I'm not an anti-isolation advocate, but let's be realistic. Social distancing is helping our medical community cope. That's it. The same number of people will die, whether it is all at once or spread over a year. What we are doing is allowing those that can be helped to have access the resources to be helped. It may improve the over-all numbers by some percentage points, but the overall tally will be close to the same.

My worry is that vendors of devices update the software for equipment that requires training. An OTA update WILL change how a device works.

Hospital staff may or may not notice, and then even if they notice, who has time to figure out which devices have changed their behavior.

The idiocy of this is that if the revenge poster slightly alters the image (resize, re-compress, slight quality change, etc) it changes the hashing.

"All your nub are belong to us"

That's an interesting article summary there.

Could this be the kind of response someone would give when misappropriation of money is found out.

So, the perfect tomato for volume production is also the perfect tomato for your salad? I suppose that might be true accidentally.

This analysis does not appear to be bell curve friendly. A few big scores would bring the average up. If this is where it ends up, there isn't a huge income from this activity.

In a utopia that neither you nor I exist, data and cars would be secure from hacking and bad design. Fly by wire is one thing. Abdicating all responsibility to a complex mechanism based closely on the IoT is a whole other thing.

It seems to me that in medicine, a lot of guesswork is involved at the patient/doctor interface. Additionally, there is a lot of need for trust between the physician and the snake oil vendors. I truly think there is plenty of snake oil in the chemistry industry regardless of the perception of due diligence. If this class presents a balanced view that makes some individuals in the medical industry more sensitive to the emotional well being and the the balance between chemistry and quality of life, I'm all for it.

My sister died after a second round of breast cancer. The first round was heavily chemical and sterile, and the second round was heavily homoeopathic and supportive. Even though she died as a result of the second round, I truly believe she felt better emotionally and spiritually during that course.

Officials will be retrieving the assets including and within spitting distance of the development and testing of the exploits in... three... two... one...

Most people are not aware that a perfect riffle shuffle on a deck of cards returns the deck to it's original state at eight shuffles. This means an assumption of imperfection for seven shuffles.

It is highly probabilistic that a perfect riffle shuffle never occur. It takes some effort to replicate to perfect shuffle.

It is better to get budget approval first (at any cost) and then fix it later with apologies.

I was in pest control from 1974 to 2000. With the wide ranging paranoia about chemicals in pest control and the philosophy of "integrated pest management", you can be sure that Pest Control operators would be clinging to this like a wet t-shirt if there was any beneficial use.

Just look at where you can get these things. There is huge money in installation of these devices in commercial establishments if the cost would justify the results. Yet, the only ones selling these things are the people who don't have to answer to the client month after month about why it isn't working.