In sub-Saharan Africa, there are an estimated 22.5 million (range: 20.9 million–24.3 million; 2007 figures) people infected by HIV with over 2.8 million new infections in 2006. In this region, there were 2.1 million deaths (figure 11 and 12). Ten million young Africans between the ages of 15 and 24 and 3 million children are infected. In contrast to western countries, young African women are more likely to be infected with HIV than young men. According to UNAIDS, 61% of HIV-infected people in sub-Saharan Africa are female and the gap is increasing. Women are being infected with HIV at an earlier age than men in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The differences in infection levels are most pronounced among young people (aged 15 – 24 years) with, on average, 36 young women living with HIV for every 10 young men in sub-Saharan Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world. An estimated 22.5 million people are living with HIV in the region - around two thirds of the global total. In 2009 around 1.3 million people died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and 1.8 million people became infected with HIV. Since the beginning of the epidemic 14.8 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.1
The social and economic consequences of the AIDS epidemic are widely felt, not only in the health sector but also in education, industry, agriculture, transport, human resources and the economy in general. The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa continues to devastate communities, rolling back decades of development progress.
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a triple challenge:
Providing health care, antiretroviral treatment, and support to a growing population of people with HIV-related illnesses.
Reducing the annual toll of new HIV infections by enabling individuals to protect themselves and others.
Coping with the impact of millions of AIDS deaths2 on orphans and other survivors, communities, and national development.
Again, it's well worth finding a sure-fire preventive vaccine to protect everyone, regardless of whether or not you personally think they deserve it. Eliminating HIV is good for all health care workers who come into contact with HIV carriers, and for everyone else those health care workers come into contact with, everyone who uses public restrooms (due to the infinitesimal chance of contracting HIV from hard surfaces), everyone who might be a "good samaritan" and help someone at a car accident, a slip-and-fall, work mishap, etc., and for nice folks who have a lying, cheating husband|wife|bf|gf.
Well, yeah, aside from tainted transfusions, blood contact from sports injuries, at dentists, unlicensed back-alley tattoo shops, or giving first aid to an infected person, as well as the small (some tiny nonzero) possibility of contracting HIV through hard surfaces such as toilet seats, as well as contracting HIV from the mother (yes, there are babies born with HIV) - and let's not forget idiots who shoot up and even more moronically share needles. Aside from those few? Sure, healthy relationships will prevent 100% of HIV/AIDS cases. Oops, we forgot another one: your BF or GF is a windower/widow and his or her spouse was infected, and didn't know, and you don't know, so in your healthy relationship you contract HIV. But yeah, healthy relationships will be a 100% iron-clad guarantee that HIV will be vanquished over the course of a single generation, so let's not devote resources toward finding a cure or preventive vaccine.
At least, that is your opinion now, until you're a car accident victim and are treated by an infected EMT, or an infected doctor, or are tattooed by an artist who is violating all kinds of health codes by putting ink back into the bottle for reuse, or you happen to be the unfortunate soul who proves that the infinitesimal chance of contracting HIV from a toilet seat isn't so improbable after all, or until you found your wife's previous partner had HIV and it has been incubating in her body but when you got your marriage license she still tested clean, or your dentist is infected and infects you, then, suddenly, you won't be such an ass and will see the good sense of spending money to protect the responsible folks from the sluts and the drug users, and even from the innocents (EMTs, men and women who have been cheated on, doctors, etc.) who may be harboring the infection.
Contrary to your belief, not everyone with HIV is a reckless intravenous-drug-using slut. The idea is to protect everyone from the disease because there are too many opportunities for the responsible to contract the disease from the reckless.
I'll make a better offer: I propose to ruin HP for only $10 million. My proposal includes:
n order to be especially evil and ensure doom for HP, I propose the following as our very first endeavor:
* HP will start producing avionics - both conventional and EFIS panels. Initially product quality will be of once-legendary HP quality, but that is only to gain penetration into mainstream aircraft, both commercial and general aviation. Each model will be fully certified and once Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Beechcraft, Airbus, Gulfstream, and Cessna have made our product their favored solution in their certified aircraft, we switch production to incorporate faulty capacitors and pure tin solder in order to to maximize post-warranty failure rate through burst (and in cases arcing!) capacitors and dendrites (tin whiskers). * HP shall publicly deny all wrongdoing and blame installation, maintenance, testing methods, and follow past wrongdoings such as falsifying communique records and issue the typical "everything is sunshine and lollipops" rhetoric typical of corporate America as of late.
On the Smartphone/PDA side
* Release an iPhone contender using resurrecting WebOS. It will suck but it will be BEAUTIFUL. Look, it's SHINY!
* Violate the GPL in every possible way while pretending to embrace F/OSS
* Introduce an app store promising the world to both users and developers, and screw both
* Follow Sony's model of incorporating only proprietary, poorly-performing, low-capacity memory slots
* require WebOS to phone home monthly, so that when the plug on the servers is pulled, users are stuck with unusable bricks. It will be only monthly so users won't notice until the plug is pulled
* as a benefit, this product will wear the iPAQ name, thereby forever ruining a reputable HP/Compaq brand name in the process
On the PC side
* Build PCs based on a superset of the BTX form factor - designed so that third-party boards just fail to fit in the chassis
* Proprietary power supply pinout using the standard mechanical plug (see: Dell)
* use the new EFIS extensions enabling lockdown - to ONLY HP-supplied Windows. Retail, MSDN, and OEM Windows will not work, and of course Linux won't install either. Will offer undocumented ability to run as a hackintosh, only on-board ethernet, video, and sound will not work. Why? Just to be a tease, to really piss users off. On that note, wouldn't it be more evil to allow Linux to install, but change the registers on the sound, video, and ethernet ports so they fail to work in Linux?
* Of course, the object is to lower cost in order to widely penetrate the market and piss off as many consumers and business customers alike. Go out of the way to source counterfeit capacitors and use them whenever possible, and avoid solid-state/dry capacitors whenever and wherever possible.
* The pages-long 8pt EULA displayed at powerup shall disclaim any warranty due to abuse, and booting the system to Windows shall be defined as abuse late in the document. I guarantee no one will notice this definition as no on on the planet has ever read an EULA on a commodity product.
On the Health and industrial side:
* Lifesaving devices to be sold with no standard warranty. and the cost of service/support plans will be triple. Of course, our new policy of incorporating counterfeit capacitors will be implemented. If sources for counterfeit caps runs out, we will retool one of our existant factories to ensure a steady supply of guaranteed-bad capacitors.
As you can see, I have a solid plan to ruin Hewlett-Packard. Please choose me as your CEO because I can fail even more spectacularly than Carly did - except my failure would be through design, not through incompetence. Any additional failures arising from incompetence would be purely coincidental and shall be regarded merely as added value by the HP board of directors. I'm offering an incredible deal, and since your intent is corporate suicide, how could you possibly turn down my foolproof proposal detailed above?
(I am assuming that they have something in game or in the downloaded files that tells the end-user how to get a legit copy.)
They posted a torrent of their own product for the express purpose of free peer-to-peer download and redistribution. Please explain how downloading it for free and enjoying the free "pirate" version it is not a legit copy?
I'm a computer person, and I thought that this was the case. Although I am a Software Developer and drives are hardware, so you can't have expected me to know this.
I would expect you to know how software works and how computers count vs. how people count. This is especially true when the subject of "what is a kilobyte" is discussed in the very first introductory computer classes one would take.
Uh, no; "everyone*" knows that hard drive manufacturers, computer manufacturers, and resellers misrepresent TiB as TB, and in the rare cases they do disclose it in advertising or on the outside packaging, it is in 3- or 4-point fine print in a low-contrast color and written in a very technical manner that may as well come across as greek to a nontechnical person, or will refer the user to a web site.
Windows reports the traditionally-accepted units to the end user* accurately and consistently. OS X threw a wrench into the works by showing capacities in base 10, which only confuses the user by throwing away the standard in effort to be more intuitive, except then the capacity appears to be different than in other systems.
What would the correct solution be? For everyone (manufacturers, resellers, Microsoft, Apple, Linux vendors, etc.) to use KiB, KB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB, TiB, TB correctly and consistently, so there is truth in advertising and in daily use.
Will be mildly interesting to see how the moon hoax crowd deal with this, they'll largely ignore it I expect.
Some will probably state that NASA sent folks up there to make those tracks so the "proof" could be faked, only they're too stupid to realize the faulty logic and admission that it is possible to get to the moon.
I've lusted after 1000mW diodes for a long time with the idea of programming beam splitters, mirrors and the like to produce laser shows for parties and family events but it's just too dangerous for close quarters. Kids will insist on playing with them, or if I goof, or anything fails, the idea of blinding someone is scary.
I do need a brighter pointer for astronomy (easier aiming of telescopes and cameras, pointing objects out to others, etc) and 1000mW would be perfect for that (a nice bright clear beam even in low-dust conditions) but the risk of dropping it or a chance reflection off an insect, bat, bird, etc. is just too great because at that level a close range reflection would mean near instant blindness. Even the 70mW-90mW (WL has a 75mW model) is a bit much, but 25mW might not be enough and if you go 50mW, why not go for 75mW for $10 more?
I'd love to play with a 1000mW laser, but since you can't look at the specular reflections, or objects you aim it at without protection, what's the point? What can you safely do with it once you pop a balloon with it, or light a book of matches or burn a wasps' nest? The fun would die out pretty quickly. You can't cut steel with it, you can't weld with it, or really do anything practical with it, and it'd be a boring toy once you've experienced the novelty of popping a balloon or two from across a field using nothing but a beam of light and find there isn't anything you can safely use it for.
I have wanted one for the longest time but have resisted for precisely the reasons you cited. All it takes is one bystander to glance at the reflection even from a distance, and they're injured for life. It's not worth it even for such a fantastically fun toy.
I've been thinking about a 70mW-90mW laser for a while but even that poses a high risk of injury even at a significant distance.
(obligatory WARNING: DO NOT STARE INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE.)
So in other words, Netflix streaming will soon be no better than Amazon Prime? I subscribe to Prime for the shipping services, but almost never use the streaming. If Netflix doesn't go back and kiss Starz's ass, why should I not go to a disc-only subscription, buy a Roku XS and use Prime instead?
As far as earthquakes are concerned - tremors you can really feel here are very rare, maybe one every 7-10 years. Folks in Boston are mindful that many of the buildings in the city are very old brick-and-mortar structures and predate any concerns of building to withstand quakes of any significant size, and much of the city is built on top of landfill on top of wetlands with many if not most of the larger buildings being constructed on top of wooden and on occasion steel and concrete pilings that are sitting in mud, not driven down to the bedrock. So, when a major quake finally does hit Boston, the city is going to be in for a world of hurt.
And yet, hundreds of thousands in MA are without power and power is not expected to be restored for a week in some towns due to extensive damage. Why was damage so extensive? We have not had any serious wind storms in a long time so there were a lot of weak trees that got knocked down. Most of the town where my office is doesn't have power, and some of the folks who work with me are without power and they've been told to expect it to be up to a week before the lines are back up.
People overestimate PARC's importance, downright ignore Engelbart and underestimate Apple's contributions (when they don't say that Jobs & co. "stole" from Xerox)... this cheeses me off royally./rant
The design caught the attention of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple. Realizing that the Macintosh was more marketable than the Lisa, he began to focus his attention on the project. Raskin finally left the Macintosh project in 1981 over a personality conflict with Jobs, and team member Andy Hertzfeld said that the final Macintosh design is closer to Jobs' ideas than Raskin's.[7] After hearing of the pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC, Jobs had negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in exchange for Apple stock options. The Lisa and Macintosh user interfaces were partially influenced by technology seen at Xerox PARC and were combined with the Macintosh group's own ideas.
It seems to me that "Jobs & co." did not rip off Xerox.
(Again, though, serious risk of collapse in the face of a 5.8 should be a breach of any decent building code, much less the standards that you'd want your giant military headquarters/symbolic structure built to...)
Questions:
1. What year were seismic ratings incorporated into national and local building codes? 2. What year (er, range of years) was the Pentagon built?
Slashdot Mirror
Someone demonstrating this method on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s12-sSuVoT0
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Radio-Shack-Realistic-44-232-Bulk-Tape-Eraser-Fedx-Ground-/380373076967?pt=Vintage_Electronics_R2&hash=item5890008be7
And, break the PCB.
That's just the USA, right? How about African regions?
http://pathmicro.med.sc.edu/lecture/hiv5.htm
Check out this one:
http://www.avert.org/safricastats.htm
From 2008:
65,646 deaths of children age 0-9
http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-africa.htm
Again, it's well worth finding a sure-fire preventive vaccine to protect everyone, regardless of whether or not you personally think they deserve it. Eliminating HIV is good for all health care workers who come into contact with HIV carriers, and for everyone else those health care workers come into contact with, everyone who uses public restrooms (due to the infinitesimal chance of contracting HIV from hard surfaces), everyone who might be a "good samaritan" and help someone at a car accident, a slip-and-fall, work mishap, etc., and for nice folks who have a lying, cheating husband|wife|bf|gf.
How many empty Dorito bags is it, though? To specify: neither crumpled up nor laid out flat.
Well, yeah, aside from tainted transfusions, blood contact from sports injuries, at dentists, unlicensed back-alley tattoo shops, or giving first aid to an infected person, as well as the small (some tiny nonzero) possibility of contracting HIV through hard surfaces such as toilet seats, as well as contracting HIV from the mother (yes, there are babies born with HIV) - and let's not forget idiots who shoot up and even more moronically share needles. Aside from those few? Sure, healthy relationships will prevent 100% of HIV/AIDS cases. Oops, we forgot another one: your BF or GF is a windower/widow and his or her spouse was infected, and didn't know, and you don't know, so in your healthy relationship you contract HIV. But yeah, healthy relationships will be a 100% iron-clad guarantee that HIV will be vanquished over the course of a single generation, so let's not devote resources toward finding a cure or preventive vaccine.
At least, that is your opinion now, until you're a car accident victim and are treated by an infected EMT, or an infected doctor, or are tattooed by an artist who is violating all kinds of health codes by putting ink back into the bottle for reuse, or you happen to be the unfortunate soul who proves that the infinitesimal chance of contracting HIV from a toilet seat isn't so improbable after all, or until you found your wife's previous partner had HIV and it has been incubating in her body but when you got your marriage license she still tested clean, or your dentist is infected and infects you, then, suddenly, you won't be such an ass and will see the good sense of spending money to protect the responsible folks from the sluts and the drug users, and even from the innocents (EMTs, men and women who have been cheated on, doctors, etc.) who may be harboring the infection.
Contrary to your belief, not everyone with HIV is a reckless intravenous-drug-using slut. The idea is to protect everyone from the disease because there are too many opportunities for the responsible to contract the disease from the reckless.
I'll make a better offer: I propose to ruin HP for only $10 million. My proposal includes:
n order to be especially evil and ensure doom for HP, I propose the following as our very first endeavor:
* HP will start producing avionics - both conventional and EFIS panels. Initially product quality will be of once-legendary HP quality, but that is only to gain penetration into mainstream aircraft, both commercial and general aviation. Each model will be fully certified and once Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Beechcraft, Airbus, Gulfstream, and Cessna have made our product their favored solution in their certified aircraft, we switch production to incorporate faulty capacitors and pure tin solder in order to to maximize post-warranty failure rate through burst (and in cases arcing!) capacitors and dendrites (tin whiskers).
* HP shall publicly deny all wrongdoing and blame installation, maintenance, testing methods, and follow past wrongdoings such as falsifying communique records and issue the typical "everything is sunshine and lollipops" rhetoric typical of corporate America as of late.
On the Smartphone/PDA side
* Release an iPhone contender using resurrecting WebOS. It will suck but it will be BEAUTIFUL. Look, it's SHINY!
* Violate the GPL in every possible way while pretending to embrace F/OSS
* Introduce an app store promising the world to both users and developers, and screw both
* Follow Sony's model of incorporating only proprietary, poorly-performing, low-capacity memory slots
* require WebOS to phone home monthly, so that when the plug on the servers is pulled, users are stuck with unusable bricks. It will be only monthly so users won't notice until the plug is pulled
* as a benefit, this product will wear the iPAQ name, thereby forever ruining a reputable HP/Compaq brand name in the process
On the PC side
* Build PCs based on a superset of the BTX form factor - designed so that third-party boards just fail to fit in the chassis
* Proprietary power supply pinout using the standard mechanical plug (see: Dell)
* use the new EFIS extensions enabling lockdown - to ONLY HP-supplied Windows. Retail, MSDN, and OEM Windows will not work, and of course Linux won't install either. Will offer undocumented ability to run as a hackintosh, only on-board ethernet, video, and sound will not work. Why? Just to be a tease, to really piss users off. On that note, wouldn't it be more evil to allow Linux to install, but change the registers on the sound, video, and ethernet ports so they fail to work in Linux?
* Of course, the object is to lower cost in order to widely penetrate the market and piss off as many consumers and business customers alike. Go out of the way to source counterfeit capacitors and use them whenever possible, and avoid solid-state/dry capacitors whenever and wherever possible.
* The pages-long 8pt EULA displayed at powerup shall disclaim any warranty due to abuse, and booting the system to Windows shall be defined as abuse late in the document. I guarantee no one will notice this definition as no on on the planet has ever read an EULA on a commodity product.
On the Health and industrial side:
* Lifesaving devices to be sold with no standard warranty. and the cost of service/support plans will be triple. Of course, our new policy of incorporating counterfeit capacitors will be implemented. If sources for counterfeit caps runs out, we will retool one of our existant factories to ensure a steady supply of guaranteed-bad capacitors.
As you can see, I have a solid plan to ruin Hewlett-Packard. Please choose me as your CEO because I can fail even more spectacularly than Carly did - except my failure would be through design, not through incompetence. Any additional failures arising from incompetence would be purely coincidental and shall be regarded merely as added value by the HP board of directors. I'm offering an incredible deal, and since your intent is corporate suicide, how could you possibly turn down my foolproof proposal detailed above?
Don't forget: Coakley maintains "Technically it's not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts"
She needs to be removed from office ASAP.
They posted a torrent of their own product for the express purpose of free peer-to-peer download and redistribution. Please explain how downloading it for free and enjoying the free "pirate" version it is not a legit copy?
They're not counting on consumers to be stupid; they are counting on the courts to be stupid - and all bets are in their favor.
I would expect you to know how software works and how computers count vs. how people count. This is especially true when the subject of "what is a kilobyte" is discussed in the very first introductory computer classes one would take.
Uh, no; "everyone*" knows that hard drive manufacturers, computer manufacturers, and resellers misrepresent TiB as TB, and in the rare cases they do disclose it in advertising or on the outside packaging, it is in 3- or 4-point fine print in a low-contrast color and written in a very technical manner that may as well come across as greek to a nontechnical person, or will refer the user to a web site.
Windows reports the traditionally-accepted units to the end user* accurately and consistently. OS X threw a wrench into the works by showing capacities in base 10, which only confuses the user by throwing away the standard in effort to be more intuitive, except then the capacity appears to be different than in other systems. What would the correct solution be? For everyone (manufacturers, resellers, Microsoft, Apple, Linux vendors, etc.) to use KiB, KB, MB, MiB, GB, GiB, TiB, TB correctly and consistently, so there is truth in advertising and in daily use.
* "everyone" != everyone
small
You obviously don't run Windows, or at least don't install the patches. ;)
Some will probably state that NASA sent folks up there to make those tracks so the "proof" could be faked, only they're too stupid to realize the faulty logic and admission that it is possible to get to the moon.
Yes, that's kind of my point. There really isn't any purpose to the 1000mW laser unless you want to present a high risk of blinding people. :-(
I've lusted after 1000mW diodes for a long time with the idea of programming beam splitters, mirrors and the like to produce laser shows for parties and family events but it's just too dangerous for close quarters. Kids will insist on playing with them, or if I goof, or anything fails, the idea of blinding someone is scary.
I do need a brighter pointer for astronomy (easier aiming of telescopes and cameras, pointing objects out to others, etc) and 1000mW would be perfect for that (a nice bright clear beam even in low-dust conditions) but the risk of dropping it or a chance reflection off an insect, bat, bird, etc. is just too great because at that level a close range reflection would mean near instant blindness. Even the 70mW-90mW (WL has a 75mW model) is a bit much, but 25mW might not be enough and if you go 50mW, why not go for 75mW for $10 more?
I'd love to play with a 1000mW laser, but since you can't look at the specular reflections, or objects you aim it at without protection, what's the point? What can you safely do with it once you pop a balloon with it, or light a book of matches or burn a wasps' nest? The fun would die out pretty quickly. You can't cut steel with it, you can't weld with it, or really do anything practical with it, and it'd be a boring toy once you've experienced the novelty of popping a balloon or two from across a field using nothing but a beam of light and find there isn't anything you can safely use it for.
I have wanted one for the longest time but have resisted for precisely the reasons you cited. All it takes is one bystander to glance at the reflection even from a distance, and they're injured for life. It's not worth it even for such a fantastically fun toy.
I've been thinking about a 70mW-90mW laser for a while but even that poses a high risk of injury even at a significant distance.
(obligatory WARNING: DO NOT STARE INTO LASER WITH REMAINING EYE.)
I fixed that for you to fully illustrate the issue. :)
So in other words, Netflix streaming will soon be no better than Amazon Prime? I subscribe to Prime for the shipping services, but almost never use the streaming. If Netflix doesn't go back and kiss Starz's ass, why should I not go to a disc-only subscription, buy a Roku XS and use Prime instead?
As far as earthquakes are concerned - tremors you can really feel here are very rare, maybe one every 7-10 years. Folks in Boston are mindful that many of the buildings in the city are very old brick-and-mortar structures and predate any concerns of building to withstand quakes of any significant size, and much of the city is built on top of landfill on top of wetlands with many if not most of the larger buildings being constructed on top of wooden and on occasion steel and concrete pilings that are sitting in mud, not driven down to the bedrock. So, when a major quake finally does hit Boston, the city is going to be in for a world of hurt.
And yet, hundreds of thousands in MA are without power and power is not expected to be restored for a week in some towns due to extensive damage. Why was damage so extensive? We have not had any serious wind storms in a long time so there were a lot of weak trees that got knocked down. Most of the town where my office is doesn't have power, and some of the folks who work with me are without power and they've been told to expect it to be up to a week before the lines are back up.
. . . or more users will discover Total Commander
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Bob
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Gloria
Thanks for sticking with the project so long and making /. into what it is today.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh
It seems to me that "Jobs & co." did not rip off Xerox.
Questions:
1. What year were seismic ratings incorporated into national and local building codes?
2. What year (er, range of years) was the Pentagon built?