Would you eat a highly reactive toxic metal that explodes when it touches moisture? How about eating a chemical weapon credited with hundreds of thousands killed on the battlefield? Because that's table salt, sodium chloride. Chemistry matters. One tiny drop of methyl mercury can absorb through neoprene gloves and jelly your brain as a leading mercury researcher found out the hard way, thimerisol locks up the mercury in a compound and isn't reactive with your body and is used in small amounts. Chemistry matters.
We already have seen what happens without net neutrality, Verizon, Comcast, and others have already throttled Netflix - the only difference is they were caught at a time when it wasn't legal. Now that it is legal, this kind of activity aimed at locking the consumer in and stripping their choices so they can increase profits and stop new competition is just going to expand. My reason for the very gradual changes are two fold. First, if every ISP started massively screwing customers day 1, there would be a massive blowback possibly undoing the whole thing. Far "better" to boil the frog slowly to avoid the backlash. Second, this only just went into effect and cases like this one, or if the senate flips blue, could undo it all. So ISP are approaching this cautiously. I can't think of a single time removing customer protections in the name of "companies are free to shaft steal and grift or treat customers right, so highly informed customers with tons of options will weed them out" ever worked for anyone but the shareholders of the few remaining borderline criminal enterprises.
Maybe the offending videos that actually broke TOS should be removed, and the process be transparent. Too many strikes, and the person be banned temporarily or perhaps permanently from posting new content - deleting accepted content retroactively seems sketchy. But as much as I hate alex jones, it's really too easy in my opinion for this to become a slippery slope. A handful of executives overseeing the vast majority of open social forums, able to move the goalposts with unilateral authority, deciding who stays and who goes strikes me as worse than government regulation. There is a strong argument for regulation, as much as I hate trump, for regulating social media as a utility as it has become such an integral part of society and there really isn't another Facebook or another YouTube. If government regulates it, it needs to be like a utility and open to free speech as per current laws of public speech. Shutting down people you don't like, left or right, just makes things worse - you counter shitty speech by debunking it or marginalizing the speakers by ignoring them but not directly silencing them. Alex jones became extremely popular after the banning, lending credibility that there is a deep state possibly of gay chemtrail frog lizard people that want him silenced, a striesand effect that was perhaps not intended.
Interesting fun fact, lithium cells, like the lipo ones used in phones, actually increase in size with charge. You can tell with either a micrometer (tricky because of the plastic case) or by fixing it in a vise and using a load cell. Samsung ran into problems by making the battery compartment too small and this caused problems. Not to be confused with the outgassing failed cells exhibit.
Lmafo no, you are confusing nicad/nimh charging with lithium. Lithium based batteries work strictly on voltage. Fancier circuitry that monitors current can be used for gas gauging to give a better %remaining but this dosent affect various safety cutoffs based on voltage. The problem with leaving your lithium device of any kind plugged in is lithium batteries of all types deteriorate faster when charged or over discharged. That's why lithium batteries are often stored at a low state of charge, to prswerve thier lifetime. Additionally, the hotter they get the faster they deteriorate, there are charging and discharging thermal limits manufacturers impose for safety. So leaving the unit plugged in and running all the time, a case and or warm temps make this worse, means your battery is degrading the fastest possible while remaining within specifications. This isn't a problem with 5 or 10 devices, nor is is a problem with 500 or 1000, but when you start talking 500,000 to 1,000,000 then you hit the statistical issues of fires. The types of lithium batteries used in all products are inherently unstable, no manufacturer is going to sell a million units and get off with no issues.
I'm glad your middle eastern monk thinking skills, surpassing Dr. Strange, exceed race car driving skills earned over decades of training reflexes. But for the normal humans, "simulating 2 or 3 ways of doing it" in the few tenths of seconds needed to act the right way just leads to an accident.
Double ironic, there is no need for abs to activate on dry pavement when the wheels did not not slip. You clearly have no knowledge but are confident nonetheless. Cheap ass systems are terrible and can actually cause accidents, such as in the case I outlined or when one side of the car is on good road and the other slipping such as in snow or gravel - yes you can steer but you lose so much braking power it's often dangerous. There have been safety recalls for particularly bad ones that even idiots couldn't handle. Though given how ignorant people are, yes it helps the complete idiots.
Professional drivers don't think in emergencies. You use muscle memory just like any other trained physical skill. If you don't already know what do do, and have done it 1000 times, thinking is likely to get you nowhere.
And yet idiots modded me down. If you buy the high end abs and tune it for racing, like rally racing, it actually can be better wth a professional. However the production abs in most cars is crap and anyone who can actually drive would do better without it. Same with traction control systems.
Automatic updates wors amazingly well. Why would you want to disable it? To use a computer anology. For the average user that dosent know what they are doing, even if they lost to Facebook every day, automatic updates left on is by far the best. I'd imagine most users of slashdot would be pissed, and rightfully so to not be able to disable updates and/or selectively download them.
Pretty much all spot on. If the best way to drive on slippery surfaces was to not slide the vehicle, dirt track racing like rally racing would be dramatically different.
Yes, for the highly inexperienced to "I don't think about it, or try to know my car" everyday driver production abs is better. But for anyone who actually knows how to drive, cheap abs systems suck and reduce performance. There have even been safety recalls for the worse ones. Don't take my word, here is someone who actually knows how to drive
A simple sensor on the suspension would have solved the crappy ABS from malfunctioning and increasing stopping distance, probably saved about $5 for all 4 wheels. You obviously know very little about cars, doubly so if you don't know the difference between applying torque with the drivetrain and using the brakes.
It depends on the ABS. I had a cheap system in my old car and hit a pothole as I was approaching an intersection on a dry sunny day. The ABS thought the car was slipping, because the wheel turned more than the others, and at the same time the car ahead stopped unexpectedly. The ABS came on for a full 2-3 seconds and my stopping distance was probably double dry pavement. This almost caused an accident in otherwise great conditions.
Same goes for traction control. If it's a quality system that controls the input torque to each wheel then it's actually great in snow or ice. But if it's a bargain system that applies the ABS to each wheel to regain control then it's garbage and a decent driver can do far better with it disabled. The WRX I drive now has such a garbage system that there is even a stock button to disable it.
The cost per metric ton of mg is around $4,600, total emissions are around 9.7 billion tons per year, with each metric ton of mg sequestering half a ton of CO2. So we would need 19.4 billion tons of mg per year yet we mine only 1.1ish million metric tons of magnesium. Making the mineral curb a significant amount of emissions is obviously infeasible unless we up our mining of mg 18 thousand times and spend 5x the GDP of the USA per year. Further it's not obvious how much natural mineral is easily mined in a state suitable for production and how much CO2 will be released mining and processing it. So if it takes.4 ton CO2 to mine, transport and manufacture 1 ton of the material, including reusing/making microbeads, in the study it's quickly going to be a losing prospect. Hopefully we can reduce our emissions as that is by far the easiest and most efficient way, rather than try to remove it afterward. Sequestration is great, and we need better technology, but I'm not holding my breath this particular process will wind up being the most efficient.
That's the whole problem, crypto currencies were "supposed" to be currencies and not an investment vehicle. Sure, people invest in the dollar, but the primary purpose for individuals is currency used to easily exchange for services and goods. The problem with many crypto currencies are the currency part - the difficulty, delay, and uncertainty (in value) of actually paying with them has held them back. Secure distributed ledgers sure seem like a likely future of currency but at this point it seems to me like it's a crap shoot which one, or even which type of structure will be dominant and a good 'investment'.
Correct, the egg obviously came first. Further, as chickens evolved from another species, at some point one might call a first chicken(s) being born (a neblous line to be sure) and they obviously hatched from an egg.
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Would you eat a highly reactive toxic metal that explodes when it touches moisture? How about eating a chemical weapon credited with hundreds of thousands killed on the battlefield? Because that's table salt, sodium chloride. Chemistry matters. One tiny drop of methyl mercury can absorb through neoprene gloves and jelly your brain as a leading mercury researcher found out the hard way, thimerisol locks up the mercury in a compound and isn't reactive with your body and is used in small amounts. Chemistry matters.
I meant to post congress and not senate. I should have learned by not not to post pre-coffee.
We already have seen what happens without net neutrality, Verizon, Comcast, and others have already throttled Netflix - the only difference is they were caught at a time when it wasn't legal. Now that it is legal, this kind of activity aimed at locking the consumer in and stripping their choices so they can increase profits and stop new competition is just going to expand. My reason for the very gradual changes are two fold. First, if every ISP started massively screwing customers day 1, there would be a massive blowback possibly undoing the whole thing. Far "better" to boil the frog slowly to avoid the backlash. Second, this only just went into effect and cases like this one, or if the senate flips blue, could undo it all. So ISP are approaching this cautiously. I can't think of a single time removing customer protections in the name of "companies are free to shaft steal and grift or treat customers right, so highly informed customers with tons of options will weed them out" ever worked for anyone but the shareholders of the few remaining borderline criminal enterprises.
Maybe the offending videos that actually broke TOS should be removed, and the process be transparent. Too many strikes, and the person be banned temporarily or perhaps permanently from posting new content - deleting accepted content retroactively seems sketchy. But as much as I hate alex jones, it's really too easy in my opinion for this to become a slippery slope. A handful of executives overseeing the vast majority of open social forums, able to move the goalposts with unilateral authority, deciding who stays and who goes strikes me as worse than government regulation. There is a strong argument for regulation, as much as I hate trump, for regulating social media as a utility as it has become such an integral part of society and there really isn't another Facebook or another YouTube. If government regulates it, it needs to be like a utility and open to free speech as per current laws of public speech. Shutting down people you don't like, left or right, just makes things worse - you counter shitty speech by debunking it or marginalizing the speakers by ignoring them but not directly silencing them. Alex jones became extremely popular after the banning, lending credibility that there is a deep state possibly of gay chemtrail frog lizard people that want him silenced, a striesand effect that was perhaps not intended.
It was both in the most infamous incident
True naysayers would remember they also remote wiped/denied access to 1984. That one was a little more on the nose.
Interesting fun fact, lithium cells, like the lipo ones used in phones, actually increase in size with charge. You can tell with either a micrometer (tricky because of the plastic case) or by fixing it in a vise and using a load cell. Samsung ran into problems by making the battery compartment too small and this caused problems. Not to be confused with the outgassing failed cells exhibit.
Lmafo no, you are confusing nicad/nimh charging with lithium. Lithium based batteries work strictly on voltage. Fancier circuitry that monitors current can be used for gas gauging to give a better %remaining but this dosent affect various safety cutoffs based on voltage. The problem with leaving your lithium device of any kind plugged in is lithium batteries of all types deteriorate faster when charged or over discharged. That's why lithium batteries are often stored at a low state of charge, to prswerve thier lifetime. Additionally, the hotter they get the faster they deteriorate, there are charging and discharging thermal limits manufacturers impose for safety. So leaving the unit plugged in and running all the time, a case and or warm temps make this worse, means your battery is degrading the fastest possible while remaining within specifications. This isn't a problem with 5 or 10 devices, nor is is a problem with 500 or 1000, but when you start talking 500,000 to 1,000,000 then you hit the statistical issues of fires. The types of lithium batteries used in all products are inherently unstable, no manufacturer is going to sell a million units and get off with no issues.
Who is chris?
A connoisseur of fine rice wine?
From History of the World Part I
Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting
King Louis XVI : You said it. They stink on ice.
I'm glad your middle eastern monk thinking skills, surpassing Dr. Strange, exceed race car driving skills earned over decades of training reflexes. But for the normal humans, "simulating 2 or 3 ways of doing it" in the few tenths of seconds needed to act the right way just leads to an accident.
Double ironic, there is no need for abs to activate on dry pavement when the wheels did not not slip. You clearly have no knowledge but are confident nonetheless. Cheap ass systems are terrible and can actually cause accidents, such as in the case I outlined or when one side of the car is on good road and the other slipping such as in snow or gravel - yes you can steer but you lose so much braking power it's often dangerous. There have been safety recalls for particularly bad ones that even idiots couldn't handle. Though given how ignorant people are, yes it helps the complete idiots.
Professional drivers don't think in emergencies. You use muscle memory just like any other trained physical skill. If you don't already know what do do, and have done it 1000 times, thinking is likely to get you nowhere.
And yet idiots modded me down. If you buy the high end abs and tune it for racing, like rally racing, it actually can be better wth a professional. However the production abs in most cars is crap and anyone who can actually drive would do better without it. Same with traction control systems.
Automatic updates wors amazingly well. Why would you want to disable it? To use a computer anology. For the average user that dosent know what they are doing, even if they lost to Facebook every day, automatic updates left on is by far the best. I'd imagine most users of slashdot would be pissed, and rightfully so to not be able to disable updates and/or selectively download them.
Pretty much all spot on. If the best way to drive on slippery surfaces was to not slide the vehicle, dirt track racing like rally racing would be dramatically different.
Yes, for the highly inexperienced to "I don't think about it, or try to know my car" everyday driver production abs is better. But for anyone who actually knows how to drive, cheap abs systems suck and reduce performance. There have even been safety recalls for the worse ones. Don't take my word, here is someone who actually knows how to drive
A simple sensor on the suspension would have solved the crappy ABS from malfunctioning and increasing stopping distance, probably saved about $5 for all 4 wheels. You obviously know very little about cars, doubly so if you don't know the difference between applying torque with the drivetrain and using the brakes.
It depends on the ABS. I had a cheap system in my old car and hit a pothole as I was approaching an intersection on a dry sunny day. The ABS thought the car was slipping, because the wheel turned more than the others, and at the same time the car ahead stopped unexpectedly. The ABS came on for a full 2-3 seconds and my stopping distance was probably double dry pavement. This almost caused an accident in otherwise great conditions.
Same goes for traction control. If it's a quality system that controls the input torque to each wheel then it's actually great in snow or ice. But if it's a bargain system that applies the ABS to each wheel to regain control then it's garbage and a decent driver can do far better with it disabled. The WRX I drive now has such a garbage system that there is even a stock button to disable it.
I'm worried that process would release .5 tons CO2 per ton of mineral produced. I'd like to see a feasibility study on the footprint of the process.
The cost per metric ton of mg is around $4,600, total emissions are around 9.7 billion tons per year, with each metric ton of mg sequestering half a ton of CO2. So we would need 19.4 billion tons of mg per year yet we mine only 1.1ish million metric tons of magnesium. Making the mineral curb a significant amount of emissions is obviously infeasible unless we up our mining of mg 18 thousand times and spend 5x the GDP of the USA per year. Further it's not obvious how much natural mineral is easily mined in a state suitable for production and how much CO2 will be released mining and processing it. So if it takes .4 ton CO2 to mine, transport and manufacture 1 ton of the material, including reusing/making microbeads, in the study it's quickly going to be a losing prospect. Hopefully we can reduce our emissions as that is by far the easiest and most efficient way, rather than try to remove it afterward. Sequestration is great, and we need better technology, but I'm not holding my breath this particular process will wind up being the most efficient.
I just put a sticker with the Compaq logo over my Apple logo. Never had my laptop messed with.
Ahh, the laptop equivelant of putting a ragged, oil stained repair manual in the back window of your car.
This is why we have things like fiat currencies, which always represent the amount of goods and services produced and sold (income).
It is possible to structure a currency based on goods and/or services through a distributed secure ledger, many are already based on oil.
That's the whole problem, crypto currencies were "supposed" to be currencies and not an investment vehicle. Sure, people invest in the dollar, but the primary purpose for individuals is currency used to easily exchange for services and goods. The problem with many crypto currencies are the currency part - the difficulty, delay, and uncertainty (in value) of actually paying with them has held them back. Secure distributed ledgers sure seem like a likely future of currency but at this point it seems to me like it's a crap shoot which one, or even which type of structure will be dominant and a good 'investment'.
Correct, the egg obviously came first. Further, as chickens evolved from another species, at some point one might call a first chicken(s) being born (a neblous line to be sure) and they obviously hatched from an egg.