I don't suppose there's any data yet about how much energy it takes to compost a corpse, but at least you're getting *something* of value at the end. I'd like to think that I'm giving something back after a lifetime of consumption.
At what point is it OK to eat anything, then? There's going to be some form of human and other animal residue in any soil that's cultivated for food crops. It might be the farmer dropping a deuce out in the paddock because he/she couldn't be bothered going back to the farmhouse, miles away. It could be skin flakes and sweat, it could be bird droppings, a decomposing snake or rat. I'm not dissing your beliefs, I would really like to know where you draw the line.
Although there's bound to be some accumulated heavy metals and other toxins (for want of a better word) in a human corpse, there's also bucketloads of nutrients. This is a worthwhile experiment, and I'm keen to see the results.
P.S. humans are fit for consumption by lots of things, from bacteria, through worms, all the way up to sharks and crocodiles.
on domestic computers. AVG in particular just seems to let malware through - advertising scams, mostly, although once it was ransomware.
It's particularly annoying that I can't deactivate them to run other scanners to remove the crap they've allowed in. Anti-malware should NOT install and run under the SYSTEM account.
Or there's Niven's idea of a fusion ramjet. Endless marginal acceleration, using enormous magnetic fields to funnel tenuous interstellar hydrogen into a usable density.
Apart from having to carry a reserve, it's self-fuelling. Of course, shielding the cargo/passengers from the radiation would be an issue, but it's an idea worth pursuing, perhaps even modelling in software.
Wow - I've never had combofix break anything except the malware it's designed to remove. Occasionally it will fail to remove something.
I usually go for ADWcleaner if it's just scammy "tune your PC" nonsense, but if it's "your PC is infected, call this number to fix it" I'll use combofix. I'll use JRT but only as a backup if I suspect the others haven't worked.
Haven't had much success with hitmanpro, but adwcleaner, JRT, and combofix work quite well, EXCEPT that combofix still hasn't been updated for Windows 8.1 or 10. I'm starting to get nervous as more Win 10 users call for help. Combofix is a really remarkable tool, but I hope it gets clearance for Win 10 soon.
Your point is valid, but that's a technical hurdle, and it *can* be made as safe and reliable as technically possible. Even today, you could make it reliable with 2-factor authentication, perhaps a "confirm" your vote with a return email or SMS. Provide a voting portal that tar-pits any IP attempting to send more than 1 vote per minute, etc, etc.
I would be more concerned about voting being non-compulsory. The extremists and single-issue whack-job organisations will get their members all fired up to vote, and like happens now, the result will be skewed towards the interests of those people who care enough to vote, and does *not* represent the true will of the people as a whole.
I've told my daughter that hairdressing is not a career option. Have you smelled some of the "product" they use? It becomes clearer with a little research - coaltar or benzine-derivative hair dyes. Doing your own hair once in a while - fine. Exposing yourself daily to that stuff *has* to have an effect.
I taught my oldest kid how to develop film and I will do the same with my younger kids as they get old enough to appreciate it. To me, there is some cool about making pictures with chemicals.
That's great, and you're right about the magic - it's breathtaking watching the image appearing on your B&W paper as it sits in the developer bath. Please tell me you and your kids wear gloves while working - I had instructors with metol poisoning from too much bare hands processing, and they were insistent on us using gloves while working with photo chemicals.
Ain't it just? I pulled one of my best ones out of storage a while ago, just to stare at it.
A 5x4 ektachrome of a red rose on black velvet.
The notch code tells me it was Ektachrome 200 Pro 6176, but I must have shot it under tungsten with a daylight filter, probably an 80A. Looks like a single overhead lamp with a reflector or soft fill in front of the petals.
So, some person buys a designer dress, and he/she (let's not judge) wants to brag, so takes a picture and puts it on facebook/instagram - "Look how pretty I am!", and BOOM! Takedown notice.
How will shops advertise these "classic designer" items, either first sale or subsequent sale/s? Presumably a first-sale situation will come with a licence to display photos in ads in glossy magazines, but what about high-end second-hand shops? Will they have to seek a licence, too? If they're not allowed to advertise, isn't that a restraint of trade?
That brings to mind another horrible thought. If you want a licence to play music in a commercial venue, you pay a fee to a collections agency - is there going to be a new collections agency for fashion and furniture, and another representative group like the *IAA organisations?
If they let an unpaid intern anywhere near a high-def unencrypted copy of the film, they deserve what happened.
Seriously (all discussion of the quality of the film aside), if you'd invested tens of millions of dollars into a product that you hoped would make you a profit, and that relied on it NOT BEING LEAKED prior to cinema release, would you let an unpaid intern have access to it?
That's what I'd like to know. If their production facilities are even halfway decent and documented, it shouldn't be difficult to pinpoint the person who did this.
I mean, DCPs are generated requiring a decryption key, so it must have been leaked before that stage.
Was it a review copy? Identification via steganography comes to mind. Forget visible or digital watermarks, they can be masked or removed. Each review copy could have a subtle modification that can't be removed or masked, even by re-encoding - there are hundreds of scene cuts in action films - if each review copy has one scene shortened or lengthened by 5 or 10 frames, it would serve to identify the copy that was leaked without being obvious. 5 frames is about one-fifth of a second - no-one could identify this without having another copy to compare it with.
Most mainboards have the driver disc included - although the driver disc also has "value-added" crapware. I mostly use Gigabyte boards - you just have to install the drivers individually, rather than let the disc's autorun install everything.
90-day trial of Norton Internet Security? Thanks, but no thanks.
A car collision is a circumstance that requires reporting nearly 100% of the time. This is what you agree to when you use your license to drive. Not something that started today.
Not where I live. I'm only obligated to call the police if there's been injury to a person. If someone runs up my tail, we're supposed to stop (safely), make sure no-one's hurt or in danger of imminent hurt, exchange names, addresses, and insurance companies, make sure the vehicles are drivable, and then go our separate ways, or call for a tow if the vehicle is undrivable. The police do not want to know unless someone's been hurt, or (for example) you suspect the other driver/s have been drinking.
There's a IMHO good scene in either "The Mote in God's Eye" or the sequel where the protagonists are fleeing a pursuer, who is firing a laser at them. It's at a great distance, so the beam has spread, and IIRC there's insufficient fuel to dodge it, so they would be "bathed in that green glare for hours". The laser was causing the ship to heat up, with some device working hard to dump the heat, and a brief respite where they are able to hide in shadow for a while. I like it because it uses a simple limit (not enough fuel) to create tension in the story, i.e. it doesn't handwave sufficient fuel to avoid the problem.
The distance/beam spread/fuel to dodge scenario is plausible to me, although I started asking "if the beam is spread/attenuated so far as to make dodging it unviable, how much energy is it able to dump into the fleeing ship, and just how powerful is it at the source, and what size of ship would be necessary to house such a laser and its power supply.
I don't think there was anything in the manual detailing how to deal with that particular series of events.
Sooner or later a combination of events will occur that will be outside the envelope of the crew's training or their ability to respond effectively.
The aircraft was landed safely, and not a single life was lost. If you're prepared to risk your life to bare-minimum and cut-rate maintenance, and inadequately trained pilots, go with a budget airline. If you want maximum confidence that you'll arrive in one piece, spend the money on a Qantas fare.
Maybe in raw CPU transactions, but it's not really a valid comparison. A Pi can't support sub-second response times for multiple users - I have one, I tried to see how many remote terminal sessions it could cope with. Realistically, it was one..... single, uno, ein.
Minicomputers weren't bought for their blazing top speed, they were bought to cope with the types of workload that came with having multiple remote sessions, big databases, and overnight batch runs, e.g. payroll.
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Cremation takes a LOT of energy:
https://www.quora.com/How-much...
And it's not "clean":
http://faculty.virginia.edu/me...
I don't suppose there's any data yet about how much energy it takes to compost a corpse, but at least you're getting *something* of value at the end. I'd like to think that I'm giving something back after a lifetime of consumption.
At what point is it OK to eat anything, then? There's going to be some form of human and other animal residue in any soil that's cultivated for food crops. It might be the farmer dropping a deuce out in the paddock because he/she couldn't be bothered going back to the farmhouse, miles away. It could be skin flakes and sweat, it could be bird droppings, a decomposing snake or rat. I'm not dissing your beliefs, I would really like to know where you draw the line.
Although there's bound to be some accumulated heavy metals and other toxins (for want of a better word) in a human corpse, there's also bucketloads of nutrients. This is a worthwhile experiment, and I'm keen to see the results.
P.S. humans are fit for consumption by lots of things, from bacteria, through worms, all the way up to sharks and crocodiles.
What's not to like about Zardoz? It's got a flying stone head that vomits guns!
on domestic computers. AVG in particular just seems to let malware through - advertising scams, mostly, although once it was ransomware.
It's particularly annoying that I can't deactivate them to run other scanners to remove the crap they've allowed in. Anti-malware should NOT install and run under the SYSTEM account.
Or there's Niven's idea of a fusion ramjet. Endless marginal acceleration, using enormous magnetic fields to funnel tenuous interstellar hydrogen into a usable density.
Apart from having to carry a reserve, it's self-fuelling. Of course, shielding the cargo/passengers from the radiation would be an issue, but it's an idea worth pursuing, perhaps even modelling in software.
I'd mod you up if I hadn't used all my points.
Wow - I've never had combofix break anything except the malware it's designed to remove. Occasionally it will fail to remove something.
I usually go for ADWcleaner if it's just scammy "tune your PC" nonsense, but if it's "your PC is infected, call this number to fix it" I'll use combofix. I'll use JRT but only as a backup if I suspect the others haven't worked.
Haven't had much success with hitmanpro, but adwcleaner, JRT, and combofix work quite well, EXCEPT that combofix still hasn't been updated for Windows 8.1 or 10. I'm starting to get nervous as more Win 10 users call for help. Combofix is a really remarkable tool, but I hope it gets clearance for Win 10 soon.
Your point is valid, but that's a technical hurdle, and it *can* be made as safe and reliable as technically possible. Even today, you could make it reliable with 2-factor authentication, perhaps a "confirm" your vote with a return email or SMS. Provide a voting portal that tar-pits any IP attempting to send more than 1 vote per minute, etc, etc.
I would be more concerned about voting being non-compulsory. The extremists and single-issue whack-job organisations will get their members all fired up to vote, and like happens now, the result will be skewed towards the interests of those people who care enough to vote, and does *not* represent the true will of the people as a whole.
The last quote in the headline got me:
"A lot of them grew up with PC gaming and water cooling right in their living room," said a Colovore executive.
Face, meet palm. Although it's good to know I can cross Colovore off the list of datacentre candidates.
I've told my daughter that hairdressing is not a career option. Have you smelled some of the "product" they use? It becomes clearer with a little research - coaltar or benzine-derivative hair dyes. Doing your own hair once in a while - fine. Exposing yourself daily to that stuff *has* to have an effect.
I taught my oldest kid how to develop film and I will do the same with my younger kids as they get old enough to appreciate it. To me, there is some cool about making pictures with chemicals.
That's great, and you're right about the magic - it's breathtaking watching the image appearing on your B&W paper as it sits in the developer bath. Please tell me you and your kids wear gloves while working - I had instructors with metol poisoning from too much bare hands processing, and they were insistent on us using gloves while working with photo chemicals.
Ain't it just? I pulled one of my best ones out of storage a while ago, just to stare at it.
A 5x4 ektachrome of a red rose on black velvet.
The notch code tells me it was Ektachrome 200 Pro 6176, but I must have shot it under tungsten with a daylight filter, probably an 80A. Looks like a single overhead lamp with a reflector or soft fill in front of the petals.
I miss those days.
I miss the 5x4 Cambo and Sinar cameras I used at photography school.
Nothing like setting up for an hour or two, for three exposures - measured, 1 under, and 1 over.
I still wish I could get a digital back for my RB67 that didn't cost $14K - yes, fourteen thousand dollars.
So, some person buys a designer dress, and he/she (let's not judge) wants to brag, so takes a picture and puts it on facebook/instagram - "Look how pretty I am!", and BOOM! Takedown notice.
How will shops advertise these "classic designer" items, either first sale or subsequent sale/s? Presumably a first-sale situation will come with a licence to display photos in ads in glossy magazines, but what about high-end second-hand shops? Will they have to seek a licence, too? If they're not allowed to advertise, isn't that a restraint of trade?
That brings to mind another horrible thought. If you want a licence to play music in a commercial venue, you pay a fee to a collections agency - is there going to be a new collections agency for fashion and furniture, and another representative group like the *IAA organisations?
If they let an unpaid intern anywhere near a high-def unencrypted copy of the film, they deserve what happened.
Seriously (all discussion of the quality of the film aside), if you'd invested tens of millions of dollars into a product that you hoped would make you a profit, and that relied on it NOT BEING LEAKED prior to cinema release, would you let an unpaid intern have access to it?
That's what I'd like to know. If their production facilities are even halfway decent and documented, it shouldn't be difficult to pinpoint the person who did this.
I mean, DCPs are generated requiring a decryption key, so it must have been leaked before that stage.
Was it a review copy? Identification via steganography comes to mind. Forget visible or digital watermarks, they can be masked or removed. Each review copy could have a subtle modification that can't be removed or masked, even by re-encoding - there are hundreds of scene cuts in action films - if each review copy has one scene shortened or lengthened by 5 or 10 frames, it would serve to identify the copy that was leaked without being obvious. 5 frames is about one-fifth of a second - no-one could identify this without having another copy to compare it with.
DecNet - shudder, twitch. A trigger warning would have been nice. Now I need to go to my safe space.
Most mainboards have the driver disc included - although the driver disc also has "value-added" crapware. I mostly use Gigabyte boards - you just have to install the drivers individually, rather than let the disc's autorun install everything.
90-day trial of Norton Internet Security? Thanks, but no thanks.
trying to run it under Virtual Box.
A car collision is a circumstance that requires reporting nearly 100% of the time. This is what you agree to when you use your license to drive. Not something that started today.
Not where I live. I'm only obligated to call the police if there's been injury to a person. If someone runs up my tail, we're supposed to stop (safely), make sure no-one's hurt or in danger of imminent hurt, exchange names, addresses, and insurance companies, make sure the vehicles are drivable, and then go our separate ways, or call for a tow if the vehicle is undrivable. The police do not want to know unless someone's been hurt, or (for example) you suspect the other driver/s have been drinking.
There's a IMHO good scene in either "The Mote in God's Eye" or the sequel where the protagonists are fleeing a pursuer, who is firing a laser at them. It's at a great distance, so the beam has spread, and IIRC there's insufficient fuel to dodge it, so they would be "bathed in that green glare for hours". The laser was causing the ship to heat up, with some device working hard to dump the heat, and a brief respite where they are able to hide in shadow for a while. I like it because it uses a simple limit (not enough fuel) to create tension in the story, i.e. it doesn't handwave sufficient fuel to avoid the problem.
The distance/beam spread/fuel to dodge scenario is plausible to me, although I started asking "if the beam is spread/attenuated so far as to make dodging it unviable, how much energy is it able to dump into the fleeing ship, and just how powerful is it at the source, and what size of ship would be necessary to house such a laser and its power supply.
Now I'll have to go and re-read those books.
Sadly, there are a million things that can go wrong on any/every flight and it's impossible to train for all of them.
Yep. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I don't think there was anything in the manual detailing how to deal with that particular series of events.
Sooner or later a combination of events will occur that will be outside the envelope of the crew's training or their ability to respond effectively.
The aircraft was landed safely, and not a single life was lost. If you're prepared to risk your life to bare-minimum and cut-rate maintenance, and inadequately trained pilots, go with a budget airline. If you want maximum confidence that you'll arrive in one piece, spend the money on a Qantas fare.
It ain't cheap, but it's the best you'll get.
Maybe in raw CPU transactions, but it's not really a valid comparison. A Pi can't support sub-second response times for multiple users - I have one, I tried to see how many remote terminal sessions it could cope with. Realistically, it was one..... single, uno, ein.
Minicomputers weren't bought for their blazing top speed, they were bought to cope with the types of workload that came with having multiple remote sessions, big databases, and overnight batch runs, e.g. payroll.
You're not ignorant. Pascal sucks.