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by m104 16y ago
After reading the law, I'm either missing the part where data has to be encrypted in all databases or (more likely) the article is misleading. As I read it, the data in question has to be encrypted during transmission (SSL, no big deal) or
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by m104 16y ago
Someone watched "Avatar" or "V," I see... In all seriousness, the possibility of harmful alien contact is quite real and should be taken into consideration by the scientific community. That said, I think it's much more important (and hopef
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by m104 17y ago
Right, I want to be clear: I'm not saying cars don't accelerate on their own. In your case, you had an actual mechanical problem and did the right thing which prevented a tragedy. I knew a Ford Taurus owner with that sort of problem, as w
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by m104 17y ago
Excellent link! I've been looking for a term to stand in place of "we're not allowed to blame ordinary people for ordinary problems," and I think O'Rourke's term "blameless citizenry" is exactly that term.
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by m104 17y ago
I've had a Toyota suddenly accelerate while I was driving it: http://blog.m104.us/2010/03/07/my-toyota-suddenly-accelerate... Bottom line, this isn't an engineering issue or some big coverup in need of Senate hearings. This is a whole gr
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by m104 17y ago
Also, this (again, from the article) is just bizarre: "At present, most of our audiovisual info is stored in sophisticated compression formats. If, or when, the format becomes obsolete, you’ve got a painful conversion project on your hands.
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by m104 17y ago
This kind of article rings hollow with me since it seems like some company out there is always complaining about not finding just the right cog to fit in their machine. Yes, the great candidates are few and far between, but it's not like c
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by m104 17y ago
Much praise to the Google Chrome team for handling this sort of thing gracefully.
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by m104 17y ago
Agreed. All of this focus on vaccines has put quite a lot reputations on the line, on both sides of the debate. Once the matter is settled (will it ever be settled?), I'm concerned that we'll have autism burn-out and it'll be nearly impos
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by m104 17y ago
My (biotech) employer largely solves this issue by keeping a copy of the formal research specs outside of software altogether. All validation documents and research data are kept in paper form (in addition to digital form) in such a way th
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by m104 17y ago
I think you're not using the author's definition of "stupid" (an aggregate behavioral mode) but instead the more commonly understood meaning (lacking in intelligence or knowledge). I really don't want to be misquoted with an article of thi
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by m104 17y ago
> He can call but can't receive calls, sms, ... Very odd So, in essence, your friend has a malfunctioning phone. How many iPhone 3GS devices are out there now? Over a million? Given that some portion of the stock will be defective,
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by m104 17y ago
I liked the part where he neglected to mention any possible benefit of the current arrangement or the fact that many of us have no problem with actually being required to type well and remember stuff.
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by m104 17y ago
To those who may think that a lack of scientific understanding by the general population is not of significant concern, I know of no better quotation than the following: "We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profound
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by m104 17y ago
See, I was going to agree with the headline until I read the article. I was thinking along the lines of a data warehouse version of Mathematica with distributed processing and web front end and RPC/REST and all of that. No, the author want
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by m104 17y ago
Can't wait to tell my grandkids (in 40 years) about the iPhone app gold rush "back in aught nine."
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by m104 17y ago
It's a known problem, but not a cause for concern: http://www.hanford.gov/rl/?page=671&parent=666 The worst that will happen is that an emergency/safety system will be tripped accidentally. The workaround is to mask the EPROM windows
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by m104 17y ago
From the perspective of the patients in this type of research and "treatment," I think you are correct. Looking at the effect on science and knowledge as a whole, however, the observer-expectancy effect is quite damaging and is not a myste
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by m104 17y ago
Oh, we definitely understand number 4 now. All scientists and researchers should be aware of the observer-expectancy effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer-expectancy_effect Wikipedia also briefly covers the debunking of the Belfa
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by m104 18y ago
It's not really a new business model or anything, but the simple idea (which some companies successfully implement) that some portion, say 30%, of the organization's net profit of each pay period is divided up by the number of workers (non-
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by m104 18y ago
What's so wrong with simple profit sharing? The only place I've worked at (or even heard of, for that matter) that implemented a form of true profit sharing was Outback Steakhouse. Servers got tips, so are exempt, but hosts, cooks, and bu
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by m104 18y ago
Isn't hiring based on a "salt test," uh, dogma?