Nice troll, but it only worked because the summary was badly written (once again).
But this is Slashdot. I was told here just last week that we really don't need good summaries, since anyone who needs a summary obviously isn't interested in the topic anyway.
At least for my Mom, it's Turbo Tax. The DRM seems to make it impossible -- at least for her -- to install and in an emulator or virtual machine. There's other software that does the same thing and is more emulation friendly (or even Max or Linux compatible), and I think there's even a web version of TT, but she doesn't want to risk changing anything since she's responsible for all her siblings' and in-laws tax returns.
I'm too far away to be of much help, so it's spyware and viruses and frequent bank and CC number changes as the price of her decision. But she's a grownup, and it's not my responsibility to "fix" her or force her to make what I would call "good decisions." I guess I owe her that, Mom and Dad gave me the same once.
So the short answer is "one critical piece of windows-only software."
The......ahem......summary might be more helpful if it told me enough about Raspberry-Pi that I could decide if it was worth the trouble of RTFA-ing. Otherwise, why bother with a summary?
How would you like to ignore the situation, then, and have them show up tomorrow with 2 tons of anthrax spores that the spread upon the wind of the east coast population density, and kill 500,000? It could happen. We have to neutralize this threat.
This kind of appeal to fear is exactly the problem we're faced with. It gets people to think irrationally and put disproportionate effort into thwarting unlikely events, when actual, real problems -- much more serious, certain to occur, real problems -- are out there. You've only got so much time and treasure, squandering them on fantasy is no way to deal with life's dangers.
Yes - you accept whichever they machine they have or chose the manual grope method. The terahertz scanners have a cubicle and a vertical sensor bar which moves across in front of you. The back-scatter X-ray are static and consist of two rectangular blocks which you stand between to get irradiated.
What surprised me, on the one occasion I saw the X-ray device, is that there was no protection for the security workers operating it. While the dosage has a low (but non-zero) risk for one passenger the cumulative dosage for someone nearby and operating the machine could be a lot larger. There is a reason the operators of X-ray machines for medical/dental use always go behind a shield before operating the machine.
So the X-ray machine with you describe is the Rapiscan that GizmoToy refers to? I.e., there's just the one using X-rays? I hope . ..
Another thing that the X-ray techs all get, at the doctor, hospital, dentist and even vet clinic is a dose badge. Do they routinely issue these to the TSA guys? I guess I also wonder if you can buy your own. They'd probably make you take it off as a passenger to keep people from publicizing exposure, but if I was the TSA goon operating the thing, I like one for myself.
Hm. To answer my own question, it looks like you can buy dosimeter badges from medical equipment suppliers. I think you'd want to get your whole team to chip in to keep the annual cost down.
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
...Except when they killed almost 3000 in one day...
So what?
And before you say I'm being flip or callous, remember this: more than that die every month from lack of medical care. Or this: more than 3000 died on 9/11 from cancer and heart/lung disease. There's no national day of mourning for the 9/11 victims of disease. Or the 9/10 victims. Or the 9/12 victims. And so on.
The only thing that makes the 3000 terror victims special was that they were concentrated in just a few places where large scale acts of vandalism took place. The others had the common decency not to bother the general population by passing away in houses, hospitals, nursing homes and on the street.
Go ahead, take a look at the National Vital Health Statistics and see what kills Americans. Pick any number you can imagine dying every year from terrorism and see what trivial thing beats it. 3000 a year? Peptic ulcers. 5000? Anemia. 20,000? Parkinson's. 45,000? Motor vehicle accidents. 75,000? Alzheimer's.
So in the 11 years since 9/11, including 2001, what's the average deaths by terrorism? Under 300, right? (And that's low because of my terror-repellent rock). That's about the same number as deaths among Eskimo and Native American women in "transport accidents."
My point? We're spending way too much time, causing way to much inconvenience, sacrificing too many liberties, and frankly being way to scared of one thing, when there are far better ways to spend our time, money, national soul, and global reputation on. We've ruined the country all in the cause of innumeracy.
Yes, but most of the full-body scanners are millimeter-wave scanners. That's non-ionizing. The headline and summary conveniently blurs this distinction-- it says that X-ray scanners are "mandatory" in US Airports, but thats for baggage, not people.
Do you get a choice of technology in your full body scanner? Do you know which is which?
1. Ignore anything on here except the advice: "Go see a lawyer"
2. You will want to see either a probate lawyer or estate attorney, they have different names. One of each if you have the choice!
3. Find one that has any technology experience, or experience dealing with digital records
4. If in doubt see Item #1 above
Short answer: Lawyer up!
That's all fine-and-dandy for the long-term issues of your estate. And we all knew that, too. How could we forget? It's not like some Slashdotter doesn't mention getting a lawyer on every vaguely legal-ish discussion that comes along.
The poster wants to help his survivors deal with the immediate day-to-day business of his former life in the event of his untimely demise. He's not looking to divvy up the estate at this point so much as just to do mundane things like paying the bills. How many lawyers does it take to pay an electric bill? Just because you're dead doesn't mean your spirit will keep the power on and the gas flowing until the family has had a chance to contact your "atoorney". Your loved ones might be living with you, you know? How about roommates? Might be nice to have electricity not cut off in between your death and the time it takes to change the name on the account. Just because the guy that had the login died doesn't mean those folks want everything shut off. Giving the siblings or trusted persons ability to handle that might be nice.
I know. The poster didn't mention roommates. But "Ask Slashdot" is a little like Dear Abby -- you don't publish the answers just for the original asker but for general readers, too.
I can handle changing UI -- if I have to. I don't want to, but it wouldn't kill me.
But what I really can't live with is wondering which "production" package that I use will disappear in the next distribution upgrade. I go through the lists of what's disappearing, but sometimes I miss something that I use regularly but not often. Then it's off to discussion boards and some PPA. I'm using a package-based distro to avoid the headaches of dependency hell, after all.
OK, if you're renting I can understand the reluctance to actually pull the cable everywhere.
But IMO, finding creative ways of getting the cable all the places you want is a fun exercise and a great way to learn about the nooks and crannies of your house. Also an excuse to get fish tape, a cable stapler, nifty plumb-bob things and especially a fishing reel/dart gun combination dingus.
Ron Paul should just change his election tag line to "Ron Paul; the Biggest Fucking Narrow Minded Asshole in the USA Government!".
The dude lost that title quite a few years back.
I disagree with Paul's ideas on most things, but he's become the most rational-sounding candidate in the field. And it's not because he's changed, either.
Even if your argument were correct at the federal level, I don't believe any state defines a right to drive. In all states, it is a privilege that may be revoked under certain circumstances, generally happening when a person has shown themselves to be irresponsible with a vehicle (whether that is being too dangerous, not paying tickets, or not having insurance).
So freedom is a privilege, too. It can be revoked when a person has been shown to violate certain laws.
Most of that Trillion ain't government backed . . . but student loan laws have been made lot tougher, even total bankruptcy doesn't erase the debt.
Which is an even worse action of the government. It's debt slavery. Even if the money isn't backed by the treasury, if it's backed by the courts with no opportunity to discharge the debt then one way or another either the bank gets their money or the borrower dies penniless.
That's pretty much what I figured the whole point was. An indebted workforce is a docile workforce.
Ron Paul is putting out something that might start to make a dent in looming disaster that is the budget.
Please look for your self and see how long until the amount of interest due on the debt is larger than what the government collects.
All the other politicians are fiddling while Rome Burns.
Cutting useful programs to save $12 Billion is also fiddling while Rome burns. Even cutting $12 Billion of useless programs would be a drop in the fire bucket.
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Nice troll, but it only worked because the summary was badly written (once again).
But this is Slashdot. I was told here just last week that we really don't need good summaries, since anyone who needs a summary obviously isn't interested in the topic anyway.
At least for my Mom, it's Turbo Tax. The DRM seems to make it impossible -- at least for her -- to install and in an emulator or virtual machine. There's other software that does the same thing and is more emulation friendly (or even Max or Linux compatible), and I think there's even a web version of TT, but she doesn't want to risk changing anything since she's responsible for all her siblings' and in-laws tax returns.
I'm too far away to be of much help, so it's spyware and viruses and frequent bank and CC number changes as the price of her decision. But she's a grownup, and it's not my responsibility to "fix" her or force her to make what I would call "good decisions." I guess I owe her that, Mom and Dad gave me the same once.
So the short answer is "one critical piece of windows-only software."
ahem........RTFA
The......ahem......summary might be more helpful if it told me enough about Raspberry-Pi that I could decide if it was worth the trouble of RTFA-ing. Otherwise, why bother with a summary?
This is a domestic Chinese problem, and it will be solved when the people of China decide to deal with their government one way or another.
Hardly a domestic Chinese problem. A number of foods in my grocery store -- particularly spices and fish -- are labeled "Product of China".
I'm not "boycotting" their food to get them to change their ways, but for somewhat more personal reasons.
How would you like to ignore the situation, then, and have them show up tomorrow with 2 tons of anthrax spores that the spread upon the wind of the east coast population density, and kill 500,000? It could happen. We have to neutralize this threat.
This kind of appeal to fear is exactly the problem we're faced with. It gets people to think irrationally and put disproportionate effort into thwarting unlikely events, when actual, real problems -- much more serious, certain to occur, real problems -- are out there. You've only got so much time and treasure, squandering them on fantasy is no way to deal with life's dangers.
Yes - you accept whichever they machine they have or chose the manual grope method. The terahertz scanners have a cubicle and a vertical sensor bar which moves across in front of you. The back-scatter X-ray are static and consist of two rectangular blocks which you stand between to get irradiated. What surprised me, on the one occasion I saw the X-ray device, is that there was no protection for the security workers operating it. While the dosage has a low (but non-zero) risk for one passenger the cumulative dosage for someone nearby and operating the machine could be a lot larger. There is a reason the operators of X-ray machines for medical/dental use always go behind a shield before operating the machine.
So the X-ray machine with you describe is the Rapiscan that GizmoToy refers to? I.e., there's just the one using X-rays? I hope . . .
Another thing that the X-ray techs all get, at the doctor, hospital, dentist and even vet clinic is a dose badge. Do they routinely issue these to the TSA guys? I guess I also wonder if you can buy your own. They'd probably make you take it off as a passenger to keep people from publicizing exposure, but if I was the TSA goon operating the thing, I like one for myself.
Hm. To answer my own question, it looks like you can buy dosimeter badges from medical equipment suppliers. I think you'd want to get your whole team to chip in to keep the annual cost down.
ok. 100 people a year. 10 years. I sincerely doubt the "terrorists" could kill 1000 people in 10 years on US soil.
...Except when they killed almost 3000 in one day...
So what?
And before you say I'm being flip or callous, remember this: more than that die every month from lack of medical care. Or this: more than 3000 died on 9/11 from cancer and heart/lung disease. There's no national day of mourning for the 9/11 victims of disease. Or the 9/10 victims. Or the 9/12 victims. And so on.
The only thing that makes the 3000 terror victims special was that they were concentrated in just a few places where large scale acts of vandalism took place. The others had the common decency not to bother the general population by passing away in houses, hospitals, nursing homes and on the street.
Go ahead, take a look at the National Vital Health Statistics and see what kills Americans. Pick any number you can imagine dying every year from terrorism and see what trivial thing beats it. 3000 a year? Peptic ulcers. 5000? Anemia. 20,000? Parkinson's. 45,000? Motor vehicle accidents. 75,000? Alzheimer's.
So in the 11 years since 9/11, including 2001, what's the average deaths by terrorism? Under 300, right? (And that's low because of my terror-repellent rock). That's about the same number as deaths among Eskimo and Native American women in "transport accidents."
My point? We're spending way too much time, causing way to much inconvenience, sacrificing too many liberties, and frankly being way to scared of one thing, when there are far better ways to spend our time, money, national soul, and global reputation on. We've ruined the country all in the cause of innumeracy.
X-rays are ionizing radiation.
Yes, but most of the full-body scanners are millimeter-wave scanners. That's non-ionizing. The headline and summary conveniently blurs this distinction-- it says that X-ray scanners are "mandatory" in US Airports, but thats for baggage, not people.
Do you get a choice of technology in your full body scanner? Do you know which is which?
1. Ignore anything on here except the advice: "Go see a lawyer" 2. You will want to see either a probate lawyer or estate attorney, they have different names. One of each if you have the choice! 3. Find one that has any technology experience, or experience dealing with digital records 4. If in doubt see Item #1 above
Short answer: Lawyer up!
That's all fine-and-dandy for the long-term issues of your estate. And we all knew that, too. How could we forget? It's not like some Slashdotter doesn't mention getting a lawyer on every vaguely legal-ish discussion that comes along.
The poster wants to help his survivors deal with the immediate day-to-day business of his former life in the event of his untimely demise. He's not looking to divvy up the estate at this point so much as just to do mundane things like paying the bills. How many lawyers does it take to pay an electric bill? Just because you're dead doesn't mean your spirit will keep the power on and the gas flowing until the family has had a chance to contact your "atoorney". Your loved ones might be living with you, you know? How about roommates? Might be nice to have electricity not cut off in between your death and the time it takes to change the name on the account. Just because the guy that had the login died doesn't mean those folks want everything shut off. Giving the siblings or trusted persons ability to handle that might be nice.
I know. The poster didn't mention roommates. But "Ask Slashdot" is a little like Dear Abby -- you don't publish the answers just for the original asker but for general readers, too.
A lot of "Power Users" who got entrenched before Ubuntu are "too cool for Ubuntu," perhaps with good reason, at first.
Now, I'd say most of them are just frozen into their distro of choice because they know all the cool tricks there and they'd feel impotent in Ubuntu.
Did you type that on a Dvorak keyboard? Why or why not?
I can handle changing UI -- if I have to. I don't want to, but it wouldn't kill me.
But what I really can't live with is wondering which "production" package that I use will disappear in the next distribution upgrade. I go through the lists of what's disappearing, but sometimes I miss something that I use regularly but not often. Then it's off to discussion boards and some PPA. I'm using a package-based distro to avoid the headaches of dependency hell, after all.
You broke my irony meter.
Tell Mom and Dad they owe me a new one.
So they'd come to my house and confiscate it?
I think you got whooshed.
Don't forget national defense. Medicare on socialized medicine on student loans on Viagra on steroids.
Who thinks it's better to answer all their questions and take a poligraph rather than saying "I'll speak to you when I have a lawyer present".
He shoulda watched this.
Affordable, reliable, convenient condoms.
TL;DR?
Condoms. And the Pill.
And just when do you think the condom was invented? Or other contraceptives for that matter. The answer may surprise you.
Because it doesn't work anymore.
When did it work? And I mean in general, not for you specifically.
OK, if you're renting I can understand the reluctance to actually pull the cable everywhere.
But IMO, finding creative ways of getting the cable all the places you want is a fun exercise and a great way to learn about the nooks and crannies of your house. Also an excuse to get fish tape, a cable stapler, nifty plumb-bob things and especially a fishing reel/dart gun combination dingus.
Ron Paul should just change his election tag line to "Ron Paul; the Biggest Fucking Narrow Minded Asshole in the USA Government!".
The dude lost that title quite a few years back.
I disagree with Paul's ideas on most things, but he's become the most rational-sounding candidate in the field. And it's not because he's changed, either.
Even if your argument were correct at the federal level, I don't believe any state defines a right to drive. In all states, it is a privilege that may be revoked under certain circumstances, generally happening when a person has shown themselves to be irresponsible with a vehicle (whether that is being too dangerous, not paying tickets, or not having insurance).
So freedom is a privilege, too. It can be revoked when a person has been shown to violate certain laws.
Most of that Trillion ain't government backed . . . but student loan laws have been made lot tougher, even total bankruptcy doesn't erase the debt.
Which is an even worse action of the government. It's debt slavery. Even if the money isn't backed by the treasury, if it's backed by the courts with no opportunity to discharge the debt then one way or another either the bank gets their money or the borrower dies penniless.
That's pretty much what I figured the whole point was. An indebted workforce is a docile workforce.
Ron Paul is putting out something that might start to make a dent in looming disaster that is the budget. Please look for your self and see how long until the amount of interest due on the debt is larger than what the government collects. All the other politicians are fiddling while Rome Burns.
Cutting useful programs to save $12 Billion is also fiddling while Rome burns. Even cutting $12 Billion of useless programs would be a drop in the fire bucket.
How about getting rid of TSA, DHS, and cutting the military spending budget by something meaningful?
Sure, but that would be real, substantial savings and not a mere token gesture.
warnings about hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis.
private corporations are always willing to fill in the gap...the only difference here would be that you would have to pay for getting those warnings.
I'd like to see that business plan.