There are a good number of youtube videos that fail to load on the iphone, saying something like the format is not supported. I tested this script on some of these videos, and they all work.
This script definitely earns a link on my home screen. Now if they would only write similar scripts for the other video sharing sites.
It is a little disappointing to see/. add to the Chinaphobia media feeding frenzy.
I mean, there are many internal problems with China, and this hacking issue is clearly a potential cause for concern but is there and evidence that there are more hacks coming from China per capita than anywhere else in the world? I would like to see that sort of evidence first before pointing fingers.
Wow, touchy aren't we? I guess you didn't care too much about the talk regarding McCain's chances of melanoma recurrence either. I think that was an important discussion that I would have chimed in on as well, had I seen a posting here. Just as this discussion is important to certain AAPL shareholders.
But I guess if you don't really have an argument to make you can always attack the individual. Good luck with that.
I shouldn't reply to this ridiculous posting, which implies that somehow because I am both a doctor and a geek I am not allowed to have an opinion on a media report on a medical issue. But fine, I will take the bait.
I am not Steve Jobs' doctor and I am not trying to be. The OP solicited a doctor's opinion and I gave mine with the little information I could guess at from a media report.
COMMON SENSE would dictate that I am not making an ironclad diagnosis from a media report, but apparently it is because of people such as yourself, who are lacking in this capacity, that people have to post disclaimers at the bottom of their comments and email or whatever that they are only giving their opinion and not a professional service.
Before I posted my earlier message I had a discussion about the media report with one of my colleagues. It would seem then that you would prefer doctors to keep such talk to ourselves. You are quite free to block my comments or refrain from reading them from now on.
I am a physician and I have actually performed a few Whipple procedures in my training. I can say that upon reading this letter, I immediately smelled big-time BS.
There are some treatable medical causes of cachexia (profound weight loss) but they are not difficult to diagnosis. If he had pancreatic insufficiency following his pancreas resection, this should have been quickly noted because it is common and his newfound symptoms of diabetes are easily recognized.
Hyperthyroidism is another cause of weight loss, but any doctor worth his salt would have screened for this right away. Celiac disease is another possibility but again this is not a difficult diagnosis because of the GI symptoms (lots of diarrhea).
The most likely cause of weight loss in this setting is cancer, cancer, and cancer. It can sometimes be very difficult to find where exactly the cancer metastases have recurred, and this can delay the proper diagnosis.
The main thing that Jobs has going for him is that this weight loss was first publicly noted some time ago now, and he does not have other signs of cancer that we know of. Jobs does not seem to be the type to hide it if he knew he had cancer. At least, he didn't hide it the first time, right?
It appears this 18 months, or 9 months as it is now, does not apply to Google Web History when you are logged into your google account. My Web History log goes back to April 2005.
I for one am glad they are not deleting the Web History log at 9 months. It is nice to be able to peruse through my searches done years ago.
They already do this - who do you think reads all those X-Rays?
Radiology is the obvious candidate for outsourcing, but there are legal issues with this. The radiologists in India that can look at films do not have an American medical license. If there is a misread, they are not legally responsible. The hospital can get sued, and they will get accused of using unlicensed radiologists.
What a lot of hospitals do now is that only the films done late at night are outsourced. In my hospital, there is a "night hawk" service that reads the films, and who knows where on earth they are actually located. This is considered a preliminary reading.
When the in-house radiologist comes in the morning, they put in the "official" read.
If the doctor has serious reservations about the outsourced prelim read, they can call a radiologist who is on call at home and wake his ass up to read it. The problem is that the doctor on call, who is not a radioloist, has to recognize that there is a misread.
In reality, my personal experience is that the outsourced guys do a great job at the reading.
This outsourcing would decrease medical costs, but first the government would have to put in legal protections for the medical centers. American radiologist would no doubt be quite pissed and up in arms about this.
You are right, and this most likely would not stand up in a court of law. It looks like it is begging for a class action lawsuit.
The article claims that they have pharmacy customers sign a HIPAA waiver, but I have never signed any such document, and I have been to the pharmacy on occasion. Can anyone on this board recall when a drug store asked them to sign a HIPAA waiver?
It is marked as "funny", but this is actually a brilliant post.
AT&T is threatening to terminate the contract, an action with actually has a $170 value for the customer. I mean, are they retarded? What with TMobile rolling out their 3G network, it would then be trivial to switch over or flip it on ebay as the parent post says.
When they realize the error of their ways, what they will probably due is simply block the P2P protocols however.
Let's just hope they are blowing a lot of steam to make Congress happy.
Hey, I have a great idea. Why not use this open port on the infected MyDoom boxes to propogate a virus which is set to automatically remove MyDoom and then remove itself several days after infection? It would be a great way to "patch" all these compromised boxes.
That being said, I wonder what the legality of this benevolent virus would be. Could the author of the virus safely step forward and make his name known?
Why don't all the filesharing networks, Kazaa, gnutella, etc., encrypt their searches with ROT13 and then slap malintentioned groups snooping traffic with lawsuits citing the DMCA. Since the movie industries pushed this to control their media, this would be quite an ironic usage of the DMCA. hehe
This article reminds me of those who say that a patient diagnosed with incurable cancer should not be told about it, since there is nothing that can be done about it. The idea has been defunct in the medical world for many years. In the US it is extremely unethical to do this, though I am sure in some countries it goes on. The reason is quite simple - with a limited time left on the world, there are likely many things the cancer patient would like to do before he dies, e.g. apologize to that guy he was a dick to at work, tell some girl he loved her, beat civ3 on the hardest level.
On top of that, it is just plain dishonest. Not to mention that in the case of an asteroid, someone somewhere might have a bright idea that would avert disaster or extend human survival.
Re:DNA Aging, DNA Rejuvenating?
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Telomeres are found on the ends of chromosomes. They are a small sequence of DNA repeated many times. They act as protective "caps" and help to prevent chromosomal instability and damage. However the telomeres gradually shorten over the lifetime of the organism because they are not fully copied during cell division. The exception to this are germ-line cells, where telomeres are maintained so that full-length telomeres are passed on to the next generation.
Pretty interesting.... I didn't know that myself. Anyhow, don't thank me, thank google.
"Hello, I am a Nigerian prince who is selling XXX-brand diet pills that also have the side effect of enlarging your penis. Also if you forward this email to five other people and tell them to each send you a dollar you can make money fast."
Yeah, I admit that I missed the main point, about demoes and not about music. Apologies to the makers of this DVD for this. I have not seen the videos myself and they could be really great for all I know.
It was kind of a knee-jerk reaction when I didn't see what I expected at the website. I think it was the term 'electronica' in the main story.
There has been incredible use of computers in the last 20 years in electronic music, from Kraftwerk all the way down to the likes of Autechre and Marumari. Unfortunately, none of it is represented on this dvd. Glancing at the contents, 95% of the stuff on this dvd is cheesy dance music.
If you have a real interest in electronica, check out warp records for starters. Their artists are of the idm genre, which (for the uninitiated) stands for "intelligent dance music". Snobby as that sounds, it is good stuff.
Now if you just want trance or Paul Oakenfoldish type stuff on the other hand, kudos to you, cause you will have an easy time--that stuff is a dime a dozen.
Ok, that's enough cocky music snob mode for today.:)
Yahoo has been providing forwarding for @rocketmail.com addresses ever since they bought them out. Does anyone know if they are planning to charge for this also?
The reason your POP3 stopped now is likely because you unsubscribed from the "yahoo delivers!" option when you went to the account information. Yahoo delivers has always been a prerequisite to using pop3 or forwarding. Once you sign back on to it, you'll be able to start the pop3 again.
The yahoo delivers thing is not that annoying, as I have only gotten mail from it like once a month, and a lot of it has been genuinely interesting. The other stuff mentioned in this story you should definitely unsubscribe from though.
Many people seem to think that this is the first time preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) had been used. I will quote from the first paragraph of the JAMA article to clear this up:
According to the most recent review, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has been applied to at least 50 different genetic conditions in more than 3000 clinical cycles. In addition to traditional indications, similar to those in prenatal diagnosis, PGD was performed for an increasing number of new indications, such as late-onset disorders with genetic predisposition and HLA testing combined with PGD for preexisting single-gene disorders. These conditions have never been an indication for prenatal diagnosis because of potential pregnancy termination, which is highly controversial if performed for genetic predisposition alone. With the introduction of PGD, it has become possible to avoid the transfer of the embryos carrying the genes that predispose a person to common disorders, thereby establishing only potentially healthy pregnancies and overcoming important ethical issues in connection with selective abortions.
Basically, it says that PGD has been used for predispositions to diseases that come later in life before. This is just the first time it is being used for this particular disease.
The thing that possibly makes it more controversial is that not all of the people with the genetic mutation they "weeded out" go on to develop Alzheimer's, for reasons that are unclear. So maybe they trashed some perfectly OK embryos?
I think the administration is barking up the wrong tree with this law. It seems to me that existing laws are fine for punishing terrorists. It's not as if these people were in jail for terrorism before and got out too early or something. Instead, the WTC disaster represents a failure of american intelligence, and possibly, american foreign policy in the middle east.
Does anybody really think these attacks wouldn't have happened if this law was in place before?
Here is something that the/. authors seem to have missed that belongs in this section.
The editors have seen fit to ban web clipping devices from using slashdot. Avantgo gives a "forbidden" sign when using it to try to access http://slashdot.org/palm and avantslash now gives error messages because the author of website has had his website blocked.
All of this without a peep from any of the editors? I have been a reader of slashdot for years. I normally do not post messages such as this one, but they have not responded to my emails. The avantslash author is a nice guy. How about letting him know whats going on? Whats up with all this? Whats going on with you guys???? Please snap out of it.
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Well if AdMob is being banned by this criteria wouldn't that ban the iAd system too?
Of course, I am not underestimating Apple's ability to be hypocritical and selective apply their own rules here...
There are a good number of youtube videos that fail to load on the iphone, saying something like the format is not supported. I tested this script on some of these videos, and they all work.
This script definitely earns a link on my home screen. Now if they would only write similar scripts for the other video sharing sites.
It is a little disappointing to see /. add to the Chinaphobia media feeding frenzy.
I mean, there are many internal problems with China, and this hacking issue is clearly a potential cause for concern but is there and evidence that there are more hacks coming from China per capita than anywhere else in the world? I would like to see that sort of evidence first before pointing fingers.
the doctors you presume are there may not be (at least regularly), nor would they necessarily have a good patient.
good point. that is definitely a very plausible explanation.
Wow, touchy aren't we? I guess you didn't care too much about the talk regarding McCain's chances of melanoma recurrence either. I think that was an important discussion that I would have chimed in on as well, had I seen a posting here. Just as this discussion is important to certain AAPL shareholders.
But I guess if you don't really have an argument to make you can always attack the individual. Good luck with that.
This is a well known complication of having pancreas surgery. Some patients need pancreatic enzymes supplements afterwards to process proteins.
This sort of thing should not be a "mystery" to Jobs' doctors as the press release says.
I shouldn't reply to this ridiculous posting, which implies that somehow because I am both a doctor and a geek I am not allowed to have an opinion on a media report on a medical issue. But fine, I will take the bait.
I am not Steve Jobs' doctor and I am not trying to be. The OP solicited a doctor's opinion and I gave mine with the little information I could guess at from a media report.
COMMON SENSE would dictate that I am not making an ironclad diagnosis from a media report, but apparently it is because of people such as yourself, who are lacking in this capacity, that people have to post disclaimers at the bottom of their comments and email or whatever that they are only giving their opinion and not a professional service.
Before I posted my earlier message I had a discussion about the media report with one of my colleagues. It would seem then that you would prefer doctors to keep such talk to ourselves. You are quite free to block my comments or refrain from reading them from now on.
shellac.
I am a physician and I have actually performed a few Whipple procedures in my training. I can say that upon reading this letter, I immediately smelled big-time BS.
There are some treatable medical causes of cachexia (profound weight loss) but they are not difficult to diagnosis. If he had pancreatic insufficiency following his pancreas resection, this should have been quickly noted because it is common and his newfound symptoms of diabetes are easily recognized.
Hyperthyroidism is another cause of weight loss, but any doctor worth his salt would have screened for this right away. Celiac disease is another possibility but again this is not a difficult diagnosis because of the GI symptoms (lots of diarrhea).
The most likely cause of weight loss in this setting is cancer, cancer, and cancer. It can sometimes be very difficult to find where exactly the cancer metastases have recurred, and this can delay the proper diagnosis.
The main thing that Jobs has going for him is that this weight loss was first publicly noted some time ago now, and he does not have other signs of cancer that we know of. Jobs does not seem to be the type to hide it if he knew he had cancer. At least, he didn't hide it the first time, right?
shellac.
It appears this 18 months, or 9 months as it is now, does not apply to Google Web History when you are logged into your google account. My Web History log goes back to April 2005.
I for one am glad they are not deleting the Web History log at 9 months. It is nice to be able to peruse through my searches done years ago.
They already do this - who do you think reads all those X-Rays?
Radiology is the obvious candidate for outsourcing, but there are legal issues with this. The radiologists in India that can look at films do not have an American medical license. If there is a misread, they are not legally responsible. The hospital can get sued, and they will get accused of using unlicensed radiologists.
What a lot of hospitals do now is that only the films done late at night are outsourced. In my hospital, there is a "night hawk" service that reads the films, and who knows where on earth they are actually located. This is considered a preliminary reading.
When the in-house radiologist comes in the morning, they put in the "official" read.
If the doctor has serious reservations about the outsourced prelim read, they can call a radiologist who is on call at home and wake his ass up to read it. The problem is that the doctor on call, who is not a radioloist, has to recognize that there is a misread.
In reality, my personal experience is that the outsourced guys do a great job at the reading.
This outsourcing would decrease medical costs, but first the government would have to put in legal protections for the medical centers. American radiologist would no doubt be quite pissed and up in arms about this.
You are right, and this most likely would not stand up in a court of law. It looks like it is begging for a class action lawsuit.
The article claims that they have pharmacy customers sign a HIPAA waiver, but I have never signed any such document, and I have been to the pharmacy on occasion. Can anyone on this board recall when a drug store asked them to sign a HIPAA waiver?
It is marked as "funny", but this is actually a brilliant post.
AT&T is threatening to terminate the contract, an action with actually has a $170 value for the customer. I mean, are they retarded? What with TMobile rolling out their 3G network, it would then be trivial to switch over or flip it on ebay as the parent post says.
When they realize the error of their ways, what they will probably due is simply block the P2P protocols however.
Let's just hope they are blowing a lot of steam to make Congress happy.
i don't think thats really true. has anyone seen 'matchpoint', the new woody allen flick? excellent movie.
what about the french movie 'Cache'. very thought-provoking film.
sure there are a lot of crappy blockbusters out there, but hasn't that always been the case?
shellac.
Hey, I have a great idea. Why not use this open port on the infected MyDoom boxes to propogate a virus which is set to automatically remove MyDoom and then remove itself several days after infection? It would be a great way to "patch" all these compromised boxes.
That being said, I wonder what the legality of this benevolent virus would be. Could the author of the virus safely step forward and make his name known?
Why don't all the filesharing networks, Kazaa, gnutella, etc., encrypt their searches with ROT13 and then slap malintentioned groups snooping traffic with lawsuits citing the DMCA. Since the movie industries pushed this to control their media, this would be quite an ironic usage of the DMCA. hehe
This article reminds me of those who say that a patient diagnosed with incurable cancer should not be told about it, since there is nothing that can be done about it. The idea has been defunct in the medical world for many years. In the US it is extremely unethical to do this, though I am sure in some countries it goes on. The reason is quite simple - with a limited time left on the world, there are likely many things the cancer patient would like to do before he dies, e.g. apologize to that guy he was a dick to at work, tell some girl he loved her, beat civ3 on the hardest level.
On top of that, it is just plain dishonest. Not to mention that in the case of an asteroid, someone somewhere might have a bright idea that would avert disaster or extend human survival.
Found here:
Telomeres are found on the ends of chromosomes. They are a small sequence of DNA repeated many times. They act as protective "caps" and help to prevent chromosomal instability and damage. However the telomeres gradually shorten over the lifetime of the organism because they are not fully copied during cell division. The exception to this are germ-line cells, where telomeres are maintained so that full-length telomeres are passed on to the next generation.
Pretty interesting.... I didn't know that myself. Anyhow, don't thank me, thank google.
So what was the e-mail with a score of 27?
"Hello, I am a Nigerian prince who is selling XXX-brand diet pills that also have the side effect of enlarging your penis. Also if you forward this email to five other people and tell them to each send you a dollar you can make money fast."
*ducks*
Yeah, I admit that I missed the main point, about demoes and not about music. Apologies to the makers of this DVD for this. I have not seen the videos myself and they could be really great for all I know.
It was kind of a knee-jerk reaction when I didn't see what I expected at the website. I think it was the term 'electronica' in the main story.
There has been incredible use of computers in the last 20 years in electronic music, from Kraftwerk all the way down to the likes of Autechre and Marumari. Unfortunately, none of it is represented on this dvd. Glancing at the contents, 95% of the stuff on this dvd is cheesy dance music.
If you have a real interest in electronica, check out warp records for starters. Their artists are of the idm genre, which (for the uninitiated) stands for "intelligent dance music". Snobby as that sounds, it is good stuff.
Now if you just want trance or Paul Oakenfoldish type stuff on the other hand, kudos to you, cause you will have an easy time--that stuff is a dime a dozen.
Ok, that's enough cocky music snob mode for today. :)
Yahoo has been providing forwarding for @rocketmail.com addresses ever since they bought them out. Does anyone know if they are planning to charge for this also?
The reason your POP3 stopped now is likely because you unsubscribed from the "yahoo delivers!" option when you went to the account information. Yahoo delivers has always been a prerequisite to using pop3 or forwarding. Once you sign back on to it, you'll be able to start the pop3 again.
The yahoo delivers thing is not that annoying, as I have only gotten mail from it like once a month, and a lot of it has been genuinely interesting. The other stuff mentioned in this story you should definitely unsubscribe from though.
Many people seem to think that this is the first time preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) had been used. I will quote from the first paragraph of the JAMA article to clear this up:
According to the most recent review, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has been applied to at least 50 different genetic conditions in more than 3000 clinical cycles. In addition to traditional indications, similar to those in prenatal diagnosis, PGD was performed for an increasing number of new indications, such as late-onset disorders with genetic predisposition and HLA testing combined with PGD for preexisting single-gene disorders. These conditions have never been an indication for prenatal diagnosis because of potential pregnancy termination, which is highly controversial if performed for genetic predisposition alone. With the introduction of PGD, it has become possible to avoid the transfer of the embryos carrying the genes that predispose a person to common disorders, thereby establishing only potentially healthy pregnancies and overcoming important ethical issues in connection with selective abortions.
Basically, it says that PGD has been used for predispositions to diseases that come later in life before. This is just the first time it is being used for this particular disease.
The thing that possibly makes it more controversial is that not all of the people with the genetic mutation they "weeded out" go on to develop Alzheimer's, for reasons that are unclear. So maybe they trashed some perfectly OK embryos?
I think the administration is barking up the wrong tree with this law. It seems to me that existing laws are fine for punishing terrorists. It's not as if these people were in jail for terrorism before and got out too early or something. Instead, the WTC disaster represents a failure of american intelligence, and possibly, american foreign policy in the middle east.
Does anybody really think these attacks wouldn't have happened if this law was in place before?
Here is something that the /. authors seem to have missed that belongs in this section.
The editors have seen fit to ban web clipping devices from using slashdot. Avantgo gives a "forbidden" sign when using it to try to access http://slashdot.org/palm and avantslash now gives error messages because the author of website has had his website blocked.
All of this without a peep from any of the editors? I have been a reader of slashdot for years. I normally do not post messages such as this one, but they have not responded to my emails. The avantslash author is a nice guy. How about letting him know whats going on? Whats up with all this? Whats going on with you guys???? Please snap out of it.
-ali