Posts by Captain Save-a-ho

Obamacare will accelerate the jump

I'm close friends with the IT director of several clinics in my hometown and he's really sweating bullets to make sure they meet the coming wave of HIPAA compliance, especially the "fully digital" requirement to allow records to move freely move between providers/doctors. Nice to have for the patient, until the patient has to cover that cost.

Gov't regulation always results in the same thing: The regulated industry doesn't pay for anything...they purely pass those costs along to the consumer. And there's no nice way to sugar-coat it. At least in prison, you get sold for cigarettes first.

Not familiar with?

Look around and the number of idiotic, religious fucktards on the interweb before making such a comment outloud...

@ AC 10:45 GMT

If you have any lick of sense, you'd realize how hard it is to build an electric car. The sheer weight of the batteries alone makes most mainstream designs infeasible as purely electric cars. Yes, the electric car designs are dreadful, but concept cars generally are.

Since you're so smart, go knock on the door of your nearest auto plant and offer your own design up. Or, better yet, start your own car manufacturer and put everyone else out of business. Otherwise, STFU.

May be impossible...

but consultants will be die trying to ensure their pockets are well-lined with fat Gov't money, bless 'em.

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Re: Listen to the naysayers

Such a monumental achievement. I'm sure Davinci would be proud, until he saw the fucking car pulling the thing to get it going.

Epic fail.

Not so sure

Since we were talking more hot air, I figured it had to be Jatravartid clerics spouting about the Great Green Arkleseizure. Nothing but further proof of the Coming of the Great White Handkerchief.

Rednecks in Oregon?

You might be a redneck if you're south of the Mason/Dixon line. Can you even be a redneck where snow regularly falls in Winter?

@Steven Knox 15:09 GMT

Finally, a proper use of the egghead symbol and a well-reasoned, but lucid explanation of the situation. Post of the week.

Re: But only one of them

With (mostly) all apologies to El Reg, media outlets aren't "fair and balanced", not more than any other field. Even scientific pursuits are tainted by politics (and not just Global Climate Change, or whatever it's called now).

Frankly, I was more shocked that the guy is still living...there's a heart attack waiting to happen. Lay off the McDonald's and Starbucks, buddy.

Bullhorn, obviously...

I was laughing...

until I read that it took them four years to prep for the takedown...more tax dollars "hard at work".

Re: Volts circulating?

You can easily withstand 220 volts, so long as we're talking about extremely low amperage. Hell, make it 1000000 volts. It's the amps that will turn you into a tasty meal for the local cannibals (or taoists...i'm sure that boast was down the line once he ran out of other lies to propagate).

Only always

Especially when you're trying to upsell the general public to support a frivilous technology from which you'll be able to greatly profit and for which you can extort large lump sums from both sides (those peddling the kit and those wishing to remain at large).

More likely...

that he was there studying booze and poon-tang. This is an American university, after all. Have to maintain those standards.

Calling bullshit,,,

We don't need software to policy software. Vote with your dollars and stop supporting bad code. Look what that did to Vista. Intel will find out what it is doing to McAfee, which is a company with a big share in its industry, yet without an edge on any of its competitors.

There is no amount of reasoning that makes this deal make sense.

More information

Despite the reservations of some, Google is still your friend when you require input...

The result is well worth it...one of my favorites. Thanks to RichardB for the reminder.

Ahem...

Actually, I was going to say that one in the hand is better than two in the bush, but I can't really say if the ladies would agree.

Mines the one with the peep-hole in the front...

RTFM is always the last step

Couldn't agree more, though placing your hand on an area concealed by plastic can hardly have the same level of attenuating effect that results from directly bridging opposite ends of an antenna. The simplistic magnitude of Apple's problem is only dwarfed by their devout denial that such a problem exists. Perhaps SJ is a scientologist?

Read the response closer

Despite the actions Apple will take to ensure end-users are happy, Steve Jobs still can't admit that the phone design is flawed as demonstrated by objective testing from multiple, respected, technical publications.

I'm not generally a fan of Apple and I do ultimately think they are doing the right thing. But it's also unbelieveably self-absorbed and pompous to say that you'll rectify the situation and then, in the same breath, denounce that any situation exists at all. And there's no way to justify that, whether you're a hater or a fanboi.

Wrong outcome

"Burn it all now, I say, it's the only way we can be sure to avert a new ice-age."

This is the polar opposite of the self-centered environmentalist movement, though the result is the same. In both cases, there's an assumption that humankind can, somehow, prevent another shift from the current mild temperatures we've experienced over the last several eons to yet-another-ice-age. That concept is not just self-centered and self-aggrandizing, it's just plain stupid. Humans do and and will not ever have the technology to prevent the major climate shift of this planet, at least until we can reasonably control the orbit of the Earth, tilt of Earth's axis, and solar output. You'd have to at least be able to moderate the Sun's radiation output to get a handle on the climate, and even that probably wouldn't be enough.

It's no wonder that alien races in the movies are always trying to wipe us out. We think far too highly of ourselves, which is one of the few areas I agree with Christianity.

Re: What a waste

"The only MS software we ever use is Word and Powerpoint."

Unless your department is using Macs, I'll suggest there's more MS software under the hood...

Here's what it always takes

Skeptic or not, any truly scientific research must be reproducible and open to peer review. CRU failed on both accounts. Personally, I consider myself a skeptic, but not because I don't want to believe in a human cause for climate change. I'm a skeptic because I don't just believe what I'm told, but want to examine facts for myself (as much as I have the ability to).

In the case of the Climate Change debate, anyone willing to stand up with a hypothesis has to be prepared for skepticism on all fronts, including for, against, and neutral to Global Climate Change. That's not the view of a person wanting to push a political agenda (which is really the problem with the current debate). That's the view of the topic through glasses tinted with the Scientific Method. Without an open debate of all parts of the study (assumption, data collection, interpretation, revise assumptions, and repeat over and over again), there is no real debate, just people spouting political rhetoric in hopes of being heard over the rest of the idiots in the crowd.

Didn't stick the landing

Agreed with you completely up to the ending. If you really think it's just Republicans that have constituents like Raytheon, L3, and McDonnell-Douglas, you really aren't in touch with reality. There's not a damn difference between either political party, as both want more government, less freedom, and bigger checks from the PACs.

Not sure how you can call any of the them "the enemy", either. That's nearly as outlandish as the "big brother" hype coming from the media on this NSA business.

That's really low you SOB

And salute you for it, sir!

Popuplation control?

So, the first step is world-wide domination, so we can enforce our rules on who lives and who dies. Then, we just to decide on the criteria for our systematic depopulation procedures, whether based on age, race, geography, money, etc. The hardest part will be determining what method to use for the depopulation procedures.

/sarcasm

Not the first step

The first step occurred years ago, with the introduction of filters for browsers and proxies, based on safelists, blacklists, etc. Just because there's now a XXX TLD to filter on doesn't mean all of that other filtering goes away. Introducing this is no more tantamount to censorship than McDonald's offering salads makes them a health-foods store.

Not a Urethra display

That will be iUrethra, thank you very much.

Fiber to the Premises

Until FTTP or FTTH connections become available in your neighborhood, don't count on it. Even this announcement (mostly) assumes fiber optics for transmissions (the copper specs don't permit more than 10m for 100GBASE-CR10 connections). It's a safe assumption that all that copper used for local loops won't ever likely support much more than 6Mbps unless you're super-close to your Telco central office (less than 1km).

Re: AC @ 10:50

"Apple have no obligation to ensure that every browser (which btw don't all support HTML5, not fully, not at all, not in the same way because it's a fucking unratified standard) demos this site."

You're right. But, in support of an open standard, they DO have an responsibility to adhere to the standard itself and NOT include some douche-bag Javascript hack intended to force people to use Safari. Are all of you people really THAT confused about the definition of the word "OPEN"?

And how appropriate that you chose the FAIL icon. Ah, sweet irony.

Au contraire

Mike, if someone were to give you a newspaper and tell you that there's a libelous article on page 7, would you sue them for defamation? That's the same principle.

I have two major problems with the logic used in the decision:

1. While I'm not aware of the legal definitions involved, I know that public communications (i.e. publication) and private communcations are not the same thing, in realistic terms. How does sending a private email affect the general public opinion of someone to the point of defamation?

2. Intent is virtually impossible to discern when the actions are not so self-evident. For example, striking another person in the head with a lead pipe is pretty clear cut intent. Can the same really be said for including a link to an article in an email? How can you know the article was read and understood by the sender? How many times have you or someone you've known sent an article to a friend just from reading the headline or abstract? Not sure there's any way to clearly know the intent of the emailed link without more actions to demonstrate things clearly.

It's still possible that the state laws in use in the case provide for wider interpretation, but that a tremendous shame if it turns out to the case. And there's absolutely nothing fair about a ruling based on incorrect notions of what is public and what is clear intent.

Proof of the impending idiocracy

"I personally know MANY people that are holding out on an iPhone for two things"

I was really doubting this until I saw that you capitalized MANY. Glad 3 people are waiting for a non-AT&T + video-chat iPhone. If those features were what people wanted, they would already be buying phones that have those features. Instead, people are buying a phone that has 1254 Fart applications. Just keep watching the Fuddruckers sign for the spelling changes...

@AC 16:09 GMT

"They don't 'deliver growth' - the sales guys do that."

Ah, so you aren't familar with the former EDS then? I left HP in November and I can assure you that the sales fail regularly until engineers rectify the situation. If I had only been there 3 months, I might agree with you. But I did my three years and can't believe I stayed past 3 months with the constant "deal saving" that goes on.

If sales knew what the feck they were doing, it wouldn't be an issue. But instead, they overpromise and underdeliver, which is the EDS (and now HP) SOP.

@ Blain Hamon

Excellent point! And that's what hundreds of years of the history of science teaches us (where's James Burke when you need him?!?) that seemingly unrelated research and discoveries lead the to some of the most amazing advances in medicine, technology, physics, etc. They don't test on humans because most people would get REALLY freaked out it. Instead, they test on snails, rats, fruit flies, and other assorted species because only PETA and other wackos (i.e. ALF) get upset about that.

Medical science would not exist except for the decades of animal testing that has contributed to the quality of life we all now enjoy.

The iPad is a computing device "for the rest of them"?

Not sure you really understand what a computing device is supposed to be, but the iPad isn't that. It's a media-consumption device, right along side your TV, Blu-ray player, and iPod. Given the predictable, quick fade of passion for the iPad (beginning of the end already?), it might be better classified as a toy, which is exciting and beloved by children for all of two seconds before they become bored with it.