It's really time to put a stop to the abuse of public infrastructure to benefit what were once highly regulated monopolies (i.e. Edison and Ma Bell).
Municipalities should seize every telephone pole and lamppost for the public good.
I want to tell Maps 'from Hartford CT to Baltimore MD via the Tappan Zee Bridge'.
Dragging the blue line is a pain, and usually ends up with a corkscrew at some point.
This paper has a pretty thorough analysis of igniting cryogenic fuels by the force of cavitation, that is, collapsing of bubbles that could, for example, form from the interaction of super-chilled LOx and LOx condensed from the atmosphere.
You don't need a bullet, or a ray gun, or even a rock to ignite cryo fuels under the right circumstances.
The shockwave from the failure of a pipe or weld could be enough to ignite the fuel.
after all, it is a story of government oppression of the individual rights,
Individual rights? This is government regulation of fraudulent medical testing. Maybe you don't care if your liver function/blood sugar/HIV test might be correct, but I do.
That must be a pretty nice rock you just crawled out from under.
For someone with such a low slashdot ID, you must not check in very often; just searching Slashdot for "theranos" returned 10 articles since 2013.
Holmes' spectacular rise and fall was the punchline of a joke in the season finale of HBO's Silicon Valley, so even Hollywood writers know who she is/was.
In my USA experience, it's not the actual 4-6 seconds that my chip card transactions take,
it is the sluggish and confusing UIs on the terminals that fail to immediately note the card is present,
then appear to go blank, then display a poorly drawn "do not remove the card" splash,
which was obviously an afterthought added when the terminals were put in front of actual users.
The UI problems are obvious, as everywhere I go there are hand-drawn warnings and instructions taped to the terminals, because the device itself isn't clear or obvious.
That's why a well-thought UI like Apple Pay appears effortless in comparison.
And *why* is the chip slot located at the bottom of these terminals, at a weird angle almost parallel to the counter?
The hand motion required to position the card is uncomfortable and out of my sightline.
Why isn't there a "dip" slot at the top of the terminal, where the card could be inserted vertically?
'Compatible' chips that report FTDI's USB Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID). That way, they don't have to actually write their own driver and get it approved by MS.
So, when Windows interrogates the device, it appears to be FTDI, so Windows loads the FTDI driver.
That driver makes an undocumented call that only genuine FTDI chips will respond to correctly, so the driver can tell whether a knockoff part is attached.
Other legit serial chip makers use their own PID/VID, so it's not an issue with TI, Silabs, etc., only with 'Best Lucky Interface Ltd' parts.
At the moment, the big US banks are rolling out "chip and sign", where you slide the card into a reader, but sign with a digital pen rather than enter a PIN.
From a security standpoint, it's no better than the mag-swipe and sign system, as nobody verifies the signature anyway.
The character of Dr. Smith was added after everyone involved realized there wasn't enough dramatic tension to carry it more than a few episodes.
In the first episode with Dr. Smith, he is quite malevolent, later his character was reduced to just lazy coward.
"The tragedy of the commons is a term, probably coined originally by William Forster Lloyd and later used by Garrett Hardin, to denote a situation where individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource." -- Wikipedia
The answer is penalize the highest demand users based on the normalized usage of the entire group. If you're using more bandwidth than say, +3 standard deviations from the mean of all users, pay a surcharge. If you're using less than -3 SD, thanks, have a credit.
A tank can be strong enough to hold its contents, but not withstand an earthquake.
Oil tanks have failed during several earthquakes.
Here is a presentation that calculates the risk based on tank construction and dimensions: https://idrc.info/fileadmin/us...
I'm quite familiar with how fracking is performed, and works. While fracking close to a fault is linked to earthquakes, the process of injecting waste into into a disposal well is much more likely to cause earthquakes than extraction from an oil recovery well.
USGS Cite: https://profile.usgs.gov/mysci...
Could we please begin to distinguish the activity of underground wastewater injection from fracking, the actual extraction of oil & gas?
As I understand it, the scientific consensus is that these earthquakes are the result of the former (which I consider the ultimate in 'sweeping under the rug'), not the latter.
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$60 for the Kindle edition? It's hard enough to slog through without having the nagging feeling you're being milked.
Ironically, I use Dyn's (216.146.35.35), with Google (8.8.4.4) as secondary.
It's really time to put a stop to the abuse of public infrastructure to benefit what were once highly regulated monopolies (i.e. Edison and Ma Bell).
Municipalities should seize every telephone pole and lamppost for the public good.
..that tech billionaires are a delusional bunch.
I want to tell Maps 'from Hartford CT to Baltimore MD via the Tappan Zee Bridge'.
Dragging the blue line is a pain, and usually ends up with a corkscrew at some point.
This paper has a pretty thorough analysis of igniting cryogenic fuels by the force of cavitation, that is, collapsing of bubbles that could, for example, form from the interaction of super-chilled LOx and LOx condensed from the atmosphere.
You don't need a bullet, or a ray gun, or even a rock to ignite cryo fuels under the right circumstances.
The shockwave from the failure of a pipe or weld could be enough to ignite the fuel.
Please be sure to always refer to this person as Cyrus Vance Jr., because his late father, Cyrus Vance, wasn't as big a schmuck.
Individual rights? This is government regulation of fraudulent medical testing. Maybe you don't care if your liver function/blood sugar/HIV test might be correct, but I do.
That must be a pretty nice rock you just crawled out from under.
For someone with such a low slashdot ID, you must not check in very often; just searching Slashdot for "theranos" returned 10 articles since 2013.
Holmes' spectacular rise and fall was the punchline of a joke in the season finale of HBO's Silicon Valley, so even Hollywood writers know who she is/was.
The UK didn't warn anyone!
In my USA experience, it's not the actual 4-6 seconds that my chip card transactions take,
it is the sluggish and confusing UIs on the terminals that fail to immediately note the card is present,
then appear to go blank, then display a poorly drawn "do not remove the card" splash,
which was obviously an afterthought added when the terminals were put in front of actual users.
The UI problems are obvious, as everywhere I go there are hand-drawn warnings and instructions taped to the terminals, because the device itself isn't clear or obvious.
That's why a well-thought UI like Apple Pay appears effortless in comparison.
And *why* is the chip slot located at the bottom of these terminals, at a weird angle almost parallel to the counter?
The hand motion required to position the card is uncomfortable and out of my sightline.
Why isn't there a "dip" slot at the top of the terminal, where the card could be inserted vertically?
How about we put the end-of-life first stages into orbit, and lash them together into orbital fuel depots?
..not buying Chinese crapware?
'Compatible' chips that report FTDI's USB Vendor ID (VID) and Product ID (PID). That way, they don't have to actually write their own driver and get it approved by MS.
So, when Windows interrogates the device, it appears to be FTDI, so Windows loads the FTDI driver.
That driver makes an undocumented call that only genuine FTDI chips will respond to correctly, so the driver can tell whether a knockoff part is attached.
Other legit serial chip makers use their own PID/VID, so it's not an issue with TI, Silabs, etc., only with 'Best Lucky Interface Ltd' parts.
http://www.instructables.com/c...
Then, each year, you can give him more parts to build the Analytical Engine.
Asshole builds AI. AI is an Asshole. Nature abhors a vacuum, so fills it with Asshole AIs.
More like "Hello, I am Steven of Homeland Security Directorate, ahh Department".
At the moment, the big US banks are rolling out "chip and sign", where you slide the card into a reader, but sign with a digital pen rather than enter a PIN.
From a security standpoint, it's no better than the mag-swipe and sign system, as nobody verifies the signature anyway.
The character of Dr. Smith was added after everyone involved realized there wasn't enough dramatic tension to carry it more than a few episodes.
In the first episode with Dr. Smith, he is quite malevolent, later his character was reduced to just lazy coward.
"The tragedy of the commons is a term, probably coined originally by William Forster Lloyd and later used by Garrett Hardin, to denote a situation where individuals acting independently and rationally according to each's self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource." -- Wikipedia
The answer is penalize the highest demand users based on the normalized usage of the entire group. If you're using more bandwidth than say, +3 standard deviations from the mean of all users, pay a surcharge. If you're using less than -3 SD, thanks, have a credit.
A tank can be strong enough to hold its contents, but not withstand an earthquake.
Oil tanks have failed during several earthquakes.
Here is a presentation that calculates the risk based on tank construction and dimensions: https://idrc.info/fileadmin/us...
I'm quite familiar with how fracking is performed, and works. While fracking close to a fault is linked to earthquakes, the process of injecting waste into into a disposal well is much more likely to cause earthquakes than extraction from an oil recovery well.
USGS Cite: https://profile.usgs.gov/mysci...
Could we please begin to distinguish the activity of underground wastewater injection from fracking, the actual extraction of oil & gas?
As I understand it, the scientific consensus is that these earthquakes are the result of the former (which I consider the ultimate in 'sweeping under the rug'), not the latter.
The only thing that could go wrong with this is... everything.
Yeah, that's what the Stasi thought, too.