I am an EMT and have a pager and it is not just useful it is absolutely essential.
Caveat: I live in Green Bank, WVa. The city without cell phones, wifi etc etc.
I think pagers are still pretty widespread in the emergency services. At least volunteer departments where we are on call 24/7 and not sat in a station when on duty.
First of all I should mention that I am a resident of Green Bank WV and the people mentioned in the article are known to me. Including Diane Schou.
Just wanted to say that while the cause of their symptoms can be argued about endlessly the symptoms they have are real and they can be debilitating. The whole issue is no joke to them and as was said by Charlie Meckna, "Do you think I want this?, No!"
I don't think any of them are trying to pull a fast one or indulging in attention seeking behaviour. The ones I have met are just plain folks.
In five hours I can drive to Washington DC from Green Bank (Yes I live there so I know) Two hours to I81 or 1 hour to I64. So yes it is a bit remote but not literally the middle of nowhere.
Plenty of people do come here, especially in winter as Snowshoe ski resort is ~10 miles away from us as the crow flies.
(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.
As an EMT who has attended a number of MVAs I don't need no black box to help me determine whether there was a significant mechanism of injury. I'm certainly not going to be spending time fannying about trying to read out the black box when I have patients who need my help right now.
I'm sufficiently well trained to determine for myself whether someone requires treatment and I don't see how information from a black box is going to "facilitate" the limited treatments I am permitted to perform as an EMT-B.
That said, if law enforcement can retrieve info like speed, accelerations etc and transmit that to the receiving facility I can see the utility.
I can't believe how little protest the remote attestation aspect has generated. From TFA: "To prove a client is healthy, the anti-malware software can quote TPM measurements to a remote verifier."
How long before that becomes "The XYZ software can attest that only trusted software components are running." Big content are going to love this capability.
I ran into a speed camera set up in Spain that is very effective. If someone passes the sensor at excess speed a traffic light further up the road turns red for a time. The disapproval of the other drivers who are inconvenienced seems quite a powerful corrective.
The primary reason I purchased my wife an ereader was to save me much physical effort. She gets through a phenomenal amount of books and when we vacation she takes one book for each day of the vacation. A 3 week vacation in Spain last year meant half a suitcase of books and that's heavy.
The ethical considerations of DRM etc paled in comparison to that. It's also saved me about 18 feet of book shelf space and counting.
As many have pointed out a second monitor is a cheap way of keeping a dev happy and I'd not argue with it. Where it costs me is time for my admins with the extra set up required for a non standard system. To discourage this anyone wanting a non standard desktop gets to pay the extra for it. This puts off the majority of people as they cannot make a cogent case for why they need it. Especially when I tell their supervisor about virtual desktops.
About the only people who do actually get a dual monitor system are the developers.
You are comparing apples with oranges here. The entire "data stream" is available to anyone with a suitable dish and receiver. Unless of course the targets decide to encrypt their natural RF emissions.
Once the data has been captured it will become available after a proprietary period during which the principal investigator will have exclusive access to it. I believe this period will be one year.
No need to launch a 100' mirror. The advances in optical interferometery allow the same resolution to be achieved with two much smaller mirrors 100' apart. Obviously you need a lot more than 2 to achieve the same sensitivity as a single 100' mirror.
Such an instrument is already being planned by ESA, called darwin
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I am an EMT and have a pager and it is not just useful it is absolutely essential.
Caveat: I live in Green Bank, WVa. The city without cell phones, wifi etc etc.
I think pagers are still pretty widespread in the emergency services. At least volunteer departments where we are on call 24/7 and not sat in a station when on duty.
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First of all I should mention that I am a resident of Green Bank WV and the people mentioned in the article are known to me. Including Diane Schou.
Just wanted to say that while the cause of their symptoms can be argued about endlessly the symptoms they have are real and they can be debilitating. The whole issue is no joke to them and as was said by Charlie Meckna, "Do you think I want this?, No!"
I don't think any of them are trying to pull a fast one or indulging in attention seeking behaviour. The ones I have met are just plain folks.
Hyperbole.
In five hours I can drive to Washington DC from Green Bank (Yes I live there so I know) Two hours to I81 or 1 hour to I64. So yes it is a bit remote but not literally the middle of nowhere.
Plenty of people do come here, especially in winter as Snowshoe ski resort is ~10 miles away from us as the crow flies.
Was looking at those windmills in Elkins just yesterday. I certainly don't consider them to be any kind of eyesore.
Emergency personel here in the US of A quite deliberately avoid looking for S.O.S. bracelets and similar."
Bullshit. One of the first things we're taught in EMT class is to look for them.
Add in the higher quality geotagged images (~70m) from panoramio they could certainly build some nice models.
They do a great job. We host one of the centers at the local firehouse and it's kept pretty busy.
(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.
As an EMT who has attended a number of MVAs I don't need no black box to help me determine whether there was a significant mechanism of injury. I'm certainly not going to be spending time fannying about trying to read out the black box when I have patients who need my help right now.
I'm sufficiently well trained to determine for myself whether someone requires treatment and I don't see how information from a black box is going to "facilitate" the limited treatments I am permitted to perform as an EMT-B.
That said, if law enforcement can retrieve info like speed, accelerations etc and transmit that to the receiving facility I can see the utility.
Seems the air force will deliberately shine lasers at aircraft when it suits them. Only when they do it "the lasers are harmless" http://articles.cnn.com/2005-04-15/tech/laser.warn_1_laser-beams-ground-based-lasers-airspace?_s=PM:TECH
I can't believe how little protest the remote attestation aspect has generated. From TFA: "To prove a client is healthy, the anti-malware software can quote TPM measurements to a remote verifier."
How long before that becomes "The XYZ software can attest that only trusted software components are running." Big content are going to love this capability.
I'm one of the resident aliens in Green Bank and I confine my probing to the chickens on the grill at our volunteer fire departments annual cookout.
Hammers and floodlights! Foamy is spot on. http://www.youtube.com/v/_GjVy2pMZiY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999
Thanks :) I should state I am NOT one of the gurus but I do know some of them.
Older and newer UIDs are involved in the project as well :)
I ran into a speed camera set up in Spain that is very effective. If someone passes the sensor at excess speed a traffic light further up the road turns red for a time. The disapproval of the other drivers who are inconvenienced seems quite a powerful corrective.
The primary reason I purchased my wife an ereader was to save me much physical effort. She gets through a phenomenal amount of books and when we vacation she takes one book for each day of the vacation. A 3 week vacation in Spain last year meant half a suitcase of books and that's heavy.
The ethical considerations of DRM etc paled in comparison to that. It's also saved me about 18 feet of book shelf space and counting.
As many have pointed out a second monitor is a cheap way of keeping a dev happy and I'd not argue with it. Where it costs me is time for my admins with the extra set up required for a non standard system. To discourage this anyone wanting a non standard desktop gets to pay the extra for it. This puts off the majority of people as they cannot make a cogent case for why they need it. Especially when I tell their supervisor about virtual desktops.
About the only people who do actually get a dual monitor system are the developers.
Don't get me started on the quad monitor systems!
When are Amazon going to delete this post?
You are comparing apples with oranges here. The entire "data stream" is available to anyone with a suitable dish and receiver. Unless of course the targets decide to encrypt their natural RF emissions.
Once the data has been captured it will become available after a proprietary period during which the principal investigator will have exclusive access to it. I believe this period will be one year.
You could also go to the horses mouth: http://www.alma.nrao.edu/almanews/ Chris
Such an instrument is already being planned by ESA, called darwin
To say nothing of the radio astronomy bands!
"dvd" Jon last I heard, had taken up employment in the good ole US of A. If it's true he won't be attacking any DRM. At least not without great risk.
The gamma rays aren't stale. In their relativistic time frame very little time has passed since the explosion :)