum flora, 10.10 has been right up there with Apple's worst. Like SeaFox mentioned, open betas haven't appreciably improved the end user experience - at least as far as anyone this side of Apple can tell. Perhaps they did find a lot of issues, it's unlikely we will ever know.
But it hasn't stopped Apple (or anyone else for that matter) from sending really buggy software into production. Probably never will.
Don't eat at restaurant named 'Mom's"
Don't play cards with a guy named 'Doc'.
Don't run any Apple software or hardware before the x.3 revision level.
Where do you come up with this silly stuff? Sure, you could 'print' a boat. A 3D printer capable of printing a, say 22 foot sport boat would likely be 15 feet tall, 30 feet long and take spools of material that have to be trucked in. As opposed to a fiberglass layup mold that's 10 feet tall and 25 feet long (and can be built using a bunch of plywood, a pencil and a decent CAD-CAM program). Neither is going to be put together by the folks down the street trying to make a 'cheap' boat.
Nobody is going to print out BMWs carbon fiber chassis for the same reason.
Maybe little stuff, maybe something as complex as a shoe (although not for a while, your typical plastic shoe has dozens of different types of materials in it).
Further, the world of manufacturing is quite a bit more complex than the actual production of the widget. You have to put the widget into a form that is useful (add the engine, the windows, the electronics, etc for the boat, the rest of the car. You cannot and will not be able to print everything.
3D printing for the vast majority of applications will be evolutionary - where it fits, it will be used. But it isn't going to be a revolution in how we obtain stuff.
Unless, of course, your life revolves around Star Wars figurines or anatomically correct models of Bruce Jenner (however that's supposed to work out).
Wut? I know Linus is a bit of a hard case, but I kinda doubt that Lenovo shivers in their corporate boots every time they here his name mentioned.
Do you have any concept of what the case is about here?
Standing requires you to have:
1) actual injury (or imminent injury);
2) The injury must be caused by the defendants' actions or negligence;
3) The injury must be redressable - e.g., it must be likely that court action will remedy the situation and make the plaintiff "whole" again;
What is alleged by the plaintiff in this case is that "I'm at heightened risk of identity theft because of this, therefore St. Joseph's is in violation of the law and should be punished for the leak." Except every injury she claims is theoretical - not imminent, and there is no way of telling from ONLY her claims whether or not these claimed injuries were caused by the St. Joseph's leak. My medical records have never been breached, but somebody's stolen my credit card number before... so there are, clearly, other ways for a credit card number to be stolen. My medical records have never been breached, but I've received spam mail that appears to be from my own email address - so again, clearly there's other ways for this to happen. My medical records have never been breached, but I've received numerous and frequent calls from telemarketers - again, if all they have is her claim, then the preponderance of the evidence doesn't show that St Joseph's is the CAUSE of her woes.
What's more, the only *actual injury* she's sustained has been fixed already - Discover declined the charge & issued her a new account.
What's left is big scary sounding ghost stories that "someday some hacker might use my stuff to do scary stuff, and the only way that could have happened is through St. Joseph's negligence."
So... yeah, she doesn't have standing to file a class action suit. In making this judgement, the government *is* following the law. Of course, if you'd like to revise the rules for Standing, then I'll go file a federal case against you because I'm afraid that something I've said here might make you punch me in the mouth someday. Because you know, punching someone in the mouth is against the law, and you MIGHT do it to me someday, so it never hurts to get you thrown in jail ahead of time - right?
Your points seem reasonable, but I don't recall seeing that the plaintiff had tried to set up a class action suit. That would be pushing the issue really hard.
""This cost a lot," she said, extending her right hand as
though it held an invisible fruit. The five blades slid out, then
retracted smoothly. "Costs to go to Chiba, costs to get the
surgery, costs to have them jack your nervous system up so
you'll have the reflexes to go with the gear..."
The USA isn't the only place with surgeons.
What about politicians?
iPads, Chromebooks, Android tablets, Nooks AND Laptops in one school district?
Folks, we have met the real Bastard Operator From Hell.
You probably own a cell phone. All modern cell phones have a feature that allows the government to enable the mic and listen to your conversation even if the cell phone is turned off.
Right. Look, there are serious issues here but you're not supposed to chew on the tin foil. We've gone through this dozens of times and you, Mr. AC, of all people should have recalled the conversation. No, I'm not going to Google it for you.
Take some Xanax, smoke a joint, have a beer. But whatever you do mellow out.
You're embarrassing to the rest of us.
Tug. Tug. All you have to do is unplug the Onstar box. The hardest part is apparently finding where they hid the box.
No magic, not even any tin foil!
SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "Hi neighbor, I'm a geek and I'd like to help you configure your router so you aren't at risk for man-in-the-middle attacks and other security risks."
NEIGHBOR: "Wut? A guy called on the phone from Microsoft the other day and helped me through all of that."
SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "No no no. That's one of the problems I need to help you with."
NEIGHBOR: "But he already fixed it. Besides, you're weird looking and I don't want you messing with my computer."
SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "It's OK, I just have to work with your router."
NEIGHBOR: "That's in the garage - I still don't want you messing with my tools."
SCRAGGLY NECKBEARD GEEK: "This is really important!"
NEIGHBOR: "Go away or I'm calling the Police."
IMHO, we're trying to be optimistic that no one would be interested in our computing resources.
I think in general, most computer users think that if they can drive a car, they should be able to use a computer. I've been starting to wonder if we shouldn't have a similar licensing program for users? I know, computer users can't physically damage anyone until you take into account cyber bullying and those help desk calls that seem so idiotic, you wonder where their head is. Tech Support probably wouldn't get nearly as much volume if there was enough testing to say, sure this person has a fundamental grasp of technology.
This works out so well for driving. No, the cat is out of the bag. If it is a 'utility' then it has to be so simple that anything with opposable thumbs can use it.
OK, let's go invade MARS!
OK, so when Earth is attacked by giant aptosauruses (? sp) and we don't know whether or not they came from Earth, the moon or Mars are your grandkids going to be happy with you, hidden in your cloak of Randian ignorance?
I suspect not. They will spit on your cheap ass grave, assuming that the apto doesn't squash them like bugs first.
But, in fact, the system works. Nothing is going to be foolproof or fail safe. There will always be screw ups or just procedures that don't fix everything. However, it is telling that the hospital's surveillance systems figured out what the problem was, identified the patients at risk and presumably stopped the 'outbreak'. 32 patients, although it sounds like a lot, is probably just a couple of days worth of scopes at a big institution.
Although not clearly delineated in TFA, it appears that the problematic instruments were endoscopes used in ERCP procedures. These particular devices are at high risk of contamination due to their complex design.
As always, it depends on your point of view. Are you a freedom fighter or a terrorist? A bacterium or some undeveloped, unevolved, barely conscious pond scum that is destroying the planet?
Having seen what passes for a signature leads me to doubt this will last very long.
This. I've been signing various cards with a smiley face for years. Or George Bush. Or just an 'x'.
Nobody cares.
And there is no fucking oversight.
Aue contraire - the Israelis would disagree with you on this particular matter.