I'm not sure from the brief article what is news here. Already, our mail server can forward email to a user's cell phone, and we could do this for years now. Most current cellular phones can send and receive mail. Can someone clarify why this announcement is newsworthy?
Although the microchip was visible on the X-ray, it was impossible to pinpoint the exact location in my arm as it was nowhere near the point of insertion.
Finding it involved surgery at the clinic and a severe dose of post-Baja regret. One night out in Barcelona has permanently seared into my upper left arm.
While splayed out on an operating table -- once again anaesthetized -- Andersson removed the chip using a high-tech sensor X-ray and two monitors to guide her to it.
The missing microchip was finally located -- more than a centimeter away from where it was inserted.
Andersson later explained that it was so difficult to remove because it was so small and soft.
"It is very soft. I understand why we had a problem finding it. You couldn't feel it and I couldn't feel it. The smaller they are, the more difficult they are to get out."
It's a fluke, not a fungus, according to TFA, which also mentioned a couple of other interesting facts of Nature:
The lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum forces its ant host to attach to the tips of grass blades, the easier to be eaten. The fluke needs to get into the gut of a grazing animal to complete its life cycle.
The fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis causes fish to shimmy and jump so wading birds will grab them and eat them, for the same reason.
Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, sabotage the grasshopper's central nervous system, forcing them to jump into pools of water, drowning themselves. Hairworms then swim away from their hapless hosts to continue their life cycle.
Like other hackers, Maxwell figured out a way to make money out of the deal, court papers state. He entered into affiliate relationships with several mainstream adware companies, which pay a commission each time their adware is installed.
Maxwell simply created a program instructing his infected computers, or "bots," to download the adware. The bots then "phoned home" to the adware company, which credits the hacker's account, unaware that he hasn't gotten the computer owner's permission.
Cute, no, that the adware company is "unaware that he hasn't gotten the computer owner's permission"?
That reminds me of the fence who didn't realize that those computer notebooks were stolen. Or the Picasso.
I read both "A Million Pieces.." and "My Friend Leonard", and even while holding my cynicism in check, found too much that just didn't pass the sniff test. For the publisher to not bother checking the more glaringly "off" sections, was at best a stupendous display of poor judgement and incompetence. Furthermore, keep in mind that Frey's agent shopped the book around to different publishers in some cases as "Fiction" and in others as "Memoir".
First the disclosure: I don't play games, and read only one article (besides this one) about gold farming.
As I understand it, "gold farmers" are basically highly proficient (skilled) and hightly motivated (by money) players. So that in itself doesn't seem to provide reason to want to block them; a highly skilled ping-pong opponent is a great find, if one can only get him/her to play with me (a not highly skilled player). Most of the time, the skilled players don't want to bother with someone out of their league.
Second, the monetary exchange part of gold farming is, again, as I understand it, basically less skilled players who are willing to pay these gold farmers for the privilege of competing at a higher level without having to put in the work to get to that level. Again, who cares? Some schmuck (can I say that on/.?) pays to compete at the 100-dragonslayer level, and presumably gets eaten quickly because he can't hold a sword.
My take on this is that it's a whirlwind in a teacup, created by the game industry, to try to keep their own sales options open (i.e., they may be planning to offer pay-for-higher-level-play sometime in the future, and view the gold farmers as competition.
I don't understand why the game players themselves would give a flying u-know-what about it.
Now, like I said at the outset, the fact that there exist such squalid conditions in India (and countless other parts of the world) might qualify as a travesty (and how is employing these people doing anything but working towards eliminating that?), but... as has been pointed out here numerous times... the hundreds of workers showing up every day don't consider themselves to be exploited. They call it opportunity.
Patel, the foreman, said the company pays $3,300 to the families of those killed and for the cost of getting the body home. There is no medical facility at Gaddani and just one ambulance to take injured men on the hour's drive to a hospital in Karachi. A laborer named Mobeen said he was working on another tanker in October when a cable snapped and severed the leg of a man standing next to him. Mobeen's foot was broken, but two months later, he was back at the Gaddani yards, where he has worked for 22 years.
"Yes, it is dangerous work," he said, wiping his face on a blackened sleeve. "But there is no other work we know how to do. We are helpless."
It certainly appears to me from the above quote that "Mobeen" considers himself and his coworkers exploited in this situation.
An interesting snippet from TFA:
"This is the first international standard in the world, for UWB," said Stephen Wood, president of the WiMedia Alliance, at an ECMA meeting in Nice. Although ECMA is historically European (its name originally stood for European Computer Manufacturers' Association), it now sees itself as an international body. This standard will be only applicable in the US for now, however, since that is the only country where wireless regulators allow UWB products.
So a European manufacturing group has approved an "international" standard that only the US permits to actually be used. Right.
I think that, as he wrote in his/. post's opening sentence, he's just "pushing his own scoop", I.e., trying to bump up pagereads for his Register article. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
What about the costs (in $, time, lives, whatever) to the EMS unit(s) that replies to an E911 call placed from a SIP phone in Indonesia but registered as a Peoria phone number.
"Help, there are 5 masked men with explosives and machine guns bursting through the windows right now. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
That might make for an exciting Saturday night in Peoria.
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I'm not sure from the brief article what is news here. Already, our mail server can forward email to a user's cell phone, and we could do this for years now. Most current cellular phones can send and receive mail. Can someone clarify why this announcement is newsworthy?
The lancet fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum forces its ant host to attach to the tips of grass blades, the easier to be eaten. The fluke needs to get into the gut of a grazing animal to complete its life cycle.
The fluke Euhaplorchis californiensis causes fish to shimmy and jump so wading birds will grab them and eat them, for the same reason.
Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, sabotage the grasshopper's central nervous system, forcing them to jump into pools of water, drowning themselves. Hairworms then swim away from their hapless hosts to continue their life cycle.
From TFA:
Like other hackers, Maxwell figured out a way to make money out of the deal, court papers state. He entered into affiliate relationships with several mainstream adware companies, which pay a commission each time their adware is installed.
Maxwell simply created a program instructing his infected computers, or "bots," to download the adware. The bots then "phoned home" to the adware company, which credits the hacker's account, unaware that he hasn't gotten the computer owner's permission.
Cute, no, that the adware company is "unaware that he hasn't gotten the computer owner's permission"?
That reminds me of the fence who didn't realize that those computer notebooks were stolen. Or the Picasso.
I read both "A Million Pieces.." and "My Friend Leonard", and even while holding my cynicism in check, found too much that just didn't pass the sniff test. For the publisher to not bother checking the more glaringly "off" sections, was at best a stupendous display of poor judgement and incompetence. Furthermore, keep in mind that Frey's agent shopped the book around to different publishers in some cases as "Fiction" and in others as "Memoir".
It's not only greenhouse gases, but also the effects of soot that appear to be modulating the climate: http://search.nasa.gov/nasasearch/search/search.js p?nasaInclude=soot&x=0&y=0
Chill, people. There is no censorship in China. That was a nasty urban legend that has already been debunked by Snopes China .
Chill out, people. There is no censorship in China, it's an urban legend that has already been debunked by Snopes China .
This whole hullaballoo over censorship in China has already been debunked by Snopes China . It's an urban legend.
First the disclosure: I don't play games, and read only one article (besides this one) about gold farming. As I understand it, "gold farmers" are basically highly proficient (skilled) and hightly motivated (by money) players. So that in itself doesn't seem to provide reason to want to block them; a highly skilled ping-pong opponent is a great find, if one can only get him/her to play with me (a not highly skilled player). Most of the time, the skilled players don't want to bother with someone out of their league. Second, the monetary exchange part of gold farming is, again, as I understand it, basically less skilled players who are willing to pay these gold farmers for the privilege of competing at a higher level without having to put in the work to get to that level. Again, who cares? Some schmuck (can I say that on /.?) pays to compete at the 100-dragonslayer level, and presumably gets eaten quickly because he can't hold a sword.
My take on this is that it's a whirlwind in a teacup, created by the game industry, to try to keep their own sales options open (i.e., they may be planning to offer pay-for-higher-level-play sometime in the future, and view the gold farmers as competition.
I don't understand why the game players themselves would give a flying u-know-what about it.
It certainly appears to me from the above quote that "Mobeen" considers himself and his coworkers exploited in this situation.
An interesting snippet from TFA: "This is the first international standard in the world, for UWB," said Stephen Wood, president of the WiMedia Alliance, at an ECMA meeting in Nice. Although ECMA is historically European (its name originally stood for European Computer Manufacturers' Association), it now sees itself as an international body. This standard will be only applicable in the US for now, however, since that is the only country where wireless regulators allow UWB products. So a European manufacturing group has approved an "international" standard that only the US permits to actually be used. Right.
I think that, as he wrote in his /. post's opening sentence, he's just "pushing his own scoop", I.e., trying to bump up pagereads for his Register article. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.
Her tits are beautiful. Her right tit's bigger than her left tit's .
What about the costs (in $, time, lives, whatever) to the EMS unit(s) that replies to an E911 call placed from a SIP phone in Indonesia but registered as a Peoria phone number. "Help, there are 5 masked men with explosives and machine guns bursting through the windows right now. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" That might make for an exciting Saturday night in Peoria.