"They often penalized surgeons, like the senior surgeon at my hospital, who were aggressive about treating very sick patients and thus incurred higher mortality rates," says Jauhar.
It is true, some surgeons who are willing to treat very difficult cases would be adversely graded. But shouldn't there be some mechanism to apply brakes to the aggressive treatment? Some patients, and some of the relatives will be seeking treatment even when the situation is utterly hopeless. There are incentives for the doctors and the hospitals to pursue aggressive treatment. So, under these circs, is it really bad these grades are making them reevaluate the cases and be more realistic about the prognosis?
If start giving grades to personal injury lawyers, it should have a salutary effect. All those risk averse simple lawyers who go for really egregious violations of doctors and companies would get good grade. Those irritating aggressive ambulance chasers would get lower grades.
The doctors are chumps to operate under these rules rigged by the lawyers.
However, OpenSSH servers with keyboard-interactive authentication enabled, which is the default setting on many systems, including FreeBSD ones, can be tricked to allow many authentication retries over a single connection, according to the researcher.
“With this vulnerability an attacker is able to request as many password prompts limited by the ‘login grace time’ setting, that is set to two minutes by default,” Kincope said.
It is bad, but not so bad. At least the connection resets after 2 minutes by default.
I naturally assumed Google maps would have some way to access the settings mid navigation. But in a typical desktop application I would have been confident that the application was not designed correctly. In the phone apps I am never sure. I keep thinking, "May be if click and hold there, or swipe here or pinch over there, the menu might appear".
I am a meta engineer, who optimizes the process of optimization. If the cost of doing the optimization is more than the potential benefits, don't optimize. The cost of thinking about optimization is more than any possible improvements you might achieve after the implementation, don't even think about it.
We found nearly all the key features and menus on the Meizu MX4 are accessed using gesture controls, not with screen shortcuts....
As it is I am struggling to use most features of a smart phone. I still have not figured out a reliable way to tell which parts of the screen is active and is clickable and which parts are not. For example, today I got into the Google maps directions in the "walking" mode. 13 hours of walking to destination. Could not find a way simply change from walk to car. I have seen the icon, I know it exists. But if you are already in walk mode, switching to car mode was very non-intuitive. I am sure hundreds of young slashdotters will follow up with variations of "I am not getting off your lawn, grandpa".
Now all the key features are through gestures? How are the available gestures indicated on the screen? Or we are expected to go through the entire routine of dressing in drags and doing a hoola? Is it left right left right up up down down A B A B or right left right left up up down down A B A B?
The local taxi companies have been a protected monopoly for too long and they have grown accustomed to it. With Uben/Lyft on the horizon, eventually they will learn to compete and improve their service. Uber/Lyft also will be brought in line to make sure their vehicles and drivers are safe, pay the required access fees to cab ranks and airports that will increase their price. After the shake up the free market will do what it should do, cheaper, better, safe taxi service.
In the medium run the losers are the municipalities with their taxi company medallion tax revenues. But they too would adapt, it was not too long ago the hotels had a cash cow in the land line phones. Remember dialing a 10 digit 800 number, then a 10 digit calling card number and then a 4 digit password and then the 10 digit number of the party you wanted to call? Else pony up and pay 2$ a minute for long distance and a quarter per local call. The hotels adapted to the loss of that cash cow didn't they? Municipalities will adapt.
In the long run the danger is to the car companies. Cars are the second most expensive thing a person buys, next to home. And it remains idle 95% of the time. It loses 10 to 25% value the second you drive out of the dealer's lot and steadily loses value. Anything that makes renting cars cheaper and more convenient would bite into auto sales.
Back in 1984 this was imagined to be the spec for a incredible pie-in-the-sky computer:
It has
a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk
storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on
voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300.
Except for the screen resolution, we beat them all several times over. Voice recognition has come a long way but still way short of the bridge of USS Enterprise NCC-1701. And Popular Mechanics has been selling flying car on its cover to gullible teenagers since 1930s. Come on Mechanical Engineers. Step up to the plate and deliver something.
Ages ago Microsoft and HP released a pocket PC, 8 inch screen, black and white, alpha numeric display 16 lines by 60 characters, no graphics, MS-Office built in. I think it was called the Windows CE. It crammed the full desktop (ok ok desktop of win98) UI in to that pathetic little machine. Was a fiasco, it could not do anything well.
In Windows 8 it slapped a six inch phone UI based on touch on a full fledged 28 inch desktop/laptop screen. Again a fiasco.
It used to talk about "multi-platform support", which on close examination turns out to be support for both WinNT and Win98. Now it talks about Universal Apps. But it is only Universal "Windows" Apps. Again Universal "windows" Apps but limited to Windows10. Where do they come up with names? Do they play some kind of buzzword bingo?
Next they will come up with different editions, from ultra tied down dimwitted home user edition all the way to super professional ultimate platignum azure eye-candy business corporate executive edition.
All these antics used to irritate me so much those days. Now I laugh at myself for having taken them seriously.
Already an American billionaire had figured out who the aliens are , and what they do, Got into hot water for saying it openly instead of using euphemisms.
This is not known to many techies: Ganesha is the Lord of the Legion of ghosts and spirits. If you start all your projects with this simple prayer: " Oh, Thee clad in white clothes, with gray skin and four arms, Thee with the elephant face, we pray to Thee to remove all hindrances to project we are about to embark on. Aum! Peace, Peace, Peace to All", Ganesha will make sure there are no hindrances.
If a fire is detected in the cargo compartment, we could release very large amount of carbon dioxide into the hold and vent all oxygen out to extinguish the fire. Cant do this to passenger cabin. But I am not sure if airplanes use such a fire suppression technique for the cargo.
Why is a difficult to extinguish fire safer in the passenger cabin rather than in cargo? Especially since there are oxygen canisters above the luggage rack strewn all along the passenger cabin...
Is it some devious logic that if the battery kills the owner first, there would be some justice? Or it would gradually dawn on to the passengers that these batteries have very high energy storage densities and are dangerous, slowly they would stop carrying them?
Security is becoming more important than getting things done. This excuse of "this security update will break something I need" has been over used to keep security holes open. In this connected world, your security hole is my problem too. It is like storing a 50 gallon drum of gasoline in your garage. You might have excellent reasons for doing so, but it is a fire hazard for the neighbors.
All OSes should fix security holes and update them. If you can't use the latest security updates, stay off the internet.
But in the real world, someone will publish a hack using hosts file to misdirect microsoft.com to unreachable ip address, and many will blindly search for, "security update broke my very old Adobe photo shop" find such hacks and install them blindly.
It is difficult to keep your home safe in a city filled with pyromaniacs.
Look guys, if I told you once, its like I told you hundred times.
I told you what to do when earthquakes are predicted. It worked for Memphis. It will work again. Proven remedy.
These hair trigger traders! They deserve all they get. Jumping at every whiff of every rumor of every eavesdropper near the watercooler. haaa haa haa.
Wait
I hear laughter, not sobs. Whats going on? Let me eavesdrop on them.
Hair trigger trader A: "Hey Jumpin Jack, how much did you lose in that fake story about twitter?"
Hair trigger trader B: "Come on, Frenetic Fred, you and I know both very well, we never lose any money. My index fund customers, 401K investing idiots, they lost may be a couple of billions. INBD. There is more where that money comes from. Next month they will dutifully add another 50 billion for us to play with!
Before you say all these things, let us make sure you got 15 million dollars to invest in Australia. Otherwise it could just be sour grapes.
Also USA also has this visa program. It costs much less, just 5 million USD, need to create just 10 jobs or so. You can fire them as soon as your green card comes through.
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These calls had a very apt descriptive term. Now they are calling pocket dialed calls? Is pocket the new euphemism for butt?
"They often penalized surgeons, like the senior surgeon at my hospital, who were aggressive about treating very sick patients and thus incurred higher mortality rates," says Jauhar.
It is true, some surgeons who are willing to treat very difficult cases would be adversely graded. But shouldn't there be some mechanism to apply brakes to the aggressive treatment? Some patients, and some of the relatives will be seeking treatment even when the situation is utterly hopeless. There are incentives for the doctors and the hospitals to pursue aggressive treatment. So, under these circs, is it really bad these grades are making them reevaluate the cases and be more realistic about the prognosis?
The doctors are chumps to operate under these rules rigged by the lawyers.
However, OpenSSH servers with keyboard-interactive authentication enabled, which is the default setting on many systems, including FreeBSD ones, can be tricked to allow many authentication retries over a single connection, according to the researcher. “With this vulnerability an attacker is able to request as many password prompts limited by the ‘login grace time’ setting, that is set to two minutes by default,” Kincope said.
It is bad, but not so bad. At least the connection resets after 2 minutes by default.
I naturally assumed Google maps would have some way to access the settings mid navigation. But in a typical desktop application I would have been confident that the application was not designed correctly. In the phone apps I am never sure. I keep thinking, "May be if click and hold there, or swipe here or pinch over there, the menu might appear".
I am a meta engineer, who optimizes the process of optimization. If the cost of doing the optimization is more than the potential benefits, don't optimize. The cost of thinking about optimization is more than any possible improvements you might achieve after the implementation, don't even think about it.
We found nearly all the key features and menus on the Meizu MX4 are accessed using gesture controls, not with screen shortcuts. ...
As it is I am struggling to use most features of a smart phone. I still have not figured out a reliable way to tell which parts of the screen is active and is clickable and which parts are not. For example, today I got into the Google maps directions in the "walking" mode. 13 hours of walking to destination. Could not find a way simply change from walk to car. I have seen the icon, I know it exists. But if you are already in walk mode, switching to car mode was very non-intuitive. I am sure hundreds of young slashdotters will follow up with variations of "I am not getting off your lawn, grandpa".
Now all the key features are through gestures? How are the available gestures indicated on the screen? Or we are expected to go through the entire routine of dressing in drags and doing a hoola? Is it left right left right up up down down A B A B or right left right left up up down down A B A B?
In the medium run the losers are the municipalities with their taxi company medallion tax revenues. But they too would adapt, it was not too long ago the hotels had a cash cow in the land line phones. Remember dialing a 10 digit 800 number, then a 10 digit calling card number and then a 4 digit password and then the 10 digit number of the party you wanted to call? Else pony up and pay 2$ a minute for long distance and a quarter per local call. The hotels adapted to the loss of that cash cow didn't they? Municipalities will adapt.
In the long run the danger is to the car companies. Cars are the second most expensive thing a person buys, next to home. And it remains idle 95% of the time. It loses 10 to 25% value the second you drive out of the dealer's lot and steadily loses value. Anything that makes renting cars cheaper and more convenient would bite into auto sales.
It's not a bug, but a feature of the society owned and operated for the benefit of the top 0.5% by wealth.
It has a 150 MHz processor, 200 megabytes of RAM, 1500 megabytes of disk storage, a screen resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, relies entirely on voice recognition for input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300.
Except for the screen resolution, we beat them all several times over. Voice recognition has come a long way but still way short of the bridge of USS Enterprise NCC-1701. And Popular Mechanics has been selling flying car on its cover to gullible teenagers since 1930s. Come on Mechanical Engineers. Step up to the plate and deliver something.
Is it PC compatible?
In Windows 8 it slapped a six inch phone UI based on touch on a full fledged 28 inch desktop/laptop screen. Again a fiasco.
It used to talk about "multi-platform support", which on close examination turns out to be support for both WinNT and Win98. Now it talks about Universal Apps. But it is only Universal "Windows" Apps. Again Universal "windows" Apps but limited to Windows10. Where do they come up with names? Do they play some kind of buzzword bingo?
Next they will come up with different editions, from ultra tied down dimwitted home user edition all the way to super professional ultimate platignum azure eye-candy business corporate executive edition.
All these antics used to irritate me so much those days. Now I laugh at myself for having taken them seriously.
Already an American billionaire had figured out who the aliens are , and what they do, Got into hot water for saying it openly instead of using euphemisms.
obligatory
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
If a fire is detected in the cargo compartment, we could release very large amount of carbon dioxide into the hold and vent all oxygen out to extinguish the fire. Cant do this to passenger cabin. But I am not sure if airplanes use such a fire suppression technique for the cargo.
Is it some devious logic that if the battery kills the owner first, there would be some justice? Or it would gradually dawn on to the passengers that these batteries have very high energy storage densities and are dangerous, slowly they would stop carrying them?
They depict a large fearsome creature in blue. Not at all like a friendly yellow bird. So it is not Big Bird.
All OSes should fix security holes and update them. If you can't use the latest security updates, stay off the internet.
But in the real world, someone will publish a hack using hosts file to misdirect microsoft.com to unreachable ip address, and many will blindly search for, "security update broke my very old Adobe photo shop" find such hacks and install them blindly.
It is difficult to keep your home safe in a city filled with pyromaniacs.
Look guys, if I told you once, its like I told you hundred times. I told you what to do when earthquakes are predicted. It worked for Memphis. It will work again. Proven remedy.
Wait
I hear laughter, not sobs. Whats going on? Let me eavesdrop on them.
Hair trigger trader A: "Hey Jumpin Jack, how much did you lose in that fake story about twitter?"
Hair trigger trader B: "Come on, Frenetic Fred, you and I know both very well, we never lose any money. My index fund customers, 401K investing idiots, they lost may be a couple of billions. INBD. There is more where that money comes from. Next month they will dutifully add another 50 billion for us to play with!
Looks like you were the only one, in this thread, DL.
Unless you're the 1% the USA really has nothing going for it anymore. .
But most Americans think they will soon be in the 1%. Even the guy living in that leaky trailer in Alabama making 8$ an hour.
Their Queen. Is she one? At this age? Come on, you got to be kidding.
Also USA also has this visa program. It costs much less, just 5 million USD, need to create just 10 jobs or so. You can fire them as soon as your green card comes through.