Yeah, nobody but the United States, France, Russia, South Korea, India, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mexico, Romania, South Africa, Armenia, Croatia, Iran, the Netherlands, and Slovenia have operating commercial nuclear reactors registered with the IAEA.
I graduated from an unusually good and small public HS in New Jersey in 2009. I took APCS A and AB (the last year AB existed) in my sophomore and junior years, so we did fundamentals of programming (in Java), algorithms, polymorphism, inheritance. In APCS AB, we did data structures (trees, heaps, linked lists, hash and tree sets/maps), big-O notation and basic complexity analysis. After I exhausted the AP stuff, my school let me do an advanced independent-study type thing for credit, where I pretty much made up my own curriculum, as long as I could justify it. There, I learned Python, CGI/webapps (which culminated in a simple AJAX IMAP mail client), x86 assembly, Qt, and some other stuff. Myself and another friend of mine (in the same class) went to NJIT's programming competition and won it outright (we'd never been before or since) out of about 50 schools.
Looking back on it, it's just about the most fun programming I've ever had. Now that I'm in university, I do some really interesting and fun stuff, but it's all for classwork, so there's deadlines and I can't just go off in an interesting direction when I feel like it. And I have a heavy enough courseload that I don't have enough free time to program much. I still have fun with it, but I'd rather spend my time going out to eat with friends, or seeing a movie or something. Having a guaranteed 45 minutes a day where all I could do was go code interesting things was (looking back on it) a huge factor in getting me where I am today. I had an unusual situation and a fantastic teacher, and I wonder what happens to kids like me who don't.
I actually mostly read TFA. This guy sounds like an asshole, but at least he does a decent job admitting it. For those of you too impatient to slog through it, he basically says "I was a product manager but I wasn't very good at product managing" and "I used the brand more than I added to it" (w.r.t holding parties at the office, self-aggrandizing on his blog about working at FB). Not to mention going behind people's backs, like all of Marketing, on a new feature.
Short version: I was a liability, and they fired me for it. At least I learned something.
I won't even get into how IPv6 makes it much easier to track you.
Because that's nonsense? (Almost) Everybody implements the privacy extensions, so your world-visible address is random and changes every 10-ish minutes.
Interesting, but then there's upkeep to keep the CO2 filled and get the syrup. I understand there's some sanitary concerns as well, keeping bacteria out of the syrup lines. Vs. the current system, which is just fridge-packs of cans, and doesn't require ice, glasses to be washed, or maintenance (other than a bi-monthly or so trip to Costco)
I know few places have such things now, but it's happening, gradually. Try to be forward-looking.
Sure, but that's going to be 20-30 years. Not what the original question was. And in any case, it'll all fall down if the key isn't known (name, SSN, national ID number, etc), like if they don't have their wallet and were found unconscious - which might be infrequent enough that it's a net positive, except that EMTs are already practiced in figuring out history from clues at the scene, and that's something that doesn't develop without practice. Plus, give an EMT a tool that tells them 80% of what they need to do, and they'll forget about the other 20% entirely. It's not incompetence, it's a side-effect of needing to do too much at once. If they don't actually have to take a pulse manually, they'll use the time to do something else they need to do - but they'll miss important things. Give them a pulse-ox machine and they'll forget to notice if the patient is gasping, or if they have an irregular heartbeat, since "the machine says it's good" and they haven't checked by hand. This database is a magic medical history machine, except it'll be incomplete, unavailable, or plain wrong (if you get the wrong guy) and people won't notice. That's a human problem, not a tech problem, but it's a valid reason to be wary of such a capability.
"Either the patient can tell me their medical history, or we've got much bigger problems."
BS. If you could have at your fingertips their recent medical history, current medications, etc. on the way to the site, you would be much better prepared even if they aren't responsive. Are they taking codeine? Adderall? Nitroglycerine? Do they have known drug allergies? Known recent drug addictions? Some of the things it could tell you might be life-saving information.
All of those things are irrelevant. If their heart isn't beating, CPR is performed until it is. The paramedics do basically the same thing, except they intubate, push epi and atropine and so on. Work the problem. If you can say "his heart stopped because of an OD", that's great, but it doesn't help anyone in the field. It might help at the hospital, but they'll have access to that database long before we do anyway.
"As for conferencing with doctors - that's crazy. We already have medical directors (physicians) we can call on the phone or over the radio, and it works fine when we need it."
Sure... but why use two systems when one could do the job?
What two systems? Radio and cellphones? It's not both, it's either. Cellphone can be more direct, but radio works out of cellphone range.
"I don't much want to fidget with Skype and a webcam when we're supposed to be deciding on a course of action."
Who said anything about Skype or a webcam? That isn't what I meant at all. But if you COULD have a doctor there, without messing with Skype or a webcam, would you think that's a bad idea?
If we had a doctor there, it'd be great, but they wouldn't be able to do much for the vast, vast majority of things, though. For cardiac arrest, a MICU (mobile intensive care unit, paramedics) can do everything a hospital can do except for a cardiac massage, which can only be done in a surgical theater. They might be useful during an MCI, so people could be treated and released right there as appropriate.
The doctor's presence might be nice because he's licensed to do a lot more than I am. Even if he's instructing me, I still can't place an IV or do a chest decompression or pericardiocentesis. It's no different than over the phone, except he could see the image of what I'm describing to him. We don't have much in the way of decisions, anyway - it might be more useful for the paramedics, but like I said they already provide the relevant teleme
"No money" in this context means "let's think carefully before dropping a few thou on some piece of equipment". A few cellular modems is probably less than the monthly soda budget. And yes, IAAVolunteerEMT, and we do spend like $200/mo on soda. When a few guys are sitting around all day, every day, you go through a lot.
I am an emergency responder, and frankly I can't come up with much I'd use internet for. Medical history databases? Like what? Even at the hospital they need it sent from other hospitals if they don't already have it , there's no world-wide database of medical history, and even if there was can you imagine the nightmare of hooking every EMS agency up to it? And the security involved in handling patient data on such a scale? No thanks. In any case, it doesn't do me much good. Either the patient can tell me their medical history, or we've got much bigger problems. If they're unconscious, their history is secondary to keeping them alive, and you've got plenty to do on that front.
As for conferencing with doctors - that's crazy. We already have medical directors (physicians) we can call on the phone or over the radio, and it works fine when we need it. Plus, it won't give them any more information than what you can tell them over the phone anyway. I don't much want to fidget with Skype and a webcam when we're supposed to be deciding on a course of action. They can't interact with the patient anyway, and crappy wireless webcam video wouldn't be sufficient to notice something subtle that we missed.
The paramedics that I work with have CAD for tracking status, location, nature, etc - but they don't use it past dispatch. They can also send telemetry (specifically EKGs) from their monitors via their cellphones to the receiving hospital, so a heart attack can be diagnosed from the trace before we get there. That's pretty cool, but it's about the limit of what we've ever felt like we needed.
First of all, let's imagine the technical stuff isn't an issue. Imagine all the trucks have cellular modems and can just communicate over the Internet as usual. What are they using it for? I do volunteer EMS (not fire, admittedly, though I work with fire agencies a fair bit) but I can't figure out what it'd be used for, aside from CAD (computer-aided dispatch) which is outside the scope of our volunteer agency, and likely outside the scope of yours. Large-scale incidents (MCIs) do require a lot of information sharing that might be well-served by a data network of some sort, but interop is already a huge problem just with bog-standard FM radios. What sorts of computer data are they going to share without the internet? Keep in mind, this has to be data that's either already available digitally (in which case, why the network?) or created on-scene and then digitized. I can't think of any, honestly, except for perhaps pictures? And they're not really necessary.
So assuming there's a use for wireless data sharing, what justifies not dropping a few hundred a month (which is nothing for even a volunteer FD) on cellular broadband? It's a mature technology, reliability is high, and it doesn't require any customization - just logging into a VPN or something, if even.
Finally, your solution can't be finicky or unreliable at all. If it doesn't work once, it'll become a liability and nobody will rely on it. People don't screw around with stuff like this, since it can literally get people killed. Public safety has been doing fine on voice radios for a long time, and even if it could be done better, there's no hesitation about giving up your enhancements permanently the first time there's a problem with it.
I'm an amateur radio operator. I get the attraction to playing with this kind of stuff. But I'd never use it in my EMS agency, since "playing" isn't acceptable. That's why we buy $1k-a-pop Motorola radios that do less than my $100 Chinese HT - because there's no fidgeting, and no question about whether it's going to work when you need it. Even if you've dropped it in a puddle, or it's gotten dropped from 6 feet onto pavement, or used it to clobber a drug addict away from you (yes, it happens).
I love how you missed the last sentence of his post in your rush to comment.
And don't give me that fucking bullshit narrative about mandatory safety features the culprit for added weight. Want proof? EVERY FUCKING CAR IN EUROPE SOLD TODAY.
I'm not saying I agree with the comment (I do, but it's irrelevant) but at least make an effort to rebut his claim if you can. He already covered your argument...
It's an interesting idea, but they don't say anything about what that 175 liters gets you in terms of distance or power. The onboard pump is interesting (and necessary IMHO) but India's power infrastructure may not be up for the task of hundreds of thousands of cars all pumping away... if they're targeting cities, or they can get these filling stations everywhere, it might be alright.
The real problem with all these compressed air vehicles is the diabatic nature of compressing air. When you compress it, you generate a huge amount of heat that's hard to use and slows down the filling process (since the pressures are higher than normal, which will be problematic for the service station idea), but when you expand it (for power) you need to re-heat the air or else your efficiency goes way down since super-cold air doesn't have much volume. That's why they immerse SCUBA tanks in water while filling. If they figured out how to minimize that problem (maybe they use it slowly enough that it's not an issue?), they should sell a lot of them. TFA doesn't have anything suggesting that they have, though... so I'm skeptical.
I used to feel like you, until I TA'd a class. Oh my god. It's so staggeringly awful to input grades in anything conceivably approaching an efficient manner that most people download the grades as an Excel file, edit that, and re-upload it. It worked alright, as long as you didn't fiddle with the structure. Half of my CS classes have grading scripts that read files and batch email grades to everybody because it's less painful.
Basically, Blackboard makes some things easy for the student... and some things easy for the teacher. It'd be fine if they were the same things. A concrete example is doing comments on a grade - generally good, and they show up right next to the grade in the student's gradebook. Except you can't do it by clicking on a submission - you have to go to a subpage from there if you don't want it to lose formatting. You can do it from the first page, but it loses all linebreaks. And you can't navigate to different students from the second page, and it's not obvious to get to.
We did a homework assignment online that was auto-graded (multiple choice, or specific fill-in-the-blank type stuff - what's this number in binary, pad to 8 bits). Worked fine, except there was a typo. Oops. You'd think you could fix the typo in the answer and it'd automatically regrade the tests and correct any it had previously marked wrong. Nope. You'd think there'd be a button, or at least a way to trick it into re-running the grading algorithm it had already run - nope. I had to manually fix all 140 tests... and this has been a problem for YEARS.
Really, staggeringly, shockingly, horrendously miserable. It's so bad that a few people from my school went off and founded a company to replace it, but the thing they're missing is that nobody uses Bb because it's good - they use it because it's so integrated into the systems. When you register online for a class, it automatically adds you to the Blackboard class. When I swipe my ID card to get into my dorm room, or a chem major swipes into the chem lab, it authenticates against Blackboard. Same as if I try to print, or go into a dining hall, or buy food on the meal plan. The President of the University authenticates against Blackboard to get into her house. And they have for 15 years.
That's the thing about Blackboard - course management is almost a nifty side feature to all the administrative stuff. Trying to kill Blackboard by doing better course-management won't get you anywhere.
You can absolutely detect blood transfusions. You can notice that the blood cells are different ages by more than the normal amount, and you can see that the density of them (per unit of blood) is way out of whack. If you inject soon enough that that doesn't work, you haven't done yourself any good anyway since you don't produce many new blood cells.
AFAIK you can't ingest EPO, it has to be injected. And either way, it'd come out the kidneys. There are tests for recombinant (non-natural) EPO, and he's passed them.
He's down a testicle, and he has approval for testosterone injections to bring him back to baseline.
This seems like a big hatchet-job against him. I don't care much one way or the other for him, but if they're going to negate years of wins and accomplishment because of the word of some people who've been bribed to testify, with reduced-length bans, then drug testing is a waste of time. Which is the point of the article.
Except the license agreements already say that there's no warranty, express or implied, and that the developer is indemnified against defects. This is usually there in commercial software as well. If you don't agree with that clause, you don't get a license to the software.
BSD license:
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
GPL:
15. Disclaimer of Warranty.
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
16. Limitation of Liability.
IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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The law would have to be changed to specifically deny that right to the author. If you buy a car, or electronics or something, there may not be an explicit warranty but they usually haven't disclaimed a warranty in advance of your purchase so you can still get the "implied" warranty. The licenses are contracts that are supposed to be entered into after due consideration, so they are allowed to disclaim pretty much anything they want, same as normal contract law. The law would have to be specifically different for software than for most products, and that's a big uphill battle.
Well unlike any time in the last 90 years, maybe they'll think about it now due to your post.
I'm not usually that sarcastic, but the arrogance in your post is staggering. Because their decision is different from yours, rather than thinking that maybe they arrived at the decision based on different priorities or values or something else you're missing, you assert that an entire country of millions of people hasn't seriously thought about the license fee since it was implemented in 1922. Do you realize that you're implying that the currently-living 62 million people, and all the people before them, were just shit-chucking apes who couldn't make their own decisions correctly? And that's not a rhetorical question.
I suggest that you at least consider the possibility that other people did really come to the right decision for them, even if it's not the right one for you. I live in the US, and frankly I'd gladly pay the license fee for quality news and programming live, rather than catching the scraps over here.
And if you did all that, it would be damn close to, if not actually (GPS is military), an act of war. Want to see just how fast the government can respond to an incident? Try the above. I'd give you about 15 minutes before you had military on your ass. They have smart missiles that can automatically target GPS and radar jammers, if they get desperate enough to get rid of your interference. And as you note, there's already procedures for going "old-school" and not relying on radar or TCAS or ILS. Even in "hard" IMC you should be able to use your instruments to stay in the air and away from other planes, and you should have enough fuel (you did your fuel calculation correctly, right?) to circle around a bit waiting for the situation to be resolved.
Your premise ("it is a serious problem") doesn't follow from the antecedents ("they were bad in the 1800s"). A lot of work happened (read about Dorthea Dix in the US) to reform mental healthcare, as a result of the specific problems you mentioned, and that work has continued since. A lot of people feel it isn't reformed enough, but you didn't make that claim.
When I read the story and his comments, he certainly seems off his rocker. Given the known mental health issues (PTSD, among others) born of military service, it seems perfectly reasonable to evaluate him and see if he needs therapy and/or other treatment. He's not being singled out - the military keeps a close eye on vets precisely because so many of them develop mental health issues as a result of service, and they don't want to leave anybody out in the cold (sometimes literally - a lot of them end up homeless).
Most people would call this prudence, or even admirable concern for their well-being, but on Slashdot it's repression and a big bad government overlord.
Mr. Dimon sure as hell lobbied for less regulation.
Did he? All I've read in the last few years was him lobbying for better regulation. Specifically, he wanted it passed in chunks (as opposed to all at once) so they could let the effects settle out incrementally over a few months, tweaking the next phase as necessary. As infeasible as that would be nowadays politically, it seems like a rather reasonable request. I know he lobbied against Dodd-Frank, but only because it didn't actually have anything in it and they were nervous about waiting for the committee to figure it out.
But I could definitely be misremembering. Has he lobbied against regulation that you thought made sense?
No, but the people who work for you were. And you're supposed to be in charge.
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Specifically, what do you think was responsible for the financial crisis? And did JPM do those things? Because they didn't get into subprime mortgages or credit default swaps or any of that other stuff. In fact, they were one of the very, very few big banks that didn't need any help over the last 4-5 years.
I happen to know personally that JPM didn't have any interest in the government money (who wants government debt?) and didn't need it (they didn't get into subprime stuff) but they agreed that it was necessary to take it to prevent a panic. They paid it back in full as soon as they were allowed to.
There's a lot of hatred at banks around here, and most of it is fair. But frankly JPM isn't one of them. They're even in favor of tougher (and substantive!) regulations because the uncertainty of crashes hurts them as much as the rest of us.
I ran the numbers for a paper last year sometime. The average ICE efficiency is 18-20%. They have a mathematical limit of about 37% efficiency, but they're not optimally built and they usually run outside their efficiency RPM. By contrast, even the gnarliest old coal plant runs at 33% efficient. About 6.5% of that is lost in transmission and distribution to your power outlet. And large electric traction motors are up to 99.99% efficient(!) and it's easy to see that almost all electric cars will be more efficient than almost all internal combustion engine cars, even before factoring in the energy used to get the gasoline to the service station. But electric vehicles weigh less (no heavy engine and transmission) and break down less (they're a lot less complex) so that's less wear on the roads and less replacement parts shipped, etc.
But there's a hidden benefit that should appeal to the engineers around here: let's say you have a gas powered lawn mower, car, weed trimmer, furnace, water heater, boat, and tractor. If you were to run them all on electricity instead, you'd be more efficient, but that's not the point. If a local coal plant is replaced with a brand-new combined-cycle natural gas plant, it'll run about 50% efficient - and suddenly your devices are much more efficient, and using much less energy over all, without any changes on your part. Scrubbers can be installed, or hydro/nuke/solar/geothermal plants can be installed, improving the efficiency and reducing the impact of everything you own without any action at all on your part. Sure maybe your electric car would run on coal power now, but over the next 10 or so years I'd reckon you'll start seeing a lot more NG plants, and then it'll run on NG power, and you didn't even have to do anything. And you'll save money, and more money as plants get more efficient and electricity gets cheaper. My parents live near Philadelphia, and there's a lot of nuke plants in the area. They just paid an $80 electric bill for last month, even though the A/C was running pretty steadily the whole time. They paid several times more for the gas for their car, just one thing, and everything else is electric.
Fossil fuels, or stuff you can burn in general, will always be better for making heat. There's no way around that, turning heat into electricity into heat is wasteful. Let's save the fuels for heat applications (water heating, furnace, grilling, cooking) and leave the rotational power to electricity.
See, here's the thing you're missing. You have a fully functional machine which is running an OS more than 5 years newer than it, and it's doing it just fine. Lion will continue to work on it and be patched for the foreseeable future, and most software will run on it as well. What obligation does Apple have towards you? Did they sell you a machine that promised more than 5 years of updates? Or did they promise EFI64, which is what's needed to boot ML? (hint: they didn't). They sold you a 64-bit workstation, and you got a 64-bit workstation, and you've had no trouble upgrading the OS twice.
Via hacks and other messy stuff, you might be able to get it to work, and I expect directions will be available shortly and relatively straightforward, but it's hard to blame Apple for not wanting to mess up the experience. They seem happy to allow "hacks" to extend their product's functionality, but they're not really the kind of company to give you enough rope to hang yourself with, which is how they keep their reputation that anything "Apple-sanctioned" "just works"
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Yeah, nobody but the United States, France, Russia, South Korea, India, Canada, United Kingdom, China, Ukraine, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Taiwan, Switzerland, Finland, Hungary, Slovakia, Pakistan, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Mexico, Romania, South Africa, Armenia, Croatia, Iran, the Netherlands, and Slovenia have operating commercial nuclear reactors registered with the IAEA.
I graduated from an unusually good and small public HS in New Jersey in 2009. I took APCS A and AB (the last year AB existed) in my sophomore and junior years, so we did fundamentals of programming (in Java), algorithms, polymorphism, inheritance. In APCS AB, we did data structures (trees, heaps, linked lists, hash and tree sets/maps), big-O notation and basic complexity analysis. After I exhausted the AP stuff, my school let me do an advanced independent-study type thing for credit, where I pretty much made up my own curriculum, as long as I could justify it. There, I learned Python, CGI/webapps (which culminated in a simple AJAX IMAP mail client), x86 assembly, Qt, and some other stuff. Myself and another friend of mine (in the same class) went to NJIT's programming competition and won it outright (we'd never been before or since) out of about 50 schools.
Looking back on it, it's just about the most fun programming I've ever had. Now that I'm in university, I do some really interesting and fun stuff, but it's all for classwork, so there's deadlines and I can't just go off in an interesting direction when I feel like it. And I have a heavy enough courseload that I don't have enough free time to program much. I still have fun with it, but I'd rather spend my time going out to eat with friends, or seeing a movie or something. Having a guaranteed 45 minutes a day where all I could do was go code interesting things was (looking back on it) a huge factor in getting me where I am today. I had an unusual situation and a fantastic teacher, and I wonder what happens to kids like me who don't.
I actually mostly read TFA. This guy sounds like an asshole, but at least he does a decent job admitting it. For those of you too impatient to slog through it, he basically says "I was a product manager but I wasn't very good at product managing" and "I used the brand more than I added to it" (w.r.t holding parties at the office, self-aggrandizing on his blog about working at FB). Not to mention going behind people's backs, like all of Marketing, on a new feature.
Short version: I was a liability, and they fired me for it. At least I learned something.
I won't even get into how IPv6 makes it much easier to track you.
Because that's nonsense? (Almost) Everybody implements the privacy extensions, so your world-visible address is random and changes every 10-ish minutes.
For pong, what happens when people leave? Though that's a good idea; I might knock it up for fun and see if it works.
How many airliners use NDBs as opposed to VORs or simply GPS waypoints nowadays?
Interesting, but then there's upkeep to keep the CO2 filled and get the syrup. I understand there's some sanitary concerns as well, keeping bacteria out of the syrup lines. Vs. the current system, which is just fridge-packs of cans, and doesn't require ice, glasses to be washed, or maintenance (other than a bi-monthly or so trip to Costco)
"Medical history databases? Like what?"
I know few places have such things now, but it's happening, gradually. Try to be forward-looking.
Sure, but that's going to be 20-30 years. Not what the original question was. And in any case, it'll all fall down if the key isn't known (name, SSN, national ID number, etc), like if they don't have their wallet and were found unconscious - which might be infrequent enough that it's a net positive, except that EMTs are already practiced in figuring out history from clues at the scene, and that's something that doesn't develop without practice. Plus, give an EMT a tool that tells them 80% of what they need to do, and they'll forget about the other 20% entirely. It's not incompetence, it's a side-effect of needing to do too much at once. If they don't actually have to take a pulse manually, they'll use the time to do something else they need to do - but they'll miss important things. Give them a pulse-ox machine and they'll forget to notice if the patient is gasping, or if they have an irregular heartbeat, since "the machine says it's good" and they haven't checked by hand. This database is a magic medical history machine, except it'll be incomplete, unavailable, or plain wrong (if you get the wrong guy) and people won't notice. That's a human problem, not a tech problem, but it's a valid reason to be wary of such a capability.
"Either the patient can tell me their medical history, or we've got much bigger problems."
BS. If you could have at your fingertips their recent medical history, current medications, etc. on the way to the site, you would be much better prepared even if they aren't responsive. Are they taking codeine? Adderall? Nitroglycerine? Do they have known drug allergies? Known recent drug addictions? Some of the things it could tell you might be life-saving information.
All of those things are irrelevant. If their heart isn't beating, CPR is performed until it is. The paramedics do basically the same thing, except they intubate, push epi and atropine and so on. Work the problem. If you can say "his heart stopped because of an OD", that's great, but it doesn't help anyone in the field. It might help at the hospital, but they'll have access to that database long before we do anyway.
"As for conferencing with doctors - that's crazy. We already have medical directors (physicians) we can call on the phone or over the radio, and it works fine when we need it."
Sure... but why use two systems when one could do the job?
What two systems? Radio and cellphones? It's not both, it's either. Cellphone can be more direct, but radio works out of cellphone range.
"I don't much want to fidget with Skype and a webcam when we're supposed to be deciding on a course of action."
Who said anything about Skype or a webcam? That isn't what I meant at all. But if you COULD have a doctor there, without messing with Skype or a webcam, would you think that's a bad idea?
If we had a doctor there, it'd be great, but they wouldn't be able to do much for the vast, vast majority of things, though. For cardiac arrest, a MICU (mobile intensive care unit, paramedics) can do everything a hospital can do except for a cardiac massage, which can only be done in a surgical theater. They might be useful during an MCI, so people could be treated and released right there as appropriate.
The doctor's presence might be nice because he's licensed to do a lot more than I am. Even if he's instructing me, I still can't place an IV or do a chest decompression or pericardiocentesis. It's no different than over the phone, except he could see the image of what I'm describing to him. We don't have much in the way of decisions, anyway - it might be more useful for the paramedics, but like I said they already provide the relevant teleme
"No money" in this context means "let's think carefully before dropping a few thou on some piece of equipment". A few cellular modems is probably less than the monthly soda budget. And yes, IAAVolunteerEMT, and we do spend like $200/mo on soda. When a few guys are sitting around all day, every day, you go through a lot.
I am an emergency responder, and frankly I can't come up with much I'd use internet for. Medical history databases? Like what? Even at the hospital they need it sent from other hospitals if they don't already have it , there's no world-wide database of medical history, and even if there was can you imagine the nightmare of hooking every EMS agency up to it? And the security involved in handling patient data on such a scale? No thanks. In any case, it doesn't do me much good. Either the patient can tell me their medical history, or we've got much bigger problems. If they're unconscious, their history is secondary to keeping them alive, and you've got plenty to do on that front.
As for conferencing with doctors - that's crazy. We already have medical directors (physicians) we can call on the phone or over the radio, and it works fine when we need it. Plus, it won't give them any more information than what you can tell them over the phone anyway. I don't much want to fidget with Skype and a webcam when we're supposed to be deciding on a course of action. They can't interact with the patient anyway, and crappy wireless webcam video wouldn't be sufficient to notice something subtle that we missed.
The paramedics that I work with have CAD for tracking status, location, nature, etc - but they don't use it past dispatch. They can also send telemetry (specifically EKGs) from their monitors via their cellphones to the receiving hospital, so a heart attack can be diagnosed from the trace before we get there. That's pretty cool, but it's about the limit of what we've ever felt like we needed.
First of all, let's imagine the technical stuff isn't an issue. Imagine all the trucks have cellular modems and can just communicate over the Internet as usual. What are they using it for? I do volunteer EMS (not fire, admittedly, though I work with fire agencies a fair bit) but I can't figure out what it'd be used for, aside from CAD (computer-aided dispatch) which is outside the scope of our volunteer agency, and likely outside the scope of yours. Large-scale incidents (MCIs) do require a lot of information sharing that might be well-served by a data network of some sort, but interop is already a huge problem just with bog-standard FM radios. What sorts of computer data are they going to share without the internet? Keep in mind, this has to be data that's either already available digitally (in which case, why the network?) or created on-scene and then digitized. I can't think of any, honestly, except for perhaps pictures? And they're not really necessary.
So assuming there's a use for wireless data sharing, what justifies not dropping a few hundred a month (which is nothing for even a volunteer FD) on cellular broadband? It's a mature technology, reliability is high, and it doesn't require any customization - just logging into a VPN or something, if even.
Finally, your solution can't be finicky or unreliable at all. If it doesn't work once, it'll become a liability and nobody will rely on it. People don't screw around with stuff like this, since it can literally get people killed. Public safety has been doing fine on voice radios for a long time, and even if it could be done better, there's no hesitation about giving up your enhancements permanently the first time there's a problem with it.
I'm an amateur radio operator. I get the attraction to playing with this kind of stuff. But I'd never use it in my EMS agency, since "playing" isn't acceptable. That's why we buy $1k-a-pop Motorola radios that do less than my $100 Chinese HT - because there's no fidgeting, and no question about whether it's going to work when you need it. Even if you've dropped it in a puddle, or it's gotten dropped from 6 feet onto pavement, or used it to clobber a drug addict away from you (yes, it happens).
I love how you missed the last sentence of his post in your rush to comment.
And don't give me that fucking bullshit narrative about mandatory safety features the culprit for added weight. Want proof? EVERY FUCKING CAR IN EUROPE SOLD TODAY.
I'm not saying I agree with the comment (I do, but it's irrelevant) but at least make an effort to rebut his claim if you can. He already covered your argument...
Interesting post, but almost all torque converters lock and have for 20 years. "In the late 1970s lock-up clutches started to reappear in response to demands for improved fuel economy, and are now nearly universal in automotive applications."
It's an interesting idea, but they don't say anything about what that 175 liters gets you in terms of distance or power. The onboard pump is interesting (and necessary IMHO) but India's power infrastructure may not be up for the task of hundreds of thousands of cars all pumping away... if they're targeting cities, or they can get these filling stations everywhere, it might be alright.
The real problem with all these compressed air vehicles is the diabatic nature of compressing air. When you compress it, you generate a huge amount of heat that's hard to use and slows down the filling process (since the pressures are higher than normal, which will be problematic for the service station idea), but when you expand it (for power) you need to re-heat the air or else your efficiency goes way down since super-cold air doesn't have much volume. That's why they immerse SCUBA tanks in water while filling. If they figured out how to minimize that problem (maybe they use it slowly enough that it's not an issue?), they should sell a lot of them. TFA doesn't have anything suggesting that they have, though... so I'm skeptical.
I used to feel like you, until I TA'd a class. Oh my god. It's so staggeringly awful to input grades in anything conceivably approaching an efficient manner that most people download the grades as an Excel file, edit that, and re-upload it. It worked alright, as long as you didn't fiddle with the structure. Half of my CS classes have grading scripts that read files and batch email grades to everybody because it's less painful.
Basically, Blackboard makes some things easy for the student... and some things easy for the teacher. It'd be fine if they were the same things. A concrete example is doing comments on a grade - generally good, and they show up right next to the grade in the student's gradebook. Except you can't do it by clicking on a submission - you have to go to a subpage from there if you don't want it to lose formatting. You can do it from the first page, but it loses all linebreaks. And you can't navigate to different students from the second page, and it's not obvious to get to.
We did a homework assignment online that was auto-graded (multiple choice, or specific fill-in-the-blank type stuff - what's this number in binary, pad to 8 bits). Worked fine, except there was a typo. Oops. You'd think you could fix the typo in the answer and it'd automatically regrade the tests and correct any it had previously marked wrong. Nope. You'd think there'd be a button, or at least a way to trick it into re-running the grading algorithm it had already run - nope. I had to manually fix all 140 tests... and this has been a problem for YEARS.
Really, staggeringly, shockingly, horrendously miserable. It's so bad that a few people from my school went off and founded a company to replace it, but the thing they're missing is that nobody uses Bb because it's good - they use it because it's so integrated into the systems. When you register online for a class, it automatically adds you to the Blackboard class. When I swipe my ID card to get into my dorm room, or a chem major swipes into the chem lab, it authenticates against Blackboard. Same as if I try to print, or go into a dining hall, or buy food on the meal plan. The President of the University authenticates against Blackboard to get into her house. And they have for 15 years.
That's the thing about Blackboard - course management is almost a nifty side feature to all the administrative stuff. Trying to kill Blackboard by doing better course-management won't get you anywhere.
You can absolutely detect blood transfusions. You can notice that the blood cells are different ages by more than the normal amount, and you can see that the density of them (per unit of blood) is way out of whack. If you inject soon enough that that doesn't work, you haven't done yourself any good anyway since you don't produce many new blood cells.
AFAIK you can't ingest EPO, it has to be injected. And either way, it'd come out the kidneys. There are tests for recombinant (non-natural) EPO, and he's passed them.
He's down a testicle, and he has approval for testosterone injections to bring him back to baseline.
This seems like a big hatchet-job against him. I don't care much one way or the other for him, but if they're going to negate years of wins and accomplishment because of the word of some people who've been bribed to testify, with reduced-length bans, then drug testing is a waste of time. Which is the point of the article.
Except the license agreements already say that there's no warranty, express or implied, and that the developer is indemnified against defects. This is usually there in commercial software as well. If you don't agree with that clause, you don't get a license to the software.
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The law would have to be changed to specifically deny that right to the author. If you buy a car, or electronics or something, there may not be an explicit warranty but they usually haven't disclaimed a warranty in advance of your purchase so you can still get the "implied" warranty. The licenses are contracts that are supposed to be entered into after due consideration, so they are allowed to disclaim pretty much anything they want, same as normal contract law. The law would have to be specifically different for software than for most products, and that's a big uphill battle.
Well unlike any time in the last 90 years, maybe they'll think about it now due to your post.
I'm not usually that sarcastic, but the arrogance in your post is staggering. Because their decision is different from yours, rather than thinking that maybe they arrived at the decision based on different priorities or values or something else you're missing, you assert that an entire country of millions of people hasn't seriously thought about the license fee since it was implemented in 1922. Do you realize that you're implying that the currently-living 62 million people, and all the people before them, were just shit-chucking apes who couldn't make their own decisions correctly? And that's not a rhetorical question.
I suggest that you at least consider the possibility that other people did really come to the right decision for them, even if it's not the right one for you. I live in the US, and frankly I'd gladly pay the license fee for quality news and programming live, rather than catching the scraps over here.
And if you did all that, it would be damn close to, if not actually (GPS is military), an act of war. Want to see just how fast the government can respond to an incident? Try the above. I'd give you about 15 minutes before you had military on your ass. They have smart missiles that can automatically target GPS and radar jammers, if they get desperate enough to get rid of your interference. And as you note, there's already procedures for going "old-school" and not relying on radar or TCAS or ILS. Even in "hard" IMC you should be able to use your instruments to stay in the air and away from other planes, and you should have enough fuel (you did your fuel calculation correctly, right?) to circle around a bit waiting for the situation to be resolved.
Your premise ("it is a serious problem") doesn't follow from the antecedents ("they were bad in the 1800s"). A lot of work happened (read about Dorthea Dix in the US) to reform mental healthcare, as a result of the specific problems you mentioned, and that work has continued since. A lot of people feel it isn't reformed enough, but you didn't make that claim.
When I read the story and his comments, he certainly seems off his rocker. Given the known mental health issues (PTSD, among others) born of military service, it seems perfectly reasonable to evaluate him and see if he needs therapy and/or other treatment. He's not being singled out - the military keeps a close eye on vets precisely because so many of them develop mental health issues as a result of service, and they don't want to leave anybody out in the cold (sometimes literally - a lot of them end up homeless).
Most people would call this prudence, or even admirable concern for their well-being, but on Slashdot it's repression and a big bad government overlord.
Mr. Dimon sure as hell lobbied for less regulation.
Did he? All I've read in the last few years was him lobbying for better regulation. Specifically, he wanted it passed in chunks (as opposed to all at once) so they could let the effects settle out incrementally over a few months, tweaking the next phase as necessary. As infeasible as that would be nowadays politically, it seems like a rather reasonable request. I know he lobbied against Dodd-Frank, but only because it didn't actually have anything in it and they were nervous about waiting for the committee to figure it out.
But I could definitely be misremembering. Has he lobbied against regulation that you thought made sense?
"I am not responsible for the financial crisis."
No, but the people who work for you were. And you're supposed to be in charge.
[citation needed]
Specifically, what do you think was responsible for the financial crisis? And did JPM do those things? Because they didn't get into subprime mortgages or credit default swaps or any of that other stuff. In fact, they were one of the very, very few big banks that didn't need any help over the last 4-5 years.
I happen to know personally that JPM didn't have any interest in the government money (who wants government debt?) and didn't need it (they didn't get into subprime stuff) but they agreed that it was necessary to take it to prevent a panic. They paid it back in full as soon as they were allowed to.
There's a lot of hatred at banks around here, and most of it is fair. But frankly JPM isn't one of them. They're even in favor of tougher (and substantive!) regulations because the uncertainty of crashes hurts them as much as the rest of us.
I ran the numbers for a paper last year sometime. The average ICE efficiency is 18-20%. They have a mathematical limit of about 37% efficiency, but they're not optimally built and they usually run outside their efficiency RPM. By contrast, even the gnarliest old coal plant runs at 33% efficient. About 6.5% of that is lost in transmission and distribution to your power outlet. And large electric traction motors are up to 99.99% efficient(!) and it's easy to see that almost all electric cars will be more efficient than almost all internal combustion engine cars, even before factoring in the energy used to get the gasoline to the service station. But electric vehicles weigh less (no heavy engine and transmission) and break down less (they're a lot less complex) so that's less wear on the roads and less replacement parts shipped, etc.
But there's a hidden benefit that should appeal to the engineers around here: let's say you have a gas powered lawn mower, car, weed trimmer, furnace, water heater, boat, and tractor. If you were to run them all on electricity instead, you'd be more efficient, but that's not the point. If a local coal plant is replaced with a brand-new combined-cycle natural gas plant, it'll run about 50% efficient - and suddenly your devices are much more efficient, and using much less energy over all, without any changes on your part. Scrubbers can be installed, or hydro/nuke/solar/geothermal plants can be installed, improving the efficiency and reducing the impact of everything you own without any action at all on your part. Sure maybe your electric car would run on coal power now, but over the next 10 or so years I'd reckon you'll start seeing a lot more NG plants, and then it'll run on NG power, and you didn't even have to do anything. And you'll save money, and more money as plants get more efficient and electricity gets cheaper. My parents live near Philadelphia, and there's a lot of nuke plants in the area. They just paid an $80 electric bill for last month, even though the A/C was running pretty steadily the whole time. They paid several times more for the gas for their car, just one thing, and everything else is electric.
Fossil fuels, or stuff you can burn in general, will always be better for making heat. There's no way around that, turning heat into electricity into heat is wasteful. Let's save the fuels for heat applications (water heating, furnace, grilling, cooking) and leave the rotational power to electricity.
See, here's the thing you're missing. You have a fully functional machine which is running an OS more than 5 years newer than it, and it's doing it just fine. Lion will continue to work on it and be patched for the foreseeable future, and most software will run on it as well. What obligation does Apple have towards you? Did they sell you a machine that promised more than 5 years of updates? Or did they promise EFI64, which is what's needed to boot ML? (hint: they didn't). They sold you a 64-bit workstation, and you got a 64-bit workstation, and you've had no trouble upgrading the OS twice.
Via hacks and other messy stuff, you might be able to get it to work, and I expect directions will be available shortly and relatively straightforward, but it's hard to blame Apple for not wanting to mess up the experience. They seem happy to allow "hacks" to extend their product's functionality, but they're not really the kind of company to give you enough rope to hang yourself with, which is how they keep their reputation that anything "Apple-sanctioned" "just works"