Yes, quick-but-not-entirely-wrong posters, everything absorbs and releases heat. The only reason this is interesting is because of the "PCM" part. If you actually recall your high-school physics, as heat is absorbed by an object, its temperature rises, UNTIL it reaches a phase transition; then the temperature stays constant until the phase change is complete. You probably did this with ice and water. The temperature of a chunk of ice starts below 32, increasing linearly with time, then it stops right at 32 and stays there until all the ice was melted, when it begins increasing linearly again.
This is useful for maintaining a consistent temperature inside when the outside temperature is bouncing above and below the temperature of the phase change (say, between day-time and night-time) rather than always needing to heat when it's cold and cool when it's hot. The PCM "building material absorbs and releases heat" automatically, in theory lowering your energy bills.
The neat thing--and yes, this IS neat--is a) this material is tunable; you can set the phase transition temperature at time of manufacture and b) it doesn't turn into a liquid, but rather changes between two different solid phases, which is nice for things like, you know, walls, that you'd like to stay solid.
And you were all so excited by this idea when Wozniak was pushing it in 2007; he'd latched onto a certain species of wood whose sap underwent a phase change at 72 degrees. Build a house out of that, and it will tend to keep the inside temperature at a Woz-friendly 72 degrees.
My wife and I are already legally married, but our ceremony isn't for a few months. We could be "married by" a parrot. Or an iPod. Or no one at all. Or, as is the case here, Dr. Sbaitso.
Centrist can't win, not unless over 83% of voters think the "left" option is too far left and 83% think the "right" option is too far right. And current polling suggest we're about 75% for those (assuming that, when pressed, half of "about right" responses would be "too far"), so any centrist party will just be a spoiler for whichever major party they're closer too.
You would need a consensus-seeking election method, like approval voting; then centrists are practically guaranteed to win.
I'm confused. Is this a "Ack, nuclear stuff is expensive and dangerous!" article or a "Wow, large engineering projects are cool!" article. Should I be AFRAID or IMPRESSED? I don't know!
More data/traffic than the internet NOW, or then the internet will be doing in 2020? 'cause let me tell you, the last 9 years has had a pretty sharp increase...
Or to boycott urban caches that are in full freakin view of an entire market district. Seriously cache hiders, in sight of Starbucks is not a good place.
That seems a little odd; even if these machines were as bad as the worst-proposed worst-case, it should take years for any cancer to develop because of them.
Look, cancer occurs everywhere, and people are lousy with seeing patterns that don't exist. The same sort of thing happened w/ Fukishima: it would take years for that to have _caused_ cancer in anyone, but if a month after the disaster someone you know gets diagnosed, you will assume it was *because* of the disaster. People read an article about how these machines are unsafe, and a month later their co-worker gets diagnosed; they assume it's because of the machine. But in neither case could there have been enough time for the proposed cause to have had that effect.
And the article says "TSA *employees* identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure." The employees? Not, like, a doctor?
These machines should be tested for safety, and I hope they are... before an _actual_ cancer cluster is created.
It helps maintain circadian rhythms by detecting blue light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRY2#In_mammals
It just happens to, when excited by blue light, have the ability to effect the speed of other reactions, depending on the magnetic field. But humans don't seem to produce the proteins that participate in those other reactions, hence, no magnetovision.
I saw a similar pattern several years ago when I was emailed a spreadsheet including forum passwords for a role-playing game company. (I was doing volunteer webwork for a regional part of their official fanclub.) The most popular password there (after "password" and "12345"), was "dragon" (even though it wasn't for D&D, although I'm sure many of their customers/fans were also D&D fans (I know I was.))
And for the record, yes, I told them stop emailing around spreadsheets that included everyone's passwords (this went out to a couple dozen volunteers every few months) but they did it for at least a few years, probably longer.
There don't need to be any competing theories: we have *a* theory and it says "round". Technical capabilities improved so we can test that theory to higher precision. So we tested it. The theory still stands. But the absence of a competing model has ZERO to do with whether or not we should test the current theory.
If you want exactly two sides to every argument, go into political journalism.
If the test had come back negative, THAT would be interesting, and I assure you there would soon be plenty of theories (and then lots of tests!)
Remember, the most interesting phrase in science isn't "Eureka!", it's "Well that wasn't what I expected..."
"anyone bringing in flashdrives and plugging them into mission critical should be taken out back and shot,"
And how do you propose that updates be made to the system? Code them whole-cloth from within the secured network? Without testing the changes on a test system?
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Oh, this is the 2007 article I was referring to: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/07/08/14/2210203/Woz-Details-His-Plans-for-Energy-Efficient-House. Search for "pine sap".
This is useful for maintaining a consistent temperature inside when the outside temperature is bouncing above and below the temperature of the phase change (say, between day-time and night-time) rather than always needing to heat when it's cold and cool when it's hot. The PCM "building material absorbs and releases heat" automatically, in theory lowering your energy bills.
The neat thing--and yes, this IS neat--is a) this material is tunable; you can set the phase transition temperature at time of manufacture and b) it doesn't turn into a liquid, but rather changes between two different solid phases, which is nice for things like, you know, walls, that you'd like to stay solid.
And you were all so excited by this idea when Wozniak was pushing it in 2007; he'd latched onto a certain species of wood whose sap underwent a phase change at 72 degrees. Build a house out of that, and it will tend to keep the inside temperature at a Woz-friendly 72 degrees.
So I can get into the ER.
My wife and I are already legally married, but our ceremony isn't for a few months. We could be "married by" a parrot. Or an iPod. Or no one at all. Or, as is the case here, Dr. Sbaitso.
Read "A Brief History of Time". Or wikipedia.
You would need a consensus-seeking election method, like approval voting; then centrists are practically guaranteed to win.
I'm confused. Is this a "Ack, nuclear stuff is expensive and dangerous!" article or a "Wow, large engineering projects are cool!" article. Should I be AFRAID or IMPRESSED? I don't know!
Not even close. Try "more than 4 times".
More data/traffic than the internet NOW, or then the internet will be doing in 2020? 'cause let me tell you, the last 9 years has had a pretty sharp increase...
If I find myself in that situation, knowing the time down to second, or even minute, level of precision is not going to be a big concern.
Or to boycott urban caches that are in full freakin view of an entire market district. Seriously cache hiders, in sight of Starbucks is not a good place.
Easier to ask for forgiveness (and for cost overruns to be covered) than for permission.
Those are "only" $200 million each or so, ignoring development costs. So it might take a couple of them.
It's the superconducting supercollider all over again (just with fewer Texans shooting it.) Disappointing in the extreme.
Some have tried. The TSA prohibits their employees from wearing them.
Look, cancer occurs everywhere, and people are lousy with seeing patterns that don't exist. The same sort of thing happened w/ Fukishima: it would take years for that to have _caused_ cancer in anyone, but if a month after the disaster someone you know gets diagnosed, you will assume it was *because* of the disaster. People read an article about how these machines are unsafe, and a month later their co-worker gets diagnosed; they assume it's because of the machine. But in neither case could there have been enough time for the proposed cause to have had that effect.
And the article says "TSA *employees* identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure." The employees? Not, like, a doctor?
These machines should be tested for safety, and I hope they are... before an _actual_ cancer cluster is created.
It helps maintain circadian rhythms by detecting blue light. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRY2#In_mammals It just happens to, when excited by blue light, have the ability to effect the speed of other reactions, depending on the magnetic field. But humans don't seem to produce the proteins that participate in those other reactions, hence, no magnetovision.
And for the record, yes, I told them stop emailing around spreadsheets that included everyone's passwords (this went out to a couple dozen volunteers every few months) but they did it for at least a few years, probably longer.
As my AI prof often said, "AI is whatever we haven't taught a computer to do yet."
Nothing was deleted. Lots of stuff was redacted, but all the context for the redacted parts is viewable.
Yes, lots of stuff was redacted. But anyone can easily see where those parts are, in context.
If you want exactly two sides to every argument, go into political journalism.
If the test had come back negative, THAT would be interesting, and I assure you there would soon be plenty of theories (and then lots of tests!)
Remember, the most interesting phrase in science isn't "Eureka!", it's "Well that wasn't what I expected..."
Not unless it was from a really fast publisher. The volcanoes were discovered March 5th, 1979.
Even though this doesn't look like it's going to trial, you might want to consider saying "thank you" by donating.
And how do you propose that updates be made to the system? Code them whole-cloth from within the secured network? Without testing the changes on a test system?