I wonder how strong a relationship there is between blood glucose level and the amount of energy these produce. If there is a measurable difference when you go outside the recommended BG range, you could hook the fuel cell to a sensor and warn the diabetic patient to take the appropriate action (eat something sugary or take some insulin) if the current indicates a BG level outside the recommended range.
It could mean an end to measuring using lancets and testing strips to test blood external to the body. In fact, if there was a way to expend (or store) the excess power the fuel cells could be used instead of or in addition to insulin to correct a high blood sugar level.
Force them to change something that's been published by the government in hard copy and widely distributed. Google Translate didn't do all that great a job translating the text of the legislation, but I think there's a cap on the amount of money the retraction can cost. However, in an edit war (particularly if you get a large number of people involved so that they can't just reuse something they've already printed) that could cost some serious money and time.
Better yet, find some piece of legislation that mentions a person by name (you know, something similar to this "feel good" bill from the US Senate honoring a girls Little League team) and demand they change it. Would that make the changed text into law? I don't know, but it would be an interesting question for the courts.
5 years for the first pass. 10 years for the second pass. 20 years for the third pass. 50 years for each subsequent pass.
That way, even a law that seems obviously like a good idea can be reevaluated or revised if circumstances change. Suppose for example that we developed the technology to clone a deceased person and copy over the memories from their original brain. That would allow people to perhaps "recover" from being murdered. Would the punishments proscribed by law for murder need to change? Perhaps we would want to consider punishing more severely "murdering someone and destroying their brain" (irrecoverable death) than simply "murdering someone and leaving their brain intact" (recoverable death.) In my opinion that would be an obvious change to the law against murder rather than a separate law, and at the next "checkpoint" the law could be so modified..
If many of those UNCO bugs are "My internet is broken" they should be easy to close out. Put in some sort of boilerplate, like:
"Mozilla Firefox simply displays web pages that you retrieve from the Internet using your connection to your Internet Service Provider (or ISP) which is the company you pay for Internet service. The problem you reported appears to be related to an issue with the connection between your computer and your ISP. We have no control over that connection, so there is no way that we could fix the problem even if we knew the cause. Please contact your ISP's Technical Support staff [perhaps with a link to the N most common support numbers] for assistance with this problem."
Will some of the people come back with "No, I want YOU to fix it"? Sure. Would this resolve a decent fraction of those "fix my internet" bugs? I think so. Create the same sort of boilerplate for the most common N bugs-that-aren't-bugs or bugs-that-aren't-bugs-in-Firefox and you should be able to cut down on the noise. Then you can concentrate on the signal.
"You fell victim to one of the cl***ic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died. And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
So it doesn't matter how many descendants Adam and Eve had -- after the Flood, humanity was (canonically, if you take Genesis literally) down to a population of 8. Those eight were Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons' wives according to Genesis 7:13:
In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark
Could you get as much genetic diversity starting with 8 people (five of whom, at least, were related by blood) in a short period of time?
As someone that has worked for 10 years at a software company whose software is supported on Linux, I agree wholeheartedly that troubleshooting Linux issues can be a PITA for this very reason. If I investigate an issue and determine the problem the user experienced is a library version incompatibility they haven't always been very happy.
Or, according to the Massachusetts driver's manual you could have your license suspended because you owe child support, haven't paid your Massachusetts income tax, or made a payment to the RMV [Registry of Motor Vehicles] that didn't go through (page 7 in the PDF) or if you're convicted of a drug offense or vandalism (operation of a motor vehicle not required -- page 10) or if you have unpaid parking tickets, were cited for an abandoned vehicle, or had an outstanding warrant (page 17.) How would those offenses indicate you're an unsafe driver?
That seems to be a lot of exceptions to cover with "Generally."
The liquid limit is to prevent the now-well-known binary explosive/incendary problem. You have one water bottle filled with hydrogen peroxide and one water bottle filled with something else nasty - the choices are many and a lot of them are quite stable at room temperature. There is virtually no way to filter all of this stuff out by any scanning or even dipstick testing method.
You want to bring that drink onto the plane? Fine. Take a swallow and take a seat in this liquid waiting area for half an hour. [After all, the guideline is for you to arrive at the airport two hours prior to your flight for security screening, isn't it?] If you're fine after that, we'll let you into the main waiting area.
Since the "formula" was disclosed a few years ago anyone with half a brain knows how to do it now. I am surprised it hasn't been used in a bank robbery or other totally home-grown effort.
So what do they do at the front of the line with any liquids you may have brought that are over the limit? The last time I flew (which admittedly was several years ago) I think they just dumped them in a trash can. How much damage could such a binary compound do to a long line of people waiting for their turn to be screened? If they were really that concerned, they'd treat the liquids as hazardous materials.
The only way everyone is going to truly safe from terrorists on planes/trains/buses is if all passengers spend the entire ride naked and handcuffed to their seats.
Nope. One (easy) way to get explosives past the TSA is inside a body cavity.
Unconscious and inside individual cubicles that serve as Faraday cages to prevent remote detonation.
If the author still claims his software is original, he should release the source code to the panel under an NDA strictly for the purposes of evaluation.
Except that would open the members of the panel up to potential future claims that they plagiarized from Rybka. They should have an independent third-party, one that does not write chess engines, audit the three software programs under NDA and return an analysis of how likely it is that Rybka includes code from the other engines (a la SCO vs. IBM.)
Or, more simply, cover any unused USB ports with a red sticker saying DO NOT USE. If you remove/break the sticker, you'd better have a damn good reason for doing so.
when I read the title. I pictured the Wikimedia Foundation getting into the dating site market with some sort of Wiki-dating site (www.wikimatch.com) where people could edit the profiles of those with whom they had dates to offer commentary/feedback/pictures/etc. Or maybe something a bit more NSFW.
I can picture so many ways this could be (and will be) abused; as a (perhaps mild but still cruel) example picture getting a group together to send Beer "love" to a recovering alcoholic.
Spamhaus is fighting this judgment for some of the same reasons IBM fought SCO -- if Spamhaus showed that it wouldn't defend itself against one spammer, them they'd be inundated by other spammers looking to kill Spamhaus through a thousand paper cuts (lawsuits.) Even if Spamhaus spent ten times the amount of the judgment on the appeal, if they win and it prevents a hundred other similar lawsuits it would be worth it.
That's where you are wrong. The 3-strikes, laws we keep hearing about would never pass in the US so easily.
Until some Senator or Representative that's been bought... er I mean to whose campaign the RIAA or MPAA contributed generously... slips it into a 1500 page "flags for orphans of members of the armed forces killed in action" bill right next to the hundred other "trivialities" that other members of Congress have stuffed into the bill 15 minutes before the vote.
If their client wants them to do something that in the lawyer's expert opinion isn't illegal and is willing to pay them to do so, why shouldn't they even if it's futile?
One of the benefits of testing in Dallas is that is already a common occurrence to be cut off by someone driving 100 mph on a wet road while flailing wildly and screaming obscenities out the window.
... while cutting across three lanes of traffic to get to an exit ramp 1/4 mile ahead.
I assume they will include an override (at least for the trials) that cuts the automated systems out of the loop (returning full control to the drivers) in case the automation fails or someone starts interfering with it. I would be surprised if their lawyers didn't insist upon it.
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I wonder how strong a relationship there is between blood glucose level and the amount of energy these produce. If there is a measurable difference when you go outside the recommended BG range, you could hook the fuel cell to a sensor and warn the diabetic patient to take the appropriate action (eat something sugary or take some insulin) if the current indicates a BG level outside the recommended range.
It could mean an end to measuring using lancets and testing strips to test blood external to the body. In fact, if there was a way to expend (or store) the excess power the fuel cells could be used instead of or in addition to insulin to correct a high blood sugar level.
Web sites are easy to change.
Force them to change something that's been published by the government in hard copy and widely distributed. Google Translate didn't do all that great a job translating the text of the legislation, but I think there's a cap on the amount of money the retraction can cost. However, in an edit war (particularly if you get a large number of people involved so that they can't just reuse something they've already printed) that could cost some serious money and time.
Better yet, find some piece of legislation that mentions a person by name (you know, something similar to this "feel good" bill from the US Senate honoring a girls Little League team) and demand they change it. Would that make the changed text into law? I don't know, but it would be an interesting question for the courts.
5 years for the first pass.
10 years for the second pass.
20 years for the third pass.
50 years for each subsequent pass.
That way, even a law that seems obviously like a good idea can be reevaluated or revised if circumstances change. Suppose for example that we developed the technology to clone a deceased person and copy over the memories from their original brain. That would allow people to perhaps "recover" from being murdered. Would the punishments proscribed by law for murder need to change? Perhaps we would want to consider punishing more severely "murdering someone and destroying their brain" (irrecoverable death) than simply "murdering someone and leaving their brain intact" (recoverable death.) In my opinion that would be an obvious change to the law against murder rather than a separate law, and at the next "checkpoint" the law could be so modified..
Hopefully it doesn't run Skype, since "I told you never to call me on this wall! This is an unlisted wall!"
If many of those UNCO bugs are "My internet is broken" they should be easy to close out. Put in some sort of boilerplate, like:
"Mozilla Firefox simply displays web pages that you retrieve from the Internet using your connection to your Internet Service Provider (or ISP) which is the company you pay for Internet service. The problem you reported appears to be related to an issue with the connection between your computer and your ISP. We have no control over that connection, so there is no way that we could fix the problem even if we knew the cause. Please contact your ISP's Technical Support staff [perhaps with a link to the N most common support numbers] for assistance with this problem."
Will some of the people come back with "No, I want YOU to fix it"? Sure. Would this resolve a decent fraction of those "fix my internet" bugs? I think so. Create the same sort of boilerplate for the most common N bugs-that-aren't-bugs or bugs-that-aren't-bugs-in-Firefox and you should be able to cut down on the noise. Then you can concentrate on the signal.
"You fell victim to one of the cl***ic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.'"
Genesis 7:21-23 states:
So it doesn't matter how many descendants Adam and Eve had -- after the Flood, humanity was (canonically, if you take Genesis literally) down to a population of 8. Those eight were Noah, his wife, their three sons, and their sons' wives according to Genesis 7:13:
Could you get as much genetic diversity starting with 8 people (five of whom, at least, were related by blood) in a short period of time?
As someone that has worked for 10 years at a software company whose software is supported on Linux, I agree wholeheartedly that troubleshooting Linux issues can be a PITA for this very reason. If I investigate an issue and determine the problem the user experienced is a library version incompatibility they haven't always been very happy.
Or, according to the Massachusetts driver's manual you could have your license suspended because you owe child support, haven't paid your Massachusetts income tax, or made a payment to the RMV [Registry of Motor Vehicles] that didn't go through (page 7 in the PDF) or if you're convicted of a drug offense or vandalism (operation of a motor vehicle not required -- page 10) or if you have unpaid parking tickets, were cited for an abandoned vehicle, or had an outstanding warrant (page 17.) How would those offenses indicate you're an unsafe driver?
That seems to be a lot of exceptions to cover with "Generally."
Merging Obama's health care reform plan with the TSA?
No, there's NO POSSIBLE WAY that could end badly, is there?
Razor-wielding crazy man? He made it on the plane.
Now now, it's not nice to call MythBuster Adam Savage a "razor-wielding crazy man."
The liquid limit is to prevent the now-well-known binary explosive/incendary problem. You have one water bottle filled with hydrogen peroxide and one water bottle filled with something else nasty - the choices are many and a lot of them are quite stable at room temperature. There is virtually no way to filter all of this stuff out by any scanning or even dipstick testing method.
You want to bring that drink onto the plane? Fine. Take a swallow and take a seat in this liquid waiting area for half an hour. [After all, the guideline is for you to arrive at the airport two hours prior to your flight for security screening, isn't it?] If you're fine after that, we'll let you into the main waiting area.
Since the "formula" was disclosed a few years ago anyone with half a brain knows how to do it now. I am surprised it hasn't been used in a bank robbery or other totally home-grown effort.
So what do they do at the front of the line with any liquids you may have brought that are over the limit? The last time I flew (which admittedly was several years ago) I think they just dumped them in a trash can. How much damage could such a binary compound do to a long line of people waiting for their turn to be screened? If they were really that concerned, they'd treat the liquids as hazardous materials.
The only way everyone is going to truly safe from terrorists on planes/trains/buses is if all passengers spend the entire ride naked and handcuffed to their seats.
Nope. One (easy) way to get explosives past the TSA is inside a body cavity.
Unconscious and inside individual cubicles that serve as Faraday cages to prevent remote detonation.
If the author still claims his software is original, he should release the source code to the panel under an NDA strictly for the purposes of evaluation.
Except that would open the members of the panel up to potential future claims that they plagiarized from Rybka. They should have an independent third-party, one that does not write chess engines, audit the three software programs under NDA and return an analysis of how likely it is that Rybka includes code from the other engines (a la SCO vs. IBM.)
Or, more simply, cover any unused USB ports with a red sticker saying DO NOT USE. If you remove/break the sticker, you'd better have a damn good reason for doing so.
when I read the title. I pictured the Wikimedia Foundation getting into the dating site market with some sort of Wiki-dating site (www.wikimatch.com) where people could edit the profiles of those with whom they had dates to offer commentary/feedback/pictures/etc. Or maybe something a bit more NSFW.
I can picture so many ways this could be (and will be) abused; as a (perhaps mild but still cruel) example picture getting a group together to send Beer "love" to a recovering alcoholic.
Spamhaus is fighting this judgment for some of the same reasons IBM fought SCO -- if Spamhaus showed that it wouldn't defend itself against one spammer, them they'd be inundated by other spammers looking to kill Spamhaus through a thousand paper cuts (lawsuits.) Even if Spamhaus spent ten times the amount of the judgment on the appeal, if they win and it prevents a hundred other similar lawsuits it would be worth it.
Put your phone on vibrate and step outside if you get a message you need to check.
That's where you are wrong. The 3-strikes, laws we keep hearing about would never pass in the US so easily.
Until some Senator or Representative that's been bought ... er I mean to whose campaign the RIAA or MPAA contributed generously ... slips it into a 1500 page "flags for orphans of members of the armed forces killed in action" bill right next to the hundred other "trivialities" that other members of Congress have stuffed into the bill 15 minutes before the vote.
Spoilers.
They're not dead, they're just ...
(sunglasses) ...
pining for the fjords of Bad Wolf Bay.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
(Doctor) Who are you? Who? Who? Who? Who?
If their client wants them to do something that in the lawyer's expert opinion isn't illegal and is willing to pay them to do so, why shouldn't they even if it's futile?
One of the benefits of testing in Dallas is that is already a common occurrence to be cut off by someone driving 100 mph on a wet road while flailing wildly and screaming obscenities out the window.
... while cutting across three lanes of traffic to get to an exit ramp 1/4 mile ahead.
Massachusetts says hi :)
I for one welcome our human-sized-hamster-ball-driving overlords.
I assume they will include an override (at least for the trials) that cuts the automated systems out of the loop (returning full control to the drivers) in case the automation fails or someone starts interfering with it. I would be surprised if their lawyers didn't insist upon it.