Google's market is affectively malware-free, although the occasional software may pop up again in the future there because they don't have an extremely intrusive evaluation process.
I guess that depends on your definition of malware. There have been plenty of obvious malware detected so far. There's plenty of crap on the Google Market with excessive permissions that happily invades your privacy by doing things like uploading your contacts to a foreign website, or tracking your calling, texts, location and surfing habits.
A major problem is users not understanding how permissions work and clicking to install anyway. Adding to this is the inability to selectively deny or alter those permissions from within the Market. There are additional utilities out there that can configure the permissions or iptables, but the average user who blindly accepts the permissions doesn't have them.
No, more like pointing out this isn't a major issue for 99.995 percent of Windows users. If there is a priority list of polish things like this, it'd be pretty low on it. Personally, I have a volume knob on my speaker setup so I don't even need the tray icon which isn't front and center when I'm gaming anyway.
Lest you sound like a hypocrite, keep in mind there are plenty of things the Linux community makes excuses for because they don't work well in Linux. Should I start with the continually dismal support of video cards? You still can't just buy a video card and expect it to work without at least dorking with something at the shell. The usually excuse is poor vender support and how they'd rather delivered a binary that taints the GPL kernel.
I'm fine with click the tray icon and roll the scroll wheel. You make it sound like that extra click is a tragedy. Given how tray icons work, this makes sense, btw. Otherwise explorer would have to catch what your doing and pass it to the tray icon.
Virtual PC is support on other versions, it's just the XP mode that required Pro or better. I prefer VirtualBox myslef, although it does still have a few quirks under Windows and the really powerful features are only accessible via command line (like making a virtual disk immutable).
Speaking of virtual disks, Windows 7 supports booting a to a VHD. The functionality is there but not exposed or easily setup. So technically it's not a new feature.
Instead of sacrificing a scapegoat Google should man up and tell the FCC to fuck off. Those who broadcast their personal data in every direction have no claim of privacy.
Except they don't. Try telling the FCC you listen in on cell calls and see if they press charges.
I am sure all they were interested in was the BSSID in order to tag it to a location.
I would guess they were probably also grabbing the mac address of the router.. This fits in nicely with the recent revelation that Apple and some browser plugins were tracking users by using the mac address of the gateway as a unique ID.
But that doesn't check if you go to the right gate and get on the correct plane. This is a real security hole that was known should have been closed years ago. Remember the kid that modified his borading pass before printing it off and then blogged about it?
Security should all be done directly before bording. It's just too expensive to put in that many scanners and hire that many guards.
That's not TSA's job. That's the airlines job. It's their problem if they decide to honor an invalid boarding pass.
Objective To evaluate whether a new computerised cognitive behavioural therapy intervention (SPARX, Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts) could reduce depressive symptoms in help seeking adolescents as much or more than treatment as usual.
Setting 24 primary healthcare sites in New Zealand (youth clinics, general practices, and school based counselling services).
Participants 187 adolescents aged 12-19, seeking help for depressive symptoms, with no major risk of self harm and deemed in need of treatment by their primary healthcare clinicians: 94 were allocated to SPARX and 93 to treatment as usual.
Interventions Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (SPARX) comprising seven modules delivered over a period of between four and seven weeks, versus treatment as usual comprising primarily face to face counselling delivered by trained counsellors and clinical psychologists.
Outcomes The primary outcome was the change in score on the children’s depression rating scale-revised. Secondary outcomes included response and remission on the children’s depression rating scale-revised, change scores on the Reynolds adolescent depression scale-second edition, the mood and feelings questionnaire, the Kazdin hopelessness scale for children, the Spence children’s anxiety scale, the paediatric quality of life enjoyment and satisfaction questionnaire, and overall satisfaction with treatment ratings.
Results 94 participants were allocated to SPARX (mean age 15.6 years, 62.8% female) and 93 to treatment as usual (mean age 15.6 years, 68.8% female). 170 adolescents (91%, SPARX n=85, treatment as usual n=85) were assessed after intervention and 168 (90%, SPARX n=83, treatment as usual n=85) were assessed at the three month follow-up point. Per protocol analyses (n=143) showed that SPARX was not inferior to treatment as usual. Post-intervention, there was a mean reduction of 10.32 in SPARX and 7.59 in treatment as usual in raw scores on the children’s depression rating scale-revised (between group difference 2.73, 95% confidence interval 0.31 to 5.77; P=0.079). Remission rates were significantly higher in the SPARX arm (n=31, 43.7%) than in the treatment as usual arm (n=19, 26.4%) (difference 17.3%, 95% confidence interval 1.6% to 31.8%; P=0.030) and response rates did not differ significantly between the SPARX arm (66.2%, n=47) and treatment as usual arm (58.3%, n=42) (difference 7.9%, 7.9% to 24%; P=0.332). All secondary measures supported non-inferiority. Intention to treat analyses confirmed these findings. Improvements were maintained at follow-up. The frequency of adverse events classified as “possibly” or “probably” related to the intervention did not differ between groups (SPARX n=11; treatment as usual n=11).
Conclusions SPARX is a potential alternative to usual care for adolescents presenting with depressive symptoms in primary care settings and could be used to address some of the unmet demand for treatment.
Trial registration Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials ACTRN12609000249257. [/quote]
So the data in the abstract says the SPARX treatment had a higher remission rate, and ultimately wasn't any better than conventional therapy. Where it might be useful is for situations where conventional counseling is not available. That sounds much more reasonable than the claim that it worked in 44% of cases than 26% of regular counseling (did marketing make up those numbers?).
If that 14% was too depressed to engage with the game, then they've skewed the statistics. For conventional therapy, if they excluded the patients that didn't engage with the counselor and just sat there, would the statistics be similar? A lot of teenage depression sorts itself out once the hormones settle down. There was no mention of a control group, but it's possible that neither counseling or an interactive game had any significant improvement over no treatment.
Methane is discharged as waste at oil rigs since there is no economical way to capture, store and transport it from remote areas. Needs fixin'.
They don't just vent it into the air as that poses an explosion risk. They burn it. Ever see that flame at the top of off-shore oil rigs? That'd be the natural gas being burnt.
If your electricity is generated from coal, then the extra amount of mercury and radioactive materials released at the power plants to run the incandescent versus a CFL is _more_ than what's contained in the CFL. I'd be more worried about the naturally occurring mercury in fish.
B) Fukushima reactor 4 spent fuel rods, unmanaged and uncasked, with 85x the cesium-137 of Chernobyl
Speaking of manipulating numbers to create a panic....
The article you cite says "The Fukushima site holds roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident", which does not mean that it has the potential to release 85x as much as Chernobyl did. If we're talking about stored waste and fuel, the US certainly has far more at Hanford.
More often than not, the research is funded in stages. If the initial stages didn't show anything promising then the later stages are not funded. Hence the pressure to massage the data to show progress.
There is (almost) no one who benefits from climate change
- climatologists who write papers about climate change would happily write papers about something else.
That's a rather naive view. These researches are happily going where the money is because they work for a living. There are lots of funding and grants available if you research the right topics, and even more if you tend to produce the desired results. They might want to work on something more esoteric and ultimately worth pursuing scientifically, but they are slaves to funding which is heavily influenced by the political climate.
The low-grade radioactive byproducts have short half-lives. They still need to be held on-site for the time it takes to reach a safe level of radioactivity.
The same stuff that is radioactive for millenia is the same stuff that is useful to new generation reactors, so ship that off-site.
Shorter half lives still don't make it instantly easy to dispose of. They're still cleaning up Hanford for example.
This looks much more appropriate. Gets rid of pirates and fights neighborhood house fires. Wonder if I can get the insurance company to subsidize this or give me a discount on my rates. Although my rates might go up when it starts dousing the neighborhood children.
I knew about the bus terminal bs. I wasn't aware of the huge funding expansion last Dec. Lets hope Congress at least looks at the legal issues, as well as the notion of spending millions to harass people getting on a greyhound or illegally searching vehicles at highway rest stops. Gestapo indeed.
Prior to 9/11 hijackings were usually intended to divert the plan or hold hostages and people rarely died. Jetliners themselves had never been used as a weapon before. The simple and expedient solution to that vulnerability was simply installing secure cockpit doors and appropriate procedures about keeping it shut. Simple and cheap.
I'm waiting for Homeland Security to start scaring us about other vulnerabilities and convincing congress to pour even more money their way. Stupid simple things like blowing up pipelines or poisening water supplies. Things that are dirt cheap to do, but our govt is willing to spend billions to prevent.
Wow, US tourism is absolutely booming! That's an increase of at least 4% (average of 8%) every year for nearly a decade!
The reason for that is the weak US dollar. We have a govt that is artificially keeping "inflation" low to convince the public we aren't in a recession, but at the same time printing money like crazy and devaluing the dollar. We have lots of foreigners coming here for vacation because it's cheap for them.
If the phone is on the internet, they can be even more accurate than that.
Ask Google. Part of the "location" info that the phone reports is what wifi it's connected to and Google has been quietly mapping wifi locations. This is why my ipod with no cell service knows my location to within several hundred feet when I go to Google Maps.
"Hey, mind if I take in this superconductor cooler through the checkpoint?"
Meanwhile the guy with the ceramic knife in his pocket and the plastic explosives in his underwear walk through without garnering any attention at all.
No risk necessary. Just take the spent fuel and burn it in a newer-gen reactor.
What about the other large quantity of low-level stuff like the containment chamber, piping, etc. Really the fuel itself is the least of the cleanup problem.
The pub in Bevois Valley, which is popular with students, has traded with the name for more than 20 years.
That pub existed wayyy before the movies made the franchise famous. It's not like they decided to name the business to ride on the films' fame.
Perhaps not, but they certainly started selling stuff with the images of the characters from the movie including putting Elijah Woods face on things. That's what prompted the legal action.
Yes ans=d no. G.711 is generally 8-bit u-law encoded at 8kHz (or a-law). The problem is that Robbed-Bit Signalling within the telco can steal one of the bits on every 6th frame. It can be even more frames depending on how many times along the path that the equipment is doing robbed-bit signalling. This is also the reason, your modem can't get 64k connections and often gets much worse.
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Google's market is affectively malware-free, although the occasional software may pop up again in the future there because they don't have an extremely intrusive evaluation process.
I guess that depends on your definition of malware. There have been plenty of obvious malware detected so far. There's plenty of crap on the Google Market with excessive permissions that happily invades your privacy by doing things like uploading your contacts to a foreign website, or tracking your calling, texts, location and surfing habits.
A major problem is users not understanding how permissions work and clicking to install anyway. Adding to this is the inability to selectively deny or alter those permissions from within the Market. There are additional utilities out there that can configure the permissions or iptables, but the average user who blindly accepts the permissions doesn't have them.
Excuses for inferiority. How lame is that?
No, more like pointing out this isn't a major issue for 99.995 percent of Windows users. If there is a priority list of polish things like this, it'd be pretty low on it. Personally, I have a volume knob on my speaker setup so I don't even need the tray icon which isn't front and center when I'm gaming anyway.
Lest you sound like a hypocrite, keep in mind there are plenty of things the Linux community makes excuses for because they don't work well in Linux. Should I start with the continually dismal support of video cards? You still can't just buy a video card and expect it to work without at least dorking with something at the shell. The usually excuse is poor vender support and how they'd rather delivered a binary that taints the GPL kernel.
I'm fine with click the tray icon and roll the scroll wheel. You make it sound like that extra click is a tragedy. Given how tray icons work, this makes sense, btw. Otherwise explorer would have to catch what your doing and pass it to the tray icon.
Virtual PC is support on other versions, it's just the XP mode that required Pro or better. I prefer VirtualBox myslef, although it does still have a few quirks under Windows and the really powerful features are only accessible via command line (like making a virtual disk immutable).
Speaking of virtual disks, Windows 7 supports booting a to a VHD. The functionality is there but not exposed or easily setup. So technically it's not a new feature.
Instead of sacrificing a scapegoat Google should man up and tell the FCC to fuck off. Those who broadcast their personal data in every direction have no claim of privacy.
Except they don't. Try telling the FCC you listen in on cell calls and see if they press charges.
I am sure all they were interested in was the BSSID in order to tag it to a location.
I would guess they were probably also grabbing the mac address of the router.. This fits in nicely with the recent revelation that Apple and some browser plugins were tracking users by using the mac address of the gateway as a unique ID.
But that doesn't check if you go to the right gate and get on the correct plane. This is a real security hole that was known should have been closed years ago. Remember the kid that modified his borading pass before printing it off and then blogged about it?
Security should all be done directly before bording. It's just too expensive to put in that many scanners and hire that many guards.
That's not TSA's job. That's the airlines job. It's their problem if they decide to honor an invalid boarding pass.
[quote]
Abstract
Objective To evaluate whether a new computerised cognitive behavioural therapy intervention (SPARX, Smart, Positive, Active, Realistic, X-factor thoughts) could reduce depressive symptoms in help seeking adolescents as much or more than treatment as usual.
Design Multicentre randomised controlled non-inferiority trial.
Setting 24 primary healthcare sites in New Zealand (youth clinics, general practices, and school based counselling services).
Participants 187 adolescents aged 12-19, seeking help for depressive symptoms, with no major risk of self harm and deemed in need of treatment by their primary healthcare clinicians: 94 were allocated to SPARX and 93 to treatment as usual.
Interventions Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (SPARX) comprising seven modules delivered over a period of between four and seven weeks, versus treatment as usual comprising primarily face to face counselling delivered by trained counsellors and clinical psychologists.
Outcomes The primary outcome was the change in score on the children’s depression rating scale-revised. Secondary outcomes included response and remission on the children’s depression rating scale-revised, change scores on the Reynolds adolescent depression scale-second edition, the mood and feelings questionnaire, the Kazdin hopelessness scale for children, the Spence children’s anxiety scale, the paediatric quality of life enjoyment and satisfaction questionnaire, and overall satisfaction with treatment ratings.
Results 94 participants were allocated to SPARX (mean age 15.6 years, 62.8% female) and 93 to treatment as usual (mean age 15.6 years, 68.8% female). 170 adolescents (91%, SPARX n=85, treatment as usual n=85) were assessed after intervention and 168 (90%, SPARX n=83, treatment as usual n=85) were assessed at the three month follow-up point. Per protocol analyses (n=143) showed that SPARX was not inferior to treatment as usual. Post-intervention, there was a mean reduction of 10.32 in SPARX and 7.59 in treatment as usual in raw scores on the children’s depression rating scale-revised (between group difference 2.73, 95% confidence interval 0.31 to 5.77; P=0.079). Remission rates were significantly higher in the SPARX arm (n=31, 43.7%) than in the treatment as usual arm (n=19, 26.4%) (difference 17.3%, 95% confidence interval 1.6% to 31.8%; P=0.030) and response rates did not differ significantly between the SPARX arm (66.2%, n=47) and treatment as usual arm (58.3%, n=42) (difference 7.9%, 7.9% to 24%; P=0.332). All secondary measures supported non-inferiority. Intention to treat analyses confirmed these findings. Improvements were maintained at follow-up. The frequency of adverse events classified as “possibly” or “probably” related to the intervention did not differ between groups (SPARX n=11; treatment as usual n=11).
Conclusions SPARX is a potential alternative to usual care for adolescents presenting with depressive symptoms in primary care settings and could be used to address some of the unmet demand for treatment.
Trial registration Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials ACTRN12609000249257.
[/quote]
So the data in the abstract says the SPARX treatment had a higher remission rate, and ultimately wasn't any better than conventional therapy. Where it might be useful is for situations where conventional counseling is not available. That sounds much more reasonable than the claim that it worked in 44% of cases than 26% of regular counseling (did marketing make up those numbers?).
If that 14% was too depressed to engage with the game, then they've skewed the statistics. For conventional therapy, if they excluded the patients that didn't engage with the counselor and just sat there, would the statistics be similar? A lot of teenage depression sorts itself out once the hormones settle down. There was no mention of a control group, but it's possible that neither counseling or an interactive game had any significant improvement over no treatment.
Methane is discharged as waste at oil rigs since there is no economical way to capture, store and transport it from remote areas. Needs fixin'.
They don't just vent it into the air as that poses an explosion risk. They burn it. Ever see that flame at the top of off-shore oil rigs? That'd be the natural gas being burnt.
If your electricity is generated from coal, then the extra amount of mercury and radioactive materials released at the power plants to run the incandescent versus a CFL is _more_ than what's contained in the CFL. I'd be more worried about the naturally occurring mercury in fish.
What danger is more certain or immanent?
A) Global climate change, derived from models
B) Fukushima reactor 4 spent fuel rods, unmanaged and uncasked, with 85x the cesium-137 of Chernobyl
Speaking of manipulating numbers to create a panic....
The article you cite says "The Fukushima site holds roughly 85 times the amount of Cs-137 released at the Chernobyl accident", which does not mean that it has the potential to release 85x as much as Chernobyl did. If we're talking about stored waste and fuel, the US certainly has far more at Hanford.
More often than not, the research is funded in stages. If the initial stages didn't show anything promising then the later stages are not funded. Hence the pressure to massage the data to show progress.
There is (almost) no one who benefits from climate change
- climatologists who write papers about climate change would happily write papers about something else.
That's a rather naive view. These researches are happily going where the money is because they work for a living. There are lots of funding and grants available if you research the right topics, and even more if you tend to produce the desired results. They might want to work on something more esoteric and ultimately worth pursuing scientifically, but they are slaves to funding which is heavily influenced by the political climate.
Interesting read. Claims that 30% of the decommisioning cost is getting rid of the low level waste.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/13/idUS178883596820110613
A little homework is all you need.
The low-grade radioactive byproducts have short half-lives. They still need to be held on-site for the time it takes to reach a safe level of radioactivity.
The same stuff that is radioactive for millenia is the same stuff that is useful to new generation reactors, so ship that off-site.
Shorter half lives still don't make it instantly easy to dispose of. They're still cleaning up Hanford for example.
This looks much more appropriate. Gets rid of pirates and fights neighborhood house fires. Wonder if I can get the insurance company to subsidize this or give me a discount on my rates. Although my rates might go up when it starts dousing the neighborhood children.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFU6Kn5qrjw
I take it you are not familiar with VIPR? http://www.naturalnews.com/033961_TSA_security_checkpoints.html
I knew about the bus terminal bs. I wasn't aware of the huge funding expansion last Dec. Lets hope Congress at least looks at the legal issues, as well as the notion of spending millions to harass people getting on a greyhound or illegally searching vehicles at highway rest stops. Gestapo indeed.
Prior to 9/11 hijackings were usually intended to divert the plan or hold hostages and people rarely died. Jetliners themselves had never been used as a weapon before. The simple and expedient solution to that vulnerability was simply installing secure cockpit doors and appropriate procedures about keeping it shut. Simple and cheap.
I'm waiting for Homeland Security to start scaring us about other vulnerabilities and convincing congress to pour even more money their way. Stupid simple things like blowing up pipelines or poisening water supplies. Things that are dirt cheap to do, but our govt is willing to spend billions to prevent.
Wow, US tourism is absolutely booming! That's an increase of at least 4% (average of 8%) every year for nearly a decade!
The reason for that is the weak US dollar. We have a govt that is artificially keeping "inflation" low to convince the public we aren't in a recession, but at the same time printing money like crazy and devaluing the dollar. We have lots of foreigners coming here for vacation because it's cheap for them.
http://www.wealthdaily.com/articles/us-dollar-value/2627
If the phone is on the internet, they can be even more accurate than that.
Ask Google. Part of the "location" info that the phone reports is what wifi it's connected to and Google has been quietly mapping wifi locations. This is why my ipod with no cell service knows my location to within several hundred feet when I go to Google Maps.
"Hey, mind if I take in this superconductor cooler through the checkpoint?"
Meanwhile the guy with the ceramic knife in his pocket and the plastic explosives in his underwear walk through without garnering any attention at all.
No risk necessary. Just take the spent fuel and burn it in a newer-gen reactor.
What about the other large quantity of low-level stuff like the containment chamber, piping, etc. Really the fuel itself is the least of the cleanup problem.
The difference here is, from TFA:
The pub in Bevois Valley, which is popular with students, has traded with the name for more than 20 years.
That pub existed wayyy before the movies made the franchise famous. It's not like they decided to name the business to ride on the films' fame.
Perhaps not, but they certainly started selling stuff with the images of the characters from the movie including putting Elijah Woods face on things. That's what prompted the legal action.
Not necessarily. Read up on mu-law coding.
Yes ans=d no. G.711 is generally 8-bit u-law encoded at 8kHz (or a-law). The problem is that Robbed-Bit Signalling within the telco can steal one of the bits on every 6th frame. It can be even more frames depending on how many times along the path that the equipment is doing robbed-bit signalling. This is also the reason, your modem can't get 64k connections and often gets much worse.