The funny thing is that Amazon actually did this several years ago. Many of the CDs I had purchased via Amazon were added to my Amazon Music collection as mp3s, including CDs I purchased as gifts and gave away.
In the mid/late-90s, my university email address used the last 4 digits of my SSN, and they also had other systems that used the last 4 digits to verify your identity.
There is a learning method called Spaced Repetition, which involves repeatedly quizzing yourself, with a decreasing frequency as you learn them. So, if you always know the word for dog, you'll get that one less frequently than the one for cat that you have more trouble remembering.
When I was a kid in Catholic school, we could get extra credit by going to Spanish language Mass, and I did it a few times as an altar server. Even though I didn't really directly understand much of it, I knew all of my cues, etc, because I'd done it so many times in English.
Excess glucose doesn't cause diabetic ketoacidosis, but rather too little insulin. You can run high blood sugar for literally years without going into DKA (although it does damage your body). It's even possible in certain, rare circumstances to enter DKA with normal blood sugar.
Most insulin pumps are worn 24/7 or very close to it (some people will disconnect briefly when showering, plus switching out tubing/etc). Insulin pumps often use a faster acting type of insulin, so that within 3-4 hours, it's all gone, and from there, you quickly enter diabetic ketoacidosis. You can take it off for short periods of time if you make sure to dose for it or take shots periodically while you're disconnected.
Yes, dosages vary by your size, weight, gender, stress, and other factors. Part of type 2 diabetes is often insulin resistance, but people with type 1 can also suffer from it as well (although it's not the cause of type 1). Some people even need to use highly concentrated forms of insulin, ie U-500 instead of the standard U-100.
I guess it depends on how you define innovative. The iPad was unveiled in January 2010, and while there were other tablets before it, and it was similar to the iPhone, it has now started to replace a regular computer for many people.
You reach a point where if nearly everyone is blackmail-able for the same thing, that it stops becoming effective. If everyone is cheating on their spouse, then who is anyone to judge?
Not that the quality is great, but you can play a record with a needle and a paper cone. Obviously, figuring out that you need to spin it and play it is not necessarily an easy leap, but it doesn't require much in terms of actual technology.
They can also be used to avoid some geographic restrictions, although some services now actively look to block people on VPN. I used to watch new episodes of certain show about a time traveler live via the BBC website despite being in the US.
RAR was great at the time because it offered "solid" archiving like a tar/gz combo. Zip and ARJ both compressed at the file level rather than the archive level.
On #2, I think people may forget that prior to 9/11, the idea was to let the hijacker go where they wanted, as the passengers usually ended up safe due to cooperation. Even on the day of 9/11 itself, once passengers realized cooperating was going to get them killed, then fighting back gave them a higher chance of survival.
The 2016 Brussels bombing did involve explosives in the check-in area of the airport.
It depends on your threat level. If you're just trying to avoid phishing, it's great, something like 99.9% effective. However, if you're worried you'll be targeted, where someone will go through the effort to do this to you specifically, then it's not a good choice.
Obviously every Google product is different, but how many Google products have reached maturity only for Google to basically stop, and then eventually discontinue it after eliminating the competition in the interim?
Without ssl, someone could hypothetically intercept it, modify the instructions slightly, and lead you to installing something malicious. They could also do other things like inject javascript, etc.
A decade ago, my niece went in for pre-K testing, and the teacher showed her a list of animals, asking her to name them. Picture of a dog, spot. Picture of a cat, whiskers. Picture of a rabbit, hoppy, etc. The teacher tells her parents that she failed that section and needs to work on being able to identify animals. They point out to the teacher that she had asked her to name them, not identify them, and that's exactly what she did. Even now, she's a very smart, but very literal thinker, and it's fair to say it has caused her some conflict in school.
I've been following her adventure in this area. She kind of had to become an expert on it quickly when her own apartment decided they were switching to one of these systems, and there was no opt-out short of moving.
Not a corporation, but that is the structure for most major athletes and actors. Managers can make significant money, but if they're not taking advantage of their client, then it's usually less, sometimes significantly less.
Yes, the number of pump models that were hackable was extremely small, which made them extremely valuable to anyone looking to do this. The new work on the Omnipod should open this up to many more people who couldn't obtain an older (far out of warranty) pump.
I can see why they're targeting type 2's, as they may need more of a fixed insulin boost than full insulin replacement that I and other type 1's need. Part of the fun being type 1 is figuring out proper adjustments to your insulin dosages based on food, activity level, stress and other factors. It's a clever design, though, and may help some people stay more compliant with their treatment.
It's been a while since I've watched the movie, but I don't think they specifically needed transparent aluminum, but it's how Scotty paid for them getting what they needed. They didn't have money to pay for it, so this was a barter, the knowledge of how to make it for making them some.