I saw an interesting discussion on the news just now about selectively disabling mobile data networks within a geographic area. I was sure the emergency services had that capacity for mobile calls already (allowing emergency calls nothing else).
It could be effective and if time limited (a "mobile data curfew") not prevent the positive sides of social media seen - such as the clean up groups and somethingniceforashran done at home/during the day. You're effectively limiting the ability of the groups already at the riot to organise and move themselves.
A few days ago my account was suddenly suspended - with vague references to breaking T&Cs. I had done nothing new with the account bar signing up to Google+ and was using my real name for the profile. ALL my Google services were blocked (at the account level).
I submitted a query and the following day the account was reinstated - again without explanation of what had happened or why. While that is obviously a 'good thing' the lack of explanation means I have no way of knowing if it will happen again.
It is completely bass-ackwards for them to lock access to one service on the basis of your apparent - unproven, inexplained - indiscretions on another. It would be a simple situation to resolve - flagging the service as disabled not the user - if they wanted to.
Stopped me recommending Google+ to anyone anyway. It now gets a "don't bother you might lose your account".
Either way, it seems like having a back-up system, ready to be up in only a few hours with frequent tests, would be something the group should look into.
A backup system was in place - a paper one. I worked in an ambulance control and a paper-only system was in place and tested monthly in case of complete power/system failure.
It sounds scarily old fashioned but if well thought out paper backups are perfectly effective - and resilient.
Have you seen the BT adverts for the iPhone4 with that guy out of My Family using FaceTime to share moments with his wife? Including being at an amateur football match in a field...when FaceTime requires an active WiFi connection.
Don't let facts get in the a nice advert!
Seriously though, this will continue until people go to the Advertising Standards Agency about it. They're actually pretty responsive, if everyone affected by this complained you would likely see an effect.
Lastly, humans, like other primates, are herbivores.
This is quite wrong. Humans are omnivores, as are a number of other primates including Capuchins. Tarsiers are obligate carnivores (that is, they *only* eat meat). Chimpanzees even eat other primates.
Seriously, the majority of other posts on this thread just demonstrate what is depressingly wrong with the majority of the Slashdot audience. It's just endless rehashing of opinions without recourse to a) reality b) context or c) TFA.
Half the comments here could have been posted on any Wikileaks thread going. No insight, no relevance, yet modded 'Insightful' and 'Informative' based on how they agree to individuals existing point of view.
Not sure if you're getting the parents point (apologies if you are, I might be misunderstanding you!)
Original speed = 10s load time 2x as fast (100% improvment) = 5s (5 second improvement) 2x as fast again = 2.5s 2x as fast again = 1.25s 2x as fast again = 0.625s (0.625 second improvement)
So the longer it goes on the less actual improvement 100% represents - and less noticeable. I think its difficult to judge the value of these results without absolute times.
In your defence it's also much harder as an individual vs. a team or even duo of entrepreneurs. Everyone doubts themselves/their idea from time to time and it's times like that you need someone to back you up.
It's also no coincidence that most big successes are built on two people - one with a focus on technical, on with the bigger picture. Tearing yourself in both directions is a recipe for stress - time spent on one aspect is time not spent elsewhere.
Don't be too hard on yourself - perhaps you could have given it 'more' perhaps you would have lost your wife/family?
Really curious what your idea is now - care to share ( drop an email if you prefer? martin.fitzpatrick@gmail.com )
I worked in an ambulance control and each dispatch desk had mobile phones available to be used as neccessary - I used one to communicate by text with someone stuck up a mountain with a mobile phone running out of charge.
I can see how in a school shooting it would be useful for the caller to communicate without speaking (giving away their location) but I would maintain that a voice call should be initiated first. Even if the caller is not speaking background audio provides valuable situational awareness.
How many of the texts sent in the incident that prompted this would be classified as useful? If a 911 text asks for help, without mentioning the shooting/gunman (people neglect to mention the most bizarre things in emergency situations) you've just brought the shooter more targets.
Plus text-only would be pranked to hell. I wouldn't want to be the one charged with reading what came through on that service.
You're assuming of course that the debt is actually owed.
A few years back I was contacted by O2's (mobile phone operator) debt collection agency to inform me that I was being taken to court (with a date set) for an unpaid sum of £7.25. This was the first attempt made to contact me by the company about a debt - and I hadn't been a customer of theirs for over 5 years on a pay as you go plan.
Contacting O2 resulted in being told "the debt has been passed to our collections agency you need to speak to them" while telling the agency I did not owe the money received the expected response of "we cannot confirm that; the debt has been passed to us and you must pay it regardless" along with various threats of the amount I would end up paying if I did not pony up the £7.25. Being stubborn (or stupid) I refused to pay. Thankfully I had been uncharacteristically diligent and had paperwork of the account covering ending of the service which made the agency realise they weren't going to win if it went to court and they no longer wanted a part of it. Back to O2 and 5 months of beating them over the head with "if you are sure I owe this money then you must be able to explain what I was charged for" and they finally cleared the debt as a "courtesy".
Granted this is (hopefully) an unusual case - but it cost me a not inconsiderable amount of wasted time effort and stress - regardless of the actual amounts involved. Imagine if on top of this the agency had been sending what amounts to unsubstantiated gossip to associates online. Friends/family perhaps would hopefully give you the benefit of the doubt - work colleagues perhaps not so much.
There is real risk of defamation of character here - the attitude you display towards those who carry debts just goes to prove how damaging such accusations could potentially be.
I think people are arguing from two different set of assumptions. Either:
i) The virus can mutate to avoid this mechanism but it has not done so. For example the mechanism may be ineffecient or at the level expressed by the host is not detrimental as to prevent successful replicative lifecycle. Perhaps mutation will lower the viruses 'fitness' in other domains.
ii) The virus cannot mutate to avoid this mechanism (unlikely, but possible if it's in a key regulatory pathway or adaptor molecule for cell entry). If this is the case the question is then why has the host not increased expression of these mechanisms.
I think the OP assumed the latter - as in, it's a natural mechanism and so the virus has no defense - but this is not necessarily true. It could simply be that *until now* it has not been in the viruses interest to invest this energy and potential loss of viability (in other ways) to avoid this mechanism. Once we add a further selection pressure via this mechanism it could suddenly become very advantageous to do so. It is worth noting that RNA viruses are ridiculously variable even within a single host and can just as easily select off any adaptation once we stop treatment.
In either case, it's a useful and interesting discovery but it's too early to champion or dismiss it as a treatment just yet.
While this is interesting as a 'what is going on here' question the jump to a conclusion about a link to the donor is completely unwarranted. A donor recipient is so far removed from a normal immune state and so potentially variable as to be more or less useless. What is the incidence of nut allergy in the general population? What proportion of transplant recipient with transplants from non-nut allergy sufferers go on to suffer allergies (this is previously reported - not to mention autoimmune diseases, cancers)? Is the incidence any higher in those receiving it from sufferers of nut allergy sufferers versus non-nut allergy sufferers?
But that said - this still has more content (with the right links) than 90% non-Idle posts. Can we stick the iPhone posts in Idle and get this stuff on the main feed?
1. Set up business selling things (ebay, whatever) 2. Tag everything you sell 3. Presumably a percentage of this stuff will be stolen 4. It finds its way back to you 5. Sell it on ebay
It's funny you mention the bin collection information as I was going to make a comment here to that effect. I have moved from one area of Birmingham to a nearby one and went to the site to find out the local bin collection times. It went something like this...
Find my local area page on the site Local services Refuse collection
This does not tell me anything about local refuse collection but instead lists general information about what the council will collect and their 'priorities'
Follow a small link to local collection times Enter my postcode (forget that I got to this page via a page about my local area)
I can't even remember if I got what I was looking for.
There are so many pages of text that serve no purpose other than to fill up a page that someone has decided should be in there. People go to a council website for very few and very specific reasons - the content and navigation of the site should reflect that. It reminds me of the xkcd comic with the university homepage content - what people are looking for vs. what is available.
Thanks for the link to the community site it'll be a useful first stop in future.
Instead, zoom in on an image of the footprint and extract the fingerprint of the worker that made the sole. Feed this into the international shoe-maker database to get a positive ID on who did the shoe. Find out he/she works and get the batch numbers of the soles made and consult the FBI shoe distribution database to see where they ended up. Get CCTV footage from the store showing the correct shoe type being sold. If the customer faces are obscured get extra CSI brownie points by using a reflection in a well polished shoe. Analyse the walking patterns of the customer as they leave the store, create an extraneous 3D model, then match the gait to the crime scene by the weight distribution in the original print. You now have your suspect.
Bring them in for questioning and they will undoubtedly confess dramatically under minimal interrogation. For extra CSI brownie points record the confession via the refraction of light in their own fake tears. Create an extraneous 3D model.
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I saw an interesting discussion on the news just now about selectively disabling mobile data networks within a geographic area. I was sure the emergency services had that capacity for mobile calls already (allowing emergency calls nothing else).
It could be effective and if time limited (a "mobile data curfew") not prevent the positive sides of social media seen - such as the clean up groups and somethingniceforashran done at home/during the day. You're effectively limiting the ability of the groups already at the riot to organise and move themselves.
A few days ago my account was suddenly suspended - with vague references to breaking T&Cs. I had done nothing new with the account bar signing up to Google+ and was using my real name for the profile. ALL my Google services were blocked (at the account level).
I submitted a query and the following day the account was reinstated - again without explanation of what had happened or why. While that is obviously a 'good thing' the lack of explanation means I have no way of knowing if it will happen again.
It is completely bass-ackwards for them to lock access to one service on the basis of your apparent - unproven, inexplained - indiscretions on another. It would be a simple situation to resolve - flagging the service as disabled not the user - if they wanted to.
Stopped me recommending Google+ to anyone anyway. It now gets a "don't bother you might lose your account".
A backup system was in place - a paper one. I worked in an ambulance control and a paper-only system was in place and tested monthly in case of complete power/system failure.
It sounds scarily old fashioned but if well thought out paper backups are perfectly effective - and resilient.
Have you seen the BT adverts for the iPhone4 with that guy out of My Family using FaceTime to share moments with his wife? Including being at an amateur football match in a field...when FaceTime requires an active WiFi connection.
Don't let facts get in the a nice advert!
Seriously though, this will continue until people go to the Advertising Standards Agency about it. They're actually pretty responsive, if everyone affected by this complained you would likely see an effect.
http://www.militarybudget.info/WorldwideSpending.html
http://www.militarybudget.info/WorldwideMilitaryExpenditures.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States#Budget_Breakdown_for_2011
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/01/06/Gates-Shrinking-budget-means-fewer-troops/UPI-42921294353456/?dailybrief
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http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/TLSF/theme_a/mod02/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/index.shtml
This is quite wrong. Humans are omnivores, as are a number of other primates including Capuchins. Tarsiers are obligate carnivores (that is, they *only* eat meat). Chimpanzees even eat other primates.
Mod parent up.
Seriously, the majority of other posts on this thread just demonstrate what is depressingly wrong with the majority of the Slashdot audience. It's just endless rehashing of opinions without recourse to a) reality b) context or c) TFA.
Half the comments here could have been posted on any Wikileaks thread going. No insight, no relevance, yet modded 'Insightful' and 'Informative' based on how they agree to individuals existing point of view.
Sad.
This looks pretty good?
Not sure if you're getting the parents point (apologies if you are, I might be misunderstanding you!)
Original speed = 10s load time
2x as fast (100% improvment) = 5s (5 second improvement)
2x as fast again = 2.5s
2x as fast again = 1.25s
2x as fast again = 0.625s (0.625 second improvement)
So the longer it goes on the less actual improvement 100% represents - and less noticeable. I think its difficult to judge the value of these results without absolute times.
Which commandment? This isn't stealing by any legal definition.
Or did you mean the one about coveting your neighbours ass?
In your defence it's also much harder as an individual vs. a team or even duo of entrepreneurs. Everyone doubts themselves/their idea from time to time and it's times like that you need someone to back you up.
It's also no coincidence that most big successes are built on two people - one with a focus on technical, on with the bigger picture. Tearing yourself in both directions is a recipe for stress - time spent on one aspect is time not spent elsewhere.
Don't be too hard on yourself - perhaps you could have given it 'more' perhaps you would have lost your wife/family?
Really curious what your idea is now - care to share ( drop an email if you prefer? martin.fitzpatrick@gmail.com )
Maybe it's a multiplier?
I think it's a fair judgement that a crime committed for profit is worse than one committed out of curiosity. Less communist, more egalitarian.
I worked in an ambulance control and each dispatch desk had mobile phones available to be used as neccessary - I used one to communicate by text with someone stuck up a mountain with a mobile phone running out of charge.
I can see how in a school shooting it would be useful for the caller to communicate without speaking (giving away their location) but I would maintain that a voice call should be initiated first. Even if the caller is not speaking background audio provides valuable situational awareness.
How many of the texts sent in the incident that prompted this would be classified as useful? If a 911 text asks for help, without mentioning the shooting/gunman (people neglect to mention the most bizarre things in emergency situations) you've just brought the shooter more targets.
Plus text-only would be pranked to hell. I wouldn't want to be the one charged with reading what came through on that service.
You're assuming of course that the debt is actually owed.
A few years back I was contacted by O2's (mobile phone operator) debt collection agency to inform me that I was being taken to court (with a date set) for an unpaid sum of £7.25. This was the first attempt made to contact me by the company about a debt - and I hadn't been a customer of theirs for over 5 years on a pay as you go plan.
Contacting O2 resulted in being told "the debt has been passed to our collections agency you need to speak to them" while telling the agency I did not owe the money received the expected response of "we cannot confirm that; the debt has been passed to us and you must pay it regardless" along with various threats of the amount I would end up paying if I did not pony up the £7.25. Being stubborn (or stupid) I refused to pay. Thankfully I had been uncharacteristically diligent and had paperwork of the account covering ending of the service which made the agency realise they weren't going to win if it went to court and they no longer wanted a part of it. Back to O2 and 5 months of beating them over the head with "if you are sure I owe this money then you must be able to explain what I was charged for" and they finally cleared the debt as a "courtesy".
Granted this is (hopefully) an unusual case - but it cost me a not inconsiderable amount of wasted time effort and stress - regardless of the actual amounts involved. Imagine if on top of this the agency had been sending what amounts to unsubstantiated gossip to associates online. Friends/family perhaps would hopefully give you the benefit of the doubt - work colleagues perhaps not so much.
There is real risk of defamation of character here - the attitude you display towards those who carry debts just goes to prove how damaging such accusations could potentially be.
...is it Open Sores?!
I think people are arguing from two different set of assumptions. Either:
i) The virus can mutate to avoid this mechanism but it has not done so. For example the mechanism may be ineffecient or at the level expressed by the host is not detrimental as to prevent successful replicative lifecycle. Perhaps mutation will lower the viruses 'fitness' in other domains.
ii) The virus cannot mutate to avoid this mechanism (unlikely, but possible if it's in a key regulatory pathway or adaptor molecule for cell entry). If this is the case the question is then why has the host not increased expression of these mechanisms.
I think the OP assumed the latter - as in, it's a natural mechanism and so the virus has no defense - but this is not necessarily true. It could simply be that *until now* it has not been in the viruses interest to invest this energy and potential loss of viability (in other ways) to avoid this mechanism. Once we add a further selection pressure via this mechanism it could suddenly become very advantageous to do so. It is worth noting that RNA viruses are ridiculously variable even within a single host and can just as easily select off any adaptation once we stop treatment.
In either case, it's a useful and interesting discovery but it's too early to champion or dismiss it as a treatment just yet.
Thankyou.
While this is interesting as a 'what is going on here' question the jump to a conclusion about a link to the donor is completely unwarranted. A donor recipient is so far removed from a normal immune state and so potentially variable as to be more or less useless. What is the incidence of nut allergy in the general population? What proportion of transplant recipient with transplants from non-nut allergy sufferers go on to suffer allergies (this is previously reported - not to mention autoimmune diseases, cancers)? Is the incidence any higher in those receiving it from sufferers of nut allergy sufferers versus non-nut allergy sufferers?
But that said - this still has more content (with the right links) than 90% non-Idle posts. Can we stick the iPhone posts in Idle and get this stuff on the main feed?
Evil masterplan (sorry, no ????)
1. Set up business selling things (ebay, whatever)
2. Tag everything you sell
3. Presumably a percentage of this stuff will be stolen
4. It finds its way back to you
5. Sell it on ebay
Who said crime doesn't pay?
Where do you go clubbing? 1990?
A beard?
It's funny you mention the bin collection information as I was going to make a comment here to that effect. I have moved from one area of Birmingham to a nearby one and went to the site to find out the local bin collection times. It went something like this...
Find my local area page on the site
Local services
Refuse collection
This does not tell me anything about local refuse collection but instead lists general information about what the council will collect and their 'priorities'
Follow a small link to local collection times
Enter my postcode (forget that I got to this page via a page about my local area)
I can't even remember if I got what I was looking for.
There are so many pages of text that serve no purpose other than to fill up a page that someone has decided should be in there. People go to a council website for very few and very specific reasons - the content and navigation of the site should reflect that. It reminds me of the xkcd comic with the university homepage content - what people are looking for vs. what is available.
Thanks for the link to the community site it'll be a useful first stop in future.
I heard that the founding fathers RTFA
Who needs a database of shoe types?
Instead, zoom in on an image of the footprint and extract the fingerprint of the worker that made the sole. Feed this into the international shoe-maker database to get a positive ID on who did the shoe. Find out he/she works and get the batch numbers of the soles made and consult the FBI shoe distribution database to see where they ended up. Get CCTV footage from the store showing the correct shoe type being sold. If the customer faces are obscured get extra CSI brownie points by using a reflection in a well polished shoe. Analyse the walking patterns of the customer as they leave the store, create an extraneous 3D model, then match the gait to the crime scene by the weight distribution in the original print. You now have your suspect.
Bring them in for questioning and they will undoubtedly confess dramatically under minimal interrogation. For extra CSI brownie points record the confession via the refraction of light in their own fake tears. Create an extraneous 3D model.
...is that you?!