Like everything on the Internet - a glitzy story doesn't always equate to reality. (I'm looking at you, Solar Roadways!)
Let me count the issues here:
1. This device seems to "do a bit better" than conventional treatments. How much better? A lot or almost none at all?
3. When you eat - it can take (minimum 20 minutes, maximum much longer) for the carbohydrates you eat to be broken down into glucose, detectable by a CGM. This can be MUCH longer for fatty foods which can often result in the liver secreting Glucose. Commercially available insulin can take up to 2 ours to reach peak affect. This means that by the time you eat and your CGM begins to notice it - it is too late to take any meaningful affect and keep your blood sugar under reasonabily control (for the next several ours).
4. There are devices now (by Medtronic) that will shut OFF your Insulin supply if your CGM says your blood glucose is too low - but aside from problems with poor CGM readings, this could be too late. (Furthermore, it's a minor firmware tweak on an existing pump).
5. There have been other project out there for years in which pumps can inject glucogon when BG levels are low. In fact, I credit my 8 year-old daughter for first coming up with the idea a few years ago - at least that't the first time that I personally heard it! Either way - no novily there.
So in short - nothing spectacular here, but I bet if they made a snazzy "solar roadways" type video, made it on a 3D printer and accepted BitCoins for payments, they'd monopolize the front-page headlines for weeks to come!
I heard the story. My son is only 10 (he was T1D) - and I don't "baby" him as much. Seemed as though the "fear" factor was really trumped-up a lot in the story.
If you have any examples of widespread deployments of [winter] weather-proofed road deployments - is love to hear about them. I live in New Hampshire. I've driven as far both as Canada, South as Florida, and west as California. Have never seen one.
"Engineers design around it" - this is why we never get things like frost heaves or potholes or road damage due to moisture seeping in cracks due to ground movement then freezing, etc...etc??????
AM is worse than FM - XM is even worse than AM! They say they use a "proprietary codec" to make it better - and I'm sure it's a *little* better than a standard MP3 compression (maybe) - but a "good quality" MP3 will be 320kbps - 10x the bitrate of XM - and there are many that even complain about that!
I only know this because I was so disturbed by the quality of the XM radio in my car that I had to look it up...
I can't even hear the letters "XM" without twinning. 32Kbps audio stream for music - comparable to AM quality. Stations they seem "talk" are even lower. I but a car with a nice "premium" sound system - XM makes it sound like a gramophone.
Use of this would (to my knowledge) require some sort of HAM licensing - and said regulations would have restrictions on things like frequencies (i.e. the whole "FM Pirate Radio" thing discussed on the README) or encrypted data.
So the NSA couldn't necessarily snoop your data - but the FCC could (and if you pissed the NSA or FBI off, probable WOULD) come after you for these types of violations. They couldn't get your by IP address - but if your were operating this from a fixed-base - they could find you.
I've been saying from Day 1 - that I don't think the iPad is that great. It may be good for games, videos and light web browsing - but the lack of keyboard make it a difficult to do any real "work" (including homework) on. For example, I am typing this message on a "real" keyboard (not an on-screen one). I know you *can* attach external keyboards - but then we're moving more into netbook/notebook space - and if we're gonna go there - we might as well throw in a mouse, larger screen, and "real" multitasking (i.e. I can see more than one window at a time - like I am doing right now at work).
So the iPad is a good trinket - and has some good vertical applications (I use it for navigation at the help of my boat, and Netflix in the cabin) - but I don't think it's will displace the functionality of "personal computers" for "productive" applications.
....and a poppy-seed-sized spherical lens made of borosilicate or corundum......and a light-emitting diode (LED),...and a watch battery,...and a switch...and some copper tape)
Time was - companies like this would give this sort of stuff away to get [younger] people hooked on these technologies. Would Microsoft want to get kids hooked into nice wholesome activities like MS-SQL, C#,.net or VB - or let them pick up stuff like LAMP an Python from their friends on the street.
Giving the stuff away is a way to groom the next up-and-coming generation into drinking your Kool-Aid. If they don't do this - they have only themselves to blame when the next generation grows up to be FOSS zellots...
I often practice Voodoo to rid myself of evil spirits. Wikipedia has been very biased against all the scientific research of the efficacy of voodoo for such purposes. (I challenge you to scientifically prove that I have any evil spirits [anymore]).
Did she quit her job because she was being harassed, or did she stop asserting that she was being harassed. (I'm not a grammar Nazi, but the headline did confuse me).
They do this with most "big" web sites - but not all (or many little ones). The pre-install their own root CA, so the web browser doesn't complain - but if you bothered to click on the padlock icon - you can tell the cert is signed by our IT department, not by whoever you think you're talking to.
So we know it's happening - it's not really "hidden" - so I'ts up to me if I want to use Facebook or GMail or whatever - knowing the connection could be snooped. If I don't like it - I can simply not use those services from work.
Oh, come on. Oprah even won it. It should be one of her "favorite things". I bet if you were on her show on the right day, everyone in the audience would get one too....
What happens to Bitcoin (and other/like virtual currencies based on mining difficulties) when Apple unveils their shiny new iQuantum computer, and mining power of the masses (or those of the privileged few) suddenly increase a hundred-billion fold [or whatever]?
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Let me count the issues here:
1. This device seems to "do a bit better" than conventional treatments. How much better? A lot or almost none at all?
3. When you eat - it can take (minimum 20 minutes, maximum much longer) for the carbohydrates you eat to be broken down into glucose, detectable by a CGM. This can be MUCH longer for fatty foods which can often result in the liver secreting Glucose. Commercially available insulin can take up to 2 ours to reach peak affect. This means that by the time you eat and your CGM begins to notice it - it is too late to take any meaningful affect and keep your blood sugar under reasonabily control (for the next several ours).
4. There are devices now (by Medtronic) that will shut OFF your Insulin supply if your CGM says your blood glucose is too low - but aside from problems with poor CGM readings, this could be too late. (Furthermore, it's a minor firmware tweak on an existing pump). 5. There have been other project out there for years in which pumps can inject glucogon when BG levels are low. In fact, I credit my 8 year-old daughter for first coming up with the idea a few years ago - at least that't the first time that I personally heard it! Either way - no novily there.
So in short - nothing spectacular here, but I bet if they made a snazzy "solar roadways" type video, made it on a 3D printer and accepted BitCoins for payments, they'd monopolize the front-page headlines for weeks to come!
I heard the story. My son is only 10 (he was T1D) - and I don't "baby" him as much. Seemed as though the "fear" factor was really trumped-up a lot in the story.
If you have any examples of widespread deployments of [winter] weather-proofed road deployments - is love to hear about them. I live in New Hampshire. I've driven as far both as Canada, South as Florida, and west as California. Have never seen one.
"Engineers design around it" - this is why we never get things like frost heaves or potholes or road damage due to moisture seeping in cracks due to ground movement then freezing, etc...etc??????
I only know this because I was so disturbed by the quality of the XM radio in my car that I had to look it up...
I can't even hear the letters "XM" without twinning. 32Kbps audio stream for music - comparable to AM quality. Stations they seem "talk" are even lower. I but a car with a nice "premium" sound system - XM makes it sound like a gramophone.
Sorry - Not for a $150 a month.
So the NSA couldn't necessarily snoop your data - but the FCC could (and if you pissed the NSA or FBI off, probable WOULD) come after you for these types of violations. They couldn't get your by IP address - but if your were operating this from a fixed-base - they could find you.
So the iPad is a good trinket - and has some good vertical applications (I use it for navigation at the help of my boat, and Netflix in the cabin) - but I don't think it's will displace the functionality of "personal computers" for "productive" applications.
I could use them for my wife long dissertations about "how her day was"...
....and a poppy-seed-sized spherical lens made of borosilicate or corundum... ...and a light-emitting diode (LED), ...and a watch battery, ...and a switch ...and some copper tape)
Personally, I follow Dr. McCarthy's advise due to her expertise and credentials, alone.
Giving the stuff away is a way to groom the next up-and-coming generation into drinking your Kool-Aid. If they don't do this - they have only themselves to blame when the next generation grows up to be FOSS zellots...
Quick!!! A 3D printer can print something! This is newsworthy fodder for Slashdot!!
Wake up Wikipedia!!
Did she quit her job because she was being harassed, or did she stop asserting that she was being harassed. (I'm not a grammar Nazi, but the headline did confuse me).
We don't need to worry about locking or concurrency - It'll never need to be run on more than one thread/core at a time.
As theold adage says: "There's nothing more permanent that a temporary solution".
So we know it's happening - it's not really "hidden" - so I'ts up to me if I want to use Facebook or GMail or whatever - knowing the connection could be snooped. If I don't like it - I can simply not use those services from work.
"...we're not just JUST about FTP servers anymore!"
Sounds pretty gross but...can't be worse than Pizza Hut.
Just because it has the keywords "Bitcoin" and "Linus Torvalds" in the headline - it doesn't really mean its "news".
Oh, come on. Oprah even won it. It should be one of her "favorite things". I bet if you were on her show on the right day, everyone in the audience would get one too....
The immune system isn't usually that self-destructive
Type-1 Diabetes
What happens to Bitcoin (and other/like virtual currencies based on mining difficulties) when Apple unveils their shiny new iQuantum computer, and mining power of the masses (or those of the privileged few) suddenly increase a hundred-billion fold [or whatever]?