Rebar can sit outside in the elements for decades. I've got some in my backyard now. Ironically, one of the best corrosion preventatives is surface rust. It's when you combine the moisture with water movement, like in a river or pond, the water can not only corrode it but carry away the surface rust exposing new material to oxidation. Buried in concrete, that oxidation isn't going anywhere, no matter how much water is there. The PH of concrete settles down after a while. For example, you can build some nifty concrete decorations for your fishtank but you have to soak them in water for about 3 months before the PH normalizes or it will kill your fish.
Or maybe the behavior of a man like Putin is fairly predictable, and Sarah Palin might not be the semi-retarded trailer trash her opponents tried to paint her as.
The steel is bathed in moisture for decades without weakening. Concrete hardens and is stronger under water. Water cracks concrete via the thaw freeze cycle. Water enters the void, freezes, expands, widens the void. But a 60 foot long crack suggests something shifted under the damn.
The truth is, these games are setup to milk money out of a few rare people that have both money and a serious enough mental disability that they're compelled to fall for these immoral tactics. The blatant exploitative behavior of these "Developers" is shameful.
You put it in a black garbage bag and throw it in with the general trash. The way I look at it, it's better that we're polluting our own country than fucking up one that barely has a government and the people have little say in what we dump there.
I've known about these African cesspools for at least 10 years now (I think they featured them on 60min once) and I've refused to "properly" dispose of my e-waste ever since. I also refuse to participate in e-waste programs at work and take the opportunity to inform as many people as possible of the situation but most people refuse to believe me and think that the programs actually recycle the material!
Another small bit of info: There are also teams of kids combing the dumps for hard-drives as they're worth money to people that search them for financial information, passwords, etc...
is that traditional investigative work functions to capture people, and not indiscriminate collection of meta data.
Actually, I suspect that in the near future we'll find out that the NSA cracked the phones or something. I find it hard to believe the Mexican/US government couldn't have nailed this guy years ago. They usually leave these "Big fish" alone because a headless cartel is less predictable than one with a boss they can manipulate and control. I suspect this is all an orchestrated publicity stunt.
The problem with this drug isn't the potency. It's that it's time released like Oxycontin. Oxycontin was billed the same way this drug is... the same arguments. Doctors didn't think much of it at the time and used it. What we found out however is that opiates that are time released are orders of magnitude more addictive than just getting a "hit" by taking an immediate release.
Now, I'm pretty libertarian, and feel that people should be able to destroy their lives in any such way they feel. But lets at least understand the basis of the fear before we start arguing about it.
Refuse to give your number and then I chew out the clerk. I even refuse to give my zipcode. I refuse to participate in data mining myself and they should be ashamed of themselves for asking.
and this is why these freemium models are ruining gaming. Logging in and finding that the idiot in your guild that can't even figure out how to work the chat window properly suddenly, over-night, out-leveled the entire guild and now is wielding a vorpal blade, makes wanting to actually play the game and achieve all those things glaringly pointless.
Rules to teach your kids: 1. NEVER own a credit card. They serve no purpose and the fact of the matter is, if you use one responsibly (only in emergencies) the credit card company will cancel your card for lack of use after a few months anyway. Trust me, I tried for years to keep one but even with an 800+ credit score they'd cancel it every time. 2. All free financial advice is a scam. MerrillLynch, Morgan Stanley, H&R block, all scams. RUN away. You should have to pay a financial advisor, and they should have to sign a contract stating specifically that they are working in your fiduciary interest. If they will not, they are taking a kickback from the investments they're pushing you towards. The vast majority of all financial advisors are actually salesmen, lying to you, and taking kickbacks from the funds they're investing you in. 3. Life insurance is not an investment. You should only have life insurance if you have a family and in the event of your death they would be unable to pay your outstanding loans on their income... and then you only need insurance for as long as it takes to pay those loans down to the point where either spouse could manage them. In all other cases Life insurance is a scam. 4. Compound interest.Understand what it is, how it effects every aspect of your life. I once had a boss tell me if he paid me what I was asking I'd get small raises in the future because I'd be at the top of my pay grade. But what he failed to mention was that all of those future raises would be based on that original salary! Again, understand how compound interest affects everything in your life. From investments to loans to pay and even schooling. 5. When investing in a retirement plan (like a 401k) stay away from mutual funds if at all possible. If you have to choose a mutual fund (your employer forces you) pick whichever one has the lowest fees. Performance is almost irrelevant if the fund charges you 6%+ in fees. 2% is where you want to be at and if you have the choice to invest in an index you can get your fees under 0.6%. Remember, these fees are on the total value of your investment, not on your earnings. So even when you're losing money they're still taking the fees out! 6. Always invest at least as much in your work 401k as your employer will match. It's free money. If the do not offer a low fee mutual fund or index, you can make the rest of your investments outside of work. That's fine. But that work match is equivalent to making 50% to 100% profit on that money so even if the investment vehicle is terrible, you're still making money.
It's all about population density. Google swoops in to a major metropolitan area and wow... they can deliver gigabit speeds for $35/month. What if you live in the other 99% of American where the population density isn't 50k per square mile? Oh, that's right, google isn't installing fiber there.
Yes, but facebook wasn't dealing with a huge corporation where the whims of one man were irrelevant. The whims of this man would make or break the deal. Just how quirky is he? Would he throw the whole deal out the window because he'd been inconvenienced? Maybe...
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine.
It's not that hard if you're handy. I've done it, as has anyone else that's into off-road stuff. All those safety systems are great on the highway but make driving over a bolder impossible. The real trick is being able to turn them off and on again.
Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Total bullshit. The first electric cars were made in the 1800's, how many computers did they have on-board?
This reminds me of way back in the day when SOE increased the subscription to Everquest from $9.99 to $15.99 per month. Everyone decried it as the end to SOE, because they lost about 30% of their accounts (mostly alt accounts) But they were wrong, it was a great plan financially. If you have 100 users @ $10/month you're making $1000/month. If you have 67 customers @ $16/month you make $1072 AND you have less overhead. Also, a lot of those users eventually came back at the higher rate. SOE was making more money than ever and had fewer customers to serve. Not only that, but they set the standard for all their future MMOs and in fact, the industry in general settled on that rate.
So the question isn't in the popularity of the xbox, it's the profitability. If the Kinect makes each user more valuable via marketing and such, then the lower number of users may be a moot point. The only question is: Just how valuable will that marketing data be?
They are not because both of those numbers are highly subjective to not only the devices use, but also it's enclosure. Do you have the card in SLI mode, inside a rack with 100 other cards all running bitcoin miners? Well then, noise and heat will be through the roof. Do you spend most of your time on in a terminal emulator and your case is water cooled? Well then it's going to be pretty low. "Average" is totally subjective and I think it best to leave those measurements up to an external review.
Well your wifi network should not have any access to the internal network... period. But I think the problem here is the devices themselves. They are in control of some high wattage appliances in your home. If they can be accessed without proper credentials, then I could see someone turning the furnace on full blast 24/7, dropping the humidity to 0 then cycling every appliance in the house on and off as fast as possible until something frys.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will get an intruder out of your house faster than the sound of a 12 gage going off in-doors. It's so loud in such an enclosed space that even you are likely to soil yourself when it goes off. The one time I've experienced this it was like someone threw a stun grenade in the room. I was stumbling around unable to see or hear for a good 2 minutes.
What he really needs is a dog. The best home defense is a dog and a shotgun. Just shoot in the general direction the dogs barking. You don't even really have to aim.
1. In how many dimensions is this supposed simulator living?
42
2. Is the simulator itself embedded inside another simulator?
Yes, it's inside a box in my closet.
3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions?
Whoever said we only had 3?
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
If the number of simulators is infinite, then the chances of us being at any on particular position in the chain would be as close to 0% as mathematics allows.
Slashdot Mirror
Rebar can sit outside in the elements for decades. I've got some in my backyard now. Ironically, one of the best corrosion preventatives is surface rust. It's when you combine the moisture with water movement, like in a river or pond, the water can not only corrode it but carry away the surface rust exposing new material to oxidation. Buried in concrete, that oxidation isn't going anywhere, no matter how much water is there. The PH of concrete settles down after a while. For example, you can build some nifty concrete decorations for your fishtank but you have to soak them in water for about 3 months before the PH normalizes or it will kill your fish.
Wait... there are still people under the age of 35 on facebook?
Or maybe the behavior of a man like Putin is fairly predictable, and Sarah Palin might not be the semi-retarded trailer trash her opponents tried to paint her as.
The steel is bathed in moisture for decades without weakening. Concrete hardens and is stronger under water. Water cracks concrete via the thaw freeze cycle. Water enters the void, freezes, expands, widens the void. But a 60 foot long crack suggests something shifted under the damn.
The truth is, these games are setup to milk money out of a few rare people that have both money and a serious enough mental disability that they're compelled to fall for these immoral tactics. The blatant exploitative behavior of these "Developers" is shameful.
You put it in a black garbage bag and throw it in with the general trash. The way I look at it, it's better that we're polluting our own country than fucking up one that barely has a government and the people have little say in what we dump there.
I've known about these African cesspools for at least 10 years now (I think they featured them on 60min once) and I've refused to "properly" dispose of my e-waste ever since. I also refuse to participate in e-waste programs at work and take the opportunity to inform as many people as possible of the situation but most people refuse to believe me and think that the programs actually recycle the material!
Another small bit of info: There are also teams of kids combing the dumps for hard-drives as they're worth money to people that search them for financial information, passwords, etc...
This is why I never remove the tape from my webcam unless I'm masturbating.
is that traditional investigative work functions to capture people, and not indiscriminate collection of meta data.
Actually, I suspect that in the near future we'll find out that the NSA cracked the phones or something. I find it hard to believe the Mexican/US government couldn't have nailed this guy years ago. They usually leave these "Big fish" alone because a headless cartel is less predictable than one with a boss they can manipulate and control. I suspect this is all an orchestrated publicity stunt.
God damned right. (though I feel there are a few rare exceptions on both sides) Moral of the story, don't vote along party lines.
The problem with this drug isn't the potency. It's that it's time released like Oxycontin. Oxycontin was billed the same way this drug is... the same arguments. Doctors didn't think much of it at the time and used it. What we found out however is that opiates that are time released are orders of magnitude more addictive than just getting a "hit" by taking an immediate release.
Now, I'm pretty libertarian, and feel that people should be able to destroy their lives in any such way they feel. But lets at least understand the basis of the fear before we start arguing about it.
Refuse to give your number and then I chew out the clerk. I even refuse to give my zipcode. I refuse to participate in data mining myself and they should be ashamed of themselves for asking.
and this is why these freemium models are ruining gaming. Logging in and finding that the idiot in your guild that can't even figure out how to work the chat window properly suddenly, over-night, out-leveled the entire guild and now is wielding a vorpal blade, makes wanting to actually play the game and achieve all those things glaringly pointless.
Rules to teach your kids:
1. NEVER own a credit card. They serve no purpose and the fact of the matter is, if you use one responsibly (only in emergencies) the credit card company will cancel your card for lack of use after a few months anyway. Trust me, I tried for years to keep one but even with an 800+ credit score they'd cancel it every time.
2. All free financial advice is a scam. MerrillLynch, Morgan Stanley, H&R block, all scams. RUN away. You should have to pay a financial advisor, and they should have to sign a contract stating specifically that they are working in your fiduciary interest. If they will not, they are taking a kickback from the investments they're pushing you towards. The vast majority of all financial advisors are actually salesmen, lying to you, and taking kickbacks from the funds they're investing you in.
3. Life insurance is not an investment. You should only have life insurance if you have a family and in the event of your death they would be unable to pay your outstanding loans on their income... and then you only need insurance for as long as it takes to pay those loans down to the point where either spouse could manage them. In all other cases Life insurance is a scam.
4. Compound interest.Understand what it is, how it effects every aspect of your life. I once had a boss tell me if he paid me what I was asking I'd get small raises in the future because I'd be at the top of my pay grade. But what he failed to mention was that all of those future raises would be based on that original salary! Again, understand how compound interest affects everything in your life. From investments to loans to pay and even schooling.
5. When investing in a retirement plan (like a 401k) stay away from mutual funds if at all possible. If you have to choose a mutual fund (your employer forces you) pick whichever one has the lowest fees. Performance is almost irrelevant if the fund charges you 6%+ in fees. 2% is where you want to be at and if you have the choice to invest in an index you can get your fees under 0.6%. Remember, these fees are on the total value of your investment, not on your earnings. So even when you're losing money they're still taking the fees out!
6. Always invest at least as much in your work 401k as your employer will match. It's free money. If the do not offer a low fee mutual fund or index, you can make the rest of your investments outside of work. That's fine. But that work match is equivalent to making 50% to 100% profit on that money so even if the investment vehicle is terrible, you're still making money.
It's all about population density. Google swoops in to a major metropolitan area and wow... they can deliver gigabit speeds for $35/month. What if you live in the other 99% of American where the population density isn't 50k per square mile? Oh, that's right, google isn't installing fiber there.
Yes, but facebook wasn't dealing with a huge corporation where the whims of one man were irrelevant. The whims of this man would make or break the deal. Just how quirky is he? Would he throw the whole deal out the window because he'd been inconvenienced? Maybe...
The electronics are very deeply embedded. Not sure how you're gonna dump them when there's no physical cable connecting your throttle to your engine.
It's not that hard if you're handy. I've done it, as has anyone else that's into off-road stuff. All those safety systems are great on the highway but make driving over a bolder impossible. The real trick is being able to turn them off and on again.
Impossible in the case of EVs or hybrids.
Total bullshit. The first electric cars were made in the 1800's, how many computers did they have on-board?
My dogs "fart area" of the brain is very similar to a humans.
According to the research, 83% of slashdot posters are 16yr old girls. Go figure.
This reminds me of way back in the day when SOE increased the subscription to Everquest from $9.99 to $15.99 per month. Everyone decried it as the end to SOE, because they lost about 30% of their accounts (mostly alt accounts) But they were wrong, it was a great plan financially. If you have 100 users @ $10/month you're making $1000/month. If you have 67 customers @ $16/month you make $1072 AND you have less overhead. Also, a lot of those users eventually came back at the higher rate. SOE was making more money than ever and had fewer customers to serve. Not only that, but they set the standard for all their future MMOs and in fact, the industry in general settled on that rate.
So the question isn't in the popularity of the xbox, it's the profitability. If the Kinect makes each user more valuable via marketing and such, then the lower number of users may be a moot point. The only question is: Just how valuable will that marketing data be?
They are not because both of those numbers are highly subjective to not only the devices use, but also it's enclosure. Do you have the card in SLI mode, inside a rack with 100 other cards all running bitcoin miners? Well then, noise and heat will be through the roof. Do you spend most of your time on in a terminal emulator and your case is water cooled? Well then it's going to be pretty low. "Average" is totally subjective and I think it best to leave those measurements up to an external review.
Well your wifi network should not have any access to the internal network... period. But I think the problem here is the devices themselves. They are in control of some high wattage appliances in your home. If they can be accessed without proper credentials, then I could see someone turning the furnace on full blast 24/7, dropping the humidity to 0 then cycling every appliance in the house on and off as fast as possible until something frys.
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will get an intruder out of your house faster than the sound of a 12 gage going off in-doors. It's so loud in such an enclosed space that even you are likely to soil yourself when it goes off. The one time I've experienced this it was like someone threw a stun grenade in the room. I was stumbling around unable to see or hear for a good 2 minutes.
What he really needs is a dog. The best home defense is a dog and a shotgun. Just shoot in the general direction the dogs barking. You don't even really have to aim.
But had they not created this simulated universe for Douglas Adams to be born into and write his book, they never would have known that.
1. In how many dimensions is this supposed simulator living?
42
2. Is the simulator itself embedded inside another simulator?
Yes, it's inside a box in my closet.
3. Why then, do we have only 3 spatial dimensions?
Whoever said we only had 3?
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
If the number of simulators is infinite, then the chances of us being at any on particular position in the chain would be as close to 0% as mathematics allows.
Dwarf Fortress