Yes - however all the products that are derived from blood have a very finite life. For example Plasma extracted from blood (which is used in a significant variety of products produced by CSL in Australia) lasts around 90 days (IIRC). Blood used in transfusions lasts about 30 days, platelettes even less. Cord blood is used for type specific transfusions in other patients, rather than for the original donor and even though parents can pay for long term storage of their childs cord blood, the viability of these samples are questionnable at best. The other issue is that if the illness that requires the blood transfusion is caused by genes then the use of the childs original cord blood may be pointless.
I still have all the floppies and HDD's from my Amiga (and the ones I've bothered to look at in the last couple of years do still work). The question is more how many of us have files from 15 or 20 years ago that we want/need to read? I undoubtably have assembler code on the Amiga, and my C code from my Mac development at UNI. I might one day look at it and revisit the "good ol days" - which is exactly why I still have my Amiga tucked away in a box. But I doubt it.
Of course I am probably in the excessively rare situation where code that I wrote 10+ years ago is still code that I work with. Granted it was originally written in VB 4/5 and it's now written in.NET 2k8 - and that specific code is rarely modified - but i could probably go back and look at the original code if I wanted (I've certainly got enough copies of it lying around between backups to CD/DVD/Subversion/VSS HDD's etc.
But for now I will keep my copy of my UNI code on it's floppy secured to the filing cabinet with the Neodymium magnet I bought specifically for the purpose. That way I'll know exactly where it is when I find a 15 year old Mac that'll read it...
I'm intersted in knowing how RIAA know that he distributed the songs to "millions of people". And what was his share ratio on these songs? Eg. If his share ratio on these songs were 1,000,000 then it could be said that he's passed those songs onto a million people. If it were 1.5 then it can be said that he passed it on to 1 person and half of it onto another person (and then there'd need to be discussion as to how much was lost by passing half an MP3 onto someone).
So I'm guessing you weren't around in 1974. It might also surprise you to learn that once upon a time there were no virus scanners or firewalls. I bet I just blew your mind with that one...
So the whole article regarding the guy viewing the (almost nude) images of Miranda Kerr (from GQ) while behind him there was a live cross on TV occurring. Him being caught out and there being issues over him viewing those images while at work (let alone while he was on TV) didn't appear to be somewhat linked to my original post. Apparently I do have to do everything...
Those of us that play MW2 will already know that "Servers" are entirely unecessary. MW2 proves that everyone on the Net has a 10M symmetrical link with a small Cray running their game meaning totally flawless gameplay every second of the day (as opposed to 1 in 4 games having a great host and hours wasted waiting to find a game that doesn't spit you out as soon as the game starts - coz that would just be stupid).
You did read when the original study was published, didn't you.
But I guess you just made your theory up then and there and didn't bother to read the summary, let alone TFA. I suggest you go and read about Autism before you hurt yourself.
Because the same page also mentions that DEP is a mitigating factor.
"Data Execution Protection (DEP) is enabled by default in Internet Explorer 8 on the following Windows operating systems: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, and Windows 7"
So if you have IE8 you are at risk if you've turned DEP off. Sure - your point is valid, IE7 and IE8 are affected - however there needs to be user intervention for alot of the products you've highlighted above to be affected. So that's kind of like saying "My Windows is susceptible (because I don't have a virus scanner/firewall and I've turned off UAC and DEP)". The fact still remains that getting people to change to another browser will just change the software targetted by the hackers. Heck - they could have targetted the iPhone.
Ok. I'll stop using IE8. But the problem wasn't in IE8 - it was in IE6 - so it was brought about by people who are using a version of IE that was replaced 1 to 2 years ago.
"Microsoft didn't patch the zero day bug"
Wouldn't matter if they had - these people are using IE6. Technically they did patch it - in IE7 and IE8 - and the people using IE6 haven't upgraded to the new free version - so what good would a patch do? Sure, MS could have withdrawn the installer and people could have upgraded using a new installer - but that would only reduce the number of people using it - it wouldn't eliminate it (there'd be all those disks floating around with IE6 as part of the operating installation).
And all this guff about "IE6 ruined the world" seems like crap anyway because if it wasn't IE6 then it'd be Acrobat, or Safari or Firefox or Opera or Chrome. If we all move to then they'd target . It's just that IE6 is still in use by a significant number of morons who probably don't have a virus scanner let alone any idea of why they shouldn't click the message that states "Your computer appears to have a virus...".
And then you can turn GPS back on and see that "good enough" is pointless. Of course the US is not in the middle of an ocean - it's in between oceans, and other countries will still be providing LORAN services so chances are your "good enough" solution will still work (because we're in the middle of the ocean - which would be nowhere near the US). Personally I don't actually care about "good enough" because from the middle of the ocean (which I found with my GPS - LORAN would have me in the middle +- 200m) with a map and a compass I could probably find a piece of land somewhere. With a sextant and a bit of training I could probably find a specific piece of land. So really I'm not sure what the value of the "good enough" solution is.
Adding one more item to Ivan's list of LORAN fails
- Avoid a submerged obstruction (eg. Reef)?
200m is still not good enough - but I'm sure that's where a depth sounder is useful - unless your on an oil tanker - in which case you'd have GPS.
Of course, you've read the post as "and working is optional" not "working BEYOND THAT is optional". So "fair" is getting a minimum level of comfort in your life - which you may or may not have to work for depending on whether the work is available (heck, everyone has to work, but everyone gets more leave as the work is spread thinner) - and if you want an increased level of comfort you have to work that little bit harder to get it.
But lets just attack someone who thinks that "fair" is that everyone should be entitled to a minimum level of comfort in their life and rant about the "evils" of there not being exploitation of some people while others get what they don't deserve.
"Oh but I work hard for what I get" - but others work harder for MUCH less - and don't have the opportunity to spend their "free time" on some worthless rant like your own.
I see, so you base your opinion on the 90% of the post that doesn't actually matter rather than the 10% that actually indicated what the real effect of a smart meter would be. And sure it's possible to care about more than one thing at a time - but why care about the paranoid delusions regarding the unlikely possibility that meaningful statistics can be derived from smart meters? Meaningful statistics mentioned by the OP _cannot_ be derived - as I pointed out. For the smart meters to be able to determine these values they'd have to know how efficient your appliances were, what appliances you were running. Is that household running a hydroponics setup, or a dozen freezers, or a render farm, or do they just leave every appliance turned on every minute of the day or is there 12 people living in that house, or do they run 15 TV's that all use large amounts of power.
An example is the water usage in the area I live in. The target is to try and achieve an average water usage of 150L per day per person in each household. Our average usage in my household is 360L per day - how many people are there in my household?
You can worry about the unachievable statistics if you want and I'll just worry about the part that is really only worth worrying about - the cost.
You did note that I said that power will cost more - in fact power will cost more for up to 2 years before we actually get the meter. For what? So that the power company can sack a bunch of meter readers? So they can bill more often?
The power company will be able to determine that I sleep at night and I'm not home during the day.
Or maybe I'm not home at night and I sleep during the day.
And that there is 6 people living in the house, or that when I use power I use inefficient appliances.
Or I have 12 ppl living in the house with efficient appliances.
Personally - I really don't care what kind of dodgy information they could gleen from a smart meter. I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.
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Yes - however all the products that are derived from blood have a very finite life. For example Plasma extracted from blood (which is used in a significant variety of products produced by CSL in Australia) lasts around 90 days (IIRC). Blood used in transfusions lasts about 30 days, platelettes even less. Cord blood is used for type specific transfusions in other patients, rather than for the original donor and even though parents can pay for long term storage of their childs cord blood, the viability of these samples are questionnable at best. The other issue is that if the illness that requires the blood transfusion is caused by genes then the use of the childs original cord blood may be pointless.
Actually it's half power or less. Which could mean "turned off".
Kind of like your thought processes when you decided to make your completely irrelevant and useless comment.
I still have all the floppies and HDD's from my Amiga (and the ones I've bothered to look at in the last couple of years do still work). The question is more how many of us have files from 15 or 20 years ago that we want/need to read? I undoubtably have assembler code on the Amiga, and my C code from my Mac development at UNI. I might one day look at it and revisit the "good ol days" - which is exactly why I still have my Amiga tucked away in a box. But I doubt it.
.NET 2k8 - and that specific code is rarely modified - but i could probably go back and look at the original code if I wanted (I've certainly got enough copies of it lying around between backups to CD/DVD/Subversion/VSS HDD's etc.
Of course I am probably in the excessively rare situation where code that I wrote 10+ years ago is still code that I work with. Granted it was originally written in VB 4/5 and it's now written in
But for now I will keep my copy of my UNI code on it's floppy secured to the filing cabinet with the Neodymium magnet I bought specifically for the purpose. That way I'll know exactly where it is when I find a 15 year old Mac that'll read it...
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I'm intersted in knowing how RIAA know that he distributed the songs to "millions of people". And what was his share ratio on these songs? Eg. If his share ratio on these songs were 1,000,000 then it could be said that he's passed those songs onto a million people. If it were 1.5 then it can be said that he passed it on to 1 person and half of it onto another person (and then there'd need to be discussion as to how much was lost by passing half an MP3 onto someone).
Just my 2c.
So I'm guessing you weren't around in 1974. It might also surprise you to learn that once upon a time there were no virus scanners or firewalls. I bet I just blew your mind with that one...
Do you now. Interesting.
So the whole article regarding the guy viewing the (almost nude) images of Miranda Kerr (from GQ) while behind him there was a live cross on TV occurring. Him being caught out and there being issues over him viewing those images while at work (let alone while he was on TV) didn't appear to be somewhat linked to my original post. Apparently I do have to do everything...
Uhhh! Must I do everything...
http://www.theage.com.au/business/global-email-campaign-to-save-dave-20100204-ng72.html
Hmm a very good idea. And the portability i very attractive. It means I could take my GQ subscription to work instead of just reading it at home.
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The only car I have ever seen on fire (in real life as opposed to on TV) was a Porsche - and it was blue.
And I currently have two laptops that I amd repairing - both of them have buggered screens.
Oh, and then there's the "Blue Screen of Death" - though I've only seen one PC burst into flames after a BSOD, so that was probably a coincidence...
Those of us that play MW2 will already know that "Servers" are entirely unecessary. MW2 proves that everyone on the Net has a 10M symmetrical link with a small Cray running their game meaning totally flawless gameplay every second of the day (as opposed to 1 in 4 games having a great host and hours wasted waiting to find a game that doesn't spit you out as soon as the game starts - coz that would just be stupid).
You did read when the original study was published, didn't you.
But I guess you just made your theory up then and there and didn't bother to read the summary, let alone TFA. I suggest you go and read about Autism before you hurt yourself.
You can allredy run your subnotbook for mor than a dae by terning of yur spall chikr.
Because the same page also mentions that DEP is a mitigating factor.
"Data Execution Protection (DEP) is enabled by default in Internet Explorer 8 on the following Windows operating systems: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Vista Service Pack 2, and Windows 7"
So if you have IE8 you are at risk if you've turned DEP off. Sure - your point is valid, IE7 and IE8 are affected - however there needs to be user intervention for alot of the products you've highlighted above to be affected. So that's kind of like saying "My Windows is susceptible (because I don't have a virus scanner/firewall and I've turned off UAC and DEP)". The fact still remains that getting people to change to another browser will just change the software targetted by the hackers. Heck - they could have targetted the iPhone.
"Stop using IE"
Ok. I'll stop using IE8. But the problem wasn't in IE8 - it was in IE6 - so it was brought about by people who are using a version of IE that was replaced 1 to 2 years ago.
"Microsoft didn't patch the zero day bug"
Wouldn't matter if they had - these people are using IE6. Technically they did patch it - in IE7 and IE8 - and the people using IE6 haven't upgraded to the new free version - so what good would a patch do? Sure, MS could have withdrawn the installer and people could have upgraded using a new installer - but that would only reduce the number of people using it - it wouldn't eliminate it (there'd be all those disks floating around with IE6 as part of the operating installation).
And all this guff about "IE6 ruined the world" seems like crap anyway because if it wasn't IE6 then it'd be Acrobat, or Safari or Firefox or Opera or Chrome. If we all move to then they'd target . It's just that IE6 is still in use by a significant number of morons who probably don't have a virus scanner let alone any idea of why they shouldn't click the message that states "Your computer appears to have a virus...".
Yeah - I read that as "We don't actually know how the attack was done - but we'll go with the popular line and blame Microsoft."
And then you can turn GPS back on and see that "good enough" is pointless. Of course the US is not in the middle of an ocean - it's in between oceans, and other countries will still be providing LORAN services so chances are your "good enough" solution will still work (because we're in the middle of the ocean - which would be nowhere near the US). Personally I don't actually care about "good enough" because from the middle of the ocean (which I found with my GPS - LORAN would have me in the middle +- 200m) with a map and a compass I could probably find a piece of land somewhere. With a sextant and a bit of training I could probably find a specific piece of land. So really I'm not sure what the value of the "good enough" solution is.
Adding one more item to Ivan's list of LORAN fails
- Avoid a submerged obstruction (eg. Reef)?
200m is still not good enough - but I'm sure that's where a depth sounder is useful - unless your on an oil tanker - in which case you'd have GPS.
Of course, you've read the post as "and working is optional" not "working BEYOND THAT is optional". So "fair" is getting a minimum level of comfort in your life - which you may or may not have to work for depending on whether the work is available (heck, everyone has to work, but everyone gets more leave as the work is spread thinner) - and if you want an increased level of comfort you have to work that little bit harder to get it.
But lets just attack someone who thinks that "fair" is that everyone should be entitled to a minimum level of comfort in their life and rant about the "evils" of there not being exploitation of some people while others get what they don't deserve.
"Oh but I work hard for what I get" - but others work harder for MUCH less - and don't have the opportunity to spend their "free time" on some worthless rant like your own.
Ctrl-A, Backspace (or Del if you're that way inclined)...
As long as the Aliens aren't armed with Bagels - we'll be ok.
I see, so you base your opinion on the 90% of the post that doesn't actually matter rather than the 10% that actually indicated what the real effect of a smart meter would be. And sure it's possible to care about more than one thing at a time - but why care about the paranoid delusions regarding the unlikely possibility that meaningful statistics can be derived from smart meters? Meaningful statistics mentioned by the OP _cannot_ be derived - as I pointed out. For the smart meters to be able to determine these values they'd have to know how efficient your appliances were, what appliances you were running. Is that household running a hydroponics setup, or a dozen freezers, or a render farm, or do they just leave every appliance turned on every minute of the day or is there 12 people living in that house, or do they run 15 TV's that all use large amounts of power.
An example is the water usage in the area I live in. The target is to try and achieve an average water usage of 150L per day per person in each household. Our average usage in my household is 360L per day - how many people are there in my household?
You can worry about the unachievable statistics if you want and I'll just worry about the part that is really only worth worrying about - the cost.
You did note that I said that power will cost more - in fact power will cost more for up to 2 years before we actually get the meter. For what? So that the power company can sack a bunch of meter readers? So they can bill more often?
The power company will be able to determine that I sleep at night and I'm not home during the day.
Or maybe I'm not home at night and I sleep during the day.
And that there is 6 people living in the house, or that when I use power I use inefficient appliances.
Or I have 12 ppl living in the house with efficient appliances.
Personally - I really don't care what kind of dodgy information they could gleen from a smart meter. I only really care about the fact that power could (or will here in Oz) cost more.