From the article:
"In 2013, 14,000 kilograms of testosterone were sold in the United States. That might not sound like much, but a typical adult male has just 0.000000035 kilograms of testosterone floating around in his bloodstream."
That means that enough testosterone was produced to increase the amount of testosterone in *every* man in the world by 200 times. WOW! I wonder what the effects are of a 1000x increase...that some men must be getting?
I eventually made this same decision after attempting to use a pair of progressive trifocals. I likewise could never get used to the small window where my computer screen was in focus, so I also decided to ditch them for a bi-focal and a single focus for my computer monitors.
Yes, it's somewhat of a pain to switch the glasses every time I get up and sit down, but my eyes like it much better.
Randy - andluckilyiamnotelligibleforlasiksinceiamafraidtohavealasarshotintomyeyes
I've gotten two of these phone calls in the past few months. The first time I followed their instructions up until the point that they wanted to take over my computer. They pointed me to a legitimate screen sharing application. I gave them the wrong access code. Once the caller realized I wasn't going to fall for the scam, he got ANGRY and told me that *tomorrow* he was going to destroy my computer. I challenged him to do it now.:-) I should have told him my IP address was 127.0.0.1.
I still wonder *what* he was going to do once he took control. Setup a remote control SPAM bot? Encrypt everything? Or simply ask for $500.00 to "fix" all the problems?
If I had an old throwaway system, I would have pointed him to that...but then I would be worried that he would have been able to infect my other computers on my network...maybe.
True...to a point. It's mainly limited by domain or function. Can drive on well known established paths. Or only when *all* the cars communicate with each other. Or at slow speeds.
It'll be a long time before a car can drive on an expressway, through a construction zone, then past a parade in your home town and respond correctly to a police officer's hand waving instructions past an accident.
I'm beginning to believe that we are still 20 years from fully autonomous self-driving cars.
I also worked for Xerox at Webster, NY from '80-'90. The Altos were utterly amazing, as well as the software that ran on them...Pilot OS, Mesa, SIL for creating schematics, Swat for debugging. It spoiled me. Even programming on the Sun hardware and OS years later was a step down.
My favorite game was Polish Pong, but I loved Star Trek too.
1. The object floats on top of the water, and displaces it's weight in water and the water level remains the same. 2. The object sinks below the surface of the water and displaces it's *volume* of water and the water level goes down.
-- Randy -- iamnotapysicist,butrememberansweringthistrickquestionbefore,butmayhavemisremembered
In the early grades, a student's success is more dependent on parents and teachers.
As the student progresses, the student takes more and more of the responsibility of their success, until High School when the student has *ALL* of the responsibility.
I understand your point that the code for a 747 or the ISS must be written to *avoid* catastrophic failures and will be much more expensive to design and develop. If a car manufacturer were to write all the code in its ECU like this, then no one would be able to afford a car. However, not all the subsystems in an ECU need to be written to this standard. The portions that control the engine performance and gas mileage don't. But all the fly by wire parts *do* need this level of care. As soon as the gas pedal and brakes are being completely controlled by software, then the manufacturer had better make sure that it fails safely.
That said, I'll be in the *second* wave of people buying robo-cars.
Yes, the DEA should try to catch these shady doctors.
However, they don't need to look at *my* records unless they have evidence that I'm involved *and* they get a warrant....and the Constitution is still intact!
I agree. Once you get hired, you have a full time job repairing and extending the code you're responsible for. If you spent your time learning new stuff, then you'd get canned.
Paying someone without experience more just because they happen to know a specific framework seems foolish.
Caveats: The Old-Fart must be willing to change and learn, and the Youngster had better be willing to learn the old stuff.
Re: Its different because the data fed to flightstats is delayed...
If it's delayed by a specific amount, then can't the bad guys simply add or subtract. Sounds difficult.
This is certainly one of those cases where the good (planes knowing where other planes are or backup to radar) far outweighs the bad (the extremely small possibility that a plane will be shot down).
Slashdot Mirror
The "article" was TFA...which somehow I actually read.
From the article:
"In 2013, 14,000 kilograms of testosterone were sold in the United States. That might not sound like much, but a typical adult male has just 0.000000035 kilograms of testosterone floating around in his bloodstream."
That means that enough testosterone was produced to increase the amount of testosterone in *every* man in the world by 200 times. WOW! I wonder what the effects are of a 1000x increase...that some men must be getting?
...as well as an increased risk of heart attack.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/he...
I'll pass, since I already have heart disease in my family history. You can choose otherwise.
I eventually made this same decision after attempting to use a pair of progressive trifocals. I likewise could never get used to the small window where my computer screen was in focus, so I also decided to ditch them for a bi-focal and a single focus for my computer monitors.
Yes, it's somewhat of a pain to switch the glasses every time I get up and sit down, but my eyes like it much better.
Randy - andluckilyiamnotelligibleforlasiksinceiamafraidtohavealasarshotintomyeyes
I can affirm that this is exact scenario is true for PNC in the USA too.
I've gotten two of these phone calls in the past few months. The first time I followed their instructions up until the point that they wanted to take over my computer. They pointed me to a legitimate screen sharing application. I gave them the wrong access code. Once the caller realized I wasn't going to fall for the scam, he got ANGRY and told me that *tomorrow* he was going to destroy my computer. I challenged him to do it now. :-) I should have told him my IP address was 127.0.0.1.
I still wonder *what* he was going to do once he took control. Setup a remote control SPAM bot? Encrypt everything? Or simply ask for $500.00 to "fix" all the problems?
If I had an old throwaway system, I would have pointed him to that...but then I would be worried that he would have been able to infect my other computers on my network...maybe.
Randy -- regardlessitwasfun
True...to a point. It's mainly limited by domain or function. Can drive on well known established paths. Or only when *all* the cars communicate with each other. Or at slow speeds.
It'll be a long time before a car can drive on an expressway, through a construction zone, then past a parade in your home town and respond correctly to a police officer's hand waving instructions past an accident.
I'm beginning to believe that we are still 20 years from fully autonomous self-driving cars.
Peace,
Randy -- althoughireallyhopeilivetoseeit
I also worked for Xerox at Webster, NY from '80-'90. The Altos were utterly amazing, as well as the software that ran on them...Pilot OS, Mesa, SIL for creating schematics, Swat for debugging. It spoiled me. Even programming on the Sun hardware and OS years later was a step down.
My favorite game was Polish Pong, but I loved Star Trek too.
--
Randy Stegbauer -- thosewerethedays
I see two cases.
1. The object floats on top of the water, and displaces it's weight in water and the water level remains the same.
2. The object sinks below the surface of the water and displaces it's *volume* of water and the water level goes down.
--
Randy -- iamnotapysicist,butrememberansweringthistrickquestionbefore,butmayhavemisremembered
Re: Diagnosing a rare disease with non-specific symptoms
Except for that one very specific symptom of traveling to Western Africa! That should be a bright red flag!
This 16 miles would have to be part of their normal *working* day and not just leisure strolling.
...or when Nixon did the same thing with tapes...but didn't realize that there would be a gap. LOL
Those were the good ole days!
Randy -- thosewerethegoodoledays
I've been saying this forever.
In the early grades, a student's success is more dependent on parents and teachers.
As the student progresses, the student takes more and more of the responsibility of their success, until High School when the student has *ALL* of the responsibility.
Randy -- ishouldbepaidformyresearch
I understand your point that the code for a 747 or the ISS must be written to *avoid* catastrophic failures and will be much more expensive to design and develop. If a car manufacturer were to write all the code in its ECU like this, then no one would be able to afford a car. However, not all the subsystems in an ECU need to be written to this standard. The portions that control the engine performance and gas mileage don't. But all the fly by wire parts *do* need this level of care. As soon as the gas pedal and brakes are being completely controlled by software, then the manufacturer had better make sure that it fails safely.
That said, I'll be in the *second* wave of people buying robo-cars.
Peace,
Randy
Yes, the DEA should try to catch these shady doctors.
However, they don't need to look at *my* records unless they have evidence that I'm involved *and* they get a warrant. ...and the Constitution is still intact!
Randy
Then it's a Win-Win?
Should I admit that I accidentally posted that as AC?
I agree. Once you get hired, you have a full time job repairing and extending the code you're responsible for. If you spent your time learning new stuff, then you'd get canned.
Paying someone without experience more just because they happen to know a specific framework seems foolish.
Caveats: The Old-Fart must be willing to change and learn, and the Youngster had better be willing to learn the old stuff.
Randy - moreofanoldfart
Re: Its different because the data fed to flightstats is delayed...
If it's delayed by a specific amount, then can't the bad guys simply add or subtract. Sounds difficult.
This is certainly one of those cases where the good (planes knowing where other planes are or backup to radar) far outweighs the bad (the extremely small possibility that a plane will be shot down).
Big Sigh,
Randy
You need to look up the definitions of "tyranny" and "blackmail" and "coercion".
Randy -- iamnotafraidtosignmyname
The only people that I know of that like these machines are politicians, voting officials, and voting machine manufacturers.
I don't know any *voters* that prefer them.
Randy -- justmyobservations
How can anyone (not you, mind you) complain about Russian comic relief here at /.?
Randy - In Soviet Russia, Comics Relief You.
I'm sorry, but is that *all* you got? :-)
Randy - uncle uncle uncle
I seem to recall the OJ trial.
Randy
This sounds like you are speaking from experience.
Well?