Are you afraid of the whole "shoot out a window and Hollywood makes it seem as if the plane will empty itself via the hole" scenario? Mythbusters tested it. No, the plane doesn't explosively decompress, the passengers don't get sucked out the window. Basically, the results are "it's loud". Much more of a problem is that everyone's panicking and screaming because someone is shooting a gun.
Acupuncture can cause harm. It can make you go blind. If you put the needles in your retinas...
The problem is the air of legitimacy they get by being next to actual medicine. Now, if they labeled the aisle with a sign that reads "you must be this stupid to enter", at least I'd have some people to laugh at.
The label should be more clear: "SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING. this bottle contains nothing of value, and will not be effective at treating any disease or illness."
Lots of oddball "medicinal" practices have survived, not just homeopathy. For every disproving study of a nonsensical 'healing' practice, there is a quack profiting from it, and they don't want to lose their revenue stream. They scream loudly, they claim "persecution by the establishment", they hide behind tax havens or religious shelters, and they gather their flock.
I think it's kind of interesting how many of these insane ramblings have survived and are still practiced today.
Despite all the attraction that Sharknado and all the other jumping-the-carcharodon shows have received, they do have a few original sci-fi programs still on the air: Helix and Warehouse 13 come to mind; and while Haven may be a bit more paranormal, it kind of fits.
But if I never see a wrestler, sparkly emo vampyre, or ghoti hunter again, it'll be way way too soon.
Nothing sleazy about Riker, he simply misunderstood the mission statement - he thought they were out there to explore strange new whores.
...and eat all the food of every new civilization; to boldly go even when strapped into a nylon-web-reinforced-girdle.
Computer: make me a sammich!
The best part about this entire discussion is that the tools in question are IDEs, compilers, and editors. At no point in "putting them down" do they physically need to move from a higher elevation to a lower elevation. "Downing their tools" is already a metaphor.
Whoosh!
Or was that a daa-daa-daa-daa sound and Steve Austin jumping over your head in slow motion?
Because of the well-known maxim:
The faster you download, the bigger your penis gets
It's not the size of your bandwidth, but the motion of the torrents.
Because it's so simple to authenticate all parties to the broker. Now we've gone from trusting the merchant, the shopper, and the bank, to trusting the merchant, shopper, bank, and broker. That's the problem here: every solution that relies on trust instead of hardware cryptographic implementations is equally broken.
The smart cards in the EMV system are indeed the way to go, because they are issued by the bank, and your bank stores your account's secret in them. The bank's trust never leaves the bank's systems.
EMV limits fraud only to a person who physically has the card in their possession (and who knows the PIN, assuming your card requires a PIN.) As a customer, you don't have to trust that BigMart's cash register is paying the right company or not, because you're walking out the door with your paid-for stuff. BigMart's transaction security is BigMart's problem. You don't have to trust BigMart (or a hacker) to not steal your account number, because without the authentication coming from the smart chip, the bank should refuse any transactions. It doesn't even matter much if they steal your account number and your PIN, because without the chip they still can't recreate the authentication. And if a sophisticated hacker with an ion-beam manages to read the secret from the chip, it only violates your one card; not your other accounts, not someone else's account, and not the bank's master secret.
If we ever get there.
Yeah, someone else pointed that out, too. Thanks for keeping me honest.
And I did read somewhere there was an estimate of $145 for the camera hardware, and something like $45 for the additional installation. Quickly walking your numbers backwards, that pushes the value of a life to about $12 million.
It may be a touch high, but the victims are primarily toddlers, so it's likely going to be higher than the $6 million figure for the average person my state's DOT uses anyway.
No, these deaths are very preventable with a camera. The camera is incredibly easy to use, and intuitive. The screen is the way most people with them drive in reverse - it's not "check the screen and then use the mirror", it's "watch the screen while you back up". If anything, people with backup cameras don't look out the windows enough to check the rest of their surroundings.
I've seen aftermarket systems that place a small cell-phone-sized display in the rear view mirror. It lights up and is visible only when the car is in reverse. It doesn't require any re-engineering of the dashboard console. But since carmakers redesign their consoles annually, it shouldn't be much of a problem anyway.
Where do you live so I know never to go there.
Earth. It's populated with bad drivers. Don't go there unless you have to; bring your own towel if you do.
PURGE COMPLETE.
